skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. In Israel we have an NGO that selects the most inflammatory stuff that gets said on Arab news media about Israel and the Jews, and translates it into Hebrew and English. Honestly, it would be far better for Arab-Israeli relations if that shit was left untranslated.
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I was wondering about that too. Google already has speech recognition APIs. I don't understand why they don't provide TTS.
Storyboards kind of suck for any team bigger than 1 as far as I’m concerned. They also lock you into a visual binding style development pattern the doesn’t scale as your app grows. Don’t get me wrong, they’re great for fast prototyping or teaching someone how to write code as it helps with a ton of boilerplate.
Oh sorry, miss typed. I owned iPhone 6+ before but I used to own a smaller screen phone, iPhone 5s and Galaxy S also.

To me, I have no regret for a bigger screen since I'm not a frequent one-hand user. But, if I holding food in another hand, it's a problem. I can't touch another side of screen edge easily. (However, I'm a left-handed, and all designs put the button on right.)

iPhone 8+ screen is much better than iPhone 6+! It's worth to upgrade :) Better camera also.
Google Chrome devices only 5 years of updates then EoL
> I'm happy you like VSCode so much. I do too, but I don't think it really qualify as a IDE. Same goes for Atom. Unless you consider Sublime an IDE as well. It has all the features they do, mainly because they ripped it off to gain them.

I never said it was an IDE. At least, I never intended to say it was, because it's not.

> And now, after 3 years of learning, and tweaking, and practising, I get Vim.

It took three years to learn to use Vim to be productive, is what you're saying here. Point and case.
Pft. That's an empty slogan to make puritans feel better about themselves. Plenty of smart people swear. They just don't swear to extreme, and control their swearing when they're speaking formally.

As a ridiculously obvious example, look at Steve Jobs, darling of this site. Whether you love or loathe him, if you think he was an inferior intellect, you should be questioning your own.
This burned me and because of it I can't host a specific static site on S3 because it requires plus signs. Can't change the files being uploaded due to the system generating them... tried to rig up some sort of Akamai rewrite rule to change it at the CDN level but couldn't get it to work.
Natural gas is effectively free for the Gulf states as it’s a byproduct of oil drilling.

Compared to oil it’s harder to store and transport, and there aren’t any gas pipelines from the Gulf to neighbouring areas (unlike say Russia). If you fly over the Gulf at night, you’ll see the sea lit up from oil rigs just burning it off, so it makes sense to use it to fuel heavy industry.

The primary constituent of natural gas is methane, which has a much worse greenhouse effect than CO2, so it’s ‘greener’ to burn it rather than just releasing it into the atmosphere.
i don’t think it’s because of millennials or income inequality...

it’s because the food has gone to shit to maximize shareholder value. starboard value partners actually had to put together a strategy to make their restaurants (olive garden, red lobster) stop serving shit food

http://www.shareholderforum.com/dri/Library/20140911_Starboa...

i remember when both of those first opened 25 years or so ago. they were the cheesecake factories of their day, and they served awesome meals. then, they went to steam bags and microwaveables.

speaking of good restaurants that have gone downhill, i am so disappointed with pf chang’s, it used to be delicious and now makes meals that taste like salty tv dinners.
Yummy: Recipe website that links with AmazonFresh
By your principles felons and minors shouldn't be able to discuss the politics either... I completely disagree with that stance and find it undemocratic myself. Also its not illegal for companies outside the US to buy adds in the US (Assuming facebook/reddit is even considered the US)... And parties outside the US have been making contributions to political campaigns in the US for years so outside "interference" is nothing new...
Up to the S4, and to some extent the S5 (#), I'll agree with you. Since the S6 I've actually found that I prefer the Touchwiz experience to the stock Android one. They've been ahead when it comes to certain features that I've come to like.

In the S8, there's hardly anything that's annoyingly Samsung. Minor exception for Bixby, but at least they let us disable the short presses now (for the button). Ideally they'd let us use whatever A.I. provider of choice; I'd prefer to map it to Google Now/Plus.

