skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Transcribing actually takes significantly longer than the length of the actual lecture. I randomly picked a psychology course (from http://webcast.berkeley.edu/ ) and tried to transcribe a minute of it. It was wholly undoable at normal speed, so I changed it to 1/2 speed and it was tough at best. Keep in mind that I type at 100 wpm, which is well above normal.

Furthermore, transcribing _just_ the audio is not sufficient to meet the ADA requirements. You also have to create an accessible way to describe all graphs and pictures for the visually impaired (generally, that means you have to describe each and every photo using words).
Haskell has no state monad
My fuzzy recollection is Facebook was serving mirror of Wikipedia, with extensions. Perhaps community pages? https://creativecommons.org/2010/04/21/wikipedia-on-new-face... (2010) The Cooking example there no longer has a copy of the WP page. Perhaps the mirror no longer exists?
Your last paragraph - about men not seeing a doctor when they are in pain - doesn't seem to fit the context of people seeing a doctor when they have no symptoms.

And how many of those women needed surgery?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3679744/
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I'd argue that it's happening now. On February 17, it was 81F in my back porch in Albany, NY. That is an all time record.

Right now, at 6PM EST, its 64F. It hasn't been below 20 in a week. Our average high is about 28F. We've had fewer snow events in the last 5 years than we had in any year in the 90s.

The climate has already changed.
Somebody please make this: like TransparentStartup [1] but instead of sharing revenue numbers the startup shares their cap table so that we can see how it changes over time after multiple rounds of fundraising.

I feel like seeing concrete examples of how the founders' share of their company changes based on the size/details of a fundraising round would be super useful for founders as they negotiate funding rounds.

Are there any companies currently sharing these details that I'm not aware of?

[1] http://www.transparentstartups.com/
That would only happen when you have a line of investors waiting to invest and you can dictate the terms because of your high growth trajectory. In most cases though, it's not going to happen because of the standard numbers outlined in the article.
I was curious as well, so I took it for a spin[0]. In short, no. A static initializer still needs to be wrapped in a class that contains a main method.

public class Main {

static {
System.out.println("Hello world");
}

public static void main(String[] args) {}
}

[0]: https://repl.it/GDZG/1
> I want to have someone in my life who plays the same role that a dental hygienist plays a dentist visit, but for my general physical health.

You better not expect doctors to be that. Most of them still believe cholesterol causes heart disease, for example, or that you need 50% carbs in your diet.
There's gotta be a preservation effort somewhere. Maybe archive.org would be interested in obtaining a copy before they disappear?
> "I am a lawyer but I'm not your lawyer"

I say that all the time. I am sure it is in my comment history. E.g:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/464j0r/im_fre...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/45rwt8/do_i_n...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/45alb6/we_are...
There is unrest in the forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas
...
So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights
'The oaks are just too greedy
We will make them give us light'
Now there's no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet,
Axe,
And saw
Is egghead.io down?
I know both of our experiences are anecdotal, but the way I see people asking for their snap is pretty lax. Snap or Kik is how I see in many ways the first contact that millenials ask for passive connections whether it be online or irl. For more closer connections its a phone number and fb messenger in the US.

>close a friend someone is by how many connections they have to other friends in a user's network

Again every messaging app that asks for contacts has these connections. FB messenger, Line, Wechat etc has more data points than snap when it comes to this.

>I'm not at all disappointed we're comparing more with Facebook

I would actually compare it closer to twitter. If they are going in the direction of media as they've already announced they are building an interest graph.
Or use Amazon mechanical turk. Probably even cheaper.
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All I noticed is since I started using VSCode is how much the developers communicate with the users. I filed a few bug reports and both got addressed rather quickly.

I don't think this has happened before to me that I "complained" about something and it got actually fixed!
I wonder how long the 2nd gen will be supported now? they already dropped the first...
Welcome to hardcore liberal ideology. Yes, they expected Berkeley to spend tens of thousands of dollars adding captioning for the tiny fraction of people who need it.
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When I hear that I think "China?" - and they do have much more impressive tech. There's a JV that has a license to AMD's Ryzen* tech for servers, and another company with a 64-core ARM server chip.

(* - I was thinking it was for Fail^H^H^H^HBulldozer at first, which would probably have set them back several years ;) )
Ask HN: What would you teach adults new to programming in a 2 hour class?
I teach what I call "creative technology" to kids (my company is adaandleo.com). Parents keep asking me to teach THEM about this stuff. In particular, I keep getting asked, "How can I understand what programming IS?"

