skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shameless plug: check out Tropo[1]: you can interface with SIP.

One thing to keep in mind regarding speech to text: if you need accuracy, it helps immensely if you can guide the recognizer with a list of expected answers. Un-hinted transcription will do its best to recognize words but without AI to understand the context, there are still quite a few possibilities for mis-recognition. More info about these two here[2].

[1] https://www.tropo.com

[2] https://www.tropo.com/docs/voice/transcription-vs-speech-rec...

(Full disclaimer: I'm in the Tropo BU)
A few years ago this might have been dismissed as a first world problem, but I really hope the tech scene startups dedicating more time and effort into the ergonomics of working from coffee shops in the next few years. Everyone knows what we're doing [working for too long without breaks, in unergonomic positions on laptops where the screen height is far below eye level so craning our necks] isn't great, yet everyone does it.
You may want to reconsider. I've had much better success with providing "Rate Now", "Rate Later", and "Leave Me Alone!" options. Even great apps are prone to bad reviews if the user is being prompted for the 5th time.

Like many users, I as well have fallen victim for having a temporary fit of rage and leaving a 1 star review with a 1 liner of nonconstructive feedback for an otherwise useful app.

As if to say "Fine, you want it? Here's your god damn review!"
A little bit on the underwhelming side, specially given the "lifelike" moniker. But it seems pretty useful otherwise. What are the competing services?
Boycotting Amazon is easy. I'm sure only a percentage of the time you use same or next day shipping, you actually need it. More often it's about impulse buying or impatience.

The times you do need it, better planning could often have obviated the need for it.

The rare times you still need it, there's always real stores you can go to for most categories of items.

The remaining times it's still needed should be very rare. You can think of Amazon as a fallback you only need in rare times of desperation than your go-to place for buying in general.
Did those cultures have writing?

Remember proper fumigation would have no observable effect now other than maybe there seemed to be "too high" population density for a predictable untreated parasite load.

Even crazier look at the time intervals.

"Hey Ug, hold my beer and watch this, I'm gonna light the ceremonial fires now... sure are a lot of fleas this season but they're going up in smoke for sure. Ya know, Ug, when I was a wee lad my grannie who's been dead 30 winters now, had some crazy story about destroying the whole village when she was a young lass herself because the chief used too much wood and doing it in the dry season, but you know crazy old people, our generation invented sex and music and I'm not going to listen to old wives tales from a woman seen elves in her garden bout every other day ... gosh those are some really big flames, maybe using ten times as much wood as usual wasn't a good idea after all. Ug? Hey Ug! Why you runnin' from the fire, bro?"
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Couldn't changing a bunch of code to conform to new standards actually create far more bugs?
try a google chrome extension (keywords: bypass wsj)
Bitcoin falters as well funded startup, Circle, drops the currency
Show HN: ios-heatmap-lib: Touch heatmaps for your iOS App
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Floats can absolutely be formatted, but the result may be unexpected, because it is basically a (hardware based) C binary float:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_floating_point

So, because users will typically be surprised that 2.2 + 3.1 results in 5.300000000000001, or that round(2.675, 2) gives 2.67 (instead of 2.68), best practice is to use Decimal, which will give users the results they expect:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/decimal.html
What's the point of this? By that I mean what would you actually use it for?

Is this a GUI version of nvm and if so, seriously who would use it? The whole point of nvm is to be able to pop in/out of node versions as you're working on a project. That doesn't make any sense for a global GUI.
How does this kind of writing still make it to publication? This isn't about generational shifts, changing aesthetics, or trends in home layout. This is about falling wages, soaring costs of living in urban areas, and a decrease in QoL for the purportedly-mobile section of the working class that is the implicit subject of this article.

Portraying this as being a decision of taste rather than necessity is misleading. Very few people are willingly choosing to have less rooms in their house; our grand paring-down is the result of tight belts and empty wallets, not a nod to minimalist aesthetics.
These moonshot projects also buy them "free" press, and may help attract smart people to go work there.
Shenzhen is booming because of Open Source hardware. It's amazing. They realized that IP is garbage and only holds back everyone.
> Scale is important, google makes ~20 billion in profit per year making these relatively minor bets.

Sorry, what? The Other Bets segment loses $2.5 billion per year.
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i thought you guys were being either hyperbolic or overly critical. then i heard the demo files.
I agree that the voice sounds pretty bad, but I think the 'lifelike' part comes from the intelligence part. I.E WA -> Washington, and 75F -> 75 Fahrenheit
> once you take VC money

their goals become your goals and their goals are almost always "Make more money now"
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That's exactly what our "study" is - smallest bedroom in our flat/apartment that has a desk and chair, PC, printer (rarely used) and comfy chair.

