skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the thing. Google can do a lot of those crazy things with their little popup boxes. I've seen cases where I ask a really weird question and it summarizes an entire stackoverflow thread into a neat paragraph that answers my question. Clickthrough and the exact answer that Google showed me isn't anywhere on the page.

Also the query "did Bill Murray run for president" returns a Snopes article debunking the myth as the first result. This should totally be something a Siri thing could parse and tell you about.

https://www.google.com/search?q=did+bill+murray+run+for+pres...
Couldn't you demonstrate that more acidic solutions break down calcium carbonate?
There are cases where it sounds better though. Not because the music on vinyl, but because they did a different master for the vinyl release that's not as brick walled as the digital release.
The "burning" question for me is, if access is based on elevators, how do you evacuate in case of fire?

Fire safety is the chief safety concern with tunnels. Especially smaller tunnels like these where smoke and fumes spread more quickly.
Why not enjoy both? I collect vinyl and listen to digital music all the time. If you buy new vinyls on Amazon, a lot of the time you can get the MP3s for free included.

When I buy a vinyl, it's because it's a physical representation of music that I enjoy. A lot of time, there's a extra items included with the vinyl, like a small poster.
> It doesn't have to be knowingly false, though - you think that all of the studies in psychology that wound up being non-reproducible were all submitted by pathological liars?

> But if there's a more meta issue involved, such as bad data, I argue that it'll never see the light of day given the political incentives.

This is why single studies alone should not be the basis for large changes in policy. The current consensus in climate science is based on a large number of studies from different universities, science bodies, countries, using different sources of data, using different methods, and over a period of time. All of these factors makes it likely that the consensus is something which we should believe, and which should guide our policies.

> Keep in mind that I never even mentioned deception, that was something you just set up and knocked down on your own.

You stated that scientists have a profit motive for fudging their numbers, which if they did would be deceptive behavior.
One problem is that the computing power dedicated to each user is minuscule. If you could dedicate a super computer for processing every input, you could have a much more sophisticated system that could easily deal with all of those queries.
Perhaps it's "not-invented-here" syndrome. React is not exactly rocket science, and big corps can easily afford to implement this stuff themselves.
Roku sales blocked in Mexico following piracy ruling
Anyone know a good place to get started with Machine Learning?
Nice, although the front part of CRT where image actually forms is frankly an anode ;)
Agreed. Even the way that a service like Spotify organizes its application seems to be based around the song rather than the album. I tend to listen to entire albums still, so years ago I hit a saved music maximum in Spotify because they limit the amount of songs you can have in your collection. These days I usually have to go through my saved music collection and un-save random albums just to add more in to download for offline play.

As a teenager in the 90s I started buying vinyl because it was cheap and browsing a local record store was the best way to discover music, mainly jazz and hip hop. I'd spend hours a day just listening to albums from start to finish, reading liner notes, doing nothing else. A couple decades later and I still discover most of my music the same way. Spotify's Discover Weekly often is good, but it never matches the random LP dug up that completely opens your mind to a style or form you've never run into before.
I'm surprised by a number of the failures, such that I did wonder if the failure might be happening on the speech recognition side rather than the response generation side.

Both Google Home and Alexa have very little problem recognising my speech whilst friends often struggle even when they seem to say the precise same phrase, to the point it's mildly entertaining. With Google I suspect they've tailored to my voice (I've used voice commands extensively for several years) but I've only had a Dot briefly and it worked well from the start. Another surprise is that they cope well with my perculiarly English English phrasing and pronunciation, but I'm sure there are lots of less widely spoken dialects that would throw them.
>But one server is barely enough for anything nontrivial nowadays

If I facepalmed any harder, my hand would go through my face. A properly setup server, with caching and a backend not written in node, will go a hell of a long way. You can scale to tens of thousands of concurrent users with a single server.

Spoiler: your startup will most likely not even scale up to that level.

These posts are stuck in a tiny little world, made up of hackernews and what is currently hyped on hackernoon and smashing magazine. In the reality, JS still hasn't won, IIS is still powering half of the servers, and Java is still winning. Javascript has gotten better, and if you use Typescript it even becomes a good language. There are certainly some very good things that came out of it (and some very, very dumb wheel reinvention), and I dare say there is not a single UI toolkit that gets close to Vue/React, thanks to the composability and CSS being good enough for theming. Animations are still a major pain point. Serverless will cost you an awful lot past the beginning point, much more so than renting servers, or even having them on-place and paying sysadmins when you are at that stage between medium and big.