In other words, what these parents want is:

* a taste of what the experience of programming is like

* to experience what's unique to computer science, as opposed to adjacent fields

* to walk away feeling that they have programmed

What they are not looking for (from me):

* useful vocational knowledge (I mean, they wouldn't mind some, but that's not the point)

* the same circuits-Scratch-3d design "art class and tech class had a baby" curriculum I give kids

HN, any ideas?

Some things that come to mind:

* I could use a platform like coderpad.io to manage coding environments in a lightweight way

* It seems to me that Python and Ruby are roughly close to the sweet spot of clarity to a beginner; I want to avoid too much cleverly terse syntax, and be able to focus on basic building blocks such as arrays, functions, and loops.

* I keep coming back to CS intro concepts like sorting arrays and recursion, but a) I'm not sure how to neatly visualize these, and b) I worry they're not really that representative of programming work

* on the other hand, if I were TOTALLY realistic I'd have them try to update XCode certificates for two hours :)
Ironically, in our case, our availability is very core to our business. In this exact scenario, if S3 would have blocked our processing pipeline because it was down, that means we couldn't have alerted users as reliably that they were in fact, having issues because of S3 being down as well. So in our case, this is massively important to us and worth any additional risk that may be introduced.
I believe the general consensus is "it is not clear at this time".
User-submitted captions are already a built-in YouTube feature
This is why I've started using the phrase "intelligence-entertainment complex".
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> A big chunk of it is people who think that nothing bad should ever happen

Those people may exist. I don't think, if that's their base axiom, they are practically (in a world where we have scarcity of time and effort) reachable. Convincing somebody to change their axioms is...well...not a particularly good investment of time.

> And it seems to me that writing off all the people who disagree with you is not a winning strategy.

This is pretty much what Republicans have been doing for a very long time, and doing pretty well at the levels that matter (i.e., state legislatures and Congress). They have not tacked to the middle, they have not tried to drum up moderate voters. They've kept their people and they have whipped them into a frenzy to vote to the point where gun-to-head obstinacy (the debt ceiling comes to mind) is a positive that rewards them even when moderates are aghast.

Turnout fights aren't won from the middle. You can have the occasional figure who appeals to the middle--Obama, I think, is one such figure--but I don't think that is replicable at scale. And the problem is at scale. There really are more of us than there are of them; ours just don't get out and vote. (And there are efforts by the party in power to make that continue.)

> At least as advisors.

To be clear, I agree. (I don't think Trump has a political position. I know Bannon and Miller do.)
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> Well maybe not zero, but certainly not anywhere near $24B.

Sure that's a reasonable opinion, one that I agree with.

> Snapchat is a fun opportunity, if the price where $10-20 million.

This is just out of touch. Show me another platform with the level of reach, engagement and usage that SnapChat has that's worth less than $5B. You realize Snap have generated $400mm in revenue last year right? I think you just have a fundamental misunderstanding of the product, the company, and their place in the market.

> There is no clear way of injecting ads into Snapchat, and in many markeds users could just revert back to SMS at no cost, so charging for the service will only work in some markeds.

There is a very very clear way of injecting ads into SnapChat and that's what they've generated the $400mm in revenue from. In fact, it's the same method that Instagram stories uses - sponsored story ads placed between organic stories amongst other media centric partnerships.
> So can someone explain why this advertising is so valuable to the NRA?

As far as I can tell, the NRA isn't even involved here.
Marissa Mayer will give up annual equity, bonus due to security breaches
Can't they just export the youtube captions?
Not it won't. Why do you think differently?
> I haven't read that concern recently, so I'm hopeful that scientists no longer feel that way, but it is alarming to see this day has come.

As others have said, this only became more proven. Even with a non-linearity at out-of-observation CO2 levels that causes temperatures to drop the resulting weather patterns will be... unpleasant.
How do you expect this will work? Everything created by humans from here on out must be accessible to every last minuscule quadrant of humanity or it's banned? Nobody's allowed to release audio without texted or text without audio, or video without text explaining what's going on?
For what it's worth, I talked to a Snapchat engineer at a job fair, and he told me that Snapchat is trying to focus on new products and features (like Spectacles) more so than trying to monetize their data.
The Department seemed to be aware of it though.

