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HDB vs resale HDB is 20-30%.

HDB vs Condo is a lot more.

There are serious restrictions on resale hdb flats which cause them to be priced a lot lower than condos.

These restrictions are deliberate policy to ensure affordable housing and subsidise Citizens and PR.

The major ones:

- You have to be a citizen or PR of at least a few years. This cuts out 1.5 million people.

- You have to meet racial and PR quotas. This limits demand.

- You can't have other properties. This excludes people with overseas property and excludes wealthier Singaporeans from buying HDBs as investment property.
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> Ah, then society's trust in science should be warned to watch out.

Perhaps you've noticed an alarming rise in society's distrust in science, perhaps partly exacerbated by an increase in poorly peer-reviewed publications.
It states that it only needs about a minute of someones voice.
You and Op are both right.

Yes not all people are bad. But Most are. Buy this is in every single company. Not just outsourcing firms.

The issue in India is scarcity. Which is every one wants their pound of flesh even if that comes from their own brother. They want it.

The Op is right though. You can't get anything through work in most Indian companies. Regional politics, linguistic politics, connections in high places, politics is what you need to progress in India.

In India work doesn't get you too far. Society doesn't reward work or merit. In fact rewards corrupt practices both in government and private sectors.

Yet people in India wonder why no good things happen here.
I like this. "Competitive Market" is what you want, "Free Market" has a shitty steady state.
> instruction set that has no production silicon yet.

There's no shortage of those ..

> It's going to go somewhere

.. why? Could you expand on the "step 2: ???" of the world domination plan?
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I've been drafting a P2P app to (legitimately) share publications without intermediaries. Authenticity and traceability of all data - including metadata such as tags to represent peer approval - are supported using PGP cryptography. If anyone is interested to at least provide a critique to the code (it's my pet project so it's also rife with "let me try this new framework" syndrome) please give me a ping. If you want to contribute yay!
I'm a C beginner so I found it quite useful. ;)

Your comment makes it sound like everyone should do this. Are there not reasons to have a non intrusive list as well? For example if the structure is used elsewhere and you don't want to tie it to that list implementation. Or if you want to point to the same structure many times in a list?
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Interesting thought: is it easier or more difficult to make a synthetic voice undistinguishable from a human one, compared to producing speech copying a real voice?

To me, at least, the voices I heard in Lyrebird's demo actually sounded more 'real' than Microsoft Sam for example.
If there was a recall presumably it would let you know before you squeezed if it was connected to Wifi.
I do if that cryptocurrencies are as easy as concrete currency.
> When it comes time to divvy up the revenue, how do you reflect the fact that companies don't necessarily scale linearly based on the effort and contributions of their founders and executives?

Do I even have to spell it out? There shouldn't be a 100x factor between the lowest and highest salary. There's no degree of merit that should guarantee that privilege.

Merit doesn't scale linearly, if I wanted to use your language, but there's no reason income should follow the same model. I really want to know what's the reasoning for allowing such ridiculous income gaps. If there's money left at the end of the year and the company doesn't want to invest more (which should be the first thing to do?), why pay the executives even more when the employees would benefit far more from the bonuses.
Copyright was designed to protect artistic expression. A song can be protected. A performance can be protected. A playing style cannot.
There's a expose like this every couple of years, but nothing ever changes. My adviser told me entertaining stories of pranksters putting fake articles into CS journals from "The Austrian Naval Academy". I suspect one reason things don't change much is that the publishing game is shades of grey all the way up to the best publications - a third-tier journal won't publish complete gibberish, but you certainly might be able to get some pretty shallow stuff into it and I would be very surprised if anyone, say, checked the references or reality-tested the results.
It says that it's inspired by OpenTomb. From a cursory glance it does not seem to me that it's using OpenTomb.
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Wow, this kept getting better and better, I didn't expect to make it through the entire text. Some parts are shocking.
> buku

Just so you know, the actual spelling is beaucoup.
While all of these vec2speech type models are impressive, I get the feeling that most of the comments didn't listen to any of the samples. It's still distinctly robotic sounding, probably has quite a bit of garbage output that needs to be filtered manually (as many of these nets often have) and is a far cry from fooling a human.
Features:

* Works with Generic types (rather than just primitives)

* Unifies memory types: Stack allocated, Array (heap allocated), Unmanaged

* Can pass fixed window over data (and slice to make window of window)

