skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big time. There are various levels of caption quality and part of it is the tools used.

1. QWERTY transcriptionists working brief, 5-10 minute shifts typing as fast as they can and rotating.

2. Voice-mask reporters using Dragon with a voice mask (more commonly phonetic typos)

3. Stenographers using a steno machine, some of them were not trained to do realtime and lack the ability to edit as they go.

It's all up to the individual, unfortunately. Furthermore, the budget for live captions is sometimes smaller than it should be and so the service purchased is the cheapest, not the best.

I pay attention to captions now. I've watched TSN (Canada) and it seems that past 10 p.m. they put in someone who isn't fully trained or graduated from school and they most definitely shouldn't be providing captions as they are near unreadable.

Good captions are priceless for the access that they offer.
"Please, hand me a tractor" - Did she say tracker [1]?

Something like Rhymezone (searching for similar sounding words) would be a solution. It would still need a human who's deciding which word to choose, but after some time it could learn which words you prefer.

[1] https://www.rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?Word=tractor&typeofrhy...
I love how many of the creators of libraries that Chucklefish decided to use are active in this thread and asking question about how their library is being used. It's really something else to have such an active and open community as we're seeing in rust.
If you're saying you think the talk was arrogant, I think that's a bit of an exaggeration. I just found it funny. I thought the whole format of posing as a computer engineer in the early seventies seemed clever. Parts of the talk were a bit snarky, but not Linus-Torvalds-snarky.
Thanks for the rec. What are the advantages of vim-sneak over easy motion?
I can't stress enough what a bad idea it usually is to copy XPath expressions generated by dev tools. They tend to be super inefficient for traversing the tree (e.g. beginning with "*" for no reason), and don't make good use of tag attributes.
A fool and his money...
I think "secular humanist" is a good start (and compatible with atheism as well as a number of other religions to varying degrees)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_humanism

EDIT: Not sure why I'm being downvoted here. The linked site is absolutely ridiculous in its lack of information which is a hallmark of concepts that overpromise via marketing and underdeliver by not shipping
How Teaching Molds the Marge Simpson of Coding
This may have been posted in 2008, but the tech it is demoing was decades (yes, plural) old by then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kuoS796vNw This video is a simple demonstration of very mature tech, not a demo of something hot and new.

That's a demo of a Smalltalk environment with the programmer deliberately writing some code that crashes, going into the debugger, adding the method on the fly, and then having the original method call complete despite the method not yet having existed.

It isn't quite true that there is nothing new under the tech sun... but there's certainly less new than most people seem to think.
so :) Any update? News?
Trade by Barttar
I see the new Bioshock is coming along nicely.
Numbers (Apple) also names cells based on row/column headers.
Yep it did.

Windows had one of the first JavaScript debuggers, due to JScript.

Electron already existed as MSHTML packaged apps.
Any online poll serves as an example of this. On the funny side, sometimes you get a whale named "Mr. Splashy Pants" or a boat named "Boaty Mc. Boat Face". Other times, you suggest "Hitler Did Nothing Wrong" as a new flavor of Mountain Dew.

For a legislative vote where some actors have a lot to gain or lose from the outcome, I'd expect the manipulation to get even more egregious than people trolling polls for amusement.
Exponential growth as we’ve become used to is fundamentally limited, whether we like that fact or not. We simply cannot expand exponentially into a finite supply of resources indefinitely, and in doing so we appear to have rapidly surpassed our planet’s ability to support that growth.
More cameras still doesn't fix the interaction with ambient light and LIDAR units like the ones produced by Velodyne or Ibeo have ranges out to 200m[1]

Again, I think they both have their uses. If LIDAR can be made not so complicated and fiddly, I think it brings a lot to the table.

