skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A small percentage could hurt their profits a lot, but it's not like they are without counters to this. They could slap on a max length at which point they know they're wasting their time, and also start to blacklist numbers that waste their time. They could use audio recognition to avoid known automated honeytraps, but even humans would adapt after enough calls.

I still think it would be difficult to even reach that target %. As much as I would like to waste their time, I'm strapped for time myself. There would need to be a way to receive a call on your phone and send it to the honeytrap in two 'clicks', where it plays scripted responses in the background.

If we reached that magic percentage, I think they could have a counter. They could discourage this by using targeted harassment. Someone screws with them, they send a mass of random calls over the course of a day.
> However few people realize that a singleton is a fancy name for a global variable and have all the downsides of a global variable.

Really? It's been twenty years (maybe a bit more?) since I read the book, but I think this was pretty explicit, was it not?
(Pre-apology. I am not trolling, please don't get my comment below more than what I intended: another perspective to look at the strong reaction Cuban's comments incited.)

Reading through the comments, I see that Cuban's statement upset and even angered several HN commenters. That is a strong emotional reaction.

I am not saying it is the 5 stages of grief, but the first 3 fits: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

Also from Howard Aiken: Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Huh? My dad who is 65 now was proudly buying illegal cable descramblers in the 80s and bragging to all his friends about it, who would then go on to buy descramblers of their own. Since then he's moved on to Napster, Kazaa, Moviebox, Popcorn time, and Kodi.
In the first email, he did ask me explicitly to mention the timezone (I always do this anyway with every company). Anyway, the recruiter was a cool guy.
>Pipelines are much safer than trains or trucks at delivering oil or LNG. That subject is not up for debate.

source(s)?
Living in London right now, I think I prefer New York and will move back there for my next job. London's maybe a little more balanced and cleaner and nicer but there's a sort of "sleepwalking" feel to the place which extends even beyond the weather. And they aren't getting any less insular with the likes of Brexit, and my salary in international terms (e.g. plane tickets) has plummeted... That said, I have enjoyed my time here and I don't regret it.

Also, you know how they say European public transport is so good? Hahahahaha - Southern is about as bad as Amtrak :b
North Dakota has some recent oil spills with trains.

http://articles.latimes.com/2014/jan/13/nation/la-na-nn-nort...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/north-dakota-town-evacuated-afte...
Roads/rails already exist, as do standards about safe transport of oil by train/truck.

What are you suggesting, exactly? That each locality can block whatever transport goes through it? Maybe put up a tollbooth?
When thrust is applied by the computer, do the throttle levers move on their own or stay in their original positions ?
Existing pipelines within a few hundred miles of this site have recently leaked into water supplies. This is not symbolic; it's about where the tribe gets their water from.
Ask HN: Can Deep learning be applied to audio
I want to create a deep learning based filter to remove human voice from a song and generate a karaoke (regular filters are not effective). Is it a good idea to use deep learning to achieve this?
I am pretty WildUtah was being sarcastic to be a more extreme version of my post. Or perhaps it was an attempt to expand the grey area.
Or we could decline to expand our oil industry further, on the grounds that the long term economics of the industry are a poor prospect and it makes little sense to continue encouraging its growth in the US.

This project really doesn't have many positive externalities for its host nation. For an administration that's "America First" they're been very quiet about who actually benefits. Some few Americans do.
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IIRC, true airspeed is not especially useful. Ground speed is important for navigation (although hard to get accurately without GPS) and IAS tells you the forces acting on the aircraft.
Algolia, Swiftype and Constructor.io (disclaimer: I worked at the latter) all do the learning for that stuff, at a price.
> We believe the reason why so few people turn around and stay long enough to look behind them is due to stylistic choices made my filmmakers.

I believe the reasons why so few people turn around and stay long enough to look behind them are the same reasons why they don't do so in real life.

Sure, if there are distracting/scary noises behind you you turn around, but otherwise you turn your body and concentrate your attention on something specific. And within that, at the less macro scale you foveate on the specific area of attention (hence their observation about the wider FoV of a headset...which isn't completely well attested IMHO).

So the filmmakers are doing what people do and want.
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Until it's tried no-one can be sure either way... most people would have thought Spotify was a crazy idea until someone made it happen...
... we should be resisting any and all modalities of future fossil fuel exploitation. who cares if pipelines are "safer" when we know that there is no planet-safe way to burn the oil they carry. if pipelines are the most efficient way to move the resource of oil, we need to be preventing their deployment because oil will kill us if we let it.

we're in the midgame of climate change... better to take radical action to prevent the worst possible end case.
You should also check out DataMill (http://www.datamillapp.com), it's quite similar to what Wagon offered. Installed as an app, context-aware SQL autocomplete and built-in charting. It's in public beta - give it a try :-)

(DataMill author)
You are arguing the wrong side. What would be more ecological is using less oil.

