skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TXR Lisp: hash-uni:

http://www.nongnu.org/txr/txr-manpage.html#N-00F548D1

For cases when the key occurs in both hashes, you can specify a join-func which takes the two values. Its return value is used to populate the key in the union. The default behavior is to take the left value.

This is very useful.

Suppose that both hashes associate keys with lists. We want all the items in the union: [hash-uni left right append].

We have two frequency histograms. We want to combine them: [hash-uni left right +].
True, but as engineers, most of us have been at least peripherally involved in an aspect of UI design, or UX, or a product's roadmap, or choosing whether something should be open source or comply with a standard. But it seems like comparatively few of us have been involved with security in any way except perhaps doing our best not to write insecure code.
I think the biggest benefit is video calling. Get your parents one, get one yourself, schedule a video call with them once a week (or whatever). Easier than Facetime since you don't have to hold up the phone. Reminds me of the videophones in the Starship Troopers movie.
> How can one trust someone with their email account.

Wait until you hear about mint.com.... ;)
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> Yes Microsoft is one of the worst companies at naming

I think you're being too generous. Microsoft branded it's Office Suite, BA Suite and Operating system .NET once upon a time. They'd have named their own variety of orange juice OJ.NET if they'd had one.

They are the worse company at naming.
I am going with the idea that if they throw enough uses/features at the wall something is going to stick. The first step of course if getting people to talk to the device and they increase the chances of finding that breakthrough by giving people more reasons to do so.

I would not mind full home integration to where it detects me by my phone if not my saying I'm home and turning lights on if needed and more. (better yet, get me phone integration so that it knows when I am coming home after an hour or so away - knows I am on my street and stuff turns on)

technology is going to give everyone a personal assistant at home and one day it may just follow you. (Dave, while we are in the store don't forget to get the eggs)
What DAW you would recommend? And what features do Ableton miss?
Isn't "Siri in a Box" basically the current Apple TV?
Regular supertest supports promises.
Are they just "announcing" these devices by putting them up for sale? It feels like we need an Echo keynote to learn about their direction and they could get a lot more hype that way.
Our use is 90% hands-and-eyes-free music control. The other 10% is me playing with skills I never use beyond t+10 of install. The whole appeal thus far has been eyes-free use.
When I saw this, I actually had the opposite reaction.

I remember when I first saw an iPod Nano with the color screen and the scroll wheel that magically scrolled up and down by just moving your finger around it without actually turning a wheel. It seemed like magic. Same thing when I first saw the iPhone/iPod Touch. Apple's products were very carefully designed and only released when they were perfect, and very rarely failed to wow you.

Amazon on the other hand, always seems to rush things to market and then see what sticks. I understand that this is largely their ethos, but when it comes to Amazon hardware, I've found myself pretty cynical towards it because they've released so much poorly-executed crap over the years. Even with Alexa, I like many others, find that it's pretty much useless for anything beyond playing music or setting a timer.

Having an Echo, I saw this and my first thought was "meh." I have a feeling that if Apple released a similar product category, that wouldn't be the case.
Nice interview, much longer more in depth one on Soren Johnson's 'Designer Notes' podcast (the fourth part just landed the other day). https://www.idlethumbs.net/designernotes/
Show HN: Exciting Times for Interactive Animation
Dutch hacker camp SHA2017 orders thousands of WiFi-badges with E-Ink
I loved it but I did not read the books before attending, so I can't say whether you'll find it repetitive or not. Understanding how to better communicate through visualizations is immensely useful for work, so you could see if your company would pay for it.
My Windows 10 system showed 1.1.13701.0 but Windows Update indicated everything was up to date. I clicked on the usual Windows Update button Check for Updates anyway and now Defender shows 1.1.13704.0
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You might like Crusader Kings II and Victoria II.
For learning/doing something manual for the first time. Following a recipe, or doing a home repair. It would be greats to have hands free control of video playback.
Most of this kind of 'collaboration' that I have seen have fallen in the bikeshedding or superficial variety. Not all work is of this kind. Some require building mental constructs and contexts that are easily derailed and painstaking to reconstruct
In case anyone was wondering, it was a caching issue. One of these day I'll remember to look there first before pouring through the code for hours.
I feel like this entire product could be a Chromecast-esque dongle that connects to a TV. Having a personal dashboard would actually be quite useful, but this seems like they want to sell appliances not experiences.

Maybe they've gone with this form factor because of the 2x 2" speakers? But why would I want that when it could be plugged directly into my home audio setup?

Or maybe it's so they can include a touchscreen? But I thought the whole point was hands-free conversational interaction?

