skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>an over-sensitivity to the plight of individual animals while blithely ignoring the fate of millions or billions

the fate of the billions isn't ignored. It just can't be changed immediately as if by a magic wand. The process has to start somewhere, and the plight of individual animals who one way or another got some connection to people mind is a natural place to start as people pay attention to those animals, and with time the people would understand and would be able to extend that empathy from those individual to the rest of the billions.

I for one happy to see that cold killing in the name of science doesn't sit ok anymore with a lot of people. 120 years ago scientists were cutting dogs alive without anesthesia. Back then one could also argue about "an over-sensitivity to the plight of individual animals while blithely ignoring the fate of millions or billions". Fortunately the plight of those individual animals back then had ultimately got its attention, and animal torture is a crime today.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2559414
This is a scripting language I've been working on since 2016. Originally, I did not plan to make a language, but I had a couple weeks available for some project while waiting for Gfx upgrades. It turned out to be so much fun to work on that I've continued working on it.

It uses a lifetime checker (like Rust) for safety instead of a garbage collector. No borrowing semantics, so the language is simpler than Rust. The language is parsed using Piston's meta-parser, which is fed in parallel to the lifetime/type checker and the AST constructor. This makes Dyon a bit faster at loading scripts.

Modules are loaded dynamically without polluting the environment of the loader. You must call a function using `call` or `call_ret` to make dependent modules part of the environment.

Dyon supports 4D vectors, HTML color literals, Go-like coroutines and a special link structure with its own template-like loop which makes text generation fast and ergonomic.
What I found most appalling about the behavior described in the book, and maybe among the most probative in the criminal case, is the heavy handed use of legal threats to stop employees from talking and negative reporting.

I'm willing to forgive quite a bit of "fake it till you make it" flim-flam, but anybody who uses such strong-arm tactics deserves having the book thrown at them.
Not yet. Modern vocals are still recorded and tuned manually using AutoTune and Melodyne.

The vocaloid scene (Hatsune Miku) was big for a while in Japan, but that's fairly simple phoneme synthesis, not ML.

I've heard some good AI demos of ML-based vocal synthesis, but nothing is available commercially yet.

Like speech synthesis, it's easy to end up in uncanny valley - which is acceptable for spoken synthesised speech in many applications, but isn't good enough for music.
Please don't turn hn into Reddit.
The Horrible Ship
> Just consider the healthcare mess in the US.

And even with that, there are still 600K Indians trying become US citizens.
I remember hanging out on #3dwarez with the creators/artists from ILM and other major studios. They would trade cracked software because they couldn't reasonably afford a 30k license for a new version but wanted to keep up to date or tinker with something new. Which is understandable. Hell I downloaded and uploaded millions of dollars of software and models from there.

But to be fair I do give credit to 3ds studio Max for adding a countermeasure that slowly degraded models if it detected it was cracked. A few months the support forums were flooded with complaints and the company knew who was pirating. That was a genuinely hilarious countermeasure.
Why do you think that AR will help reduce the amount of advertisements in cities ? Unless someone makes an AR adblocker, advertisers would have no reason to stop bombarding us with ads. If anything, there will be extra AR ads (targeted using data such as your location history or the stores you look at the most often) on top of the existing ones.
Ye, but whoever wrote is_iec559 might have added written in the manual that you need to provide the interrupt handlers yourself or link in the manufacturers math lib?
Aluminum forms very strong chemical bonds, so it's difficult to reduce it to its base form. Aluminum oxide is one of the most chemically stable materials there is. In WWII, being able to effectively refine aluminum (using lots of hydroelectric power in the Pacific Northwest) was one of the key economic factors that lead to an Allied victory.

For the entire commercial history of aluminum, it's been produced through molten-salt electrolysis (the Hall-Heroult process).
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That's a cool idea. Although in reality it is probably better that they just standardise the sizes and implementations of types to the ones that 99.999999999999% of computers actually use.
Do some research into the actual facts around Shkreli and you'll find that he didn't fleece 'normal folks'. His profits came directly from large insurance firms.
Care to share an alternate theory?
My interest is feeding the world's entire, growing population.
Censorship in Trump times: cartoonist fired for making fun of Trump
This is so true. I don't buy dog products made in China for obvious reasons but it's hard to discern what is truly made in America, or what's packaged in America and made in China. So I typically opt for other reputable pet websites. My 2¢.
I believe it's strictly in the employee's favor. It comes from a specific law that Montana passed: "Wrongful Discharge from Employment Act"

ADDED: Not sure why I would see that as a problem anyway. If you can't be walked out the door without another dime, why wouldn't you be fine with giving notice in the vast majority of cases?
Not a bug: working as intended
The tips and tricks that I can give you as a former employer (and present employer as well but not on the same scale) is that you're just going to have to suck it up. Yep, that's right. The burden you perceive is people no longer performing above normal, this is normal. So you're going to have to learn how to deal with that, be loyal to your employees and then when things in their lives are more manageable again they will pay you back in spades, or, alternatively you could see the past as them having built up credit.