It's also a cat free zone.
I can't get over the thought that this is some sort of hit piece on work-from-home being published by Bloomberg. Does this narrative support HP, Yahoo, and other companies insist that employees commute in for culture and for productivity!?
Did you see that picture of the development team in the article? That's a hell of a lot of mouths to feed.
Amazon Lex? https://aws.amazon.com/lex/?nc2=h_l3_db
> For personal use, the brother laser devices <$100.

Rarely do I fanboy over a piece of electronic device, but this rings so incredibly true. I get thousands of pages out of my Brother laser printer per toner cartridge, it duplexes, the wireless just works. If you absolutely need a printer, get the sub-$100 brother laser printer.
Completely agree with your point. One nit:

> If Coke becomes generic for Cola, then they can lose their right to enforce their copyright.

That should say 'trademark' rather than 'copyright'. Copyright and patents don't become less enforceable if they are selectively enforced. The same is not true for trademarks.
So good they can even sing, and so well that they create entirely virtual pop stars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocaloid
TL;DR: Pebble run out of money and can't fulfill orders anymore. Fitbit has bought their IP and has offered jobs to about 40% of Pebble's employees, while Pebble the company is shutting down. No orders will be fulfilled anymore; Kickstarter backers will get refunds. Fitbit is phasing out Pebble's product line. As for what they will do with the IP, only time will tell.
Pebble is bankrupt. It owes more money to people/companies than it has/is owed. People whom Pebble owes money to ("creditors") will be ordered in a list. FitBit is buying some of the assets (software, IP, etc.). The proceeds from this sale will go to their creditors, proceeding down the list. The creditors at the end of the list won't get any of the money that they are owed.

The founders and investors walk away with nothing because the company's value is negative. Limited liability means that they are not personally on the hook for any of the debts.

Pebble is winding down operations. Warranty, support, &c. stops because Pebble as an entity will cease to exist. FitBit isn't buying Pebble the entity, it is buying some of the things of value which Pebble the entity owned.
I used to be the blend of all, my life, my work, it was all a single thing, my self in a way. Then it splitted, there was leisure, passion me; and work me and organization became a sudden need. No more stack circle around laptops and pizzas. Dedicated shelves, drawers, rooms, space. Genius loci in a way.
Text-to-speech systems have been expanding abbreviations for decades, and it always backfires in some cases. For example, DECtalk would expand "Sun" to "Sunday" regardless of context, with the humorous result that blind people reading tech news in the 90s would often hear about Sunday Microsystems.

Edit: Yes, that example was unfair, because it's from the 90s (and actually, DECtalk was largely unchanged since the 80s, until it was ruined in the late 90s). Here's a somewhat more recent one: With the ETI-Eloquence engine, which was last updated in 2002, the string "2 Marketing" (which one might find, say, in a Wikipedia table of contents) is expanded to "March twond keting".
Hah, try having kids. I'll work from home some days to avoid trying to make my way through the snow. Even a home office isn't enough to keep that blending from happening with a young kid who can't understand why they shouldn't come see you.
Open-source doesn't mean free labor. CoreOS is a for-profit enterprise; it's in their own best interest to hire people to produce great documentation.
Is it if you don't work exclusively from home? I work from home a few days a week and have a dedicated office for it.
Exactly. That's the primary reason I use Scala these days - all that's good in Java (libraries, JVM) but with a much nicer surface language! The only thing that's missing, really, is fast for loops (either Java-like, or automatic optimisation when looping over things like arrays or ranges). Conversely, a major thing missing in the post above is some sort of implicits, or at least C#-like extension methods.
Hence the need for intelligence
I don't think it was even a cover photo. Look closely, someone did a bad Photoshop job putting the whole image together. Adding even more to how contrived it all feels.
Richard Stallman rejects the term 'intellectual property' for exactly this reason. It's another case where Stallman can seem extreme, but is actually quite insightful.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html
>> and I find that it mentally partitions leisure from work

This is very important in my opinion. More employers are offering "flexibility" so employees are tempted to bring laptops home, use the VPN, and generally work outside of work. Even though I have a laptop, I leave it at work when I go home at the end of the day. I do not remotely access email or anything else. If you work at home it makes sense to have a firm boundary between your life and your job. A home office would seem to help with that.
Ask HN: What do you learn from technical videos and how?
I watch a fair share of technical video on youtube and other similar platforms. But after watching video, I get the feeling that I didn't learn much and wasted 30-60 minute on watching that video. I want to know if people really learn from these videos and how?
I have an adjustable desk with a nice chair and desktop PC in my living room. That's all the "office" I need.
Then you shouldn't consider either GH pages for hosting a security-oriented project or a custom domain redirect.
The spoken word has so many nuances. Cadence, inflexion, tone, and then the facial performances are never captured by pure text to speech. You'd almost have to be able to set boundaries for seriousness, playfulness, innuendo, indifference, sarcasm etc because none of that is conveyed in the literal text without additional descriptions or contextual analysis of the conversation.
I also blame Apple. When you are a 1T$ company, I think it's a social responsibility to not be ruthless in your pricing with small innovating competitors running on the midnight oil. It's a page out of MS playbook. I feel like a traitor for owning an apple watch. But at this rate, with their ipadification (dropped all ports off the mbp) and product lineup explosion, Apple is going where it was in the 90s anyway...
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This may be true. But I have a feeling a large percentage of HN are not part of this trend, as it seems there's quite a few people on here who still have real jobs that involve concentrating, which is not the going trend for most of the country.

