skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great explanation, this technique has a lot of applications for extracting event triggers out of audio streams. Even though I've trained my iPad repeatedly though it still is a bit to eager to answer to others who talk to it (either on purpose or by accident).

At some point I expect Apple to design an audio neural network processor to put on their CPU chips which will allow them to do both phrase recognition and highly accurate speaker dependent text to speech on their devices. It will be yet another way that people who don't build silicon won't be able to compete.
It's warming up, isn't it? I'm hearing about a loss of permafrost. Sounds like it's becoming more habitable up north.
I think when it comes to climate change, you can end up in one of three buckets:

- denier (perhaps the happiest group)

- defeatist (I recycle and cycle to work, but what can I do?
I'm just one person, its all so bad, I'm depressed)

- activist (I'm going to do something about this now, they can't do this to my children)

I think one of the biggest problems facing us on climate change is somehow making better use of people who care than letting them fall into defeatist mode.
Here's the problem I always had with cyronics. You're trusting the future to revive you using future technology. But can you trust it will be for your benefit? Can you trust the technology will be used ethically?

Suppose a theocratic world order identifies you as an enemy of the state, and in an effort at "penance", places your brain into a machine that simulates torture, where not even suicide can bring about escape?

A curt reminder that historical "progress" is neither linear nor clearly defined was all I needed to reject the concept. If you assume technology will be fantastic enough one day to revive your perished brain, what holds back the caution that this same technology cannot be used to subject you to inescapable torture?

You may view information-specific death as optional now, but one day, it may be outright banished from your set of choices. The world you return to may not afford you the luxury of choosing to die.
I think things have spread out enough where we have a true upper middle and upper class now. 750k+ is probably a solid upper class person, and 250K+ is probably solidly "upper-middle".
Or just build more houses where people want to live? They want to be there because lots of other talented people are there, with all the opportunities of culture, education, and jobs that brings. And also they want to be able to get around easily, not rely on their car.
I’ve noticed a lot less bug splatter on windshields when I go on a long trip in the Midwest. Inm sure there’s research in this but I’m in a restaurant right now waiting for my group.

It has to be disconterning to see these kind of changes.

Edited: there’s more with linked articles elsewhere in the thread that I just saw.
FYI, in HTML5 <img src=".." alt=""> is equactly equivalent to <img src=".." alt>. Value-less attributes become attributes with empty string values at the tokenizer level.
TPP included the rules that would supersede nafta....
I thought Australia was good at recycling until I visited countries like South Korea.
By modern, I mean the conservative movement that arose after WWII. See for instance The Conservative Intellectual Movement by George Nash.

>I believe Buckley is considered one of the really important neo-conservatives.

Actually, the term "neo-conservativism" originally referred to people like Norman Podhoretz and Irving Kristol who had originally been leftists, and switched to conservativism in the 60's.

Later it also came to include the idealistic hawks who supported the invasion of Iran and other aggressive foreign affairs policies. See, for instance, the book Present Dangers edited by William Kristol and Robert Kagan.
I was listening to an entomologist podcast on colony collapse and they were suggesting that as members of the colony became more and more impaired the interdependency of the various bee groups (workers, foragers, queen) was compromised and then "all of a sudden" the hive was unable to reliably function. And large social group (ants, termites, bees, etc) might be similarly affected.
Try to help figure out why it's happening. Uninformed activism is unhelpful, and can cause people to ignore informed activism.
Well, something to consider is that Little Boy (the hiroshima bomb) had a yield of roughly 15kt. Obviously a nuke has different characteristics from a fuel-air explosion, most of which I haven't considered and would not qualified to comment on anyway, but the comparison doesn't make me very comfortable with 15 miles. It probably wouldn't be within the blast radius (depending on how the burning fuel propagated), at least, but the the amount of radiant heat generated would be nothing to sneeze at. I could certainly be overestimating the issue - I'm guessing the rapidity of a nuclear explosion vs. a fuel air explosion affects its pound for pound destructiveness significantly.

Sibling comment has a good point that hyperloop could make spaceports at safe distances more accessible.
Here's one more reason:

Word2Vec is based on an approach from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
posted in Bag of Words Meets Bags of Popcorn 3 years ago
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"Google silently did something revolutionary on Thursday. It open sourced a tool called word2vec, prepackaged deep-learning software designed to understand the relationships between words with no human guidance. Just input a textual data set and let underlying predictive models get to work learning."

“This is a really, really, really big deal,” said Jeremy Howard, president and chief scientist of data-science competition platform Kaggle. “… It’s going to enable whole new classes of products that have never existed before.” https://gigaom.com/2013/08/16/were-on-the-cusp-of-deep-learn...

