skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We just gave Polly the ability to ensure that a given block of text is spoken within a specified period of time:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-polly-update-time-dr...

I am messaging the team to see how we might use this for the plugin.
> Yes, I agree with having my privacy protected.

This is equivocating.

The issue is not whether you agree with having your privacy protected. The issue is deciding what constitutes "respecting privacy" for every single person in the EU, and threatening people with violence if they disagree.
Are you suggesting that spouses of Congressmen shouldn't be permitted to sit on corporate boards? (And presumably, should be excluded from any of a range of careers in the private sector.)
> Why can't they just let devs embed their own garbage collector? Isn't he role of an assembly language to let the developer do stuff at a low level?

I believe the big obstacle is that the stack is managed by the VM and isn't accessible directly (at least, in the form of one continuous memory region per thread). A likely constraint that led to this was to allow interoperability with the JavaScript stack.
Meet the New Goldman Sachs Chief: DJ D-Sol
It levels the playing field and allows players to play with others around the world if streaming servers have better latency to each other than p2p.
I don’t think you understand the way the outrage on the internet game is supposed to work.
I love Vue! :) best framework ever
Baldings' words parallel Domino Theory.
I had a look not too long ago and Vuetify didn't do component imports so you could use just the bits you wanted (you had to import the whole lot, and it's a big lib)

Vue-material lets you do this so I went with that but I also get the feeling it's a smaller / less updated package so YMMV
So does your water flow up hill? Or is the article's advice still sound?
I find it strange that the author continues to reiterate how they're a libertarian and even criticizes the "god is money" view of the Chinese, when back here in the United States the god is indeed money too, we just pretend it is not. Libertarianism requires the same practice around fiscal matters. The god must be money under libertarianism because it is every man for himself, dictated by your level of wealth. The will of the people vested in a working government defends the weak against the excesses and greed of the rich. Libertarianism does not solve this, it merely replaces a government not actually formed by the will of the people with those who have the most resources and have the asymmetrical bargaining power.
Pulling out of a nosedive is a neat trick at an airshow, but it's less fun when the plane slams into the ground. Maybe you think Dropbox is on a trajectory to turn a profit, but we won't know for a few more quarters. It also remains to be seen how resilient their business might be against macroeconomic downturns.
Why punk keeps connecting people across space and time
Increasing the server tick rate would help with that. AFAIK Starcraft, Dota2 and LoL all use 30Hz. FPS games usually use higher tickrates. Some fighting games enforce a constant amount of (input and network) lag to make the connection quality unimportant (up to a point).
can someone please summarize? a bit too long to read at the moment
I know, right? Why would I want a directory that transparently keeps files in sync with multiple devices?

I'd much rather set up an FTP server, manually download my files, make changes, then re-upload, then manually download the new versions onto my other devices!

When you think back, cars were a silly invention. They have the same functionality as a horse-drawn wagon!
"In 2013 we estimate that 3.2 billion individuals – more than two thirds of adults in the world – have wealth below 10 000 dollars."[1] In total they also estimate that those 3.2 billion individuals have a combined wealth of 7.3 trillion dollars.

So, unless you're implying that everyone who has "a checking account" has more than 7.3 trillion dollars, sorry, it's just not the same.

I'm not denying that there is extreme inequality between poor in America and poor in Africa or India.

But let's not make false comparisons between having a banking account and being in the top 30 wealthiest individuals. Having a banking account is not the same as having 7 trillion dollars in wealth.

[1] https://publications.credit-suisse.com/tasks/render/file/?fi... (year 2013, page 21)
Many deep profound things are intellectually boring. For many people that's a big obstacle to overcome in order to learn them. I can't see how "being boring" is any substantive argument for or against any question discussed here.

The original author used his "objective measure of excellence" as an argument for not developing quantum computing technologies to be used in personal devices. In this specific instance, in this practical regard (even though it's probably 50 years too early for this question) - I argue that yes, the position of personal freedom (to use quantum computing in cell phones, exaggeratedly) does indeed trump the other position which is to actively exclude quantum computing from phones for the vague fear that people might waste their lives on it, by failing to fit into some objective measure of excellence.
I'm seeing a lot of these irrelevant moral arguments thrown around. The fact that the founder is taking as much or more risk than you does not mean you should forgo better opportunities to work for him. You should work for him if the combination of salary and equity is competitive, and nowadays it often isn't, even for early hires.

Which makes the argument that being an early hire at a startup doesn't make sense at the current low equity and salary commonly offered.

> first hires are at least as likely to make $500k to $3m as founders

I know too many startups where early hires failed to make anything close to $500k, and in fact didn't cover the difference between their salary and market rate even for a single year.

Exits in which early hires make even just $500k are very rare nowadays.