I guess I'm missing the point of this. Why would I, as a normal consumer, get this instead of a regular Amazon Echo?
Sounds like as long as they spend some portion of their revenue on R&D, you'll argue inflated drug prices are good and necessary.
As a supporter of Full Disclosure I believe it is irresponsible to follow the so called "Responsible" disclosure model.

I dont believe it is "responsible" to leave people exposed for 90+ days while the vendor attempts to whitewash and cover up their vulnerabilities as it so often the case.

While some software vendors might respond the vulnerabilities properly, most do not often wanting to blame shit, or even file legal action against anyone discovering vulnerabilities.
Make a good prototype, be honest about what it does, be realistic (= slightly pessimistic) about what you can do with the money you're trying to raise.

I don't think social skills matter as much as those.
Which goes against all the evidence - every other first world country with universal coverage that also provides all the same medical services the US does, while paying a third as much per person.

The US pays more for a lot of reasons. It isn't a one trick pony:

* Americans are much, much more unhealthy than Europeans on average. Way more obesity, way more smoking and drinking for addiction rather than socialiation.

* The insurance apparatus imposes a ~20% overhead outright on expenses, and puts further money on top by moving costs out of the consumers hands. They control what doctors you see and what procedures and drugs you get, and often do so in ways that are locally beneficial to the insurer but are more inefficient than a universal system.

* Hospitals and doctors, by being decoupled from patient expenses by the insurers, run rampant on spending and salary and hospital administration gets as crooked as insurance bureaucracy. Your healthcare dollar quickly ends up going 60% to bureaucrats and institutionalized middle-men expenses and only 40% to actual care.

Solving #1 is something that has to be done over time, and the only way to do that is to have a healthcare system, any system, that stops disincentivizing people from seeing doctors except for during crisis. The ACA did very little to fix this (it basically only mandated that some routine preventative care came at no cost to patients) and until you can get the general unhealthiness of Americans under control you can't get costs under control regardless of healthcare system.

The other two, though? Single payer solves them either immediately or with the market pressure of the entire US populations healthcare needs. Every other developed country that adopted single payer was able to use its influence to get hospitals and private insurance in line. That is why the UK now has one of the best systems in the world.
And if you enjoyed that, you'll probably also enjoy: Think Like a Dinosaur

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13582015-think-like-a-di...
Reaper is incredibly full-featured and free/cheap.
Claimed 30 mW may not seem a lot, but most of electronic sensors (even displays) are only used for short period of time. You continuously collect charge over time, often in a supercapacitor, while most of device circuitry is dormant. At some time the device wakes to take measurements, transmit data over some wireless technology, schedule next wake-up and then goes back to sleep.

Even if you need measurements every minute, 30 mW is plenty for these kinds of devices to do their work.
billing systems always expand to be as maximally complicated as the system will survive. Consider telephone billing toward the end of the last century, until the cost of billing exceeded the revenue from exotic billing systems, there were all kinds of insane schemes about internal, intra-LATA, inter-LATA, in-State, nationwide-LD, international, it was a complete circus. Eventually the cost of administrating that exceeded every other cost of providing service and now we just get "minutes" or even unlimited (provided with a weirdly billed data plan of course)

For another laugh buy a house or car with a loan and there's zillions of little fees and commissions tacked on to the base price. Complexity only increases over time, and it only decreases with collapse.

This is part of the logic of the old great depression "liquidate liquidate liquidate" guy who sounds heartless in retrospect but in practice the only way to reallocate poorly allocated resources in the modern capitalist system is to flush and start over, so not knowing the GD was going to be as bad as it turned out, the guy was correct, the faster the obsolete stuff gets flushed, the faster we get back to real living. Which is analogous to current conditions, and why many people are unhappy nothing has been fixed in the banking system (or another example is health care, obamacare and trumpcare have in common that they fix none of the core problems, which is our health care allocation system is an expensive disaster)
One of the provisions of Obamacare was a cap on the administrative costs of insurance companies at 20% of premiums, with any excess returned to the purchaser as a rebate. The first year it was in effect more than a billion dollars was returned. The deadweight cost of the private insurance industry over the years is pretty staggering.

In contrast, the Medicare program spends less than 2% of its budget on administrative costs.
This was a useful service for many tech people; some here are still discovering this issue that blew up two weeks ago.

Initial discussion of the "buried lede" in the NYT article Uber CEO Plays with Fire: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14178397

Discussion of the CEO's non-apology: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14181152
Really? Common sense tells me some types of companies will see it as a negative (what if he does it to us!), and others will see is as neutral (we asked why he left his last job, he answered, not the worst reason, not the best), and some will see it as a positive (someone willing to step up and put their neck on the line for what's right).

Do I think there are a lot of companies in the first category? Yes (I also think there are a lot in the other two though).