[1]: https://autonomoustuff.com/product/ibeo-lux-standard/
Before Firebug, those of us doing web development were writing things like this for use in our coder's carry kits http://blog.osteele.com/2006/03/inline-console/

Firebug made me happy to leave that behind.
I wonder if the standardization of directions, rather than boustrophedonic writing, is due to the technology of paper and ink. If you're carving into stone or clay, then your hand isn't as likely to smudge the already written text.
A new land wherein your browser scroll is overridden.
> Lenin had come to power promising supporters not only bread to eat and a share of the aristocrats' land

Timeless lesson. Always beware of a politician coming to power promising free stuff. It never works out in the best long term interest of the people/country. There are no magic tricks in this world, things have to be earned and paid for. Hopefully citizens of the west learn this sooner rather than later
> we deny felons the right to vote in most states.

Only while incarcerated.

http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/felon-v...
Apple's Numbers spreadsheet has this feature today as well.
This is really cool.

What I'd also like to see is cattle in the US moved off alfalfa and out of feedlots and returned to the range of the buffalo. Migrate a giant herd of cattle across this grass (selectively or early enough it still produces grain) and rebuild the soils of the midwest the way they originally were built. Perennial grass with migratory bovines.
It's chaired by Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman, so Sunni Islam.
Plenty of grandiose claims but little substance. What is this about? A pilot city for testing next-gen infrastructure technologies built from scratch?
Boustrephodon works very well for _words_ -- but badly for numbers. Even Roman-style ones. I suspect that put it at a disadvantage.
Since the linked site contains almost no information, please read the Bloomberg article:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-24/saudi-ara...
"Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced plans to build a new city on the Red Sea coast, promising a lifestyle not available in today’s Saudi Arabia as he seeks to remake the kingdom in a time of dwindling resources."
Ctrl-C
In a small toroidally shaped universe, your radio is also your memory. All emissions eventually return to their origin, but you can reorder memory transmissions by moving while the data is in flight.
Thanks for pointing all of that out. I forgot that those things predated the comic.
Hadoop on IPFS [pdf]
Thanks for mentioning it! I still miss the Firebug, it just made more sense to me. For anyone searching for info how to enable the theme: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Settings
They should have called it LOTF (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies)

Or perhaps MUDW ("Muslim Utopia Doesn't Work")
requests.session() --> requests.Session()
There are a few problems mentioned in the article, but the main one is before that. It's how to spread the load of the accept() on a single shared socket across more than one worker in a balanced way.
Check here;

https://2017.splashcon.org/track/live-2017#Call-for-Papers

Jonathan Edwards submitted something I like and HARC (checking out Sean his submission now), MS Research are doing cool things.

I wanted to go there. Next time perhaps; interesting work anyway.
Let me reframe.

If you want to leave the Bay Area because of the cost of living, the NYC area may not be the answer. The price of a home ($/sqfoot) may be cheaper in the suburbs of NYC than SF/SV, but property taxes are extremely high (e.g. > 2%) in areas that are commutable (unless you think 2+ hours each way is a good commute) to NYC. You may also end up in a situation where you need a car to commute to the train station, you pay for parking at the train station, and then you have one or more passes (e.g. Subway + Train Pass) to get to your job. So your total monthly living costs may be close to your costs of owning a home in the bay area.
Sending alums back to top tier schools is also part PR too for the companies. "Hey look Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple are on our campus today. Great companies at great colleges gets great news coverage".
Its very hard to analyze what Xi's status will be. Chinese political system is very complex and opaque, but it has internal structure. It resembles some kind of elective monarchy were noble class rules and elects ruler and his handlers based on complex balancing of power.

Many questions will be answered tomorrow when they announce new members of the Politburo Standing Committee and we will see how many Xi's allies are added.
As someone who lives semi-arid, good luck growing abundant food on this land.

I have 12 acre feet of water rights on 58 acres in Montana and its still a lot of work.

(For sale btw: It's fun as a giant playground http://www.eralandmark.com/listings/view/307976)
The idea was that you could reduce US dependence on foreign oil imports, and also make a positive impact on CO2 emissions (since biodiesel is CO2-neutral) by gradually switching the US over to biodiesel. Corn was an obvious choice since the US already subsidized farmers significantly to produce that crop. On paper that didn't seem terrible at the time.

Later it was noticed that the US biodiesel program had had a substantial impact on global corn prices, which probably causes deaths in developing countries[1].

