skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mastering shouldn't increase the dynamic range. It should rather preserve all meaningful dynamic range, while making the most of the medium.
You can do this in OSMAnd.

It has a rather complex UI though and the availability of POIs will depend on the quality of OpenStreetMap in the area you are interested in.
There were reports a few weeks ago that Apple is going to cut production of iPhone 7 because it overestimated demand, at the same time it underestimated demand for iPhone SE and other cheaper models. It may still be huge, or even "bigger than ever" but the fact that they under- or overestimate things is an indication of something being not quite right with Apple.
Purpose of Trigraph sequences in C++
I'm hoping someone can chime in to this, but putting the American market aside, is it just me or is this extremely marketable to the Asian market? Most of my Asian or Asian American friends exclusively play games on their phones. They play a wide selection of MMORPG to RTS games on their phones daily. Asians value games that are more repetitive (like EXP farming or turn based games, such as FF) and have great character development. I expect they will be receptive to a hybrid portable gaming system (not sure what to call this). [1]

Secondly, I'm surprised with how many people here find that the Nintendo Switch overpriced. We're all comparing the pricing to consoles that are sold at a loss (such as the PS4, they're essentially subsidized by the gaming industry). I bought a 3DS at about $200. For $100 more you get a tablet and console in one. I'm willing to bet like the 3DS, you'll be able to use this as a ad-hoc tablet for browsing the web as well and use it to play movies. I would jump on this if I had more time to game.

[1] Completely based on my opinion and might be subjected to cognitive bias and dissonance
Do you really consider any of these things serious problems?

Phone functionality could turn off in "game mode". As far as the owner of the device "taking it away" to use it while it's being played...how is this a device issue?
It tries to install webpack globally which it can't because I'm not running it with sudo and I have it installed already anyway. I see I can skip adding webpack to the app but can I just skip the installation part?
Obama is pro surveillance. Being President got rid of a lot of his initial idealism. Key was killing Osama, which probably cinched him a second term.
If you've been working and paying taxes for years when times were good, taking a little back in a time of need is not at all shameful.

I am not sure if it works the same way in every state but in mine, we pay for Supplemental Unemployment Insurance (SUI) with every paycheck. You'd file a claim if you had a car accident, so why not file a claim when you lose your job through no fault of your own?
How Much Does It Cost to Hire a PHP and JavaScript Developer in Ukraine?
Truth be told I was planning on quitting at 3pm during my bi-weekly one-on-one with the CTO, so I'm taking it in stride/happy.

Happy? You should be ecstatic. You just won the lottery!

What you would have received if you had quit at 3pm: nothing.

What you will receive because they beat you to it: 4 weeks pay, 5 weeks benefits, 26 weeks (potentially) unemployment. I dunno, something like $10,000 to $20,000.

Count you lucky stars and enjoy your lottery winnings. I wish I could figure out how to do that.
PocketCHIP–Super cheap Linux terminal that fits in your pocket – Network World
My three favorite documentaries are:

- Earthlings - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0358456/

- Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117293/

- Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3302820/ (some have questioned some specifics presented in the documentary, it is on my list of favorites for the overall point it makes about sustainability as it relates to animal agriculture)
The following are a little dated now, but still relevant:

* https://www.codeword.xyz/2015/09/27/self-hosting-gnu-social/

* https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/revisiting-open-source-s...
>Would also be fun to watch unsuspecting vinyl nerds gush over "superior analog sound".

-When in university, I built myself a DAC (nothing fancy - a quad of PCM1704's and a very minor revision to the reference design)

Anyway, I put a couple of tubes on top, connecting only the filament voltage. Lots of oohing and aahing as to how 'organic' and 'analog' it sounded.
No, that charging station was purposefully built and run to make it extremely inconvenient in order to discourage use. It was just built to obtain a tax incentive.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/In-Gear/2015/0312/Tesla-ba...

http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-tesla-battery...

