skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get the fascination with this tech. The computer in Star Trek at least had a personality and intonation in its voice when it responded, even though it sounded like a synthesized voice.

The key here is intonation -- the infinitely varying way in which we vary the speed and pitch of our voices in response to another human being. It's very subtle and something Amaazon, Google and Siri have been unable to capture. And it makes interacting with these interfaces awkward and annoying to me. Either it needs to be perfect or it gets relegated to a "that's neat" category and promptly shut off.

When I talk to one of these things, it's downright painful. It's like speaking to a someone who's (at least interacting in english, I'm sure its true of other languages) primary language isn't english and they are just saying a series of words without any meaning behind them. You tolerate this (although its still annoying) because you're interacting with a human being on the other end, not some white or beige box.

The issue behind this of course is these devices will likely never be able to master intonation, because doing so would be a feat that would require clear understanding of subtle context, far greater than what current NLP technology can do, and may even require a general intelligence. It might be possible, I'm not up to date on the current state of the art but certainly wouldn't be computationally feasible in a consumer product any time soon.

Until then, I'll never buy or use one of these stupid voice interfaces. I can get the same task done on my phone or whatever UI without the annoyance.
A healthy human body is maintained by thousands of biochemical processes and reactions in equilibrium that have evolved over time. As we age, we expose our body to processes that disrupt the equilibrium of these biochemical processes and reactions.
The general term used is inflammation.
These inflammatory processes can be what or what we don't eat, our environment, and our physical activity or lack of. And when I say "healthy human body" I am excluding genetic influences.
But I would recommend that before taking any supplement because you just feel that it may solve a physiological problem I would do the following first:
1. Take a month and log all that you eat or consume.
2. See your doctor and order a complete blood workup to include all your vitamin and mineral levels.
3. Do some research on the below topics:

Antinutrients
Anti-inflammatory diets
Minerals: http://themedicalbiochemistrypage.org/minerals.php
Vitamins: Water and Fat Soluble - http://themedicalbiochemistrypage.org/vitamins.php
Essential Fatty Acids - http://qualitycounts.com/fpfats.htm

Equilibrium of biochemical processes can be easily upset by upsetting other biochemical processes.

So increasing the concentration of one mineral may adversly affect the concentration of another mineral and just may adversly affect another biochemical process.

I take over 80 different supplements (vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, etc..). And yes, I have been told I am crazy.

While it took me several years to get to this point, I am not alone. And I was kind of surprised when I found this out, because I started this effort doing my own research. It did help since I have a Chemistry degree and took a lot of biochemistry in college. Eventually retired as an EE.

Search:
Ray Kurzweil - http://www.lifeextension.com/Magazine/2005/9/report_kurzweil...
Rick Rosner - http://www.lef.org/Magazine/2015/4/Rick-Rosner/Page-01?p=1

I don't always agree with some of their points and I don't go to the extreme that they go, it was a pleasant surprise.

I have been told, "just eat a balanced diet!".

There are several reasons that just does not work for me.
1. For minerals, agricultural processes do not deliberately replenish all minerals in the soil.
2. As we get older, our GI system becomes more inefficient in extracting the minerals and vitamins the body requires.
3. Exposure to environmental sources of inflammation cannot be easily avoided.
4. Without a gallbladder, my digestive system has been compromised.
5. Medications I have to take from time to time also have an effect.

And the Super Bowl is around the corner, search on "Tom Brady Diet"

Do note, you will find counter info for everything. It is up to you to decide.

One thing for sure, get a blood test! Consuming something just because it is over the counter doesn't make it a wise idea.
Majority of weather observations come from satellites these days.
FreeBSD is a derivative of BSD, which has history going back to 1977. It long predates Linux (1991) and even predates public announcement of GNU (1983).
> Your best bet is to use diversity and multiculturalism to teach tolerance to the point that tolerance is institutionalized in your society.

How well did it work for Jugoslavia, Lebanon, Azerbaijan and Syria?

It is not a "best bet". It is a long shot and it misses most of the time. The best bet is to stay homogenous.

"otherizing Christians living across the border" might sound bad, but it won't lead to genocide because they have their own country with their military and police and you can't just walk in and kill them (they can neither).

You can have wars but those rarely result in genocide. Civil wars had much worse outlook on that.

However when there are Christians (or Muslim) in your country, it's pretty real that suddently the regime wants to kill them with their military and police and they have no force to stand up for them.
Eh, Amazon actually has recently raised prices.

Many products are now only available to Prime users, or are more expensive if you search it via Amazon than if you get it linked by someone else.
Did you seriously just suggest that Amazon is generally regarded as a pleasant place to work? Amazon, the company that not 3 months ago, had an employee attempt to kill himself by jumping off of one of their buildings after being put on an "employee improvement plan" [1].

