skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Voice to text is a multi-million if not billion dollar endeavor. I simply implemented the Web Speech API, which ostensibly uses Google (and possibly Apple's) voice recognition system. I came up with the text comprehension bit, which is limited to the input quality (what I get from the API) and the training set. I've been adjusting and adding to the training set since I first released this, but the matching has worked as well as I'd hope for.

My training set is specifically designed to be conversational interview and personal questions, but I think a lot of the people who reach the site don't grasp that.

Here's some examples of the input it gets and has no clue what to do with:

- " um changes nice so when you change the things december " matched to: -1: no match

- " nexus 10 " matched to: 13: Huh?

- " pictures " matched to: 14: Huh?

- " call " matched to: 17: Cool

- "videos " matched to: 16: Huh?

- " change " matched to: 15: Huh?

And this is a set of input where people did get it:

- " hi what's your name " matched to: 23: My name

- "what's your name " matched to: 27: My name

- "what do you do " matched to: 31: What I do

- "why should we hire you " matched to: 38: Why you should hire me

-"what's your favorite food " matched to: 35: Food

-"wendy's see yourself in 5 years " matched to: 28: Goals
So 2048 in 2048 dimensions after that?
Algorithms are not patentable but yet software is. Since any software package describes an algorithm (albeit an incredibly complex on potentially) that puts software at an odd spot.

An example of a solution would be to say that you can't go after someone for implementing an algorithm (so by extension any software). Rather than eliminating the patent eliminate that ability to enforce it. They likely wouldn't go for something so simple, but it is an example of the potential train of thought.
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This is a great resource. However, the SMS column might require some expansion as although some of the companies on this list support SMS two-factor auth, they don't support it outside of the US. Paypal, for example, does not support Finland (checked last week).
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To head off the inevitable responses, you can describe a Wankel engine with mathematical expressions, but a Wankel engine is not itself a mathematical expression. Blueprints are mere descriptions of Wankel engines. However a "description" of an algorithm is the algorithm.

An algorithm is a mathematical expression, not merely something that can be described with mathematical expressions.

Consider my "method/process patent" for finding the length of a hypotenuse. It is easy to see why that is straight up math, and therefore should not be patentable. However just because they don't teach the notation used for expressing algorithms in primary school does not mean that it is not math.

The Pythagorean Theorem is ancient so it was never in any danger, but consider FFTs. FFT algorithms were not patented, but imagine what a shame it would be if they were. These type of patents have no business existing.
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As a programmer noob, this sounds really cool. Imagine instead of me trying to get more hats in Dota 2, I'm using that same time to instead learn more programming. My motivation would be on overdrive to fight against those who are infinitely better than me.

I'm not a kid anymore, but I want to act like one.
Nope, too much money/power involved.
""Newsweek has not received any statement or letter from either Mr. Nakamoto or his legal counsel. If and when we do, we will respond as necessary.""
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I think that what the author is saying is that every person who can sue for discrimination might (and by "might", I mean there is a very small chance of it). This is valid, I guess, (assuming the author's story is the whole truth of the incident) -- but like I said the author should rephrase his words.
I'd just like to point out the last time Dave Winer weighed in on a similar topic: http://scripting.com/2013/08/19/whyArentThereMoreWomenProgra...

> Programming is a very modal activity. To be any good at it you have to focus. And be very patient. I imagine it's a lot like sitting in a blind waiting for a rabbit to show up so you can grab it and bring it home for dinner.

> There is specialization in our species. It seems pretty clear that programming as it exists today is a mostly male thing. Which also raises the obvious question that perhaps we can make it so that it can better-use the abilities of the other half of our species?
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You can of course inline C++ snippets in Felix code as you mentioned, but that is not the only way to talk to C++. Felix allows you to create a Felix object from a C++ object (and the reverse) with minimal glue. Take a look here http://felix-lang.org/share/src/web/tut/cbind_index.fdoc.

With this two styles the boundary between Felix and C++ can be very fluid. It does not incur the typical efficiency hit of a dynamically loaded FFI, although it does allow dynamically loading shared libraries too.

If you dont want to use C++ libraries and classes from Felix, you dont need to know C++ to use Felix.
Well, didn't maintain level and straight flight. The damage would probably not be as bad as Egypt Air, because any small hole would immediately depressurize the a/c, whereas EA kept burning for 20 minutes.

