skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the intention, but I see that interpretation. It's not hard to imagine oracle making a netbeans plugin for free and an expensive enterprise version that's faster. Selling point is leveraging existing back end skills.
Yea maybe I haven't had strong enough.

I tried to treat a toothache and another time arm injury by vaping CBD oil at 25mg/ml.
5 ml later(tank capacity), it didn't do too much relief.

I think if I had strong enough (500mg-1000mg CBD) I think it could potentially provide larger relief.

I think my tolerance has been raised due to years of recreational use vs therapeutic/real medicine use
> He should have every expectation that any driver he gets might ask him about the business,

I don't think he's in the public eye that way. The courts take a very specific view on who is or is not in the public eye. Also, he did engage with the driver until the driver got belligerent. Should he have just brushed off the driver with "I don't talk business during off hours?" The driver was not letting this go.

> The cult of personality around Kalanick is huge

Citation needed. I couldn't pick him out of a lineup, and I use uber daily, just like I couldn't pick the CEO of ATT out of a lineup.

Basically, the driver was behaving unprofessionally. If you were a limo driver or a waiter at a nicer restaurant, you get fired if you acknowledge the customer's status or fame at all. That sort of thing is not done and horribly intrusive.
https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#wil...
Actions, not words.

We need clear and concrete proof that the myriad issues at Uber will be addressed, and a vague, handwavey "I'll do better" is not that.

He could have announced an advisory team being brought on board to help steer the company back on track, or a cleaning house of managers with abusive track records, or drastic new internal guidelines with harsh penalties for bullshit sexist/racist/intolerant behaviour.

Uber has just such an awful track record and is just so untrustworthy, why should we start trusting them when they've given us no actual reason to?
Thank you!

For fully end-to-end models, it's hard to say exactly. The Char2Wav paper demonstrates that there is hypothetically an architecture and a set of weights that can do synthesis end-to-end, but we cannot yet train such a system. On Reddit, one of the Char2Wav authors comments that they tried training it directly and didn't get great results, and at SVAIL we've also had some trouble doing so. I think it is very likely going to happen in the next several months or year, but we don't yet know exactly what needs to happen in order to get it to work.

As for inference, some of the inference optimizations do generalize. In fact, the GPU optimizations (persistent kernels) were originally developed by our systems team, and published in the Persistent RNN [0] paper. (This is a really powerful technique that CUDA makes very hard to implement, and I have a massive amount of respect for the folks who managed to make it work!) Persistent RNNs make training at close-to-peak-FLOPs with very low batch sizes plausible, and make GPU WaveNet inference plausible. At the moment, our CPU kernels are much more promising, but we don't know whether that will stay the case. For mobile, I think it is possible to get the current systems to work on fairly powerful mobile CPUs with a bunch more work into optimization and low-level assembly, but we haven't done it yet so time will tell.

[0] https://svail.github.io/persistent_rnns/ and http://jmlr.org/proceedings/papers/v48/diamos16.pdf
Logging/analytics? Paywalls?
>Governments really want people to stop smoking.

Are you sure that's true? Governments earn an awful lot of money from smokers.

Given the upcoming pension crisis so many US cities and states are facing, it might make sense to encourage smoking.

Things might be different in the UK.

Here's a nice smoking picture:
http://pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com/wp-content/uploads...
Naive questions about this:

1. How many hours does MMJ control pain?

2. Does taking MMJ for chronic pain make you high all the time?

3. In California, most MMJ dispensaries are oriented towards recreational users. How do you go about this from a legitimately medical path, i.e. finding a doctor able and willing to provide sound medical advice, instead of just collecting the fee for a green card?
Or a leadership transplant. Wipe the whole C-level.
I hacked a script on top of PDF.js to make it read the text by TTS while highlighting the words on page. I'm a big fan of having the computer speak to me.
i now have a mac........... i think you get my point
Food for thought: press enter twice after each bullet/number point which acts like starting a new paragraph (i don't know why they made that the format) but it makes it easier to read.
I thought Uber took a standard %?
Basically it was required to be disclosed for it to be "fixed" further. The action that needed to be taken was for everyone to delete their web caches. And everyone can't delete their web caches unless they know about the vulnerability.
Under a medieval feudal system, most people did not own property the way we think of it today; the feudal lord did. If the lord wanted to take all your clothes and throw you off their land, they could, with impunity.

