skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once you can encode the voice characteristics to match it, then go to the next level and generate the voice so that it sounds like that person. That might be interesting in breaking ZRTP protocol which relies on verbally comparing codes both sides see on their ends.

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

So when Alice calls Bob and they verify the code, she sees "123" and says "123". Eve captures "123" then used Alice's generated voice and tells Bob the code is "456". Then does the same for Bob's side. Now, Alice and Bob if they are suspicious they can try to repeat the code a few times, maybe grouping digits differently.
Lasik carves a minus lens onto your eyes, same as if you were permanently wearing minus contacts or glasses. When you develop presbyopia, you will need plus lenses for close-up vision. With no lasik, you will use a progressive or bifocal lens (upper portion = distance prescription, lower = plus for reading).

With lasik, you will use a progressive lens (upper portion = plano/clear to avoid interfering with the lens carved onto your eye, lower = plus) or you can use basic reading glasses for near work. Lasik has risks which should be factored into any decision. If you do a lot of near/computer work, you can have a "regression" where your eye needs a stronger prescription for distance, than the lens carved onto your eye.
I understand that's objectively true. "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch", etc.

Practically, it's hard to think like that. I don't know what her employer was paying the insurance company for premium subsidies or the care we received.
The Poster Session 2018
Here's one teacher who doesn't have to doubt if his work is meaningful, awesome!
It remains to be seen what the business impact of this latest fiasco is, but PR is easier to deal with than the physical recalls experienced with the FDIV bug or the intel SSDs a few years back.

This situation may become worse for them over time due to the attitudes of their partners in response to this fiasco, but as it stands (AT THIS POINT IN TIME) I think the FDIV bug was probably worse financially.

That said : I hope it hurts them just to help turn the industry away from such single-vendor dependence.
Part of Nasa's Game Changing Development program:

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/game_changing_de...
They just means they were expecting a bigger profit.
This is all seemingly a very superficial and judgmental process you've described for selecting a business partner. I'd probably want to know more about their work experience and skills - not so much their taste in cola or cigarettes.
They use digital signatures, which involves encrypting the hash of the message (in this case, the transaction) with a private key.
Isn't Windows ARM ready now? A bunch of ARM laptops w/ Windows 10 are coming out this year.
The Leverage in SaaS
"Common business sense" is to choose your customers wisely when you have that kind of a business.

A customer that requires a disproportionate higher amount of time is a poor choice to work with.
They know what they're saying is bull hockey, but they have to say it, otherwise they'll lose their lawsuits. They have to be able to point to the public spec and say "See!? We're completely in spec! No bugs here." Nevermind that the bug is in the spec.
Those large businesses often still get it wrong and get audited.
Serious question. How likely is for Nvidia to become relevant in the CPU space in the next 10-15 years? (talking specifically about their attempts in this market with things like Tegra)... OR is their goal to keep optimizing form factor, thermal efficiency, energy consumption, etc...to the point they can make a case for a stand-alone GPU effectively replacing a CPU?
The person I was responding to had a two-ish step problem 1) find a number with a binary representation that looks like Mickey 2) find an index for that number in pi that looks like the copyright symbol. Both are conceivably possible because pi is infinite and it's decimal places contain all numbers somewhere but we only know so many actual digits. Since we're dealing with the index of the number from step 1 though the number of bits we have to find the copyright symbol in is only log_2(22,459,157,718,361) ~= 45 because it's the index we're after.

That gives a roughly 7x7 grid to draw © in which is pretty limited and might be the minimum viable for a clean ©. (and that's been a touch generous by allowing 0 padding on the front of the number)
There's OSVR, which is about as modular as you can get - there are plugins to interface with e.g. SteamVR, and it's compatible with VRPN for peripherals. (Very much a dev kit though, if you're looking for something you can just plug in and use the OSVR headsets are absolutely not that.)