Cockpit window heater fires:

http://archive.chicagobreakingbusiness.com/2010/06/us-boeing...
Not really. Companies need to hire to make money, and that's a hell of a good motivator to hire anyway.
I too think Angular is overly complex and "magical."

The JavaScript world should be learning from the mistakes of monolithic and semi-monolithic frameworks such as ASP.NET and SEAM not trying to recreate them.

For my part I'd like to see separate libraries for events, views, models, syncing models to persistent storage, and binding models to forms. Small micro-libraries allow maximum flexibility and efficiency, and facilitate more maintainable code.

The way that Angular violates separation of concerns between presentation and view is another symptom of a monolithic approach, and a step backwards in HTML client software design.
Most new modules in the standard library come with that warning. It's pragmatic.

Python has a relatively large standard library (one of its selling points), and not everything in the standard library can be right the first time. No matter how long a Python release spends in beta, there are probably flaws that will only be discovered when people start using new modules to do their actual jobs (where they won't be using a beta version of Python).

In Python 1 and 2, if a standard library module had a flaw that required a backwards-incompatible change to fix, the flaw would have to remain there. In Python 3 they acknowledge that the first version may require backwards-incompatible changes.
> What if the flight they allegedly used for the radar shadow would have been delayed or they would have been delayed?

A ground contact could easily watch for the shadow plane's takeoff and indicate via radio that the operation was a go. It's quite possible that they had multiple windows of opportunity if all they wanted was the plane. Of course if it had to be that particular flight due to passengers or cargo it would be a different story.
You have to consider whether or not someone with access to that data would want to reveal it exists. If the US says they located the plane in the ocean, in a location that no one expected, everyone will be wondering how they came to that conclusion. You can't say it was a lucky guess.
I'm horrified that I'm actually getting good at these. Victory with 20120 points.
Damn! The one time I quote Betteridge's Law (thanks, hemmer), and it turns out the answer is "yes".
All systems on board an aircraft can be shut off for a number of reasons. In case of a power failure, the pilot must choose what functions are the most essential to the continued operation of the aircraft on the limited battery power remaining. A transponder may then become nonessential. Similarly, if it is faulty and is the cause of an electrical fire, power to the transponder must be able to be shut off.
I was about to ask "what is the difference between OneNote and Evernote" since I haven't used OneNote since 2006 and am obsessed with Evernote, and you just nailed it. Thank you.
But dealing with real life probabilities the likelihood of the event occurring (Unless your approaching the fringe of newer/locked down hardware) is slim.
r is a model parameter that affects the strength of gravity waves. r=0.2 was much higher than expected. See http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/20mrz4/cosmic_infla...
edit: Looks ok, I'm confused :)

It is interesting. The best way to solve it is to forget about dimensions and just learn the rules of what key does what in terms of piece movement.
except that women starting companies also have an uphill struggle when it comes to interacting with the larger ecosystem.
Gimp??
As you get into higher dimensions, you get exponentially more space, which makes getting to 2048 easier and easier (3x3x3 3D suffers from this, somewhat). So 5D would probably need to bump the winning score up to 4096 or even higher, but then the game start taking far too long.
I have been using this service since it was launched and it is one of the highlights of my week. Every week, my Grandmother answers random questions and shares some part of her life story with me. A few weeks ago, the question was "What do you want to say to your Valentine?" My grandmother shared a heartfelt letter to my late grandfather. These are the kinds of stories that Storyworth facilitates and it is helping to create an even more touching connection between my grandma and me. I highly recommend checking it out.
How would it prevent manipulation?
It's just amazing. I found the same thing with "old" Pages documents (from 2008 as well). What am I supposed to do now? It does not make me feel like continuing to put all of my work in iWork format.

If one were to go Microsoft on the Mac, what are my choices? Office 2011? (it's 2014 now after all)

I know there's OpenOffice too
Honestly, this! I feel like almost every person in the world, white males included, could come up with a reason for a bogus wrongful dismissal suit if they so desired.
You might enjoy the novel Next, by Michael Crichton (Harvard M.D., author of E.R., Jurassic Park, etc.) Aside from the fact that most of his novels were pretty well written, the scary part is how much ahead of his time his ideas consistently were.

(His later novels, including Next, did drop slightly in quality as time went on, but Next is still a really interesting look at almost precisely the legal issue that you describe.)

