skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the domains where realistic and fully customizable speech synthesis could usher in a renassaince of innovation, would be video games developement.

I’ve always been curious about how so seemingly little work has gone into speech generation, compared to graphics and physics and other technologies.

Problems with voice actors:

• The costs, often unaffordable by solo developers and small teams.

• All the text and the scripts have to be finalized and set in stone. You can’t change much, if at all, after you’ve finished recorded everything. Being able to re-hire the same actors for future sequels is also not guaranteed.

• Complete lack of real-time customization. For example, in MMORPGs and other online games. So we’re stuck with a few set phrases or using our own voice (not desirable all the time for everyone). Imagine if you could fully customize your voice as well as you can do with your character’s appearance, and have it realistically speak any text you type, or NPCs actually speaking your name instead of using generic placeholders.

• Players expect voice acting in all “major” titles. Plenty of games with great stories get skipped over if they don’t have voice acting.
Nailed it.

Let's not forget companies that send algo-heavy tests for front end roles (my personal favorite). Can't they come up with a front end version? Is it better that they don't?

I'd find it, and similar sites, less objectionable if they were used as interview "extra credit," rather than as gatekeeper screening tools.
>better hope theaters still exist in 10 years

No real reason to think they won't be. Unit ticket sales have been declining some but overall box office is flat to a bit up.
>The incentives in academic philosophy aren't really around finding truth, but rather getting published so you can keep your tenure.

Does that distinguish philosophy from the sciences or other areas of academia?
What Is a Unit Test? (The Answer Might Surprise You)
I find this fascinating: "Stephens' friends have said the dogs were not capable of such a violent attack." This casual epistemology has worked out in my favor.

A couple of years ago my dog was accused of biting another and a police complaint was lodged. The complaint was quite horrific -- my violent, unleashed dog ran into the street to attack his leashed dog, dogs fighting, blood in the other dog's coat and on the owner... quite exciting. And an expensive vet bill was sent to me (though not included in the police complaint).

I got a call from the animal control officer. He had only one question: "was this <my dog's name>?" I said "yes" and he said "Then I'm closing the investigation." That was it -- he send me the report which said simply, "no violation, issue closed."

I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, I was relieved to be spared a complicated process of word against word. On the other hand, the police know my dog (he is kind of a fixture around town) which seems unfair.

BTW I was of course there too (as my dog is always with me :-) and observed 1> other dog was aggressive and it and its owner were on my property and 2> my dog made a very loud noise noise but was never within a meter of the other dog or owner (never more than a meter from me in fact), and 3> my dog returned to my side as soon as I called him. As in: all that happened is the dog did his job properly.

FWIW I don't have a PB but all the ones I've met have been super sweet.
Is the new Thunderbird compatible with Microsoft's Exchange email service? If memory serves, I think that was what forced me to switch to the Evolution Mail client (which uses "Exchange Web Services") since my workplace uses Exchange.

With regard to the Photon UI, I'm weary of the calendar button being in the application header like that. It's just not where I would look for it, and I don't see what's different between it and the other buttons that would merit some of them being in the header and some of them not.

Either way, I'm happy that Thunderbird isn't dead. Even version 52 has some nice features that I couldn't find in other clients.
What really frightens me is how Tim Cook and Zuckerberg swoon head-over-heels for a country that implements such an aggressive top down control of their citizens as this program.

I have already become acutely aware of self censorship, especially with posts associated with my name, out of expectation of something similar making its way into the US. Heck, I would not be remotely surprised to find out Facebook already has a working prototype to associate and score people based on their connections.
I built something like this 2 years ago. And it's 3D!

http://etheria.world
Is there any possibility that the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2017 (https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/392/...) would see the light of day anytime soon? This act would eliminate the per-country numerical limitation for employment-based green card petitions.

Also, what would be the implications if this bill does become law?
Hi Peter, thanks for doing this.

I'm currently holding a J1 visa sponsored by University of California Berkeley ending in March. During several discussions for possible internships starting after the end of my J1 visa, I've been asked if I can enter an internship with my visa, through a renewal or whatever, or I need to get a new sponsorship and start the procedures again.

Thanks.
> Yeah, I cant buy a house in san jose, but at least I dont have to worry about the ten commandments showing up at the DMV in stone

This is such a strange priority to have. Do you even hear yourself?

If you want to talk about culture war, we can talk about supporting illegal immigration against Federal law, or about downgrading knowingly transmitting HIV to sexual partners from a felony.