That said, yes, the feudal lord's band of merry thugs would keep the peace, because peasants can work harder if they're not squabbling with each other.
Ability to give interesting talks and ability to run good products are two completely different talents, and your comment is therefore pretty meaningless. In fact, I'd argue a lot of people good at one are not good at the other.
What did the other logo look like?
Speaking of Trump, Jon Stewart pointed out something interesting recently - it's clear he's always lying, because no-one says 'believe me' when they're not lying. And Trump says it all the time.

"I didn't take the last cookie... believe me"
Baidu as a company doesn't use TensorFlow (as far as I know). We have our own high-performance and easy to use open source framework called PaddlePaddle [0], which is quite powerful and flexible.

However, the Baidu Research Silicon Valley AI Lab (SVAIL) allows researchers and research teams to use whatever frameworks they want to, and we have projects using TensorFlow, Torch, our own SVAIL-internal internal high-performance RNN framework, and PaddlePaddle. Using our own framework sometimes allows us to work on very high-performance implementations of various primitives and techniques that would be harder to do without complete control over the source code.

[0] http://www.paddlepaddle.org/
Is it pure coincidence that the use of satellites to gauge retail traffic was a minor plot point in the [latest episode of Billions](http://www.sho.com/billions/season/2/episode/2)?
It's not TEXT to speech, it's speech to speech. I think it would be amazing when we have TTS of that quality.
Right now, we do not have plans to make an API available. This paper and blog post are mostly meant to describe our techniques to other deep learning researchers and spur innovation in the field. However, we hope that these techniques will be available eventually, and we'll provide more information when that happens.
Content aggregation.
Cool, you would think they would advertise a larger channel lineup on their landing page instead of the rather spartan "Stream ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC & more." - it certainly didn't make me think "oh, let's go look at the YouTube blog to find out what else they may be including" nor was there any guidance to check.
As someone who's literally just starting to look at Lambda, thanks for that quick read.

I had a lot of "chicken and egg"-type questions about using it, and seeing that critical step of bootstrapping the whole thing via the API Gateway was really informative.
I don't mean to understate or disrespect the scale of the task to which philosophers traditionally apply themselves; you're preaching to the choir there. But I do want to be careful not to inject too much mysticism into the picture.

There is something persistently mystical to qualia, to sensitivity, to experience, the nature of existence, whatever else you want to lump under the category of 'scientifically unsolvable'. Whether you want to address it via Hegelian Contexts or Quinian Nominalism or Protestant Ecstasy; for as many understandings of these phenomena and their motivating metaphysics, there are an equal number of implicit definitions of the word 'rigor'. Even the romantics were still in the business of establishing their own systems within which to do work, in the form of proofs using the rules of those systems. They may not look like scientific systems, but they are still systems to do the work of solving problems, and thus run parallel to scientific systems (as a sibling poster has described).

And so I prefer a much more charitable interpretation of the SO response. I agree with you that the goal of philosophy is not to rigorize its way out of existence - it probably can't, and probably for a superset of the reasons why meta-descriptive paradoxes arise. Nor is it to become a science in the technical sense (i.e., an empirical and deductive process in accordance with the scientific method). But do I think the goal of most philosphers is to build compelling systems within which their apostles may do work, or practice rigor.
WebAssembly doesn't necessarily mean "do everything in canvases".
Reminds me of when Stephen Harper claimed Marijuana was worse than tobacco and the rather hilarious reaction by Canadians that followed his statement:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stephen-harper-pot-marijuana...