The incredibly complete bibliography that you find in his novels of hundreds of citations just tends to prove out that frequently truth really is stranger than fiction. (For example, what if someone genetically engineered advertisements into the backs of sea turtles on barrier reefs?)
Deliberately pedantic. Got it.
Ignoring the ageism here, can we discuss why this would not be an open-closed case and cost thousands of dollars just to lose?
You can move "up" and "down" along all 4 orthogonal dimensions; what's missing?
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You must be joking. The amount of time that it takes a consumer to build a product is not the same amount of time a paid developer uses to build a software product, and take it through a QA process.

It's ridiculous that you cannot open the previous version of a Pages file in the current version of Pages! What an absolute joke.
HN should have a bot that deletes any comment that refers to this "law".
More precisely, they want to make profits.

Increasing the cost of new employees – compared to, say, overtime, outsourcing, automation, or other kinds of employees – decreases the hiring of the more-costly employees.
pyvenv in Python 3.3 was immensely frustrating to use, because it leaves you without any package manager that understands your virtualenv.

I've seen this rumor that virtualenv "doesn't work" in Python 3. It seems to be propagated by people who make Python 2 virtualenvs and get confused, including a StackOverflow thread full of people basically typing commands at random to try to fix the problem. But pyvenv in 3.3 had much more potential for confusion.

The fact that Python 3.4 bundles pip may finally resolve this confusion, and make pyvenv appropriate to use. But I'm sure virtualenv will keep working fine as well as long as you don't mix up major versions of Python.
Yeah. I was mostly concerned about the fact that nobody was pointing this out.

If you read the [1] previous post you will see that I am remarkably positive about it. My concern was that the answer to working around the DI hack was always "dont do that".

Even ngmin is just a really elaborate way to 'dont do that'. With it's own issue queue and grunt plugin and almost 22000 hits on google.

From working on open source for a long time, I know that existing code also sets precedent. And i couldn't think of any way that you could keep using that code for the next 5-10 years without somebody thinking of something else 'clever' to do with it.

They devs realized that though, without me. which is great news. You are in awesome hands imo.

[1] http://daemon.co.za/2014/03/why-wrong-to-be-afraid-angular
This is probably pretty easy to label as sexism - not to jump to the author's defense again (I don't know him at all). I wouldn't say women can't program (they can, obviously) or do anything else males can, but there is definitely a different set of interests between males and females (generally speaking). I don't think its because of market manipulation or brainwashing, I just think the two sexes are wired differently (psychologically and physically). So, I don't know if his point is valid, but I do know that males and females have different traits (we don't need to be equal to be treated as equals, I guess).
I'm a little concerned that the RSPCA has warrantless access to my browsing history already. Aren't they a volunteer organisation that promotes animal welfare?
The good news is that his fundraising address has already received 41 Bitcoin (approx 25k USD)

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Lets get half the population on ADHD Drugs, then the other half on Anti-depressants. Then we as individuals don't actually have to deal with any personal challenges, not even controlling the growing, intrusive and overreaching power of government.
Pages? Eh. They've had much bigger failures in the software department.

Anyone remember iMovie '11 update (if memory serves me correctly) this was horrific regression and Apple allowed users to redownload and install iMovie '09.

Final Cut Pro X easily is Apple's biggest fiasco, and that dates back now nearly 3 years ago. Considering the two Comedy Central TV shows I've done contract work with went from Final Cut Pro 7 to Avid I'd argue was more tall-tell sign of Apple sluffing off professional users in favor of consumer/prosumer.

Other failures that come to mind are me.com, Final Cut Express and Shake in recentish history, all which rank higher than Pages. I like Pages
While I do the think author makes too big a deal about this, I very much agree with them.

The main issue is whether or not we should be teaching people, as a first brush with Angular, to code things with "automatic Dependency Injection", where the types are inferred from variable names. The alternative, and only way to code a "real" application, is to pass the names of things you want injected as strings.

For people unfamiliar with Angular, this difference means turning: myFunction(Dep1, Dep2) into myFunction(['Dep1', 'Dep2', Dep1, Dep2) (more or less).

Doesn't seem like a big deal, does it? But I think the decision to teach people the "bad" way to do things, all for the sake of making things "simpler", is completely wrong, and misunderstands what kinds of complexity people have a problem with.

Complexity isn't telling people "write the same word twice, cause that's how it works". Complexity is telling people "here's another thing you have to learn about this framework".

This is a small matter, but it isn't trivial, and is a common mistake with Angular.js (hiding the wrong kinds of complexity).
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Who is stealing from whom? Herr Dieter Rams would like to know.
It doesn't have to be only a distraction. There could be hostage negotiations happening between governments right now.
They were re-launching Newsweek paper edition so they compromised their integrity for a big story. Saved us the trouble of figuring out if they had become an organization worth paying attention to. Nope.
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Thanks!