While being optimist and non-flamey, which is a good read, it is also a sad state of affairs. The backend, database and "native" side of things boils down to "I don't understand servers, I don't understand databases, I don't understand that bringing a browser along with my application is a bad thing.". I get it. We are asked to push ot feature after feature after feature. But it is genuinely holding everyone back. It's making our software worse. Electron applications are a 15 years jump back in the past, except that they look pretty.
I'm not sure what you mean by "Solves Zooko's Triangle", as the Triangle is an assertion of a problem (trilemma) that can't be solved. If you mean "refutes", I disagree. Besides the problem with names, bitcoin is, of course, vulnerable on the security side---to 50% or more of computing power being used maliciously (or being fraudulently converted to hidden malicious use). While the distributed nature of bitcoin strongly mitigates this once the network is big enough, the point of Zooko's Triangle is that you have to accept no better than mitigation of risk on at least one leg, not its elimination. The possibility of Sybil attacks also point out issues associated with the anonymity of other network participants and the possibility of hidden collusion.
If this "alternative" were the case, would humanity best be served by not knowing it to be the case?
Some people might not have realized USDS is still around since it was best known for the Healthcare.gov rescue under Obama. But it's still here, and still hiring people to work on problems like this www.usds.gov/join
> There's nothing "toxic" about /r/golang

The fact that go maintainers themselves wanted to get rid of /r/golang actually proves otherwise. As for Dave Cheney, he left that sub long before any Trump drama on reddit.

Obviously the people who act in a toxic fashion don't think themselves as such and don't see the toxicity even when it blatantly exists.

But that's not my point. /r/golang is officially outside Go community since even go maintainers disowned it and want nothing to do with it. Whatever drama happening there is not representative of the go community, nor whatever /r/golang thinks as "idiomatic".
> CD's scratch and then skip easily

You can back up a CD's audio tracks digitally to PCM files, with no loss. You still have the music even if the CD is completely destroyed, and your backup survives.

Vinyl records are also sensitive. They can skip even with slight vibration, because the arm which holds the needle is delicately balanced to exert only a small force to keep the needle in the groove.

Vinyl records easily warp from heat. They still play, but the warps make it easier for skipping to occur.

Fun personal fact: my grandma hard a way to make records flat again. She sandwiched them between cotton cloths, and gave them an ironing!

> Skipping to a certain part of a song is much more difficult with CD's.

Skipping to a certain part of a song is very difficult with a vinyl record. The song consists of a strip of grooves that are only a couple of centimeters wide. The resolution for navigating is not very good. Even if you could pick a specific cycle of the groove, which you won't, your precision is still limited by the rotating latency. At 33 rpm (let's round off to 30 rpm), you have one revolution every two seconds. (Sure, you could stop the rotation, and fiddle with it for five minutes to get the exact spot in a four minute song.)

With a CD-ROM drive and PC/laptop, you can script up some software to seek to a position with sub-second precision.

A decent media player lets you mark off two points, A and B, with sub-second precision, and loop them.

A bookmarking feature is plausible; there is no reason why a CD playing application wouldn't let you make bookmarks associated with CD's. Pop in a CD, and see a list of bookmarks; pick one and there you are at your favorite part of a favorite song. (If this doesn't exist, propose it ... say for VLC, or hack it yourself.)
Perhaps relevant:
https://fullfact.org/blog/2017/jun/awarded-500000-omidyar-ne...
The last date to apply is June 30 but we are in July 1st. Can we still go ahead and apply?
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Can I unflag a url I flagged accidentally. If so, where is this feature? Also, sorry mods.
So you don't understand why people like something and dismiss it as silly hipster bias? Does everything have to be about efficiency and logical superiority? People enjoy the experience more and are spending money on it. How horrible.
Remittances have been shown to not actually be better with bitcoin. [1] [2] [3].
I can send 2000 USD to India using TransferWise and they will only charge me 17.84 USD. That is a 0.89% fee using a reliable mechanism and I know my recipient will have their native currency in their bank account within a couple business days. Compare that with opening an account on a US bitcoin exchange, sending money there (time delay), buying bitcoin (exchange fee), opening an account in india (requires verification and linking a bank account), sending the bitcoin over (time delay), converting the bitcoin to rupees (time delay, exchange fee, volatility risk), then sending the money to the bank (another time delay).

[1] https://medium.com/cryptonight/bitcoin-doesn-t-make-remittan...

[2] https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/rebittance-startups-agr...

[3] https://www.saveonsend.com/blog/bitcoin-money-transfer/
Holy schnikes. I'd love to have that much free time ... and powers of insight.
Hardware is cheap, expertise in deploying and maintaining it isn't.
Due to physical limitations of the medium, mastering the vinyl release of an album is often (usually?) a separate process than mastering the digital version.

One of the consequences is less compression/clipping, better dynamic range, etc. for the vinyl version. This can have a huge positive impact on sound quality.

You don't have to be a nutbar audiophile to appreciate it, either - you can even hear the difference between old rock albums and their heavily compressed re-releases.

http://www.soundonsound.com/sound-advice/q-how-does-masterin...

http://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/end-loudness-war
> data protection laws as you point out

I don't think data protection is our problem. For one thing, if our government really meant it (which they don't), we could build businesses that attract customers from all over the world who need strong data protection laws they can't find anywhere else.

