skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that it's a panacea, but it could be signed with a private key to make it easy to validate whether it's a fake timecode or not. You could include crude, say, cepstral coefficients in with the timecode as well to prevent the timecode from being copy pasted elsewhere.
I know nothing about this product but based on its name and what it's doing it's probably a fine-grained vocoder tuned with machine learning. I's not quite trivial but it's an obvious idea. We've been building analog and digital vocoders for decades (e.g. the Skylons' voice from the original Battlestar Galactica from the 70s). It takes some hefty processing to do it with lots of bands as they're probably doing here, but you could probably do it with a desktop machine and a good GPU.
Absolute hyperbole. Lynching is when someone is killed. Dropping a speaker from a conference schedule isn't murder.
Human brain is easily hijacked by memes, propagandists have been doing it for a century, now the masses are doing it too -- and they are mad (are the masses mad? or the propagandists? why not both? what's the truth? i don't know!).

Richard Dawkins on memes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRggkkAIC5A

For instance this meme sunk Howard Dean's campaign: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwkNnMrsx7Q

Dan Quayle and the potato incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdqbi66oNuI
I love coding on a train.
If I remember correctly, the NYT published a written apology for their role in popularizing the invasion of Iraq. Newspapers make mistakes, recognize them, and apologize publicly. That's journalistic ethics.

They were also forwards about their editorial support for HRC, having declared her their candidate well before she became the presumptive DNC nominee. You might not like the fact that pro-HRC opinion pieces made their way to the top, but there's no ethical dilemma there either.
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A minimal, distraction-free chat application
http://obnam.org/
Constructive as all hell.
First hand anecdotes like that are some of my favorite HN things - thanks! But do you think we as technologists should be thinking about things like that? That feels icky to me. Maybe I'm wrong.
Apparently to some folks and the rules of this place, people can post things that are fairly interesting. So -shrugs-
Doesn't really say how
Hold on a minute there, you almost disappeared down that slippery slope...

All this piece is pointing out is that the difference between 'fake news' and 'real news' is the act of verification prior to publication. The thing journalists do, which makes what they publish worth paying attention to.
I'm curious about the applicability this has for fandubs.
Even for these, some you will only need in specific fields.

Discrete Maths / Combinatorics : Probably everywhere.

Linear Algebra : Machine Learning, Computer Graphics, Computational Geometry, etc.

Number Theory : Cryptography.

'Calculus 1' : Useful to know for 'maturity', you will likely not use it unless you implement numerical algorithm libraries.

Probability / Statistics : Heavily in Machine Learning and related fields, in small doses everywhere else just because you need to be able to create useful observations and presentations.

I would add another branch:

Logic : If you work with programming languages or verification.
I didn't say anything IF taxes were important or IF people's WOULD pay them.

And yes, we are talking about semantics (mathematical sense). People couldn't give money to the DoD and accomplish the same thing, nor could they give money to DHS or any of the other Executive Departments.

NASA is an independent, federally funded, civilian agency. The part of it that is Federal, is its budget.
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Granted, but that's not the case here and I have no reason to believe such a slippery slope is a reasonable fear.
Scroll up for the actual story. The link is anchored to the code sample at the bottom for some reason.
I think people discussing language changing the way we remember things are onto something. This difference might make it difficult to access memories from before we could talk.

It seems to me that we can go a layer deeper than words and language. An infant has an incredibly shallow model of the world in their brain. At birth, it is almost entirely blank. As we become toddlers, we build up our model of the world at an astonishing rate. I wonder if it most memories don't survive this process. Perhaps the world model grows too quickly, and the old memories are unable to be integrated. I do agree that language plays a role in this, but I would guess that most of this happens at a level beneath language.

At some point though, the existing model is robust enough that new memories more firmly take root and can be better integrated into future changes of the model (even though it is still being developed at a rapid rate throughout childhood). Naturally, this point occurs at different ages.
I don't know how the situation looks like in larger businesses. As for small businesses, I base my qualification of "very many if not most" based on the sample I have from personal experience - the companies I've worked with, and companies people I know worked in who trust me enough tell me the stories of what things look internally. Still, I'm just saying small business are - in my experience - bad; I'm not saying they're worse than big businesses :).

Maybe saying that many small business are run "by liars and frauds" is too much; I admit I get emotional over that sometimes. After all, I don't know those managers/bosses well enough to judge the state of their consciousness. But what I observe is that, nevertheless, the workers are often directly asked to do unethical things that go against the interest of customers.