> First hires don't lose money.

But of course they do! They lose the difference between what they could make elsewhere, and what the startup is paying them.

Non-technical founders have far lower opportunity cost.
Older versions are available OTC in at least parts of the US.
Really trivial question, just look at any big cheats and most work based on subscriptions. AimWare, Project-7, ...
No, it begins with: "In early November 2017, the HSBC Business School informed me they would not renew my contract. In March 2018 they informed me they wished to sever all ties by April 1, 2018."
Well, birth control pills aren't really safe. I guess they're safe compared to a pregnancy, but they do have potentially serious side effects. It seems reasonable to have periodic checks for those, if you're taking them.
Just to play the devil’s advocate: I imagined looking at the left side, and my friend was looking at the opposite side, ie, the right side.
> the author's contention that the reason for leaving has nothing to do with Chinese people and culture

Where does he say that?
The tool is for reviewing bad ads and ad stack QA.
Ha ha ha! Oh wow! This is the defining HN comment for all time. This tells ou everything you need to know about what your participation is worth on this site.
Google puts gun emoji back in holster with switch to water pistol
Vue 3.x (future) is targeting first class Typescript support

https://github.com/vuejs/roadmap/blob/master/README.md
Extremely interesting, thanks for this clarification. For those curious, it's documented here[0] -- search for "To ensure that resources are distributed across the Availability Zones for a region"...

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-re...
One of the things I'm not seeing is what kind of statistical data they're collecting and storing for prevalence of discovered cheats/scripts/bots, on a per-ISP basis. Since they know and log the IP that every user connects to the game from, they can certainly profile it down to at least as granular as the individual /24. For example if there's a college dorm full of students where somebody has shared a recent script/bot, the behavior could be correlated between time, place and IP.

Thereby allowing them to develop IP space reputation lists that contain the relative likelihood of bots/scripts being run (sort of like SMTP spam RBLs, but not an all-or-nothing, more of a weighted distributed reputation scale).

There is also a league of legends mobile android/iOS app. If you set it up to require location permission, they could begin to correlate the physical location of cheaters with their specific IP block. For example if somebody is at home on their wifi, their phone is connected to their home router, and their desktop PC with a cheat script are all going outbound to the internet through the same NAT, and coming from the same /32 (in ipv4) address.

I'm willing to bet that if plotted on a map you could develop hotspots. Of course they would also match the density of players in general. But perhaps certain trends could be identified.
I've never heard of anyone that would even remotely consider hiring someone who got their knowledge from MIT opencourseware.
That 1.8% figure I gave includes shares that have not vested yet. My original stock compensation was significantly smaller. I've received small stock option bumps over the years, including a significant one last year. I have about half of my total shares vested today, and I won't be fully vested until 2021.
There was an AMA not long ago with someone in the quantum computer industry and iirc he stated that it isn't certain if we even can go that high. Guessing how fast that will happen is not reasonable at this point.
If not the Hacker News crowd, who remains to think of the 20% for whom systematic paternalism is an enormous net drag?
To be fair, you are not including more advanced operators, like positive/negative lookahead/behind (which is the specific example the article uses), capturing and non-capturing groups, greedy vs non-greedy kleene stars, etc.

As you say, they are implementation specific, but that's part of the problem: the basic regular expression syntax is insufficient for many tasks, so people take to extending it in complicated and syntactically opaque ways. That's the sign of a bad DSL, not a good one.
Can anyone comment on the risks of posting such an essay while still living in China? Is this considered safely within the lines, a calculated risk, or something else?

(Or has he already left China before posting the essay?)
Is that an apples to apples comparison? I also don't expect Nobel physicists to have read Principia Mathematica.
FTP's use of two ports is unusual. Port 21 is used for the control channel and port 20 for data transfer. Its original design goes back to 1971 and predated TCP/IP by quite a bit.

In the original design ("passive" mode wasn't added till later), the client connects to a server on port 21 and then when it wants to transfer a file, opens a local port and the server connects back to the client from port 20. Also, FTP supported server-to-server transfers, where the client connected to a pair of servers and then initiated a transfer between them[0].

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc765 Figure 2.
As long as you don't have to lift a finger or reach into your own wallet, eh?
As I said: UTC is a reasonable choice, except for the fact that most of your employees do not live in UTC and doing mental translation is annoying.
To be honest, it read to me like the ramblings of an unemployed academic who’s struggling to find employment. Academia breeds and welcomes this type of toxic attitude and personality.

The sad part is, this piece is passed off as intellectual, when the author himself didn’t reflect on anything in his time in China. He looks at the Chinese as the “Other”, much like many academics looked at Japan in the 80s as some menacing threat they could never understand.