From the comments "hey Steve...smoke a blunt or two and mellow out." is the kind of sentiment that I heard a lot of in Toronto.
He doesn't sound shocked to me. The brevity of this post makes him sound pensive, like, oh my god, this is what I am, what have I done and how do I fix it?

You can't write much about that beyond what he did.

I'll make a counter prediction, that something does change. Nothing good comes from wishing for their failure.
I would like to hear an argument for why Travis should remain as CEO.

In my mind there's simply been too many colossal failures as a leader, and while I don't consider this video in particular to be resignation worthy, I feel like it's just another datapoint in a growing dataset showing that he's not mature enough (at 40 no less) to handle his role. A straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak. This letter seems sincere, but I was fairly disappointed that there have been no high-level firings or resignations (that I'm aware of) since the Fowler story broke. There's a deep credibility issue here, and the only way I can think of to fix it is if he leaves.

So why should he stay?

Edit: I'm wrong, Amit Singhal was asked to resign due to not disclosing an alleged sexual harassment offense at Google.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/27/technology/uber-sexual-ha...

FTA: A little more than a week after Uber faced stinging accusations that it had ignored female employees’ complaints of sexual harassment, the company dismissed the head of its engineering efforts for failing to disclose a sexual harassment claim from his previous job.
They want to open their door all the way, but they don't want to ding their door against the bollards/island protecting the pump from crappy drivers?
Capitalism per se isn't wrong, but becomes extremely dangerous if left uncontrolled as it is today. What is very wrong and dangerous with capitalism is the lack of a line dictating when an entity should stop amassing power and wealth, especially when limited resources are involved. You can print infinite money but you can't create infinite land as the planet surface isn't infinite, which one day will lead us to the point when a few extremely rich people will own the entire Earth surface.
Thank you for clarifying this! We tried fairly hard to make this clear, because as you say, the hard part is generating inflection and duration that sounds natural. There's still a ton of work left to do in this duration – we're clearly nowhere near being able to generate human-level speech.

Our work is meant to make working with TTS easier to deep learning researchers by describing a complete and trainable system that can be trained completely from data, and demonstrate that the neural vocoder substitutes can actually be deployed to streaming production servers. Future work (both by us and hopefully other groups) will make further progress for inflection synthesis!
I was looking for a newsletter as well.
Profound has two meanings. You're confusing one meaning ("having great knowledge or insight") with the other ("very great or intense").

"He has profound insights on the topic of healthcare" vs. "Please accept my profound sorrow for your loss".
I doubt they work on mobile though, everything was in hard coded dimensions.
What's an SDR?

I am familiar with SWEs, SWDs, SREs, etc., but the only prominent SDR definition seems to be "Software Defined Radio".
File processing in Clojure can easily become CPU bound
I find it strangely pleasant that one of my comments was (apparently) called out in a summary, for it means that I have truly been absorbed into the HN hivemind.

I guess it's finally time for me to learn Rust.
Your comment made me realise what they're acheiving here.

They have created the perfect streaming version of the DVR for all those non-tech-savvy older generation who are only comfortable with what they already know and love.

Now, instead of learning about the joy of Netflix and Chromecast, they can just do everything they already do with their DVR, except now it's through YouTube!

Brilliant really, particularly since they're the only ones who would pay $35/month for that crap.
Thats what I'm thinking too. And the infection rate of 165K isn't too low either for something that will 1/10. I know there are lots of thing killing a lot more people but this one doesn't look trivial specially if somehow the infection rate spreads.
Is Khronos going to implement something? Because AFAIK they only write the specs for others to implement them - so it is up to each vendor to make the API available. If Apple and Microsoft aren't going to implement Vulkan, why would they implement something else?
I don't know that I'd say infinite. I mean, sit back and really focus on being aware that you're aware that you're aware... how many layers can you manage? 3? 12? 100?
I think it also has something to do with price discrimination. A seller can maximize profit if they can come closest to charging the maximum the buyers are willing to pay. So for goods where the cost to make a copy is negligible, such as media and books, the ideal pricing strategy is to sell the product at different prices to different markets, hence why you see versions of the same textbooks being sold for $10 in Asia when it's $200 in the USA.
> Cloud is still competing with on premises solutions, right? One year is nothing, try ten or twenty.

