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Of course - I was actually surprised it still worked in VS2015.
I don't expect it to be forwards compatible. (Hell, we're talking about tech that only runs in IE11 :) )

But one big difference is: Official support means updates in case of critical vulnerabilities and guarantees that, at least with IE11, it won't simply stop working after an update.

ASP.Net Core 1.x won't have any such guarantees after 2018.

And that's kinda hefty when the ASP.NET Core website (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/) still refers to this page for guidelines as to which .NET Runtime to choose for ASP.Net Core(!) projects:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/articles/standard/ch...
Not be confused with BBR enhancing the Mazda MX-5:
https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-japanesecars/mazda-mx-5-...

Also significantly reduces latency and increases throughput :-)
Not sure about millions but many do have update for Windows turned off, due to Microsoft's security-trust-destroying habit of deploying invasive and undesired non-security updates automatically.

Windows 10 especially has a nasty streak with updates, and while security updates are smart, forcing new content updates, advertisements, and spyware into the Tuesday fast track teaches users that the only way to be safe from Microsoft is to not take software from them automatically.
Has anyone implemented something similar to Unroll.me, except not SaaS? Perhaps as a browser extension?
I could see a few use cases in the kitchen (that are probably still better solved with a tablet on a stand):

- step by step cooking tutorials that auto pause until you say "alexa, play/preview next step"
- multiple named timers on the screen
- shopping lists are way better visually
- video calls to cooking tutors (I wonder if there's a market for this?)
In this case the optics are used as a way to select state in the coupling construct. You don't use them to read values out of the form, you use them to explain to the components how to pull or update their state out of the shared construction.
I feel like the gig economy would work better in a socialized healthcare system.
I believe the question was edited after I wrote my answer. This, or I just misread it - unfortunately HN doesn't let us know. Anyway, I'm providing another answer to the question as it is now.
I apologise, I think I ended up talking past you.

When you wrote "economic systems" I read that as a statement about actual economies instead of what you actually wrote.
"Free checking" is a relatively new practice in banking that really only caught fire after ATMs were invented. Banks would charge fees on transactions--like most financial services do.

Even now, most free checking accounts only require a certain amount of money, transactions they collect fees on, etc.

With interest rates so low, they don't make much just holding onto 500 dollars for someone.

Savings accounts had less fees, but you couldn't use them to write checks out of, etc.
Does AppleTV have HDMI pass through? You would need it for it to compete with the echo. The echo is always on, always listening and accessible. Having to turn on the TV and change inputs and all that removes all of the conveniences of the echo.

My feeling is that some company is gonna do that eventually, use the set top box as the home hub, but there are some convenience issues to be figured out.
This was the direction I expected Apple to take prior to Jobs passing. It seemed the rumored Apple TV would combine Siri with traditional television. Apple faces serious threats across the entertainment spectrum, from content to device.

Everyone speculating on Apple acquisitions should be considering a Sony or LG buyout. I own stock in neither.
> The worse the developer, the more tests he'll write.

This is obviously wrong.

> Tests will be poorly written, pointless, and give an overall false sense of security to the next sap who breaths a sigh of relief when "nothing is broken". Of course, that house of cards will come down the first time something is in fact broken.

That's a generalization that does not apply everywhere.
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Thanks! Appreciate the responsiveness. :)

We haven't - I had some other issues with Farm. I tried for a while to see if I could get FarmHash included as the standard hash for TensorFlow instead of the murmur-like homebrewed one it uses, but the cross-platform build issues became too complicated to justify it. We ended up sticking with the murmur-like one for "fast but unsafe", and providing SIP via the highwayhash package as the "strong hash".
Did you get the factory standard crayon smell all German cars from the early to mid 2000's had at least?
Because I don't want to take the phones everywhere with me when I am at home?
hands free...one click answer on other end.
I'm not willing or interested enough to enable voice activation (Siri) on my phone or desktop, but thought Echo would be nice to have as a music player. The voice recognition is so reliable -- not just the NLP, but the mic array (unlike trying to activate Siri on the iPhone) -- that it's converted me to a true believer in voice interfaces, at least for simple tasks, such as playing music, turning on NPR, and activating timers and alarms. I do have the Fire stick connected to a projector but I've definitely longed for the ability to navigate YouTube or HBO on a tablet-like device with Alexa (again, not just the NLP, but the mic array, which Fire tablets don't have)

This seems like a nice step in that direction but I've been spoiled by the low cost of the Echo Dot, which when it's on sale is so cheap it can be a stocking stuffer. I don't think I could pay $229 for the first generation version of the Show, but will likely get its cheaper, more advanced iterations.
Can you please explain a bit more about your privacy concern ? Are you implying that Amazon might
1. Inadvertently leak these videos
2. Succumb to a massive breach that will expose all these videos.
3. Use the private data as a signal to sell more stuff.