There may be good reasons that swappable batteries don't make sense, but interest data gathered from this station doesn't contribute.
One area that may be impacted by this strategy is bulk-downloading your photos. My wife set her phone to automatically backup all her photos to flickr. Thinking she could get them back at anytime, she started deleting them off her phone. After three months, I discovered she was doing this and begged her to also backup her files to an external hard drive.

Every year we sync all our family photos to have redundant backups. When she went to get the three months of backups from flickr she got "download error" after error. She sent me this link and hypothesized that the bulk-download feature is no longer working because of the need to now first decompress the files before transmitting them.

Luckily, she was able to get the 25 gigs of family photos down using a third-party application, but it's another reminder to never wholly trust the "cloud."
Google Maps is clearly in that race, and I assume leading. Apple Maps clearly isn't unless they plan to at some point either build a product accessible to the majority of the global population or make a version for a platform that cares about that, like the web or Android.
Explanation on "omakase"? I haven't heard that term before and Google only provides sushi restaurants nearby...
>And the 7 is selling more than fine, who said anything about "overestimating demand"?

Apple[1] reduced Tim Cooks bonus for failing to meet sales goals in the last quarter - thats a pretty good measure of how c

The statistics you provide are all too vague to reach any conclusions about the iphone 7, as they are about iOS or all iphones. The CNN article specifically notes that iphone sales have seen a decline in each of the last 3 quarters.

[1]http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/06/technology/apple-tim-cook-pa...
> if the server were to be compromised.

IMO they have been since they joined Facebook.
GE has both under the name "SmartDispense". They use a peristaltic pump to dispense liquid detergent. I owned the dishwasher for a few years and enjoyed the convenience.
Because in reality they are all on the same team. This way the new President doesn't have this latest overreach on his hands.

You know, things are simple to understand if we stop believing in fairy tales.
Apple expects you to go to WWDC to meet employees and engage in dialogue. This way Apple controls the setting and the information being disseminated. (One could call it the "Mountain comes to Muhammad" approach.)

It worked pretty well in the 2000-2009 period when you could just buy a WWDC ticket like any other conference pass... But after the iOS App Store exploded, tickets became impossible to get because they started selling out in minutes.
I'm pissed, but I don't feel duped. But that's simply because no serious presidential contender, save maybe Bernie Sanders, would have done otherwise.

Well, maybe Trump. But I believe his distrust of the intelligence community is only due to the fact that he thinks their findings regarding Russia undermine his legitimacy. Once that blows over, I expect he'll be more than happy having the authoritarian tools of the intelligence community, if he's smart enough to heal the rift.

What blows my mind a bit is that the rise of Trump should make it crystal clear just how dangerous these powers could be in the wrong hands. Obama should understand this more than anyone.
Is there a way to turn on non-constant shading?
No, I do not mean to imply that at all.

That is why I said I really don't mean to suggest Moxie/Signal was complicit in this move
I edited the article because I really missed this point, you are right. I thought WhatsApp is not sending the message which got encrypted with the new key.
But still, I would not say this is a backdoor, because the user has a relatively easy way to check the keys. If WhatsApp would like to implement a backdoor, they would have done it in a different way I think.
The point being discussed is the availability of modern c++ features in MSVC, not their participation.
Why define interbreeding populations which have an order of magnitude more genetic variation within them than between them as separate species? Now that sounds like a definition which would owe more to racial politics than science.

Indeed the author's point was more or less the opposite: that Neanderthals were still "people" in the sense they tended to exhibit quite similiar behaviour and capabilities to homo sapiens sapiens despite their DNA actually being quite substantially different to the point you could meaningfully define them as separate species.
I haven't tried mastodon, but gnu social is pretty easy. There aren't enough tutorials on installing it, but I've had luck with the following (which I'm quoting myself from having posted them to previous comments):

* https://www.codeword.xyz/2015/09/27/self-hosting-gnu-social/

* https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/revisiting-open-source-s...
Arguing "by definition" has value to it when it helps advance a conversation by uncovering the subtle ways in which the different definitions of each party diverge from each other. It's only unproductive if one party doesn't realize that all definitions are man-made, and stubbornly insists that the other party's definition is wrong.