Not an expert by any means but I would put more weight to Google's ONE year promise over (to give an example) HPE's twenty years promise. I know it is a cheap shot because I am pretty sure HPE will be bought and sold at least once in the next twenty years.
96% of hourly workers already earn more than minimum wage, so it shouldn't be the first place to look at improving wage stickiness. Start with the cost of employment, primarily health care, which has sucked up a lot of money that should have gone to wage increases.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2015/home.htm
Wow, from the title I thought this would be in regards to the multiple claims of sexual harassment and a hostile workplace. Have they acknowledged those situations yet?

With this video, he got triggered and left. I'm sure he's sorry but I don't see this as anywhere remotely close to the experiences several female engineers have shared. Hopefully his response to them is magnitudes more heartfelt, apologetic and transformative.
With having alot of first hand and 2nd hand knowledge, I am very surprised by questions like these that show how much of the knowledge about this wonder drug have been suppressed and or generally just not known.

1)varies on so many factors to get into.
-Tolerance,strength,variety,form, and how it's taken. What you eat before consumption can affect.

2)no. Lookup THC vs CBD, for pain relief it's more CBD which doesn't make you high at all. Some studies have shown full spectrum/mix of the 2 in concentrates may provide better results.

3)find a naturopath, or just go in and ask the dispensaries. Many dispensary workers are actually very knowledgeable.

Not sure about Cali, but alot of dispensaries here are very knowledgeable and cater alot to medical use rather than recreational, even though their key market is recreational.

Try finding a local compassion club, healing centers etc for support/seminars or information.

Recent article on CBD:
http://hightimes.com/medicinal/cbd-the-cinderella-molecule/
I get kidney stones pretty often (6 times in the last 8 years). I vomit from the pain, convulse on the floor, lose all sense of self as I just struggle to survive the sensation. It is intense. Usually I have to go to the emergency room for IV opioids. Then they give you some to take home after you pass the peak of the pain.

Last time it happened to me, I went home at around 6pm after going into the hospital that morning. At 3am, the pain was again intolerable. I had already taken the maximum dosage of the opioids. I knew taking more was dangerous, and was keenly afraid of getting addicted. But the pain was too much, so I went to get the bottle of pills.

As I stood up to go get the pills, it occurred to me that people say weed is good for pain and that I should try it before taking more opioids. I had weed (in cali, have a "medical" card) so I took some out and smoked.

I cannot describe to you how much more effective it was than the opioids. The pain wasn't gone, but it was just an interesting sensation now. Genuinely didn't bother me. I did yoga. I read. I enjoyed the night. And I was flabbergasted that no one I touched in the medical establishment had ever recommended it.

It feels like a genuinely corrupt world where something so clearly damaging to people and society is recommended before something relatively harmless and widely available.

I am still in awe of how effectively it handled my pain.
Thats an interesting point,
I think DF is more macro than you seems to think,
Micro is limited at dwarf profession (you can set profesions fixes, or by skill level)

Another great game was Banished, i tried when it just came out, It is still updated by developers?
Could be a kiwi.
it's clear he's always lying, because no-one says 'believe me' when they're not lying.

Is that an general thing in English-speaking countries or just American?

Where I grew up I think it would be perfectly fine to say this even when I have been speaking the truth all the way.

(Don't want to defend Trump. I don't like him. Just curious about the idiom or whatever this is.)
You're welcome.

I want to say that is how it started, but honestly I think I was just annoyed at people who had never worked closely with me endorsing me for "The Cloud", so I intentionally added some stupid things in the hope they'd prove to me once and for all they actually didn't know anything about me.

