skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Switzerland, at least one big shop makes this service optional. It costs me about 1500 US$ (for a total of 6000 US$) to get the extra service (additional warranty, free batteries, regular visits for cleaning and updating settings). I think this is worth it as it ensures a great longevity to the hearing aid (my previous hearing aids are 8 year old and still working).
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Don't forget that being too good can also cause you to fail the Turing test. I would not expect a human to be able to answer some questions that may be trivial to a computer. Things like, "What's the square-root of 137?" Or, "Identify this obscure song within 5 seconds of listening from a random starting point."
This is why I think Google recently saying 95% word accuracy is just as good as a human is wrong. If I ask if you after dinner if you "Want to get a pizza cake", you'll probably quickly realize I mean "piece of cake". Mistakes like that in 1/20 words is a lot.

Google is the best of all the big players at figuring out this context (I once asked it what a Dead Left Shrimp was, apparently I was mishearing the name of basketball player Detlef Schrempf), but it will still search for "Pizza Cake" rather than correcting it.
Firstly, for the most part CS schools don't train students on "IT-focused Java" or "web middleware", whatever that is. Most schools try to teach the fundamentals.

Secondly, a developer that masters and shows proficiency in any complex software ecosystem, including Java and web middleware, is going to have transferable skills valuable to any software company.
I appreciated firebug back in the day, but a few years ago the devs decided to force a white background to it, which did not work in our darkened media studio. They would not reconsider (not the first time I’ve had a run in with white bg fascists; they’ve now taken over the prefs panel).

Thankfully moz dev tools were getting to be just good enough around that time and supported a dark theme. Last time I ever used firebug, thanks for all the fish.
> rest of San Francisco’s infrastructure including mass transit

The moment Proposition 13 gets repealed that will no longer be a problem.
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I grew up in Lee County, FL, and currently live in Cape Coral while saving up to buy land and build my dream home elsewhere in the state.

The thing they don't tell you about Cape Coral is that Code Enforcement is the unofficial religion of the city. It's basically an oversized Home Owners' Association.

A lot of retired folks come down here and, with nothing better to do with their golden years, decide to annoy their neighbors with petty complaints in an attempt to raise property values. Whether or not it's a good investment, mots of the people are chronically annoying to the point of toxicity.
I too made the transition a little over a year ago and I have no regrets!

If you haven't already found it, check out the local startup Slack channel:

https://pdx-startups-slack.herokuapp.com/

Let me know if you want to grab a cup of coffee sometime.
I'd challenge you to transcribe a casual conversation without understanding. Too many words sound very similar, if not identical, and the context of the conversation dictates which word is in play.

Even something simple like "They're unhappy, Ness" could be interpreted as "Their unhappiness" unless you know Ness is a person in the converation.
Then there is Chinese, which the same "sound" can have many different words. And we constantly make up new short form or words, a lot more so then English means recognizing these are much harder. ( Then there is Cantonese... )

Sometimes I wonder, if Apps could add vocabulary to devices dictionary, so certain terms in Gaming, Fashion, or Tech or other domain, which are rarely used in normal conversation would be recognized in speech to text as well as Auto Correct.
Only if you use the `standup` plugin. ;)
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Yup.

This is good for Bitcoin.
In other words, we have some systems that are great at processing spherical cows in a vacuum...
Firebug was free and ubiquitous. Unless you were in a MS shop, the likelihood of having Visual Studio are minimal.

Firebug was a quantum leap in terms of HTTP/JS debugging.
Yes, fine, but most of the point of this particular post was that it was John McCarthy, who is the father of Lisp. Otherwise, as someone said, it's just old flaming about mars landers. Moreover, if you take all personality out of science, you're doing science a disservice.
Except the truth is far less clear.

Look up Lenin's train full of gold and how Trotsky made his way back to Russia through several countries despite being a wanted criminal.. or the actual start of the war w/r/t austrian occupation of serbia and nicholas II's slavic brotherhood movement and things become far more murky as to who 'the west' was backing.. esp. when one considers what position russia would have been in in to negotiate with the fallen ottomans and what that would mean for french/british hegemony in the near east..

As for afterwords - the USSR still traded with the west, and some people still made money.. look into the NEP beyond seeing it as a curious historical footnote and it too is not so clear..

Funny, kind of sounds like the last 20 years or so... hmm..
>if you look at the respective incarceration rates by race.