Insofar, I think that introducing the definition has brought a net positive value to this discussion here.
I wouldn't trust whatsapp even before this revelation.

I would never trust a closed source messaging app if I was an activist, regardless of what encryption they claim to implement.
Except that, as I understand it, Osama was tracked down using "good ol' fashion HumInt", not surveillance. Obama's attitude toward intelligence gathering has been one of the more perplexing contradictions of his entire administration. All I can figure is there is some trusted figure advising him on these matters who has an agenda of some sort.
I edited this part, you are definitely right.
Have you considered working on it to fix that issue?
Never see localhost HTTPS warnings again
Older titles via emulation maybe, but it has no backwards compatibility with DS games nor Wii/WiiU games.

Switch takes new cartridges.
Nice try NSA
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> You can't slip a piece of paper between Paul and Jesus. Jesus himself authenticates Paul as one of his apostles.

What does this even mean? Jesus never mentioned Paul, and Jesus and Paul never even met.
I went to WGU and graduated with a Business Management degree. I did my homework before I went and the degree is fully accredited, with some students moving on to graduate programs. I only got one certificate during the entire experience and that was through CompTIA when one of their tests counted as the final exam.
Well not every company. But I think you are oversimplifying it. Culture of secrecy in Apple's case most certainly means you can't do anything public at all without going through a bunch of legalese, approval chains and various other roadblocks. Apple for example did not allow AI researchers employed by them to publish papers - they hardly got any researcher interested and they have allowed publishing of one paper so far.

Tesla on the other hand seems to be at least making noises about Open Source spirit. It looks like Musk doesn't care about keeping things secret as much as Apple does - https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you. It is quite conceivable that Elon Musk will allow Chris more openness to contribute to LLVM/Swift and whatever Self Driving car stuff he is working on. I mean what has Tesla got to lose if LLVM is improved or even if Tesla's self driving software is open sourced (not the data mind you!) and many others adapt it and improve it?
> Unless right now there is a problem of people taking their sweet (inconsiderate) time in the parking spot since they are not getting charged?

Per r/teslamotors that seems to be the bigger issue. Once a vehicle is charged people don't move it promptly because they have no incentive to do so.
The MGS games (MGS V and Ground Zeroes) were not exclusive to Sony in any way -- both released on the PC and Xbox.
Moxie endorsed Whatsapp, though. We view Moxie as a trusted actor, so either he is untrustworthy which would SUCK or he didn't know that they did this.
I think it's possible that there's a subjective advantage to the simplicity of vinyl, the fact that the listener can see and easily comprehend some of how it works, and since music is subjective, it's the only quality that really matters.

I just had a discussion with some people who know a lot about music who said that vinyl sounded better because it recorded the shape of the sound waves in music. They didn't have an explanation for how CDs or digital formats like FLAC worked other than that they did some kind of incomprehensible digital process to create sound. I argued that all sound has to be coverted to an analog wave in the end, and they were open to the idea, but I think this perception shows that how people understand the process of how music is created affects their perception of it, just like many or most people would say that music sounds better when it is played live, even while being manipulated through electronic equipment, rather than being recorded on electronic equipment and then played.
The History of RANDOM.ORG
Ok Google, Start My Car
Alexa, remind me in 8 years.
It also seems like a downer for Apple employees. Do they ever get to leave Apple's campus?
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It probably varies by state. You probably also won't get unemployment until after the severance pay and/or paid-off leave period ends but you should absolutely start the process.
To solve that problem Tesla recently introduced a Supercharger idle fee
https://www.tesla.com/blog/improving-supercharger-availabili...
Nintendo Switch Is Already Sold Out on Amazon and Walmart
>"Too many people view this as "welfare". "

