skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the same vein, sure, the audio production nodes should use floating point, but for simple playback, which I'd argue is the 90% case, it shouldn't require me to use floats. Real-time audio toolkits like fmod and wwise all work in fixed-point formats on device, because the cost of floats is too expensive for realtime audio.

The floats are only required if you have a complex audio graph -- with a sample-based API, you can totally do the production in floats, and then have a final mix pass which does the render to an Int16Array. All in JavaScript.
> The incarceration is the punishment handed out by the state, the state being a proxy of 'society'. There is however no moral obligation for any citizen to take over the stance of that 'abstract society' that a prisoner can be released for whatever reason.

While true this is a reflection on society itself. Some people learn this the hard way, when they end on the wrong side of it and then ask "why do people not forgive?"

> On a meta note, I would be a lot more sympathetic to many 'causes' if only they would choose less reprehensible poster children for their campaigns.

> Campaigning on the basis of a child murderer who abused a 4 year old and let him starve to death not being admitted to a top university being 'unfair'? Yeah, good luck with that.

You either stand for your principles in all circumstances or none. If they only count for 'easy' cases they are worthless anyway.
Eh, China's policies lead the new world very rarely.

If anything I'd wage that other countries would continue to push on the opposite as we seen them do recently.
> And Google Ventures is actually a mediocre venture firm based on their history.

Mediocre relative to which CVCs? Intel Capital?

Intel Capital has been around for quite a bit so that would be an unfair comparison. I am curious to how you reached your conclusion?
Of course people don't enthuse over seasonal work that pays $15 an hour.

Why would they?

(I get $15 from brief research; but even at $20 or $25, seasonal work with no benefits isn't a great job)
There's throttling settings.
Since the capital and ownership sectors of our economy are all trained to operate businesses rationally and to not leave value on the table, it seems pretty clear that anything that labor doesn't take will be traded away.

To me, in that light, neither the "depredations" of owners and investors nor the "coercion" of labor unions is really a problem; it's just the natural give and take of the market at work.

The real problem is the late 20th century stigma labor organization has acquired. Without labor organization, the market system doesn't work.
This Is What Happens When Your Face Becomes Your Password
I would create an ICO.

Then I'd email everyone in the database about it, then transfer the database over to a blockchain.
They were phished.. I can see how that somewhat falls on Apple, but it’s absolutely possible of any service if the users gives away their password.
It's esoteric because proper key management is a fulltime job at best.

And every attempt at doing key management better is met with hostility from many in the community (rightfully or otherwise) as they tend to sacrifice "absolute security" in the name of greater "usable security" (often by centralizing the trust system in some way).
Jump in!

Disclaimer: you will die. Lots. The adage is "don't fly what you can't afford to lose". There's no equivalent of "this is my special invulnerable armor and the sword of my great-grandfather", because when someone inevitably comes along and blows you up, it'll be their special invulnerable armor etc.

Also, the concepts of fraud, scams, and so on are unusual in Eve in that they're actively encouraged, or at least explicitly tolerated (with few exceptions, like you can't claim to be an official representative of the game's publisher). This is known as "adding content". As in, if you complain that user Foo defrauded you out of a few hundred dollars of in-game currency, the response will almost certainly be along the lines of "wow, Foo added a lot of content to your game, huh! You should thank them for it. You can't get that kind of entertainment from an NPC, can you?" This fosters a certain level of paranoia.
I am not making that comparison. Today's gainers and losers are priced more than $10. So not exactly penny stocks. Though both stocks mentioned are actually biotech stocks. Revolutionary but unproven tech. Wouldn't you say that is a fair comparison?
Still vulnerable to MITM Attacks. Someone could replace any of the files with their own malicious version. Hope none of those files are executables.
MMOs often have alliances and political intrigue. It's not just Eve, though Eve definitely takes the cake. I've played n>2 different MMOs where there's a large cohort of politically savvy players pulling the strings. Sometimes it's just out of necessity - if you want the coolest stuff in the game you have to organize groups because that's how the game is set up. So by definition it filters success towards those that organize bigger and better alliances.
Very vast indeed, that's my main problem. I'd maybe like to specialise in AI, or deep learning etc, but it is because of it sounding cool, rather than me having some concrete plan in mind.
If a security dropped 28% on a 1-month basis, it wouldn't still be up 60% on a 2-month basis. Apples and oranges. IMO, this is an obvious correction from the most intense bull run bitcoin has seen.
Goes to show how silly credit scores are
Launching processes in WSL is a LOT slower compared to a VM tbh. WSL is a magnitude faster than Cygwin on that level, however it is still limited by the Windows process model, even with their pico processes they're an order of magnitude slower.