I have to wonder if this team could have gotten more mileage out of working with OSVR, since a lot of the work to connect it with existing VR apps is already done. But there's certainly value in doing it all yourself!
> I would love to use a VR IDE some day.

The LCD Windows MR HMDs seem pretty close to being a sufficient display. The useful visual area is something like 900^2 px. Big, visible pixels, that are ok with a 7 pt font. And one can do subpixel rendering, so ~3x the horizontal resolution. If you are ok with working on a small laptop screen, you might be ok with this.

Otherwise, there's Varjo[1] later this year. Similar resolution to looking at your laptop. ~55 px/deg. For "under $10k".

For gloves, that you can still type in... we'll see. I had hope for https://senso.me/ , but they've gone quiet. If you don't mind spending $10k, there are existing trackers.

For software... sigh. Maybe if market size explodes this Xmas, things will improve. There's been a lot of "do something, then abandon it, because the area isn't ripe yet" over the last half decade. And software dev in VR hasn't been where people's attention is focused.

Oh, if one's interest is in-VR creation of VR, instead of in-VR general software dev, then there are a bunch of "authoring environments" being worked on.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/12102/varjo-announces-shippin...
Looking who was fixing bugs in the "Core" of Firefox, there were a lot of Chinese names. It seems that's "the Taiwan office" mentioned, and it also seems Mozilla executives killed exactly those who improved the browser day to day.

Nobody should believe the PR -- even with the latest "new" stuff added it's still the "old" stuff that has to be improved as the "new" stuff is still just the "leaves" of the whole "tree." Firefox still eats significantly more battery than any other browser during typical browsing sessions.
> that drinks alcohol

I haven't really thought about whether I would be a business partner with someone, but in this case quantity certainly matters. When people say smoker, it is implied someone who smokes often and constantly throughout the day - 24/7. The equivalent drinker would be an alcoholic, not just someone who has a beer on Friday.
I find your arguments a bit shallow. I know extraordinary people who like to smoke. How can you say a smoker has a "lack of intelligence" and what makes you think people smoke from stress? I smoke from 16 to 35 and I never did it because of stress (yes I smoked when stressed too) - for me it was that calmness it gave. I could concentrate more than I can now as a non-smoker - I could go deeper and stay there for bigger amounts of time.
It's a common silicon valley term. These are people who just have lots and lots of ideas, but no concept of how to build them or how practical their ideas are.

They are, to put it mildly, a waste of time to work with.
Ask HN: Can Google cloud spanner replace mainframes?
I’ve been reading about Google Cloud Spanner recently — and it seems like a really unique and incredible product if it is capable as it sounds.

It has me thinking — is the most viable migration path away from mainframes yet? From my understanding — one of the things that contribute to the difficulty of migrating away from mainframes is the change in the consistency model — going from mainframe to pretty much anything else seems to involve:

(1) unraveling all the consistency requirements between the different mechanisms which manipulate mainframe data with sufficient understanding to port this logic into storage systems with weaker consistency models — hard and risky

Or

(2) replicating the bottleneck in giant oracle instance or some other non-scaleable data store that provides the same standard of consistency model

Does google cloud spanner provide a viable 3rd alternative here? I am curious if others think that cloud spanner could represent the most viable way to migrate away from mainframes in 2018.
You can buy reduced-myopia glasses for less than $50 from Zenni, Eyebuydirect, etc.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16147020
Listening to episode 1, overall pretty good. I was surprised to hear no mention of NeXT, especially given some of the focus on post-Jobs-return Apple.
A satirically unneeded look-up table, but yeah, pretty much!
Are you sure that I'm a boy? ;)
Which, in all fairness, is a big red flag where joint business ventures are concerned... what exactly is your point?
Not sure. A couple of other studies below. More info in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16147020

Scott A. Read; Michael J. Collins; Beata P. Sander, Human Optical Axial Length and Defocus, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, December 2010, http://iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2126435

Significant changes in optical axial length occurred in human subjects after 60 minutes of monocular defocus. The bidirectional optical axial length changes observed in response to defocus implied the human visual system is capable of detecting the presence and sign of defocus and altering optical axial length to move the retina toward the image plane.

