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Disclosure: I'm the author of the blog post and co-founder at 2Hz.
This is a guest post on NVIDIA Developer Blog. The author of the technology is a startup called 2Hz (2hz.ai). Our passion is to improve voice audio quality in audio/video calls. It's a tough problem but also fun to work on.

Agree, breathing, reverb, noise are all problems and should be fixed. We started with noise and already shipped a product you can try on your Mac. The app is called Krisp (krisp.ai).

Reverb, breathing, voice cutting will come next.
Stan Lee and the Set of All Possible Comic Books
Droidfish.
Apple sold over 200million iPhones last year. That's 60million$ in saved BOM costs. At the scale that smartphones are sold, saving pennies here and there adds up to millions in additional revenue.

Obviously there's costs to running servers somewhere, but that hasn't stopped companies from making similar decisions for a variety of other services.
Well things like the DeepMind NHS data transfer don't really help[1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/14/google-be...
Ask HN: What's the best secret santa gift you've given or received?
It's that time of year again: time to struggle coming up with a gift for secret santa.

Last year I bought a Google Cardboard for a tech-savvy person, which went over pretty well.

What's the most successful gift you've given or received?
The theatre of the Absurd has reached New Heights. If you don't understand something, you shouldn't be running the department that focuses on it. The legislature should have vetted his expertise before even proposing him as a candidate.
I would say biometrics is “usually” used in phones where it’s used completely on its own to unlock them.

You might still need a PIN to install an OS update, but that won’t keep someone from going through all of your photos and emails.
Serious question, is someone bombing facebook in the press for some reason. I have seen no less four discussions bashing facebook on HN in the last day. Not defending or attacking FB in anyway, but the sheer coincidence warrants suspision.
Did the same. From Qmail/Courier to now using Postfix/Dovecot. But am not using Spamassassin. Instead, filter all TLDs except those that I white listed. Then by reverse ip, dmarc and sfp check. And lastly block domains from which I have received a new mail and marked it as spam from the client side within 24 hours.
What happens after you're (not) hot (anymore)
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For personal use: You can always sign every paper that you send out electronically for security purpose.
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Our company is using Slack. Could you detail the key benefits that Loop has over Slack, please?
> Isn't that why they attacked google and google news? Isn't that why they attacked reddit? Isn't that why they attacked youtube? Isn't that why they are attacking facebook.

Also: don't forget Whatsapp, who're responsible for that people in backwards parts of Asia misuse their chat-app for getting together lynch mobs.
How to track location of device without permission
The "learning theory" part of ML has always been rigorous in their arguments. Same for top tier conferences and journals. ML is really applied math that stands on the shoulders of functional analysis, optimization, probability theory and algorithms. The key way in which the flavor of ML is different from the flavor of statistics is that ML theorems are about guarantees on prediction quality whereas in statistics guarantees are on recovering parameters (which could be infinite dimensional). This is a broad generalization so there will be edge cases.

BTW when is the launch. All the best.
There is no evidence fats clog arteries.
If your statement is true (Big if) the obvious thing to do would be to take better care of underserved populations so that you can take advantage of the natural talent in them (make a bigger middle class with all the trappings including education). You can’t tell me middle class white and Asian men as a population have some secret software development gene, for example. Therefore there must be some inefficiency around race, gender or socioeconomic beginnings.

But it also implies that there’s a natural scarcity to the best talent, in which case you will always run out, no matter what you do to expand the field (barring creepy eugenics or cloning programs).

In which case, paying more money makes sense. In fact a pay scale more on par with pro sports salaries would be the most likely outcome.
Should a minister of cyber-security be able to answer questions about USB drives?
4. If you're an underrepresented minority you might be suffering from some form of (potentially unconscious) bias.

Even if not, none of this is a judgement on you as a person or you as a programmer, it's just that the way many companies interview people are almost biased against people who get nervous. E.g. I've known people with PhDs in computer science from top university who had this problem, and consider https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1058029337923014656
Maybe it's George Soros and the illuminati.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/416779-facebook-paid-f...
It works, there's no question about that.
But it is also a language that's obviously very hard to write correct code in, considering the myriads of CVEs out there.
Since we've got languages like Rust now, you don't really need to sacrifice performance for security anymore, which is why it's sad to see a project that could have "gone with the times" instead going with the old-but-tried approach.
It's almost like blaming the telephone if a group uses it to coordinate to commit a crime. I think facebook should really try to make themselves out to be a content neutral utility. They are just going to keep getting stuck in messes where they don't have good options if they try to control political speech on their platform.
Just discovered that I can put a whole team into discussion of a mail. Well this is really cool. Instead of CCing or FWDing to my project team, I will just side debate the mail and get a faster reply from everyone.
Yes, always. A minister of a diplomatic department should have diplomacy experience. A minister of a justice department should have justice experience. Anything else is ludicrous.

