skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And have all embedded engineers raging because you just made cross compilation an order of magnitude harder.
Exactly you can see that in the eu the former WP countries with poor economies - causes a massive brain drain. I seem to recall seeing a quote that one of the Baltic stats some huge % f hat years graduates where working abroad.
When I created my skill I created it for myself. The free t-shirt for being one of the first 1000 skills was a bonus.

Even though it has a glaring bug, it still gets more traffic than any of my other personal projects. And Amazon (usually once a year around December) offers $100 credit which I can apply to my AWS account for the traffic it incurs (which still costs me nothing).
Random schmuck here. There's tons of supervision, communication with research and clients, oversight, and risk limitation. Also, you can't make big bets without occasionally losing, and people usually know exactly whom to blame. (Sometimes it's not the trader whose position blew up, but the desk manager or senior sales person who fought for the trade, or even a client who had inside info on a deal.)

The only truly stupid bets are the illegal and/or unauthorized ones.
NTU scientists develop patch that helps burn fats
Ask HN: What are tools for writing test case documents?
For example, I want to write something like...

Test case: Login

1. If entering username "abc", password "admin", it would log in.

2. If entering password "and", it will pop up error invalid password.

3. If entering password "", it will disable the login button.

Surely someone has created a solution that handles something as repetitive as this? Most people use Word but formatting takes up quite a lot of time.
Dunno first-hand about hotels, but at least for flights google's interface is VASTLY better than any alternative I've found. It's like they actually let me find the information I'm looking for.
Employers can manipulate the market politically much more easily than employees can. The result looks like this:

http://econintersect.com/images/2013/10/67888593productivity...
I started to build a thing (maybe an OpenAlexa) for this reason (glider5.com) - the goal was to eventually hook it up to STT and TTS and have it answer queries, with all the code being open. Right now it kind of looks like a dysfunctional wolframalpha - but where anyone can write the code to answer queries.

Not sure whether to just kill it or do something else with it, but it was a fun idea.
Poor and contrived, stereotypical example. That said, the correct and safest answer is not sharing videos at work and just working.
Assuming the app is sending an old, cached location, why would they want to do that?
If you're hiring for 'enterprise development' you're already outside the interest zone of actually talented developers, so that works out I guess. If you're doing 'enterprise' just pick up a bunch of guys with Agile and Cisco certificates, indian outsourcing will also do just fine.
One of the reasons I run Solarized Dark theme as my default. Instead of requiring a themer tool to support all the tools I use, I have a theme that is always one of the first themes to be available for my tools. Google mytool+Solarized never let me down.
I think the bias is too deeply ingrained to disappear without strong, sustained institutional pressure to avoid it.
I imagine that the people who fired him are congratulating themselves on having great soft skills and making everyone feel safe.
You and I define SJWs differently; I'm referring to the folks who insist problems are broader and deeper than they are, completely in spite of the evidence. For example, the folks who still think the wage gap is principally caused by discrimination.
History has also never seen nor experienced anything like the Amazons and Googles and Facebooks of present day. They make the Rockefellers and JP Morgans of yester-century red with envy. As much as I like to say that today is the greatest day in the history of human civilization, I'm quite reticent and fearful for the future. It's inevitable that we will live with either Big Government or Big Corps, but both of them in tandem will not be good for civilization.
It was solved more than six years ago. The cost is that you lose support for applications that make use of switchable 7-bit character sets: on the gripping hand a price that most people seem willing to pay nowadays.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16014824
I agree with your statement. They can't fix everything.
Oof, p value misinterpretation:

> That result got the community excited — although most physicists were quick to point out that with such a small sample size, there was still a 10 percent chance that the difference was merely a random fluctuation. (By comparison, the 2012 Higgs boson discovery had less than a 1-in-1 million probability that the signal was due to chance.)
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Yes but for local businesses you also have to manage your product listings and your local listings with those $50 sites actually use the correct markup for local seo and is your browse structure optimised or even crawlable?
You can build an audience even if you’re a nobody
I believe you can "enable skill X" directly from Alexa.

https://venturebeat.com/2016/06/28/alexa-skills-voice/
The premise of the article is increasingly untrue. It describes the situation up until roughly ten years ago. Since then there has been an emphasis on easy jobs, privatization and "flexibility". Many people today have huge mortgages, a fairly weak social safety net and are hired as contractors.
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Yep, my usage is about the same. I would say 99% of the time I am just using it to play music and then the other 1% is just asking it simple things like the weather or what time it is.

I installed a couple goofy skills but rarely use them. I did set it up with a custom skill to control my Roku by voice, but I don't think I have used it since I got it working.
As someone who fits into the top 1% of income, I find these analyses as inherently discriminatory against individuals in market positions that generate high incomes, a la Obama's "you didn't build that" statement.