As for me, and I admit this is weird, I have wanted a home office since I was kid. And now that I have one it's my favorite room in the house. I'm not married nor do I have kids. But a quiet, very functional room where one can sit and concentrate, for real work or for a hobby, where friends who come over aren't going to touch shit, where you can work on something you take seriously is really a gift. The bedroom might be the most fun room in the house, but a home office is where the magic can happen.

Good luck to these people with their Macbooks Air sitting and working in bed.
While it is fine that you have decided to no longer be news or for hackers, that means I don't care to continue reading this. Hackers are supposed to question the systems they're presented with, and news is supposed to deal with the issues of the day--political news and computer news are linked inextricably these days. The idea of removing one is asinine, this is not the proper community for it. Lobsters is good.
Personally I've gone all-in on the Stack Overflow CV / Developer Story (mine, for example [1]). I'm exploring building the missing tooling to update everything else (LinkedIn, AngelList) from SO as the single source of truth.

Developer Story does have a PDF export but it's very limited to including everything which is a bit heavy, and no UI customization right now.

I'd be more likely to explore a tool like CakeResume if they imported from an SO CV i.e., if the cost of adoption was reduced. I think this reflects the typical developer opinion on most resume generators.

I'm not saying SO has to be the standard, it could be a JSON schema with even more features, but we really need some standard.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/cv/taylor
> To say nothing of the fact that a programmer can't use the CLI? What programmer is that?

People who use Excel, maybe. There are a lot of people who do "programming" in their job without their job title containing "programmer". I can absolutely believe that these days there are people out there brewing up little JS scripts to help them with their day-to-day tasks.
I agree with all the comments here and I'll add that being able to close the and explain to the kids that if the door is closed you can only come if there's an emergency.

Nothing worse than a kid, clearly old enough to understand the concept of a closed door, who constantly interrupt an audio/video conf.
The name would be something of a poisoned chalice if they can't fulfil existing orders.

They've bought the parts that are worth something. They haven't bought the liabilities. It seems like a pretty obvious move, in that cold light.
I wonder what other applications this could support. Better colour displays, where a monochromatic LED is converted to one of R, G and B?
Sooo cynical. This is way better than most TTS systems, including Google's. The only one I've ever heard that is better is DeepWave, and that suffers from lots of background noise.
Who exactly is the point being made to? The travelers who are missing their flights?

The difference between the TSA policy and Amazon's policy is that one is mandated and the other is self imposed. The TSA is tasked with protecting people and has to demonstrate that it's doing that regardless of how effective it is. Amazon's policy is self serving to protect itself from abuse.

So while screwing people in both cases is a horrible thing to do, the former is less likely to affect change than the later.
> Brian went to great lengths to stress how very,
> very speculative all of the following is and how
> much things might evolve or simply get dropped. He
> went so far to let everyone in the audience sign an
> acknowledgment thereof (just mentally but still) and
> explicitly forbade any sensationalist tweets.

> Well… first of all, this is no tweet and second of all,
> I wasn’t in that audience.

Oh well. So they agree it's sensationalist and I won't hold my breath for those things to appear in the near future. For a recent new release of our library at work we dropped compatibility for Java < 8. I actually tried finding out how far the value types proposal had progressed (since we convert the code from C# we actually have value types that were turned into classes in Java again) to see whether we can do things now that would integrate cleanly into a new Java language version later without drastic API changes on our part. Alas, nothing was to be found except for the original 2014 proposal.

Another point is the upgraded switch statement with pattern matching. The next version of C# is currently trying to add this and the current form looks a lot different from the initial proposal. I expect reality to change a fair bit of how those features will end up in Java eventually.
Dead, finally? ..Ow, damn, false alarm! Just another vile article :(
You're right! I didn't notice that. This has to be a hit piece. What utter editorial garbage, even for Bloomberg.
> Let's flip this around, what are the benefits of writing a native app when there is Electron?

- Speed

- Native UI

- Native OS hooks
Pretty much. Plus you can call rooms an office if they don't qualify as a bedroom (I believe they need to have a window to be called a BR). Also, I would think an extra bedroom sells better than calling it an office.
You just described me, my memory recall is horrible and I'm very curious in finding an explanation.

