skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention, English is way easier to learn and use than almost every other language. Simple English is competitive with Esperanto in terms of ease of learning.

To prove some of these:

In Russia, they teach the correct spelling up until grade 11. In fact, when graduating from high school, you are commonly required to take a test where you write down correctly a story that a speaker dictates to you. This is unheard of in English-speaking countries because it would be incredibly easy to do.

I started learning French and English at the same time in school and was not otherwise exposed to them. By the end of 6 years, I could speak English but not French.

Spanish/Portuguese for me is somewhere between English and French in terms of ease of learning.
Question, is your voice input experience mainly with iPhone and Siri? I find that voice input is fairly excellent for my Nexus 5X (less so for my Galaxy Tab).

Google seems to be doing a melded experience based on their Google I/O presentations. A lot of the third party experience will involve visual responses.
I learned "Forward Mapping" in a scientific paper when I was creating my own morphing and deformations algorithms, I don't remember which paper. (Some Googled links I just found : http://biomachina.org/courses/imageproc/051.pdf , https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/courses/compsci773s1c/lectures... )

The term is mainly used for image interpolation and GPU textures. I prefer to say "drawing" because the notion can be extended to anything you want to visualise.

On the internet you can find a lot of visualization by forward drawing on a canvas. But recently there's more and more backward drawing with GPU and shaders (goto https://www.shadertoy.com/ for a lot of examples)
Another advantage is that SHA-3 just uses AND, XOR, ROT, NOT, but not SHR (logical shift right) which allows for much easier formal analysis of the algorithm!
They split the rounds in half (down to 12 rounds) for Kangaroo Twelve: https://cryptologie.net/article/393/kangarootwelve/
I had never considered this and something else about it makes perfect sense to me.

It also explains the "white flight" of the time. What we now call the "inner city" was allowed to remain black and brown with the expectation that the country would be alright if they were incinerated while the more -valuable- people had been relocated to the suburbs.

The Soviets would be able to get their retaliatory body count while eliminating people that the US didn't really value in the first place.
Which of those left accredited investors poor and not just down?
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This is only true for certain scales relating IQ to construction costs. The average IQ in Africa is, what, ~15 points lower than America? Suppose the first 2 points increase construction costs by a factor of 1.5, and each subsequent 2-point reduction by a smaller factor, until you reach some limit (IQ average too low to be realistic, NGO aid, something like that).
I get your drift, but it depends on the context. If you're communicating with Prince fans (or you are Prince), substitutions like U, 4, 2, etc might be appropriate. If you're applying for a job (even as Prince's sound engineer), maybe not so much.
> Oracle CEO Safra Catz, who played a role in the Trump transition, plans to attend the event, but other industry executives haven't confirmed their participation yet.

Colour me surprised.

Good for Elon. He was principled in staying, believing that involvement was better than criticism from afar. Given what Tesla and TBC are trying to achieve, it's no surprise that it's largely at direct odds to dropping out of the Paris agreement.

Be interesting to see who stays on after. If Oracle is the only company on your side, you're definitely on the wrong side of history.
It's almost like a democracy slows development, if you compare China to India it looks like that.
I wonder what condition this Siri will be in. I feel pretty slighted by Apple in their decision not to include HomeKit in MacOS Siri.
Yes, perhaps before they choose the next "faster in hardware" crypto algorithm, they also get a commitment from the major chip makers (Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, MediaTek, etc) that they will implement them within let's say 2 years after the contest is over.

Otherwise it's just hope that the chip makers will implement it when the algorithms are chosen, and I'm not sure that's good enough after a carefully orchestrated 5-year process of choosing a next-generation algorithm.

If they can't get that commitment, then they should choose whatever is faster in software (granted all the other factors are more or less equal).
Amazon has also shown that as a company, they're more than willing to engage in anticompetitive behavior when they feel threatened (for example, refusing to sell Chromecasts and Apple TVs, refusing to port Amazon Prime Video to competitors' platforms, etc.) I wouldn't put it past them to drop support for other services when it suits them.
Except that living in fancy tents or traveling across the surface for weeks/months would result in death by radiation.

Until mars gets a much larger atmosphere and a magnetic field living on the surface is going to require living under ground.
Nim's macros look harder to use, with a fairly custom DSL in the AST (instead of, say, a simple datastructure like a nested map). I don't think you can pattern-match on AST fragments, either, like you can in Elixir.

