skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been looking into something similar a while back and here are my findings:

Continuous speech recognition will have to improve, there are currently opensource solutions with the best being CMU Sphinx [1], it does however only listen to certain keywords thus isn't capable of understanding everything you say, and it needs training. There is a Google voice Recognition API, but that's not continuous so you'd still need to listen to certain keywords and then upload the bit to google and wait for result, which isn't perfect. Recently I've come across a few sites which seem to do just that using the google voice api [2,3], but likewise far from perfect.

When it comes to responding to you there are quite some good opensource projects out there such as Flite [4], MaryTTS [5], Festival [6] and of course e-Speak [7]. They don't sound that natural, and if you're willing to pay you can get much more high quality options [8]. I know you could again use google's text2speech, but don't forget there is going to be a delay you can't get rid of.

When it comes to the whole packet together I've seen Jasper, but he has his own problems, to give an example:

"

-> So Jasper, sup?

-< “Today in news... blah blah”

(meanwhile me) NO!! STOP! STAHP!

"

Google now seems to function pretty quickly and accurately on my Moto G, but once switching apps you get stuck.

Alyt at indiegogo [10] tries to market itself as what I'd love to see...

I'm sure there are more of these projects around, but I haven't seen one yet that is actually capable of learning new things on the fly or even having a little bit of personality (why personality? Because the best GTD-tool is still a whining person reminding you about it, not a monotone computer voice that you'll shut-off anyway). I can imagine though that's going to be tough to build; with a lot of machine learning, virtual neural networks, natural language engines, lisp-alike programming language and whatnot.

When I find free time on my hands I'd love to mess around with all these components and try to come up with a solution of my own, or probably after a re-watch of the movie Her (2013) (which was very interesting just for the idea it proposed!).

[1]: http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/

[2]: https://dictation.io/

[3]: https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html

[4]: http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/

[5]: http://mary.dfki.de/

[6]: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/

[7]: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/

[8]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/4721878/1807383

[9]: http://jasperproject.github.io

[10]: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/alyt-it-s-like-siri-for-y...

Best opensource text2speech results I've had with this blog post so far: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=751169

PS: My apologies for the very long, unstructured reply but it intrigued me and I hope someone will find this small writeup useful!
It looks like Americans average about 200,000 miles between accidents. I am not sure what the variance here is, e.g., depending on driver experience.

Still, the numbers are completely incomparable. Google's cars have always had a driver at the wheel, and we have no idea how many times a manual intervention has prevented an accident. Google's cars have also been driving in very limited conditions: they have not tried to drive in very bad weather, and they do not handle highway merges or difficult surface streets.

Finally, it isn't clear that "zero accidents" is completely correct. Google has said that their cars have been in accidents, but only while under manual control or while stopped at stoplights. But what does this really mean? Perhaps there was an accident caused by the self-driving car, where the human driver took control at the last minute. Or perhaps the car saw a yellow light up ahead, slammed on the brakes to stop, and was rear-ended by another car expecting them to go through. (Technically, the other car would be at fault in this situation, but it is still unsafe driving on Google's part.) There is no public information that lets us know the safety record of Google's self-driving cars.
Yeah except one is supposed to make your life better and the other destroys your life.

This is not an extreme example. This is (I hope, for your sake) a joke.
Dre doesn't get hounded because he doesn't pay lip service and apologize for who he is. For a quick explanation of the sociology at work see: http://partialobjects.com/2011/06/why-is-tracy-morgan-in-tro...

I'm not saying I like this, I'm saying this is the interpretation that seems to make the most sense.
> It'd take 50 automation engineers a year to figure out how to automate a single step in a factory..