Ultimately, everyone has different cultures. No one requires you to respect other peoples' culture, but your blatant ignorance of what actually happens in the midwest shows that you don't even care enough to learn about it.
Hmm, is there some other kind of fish better suited to this type of system? Some kind of fish that could naturally survive on the plant waste? Maybe not even the waste in the water but some other form of biomass from the rest of the system?

e: Sibling comments seem to suggest Tilapia or Rainbow Trout.
Yes, its a great example. This project is pretty much similar to an interactive, pre-recorded jam session. In order to take part of a jam session, all one has to do is play one instrument (your "voice" is also an instrument, or scratching, or just tapping on a table with your fingers). Some instruments are easy to learn, difficult to master. That is to say, you'll quickly and easily get to an adequate level required to join the jam session. And if you make mistakes, learn from then. That's what life's all about. The only wasted mistake, is the one you didn't want to learn from.
> Also most of the restaurants hide their revenues from tax authorities (it was recently in the news) - otherwise the prices will be much higher, like our neighbors have (France, Italy).

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding but are you arguing that it's good restaurants evade taxes because it keeps their prices low?
France passes law to ban all oil and gas production by 2040
Right, "use 5.10" would be an error:

Perl v5.100.0 required (did you mean v5.10.0?)--this is only v5.26.1, stopped at modulino.pm line 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at modulino.pm line 3.
Gwatch – A watch(1) replacement that graphs numeric output in the terminal
Are there good DOM "bindings" available for other languages compiled to wasm?
Most people don't play heads-up no limit, they play 9-10 person games which are tougher for AI to beat currently.

Eventually though, online poker will be full of bots.
I don't see it changing in the short term, though I think there's potential in the long term. In between, I feel like towns need to organize around a particular niche / focus. For example, Indianapolis is a hub of marketing technology (ExactTarget, Aprimo, etc.). It's hard to compete w/ the (PR?) machine the coasts give you, but if you have a competitive advantage in some market - don't ignore it just because it's not SaaS. Examples include autos in MI, Medical Devices in Northern Indiana, manufacturing region-wide, distribution, real estate (Simon Malls, General Growth in Indy, Chicago respectively), etc. Build for those local customers and then spread geographically. I feel like that's overlooked far too often in the "David" (non-Goliath) markets.
Side projects got me jobs and when I do side projects sometime they are for fun and sometimes they aren’t . I think a better objective is to do fun / cool side projects and try to align them when you want to.
While I guess this is something, I would be curious to know what types of users are being targeted with these NSLs, and for what crimes. While it's natural to think "Islamic extremism and terrorism" as that's the usual natsec rallying cry, I wouldn't be surprised to see these being used for other purposes.
> Those that get rid of districts entirely lose the ability for specific sub-regions of a state to have their own dedicated representative to vouch for their specific needs.

It's doubtful whether that still exists as anything more than a foil/justification though, given Congress's expansion was stopped a century back, and each Representatives now stands in for at least half a million people (RH has the lowest number of citizens per rep' at 530k) and up to a million (Montana, population 1042520, currently has a single rep'), with the average closing in on 740k (up from ~710 during the last census).

Can a rep' really vouch for the specific needs of 700000 people any more than a proportional delegation would?

It's unclear to me that the House of Commons manages to do that, and they've got 650 MPs for 65 million people (or ~100000 people per MP on average, though the average electorate is lower, and it has very extreme low ends, Na h-Eileanan an Iar has an electorate of under 22k).
And even if they dont want to own the store, they make an exclusive deal with only one store.
Yes. I had the same situation, tried everything (except installing Windows anew) - nothing helped.

And at this time I'm not concerned about patiently waiting for ~1 hour, I'm worried that someday that "update+fail" cycle will botch my system.
I had cactus and pork dumplings in china once. They were definitely tasty, with a sage-like bite to them.
Ehhhh. I doubt it. I looked up and a typical hand crank is 10 watt. That won't be any good. That wouldn't power a laptop. I found a decent pedal generator that says it can output 400 watt. My car uses around 330 wH to go a mile, so if you charged at 400 watt for an hour, you would get slightly more than a mile of range (assuming no efficiency loses). Pedaling for an hour to go one mile doesn't sound like fun to me.
Or release a crippled version with with the commercial dependencies stubbed out and let the community bring it back up to speed? This could even slightly advantage Adobe as they could replace their licensed solutions with open source code and avoid the support contracts.
Did no one think to run TrustedAdvisor?
Conversation with Jordan Walke: React and Reason
Tesults (https://www.tesults.com) is the best way to report build and automated test results to your team consolidated in one place for all of your project's supported platforms, build flavors and branches. A web-based reporting platform ideal for plugging into any build, test or continuous integration system within 15 minutes.