Spotify seems to be using it now: http://www.slideshare.net/AndySloane/machine-learning-spotif... pg 34

But here's the interesting part:

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab was working on an approach more detailed than word2vec (in terms of how the vectors are structured) since 2005 after reading the bottom of their patent: http://www.google.com/patents/US7987191 The Berkeley Lab method also seems much more exhaustive by using a fibonacci based distance decay for proximity between words such that vectors contain up to thousands of scored and ranked feature attributes beyond the bag-of-words approach. They also use filters to control context of the output. It was also made part of search/knowledge discovery tech that won the 2008 R&D100 award http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2008/07/09/berkeley-... & http://www2.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/sabl/2005/March...

A search company that competed with Google called "seeqpod" was spun out of Berkeley Lab using the tech but was then sued for billions by Steve Jobs https://medium.com/startup-study-group/steve-jobs-made-warne... and a few media companies http://goo.gl/dzwpFq

We might combine these approaches as there seems to be something fairly important happening here in this area. Recommendations and sentiment analysis seem to be driving the bottom lines of companies today including Amazon, Google, Nefflix, Apple et al.

https://www.kaggle.com/c/word2vec-nlp-tutorial/discussion/12...
we know convictions are disproportionate based on race and economic status.

we also know that all protected classes are equally likely to murder. The standard for guilt is the same regardless of any protected class status.

The executives at Equifax did a lot more damage to the American public than most drug offenders and yet they will never serve a day of time for their actions.

It's a sorry state of affairs that retribution is subordinated to wealth, but we can fix that with tougher laws.
Saying that science is biased because it fails to see the benefit of global warming is like saying it's biased because it doesn't discuss the benefit of a worldwide plague.

Sure, there'd be benefits: fewer lines at amusement parks, all the food you can eat, etc. But that's so far from a net "good" that only a psychopath or moron would publish a paper with that argument.
You could make the exact same argument without cryonics.

It's possible that tomorrow, the United States will collapse into an evil theocracy that decides to both torture me and devote all of its resources to prolonging my life indefinitely. I could commit suicide today to escape that possibility, but I don't because I judge it to be extremely unlikely.
Great Eastern on Jackson St. I don't know if you can order straight off the menu or if you need to clarify you want the live dish.

The first time we ordered it the shrimp weren't moving for several minutes, so we felt deflated and resigned to eating unexciting raw shrimp. Someone picked one up to eat it and let out a shriek when it jumped.
Good point, that might make it more feasible. I hope we see some successful deployments.
As others have mentioned I would assume distractions have something to do with it. Whenever I need to learn a new language for work I always opt for a paper copy of a book, and other than photography books those are the only physical ones I have purchased in the last 10+ years. New frameworks obviously I go with a screen as that material changes pretty rapidly, but just baseline getting started with a language, physical book works best for me.
In this case, there could be literally nothing instead.

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Maybe I’m just a dummy but you should probably explain source code escrow as the first topic in your faq. I think I know what it entails but Im making a lot of assumptions...
Thanks for the comment. I strongly agree that smoothing is not always beneficial and that the users should be informed and have control of the amount of the smoothing that is being applied to their plots.

We developed ASAP with the intend to complement, instead of replacing the raw plots. We view ASAP more as a "smart default" - if you were to expose a slide bar of different moving average window sizes that users could apply to their visualizations, where should a reasonable default be on that slide bar?

In addition, ASAP does not always choose to smooth the visualizations. In some cases (e.g. Figure C.1 in the arXiv paper) where the raw plots already have a few well-defined outlying regions and smoothing would only decrease the extent of such deviations, ASAP leaves the visualization unsmoothed.
I dont disagree with much of what you said, I am mainly speaking out against the pay gap myth.

As far as disclosing pay, I alway deflect it and treat the question as them asking me what my salary expectations are, which likely ends up doing the same thing, but I dont think I have ever told a company what my salary was at a previous job

My current employer never asked, they said "this job pays X per year" did get a small increase over that first offer but not alot.

At this point in my career though (17 years in) I focus less on raw salary and more on working environment, I would rather take a lower salary to have a care free easy environment than make 15% more but have a high stress high demanding employer. Been there done that... not for me.
I doubt most employers would go for that, but I suppose it's possible. More importantly, though, it'd also be much harder than getting it from a payroll provider.
This part of the blockchain always made perfect sense to me. The magic is in the proof of work and proof of stale stuff as well as smart contracts.
> I didn't find the reply especially convincing, or the arguments for the likelihood of small numbers raised in the main essay.

The author isn't trying to convince you of her counterargument to doctrine. The author is trying to convince you to be less convinced by hand-waviness in lieu of rigorous deduction. The author doesn't even believe that inflation is incorrect, nor does she claim to believe MOND over standard dark matter models; she is pointing out that taking one good, well-evidenced, well-reasoned theory and using it as a prop to chock up a piece of shaky, though attractive, supposition is bad science. She's pointing out that even highly regarded thinkers can allow simplification for the purpose of communication and impact to erase complexity in reasoning and teaching.