Yet the theory breaks down once you look at a breakdown of race, gender, and SES.
Not CS/Engineering related, but I went to a pretty mediocre design program in my country (top of my country but compared to others world wide, not that exceptional), yet studying with designers who ended up being far better than some of the designers I worked with in NYC who graduated from notable (and more expensive) institutions like RISD and Parsons.
So the idea of putting bombers on alert is to make it more difficult for the enemy to carry out a successful preemptive strike. But how? Bombers aren't harder to destroy, and they're clustered together, so the number of additional warheads needed is small. Is it just about requiring the enemy to use 1-2% more warheads in a preemptive strike, or is there something else to it?
'their bankers' -> look into the backers of lenins train full of gold..
That's what I've gathered based on the online discussions:

Possible reasons why the original project stagnated: [0].

Mention of the manticoresearch as a fork project was removed from the sphinx forum [1] - so I can guess that developers who moved to the new project did not part on good terms with Andrew - the original author.

that's the last reply in that thread from person involved in Manticore, posted on the 23rd of Oct 2017:

"
aditirex just replied to 'Sphinx search fork':

===cut===
> But your the people who are already using sphinx, why we should change?

The open-source version of Sphinx received 5 code commits since November last year, from which 3 are related to building stuff. Last release was 12 months ago.
There are also a lot of unresolved reported bugs (many of them are crashes) in the bug tracker.
Andrew said a while ago that the open-source version would only receive fixes (which doesn't seem to happen either).
No one wanted to do the fork, it was the only way several big users saw it in order to continue using Sphinx. Don't ask me how we got into this situation, I'm not the right person to answer to that.

> What are the main benefits rather than using Sphinx?

Manticore is pretty much continuing Sphinx. Last year we had 4 developers + Andrew working on the code, 3 of them are working now on Manticore.

If Sphinx just works for you there is no reason to switch. But we're adding new features, fix existing bugs, the software is tested by some big users before getting released, you get a software that has support from it's developers.

> Is Foolz\SphinxQL\SphinxQL working?

Everything works as before, it's a fork, not a total new software.
"

[0] http://sphinxsearch.com/blog/2017/07/24/sphinx-2017/
[1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
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> Xiaomi Note 4

I picked up a Xiaomi Mi A1 for ~$325 last week when my Nexus 5X died of sudden bootloop. I think it's very similar to the Note 4 but is part of the Android One initiative which means it runs stock Android and should get updates more regularly. I think it's marked up a bit in my market but it was still cheap enough and is a great device—awesome build quality, fast enough, and has a headphone jack!
Nice approach!!!
You're making an assumption that graduates only know what the curriculum teaches.

In an industry where 60% of the workforce hasn't learned the field through a traditional degree[1], and where a nontrivial fraction of these are self taught, I think that's a pretty bad assumption.

Besides, this argument would hold more water if companies actually tested for this stuff. Most companies seem to be interested in testing algorithms and puzzles, which ultimately aren't actually that useful (sure, algorithms are useful, but not the culture of hyperoptimizing-by-big-O; when n is rarely huge O(f(n)) doesn't matter). Yeah, for an AI job they'll test AI as well, but large companies continue to test with an overwhelming bias for this. I don't think they get to say they want to choose the skillset of their pool by choosing colleges if they do that.

Also, all the large companies (Google, MS, Facebook, etc) hire-first-ask-questions-later; they don't hire college grads for a specific position, they just hire them and work out the position later.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/12/unlocking-trapped-engineer...
> Maybe it could check the signature everytime one downloads the bundle?

Yes, that's probably the direction we're going to go.

> So downstream developers+admins need to set pretty liberal file permissions? (Or perhaps dig-up a way to use an alternative data directory?) Might be useful for the docs mention this.

That's a good point. Another developer indicated they were writing a pull request to add composer post-install hooks, and I could easily add one that chmods this directory.
Anyone trying to unseat Excel is going to have the same problems as people trying to unseat Facebook: they already have lock-in of the vast majority of the userbase.

I use Google Sheets for most spreadsheet work now, but I was never heavily invested in Excel. Everyone I know who is a serious Excel user just isn't interested in anything else. Excel does everything they need it to do, and they have years worth of templates and formulas developed for all their needs.
That makes some sense. Do the numbers work out, though? You could launch bombers on a less certain warning, but they'll take longer to get far enough away to be safe.
I have replied to "What exactly is it about children under the age of 12 that requires a car?", I did not say it is unique to children. But children is a big factor. We did not really needed a car before we had children. Now we need two cars.

"Everyone should be able to get everywhere they want to go easily without owning a car so a personal automobile should be considered a luxury" is a nice thought, no objections.

