skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it can read your schedule, tell you your location and then there is the homekit stuff. It could potentially disable certain security features you might have installed at your house, it could possible perform a very expensive modification to your HVAC configuration, in an extreme case that could maybe be fatal (disable heating in the winter at an older person's home or something like that.) It can also read your messages which are used for MFA in some situations. My wife and I have our accounts hooked together and I can ask Siri where she is and it uses find my friends, it can also kick off find my iPhone which shows my wife's presumed location on a map.

I think it can do Apple Pay actions too.

Degrees of dangerous. I don't have a homepod but presumably it couldn't do anything with Apple pay or your messages. Having Alexa or Siri control home automation stuff seems like something you might want to think about a little, leaving the lights on all day and burning some energy is a very different thing than re-configuring your HVAC or a security camera.
I get where you guys are coming from on this. The problem is more acute for those of us who switch between two or three different OSes as a matter of course and spend the least amount of time in Linux. That's where something like MATE really shines.
I think it would take an hour to create a list of broken features with Skype. Denying wont help MS, alternatives will show up and people and business will move over. They could avoid this just by listening to the users, but instead they bullshit about it "criticism is overblown". Well done.
Based on recent Linux updates (but not the most recent, it's become unusable for contacting family) I think they let each new intern remove a feature.
Does anyone have a recommendation for taking USA calls in another country other than through skype? I currently have google voice forward to a skype number that i lease from them. I use google voice for texting friends back home, and skype to make the calls. If I could take skype out of this equation or move texting and calls to just one platform that would be great.
Why should the desktop metaphor be constrained to “just a folder with a background set to grid view” though? Phones are already far ahead of most desktops by having widgets. Perhaps we’ll see innovation in the area of desktop UIs from Gnome when they get the next generation in place.
This.

Edit: removed unnecessary blablah.
Always when you hear the word "Enterprise" and it's not related to Star Trek it usually means "company that has made it so far and so stable up on the food chain that from now on they don't need to work hard anymore". If you have never worked in Enterprise software development, think about putting 100 first semester students into a room full of drugs and costumes and then letting them act "professional".

What do you think happens if you hand over a relatively well developed software to such a team? Now let a few years pass and you have today's Skype.
For the record, here's the smallest notepad with local persistence we've golfed in JS: http://xem.github.io/postit/
(github: https://github.com/xem/postit/)
Ironically, in the middle of reading about email being a distraction, the site brings up a popup offers me a weekly email about time saving tips.
True, but raising assistant professor’s salaries puts pressure on associate professor salaries, and they are tenured.

Not to say the whole lot of them shouldn’t get raises; one thing missed in this discussion is that CS programs are counter-cyclical, when there’s a downturn in the tech industry and it’s hard to find a job, more candidates opt for getting a masters in CS instead of going into industry/finding a new job after a layoff.
I think visit is what you want (http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/variant/visit), unless I misunderstand what you mean by "pattern match"
I believe there are "green" ways to burn tires if the conditions are properly controlled and emissions captured. I saw a YT vid about a cement plant in CA that burned them in a furnace for heat to dry the concrete powder.

Also, "recycling " tires isn't necessarily green because it takes enormous amounts of energy to shred them. While burning them releases energy.
Premise 1: You can find cheaper hosters than EC2.

Now we can make a simple case differentiation:

(a) EKS is more expensive than EC2. Due to Premise 1, that means EKS is more expensive than alternative hosters. QED.

(b) EKS is cheaper than EC2. Possible, but very unlikely, and I’m betting against this.
btw, those students were communists protesting the privatization of collective farms among other things under Deng.
I think I'm both, but I will tell you, the idea of having my own automated assistant deal with a company's automated assistant when trying to get through a phone directory to a live human sounds AMAZING. Like, I have zero problems with the ethics there.
From a legal standpoint, its 0.08 within the ability to accurately measure BAC. I promise every machine has a margin of error and that is accepted.

if you're within the margin of error for measuring equipment that's just part of life. Applies to radar guns, applies to breathalyzers, and every other technical solution to a legal issue.
I honestly don’t know what’s normal. Back when I posted stuff that got upvotes, I’d expect to see 10 in the first hour on a successful submission. This was in 2011 so there may have more traffic now. Or it may have been brigades by fellow YC. Is that a normal pattern for workaday YC blogs? Some statistics would be helpful if anyone tracks vote rates by domain.
Same, I actually moved companies to used Zoom just by showing them how easy it is to do everything with it. The mobile clients are prime example of great mobile software. I can do confcalls for hours while my batter does not drain. I need to charge my phone after 1 hour of Skype call.
TLDR;

Dostoevsky was considered to be a genius by many, but gave nearly every dime he ever made away, a condition that led to his unpayable debts, which he exacerbated by gambling, which led to exile.