The Department found that [...] many had automatic captioning
generated by YouTube’s speech recognition technology. In March 2015, the Department
selected 30 videos. [..] for review. Automatically generated captions were inaccurate and incomplete, making the
content inaccessible to individuals with hearing disabilities.
Ironic if Russia doesn't even need the Crimean peninsula because of global warming.
On container queries
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but are you _my_ lawyer?
See also W. Ross Ashby (1956): "An Introduction to Cybernetics"

(PDF available from http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASHBBOOK.html)
Airports where wind is especially problematic (eg HKG) use special radars to look at the turbulence. Some research on running a local high res model with radar used for initialisation, but the short timescales make it difficult.

http://www.atrad.com.au/products/wind-profilers/boundary-lay...

Also, SODAR:
http://www.vaisala.com/en/energy/Weather-Measurement/Remote-...
It is when it's done within an artificial fifty minute-long timeframe.
You have lots of gas but no power plug.
Yeah, we could do something like this as well if we cared. We are easily caching 95+% of our active data in a small amount of disk space. It's not that valuable for us to have a complete replica of the full data set.
> The assumption here is that women nurture themselves because they want to look good, I don't believe that at all. You'll nurture yourself because you'll want to do it, instinctively, without needing any willpower.

That wasn't what I was trying to communicate at all. My intended meaning was that women—by wanting to look good, or to seem happy, or to put on one of the numerous other faces people expect women to present to the world—are forced to pay attention to their own bodies. At which point they will notice if-and-when they're bodily unhealthy. (And in many of the other major roles women play, they're expected to be caregivers: people who pay attention to others, and are paid attention to in turn. Women in such roles have support networks who will notice if-and-when they are unhealthy.)

Men, meanwhile, usually are expected to strive toward goals that involve paying solely external attention—and often abstract attention, to things or systems or concepts more than to people. Their attention will almost never need to be on their own bodies to achieve their goals; and nor will anyone around them (in a professional capacity) pay attention to their state of being, as long as their work is getting done.

The stereotype is at its strongest in war narratives: "valor" is ignoring the bullet in your calf and the stab-wound in your left side and marching on to finish the battle. Because, relative to winning the battle, the state of your body is immaterial. All other stories of "heroism" tend to have some form of this—the mathematician who abuses drugs to find the answer, the entrepreneur who gives a thousand sleepless nights to their cause, etc.

Put women in those roles, and the immediate evaluation (in our culture) changes from "heroism" to "self-neglect." Which tells you a lot more about how our culture thinks of men, than how it thinks of women, since the evaluation for women is clearly factual.
Given what you know, would you do it again? My main thinking is that it's simply easier to reason about, especially when discussing the value of shares with non-investors.
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why relocate half-way around the world to a country that as far as I know has no interesting tech companies.

If that's truly what's holding you back, I gather that New Zealand might not be the place for you. I have been told, however, that NZ has other fine qualities having little to do with tech. For instance, the fact that it's half-way around the world, and they talk like those musicians on that HBO show, might be reason enough for me personally.
Sorry David, but I need to speak against this 5 year old paper of yours.

I strongly disagree (and always have) with your statement that repurposing a statically typed JIT is limiting. The JIT projects you mention get lots of their performance from profile data which essentially presents type guesses so the compiler can speculatively optimize and recover when that info is wrong. Guess what? That's what statically typed Java JIT compilers do too, and the OMR compiler is no different, though we haven't sunk all that capability to OMR from Testarossa just yet (it's coming!).

I would be a lot happier with you repeating, or at least not propagating specifically the opposite conclusion, this line from your own paper:

On page 16, under Conclusion: "Our point, however, is not to argue against the repurposing of JIT compilers, but to define guiding principles and to promote techniques to construct an effective RJIT compiler."

Since this article was written, the entire Testarossa code base has been substantially refactored and parts of it rewritten (by the production Testarossa team) and streamlined to make it more amenable to dynamic optimization of other languages. We haven't finished that process (there's still more stuff we need to pull into the OMR compiler technology), but I really think your provocative statement above promotes a very broad conclusion from a research project that unfairly tries to close the door on what I still believe is a very reasonable technology evolution path. Especially since the article's conclusion is based on one research project for one language and one runtime where IMO the most reasonable conclusion is that just adding a JIT to an existing runtime is not enough to compete with a project that rewrote the entire runtime. That doesn't mean existing runtimes have nothing but bespoke paths forward or that reusable JIT technology cannot play a substantial part in that runtime's future evolution.

