skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google AI hadn't published any major papers on ASR or TTS since WaveNet, even the new WaveNet google demo'd a few months ago weren't even close to this demo's voices. The use of "Uh Huh" "Hmmm" are called back channeling, it's moon shot away given the current state of technology. It requires very low latency and precise timing so it doesn't cut the speaker off.

I believe if this demo were real, it was tested and cherry picked from a very particular environment
convicted bank robber here, it is difficult sometimes. California is making good progress though, as long as you don't want a government job or a job that requires a state license.
You could move to a much less expensive area with a reasonable job market. It's not all black-and-white, people stare themselves blind on what their take home pay is but quality of life is at least as important. I would not move to the valley for any kind of money given that it would stop me from having the life that I would like to live.

It's not as if SV is the only place in the world with a job market. Though if you're early 20's and have nothing to lose in the world then it might be a good spot to start simply because what you make there in a couple of years can buy you a home cash somewhere else if you play it smart and keep your costs way down.
> Turning red is more functionality than today, not less.

Firstly, I didn't say it was a regression in functionality, just a regression in security (due to the loss of contrast by removing the green).

Secondly, I actually did think the red was currently in place. I'm not a Chrome user, so it seems surprising to me that there is no warning currently in Chrome for entering data into insecure forms!? Firefox currently shows a red slash in the URL and an additional popup on the form input element itself which appears on focus rather than only after you've actually entered text. The Chrome team has such a good reputation for improving security on the web, so it seems bizarre to me they'd be behind on something so simple (and also not even attempting to catch up).
>Many observers will say that neither happened

And do you agree with the observers? If so, do you have sources to back up the claim? I ask you not to accuse you of anything but because I watched a Kurzgesagt video a while back saying most of the immigrants have integrated well over the next few generations.
"Encrypted" and "Not Encrypted" would be more accurate labels than "Secure".
Hmm what version? I might upgrade lol, still running CM12...
Paxos shaken but not stirred
MoviePass tried to demonstrate its leverage by blocking AMC theaters and certain movies.

It didn't work. Instead, they just pissed of their customers and showed AMC that they had no ability to drive customers to AMC.

MoviePass should have built upon its success at driving viewers to indie films to target smaller theater chains and movie studios. Instead, it went the VC way and try to artificially scale itself up by buying customers, and is now on the brink of collapse.
Teeth is a favorite focal-point for anxious people. My very anxious friend, who took acutane when she was younger, is absolutely certain her teeth will fall out when she's 40 years old because her mother took acutane and all of her teeth fell out. The dentist apparently told her something about the roots drying up.

I have dreams in which my jaw widens to the point that it gets stuck-- and then keeps widening. I have dreams where all my teeth fall out and I have to perform an algorithm to put them back in the right order.

Probably because teeth are so exposed, so vulnerable, and are so critically important to social matters-- nevermind that I need them to eat.

I also can't look at pictures of teeth for more than 30 seconds without feeling disconcerted, even though I focus on people's mouths most during a conversation.
> Given that it is mostly whites who have been leading in STEM there is a high chance that US will lose its competitive advantage in these fields.

How would the color of someone's skin affect their skills in these fields?
My personal, anecdotal observation. This is the continuing legacy of the baby boomers. A counter-point, opposite of their parents, the so-named greatest generation.

Come to the height of their careers in the 70's through the 90's. The decades of self. With Michael Douglas's character's "Greed is good!" as a centerpoint.

They're where the wealth has gone. Leaving following generations without the security to settle down and raise families.

Everyone wanted something for nothing. Well, you turned something into nothing. Sold your own kids and grandkids out.

Speaking generally.
I don't think you're thinking of the historical details to say that in such a blase manner. The path to integration went through periods much more violent and contentious than anything we see today.
We don't want secret court proceedings. People who have just been arrested have not been formally indicted for any crime. Nothing makes it to PACER until it has been through the oversight of a grand jury.
>perhaps as large as a dwarf planet

Seriously? Dwarf planets aren't classified on size. I would expect Quanta to know better than to publish such rubbish.
People are driven by daycare costing between $1000-$2500 a month to start with.
Can’t say I don’t see this as a good thing. Given how some people won’t be able to survive in the post-automation future 50-100 years from now, the best thing for them is probably to never be born.
I've always been rather fond of The Register's "fondleslab" term, but I'd never dare deploy it in real life.
At 25 such a decision can hardly be considered permanent...
>Here's a challenge: try inlining the foo and bar in the call (because this is how functions are typically composed in functional programming)

Sure, it's ugly but I think it's a silly challenge. Complex functions defined in the function call are un-maintainable anyway IMO.
Also "I'm going to run to town and get a handy" has a different meaning in America.
5things.xyz – a fine reduction of engineering content
So when exactly were the olden days you’re hardening back to that were so much better?
I don't see any useful insight in it.
Also relevant:

http://daniel-suarez.com/killdecisionsynopsis.html
> After the first few minutes both VR and non-VR games are the same

Again proving the point that VR has no actual use case.
I agree. I should clarify my point is just that it's very hard to undo a decision to increase immigration after the fact; I do think there should be some amount of cross-cultural immigration.
Got to say, that's my preferred method as a public transport user/pedestrian in London who sometimes goes to unfamiliar parts of town. A few minutes with the map beforehand and the help of a button compass (Suunto Clipper is my favourite), and I seem to get to the destination very easily when a few street names and bearings are committed to memory.