For another thing, there probably is a huge, unexplored market for all kinds of software which would be in line with the current law.

However, there are many roadblocks that hinder people from experimenting, like too much bureaucracy and financial dangers (UBI might come in handy here)

And then there are "the little things". Take that law which urges you to fully disclose your address on your website. If I had build twitter, without knowing how it is going to turn out, I would not want my boss to be able to find out what I do in my spare time. In other words, I wouldn't have put it online.
We have plenty of copycats out there (one of the downsides of us trying to share our learnings online haha). I'd just look at when the domains were purchased if you want to know who was first ;)
Also, we send deals from almost every continent (launching Africa by the end of the year).
There are nightclubs in Vegas that pay attractive women to show up and spend some time on the dance floor.
> How do I cook XYZ? probably isn't suited

That is perfectly suited to voice if voice worked. When I call my mom for the recipe for cake it would be a whole lot easier if my mom would say "beat the eggs for 1 minute", listen for the beater to start and then say stop after one minute. My mom has better things to do with her time than walk me through the recipe, but an assistant should be able to do this.

Of course I have just transformed the problem into something that technology isn't able to do. However the problem isn't with the voice interface it is our AI isn't yet up to all that. (poor AI, every time they do something useful we rename it and move the goal posts)
I think their intrinsic value is backed by their usefulness as a medium of exchange for the use cases described in the parent comment. Solving the crypto problem seems more like something that makes them useful for exchanging.
Eliminate Software Cruft from Developer Environments
The average confirmation time for a Bitcoin transaction was 400+ minutes recently (and is still around an hour even now). https://blockchain.info/charts/avg-confirmation-time?daysAve...
By that criteria, everything from schoolyard insults to poems insulting Trump could be made illegal.

I know you don't want to be insulted, or let other people be insulted, but it's a dangerous responisbility to give to government to make them arbiter of what speech is acceptable.
Haven't there been some studies about sun output? That seems natural?
Hahahaha this killed me, I'd upvote more times if I could.
While I can understand the nostalgia of playing music on a record player (many of us had lots of records when we were younger), and how that experience could be different for you, perhaps in a very pleasant way, I find the idea that the experience of using one medium over another somehow makes you more "serious" about the music (or more engaged with the music, or whatever else you want to call it) is laughable.

You can be every bit as "active" in the listening experience playing the music on an iPod or a CD player as you are sticking a needle on a vinyl record. And for that matter, you can be just as passive in the listening experience listening to a vinyl recording (well, OK, you might get a slight bit more exercise getting your butt off of the chair when the record is over -- if you can't get someone else to put on the next record :-D).

I do think that our culture is terribly entertainment-driven, and that much of the time music is just background noise that isn't really being paid attention to, but that has nothing to do with the medium, except that some mediums make that easier to do than others.

I Also think the culture tends to underestimate the value of peace and quiet, and that the TV or stereo doesn't have to be on 24 hours a day. Don't get me wrong, I love music, and so does my family. We have it playing regularly at our house. I'll still crank up the stereo when a song is particularly good (it's usually too loud for my kids before it's too loud for me :-D). But having some quiet in the day, so you can think without being bombarded with stuff in the background is also important -- not just for older people either -- kids and young adults need it too.

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I don't mind this one because at least it is clear that it's an opinion piece. Reminds me of the good old days of blogging where writing what you think was what it was all about.

I mostly dislike posts that try to pass off opinion as incontrovertible fact. I disagree with the author's opinion about Angular and React, but I didn't feel as though he was trying hard to persuade me to agree.
You asked how there could be "consensus" on the existence of ACC when some scientists dispute its existence.

The parent post gave an example of a case where some credentialed scientists continued to dispute the HIV-AIDS link well after the balance of evidence was against them.

Many people would say there was a "consensus" on the HIV-AIDS link despite the continued skepticism of some scientists, and that this scenario has parallels with climate science.

Can you offer a counter example, where a holdout group of scientists who disagreed with consensus in their field were proved right?
Yeah, you don't know. I listen to a ton of music that's only released on vinyl. For example, almost all records you find at Yoyako (https://www.yoyaku.io/) are vinyl-only.
I always get sucked in to the addicting Hot Network Questions as well when I land on Stack Overflow, which is why I need to block the entire sidebar so that I can get some work done!

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hide-hot-network-q...
Huh? I subscribe to lots of travel sites and it's pretty accepted that a price is round-trip unless stated otherwise.
So, tls libraries, webservers, etc don't come with sane defaults for tls settings. They also don't come with sane defaults for security oriented headers, etc. I assume that's partly why software like caddy is gaining in popularity.
Thanks, I was wrong about that one.
Posted as a comment on the main answer: https://english.stackexchange.com/a/395385/63201
It doesn't. It just puts a different set of people on top.
Sure, that makes sense and thank you for the link. I was curious about your comment:

>"25g NIC is an awful lot of 60byte packets."

