skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their product focus is far too limited. Classification of audio is far more valuable than detecting shots. One could detect things like sentiment in a grocery store nearby a particular product (These prices are too damn high!), reasons your baby is crying, what's that weird sound with your car and who can fix it nearby, virtually any real-time, real-world analytics. It's like google analytics for audio. (Audiolytics, might I suggest). I know it has already been used to try to classify size of cars driving on the freeway.

I particularly enjoy this solution for retail locations. How long does someone talk to themselves around a pair of new pants before they buy or walk off and not buy? Is there a correlation between how long a baby screams in a grocery store and how quickly a parent leaves the store without buying something?

How about a graph showing me how long my neighbor's dog has been barking each night at 2am? How about that cough? Do other people who have coughs like that end up being diagnosed with <disease_x>?
You Don't talk about the Battle of Brisbane.
Where are you from?

I have seen university students in my German CS classes struggle to implement breadth-first search; I would by highly surprised if an average grade 11 student could write a program to compute the connected components of a maze in less than 45 minutes.
Well yes, I do too: it's massively incomplete.
A license is a contract. I don't understand the artificial distinction between the two, specifically in reference to GNU GPL.

http://www.technollama.co.uk/a-licence-or-a-contract
You shouldn't use cygwin, but MSYS2: http://www.msys2.org/

For Gedit you can just download it here: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit It starts up immediately for me.

Inkscape and GIMP also have dedicated installers.
There are some specific circumstances surrounding what I'm doing, so consider £925 as an ultra-rare, not-in-any-way indicative dayrate. To be fair even in London that would be high, though I know some fintech consultants can get that and more. And legacy language guys.

In summary I'm a SaaS guy, being used to replace 3 Europeans who aren't likely to be there long-term to continue to build the product beyond its initial launch. My (albeit extortionate) day rate is less than their 3 combined, so it made sense for the company. Right place right time for me.

For colour, from your perspective: if you can get £500 a day in London that's not bad at all, up here in the East Midlands (I'm near Nottingham) I can get £350 to £400 a day, though I would normally trade some back for work flexibility (I prefer to work less than 8 hours a day).
Frankly, I just learned about the exposure setting after watching those videos.

When you tap to focus on an item, the box should appear with a sun beside it, you can draw your finger up to increase the exposure, you'll see the sun move up in relation to the box.
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> 0-dependencies

Actually, quite the opposite. All that shell scripts do is glue together other programs they depend on.

That makes them not portable. You can't just move a bash script from Linux to macOS because it uses ancient pre-GPLv3 versions of bash and all the other GNU utils.
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The app is up and running great here, not experiencing any of the referenced performance issues (so far).

Support for the PGP portion that is available on the web would be great as well, maybe with a "Copy to Clipboard" after encrypting so I can drop the ciphertext straight into an email? Or (with a few more permissions), using a Share feature to write the email/chat in the app of my choosing, and I just have to choose the sender.

If this catches on like I hope, I can see a grand future where Keybase is how I can contact almost anyone I know through almost any means (FB, Twitter, etc.), but until then, it would be cool to have support for "legacy" addressing such as email, but still with strong encryption.
I definitely get the casting issue, but I also don't think it's a reason to dismiss the whole movie. (I saw a lot of people on Twitter who were excited that GITS underperformed Boss Baby.) My view is that, weak script and other issues aside, in terms of visuals nobody can deny it's a labor of love (and a love letter to GITS fans). I just realized last week that that the triangle shape and glitching motifs in the GITS '17 branding were a homage to the opening credits of GITS 95.
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The movie is already out? I'm a little sceptical by such a heavy named remake. We already had an awesome anime movie and an interesting tv show. It's often too much to ask for a remake with real actors to be good as well.

So, if it is already in the cinema and not a success, why make such a fuss about something like the OST? It's not a big deal in itself.
No. The plantiff made two key claims: breach of contract and copyright infringment. This is sensible, because the defendant has either accepted the GPL (and thus is in breach of contract), or has infringed copyright. This is key to the mechanism of copyleft. By suing for both, the defendant cannot just choose whichever is the most convenient and win on the technicality that the other was not considered by the court.

The judge ruled that the claim of breach of contract cannot be dismissed on the basis that the contract does not exist, because the defendant has effectively admitted that it did exist.

The judge also ruled that the claim of copyright cannot be dismissed on the basis of jurisdiction.

None of these things relate to the enforceability of the GPL in general.
What kind of car do you have?
Why do people think "public" does not mean the same as "public" on a website? Essentially there is nothing different here..
http://course.fast.ai

Its hands down the best course to get your hands dirty with latest , state of art stuff, and then learn how it works. It has completely different approach to most courses. It is top down.