(#Just realised I forgot to add the S5 in between the S4 and S6 Edge in my chronology!)
H1B employment is a legal way to own a person in IT.

To Quote from the article -

" Employees are more risk averse, they fear being fired more than contractors do being sued. "

Rephrasing -

" H1B employees are even more risk averse, they fear being deported right from the moment they are fired". A fired H1B employee is out of status from that very moment. He should leave the country asap.

A winning formula for US IT companies. Hire an H1B employee. Squeeze the juice out of them. You can own them than any other type of employee in your organization.
Having worked on 2 multi billion dollar projects in Saudi and UAE the price the bids are in very rarely is the final total cost of a contract or purchase order.
Ongoing changes, corrections, under preforming suppliers that have underestimated the complexities and cost are always present.
The client will need to come up with ways to pay these additional cost if he does not want to sit on a half built plant.
It is not uncommon that contractors go bust under this price pressure and another one with a more realistic cost will come in to save the day.
Problems like this often involve Saudi or UAE government or royalty as the risk of loosing face is hight. Things then get smoothed over with a cup of tea behind closed doors.
Same for me, but it was sugar instead of gluten.
Correct, initial bids rarely match the final cost in this part of the world. They also are highly dependent on the level of detail and soundness of the specification/scope that was bid for.
Be sure to have them agree to Google's privacy policy first, because otherwise you'll be agreeing to it on their behalf.
Imagine if instead of that, Israeli kids all had Arab friends they chatted with online every day while playing video games. That's the sort of thing this technology could be used for.
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90% sure this is a silly question. But what's IRC?
F-Droid is a steaming pile though, compared to the high caliber software in most distro's repos. Linphone, Firefox and many other apps are months or years out of date, with known, active vulnerabilities.
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You can't put the opening brace of a block on a separate line in Go, because the parser will insert a semicolon before it.
Combine H1B with debt like for cars, education, housing, etc., and that’s full-on indentured servitude. People under such duress maybe convinced to work for $30/hr or less.
The Ma’aden Aluminium refinery and smelter complex is the world’s largest, lowest cost fully integrated aluminum facility.[1]
The smelter as well as the alumina refiner have been operational since 2014.[2]
[1] http://www.maaden.com.sa/en/business/aluminium
[2] https://www.alcoa.com/saudi-arabia/en/default.asp
when I read NN Taleb at first I’m intrigued. The ideas and language clicks together. He says ‘I’m a trader’ but really he is a philosopher courtesan. He has the sensibility of a wise man.

But after some time, and some more reading, the feel-good effect ends abruptly.

High praise for autocrats? Criticizing the leaders liberal west as intrinsically defective? Observations on “renting” women to f*? It’s all much too boorish, and _it gets in the way_ of some really solid ideas.

Personally, I’m not sure his ideas are worth the effort of redemption. Maybe after a good editor cleans it up? I stopped following him on Twitter. But every time I see some new fragment of his writing I perk up, only to be disappointed in the end.
Why 6 hours? Not disputing it, just assuming I'm missing something.
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The issue has been open for several months now...
I use tmux regularly, especially on headless servers to which I am SSHing over an unreliable channel (meaning any given SSH app on my iPad that is likely to time out if I switch away from it for too long, or the Doctor's assistant calls my name and I have to lock the screen).

It's extra useful when I am doing something that takes a long time, like upgrading from Debian 8 to 9 with apt-get, and losing the connection would be a real pain.

I used to use GNU screen, but tmux - for me - proved more reliable, and much easier to set up for sharing a screen with a different user to help debug or learn something.

The keystroke mappings don't bother me, and as a hard-core command-line user, I totally appreciate the switch from Ctrl-a (aka "go to start of line") to Ctrl-b. Hitting Ctrl-a while trying to edit a command line and nothing - or worse - happening can be super frustrating, and not all term types support Home and End.