> "But Mr Sakurada responded that other officials had the necessary experience and he was confident there would not be a problem."

Then why is he the one taking the job?
Java in 2018: Change Is the Only Constant by Mark Reinhold
What makes technical subjects different from, let's say, education, or defence, or the ministry in charge of environmental business?
I was hoping to come to the comments and find links to alternative social sites that aren't Mastodon or Diaspora.
>women are more or less not allowed, etc.

Companies are tripping over each other trying to hire women. My wife is blindly offered jobs entirely because she is a woman. Not secretly or anything, they literally say "we are looking for women for our team".

>If it would be considered shockingly newsworthy that a company hires old female programmers in India for the same pay as young white guys in SV, that in itself seems evidence there is no shortage at all

No it isn't. There is no reason to believe old Indian women are as qualified as young white men. There's actually huge reasons to believe they are not. And why are you so fixated on white men? Considering the demographics of the USA, white men are under-represented in US tech jobs, Asian and Indian men are over-represented.
Project Loom: Fibers and Continuations for Java by Alan Bateman
"If a pub or cafe had microphones on all the tables and a proprietor who knew the intimate details of every conversation that ever happened there I don’t think it would have a lot of customers."

I agree but that wasn't the analogy I was going for, Facebook's (and Twitter's) main issue is the propagation of non-private communication. If the angry mob is meeting at your cafe and everyone in town knows they are meeting there and what they are doing then the microphones etc. are not required. The privacy issues are mostly orthogonal to the disinformation and bad-for-society stuff.
Sure. If there was gross negligence, some liability would be reasonable. Probably not 100% of damages, but some. That’s not what we are talking about though. I think under current law they could be liable even if they took all due care.
Can you guess what happened here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15745250 ?

It appeared that a bug in an office component was fixed with manually binary editing. Is that probable?
Spam detection on my personal email server took a huge leap forward when I got Spamassassin correctly configured to use the DNS blocklists (URIBL, etc.). I had to set up a local DNS server because the blocklists weren't responding to requests coming via my hosting provider's DNS, and the scores had to be tweaked over a few weeks, but now it's working great. The content rules like "hi my dear", "request for money", and "all caps" are still in there, but the blocklists do the heavy
lifting.
Neoliberalism: Planned Economy for Property Owners
Par for the course unfortunately.

I remember the hearings after the problems with the Obamacare web site where the lady who ran Health and Human Services made it clear she was a believer in getting health care to people but seemed to think there was nothing she could do to make a software project succeed and that's completely untrue.

(Turns out the editor of my college newspaper was a project manager on that one... An astrophysics professor told me not to get involved in a 'science-in-politics' program that he did and look what happened to him...)
Excerpts:

The neoliberal program was not simply a move in the distributional fight, but rather about establishing a social order in which distribution was not a political question at all. For money and markets to be the central organizing principle of society, they have to appear natural—beyond the reach of politics. For Hayek, the great danger to the market order was not the breakdown of social ties but rather conscious efforts to shape them. The danger he feared, was “not so much the law of the jungle as the law of the engineers.”

Property and its privileges are only safe in a world where the rule of money is accepted as objective, inevitable, and outside the scope of collective decision-making.
Header-generator tools are out there, but I'm not sure how usable they are. It's rarely done though. It's a bit of a pain having to 'write everything twice', but there's more to header files than re-declaring what you've done in your source files.

As berti said: enums, constants, macros, simple struct type declarations, typedefs, and templates, are examples of hand-written code that might belong entirely in the header file.

It would be possible to keep these constructs in a hand-written header file while auto-generating the rest, but C++ developers aren't convinced this is worth doing.
Laravel Tutorial: Adding RSS Feed to a Laravel Application
Those were absolutely not cosmopolitan universities during Eliot’s time, as was pointed out in the article.
How about creating a Flickr account?

