skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't realize Kaldi could get state of the art results. Do you say that because you know of people doing that, or is your comment based on knowing the architecture of Kaldi?
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Got paid to go to state school lets get it
Their BFR video showed sea platforms near cities being used for launch/landing for Earth-to-Earth transit, though.
The wait feels like forever.
Well, yes, but it'd be nice to get to where it's universally enabled.

EDIT: Also, DNSSEC gives you something the ohter things don't: authenticated data, including authenticated non-existence. That's a big deal.

Of course, DJB's DNS encryption would also give you privacy. Add DANE and drop SNI and you'd have privacy protection, especially if PTR RRs had nothing useful or weren't used at all for the sites you visit.
The importance of timeouts
not having enough room for the paper

I wonder if having a small desk has a kanban-like effect. No, you don't have room for the computer, and a phone, and your notebook, and that book, and those printouts. Pick one and get on with some work.
Isn't DOI a legal requirement in many countries?
I remember we had to check for its existence before using it, monkeypatching it to noop if not found.
Just out of curiosity do you somehow update the local keyring? So that one can update their key information (for example to add revocations and new keys).
Timeouts are not an exciting thing to talk about. They do not add immediately perceivable value. They are difficult to guess get right and force one to consider problems that are hard to solve. In fact, in my experience, the timeout is only ever considered when our software stops working or is about to. That is an enormous shame since, in my opinion, carefully applied timeouts can vastly improve software resiliency.
I'm not currently a user but https://www.smartsheet.com/ had pretty advanced features that I liked. The UI was a bit old-fashioned but the tool is capable.
Why arent hard drives getting cheaper?
Allbirds launches a kids shoe line called Smallbirds
Could the web be what it is today without the dev tools?
One more counterexample: nano SIM cards. The move to micro SIM cards was wonderful and well-timed, everyone followed Apple within a year or two because the spacing savings were obvious.

In contrast, the nano SIM card has been around since the iPhone 5 came out in 2012, but cheap smart phone (think Samsung J-something[1]) still use micro SIM cards. Pointless fragmentation to save a millimeter.

If Apple wants to drop legacy cruft, how about they start with 5400rpm hard drives??!

[1] https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_j2_(2017)-8900.php
What part of the state do you want to move to?
Business Town's take on this point is as colorful as it is succinct:
http://welcometobusinesstown.tumblr.com/post/115950267726/bu...
I'm curious if the $3,500 figure is raw monthly revenue, profit, or monthly take home for the two founders.

If it's raw corporate revenue, then their take home should be much less than that after taxes.
I specifically installed Firefox 57 so that I could try Inbox there, because as you point out, on Firefox 56 it's very slow (especially the initial load).

On Firefox 57 with that new Quantum CSS, I found Inbox to be amazingly fast (I'd say even faster than Chrome on my yoga pro 2 - except for the right pane of Google Hangouts which takes a while to load still)
Gmail on Android is such a shitty locked-down experience. Want to create an appointment from an email? Nope. Want to set a reminder about an email? Nope. Want to link to an email from a notes or other app? Nope.

OK, well now maybe. If you become a "business partner" with them and shove your product into whatever grand strategery they're cooking up this quarter.

It's sad to think how Android was envisioned as this open system where apps freely communicate with each other but Google has been working overtime to kill that vision.
Google in general just hates open these days.
Did you bother to actually read the paper?
Trademark claim incoming from Panic, Inc.
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Safari (specifically iOS Safari) is definitely a bigger drag on newer features than IE at the moment. IE is a known quantity and Edge has particularly good support. Safari, however, seems to be a case of Apple, ostensibly, making completely arbitrary decisions on what to include or not.
I toured it in ‘99. I don’t remember the exact stats but the avg HS GPA at the time was around 3.3, it’s SAT’s not very high, and admission % decidedly higher than everywhere else I applied.
It is not async, though. Remember being young and having a bug I couldn't reproduce when alerting the state.
Even at my theoretically high-end school, our career services department was completely unfit to handle CS recruiting. They made a decent show of the annual career fair, but everything else was a disaster. With no tech knowledge and no one to answer to, they sent us a steady stream of terrible offers: work-for-experience, unethical businesses, and everything else bad you can think of.