You can't block supply while demand is there, because the demand will be filled by someone, only this time by someone with less oversight [from you].

You want to make a difference add more "good" supply, or reduce demand.

Bad supply will automatically go down if you do this, with no extra effort.
Is this really proof. These nurses knew that they were the subject of a study, they knew that the hours were temporary, and they knew that if the outcome was positive they may get to work less and get paid the same for the rest of their lives. Of course they had a very strong incentive to organize more activities and be as good as possible for the trial period.

If you really want a study, try finding workers in a factory who work 6 hours and then compare their productivity to workers in a different factor who work 8 hours.
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>This has more to do with the evolution of freedom to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I have no idea what that means.

> Any economic theory rooted in rational decision making is incomplete at best.

But your "evolution of freedom to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" is sound social science?

Honestly I don't have time for this level of ideological bias.
> this license allows them to modify and use that software in any way they like

Only "in connection with rendering the Website and providing the Service", i.e. they can display it in the web UI and syntax highlight it and whatnot.
> and I'm not really even sure how to find work doing more MLy things.

I think this is key - prospective clients won't ask for it because they don't understand where it could be used, and they won't understand the heavy ML methods. An approach there would be to pitch things like improving search results using a bayesian classifier applied to analytics data as a cheap upgrade when quoting other work. Until people are used to even the basic statistical approaches they won't be ready to invest in something more drastic.
I don't like sex selling nor do I like activism selling.
If companies would stop trying to manipulate government, it would be much easier to purchase from them without feeling guilty. There is a problem of government involvement with business and it must stop. No special favors and no outrageous requirements for businesses.
Activism is one of the quickest ways for me to dislike a company. Donate money to charity, donate it to random organizations I don't care. Don't act like you're doing it from the good of your heart, though.
So if I'm understanding you correctly, you're a junior dev who wants to have a mentee? Shouldn't you be more concerned with finding a mentor at this point in your career? I suppose you could start with mentoring college and high school students who are interested in entering the field. Just my two cents
I think the concern is that the environmental impact of the prior pipeline is non-zero on the local water table. A scale up of this operation is unlikely to improve this situation.
"unanimously passed" - the only false flag is the outside pundits and paid protestors who are going to get in trouble for working in North Dakota and not filing their taxes. The state is rather unhappy, particularly given who the likely donors are and this is causing a budget problem for the state.
IMO these blanked policies don't work. If they can be job specific or perhaps even individually tailored. Perhaps a 6 hour work day is great for nurses, but maybe 8 hour days with a longer weekend are better for developers, for example.
Anti-tobacco policy has cost California pensioners $3.7bn
By the same token, when I go to say (Forbes.com), the advertisers are stealing bandwidth from me. Unless I use an adblocker, the ads use bandwidth that I pay for.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160317/09274333934/why-a...

i.e. the advertisers entire business model is lowering their costs by pushing those costs onto me.

Then after I install an adblocker, they complain that I'm the one who's stealing. No, I'm trying to read an article. If Forbes refuses to let me read articles with an adblocker in place, I'll just go somewhere else.

And that's ignoring all of the arguments around artificial monopolies, and the perverting of the copyright system through the "immortal mouse".
> presidential-directed review

Welp.
An open letter to the Secretary of the DHS
But that's not a proposal on the table, so it is a symbolic fight.
> as the number starts getting too large, "requests per second" isn't a useful way of measuring the performance of a webserver, you're really more interested in "seconds per request overhead".

There's a similar issue with engine efficiency. Here in the U.S. we tend to measure engines in miles per gallon; the problem is that this isn't (typically) what we care about: we care about cost to drive a distance, not distance per dollar. I understand that in Europe engines are measured in kilometres per liter, which makes more sense. If we measured efficiency here in fluid ounces per mile, we'd see that: a 10 mpg car uses 12.8 ounces per mile; a 12 mpg car uses 10.7 ounces per mile; a 24 mpg car uses 5.33 ounces per mile; and a 36 mpg car uses 3.56 ounces per mile.
Definitely varies by the system, but, in my small-business internal-software experience, 99% of the time polling is good enough. Something feels innately ugly about polling, but it's simple, has failure modes that are easy to understand, and gets the job done.
Please site the source for this statement.
GC pause time is not the only criterion, and focusing on it to the exclusion of all else is problematic.