I have a simple bash script I run from time when new WSL versions come out, to see if that improved. It simply loops doing a silly `echo "foo" | grep "bar"` and increasing a counter until that counter reaches 1000. This 9 line script runs in a bit more than 10 seconds on my i7 laptop. In a Linux VM on that same laptop, that exact same script takes 1 second to run.

Now I absolutely love WSL, it makes things a lot easier in my life, but I have to run some extensive long-running bash scripts from time to time (don't ask), and the minute it takes me to spin up a Vagrant VM lets me finish this in about 15 minutes instead of more than 2 hours.
as fast as Face ID probably. I know I've seen people unlocking their phone by mistake in their pockets for sure.
I'm not sure whether I would pick FTPS or SFTP as the superior protocol for automated file transfer (HTTPS is rather poor, although HTTPS-to-S3 is getting close).

On the one hand, SFTP has built-in support for key-based security (client authenticates with its own key, and checks the server's key), but the protocol itself is a mess that pretty much assumes the server is a UNIX box with a typical file system. We had the interesting challenge of writing a windows-based SFTP server that stores data on Azure Storage, and even the most surprising things (like one command to create an empty file, followed by another command to upload to that file) turn into a silly mess, not to mention the difficulty of setting up an SSH server on Windows.

FTPS gets those things right: security is based on SSL (more implementations available) and most file-altering operations are done with single commands. On the other hand, it's still password-based (although encrypted) and the data-channel-versus-control-channel problem becomes a mess with load balancing.
It's also extortion. "Please pay us money to solve the massive problem we created." I don't know how it's legal.
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I'm not convinced that bitcoin mixers provide anonymity guarantees. Cash is still better for illegal transfers. I've also heard overpaying for rare paintings and real estate are common ways that criminals transfer large sums of money.
Really, what I meant was other "professional" or "white-collar" fields.

I'm sorry if that was unclear, it was early.
You'd think that MS would have been thinking about security from the start.

"adding" security means it's probably not as well-thought-out as it could/should/would have been had it been thought about from the beginning
Small and friendly correction: Kafka bills itself as "a distributed streaming platform".

Also, a heads up: we'll soon publish a blog post on the subject of "is it ok to (permanently) store data in Apache Kafka".
Like how UPS charges customers who have packages in the truck when they're involved in accidents?
There has been huge progress in visuals, but the web is basically still a document and content delivery system decorated with a few animation features, not a full-fat creative multimedia OS.

And that could be because there are institutional forces keeping it at a certain level of clunkiness, which is far short of the requirements of professional media creators who work with video, 3D, and sound.

I suspect the real problem is that the walled-garden corporates don't want the web to compete with their lucrative app farming operations.

Unless that changes, the creative edges of the web will remained dumbed down.

And it probably won't change. Ever.

If that's correct, the original question has a simple answer: Web Audio is designed to meet the corporate requirements of Apple and Google, not the needs of web users or web developers.
Seriously, forward towards what? The "perfect society"?
Why would we do that?

The structure of how power plants generate electricity and are paid for it are idiosyncratic to their particular operating and economic conditions. It would make no sense to try to force something completely unlike that in to their regime.

Thus the many efforts that are designing a "value of solar" regime that encompasses the important aspects of solar, so that equitable and efficient cost schemes can be designed.
The spacecraft is at Saturn. During its final time, it will not have the transmission speed to send pictures, though it will send atmospheric measurements until the very end.
Secure ftp may mean ftps, ftp over tls/ssl.
Because all the exchanges use BTC as a sort of reserve.
> Have you ever thought that programmer pay is as high as it is because of the lack of those protections?

It's not. Union members earn more than their non-union counterparts in nearly all instances. Source: https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/04/art2full.pdf

But I'd go further and say what constitutes "high" is subjective.

If you look at it in terms of median household/income distribution then yes, you could certainly make the case it's high.

But, when you consider the amount of value a developer creates compared to their salary, their pay may seem quite low. Facebook, for example, returns $188,000 profit per employee (https://www.recode.net/2017/8/4/16090758/facebook-google-pro...).
Aside: The text doesn't show up without JavaScript. I wouldn't expect to see the animation, but why can't I read the text?
One way to look at Hacker News is as a part-time ranked inventory of labor grievances for tech workers. Open offices. Draconian IP clauses. Opportunities for developers to become founders. Work-life balance. Remote work.

People get hung up on this because most developers feel like their profession is well-compensated. And, they are. But so are doctors and lawyers, who also belong to professional associations.

There's much more to bargain for than just wages.
Different but still worse than SFTP:

FTPS suffers from all the same problems as FTP (lack of definitive standard for FTP commands nor their returns, poor client server relationship due to the data port being a callback, no standard for native compression, etc) bar the clear text problem* . But ironically the encryption then creates a new issue with clients behind NATing due to the aforementioned lack of client/server distinction.

I don't think there is really much excuse not to run SFTP instead of FTP(S) given that most clients already support it. Or use one of the numerous other sharing / transfer protocols available to us now.