Vasudevan, Ciuffreda, Ludlam. Accommodative Training to Reduce Nearwork-Induced Transient Myopia, Optometry and Vision Science: November 2009,
https://journals.lww.com/optvissci/Abstract/2009/11000/Accom...

Training of the accommodative system in these progressing myopes resulted in improved dynamics in both laboratory and clinical measures. This is consistent with earlier reports in the literature of improvement in symptomatic myopic subjects.
The article didn't seem to really discuss any limitation other than the general and unspecific incredulity of the authors.
Too late for you, but schools are full of kids with glasses now and all the pairs I’ve seen are seriously cool. I’ve heard kids asking parents if they could have a pair. It might be just the early levels of schooling, but at that level at least, there is no stigma.
Why do you need a neural net for this? isn't it just a simple increase in variance?
Maude programming language
I had it done when I was 34, ten years ago. I personally had a bad experience with epithelial ingrowth and had the procedure repeated 2 times. Each more painful than the last.

I wear glasses for driving now, due to slight astigmatism making it hard to read street signs.

I wear glasses for working on the computer due to presbyopia.

LASIK these days has a larger zone (area) of correction, so visual side effects are less likely to last. Although I believe the risk of epithelial ingrowth is the same (1%).

I’m happy that with a minimal prescription I can see 20/15. I’m about 20/40 without.

That said, I doubt I would do it again if I could go back in time.
This blog post does raise the question of what’s going to happen to Stream Framework, now that the hosted version is diverging so clearly...
There are many reasons Elon’s hyperloop will be in a tunnel, including safety, travel within the city center, and surprisingly much easier approvals. Utilities drill tunnels all the time, and so far for The Boring Company, getting approvals has been a matter of filing for a utility approval. There’s just so much less contention underground.

Yes cost is an challenge, but so much easier to focus on one problem rather than to be faced with many, like an above ground hyperloop would have.

“Without tunnels we’ll be in traffic hell forever” -Elon
In a judgment free way - my dad's long-term business partner was overweight. Died super young, in his mid-60s. It was heartbreaking for everyone involved, and I would not wish it upon anyone. Please take good care of yourself.
That's why I have a soft spot for Bitcoin/Blockchain, despite all the nonsense; it's one of the few things that gives me the felling of living in the future.
Bon appetit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WYb-UDN22w&t=7m50s
My suspicion, for the Eeyores round here, is that this has upvotes because people like to bookmark a reminder of references to remind you of the maths behind what most of us do automagically nowadays, for when we might need it. And often it's the comments that provide even better and advance sources, as is the case here. And indeed there are some programmers new to this kind of thing.
Outdoor activity also involves focussing at longer distances than indoors.
The person you're replying to clearly is willing to put in effort, but requires a minimum of guidance from the maintainers of the project. That's perfectly reasonable, and your passive-aggressive response is not justified.
On Spolsky's quote, wouldn't that mean people undervalue aesthetics and beauty?
They abandoned their primary business in memory chips, it was eroding out from under them rapidly (Japanese dumping, tanked their margins and was quickly slashing their share of the market). They bet the company on switching focus instead to the microprocessor business, per Moore & Grove (they both recount the story in various ways in interviews). Had they not done so, Intel would have likely gone out of business.

https://www.realworldtech.com/intel-dram/

Here's a pretty good cover of it from 2012 by NPR, interviewing Grove, in a series they did:

https://www.npr.org/2012/04/06/150057676/intel-legends-moore...
The report Ethnic Origin and Disability Data Collection in Europe: Measuring Inequality—Combating Discrimination is published within the framework of the Equality Data Initiative, a project launched by the Open Society Foundations in collaboration with the Migration Policy Group and the European Network Against Racism to increase awareness within the European Union for the need to collect reliable data for groups at risk of discrimination.

