skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're definitely getting close. I wish Apple would take Siri to the next level. It should be easier to make corrections, for example.

I bought Dragon Dictate for my Mac a couple days ago just so I could try to do a little more with voice recognition. It'll be great to be able to program mainly with voice like in this video:
http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/using_voice_to_code.html

At the moment, I can simply say "open terminal, begin, rebuild, restart, push, pull, boom (combines pull, rebuild, restart). I'm just using simple shell aliases but I'll probably add shell functions.
I'm sorry but I call BS. In the author notes it doesn't try to say that games are a bad influence at all. Nor does it try to shame the gaming industry.

The author notes go over why he created the game, and how his childhood experiences and the current state of the gaming industry both affected the creation of the game.

He doesn't even mention Nintendo what-so-ever in the notes, neither does he focus on violence.

You severely miss-interpreted what the author wanted to portray.

He focuses on how video games and their authors attempt to toy with our emotions, and how it can be a much more powerful medium to effect the way people think than with books, television or even social media.
What I'm saying is that it's an empirical fact that sending criminals to prison makes you "less safe" than leaving them on the street. That isn't saying they shouldn't be punished in some other way, just that they shouldn't be sent to prison, and anything that causes them to be sent to prison does more harm than good.

Imagine someone suggested that forcing criminals to become addicted to cocaine or meth would be a good punishment. Yes, that is definitely a form of punishment. That doesn't imply that doing it would make the world safer or in any way better.

Moreover, from a "makes people safer" perspective, if you have a trade off between actual safety against attackers and law enforcement effectiveness, you almost always want to choose the thing that provides actual safety. Law enforcement effectiveness just doesn't make that much difference since actual effectiveness has such a tenuous relationship with perceived effectiveness and perceived effectiveness is what matters for deterrence.
What about this: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1052775620/wemagin-smar...
WOW, me too... I guess it's been a long time since I regularly played games
"If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything." - Ronald Coase
Shard-Query does the same work of utilising all the available CPUs but its for MySQL - https://github.com/greenlion/swanhart-tools/tree/master/shar...
4 games would use up the "fair" and "more than enough" bandwidth cap my ISP set :-/

It's either OK internet with caps or vDSL that doesn't really work
Gus Johnson?
DuplexBook (2007)
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I've led the development teams (ranging in size from 2 to 10) of 3 startups, and I'm still leading the third.

A smart CTO or senior dev won't hire a junior dev unless there's time to mentor. In a small company, you have to spend time getting a new hire up-to-speed anyway.

If you're moving fast, your code is going to have some weird/kludge-y parts to it, and it's going to take time to explain that to someone.

In addition, most developers who've been at it for a while are very confident (you might even say dogmatic) about The Way Things Should Be Done. They'll want you to do things the same way.

That sounds bad, but honestly it's a great way to learn the pros and cons of different ways of doing things.

All that said, every company is different. Try something out, and if it doesn't work for you, you'll do something different in a year. Even jobs that are a bad fit are great experience.
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Wow, what a piece! I am incredibly impressed with the range of responses that Siri has. I wonder just how many questions they've entered responses to. Certainly some stuff can be learned, but responding to requests to marriage is certainly written at some level by a human.
The picture in question was from long before takeoff, let alone touchdown.
This piece is absolutely adorable.
I have no background in any field that could help me understand the basics of this discussion. However your post makes me wonder if many internet discussions are victim to this same phenomenon.

Different levels of abstraction are presented to explain "why", they're understood differently by different people (due to varying expertise), which causes discussions to eventually spiral into what appears to be disagreement, but is actually different layers of detail. The layers may seem to be contradictory but are often related. Hence the term "arguing in circles".
Are you referring to this, maybe? http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Maybe it's a difference in our interpretations as to meaning of "criminals who are legitimately guilty will walk". That doesn't necessarily imply a prison sentence - it implies a conviction irrespective of what the actual punishment is. The iPhone encryption argument isn't about which crimes deserve which punishments; it's about being able to gather evidence to present in court.
There's an RFC for try/catch: https://github.com/glaebhoerl/rfcs/blob/trait-based-exceptio...
i have been wrestling with this for weeks, both professionally and personally. I'm fairly certain that in this process/before we noticed the problem we burned up one of our machines.

The thing is, there's no flash involved. We've narrowed it down to css3 transitions running amok. In other cases we've poorly constructed JS loops causing problems.

Recently i've noticed it on everything (even gmail, drive and calendar) in chrome.