In other words, is it morally wrong for the secretary in a medical office to be paid less than what the physician owner takes home in salary/dividends? The analysis intuits this position, and pessimistically states at the end that nothing will change for the secretary, attributed earlier to a political economy working against their interests.

Individuals make decisions throughout their life, especially early on, that determine the course of their futures. Do they have teenage pregnancy? Do they study hard in high school or trade school or professional school or engineering school? Do they have business intuition to start their own business?

I think the indictment should be against the University-government complex which tricks young people into taking substantial debt to chase degrees in fields with no long term potential for high earnings.
FaCT aka ConstanC: a constant-time programming language
Building real-time analytics dashboards with Postgres and Citus
Learn how to use XLM in an application.

Learn spanish.

Learn to free dive to 150 feet.
Why is it outstanding?
Yeah, looks like it was a bad decision. I'm not too active here,but HN seems quite intolerant to uncomfortable questions in comments, will stick to just reading posts here.
I firmly believe that if your seat reclines, you are totally entitled to use the full extent of that recline.

The only issue I've ever had with this was when a Lufthansa flight attendant barked at me to set my seat upright as I was napping while the person behind me was eating. It was a transatlantic flight.

Never flew Lufthansa again.
what about cases when regular debugging is printf/assert/static_assert?
I should've been more explicit, I meant against bringing it in-house. My partner is an experienced commercial real estate lawyer so, really, I'm just reflecting her view - she's worked on both sides, in-house and private practice. The only reason, in her experience, that companies don't bring that sort of work in-house is insurance and the hassle of liability being worn by the law firm rather than the company. Also, it allows the client (i.e. manager at the client) to have someone to blame when it all goes tits up.
I've found a pretty hard salary cap. 15 years exp, Bs degree earned somewhere in the middle, increasing experience, good references... and then I get to SF and have experienced intense bullying when I ask for anything beyond the norm of a new-grad transplant who works through the holidays.

Employment in programming jobs here isn't worth it for experienced people. Now if we restructured engineering orgs a little bit, we could pay the more experienced people proportional to the hidden value they create... but that would require "right brained"/non-Analytical thinking which is basically illegal. So we'll Lemming on until the engineering orgs with data driven decision making are replaced by the new Google of the heart.
Thanks for the links, hadn't even heard of distilling but the papers on that site are a lot more approachable for sure. Thanks for the other insights too, I will keep them in mind for the next paper I read.
I'm 3 sentences into the interview, and this seems absurd on its face. Does anyone take this seriously?

"When we say we are thinking, what we are actually doing is rearranging causal relations with past events, objects that we have encountered before, to see what happens when we combine them. We don’t need a mental sofa to put next to a mental armchair. We allow the sofas and armchairs encountered in our past to exert an effect in the present, in various combinations."
The average IQ in scandinavia is in decline
I went here in LA - peakbraininstitute.com

Drop me an email if you want to hear more.
The lucrative business of America’s opioid crisis
The revolution will not be proofread
for me, volume up + lock button typically fires off a screenshot even if unintended. I use tap volume up -> tap volume down -> hold lock button.
> libsodium ... libhydrogen ... seems less active

I imagine the later author wanted things this way.
I can't work on both simultaneously. As libsodium has become pretty much feature complete, and much more bloated that I initially wanted, I am now refocusing more on hydrogen.

Since this is relevant to the original topic, the password hashing API is a good illustration of the difference between both libraries. New additions to libsodium must remain consistent with historic APIs, that have limitations and usability issues. Hydrogen learned from this, and tries to model its API after common problems to solve in real-world applications rather than provide interfaces to cryptographic primitives. This will eventually become the base of libsodium 2.x

Of course, there's nothing wrong with using libsodium, if only because it's way more mature and implements conservative designs that you can trust.

But feedback on Hydrogen would also be really great. I really want to avoid doing the same mistakes again, and build the best possible easy-to-use hard-to-misuse APIs that everybody can use confidently.
situational. This morning I had to power it off because even cycling airplane mode wouldn't get Music to download music from iTunes Match. Powered off, powered on and it was working again.
I don't have the source as I saw it on the local TV news station the other day, but they mentioned that the life expectancy in the US dropped this year in part because of the current opioid abuse that is sweeping the nation. If that is indeed true it is pretty sobering (no pun intended).

EDIT: here is an article that talks about this from the source site: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/12/28...
> is it morally wrong for the secretary in a medical office to be paid less than what the physician owner takes home in salary/dividends?

To the extent that their differing roles are circumstances of birth and life, and that fairness is part of your morality, yes, it is.