Scala macros cannot change its syntax, Elixir macros can I believe (to some extent).
There is AVX/AVX2 assembly for BLAKE2 at https://github.com/minio/blake2b-simd , benchmarked at a 1.8x-3.9x speedup.
Possibly related:

Ein Menetekel (Bible) [0]
מנא מנא תקל ופרסין
MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN
<>
Aen Taen Tethera Peddera

Ene Mene miste, es rappelt in der Kiste.
Ene Mene Meck Und Du bist weg.
Ene Mene Mu und dran bist Du (German)

Enenene maskim gul-a-meš [1](Sumerian adjuration / invocation / conjuration / evocation / incantation ? )

Sumerian numbers
AŠ (1) 𒀸
MIN (2) 𒋰
*EŠ (3) 𒀼

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menetekel "The writing on the wall"
[1] DELITZSCH Grundzüge der Sumerischen Grammatik
The best (ie. fastest and safest) SHA2-family function is SHA-384.
http://securitydriven.net/inferno/#Implementation%20Details
The authors intentionally made it the one thing they weren't going to try to explain using known physics. It's reactionless and fusion powered.
Professional musicians these days earn their living by going on tour and selling concert tickets and merchandise (esp. T-shirts). The biggest ones are quite profitable, and the concert ticket prices I've seen lately are rather high ($50 to sit on the lawn, $200+ for seats, for one big concert in my area).

The problem is getting to that level where you have so many fans that you can fill an arena or even a smaller venue.
Worse, using voice recognition allows companies to store your voice samples, that allows them to generate your voice fingerprints, that allows your presence to be detected once you happen to say something out loud in proximity of such devices.
Europeana is an EU initiative to bring together digital collections of museums, archives, etc from around the EU and make them accessible, findable etc. While they try to encourage everyone to use CC it depends on the organisation that is putting the stuff online, their own rights to it (eg art is often loaned) and how it's put online (commercial photographer or similar might offer to put them for free online in order to be able to sell reuse licenses). So it's a mixed back but last time i checked most seemed to be free to use and share.
These are the most realistic images and dimensions of the iPhone 8 to date
I never used voice input until I got my nexus 6p. Now it irritates me to no end when my wife wants to set a 15 minute timer for a power nap, and she has to poke around for 30 seconds, while I just turn my head towards my phone and say "ok google wake me in 15 minutes".

Or in the car, I'll pick up the phone and she'll prepare to say "don't start tapping on that thing while you drive!", but I just say "ok google navigate to [restaurant we're going to]".

Voice recognition isn't perfect, but a couple of years ago, android crossed the threshold where it's good enough for me.
Yeah, was looking for a comment like this. While not an outright parallel, some of the similarities strike me as eerily similar to a recent article in the new yorker that discusses the russia-crimea bridge: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/29/putins-shadow-c...
The Jigasi daemon connects to our VoIP server and has its own extension. You can either call a VoIP extension from inside the Jitsi conference, or route an incoming call to a specific Jitsi conference.

This means that our existing Polycom-based conference room setups can be bridged with Jitsi Meet with no effort. Our work-from-home people can just dial the physical conference room from a Jitsi Meet conference.

https://github.com/jitsi/jigasi
A real hacking movie would be deathly boring. My favorite hacking in movies is either when it's cheesed up to the max (visually interesting) or happens off screen (more realistic).
Apple was thinking about doing driverless cars of some sort after Tesla and Google. They seemed to be taking employees from Tesla and Ford for a while, but recent rumors are that the project has been halted.

They also registered the domain apple.car

The grandparent is likening Apple jumping on the bandwagon after competitors' cars to them jumping on the bandwagon with the speaker.
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This looks really cool! Hopefully it scratches the same itch docker-compose did a long time ago, but for those running Kubernetes.

I was just talking to a coworker this morning about how Helm is great, but its very analogous to debs or rpms: You would use it all day to install core-libraries (or services for k8s) on your system (or cluster), but probably not your first choice for shipping your business application.

I know, with Helm you can update a value for an image of a "release" (Helm term for an installed chart): but you hand off the upgrade of the application to the Tiller server to manage. If anything in your deployment goes south, Kubernetes will just keep trying to push it out until it works or is manually rolled back. Until Kubernetes gets automated rollbacks (https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/23211), this can be less than ideal.

Going with the rpm/deb analogy, I prefer to use something that would take the place of Puppet/Ansible (like Spinnaker) for _my_ applications I release, and still use Helm for the cluster level services like monitoring, logging, etc.

