skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The definition in this case was how many deaths had a 'prepared' obituary. news organisations will write obituaries in advance for 'famous' people, in order to be prepared if they die unexpectedly; they simply print the obituary they have on file. There are people whose job it is to update these documents and add new ones. It seems like a reasonable, if slightly loose, metric.
I was a early backer on Kick starter... At this point I believe the Hardware to be vapor... They have pushed the delivery date for backers back soo many times I if I ever actually get one I will be shocked.

Many backers have made their own from the software using their Own rPI's
* Grow a beard
* Exploring vegetarian recipes
* Get to a 100 push ups
* Learn Racket
* Learn to weld and make some furniture
* Sit less
> The former is much more readable from and LTR English language PoV. In Haskell I need to start from the right and work my way left;

For short chains, pronouncing `.` as "of" works well in English, e.g. `sum . tail $ foo` is "the sum of the tail of foo`, and it follows the same order as nested function application: `sum (tail foo)`.

I agree the the other way around, e.g. a "then" operator `>>>`, is easier to understand with long chains: with `f . g . h . ...` we have to remember `f`, `g`, `h`, etc. in a "mental stack", until we get the the end. With the other way round, `... >>> h >>> g >>> f` we can "mentally apply" each function to a "mental accumulator" as we encounter it.
Turkey: Around 10,000 Social Media Users Under Investigation by Authorities
Aadhaar Payment App Download, Features and How to Use It
I stumbled upon this project about 2 months ago.
Wanted to convert a bike race video from avi to mp4.

It worked surprisingly well. Glad to see a new version of this released.
Same with iOS Apps. Apple doesn't seems to care about their bandwidth transfer.

May be there is a reason behind this. I would love to know why.
For me this year will be about focusing on growth for my new SaaS venture.
I'd like to learn how to sell a SaaS product - talk with customers and gather feedback and also how to manage a business.
Also I would like to learn more about marketing and different growth hacking techniques.

P.S. Also if you are in need of Intercom analytics please give us a try - I would be glad to have you onboard.

https://www.tinymetrics.in

https://www.twitter.com/tinymetrics
In one word 'Context'
The interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs.
It is succinct and sounds professional.
> you take psychoactive substance

So are they going to release individual studies for each of the other substances? This is the crux of the issue for me.
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A home inspection can't tell what materials were used inside the floors and the walls, and how the pipes were installed. Particularly in a modern apartment block. And for new constructions you often buy ahead of completion.

In the UK for instance, health safety regulation mandates that all doors shut automatically in an apartment block. As a result doors spend their time slamming in modern flats. You'd better have good sound insulation. How can you check that unless you pay someone to make noise in every flat around yours to test it?
Show HN: NewtonVR, a VR interaction system for unity based on physics
Agreed about stature, I'd add a social historical element to it. These people represented the cream of some sort of golden age of occidental post war cultural wave. There can only be one Micheal Jackson because you need to be a child prodigy turned to adulthood when the music industry shifts to mass market through CD, and music videos.

All these people leaving feel like cultural parents.
Guessing from his public persona, he was probably oblivious to it.
Original link [pdf]: http://littleosbook.github.io/book.pdf

HTML version: http://littleosbook.github.io/

Source: https://github.com/littleosbook/littleosbook

2015 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8866912

reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/duplicates/2rx3wq/the_l...
The Arctic lost enough ice last week to cover the UK
They all turn completely gray in office.
Two podcast that I really like are:

- http://www.codingblocks.net/

- http://www.dotnetrocks.com/
Is it ok to have a 6 year old donate her voice to improve your speech recognition product even though she wouldn't directly see a benefit from it?

Why couldn't you provide some direct benefit? IIRC that's was the point of Google Voice: provide a free product in exchange of getting people to help them improve voice recognition.
The Home did a better job of interpreting requests, mostly. We found that we had to contort ourselves more to get the Echo to do some things. "Play the Nutcracker" -- no go. Even though it was in our library. "Play tchaikovsky's nutcracker suite" would work, IIRC. The home handled both. Informational requests also worked a bit better on the Home. ("What is a..."). We weren't using any extra skills that we'd miss, so it was a very easy transition.