So how about we'll talk about "owning a car ... should be considered a luxury" first when "everyone should be able to get everywhere they want to go easily" is implemented? Because it's pretty far from my reality.
And it was the most awful tasting stuff too. It wasn't until later in life that I learned liver could actually taste good if it was prepared right.
No ketchup stains anymore!
Yes, this is exactly what I meant.
Oh, interesting! There's a new thing about Git that I learned today…

With notes, I think the merge strategy may need to be changed, in case multiple people want to re-sign the same commit, but that shouldn't be too bad. The only thing left is to find a way to leverage the functionality, but having the foundation there should make it much easier!
Good(-looking) knowledge base software.
Open source / on-prem solution

Like Confluence or Nuclino (nice UI/UX)
This is exactly what we're solving at interviewing.io. We open up our practice platform to all students, and the best performers rise to the top, completely independently of school/geography. We're really, really proud of this.
I don't think Saudi Arabia and innovation can exist in the same sentence!
Depends on the state. I'm on one of the states in the "Restoration by Governor's Action or Court Action" category, and I can tell you thought it is possible, voting rates are rarely, if ever reinstated in my state.
I did not think Core propaganda would have made its way to HN :-(

Segwit2x would not degrade security. People think it would because they assume larger blocks would reduce the absolute number of full nodes, but historically this is not what we have seen: https://twitter.com/zorinaq/status/918133693964865538

The "untested" claim is false. The BTC1 reference implementation has unit tests, and is currently run by at least ~700 nodes: https://coin.dance/nodes

The fact the BTC1 repo is currently based on Core 0.14.2 (released June 18, 2017) instead of Core 0.15.0.1 (released Sep 19, 2017) is not really much of a problem.

It has been explained numerous time why we do not want replay protection: to remove the need to upgrade millions of SPV wallets.

BTC1 nodes do not pretend to be Core nodes to "confuse" the network. They did it (https://github.com/btc1/bitcoin/commit/28ebbdb1f4ab632a1500b...) in response to Bitcoin Core's hostile attempt to disconnect segwit2x nodes (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10982) which would have made the network less reliable between now and the HF, by intentionally disconnecting nodes just because they are not "liked".
thanks man. will see. fingers crossed!
I feel there are money ball like opportunities worth millions of dollars per year here. You essentiall have tons of presumably similarly skilled workers who are not getting the attention from big companies. A smart company that knows about hiring should be able to pick from this overlooked group of workers and find the ones that would make their company punch "beyond their weight class".

That is to say, a purely capitalist solution is to hire all of these overlooked workers at a discount and have their output be competitive with the big companies.
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Shoot me an email. aline@interviewing.io

This is our first season doing university stuff, so pricing is flexible.
The 10:1 likely rolls in animal products and low calorie vegetables, which aren't corn either.
There are extensions that do that well already. But the problem is still that I don't trust the browser with my private key.

I wonder though how reasonable my assumption is. E.g. how many security issues in the past two years could have potentially caused my key to be compromised if I were to use it that way.
Signing new commit with new subkey on top of all others is a valid strategy to deal with this problem. Another would be creating new tag and signing it with the new subkey.

For me it's not a problem that old commits are signed with revoked keys, there are several ways one can get old broken signatures (e.g. key rotation) and by design they should not be trusted.

One interesting voice in signing all commits by Linus:

> Signing
each commit is totally stupid. It just means that you automate it, and you make the signature worth less. It also doesn't add any real value, since the way the git DAG-chain of SHA1's work, you only ever need _one_ signature to make all the commits reachable from that one be effectively covered by that one. So signing each commit is simply missing the point.

Source: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/GPG-signing-for-git-commit-t...

Also, depending one one's threat model signing all commits can still be not sufficient: https://github.com/git/git/commit/a85b377d0419a9dfaca8af2320...
See my other comment on InboxSDK but summary, yes we are using InboxSDK because we made it and because we still want the power it offers on desktop. On mobile we use Add-ons plus a native app that can be deep linked to from the Add-on.

EDIT: if you look at the docs of the www.inboxsdk.com/docs there is a lot of functionality above and beyond the sidebar API that add-ons offers.
> So we should take the word of a random "author" who didn't even bother to publish his name and credentials over Inman simply because this guy blasted Inman for being a Millennial?

No. I'm not saying anyone should "just" believe either party over the other.

For all of Inman's bold assertions, he cites no sources whatsoever-- not even random crap on the internet-- and ends his comic with an appeal to vandalize Wikipedia to support his argument.

Without knowing anything about ETC, from an objective standpoint, I agree with ETC's assertion that Inman isn't qualified to be publishing unsubstantiated claims about anything related to a dead man's character or accomplishments.
I guess Microsoft is close behind and probably leading in the number of paying customers. However, a duopoly isn't that much better either. It's unfortunate that the spirit of the internet that resulted in many open technologies is slowly being circumvented by companies seeking to monopolize. Unlike old monopolies, where breaking apart is reasonably easy, these new monopolies are entrenched right from their technology stack.
I don't know what the intersection of 'most' and 'power' Excel users is, but as a very casual user I rarely need to explicitly type cell references because I can click to select which cell I'm referring to in the formula. Since Excel does multicolour highlighting it's easy to check that the right cell was selected. If I need an absolute reference (or whatever) I can go in afterwards and modify appropriately.