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employee-attempted-sui...
One could argue that the Roman Empire endured as long as it did because the pax Romana was preferable to the tribal warfare it displaced, even though the Romans may not have particularly cared about security of any given group within their sphere of influence. I'd argue that as the world shrinks long-term consequences manifest over shorter absolute timescales.
Trump just signed an order that could roll back the DOL's fiduciary rule
Why worry? They'll live on the liver.

Edit: Great fleas ...

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

Double-edit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Siphonaptera
> elite institutions being the exception

Having worked with a lot of people with "elite" degrees, I disagree with this a lot. I walked out of school with much more relevant experience than I feel they have (through both school and co-ops). Don't get me wrong, they're all smart people, but knowing how to write merge sort in haskell is different than knowing how to comfortably use git.
That's how Click And Collect works in the UK
Gmail will stop working on older versions of Google Chrome
No.

But there are also some more complex molecules that the human body doesn't make either.
>Corey Robin is a political scientist whose expertise is the history of conservative movements and the politics of fear.

Just in case you had any doubt where his sympathies lie.
Chairs for Active Sitting at BC Home and Garden Show
I'm in the process of writing a tutorial on this/hardware synthesis from first principles, but general purpose computers are way less magical when you think of components such the ALU as a mapping of binary inputs to binary outputs: a truth table. From there you can explicitly enumerate all possible inputs and outputs (for small word sizes at least) and go directly from said truth table to (inefficient) hardware.

Related: mov is Turing-complete [1] and X86 MMU fault handling is Turing-complete [2]

edit: formatting

[1] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sd601/papers/mov.pdf

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5261598
wow that is some next gen advertising right there, my has a image sharing startup (https://itsosticky.com). I'll let him know.

Does it need to be mapped to each product or can it do that itself?
Do bots watch ads?

For the last several weeks I've been an avid generals player. For awhile I was even ranked #7 on the FFA ladder. And I have to say that this is the second change in about a week that has left me confused about who generals is trying to appeal to. Maybe the bots will be fun for humans to play against but I doubt it. Maybe this will be a benign change and the quality of the bots that play generals on the non-bot servers won't improve much from what they are now. But either way why is an ad-supported game encouraging bots to try and take it over? What happens when the bots become so good and so prevalent that humans can't hope to compete? Why would anyone want to play?

Though I guess in the end I don't really care all that much as the recent changes to the movement scheme have really put me off the game. High level play used to be about feints and visibility, cutting off your opponents tendrils whilst building your own, pulling their forces away from your king while trying to find theirs. It really had a nice balance. Now, not so much.

I don't want to seem too sour. I had a lot of fun with generals [thanks devs] but now I'm in search of a new favorite game.

PWG
way to destroy your site, pretty much the only reason why i care about IMDB are forums, if they shut them down i will also shut down my access to this site

how can i engage with station about specific movie on their Facebook or Twitter?
Well, your anecdote may apply in Texas. It does not match the experience of my extended family in Iowa and Minnesota. (currently doing estate taxes for my father-in-law's dairy farm, FWIW).

The current estate tax threshold largely misses real family farms, but it doesn't have to move much to become a disaster. When I was in high school I personally witnessed neighbor widdows being beggared by the then ridiculous estate tax threshold. That memory is seared into my brain.
>when the real world examples have consistently shown

There are many valid critiques to be made of governments which have attempted to implement Communism or Socialism, I'm not here to defend them, merely to propose that their failure does not, at least necessarily, implicate Communism. Furthermore by the same logic, I cannot see why capitalism ought to be get a leash when the real world examples have consistently shown that it leads to exploitation and recklessness or active harm to the environment globally and locally, and the resulting inbalance of wealth leading to poverty.

Capitalism is no meritocracy. It's better than feudalism, and that's about it.
BTW

> If... your cousin is married to a Christian

If she is female then your religion tells you to murder her. That's in the books. That's sad but true.

You can route around that for some time, but even moderate Muslim are pretty strict on this. They're not going to kill her all right, but definitely excommunicate from their society.
I would be surprised. This sort of project is deeply OS-specific. If they wanted to eventually make it cross-platform, they would have started by implementing FUSE on Windows.
Oh hey man! Please do, feel free to use it in its current state, but the dev branch will be merged to Master shortly and break current compatibility.

Its a sweet simple library to make slack bots real simple!
But Amazon can lower their prices and snuff out any threats before they get too big.