I wish the Home had the equivalent of the Dot. I wish the Echo had the Home's inference capability.
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this guy has helped ME in so many of my language learning ventures. And he's relentlessly optimistic and encouraging.

http://www.fluentin3months.com/

He's learned Japanese (and like ten other languages), but his main value-add is general language learning advice.
'Revolutionary' solar cell hits 100% efficiency
I would like to learn Rebol (http://www.rebol.com/) and Red (http://www.red-lang.org/).

And that's how I plan to do it:

- https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/red/

- http://redprogramming.com/Home.html

- http://easiestprogramminglanguage.com/easiest_programming_la...

- http://business-programming.com/business_programming.html
Learn to play guitar.
I'm not sure, because you would have an additional degree of freedom that needs to be constrained. With a 2D spirograph, you only have one axis of rotation. You can rotate forwards or backwards, but there are no other options. With a 3D object, there are always two possible axes of rotation. The simplest way to handle it would be to only rotate around one axis, but then you are back to just a normal 2D spirograph. There would need to be some non-linear correlation between the rotations, which adds a great deal of complexity.
مخطط مغربي و زعماء المعارضة الموريتانية للإطاحة بولد عبد العزيز
apropos-- "and this is now I plan to use it"
The purpose is not to have a fictional work as some basis for deriving morals. Rather, it is to test our moral sense in extreme conditions, to see how it reacts, and to see whether the theory we have still holds up.

As an example, consider theft. As a society, we have a strong aversion to theft. This aversion is enshrined in our laws, our religions, and even our grammar (e.g. "my pen" as opposed to "your pen"). So, we would consider "Do not steal." as a general moral guideline, functional in all scenarios.

But we haven't tested it in all scenarios. Let's consider somebody who steals for the purpose of helping another, commits no other crimes, and dedicates his life to helping others, even when it harms himself. Would we still consider the theft to be immoral? I would say no, and showing such a case is the primary purpose of "Les Miserables". We have pushed our general "Do not steal." outside of usual usage, and have found that it does not apply at extreme cases.

Similarly, the author of the article is saying that Rogue One is a good test of the existing moral principle "Do not build intentionally flawed buildings." This moral principle works in most day-to-day cases. However, in the case of building a Death Star for an oppressive regime, this moral principle may not hold.
Clean, simple PIXEL UI is attractive...
The Origin of CAR and CDR in Lisp (2005)
You don't do an MBA for the education, you do it for the network and the branding. If you are able to get into a global Top50 program it is worth it. Or if you are relocating and trying to built a network in the city of the University. Otherwise it is a waste of money.
I think many people here just don't like it when people tell them that IQ is not as important as they think.

I also got downvoted in the following comment sometime ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7977021

where I quoted researchers saying basically that creativity tests are the "...best childhood predictors we have of future real-world achievements..."
Thank you; these answers have been most insightful! I learned quite a lot from browsing the links.

I am writing "answers", plural, because although I post this as an answer to SkyMarshals text, I also mean the replies by aban, peller, and petilon.
You have my condolences.

My mother died at 42, of the effects of a fall. My father remarried after about a year and a half; how heavily the care of my brother and myself weighed in his decision, I can't say. I will say that it must have been five years before he could mention my mother's name without clearing his throat.

I wish that I had something useful to tell you, but really I don't, except that I'd urge you to think very carefully before moving where you now live, at least if the children are old enough to have formed friendships.
Thank you for your thoughts. I thought they were very well written and totally becoming of what makes hacker news great.
This is nice. I wrote a spirograph simulator when I was 14 years old, but of course it didn't have such nice UI (basically it was just a couple of calls of sin(x) and cos(x) in a loop, and some graphics calls, it was much fun nonetheless).

Some ideas:

- Animate the rotation of the gears more smoothly for more realism.