Early in life, moments away from being executed, Tsar Nicholas spared him and the other prisoners from death but sent him to a Siberian prison for four years.

He suffered from epilepsy and had a fit while his wife went into labor. Unable to call for a midwife for "hours" their child died, and Dostoevsky blamed himself.

The Idiot breaks a lot of literary conventions, but it works, just as Dostoevsky lived a broken life, and yet is considered by many a genius.

The article is very good. I recommend reading it in full.
Show HN: A 89b JavaScript notepad with local persistence
Good point. So the technology is there, and an "expert" UI.

It would be neat to see Mozilla create an intuitive UI for this to enable first party isolation by default, like a permissions model for other things. A modal popup "Unbury.me wants to grant access to google.com", for example.
Dell sells several workstation models with powerful GPUs and Linux preinstalled. If you don't need CUDA specifically AMD has much better Linux drivers than NVIDIA these days.

http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-lapt...
New Skype is bad and the product owners should feel bad.
I’m dismayed this is how you wasted what could’ve been a constructive reply.
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It's actually the other way around. "SuperNodes" (elective service as a kind of hub) caused lots of dropped calls and flaky connections because people were trying to do it on bad home connections.

Microsoft switched to centralized servers to _increase_ call quality.
Yes - a couple of the more expensive Star Wars sets and some others.

It was never long before they disintegrated back into bricks and rubble.
Size of the Web – Why the drop off?
Why the huge drop off? The size halved in like two days?
In this particular case, the small team size and the multi-year effort to upgrade the DE to GTK+ 3 is likely a strong contributor.
To be fair, if you just mess with the registry and corrupt it, you should expect weird problems.
Ignoring for a moment the issue with “probably”, this is also just not true. If you stop drinking and immediately get in a car to drive, your BAC is increasing while you are driving for some time. It’s entirely possible that your BAC is higher an hour after you stop drinking than immediately after, depending on how much you drank and how quickly.
Google Home Max will get an update to fix audio latency issues
> So, double-cruxing is a great strategy for an argument between people who mutually respect one another.

That's a good point. The guide on double-cruxing[1] lists "epistemic humility" and "good faith" as pre-requisites for using the technique effectively.

[1] http://rationality.org/resources/updates/2016/double-crux
There's widespread speculation that they moved away from P2P because it made it harder for the NSA to wiretap, which the NSA gained the ability to do right before the acquisition[0].

Keep in mind I did say speculation, but the NSA definitely seems to have gained increase ease at wiretapping Skype in early 2011 which is also when Microsoft was negotiating/purchasing Skype.

From [0]:

> "Sustained Skype collection began in Feb 2011," reads a National Security Agency (NSA) training document

Which is within two months of when Microsoft publicly announced acquisition.

[0] http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/inside-the-nsa-s...
We have exactly the same setup, then :-)

I need Win10 for low latency music work and for the odd game, all development work happens in Xubuntu VMs.

Windows is essentially a shell where I juggle vms when I need a dev environment for a specific client.

I use VirtualBox as my virtualization solution and what I found was that using Xubuntu made the whole "linux in a vm" experience much more snappier, and since I basically work with 'text' and don't fiddle with music+video inside the vm, I often forget I'm inside a VM when it's fullscreened. With Ubuntu/Unity the whole VM experience gets slowed to a crawl because Unity wants to XDamage/Composite everything and virtualbox's "accelerated drivers" aren't that good to make it perform good.
The demos they showed had the AI represent the caller, not the business. As a caller, you can't force a restaurant to adopt OpenTable.
Yes, they dropped the nicest bits of Unity.

The Mutiny layout in UbuntuMATE 18.04 is really nice, and they've implemented the HUD, global menu, titlebar integration, and it's got HiDPI support now.

I think multimonitors is still an issue though - you can only have one dock, and it's best left on the screen on the left by the looks of it.
If it is a JS vs CSS issue, why does it only slow things down on macOS?
Actual title: "Do Fathers Who Exercise Have Smarter Babies?"