I used to have to explain this in a HN comment every time it came up, but now Mike Hearn has written up [1] better than I ever could, so I can just link there :)

[1]: https://blog.plan99.net/modern-garbage-collection-911ef4f8bd...
Was primarily a steel industry town that has collapsed in the 90s. Hamilton has a high unemployment rate and high crime rate compared to other Canadian cities.

However because of very affordable housing a lot of young professionals have started to move back and revitalize the city.

Many people still associate Hamilton with drugs crime and poverty.
I think it comes off as a little crazy to hypothesize about these things if your level of experience is basically reading wikipedia (as mine is).

I think you can gain a lot of understanding that way (plus enjoyment), but I don't think that kind of surface level understanding can be easily extended into new theories. In order to generate new theories, I would imagine that you need a background in the math behind all this stuff.

Anyway, as to your last point: my understanding is that entanglement in no way implies "close to instant communication." The speed of light is the still the upper limit on transferring information [0].

[0] http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/15282/quantum-ent...
- all the regular expressions in TM grammars are based on oniguruma, a regular expression library written in C.

- the only way to interpret the grammars and get anywhere near original fidelity is to use the exact same regular expression library (with its custom syntax constructs)
in VSCode, our runtime is node.js and we can use a node native module that exposes the library to JavaScript

- in the Monaco Editor, we are constrained to a browser environment where we cannot do anything similar

- we have experimented with Emscripten to compile the C library to asm.js, but performance was very poor even in Firefox (10x slower) and extremely poor in Chrome (100x slower).

- we can revisit this once WebAssembly gets traction in the major browsers, but we will still need to consider the browser matrix we support. i.e. if we support IE11 and only Edge will add WebAssembly support, what will the experience be in IE11, etc.
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I bought this book a few months ago, it's been sitting on my shelf because of its intimidating size (plus the fact that I have a few other books I want to work through) but this review has definitely bumped it up my reading list.
Something most people don't realise is these 360 videos are typically Monoscopic. You don't get any feeling of depth because a lot of 360 cameras are a single lens.

I much rather prefer 180 Steroscopic, these are videos that are two videos either Side-by-Side or Over/Under. Then mapped to each eye.

180 fills enough space which is supported by these findings in the post but give you a much better feeling of immersion.
That was the initial assessment completed in July of last year, but further environmental study was deemed required:
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/87381a7d1abd4817a8991b0c8caea...
"An assessment conducted last year determined the crossing would not have a significant impact on the environment. However, then-Assistant Army Secretary for Civil Works Jo-Ellen Darcy on Dec. 4 declined to issue permission for the crossing, saying a broader environmental study was warranted."
Because it's a Strange Loop.
I have no experience with the entrepreneur/VC side of this coin, but Data Scientists know the differences between traditional regression based ML and CNNs. We know that doing image recognition or NLP is best suited to nvidia/tensorflow/keras/deeplearning/buzzword/buzzword. We also know that SVMs & Random Forests & regression lines work just as well as they always have to make predictions based on your click-thru data.

Maybe we should explain the cost/benefit of the buzzwords vs. the science?
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I don't remember my passwords sometimes - since Firefox (it's non-corporate!) manages that for me, I can't get the multiple reinforcements I need to remember some passwords.

Lots of folks will be in this situation - just can't recall their password, because The Explorer takes care of it. What happens to them? Does all this handover take place well before a visit?

This seems like a practically unworkable thing to ask for.
>If you're being kicked out of the building in six hours, that could be stressful.

With proper handover procedures it would be an interesting experiment to actually implement a hard maximum in my opinion.
It used to be that oil would just seep to the surface. That generally stopped once we figured out we could usefully burn it and began draining the easily access sources. I wonder which is "worse" what there was prior to petroleum becoming a commodity or the pipeline leaks that happen now.

There are well known ocean seeps that have been ongoing for tens or hundreds of thousands of years[1]:

>Researchers have found that natural offshore seeps near Goleta, California, alone have leaked up to 25 tons of oil each day – for the last several hundred thousand years.

1. http://aoghs.org/offshore-history/california-oil-seeps/
Actually 2D and text rendering, WPF rendering, UWP Composition API, UI animation support.

All of them used by most desktop applications on Windows, including image, video and 3D editing applications.
This misunderstanding is what needs to go the way of the dinosaur. You don't need a PhD to know how to clean data, prepare features, or generate synthetic features. You don't need a PhD to tune hyperparameters. You don't need a PhD to know how to separate your test data from your training data. You don't even need a PhD to wire things together at a high level with something like tensorflow.