> Do they have teenage pregnancy? Do they study hard in high school or trade school or professional school or engineering school? Do they have business intuition to start their own business?

Those are all circumstances of birth, be it nature or nurture.

We have a strange notion of "deserve" in our society, that someone deserves more simply because they have a skill or circumstances that are in lower supply compared to demand. So physician skills are in shorter supply than secretary skills. But if they were shipwrecked on a desert island, and the secretary knows how to fish and keep them alive, suddenly he can command a greater share of income on that island. Arbitrary no?
The fact that capital gains include both corporate wealth and land value is insane. One is a productive asset that for the most part improves society, and can grow in quantity and value indefinitely. The other (land) is a measure of scarcity for an essential commodity.

It's fine that people make lots of money doing hard or rare work. Also great that people are loaning their saved money so companies can expand. It doesn't make sense for people to get wealthier for owning land.
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I'm just saying that there is an unsolved conflict of interests and values. And I don't see a good way to solve it any time soon. Everything will offend someone somewhere, just blindly saying "don't do anything offending" doesn't help anyone. Instead we should take a stance and hold it, even if it's offending someone.

It just happens to be that Islam interests are contradicting to western values: if we take it to extreme we need to ban pork everywhere. This is one of unsolved examples: if pork is offending, do we serve pork? Or we stop serving pork just because part of the group finding it offending? I don't see a clear answer :(
I don't disagree with you, but I'd encourage you to try to be a little more empathetic in thinking about how "individuals make decisions...that determine the courses of their futures."

Sometimes their decision set is unfavorable. Other times things happen that are beyond their control. Yet more people just make bad decisions.

People are the product of their environments.
Warframe has a lot of issues (still need 135k mutalist samples for the Hema), but even though it has a ton of bugs, I don't really care. The devs and managers treat the fanbase so much better than any other game, so I'm willing to look past all the bugs.
I can see why people would love to read a paper about passively fingerprinting individual users. However passive HTTP/1.1 fingerprinting of servers and clients is a valuable, and well researched topic (at BlackHat no less). Finding ways to extend that to H2 is helpful to the industry as a whole.

Don't discard the work because its not a "super cookie"
Hello eevilspock.

Fairness seems to be the driving point behind your comment here and your linked 9-point sub-answer about the idea of a meritocracy.

I read your comment here two ways:
1. Being a rentier is more unfair than not.
and/or
2. Accumulated wealth beyond that needed to meet basic needs is unfair (whether acquired via rent or not).

^This is me parsing your comment to hopefully reply to the point(s) you wanted to make. If I misinterpreted, please correct me.

On the merits of, I think there is a great deal of agreement and overlap between what you wrote and this line that I wrote about there being inequality of income/opportunity/meaning between the 1% (whether rentiers or not) and the 99%.
Why Do Intellectuals Support Government Solutions?
Pavel #Lerner, head of #EXMO cryptocurrency exchange, was kidnapped in Ukraine
I think the author is sarcastic. He's pretty conical.
Better movies would help theaters out too... CGI still looks like CGI, even in 2017 it's pretty easy to identify a CGI helicopter or explosion. Then there's the eternal topic of throwing violence and sex scenes at the consumer in an attempt to spice up a mundane plot... when all that's needed is a better plot.
That data will never be released to the public, even if they do intend to actually gather it properly. The Canadian economy needs foreign money to not fall into recession.
Awesome, I found that when I reread your description more in detail.

Back to base16, if you'd add base16 as an input and output you'd be able to benefit both by expanding the available set of themes with those of base16 and expanding the set of output formats to those supported by that ecosystem. That would make your tool far more interesting for someone like me who's already using base16.
Is this definition flawed in the age where software can sometimes replace an entire profession? In such cases, can "productivity" sometimes fall in the face of technological advance?
It could be argued, but that argument would be incorrect, because leaving diagnosis to untrained individuals unrealistically favours "obvious" - but wrong - shallow diagnoses over less obvious deeper diagnoses.

You could argue that doctors aren't great at deep diagnoses either, and unfortunately that seems to be true. But they're still likely to better than someone who lacks the experience or knowledge to understand why a shallow diagnosis may be misleading or limited.

Law is a different problem. Lawyers are paid to be persuasive, using some knowledge of law as a foundation for rhetoric. Specialist lawyers are likely to have access to useful domain-specific professional networks. But a lot of law is relatively menial (but expensive) form-filling. The very specific and self-contained skills used to handle routine property transfers, wills and probate, and so on, can easily be handled by paralegals.

Medicine doesn't have those nice clean silos. If someone has abdominal pain, the range of possible causes is huge, and often very dependent on an extended medical history.
That’s not the right patent - that’s something else entirely! Goes to show how poorly written most patents are.