To further quote the article: “My personal opinion is that exercise is probably much more important” than mental stimulation for altering brains and gene expression and potentially even the aptitudes of one’s offspring, Dr. Fischer says.

If the author of the article specifically phrased it as a question, let's not jump to making a definitive statement by changing the title.
I haven't been on a search committee in years, but in the mid 2000s, I think 3-500 was about the norm for a mid-range state school. Not all those people were qualified, but I think you can assume you'll have somewhere on the order of 2-300 qualified applicants for most jobs.
What kind of manufacturing plant is the question. Competing with Intel and a processor design and fab house is obviously beyond all but the largest companies. I suspect even designing a motherboard is beyond a company of their size (or even an order of magnitude larger). However it probably makes sense for them to do final assembly so they can integrate quality assurance steps where required. Take a case somebody else made (their design), a bunch of other components (mostly off the shelf, but some custom), and screw them together. At several points along the way power up the system and run some tests.
Netflix Approach to Governance: Genuine Transparency with the Board
I second this. Xmonad with gnome is nearly perfect once configured.
Anecdotal, but I'm definitely not in the "grumpiness" phase, it got so bad that my gf and I simply switched over to discord for everything after a very solid +5 years using Skype for pretty much everything.
Nope cgnat can be defeated too, also ipv6.
The folks who noticed mine were generally more intrigued than anything else. I had one guy ask me if I wanted a job on the spot while I was at lunch. A lot of people wanted to try it out, I used to be pretty protective of it though, and generally didn't let people.

I also took it to Paris for a week, and definitely had some fun conversing with people about it through a bit of language barrier (my French is not good, but serviceable), customs was not super thrilled I wore it through their line though.
Yes, Lync's call quality is better. But in return chat is awful, screensharing sometimes simply doesn't work, and it seems Lync Windows and Lync Mac where developed with two unrelated communication protocols in mind. And updating it can kill your whole computer.
If you can provide some actual data for this, I'd be willing to consider it. The best I can find are some nhtsa stats that include collisions and fatalities for drivers with a .01 to .07 BAC, but it also includes the same stats for drivers with .00 BAC, so it doesn't look like they're identifying impairment as the primary cause of the collision: https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/... [pdf]

Also, from their appendix: "Drivers are considered to be alcohol-impaired when their BACs are .08 g/dL or higher. Thus, any fatal crash involving a driver with a BAC of .08 or higher is considered to be an alcohol-impaired-driving crash, and fatalities occurring in those crashes are considered to bealcohol-impaired-driving fatalities."

Too bad, that makes that particular study sort of useless for arguing the consequences of drunk driving.
The problem this is solving is that there are businesses with no internet presents. If they could get businesses to sign up for something like OpenTable this wouldn't be necessary.
It seems there's too little understanding of how far machine learning is from the AI in Hollywood. I heard a bit of this on "The drive time with some A-Hole in the morning" and it was blown so far out of proportion, it was ridiculous. The problem is, that's where the average American (and similar media outlets) gets their information from.

We live in an infotainment society that pays lip service to the information portion of the word.
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>For these times, there are tagged unions.

Again, tagged unions do not solve the author's examples of Aristotle logic puzzles and inconsistencies around null/None/Nil/Nothing/etc.

He's not talking about "type safety" enforced by static compiler checks, or opt-in nulls as the default vs opt-out, etc. Therefore, compiler enforced explicit pattern matching code on tagged unions misses the point.

I suggest you click on the Stackoverflow q&a link in the author's essay to get a better idea of what the his philosophical conversation is about.

>In other cases, it is absolutely insane to simply add on the possibility of the NULL value to every data type in a language.

That's a totally valid position but the author isn't talking about that. He's questioning the _meaning_ of "null" in light of observing (in his view) non-intuitive behavior with math and boolean operators.

Your "tagged unions" doesn't address his philosophical conversation at all.

My point is that if the author removed "null" from a hypothetical language because it's "weird", the users of such a hypothetical language would recreate the "null" again. This has nothing to do with discriminated unions or Option<T>.
They're pushing skype for business in my workplace as well (larger corporation). We've been using zoom and the IT department keeps telling us to stop, but skype for business just doesn't work well: high memory usage (seen on multiple machines taking 20gb+ before having to be killed), lack of features (e.g. video conference recording), instability, general flakiness of software. It is truly bizarre all of the problems given how long the software has been around. The only thing I can believe is microsoft is not putting the resources needed into it. They will fail unless they change that quickly. Us engineers will pay for zoom out of our own pockets before using skype for business.
The issue with your argument is the margin of error isn't present.