Right, and it's anything but welfare. That is "your" money, you pay into that every week. There's no shame in claiming it when you need to. And the fact that they were laid off rather than quit(as they mentioned doing.) means that they should have no problems getting it.
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Music Genome Project is unique in that the annotations are done by humans. So it's very difficult to outperform. I hear Spotify, with the help of The Echo Nest's machine learning expertise, is close though.
Note the 3d crystallographic model of penicillin. These were not meant to be exhibition pieces, it was what people used before interactive computer graphics for structure refinement. You had imperfect phases from somewhere and would calculate a Fourier map (perhaps only a projection along the axes as seen here), then you would construct your model and make it conform to the calculated density and chemical knowledge as best as you could, you'd measure atomic positions with calipers and from these derive new phases that you would feed into another cycle.
It might also be interesting for readers to see what the resulting code is from these three functions.

I recompiled your code with SAFETY 0 and here is the result. This example also shows off how you can look at the disassembly of any function directly from the REPL.

First, ADD1. Since the compiler doesn't know anything about the types (the arguments could be floating points numbers, rationals, bignums or any other type) so it will simply call the GENERIC-+ function which does all of this. Needless to say, it's much slower than a native addition.

CL-USER> (disassemble #'add1)
; disassembly for ADD1
; Size: 14 bytes. Origin: #x2291202A
; 2A: 488BD1 MOV RDX, RCX ; no-arg-parsing entry point
; 2D: E86EE26EFD CALL #x200002A0 ; GENERIC-+
; 32: 488BE5 MOV RSP, RBP
; 35: F8 CLC
; 36: 5D POP RBP
; 37: C3 RET

The function ADD2 still has unknown types, so there is not much the compiler can do but to call GENERIC-+ in this case.

CL-USER> (disassemble #'add2)
; disassembly for ADD2
; Size: 14 bytes. Origin: #x22911FBA
; BA: 488BD1 MOV RDX, RCX ; no-arg-parsing entry point
; BD: E8DEE26EFD CALL #x200002A0 ; GENERIC-+
; C2: 488BE5 MOV RSP, RBP
; C5: F8 CLC
; C6: 5D POP RBP
; C7: C3 RET

Since the compiler knows that both arguments are bytes, it can simply call the ADD instruction. With the exception of some extra bookkeeping needed when returning from the function, this is just as efficient as what a C++ compiler would generate. You can also declare a function as INLINE to allow the compiler to inline the call.

CL-USER> (disassemble #'add3)
; disassembly for ADD3
; Size: 12 bytes. Origin: #x22911F4A
; 4A: 4801F9 ADD RCX, RDI ; no-arg-parsing entry point
; 4D: 488BD1 MOV RDX, RCX
; 50: 488BE5 MOV RSP, RBP
; 53: F8 CLC
; 54: 5D POP RBP
; 55: C3 RET
This should not be on HN for two reasons:

1) Only people how already know and used RNN could be interested

2) It is not a good paper

Let me explain. MNIST is not a good dataset for testing LSTMs. LSTMs were designed to handle sequential data. Of course you can use them with MNIST, but simple feed-forward network would be much easier and faster to train. RNNs give no advantage here. IMDb dataset is a decent choice for tests, but there is no convincing argument (or result) that makes LSTM1/LSTM2/LSTM3 a good choice. "Best accuracies of different LSTMs" table tells us absolutely nothing! You can just cherry-pick best results ignoring others. Other thing is authors didn't test GRU. GRUs are based on LSTM design, but simplified a bit. GRUs are known to perform better in many cases and are faster to train.

The paper recommended by user Smerity is the best paper comparing RNN cell architectures and their performance I know and I recommend it too ("An Empirical Exploration of Recurrent Network Architectures")
Don't Forget Wave !

... I really liked Wave...