The report challenges the commonly held view in Europe that the collection of disability and ethnic data is categorically prohibited. It voices the necessity to involve the affected communities in the process of defining best practices and to respect binding core principles of data collection such as self-identification of the data subject and consent-based, voluntary, and anonymized data collection.
Yes that was my point you have to sign on to do that and spend 35hous a week on your job search and you have to have enough contributions which is a bummer if your employer goes bust owning NI contributions.
This is from the README of the project. I think the reason this was posted here because the original title of this thread was "Google released ..."
There are windows laptops with ARM chips as well running full Windows:

https://www.digitaltrends.com/laptop-reviews/hp-envy-x2-2017...
I think that's one of the biggest disconnects when it comes time to purchase. I'm being asked to purchase a product, but that product is being used with other goals in mind.

In other words, I bought a bronze plan because it fit best with my family situation and my budget, but was I selfish doing so? Should I have purchased a gold plan and therefore put more money in the system which would hopefully help more people?

I think there are a lot of potential solutions to the healthcare issue; either market-based or single-payer, if well-implemented, would be better than what we're doing now.
https://www.finews.com/news/english-news/29947-monetas-bankr...

The couple now accuses Gevers, who also invested in the ICO, of helping himself to an outsize bonus from the proceeds. Gevers remains the foundation head, and is poised to emerge from the conflict as the unexpected winner, as finews.com reported last week.
Without knowing anything about the quality I can say, this is pretty amazing. I mean putting together a team which builds hardware and software for what they want to have.

Cool kids :-)
What Is Ripple and How Is It Different from Bitcoin? – Viral Docks
Its almost the most dangerous job in the UK though
Perhaps they are including the cost to the businesses of marking up items, checking tax rates etc?
1) "social smoking" is a thing just like social drinking

2) alcoholism has much worse direct consequences than heavy smoking
Sometimes it's so hard for me to determine whether half of the stuff on HN is real news or just advertisement.

A news feed for 300M is child's play when you consider that the content is pretty much static.

"Go and RocksDB and Raft" hit all the keywords but what makes this post relevant for HN?
Video: Msp Yeni Hack 2017  || Link Yenilendi
I think you're right. I say "we would have gone home" pretty flippantly; I have the benefit of hindsight where everything was fine, and presumably if we said that in a hospital we'd have gotten someone give me a spiel similar to yours, then we would have had to sweat the decision at that time. Maybe we'd have stayed anyways.

> So whatever choice you make, tell your wife to listen to her body.

Thank you for this.
Phoenix Channels as Controllers (An Exercise in Refactoring)
> 10nm (what TSMC/GF/Samsung call 7nm)

What’s the reason for this? From my understanding of numbers, 10 is not 7
I have an intense personal dislike of smoking. If more people are really moving off them, all the better.

From the intrusion on others (second hand smoke) to the cancer, to the litter, there is absolutely nothing positive about cigarettes. I'm no fan of vaping, but as an intermediate step to the elimination of smoking, it is a necessary evil.

I would be very happy if cigarettes vanished from the world.
Citation:

"Most studies found that raising cigarette prices through increased taxes is a highly effective measure for reducing smoking among youth, young adults, and persons of low socioeconomic status"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3228562/
The real joke was that he was interested in Bitcoin cash.
> That assumes that Apple hasn't automated the process of hunting those particular targeted applications out, which is not a safe assumption anymore.

I am quite certain they do. When clone apps pop up in the App Store, they are removed very quickly.
Building the habit of reading books
Good luck finding a business partner, then! In my experience you don’t often run into worthwhile potential business partners, and you‘ve just excluded 20% of them on a whim!
Yep, the Mafia actually got started with cigarette smuggling from Turkey.

