skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm from Britain and it rated my accent as 99-100% British the few times that I tried it. So not bad from my point of view.

Meanwhile, I wonder what Cambridge Consultants are going to do with a dataset of thousands of Hacker News users reading out the sentence "Please call Stella and ask her to meet Bob the frog at the store with three small red plastic bags".
I wouldn't generally recommend CrossFit.

There are two main problems with it:

1) CrossFit is exercise. A randomized program like it doesn't provide actual training. A strength program or running program or whatever will have better results. Exercise is great for beginners or for people that would otherwise do nothing, but it's not going to get you nearly as good of results as a more specific program.

2) Which leads me into the next problem. While there are definitely CrossFit gyms that have instructors that teach proper form and know enough to help keep the people they're training safe, the quality of instructors varies wildly. All it takes to be a qualified instructor is to take a weekend class: https://training.crossfit.com/level-one

CrossFit's benefits are really only going to be realized by newbies, and newbies are the exact people that lack to ability to determine if they are getting quality instruction.

There's a reason people like Mark Rippetoe and others distanced themselves from CrossFit.
They probably just timed execution with a few thousand samples and compared results. Nothing too fancy either way, I think.
If you enjoy it then it's irrelevant if you're saving any money at all.

But cooking to save money when you're a software engineer is almost certainly a poor use of your time. Better even to take on debt and spend your time studying for interviews to switch jobs to a higher salary.
This is a far better authority on tabletop gaming than Vox in the OP.

Also not super impressed with:
> Fog of Love is available exclusively from Walmart for some reason
When I speak with my normal NY Northeastern accent it tells me British 80%.

When I speak with a poorly done, make-believe Southern accent it tells me American 90%.
eh, You can have a very strong welfare state that provides minimal food, shelter, medical care and clothing to everyone who needs it without having a planned economy. They really are different issues.

there's a big difference between a welfare state and full out socialism; the difference is largely about power... Socialisim is about giving the workers control over the means of production. The welfare state is merely about seeing to it that people don't starve.

We're rich enough, in America, at least, that with tax increases, we could provide the minimum for everyone, and pay for it out of the sorts of taxes we pay now (only, of couse, somewhat more)

There was a lot of effort in that direction here and in the UK in the '70s; there was a lot of criticism that the public housing, for instance, wasn't very nice, but what really ended it was the rise of the political movement that backed Thatcher (in the UK) and Reagan (in the US)
Things like this are fun as a New Englander who doesn't have the "pahk the cah" accent of Boston. Our vowels are flat, and mine get flatter when I'm drinking--when I visited Ireland with my family the landlady at a little bed-and-breakfast took me aside and inquired if I had been educated in England. Nope--I just don't say "baaaaaaaag".
Confused what does Nomad List have to do with this post or site?
Study: Chickens prefer beautiful humans.

Citation: Ghirlanda, S., Jansson, L. & Enquist, M. Hum Nat (2002) 13: 383.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-002-1021-6

DOI: 10.1007/s12110-002-1021-6

Abstract: We trained chickens to react to an average human female face but not to an average male face (or vice versa). In a subsequent test, the animals showed preferences for faces consistent with human sexual preferences (obtained from university students). This suggests that human preferences arise from general properties of nervous systems, rather than from face-specific adaptations. We discuss this result in the light of current debate on the meaning of sexual signals and suggest further tests of existing hypotheses about the origin of sexual preferences.
> Is it... a "startup"? Do they make money? Is Propel even a for-profit company?

A startup is a newly established business - that is to say, just starting up.
Are there any promising startups in India working on anti-poverty, anti-hunger schemes?
We've had some questions on how libraries were selected. Basically, they were manually added and tagged on http://bestof.js.org, and we then reused the data to build the Rising Stars rankings.

So if you see a library missing, it could be because we didn't know about it and didn't add it to the database, or maybe tagged it in a way that excluded it from a specific category. Feedback welcome!
Lived in England and Scotland for 31 years, lived in Australia for 6 years.