My memory is poor and seems to only get worse and I'm not even in my 30s yet.
Which is included in Alphabet's $4.9 billion profit Q2 FY2016.

Sure, they might have made an extra 0.6 billion that quarter, but it's not exactly a hidden bet. Further, these are R&D losses, so it's hard to say what the long term impact is, but it's unlikely to be exactly -2.5 billion / year.
It does, if one broadens "quality and suitability of goods" to include the manufacturer–originator, which seems like a reasonable thing to do for a tech gadget purchase that will involve a long/ish term relationship with the corporation that makes the gadget in question.
If it's about such a large amount of money, I don't understand why this guy isn't lawyering up.
This Radiolab story (2013) covers the same theme:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/262588-bitter-end/

It notes the discrepancy between doctors' preferences and the general public's and points to the role television medical dramas play in explaining it.

I've always been in the "If I'm too ill to enjoy life, please let me go" camp. Still, this was one of those pieces that significantly tilted how I look at an issue.
Good job. I think it's useful purely for the fact that it can tell you the latest available version for each of the packages in your project. It's handy to have that at a glance
It'll look like this, except on Android. There, despite constantly being asked when newer improvements to Java would come, they still had to ask if people wanted them to update to Java 8, and why they'd want that.
You just need to do it for prominent bloggers & tech publications.

The downside is that they might just implement a "referrer whitelist"
I used to work at the desk in my bedroom. I now work from a rented shared office 20 minute walk from where I live. The lure of a nap at 2.30pm was too much to resist.

I still work at home a lot of the time, but I prefer the strict divide between 'work' and 'home' that the office affords me. It is also a place to store all the extraneous hardware I seem to have accumulated - Anyone want a HP Compaq 9020 laptop? :)
I've been trying to break this habit and get into using namedtuples, but the problem is I still need to look up the API every time I need to use them.
In my last flat I had a hallway wide enough to install home office. It was the central corridor hub where all the other rooms branched out of, so not exactly a long, traditional hallway. Instead, I opted to make our kitchen more like a coffee bar; wide countertops, barstools, plenty of outlets. Because in my single days those were the type of places I worked out of. So I modeled my "home office" after my "old office." And it's worked really well. Our son comes home and we work around the kitchen, together. Now, the kitchen has become our focal point, not the bedrooms, salon, etc.

I think the concepts of what I home needs has changed. They are more expensive than our parents generation so every part has to have a function. When I visit friends and see that they have 2 offices, one for each of them, I just think what a waste of valuable space. Like you have so many rooms you're inventing functions for them; what's next the gift wrapping room?
My office is about 80% office, 20% man cave but the idea that everyone now works solely on laptops and migrates around the house is flat on it's face silly.

Personally I can't stand working on a laptop in any serious capacity. During an emergency if I need to VPN into work quick and restart some problem child machine? Sure. Actually sitting and building something from scratch? God no. I mean with a gun to my head I could make it work but given any other options, be it a table, a desk, preferably with my Thunderbolt displays, I'd choose a real surface over lounging with a laptop any day.

When I do sit down to do some writing though my Surface shines, it's the only computer I've been able to use comfortably not sitting. Maybe this is just something the author and their co-workers experience also being writers. But yeah, any serious mental heavy lifting work happens in my office.
All you need is one of those projects to work to recoup the losses many times over. Relying solely on advertising revenue forever is probably a bad idea.
Agreed. I'm a college student and I absolutely miss having a nice working area for when I need to settle in and get stuff done. Some of my friends to all their homework sitting on their bed (like in that picture) but they're definitely the minority. I think we all appreciate the library which is usually quiet and allows you to get a nice open space with relatively few distractions.
It depends on the terms of the offer. He might have thought he was working in his employee's best interests by not taking the offer. Alternatively he could have negotiated support contracts for existing customers and provided stock options to employees then cashed out.

But in hindsight he's probably kicking himself.
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The 1Blocker beta (via TestFlight) mentions blocking YouTube banner ads now. I haven't tested it yet for that.
> - Paste the URL into the address bar / omnibox.

Many websites seems to keep track of you with a combination of cookies and IP. But many also allow you through if you come from Google, so replace this step with "Paste URL into Google search, then click first result" and it should work.
> Current home design tends toward open-floor plans, with an emphasis on flexible spaces and workspace nooks, says architect Paul Adamson, who operates out of the San Francisco Bay Area.

I've seen these workspace nooks before and personally find them terrible. It's like bringing all the negative parts of the open office home with none of the benefits.

I like open floor plans but don't want my office as part of that. The last thing I want to hear while trying to concentrate is the sound of pots and pans banging in the kitchen, the sound of the television, etc.