All good CS recruiting happened through the student Computer Science association, which organized tech talks, mock interviews, and all kinds of other high-value events.

Companies that contacted the student group directly got reliable, personalized support and no charges until they showed up; companies that contacted the university got billed for the chance to be lumped in an email listing with scammers.
Relevant http://witheve.com/
ditto for the amazingness you see across different functions at an elite university. I remember being impressed that any cross cut I made, landscaping, financial aid, administrations, whatever the department was seemed plush with competent people who enjoyed their job.
Go engine with no human-provided knowledge, modeled after the AlphaGo Zero paper
Keep in mind we have 2 co-founders, so this is about $10/hr working full time. Definitely not a crazy amount of money, just a big milestone for our startup.
The level of the computation can be achieved just fine with a GPU or some co-processors. What the TPU excels at is performing forward inference very efficiently. So, you can't train on it, or perform arbitrary computation that well, but if you had a pre-trained neural net, you could run it very fast and with little power.
Have you thought of using a group password manager like 1Password, Dashlane, etc so you're not copy and pasting a password around the team? Just a suggestion :)
Xenophobia is present in all nations. I'm happy to go further and say that xenophobia plays a more central role in Russian identity than, say, English. Demanding "statistics" is a way of setting a bar that's more focused on dismissing historical and non-quantitative evidence than it is on clarifying anything. I could just as easily demand you prove the existence of Russia using statistics, and you'd fail.

The Russian state has always had a fraught and conflicted relationship with the West. It had a fairly unique place in being geographically situated to avoid economic and political domination by the West, but being less developed and near enough that its interactions with the Western powers led to a persistent inferiority complex. The court ladies excitedly took up the latest fashions and fads from Paris, while the political leadership attempted difficult reforms, partially to ensure their continued ability to resist Western domination and partially because they wanted approval of the more cosmopolitan powers. (The quasi-apocryphal Potemkin villages were built in order to impress Catherine II and a group of Western ambassadors.)

Pan-Slavism emerged in the 19th century. Instead of focusing myopically on aping Western powers, its intellectuals wanted to build a pan-Slavic identity and nationalism, centered around the Slavic folk, the Orthodox church, and the Tsar. This naturally led to conflicts with the more-Westernized countries that dominated Slavic peoples, as well as the Ottoman Empire. The people who questioned religion and the Tsar, for their part, were filthy liberals who were stooges of Western intellectuals (sound familiar?) And, for what its worth, most of the liberals were relatively privileged folk who looked down on the idiocy of the countryside, who made up the heartland of Russia (sound familiar?) It formed a useful dialectic for everyone involved.

Revolution and war come. Through an unlikely series of (un)fortunate accidents, the Bolsheviks come into power. They were a very funny set of people to rule over Russia, but they ruled. Their opinions of the Western ranged from (at best) negative to incredibly bitter and angry. But some compromises were made, in the first decade of Soviet rule. Ultimately, though, Stalin came to power. Mostly because he was the most ruthless autocrat. But he was more than happy to deploy xenophobia and the trope of his enemies being stooges of foreign powers when it suited him, as it often did. The scars of WW2 made him and Russian society even more sclerotic, leading to the present day.
The numbers do not add up.

If I can hire cheaper from candidates not in the top 5 the money could be used to recruit better/same talent at lower costs plus generally a longer employment term.
It's so good that it looks fake like a screenshot from SimCity or another simulator!
Good stuff. Was looking into cheap array mics with linux drivers a few times in the past but not much is available.

Speech separation - Mitsubishi Research has done some pretty impressive stuff on that - http://www.merl.com/demos/deep-clustering. Haven't seen equivalents of that in open source ASR
The drone ship location varies quite a bit, depending on payload, destination orbit, weather, etc.
Hey! Author here. It's monthly revenue. You get to write off expenses from your revenue before paying taxes. Also for our bracket, tax is only 15%.
> Has this been tried before?