67% American
33% British
Also for consideration: Gloomhaven - https://boardgamegeek.com/browse/boardgame

Now the top ranked board game on BGG.
Indeed! It's why many Jews choose to name children after deceased relatives to honor and remember them.

Also a similar quote by Irving Yalom:

"Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies, too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?"

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/153699-some-day-soon-perhap...
TL;DR:

“The nose hair has just the right length and springiness for getting a pollen grain, or in this case the butterfly scale, to adhere to it,” Mr. van Eldijk said. “I was just provided these by my professor, I don’t know whose nose hair it was. It’s probably best not to ask.”
It can be politically incorrect to state that some people are more physically attractive than others, but in the “is beauty objective” debate, this seems to be at least a sign that beauty is not totally subjective?
I haven't used bitwise operators since college (approaching 8 years ago) but wanted to try this as a fun exercise during the NFL playoff game. Here's what I came up with -- mostly untested.

[edit] Note this is obviously for 16-bit integers.

int flip_endian_helper(int num, int i) {

if (i == 16) {
return 0;
}

int shift = 15 - 2*i;
int workingBit = num & (1 << i);
int partial = shift > 0 ? workingBit << shift : workingBit >> (shift * (-1));

return partial | flip_endian(num, i + 1);

}

int flip_endian(int num) {

return flip_endian_helper(num, 0);

}
Even though I grew up in a Commonwealth country, it says I've got 85% British accent which is totally not correct
Bug fixes and security updates?
I'm not sure the answer, but since it's for sale on android and ios, I imagine there's not a lot of incentive for the author to make it work on mobile browsers if it's easily done.
For what it's worth, I partly agree. It just seems important to try to help whatever is going on.

Most people don't try, you know? It can be really hard for people who have stuff going on to find any kind of support.

And you'd think it'd be the opposite: family, friends, counsellors. Yet for some reason, people tend to eschew them during dark times. There's something worth exploring there, and I want to help somehow.

A decent example: https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/7q9eu0/my_...

In that case, it was trauma that almost led to suicide. But it was intensely private and humiliating. Of course she wasn't going to talk to her father about it.

If only there were a service for people in that situation to get real help, on demand. There are suicide hotlines, but many people are far more comfortable expressing themselves via keyboard.
Is it really politically incorrect?
I'm pretty sure I read from multiple credible sources that people correlate massively as for who they find attractive. So it's subjective, but most people agree.
> I read "we're here to somehow insert fees between you and your food stamp money"

You need to read the article more carefully, it says "But FreshEBT isn't a typical Silicon Valley product."
Have you seen the voice controlled elevator sketch on Burnistoun? Give the poor algorithm a break! ;)
I’m 100% American from the mid-Atlantic region. Rated my accent 53% American and 47% UK. I tried on my best south London accent, which is fairly cartoony, and got a 60% UK.

Edit: just tried my best Southern accent (kinda Georgia) and rated 72% American.
Born in Washington DC and that is the southernmost point of my childhood. Father born in England to Eastern European immigrants. Mother is Italian American from Pennsylvania. West coasters semi-frequently think my accent is European, but nobody from back east or from Europe says that.

I got 84% British.

My wife was born in Russia and spent most of her life on the US west coast. She got 91% American.

Fun little app but given my results and some comments here I see it as a west coast accent detector.
This seems like it'd be hard to do reliably - if I recall, there were significant variations in the regional makeup of the various thirteen colonies to start with, and some of those linguistic peculiarities have outlived their originators, besides England having it's own subdialects and variations over time too.

Get a Mainer, a New Yorker, a Virginian, and a Georgian together, and they're hardly mutually intelligble, and that's just on the east coast.
Never did that. But here is what worked for me so far:

- Pick the brains of other founders. Buy them beer/lunch. Example: I was planning to make a first sales hire. I talked to couple of friends who has done that in the past.

