skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the things that seems limiting with this version is that, when the words existed (like "wife" and "dogs"), it just seemed to copy-and-paste them around. That honestly sounded pretty bad. But the new words sounded better.

I think that if they were using some of the AI-based libraries for generating speech, like WaveNet[1] (hear the samples towards the bottom), and then layered on-top the learning that this algorithm did to get it to sound like the speaker, you'd have a pretty powerful system that would be able to get the intonation right much of the time.

And then, of course, when you have the Pro version, you're presumably be able to add additional markup to specify intonation even further.

1. https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio...
I have using version control since about 2006, but am only recently becoming a better git user. In retrospect, if I knew what I know now about git, I would have of course done it in a heartbeat. For a one man project I was hesitant to use other methods due to large, non-text files (which of course you can work around, with a little hassle)
To some degree you're right - if you've got a landlord you need to pay or a utilities provider (assuming you're not horrendously behind already) then sure, but it'd depend on the creditor. I suspect these lads wouldn't be particularly sympathetic, for example: https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/2015/11/24/warning-of-loa...
That's not quite as bad as all of /usr/local, but still not great. Why "e.g."? What else is there? And why not just use /usr/local/homebrew or even better, a path determined by an environment variable? I don't mind giving you a user-owned directory to install things in. I mind very much being required to change system default security settings.
This looks cool, but ~$300 a month for 16GB of ram?

Where am I supposed to run my DB?
Part 1 of 9 by Shai Simonson -- Finite State Machines

The rest of computational theory will follow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyUK5RAJg1c
#8 is a fun one (some of these answers are half-joking):

"Proof by contradiction. Assume P = NP. Let y be a proof that P = NP. The proof y can be verified in polynomial time by a competent computer scientist, the existence of which we assert. However, since P = NP, the proof y can be generated in polynomial time by such computer scientists. Since this generation has not yet occurred (despite attempts by such computer scientists to produce a proof), we have a contradiction."
No option to use other softwares? I don't want Google Maps for directions, but (Google Owned) Waze for better traffic information, or Here for when I have poor connectivity. Bring on some competition.
As soon as I get a little bit of time :)
Maybe Apple dedicates more lawyers to figuring out regulation and compliance. And lawyer time is far, far more expensive than engineering time.
But will it be capable of putting out fires?
they loved it until Hillary was losing
This is all fine and good if you're a Google internal user who gets support form your team. Things are a bit different if you're a user from outside of Google.
Any snack that satisfies appetite and doesn't make you sick or fat too quickly would suffice. A bag of nuts, a power bar, fruit, vegetables, canned fish/meat, etc. One can always balance out nutritional intake on subsequent "real" meals.

Somehow the marketing folks for Soylent have been able to convince a lot of people that they ACTUALLY NEED a fully balanced meal replacement consisting of synthetic food upon which someone may subsist indefinitely. That's a feat of marketing, but apparently little else.
It's upsetting that Apple doesn't care about developers. Why is there no Apple maintained package management system? This results in having to turn to solutions like Homebrew, which -- while a valiant effort -- is completely insufficient for distributing state across multiple machines.
This argument is so commonly made, and such awful bilge. Farmers have not spent thousands of years crossing e.g. potatoes with frogs[1].

[1] http://www.scidev.net/global/gm/news/gm-potato-uses-frog-gen...
I avoid GMOs for similar reasons. It's not that I think GMOs are unsafe. What I dispise is the disparity between the "marketing promises" made and what GMO's are acually used for.

ATM the most common application for GMO is adding tolerance against specific herbicides/pesticides/funghicides. I see three problems with this:

1. Overuse of the …cides a tolerance was added for

2. Said overuse causes evolutionary pressure on "the stuff you don't want to grow there" which in the long term may cause the same trouble as with MRSAs and similar superbugs.

3. Loss of genetic diversity (within the crops used for farming). It's a simple cost/benefit evaluation which crops to modify, limiting these modifications to a small subset of the genetic pool. Already the disparity between the breeds in existence and the breeds are actually used is worrying.

Also a still unclear topic is the stability of genetic modifications, i.e. if genetic modifications "stick" or if they get "repaired out" or "spread out over" of an organisms genome over generations (still an active research topic and in plants a wide field, because of the huge genomes and large set of pathways).

IMHO the more cost effective and long term sustainable path would be marker assisted breeding, which often can lead to desireable results faster and with higher yield than straight on genetic modification.
I am wondering if it make different, if I let software engineers to pick what questions they want to be asked?
10 time management tips to crush your Q4 in 2016
How come there aren't any Raspberry Pi competitors using Intel Atom CPUs? There's plenty of cheap tablets running Windows 10 on Intel Atom on Aliexpress and similar, remove the screen and battery and it should be doable at an affordable price, no?
Why would anyone upvote this? the README is worthless, the repo was started yesterday and it has absolutely no authentication before allowing control of your computer via a publicly available webpage.

