skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but as a _programmer_, working on a _new to me platform or package_, I am _very_ reluctant to add an extra third-party abstraction layer which requires it's own evaluation of quality and stability and some learning curve. It's gotta be pretty clear to me that it really is "what everyone else is doing", or I've gotta get more experience with the underlying thing to be able to judge for myself better.

I've definitely been burned many times by adding an extra tool or layer meant to make things easier, that ends up not, for all manner of reasons. I think we all have.
Spectrograms are a convenient way to visualize the data/algorithm but are rarely part of the actual analysis.
They are already using the 2d array so to speak.
In any case a spectrogram is just a 2d array where the magnitude of each array element is mapped to a color, so its effectively the same thing.
Few if any people use visual representations of sound for analysis, except for the crazies who run spectrograms though visual deep learning networks.
That map mentions:

Normal operating hours of the Pedway are 7am to 5pm, Monday - Friday, unless otherwise noted.

Does most of it follow that schedule? That seems like a very limited time. If you wanted to use it during your commute you'd be limited to work between 8am and 4pm.
> Bitcoin is just the same now. Nothing was solved. No progress

Not true, see Segwit recently, soon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Network

edit: -3 in an hour, why?
Tabletop Simulator has an exposed Lua interpreter that any mod can take advantage of. The games can come with rules or not.

I much prefer the ruleless approach of TTS to be honest. It gives you that tactile sense of actually moving pieces around the board and interpreting the rules yourself that makes a board game feel like a board game. But with undo and instant setup and without the requirement that everyone be in the same place.

Not that it's a great tabletop game, but have you ever played a PC version of Monopoly? It's the most boring way to play an already incredibly boring game.

My only issue with Tabletop is that all the games I want to play with friends (and that at least one of us owns physically) keep getting DMCAed. That's fine in and of itself, but if a company is going to stop people who own their game from "pirating" it, it'd be nice if they'd make it available legitimately as DLC.
I've literally been to every single top night club in NY, including the exclusive pretentious ones like 1OAK, Avenue, and the likes, and more music focused ones like Electric Room and Output. I know what I'm talking about.

People go to night club to party. And most people take photos when they're partying. I don't see anything wrong with that.

Sure it's annoying (I know it's annoying because I actually experience it first hand) but saying that should be banned just means you're out of touch. Even some of the most hipster nightclubs in Williamsburg would never throw you out just because you took a photo.

People will hate you if you take a selfie in the middle of a dancefloor, and some may even complain about it to the bouncers (most don't), and the bouncer may ask you not to do so, but NOBODY throws you out because you took a photo. In the nightclub nobody cares that you're taking a photo in the corner.

Lastly, it's kind of ridiculous how this thread turned out. This was not at all the point of my comment.
Damn dynamic pricing... now it's up to $30. :-)
I find it more insane that people are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on what amounts to be bad trailer homes.

Trailer parks exist for a reason. They're the size of shipping containers and therefore are shipped and constructed very efficiently. They're standardized and manufactured on a mass scale.

The cheap, affordable, practical house has been invented: its called a trailer park. The question is simply how to market them.

https://www.factorybuilthomesdirect.com/manufacturedhomesdef...

https://www.factorybuilthomesdirect.com/econo_gal.asp

If you have $20k you can buy a home. That's a fact.
So I get that this offers simpler paradigm for graph data, but how should we interpret the "fast & scalable" claim? Is it...

a) Slower than RDBMS/NoSQL but still pretty respectable, so it's a good choice for things like offline analysis.

b) About the same at RDBMS/NoSQL, so you could use it to handle production traffic if you want.

c) Faster, so you should definitely prefer it in production, e.g. for fetching upvotes and comments on posts.
I thought journalists can only do investigations for the publisher that they work for?
The Extreme Amazon Bidder Just Got Real
Slightly off topic but it's always interesting to run into open source projects that continue to be hosted on Sourceforge
The single screencast is pretty compelling, I'd suggest just screencasting everything from the examples and adding to your landing page.

Don't have an immediate use but I like it.
SCP is a good example of things that can go wrong with a wiki other than vandalism.

Heavy handed self-proclaimed editors with too much time on their hands to stifle any creative writing that doesn't fit the mold of schlocky fan fiction.
In the Baidu Deep Speech 2 paper, the Baidu implementation is able to get 5.33%, and a human 5.83%. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.02595v1.pdf
> Does anyone besides partisan Democrats really care about Trump possibly having ties to Russians?

Literally anyone who cares more about the US, or their own country, more than they do about pushing an ultraconservative agenda. I get not believing the story, or believing it wasn't really that severe. But to just not care?

> The real news has already been broken by WikiLeaks (they are all spying on us) and TheIntercept.