* unless you misconfigure FTPS that is
Nothing is free in the world. Wikipedia is living of donations, same for most of linux distros.

Google and Facebook are living thanks to the nice value of your data and also thanks to your free contributions.

Yes, you contributed to Google Maps for free, you did get nothing for the time you spent on it, nobody know that you did this work, you get no acknowledgement except maybe an email for which the only goal is to make you do more free work.

All visitors coming to Google Maps are thanking Google for the work you've done. And after all this free hard work, you are still paying for the use of their product with your data.
I very briefly skimmed this, and it seems like it's using a pretty standard Von Neumann architecture, right? RAM, ROM, ALU, etc.

I understand that it's easier to build Tetris, or anything, using something we understand well, but I wonder what other approach would be better for building in GoL.
As far as I know, there is no way to sync contacts/calendar over-the-wire (USB) using Android. That's a major ding if one is trying to avoid all things cloud.

(edit: i should add i'm referring to macos)
It's great and useful for smaller probes but as we've sent larger and larger probes the thin Martian atmosphere has been less and less useful. One of the major issues is that the mass keeps going up but the surface area of the heat shields we can reasonably bring along doesn't scale as well. There's some hopes in inflatable technologies though.
Go with CS.

For most students, maths is the hardest part, but if you manage to stay on top of it, you'll be very much ahead of the field. Pay attention, always ask questions if you don't understand. If you don't understand, you're probably not the only one, and it's probably the teacher's fault anyways. It sounds stupid, but always be aware that a university course is not a book or a video: you can ask questions and the teacher can answer.

In your first semesters, find out as much as possible about different fields for your bachelor thesis when the time comes. The work groups at your university will post thesis suggestions for what they are interested in. Find something that you are really interested in. Pick a subject, write your own thesis, then find a prof that is willing to support you.

Avoid the mindset of "what are the hoops that they want me jumping through". You're not a circus animal. Find something you can be passionate about, then follow that passion. Once you're interviewing for jobs, you want to be able to talk about what you did with confidence.
Swatch lost $1B in value on Apple Watch Series 3 launch, expect further falls
I think viable alternates to Facebook/Twitter have less to do with the underlying technology and
are more about attracting audiences not served by these social networks. Hence I think the next viable alternative to twitter/Facebook will probably be a centeralized one that caters to multiple niche communities.

Mastodon was released in October 2016, it currently has about 800k users spread across 2000+ servers.

Currently the maintainer of mastodon gets ~$2800 from Patreon to host one of the main #mastodon servers & work on the project.

Mastodon is kind of like Wordpress for niche communities who want a twitter like experience outside of twitter for 1 reason or other.

Right now one of the biggest use cases for mastodon is lolicon in Japan.

Here is how much it costs to host your own instance:

https://masto.host/

Let’s contrast mastodon with gab. Gab (centralized) was launched August 2016 has about ~270k users, 3,000+ customers and it just raised $1m. It also gets mainstream media recognition.

The main use case for gab is people with political views that were booted off of twitter. Aka free speech. Right now gabs community is not really my cup of tea but I can see why you would use it.

I think something like gab has more of a chance of going mainstream by collecting fringe communities effected by stuff like the adpocalypss than mastodon does.

I think his mainly because of the problems around federated identity. A good critique of this can be read here:

https://medium.com/m/global-identity?redirectUrl=https://hac...
Oh okey, dropbox then? Do you mean we can not assume that arch users have a way to store away their config files?
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I know, hence my edit. In my mind I read secure FTP -> SFTP, damn brain. But after rereading, I'm thinking they meant FTPS.
There's a calendar in Kolab: https://kolabnow.com/feature/calendar
But they didn't really bet anything huge on it. In 2014 they had a few researchers work on cuDNN; a few years after deep learning had already taken off in academia. The first chip they made which did anything specific for DL was the P100 last year; but no-one is actually using that chip, everyone is using high end gaming chips.

They really haven't made much forward looking investment in this area, they just got lucky since they had built CUDA beforehand for other reasons, and that was what people standardized on.

AMD's chips would work just fine for DL if everything wasn't already written in CUDA, needing them to invest in a cross-platform CUDA alternative in the form of ROCm/HIP.
They wrote a blog post a couple of month ago with more details: https://medium.com/@mark_riedl/automated-game-understanding-...
I thought hyper-v would be more for the case of full-blown emulation (I'm creating a soft-CPU and hardware, a la VMWare) versus this is more like linux emulation - I have some windows software that can parse and run ELF binaries, and some layer that converts calls to the linux kernel into windows kernel stuff.
Don't forget the non-tech stuff. Good engineers are everywhere. Good engineers who know how to write, can run projects, can lead people, and can get stuff done are much rarer. Tech skills make you competent. Non-tech skills make you senior.