Do I think it's remotely reasonable to automatically assume every place that doesn't call you back after you mention being a whistleblower isn't calling back because you mentioned that? Not at all.
This is some good coverage of the music theory behind songwriting, which is important in making songs that sound good.

However, there's another part of making music which is not covered at all here, which is the actual engineering of sounds. Think of a sound in your head and recreate it digitally—it'll involve sampling and synthesizing, there's tons of filters and sound manipulation to go through, they all go by different names and have different purposes—it's a staggering amount of arcane knowledge.

Where is the learning material on how to do this without experimenting endlessly or looking up everything you see? I want a reverse dictionary of sorts, where I hear a transformation of a sound and I learn what processing it took to get there in a DAW. This would be incredibly useful to learn from.
I once saw a video presentation of Sid Meier talking about what he learned talking to playtesters.

It was mostly about people being angry about low odds of losing a fight actually prevailing, so the game shows fake probability to the point you'll lose 90%-chance-to-win fights way less than 10% of the time.

But he did tell one thing that really disincentivized him from pursuing a smarter AI: when the AI does something brilliant, people just assume it's cheating.
Tell that to the millions of people who won't have the patch before next week.
The Swiss spend about as much as the USA does on health care (as a percent of GDP) and have a similar mandated health insurance system, the main difference being that employers aren't allowed to provide health insurance as a benefit do there are no group policies (everyone is in the individual policy market).
And I can see how that will be useful in the case of an active team deploying a service continuously. But I am ready to bet it will also be used (because it's the cool new technology) by lots of people who will create something, perhaps with the intention to maintain it (or not) then move on, and that's how you end up with unpatched software online and sensitive data leaked.
Hate to be a pedant... but I'm not sure any one person gets to define what "music in the art sense" even is.

Yes, Ableton is rigid. Yes, Ableton favors certain musical styles over others. Yes, Ableton, here and in their design of Live, may just be giving lip service to anything beyond rigid song structure, tempo and dynamic changes, etc. Yes, Ableton loves their little boxes.

But, I find it hard to believe that Ableton has a "complete disregard for music in the art sense." If "art" inherently means "unquantifiability" or pure "aesthetics", then sure, session view Live might not be your best bet. Regardless, arrangement view is basically the same as Pro Tools as far as I can tell/remember from what I've used of Pro Tools.

What is Live missing for you?
In part, it's probably because ever since the os360 project we've known that communications overhead in programming projects does increase more-than-linearly with the number of collaborators.
It'll update on definition update, too, it seems (without going through Windows Update).
This idea isn't even a particularly new or unusual one. When faced with a superior enemy, fighting opportunistically is an old as dirt strategy. People have continued to use it for literally millennia because it's effective.

Force is tilting the balance of power to your side by gathering advantages. Warfare is the Way of deception. Therefore, if able, appear unable; if active, appear inactive; if near, appear far; if far, appear near.

If your enemies have advantage, bait them; if they are confused, capture them; if they are numerous, prepare for them; if they are strong, avoid them; if they are angry, disturb them; if they are humble, make them haughty; if they are relaxed, toil them; if they are united, separate them. Attack where your enemies are not prepared; go to where they do not expect.

This strategy leads to victory in warfare, so do not let the enemy see it. - Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Relatively speaking, I'd say 'our enemies' are extremely strong. Probably best avoided (for the moment) if the overall objective is victory.
I think the article touches upon a key problem: even if some people are in principle willing to sacrifice some privacy in order to get a product for free, it should be required to state what data is shared with whom in clear human language (and not in a 20 page wall of legalese).

The relation between the user and a service is now completely asymmetrical: it is hard to know what your data is used for. It does not help that the legalese often boils down to 'you will sell your soul'.
Don't forget that ASP.NET Core can target not only .NET Core but also .NET Framework. We had to target .NET Framework in our latest ASP.NET Core web app because we still need access to COM+/Interop.
LOL, thanks. That's a great suggestion.

Next time I'm teaching compilers, I'll illustrate the difference between context-free and context-sensitive language
with reference to Glasgow pubs.
I believe that the big pharma and the insurance companies are certainly part of the problem, but rarely do we mention doctors as a contributing factor (albeit relatively small) to the high cost.

The American Medical Association (AMA) does its duty to restrict the supply of doctors [1]. Countries like India, which produces plenty of high quality doctors, does not require aspiring doctors to go through an additional (unnecessary) 4 years of undergrad education. That would hugely cut the cost down in training the doctors.

Secondly, doctors on average makes $200K/year [2] or more. I have four housemates, who were trained in Myanmar (went through five years of medical school there right after high school) and scored above 95th percentile or more in all three steps of their USMLEs, to get into the residency programs in the US. One of them is going into general practice (family medicine) in Virginia and her starting salary is: $210K/year. I have no doubt that she (or anyone who has been trained 5 years in a decent med school--without the 4-year undergrad prior to that) is more than capable of treating generic diseases and illnesses. But this shows that we can train doctors cheaper and that we can reduce their pay by quite a bit (no hard-working person in other profession--except maybe Banking--could easily earn $210K/year to do such a relatively uneventful--in my opinion--job).