Not to mention that price isn't the only reason why monopolies are bad. I had a period of about 3 months where Amazon just couldn't deliver to my house. They switched to using their own carriers, and they would just never be able to find my place. I actually had a hard time finding another retailer that would ship to my house for less than double the total price of some of the things I was buying.

Plus the (very real) threat that they can just remove an item from their store for any reason (the one that comes to mind is that Amazon doesn't allow anyone to sell chromecasts' on their store. Rokus, Fire Sticks, and various other streaming "devices" are fine, but chromecast is banned completely) means they also have a monumental amount of power to hurt anyone selling through them at a moment's notice.

I'm not in a position to say whether or not Amazon is a monopoly, and I wouldn't even know the first thing about solving the problem, but IMO the fact that they haven't raised prices isn't exactly proof that they aren't a monopoly.
> And a lot of the proposed immigration changes won't actually reduce the price of these workers either. If anything, it's a power grab by large consulting companies and bigger software shops to be able to hire up the best talent, and just lay off the rest

Isn't it just the opposite? The large consulting companies are the ones paying these low wages. They submit a lot of applications and, because it's a pure lottery system, soak up a large portion of the available H1B visas.

This means that small, struggling companies like my own cannot hire H1Bs to get the talent that we desperately need. A higher wage floor or an auction system would mean that we would actually stand a chance at getting an H1B visa approved for the 1 hire that we need.
Verdict is given eh? Muslims are eternally bad, Christians eternally good? How about Hindus? or Jewish? Could you please enlighten us about these other groups as well...
I actually was one of those developers, for a number of years. The reality is that we're still very far away from a robot that can visually identify random objects, identify them, and then pick them up in a safe manner. Humans are awesome at exactly that.

The automation is coming, yes, and many very tedious tasks are being automated but Amazon has never laid off warehouse employees because a robot replaced them- they just move those humans to jobs robots can't do yet, and grow faster.
It can't be just me that's thinking... what do execs like this actually even do in terms of adding value to the business? Not just skills wise, but also how is his compensation worth more than an SRE being called out 3x a night to keep prod alive? Is there anything he can do that isn't replaceable by an average reasonably literate engineer?
If Company A (40 people) buys Company B (20 people) to become Company C with 60 people, Company B doesn't continue to operate and suddenly need to hire 20 people.
How Have a Great Business with Electrified Vehicles – Open Electronics
They don't have their shit together because you had a personal bad experience with them?
I see it more as a secondary option. The primary reason being, if everything's in stock, I should be able to get it today, with maybe a 1-2 hr waiting time. If I want shrimp pasta tonight, I can order the ingredients at lunch break, and pick up on my way home.

Other reasons could be people have poor delivery from their UPS driver, stolen packages, some people prefer not having people come to their door, some people feel empowered by going out and getting what they want, when they want to get it.

The biggest reason could be that it's ultimately a lower price for everyone, assuming its cheaper to hire junior employees to walk the store and pick my groceries vs hiring a driver and a truck to take the stuff to everyones door (plus someone to do all the picking).
Iger has a schedule conflict. That's not remotely the same thing as "refusing to attend". Even if he "has a schedule conflict", that's still not the same thing.
The absolute best interviews I've ever had either received no callback, or I was told that a better candidate was hired. Could you share your thoughts on why you think it was a race issue?
Why would I want to apply to a company that has demonstrated they don't know much about technology?
Because the money for salaries is not generated out of thin air. It gets determined by the profit-margin provided by the market.

Your competitors are paying market wages in China to "qualified people", or have depreciated the high salaries in employees via higher-productivity and thus pricing you out.
Yeah, I usually give up and go to Netflix or Plex.

Having to click in to each link, then in again to the stream, then load it up, then back out, and that process again for the next episode. Just one example but there are lots of things like that.
Cursed be they that fashion a guitar from wood that falls apart
This is useless and divisive if not broken down by industry and career level. Without that data, no meaningful discussions can be had.
"WorkInTech" would be clearer, I initially misread this as "Workin' Tech", which sounds like a consulting company or something.
Things like Alexa skills existed before Alexa. The magic Amazon added was the hardware + API that was a step ahead of what was there before. Siri by comparison is not as good precisely because the microphones are not as good.
Those who work with Data Studio -- how do you guys do ETL for it?
I have not, as far as I can remember, ever seen an ad for a useful product. What I have seen is nearly unending amounts of crap and things that I have already purchased.

When I finally got a car I got an ad for the local bus company - I know they exists, I have hated them for years. Now if there had been an add for a good way to find a parking space.

When I moved apartment I got ads for 3 months for a site that allows you to search available apartments (for a fee, of course) even long after I had moved.

Facebook also gave me an add for the exact degree I told them I had, at the university I already had it from. I only need one masters, thank you very much.