* Can change read/write data to readonly data with ReadOnlySpan

As Arrays are always read/write; which may mean a defensive copy if passing fixed data.
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Having worked for for TCS and CTS, I second this
Currently artificial systems cannot rival humans at recognizing images, understanding natural languages and learning from experience yet, despite all the great progress that has been made. Great progress doesn't mean we're there yet.
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Huge thanks from me, I been looking to develop something to keep track of my own development hours for invoicing purposes. From early look it seems like you nailed it. Thanks!
This. I would assume copying a voice pattern is treated no different from copying an appearance. If a 3D model is a very close approximation to a particular person's face and you use it in a game intentionally to benefit from that person's likeness, you can run into legal issues. And of course you really open yourself up for a lawsuit if you then attach the real person's name to it.

EDIT: See the NPR Planet Money podcast linked elsewhere in the comments. Apparently there are fairly specific laws to protect someone's likeness -- including their voice -- thanks to the entertainment industry and Frank Sinatra.
Actually, when the sad day comes and he passes away I'd be very comforted to hear his voice on new nature documentaries. I just can't watch them unless he's narrating.
Uber gets effectively shut down in France, leaving my region with just taxis and no price competition. Try finding a non Air France nonstop between Marseille and Paris or Paris to Bordeaux. It doesn't exist. Try finding nonstop flights between Houston and Dallas -- there are five different airlines with nonstop service.

Air France has a practically guaranteed monopoly within France; the only reason that monopoly doesn't extend past its borders is that international air transport agreements would make it impossible for Air France to control the entire French air transport system.

Where's that freedom to compete? If one argues that "Europe does it better," I might argue that either that person hasn't ever lived and done business in the US and hasn't lived and done business in Europe. Anyone that suggests that competition is protected in Europe (or in my case, specifically France,) has no idea what they're talking about. Competing against entrenched players in agriculture, transport, infrastructure and technology is excessively difficult. In the US anyone that can buy an airliner, get the FAA inspections can essentially start an airline. In France such an attempt would be met with violence. Air France itself attempted to start a budget airline in 2014 and strikes essentially shut down French aviation for over 11 days.

Protecting competition would mean the that the government wouldn't abide the labor monopolies that hamstring companies attempting to compete.

France does have monopolies -- although most of those monopolies are in labor -- and labor monopolies, otherwise known as unions are just as destructive as any other form of monopoly.

Europe does not do it better -- they just do it differently.
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In more general terms, take a look at Montgomery multiplication[1] which is where this trick originates. It's a common technique used by compilers to optimise away divisions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_modular_multiplicat...
.. because Apple is still shipping phones without a headphone socket?
>>I am a software engineer and many people are surprised to see that I have not moved to a managerial role.

It is extremely wrong to say Managerial roles are there for the taking and good developers are not taking them.

If you are a good developer most managers are extremely hostile to you. Because they think if you become a manager you become a threat to their job. Therefore they prevent you from becoming a manager.

Its typical power play.

If you are really good and have real chops in you to do any big stuff, you are ruined in India. People will try to get rid of you anyway they can. The society as a whole hates merit people here. Because most are crooks and they don't like seeing real people getting rewards. That would disrupt their ecosystem.

If you are good, India is the last place you want to be. Move out, one way or other for your own good.
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Of course processes are biased in favour of hiring grads. Graduates are awesome from an employer's POV. They don't know their own worth yet, they don't have families competing for work/life balance, and they're eager to prove themselves. So you can pay them a pittance to burn the midnight oil crunching through the most miserable parts of your workload.
The SugarCRM administration panel has a button labeled "remove XSS". We have a picture of it up in our office.

Yes. A button that attempts to remove XSS payloads from the database that admins can click. That's the level of security competence we are talking about here.

Edit: Here is the button: http://i.imgur.com/hC9KmWh.png
Why is this being downvoted? This comment is factually correct.
Peer approval at respected journals is anonymous: the writer doesn't know who the reviewers are. Sometimes the reviewers don't even know the identity of the author. How does your system allow for that? PGP signatures do not permit anonymity.
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So the publication gets shared, and if you think its a good paper you set the a tag? This is a pretty good idea - but do you make the reviewer identify known?
Personally I think it's great that you reposted your comment.