I also just use a small subset of the commands and use 'Ctrl-b ?' if I forget.

So a big thumbs up for tmux from me.
>>hunter-gatherer societies spent much less than 40h/week "working"

Looking at it purely in terms for food and survival requires very little energy to get by life. But that comes with its own problems. Actually Hellenistic period in many ways was a far better time to live in than now.
They were hiring anyone who could write a coherent English sentence to fill out a Gantt chart and ride herd on the programmers, no systems integration experience necessary.
> I use VSCode, and I've found that I haven't had to leave the editor or install anything outside of VSCode plugins to make it operate as a Java IDE, Go IDE (OK, I had to install Delve), or Python IDE.

You explicitly called it an IDE.

> It took three years to learn to use Vim to be productive, is what you're saying here. Point and case.

They didn't say that. Anyone without sever learning difficulties should be as productive in vim as any text editor in a few days at most, it just takes years to master because it's capable of so much.
Are there any macOS terminals like iTerm but with performance and resource efficiency as the top goals?
If you can tie the shield into KBFS, that's even better. It's not enough to protect a company from attacks, though. People may still click that random document coming in via e-mail that claims to be from a co-worker. A mandatory technical solution on that end, no matter what the actual technology looks like under the hood, would be essential for protecting people from making these kinds of mistakes.

The value proposition of automatic and transparent public key cryptography is strong, and what I love about Keybase. Just thinking of other ways that can be applied transparently.
If i understand you correctly this should help you, especially the answer by Tyriar.
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/12054
There isn't. But, it's not cheap to kick off. Upside is it all will get a lot cheaper over time. Done right, initial efforts are high, as things establish, efforts drop to a lower baseline and continue with a slow decline from there.

They are never non zero, even with awesome tech, which isn't necessary, but can be useful.

A plus is there are plenty who will do that work, when shown how, and will do so just for the greater community value they get in return.

I'll toss out a hint here:

You are in charge of how your interactions go. Invert the frame. Works wonders.
If you knowingly upgrade libraries and/or other project dependencies you wouldn't expect backward compatibility (assume semver conventions), do you?

Why would upgrading a compiler be any different?
I don't use sublime but your editor is your main tool. I don't see many general contractors pulling out Ryobi tools to do their job. Those are for the weekend DIYer. The pros invest in their tools to get their job done. $80 is really a small ask for a lifetime license for an app you spend most of your time in.
It's still a pretty great lunch or post work spot. That whole neighborhood is pretty much a weekday/workday only kind of crowd though.
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> He can’t tell the difference between a bad model and a broken system for creating models. He proudly claims that probability is broken because the models that people create to estimate outcomes are bad. And he uses the worst possible collection of models for the most complex systems that we know of as proof that the system is broken.

> And I don’t even know that much about stats. I dropped out of a violin performance and music theory degree. I just read a few stats textbooks and had some good professional mentors because some of this is relevant to my work as a data engineer.

eye roll

> What Taleb does here (again) is conflate a legitimate criticism of frequentist statistical models with a critique of incomplete decision models.

double take

..bullshit?

His critique:

* E[f(x)] is different from E[x] ~ X

* Jensen's inequality => use a convex decision/utility function/behavior whenever you are exposed to events out of your control

* Things like coin flip outcomes or binary true/false observations ( i.e. not simply just probabilities! ) depend on their zeroth-moment; no dependency on magnitude of the moment, such as in outcomes that are made complex by outcome-dependency upon higher-order moments

* Bet on processes whose payoff f(x) has a stochastic first moment, but don't do so stupidly, and bet rarely

* Any uncertainty about the generating process concerning higher-order moments of very small probability outcomes makes the payoff more attractive for this class of complex outcomes

If you care at all, the preprint of Silent Risk will more than satisfy for a collection of proofs. Hell even the page I just happened to be looking at would [0]

[0] https://i.imgur.com/W1V3jyV.png?1
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Linux tech tip had a review of such device that they found on kickstarter a month ago. Is google adding something to the concept?
So just trying to understand this - does dl4j become the essential middle layer if someone wants to run Tensorflow on spark seamlessly?