Every technical solution will have a margin of error. that needs to be small enough not to invalidate the law.

If 0.08 is the limit, and you blow 0.08 (or within the margin of error to shown up over 0.08) then you broke the law.

The law is not "your actual real world BAC", its your "measurable and demonstrable BAC".

This applies to everything, from radar guns to other technical solutions. Margin of errors exist and always will to some degree.

If the devices are outside a reasonable margin of error, then the state and/or manufacturer should be responsible, but there needs to be a known and accepted margin of error within the framework of the law, because frankly to do otherwise is just ignoring reality
Maybe the researchers only allowed the rich mice to move to the "fun house" cage
I use Linux as my native OS at my current shop and thought "Well they use Skype for Business and there's a new Skype for Linux client" .. but nope. Just as stated in this thread, it's a totally different protocol that's part of their Lync product.

I ended up getting a license for Sky, a 3rd party commercial Skype for Business client for Linux. It's pretty decent for what it is, but I could have just installed a Windows VM, used VNC, shared the VNC session and gotten the same thing.
Off-topic, but I love the status page: https://status.compile.com/

Is that a hosted/white-labelled service, or something you built in-house?
I'm impressed with the speech synthesis, but I want to see a systematic evaluation of the conversational automation. A few demo calls do not cut it.

All of the successful Google innovations (Tensorflow, Alphago, Alphazero, map-reduce, millwheel, TPU) seem to have arrived with a proper publication style writeup. The ones that were less successful like Glass, Wave... not so much.
What about the AI advancements in early disease screening and treatment that Sundar highlighted in the beginning of the keynote? Why not mention that as a counterbalance to quoting professional critics and at least touch on the undisputed benefits from this stuff.

What's truly “horrifying” is the somewhat prevalent phobic attitude towards technological innovation and invention, be that industrial robots ‘taking all the jobs’ or this reaction to the Duplex demo.

Our current technological achievements were largely made possible with help from the media and our prominent thinkers in cheerleading the advancements and shaping the public’s option.

Now it's the critical voices that get affirmed and amplified.
Then why did quality drop so much?
The uncanny valley is really quite useful.

I have long suspected I might prefer a recognizably robotic voice over a convincingly human robot voice. Now that this is a very real possibility, I'm more convinced than ever. This article is a bit fluffy and overblown, sure, but concerns about machines passing the Turing test in everyday interactions are still valid.

AI is a tool, and we should be wary of placing it on the same level of agency as us (as this article arguably does in some ways), or we risk its artifice becoming invisible. An intentionally designed system becomes entrenched the moment people no longer see it as intentional.

AI is a mirror, and it will reflect the values we put into it. Do we value the minor comfort of a convincing illusion over the assurance that we know who/what we're talking to?
Just out of curiosity, what's the frequency range that a typical mic can pick up the signal from? The article did not specially mention about the range instead it said inaudible.

And here is another article I found that mentions the normal 20-20kHz frequency response range: http://blog.shure.com/mic-basics-frequency-response/

Isn't that mostly overlap with the human ear capability? I understand each person is different, etc. But just curious the specifics.
You always had an ability to put things on the desktop in Plasma, even in KDE 4.0. It just worked in a completely different way, unrelated to the "Desktop" folder in the filesystem.

Also, Alt+PPM works well for resizing the Plasma menus now. It was missing for some time due to architectural changes.
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> I can't see many real people wanting to automate calling the hair salon, because then you're being fairly pretentious as if you're too busy to pick up the phone.

Just a short list:

- the deaf

- the mute

- the very socially awkward

In the last category: I can personally attest that I've put off scheduling an appointment with someone I've done business with in the past for two days, purely because the thought of actually picking up the phone and going through the process of aligning our calendars makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck. If I can pass that task to an assistant, my life would be much easier.
Even if donations were meant to offset capital gains it is still a generous act. I think it is impossible to make the statement "There's likely no generosity here" without knowing more information.
Indeed. Remember Gnome 2? It's pretty much like that.