I think it's widely considered to be a bad idea at this point, but as late as 2009 I can find reference to expansions in the program[2].

Completely agree that redirecting our subsidy dollars into modern tech would be a much better investment; the default should be no subsidies, and we should pick strategic investments to ensure our relevance in the coming decades.

[1]: https://www.treehugger.com/cars/us-doctors-say-biofuels-coul...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofuel_in_the_United_States#R...
Only up to a point.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/can-economic-growth-last/

This entire blog (not just this one post), start-to-finish is a sobering look at the limits of our growth.
I was using a 6 Plus up until a few weeks ago. Every upgrade caused serious performance decreases and I avoided iOS11 entirely (anticipating an upgrade to a new device). My partner upgrades yearly and I gave up all phone tasks to him when we were out together as my performance was so bad. Unlock? slow. Open chrome? 2-3 seconds. Open safari? 2-3 seconds. Fancy webpage? Forget it. We use google keep a lot, it basically didn't work on the 6 Plus. Sometimes the app would load quickly, sometimes it would take minutes or not load (or maybe if I kept waiting, it would eventually?). Scrolling in the app hardly worked. Screen touches became more hit or miss. Reflexively, I built in a 2-3 tap routine for most screen touches as it took that many for them to register. Scrolling any sort of content was difficult, stutter-y, and inconvenient. Siri didn't work - but I'm not sure if it does now either. I also had all animations off in an attempt to squeeze some performance.

Anyway, whatever apple did or didn't do, worked. I upgraded to an 8 Plus and couldn't be happier.

I run in to others who have version 6 phones and have no problem, so I don't know why I'm an outlier. Part of it is probably my storage habits, I was almost always within 5-10% of capacity. Now I have 256gb version and am hoping I don't get near the limit so that this phone will last me 3 years.
Honestly, I think the socioeconomic status of your parents should be more heavily waited in "diversity" measures than skin color.
From their FAQ:

>THE TERM “INDEPENDENT SYSTEMS” IS A LITTLE
AMBIGUOUS. WHAT EXACTLY WILL THE PROJECT
BE, A FREE ZONE, TRANSIT ZONE, ETC.?

The project will be developed within a specialized zone, independent of the Kingdom’s
existing governmental framework, excluding sovereign laws, in regards to taxation,
customs, labor laws, and other legal parameters pertaining to business. As such, a
zone within an independent system gives industry the ability to manufacture and
provide, goods and services at globally competitive prices.

>WHAT DOES “EXCLUDING SOVEREIGN” MEAN?

“Sovereign laws” refer to everything related to the military sector, foreign policy,
and sovereign decisions – all of which will remain at the government of Saudi
Arabia’s discretion.

Yeah, that'll be a no from me dawg. It's certainly an interesting project, but I doubt it will draw the kind of international appeal they are hoping for. Dubai 2.0 basically.
Thanks for this, I was casting around for new podcasts. Looks good.
I'm reminded of how often I see Twitter offer to translate English-language tweets containing a proper noun or two from absurdly unconnected languages. And that's with text containing mostly common and distinctive English words.
It's conveniently not mentioned in the marketing that it's being established in Saudi Arabia. It will be interesting to see what culture is established when/if the city becomes legitimate.
Ask HN: Does a good desk setup make you more productive?
I recently bought a very large desk and a comfortable work chair where I had previously been using a small cluttered desk and a very uncomfortable chair. I think the increase in available space and comfort will make me more productive but I wanted to get other people's take.
> It also was a powerful factor in forcing the early revolutionaries to adopt a militarized war-footing whose impetus never quite subsided.

I wouldn't agree with that - I think the Civil war, and the subsequent domestic uprisings were that impetus. Outside of the Second World War, most of the fighting the Red Army did was against its own people.
Pharmacies, Amazon, even eBay.
Afaik Fresubin 2Kcal DRINK is the highest calorie Trinknahrung from Fresenius. Amazon.com doesn't offer that many, what's there is quite expensive [0]. Never realized this stuff is so rare outside Germany, until now.