So I guess there is space for good interesting ads, at least in theory, but I don't think they exist in reality, at least not in great quantity; I also don't think they ever existed of line either.
I actually like these release notes? The commits are an extra, and messages are always clearly worded, in my humble opinion.

I guess the commit list is the first thing that pops out when skimming, but it's less important than the notable changes.

'Notable changes' is more akin to the release notes I think you want.

As for breaking changes, Node.js follows semver. A major version lists breaking changes more clearly.
The E Word: How Encryption Is Changing the Way We Communicate
If we can't eject them we should, at minimum, not give them roles in our government.
> Unfortunately, the solution is homogenousness.

Thats some crazy stupid Goebbels speak.

Sometime those happy homogenousness nations decide to make the whole world homogenousness.
But do they check the stamps you have?
The CIA's New Deputy Director Ran a Black Site for Torture
Most laypeople I know have no problem with Zero Rating and were sold on net neutrality with unreasonable examples like "without net neutrality an ISP can kill small sites by making them slow unless they pay" (no one tell whoever started peddling that dystopian extreme how locating a datacenter near an internet backbone works).

I support net neutrality but I wouldn't surprised if the average American is fine with zero rating.
> A shortage, by definition, requires a situation where the price cannot rise.

This is not correct. A shortage is a situation where demand exceeds supply. The only definite statement you can make about such a situation is that it means the market in question cannot be in equilibrium. But there are multiple possible reasons for that. Prices being controlled is actually not one of them: the effect of price controls will not be market disequilibrium but a shifting of the equilibrium.

So the question you should actually be asking is, what is preventing the market from reaching equilibrium? Here are two possible answers:

- Demand is growing faster than supply can keep up.

- Transaction costs (for example, difficulties in employers evaluating candidates' actual potential) are preventing efficient matching of supply to demand.
Careful, cooking with copper tends to destroy stuff like vitamin C.
I didn't mention any laws. That said, I think the general assumption that racism must be the reason for unequal outcomes might not be based on reality in many cases.
I don't get this rant. Alexa is still bleeding edge. It does some things really well. It does some things really poorly. There are lots of things it can't do. So the main complaint is that Alexa could be better, your point..?

To me, right now it excels as an interface when you are busy doing something else. Ours is used most in the kitchen and living room. Timers, streaming music/audio and basic facts all work great. Home automation is improving and will get there as systems learn to play nice. That seems like a lot for $50, but maybe that's just me...

The killer app hasn't been created yet (and possibly not even envisioned). I can't wait until they are connected and I can issue a command to move streaming from one device to another one in another room ("Alexa, pause for Jim", "Alexa, continue for Jim").

I think the biggest downside of voice UI right now is a lack of authentication. Someone outside the window could yell "Alexa, open the door".
> Moving around once you've gotten a year or two under your belt is easy.

* If your first year or two was at a "top company". Significantly more difficult if you worked anywhere else.
Nobody is saying anything because everyone owns a piece of AMZN..
I understand what you mean, but for me, she has developed something of a personality. It is kind of a bumbling but well intentioned friend. Similar to my Roomba which is not the best at what he does, but keeps on trying (i.e. bumping futilely into the same walls).
That would be nice till you accidentally buffer overflow and writes garbage over your entire brain.
It's a problem with a pretty clear and easy solution: Pay more.
Wait a cotton pickin' minute, Sinbad never made a movie called Shazaam?
To be fair, this is another place where employers are screwing themselves. If we could carry a portfolio like all those marketing people they hire, then the selection process would be a lot easier.
This is a great project, but the idea is not as exotic as it may sound. This is more or less how an FPGA works.

Edit: Should also add that there were commercial products built like this in the 80-90's.
Have you read the book? If not I recommend against flippant responses.

It’s a careful detailed history of several genocides, one per chapter.

It’s a harrowing book, and reading each chapter would leave me depressed for a couple days. I couldn’t read more than about one chapter per month.
Having nested git repositories is a solved problem both in git and in git-annex: use submodules.

https://git-annex.branchable.com/submodules/
Sure, quite a few--vitamins, essential amino acids, essential fats are well-known. The body uses these as "raw ingredients" to produce a huge range of necessary compounds.
Check out the GVFS back story and details here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13563439
Sure, but processes - like software - have to be designed for the right scale. The hiring process for a 15 people startup, is different than the 5k people company. At certain scale, things start to break. Imagine sourcers that need to reach out to candidates while (hopefully) don't reach the same candidate another sourcer, in another department, has reached out to. Imagine reaching out to a candidate who's already being in process or rejected. The recruiting team must be huge, and so the recruiting coordinators team.