I used to get to the destination station, and would wait for the phone to get a reliable connection to download the map tiles... then the dodgy phone "compass"/magnetometer needed calibration, so wave it in a figure eight for a while, try to reconcile surroundings with arrow that keeps flipping direction, etc.

I get on much better with "south out of station, left onto X street, right onto Y street, final left onto Z street, then watch out for that building eyeballed on Google Streetview earlier".
Cheap produce is awesome. :) But working people not being able to find jobs because they're competing with dirt-cheap no-benefit laborers is not. :(
That was a great site. I liked the option for a colorblind readable chart, I have a few colleagues that have to use plugins and other weird gadgets differentiate red and green. Also bonus point for the CC license.
Hi all, I'm the researcher who found the bug. I started looking at it after I saw the earlier HN posting about Securus and LocationSmart.

Happy to answer questions and provide any additional context.
weird, i'm still using the 2012 MBP retina not maxed out, only issue is that i need to replace the battery. other than that is the most reliable machine i ever had
It’s like you’ve never dealt with chargebacks.
That is in large part a selection problem. Educated or skilled workers generally have an easier time immigrating legally so it is only natural for those here illegally to be less educated or skilled.
True, but ticket sale revenue was more than 2x that of concessions revenue, so they'd be giving up profit.

And let's face it: heavy users of MoviePass are also the least likely to be heavy purchasers of concessions.
Cyberlaundering: from ghost Uber rides to gibberish on Amazon
and that's why I'm an anarchist
The reason is that the US doesn't provide support for families. Childcare, maternity leave, health care support, these are things that could make it possible for working parents to have more kids. The US is doing just the opposite.
I understand that place of employment is a big part of one's identity, but remember that you're a single Googler, not speaking on behalf of 50,000 of us. You should not be using the word "we" the way you are - it's in poor taste.
People hate computers. Computers are cranky, quasi-magical machines that can only be properly operated by mutant lizard people who have been genetically disinherited from the finer things in life, like meaningful social lives or mating opportunities.

But a phone... a phone is a social lifeline. In the 80s, it was a mark of privilege to get a phone -- even a regular, POTS, wired touch-tone phone -- installed in your room as a kid. The truly posh got their own phone lines. It meant you could keep in touch with your friends (or bf/gf) whenever you wanted. Themed phones (football, New Kids on the Block, etc.) were commonplace. This even extended into the cellular era with things like custom faceplates for Nokia dumbphones.

Technically you're correct. A smartphone is a computer. It has a CPU and RAM and can run programs and is indistinguishable from a computer in terms of its structure. But your technical distinction between "computer" and "phone" is as meaningful to most people as the technical distinction between "mammal" and "fish" would be to the ancient Hebrews, who called the whale that swallowed Jonah a "great fish". They classed everything in practical terms related to their own experience, under which a fish was anything that swam in the sea and had to be hunted or caught by people in boats.

To most a "computer" runs Windows or occasionally macOS and is used by students, office drones, and lizard people to crunch numbers or prepare documents. A "phone" is a tool for people with social lives to engage in and manage those social lives. From a perspective of what it's used for, it has a lot more in common with an office phone or a teenager's NKOTB-themed bedroom phone than it does a computer.
Googler here. I've seen a few other demos, and there was even an internal dogfood, although I didnt use it myself. But I guess you could still choose not to take my word for it, since I'm just a random guy on the internet. Just wait til it launches, I guess.

Also, I distinctly remember on multiple occasions having to ask "is this <XX restaurant>?" when making reservations in the past. Does this really never happen to people that it feels more likely that Google is faking high-profile demos in the keynote that it can't actually deliver on? And wouldn't they want to pick demos that didn't include or redacted the name of the restaurant anyway?
Obviously I'm only referring to public IP addresses. Let's Encrypt can't attest anything about local IPs.
> "The rate has generally been below replacement since 1971"

And yet population has grown by 120 million [1]. There are a lot of problems in the world, but I don't think low fertility rates is one of them.

http://www.multpl.com/united-states-population/table
You'd love the work of Junji Ito :)

He focuses a lot on body horror: https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/06/13-extremely-...
I think it is an unsolvable problem. There's nothing particular about explosives that makes them easy to discriminate from non-explosives.