- Add an automatic mode, where the gears keep on moving until it reaches the point when the path starts overlapping itself.
I find it interesting how polarizing this movie is.

Many people told me it was crap, because the characters had no depth, so you didn't care when someone died. Just waiting for the next action to happen.
Sometimes I think that but on the other hand it is quite an interesting puzzle making it do things it was never designed for.
Ask HN: Learning .Net as an experienced Java dev
Hi!

I'm looking to pick up as much .Net as possible, specifically in the areas of Asp.Net, Entity Framework, NHibernate and a few others before I start with a client that is a MS only shop when I get back to work in January. (Yes, they are aware that I am a Java guy.)

So far I have figured out C# is a better Java. IIS is the app server. NuGet is ~a Maven lite. Visual Studio is the IDE, etc.

Problem is there are seemingly thousands of small things to figure out that I haven't come around to yet, like: is there a common directory layout for projects (solutions)?

How does it decide which templates to use around my page specific html? Something like Tiles maybe?

Anyone has some good pointers?
I imagined it as intentionally needing manual control, so that a computer security breach would not result in leaking sensitive documents. Somebody who gains remote access could highlight the document that they want to steal, but could not upload it to a remote server, without the help of a person nearby.

Granted, the same effect could be achieved by having the storage system deposit the hard drive in a box, to be picked up by hand, but I can't come up with any explanation about that.
It is amazing to see software that is about 10 years old just hitting 1.0. Never really quite understood that. Is the developer just not confident in it that it is in beta for a while? or is it just a style of versioning? Anyways glad to see development on handbreak.Great software!
> If I choose to go Ai route, I do not know from where to start ...

This type of comment is often made in machine learning (ML) related submissions.

The pre-req list is long: calculus, linear algebra, stats, probability, numerical methods (for optimization, linear algebra, maybe interpolation), etc. BUT, you don't really need to go through the entirety of each subject for ML. For example, in calculus, you probably only need to focus on the aspects necessary for optimization, rather than integral techniques, convergence of sequences, etc. The trouble is that it is difficult to know which subtopics of each subject are worth spending time on unless you already know machine learning (or you have the luxury of someone with experience guiding you).

The latter difficulty is compounded by the fact that there seems to be many more resources (at least posted as popular submission on the web) for learning neural nets or learning some specific framework to implement neural networks, than to learn the mathematical and statistical foundations of ML. This is fine -- neural nets are a popular and powerful model, and people like to work on something tangible to get acquainted with a topic.

I wonder if people might enjoy a well-written textbook covering the basic math for ML -- something like, "All the math you missed (but need to know for machine learning)" [1]. I might enjoy working on such an ebook if there was desire for one, but my time is pretty limited (like most).

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/All-Mathematics-You-Missed-Graduate/d...
This is not news, so please add the date and make sure to include it in full: 01 Apr 2016.
Fantastic software that I use almost weekly and have done so for many years.
April 1 fools' day
> Nailed it. Neural net execution speed is so critical for may production systems and it's very difficult to hit the sweet spot on trade offs but I never hear about these issues in wild.

That's probably because you're not listening. There's plenty of literature on scaling down neural nets to smaller devices because everyone knows it's an issue and can trivially get a smaller device, see techniques such as Quantization , Distillation, Pruning or architectures specifically designed for the task such as YOLO.
I love Handbrake. It's my goto for video transcoding.

I often download stuff for my children from YouTube using a YouTube downloader, and then transcode them to the ideal iPad format, so the children can watch stuff in the car on the iPad without an internet connection. Great for long trips.
I am curious which tech you didn't think made sense?

The affinity is to me something we are moving further and further towards to a certain extent we are already moving there.

The memories of the our grandfathers also something I can see being used somehow in the future.

Going into symbiosis with your tech like with the spaceships is also something I can see is needed if humans are to live in space further down the line.

And it touched on a very interesting issue which is whether it's possible to transcend the "ghost in the shell" into tech or whether it's left behind.