Named cells does significantly improve the readability of spreadsheets at a later date though!
> So it sounds like they at least want to shed the more regressive parts of the traditional Islamic culture in Saudi Arabia to bring in international visitors who are reticent to visit or invest in Saudi Arabia because of the way the laws treat women/homosexuals/etc.

It seems more like they're just dancing around the issue to me. Neom is still under the full control of a Sunni theocracy, it just has separate regulatory structures, like a SEZ in China.
I think you are right. Soviet Union was an atheist society. What would the marriage of ruling by theocracy and managing by technology be called?

Let's call it Theotechnocracy?
940 students and 1200 alumni.

Meanwhile, a public university in the US might typically have 40,000 students, and there are tons of them.

You really need a major university presence for this to work. If Saudi Arabia wants to compete economically, they need a good half-million university students.
> I wouldn't say HFCS is more harmful than regular sugar, it is chemically about the same

A quick Google search will disprove that commonly held myth. Sugar is bad, but HFCS is worse. Scientists didn't bother researching it for years, but once they did, they learned that despite obvious similarities chemically, the body processes it differently.
Visualise and listen to sorting algorithms
Exactly. Thank you
Especially for an entry-level position, where a large amount of training is almost always required.
The TPU architecture isn't that weird...it's basically a hardware implementation of matrix multiplication. It also isn't a silver bullet for ASR, where neural networks are usually only used for a part of the recognition process.
In the short term yes, but in the long term no. After a while your cognition will become accustomed to your "good desk" and what was once a fresh new desk will become just an ordinary desk. Your production will return to what is was before the "good desk." You will have to eventually update the "good desk" to maintain that level of productivity. Its a cycle..

And herein lies the problem of man
Not sure what she is talking about.

Histopatholgy has years of established data in the form of images, the pathologists I work with can make new datasets faster than I can process.

Liquid biopsies are similiarly digital and can test for the exact genetic defect.

By far the biggest problem is that all the kids want to work on self driving cars instead of cancdr.
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> Am I buying something from a walmart shelve made from prison labor ?

Yep.

A quick google search with that very question finds lots of entries, many of course with an axe to grind. The Economist is rather dispassionate on the subject though: https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21718897-idaho-...

But if you interact with the government, go to McDonalds, etc you're using prison labor. Whole Foods too (http://theweek.com/articles/630907/corporate-america-secret-...)

I said "yep" because I figured you were asking a general question; in the specific case Walmart's position is that they don't use prison labor (but plenty of web sites will tell you it's not true. Here's Huffpo: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-norman/walmart-prison-labo...).

This link is pretty good but requires a bit more epistemological digging: https://www.cagedbirdmagazine.com/single-post/2017/03/28/50-...
Only about 40% is used for ethanol and that's a very recent (as in this past decade) change.

The argument you make though explains why we aren't using algae to produce biofuel. Far more valuable for other purposes as called out in this Forbes post[0]. Here's a choice quote:

> An acre of algae can produce almost 5,000 gallons of biodiesel. It does not compete with food crops for arable land or potable water and could produce over 60 billion gallons/yr that would replace all petroleum-based diesel in the U.S.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2014/04/20/its-final...
Black pudding is a central component of the "full English breakfast" that seems to be readily available all over London. Someone's gotta be eating it, and probably not just tourists like me.

There's a huge class component in eating offal, though. It might be that you're associating mainly with middle class people who find eating offal to be beneath them, or looking for it in middle class areas. Small intestines (chitterlings or "chitlins" in the US) is a good example - I'm a middle class white person in the northeastern US and I've never had them and no one I know has ever admitted eating them to me, but they're popular among poor people of all races in the rural south and among black Americans in northern cities.

I do enjoy kiska, though, along with a number of my friends - a Polish blood sausage flavored with marjoram. A lot of people here have Polish ancestors who came here for work in the steel mills, and it's a very working class sort of food.
> It was easier to develop on Firefox and then debug on IE.

A long time ago, the company I worked at had a website which worked only on IE, because it needed a specific ActiveX control for streaming video. But even though it would never work on Firefox, the developers still made as much of the site as possible work on Firefox, because whenever IE popped up an unhelpful error message ("Object expected" and others), reproducing the error on Firefox gave a useful error message.
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I can't seem to pull up any more info on this. The write up really doesn't explain why ipfs would have perfomed better in this case. Is it because the data in question is replicated more times? Is it because ipfs protocol is faster than HDFS?

Can't seem to find the connector code either. It's a little strange to go back to map reduce when presumably YARN is available and tez or spark could be used.