I'd love to be proven wrong, though.
No request limiter, but the API was kind of slow (few seconds per update). The API returned an accuracy value, but we found it was often underestimating the accuracy (i.e. when it said "3000m", we were getting closer to 500m).
It's largely a question of qualified immunity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity

The law get's really specific. For example there are plenty of laws relating to police chases which cause 300 and 400 deaths per year.

In 2007, the United States Supreme Court held in Scott v. Harris (550 U.S. 372) that a "police officer's attempt to terminate a dangerous high-speed car chase that threatens the lives of innocent bystanders does not violate the Fourth Amendment, even when it places the fleeing motorist at risk of serious injury or death." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_chase
First of all, no one is forcing you to use cryptocurrency.

Second, your post is incredibly one-sided and misleading.

>>The space is littered with fraud.

And also unprecedented accessibility. In no previous era in history were so many teams of capable developers living outside of wealthy countries able to raise enough capital to pursue ambitious technology projects.

Also unprecendented innovation and market evolution: we're seeing:

* rapid emergence and growing popularity of websites for vetting and rating token sales, and identifying scams

* an investor class that is becoming wiser to scams, and more discerning in general, every day. No longer can a whitepaper alone raise tens of millions of dollars worth of ETH. In just the space of 18 months, we've seen investor behaviour undergo a massive transformation towards sophistication.

>>Wallets have bugs that lose hundreds of millions of dollars

Wallet bugs and scams are largely a thing of the past in Bitcoin. Ethereum's ecosystem is much younger, and so we see it going through the same trials.

Once the industry matures, these kinds of problems will be much less common.

>>Energy consumption forecasted to hit 0.5% of the world’s electricity consumption by end of 2018

That's because energy is one of the largest, if not the largest input to the production of cryptocurrencies and maintenance of blockchains.

Blockchains require very little resources other than integrated circuits and energy, which makes them very different from other product categories, where labour costs are much higher relative to direct energy costs.

So the flip side here is much lower costs in other types of resources relative to the cost of the good/service being generated.

Also, proof of stake is coming.

>>Promoters yelling “decentralize everything” while exchanges, development teams and mining are all highly centralized

Development is highly decentralized, with people defecting through hard forks when they disagree with some coalition of developers (see Bitcoin Cash versus Bitcoin Core).

In Ethereum at least there are also multiple independent implementations of a full node.

All changes to development occur through consensus, with a straightforward exit path, via hard forks, for those who do not agree with that consensus.

As for exchanges: several decentralized exchanges have been released over the last year.

Once blockchain scalability gets better, and peer-to-peer usage increases, exchanges will also be much less necessary.

>>No legal use case found to date

Absolutely ridiculous claim. How about avoiding rent-seeking by monopolistic platform providers, by encoding the rules of use and fee levels in an immutable smart contract?

Anyway, providing people with the ability to circumvent regulated industries that impose financial censorship can have social value. Unless you think Wikileaks bypassing the financial blockade was not a net benefit to the world, or that repressive governments never impose tyrannical laws.
Webscale IOT Blockchain!!!
Fair enough, but what’s stopping you from doing something about it? I mean except for other individual free citizens generally not happening to agree with you.
What Is Search Neutrality? Is Your Search Engine Biased?
An attacker could probably emulate a form in JavaScript without using any actual input fields.

Displaying the indicator on user input seems much more difficult to bypass.
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Well presumably until you get to a certain level of development, the only personality trait that matters is whether you want to have sex or not, but after that point (relatively recently in generational terms) other factors matter. Kind of like how height is mostly determined by food availability, until you get to a point when sufficient food is available for everyone, and then genetic factors matter more.
You seem to have an enormously strong prior in favor of conspiratorial fraud by astronomers...
So true. Especially when people hold presentations that don't do this on a regular bases it's often beyond recognition a) what is going on the screen and b) what the point is.
"not being aware contraception exists even if you went to school" haha
what needs to be done? when labor isn't in high enough demand the tide will stem itself.
The number of illegal immigrants in the US has been dropping for the past decade.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-21/the-myth-...

The biggest reason for that IMO is because Mexico has been doing relatively well over the past couple of decades. You don't attempt a very risky illegal crossing if you can get a job and support your family where you are.