- Hire experts on clarity.fm. Example: We had trouble with naming a new product we are launching. Hired an expert on naming. She clarified a lot of questions for us.
When they decommed it, I asked if I could have db31 to go Office Space on. They said no :-(
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAAG56KU1...

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAF136G48...

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAC4Z6CZ4...

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA24G6DV4...

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6R46JS9...

etc etc.

There are very many machines sold now, today, with Windows 10 (and previously Windows 8) that have only 32 GB drive space.

With WIMBoot any updates would eat drive space and that space was not recoverable, and this would sometimes prevent updating to Windows 10. MS says this here: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2015/03/16/how-w...

> The reason Windows 8.1 devices using WIMBOOT are not yet able to upgrade to Windows 10 is because many of the WIMBOOT devices have very limited system storage. That presents a challenge when we need to have the Windows 8.1 OS, the downloaded install image, and the Windows 10 OS available during the upgrade process. We do this because we need to be able to restore the machine back to Windows 8.1 if anything unexpected happens during the upgrade, such as power loss. In sum, WIMBOOT devices present a capacity challenge to the upgrade process and we are evaluating a couple of options for a safe and reliable upgrade path for those devices.

There's a complex workaround of "delete everything, and use two USB sticks" which isn't great for the target user.

The new file compression stuff is much much better than WIMBoot.
Worms have very few neurons though. Someone simulated one with a toy robot and it acted very much like an earthworm.
Probably just make refinements to the model they're using to classify samples.

The sentence is obviously taken (with some modifications) from the sample used by the speech accent archive ( http://accent.gmu.edu/howto.php ), which was constructed specifically to include every relevant phonological context in American English. (Not that this was necessarily achieved, but it was the goal.)
Not only is this game a total blast to play, but it's also one of the only games that I think is best played on a trackpad instead of with a mouse.

However if I were the creator of this game, I'd be pretty pissed at the one in the OP. One was obviously inspired by the other.
Nobody else besides me has received a second alert, that I know of, I've posted it like 30 times on twitter under #Hawaii and #MissileAlert etc

Context: I tweeted to someone who was upset about it all, "All your alert are belong to us", then immediately received the second false alarm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXGnAMp9Nvk
I haven't optimized it for mobile browsers, but it wouldn't be hard. Was pretty heads down on getting mobile native out the door.
When I said, "bleep da doop de blah bleep nah," this classified me as 80% American.

Then, I clapped my hands twice (and didn't speak), which classified me as 72% British.

As a final test, I did both at the same time: 90% American.
Could it be some extreme form of muscle-memory ?
People are commenting on whether this replaces a developer or not, but I don't see the readme for this making any such claim. I believe it is just a static website (?) in HTML which is A LOT less ambitious than trying to have a machine create a full stack web application.
> People don't pay taxes because they can get away with it.

This certainly is one of the reason behind hiding income. But majority of the middle class don't even file itr 1 form (for income below 2.5 lakhs per annum ). For filling an itr 1 form, people don't need to pay any tax.

Though people are not paying taxes but the money is being accounted and my point here is that of accountability.

However, if the income was recorded the analysis of stats could have been done more efficiently.
First of all, this is a repost from literally 4 days ago [1]
The article title also, is a bit clickbait - as one of the comments in the original submission mentions:

A lot of people in this thread seem to think that this is a neural network that
takes an image and produces HTML, when that's not the case here at all.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16115353
No.

I disagree with most of this article, and I have ~25 years experience. No, I didn't program mainframes, but I'm tired, as are younger programmers, of even older programmers trying to say that the way they did programming is still "better".

The writer isn't entirely wrong, but the simple fact is that software isn't written the same way anymore. Stop trying to force antiquated methods down younger people's throats. The way I wrote programs 20 years ago is inherently different from the way that I wrote programs 10 years ago is inherently different from the way I write programs today.