No problems elsewhere, although in a side-by-side comparison with mozilla showed mozilla nearing similar cpu usage (30-60%) but never sustained (lasting seconds)

Not sure if this helps anyone, or if this is just 'duh.' The css3 transitions being involved i have not read out in the wild, so i thought i'd toss that idea out.
See the following:

https://github.com/grugq/PORTALofPi

https://www.portalmasq.com/portal-defcon.pdf
It's a practical guide for music written before 1910.

Unfortunately quite a lot has happened in music since 1910, and if you're trying to write music for the 2010s Harmonielehre and 'theory' of this kind won't just confuse you, it will actively mislead you.

The problem is that it teaches you nothing about the importance of performance expression, or the many different ways modes get used and abused in pop/rock/electronica, or how to create arrangements that capture and keep listener attention.

Pop has become a massive historical experiment in perceptual psychology. The most popular bands can literally fill a stadium - something common practice music has never done.

While that doesn't mean pop is better in some absolute sense, it does suggest it's doing something right for many listeners.

If your training is too rigidly classical it actively stops you being able to hear and understand what that right thing is, because you're too busy concentrating on a small subset of the many details in the music.
I've created my own syntax highlighter plugin for ST. I still don't know how to do it even after completing it. There's just so much about it that is guesswork.
Can you quantify that? How much of a minority?
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How do you like it? I've been very interested (dictation in Mavericks leaves a lot to be desired) but the reviews on Amazon seem to savage it pretty good as buggy and not up to the standards of the Windows version.
"not completely isolated from hearing classical music"

Many of the most important jazz composers and musicians were classically trained and were intimate with the type of music theory we're talking about here. Thelonius Monk could reel off Chopin and Rachmaninoff etudes from memory. "Take the A Train" and many other tunes we associate with Ellington were written by Billy Strayhorn, who's main interest was classical music, but found that the classical music establishment at the time would not accept a black composer or musician. Jazz was the only genre in which he was allowed to work. (Ellington/Strayhorn and Monk are considered the most important composers in Jazz, and their initial training was in European classical music.)

Jazz is a development of Western classical music, and knows it. In fact, it's a rather miraculous revival of the improvisatory tradition that was central to European art music until it died out with the rise of symphonic music in the 19th century. If you listen to some contemporary jazz pianists, for example, Marcus Roberts, there's no mistaking the strong influence of European classical music.
I'm not sure Kickstarter is really motivated to wade into the caveat emptor waters any further than they have.
To be fair, the "new" Halo game is technically the first 4 games all redone for the Xbox One packaged together.
I did not know this. Thanks for sharing.
Can anyone get the "Are there any flights me?" query to work? It just keeps doing a Bing search showing pages talking about the fact that Siri can do it.

Wolfram Alpha can answer the question if I got to the site, so the data is definitely there.
Almost certainly they special-case some inputs -- have you ever recited the Konami Code to Siri? What amazes me is sheer variety of questions that people ask Siri that s/he can now answer humorously. It wouldn't surprise me if they watch the number of queries (from actual users) that don't get an answer and/or fall back to Wolfram Alpha to see if there are any new ones that need special treatment.

That said, most of the information that Siri spits out was "written at some level by a human", such as the Wikipedia articles s/he quotes (by Wikipedia authors), or the flight information for planes overhead (by airline employees).
I gather Yosemite brings Siri to OS X, which I expect will be an interesting evolution, especially once people start figuring out how to add new capabilities and integrations.

I saw Rudd's demo and have been tantalized by its possibilities ever since. More than the specific technologies in use, what really fascinated me was the way he invented what could almost be described as a shorthand language optimized for efficiently driving the editor via voice, with various unique (and otherwise meaningless) phoneme combinations to represent things not easily expressed in ordinary English -- for example, "lep" instead of "left parenthesis", one syllable in place of five. That's the real win, I think; the specific dictation pipeline in use hardly matters, so long as it supports the necessary interfaces and customization capabilities.

Some day I mean to find the time for a really deep dive into the subject, ideally one from which I'll surface with something I can distribute to others wishing to drive their editors the same way.
It seems that 1. the ability of drugs to warp the mind and 2. the ability of researchers to implant memories into the minds of rats by altering proteins both suggest that the mind is a strictly materialistic phenomenon.
And really...Etsy already exists for this kind of thing. Or EBay.
So if someone attacked you or one of your loved ones, you would say "Set the attacker free because we don't want to increase recidivism"? Perhaps the current prison system is doing more harm than good, but the rule of law requires that laws actually be enforced in some way. There must be consequences for actions that are harmful to society. This is the goal of the justice system, and being able to execute warrants is a key part of that.