Common' HN, smh.
It was!
It's a question of expectations. Me, I want a cheap, wifi-capable motion sensing camera on my LAN, behind a firewall, not on the public internet.

So I ordered the Orange Pi Lite and its camera module, altogether a smidgen less than $30 Canadian (a current model Raspberry Pi will set you back $50+ around here, and then another $10 or so for the camera module (or a clone of it) from China.

Not impressed initially. Not much documentation, so how do you know you even got it powered up right? No lights come on, no video signal comes out, nothing. Eventually hooked up a TTL USB/serial converter to the GND/TX/RX three-pin connector and hallelujah, it did boot and let me log in and set up wifi remote login. The only thing I found that booted was the Lite-specific Armbian distribution and yes, it uses a 3.4.x kernel, and I still haven't managed to get any HDMI output.

But on the plus side, "motion" was cinch to configure, works great with the camera in 800x600 mode (CPU temperature 43 degrees Celsius with no heat sink, board out in the open at room temperature) or 1600x1200 mode (CPU temperature about 48 degrees Celsius). That load also includes a script which periodically rsyncs the collected pictures to a server, and cleans up (I use /tmp in RAM disk to avoid SD card wear).

Happy? You bet. I'll probably order a couple more. Use this for direct internet facing stuff? No. Use this for general purpose computing where every feature has to work and the CPU performance is absolutely maximized? No. But for the specific application I want it for, peachy keen. At least it's been stable in two days of running and over a gigabyte of pictures taken and saved.

I've also got a Raspi and its camera module. All in all, the experience with the Raspi isn't any better, though the camera sure is, and now you can get an 8MP camera too (the OPi's camera is 2MP).
Agreed - lots of strange source organization in there. At this point I would organize it much better than I had. :)
There's been quite a bit of shade cast on that article as well. It compares yield growth rates (not absolute yield or cost) across country level data and ignores issues with European production like really high levels of fungicide use. Most people who are in agriculture think that this article was sensationalist crap that exploits several common statistical fallacies.

For more in depth criticism of the NYT article:

http://weedcontrolfreaks.com/2016/10/the-tiresome-discussion...

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/09/01/492091546/how...
Care to explain how you connect the financial success of GMO products and the legal status of copyrighting genomes? Having one doesn't enable/prohibit the other.
Agreed with your concerns. The fact that it was widespread and no action from Tesco that indicates any understanding of what was compromised suggests they have no clue.

So they may still be vulnerable. If UK customers can find a low (or no) cost alternative place to put what remains of their money, I'd do that now. This might not be over.

They may not know how the attackers gained access or if they're still inside until incident responders have done a full workup on the network.
Sure. Here are results from meta-analysis of the question[1].

Key takes:

"On average, GM technology adoption has reduced chemical pesticide use by 37%, increased crop yields by 22%, and increased farmer profits by 68%. Yield gains and pesticide reductions are larger for insect-resistant crops than for herbicide-tolerant crops. Yield and profit gains are higher in developing countries than in developed countries."

So pesticide use goes down, yields go up, resulting in fewer acres planted for the same yield resulting in even further pesticide use.

[1]http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
I'd be surprised if iron production required less fuel than bronze did.

Seems like lack of tin may have been an issue keeping them from making bronze.
I'm a Linux sysadmin/devops with a heavy automation background and quite an interest in automation. I've been writing Perl (until recently that is) for over 15 years. Today I focus on Python, both in my personal and work projects.

I do it for the same reason I learned Perl originally, because I have a mortgage/rent/expenses to pay. You have folks who walk around with LISP books under their arms and learn obscura perfecta like OCaml, but I'm a lot more simple-minded: I learn what I need to learn to get my job done and also new jobs/gigs lined up. I'm not an academic, nor an advocate.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy reading purist debates, early adopters, experts, people with interest in dynamic language theory, duking it out. At the end of the day, though, if not a single person around me writes in Perl 6, and not a single job listing shows Perl 6, then I'm probably going to wait it out until that does start to happen. And then we'll see.