Overall, I rate it 5/10.
> The current Mac game client for League Of Legends contains full debug symbols and it doesn't have Packman

Probably because the person writing these anti-cheating facilities isn't as aware of how to implement these on macOS.
I'm willing to bet that very few people accidentally consume bleach or warfarin under the belief that it is beneficial.

However, it's far more likely that a layman gains cursory information about a drug and its effects, while lacking the specialized knowledge required to safely prescribe it.

In short, it's far easier to accidentally poison yourself with prescription medication that it is with bleach, and we have measures in place to prevent such accidents for a reason.
Why don't you use STFT + Conv2D like Deep Speech 2 did.
It works well in my case.
As the GP pointed out, pap smears and pelvic exams are not medically necessary prerequisite to a birth control prescription and adding those procedures don't make prescribing birth control pills safer. They are an artificial barrier to access birth control.

Pap smears (when done at the recommend intervals - most doctors overtest) are extremely beneficial screening tool and they save lives, but they have nothing to do with birth control - the purpose of a pap smear is to screen for cervical cancer.

In fact, the current recommendation is to wait until a women turns 21 before starting pap smears, yet many (most?) women will require contraceptives before 21.

It's also false that "birth control pills aren't really safe." - "potential to have serious side effects" is not even remotely the same thing as "not really safe." Oral contraceptives are not more dangerous than NSAIDs like ibuprofen. Both The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists [1] and The American Academy of Family Physicians [2] recommend over the counter access to oral contraceptives based on the availabile evidence

[1] https://acog.org/Clinical-Guidance-and-Publications/Committe...

[2] https://www.aafp.org/about/policies/all/otc-oral-contracepti...
Yev from Backblaze here -> I believe we do send SMSs in the case of a Cap or Alert getting reached, so yes that could be possible - though I'm not sure if an SMS is part of our billing failure process - that's an interesting question!
Incidentally, here's how I might write that URL regex with comprehensibility outweighing all else. Notice that I enable free-spacing [0], which can usually be enabled by passing a flag rather than embedding it in the regex. In Python, the re.X (or re.VERBOSE) flag does the job.

(?x) # free-spacing
(?P<protocol> [a-z]{3,10} ) :// # http://
(?P<domain> [^/?#]* ) # google.com
(?P<path> [^?#]* ) # /path/to/resource
(\? (?P<query> [^#]* ))? # ?id=123
(\# (?P<fragment> .* ))? # #section

[0] https://www.regular-expressions.info/freespacing.html
Doing good and being quiet – why I’m keeping grantees’ identities private
This isn't going to work. Latency will make this dead on arrival for multiplayer games.
Anyone else wondering if the criminals read Neal Stephenson's novel, Reamde, as a how-to guide?
Unrelated, but have LTU's site admins just disappeared? I signed up for an account probably over a year ago and it still hasn't been verified.
I don’t believe uncivil behavior has anything to do with Chinese people and culture, it is only something that the government leads society and is less prevalent in other Chinese societies (Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, etc...).
Yeah I was pretty sure I've seen this in both Nim and Common Lisp, but don't compile-time macros in general allow for this? A comment even mentions source-text replacement with C functions. So it seems like the "jet" is just a type of macro that is formally specified to behave as a pure transformation...
> You can't compare the US to Europe without also factoring the massive benefits European patients get from the high costs in the US

Luckily for us all the major pharmaceutical companies are public and we can can see exactly where they generate their revenue. Maybe you can show us exactly by how much the US subsidises Europe then. I suspect not by much.
Your equity isn't "incredibly generous" for a startup in your position, where you are the 2nd engineering hire, the team is still a handful of engineers, and you're likely going to see more dilution (unless you close shop before).

Practically, from what you describe (startup not doing very well after 5+ years of active development), I'd be very surprised if you see any serious money from that 1.8%.

> He doesn't believe we're in a position to go to the board and make any changes to stock compensation at this time.

The board isn't some harsh unreasonable committee. They would quickly grant you equity if they thought it was important enough to do so.

This really is a BS excuse. He basically told you "I don't want to give you more equity, and I'm going to blame it on some external entity rather than own up to it".
>make JavaScript great again

It was never great, not even good.
Dude was fully employed as effectively-tenured (tenure track, theoretically) professor for a decade. The forcing out was for 100% political reasons. If he treated China as an Other, then it was with a decade's worth of experience living full-time in China.
Got anything to back up those insults of yours?

> the author himself didn’t reflect on anything in his time in China

Patently and objectively false to anyone who read the article. It really makes me wonder what your motivations are for lying so blatantly.
If that's the case, then why does a company like Google or Groupon go from 2 co-founders to 5,000+ developers once they get funding and start to scale?