I regret quitting med school in Myanmar in the third year. Then, I thought med school training involves too much rote learning (a lot of memorization in organic chem for example) and that I'd rather do something more 'exciting' like tech or math. I was wrong.

[1] https://mises.org/library/how-government-helped-create-comin...
[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/physician...
A big problem is the U.S. is the level of profit enjoyed at the top tiers of the healthcare supplier verticals.

Which either demonstrates everything that is right or everything that is wrong with the world's leading free-market capitalist economy...
Even if they do, they 1) Don't reject PHP wholesale and 2) Don't require that the devops person trying to find a bug go through code review when deploying a debugging tool.
Of course it's a waiting list.

Waiting lists are just a stupid argument, because the US has them too.
China publishes more science research with fabricated peer-review than everyone
I found it surprisingly useful with my phone. But I couldn't edit the code using my regular keyboard (swiftkey), it did not add letters, only replaced the letter before the cursor, but it worked fine with the stock android keyboard. Haven't experienced that elsewhere.
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But Amazon's products are cheap. Echo first gets out, it is merely 99 dollars, and at the time, a vanilla bluetooth speaker worth that much. It is about accessibility.
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Kickstarter could do a better job of framing what it is you are "buying". I imagine that many people don't quite get the premise fully.
People are missing this:

"With the Alexa App, conversations and contacts go where you go. When you’re away from home, use the app to make a quick call or send a message to your family’s Echo. Alexa calling and messaging is free—to get started download the Alexa App."

Alexa is now in the messaging and communication game.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/09/amazon-enables-free-calls-...
> TL;DR: Japan is nice.

True, but was also devastated by a war that allowed rebuilding almost from scratch.
It would be nice to control FireTV with an Echo. Still waiting.
I've never downvoted you, but I've taken note of you as a vitriolic poster, particularly after you had inflammatory comments deleted from a recent Soylent thread.

No downvoting should be automated, but it's possible you're being downvoted due to the content of your posts. gus_massa's hypothesis sounds reasonable.
The OnePlus 3T 128 GB is discontinued: efforts on the OnePlus 5
There isn't a need; it's more of a want. I have a few Echos and use them to control my whole home audio system.

"Alexa, play Kendrick Lamar on Spotify."

Just like that, I have music throughout the house and in the front and back yards. You can also get more specific with commands in order to limit where the music plays, what music service is polled, etc.

It is much easier than pulling out a device, navigating to the application, typing in a search string, selecting the artist, and clicking shuffle playback for all of the artist's songs.
Why not get a tablet with a basic cover/stand? It has far more overall utility and isn't difficult to use.
Any suggestions for a good quality virus scanner in which I can have some confidence in regarding a reasonable choice in how it operates.

If I'm understanding correctly Defender runs with high privilege and has a very large security footprint; as such I don't think it's something I want to run.
How we grew our Google Chrome extension from 0 to 135,000 users
Does DevOps Apply to You?
Allrecipes integration is fantastic.
"CTRL+f" - you sound like a Chrome loser. (o;
The SEC is mostly a toothless worm? Really? Can you back that up with some examples of the SEC giving a free pass to companies that defraud investors?
My latest gen Apple TV wants to disagree with you. As does my wife's first gen Apple Watch ... both are magical turds IMHO.
you do realize it was a joke? the guy from the office?
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Free means you are trading your privacy for the service. Unfortunately that is not common knowledge, but it's how the largest part of the internet works. Time to spread the word more aggressively...
The ACA did very little to fix this (it basically only mandated that some routine preventative care came at no cost to patients)

This is what I meant by services (and also things like birth control and so on that are mandated in the plans but "part of life" rather than related to a change in health or injury).

edit: and I think you were responding in part because the services are more expensive than they need to be. My meaning was that they don't drive up the premiums of the insurance all that much (and with the large deductibles, in many cases the annual premiums together are not the largest component of the patient's contribution towards a large medical expense).
The Sears catalog had an even bigger impact in 1900 than Amazon has had today
I don't see the value in this over a tablet with a stand. The tablet is portable, can do more things, and already exists in many people's homes.
Every major company has naming problems from Google to Oracle to IBM and more. It's just teams, bureaucracy and marketing forces all fighting against each other.

I do think Microsoft could just hire a VP of Naming who's in charge of all names and improve productivity by billions but alas, this is where we are today. However, once the names become familiar, the actual issues are not nearly as dire as made out to be.