Every employer is in this boat, except for the ones that do illegal stuff. So take it as a fact of life that not every employee is able to give you 100% 100% of the time.

If you want to extract the last bit of something you might want to go into the lemon juice business, people aren't lemons and it is perfectly normal for them to occasionally have periods of lower productivity, and for some those periods can last quite long. I've been there myself - even as the employer - and it is always a great feeling to see the rest of the company around you pick up the slack and to know that things will end well.

On another note, it sounds as though you have very little in terms of redundancy built into your company, you may want to look at that in some more detail, it may be that you are one disease or a car-accident away from a real problem.

Thank you for trying to do the right thing, I hope some experience and a few more years will show you these things are not nearly as hard to deal with as they seem to be right now, there is a certain size company (> 10 and < 40 or so) where these problems can hit harder because there are enough people that synchronous events can happen but not enough of them to take up the slack.
“Your cost of making genuine products is also my opportunity”
There’s a bit more structure in place. This is a great overview http://paulgraham.com/angelinvesting.html
It would be incredibly naive to think that google does no checks on the sites they list in their searches. For one, they own Youtube and can directly look up if the video is private, and secondly, aren’t there handling of this in stuff like robots.txt?...

Edit: are we Reddit now, and downvotes are a sign of disagrement?
Furthermore, if she's got patents on these processes, can she wield them against anyone who tries to implement them successfully?
Have done the same. Price match and same day in-store pickup is faster than Amazon at the same price.
+1 This is the correct analysis of the article with sensational title. Of all the problems the immigration system has, this is probably one that is least fundamental and the bill would solve basically zero problems for the nation and is simply a political question of who gets to win a limited resource between various foreign players.

The entire premise of "limiting immigration" is discrimination based on a binary national origin/citizenship (i.e. you happened to be one of us or not) so it is comically laughable to talk about how to make such system "fair" without opening it to everyone, which has practical issues. Immigration is an inherently political mechanism constructed as a result of amalgamation of various underlying game theoretic balances and trade-offs over the years between nation states. It's important to note that you cannot divorce the individuals from their own governments/resource allocation when thinking about that.
I should've been more explicit, but was thinking about: tr -cs "[a-zA-Z]" "\012" < t > t2

(which I somehow managed to read as an awk invocation).

Re: python - I believe if using things like \w, \d or \s you should be Unicode safe.

Come to think of it, I seem to recall gnu tools should also have Unicode aware pattern/character classes, eg:

https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Bracket-E...

> For example, before the POSIX standard, you had to write /[A-Za-z0-9]/ to match alphanumeric characters. If your character set had other alphabetic characters in it, this would not match them. With the POSIX character classes, you can write /[[:alnum:]]/ to match the alphabetic and numeric characters in your character set.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re-syntax

[ed:

Apparently gnu tr is still out in the cold re:unicode;

https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/tr-i...

> Currently tr fully supports only single-byte characters. Eventually it will support multibyte characters; when it does, the -C option will cause it to complement the set of characters, whereas -c will cause it to complement the set of values. This distinction will matter only when some values are not characters, and this is possible only in locales using multibyte encodings when the input contains encoding errors.

]
Not really - it's already a defacto standard so if you want to experiment with custom types and expect to just change `float` to 48 bits or whatever you should expect a lot of existing code to break, even if the standard says it shouldn't.

It's just too much effort to code to the actual standard and not worth it when essentially all computers use the same sizes and implementations of types.
Yes has happened to me and several friends from Amazon UK. If it's a suspect category I'll try and buy direct or another retailer to avoid the hassle of returns.

UK & EU law places the legal liability on the retailer not the manufacturer. You will be able to return long after our US friends have been told it's outside the return window.

Unfortunately UK seems to have accepted Amazon marketplace as platform rather than Amazon as retailer. "Sold by Amazon" should keep you within Sale of Goods Acts protection. Guardian have been running a few tests recently[0],[1].

Traditional large high street retailers will typically avoid this by checking you conform to safety standards and are genuine, before accepting you as a supplier. Then randomly checking until you eventually rate becoming a preferred or trusted supplier. So I have high trust of everywhere on the high street, even including Poundland.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/27/amazon-si...
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/06/dangerous...
In my view he should have written a fourth part. I would have been very curious how the people who stayed on earth survived in their caves and under water.
At a guess you're a male and one without children.