Likewise if you wound up in a highly unlikely ticking time bomb scenario, ie being kidnapped, you would probably hope that the authorities were using every means at their disposal to find you, up to and including going through
someone's iphone. The likelihood of a dangerous situation doesn't matter to someone who is at risk, and for that reason society should be able to offer every aid to people who wind up in rare circumstances.

If you're advocating that we throw out our entire legal system and start from scratch, I'd like to hear more about your proposal. The system that we have now is the careful combination of interconnected parts, one of which is
the power of a judicial warrant. We have to be careful about what we do in the name of privacy. Weakening one part of the system can threaten the whole.
>Listen to techno, house and tribal, and you hear Koyaanisqatsi, 18 Musicians, and the work of Glass, Reich, and Riley.

No, you hear Koyaanisqatsi, etc.

And this is exactly why you should never try to understand a popular genre by crossreferencing its stylings against some other style or genre.

Because other people hear other things - many, many other things - which perhaps you're not aware of.
It's not very obvious unless you've seen a lot of similar links from Twitter, so I can't blame you for missing it. I just thought I'd point it out so you'd know what's up for the next time.
Just skimmed it (about to go to bed), but I'm not impressed:

For starters, as others have noted, the danger is from the lead styphnate in primers when used in indoor ranges. They ought to have made that clear ... especially since there's an obvious solution which is good for ranges (we don't entirely trust lead free primers yet, but unless one causes a squib misfire that lodges a bullet in the barrel, it's not a serious problem).

They invoke the eeeeevil NRA ... which is the organization of gun owners. Not a word about the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the organization for the gun industry, including ranges.

Don't know if they went into it for real, but this danger has been generally recognized for as long as 3 decades. The NRA has certainly been telling its members about it. Just like we're told not to eat or smoke while reloading. Of course, there's more than one compelling reason to not smoke while reloading ^_^.
You see it as conspiracy nuts, but I just see a bunch of people complaining that it's not explained well enough. I see no comment on motivation at all.

By the way, there's a perfectly good English word that means "plural you minus you personally," which is "they."
Under what circumstances does a lawyer/lobbyist have domain expertise to manage/advise a government response to global virus outbreak?

Is this an Ebola outbreak or business opportunity?
I've never used Android's voice recognition – does it have similar scripted responses?
> If the ONLY evidence of something is "encrypted information", doesn't that rule out a lot of crimes, including all physical violence?

All but one of the examples that FBI Director James Comey gave in his speech at the Brookings Institute yesterday[1] were violent crimes (and you could argue that the drug bust was related to violent crime since he said that the group was also linked to homicides and robberies). The last example he gave showed that evidence taken from cell phones has been used to exonerate suspects as well.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkbh5fJoFhc#t=2313 (should automatically jump, but if not it starts at 38:33)
I did the same. Safari is for personal browsing (and because I love Reading List and the integration with my iPad and iPhone, as well as iCloud's Keychain), Firefox is for development and work.
I was playing with Fig, SpringBoot, Node and postgres stack this afternoon. Playing with Docker since its release this is the first time is really all clicked together. Here's my notes - https://erichelgeson.github.io/blog/2014/10/17/docker-spring...
I was using vim as my primary coding platform for a decade until I met sublime text. Notepad++, crimson editor never cut it for me but ST impressed me from the beginning and continued to give me features and freedom to do whatever I want (except print). You can't ever hang up vim since it's much quicker to edit using vim when you're ssh'd into a server. But if the files are locally or on a share I prefer Sublime Text for the following reasons:

* Vim in Windows never felt good to me.
* Multi-cursor editing
* auto-recover unsaved files upon loading the program
* snippets (type a little get a lot back)
* the ability to use a hotkey to open files quickly
* the robust hotkeys, regexs, and visual feedback are on par or better than vim.
Texture mapping has come a long, long way. It's a shame AAA game mechanics haven't kept up, but, hey, that's a hard problem.

(I just bought Alien: Isolation the other day, and found it disappointing -- silly me, thinking I'd bought a game I could play as I pleased, rather than a movie which would punish me for trying to step outside the predefined narrative it wanted to relate.)
Thanks; I just purchased the book+video; is there a recommended way to print out a paper copy for my own use beyond just hammering my own (or work) printer?
No, but Robin does.
Video game enemies have a "Mind" they can make predictions, plan, and with reasonable levels of AI even learn. But, we understand what's going on which "Kills" any meaningful debate. Not really understaniding cellular biology and the emergent behavior of the human brain is no reason to assume anything odd is going on either.