In contrast, Amazon.de has a wide selection of different high caloric Trinknahrung, the Fresenius stuff even has Prime delivery [1].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Da...

[1] https://www.amazon.de/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_17?__mk_de_DE=%C3%8...
Not to mention, if there are any women in your life, they will be treated like children who must be under the constant supervision of the men in your family.
- Regular coffee mate but ALSO French vanilla coffee mate available

- Member wifi ALSO guest wifi

- Potato chips
573+482-1020+Sizzle+Call+Marketing+System+Free+Landing+Page
I guess I just missed the section on 'how you will be governed' and 'how will we care for the old / poor / infirm'.
Not going to work without major university presence nearby.
I don't know why so many people think this is the case and then hate on the product.

Because that's how it's positioned in the market?

Like, literally what they claim it's for, and supposedly the reason they went into business?

Heck, Rhinehart once claimed "I have not set foot in a grocery store in years. Nevermore will I bumble through endless confusing aisles like a pack-donkey searching for feed while the smell of rotting flesh fills my nostrils and fluorescent lights sear my eyeballs and sappy love songs torture my ears."
Ockham's razor, maybe? Mental illness is a thing we have observed; magic 10 dimensional eyeballs aren't.
> Since then I've thought about voice recognition differently. The AI to understand the context or fill in the blanks is what will make or break it.

Of course, and all humans rely on this as well. No one hears every word perfectly all the time --- it's impossible, because the source person doesn't pronounce every word perfectly all the time. Context clues are a huge part of speech recognition, as well as gestural typing recognition and other forms of machine interpretation of human input. While it's always been a component of NLP, you can clearly see it in action with the Android keyboard these days because after you type two words in a row, the first may be corrected after you enter the second one, based on context provided by the second one.
It makes me so happy to finally start seeing others on HN post links from the Do The Math blog. If I could make one website mandatory reading for all policy makers, economists, etc., this would be it.
From the "Owner's Manual" [1], it appears that this is just another ETH ERC20 token. All of the "portability" features of it are just based on atomic swaps, which means that the security of this token for most purposes is equal to the security of the lowest security chain on which it lives. Since participating in this requires being in the ETH ecosystem, and this is not designed to be an "appcoin" (single use token), but instead is designed to be a general purpose currency, I'm unclear what it really brings to the table.

Also, it appears that it will only support being on ETH initially. While I imagine it would be pretty easy to port to ETC, it's probably never going to live on top of Bitcoin, because the smart contracts would be prohibitive in terms of cost.

1 - https://www.metronome.io/pdf/owners_manual.pdf
Pixel 2 XL VS iPhone 8 Plus in Speed Test
WebRender is coming but absolutely isn’t ready yet; it’s not even turned on by default in Nightly (although I use it on my home machine and it’s getting a very good very quickly).
I was just in France last week suffering through the same problem. I’m American, so I want to keep my system set to English both due to familiarity of the interface and because I want data in familiar units (miles, degrees Fahrenheit), but it kills me when every street and place name is absolutely butchered.
How is this different from OpenStack Swift?
That's probably what was meant by "last mile":

>"...I agree that there are benefits for the last mile of the >suburbs and countryside, ..."

:)

A good solution would be great public transportation and ride sharing working together. It doesn't have to be black or white.
If you're genuinely interested in how someone could view the situations as equivalent, here's one post (regrettably long, but I haven't found better): http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/01/gentle-...

Kolmogorov also becomes more relatable if you consider Damore's computer-science-related activities at Google science, and the role he's now cast into as politics. We don't execute, but we can blacklist and exclude. (Consider what might happen if he wanted to present a paper at a conference.)
You're making a big assumption that she plagiarized uncredited work.