Where are you getting that 60 number from? A minimum IPv4 header is 20 bytes and a minimum TCP header is 20 bytes. Also how would a tiny TCP packet relate to the route cache? Tiny TCP packet are certainly a problem with PPS that a NIC is capable I understand that. Cheers.
Once you click it, it should appear as "unflag". Just click that and it'll unflag.
Re: TCP, it only maintains sequencing guarantees over the lifetime of a single connection. Obviously this is too weak of a guarantee for Kafka as leaders can change in a cluster. We've built idempotence in a way that makes the sequence number and producer ID part of the Kafka log. So it can provide idempotence even if brokers fail and new connections are established between the producer and broker
China's ban on live-streaming takes toll on companys' stock market valuation
Murray makes a number of nuanced comments about AI philosophy that I enjoyed. I've reproduced them below, but please see the full transcript in case I have taken quotes out of context:

- Is she conscious at all? Is she conscious just like we are? Is she conscious in some kind of weird alien way. You never really know.

- we’re pretty close to human brain scale computing already in the world’s fastest super computers. We’ll get there within the next couple of years. But that doesn’t mean to say we know how to build human level intelligence. That’s an altogether different thing. And also there’s controversy about how you make that calculation as well. I mean do you, what do you count? Do you count a neuron? How do you count the computational power of one neuron? Or one synapse? And some people, you know, it may be that some of the immense complexity in the synapse is functionally irrelevant.

- They’re just the process of turning the raw waveform into text. So that’s been cracked. But then again, real understanding of the words, that’s a whole other story. And with all today’s personal assistants, you know it can be cool and they’re gonna get better and better, they’re still way off displaying any genuine understanding of the words that are being used.

- But let’s suppose that it was a world where we were minded to put Asimov’s Laws into Ava. Well maybe Ava might reason that she is human. You know what is the difference between herself and a human? And maybe she would reason that she shouldn’t allow herself to come to harm. And therefore she was justified in what she was doing. Who knows?

- Of course there are people who want to build autonomous weapons and all kinds of things like that and you might say to yourself well I would very much like it if somebody was trying to pay attention to things a bit like Asimov’s Laws and say well you know, you shouldn’t build a robot that is capable of killing people. But that’s a law that the designers, or that would be a principle, if we were to have it, that the designers and engineers would be exercising, not one that the robot itself was exercising. So that’s the sense in which it’s not relevant toady because we don’t know how to today make an AI that is capable of even comprehending those laws.

- Nathan’s criticizing Caleb over going with his like gut reaction and his ego and not in like if he were to think through every logical possibility for every action he would never do anything. Which is kind of like directly against all these laws. Ava would never do anything if she could harm someone possibly down the road by you know burning fossil fuel, by being in a helicopter.

(My own commentary)
This last point may be particularly relevant to researchers in Deep RL. Often we formulate off-policy RL problems as computing value functions that represent expected reward over optimal policies until the end of time. But maybe long-horizon reasoning is too computationally expensive (requiring agents to solve every trolley problem in its future and model the effect of burning fossil fuel on the environments), so some kind of rational ignorance is actually optimal in a compute-resource-restricted regime.
The implicit assumption here is the only reason people don't spend 100% of their time working is the inability to find an employer.
The iPhone Was Inevitable
Solving the crypto problem is just part of the mechanism that ensures there's a limited supply of them. We could do the same thing by randomly assigning floating point numbers between 0 and 2.1x10^10 - 1 (corresponding to the 21M BTC that are ever allowed to exist).

The part that makes BTC relatively safe to transact with is the blockchain itself.
Elements of statistical learning book
Kayak does have alert notifications.

The thing is that if you're looking for a very specific destination, you'll almost never get the best deals. Flight deals work best for people who are very flexible about destination and timing.
Bombs were not going off in the USA during WWII or the Vietnam wars so was there no war going on at the time for us citizens?
> A properly setup server, with caching and a backend ...

Which needs a dedicated sysadmin/ops person to maintain and the cost of finding, acquiring, training, and paying their salary and benefits is less than just outsourcing it to AWS.
React won and those of us stuck on Angular 1 are mostly fucked. From that perspective, you'd have to be absolutely fucking insane to even consider Angular 2 after how badly the Angular team fucked up Angular 1 and all its users, leaving them in the dust. It's not about tech. Tech is irrelevant. I cannot trust this team to stand behind their software. Maybe that's because they build really shitty software. Fool me once and all that ... but IMO, you'd have to be a fool to use Angular 2+ after this fiasco.