[same comment on other link]
So here we have someone with English as their mother tongue speaking about how weird English is. I'd bet native speakers of just about any other language could write a similar article about theirs, too.
I believe the best way to interact with Siri is through the Apple Watch, something that is always attached to you and doesn't require you to shout across the room. The Watch also connects to Wifi, and can work independently of the iPhone, allowing Siri, iMessage, calling etc. Also, the siri speaker has to deal with the possibility of multiple users using "Hey Siri" while the apple watch can be tied to an individual person.
Exactly. I use Siri on my iPhone, also tried Google assitant app recently, having an echo at home too. Siri is way worse than the other two in terms of speech recognition and features. I felt Apple is better off to completely buy Google as the back end and simply focus on the hardware, where is their strength.
I keep wondering why they don't open Siri up to the command line or applescripts. It seems like that would be a great way to grow the Siri ecosystem. Does HN have any ideas why it is so locked down?
> Apple Inc. is already in your pocket, on your desk and underneath your television. Soon, a device embossed with “Designed by Apple in California” may be on your nightstand or kitchen counter as well.

Nope, nope, nope, and nope.
This is a competitor to react native
English is one of the rare languages that have heteronyms, and that's extremely weird for anyone coming from a language without them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronym_(linguistics)

Note the article only exists in five languages.
Now that its gone, its gone, save this last ditch effort.
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Some countries are considering taxing your own production. In many countries the tax on fossile fuel is an important income for the state. The money needs to come from somewhere. (It seems very shortsighted to penalise expansion of solar power right now though.)

http://www.energinyheter.se/20161227/15749/regeringen-svange...
>waiting for available socket...

hmm interesting
No not really, once you study the legal system of other advanced countries you will realize the US system is completely insane. The verdicts are wild, and we use juries for complex civil litigation. A bunch of regular Joes are supposed to understand torts and then even calculate damages! The result is trial lawyers succeed by playing on emotion, class, race, playing a character, etc., and a bunch of bored confused Joes and Janes sees an injured person and thinks "Okay, this sucks, give them $50 million."
tell me about it. when my android voice recognition gets a little hair-trigger, do you know how hard it is to consciously avoid saying the word "ok"?
"A language is a dialect with an army" is a pretty useful concept for distinguishing the recognized state
In principle mass spectometry should give you the components in food. Combine that with a sufficiently large dataset of how humans react to different chemical combinations and you should be well on your way.
That's only google, Siri doesn't work that way.
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I don't know how much it qualifies as "reading," but we've experienced great success using a DaemonSet of https://github.com/rtoma/logspout-redis-logstash#readme

Because Kubernetes is great about applying docker labels, we get the k8s container name, Pod name, Pod namespace, UID, and then the normal docker metadata provided by logspout-redis-logstash. Then use the normal, and essential IMHO, multi-line codec on the logstash side of things: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/5.4/plugins-codecs-...

We have a few ``if [docker][image] =~ "foo"`` statements to snowflake the types of multiline split patterns, but all in all it just works.

The next level up the hierarchy of needs is to also grab the systemd journal content from the Node itself and send that along, too, but it has not yet become a priority. Not to mention the likely substantial increase in store size once the much, much chattier kubelet traffic arrives in ES.
Crossrail appears to have been a quite successful project from the outside, I'm not sure if that's because of good PR or if it really has been.
If I could make Siri consistently "Call Mom" without asking "Which Mom?" showing "Carla's Mom", "Erica's Mom", and "Mom" I'd be happy with Siri.

But I literally have a single contact named "Mom" that is also starred as a favorite.

Yet sometimes Siri calls my mom, and sometimes she asks me "Which Mom?" even though I always choose the same one.

Jerk.
What about cShake or better KangarooTwelve? (K12 is to SHA-3 what blake2 is to blake).
Isn't the blockchain, and therefore the hard-forking mechanism, also code?
Woah. Cuba story is super interesting. Shocking how difficult it is to make payments there. Is this a company that does this? Or does AirBnB hire the bike messengers directly?
Indeed. I think it will get worse though.
I'm confused?

What do you mean by land use issues?

Japan isn't using maglev for commercial high-speed service yet. Japanese high-speed trains have steel wheels that make contact with a steel track, just like regular trains. Their maglev trains are limited to experimental research and development [1], or low-speed urban transit [2] (which was built as a showcase for a World's Fair).

France's and Japan's high speed trains are based on the same technology as their lower speed counterparts, including American freight rail. How does a differing level of experience maglev technology cause a difference between different countries' quality of infrastructure, when that technology isn't being used?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L0_Series

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linimo
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that it was not a large sum. It's a large sum for me too. But it's not a totally life changing one. You couldn't quit your job if you got 100k.
yeah, spelling is way harder than learning ten thousand pictograms in CJK languages
What's about the Denmark Zimbabwe connection?