I suggest however that when you do, you add a line to the bottom that says something along the line "This comment was based on an earlier comment I made X days ago using another account." when you do just to keep people from accusing you of plagiarizing others.
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Has pop finally run out of tunes?
Relevant discussion from 17 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14177589
What about older games? I think this would make it possible to improve graphics of those games by going trough Vulcan and adding new features to the pipeline. With Steam and GOG there is a big market for older games and for older games with renewed graphics and up to date compatibility.
I was replying to the parent on Google not being industry leading efficient and especially comparing to the Yahoo Lockport DC.

But you're right, regarding to water usage we don't publish numbers (nor does anyone else afaik, I haven't found any WUE number for e.g. Amazon, Yahoo, Facebook...) so it's difficult to compare this to others.

I am however confident that a lot of things have been considered and this was the best option, we have imho a good track record trying to do the best for the environment, a lot of attention is being paid to this internally. E.g. everything running on green electricity, which is not the cheapest.
Well at least with water, there are actually countries where drinking water straight from the tap may not be safe and bottled water is the norm. But the water is much cheaper than what you generally find. And you don't need to be connected to the internet.
"I literally copy-paste the middot every time. Who has a middot key?"

I did too, until I found.

http://middot.net/
The US has a $50 billion trade deficit with Mexico. Are we to argue that Mexico's business environment and economy is better and more innovative than the US? A trade deficit is not necessarily a bad thing.
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I don't get paid in BTC. I don't think the tax office in my country would accept payments made in BTC.
Tree based algorithm have it's place. I dunno what your definition of depth is but it all depends on your data.

I'm doing a thesis on tree based algorithm and it works great for medical data.

Granted I have little exposer to NN, you can't do that with NN when clinical trials data is small as hell.

It's all base on the type data and your resource and criteria.

NN is really hype and people tend to over look other algorithms but NN is not a silver bullet. I don't get how you rank those importance either, it could be bias.
Sure, it's not clean and crisp but if you ignore the distortions and the somewhat arbitrary intonation it's pretty close to the real thing. And I would argue that it's already good enough to fool grandma for a phone scam (but then again scammers currently get away with practically no resemblance at all).
If it's the same DRM as kenco can you just take off the QR code, tape it over the camera and then squeeze anything you want over wifi using your $400 wifi-enabled squeezing machine.

I guess that would only work during the sell-by period of the bag, but there's a chance their QR codes are forgeable.
I wonder what's the use case for serializing and unserializing objects using php built-in functions. Is this some kind of "I'm too lazy to json encode a subset of properties" or are there some edge cases where one would use this extremely sharp knife?
you'll hit hi res native and no mobile version sites from time to time as others have said go landscape and pinch out to zoom to text block.
Tried writing a version with no divisions. At least in my tests it was ~5x faster. Correctness not guaranteed. https://gist.github.com/karliss/6cc343f7359c2de9166f1551f884...
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> The NSA needs to exploit flaws

there are plenty legal wiretapping/surveillance alternatives that don't rely on not fixing a compromised worldwide infrastructure.
The only possible voice I can think of that I would be certain it could have this kind of protection right now is actually Majel Barret-Roddenberry. She apparently did a lot of voice recording specifically to let this kind of thing happen. What I couldn't fathom is what would happen if something like this was used to mimic someone else's voice that hadn't agreed to such a thing.

http://www.avclub.com/article/late-majel-barrett-might-still...
Thanks - Thorlo is new to me. Their page on fibres [1] is interesting, even though it doesn't mention merino it does talk about wool & silk blends. Now I want to get merino silk blend, but they're not cheap.

[1] https://www.thorlo.com/why-thorlos/fibers
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Maybe. However, most CGI (in big Hollywood productions with almost no budget limit) is still very detectable, so much so that the biggest productions try to do as much as possible with real props and real actors instead of CGI (cf. interviews about the last Fast and Furious movie).

The human mind seems to be better at this than most creators credit it for.
I felt compelled to write a response.

I didn't know what to expect seeing that it was a link to the Marine Corps...

But essentially, I agree. The examples in that link are about as close as you can get to some actual generally inspiring leadership principals.

The amazon leadership principals, by contrast, look and sound like empty corporate marketing fluff.

By comparison, far from being something that makes them stand out and sound different, it makes them sound exactly the same as every other big company :(
The description of this new storage engine does not explain how it manages the durability of the data.

When you compare with the extreme efforts traditional databases take to ensure that unplugging a server will never ever result in data loss[0], silencing this problem makes me wonder.