Higher levels of abstraction make the process easier. What was nearly impossible to automate 10 years ago has become nearly commonplace today. The pace of this abstraction is only increasing as the availability of robotics increases.
It's not my debate. I was just giving my opinion on what the argument was.
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InfraRuby compiles Ruby with type annotations to ordinary Java classfiles.
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They wanted to prevent all of the servers trying to contact the PXE server at the same time to avoid overloading it. Its basically to prevent an accidently self DDOS.
That incident was 23 years ago and he did his time for it. He's also shown remorse for it and wishes it never happened.[0] He's a 49 year old man now and he's been married for 18 years. I think he's past that kind of stuff.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btc1MflBSeQ&feature=youtu.be...
The best way to stop Facebook from releasing this feature is to stop using Facebook. The users are their customers and the most impressionable feedback you can give to Facebook is to deactivate or delete your account.
Poor Logitech, a company I've always had a soft spot for. They used to be the king of the peripherals and even bought Ultimate Ears for $34 million back in 2008. Their audio business is probably their lowest margin segment and now Beats gets acquired for almost double Logitech's enterprise value. The power of brands...
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Sorry if we didn't adequately convey our frustration with this particular issue. It's one that's been with us for a long time and it absolutely sucks -- and after trying (and failing) to work with the vendor to get the issue understood (it's essentially a firmware-level issue), we ultimately decided to move away from that particular NIC vendor entirely. If we could wave a wand and be rid of these particular parts, we gladly would -- but until then, this transient boot-time issue needs to be manually mitigated with an additional reboot.
I also have no experience, but my guess is that when you are running normally, you want to share the bandwidth of a server fairly between all clients. When you've just accidentally rebooted all servers, you want to do it completely unfairly - so that instead of 10 computers taking an hour to download something, the first takes 6 minutes, the second takes 12 minutes etc. This allows at least some of the servers to get started and your infrastructure to start getting back online.
I.e. you want to change from round robin scheduling to shortest job first scheduling (which gives the minimum average waiting time).
I'm so confused as to why some spending in your economy are "good" and why some spending is "bad". How are you discounting the net economic gain from service jobs, but not discounting the net economic gain of a reinvested dividend?

I'm perfectly happy to cede that money spent on submarine projects that might line the pockets of a small number of people is suboptimal to some other spending. And I'm not really arguing that. I'm arguing against your insistance that service jobs are zero-sum which is patently false. Service jobs are not zero sum due to the cost of time. For instance, if I clean your home, landscape your yard, or do your laundry, it frees up your time to do something else more productive.
So he is basically saying this is an acquihire and they don't really care about the Beats brand at all?
I think storing and sharing code in snippets is a genuinely good idea. Looking forward to seeing the database grow further!
Is Working Capital still working though?
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I can also call/Facetime a friend that lives in a different part of town/country/world but that doesn't replace a physical presence.

If you disagree, try to convince my mother why I shouldn't have to make at least once-every-couple-month visits.
I've made this point before, but... having done a ton of interviews for senior and principal software engineers, the candidate mix is already incredibly non-diverse by the time it gets to me.

I mean, maybe my management and hr is filled with racists and sexists, but my gut reaction is they seem like pretty progressive folks. I think the pipeline is messed up much, much earlier.
Let me be blunt, we are all adults. He is in a favored minority category and as such he gets a pass unless he offends and even more favored minority group, simple as that. Society is shaped by those whose voices are the loudest, unfortunately some have learned to shout down others to the point there is no discussion permitted. When one side won't stop shouting to the point society accepts their position as the norm then where is society?
IF THIS IS THE CASE and that's an IF then it seriously brings into suspect backdoors in larger proprietary software. Because really if they're going after trucrypt then they have to already have gone after the big players.

I'm not going to jump the gun just yet but after snowden it's not out of the question.
I would argue that:

a) Dr. Dre is a performer. Rap, distasteful as you may find it, is performance art. It's the same as gangster movies. Would you object to Apple working with Scorcese? It's a character, albeit slightly autobiographical, but not much different than someone like Bukowski, IMO.

b) The Dr. Dre - Dee Barnes incident took place in 1991, almost 25 years ago. Should an isolated incident, for which he has made amends, haunt the man for the rest of his life? I don't think comparing it to the RadiumOne CEO, a current crime, is reasonable.

c) It would be rather hypocritical for Apple to profit off the musical talent of young black males creating "offensive" music, but not deign to work with them due to some moral qualms.
The bulk of book sales, especially online with eBooks, aren't for great literature, it's for stuff that is essentially thinly-veiled fanfiction, written very quickly, to appease a niche market. 50 Shades of Gray is an excellent example: it's pretty well understood to be Twilight fanfiction. The writing is awful, even the people who enjoyed the book (BOTH series, even) admit that the writing is awful. The writing merely fills a hole in a niche market.

Just peruse any eBook catalog for a few minutes, try to detect trends. The vast, vast majority of books are pedestrian pieces in niche genres, genres whose readers are willing to buy just about everything in it.