Denmark:

Ene, mene, ming, mang,
Kling klang,
Osse bosse bakke disse,
Eje, veje, vaek.

And Zimbabwe:

Eena, meena, ming, mong,
Ting, tay, tong,
Ooza, vooza, voka, tooza,
Vis, vos, vay.
This is is a very important point, especially for larger organizations where budgeting (and closely following budgets) is extremely important.

I co-founded and sold a company that did SaaS/outsourced natural gas and electricity billing for energy retailers in deregulated markets, and cost consistency was a major reason why corporations signed fixed price energy contracts. Even though they might pay more than simply taking the spot market price, having known costs was preferable.
Yup, I bought a ETH & $6 late last year during the spam attacks and panick sold at $15-$12 Early this year.
Now the pice is $200+ per ETH

Now I am looking foward to RChain https://www.rchain.coop
I love how you never do this with comments broadly advocating universal basic income, of which I have seen many. The bias is real. Look, I know, you're moderating for the site, but I also hope you're aware of what you're doing here. Dissenting opinion is an "ideological tangent", "black hole" and "not constructive".
As a german: No. German is a little oddly rigid due to being more tied to legislation and has a few weird corners like "ei". However in the big picture and on the scale of fucked-up-ness it's not even in the same order of magnitude as english.

You have a german username so i guess you're german too. Try to point out what's as weird in german as having to wonder in english how to even write a word just from the sounds.
It's a lot of money for me. But most people here are software developers, and i'd say most of them are living in Western countries. That means the mean salary here is going to be at least 60k. Which means 100k is only about 1.5 years of salary. Is that a lot of money? Yes. Is it completely life changing? No.
Hmm -- sounds like you have to sign up for an IRB study to use the app. Buy me dinner first?
haha, I sometimes wonder the same :)
SHA-3 lanes are 64 bits. In 64 bits arch they can use full registers for operations. I'd bet it would be way faster on 64bit
Try a nice Ethiopian blend from a Chemex made by an experienced barista and come back to me.

Espresso is as different to filter coffee as icecream is to milk. They're different products, made with different material mix and different processes, different roasts, different grind size, different bean choice. They're two different things.

An espresso can't be better than filter coffee any more than an apple can be better than an orange.
>When your communities...are full of "entrenched" families/clans—groups of people who, for reasons of proximity or tradition, just won't move no matter how bad things get

This is a really great point, and I am admittedly biased as someone that grew up moving 4 times across state lines. Meeting new people and figuring out the local 'vibe' was part of my upbringing.

Moving is hard, but it's doable. I write this as a much less ambitious person than most seem on HN (and older).
I'd really love if Apple integrated the Workflow app they acquired into Siri. I think it could be a straightforward way to let Siri do more useful things than just setting reminders and asking about the weather. They also have improve the voice recognition big time since Siri has real difficulties understanding if you have an accent.
Well, that's just silly.
This is same reason why I refuse to use Fire TV, Android TV or Apple TV. I'll stick with Roku until the walled gardens fall.

I would suggest Roku make a digital assistant as well but it would probably come in 4 different models ranging from wholly unusable to outrageously expensive, have a purple bow tie, and need to be replaced annually with the latest model.
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The protagonist-seeking-debris that ignores orbital mechanics pretty much destroyed my suspension of disbelief with Gravity.
Machine learning lectures with Konstantin Vorontsov are one of the most brilliant course I ever seen. Konstantin is super smart, every topic explained in in-depth and with proper mathematical background. Video lectures of Yandex Data School - real thing, world class CS theory
Class in Santa Clara: Data Science of Time Series
Hello Data Science People,

If you live or work near Santa Clara, next week starting Tues June 6, I offer a 10 week class through Santa Clara Adult Education:

Data Science of Time Series

Here is the registration link:

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Much of the class will be focused on teaching you to write software to do forecasting.

Most of the lecture material will draw from two types of Time Series:

- Stock Market Prices
- Forex Prices

Half of class-time will be lecture. The second half will be lab.

We meet in class once a week on Tuesday nights 7 to 10pm.

The rest of the week we collaborate online.

This class will be an excellent opportunity to learn the Data Science of Time Series.

The only prerequisite is some programming experience in some language.

Languages covered in lecture will be: Python, Shell, JavaScript, SQL, R, and HTML.

If you have questions please contact me, the instructor:
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I'm not saying it's something to sniff at. It's just not completely life changing. Even if you're only making a 60k/year salary, 100k is only ~1.5 years of salary. A lot of money? Yes. But not quit your job money, change your life money.
simple is orthogonal with quality

https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/2lryka/...