That's a plug, it's uncomfortable and slightly embarrassing if you're not a super extrovert but I've found doing that enough across the web, over email, over twitter, to people I meet in person etc., in Google AdWords, getting a couple of bloggers to write about the existence of the app, helped acquire the first 100 sign ups. Now if you're asking about first recurring 100 users, or specifically 100 first paying recurring users, rather than 100 sign ups that's very different and much much harder. So what are you asking about specifically? For 100 recurring users I think don't bother acquiring 100, acquire just a handful and see if they stay and ask them why they didn't, chances are the products not as good as you thought and you need more features or ui refinement. Iterate and iterate. I was told that Tesults is absurd for how little it does once about a year ago, indeed it did suck back then, now it does a whole lot more. Some would say it still sucks, and compared to where it will be in one year it does indeed. Iteration and iteration and not giving up is needed for the 100 first recurring users but for the first 100 sign ups, shouldn't be too hard by just pitching like crazy and not being embarrassed. And developing a thick skin.

Edit to add: Traction (book) by Gabriel Weinberg helped me. There's also a non tech/dev guy called Grant Cardone who has written a book called The 10X Rule, that's helped me too.
Network effects can occur in federated networks as long as different platforms cooperate and communicate.

Currently, the Fediverse[1] exists through multiple free software platforms and online communities. (Like Mastodon[2])

This can and should expand to include Twitter/FB/others but that would go against their mantra of owning the platform to ensure maximum profits/rent-seeking and power over information. (Platform Capitalism[3])

[1]: https://medium.com/we-distribute/a-quick-guide-to-the-free-n...

[2]: https://joinmastodon.org/

[3]: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Platform+Capitalism-p-9781509504...
Also delicious in frozen margarita form!
I think it's because such a small percentage of competing applicants are likely to have substantial projects anyway, you may as well focus on the common denominator of the interview, which are the data structures and algorithms questions.
This may be how Kong does it but it's not really 'high performance'. The right way to do rate limiting is to limit by IP using a counting Bloom Filter or Cuckoo filter along with random samples. When you hit a false positive then you have a second normal rate limiter to 'mop up' IPs that are over the first limiter.

This doesn't give you a hard exact limit but gets the job done storing far less state. You also need to bucket by IP sub-ranges in IPV6 to stop people crap flooding you with tons of unique IP's
The problem is that it is completely unrelated to the job in most cases. That may put off some decent candidates.
Have you looked into Dan Gilbert's various VC projects in Detroit?
If the revenue generating nonsense (ads, tracking, etc) weren't on the web they would creep in where every they could. At least on the web we can fairly easily block the majority of ads.

I liked simple text pages of the past but I also appreciate that lots and lots of applications that would only ever see a windows release (and maybe a buggy mac release) will run on whatever platform I want as long as I have a modern browser.

I hear ya though that it's frustrating when you go to a site that is pretty much only text and it just flatout doesn't work without javascript, or they have done something weird with the css and it doesn't reflow properly on a small screen/mobile browser.
I had never even heard of HackerRank before applying at a few places. I was supposed to write a binary search tree algorithm without using anything except the language docs. I rarely write anything new without a quick search, it wastes valuable time reinventing the wheel.
the fine is up to 20m€ or 4% of revenue, whichever is the higher number.
The more people that share your view the better for those of us already here. Spread the word! ;)
At least if you find a general purpose-solution to "does this end?" you've also solved the Halting Problem. :)
Here's a litmus test, how do you gauge your reactions to these statements:

African-Americans, in this time and place (America in this decade), commit more crime when compared to Europeans and Asians as a percentage breakdown by race.

Women and minorities have plenty of public resources (facilities, social programs, and information) to succeed academically and enter white collar professions.

Income taxes, which are currently near or above 50% at the higher/highest brackets is plenty and whose rates do not need to be raised. Governments need to cut or curb spending instead of raising the income tax higher.

Stand your ground law is needed to protect a citizen's civil rights and the political arguments made in the wake of Travon Martin's death have been insufficient in changing that status.

These are what I consider to be right wing statements or facts that conservatives don't ignore/insulate themselves from. This is all relative to American politics - in Europe the political climate is much different. Hacker news, from what I've seen, seems to be very left-wing. Also, left wing tends to be cruelly and irrationally/coldly dismissive/patronizing towards rural Christian conservatives - which is more than disturbing to me, but some of the arguments made from them (in my opinion) are not wholly incorrect. I have arguments/beliefs in both sides, but find that most media besides Fox push progressive agendas (i.e. even the 'impartial' reports will use rhetoric and facts which fit in well with progressive agendas).
Students and Youths Offered $10 to Pirate Latest Movies in Cinemas
I think it would largely depend on what sort of company you wanted to start - I would agree that a traditional SV-style startup is probably going to spectacularly fail. However, my experience with starting a small bootstrapped company was very positive, especially given the lower cost of living. It wasn't anything that was gonna make me rich but it was definitely doable.

Honestly, I think the idea that anywhere other than SV is gonna be come SV is silly - but I also do want to help dispel the notion that the Midwest has no technical talent or is unfriendly to tech. We have a lot of tech talent - a large portion of it just ends up leaving for the coasts for better networking rather than setting up shop here, or working for large established companies for steady pay.
They weren't supporting Flash long before the App Store was a thing.