The repeal of NAFTA will restart the immigration wave as the Mexican economy tanks.
Yes, IR doesn't make the actual decision. That was said to me by a IR I knew in a previous company. Granted the decision making was obviously above his head and included other strategic decisions and the intents of the key stockholders, to say IR makes this decision is an exageration, but he produced the data to support and justify that decision. How much is that number flexible I guess depends on market regulation.
According to the article I read, they're actually less common on flights out of NY and Washington DC- there were pilots complaining that they hadn't seen an air marshal in 6+ months. It sounds like they avoid putting marshals on flights that have other law enforcement officers on them, which is going to be a good chunk of the domestic flights to/from big cities
Thank you! I'm not quite sure how we'll deal with off topic stuff, I personally think it's fine as long as it's in an official off topic/general area. We'll see how it goes!
If I ask anyone I know “a teenager stopped at a man’s house to ask for directions and was shot. Guess the country?”, I bet the overwhelmingly majority (if not all) will say “U.S.A” without skipping a beat. I wouldn’t even need to mention the races of the people involved.

Not to detract from your experience (after all, you live there), but I doubt that situation is representative of most of the world.
People used to have many more kids regardless of whether they were facing good or bad times. I'd say the change is less economic and more due to culture - both men and women want less kids.

There is economics in the cultural change - as people get wealthier and government welfare becomes more reliable the forces behind maintaining and growing the family decreases. Wealthy people in the past still had many more kids than they do now though, so there's probably a bigger explanation.
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And the masses of childless elders will happily vote into office anyone who promises to take care of them.
That's not what anti-immigration crusaders said at the time. It was a common belief that Italian and Irish immigrants (who were mostly Catholic) could never fit in to Protestant American society. Your statement is pure revisionism.
Based on my personal experiences with people of Turkish and Egyptian descent living in Europe, I believe that many are happy being integrated into their adopted nationality, and many are not. Again my point is not that immigration can't work, just that a hasty decision can be nearly impossible to reverse.
I would be careful about asserting that. In PA there can be referendums on the primary ballots. And the results can be binding (sore loser laws, etc.). They're pretty official looking around here.
No offense, but your reply sounds like you’re part of some sort of cult. Also doesn’t Google have like 80k employees now? :)
MinTTY was originally based on PuTTY and while I may be a bit biased (having been sitting next to the developer in our day job in the period when he started developing it), I think it's actually a nicer terminal than pretty much any other I've met. If only for the feature wherein if you click on the last line in the terminal (including any wrapping) it'll work out how many characters are needed to move the cursor to that position and issue that many arrow-key presses.
I mostly work on the human aspects of code editors. My process is: observe actual developers to understand their problems -> design and build a tool to overcome a problem -> evaluate the tool with real users.

For example, we observed devs spending a lot managing tabs in Eclipse/VS and scrolling through files. I built a code editor that does away with tabs and instead has a novel interface for navigating code.

Brief summaries of my projects and all of my publications can be found on my website: http://austinhenley.com/. I'm interested in many different areas of SE and would be happy to let a motivated student explore their interests.
OP is proof that intelligent people aren't always creative or future looking.
If we decide that we are no longer able to exploit desperate immigrants to pick our crops, than the price those crops are sold at will rise until such time as the next Eli Whitney, who is probably an HN reader, invents a machine to harvest them cheaper.

All you're doing by continuing the exploitation is keeping such automation from being developed, as you rob it of it's market.

It is so predictable that the whole "but what about the farmers" is touted as a reason to flaunt immigration laws. The farmers are not owed such a subsidy by the American people. They will adapt if they are forced to. They would be stupid to do so before they are forced to.
You may not like it but dismissing an actual use case is just ignorant after the parent comment specifically asked for one.

> but there are significantly better ways of achieving the same thing.

There are no ways of accepting payments digitally without a third party. There is no "better way".

> transactions on Visa, Apple Pay, or PayPal all get complete within seconds.

0-conf can be accepted within seconds. Also credit card transactions are reversible after many weeks. Credit card chargeback fraud is a big problem for businesses.
I'm aware of how immigrants were treated back then and I'm not condoning it. That still doesn't change the fact that they came from cultures that IMO were quite compatible with the USAs considering their common origin and values. I think the current situation in Europe, and other instances of mass migration in history, demonstrate that not all cultures are compatible with each other
Oral health care should be at the center of our health care strategy and tactics.

We keep learning more about how major, devastating, and very costly illnesses have origins -- contributory or principal -- in oral illness.

That we haven't already acted on this, speaks to the disfunction of our health care system. Here in the U.S., for me, but also in other countries whose "universal health care" excludes dental health.

Cosmetics may be another matter. But oral health? It needs to be covered. A primary factor in preventive care.

And also, the people who make (very good) livings shoveling sugar to kids -- especially, going around parents' controls and wishes -- need a good, hard looking at.
Feet help. Feet & legs help a lot.

FEAR is a game that really underscored this to me - and every game I see it in afterwards just adds evidence for it.

Required? No. But adds to immersion a LOT.