So yeah, her arguments may not convince you. She's not trying to convince you, she's trying to show you reasonable doubt. Different standard of evidence.
Network namespaces, virtual ethernet interfaces, iptables rules, & union filesystems are all very cheap and have little to no overhead for normal use cases. N processes in 1 container isn't a perf win over N processes in N containers.

Shared process memory isn't the easy memory-consumption win it sounds like, locking is hard to get right, potentially very destructive to the parallel performance that was the point of the whole exercise, and marries you to a single physical box.

Even if you want to take advantage of shared-address-space shared memory you probably want to do it in a more principled way than fork()

One-copy-per-thread and share-by-communicating both give you braindead simple scaling without dealing with that.
I think I'm addicted to sugar. I know the dangers and I just can't stop. It really thwarts my other addictive behavior, the pursuit of optimal health.
McCain signs on to Democrats' Facebook ad disclosure bill
not OP, but can give you an industry opinion (I design laboratory automation work-cells like theirs for a living :).

They're one of many core labs that offer similar "assay as a services". I like their vibe and attempt and a differentiated offering.

Transcriptic's data capabilities and web experience may be enhanced compared to industry standard, but overall their offering it's a pretty common tech to the industry. They make a big deal of their "cloud" capabilities. (personally: It seems like a nice attempt but doesn't move the needle much). The trouble with running core labs is every user wants something different. It's pretty rare to be able to put together a set of experiments that different customers across the industry will want to us... and the optimum protocols/libraries themselves are constantly changing. Regarding Transcriptic in particular, it's unclear how much tweaking users can do to their protocols, which many rule out it being acceptable to many researchers.

Many larger companies, universities and hospitals get similar robotic work-cells custom designed for their research centers (and have been for 20+ years).

That all said, there are real barriers to automation in this space, most of which is the researchers don't know it, don't trust it, or can't afford it. It is remarkable to me the number of labs that run on sneaker-net.
Techmeme summary: Ashley Gold / Politico: Senators Warner and Klobuchar to file bill, cosponsored by McCain, to increase online political ad transparency, bring rules to parity with TV, radio, satellite
Gandhi fighting worked because the Indians outnumbered the british by more than 10:1, and if they did fight, they easily could have won.

What's changed since then is that an extreme minority can kill far more people. For instance, automated drones.
I feel like the van-life idea is growing, there are many videos of "here's me converting a moving van to a house on wheels!". I guess the lack of traditional show-up-at-the-office-everyday jobs (if a college grad can still even get one of those these days) and easier access to high-speed internet mean people are willing to try the nomad lifestyle. Of course all the youtubers say "follow me on Instagram" so they can tell companies that they're "influencers", would they like a mention for some money?, which to me feels like an unsustainable line of work...
Great description.

Old school leaders weren’t as transactional as the people running things today.
This defeatist attitude is terrible. There's so, so much you can personally do, even if you personally can't create change on a global scale a la Bill Gates and co.
>I must be since I don't see EU countries paying 1.5-2x for gas due to ideological reasons.

No, as the article says, the prices are only 20% higher.

And again I ask you, are you a big Putin fan?
Director of the OSUOSL here.

We can certainly help as many projects as we can that are impacted by this. Situations like this is why we are still important today despite all the in-kind public cloud services projects can get. We provide a neutral hosting environment supported by various sponsorships (we can always use more!)
Every non-memory-safe language ought to come with a formal semantics. If the type checker can't semi-decide whether the program has a well-defined meaning, at least you ought to have the tools to do it on your own. (This isn't a Zig-specific complaint. I've made exactly the same remark about unsafe Rust in the past.) I'm afraid that the illusion of simplicity would be lost in the formalization process.
"It sounds like something those jerks would do" is the absolute least persuasive reason you could've given.

Here's why I think it's implausbile:

* It's hard for me to believe this practice would be profitable. The revenue would be pretty small (since it only applies to lease renewals, not the initial lease at the advertised price), and it would presumably increase turnover, which is one of a landlord's biggest costs.

* If this is common practice, why is it not common knowledge? It would be clickbait gold, and any two tenants in a big building full of identical units could compare notes and put two and two together, to say nothing of the hundreds or thousands of office workes in property management companies that would have to be aware of it. I looked around for about two minutes and didn't find any articles denouncing it, so it seems likely to be either false or the subject of a remarkably effective cover-up.
“Enjoy” a meadow full of stinging insects?
Google Cloud and Firebase. Free tiers available for experimenting ;)

Caddy is very versatile as web server, proxy, load balancer, etc. And plays well with gRPC.