The dirty secret is that this is not really that different from the traditional publishers. Read a paperback romance novel. Anyone who passed their college-level English composition classes with at least a C should be able to make a decent living as a writer. It really only takes churning out titles, which is easier than churning out software projects.
if you notice, there is a higher level of asians in tech (compare to non-tech) and ratio of women to men in non-tech is almost 50-50. If might suggest that men (mostly white and asians) are more likely brain damaged in certain ways which let them succeed (or survive) in such unnatural environment.
Beaglebone Black all the way. Low powered, more grunt than a Rpi and can run with no binary blobs whatsoever.
From that very link:

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It would be nice to be able to compare these numbers with other large computer technology companies.
Your 'never do this' line would erase initrd.img on most machines, which you'd only find out about after the next reboot if nobody told you about it (and good luck getting that fixed).

There are a large number of varieties of this particular error. Some with terrible results.

rm -rf * .bak

for instance (especially when executed in the root directory).

That '#' prompt is there for a reason.

The way to solve these sort of issues is to first get the files using 'find' until you're totally happy about the result and then to use 'rm' as the command passed to find.

Of course, nobody does this ;)
Audiophile pretentiousness aside, the article barely even mentions the actual hardware. Probably bought them for the music service & industry connections
As are most books within niche fiction genres.
Yes, #!/usr/bin/python3 is clear, but I don't think it addresses the question you were responding to, which was whether the scripts the OP of this subthread was talking about, which he knows will run under Python 2 (because he downloaded them and ran them under Python 2--he mentioned this in another subthread), will know to check for the presence of Python 3 and use it. Any such script will have to check sys.version_info to know which version of Python it is running under (and for at least one version the shebang will be irrelevant anyway since it can only specify python or python3, not both), and it will have to be syntax-compatible with both versions. If the script isn't syntax-compatible with Python 3, then he'll have to go find and download a version that is, if it exists.
FWIW youre quoting lyrics/album that is 22+ years old, People spend less time in prison than that for murder, I think he can+has moved on.
And you missed my point. Right tool for the right job.

You don't take a fork to drink a soup and you don't take a spoon to cut meat (unless the knife is duller than the spoon). Sure sometimes is fun to improvise by using knife as a fork, but that's a silly way to eat.

With that in mind a different language operates with a different set of limitations and a different mental model of execution.

Most people that program in Java don't have to worry too much about memory footprint, whether GC pause will kill performance, etc. Fact that they are using GC means they accepted non-deterministic pauses as part of the programming. To move from that frame of mind to a really performance sensitive where frequency and voltage matters requires a radical shift of thought.
If I were the NSA, I'd try to get one of my hundreds of world-class cryptographers a job on the BitLocker team.

In fact, BitLocker would be the first thing I'd weaken. Because

1) It's closed source, hard to externally audit.

2) It's one of the most used encryption packages in the world.

3) Microsoft's poor security track record provides excellent cover if the weakness is ever found.

Closed-source security software is a recipe for disaster.
Misquote, he actually said:

"Yeah. I think we get the best companies, which is 90 percent of the hard work."

Which has a completely different emphasis.
The throttle that we're referring to there is a CPU throttle. When we provision an OS-virtualized instance, there is a default throttle to prevent it from consuming a disproportionate amount of CPU on the box. The instance that runs TFTP on the headnode was provisioned as a relatively small instance (it needs very little DRAM), which also gave it (by default) a CPU throttle that restricted its CPU utilization. Normally, of course, this isn't an issue -- but normally we don't try to TFTP boot the entire datacenter at once. This issue was obvious immediately (thanks, DTrace!), and we resolved it on the headnode by manually raising the throttle, and will be making the fix in SmartDataCenter itself as well. Does that answer your question?
Isn't this SV bias? Beats is startup-y? With 300 employees and $1.5bn revenue?

Beats drives a successful marketing business (much like RedBull). I think Apple is buying that. Apple doesn't need to acquire expertise on how to build and sell luxury items.
> we don't believe in the legend version, do we?

I dunno. We saw the legend version happening with a lot of people recently. Yep, we still mostly don't belive it, but...

What's the oposite to The Boy that Cried Wolf?
I disagree that there's no "tech world". Maybe that's the wrong term but hey.

