skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a really good point. I am the author of the article, and this is something I debated during writing. In the end the goal was to provide an "in-depth enough" tutorial on adding speech recognition to an app for people who were new to it and possibly intimidated by the topic. For that, I think SpeechRecognition is a fantastic module.

I had to leave a lot out of this that I wish could have gone in, simply due to length constraints. In that regard, perhaps "The Ultimate Guide to Speech Recognition" wasn't be best choice of title. I'm sure that we'll be updating this article as time goes on, and Google's streaming API is something I want to make sure goes in it.

Also, something that was left out of the article was SpeechRecognition's listen_in_background method, which does solve this problem somewhat. My issue with it is that SpeechRecognition uses a somewhat crude RMS energy based VAD for detecting speech.

Thanks for your feedback!
I'm only new to management, but I try to be fairly hands off unless someone needs something from me. My reasoning for this is, I'm the one who hired this person and if I did my job correctly in hiring the best person, they shouldn't need to be micromanaged.
Marco sold The Magazine to the editor he hired:

https://marco.org/2013/05/29/sold-the-magazine

Who couldn't make it work out:

https://www.cultofmac.com/299116/magazine-shuts-newsstand-lo...

And explained why, although it's not really clear to me that it was because of interesting reasons, rather than just being another thing which didn't work out:

https://www.macworld.com/article/2841061/how-newsstand-faile...
>Plus, since the pdf generation had to happen server side

this is exactly my question: why did the pdf generation need to be server side?
Ah, that makes more sense. Thanks for clarifying.

I'm still not so sure it's true though. Is it materially different to go buy from 5 ad brokers instead of 1? Or from ad exchanges that automate it for your? It's hard for me to see how this would have much of an effect, beyond mildly increasing the cost.
It is unfortunately true that e-mail is mostly centralized (as in even if I don't want to use GMail & Co., I will mostly communicate with people on those bign centralized platforms, thus giving them again my data).

But it is absolutely federated - I have the choice of running my own server and can communicate with every other e-mail address on this planet.

Unfortunately, it isn't easy to setup - average Joe has no chance to get his own server. On the other hand, for IT people it isn't extremely hard either. Once setup, it is nearly maintenance free...

I'm running my (and a company) e-mail server since 2001 and I don't want to miss it. I only once had a problem with being blocked by big sites, after moving to a new server where the IP range has gotten on some blacklists, because of the previous owner. Also never a problem with spam filters.

I hope e-mail will never be replaced - or at least there's some new way of communicating federated where every internet user is reachable.
I always have multiple books going, and I switch to a boring one when it’s time to shut down. Right now that’s Robert Gordon’s “Rise and Fall of American Growth”.
Ironically, no amount of care towards memory management could approach even one tenth of the care and attention I'm required to devote to memory management in Unity (and, FWIW, also in actual Windows .NET) to avoid frequent dropped frames. This is exactly what I was hoping to hear, thanks!
EFF has outlined several problems with the CLOUD act. Will US tech giants lobby for improvements?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/cloud-act-dangerous-ex...
Can anyone who regularly uses Facebook comment on what possible negative outcomes would come out of them shutting down apps or APIs that export your data?
Lindt 78% cocoa surely has a positive impact on my mental health. I find one or two squares at a time are enough due to the richness of the flavour.
Understanding Algorithm W
Putting aside his philanthropic gestures, which I'm forced to consider as cynical attempts to manipulate his public image, everything I've ever heard about Mr. Zuckerberg has been negative. I think its much safer to assume he's not a decent man. The onus is on him to prove otherwise.
Obviously only my personal intuition but I'd wager there's not much of a business in a pay-to-play social network. My FB account is practically on hiatus already and I'd not pay for it. If there would be so much value in a privacy conscious, paid social network that is mass-consumer facing we'd probably have seen it by now.
Both were being run off of VC money when Facebook acquired them. They would be in Snapchat's shoes right now if they were still independent.
Ask HN: What investing tools do you use?
Whether you are a professional or casual investor, how do you manage your assets and know what decisions to make?

What are your favorite tools?
any negative facebook article gets front page, its been that way for years. the issue is that literally nothing new gets said
> "We have a responsibility to protect your information. If we can't, we don't deserve it."

There are 2 problems with this:

1. You didn't, so you don't.

2. Deserve it? What? Why would you deserve our information?? You don't deserve our information, or anything, really. This is a business transaction. You provide a service, that we pay for with our data. How much of our data is your service worth, is what needs to be discussed.
I wonder if we'll end up with some solution that works for interested people but no one else. Another settings cog saying "Share this post with friends and friend apps". I think they like apps because they make sure people stay on Facebook and any extra data they can gather. Maybe they'll kill them all and come back with a rebranded version in 6 months.
Why do people post this when it is true but not when it isn't?
Here's an inevitable comment since you make such an authoritative statement with 0 ounce of evidence to back it up. Internet Advertising is not as effective as you believe it is.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/06/a-dange...