So, to answer the question by the original poster: I haven't adopted Perl6 because I'm not an early adopter. Maybe if the 24 hour day suddenly became a 28 hour one ...
Mad Magazine (or maybe it was Cracked) did a pretty good rap parody of Macbeth years ago, maybe the late '80s or early '90s.
Netflix Account Takeover Through Automated Phone Calls
Morgan Freeman's likeness - including his voice - is already protected legally, no?
The amount of information a patient generates while staying at the hospital is pretty immense. Vital signs, lab results like imaging data, lab results like blood tests, documentation created by every single professional who sees the patient, diagnosis data, financial/billing data, medication/pharmaceutical data, an insane amount of regulation check box filling things like as a random example, the CCD - Continuity of Care Document. As they move from ER outpatient to inpatient observation to outpatient ambulatory (or whatever unique pathway they take entering a hospital and returning to their primary care physician or homecare/hospice), new accounts are created, diagnoses entered, complicated compounding medications evaluated and modified.

This information is generated by real physicians, real nurses, real aides, etc, in actual care environments. People who trained for over a decade to understand what they're doing.

I trained for a very long time be a programmer, and I have extensive biology education.

But when testing my code, how can I emulate a PhD MD oncologist? How can I emulate a certified Nurse Practitioner, a Home Health Aide or a Licensed Nurse Practitioner? How can I generate an enormous amount of valid, real-world medical data for my test patient? I can learn that coumadin + aspirin creates a drug interaction and is a big no-no for I50.x style heart failure patients. But that's just one little trope I can repeat. There's 10,000 more things they do on a daily basis that I'll never grok.

The short answer is that I cannot. I use the programs, I enter things, I learn and do my best to emulate what my users do, but many of them have spent more time learning and perfecting their job than I have been alive. Plus, I don't have ten millions dollars worth of hospital equipment to generate real data with, to interface with, just various abstractions/test code we use when testing.

In the case of HIPAA/PHI, if there was more freedom to use protected health information, I wouldn't have to emulate medical professionals, I could copy real patient data and test my code against a production database.

But for the ultimate safety of the patients in our care, protected patient data is only allowed in 2 very secure messaging systems we use, and literally no where else.

So it often falls to the other half of our programming staff, the support staff, to take our code, patch it to a real hospital test system (hospitals generally have a live system and a test system physically hosted in their facility), and test against actual patient data from within the hospitals own network. As an application programmer that option isn't really available to me.

So it's two fold: the difficulty of emulating the incredibly technically detailed behaviors of highly educated professionals when testing, and the inability to use real world data for in-house testing efforts prior to shipping code.
if adobe has this working in a demo, rest assured "security service" developed such thing 10 years ago. then you can go back and ask yourselves why osama has been reported dead as early as like 2001, the cia released videos in which he always looked different and why his body was quickly drowned at an unknown location.

go back to sleep, now. everything's alright. great new tech. will help catching terrorists from beneath your bed.
I absolutely adore Homebrew and can't thank the package maintainers enough. I think of all the times I battled with compiling some package, or installing it via MacPorts only to struggle updating it.

Never with Homebrew. So much <3
Google and Facebook are known for always using the same set of questions during phone screens. Just google for past experience and you'll be able to compile a good collection of questions you'll be asked.
Just Bluetooth connection? I connect my phone to my car radio using an USB cable and the Android Open Accessory Protocol (AOAP). It charges and gives me better sound. Won't it be supported?
MoneyLine
What happens to education when students have access to iPads or Chromebooks?
The difference seems to be in the type of degree. People who want to prescribe drugs to treat their patients need a medical degree, so that is what they get. People who want to help their patients work things out through other forms of therapy or counseling don't need the medical degree, so they generally go for a non-medical degree like a Ph.D. in Psychology. Then they can help people without having a prescription pad, and just refer patients who need drugs to someone with a medical degree.

So, choosing a provider based on their degree is probably the best way to get the help you want.

PS: This applies to the US, not sure how it compares to other countries.
One of the things I found interesting about Viv is their demos of 3rd party integration, which none of the other main players have really done a good job with.

AFAIK Alexa is the only one you can integrate with right now, and it's only in the most basic way you could imagine.

I don't know how it will play out with developers, but I think Samsung has a decent shot, particularly given their other consumer goods.
These are Intel's limits. AFAIK, the mobile parts that support more than 16 GB are not available have lower performance than the parts currently going into this machine. It'd be odd to have a new Pro lineup update with slower machines.
I was struck by the careful phrasing in the article and didn't want to dog pile on it at first - I note other reasons elsewhere why I'm rather dubious - but here's the line:

>The centerpiece of Magic Leap’s technology is a head-mounted display, but the final product should fit into a pair of spectacles. When you’re wearing the device, it doesn’t block your view of the world; the hardware projects an image directly onto your retina through an optics system built into a piece of semitransparent glass (the product won’t fry your eyeballs; it’s replicating the way we naturally observe the world instead of forcing you to stare at a screen).