You can store up to 1000 pictures of your baby and even granny should be capable to click on an URL you supply by email.
I'm curious - given that they support hundreds of integrations across so many platforms, all with their own product roadmaps etc, how does Zapier actually develop and maintain these integrations?

What happens if Google or Trello or Salesforce changes their APIs? How does Zapier keep up?
A minister is a manager. We don't expect our managers to be good at programming, because that's what they hired us for. I expect them to be good at managing their ministry and relegating to their subject knowledge and specific members' experiences on subject matter.
It's a regulated utility so the free market doesn't really come into it, fundamentally regulated rates are set by CPUC.

These rates need to go up to allow more a more aggressive vegetation control schedule. Sure, I agree with that, and I agree that individual power consumers should pay for that. However the way I think they should pay is precisely through that rate mechanism.

What I do not think is efficient is putting the entire consequential damages of a fire caused by an electrical fault on the utility. That is only an effective mechanism to the extent that the fire damage is preventable by them. While they can reduce the chance of this happening through stepping up vegetation clearance and they probably should, it is not possible to reduce it to zero and given the size of the network there may well be fires every year even in the best possible case.

To say in the context of climate change, forestry policy, the location of houses in areas that face these fire risks, and the construction of those houses of flammable materials that PG&E "caused" this fire and the previous ones and should therefore bear the damages seems strange to me.
I'm working in an Australian research project (for the Bushfires Crown Research Center) in which we're modeling risk, from bushfires but also earthquakes and flooding, using (amongst others) upgrading BAL levels as an intervention option. It's incredible how little is known about bushfire modeling at scales that are relevant for policy making, our work is met with a a lot of interest at e.g. firefighter's conferences.

The crux of the issue is though (from a policy perspective) that defending against low recurrance interval events is most cost effectively done by restrictive zoning, which is (politically) a very hard sell. Observed preference is that people actually prefer band aids over real solutions. It's a hard problem.
I think (hope!) it's probably a combination of factors - firstly that the top three really are exceptional, probably the best men's tennis has ever seen; vast improvements in modern sports science - nutrition, strength training and conditioning, etc; being much more selective with their schedules (especially Federer of late); improvements in equipment; and some weird quirk that has meant the younger generation hasn't really come through and the older ones have been able to stay at the top with a periodic cycle of displacing each other as they get injured, struggle with form, and so on.

Or maybe it's just drugs, though they get tested regularly and punished very severely (but you could say the same about cycling...).
sad that people even ask these questions.. when they know answer them self.. you really need some google worker to ensure you with lies ?.. common man, think yourself just a moment.
The difficulty people have in understanding that these fires are inevitable is why they won't stop anytime soon. People will die because of our collective inability to accept the ecology of the region.

It's more like there's a crowded place with a gun pointed at the middle of the crowd. Every 30m the gun is cocked. 1-10m after that based on a random timer, it fires.

If someone trips and accidentally pulls the trigger after 32m in are they liable? Maybe, but only in the smallest way. The actual problem is the gun or the people walking in front of it.

It's wrong to use the word "may" for these fires. These areas have evolved to burn and will do so unless we shrink wrap each plant.

Humans put the gun there, we started burning which gave rise to an ecosystem that thrived on burning and encouraged more. Then, we settled that area en masse.
My great aunt Ethel uses a computer to forward chain emails. That doesn't make her any more qualified to be cyber-security minister.
Poles near properties do, though.

Tree branches and existing poled electricity is a tricky subject it seems. Locally, the city, electric company and property owners all blame each other for who should trim the branches around poles.

Often nothing gets done and ice storms come to take them down anyways (at the detriment of the city, electric companies, and property owners).
The curious case of Steve Nash and the quest to measure basketball intelligence
Actually, I do expect my manager to be good at programming. How could he reasonably manage me otherwise?

So far I haven't been disappointed.
Actually not, it works a bit differently.
In Objective-C 1, there was no indirection and one had to explicitly use the equivalent of PIMPL to hide private members from the header or avoid the fragile base class problem.

In Objective-C 2 the object meta-data contains a table of instance variable offsets. The dynamic linker can modify this table at load time so you can freely add both instance variables and methods to new revisions of a class.

So what is the deal? Well, when the holder object itself is heap allocated, pimpl is inefficient because every access will require dereferencing two pointers.
Also you cannot put protected or virtual members in the internal pimpl class (then there would be no point to have those in the first place).