Do this first, you can immediately apply it to cool stuff like image classification , nlp etc.

The assignments have additional resources where you can get into more detailed math (but the course doesn't dumb things down, but gives more intuitive explanations) and dive even deeper.
face first, feets pushing
I can do the same on my Pixel.
I am surprised Google hasn't tried a Sergey Aleynikov, on him yet.
nope. I've dealt recently with some big DB files (I think GB size) and regex doing the same. sed is a lot slower than perl for this kind of task.
Thanks for sharing this. I immediately like his energy...I find KNN and TSP very interesting problems and I see he has a videos on those...bon weekend!
> I am sorry, but modern frameworks such as Vue or React make you an order of magnitude more productive.

That's quite a bold claim. Can you substantiate it in any way?
In an ideal world perhaps - in my experience in many businesses there is often a gap between the way things should work, and the way they really work, and it's often the old timers that are the keepers of this knowledge, and it's not the type of thing that's amenable to certificates.
Probably more lawsuits. Redistribution of stolen goods and so on.

I won't speculate on what the outcome of such a lawsuit might be, though.
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What language did they write the os in?
That is very true. I kept hearing about how they copied the original so closely. But they changed the story and characters, besides the size of Major's boobs. I would have gotten past the distractions if the core of the story had been there.
Wait, which one's communism and which one's capitalism in this scenario?
A fellow Arch user here. Although I would not classify it as a portability problem, I have mixed feelings about Desktop on Linux. I use KDE Plasma myself and there is not shortage of messages and bug reports on the headaches GTK poses due to theming. Ever so often, you run into a GTK app that simply turns out to be unusable because the UI elements aren't visible. Same thing with GUI apps written in Java , which look ugly and exhibit strange quirks.

Now KDE does provide compatible themes for GTK, but the fragmentation in GTK (2 vs 3) does not help. The solutions are at best a stopgap measure till the next major version breaks what you managed to get right. It's a never ending game of whack-a-mole. It does not help some of the most popular apps are written in GTK. As I speak due to reasons I haven't investigated yet, I am unable to paste text contents in GTK apps. Windows has other points I take issue with, but at least the UI just works as expected and doesn't seem to hang by a thread.
How about binary search and fizzbuzz, both of which are difficult for technical people (aka programmers) to get right? Non-technical people are not the only ones to misjudge complexity.
Only sort of. WINE has a much larger scope, because it has to reimplement the complete Win32 API, because it is proprietary and cannot be redistributed. Windows Subsystem for Linux, on the other hand, 'only' needs to support the ELF loader and Linux system calls and can then use glibc, and other core libraries.

Another difference is that WINE runs completely in user land, while the WSL Linux syscall handling runs in kernel land (lxcore, lxss).

Probably another good comparison is Linux compat in the BSDs, which implement Linux system calls, signal handling, etc. but can use glibc and other core libraries from a Linux distribution.
python-docx allows you to generate Word files even on non-Windows platforms. Word 2016 says something about "converting" when it opens them, but they look OK. Apparently it will also let you modify them.

Someone else spoke about Python for Windows. That I have used with Excel but not Word. I imagine it would work pretty well, though.
Recent car lessee here. Like most people, I'm not in a position to buy a Tesla, but I agree that I can't stand the games the others play. I recently leased a 2017 Hyundai Sonata. I go in telling them exactly what I want (base model, no money down, 12k miles/year). They come back with an offer for something like $290 month + $1300 down (so effectively $326/month over 36 months). After some very tough negotiating, I got it down to $200/month with nothing down except registration (~$400 for registration, so effectively ~$211/month all-in).

It's outrageous to me that the initial price they give bears no resemblance to reality. But I'm sure they do it because there are some people who just don't like negotiating and will pay it. Or they might even tell them "I'm gonna do you a big favor and knock $25/month off so that you remain a loyal customer" and then the customer comes away actually feeling like they got a deal even though they were actually ripped off.

In the old days (WAY before my time), you might have negotiated for everything (say eggs in a grocery store) so I wouldn't have had an issue with negotiating for cars. But seeing as cars are one of the only remaining things that you can negotiate on price, the dealerships take advantage of the fact that people today just aren't used to negotiating and therefore aren't very good at it.

If there were a car brand with affordable cars that didn't play these games, I'd buy from them happily.
There's a third state as well: absent. Move keys from one file to another, and they go from allowed to denyed.

That said, I do like the "exclusive" tag too, I just tend to have a few one-off keys laying around as technical debt.
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On the topic of FP-

https://dennisforbes.ca/index.php/2017/04/11/floating-point-...