I only ask this because, if there is some company that genuinely cares about their customers, it's Amazon but from personal and anecdotal experience.
most TVs are then still using almost full power, some still aren't "black" when a black screen is up (it provides light at night, enough to see with in my case!), and still puts off heat.

It's a hack that might work for something personal, but I wouldn't be comfortable selling a product that did this.
Not a valid analogy. AOL, Compuserve, et. al. didn't own the wires entering your house. Comcast, Verizon, et. al. do. The barrier to entry to start an ISP in the days of dialup was much lower.

The "free market" will not be a savior here.
Well, if the management company didn't use any of the fees to pay employees, credit card companies, other vendors, etc. and instead used the fees to buy a "mountain of blow", I think that qualifies as an issue.
I feel the need to address some of the typical HN poison floating around. I've got a very expensive music education. It doesn't make me better than an "Ableton clicker". Music is open to anybody, and is defined by what moves one, not by the mechanism of its creation. America really tends to treat it as some exclusive art club (beyond required elementary school classes), and that's really just wrong.
When I opened my account with my credit union they gave me 2 free boxes of checks. In the 5 years since I haven't even used a single book of them so this should be a sufficient supply for a lifetime.
Fake title. Real title (and URL): How Privacy Became a Commodity for the Rich and Powerful
I moved from Cubase to FL two years ago. I'm in love with the patterns in FL!

The only thing I really miss was the feature in Cubase where you could add effects to an audio pattern in a destructive way. You could create really complex and glitchy patterns and it was easy to mix them together (cross fade and such).

The other thing I would love ImageLine to do is a better workflow when you use audio samples directly in the sequencer. Things like fade in and fade out and a much bigger zoom overall in the sequencer to move samples around.

Edit : I know you can work with Edison but it isn't intuitive imo
AFAIK FireOS is ARM only and a brief look on wiki says all the other devices (FireTV, Echo, Echo Dot, etc) are all ARM.

Either way, I'd imagine you would want to wipe it completely. Can't wait for the iFixit teardown.
By tweaking the learning rate I managed to lower the iterations/rounds to 750.

For my own test project I only did 10k iterations/.3 learning rate on a 16 input, 32 hidden, and 1 output neuron network and my early tests on my "non-math" problem seemed good.
Why does it have to be a tiny self contained screen? Until I can say "Alexa, on the main view screen" (right after "Alexa, Earl Grey, hot" of course), we've got progress to make.

Which reminds me, I've got a Keurig to hack...
My votes would be:

Bloaty McBloatface - .NET Standard

Fleabiscuit - .NET Core
I agree that boiling the "wall of legalese" down to some quick bullet points might be a good approach. Within the existing regulatory framework, the requirement could be that the language be clear and that it accurately reflect the longer, less ambiguous legalese.

That said, how much of a culture shift does there need to be on the consumer side? That is, even if privacy policies etc. are boiled down to 3-5 bullet points, how many people will continue to wave them away, and how do we change that?
Everything on the market has had something like this bug. I'd stick with Defender simply because Microsoft will put the resources into dragging their coding practices out of the 90s and they're better about general QA testing.
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I'm actually working full time on a new DAW that should make writing music a lot faster and easier. Current DAWs don't really understand music. Also the note input process and experimentation is extremely time consuming and the DAW never helps. Current DAW : my thing = Windows Notepad : IDE. The HN audience is definitely one of my core groups.

If you are interested, sign up here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-aQzVbkbGwv2BMQsvuoneOUPgyr... and I'll contact you when it's released.
> Traffic is another good example. You want to know that there's a 30 minute delay on your route to work, but it's more important to know where so you can plan your route around it.

Back when I used Android, Google Now seemed to really do this right (if creepily): it figured out when/where you commuted and would give you a heads-up before you left, offering to plan a route around the trouble. More useful since you take your phone with you. Also you didn't have to ask.
Awesome! I was aware of languages similar to Zulu being found in East and Central Africa. As well as Sesotho in parts of Zambia/DRC. Never heard of the Venda connection before. It would be great to know the History behind this.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14292651
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I have to say this isn't surprising from my personal experience with Rothenberg. I attended their "Founders Field Day" event last year and it was the most surreal, over the top, "Silicon Valley" thing I have ever witnessed. They must not be in too hot of water though, as they're holding another puppy petting/VR party in the city this Friday.
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This is the clearest, most concise explanation of these issues that I've seen. Certainly not comprehensive, but coming from a C perspective it answers about 95% of my questions. This may be the post that gets me actually writing something in Rust.
Seconding this. I never used Siri because it required holding the phone up to my face for reliable results. The Echo Dot can hear me across the room even as its playing music and other people are talking. The Fire tablets have Alexa built in but I believe they not only require a button-push to activate, but rely on their limited mics.