Finally, note that the OMR technology is being used (commits pulled in on an hourly basis) to build the production J9 JVM, which is also slated to be open sourced this year. There are also projects to use OMR for Ruby (see original post :) ), Lua, Rosie, Smalltalk (SOM++), Javascript, Python (currently inactive), and a runtime for workshops called Base9. I can provide links for the ones that have been open sourced already if people can't find them on github.

For those kind enough to have read to the end of this response (thank you!), please know that we have proposed several GSoC projects [1] to port to other languages and we're pretty open minded and positive about the potential and possibilities of reusing the Eclipse OMR compiler and other runtime components. Feel free to suggest alternative projects if you have a particular area of interest since we have lots of interested mentors available!

[1] https://wiki.eclipse.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Ideas#Ec...
English is the worlds most important language. 52.3% of websites pages are in English, the next highest percentage is Russian at 5.4%. People in other countries learn it just to study things not related to English, like Medicine.

The advantages gained by say a French speaker learning English are huge. An English speaker learning French, or even Mandarin? Really not so much. This attitude of "those Europeans are so much more intelligent than us, look at all the languages they know" really needs to die. They know English because they need it and it gives them an advantage. Or often just because they want to watch popular TV shows.

BTW English is the most commonly language spoken in Europe as well. The days of Europeans learning the languages of their neighbours is largely over; Norwegians and Swedes, Germans and Dutchmen are much more likely to converse in English than to know each others languages. In your hypothetical scenario, the person would have almost certainly tried the national language first, then English.
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> I feel like this is the best short ever

'feeling like' is not a good way to convincing me to short something. nor long. nor anything ;)

> ..., but I feel like the multiplied probabilities of both make it as clear a bet as you ever get

So you 'feel' like it would be a 'clear bet' ? sounds like a big maybe to me.

How about NOT shorting/longing at all ? I feel like this is the clearest bet for me ;)

(edit: spacing)
You don't have to do Uber or bust, but don't ask for venture money without going for venture returns.

I do agree that there is a market opportunity to fund $50m/year businesses, but that's not what VCs are for.

VCs: Invest in 100 companies, 90 fail, 5 return capital, 3 return 10x, 2 return 100x | 2.35x return on capital over a 10 year period (hopefully)

Index fund: 6% yearly return | 1.79x return on capital over 10 year period

Traditional small business loans average 6-9% APR and have a higher failure rate than an index fund but lower than an index fund. Unfortunately, for startups, they require collateral and/or historical financials.
> admit they exercise editorial judgement on what is "proper" speech

Facebook does exactly that, with slightly different rules for posts & comments and with ads.

https://en-gb.facebook.com/communitystandards

https://en-gb.facebook.com/policies/ads
I wonder what will happen to the National Flood Insurance Program when Florida is underwater.
S3's eventual consistency is easy to understand and hard to digest. It's way too easy to create data quality nightmares by overwriting, deleting, or relying on prefix listing. I've personally seen separate major data quality issues caused by each of those.

If you care at all about deterministic data quality, never overwrite anything in S3, and never rely on object listing. Read-after-new-write is consistent in S3. If you need to list objects but don't want to sync additional metadata in e.g. DynamoDB, then a common pattern is to write a file listing ("manifest") in another S3 object.
This is a trusted, internal, private network. The only one who could do this is the application itself, or something rogue on our network. If something were running rogue on our network, there'd be worse things it could get access to.
IBM gets a patent on “out-of-office” e-mail messages in 2017
> excited by potential disappointed by reality

Sounds like a golden opportunity.
$20? Try $2 a minute with each video being 60 minutes. It's more like $2.4 million.
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What if that event cost your company less than the additional redundancy required to avoid downtime from any such outage?

What if the lost revenue from that event multiplied by its annual likelihood is less than the cost of avoiding it?
Making the choice to deliberately exclude people with disabilities, even though there's a nearly thirty year old law mandating accessibility is treating people with contempt.
The parent specifically asked about "the runaway," not merely climate change. The term "runaway" refers to a feedback effect, so that climate change breeds more climate change rather than relying on our carbon emissions to fuel it.
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