A charitable way of viewing that is that the bosses are forced to cut corners to deal with the pressure[0] or to stay competitive, or that eventually some unethical conduct becomes a standard practice in the industry (I believe that for example washing meat with detergent is such a thing).

As for the impact of losing a single worker - when we're talking about regular people doing regular jobs, losing an employee often doesn't have much of an impact on the company, but it has a lot of impact on the employee itself. For people outside of very specialized fields, finding a new job is a nontrivial task. Finding a new job that pays comparably to the one you just left making a stand is doubly nontrivial. Quadruply, if you live in a smaller town. I know first-hand of a particularly successful online book seller who uses this fact to overwork and underpay his staff while forcing them to lie to customers - he knows that none of his employees can afford losing this job.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that most of the working class is pretty screwed when it comes to disobeying unethical commands - people in IT often forget that our industry is in a (temporary) golden age, and we can afford to make a stand.

--

[0] - I run a non-profit and I know how much pressure can fall on you when things get messy while various deadlines for deals or paperwork approach. I can only imagine a competitive business is even more difficult to manage.
I find TED Talks tend to help inspire new ideas more often than other media I consume. Maybe listening to some of those instead of podcasts.
To have done so DURING the election would have created accusations of bias. This was always going to be a big story post-election. Stories about troll factories and the Macedonian clickbait troll town were out before the election. The comment trolling phenomenon hasn't even picked up much coverage yet.

That said, a lot of blame does need to be apportioned to western intelligence agencies. The idea that hostile foreign actors could (if they wanted) manipulate large segments of electorates seems to have escaped them entirely. This is especially damning since they saw how those tools were effectively deployed in the Arab Spring and elsewhere to foment revolutions (if they weren't behind those movements themselves). It is an epic fail, and joins a long list of intelligence failures.
cough Slack cough
I think getting total agreement on what ethical framework to use is really hard. For most hard problems, you need all the help you can get, and turning away anyone who doesn't exactly fit your framework is counterproductive. It might work in cases where the group of people you're working with are determined by a common interest or a common worldview.
"When you schedule things, you are forced to deal with the fact that there are only so many hours in a week. You’re forced to make choices rather than add something to a never ending to-do list that only becomes a source of anxiety."

Great observation. I get the feeling scheduling is something that MBAs are taught, where "time is the restriction". What about JIT scheduling? In my view, adding dates to every task is another BS and unnecessary task. Here's an alternative restriction, tasks per day. "Ivy Ledbetter Lee" (business productivity guru 100 years ago) had another approach. Spend 15min at end of day doing the following:

* specify six tasks you need to finish

* prioritise them one to six

* do each task, in order, till finished

* work your arse off

* left-over tasks are added to tomorrows list

* repeat

The restriction here is how many tasks I NEED to do TODAY. Read more about "Ivy Ledbetter Lee" below.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12999116
I think Franz Kafka is lot more interesting than yet another Apache Java project.
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Ah! You're correct. Sorry about that!
For those of us who have positioned their residences underneath rocks: is there a link to this?
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Reminds me of Windows XP!
There is no IoT
Obviously the article doesnt mention wikileaks. The point is that this article isnt being published in a vacuum.
> Neither one of them are actually PART of the federal government.

Indeed they are. Their budgets are paid for by taxpayers and established by laws passed in Congress and signed by the President. Their employees are federal employees, AFAIK.

> NASA for example doesn't actually rollup to any cabinet position.

The agencies report to the President, whatever the org chart is. The President chooses their administrators, and directs their operations (assuming she/he has time and interest).

DAPRA is in the Department of Defense.

Finally, I believe the CIA was an independent agency, like NASA, before the DNI was created about a decade ago. Was the CIA not actually part of the U.S. federal government?
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Am I missing something? According to the linked alibaba case study there should be a add to homescreen prompt on it. However, I go to alibaba.com, I get a link to google play or to download an apk, no add to homescreen prompt. Did the experiment fail and alibaba revert to native?
Somewhat true. There was a bit of this in the blogger bubbles of the 2000s too, but facebook does bring it to a larger audience.
I'm thinking about doing the same, but I need to carry my phone with me to listen to my music at work. I'm investigating MP3 players, but the field is disappointingly sparse these days (which is to be expected since everyone listens to music on their smartphone now).
Perlin Noise and other procedural generation techniques also make frequent appearances in demoscene productions.

http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/morenoise/morenoise.h...

as featured in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB0vBmiTr6o
Free (as in speech) software for managing Git projects, both public and private
[citation needed]

Snowden never intended to go to Russia (it's the fault of the US that that happened). And as far as I know there's no proof that he revealed anything to the Russian government. In fact, he claims to no longer have the documents (he deleted them after giving them to journalists).
20 years :)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/dotmil/arkin02...
Interesting article presenting a "war" between Intel CPU and Nvidia GPU.