Until Alexa, I hadn't tried Siri since its initial launch years ago. I was surprised to see that its AI/NLP was as good as Alexa's. So the killer feature really is the convenient and reliable interface provided by the Echo's mics.
This one is obvious--don't give in on net neutrality!
Please.
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Post youtube link of sound to genre appropriate producers forum or facebook group.

For the longer route this is a classic http://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/synth-secrets
There's no easy way. As you mention, this is arcane knowledge--people really do study it for years or decades to train their ears to the appropriate levels. The two big components are standard music production techniques (reverb, compression, EQ, appropriate mic usage, etc.) and then domain-specific knowledge for the instrument (characteristics of different guitar amps, say, or synth filters).
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If anyone else is wondering like I did how to pronounce it, visit this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrbZSYlR_bM . It's apparently the name of a shrub and also a color: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fuchsia

I unfortunately kept pronouncing it "fucks-yeah" in my mind and was wondering why on earth would google name it as such, until I discovered that it's actually "fyushya".
How about creating a fork and explaining what you did to get the iterations down to 750? :)
At least when it comes to synths, check out Syntorial. It's very similar to what you want, though it only covers a certain kind of synthesis.

http://www.syntorial.com
Lemire's fast range works perfectly with cuckoo, as it doesn't require probing (?). The fast mod and scale trick was invented to address this issue.

It's actually pretty funny. I didn't know Lemire's trick until I start to write this article. But I my first try on fixed point arithmetic was exactly the same as his work. Then figured out the lower bits would get omitted with fast range (I named it scaling). Finally I came up with this fast mod and scale idea.

I don't know for other peoples need on non power of 2 tables. My target is to build large scale hash tables and other data structures. The memory and data compactness is quite critical for this goal.
Not specifically about the web, but Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications is my favorite book on the subject. It's not a thorough treatment of the subject of security, but it shows how much care needs to be given to such systems and why security is hard in general. Throughout the book you will find plenty of advice on how to approach such problems, even for the web.
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This one is obvious--don't give in on net neutrality! Please.
Yeah, list context is not an obvious paradigm for beginners, and hashes in list context being a list of pairs is also a surprise.
If I found out that someone I know (friend, family member, ...) were being deceived by the company, I'd pass the info on to that person (not the government).

Otherwise, none of my business.

Of course, unless I'm in a position where I'm legally required, like an officer of the company, or accountant or whatever. As someone just doing in-house development or IT work or whatever, no way.

The litmus test for whistling is: is it my business to know this information? And if so, do I face penalties or a jail time if I don't report it?

That guy shouldn't even have been reading those e-mails, which were not for his eyes. Of course someone might not want to hire him; he sticks his nose where it doesn't belong.

Suppose the company hadn't done anything wrong? Will he reveal in future interviews, "I was an almost-whistleblower at my former employer; working a simple web developer, I got into private executive memos that weren't CC'd to me and luckily found no evidence of wrongdoing".
Downvoted but a very valid observation. I listen to a lot of Black Metal and as most of it isn't in English, it's hard for Siri to understand what I'm asking for, or to even know if I'm pronouncing it correctly.
Can you explain what a DAW is?
In the US, who pays affects how much one pays.

Health insurance companies are able to negotiate lower prices for their subscribers due to leverage. Likewise, single payer would mean all subscribers would have their prices negotiated through a single entity.

Without consolidation of payment, the anti-trust exemptions for the healthcare industry means patients cannot effectively negotiate the cost for their care.

Single-payer would remedy that.
There is a large space between sitting at my computer and talking to my wife in the grocery store vs. sitting on the couch and talking to my wife in the grocery store.
Do you own a cellphone with a camera and microphone?
Well not much more convenient than one particular branch of one particular bank, yeah, but I don't think that cashing a check for free is something that other banks do for non-members (compared to credit unions).
I assumed they already were since it does offer you to create one in-client (gandi.net for me currently)
"The whole idea of being 'unbanked' or 'underbanked' is so foreign to me"

I explained it to Korean coworker that our debtors prison is implemented as a house arrest or like an economic parole release.

So if you owe child support because you're unemployed you can't use a bank because the money would disappear. You can't get money from a job in the system it would disappear so cash pay please. Or you can't go to the courthouse and get it fixed because lawyers cost money and see above you're unemployed. Once you're in debtors prison there's a whole bunch of things you can no longer do, just like being under house arrest or parole. For example, for a couple decades 90s-10s we had universal default as a stated written policy. We still have it, just unstated, which confuses foreigners. On paper we don't have universal default since 2010 or so. In practice we still have it today, more or less.