Is it that at this ingest rate even trying to ensure durability is a vain effort?

[0] https://www.sqlite.org/atomiccommit.html
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I'd imagine you might get close, but it'd probably work best if you can get the person to use all the phonemes that you want to reproduce. That said depending on how good it is, it might slur other phonemes together to approximate it, which would probably work to give it the accent that the speaker would likely have.
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Android Firefox readermode is fantastic. I absolutely love it. I wish it was the default view for most pages with a toggle to see the original!
The app does, not the headphones themselves.

Source: reddit :P
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> revealed preferences

It's not like phone companies offered people "better call quality XOR another service", and people consistently picked the second option.
When I was freelancing, I have looked at many services for online time tracking. As an Emacs user, I finally settled for org-mode:

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Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14148145
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The main problem about this is that the author is basing his arguments on a show. A show written by writers who might even read the same pop-psych. Then he goes to reason from this show, into real-life. It's arguing from fictional evidence. If some of the actors behaves in a completely different way one week because there's a writer's strike or something, does it invalidate his theories?

IRL nobody behaves like people from The Show so any theory with this as the only basis is worthless.
That was one of my first thoughts too [1]. I doubt it currently will do so as it does sound fairly robotic. It does sound closer however than other demos I've heard so i think we're probably on the way.

[1] https://youtu.be/-zVgWpVXb64?t=41
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Yes, oh my god, that's terrible :( I prefer LibreOffice but sometimes I run into Excel at a job or similar and the last time I did the computer I had to use was using Norwegian locale (I've been living in Norway since the age of four) and there was no way to switch it to English without admin privileges (which to me is a pretty huge WTF moment by its own right), and even if I had been able to I don't know if Excel has the English locale installed or not.

So when I had to use Excel all the formulas were named in Norwegian.

I downloaded a portable version of LibreOffice but that triggered the anti-virus :I

Sometimes I would use Google Docs instead but for company confidential information I obviously won't upload that data to Google so then I'm stuck with Excel. Even for non-critical data Google Docs might not be an option simply because you are working on the file together with someone else who is using Excel and constantly uploading and downloading the file would be annoying, as well as the risk of Google Docs not supporting 100% of the features of Excel leading to complicated spreadsheets getting mangled. (Same problem with using LibreOffice to work with someone using Microsoft Office.)
It depends on what using Oracle means.
As a backed? I seriously doubt it. Oracle fees are huge for startup-style growth and non-oracle equivalents are 1) cheap and 2) have plenty of talent available.

If you're a start-up going after B2B market, and you want to offer on-prem service, I suggest you get into the Oracle developer network and try as hard as you can to make sure your product works with Oracle as a backend.

Just having it as an option for big corporations is worth the effort... But not as a first time option (unless ORA funds you, which is another story).
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Well since Peter Sunde and his family has recieved death-threats from nazi and the majority of terrorist attacks and murders in europe is done by the nazis. I can understand and support this statement.
India has a lot of good talent too. Most are desperate for jobs and will take anything offered(Just for the opportunity).

These sheep are work horses for the political cartels, and these people do bulk of the heavy lifting as the plum money, opportunities and rewards are eaten office politicians and their minions.

Most of this kind of talent is used and thrown like tissues or they grow a brain and move to different companies.
Getting device serial numbers through private APIs and transferring this information to their servers isn’t “extremely minor.” Any other lesser-known developer would’ve been rejected if not outright banned. Apple has something to answer here. Why is Uber still allowed in? How many offenses are companies allowed?
>>They optimize to reduce false positives. They're completely fine with false negatives.

Getting too many false negatives is a very sure way of getting a lot of false positives.

>>They don't have any shortage of talented engineers willing to interview there.

You might be wrong there. Apart from huge money opportunities, there are little incentives for any body to waste their best years in large company political middle levels.
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> I don't see how exploiting backdoors by your security agency is so nefarious.

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Stuxnet the wise?

Stuxnet was a cyberweapon so powerful and so well hidden it could use computers to cause nuclear centrifuges to fail.

Unfortunately, others learned from code the worm left behind, then other actors used the same techniques to infiltrate computers everywhere for a year. Ironic. It could save the world from nuclear weapons, but not computers.
Neat looking tool, glad you posted it here i'll give it a try
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I had to check if you were the author of the paper. You seem to think exactly the same way.