Most desktop chips offer little advantage for FP16 (at best that the source memory footprint is smaller, maybe better cache hit rates), but newer GPUs can actually blaze. If it has the magnitude/precision needs for a task, it's a big win.
I like the article from the POV of a purist, but this perspective is what's garbage. Most development projects suffer from labour constraints long before hardware constraints come into play. Cross that bridge when you come to it. Otherwise, chalk up a win, and move onto your next project.

Don't want to undermine the fact that there is value here, but only if the case demands it. For my $ though, I'd rather invest in a security specialist first.
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^ This. Here is a good Planet Money episode about it.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/02/12/171814201/episo...
Actually, a more accurate statement is thst a federal judge has ruled that a plaintiff in a case has alleged the existence of circumstances in which the GPL would be an enforceable legal contract.
"... I use adblock plus and it's not enough all the time..."

Next time this happens it could be useful to make a submission to HN about it.

We might be able to identify and/or solve the problem.

I do not use an ad blocker nor do I use python or youtube-dl yet I never see any ads and I download all videos before watching them. Indeed I access the web for the information not the inconsistent design/feel.

What I posted above illustrates examples of two alternative approaches:

1. Block sources of undesired resources: ads, tracking, etc.
The "links" listed are domains used for undesired resources.

2. Only make requests to sources of desired resources: the article and its accompanying images and video. The script extracts only what we want from the html page.

I use approach #2 more than #1.

As far as I know ad blockers use blocking, #1, exclusively. They need to maintain a list of domains to block.
Right, unless you had auto-download of purchases explicitly enabled, nothing was pushed onto phones. And with the backlash it received, I doubt they'll ever do that again (they even stopped their 12 days of Christmas giveaways).
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Hey! :)
So, I finally have my first Messenger chat bot out the door... CheapHarry basically is a price monitor for amazon.com that lives inside Facebook Messenger.
Just send him a link to any amazon.com products or your whole wish list and he will message you when prices drop (also, he tries to be a little funny but maybe isn't... :D).
Just an fyi: Amazon prices actually fluctuate quite a bit and often it is worth trying to find a local low. :)

https://m.me/cheapharry

Any ideas on how to market? So far I am trying around with Fb ads a bit... PH is on the list as well...
I wouldn't be surprised if there is already an investigation underway.
IANAL, but it does seem like a claim that won't hold up in court.

I thought I remembered one item that had Judge Alsup noting that Uber could require Levandowski to testify as a condition of employment. If Levandowski refuses to testify, it is then up to Uber to fire him. Uber doesn't get a 5th amendment protection. If one of Uber's employees refuses to comply in a civil suit against Uber, Uber then has the choice of not complying with the court or firing the employee and telling the court that it no longer controls the employee. The employee likewise has the option to testify or be terminated.

Ultimately, Uber would prefer to keep the documents secret. As a legal strategy, it makes sense to try anything that might keep the documents secret. If your back is against the wall, you push on any avenue that might get a judge to decide that you don't need to show something damaging - even if it's a long shot.

There is something unnerving about being required to incriminate yourself OR go bankrupt. Let's say that Google had sued Levandowski rather than Uber and Levandowski had to either 1) produce the documents that would incriminate him or 2) let Google win a billion dollar lawsuit against him without contesting it. At that point, is there really a meaningful 5th amendment protection if an opponent can just sue you in court and win either by forcing you to waive it or by default?
The original title of the page is "The biggest Hollywood mystery of 2017 is being questioned online, and ignored by mass media". Let that help you decide if it is worth a click or not.
The Andrew Ng's course on coursera. Then some Udacity.
The set of trade deals covers areas like electronic payment services, beef and poultry, compromising on some Obama administration stances but leaving untouched bigger issues that could still complicate relations between the two. The disclosure of the deals on Thursday evening suggests that the Trump administration is trying to smooth relations with Beijing despite President Trump's harsh anti-China language on the campaign trail. Under the newly announced deals, China set a deadline for fulfilling its promises to allow American beef and said it would speed up consideration of pending American applications to offer bioengineered seeds in China.
> I don't think the P/E ratio is good evidence that stockholders value long-term planning

I'm afraid that makes no sense to me. A high P/E is the quintessential play for the long term future rather than next quarter's profits.
That is crazy! I had no idea about this. Also taking into account that America has next to no social safety nets it's really crazy.
It is already happened I believe.
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>It may be childish

I don't think its childish, but I do think it's more emotional than logical. They aren't trying to pretend that they have been on the side of FOSS developers the whole time. Most MS'ers that I've talked to are very clear about what MS did wrong in the beginning of the Open Source era. Lot's of them went to work there just to work on open source.