15-20 years ago, we didn't write tests. We had QA that wrote our tests for us. We tested the code as well as we could (I became pretty damn good at testing my own code) and then we threw it over a wall to QA. Today, we have zero QA and I write tests for my own code.

10-15 years ago, you aimed for 0 defects, especially for enterprise code, because your enterprise customers couldn't afford downtime. Today, in a SAAS environment, you care about defects but your have a global set of customers, and you roll your code out slowly and watch metrics.

I have a friend in growth at Facebook and his manager got mad at him because he was focusing too much time on testing his own code. Apparently he's supposed to leave that to external QA, and you can always fix the code later. On some growth teams, code quality and maintainability don't matter, all that matters is getting customer growth with new features as quickly as possible. Is that inherently wrong? No, it's a different way of doing business. 10 years ago there was no such thing as a growth team.

The way software is used is different, and the way software is developed is different. Mainframe methodologies, while interesting to read, is not relevant. Things like Optimize Upfront is nonsense to me, especially in a global context. You iterate on your features quickly, including optimization. You couldn't do that in mainframe computing, but these days I deploy to production 10 times a day, and depending on how I deploy, I can see problems fairly quickly and iterate without affecting most of my users. That's definitely not a paradigm that you would see back then, when you would have to schedule time, etc.
"Amid public outcry over the incident, the Hawaiian government also released a timeline of what transpired after the false alarm:

Approx. 8:05 a.m. – A routine internal test during a shift change was initiated. This was a test that involved the Emergency Alert System, the Wireless Emergency Alert, but no warning sirens.

8:07 a.m. – A warning test was triggered statewide by the State Warning Point, HI-EMA.

8:10 a.m. – State Adjutant Maj. Gen. Joe Logan, validated with the U.S. Pacific Command that there was no missile launch. Honolulu Police Department notified of the false alarm by HI-EMA.

8:13 a.m. – State Warning Point issues a cancellation of the Civil Danger Warning Message. This would have prevented the initial alert from being rebroadcast to phones that may not have received it yet. For instance, if a phone was not on at 8:07 a.m., if someone was out of range and has since came into cell coverage (Hikers, Mariners, etc.) and/or people getting off a plane.

8:20 a.m. – HI-EMA issues public notification of cancellation via their Facebook and Twitter accounts.

8:24 a.m. – Governor Ige retweets HI-EMA’s cancellation notice.

8:30 a.m. – Governor posts cancellation notification to his Facebook page.

8:45 a.m. – After getting authorization from FEMA Integral Public Alert and Warning System, HIEMA issued a “Civil Emergency Message” remotely.
The following action was executed by the Emergency Alert System (EAS):
1. EAS message over Local TV/Radio Audio Broadcast & Television Crawler Banner.
“False Alarm. There is no missile threat to Hawaii.”
“False Alarm. There is no missile threat or danger to the State of Hawaii. Repeat. There is no
missile threat or danger to the State of Hawaii. False Alarm.”
2. Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA)
“False Alarm. There is no missile threat or danger to the State of Hawaii.”

9:30 a.m. – Governor makes initial media notification.

9:34 a.m. – Governor’s message posted to his Facebook and Twitter accounts."

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/hawaii-releases-timeline-o...
> Again, source? Xcodeghost was one instance of limited impact.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.macrumors.com/2015/09/20/xc... shows 500 million infected from 50 apps.

> You're assuming that Apple doesn't do this?

No need to assume. https://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2015/09/more-det... not only shows that there were thousands more apps affected by Xcodeghost than originally reported (and thus, more infected users than the approximately 500 million estimate from the earlier link based on the original 50 apps), but also that Apple was still taking down affected apps days later, waiting for third parties to report them. This despite that Xcodeghost represents a single malware that can be detected with a binary grep. That Apple didn't have the infrastructure to deal with even that demonstrates how woefully inadequate their app management infrastructure is for dealing with malware.
The article mentions that Ava differs from Jest because of its focus on speed. Just figured I'd mention we are in the process of migrating from Ava to Jest, and we gained a 5x speedup in running our entire suite.
Both are great articles. Thanks!
Leave them on random people's voicemail, probably.
> That comparison only holds if you consider those attending cheap state school on student loans as "the vetted privileged few".