I suggest looking into a liberal arts school that will enforce a well rounded education while still getting your tech classes in. Sadly, this may be your last chance to get that for a while.

The tech you learn in college will be obsolete in a few years. The "soft" stuff will last a lifetime.
Vagrant with virtualbox or hyperv seems like the better choice tbh.
Ohh Wordpress#JAMstack
Think of open source controversies - I reckon there are plenty of geeks with the will to power.
The only secure thing is a thing that only you know and only you can verify even if you are freely observed.

That is, shared secrets between you and your trusted device (meaning passwords) are the singular thing that provide authentication securely. Your password cannot be extracted from your head (yet).

That being said, if your risks are mundane then the benefits of biometric authentication far outweigh constant password input, not to mention that constantly entering your password exposes you to other side-channel attacks.

Biometrics for simple access, passwords for changes, modifies and access to sensitive information.
define TA...Yes fibonacci spaghetti spirals are the financial equivalent of astrology, but the academic evidence supporting the performance of momentum strategies is well established.
I was in 7th grade when Cassini launched, and I remember thinking, "Wow, cool! That seems really interesting!". And then, "Holy Cow, 7 years before it gets there?!".

And then I remember in 2004 hearing about its arrival, and remembering back to 7 years prior and getting excited again about learning new things about these faraway places.

Finally, in 2017, I'm excited about what new information might be obtained during the short dive into the atmosphere. It's been a good run!
I haven't heard of that. But I have seen UPS charge customers when their package gets run over by their trucks. "You should have packed it more securely"
He's probably still trying to quit emacs
A new "made by Google" Chromebook codenamed "Eve" is rumored to be unveiled on the Oct 4 Google event. If the rumor is true then I think Google is now really paying more attention to the laptop market, and the whole Chrome OS ecosystem is very likely to get more mature in the near future. I would love to see JetBrains tools running natively on Chrome OS one day.

source: https://chromeunboxed.com/google-hardware-event-could-be-on-...
Aside from the more obvious answers, I would suggest taking some philosophy courses. I still frequently draw upon what I learned in my logic course from philosophy.

That and anything that improves your communication skills. Courses with an emphasis on analytical writing will pay dividends down the road. Doesn't matter how great your coding skills are if you can't communicate well with others.
I have a git checkout that exhibits this behavior but now I can't replicate it. If I clone another copy, I can mv directories but the file permissions are exactly the same.
[video] Some light quantum mechanics (with MinutePhysics)
There are pretty huge differences between (say) the IEEE and the UAW. Collective bargaining, for example.
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Any more useful than a generator?

Generators already have the inverter built in. "Storage" is your tank of gasoline or whatever fuel it uses.

Generators are cheaper and more reliable for emergency situations right now.
Even better, if you're the maker on a limit trade on GDAX, there's no fee.
Perhaps my experience is atypical in that I"m yet to lose or break an iPhone; I get a new one every two years and have my last four in a drawer (you're right I should probably have sold them).
You mean like the government provided monopoly over that land over there you claim to own but don’t currently have an 18 year old with a gun standing on?

I think any relevant theory of negotiation will include government mediated points of leverage.
"You either stand for your principles in all circumstances or none. If they only count for 'easy' cases they are worthless anyway."

So a third-striker convicted to 15 years in jail for stealing a loaf of bread is equally 'deserving' of help than a child murderer? Okay... Look I would agree if you would say 'we'll focus on a group and if there happen to be undeserving people in that group, we'll grudgingly accept that as 'collateral damage'' - but saying that there can be no advocacy until you can, up front, define exactly what you will stand for and what not, and if you miss an edge case you somehow have a moral obligation to take those 'under your wing' so to say, is just naively rigid absolutism.
Using humor to market a home next to a cemetery
Open borders and free trade (liberal policies championed in the EU and the USA) rob workers of power. It turns the whole world into a race to the bottom. Where companies with unionized employees will always lose to a company based in a jurisdiction where unions are impossible to form for one, um, reason or another.

If you want unions to exist. Support protectionism and strong borders. Otherwise enjoy your cheap servants and goods and keep kvetching about socialism while you sip champagne and call people racist from time to time.
Even Richard Stallman doesn't agree with releasing such small snippets of code under the GPL. See his essays in "Free Software, Free Society."
Windows seems to run fine even with incompetent maintenance.
HTTPS is not a file transfer protocol, nor is it a network service designed for transferring files. People don't realize this until they need to send several gigabytes/terabytes of files in different directories with different permissions owned by different users, and suddenly they need to implement an FTP server over HTTP. Not to mention server-to-server syncing.

FTP is still very useful, and is depended upon by tons of corporations for bulk transfers and sensitive transactions. It is trivial to add SSL to FTP, or use SFTP if your clients/servers support it.