Advertising works when it leaves an impression or memories on you:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/08/why-goo...

That's what makes good advertising good. The medium also matters tremendously.

Internet advertising only really works when you don't know what you're looking for to begin with, which is rarely the case as most human behavior when it comes to the internet is intentional (i.e. I search on Google for "plates", that's why Google AdWords shows me sponsored links for plates)

http://journals.ama.org/doi/abs/10.1509/jmr.11.0503?code=amm...

Moral of the story? Complicated psychological phenomena are complicated and let's not oversimplify them to fit our narrative.
Yeah, the idea is great.

There are a few Basic, Pascal, Oberon and Java (not Android related) options available, but only a minority cares for them.

Still, big enough to keep those vendors doing business.

Having a minimal bare metal runtime for Go would also be nice, but it is a gigantic effort to make it portable across all types of hardware.
The concept of disinformation is quite impressive in that it provides a pretext to suppress speech that one admits is not even false. With the claim of disnformation, one merely has to say a given position is meant to "sow dissent".

Such an approach has to assume that the average citizen has a rather fragile and infantile perspective (possibly true in the modern world). It is not sufficient that a manipulative argument be revealed as manipulative, rather such an argument is so dangerous it must be suppressed altogether to limit the damage it could do.

To quote the infamous Guy Debord: "The relatively new concept of disinformation was recently imported from Russia, along with many other inventions useful in the management of modern states. It is always openly employed by a power, or, consequently, by the people who hold a fragment of economic or political authority, in order to maintain what is established; and always in a counter-offensive role. Whatever can oppose a single official truth must necessarily be disinformation emanating from hostile or at least rival powers, and must have been intentionally falsified by malevolence. Disinformation would not be simple negation of a fact which suits the authorities, or the simple affirmation of a fact which does not suit them: that is called psychosis. Unlike the pure lie, disinformation -- and here is why the concept is interesting to the defenders of the dominant society -- must inevitably contain a degree of truth but deliberately manipulated by a skillful enemy. The power that speaks of disinformation does not believe itself to be absolutely faultless, but knows that it can attribute to any precise criticism the excessive insignificance which is in the nature of disinformation, and of the sort that it will never have to admit to a particular fault." [1]

[1] http://www.notbored.org/commentaires.html
The same lack of regulation over what Google, Facebook et al can collect about you is also lack of regulation over what Huawei, Xiaomi et al can collect about you. It's not giving US companies any competitive advantage. The Chinese companies have the advantage that they're also collecting the data on Chinese citizens, which is out of bounds of US companies unless they're conducting shady deals with the Chinese government.
I am not an engineer but also am not a huge social media fan -- I like more control over what i share and the format I use to share it. Instead of using linked in / FB pages / medium, I've been building personal websites for friends and my own businesses, first using Wordpress, but found that just making simple static sites is much easier for me and more flexible.

However, Ive had trouble with super basic deployment stuff and i haven't found many resources to help. Ive just been using Cpanel, manual ftp updates, shared hosting etc, but have found this setup is super limiting, and I didn't really know much about hosting options before setting hosting up

I just found netlify, which seems great: integration with github, easy ssl certs, free, but just changing the DNS to point to netlify has been confusing, and I haven't been able to fix it. I also setup a site for a friend who was using wix (so terrible...) and can't figure out how to get hosting switched.

I feel stupid for not being able to do this, and have been able to figure out how to do a lot of stuff that should be more complex (building web apps, data analysis with Python, etc) but I've struggled with basics of deployment

A good set of resources for people who aren't engineers but have some HTML / CSS and programming knowledge, but don't have any devops or professional engineering background would be really useful imo
In my life, at least, there is still some time between eat and sleep that allows for the creation of personal art. Sometimes other things get in the way, but I think that if you've got the energy and motivation you can still get it done.
Even a reflective white stripe in the middle of a path is usually enough to see it quite well, and lessen the need to lights. The only time I need a light when riding on a path is when I can't see the path itself, which is when it's bitumen and there's no line markings on it
Maybe Tim Cook should put Apple’s money where his mouth is and give us an alternative social network that respects users’ privacy.
> The fundamental problem is

that ~3 billion people have subscribed to the newsletter of the abyss, and the abyss has friends with which it shares it's insights.
you can use nvim-qt or neovim-gtk and keep having a minimalism experience.
>We dont want apology for the breach, we want apology for collecting all the data for so many years.