I'm not trying to get down on you or anything, I just think that maybe you are letting your feelings about the past color your reaction. Also, no one is saying that you should give up anything. This is for people that want to use it to help with their development tasks.

You know, I watched a SQL presentation from their Build conference today about SQL Server and containers...the entire thing was on Linux. Completely. They didn't use Windows Server even once.
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Find a company with a data-science department, which needs engineers to industrialize their proof-of-concepts (POCs). The POCs might often include front-end work. Once you are in, learn machine-learning on the side and try to transition into a machine-learning role.

EDIT: On top of it, if software engineering is your strength (testing, automatic deployment, etc), data-scientists will also benefit, since you can show them how to professionally develop a sw product.
Assuming your audience are beginners (as it is an intro talk), I find it immensely useful when tech talks have slides that follow this kind of pattern:

- Problem/Feature/Reason why it's useful

- Code

- Demo of the problem/feature/reason working (whether recorded or live)

Doing a bunch of live demos is real risky for a first tech talk, but if you practice (I mean really practice, with network access turned off for example), and know your stuff, it's possible.

If you're game to do a demo, I think one of the most important things you can demo is going 0-100 with a small kotlin app on Android. This will require you to make some choices that your audience would normally make themselves (like how to develop the app, not everyone uses android studio), but if Kotlin for Android Development is actually valuable, it should be self-evident from watching it used (you may have to throw in some problems that you solve by writing idiomatic Kotlin, and explain why they would look worse in Java or whatever else).

Also you might want to include these slides (probably just one so people don't lose focus):

- Options for native android development (to set up the next slide), you might briefly explain things like React Native, Go for android, Java, Scala, Clojure. Hard to keep this to one slide but it is valuable because it makes the person watching feel like they know the landscape, at least at a high level, and motivates the talk.

- What/Who/When/Why for Kotlin on Android

Here's an excellent talk that came to my mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GzzFeS5cMc
This isn't necessarily for end users. You could test games with it (simulate loads of users hitting your game, find out where the bugs and choke points are). You could also run an MMO using this infrastructure instead of building your own infrastructure to run games - I think that might be their target market.

There are other applications of course (crowd simulation for architectures, planners, or despotic dictators), but for now the money will mostly be in game testing/simulation.
You're confusing the movie and the music. There are a lot of terrible movies with great soundtracks (Phantom Menace, for instance). Both Clint Mansell and Lorne Bale are highly-regarded and talented composers, with many soundtracks under their belts - and plenty of fans. I haven't seen the movie but I've heard some of the soundtrack and it saddens me that it isn't available.

Soundtracks to movies, TV shows, and video games are an extremely popular genre, it's just one that goes unnoticed. Same thing with Classical music - arguably there are many, many people who enjoy listening to Classical music and can't wait to buy the latest album by their favorite orchestra. Just because there aren't billboard signs, music festivals, or Spotify music promotions doesn't mean it's not a genre that's of interest to many people.

Sure, the movie had a lot of problems, but that doesn't mean people aren't interested in the soundtrack. Phantom Menace is awful for many different reasons, but it's one of my favorite movie scores.
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For a second I thought it was about the Japanese movie soundtrack. Excellent compositions from Kenji Kawai by the way. Who cares about the Hollywood mediocre movie that came out recently?
> Work on large systems long enough and immutability becomes a very valuable concept.

On the other hand, if you work on medium-sized systems (and those are much
more common than large ones), immutability is too expensive to work with.

> Installing application dependencies when each server starts up increases the chances of servers running different versions of packages

Only if you're stupid enough not to package your dependencies, if you use
distribution not suited for servers (like Fedora or Ubuntu non-LTS), or if you
use external repositories you don't control that don't have stable retention
policy for packages. And mind you, these three were always a bad idea.
Appearance of Kubernetes and other magic faerie dust of Docker haven't changed
it.
My guess would be that the film industry in France is good at persuading politicans to pass agreeable laws.
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All the comments here about Kay's presentation media are missing a key point... Let's put aside any subjective assessment of whether or not the slides are good or bad. The more interesting thing is how they're made. They're made with a tool in the Squeak Smalltalk environment. I didn't watch this particular presentation but I've watched others Kay has done and the things he's doing with his slides simply aren't possible with PowerPoint or KeyNote.

My guess is he's being covertly meta about his presentations because he really never gets into any detail about the tech he's using to create his presentations.

Unfortunately, to my knowledge, the package he uses for his presentation is not openly available.
Why would you have sympathy for Paramount? All of those things are pretty much their fault.

1) Just cast an Asian lead
2) Make a better movie
3) See 1 and 2
4) Just release the music