Yes, on Windows this technology is called OLE (Object Linking and Embedding). It allows embedding (parts) of other applications' documents in a document. Nowadays only a few programs besides the MS Office suite provide OLE capability.

For example, you can embed a complete Word document inside an Excel cell by clicking: Insert -> Object -> Microsoft Word Document. By double clicking this object, the Word UI opens up inside Excel.
Funny, while I've found this to be true of intellectual "hard problems", I actually learned this principle from challenging video game bosses (I'm looking at you Liquid Snake!)
It sure does! I'm trying to stay busy but it's pretty difficult. Good luck to you!
Is Google going to make Gmail an app platform?
If you've done more than your share, you have earned your retirement and a death without regrets that is no tragedy.
This would explain why the ketogenic diet is so effective, beucase your brain starts using ketones instead of glucose for energy.

I know for me, as a person with ADHD, I have MUCH better self control when I'm on keto then when I'm not. It's the main reason I stick to the diet.
"Propaganda" is literally what you are doing. But it also is not as negative as how you seem to interpret it. Definition of propaganda: «information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause»

«it does reduce security because it increases centralization»

Very large blocks, on the order of 100+ MB, would certainly increase centralization. But in practice a segwit2x block is going to be around 4 MB. 4 MB does not increase miner centralization. 4 MB is peanuts. There is no technical evidence showing that 4 MB would increase miner centralization.

«1mb blocks have trouble crossing it»

No they do not. If there was trouble, we would see many empty blocks being mined by Chinese miners. Currently only a small minority (<1%) of blocks are empty or close to empty. Maybe you encountered problems trying to naively run a full node on your hotel's wifi while being in China? Doing so is not evidence that the GFW prevents 1 MB blocks from crossing it.

«past could of days are not running a test network»

Another false claim. There is a testnet: https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-segwit2x-testnet-fork-scali...

«just as part of the attack»

Why does everyone think it is an attack? Segwit2x is not an attack! See my long reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7508mh/eli5_please_exp...

«its one developer has clearly been working on his alt»

No, it is one dev working on the ref implementation on behalf of the entire group of signatories who signed the NYA. And there is only 1 dev because Segwit2x is a very small patch against Core: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/compare/0.14...btc1:segwi...

«I think it's hilarious to rephrase "Wanting to steal the bitcoin of SPV wallet users" as a "feature" of "not having to upgrade."»

That is exactly the point. Segwit2x is meant to be an upgrade. This has been said many times.

«You guys are flagrantly pushing malware»

It is not malware. Stop using that word. You do not know what malware is.

«talking about straight up attacks on bitcoin»

No we have not. Radicals exist in both camps (segwit2x and no2x) and they have talked about "attacks". But the words/lies of radicals do not represent the intent of each camp.

«It's not hostile to disconnect incompatible nodes that are going to cause a hard fork»

Nodes are not incompatible between now and the HF. It is hostile to disconnect them today. It would, however, not be hostile to disconnect post HF. But it would also be pointless because 2MB blocks are going to be automatically rejected by Core nodes anyway.

«disconnecting immediately simple saves the network a lot of effort»

It does not save a lot of effort. Literally 1 block will ever be transmitted unnecessarily (the first block with a segwit weight over 4 million), and all subsequent blocks will automatically be rejected.

«you're supporting a scam»

It is not a scam. Stop using that word.
> but its not something you can buy and use offline.

But you will. The entire point is to put this in a phone, so you can distribute a trained neural net in a way that people can actually use without a desktop and $500-$4,000 GPU.
Good luck to you as well :)
Nope, these kinds of things are (almost) never on time though. Angular is a complex project and will likely never hit a deadline again, nor will anything based on it :)

That said, I've got a lot of love for it right now, and am anxiously awaiting the updated forms functionality in v6 next spring-ish.
Yeaaaah... not a Chrome-phone-home fan, so I'll make do with what FF has to offer. But thanks for the suggestion, hope it helps someone else. :)
Range names come at a price. Try copying a sheet into another workbook that has conflicting names. Or copy-pasting your table in the same sheet to do something slightly different.