And (to repeat myself), if revenue is uncorrelated to labor, then why should the labor get a proportional piece of it?
I live in Colorado, and have little experience with the eastern US, but in large parts of the west you'll do much better searching for a stream than waiting for it to rain.

And it's good practice to filter all water from natural sources because parasites like giardia can be deadly.
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>it merely replaces a government not actually formed by the will of the people

I'm confused by this statement. What do you mean "not actually formed by the will of the people"?
Aside from reading "Cracking the Coding Interview", I recommend trying out challenges at Hacker Rank, or LeetCode (or anything similar). Do it with the online editor, or even use their questions as practice for whiteboard questions. Whatever you do for a whiteboard, try transcribing that as submission to see how close to real code you wrote. Some companies you interview care about that.
See, I completely disagree. I don't believe the first amendment means that money is speech, nor that a rich person is entitled to more speech than anyone else.
> A regular coffee at Starbucks is less than half that - $2.15

What percentage of people order a regular coffee at Starbucks? Not many, I'm sure.
From your perspective, you are already fully vested. [...] No sense in staying to be underpaid and overworked. [...] Your current startup likely won't collapse if you leave, so you're not risking your existing equity.

Employees usually have to buy their vested options if they leave or lose them. That means you have to raise the cash for the options there and then and you might incur a tax liability for the capital gain (in some jurisdictions it's actually taxed as income!). This doesn't usually make sense if the company isn't near being acquired or IPO'ing (and who does that any more?).
No, no, no. There is almost half a century of experimental evidence against you. The experimental results of Bell test experiments are incompatible with the assumption that the states of both particles are fixed when the pair is generated and are only classically correlated because of the way their states are fixed. All your analogy attempts are flawed and bound to fail exactly because entangled pairs of quantum particles do not behave like pairs of classical particles. You are making up classical experiment and assume that quantum particles will behave in the same way, but they don't. And that's the entire point.

EDIT: I just came across an illustration which might be helpful. I will place three coins on a table and cover them so that you can not see whether they are heads or tails. You get to pick two of them and I will reveal them for you but you can never look at the third one. Your task is to figure out by which rule I am placing the coins on the table.

In the first round you pick coins one and two, I reveal them to be heads and tails. In the second round you pick coins one and two again, now they are tails and heads. You continue picking coins one and two for a few thousand rounds and always see heads and tails or tails and heads, they are never the same.

Then you switch to picking coins two and three for a few thousand rounds and again they are always heads and tails or tails and heads, they are also never the same. Now you have figured out what I am doing, I am randomly choosing between heads, tails, heads and tails, heads, tails for coins one, two, and three.

So in the next round you pick coins one and three and I reveal them to you. Heads and tails. WtF?!? They should have been the same if I always choose between heads, tails, heads and tails, heads, tails. You try again. Heads and tails. Again. Tails and heads.

No matter what you try, you never get to see two coins with the same side up. That's ridiculous, you think. There are only two sides to a coin but three coins on the table. At least two of the coins have to have the same side up in each round and if you select the two coins to reveal at random, then you should at least sometimes get to see two coins with the same side up no matter which rule I use to place them. But you don't.

Assuming that I choose heads and tails for each of the coins when I placed them on the table and before you make your choice is incompatible with your observation that you never see two coins with the same side up. But if you assume that I can magically turn the coins around at the moment you tell me which two coins to reveal, then you can explain your observation. It may however trouble you because your explanation now involves magic.

And that is roughly how entangled pairs in Bell test experiments behave. Or more formally, classically P(1=2) + P(2=3) + P(3=1) >= 1, at least two coins always have the same side up no matter what the underlying distribution is. Entangled pairs in Bell test experiments violate this inequality, the probability of two coins having the same side up is less than 1. Not 0 as I portrayed it but 0.75.
That's the crux of the problem, isn't it?

If the company has millions of dollars in not just revenue but profits and a significant number of its employees are below poverty level and/or on welfare, is that fair? No, definitely not.

If the company's profit per employee is more than a certain percentage of a given employee's salary, is that fair? No, probably not.

If the company were to distribute a 10% salary bonus to all employees, would that bonus eliminate profits?

If the company were to distribute 10% of profits to all employees equally, how much difference against their salary would that change be?
To be fair, his blog was never exactly positive on China, and (as he states in the article) he was very wary of crossing the fine line between moderate criticism and falling afoul of the CCP.

Between the fact that he was forced out of his position, and that he says he's "grateful" not to have been detained, I imagine he feels safe enough to get a shot off as he leaves. I don't think the government would get rid of him with an ostensibly administrative dismissal, and then turn around and detain him on the back of this post, as he was about to leave the country for good; it would look heavy-handed.

Or, as you say, he could already be gone... I don't know.