With regards to the racism I read it when I was a teenager and didn't pick that up any different than I did with playing Warcraft. Any mention of different species are by definition racist but that does not mean in a bad way.
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You're not the first to notice this:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-case-for-the-empire/articl...
I love this software. I rip my kids' DVDs using it and play them on a Raspberry Pi with Kodi. This way I don't have to wade through menus, language selection (never defaults to mine), commercials, and ridiculous piracy warnings (I paid for it! Don't treat me like a criminal).
What's the difference between this and FFMPEG?
One tactic I use for opening emails is to write the question or point in the subject line (e.g. not "Meeting" but "Today's meeting is at 10:00 in 94a").

For the majority of situations this means easier comprehension/scanning and zero redundancy. It also provides good practice for anything that needs more than a single line.

For longer emails I also like to put a summary at the top, then an expanded details below as necessary, and make sure each paragraph starts a new point or item.
I ask as someone who uses ffmpeg regularly, what does Handbrake offer over ffmpeg?
>even using the word "intent"

Words like "intent", "sentiment", and "entities" were standard vernacular for natural language processing long before Amazon decided to jump into the space.
With 512 MB, there's hardly an Internet browsing experience here. The biggest reason why old hardware have gone out of use (relatively quickly) is mostly due to Internet browsers and their need for more memory. So even if you have a computer with 2-4 GB laying around, and you attempt to revive it seeing the news here, it will be soon before you give up the idea altogether.
It has a nice GUI frontend with useful presets, understandable for the layman. Very good tool for the people not too versed in CLI and/or video formats.
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Am I the only person who finds GNU parallel way too complicated? I tried to perform a very easy parallel task with it and spent hours reading the documentation and various tutorials. If a person with Unix command-line skills can't easily pick it up, what's the point of having it?
Hey, I'd be potentially interested. Shoot me an e-mail (contact in profile).
اخر ماتوصل اليه الأمن الفدرالي الروسي عن الطائرة تو 154المنكوبة
- I use Browserify(1) because it allows me to use CommonJS(2) modules and bundle my JavaScript painlessly.

- Beyond the pretty standard debowerify(3) and hintify(4) transforms I use babelify(5) to help me sprinkle fancy ES6 features here and there.

- Node-based watchers and the npm client itself are all broken in many ways and very bad Unix citizens so I've stopped using npm for anything beyond actual package management and I will almost certainly replace the npm client with Yarn(6) very soon. The venerable make(7) or the much much younger but very dependable modd(8) are infinitely better than all that Node-based crap on _every_ front.

- I use tape(9) for tests (works like node-tap(10) with a little fewer dependencies) but I _love_ the look of ospec(11) even if it's not TAP(12)-compliant.

- Some JS libraries I've used recently: route-parser(13), pikaday(14), vidage(15), etc.

- I don't use any Sass/SCSS-specific tool or library.

- I use Vim(16) for editing text and either git itself (with with(17) when I remember I have it) or tig(18) for versioning source code.

[1] http://browserify.org/
[2] http://wiki.commonjs.org/wiki/CommonJS
[3] https://github.com/eugeneware/debowerify
[4] https://github.com/ansis/hintify
[5] https://github.com/babel/babelify
[6] https://yarnpkg.com/
[7] https://www.gnu.org/software/make/
[8] https://github.com/cortesi/modd
[9] https://github.com/substack/tape
[10] https://github.com/tapjs/node-tap
[11] https://github.com/lhorie/mithril.js/tree/rewrite/ospec
[12] https://testanything.org/
[13] https://github.com/rcs/route-parser
[14] https://github.com/dbushell/Pikaday
[15] https://github.com/dvLden/Vidage
[16] http://www.vim.org/
[17] https://github.com/mchav/with
[18] https://jonas.github.io/tig/
Ease of use and easy installation on windows.
- it supports extracting titles from dvd and blu ray