One day you may look at this through different eyes. If you are scared of promoting women because they might get pregnant or will take their maternity leave then you probably shouldn't be a manager to begin with, and hopefully you are not and will never be an employer.
This kind of visa is very bad for the employees and virtually every country I've looked has a similar policy. A work visa should not be tied to a certain employer and the period to find a new job before having to leave the country should be at least a few months, not 30 days. It's incredibly hostile but hey, they can't vote, so nobody is going to fight for them.
Switch to the 'classic' or 'compact' layout, not the default 'card' layout.
They qualify for the free Ad Enhanced™ version.
Motion Matching road to  next – gen animation Simon Clavet Ubisoft Montreal [pdf]
Polaroid is also interesting, because almost all of their color processes are extremely fade resistant and color stable, which is more than can be said for any other wet film process, with the exception of Kodachrome and Cibachrome/ilfachrome dye sublimation prints.
This is profoundly interesting and so disgusting that companies are eager to do the wrong thing and even plan for it by having contingency budgets to pay the fines. Think what we as a collective could do with all of that money; feed the poor, water for everyone, clean the oceans, stopping child sex trafficking...Ok, I'm becoming angry thinking of all this gotta run!
The Gigantic List of Augmented Reality Use Cases
> Knowing that discrimination exists while you get into something doesn't make it less discriminatory.

"Discrimination" is a neutral term though: there are acceptable kinds and unacceptable kinds. For instance, it is discrimination to not let a stranger sleep in your home or in your bed, though no one reasonable would call that unacceptable discrimination.

The actual policy we're talking about here is a country-neutral permanent immigration quota coupled with country-neutral per-country percentage caps. There's nothing specially discriminatory in the law against people from India. It's just that there's massive amounts of temporary-worker immigration from there, which crashes hard against the other quotas. If German immigration were equally massive, Germans would have the same problems Indians have now, so the problem has nothing to due with racial or ethnic discrimination.

You could also think of the quotas another way: they're protecting the ability of people from countries other than India to immigrate, so the incoming immigrant stream is more diverse.
In a more general sense, sometimes the benefits provided to certain sub-populations aren't about any extra value those particular people bring to the job; they're about the extra costs those people have to pay to hold the job. Employers of all kinds want to have a broader labor market, so they pay commuter allowances (so they can hire people living farther away), parental leave (so they can hire and retain parents), and moving costs (so they can hire people who don't originally live in the area).
http://archive.li/5YnbM
>For one, they one Youtube and can directly look up if the video is private,

If Google was found to be treating their own properties differently, there would be an outcry that you couldn't believe.
A tech entrepreneur prepares for prison
Really good insights on how this is tots fine and works well, but I think it also misses something key:

As company, you can make money by giving something away for free.
You are forgetting "game pass", incomplete/bugged games at release date, DLCs, "special" version games tied to a seller (usually special equipment), timed exclusives...

I'm surprised the industry hasn't collapsed as it did once in the eighties.
I rode that train (Munich to Berlin) after I got stranded in Munich during the 2014 Bardarbunga, Iceland volcano eruption. It was kind of slow for an ICE at the time, and quite expensive (IIRC like 150 EUR in second class).

It was one of the nicest train rides I've ever taken though - you got to see so much of Germany. The onboard restaurant was awesome.
We pride ourselves at Voyage on being open about our technology and process. This post reads a little like a press release, but I'd love to answer any candid questions about Voyage or the autonomous vehicle field. I'll be here all afternoon!
> aren’t there handling of this in stuff like robots.txt?...

robots.txt only describes where a bot should go and where it shouldn't go, but nothing about what it should do with the content it discovers.
...but the ones on Amazon are counterfeit.
We (the defendants of the white people who conquered this land) are the net losers, we lost several millennia of oral history and tribal knowledge.

In my opinion, we also lost something else, the idea that land is not something just to be owned and used, but rather something to be shepparded over, and held in trust for the next generations. It took us 200 years or so to rediscover that cultural precept.
Facebook exec describes task of detecting and removing terrorism Content
> afford dream wedding

So many people make this mistake. Instead of splurging on a really big wedding, put the money into something that is actually going to benefit you and your relationship.
Even without translation, the ability to read signage aloud is very useful for visually impaired users.
No, it originated in the medical/scientific field. When trying to evaluate, say, the epidemiology of AIDS in the "gay" community, they realized that there were a lot of men who would deny being gay even in a confidential survey, but still had sex with other men and would admit that in the same survey. To be crude, they would often have these exchanges: "When's the last time you sucked a guy's dick?" "Last week." "Are you gay or bi?" "No." Which makes a lot of your study's results useless if you're keying on the second question rather than the first.

Plus, you know, bi men make "gay" a bad term if what you're studying is the phenomenon of men having sex with men.