And Greeks are very good at not doing receipts. The black market economy is significant.
I was discussing the lead in with a colleague last week. There are just so many threads to how we arrived at where we are today simply in terms of operating systems. You could probably have a whole podcast series on that alone. I once helped write an expert witness report that tried to bring in all the AT&T, BSD, Unix Wars, etc. threads and it was hard to keep it comprehensible. Keeping it around Microsoft and Apple in their modern forms probably makes it more approachable for a broader audience.
You bring a strong point in that I'm not ready to challenge right now :)
+1. Knowing the rates is the easy part - knowing which rates apply to what items can be nearly impossible.

Here in Minnesota I can buy two pizzas from national chains, one from Papa John's and one from Papa Murphy's. The one from Papa John's will be taxed, but the one from Papa Murphy's won't - it's uncooked, and falls into the untaxed "grocery" categorization. Tax laws are just weird.
The most SEO-friendly one in the area that I found will run me about $6000, and I'm assuming I'd be on the hook for all of it if I read my plan correctly. Still in the early stages of research though.

My wife is open to a birthing center, unlike my home-birth overtones which she summarily rejected :)
If they are self medicating for something, their performance may be worse if they quit. The optimal answer is to resolve it without drugs of any sort. But that optimal answer is really hard to achieve and is not considered a realistic expectation in many cases.

Do you drink coffee? Coca Cola products? Tea?

All of those can also medicate for an unrecognized health issue.

Do you exercise regularly? Eat spicy food? Live a spartan life?

Again, every last one of those can be an effective means to manage health problems.

Not managing them is worse. Being judgy about a particular means of management strikes me as close-minded and ill informed.

There is no clear cut difference between lifestyle choices and health management. Lifestyle and diet play a very large role in health outcomes. And that role is not as simple as "Don't do X and you will be healthier."
Apple is well aware of the rogue Enterprise certificates used for those.

They also probably do not care much about those which you can sign with your Apple ID, as it is bound to your specific device UDID.
Actually, that is quoted in the article itself: "The term Nouvelle Cuisine as it came to be known was nothing to do with what was on the plate, but what was on the bill."
How is ImageMagick not memory-safe? An attacker could only do damage if they discovered a very bad bug in ImageMagick, but such a bug could also be discovered in Node.
Protein designed from scratch functions in cells as a life-sustaining catalyst
It's true that FT's paywall prevents its articles from being accessible here, which is bad and contradicts what https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html says. In practice, though, people usually post workarounds in the threads.

Not all votes on submissions count towards karma because of HN's anti-gaming software, which has measures to prevent karma-building rings and whatnot. You're not treated differently from any other user.
You can always steal them.
Only works for countries that don't have a large "black" economy and HMRC spends a lot of effort tracking down smuggled tobacco - normally sold in the back bar of the less salubrious pubs.
Ask HN: Resources for static websites in 2017?
I'm using Python to render a static personal website. It's been a while since I've done this kind of work, so are there any tools, resources or useful links you can give to someone building a completely static site in 2017?

Thank you.
I normally am in favour of using precise language, but there's no way to argue that "crypto" should mean "cryptography" rather than "cryptocurrencies" other than "it's what was popular" - the crypto- prefix can be applied to many things. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/crypto-#Prefix
Inertia, probably. Any gradual change adds to the bloat; any radical change is rejected out of fear, or maybe ideological concerns.

Not picking a fight here, just curious: another person commented on my original post noting that when I said my first birth didn't cost us anything, that wasn't true - my wife's employer paid a fair amount for her insurance.

Are your taxes broken out in the UK? Do you know how much you pay a year for healthcare?
I think it requires special hardware (x86 emulation, which is 32 bit only), and many apps won't be ported to ARM for a while.

That being said Apple might find x86 emulation useful too.
If you're interested in a hardware solution, I've used the MH-Z19 CO2 sensor to great results. It's an NDIR (read:not electrochemical) sensor with a UART interface and temperature compensation. It will report up to 5000ppm and comes factory calibrated.

It's also $20 in singles from China. Coupled with whatever microcontroller you want, it's totally possible to have a distributed net of CO2 sensors for a low cost per node.

That being said, it's a ton of work and this is an excellent solution with much quicker results.