My profile has been like this for years now...one day when I actually want to do something different, I look forward to it acting as an automatic filter against the people I don't want to work with :)
For folks looking for more information regarding published studies on the topic, we supply an index of over 800 cannabis studies organized by almost 170 conditions, and summarized with a weighted average by our contributing PhD:

https://www.cannabisreports.com/cannabis-studies

This includes a section for studies on cannabis and opioid addictions.
Everything?

True, some prices have risen. But, if I may, here are some fun equations to ponder.

1996 (Florida)

Minimum wage $4.25
Gallon of milk $2.73
Gallon of gas $1.26
Dozen eggs $1.31

2017
Minimum wage $8.10
Gallon of milk $3.31
Gallon of gas $2.41(was almost $4.00, if I remember correctly a few years ago?)
Dozen eggs $1.59

1996

Electronics (to do work, using one's natural talents, for example) Expensive.

2017
Electronics: Much cheaper. Adjusting for inflation: much, much cheaper.

Of course, with electronics, there are too many intricacies to list, but here's a specific one. I bought a 512MB compact flash card in 2001, which set me back $249. I think the last one I bought was 2 years ago, or so. It was $60 for 16 GB. I make my living taking pictures. What would 16 GB worth of pictures have cost me in 2001?

I'm happy with these numbers. Simply put, let's think very carefully before using absolutes.
This is how one of my professors described it to me back in college, inspiring me to derive my own solution to the Rubik's cube. (And later for the "Square One" cube.) And I think the general concept is easy to describe to anyone: do something to the top and mess up the bottom, rotate the top and then do the exact opposite.

To me, it's much more satisfying than memorizing/learning existing solutions, even though I'll never be as fast as those that do leverage those solutions.

Either way, though, I'd recommend buying an inexpensive "speed cube" from Amazon, they are much less frustrating than the original design. (It doesn't bind up in the middle of a transformation.)
Reminds me of amazing http://webcomicname.com/ and http://todaysgamingdrama.tumblr.com/ (abandoned)

I wish some day there will be AI-generated summaries like these for news and stories.
definitely. plenty of literature on this. the problem, however, is how the delays are calculated. FPGAs have a lot more intermediate logic to determine which gates are connected to what, and that means intermediate delays that you need to account for.

not saying it can't be done or even that it's hard. just a different process.
It's fair to assume that Uber could have not lowered the prices in exchange for a smaller market share. Which would have been a pretty good arrangement for existing drivers.
I don't really have any authority to really add anything but I will say my understanding of chronic is long lasting. Doesn't necessarily have to be severe pain, just long lasting. I have some chronic pains from a bad fall a few years ago. Unfortunately PA is moving like a turtle in it's medical marijuana roll out.

When I think of cannabis, I view it as safer. You don't hear about overdoes like you do with opioids. Add in a few famous celebrity deaths like Prince you quickly get a public image that views opioids with suspicion. In my opinion rightly so. Hopefully medical marijuana can be more accessible to more people sooner.
If it's as seamless as you describe it to be, it's not an issue. An external source here https://pando.com/2014/09/04/uber-continues-to-screw-its-par... claims "Uber drivers are required to maintain a minimum 80 percent ride acceptance rate to remain in the company’s good graces – the best performers exceed 97 percent, the company tells its drivers. Ignore too many inbound ride requests when you are the closest vehicle and the result could be some combination of reprimand/probation, lost bonus income, or, in extreme cases, deactivation of the driver’s account".

I don't have any personal experience driving, would be nice to have a clarification on that.
I wasn't really trying to "blame" anyone.
Strange! I was perplexed that the apology is followed by a multi-racial image of gym rats, but then saw it was part of a "featured article" on Uber delivered influenza vaccine from last year.
Twitch as Surprisingly Convivial IRC
Lispy tasks based on Duff's Device
For new users have them auto follow tweets nearby. This will be familiar to them and from there they can learn to follow and unfollow. Make following a lot more accessible.
Agree totally. REST is hard to work with and very confusing since every application does it differently. I have seen applications returning HTML response for errors cases. REST is better than SOA or CORBA, but we need something better.