So, they started using a category "men who have sex with men" instead of "gay men", and classified study subjects into those categories based on questions about specific behaviors rather than about identity.

It's not a label invented by the people to whom it applies, and doesn't have much to do with politicization or activism (though of course MSM who don't identify as gay or bi are less likely to be politically active on LGBTQ rights issues, but many gay-identifying men also aren't politically active).
False. Tribes in Papua New Guinea still grow food without industrial equipment, using technology that has changed little in the last tens of thousands of years.

No shit it doesn't scale to feed millions, but it scales in some way to feed more than one guy on youtube.
These types of freezers were on lots of systems. Everyone in the C64 scene will remember the ISEPIC, for example, which functioned in a like manner (I have an ISEPIC, but I used a Super Snapshot and/or a Final Cartridge III more often -- more reliable and loaded snapshots faster).

Even back in the day these were recognized as lower-quality cracks, but sometimes the best you could do until the protection scheme was better understood.

(ObDisclaimer: not an endorsement of piracy.)
This is hilarious:

>> It is fair to say that for almost all of the projects in the CNCF, specific vendors account for most of the development work being done.

> Not just “many” open source projects—all of them.

The author moves from an analysis written about CNCF projects to generalize a conclusion about all open source software. What a misleading title and content, it remains hanged without any evidence on those claims.
Yes, dude. If I already know you’re discriminatory and I still apply, you’re still discriminatory. It’s in the antecedent of the clause. Just apply basic propositional logic.
The “Doorway Effect” – forgetting why you entered a room
Are there any regulations preventing "asteroid collectors" crashing them in the middle of sahara or where they own the land?(i.e. only redirecting the asteroid to the place)
It may also be a tool to to push out competition. Keep your own money making stuff proprietary but make everything else open source so others can't survive. this seems to be the Google and Facebook strategy.
Thomas Edison freely admitted most of his 1,093 US patents were for inventions that would never have worked.

Patenting a completely ridiculous and impossible idea is quite straightforward if you know the system and have the money and reputation.

Journalists are notoriously bad at technical due diligence, but the fact is even trained scientists and engineers can be duped, particularly when access is limited.

Having been in a similar situation (not the federal one), where something looked fishy in a company I was involved in (and ended up being revealed as fishier than fish), I wouldn't be at all surprised if it comes out that the patents were fine, the ideas were fine, the talent had the skills, and it would have been less work on everybody's part to actually build it than to lie, cheat, and misrepresent it.

I have never been to or interviewed anywhere more paranoid/aggressively secretive than Theranos, and that includes military bases and classified government installations. This should be the moral of the story: investors should take as a red flag companies that work that hard to show you they're hiding their technology.
robots meta-tags would be the place though.
Is there a list of which paywalled sites this awesome tool is capable of handling?

(Seems to be the same as archive.is)
All the post-mortems I do are as an IC; I (occasionally) lead my own one-on-ones either with other ICs as a fellow IC and/or manager; I've seen "continuous X" practices pushed by both ICs and managers (ICs vastly moreso, actually); and management does not qualify you (and IC does not disqualify you) from being able to teach people how to treat fellow humans like fellow humans.

In short, I completely disagree both by opinion and experience that any of those topics have "not being an IC" as a reasonable requirement.
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The feds got pyrex brand glassware to reformulate so that it explosively shatters if used to cook meth.

I heard this led to the maiming of graduate students that were using pyrex to conserve grant money.

Last I checked, you could still buy the “good stuff” on amazon.

Anyway, that’s one example of US drug enforcement acting with complete disregard to public safety.
Surely it look very cool in demos and on screen but It was just hype and will be just hype until there is major breakthrough because of below reason.

- It is because you can not use AR everytime and results are not consistent and not work in all environment unlinke touch which can be used everytime perfectly.

- Battery and heating problem with AR on phones.

- Intreaction is major problem.

Intreaction with glasses and all those things is very akward and really not comfortable.

I think we have to go long way to have enable the AR.
Come to the US. We reward talented people and it is a nice country to live in.
With an 11-bit char type?
> anyone who espouses common sense ideas such as reforming our immigration policy gets called a racist and ‘anti-immigrant’.

bold statement. source?
They have 60 days to leave, not a week, as of January 2017. Definitely not ideal, but at least gives them a chance to find a new job.
Haha, absolute bullshit. If “illegal immigrants” stopped being a thing, everyone knows conservatives will move to the next brown target. Spare us the “if only we could kick the Mexicans out” narrative.
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Some years ago there was a product recall and class action here in Australia concerning one of the soy milk brands, with unusually high concentration of iodine.
Some people want to spend money on a big wedding.

Everyone is different.
A Practical Guide to Combining Products and Services (2009)