Please don't feign surprise that facebook has been collecting your data. Everyone knew, but expected some level of privacy and security with the platform. That's what was breached here.

>We want to FB to delete the data they have collected even if it means a massive reduction in advertisement revenues.

That would be nice. The fact we all have to be very careful as to what we share with facebook makes it an almost unusable platform for privacy minded individuals.

>But I guess none of his algorithms can foresee the end of FB.com in the western part of the world.
>Good night sweet prince.

Haha, if you think this marks the end of facebook... This is just, unfortunately, a larger political maneuver. Just watch.
> deserve our information

Deserve the responsibility.
What he is saying is, the fact that hundreds of billions of dollars get spent on advertising IS the proof.

That's the evidence. Companies don't waste money for no reason. And so the only reason that they could be spending this amount of money is because it works.

So yes I'd say that this type of argument counts as a "proof".
This fills a gap for me.

I tend to think of a database schema in declarative terms ("table T has these fields"), whereas the SQL DDL statements are more akin to commands (ALTER table T, adding a column). This always felt bad to me, because in order to define the final state of your schema, you need to define the initial state plus the commands necessary to get to the new one.

A diff tool frees you from this pain.
This is a terrible step backwards for our country, no thanks to those who do not understand the newer information technologies, like the internet and social media, or appreciate the ridiculous criminalization of consensual sexual relations. CL may be gone, but I hope the structural, dynamic resilience of the web won't take long for workarounds and alternatives.
IDK about this service, but I can see a service like WeMe gaining traction after the whole Facebook fiasco considering they do end-to-end encryption.
> I find it unsettling that Facebook has built profiles on kids who can not, legally, _give_ consent, I mean, at all. Facebook probably has a profile on me (although I have never visited them) because I am active in a community of heavy smartphone users; but at least I am an adult and you could argue that people/institutions/organizations that I interact with have kinda given consent on my behalf (without asking me) by agreeing to these websites' Terms & Conditions. So for adults, you could say it is "Indirectly Implied Consent".

Yeah, this would line up with privacy laws about photography/videography, at least in the US. Say I'm not a Facebook user, but I go to a party with my Facebook-using friends. My photo is taken spilling food all over my shirt and that gets posted to Facebook. My participation in an event that had no reasonable expectation of privacy means that any photos of me can be legally taken and posted to Facebook.

> But how can you apply this argument to kids' profiles collected/built/scraped without consent?

Well, one of the problems is that as it stands right now, parents/guardians control that consent. And parents are largely the ones posting pics and FB statuses about their kids. I think there would have to some kind of laws that give children rights to a certain degree of privacy outside of their parents' control.

There was a case in 2016 where an 18 year-old sued her parents to remove 500 of her baby photos from Facebook:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/09/16/18...

It seems unfortunate to me that she had to wait until she was eighteen in order to address the issue. A lot of social damage can be done before eighteen.
> Register with us!

> Be part of Frontpile

But why? I can't see anything on the page except a sign up form for something I don't know anything about! In this time especially of weariness around social media, you should explain to the user what the site is.

This might be because the site's layout is somewhat broken. Things are all squished into small columns.

Chrome, Android 8.
A ton of their data is going to come from apps and third party sites embedding scripts from Facebook. Hell, even social auth gives them a _ton_ of data. ("Oh, you recently used Facebook to sign into weddingplanner.com? Here come the wedding ads... and the related ads to all of your friends.")
Say what you will about the strategy, that they felt the need to shout mea culpa so publicly is telling. I doubt they're anywhere near crisis territory yet, but a scandal like this will have a corrosive effect on numerous business vectors.

My hypothesis—pure speculation based on nothing—is that Facebook has seen a sudden dip or collapse in advertising revenue. Think about it, would you risk associating your brand with Facebook micro-targeting right now?
I would guess that if John Wanamaker wasted only half of his advertising budget then he was doing better than most.
Ask HN: Do we have a federated blogging platform
I use both mastodon and diaspora. Is there a blogging platform in properly federated way such that comments and collaboration works?
> It's really hard to find large companies that you can continue to like

Why would you want to or need to? (I'm asking seriously.)
Not at all. Used to be a huge fan of the Koss Porta Pros.
Every pair I owned had problems with the headphone jack.
When my 3rd pair finally broke I had enough and picked up the Sony MDR X 1000. Love them and love the bluetooth. I truly think they will last a long time because without the headphone jack, I don't really know what would break first.
It's decentralized so the only person who should be accountable is the poster. if they mess up that's on them and no one else. Who would the state prosecute if not the poster?
Note that, according to others in this thread, it is not running in full browser mode, with the backend using javascript.
Instead, it is using electron just for rendering.