I do feel strongly about bad behavior (and I try to do some small parts)–but not about the lack of balance. I just find it intriguing and possibly worthy of discussion. I'm inclined to call it "hypocrisy" but maybe that's not the correct term.

I'm naive enough to think I can change what people choose to fight. Like open source, sometimes you find a bug but don't know how to fix it. What can you do besides submit an issue in GitHub?
> “We’re not where we want to be when it comes to diversity,” Laszlo Bock, Google’s senior vice president of “people operations,” told the NewsHour in a statement prior to a broadcast interview Wednesday. “It is hard to address these kinds of challenges if you’re not prepared to discuss them openly, and with the facts. All our diversity efforts, including going public with these numbers, are designed to ensure Google recruits and retain many more women and minorities in the future.”

I don't agree with diversity for the sake of diversity. Hire the most qualified candidate regardless of race/gender.

And also, Asians are a minority group, at least in California as of today.
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Except the OS has a huge amount of overhead. The whole reason why the "event driven IO", callback mess, etc. is a thing is because of the costs of native OS threads. If you don't need the things OS provides (like process isolation when running a single process server) then you're paying a heavy cost.

The thing about IT is that it has evolved over decades and as the layers were added to the stack on top of each other so many legacy design decisions are now rooted deep in to the stack - if you can blow away the whole thing and start from scratch you can get huge benefits for free. For example ZFS did the same thing with filesystems and they got many things for free just out of reexamining the initial assumptions that lead to the modern filesystems and re-evaluating them in a modern context.

Getting rid of the OS is likely impractical for most things but it can probably net you big wins in specific scenarios.
The GBI can solve more than that, I believe. A nice property of a system that has both that and a high level of socio-cultural development (i.e., lots of art, music, sports, etc.) is that it can free people to participate in an "arts, sports, and leisure" society. People will play games - cheap ones, and lots of them. We do this now, and has Cowen has pointed us, the western world is excellent at developing an endless supply of cheap entertainment. We'll likely do a whole lot more of that. How many people would play WoW or such 12+ hours a day at 15/month if they didn't have to work, and had all the basics taken care of? A lot, most likely.

Other things we'll probably be looking at will be extremely powerful, long-lasting, side-effect-free (or tolerable-side effect-having) drugs. That road of course leads to wireheading, but I think that collectively denying that as a possibility now is extremely naive.

Another nice property (especially if you throw in things like a real universal health care system) is that the "sharing economy " jobs go from looking borderline exploitative to perfectly acceptable, along with all other kinds of freelance and part time work.

With the GBI obviating the need for a minimum wage, people who are marginal in the current system wage-wise would simply be able to opt out, which would likely bring the wages of those jobs up as it would be much harder to find people to do them.
This would also apply to jobs up the wage chain; all the econo-dreams about "perfect labor fluidity" (sans perfect mobility) would be possible. Job sucks? Quit. Go elsewhere. Can't find another? Sit around and study new things, then go get a new job. Or don't. All possible with a (properly indexed and region-specific/cost-of-living-adjusted) GBI.

It'd be a different kind of freedom than we're used to in the US, but one that would be much more appropriate given the way things are going.
I didn't know that post until now. I kind of like that explanation.
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Implicitness as a source of error (in general) seems to raise its ugly head over and over again.
Right. If the pipeline is not as proportionally diversified as the general population, it is senseless to ask the final hires as proportionally diversified.

If they dig deep and analyze the race diversity of women in tech, I bet the data would be more striking.
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Is PBS implying that Google is discriminating during the hiring process, or that the talent pool lacks diversity? If it's the latter, hard to blame Google for that one.
"Weak" and "strong" are not well-defined terms, and you'll find different defs around the place.

I deliberately used "weak" in the title as a loose umbrella term for the sundry malpractices detailed below. The article is hopefully otherwise quite specific.

In particular, by "types", I always mean "static types" or "propositions". What you mean mean by "dynamic types", I call "tags"; they are not the topic of the article. These usages are standard, if not universally adhered to; I hope I made this clear in the article.
It depends on whether the ISS is on the dark side or the sunny side. We render a prerecorded YouTube video if it's the former and a live UStream feed if it's the latter. You can also change this yourself by going into the "Options" menu.
Sure, I mean to relate more than judge - I've been through similar hoops though surely on a smaller scale.