Because it seemed on the surface that you guys replaced tf. If you guys offer a better ecosystem where tf and spark work together (but don't really rip out tf), then it is even more awesome.
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I'm curious to learn how to think about the applicability of ML inside my app or server. I know I could hire an ML professional to do the thinking for me but a bootstartup can't really afford the time, money, and salesmanship required to locate and hire such a person.

What I'd love to see is something which says "hey! Here's ML technique X and these are the areas where X or something similar to X can be used."

Schools do well in transmitting this information to us - "here's multiplication. Use it to figure out how much 5 boxes of cereal cost if one costs $4.71" and so on.

If companies are trying to mass-ify ML, they need to de-ivory-tower-ify the applicability of ML in everyday thinking too.

Take face recognition - easy as pie to try out and understand but apart from the extremely limited use case of finding friends to tag in social media, what else can it be used for? Can it used as a diagnostic tool in neurology or ophthalmology? Can face recognition be used in police sketchups? No idea and not many blogs exist to think about such things.

The other problem with ML is that it has no component parts that we can extract and use on its own. Every ML technique comes fully formed - image recognition is a complete API. Are there constituent parts inside image recognition that, when combined with constituent parts of (say) face recognition, become a better ML tool? Again, I have no idea and no blogs discuss this either.

I want to use ML.

(Also, if you're going to link to your own blog, you should mention that maybe? Your HN username and your blog name are disjoint enough for the link not to be obvious.)
I think they have to be careful not to focus on Equifax only. Instead they should think about systems where such a breach is just not possible. It's only a matter of time until other companies like credit card companies get breached. Same for Google and Facebook. We need a system where an individual can hand over information one a case-by-case basis and revoke that information anytime.
Mine was a used Commodore SX-64 with a tiny 3" monitor. I bought a few apps for it. One was a Spreadsheet app and that's what I first learned the very basics of programming with. I didn't it have very long though. I talked someone into selling me their Mac Plus that was collecting dust on a desk in their house and sold the Commodore to help pay it off.

From there I bought my first new computer, a Mac PowerPC 6100, then and 8500, then a used G3 and G4, and now I have late `09 Mac Mini that I bought new on sale just before they released then next model of those. I've upgraded it with an SSD and 8GB of Ram and it's still a great little computer. Best I've ever owned.
Communication enables social inclusivity which brings people together. I went to a large university and many exchange students would gravitate towards their own groups during social situations. Picture a group of individuals from $X country huddled together in a corner of a bar for a couple hours not able to talk to anyone else.
Coincidentally, I recently located my first published BASIC game in an 80's magazine, on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/1984-12-compute-magazine (page 79 if you're truly curious)

Back in that era I worked for Compute! magazine as an "editorial programmer". People would submit BASIC games to the magazine for some particular 8-bit micro (as in the linked story above), and it was the job of the editorial programmers to port the game to other computers. I did the Apple ][ ports. I got the job (high school, so after school) through a friend who did the C64 ports.
But then you have nothing new. Hash chains are at least as old as a 1981 Lamport paper, and merkle trees (the data structure inside a blockchain block) were patented in 1979.
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> This is not about the coding police coming to get you but preventing you from shooting yourself into your feet when you extend the enumeration.

This.

And not necessarily yourself, but whomever maintains the software after you.

Of course this doesn't prevent someone from adding a "default" label in some future iteration.
This also requires some assumptions: That there is no minimum stake and stakes are infinitely divisible. They're important assumptions because finding yourself near zero can easily happen on "full Kelly", especially if it's not a game of perfect information.
It is quite telling that this solar project is taking place in Saudi Arabia, the worlds most profitable producer of fossil fuels. You know, the fossil fuel companies all see where things are going. It is only American conservatives who are in deep denial.
After reading this I think it's fair to say we're not all whippersnappers here.
I have being using Chrome Profile(People) feature since they were introduce. It has been a god send for me. I tried Firefox containers for a couple of days here a couple things that will really help:

* Containers need to be per window. Keeping track of containers at Tab level is lot of mental work.