That being said, it is not like Objective-C is some pinnacle of performance - you cannot allocate objects on the heap, and the compiler doesn't perform any devirtualization. So for performance critical code you have to drop down to C or...C++ :)
I don't understand why people don't get this. "Hey we do X with the news feed algorithm and revenue is up 2.17%." That is how it works. It is up to humans to logically decide if this is moral or not. Algorithms just know numbers and morality is difficult to quantify.
It will be interesting to see if TPTB allow Shibuya Halloween next year. This year a truck was turned over by the crowd and there was a fire.
I have to agree. There’s something about the way this is written, maybe the 2nd person voice, that makes it feel confusing and disjointed.
Well, presumably you are using 2FA because you don't want anyone that stole your password to be able to access your account, so do you really want anybody with access to your password to track your location?
Cool.

Minibug- as you get to the lower items on the menu, the explanatory help popup moves down as well, and so the help for the items nearer the bottom gets truncated.

https://pasteboard.co/HNi9lq0.png
and they self-selected into the study...
The canvases are just some javascript code which draw to the 2d context after a requestAnimationFrame(): https://www.a1k0n.net/js/steering.js

Sure, that sounds good!
Kubernetes co-founder on the container revolution and the future of VMs
Millennials Unhappily Stuck in Their Parents’ Transportation System
Cacher v2 – Run snippets through your login shell
When you make a business decision - don’t pretend it was a technical one. That’s why it’s a bullshit excuse.
I think the relatively simple answer is that it turns out most people are far more subject to simple tribalism than we previously wanted to admit. Memes are incredibly powerful mind viruses and we (collectively) have done a really great job of weaponizing them over the past 30 years.

I don't think this is Facebook's "fault" in isolation since we see the same trend across most social networks, but I do think it suggests that social networks ought to be regulated, if for no other reason than that it's pretty clear that the default behaviors we're already seeing emerge en masse are not good for society or for us on an individual basis.
> What went wrong?

For a large amount of users, nothing went wrong.

> The same seems to apply to Twitter. Everyday, normal people, seem to be spending their lives raging at each other.

"seem"... one wonders whether the picture painters and squeakiest wheels have changed our perception of everyday normal people instead of those people actually changing. A perusing of the anti-big-web-tech headlines...um...I mean op-eds every week reveals clear direction/intent. Not to say these companies are infallible, but it sure becomes harder for people to recognize the difference between real, inflicted harm and perceived harm.
How will you be able to setup a new phone then? Let's say next year you buy a phone. Will you have to disable advanced protection on you account to add the phone to your account?
Walking 2-3 miles on a regular basis is actually sufficient to stave off a whole host of geriatric diseases
I'm not going to defend Facebook but one of the problems with media criticism of Facebook (and Google) is that Facebook (and Google) has crushed a lot of media. They have become vassals of Facebook (and Google) in order to harvest the clicks they desperately need. They have very little control of their advertising and distribution model now.

This has also driven Madison Ave. nuts. Anecdotal but friends I have working in that space have no lost love for Facebook (and Google).

My point is there is incentive for media to criticize Facebook and we just don't seem to see this disclosure.
Implementing Dark Mode with MacOS Mojave and Swift
Yes, that's the current state of the car. It's constantly fighting for traction; there are some lower-level control systems trying to maintain yaw rate (which automatically does things like counter-steering in a drift). I'll get to that in a future post.
Introducing Chartify: Easier Chart Creation in Python
You make good points, but if I read that correctly California also limits how much they are allowed to charge customers. I'm all for them bearing the risks and letting the free market pass that cost on to customers, but that's not the system that's in play.

Also from the article: PG&E will likely use a bankruptcy threat again as a way to get legislative aid, Gimme Credit’s Levenson said.

Please don't let them do that. Have them actually go bankrupt and deal with the fallout from that.
Turning Thoughts Off and Nature On
This makes me realize how amazing it is that the C64 port of Space Harrier was fully playable and actually pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgMHuYjIlpY
How can you possibly state these things as if they're facts when you have never met the man? At least say you're speculating. You have no idea what's wrong at the root of Facebook, and definitively saying it's because you think he lacks empathy from such shit he did 15 years ago is just wrong.
It's easy to write about and insanely popular. Anti-facebook press is the equivalent of UK royal gossip.
Strange, I'm not seeing that in Firefox 63.0.1 on macOS 10.13 once I disable AdBlock Plus. Though to be honest, you're not missing anything, it's clearly a company supplied video.