I'm more inclined to believe that Adobe couldn't make a decently performant version of Flash for ARM that didn't eat battery power like a fat kid locked in a candy store.
Couldn't agree more. Was trying to make that my second point - how founders (and early employees) getting diluted and end up not having the gains to pump back into investing when exits actually do happen. They may be able to retire, but they can't also invest $10M over 10 yrs - it's one or the other.
The art of glamour by Virginia Postrell.
Realtalk is the most exciting computer system that I've used in a long time. The wonder and joy of using Realtalk is very much like the wonder and joy I had at using Linux and Genera for the first time.

If you ever get a chance to visit Dynamicland, do not pass it up.
The cresting of a wave is but its fall; the flash of a bolt of lightning is but its fading.

Likewise, knowledge, drinking up the water of ignorance, grows so large that it completely annihilates itself.

This absolute knowledge is like the intrinsic fullness of the moon, which is unaffected by its apparent waxing and waning.

~Jnaneshwar

Knowledge that is acquired is not like this. Those who have it worry if audiences like it or not. It's a bait for popularity. Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul... The only real customer is God. Chew quietly your sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stay playfully childish.

~Rumi

My words are very easy to understand

And very easy to practice.

Still, no one in the world

Can understand or practice them.

My words have an origin.

My deeds have a sovereign.

Truly, because people do not understand this,

They do not understand me.

That so few understand me is why I am treasured.

Therefore, the sage wears coarse clothes, concealing jade.

~Lao Tzu

Perhaps, the article showcases a confusion between the knowledge of the world, deemed philosophy, and the knowledge of the absolute, also called philosophy. Hence, there is philosophy as interpretation and argument on the one hand, and philosophy as revelation on the other. This is seen in the philosophers listed in the article.
> this article seems to imply the only value of side projects is for future employers

It doesn't imply that. When writing about anything, explaining all the things that you're _not_ talking about is a great way to never get to the point.

Determining that the post is about side projects aimed at landing a job is a task left to the reader. If the title didn't get you there, the second sentence is here to help: "For the distinct purpose of getting a job in tech, side projects are either a great use of your time or a great waste of your time."

"Distinct" as in specific — "The following may not apply if you're objective is not specifically to getting a job in the tech industry."

If you'd like to talk about other great uses of side projects, I think that's a completely reasonable discussion to have. Simi-related threads in top-level comments are common: "I know it's a little different form what the article is talking about, but I'd like to talk about…"
We had a quite large Flex AS3 Business analytics Flash App (100K LoC). We had to rewrite it to get away from Flash plugin and because of Haxe+HaxeUI+OpenFL we saved literally 1 year of development+testing. Haxe also allows us to maintain and improve a web + native app with a single code base with a very small team.
Compilation errors and strict typing IMHO is a must for your own peace of mind, when you are dealing with a big code base.

I could say Haxe and its ecosystem has saved our company from dying along with flash plugin.
It's not an algorithm for drawing districts though, it's a score computed for a given plan.

And it depends on selecting binary sides. How do you objectively deal with a popular moderate?
> The implication that toddlers are more dangerous than terrorists is absurd. Armed toddlers are the result of freak accidents and careless people. Terrorist attacks are the result of intentional policy choices.

Armed toddlers are also a result of intentional policy choices. You will struggle to find a statistic about deaths from armed toddlers in the UK, because gun laws mean that the chance of such a situation occurring is minuscule.
But I think that's the point, WhatsApp doesn't own the data, and that carries over to Facebook. From what I gather, what they own is the database schema and whatever business logic is specific to WA/FB, and they 'lease' the data from users to populate their databases.
Terrible article. Canadians live 2 years longer on average than Americans. And you're telling me the US mental health system would have been more pro-active? Come on.

"Hers was Sault Ste. Marie’s sole homicide of 2013."

How many small towns in the US can you say that of?
The takeaway (if I'm reading the graphs correctly) is that the Gladstone coal unit took over 3 minutes to respond to the Loy Yang failure. It was contracted to respond within 6 seconds, but couldn't. Fortunately the Tesla battery was able to respond within milliseconds and cover the gap. It's a good bit of PR for Tesla, and could have some negative implications for coal or gas fired backup units.
> Sure. I'm talking about universal adoption because the article is ("take over the world")

I'm not sure "taking over the world" is necessarily equivalent with universal adoption. Getting to a substantial majority of new car sales (currently only around 1% in the US) would qualify in my mind.

> Tricks like going to that one Whole Foods store that has the fast chargers won't work when a significant % of cars are EVs, there simply will need to be a lot more public chargers

Increased EV adoption will incentivize more investment in EV chargers. The chargers at businesses like Whole Foods are being installed with private capital because they think it makes business sense. More EVs means more demand for public chargers which will in turn justify increased investment in those chargers.