- a gui
What does Alexa report home? I can't seem to find anything detailing what all is sent.
I think the most beneficial case of MBA is firstly you are accustomed with macOS, secondly you have enough computing resource else where and thirdly you have stable network connection in case you are asking about MacBook Air
If you are comfortable with ffmpeg and shell scripting you probably don't need Handbrake. It's basically a nice UI.
Star Wars gotta have 70s sci-fi technology, it can't keep pace with advances in sci-fi!
No word wrap, horizontal scroll is hijacked and the content goes off screen (Chrome on Android) the topic sounds interesting but the post is unreadable
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In Australia for example you can't do your own (unless you are an electrician). Imagine if you buy a house with faulty electric work, you can't "see" it or even reasonably check it all in a building inspection. These kinds of regulations are lifesavers.
SyFy channel in the US: http://www.syfy.com/incorporated

And it is probably on the Space channel in Canada.
Hunter Logan on How to Find Your Purpose
A lot of Chromebooks are still shipping with 2GB of RAM and they do a perfectly sufficient job of running the "Internet" for most everyday users. I would argue your lower limit of a reasonable Internet browsing experience is higher than average because of your technical background. 512MB would be limiting for sure, but a machine with 2GB of RAM running a Linux desktop, especially with an SSD if possible, would make a fine everyday laptop.

*edit: Forgot to mention also that ad blocking aids tremendously in making the internet more usable on underpowered machines.
The Wikipedia page [1] for Lambda calculus is also a great read (even for those who don't know anything about it before).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus
> Operations as ordinary as exceptions, threading, and I/O all cause as much hardship as simple mutable state.

Not sure that threading is so ordinary considering that the whole argument is about how to make parallel programming safe.

There may be good reasons to keep as much code as possible purely functional. Even my impure imperative mind finds it comforting not to have to worry about ground shifting below me. Impurities affect the purity of the caller - the paper has a valid point but then it was never considered a good idea to manipulate state hidden deep down in a remote function. In fact I would argue that the place for manipulating state is exactly in the center middle where it can be seen and reasoned about clearly.

I find it at times surprising how far people can get with purely functional programming. It may be required to use black and white thinking when deciding what to allow in the functional space. But then for any program affecting the real world there is going to be some I/O. The physics of the real world has state as have ledgers. Going to the extremes likely is not a good communication strategy when reaching out to the imperative world.

FYI: Link to the author's Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Meijer_(computer_scientis...
I recently made a thing that can do this for you in < 60 seconds: https://www.typa.io
Anatomy of a Reducer
Even outside of the good points made by argonaut - our eyes are _amazing_ cameras. They are super high resolution, have many color bits, and work well in low light and bright situations.
Can you share some contact details?
Maybe they had all those planets sitting around to begin with and wanted to avoid single points of failures in the face of planet-destroying weapons!
I also would add DMA (direct memory access) transfers to round the IO model. It's important for performance and affects a quantity of devices (disk, net, sound...).
Star Wars is unusual in that it's an explicitly Manichean universe. The "light" and "dark" sides of the force are equated with good and evil, and assigned in a way that's clear both in and out of universe. It's not a universe of grey areas.

(There's a lot of people trying to reinvent ethics and metaethics from the ground up in this thread, badly..)
Don't use SHA-1 please.
Whether in house Docker Containers are worth the trouble or just continue using prefab templates and scripts on drop.io
I know there have been many discussions about speech interfaces here lately, but I really think it's going to be as transformative as the touch screen in that it removes abstraction between the users intent and the means to input it. Speech is very natural to us and as soon as the AI become more contextual it will be truly powerful in our every day lives.

I can of course only speak from personal experience but it completely changed the way we access various services in our family and allow us to be together while using Google home as a fifth member of the family.

Making it open source is great but I do believe the hardware needs to be much more polished to compete with Amazon and Google.
Just installed it on a Zero I had laying around and I'm surprised by the general responsiveness of the UI. Of course, now that I played with it for five minutes I'll turn off the GUI and go direct to CLI like every other Pi I have. Trying to get weewx up and going on my Zero.