As any sensible person would, consdering how few people do that.
We just spent 8 years of another party in the White House, and they didn’t solve the problem.

So no, it’s not one party - it’s both. And that’s what the problem is.
There is the http://openworm.org/ project that tries to simulate a simple worm. It's not as easy as one might think, even if the whole connectome of the worm is known.
I don't see how this text is correct:

Typically breeds with white earlobes lay white eggshells, and those with red earlobes lay brown eggshells

followed by

There are exceptions, like Rhode Island reds, which have red earlobes and brown eggs.

As far as I know, white=white and red=brown. It's that follow-on sentence that doesn't make sense; how can restating the same thing be an exception?

Is there someone hear with more knowledge about this?
> Are you sure that's exactly what they said?

I supplied a direct quote.

> I'm pretty sure that's what the whole FBI thing was about. Write a version of iOS that we can install on this phone to gain access to it without the password.

That is incorrect. The FBI asked for Apple to install a build that would let them brute force the pin without wiping the device. The device and build would stay on Apple's premises. Again, this is beside the point that Apple is untrustworthy.
Michael speaking, from Best of JavaScript project. One year ago, when "JavaScript Rising Stars 2016" was published, the topic was hot on HackerNews, there were a lot of questions about the data.
What was compiled here is only the variation of the numbers of stars on GitHub, over the span of one year.
Of course it's just one metrics we picked, but we hope it will give you a good understanding of what was the JavaScript landscape in 2017.
Road biking with some HIIT and body weight exercises for me. PS be careful with excessive endurance cardio. It's not good for your heart in the long run, look up the paper and talks from Dr James O Keefe.
On a side note, for all my daily download tasks (other than debugging some web API) I've settled with aria2[0]. It seems to support every protocol used in modern Internet and has plenty of flexibility (connection multiplexing, bandwidth control etc.). It can even serve as 24/7 torrent client managed via remote API.

0. https://aria2.github.io/
How? I tried it in my best city accent, my native suburban accent, and my best Rochester accent, and got >95% American each time.
Those prerequisites aren't necessary if you can figure out how to compromise the secure enclave remotely.
A Kiwi accent would almost certainly result in a server explosion.
Why would you be using a random ip? That incantation is usually used with a URL where you would have just downloaded and installed the software manually anyway.

There are various arguments against the curl-piped-to-shell idiom but "random ip" doesn't seem like a valid one.
I wouldn't say it's the default choice in Moscow...
Other than some slang, I wouldn't call any of these accents mutually unintelligible.
Why limit yourself? Just run everything in ring 0. No kernel calls overhead at all. Lightning-fast network stack. Use a unikernel, run your trusted code only, don't store secrets.

Beyond game servers, this could be the mode of operation of e.g. compute cluster nodes, relying on external firewall for security, and running zero untrusted code. Of course they won't care about meltdown or spectre either.
In what way is it more of a risk over downloading and executing an installer from the same site?

The only reason I can think of is if the script partially downloads and only half executes. Doesn't seem "massive" though...
Agreed on all counts!
OK, I reconsidered slightly my response to you (but can’t edit any more). The construct “a decapitated body” doesn’t sound odd to me, but “He was decapitated” does sound odd.
The two writers, especially Mike Isaac, are pretty openly anti-Uber. To say they are the core of some conspiracy to make Uber look better is an ignorant statement about who the writers are. They said they interviewed dozens of people in getting this story, reporters (especially NY Times writers) don't rely on single sources when they report things.

But you are free to believe whatever you want.
You're pretty right on all counts :)