Wikileaks has been exposed as partisan hacks at this point.

how can WaPo and NYT be government mouth pieces when the government is controlled by republicans.
This Cute Little Robot Made My Family Mad
The speed limit is less important to me than the "ensure you don't kill anyone". Any deviation from the normal flow of traffic will decrease as self-driving cars get increasing numbers of miles under their wheels.
I know at the military level it does in the Phalanx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS which basically shots a stream of lead which must require one hell of a gimble!

I was imagining hooking up an old airsoft gun to one, legal, cheap, effective deterrent for small animals.

This is another example of tech beating the hell out of laws.
They could also combine locally computed perceptual hashes of the unwanted images with face recognition of already uploaded regular images on the profile. That combination makes it even less necessary to send nudes to facebook.
I know AWS services put outsized fees on things that don't really have marginal costs (e.g. S3 read operations), because the fees are used to disincentivize non-idiomatic use-cases (e.g. treating S3 as a database by scanning objects-as-keys.)

Under this economic-incentive-system lens, I'm curious whether new AWS services might also be intentionally started out with high premiums, as a sort of economically-self-limited soft launch. Only the customers with the biggest need will be willing to pay to use the service at first, and their need means they're also willing to put up with you while you work out the initial kinks. As you gain more confidence in the service's stability at scale and matching to varied customer demands, you'd then lower the price-point of the service to match your actual evaluation of a market-viable price, to "open the floodgates" to the less-in-need clients.
Oh yeah I'm not really concerned about safety, I'm assuming parents are being responsible in that regard. My concern is social interaction, and parents staring at their phones and not even interacting with other parents. I get not all people like to socialize all the time, and finding alone time to read a book is rare as a young parent... but it's nice to just chat with people and put the phones away. I'm an introvert by nature so I like alone time.

If a parent is reading a book, I totally respect that! You don't see lots of people walking and reading a book everywhere they go, staring at a book to avoid social conversation, or unable to put it down for more than 6 minutes... phones just seem to takeover the brain, like TV but worse.
This simple formula doesn't hold for super profitable business like netflix. They can't spend the money they get fast enough.
I find their claim that the picture will be deleted from their servers at odds with their claim that they will make sure that photo is unique.

I suspect that what they're not saying is that they will keep some signature/hash/data about the photo, which I'm sure they will use for much more than just verifying uniqueness.
Games on TTS can absolutely come with the rules built in via the exposed Lua interpreter. Mods can automate as much as they'd like.
McKinsey: One-third of US workers could be jobless by 2030 due to automation
Hooray for FCM :)
On still the other hand though, an awful lot of people these days just cue up some music style or artist as opposed to choosing what specifically to play. I know that's what I tend to do. I think it's hard to argue against the idea that the album concept has mostly declined in relevance since its heyday.
"despite skipping taxes"

From another article:
> For at least 17 years, the city's Office of the Treasurer and Tax Collector mailed tax forms to the address of a now deceased bookkeeper, who worked for the homeowners' association before retiring in the 1980s. Over the years, the $14 annual property tax went unpaid by the people who live on Presidio Terrace. (San Francisco taxes the private street as a separate parcel from the homes on it.) The bill racked up hundreds more dollars in penalties and interest.

Presidio Terrace, along with 1,400 other parcels (mostly vacant lots), hit the auction block in 2015. The tax collector's office sent advanced notice to the same outdated address, which was later returned to sender and marked as undeliverable, according to José Cisneros, treasurer of the city and county of San Francisco. Still, the sale went on.

So, this is mostly sensationalist coverage.
Quote in the article, directly from Crashlytics:

> "and get insight into your users, what they’re doing, and inject live social content to delight them."

It's also analytics, and ads.
Careful like doing fact checking and confronting Jimmy O'Keefe about his trying to plant fake new stories?
How many were the sale of a private street that served 20+ residences?
The main obstacle that I can think of is: where does that hashing get done? Is it a feature that can efficiently be part of the phone app? Keeping in mind that this is a feature that would only be used by a very, very small part of the general userbase.

Let's assume that it is possible, the other issue that might come up is that the system is still suspect to a sort of denial of service attack, in which a group (for whatever reason) floods FB with purported sensitive images, and FB is flooded with constant takedown requests to review.
What products woukd be exclusive to a race? It’s not like hair straiteners are only used by black women for example.
Hm, yeah, maybe a DIY or Kit is better than full-fledged product. But is it just as bad as giving your child an iPad with Siri?
Similar to how being an asshole and flipping someone off while driving is not illegal, or how being an asshole and tailgating someone is not illegal, brake checking a tailgater certainly makes you an asshole, but it is not illegal.

Social responsibility be damned.
I think if you're looking for sustainable alternative housing that costs about the same or less than a stick built house a dome might be the way to go.

http://www.monolithic.org/homes
Despite the hype, shipping containers are a bit of a problem because of some of the nasty stuff they coat those things with to get them across the ocean. I haven't seen a commercial vendor who offers a safe one that can deal with a northern winter. I would love to be wrong on that.
Personally, I disagree.