I'm curious where AMD falls in this war. While it's true GPU can provide really nice theoritical TFLOPS, the cost of moving data in and out of the GPU's memory is a well known issue. This renders GPU much less attractive for real applications.

The reason I mentioned AMD is that I read some time ago about their Heterogeneous system architecture [1]. One of the HSA's goal is to get rid of the particular issue of moving that data. I wonder if this was adopted in any HPC cluster or anywhere else.

[1] http://developer.amd.com/resources/heterogeneous-computing/w...
Technologists are people, too!

I think we should definitely be thinking about those things. We have some pretty sharp technologists to point to who thought about the ethics of what they were doing as well. Those working on the Manhattan Project and the German equivalent[1] and come easily to mind.

[1]: http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/pdf/eng/English101.pdf
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Let me guess, are you in Australia? Even if we are in California, we see the most demand for our services in Australia, followed by Canada and Midwest.
I'm fascinated by the idea that there are likely a lot of smells which are nearly unaffected by time. Wildflowers on the countryside probably smell very similar regardless of what century you're in. I wonder if there might be a "standard candle" of smell?

I'm also fascinated by the concept of a scientific endeavour to describe smell through a reproducible apparatus. One could describe a method that could closely reproduce a smell. Ie. in order to know what ____ smelled like, take these base ingredients and do these things with them. I wonder if this was ever attempted.
> they do not participate in governance, and because of that, they are not PART of the federal government.

The military does not participate in governance, by law. Is the U.S. military not part of the U.S. government? What about intelligence agencies?

It's an interesting definition, but I'm not sure that many people will accept it.
haha. Nice to see my hometown appears in hacker news ;)
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I assume that the words "three times" must have appeared at some point during the long speech, correct? So it's not quite generating new sounds, but intelligently rearranging them?
You are right, that was unthoughtful.

However it is sometimes hard to keep your Zen when so many internet discussion forums are undermined by alt-right propaganda.
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I'm curious what you would call Breitbart. Or is this a case of people saying things I don't like = propaganda?
At some point you have to accept that all energy sources have drawbacks. Besides not making a whole lot of sense, this particular objection is pretty small potatoes compared to toxic fogs that kill people by the thousands, or other fossil fuels that appear to be altering the climate on a planetary scale.
Quite right. Perhaps the Vulcans can be assumed to have an agreed-upon set of goals or values?

(Interestingly, a general theme of the textbook for the ethics class I took was that people develop their ability to make good ethical decisions largely through story-telling, since it provides an opportunity for people to imagine circumstances outside their immediate experience. If I remember correctly, a lot of the examples in the text were taken from Star Trek. It's interesting to think of Star Trek as not principally a science fiction show but rather a vehicle for exploring ethical dilemmas.)
So does this mean Disney will be able to keep making movies with Darth Vader's "real" voice until the heat death of the universe?
We used to evolve in situations where information was scarce and potentially relevant to our lives, so we would crave for every last bit of information in order to find the lion before it finds us.

The longer version (9 minutes) of this argument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYYuiWP0IpA
I guess this might be a good timing for employers think about how to improve the lottery puzzle question based hiring process. I know a lot of good software developers are under evaluated during interviews. In another side, some developers got good job not because they know how to design solutions, just because they are good at practicing questions from interview question website, for instance, leetcode.
I purposefully didn't mention IRC in a parallel comment because I don't see how it is federated. You always connect to a particular server and stay within its bounds; you don't get the shared space handled by multiple servers that are abstracted away. Or simpler, you say "I'm hanging out on channel #x on freenode", or "on QuakeNet", not "on IRC".

As for the rest of your comment, I agree.
Just make sure they are TED talks and not TEDx talks. TEDx talks carry the TED branding but are local events and aren't always quality controlled. They're also predictable to a fault. Case and point, Sam Hyde trolling an entire TEDx talk [0] with bullshit was both somehow (1) approved and (2) people actually let him finish.

I used to listen to TED talks but after a while I had to admit to myself a majority of them are painfully predictable in how they presented and so many of them are really someone propping themselves up as some sort of smarter/holier-than-thou savior of humanity.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yFhR1fKWG0
I started to depend on the hourly rain, snow prediction data from google/weather.com in the last year or so. Especially when planing ski trip.