Obviously you will want a theoretical expert on your team. But if your startup is counting on having a room full of them, good luck.
Ask HN: Why is there not a DNS for phone numbers?
We use DNS for emails, username@<dns>

Why not use DNS or have a dns-like system for phone numbers where an email or subdomain returns a phone number, similar to an IP address lookup?

Apple has already does something similar with FaceTime, but as far as I'm aware of it's not an open standard.
Not completely, but seemingly unlikely.

http://resonaances.blogspot.ch/2016/06/black-hole-dark-matte...
Singular they is used and appropriate in English as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
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The 2nd edition of the Dragon book is a worthy update to an old classic. It's the only book on the list I like.

I've been sitting in on Monica Lam's Stanford CS 243 lectures and she's covering scheduling and software pipelining right now. Lam definitely knows her material; she wrote the papers before she re-wrote the book. She's an excellent lecturer to all of 15 students and one who asks perhaps more than his fair share of questions.
The book has examples in both C++ and Smalltalk.
Nearly 150 year old science is not accurate and has been replaced by modern theories, observations and measurements is surprising because...?
yes to all those. Sometimes I'm there 3 days, sometimes its 2 ... sometimes I'm doing an 8 hour day but only 2 that week, sometimes I'm writing and responding to emails. Sometimes I wake up for scrums then go back to bed for a few hours...

There's something called the pace of business. I'm sure there's been slow times when business is moving fine and not much is changing.

Instead of finding work, say to the boss, "I'm not going to waste your money in something that doesn't need to be done. everything is fine, here's the semi vacation I'm doing." It may come at a pay cut, but it should work in your favor and improve your trust and relationship with your superiors because you're taking responsibility for not just the work but the amount of it.

From a business owner you're essentially saying "I achieved the tasks, things are stable. Now pay me less and I'll go do other things" Sounds like a better deal then "now I shall fill up the time with tasks I claim are important that you don't understand but must pay for." From a non tech perspective, this makes you sound like a bozo who doesn't understand business.

Knowing how to negotiate and manage your own labor, especially with respect to business risk and your added value, and if you're expensive is important. Really, it's one of the primary ways you get to be expensive in the first place.
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It's one of my all time favourite technical books, and easily my favourite Java book.

If you're dealing with any kind of concurrency -- especially in Java -- then it's pretty much a must-read.

Its explanation of the Java Memory Model is what got me interested in looking at JVM implementations and related shenanigans.
Yeah, that is the hard part.

I think producers have to rethink it from the ground-up rather than trying to force a model for one format into a new format.

I've seen a few 360* videos that are well-made and were obviously made specifically for 360 but others are just like "We got a 360 camera, then stood in front of it and did the same thing."
Why is making a new standard inevitable?
Great work! A quick question: what differentiates Redash from Chart.io, Periscope, or existing SQL-and-visualization BI tools?
I would imagine in plain sight, as extras, or just behind a door/prop. 360 is a bit new, but framing things out of a shot using line-of-sight is not. I also imagine with 360 you would need more cleanup in post for little things not noticed when shot. It leads to a new way of dressing a set that is more immersive, and I kinda like where it heads.
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Why tracker? You can find most stuff using Google and various file sharing services.
Off topic, but: It sounds like you recovered from the chronic fatigue. Did anything in particular cause (or even help with) the recovery? Or did it just go away with time? Or do you still wrestle with it?
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http://redprimer.com/

The red primer for children and diplomats is a good example of this sort of humor in visual form.
It's easier than you might think: the IRS adds on fees and penalties at a prodigious rate.
I totally agree with most of what you say and can't deny it is quite scary but one thing that machines will not be able to replace creativity. Machines can't think outside the box. In a clothes factory machines may saw the same dress over and over but once people stop buying because it is so bored of same thing manufacturer will end up with massive loss. They can play the same song over and over but we get bored. So as long as we get bored of reputations we will survive
Water pollution from leaks, as pointed out elsewhere in the comments here, is more than symbolism
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Watching video has been a passive activity since its inception (with some modest exceptions). 360 video maintains all that passivity in its filmmaking, but adds an unnecessary and inconvenient (even if cool) piece of interactivity: turning your head. You can't even move around! It's cool, but it's largely a gimmick for most videos as they are now. Maybe filmmakers will develop new techniques for this technology, maybe not.

Games and other similar interactive content seem like a much better use of the technology.
Not to mention the lack of sufficient pollution taxes that would exist in a 'libertarian society' to counter the inherent infringements on individual liberty.
I personally know people who went to the Standing Rock camp that were not paid protesters.

Interestingly enough, I trust their words more than yours.

For the sake of clarity -- who are the outside donors that are funding the protest and bringing the state government to its knees?