This is purely my impression, but reading the line that says "the final product should..." leads me to believe they still have significant development hurdles that have been unconquered thus far, and being coy about the release window (the journalist speculated 18 months, the CEO just went with "soon-ish") encourages me to read between the lines. Others may interpret the line differently - that's fine - but I'm simply sharing my impression. Lots of things "should" work the way their visionary has in mind...
But they have spent ten thousand years crossing them with unknown bacteria:

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/05/05/40419855...
(Reaching back into foggy memory...) The last time I installed Homebrew, I think I had the problem that `/usr/local/bin` didn't exist, and I didn't have write permissions for `/usr/local/` so I couldn't create it (w/out sudo/chown) etc. This, using Sierra.

Does that seem likely? Usual? What's the ideal solution?
But that's the point - they claim it's fine for everyone, even those with allergies, but then formulate the product with known allergens. And now, with the new formula, when people are complaining of sickness they're saying it's a potential allergy or sensitivity to algae.
It's really a popular name...
What does it mean to take a random oracle from all oracles? How do you enumerate oracle-space? Is that something like the space of all problems, where each problem corresponds to an oracle for that problem?
Ask HN: What is there any Hackintosh of-the-self laptop?
I am mac user since I am 6 years old and I really feel good if I use latest.

I am really done with Macbook for simple reasons.

1) Why do I need to wait 2-3 years and get 1-2 year old hardware for 2500 USD av.

2) I want everything to be usb-c fine. I really got it but world or us are not ready for it.

3) Why in the world one of best operation company cannot deliver an iphone with usb-c or can't have iphone slot in macbook pro. This is a joke!

4) I want Mac subscription or upgradable mac.

5) I have macbook, apple watch, iphone 7, how in the world is it difficult to have 1 charger (smart enough to detect the device and charge) and simple usb-c for all of it instead of 4 doggles/cables/adaptors
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For all these reasons, I am asking. Is there any of-the-self laptop Hackintosh ?

(I will use for educational purposes so please don't remind me about EULA)
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In addition to this if anyone could compare this apple to that orange and tell me which is best I would be grateful
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Israel has negotiated and signed peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan. I don't understand in what sense you would say that these are 'cease fires', and how that relates to the article's point.
This sounds useful. Is it just an app that takes over the full screen?
Phone hardware is absolutely infuriating in this regard. People figured out how to standardize bootloaders and do drivers on the PC decades ago, why can't SBC and phone manufacturers figure this out?

Why can't their be a generic build of Android that will at least boot on every phone, even if there might be some driver issues on different devices? This situation has gone on for so long it is past the point of being a joke. And don't try to tell me that there is a good technical reason why it has to be this way, we're talking about machines that are as powerful as a mid 2000s PC, you can afford the overhead of a bootloader on there.
what scenario are you imagining?
People done this kind of "manipulations" with plants and animals.
Why did you quote the word "scientists"? Are those authors not real scientists with diplomas and education on biology? Would you better belive some person that will get paranoid if he finds our the water is polluted with hydrogen?
Basically... avoid indulging in a lifestyle of conspicuous consumption, be very conservative with the debt I allow myself to take on (used strategically, not just to prop-up expenses), and choose the machines I bring into my life with an eye towards energy efficiency and repairability.

Careerwise, I have avoided going with the pull of migrating to our industry's big centers (the most known being Sillicon Valley), since I consider those places to be unsustainable. If I were young and single, I may have gone for a couple of years to gain a quick buck, and then get out; but I am a middle-aged father or two now, and don't think it is worth it even today to subject your family to that kind of pressure, just for the sake of being one of the cool guys.

This will not save the world at all (not that it is the world that needs any saving), but hopefully puts me and my family in a less exposed position for the consequences of resource depletion.
http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/fish-oil-friend-or-foe-20...

There are other safe sources of omega 3's.
John Carmack joining Oculus was a quick reason to think: "hm, this team has people who know how to get things done and launch."

Maybe Magic Leap has the same types of engineers [does Graeme have the same reputation as hyper productive dev?], but there are reasons Carmack has this reputation [1].

And I've known and worked with people like this. People who are utterly relentless. Insanely productive. And honestly? I would always bet on them. Every single time. It's just a major key that I don't know anything about on the Magic Leap team.

[1]: http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/27/how-john-carmack-pestered-...
The Problem with 'Playable' Cities
Currently, hyper.sh supports credit card backed by stripe.com
You can always tell when the cows switch between grass and silage in the spring and fall. Milk tastes like garbage for a week or two until they get sorted out.