I don't have a lot of money but I like reading articles and playing games.

I don't place any significant value on my personal information, privacy, and security, so why not trade it away? I'd much rather do that than have to start paying for games, news, articles, etc.
Ask HN: Designer to FrontEnd Developer Handoff Process?
Background: We are primarily a mobile web company. Our current process is our designer mocks up the screens in Sketch. One the designer and product team confirm a design, the designer outputs a PNG that is the height/width of an iPhone 7. That height/width then goes into the requirements document.

Problem: There is a lot of back and forth between the front end developer and designer about spacing/font sizes/general look and feel as the mockup turns into a responsive design. I am hesitant to have our designer mock up 4-6 breakpoints of how each screen should look like, but maybe there is no way to get around it.

Question: I am wondering what process y'all use to minimize the back and forth between the front end developer and designer? (any tools, systems, etc that help)
Do they use the same software as Ryanair?

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41298931
Also wanted to mention logics new album, Everybody, and his previous album, The Incredible True Story, are great example of the whole-album concept but specifically interweaving storytelling into the album idea which I believe made the albums much more engaging and enjoyable to listen to.
Ah got it, so in respects to your business github's value was as a channel of distribution... and without it your costs of marketing and user acquisition sky rocket?
In the case of the iPad they get to say they’re not targeting kids specifically and the rest is on the parent, but oh god yes I agree with the point you’re making.
The more data they keep about these images that they are promising to delete, the more they would make themselves liable to be sued for privacy violation (especially in the EU).

It is a blurred line, but one that most rational companies (=not Uber) would prefer to avoid in the first place by only storing data that is necessary for their main functionality.
Yes, we are on the same page. BigDecimal is appropriate for representing money, fixed point arithmetic is not. I simply argue that in situations where you care about performance, you can actually drop BigDecimal and use floating point decimal or even floating point binary and get perfectly good results that have exact precision so long as you model your domain.
Is there a way to get more value in exchange for my online privacy? Would be interested to find out a way to get more value out of an asset I don't value highly.
I was going to say something similar but not as harsh. I definitely think that the internet has made finding niche music that less of difficult a thing, but when the set you normalize over is the set of popular music rather than all music, his argument is sound.

An interesting question (and more difficult one to answer) would be whether access to niche music has increased and more people pursue niches in general today than before.
It's funny how manufactured homes get a bad rap but the contemporary ones are actually quite good.
Over the past ~7 years, the price has increased by ~10^5. There have been some bubbles, for sure. But all that has paled over the past year. The price could crash, certainly. Still, if futures become available, it could spike a lot higher before it does.
EU patent fee guidelines to favor Qualcomm, Ericsson, others: sources
This is super clickbaity and full of rich-hate. The city sent a bill to a deceased person for years, and it's basically pocket change to the people that live there. It would be absurd for the city to sell the street over something like this.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. We've been cruising past orders of magnitude ($0.10 > $1 > $10 > $100 > $1000 > $10000) and at any one of those jumps it seemed like the top of a bubble and just as likely to go in the opposite direction with the same velocity.

Don't kick yourself for spending when you did, because as I'm sure you're aware, it's just as likely that you could be now saying "Thank goodness I used those Bitcoins when they still worth something".

I bought a bunch at ~$1, then they jumped to $10 and it started to be fun, because I had a bunch more value to play with, then they jumped to $100, I thought screw this. This is not why I bought them and if they keep up this volatility, then they're not going to be useful for what I want to use them for (ie. buying/selling online).

I don't regret selling them when I did, and I don't think you should either.
Thanks, going by memory which is apparently faulty.
It's actual a real problem with people who are moderately good at math:

They sabotage explanations to laypeople by incorrectly nitpicking technical details because they hear informal language that sounds similar to something they know, and rush to regurgitate that fact as a "correction" without really understanding the conversation -- and will insist on doing so unless you use language too sophisticated for the audience you were trying to reach in the first place.

This actually happens with nearly every field, I just experience it most with math -- it's probably related to Dunning Kreuger or whatever.

C'est la vie.
That’s a very good contract- I’m curious as to what that’s for?
OberonStation, an Oberon RISC workstation (2013)
We made an app that notifies you to send streaks
I think that was true during a window of time. When MP3 players first came out, you selectively ripped songs because of storage limitations and didn't just fill MP3 players with complete albums as might have been natural to do.

Napster, etc. also encouraged a shift to individual songs before iTunes took off.