* Set a different default container per device. For example I want to set different default for an office laptop, home computer, shared device, etc.

Firefox is getting there i feel it is just moving too slow for me to make a complete switch.
That's cool. I still think the primary issue is the marketing makes it sound like the ear buds are bringing new tech to make this experience possible, when they're really bringing:

a) UX for "hold while talking"

b) Known quality of the headset

From the outside, it looks a bit shady, and a bit un-Googlelike just to compete with Apple.

I imagine a more Google-like approach would've been to release Translate as a local model (eg like https://developers.google.com/vision/). It's easy to imagine the community would quickly figure out a way to solve a) and make the experience work for most headsets.
Well the F-16 is also single engine, as are a great many other successful fighter planes.
I haven't looked into it for a while, but AMD often supports ECC so long as the motherboard supports it. I haven't checked the current lineup, but looked at it for my last home-server build.

I agree with you entirely, to be sure. A quick Google led me to here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/6f7s28/what_is_the_sta...

It's a thread that is about four months old and they are discussing ECC support with Rizen CPUs. It looks like they have some current-gen solutions.
I loved that book! My dad's computer store stocked it continuously for years. And Dr Dobb's of course.
I have observed an astonishing correlation between leaks of information about the Whitehouse and officials associated with Internet Surveillance, and a bipartisan interest in curbing the various agencies responsible for collecting that information.
As far as I read in no way shape or form were they talking about 'conflict' ie war which is what you seem to be implying?

War is a blip.

This device isn't going to translate mosquito (for now, I'm sure at some stage it will, the possibilities are exciting for apps that analyze sounds around you)

The issues are around trade and such.
I wonder how VR/AR will change this?

With your four display setup, now perched on your nose, moving between sitting desk, standing desk, and stretching on the floor, means moving a wireless keyboard. And for tasks where phone-like keyboards are good enough, no need for the desk, just wander.

Twitch a finger on a pad, twitch a hand and arm on mouse or controller or knee, or raise your arms and dance. You, not the task, determine your style.

Overlay work, while hanging with children. Or map remote kids, into your virtual world. Helicopter parents, meet drones.

Commuting? Well, I suppose some prefer the village well, to indoor plumbing - it's a chance to socialize, away from family oversight. And I suppose commuting will become more pleasant, as the roads clear out - have you seen video of 1950's highways? ;)

There's a meme, of people blithely living their lives, ignoring the future, not appreciating they will soon be stumbling through the smoking ruins of their city. Perhaps we need its complement. People blithely stumbling through smoking ruins, not appreciating they will soon be living in a city.
> Name one current conflict in which language and the inability to communicate is a barrier.

It'd be easier to list the wars in which language wasn't a barrier. Excluding the category of civil wars, there aren't many wars where opposing sides largely speak a common language.
Read his first non-finance book, "Fooled by Randomness".

It is actually well written, easy to read and briefly contains all the ideas in his later books.

His writing quality has decreased hugely since then, but his ego has not.
I agree. I didn't really learn vim (and subsequently learn to love it) until I disabled the arrow keys in my .vimrc file, which forced me to learn hjkl.
Thanks, yeah I'm familiar with the SMC but this is the first I've heard of it in the context of boot sectors.

There wasn't much in the wikipedia link about that.

Also the primary purpose of an SMC is not DRM, but battery, fans, power management etc.
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Because they usually maintain one previous minor version for security releases.
This is awesome! Can't wait to use websocket compression.
There's https://anbox.io/. I don't know, though, if there's any limitation that prevents using this on the Librem 5.