I use excel a lot and I found that the only convincing use case for range names is if you need to refer to ranges from VBA, then this is the only way for the code to find its way on a spreadsheet even if someone inserts some rows and columns. Otherwise range names create more problems than they solve.
I think you are right. It's much easier to compare old and new versions of a program if they are text. But we also should remember that we developed tools like diff to work with programming in text. If instead we were using a different paradigm we could explore the equivalent of diff in that model. Merge conflicts in text are often not real logic conflicts but just re-ordering things in a text file, or formatting changes. If we used a projectional editor, one that treats code as an AST instead of just flat text like lamdu - https://github.com/lamdu/lamdu we would need to create a new way to look at the evolution of changes in the code but it could be more meaningful than just looking at text.

Also you could have a timeline that shows you what got changed instead of comparing two text files. There can be lots of ways to achieve the same goal, understanding what changed and how, than just diffing two text files.
I wonder if there is a competitive advantage to be had there? UMaine is a pretty good system. When I retired, I taught math at UMF for a little while, so I got to see the system from the inside.

UMF has one of the best teaching programs in the country. They even have a CS path that is judged well.

Maybe recruiting at the small State universities is a potential edge?
I really like my Ultra Wide screen monitor.
> Searching is not "scanning"

Pray, how does it work, then?
Specifically on Heroku, the different tiers of redis provide limits for the number of connections to it that can be made. This means that if you hav 5x100 low-memory, low-cpu workers (arbitrary), you'll probably be playing $750/month just to have a redis instance that supports 5,000 connections. It has less to do with technical limitations and more to do with pricing of other services, I think.

https://elements.heroku.com/addons/heroku-redis
That's the option I was looking at using, so glad to see I'm on the right track. Thanks!
As capital holders we will always have an incentive to invest. It's a way to let our money work for us, without having to put in time. Also don't forget companies wouldn't get taxed; the companies you hold would not have to pay corporate tax, so there would be more $$'s available to distribute to shareholders. You wouldn't actually be receiving less money after tax.

> The reason long-term investments are taxed at a lower rate is because you want to incentivize long-term investing as it increases stability.

Since most equities are held by tax exempt entities (whether that is domestic or abroad, e.g. pension funds or hedge funds in a tax haven), this argument doesn't make sense. The stock price of AAPL or YELP is not going to tank because an individual investors sells (barring perhaps the CEO).

The tax rate is lower generally to account for inflation. But not all countries have sliding capital gains tax rates. The UK has a 28% rate, most capital gains are exempt in Belgium and the Netherlands (but the latter has a small wealth tax), France just introduced a 30% rate, etc.
Clearly Google Now/Home uses gmail data to be relevant.
Well, Coinhive has nothing to do with how certain people implement their lib, they just provide it. It's really up to the site owner to ask for permission to run it instead of forcing it (like ads).
The mayor of Miami, Tomás Pedro Regalado was born in Cuba, and 3 of the 6 city commissioners were either born in Cuba or born to Cuban parents. The city commissioners are:

* Wifredo "Willy" Gort - born in Cuba, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Gort

* Ken Russell - born in Coral Gables, FL, http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/a... . Does not appear to have a Cuban connection.

* Frank Carollo - born in Miami of Cuban-born parents, http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/a...

* Francis Suarez - born in Miami. His father Xavier Suarez, Miami’s first Cuban-born mayor in 1985, http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/a...

* Keon Hardemon - born in Miami, "scion of one of Liberty City’s most politically active families and the son of a Miami police officer", http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/a... . Does not appear to have a Cuban connection.