I found them amazingly accurate. Now I know why. I am looking forward the future forecast provided by next gen satellite.
Well, I like being able to just move the sim card between my phones (I have multiple for development purposes)... so while you can "easily" call and have the account switched between sim cards - if all your phones are Micro, then you can just move the card...

if, on the other hand, you have a Micro and the new phone is a Nano... then you'll have to go through extra steps to move between phones.

This, of course, assumes you want to do that more than once when you upgrade to the new phone.

I like switching between my Android and my Windows phone and that becomes more difficult if the SIMs don't match.

Granted, I did find a converter I hadn't thought of looking for before until typing this reply so it's even less needed:

https://www.amazon.com/iPhone-Nano-SIM-Card-Adapter/dp/B009G...
I hear Disney's lawyers are currently working on extending copyright beyond that. Steamboat Willie is expected to initiate the next Big Bang.
...and now I realize that the voice print part of Uplink was a reference to a movie.
I really enjoyed this article. I initially was introduced to Cal Newport's, Deep Work book. This book is amazing and I recommend anyone to read it. Since then, it's sent me into an almost obsessive time where i'm trying to do more productive and meaningful work. I respect this article and actually am off all social media myself (unless HN counts :) ).
For a while, yes. But that's essentially wireheading without the wire ;). Feels pretty shallow to me.

(Then again, we wouldn't have most of our problems in this world if we just stuck to being stoned hippie self-wireheaded cavedwellers ;).)
If you paid attention on history lessons you'd know why going this path is very dangerous.
I find that Kafka loses his zeal when the uncertainty of an unformed epistemology is removed. It's in the circular questioning of subjectivity and post modernism that his work takes hold. Move beyond that and what was once existential horror in his writing becomes trivial nuisance.
There's not an ethical dilemma in pushing a candidate but an issue of trust. Lots of people don't trust Hillary. So when a publication goes out it's way to pump her up and writes biased hit pieces on the opposition are people who mistrust Hillary going to trust the publication?

The point is, you can't argue why people should trust you rather than the opposition. You have to provide reasons for them to do so.

It would be like building an app that wasn't getting positive reception and then trying to argue or shame people into liking it rather than giving people what they want. It plain doesn't work.

People want to know what is going on. Tell them to the best of your ability. Don't couch it in spin, don't support sides, don't appear biased. That is how you establish a reputation of trust. It's not a matter of what is legal or ethical in this case at all.
How did Andrew Ng become so good at Machine Learning?
The article would be pretty boring as "cool new tech does stuff". Someone in the world can be found to attack the short-sighted programmers of ${technology} for not seeing the moral implications! So great! Let's get that guy, and make the article be about the conflict over this new _unreleased demo technology_ that really is pretty benign and perhaps beneficial in giving everyone some good info about where the state of the art stands, so we can avoid being blindsided by malicious actors. And let's make the article be about outrage instead.

This is, um, not my favorite journalistic device.

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The focus on the corrosive effects of money on the political system has hidden what looks like the real threat to the American constitution: the Internet. The founders understood the threat of monied interests pretty well--after all the problem was described by historians of the late Roman republic like Sallust. The mechanics of communication in social networks are completely different from anything in the classical world. It's a genuine paradigm shift.

Does anyone remember the Foundation Trilogy by Asimov? There's a point in the story where the calculations of the future developed by Hari Seldon are derailed by the arrival of the Mule, a black swan event that could not be predicted easily. It's hard to understand paradigm shifts when they are happening but it feels as if the US has hit a similar point where an unforeseeable event overthrows the stable equilibrium of the past 225 years. What happens next is hard to guess but the range of outcomes seems pretty broad. I don't think you can rule out the breakup of the United States.
There's no proper API to ask to prompt to homescreen. The only thing you can do (android chrome only) is enable the prompt to be shown at some point in the future. Google takes over from there and decides when and if users will be prompted, and the exact UI and copy of that prompt.

For sites that have enabled this, you'll be prompted once you visit a site a number of times over a short enough period of time.

This is a staggering limitation unique to PWAs. Any Product Manager I've ever worked with wants to experiment with different copy, UI, timing, etc... So the PWA add to homescreen prompt limitations makes it a complete non-starter.

In lieu of a proper API for PWA add to homescreen I'm then asked to put up prompts that send users to native app stores.
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Also, obviously all projects don't involve decades of work. The U.S. won WWII on two fronts in 4 years, put a person on the moon in less than ten, builds roads and bridges, rolled out the ACA ... and that's mostly just he big stuff.
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