On Apple's culture: Ship has sailed. Tim doesn't have the gravitas to ensure a new 'Wow!' product is going to ship. He's a damn good manager, but not a superb innovator. Unfortunately, Apple is at it's heart, a 'Wow!' company. I suppose Apple has 'topped off' now and is a mature business state. This is a good thing though! More room for innovations!
Yup, agreed. I have a big powerbank i use for everything at home and i see no reason to increase the bulk of the Switch itself to include a bigger battery.

Likewise if it wasn't built in but came with the product, i'd be wanting a lower priced product not including the external battery.
That's a bit of a straw man. Nobody says voting will get you the government you want. I can't get any of my liberal friends (core Hilary voters) to care about surveillance. To the extent they're nervous about surveillance as a general concept, they trust Obama has struck the balance necessitated by what he knows about threats to the country.

Not everyone should vote. If your views are substantially outside the mainstream there is no point in voting.
Thank you for taking the time to write this. I almost missed it (wish HN gave notifications for replies). I will do my best to take your feedback into account :)
> I do not think Facebook could get remotely close to figuring out this technology.

Why not? Their money hires engineers the same as anyone else's.
WikiLeaks: Collection of documents with references to extraterrestrials
I agree with this recommendation. It's easy to do, has simple ongoing requirements (that you are applying for jobs), and while it's not going to be a lot of money, it's fairly dependable money. Set up an alarm to submit your weekly reports, and that's it.
First, nawwwww, thanks :)

Second though, I've sadly stopped responding (or even reading) many of the machine learning and especially broader artificial intelligence posts on Hacker News. The discussions are rarely discussions that one can contribute to constructively meaning the time spent rarely provides a positive return. My primary social channel for ML/AI is Twitter - a great community but a depressingly inadequate tool for such discussions. For many other topics however Hacker News is still my goto community.

It's a shame as I love to discuss machine learning and artificial intelligence but, amongst other things, there's a Godwin style law that these discussions inevitably lead to comparisons to the human brain and/or the singularity and/or killer robots and/or "no bias" in machine learning.
Two Monitors for Productivity
Hopefully larger awareness leads to more oversight
"save maybe Bernie Sander"

Pray for an asteroid! The strong will survive, and cunts like your will rot into forgotten memory.
An 'Ask HN:' might get better feedback regarding peer to peer lending.
You are right. The thing is though that you (or third parties) can implement missing library features that do not require compiler support [1], but for the language itself you have to wait for the compiler. For example, thanks to the hyperproductive STL [2], MSVC has always had a fairly up to date library, but the compiler lagged behind.

[1] For a long time libstdc++ lacked regex support, but people could get them from boost and mostly didn't care.

[2] Stephan T. Lavavej, not the library :)
As an ordinary citizen, I'm definitely wary and suspicious of government surveillance. I probably prefer a slightly increased risk of terrorism vs an increase in government surveillance powers. But I wonder if I was the president and faced with a constant threat and paranoia of a terrorist attack under my watch if I would compromise my own usual ideals to protect the country. It's definitely a rock and a hard place situation.
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https://twitter.com/WLTaskForce/status/819900557049597953?re...

He's giving intel agencies more power in an attempt to box in Trump.
biomarker validation is just as annoying as drug testing, so you're just punting the problem one node down.

it's hard work: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2013/12/04/can...

nominal biomarkers can be wholly spurious: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2012/04/10/bio...

biomarkers that we believe to be proxies for disease conditions (like LDL) can be targeted to no effect: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/12/14/sim...

etc.
People also like being able to get an uber when they really need one instead of relying on cabs that never show up on Friday nights. The cost of electricity to completely fill up a Telsa is between $5 and $20 depending on time of day and where exactly you are in North America. With 1-3x surge pricing call it $5 to $60. If you're filling up half a tank (say from 25% to 75%, the fast charging window) that's going to cost you $2.50 to $30, and usually around $10. This isn't even worth thinking about it for current Tesla owners.
I wonder if the code base that they open source will become the basis for another decentralized social network?