Adding to the complexity we do have actual debtors prisons most famously in the rural south but to some extent or another there are some everywhere.

I guess another way to explain it is part of our culture is explicit and written and people read it, like generally speaking the bible or the -ez single page income tax form. Then there's a layer thats written and people make a great show of not reading like mortgage or car loans or insurance contracts. Next down there's unwritten stuff that people understand like the debtors prison thing is I think fairly uncontroversial and reasonably well informed. Below that there's stuff we kinda unconsciously by osmosis know, like the "unbanked"="house arrest debtors prison" or "underbanked"="financial equivalent of parole complete with abused arbitrary rules". At the bottom there's weird esoteric stuff like non-propaganda related economic theory and history. And the level of awareness is extremely uneven across the entire nation (fairly uniform across subcultures, mostly).
This touches on what I consider to be a universal truth about human interaction. If you have a hidden agenda / ulterior motive (like getting a phone number in your example), other people will usually sense it as it comes across in body language and demeanour, and not just via speaking. People have a natural negative reaction to shiftiness.

If however you aren't looking to gain anything w/ the interaction other than enjoying the interaction itself, you will get a positive response nearly every time.

Sometimes people might be unresponsive due to a bad mood or general unhappiness, but who cares? You had no agenda, so you have nothing invested. If you let it roll off and move along you literally lose nothing.
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I'm not understanding, could you clarify? Thx.
Oops, I think we're too far down the rabbit hole for "reply" to work. I'll take a stab at answering but forgive me if I'm answering the wrong question.

When a business is losing money, paying employees is a charity. When the business is making a great profit and decides that it could make even more by hurting/laying
off some employees, that is a choice with moral implications.

When there is plenty of ice cream bars for everyone but the first guy who arrives at the cafeteria grabs all of them out of the freezer and proceed to sell them to everyone who comes later, the first guy didn't earn them. He didn't actually increase the amount of ice cream. He only captured the value.

It is possible to not grab every single ice cream bar especially when you have more than you can ever eat. People and companies do this all the time. As a businessman, I don't find it necessary to screw every other party in a transaction in order to feel successful.
i (fastecc author) don't have isa-l benchmarks at hand, but i compared fastecc to the best O(N^2) implementation i know - MultiPar. My conclusion is that MultiPar will be slower than FastECC starting from ~32 ECC blocks
Fair points. I'm really kind of tied to the idea that someone is going to do this as a set-top box format. What you mention is a major issue though. Maybe it can use the video output only if the TV is already on, and just failsafe to audio in those cases, like a regular echo.
I wonder, why go this route instead of creating a device to add to your TV?

My echo is right next to the TV.
for that they have facetime or duo? I mean if 2 users using this are out, why use amazon app to make calls?
>As an employer, whistleblowers are not something to fear unless you have something to hide.

We don't let that logic slide when it comes to individual privacy and I'm not sure we should for corporate privacy. Even a company completely on the up and up may have privacy concerns that deter them from hiring someone like this.
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C# and Java allocate objects to the heap and primitive types to the stack by default so perhaps it may be in context to that (i.e. It's not explicit but rather implicit on the type being used).
Quick google: Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)

Many comments here mostly mention software. But there are some interesting exceptions. Check Surgeon for example, who likes to use his custom controllers with Ableton. You actually can see him re-wire the controllers every now and then. (Great music too ;))

https://youtu.be/KM558N6PJmY
Very good, enjoyed that, was very clear and easy to follow.
For anyone who's hungry for more I recommend the Rust Book Second Edition (not finished yet) https://rust-lang.github.io/book/second-edition/index.html

I hope he does one for lifetimes as I still find them confusing
Doesn't the FireTV/Stick do full-on Alexa now?
I agree with you -- the cost here is prohibitively high for many folks I know, and the politicians makes hay each election season switching groups that will take the most hit.

So HN, this field here is ripe for disruption. Like the kitchen remodeling stand at Lowe’s or Home Depot, why not a booth to connect people to competent doctors and medical specialists in Europe, Russia, or India with all medical records and diagnostics online, allowing people find the most competitive prices and options for their medical services.

Right now for a surgery if you need it, there are least three 14 hour non-stop direct flights daily to India or Dubai where well equipped hospitals and experienced surgeons will be available (added: at a fraction of the cost here)
Validating the answer is different than providing it:

FLOAT_EQ(sqrt(x) * sqrt(x), x) && sqrt(x)>=0.0

is a pretty good test for the square root even though it doesn't compute it.
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