I think that helps demonstrate local majority political power.
Well to be fair if bitcoin ever hard forked it would not have two-way replay protection in the way BCH has because replay protection would break all pre-signed transactions.

The problem with B2X is the purposeful takeover of a decentralized protocol by an industry cabal, not any specific technical aspect of it (although it does have flaws).
I'd be inclined to attribute that to messaging more than understanding. I hear what you're saying, but a fully qualified statement that captures all of the details both loses a lot of impact and isn't the kind of thing that would appear in the Verge.
Here's a little screen capture of what Webflow looks like in Firefox https://cl.ly/3J0c2v2Y093O — the scrollbar causes quite a few issues with layout, but also we have to take into account the fact it's also a different width, which doesn't play nicely with drag 'n drop.
The 8.5% in this file is what you'd compare to Microsoft and IBM's recent ~5% results.

https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi/blob/master/egs/fisher_sw...

Kaldi hasn't been in first place on that dataset recently, but it was a few years ago.

On other more researchy datasets (eg. for distant speakers or languages other than English), the best system is often based on Kaldi.
Alto Mail will be discontinued
Just got this email:

Dear Alto friends, family, and fanatics,

We want to let you know the Alto team will be shifting its focus to something new and exciting as we become one big happy family as part of our new organization, Oath. With these changes, this unfortunately means that Alto Mail is shutting down.

Innovation and product development continue to be what we do, and we plan to incorporate many of our learnings and technologies across current and future products and experiences.

On November 9th, we will remove the app from Google Play and the Apple App store, and it will no longer be possible to create new accounts at that time. Then, on December 10th, we will discontinue support for all existing Alto apps.

It's been an amazing journey and we are grateful for your help in making Alto your go-to mail product. Please continue to follow our Twitter and Facebook accounts so we can keep you in the loop on our next great idea.

You will always be 5 stars in our hearts.

Sincerely,
The Alto Team
Hold on, though. "Metres" as a unit is a French word, because Napoleon invented the metric system during the French revolution as a break with the feudal past (source: i asked someone who has a PhD in the history of science and forgot most of what they said). For devices which measure things, we use the proper spelling - i have a gas meter, an electricity meter, and an iambic pentameter.

If we're going to talk about the deliberate sabotage of orthography, then surely Noah Webster's "thru", "catalog", etc are the most outrageous?

That said, as with metre/meter, we have at least salvaged some Websterisms as adding nuance to the language. In the UK, i write computer programs, but pretend to enjoy opera programmes.
I have had the opposite experience: the no2x people I talk to seem to not understand the technical aspects of Bitcoin, or seem to disregard logic and facts.
The Gmail Add-ons are executed by Gmail and are within Gmail-controlled webpages. Nothing in the add-on is private from Gmail/Google. If you want end-to-end GPG-encryption where the plaintext and keys aren't accessible to Google, then you want to use a browser extension (such as Google's End-to-End extension or ones built off of it: https://github.com/google/end-to-end).
Good advice for password management but that doesn’t change the fact any internal malicious actor can take the password and be very difficult to identify
That only addresses one (and arguably the smallest) of the various issues with a shared username/password.
What if they are 5 highly diverse schools?
It is probably the same reason as why books (text) are still the main medium. Movies may be more popular entertainment, and comics might be preferred by some demographics, but everybody write something, and everybody read something, being it a facebook post, a tweet, a novel or a 10-tome encyclopaedia.

Nobody says that books kinda suck and should be replaced by pictographs on papyri, but somehow many programmers at least have a phase when they think that having to program by drawing shapes could somehow be easier than writing textual code...
Awesome crypto papers for engineers
I hate the idea of that just as much as you do, but you can always add the coinhive domain to your blocklist and be fine (just as you do with ad providers). Also, I'd be willing to bet bad Ads are still way more of a cause of CPU spikes/usage than coinhive.
I can only speak for myself, but in the period where I am keto-adapting, I feel irritable and have low self control... but once I'm keto-adapted (ie. in ketosis), I have MUCH better self-control than normal.
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