(in response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7417294)
Liz Gannes wrote about our initial launch last April:

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Alternatively, try opening the NYT link in an Incognito Window in Chrome.
change the colors, black and blue look the same to me (using flux here, it's 23:09...)
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TL,DR: Longtime reader, throwaway account. Started e-commerce company solo a while ago and planning to join an accelerator soon. Looking to ante-up by adding 1-2 people (ops/marketing and possibly tech) on mutual trial basis to start. I'm generalist (business & some tech & design).

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I recently established an art-focused e-commerce startup, centered on redefining discoverability with a twist and direct sales of unique goods from indie designers. Planning to join an accelerator soon and would love to have a team in order to grow and capitalize on the program's resources and connections.

Rather than speed dating and swiftly declaring love until death do us part, I figured an extended dating trial of a few months might be more practical. Compensation could be structured as stipend paid during the accelerator period followed by negotiated equity (on vesting schedule) if both parties agree to continue working together. Possibility for full salary when the startup gets funding (or reaches applicable sales milestone first).

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Also, this "reporter" is the Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Law, at the Emory University School of Law.

This is actually a pretty good article.
Have it jump the bird every time two numbers are combined. The strength of the jump is determined by the magnitude of the resulting number.

Addendum: the shear force of combining two 1024's into a 2048 would send the bird straight into orbit, at which point the game would transition into Flappy Space Program (http://corpsmoderne.itch.io/flappy-space-program)
"Here is how I came to my heartfelt conclusion: I have an intuitive understanding of what it is like to be a caveman, because of all my experience watching Captain Caveman on Cartoon Network. So I put myself in the place of a caveman, and think through what I would do in that situation. And what I would do is to sit quietly in a blind waiting for a rabbit to show up, which I would then grab and bring home for my cavewoman wife to cook me for dinner. I outright reject other people's ridiculous theories that the rabbit would act like Bugs Bunny and that I would act like Elmer Fudd. Therefore it follows logically from my extensive experience thinking through what it is like to be a caveman that this applies to every other human being on the planet, for all time. Therefore I will now describe how I think people should live their lives, if you will please bear with me."
You need DI to do unit tests properly.
If both parties can get a raw socket in, then it's peer to peer... otherwise it's via proxy.
I agree. My first internship was the summer before my senior year of high school. I've interned every summer since.

I think I usually start looking in January or February and commit by April.
AFAICT you mention Felix whenever OCaml comes up, generally saying more or less the exact same thing each time.
Because registrars have huge lock-in effects.

It is extremely tedious to transfer domains between registrars. There are periods around the renewal date where you cannot do this at all, and it might involve paperwork and phonecalls. The old registrar can stall and make it more difficult on purpose.

And if you are renewing a domain, it has some value for you. Registering a new domain might be an impulse purchase, but if you want to keep it after a year, you most likely have a site worth more than $xx/year running there. This domain might go offline for months or even be lost if the transfer is messed up.

Altogether, the old registrar can make it difficult to transfer domains out, and could cause you to lose the domain. Paying $xx/year is the easy way out, and they know it.
> In 2010, the Court found a method of hedging risk, a business method, was not eligible for patent protection because it was an abstract idea.

And yet, Microsoft and IBM still managed press Congress to keep it in the latest patent reform.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/20...

This is what pisses me off about the US system. There's no Constitutionality check prior to "enabling" a new law (and after the president signs it). So even if the Supreme Court declares something outright unconstitutional, Congress could still pass a law allowing that. That seems pretty crazy to me.

There needs to be a Constitutional Court, who's much like the Supreme Court, but who's job is not to take lawsuits, but to verify bills for constitutionality before becoming laws. This is how it's done in other countries, and the chance for passing something unconstitutional is much lower. The Supreme Court would still have the final word, if one law does get through the Constitutional Court (either because the CC judges weren't on their game, or they became more corrupt due to more direct pressure from the government to allow a certain law), and then that law ends up at the Supreme Court through lawsuits.
This is curious, because not long ago, I found myself needing to look at an old AppleWorks[1] file. It opened in Pages without a hitch.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appleworks
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This seems like a problem that can easily be fixed with technology. We're in the industry of replacing inefficiencies.

Why don't we just replace ICANN?
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