Have you seen her presentation? Did she not credit her sources?
Yes, but the person who originally proposed this argued that there was no ambiguity.
iCloud Bypass Activation iOS 11.1, 11.1.1, 11.1.2 Service Tools and Complete
Yeah that's what I was referring to. At one point, I thought I was going to wirelessly connect my electric keyboard at home to my stereo through a bluetooth transmitter. I soon found out that there's a delay associated with audio transmission through bluetooth. I don't think anyone's really solved this problem for these kinds of applications because most people use bluetooth audio for passive tasks like listening to music.
Ask HN: How Lucrative Is Salesforce Certification?
Does anyone have experience with Salesforce.com certifications? Is there a demand? Is it worth the time and expense to obtain? Thanks!
I love these podcasts. Many of the talks are about Ketogenic diets and nutrition. Super exciting to see, as I've been following it for past 2 years myself and did a lot of research on it.
While we may like to think of the Western intelligence agencies as all knowing for large periods throughout the Cold War they were essentially blind as to the inner working / thinking of the USSR. The occasional defectors or agents who could bring understanding are significant because of their scarcity.

The West had many reasons to believe the USSR was stronger than it was, hawks on the right wanted to believe it, fellow travellers on the left wanted to believe it, the Russian political system wanted to believe it (and lied to itself repeatedly).
Misfit Vapor smartwatch gets October 31st release
Load the MNIST Dataset into TensorFlow in a One-Hot Encoded Format
This is where I saw the author being a blackhatter parading as a greyhatter. Or maybe even worse, a blackhatter who doesn't know he's a blackhatter.

The idea that increasing the noise/signal ratio (ie: "make them eat more butterflies") is going to cause Facebook and their ilk to see the flaw in reasoning is not only malicious (Milo's 20,000 fake followers + residuals did not go away), but it also betrays a profoundly scary naivete over the subject matter.

It makes it worse when you write off your body of work as "for research" but fail to set up a methodology more complex than "provoke social justice people into attacking each other, algorithmically."

The entire piece neglects to consider the "rm monkey" ie: the trolls that don't have such motives but chaos. Some of us, growing up, just liked to see systems implode. He surrounds himself with them on 4chan but fails to recognize the complexity of their brigading.

The author, a self-perceived "arbiter of truth" waving his scepter (an infantile of scripts), finds himself far more intelligent than both his merry band of trolls on 4chan, Google/Facebook, and protected groups all at the same time - but he may be wrong on all 3 accounts.

Dunning Krueger is not understanding that many on 4chan prefer the butterfly war.
This is a fantastic narrative - but I have to ask - how have people who inherited wealth 'earned it'?

You realize that Russia was a society of serfs, all the way up to the later part of the 19th century, right? The aristocracy quite literally owned people, by virtue of owning land.

Their wealth was built on centuries of theft, violence, and repression. And then, they turn around, and say: "It's your problem that you're poor, hungry, landless, and are fighting in a pointless war."
Launching and marketing my first API
I agree. Unfortunately, that data is much harder to glean than phenotypically (somewhat) obvious traits like gender and skin color. Sigh.

The official term for this is "distance traveled", and there's a bit more about it here: https://medium.com/kapor-the-bridge/dear-investors-so-you-wa...
Open-sourcing data will make big data bigger than ever – ZDNet
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography
This is why we should reject public education, public libraries, public safety, public unemployment funds, public retirement funds, and public medicine for the elderly.

Because you, know, it just doesn't work. And all of the positive experiences with socializing certain public goods in liberal western democracies are just a magic trick.
As an engineer, I always get frustrated when it seems like a lot of our customers are more concerned with the perception of the existence of something, rather than its actual existence. I'm continuing to learn (UX not withstanding) that just because you solve a problem, it doesn't mean the user believes the problem is solved.

As a black engineer, I've often thought that if there were data, science, math, and straight forward research on the more than $300B+ the slavery system provided for the U.S. in free labor (think of the biggest costs to business) and it's effects, that maybe we could have a conversation about data-driven solutions. Think of how we've added data to sports and created a new economy on improving outcomes because the definitions of success are clear with many pathways.

Looking at this thread, which I assume to be mostly engineers, slightly disabuses me of this notion. The longest threads are about the use of the word slavery (perception) and rural, (mostly white) america (not even sure why this is relevant).
Thanks but no thanks, crown prince. Good luck with your project!