For middleware, golang is enough. Gorilla and go-kit add useful helpers.

As far as frontend, I've used Bootstrap, Foundation, etc. But prefer building custom solutions with things like D3.JS and Babylon.JS. Stripe Elements is also really nice.

Good luck!
Are these generally individually metered and charged for supply? If not, I can't see this lasting long once people start pulling 80+ kWh per night out of them.
I bought some AmazonBasics AAs for my old camera (Canon PowerShot SX100 IS). They last hundreds of shots on a charge.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HZV9TGS/
Source code escrow is a great service, and one that ALL developers who do client contract work should look into. I've been creating bespoke software for business clients for nearly 30 years now as a one man business, and I have a clause in all my development contracts that stipulates should I pass on or my business ceases to exist, that full source code is released to my clients so they can engage another programmer to maintain those projects.

However, I do think the current pricing is quite high when given the expected timeframes that this sort of service can have. For example, I have one client where I have had their software in escrow with a local lawyer now for over 20 years! I believe my lawyer only charged me < $500 for the drafting of the contract way back then, and I've never seen a bill from him in 2 decades now for the CD of code that he has in his safe somewhere.

Mind you, that CD would be totally out of date now, with the incremental changes that I have made to the system over the years, and I have no real guarantee that the CD is in fact still in a safe somewhere as I have not spoken to my lawyer about this in some years.

That's why I think that this Codekeeper service is a good thing, as it always ensures your latest code is available. But the drawback are:

1. Is this service still going to be around in 10+ years?
2. The cost per month is still quite high. Given my project I mentioned above, it would have cost me $11760 to date to have my source code in escrow. If I am going to be around for another 10 years, then that is going to cost me another ~$6000.

I could conceivably pass those costs on to my customers, but then that is another thing I have to track and ensure they are billed etc.
Designing with Meaningful Color
They were asking for something proactive, to exit their defeatism. Perhaps you could suggest something.

I suppose reducing spending and food waste is one way an individual can help.

Or for specific problems like insects, if you have a lawn, don’t use pesticides, and cultivate areas of local plants. Grass only lawns aren’t very helpful for insects.
> Perhaps we need a Model W the Westfalia edition :-).

http://cafeelectric.com/stretchla/
Authorities to begin checking immigrants’ social media
The short answer: out of thin air or more exactly out of ether ;)

The long answer: https://twitter.com/nivertech/status/903964504446439424
Unfortunately, as always, the pain med thing was mis_targetted.

There are a lot of people who die in needless pain all around the world. They're just not the same folks who are being over-prescribed oxy.
'"stop using [something useful]" considered harmful' is dying
Is that really the number one priority for talented people? Walking?

Besides, we have a dozen modes of transportation already available: cars, buses, motorcycles, segways, bicycles, subways, trams, taxis, powered walkways, rollerblades, skateboards, hover boards, ATVs, skis, sleds, horses, etc. How exactly is walking the panacea of transportation? So much so that people would be willing to live in cars?
It's not hypothetical at all. Watch the demos; they clearly demonstrate data being exfiltrated. Additionally, the article mentions several times that yes, the bits/sec is quite low due to several factors. I don't think the author is exaggerating the situation at all.

Would you rather wait for the API to go live and then be abused to steal real data? I would much rather researchers discover and report on possible attack vectors long before they are enabled by default. "Trust by default" long ago proved foolish.
Wouldn't applying for credit based on "aspirational" finances be fraud?
Fire, LOL. So plane crash might work, as long as you're killed by impact and not inferno.

When my grandmother was dying of cancer, I asked her how she felt about her death which we knew was likely just weeks away. She said that, aside from the cancer, being old sucks in ways that made her more ready to be done with it. And her life was in good order so it was an ok time to end. That's really my only wish -- that I be ready for it. Pain's ok as long as it doesn't turn me into a total asshole.
A cheeky name for logisim: http://www.cburch.com/logisim/
Two reasons:

- living outside of a city is actually a luxury. Cheap land, but a long distance to culture and services. Most people cannot afford a car, for example.

- rural living is more detrimental to the environment
The idea of only getting 10 days PTO a year continues to be incredible to me.
The list of things an individual can do to lessen their environmental impact could fill a book, and it's up to the person to determine where they can best act. These ideas are easily googleable, which is why I suggest that changing the attitude from "hole up with food and guns" to "look for ways to be proactive".
> I want to dedicate a slice of time to doing something to solve the problem

Eat less meat (huge environmental impact!), bike more, don't consume as much non-local food, etc.
heads up: site pulled up blank in safari on ios 10.
thanks for sharing the code.
I know the Maxim MaxQ is a microcontroller that implements a transport triggered architecture.
IBM Watson on Winograd schemas? It beat jeopardy... ?