In any case, for the most part, people were weaned off of the album concept which, after all, was a construct that was primarily a function of how music was delivered and sold.
I sometimes misunderestimate how long it'll take me to write out my thoughts or how much time I'll have before I need to get back to work. By the time I finished my comment I realize I wrote enough for the comment to be a fleshed-out enough argument; anyone wanting to see those past threads could look them up if necessary. I guess I could have saved you some angst by jumping up to the top of my comment and removing the sentence about me being lazy.
Beware of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect[1], although I also enjoy McPhee. In this case, as a geologist, I find his geology stuff to be pretty good.

[1]https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge...
> What money do you want to represent, they all have a "atomic value".

This is mostly not true.

> For instance, when working with dollars store cents.

While external transactions often must occur in cents, internal accounts and unit prices often have smaller amounts. If you don't believe me, visit any US gas station and the prices will be in mils, not cents (and will usually be one mil less than some full-cent value per gallon.) Atomic units for financial applications are application-specific if there is an appropriate value at all, they aren't trivially determinable by looking at the base currency.

In some cases you really want an arbitrary precision decimal (or even rational) representation.
and with very poor signage, it's extremely easy to get lost.
This more and more looks like a Ponzi-like scheme that's simply decentralized and global, and where different investors are incrementally supporting each other and the current price just by slowly buying - and no one liquidating too quickly.

Imagine an actual Ponzi scheme, where if the stock broker was able to find and manage/facilitate millions of people around the world to slowly buy and sell ... the stock broker in this case is the Bitcoin blockchain itself.
In London it’s good - outside of London not so great
Still vulnerable to duping users via App Store fakery: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evbakk/fake-whats...
I would be more upset if I was the couple. Essentially I made a $90,000 investment and now they are just giving me $90,000 back? I would expect to get some sort of return, not just my $90,000 back, thats like the city stealing money from them...
Uh, are you sure of what you are writing here? Time-frequency analysis (including spectrograms) is one of the very fundamental tools for signal processing.
Why Discrete Math Is Important
I went and searched the internet and did test all free trading strategies I could find...

Of course they all failed (no one in the right mind will publish a good trading strategy period), but understand why and how I did came up with my own ideas...

By gaining experience you will start to come up with your own ideas to test... and this is how I found my edge in the market...
Since it’s an intergovernmental organisation, the country of residence isn’t relevant: it’s not bound by local law. In fact, the company I’ve been working with has outstations in five different European countries, and all outstations have the same rules (and some of these rules explicitly contravene local law! — because labour law in the host countries has evolved a lot since the organisation was founded).
Ah okay, here it is. First I thought this other release of a container engine would be it. Yeah that's "gg" for many cluster management providers.
On the topic of online board games, I've been really interested in the idea of a pure play-by-email (PBE) system where there isn't a frontend or web interface at all. By that, I mean that a full game rendering is emailed to each player, and they take their turns by replying to the email with the commands they wish to execute.

I started one in Go a number of years ago[1] and I feel I managed to prove to myself that a pure email interface is possible and actually really convenient in some cases. I even managed to implement over 20 games[2]. It was only ever used in my closed circle of friends, but we played thousands of games and many found it simple to participate in slow periods at work or school.

If anything, my biggest takeaway was that if you want to really reach a level of expertise in a new technology, you need to find a project that you can pour your heart into. I've probably breached 100k LOC for the project and I've been working on it for over half a decade. I'm currently redoing the project in Rust as an attempt to become highly skilled in that[3].

[1] https://github.com/Miniand/brdg.me

[2] https://github.com/Miniand/brdg.me/tree/master/game

[3] https://github.com/brdgme
I used to think this until I listened to a lot more older music. A lot of pop records cut in the 50s to 60s had no "theme" other than the generic love/sex/dancing themes common to all pop music. I think the concept albums we know now are a few of exceptional concept albums that are just as uncommon then as they were now.
Speaking of online adaptations of board games.. My Massively Multiplayer Adaptation of Codenames was just approved for public consumption by its illustrious creator, Vlaada Chvátil today!

Sign up and help me test out Django Channels in production!

TL;DR: An MMOBG based on Codenames! - Sign up form: http://codewords.io/ - FAQ: http://codewords.io/faq/

I needed to learn a few new technologies (TypeScript, Angular 4, Bootstrap 4, Django Channels.) Building the same chat room app that everyone builds as their first demo using these technologies sounded tedious. I decided to build a Massively Multiplayer Online Board Game instead.

If you'd like to help with a stress test or participate in a game, there's a sign up form up here: http://codewords.io/

I'm going to try to get Vlaada to host a game with me, but, he's a busy guy. If he's unavailable I'll find someone almost as interesting to play with us.

If you'd like to know more, I put up an FAQ over there: http://codewords.io/faq/ (you can skip to the gameplay FAQ by tugging on this: http://codewords.io/faq/#how-work)

Screenshots and a gameplay overview can be found somewhere under here: https://imgur.com/a/3xtZC
why not both https://abopen.com/news/rust-comes-risc-v/
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