Hopefully you’ll find this one more informative:

https://www.google.com/patents/US9021269

Part of the reason I’ve been able to raise money and spend several years of my life trying to build and evangelize this new/better way of protecting passwords is because the USPTO has granted us the exclusive right to license it in the US through ~2033.
Defensive infosec is mostly "liability and risk reduction." Why is "risk reduction" seen as a bad thing?
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Most of our use of Alexa revolves around skills. But they are all around smart home products we have like Wemo, Harmony Hub, etc.

The bugbear I have (being a Canadian user) is the region lockouts. A lot of existing skills aren't ticked for English (Canada) support, so we're stuck waiting for skills to show up.

I contacted some product companies for some skills I was waiting for, and it didn't even seem like companies were notified of the region setting or the recent Canadian release.
It's interesting you bring up this point.

When I went to college in North Dakota, there was a similar feeling with kids from North Dakota getting technical degrees (computer science, engineering, medical) and then moving to Minnesota and getting jobs there as opposed to keeping that knowledge in state.

There was a real push to try and keep these people from moving to Minnesota. At the time, my three best friends and teammates were all from various parts of rural North Dakota. All ended up with engineering degrees. All said the same thing, "Why would I stay here and get paid $40K when I have a masters degree in Mechanical Engineering, when I can take a job in Minnesota and make $80K?"
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React and Angular are solutions to different problems. I don't think React would have succeeded without adequate performance, but I also don't think it is why React has been successful or the main reason it has displaced some of Angular's "market share"; being fast enough is necessary but not sufficient to do its job.
The structure of “unstructured” decision processes [pdf]
Doesn't sending the salt to the client void a whole layer of security?
Heroku actually does this for their free instances. They "sleep" servers after iirc 30 minutes of inactivity, and they wake up again after the first request, which takes a few seconds longer as it boots up.
> machines like Parsey McParseFace can now accurately parse human universal grammar. unambiguous parsing was a big feature of lojban, so it's lost a major selling point.

Slow down there ... Most linguists (or a substantial minority) do not subscribe to the theoretical idea of universal grammar. Parsey McParseFace is only an incremental improvement in decades of statistical parsing. The problem of natural language understanding remains largely unsolved. Like other deep learning models, it is not hard to come up with adversarial examples that will confuse the parser but not any competent human language user. The parser is only as good as the data it is trained on; this data is expensive to acquire but there is never enough. Additionally there are a myriad other kinds of ambiguity in language beyond the sentence-level syntactic ambiguity which is resolved by a statistical parser such as Parsey McParseFace.

In my opinion Lojban provides a good illustration of just how hard it is to remove ambiguity from human language.
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Aside from the associated cost savings, how is that any better than having the delivery guy drop the computer parts at your doorstep after ordering them on your phone?
Damn if the article doesn't reek of being just one big advertisement for the service. It is written as if the theaters have no choice in the face of consumers wanting unrealistically cheap tickets.

A service with such an unrealistic price per month that it should be impossible to lose subscribers and be just as impossible to be sustainable once early investor money dries up. It just reminds me of the worst of the early internet businesses, mainly all the grocery delivery attempts and now boutique dinner delivery services

all the theater chains need to do is wait it out, count their money from all these effectively free patrons, and then launch their own if desired version. T
Interesting. Can you point to the source on this? Thanks!
I'm still not sure how this company makes money or how they make the theaters money.

So they sell tickets for way under what they cost, they take their cut and pass it on to the theater and studio, and then claim money somehow that simply putting butts in seats is their value add.

It just doesn't make sense.
I found this from ~3 months ago, the recent addition to github:

https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/uncovering_la...

Seems to do with manipulating the speed styles in how we speak.

Listen to the "neutral" blue lagoon, vs token 6 (tired sound), vs mix w/ token 7 (prominence)" (very confident).

Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.00520.pdf
The context of discussion is harassment, not simply "being offended."
Crank up NeoVIM. Run :terminal . Use those commands and break out of terminal mode, possibly with a long running command still running, with the mouse or with Control+\ Control+N . Explore the searchability and the use of :set scrollback .

Is that approximately the sort of thing that you are looking for?
The problem with "better movies" is it's totally subjective-film is art. For instance, I'd argue that the current quality of cinema has never been better. It's a mature medium with several mature distribution channels and the barriers to entry have never been lower. Some of the indie films that get produced these days are incredible. And the spectacle offered by blockbusters is truly breathtaking. Sure, there's a lot of bad movies released on both ends of the budget spectrum, but that has always been true.

The theater experience on the other hand, is getting less and less appealing as home audio/video tech continues to improve at a furious pace.