People here claim this is a lot better for performance. I've no personal experience to verify this.
I just started this platform off and like to get an audience for it and get feedback. I do have hopes of adding more features to it (I got a huge list of new features to add in the nearby future).

I never heard of WeMe but I'll have a look.
There's different types of advertising though. And it's not necessarily blatant advertising that's the issue.

A lot of ads are designed differently. Article form. Informative video content. A promoted Facebook post that ends up in your feed. Really any type of content that's pretending not to be an ad.

That's advertising too. And that too, influences people. About tonnes of things. Not necessarily products.

And think about it inversely too. If there's 2 groups of people posting ads: if group 1 has more money, they can effectively push group 2 out.

These too are part of the problem.
Deep learning quotes by famous minds
There are European ad companies.
It's hard to believe that the country is putting up with a system that can bankrupt you any time you get sick and there is pretty much nothing you can do other than being lucky or having a lot of money already. The actual medical care is fine but the billing practices are just ridiculous. I would call them fraudulent in a lot of cases.
AWS Public Datasets
Yes, the information given there is where we meet and when.
I was delighted at being able to cite an independent source saying such a thing was possible!

In the 2016 HN thread "Strange bug workarounds" I posted a much gnarlier problem (and oddball solution): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12485921
In an private cloud EHC (EMC Hybrid Cloud) implementation there was a need that deployed hosts needed to have, well a hostname with a domain, like hostname01.example.com but the problem was that EHC does not support that in that version (as stupid as it sounds) so the developer put a script in all Linux templates called /root/hostmame.sh (yes with an error) which was run by cron every minute and the only thing it did was to put the hostname01.example.com into the /etc/sysconfig/network file (RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux) and to invoke the hostname command with hostname01.example.com as an argument.

Every minute of every host on the private cloud ...

... but I have come upon many strange problems in various EMC products so that does not surprise me a lot.
"People are stashing irrevocable child porn links, dox, copyright infringement, and leaked state secrets in the blockchain" - https://boingboing.net/2018/03/19/cant-block-the-signal.html

Sometimes it's not about Big Bad Censoring Governments.
There is Minix running in most Intel CPUs.

L4 running on most GSM radio chips.

Many embedded RTOS targeted at critical systems, are microkernels as well. For example the offerings from Green Hills.
Keep in mind that only rendering blocks, not the entire request. Your database calls and other stuff is still non blocking. The actual rendering time is measured in tens of ms in my experience, but then I’m not Walmart. But at the same time I haven’t seen any pages in Walmart that render for half second.

I think you are doing something wrong if your tender time is more than a few ms.
A US person (for tax purposes) should not be dealing with a brokerage company operating outside of the US. The US government has decided that the only reason someone would do that is to evade taxes (although money laundering is a nice cover story) and punishes such behaviour with accordingly with additional paperwork and bureaucratic headaches.

A brokerage company operating outside of the US should still be sending you relevant local tax forms. If they are operating in a tax haven, well, maybe don't do business with companies operating in tax havens if you want your US taxes to be easy.
Infinity Is Launching Flexible Alternative to Trello
This is kind of the resolution you can get with fingerprinting: https://youtu.be/ZtnYH53A4zE

But it all depends on the density of nodes. If you are also allowed to use odometry on the phone you can suddenly go up in resolution quite a bit. In that case you'll have a conventional SLAM problem from robotics, which can be considered more or less solved.
Who cares! Why should companies that only work as monopolies receive extra leeway against anti-trust laws? I cannot think of a compelling reason.
It's exactly what you conceded in [1].

If I found out that that open source software I'm working on is ending up in slot machines, I wouldn't feel great about it, even if there's not really anything to be done about it. It just seemed like an odd thing to brag about.
Cool thank you for response.
The blog post announcing this might be a better read:

https://medium.com/@NetflixTechBlog/performance-under-load-3...

(And while reading that and thinking "I swear I recently read something else talking about applying TCP congestion control to RPC queueing". And indeed I had: http://www.evanjones.ca/prevent-server-overload.html)
RCMP warns dark web being used to sell illicit guns to Canadians
I was once asked what my philosophy was by a more senior manager. Didn't give him a good answer.

The interaction lead me to think about what I was doing as a manager. Over time I've been working on developing and explaining my own style.

Today I try to balance across 3 things: people, business, and technology.

I wrote about it here if you're curious: https://www.mrbluebear.com/triforce-of-engineering-managemen...
The front page with the leaderboard and scores really puts me off. I don't mind scores as a form of soft moderation (HN). But I don't enjoy it as a key part of the incentive structure of a community.
UMDF was available for XP too, and printer drivers had been user space for a long long time.
It's not really any kind of proof. I don't want to clutter up the thread with identical content so I'll just link you to my reply.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16674883