PS: Ok, there is a reasonable question of how good an AI needs to be before killing it is wrong.
The flight information is powered by Wolfram Alpha which appears to source it from ADS-B data via (I assume) the FAA, so that actually is entirely automated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillanc...
> Serving prison time actually increases recidivism (by increasing debt, straining or severing ties with family and community, creating ties to other criminals, making it harder to find a job, etc.), so it turns out that in practice sending criminals to prison makes us less safe

Are you taking into account that while in prison, the person is not committing crimes (except possibly against other prisoners)?

Prison will cause recidivism in some who would have given up crime if given some non-prison punishment, but it will also reduce crime from people who would have been recidivists anyway by delaying their return to crime.

Offhand, I don't recall seeing data on what the optimal term is for minimizing crime, but I don't recall looking for such, either. Anyone have numbers?
So if you were programmed to say this, where and how did the original program originate?
It's a little bit more nuanced than that.

It's easy to get the Internet riled up over a perceived offense (deception, scamming, fraud, other unethical behaviors), just like it's easy to get any group of people up in arms over the same thing.

I wouldn't list Reddit or any particular website as the source of this kind of witch hunting issue. The only thing to blame is the stupidity of crowds. If people went out of their way to see both sides of an issue, consider the sources and veracity of claimed facts and evidence, and actually make an informed decision then it'd be fine.

Obviously, this doesn't happen that much. But all I'll say is that just because some wall of text on Reddit has a lot of upvotes doesn't necessarily say anything about the actual truth of its contents. That means it's a bit foolish to discount all such things as distorted and inaccurate rabble rousing, just as foolish as the people who believe whatever they read without a second thought.
>Thank you! I've long been suspicious of so-called music theory for exactly the reasons you outline. I always wanted to learn more about music and why it "works" as you say, so I assumed what I wanted to learn was music theory, but then when I tried to learn it it didn't seem to explain any of the things I was looking for. I'll have to check out that book.

The reasons he mentions are bogus -- simply his bias against a term in common use ("music theory") , only because "theory" is used with a different meaning in academic contexts.

That said, there's nothing to be suspicious of in music theory, and what's in TFA is not "so called music theory", it's actual music theory, the way every composer, musician, etc in the western world knows as such.

That it doesn't explain other aspects of music (psychological, physical etc) does not make it any less "music theory", nor does it make those other things "music theory".
And to elaborate on what a GTO is, rather than permit the preceeding comment to become ensconced in jargon, the "T" stands for "transfer" in the sense of transferring from maybe a lower orbit to a higher orbit, or, in other words, changing altitude.

So, a Geosychronous Transfer Orbit, gains in altitude, while staying directly overhead at the same point on the earth's surface, even though the earth below is still in rotational motion. But, at points closer to the equator (where much of the good rocketry real estate resides), to keep up with a fixed point on the ground, while traveling farther and farther away from the central axis of rotation, ever greater lateral distances must be covered at increasingly greater speeds.

Meaning, if you can keep your rocket directly overhead, over a zone and airspace you can control militarily (by denying enemies access to it, or maybe by choosing a place that doesn't need to be defended), while putting it as high in the sky as possible, it will be much more difficult to shoot down, providing the advantage of being able to then move this proverbial chess piece into position anywhere you want, without too much concern of being denied access to that perch.
That's kind of like saying that it's fine to provide rope to someone you know is going to use it for a lynching because you like knots and you want to encourage people to tie knots.

Moreover, it doesn't change much when you substitute a different punishment. You don't ever want to be in that situation because you only get there after you've already failed to deter the crime. If the efficiency of your coroner's office seems like a problem, that isn't your actual problem.
That's not an answerable question. Making it meaningless. Which electron in you left ear had the lowest energy over the last second?

PS: This is actually a trick question as the frame of reference is important.
If you're at all interested in self-defense, getting used to the percussion, albeit with hearing protectors, is a very good idea, since you might have to use a gun inside a building.

(There are earmuffs that'll receive, or even amplify outside noise except of course for gun shots. They're very useful for instruction.)
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One of the payment types is 'None'.

http://i.imgur.com/oCqZf2b.png
It didn't work for me either. Pretty much the whole of the city I live in is under a flight path, so it's definitely not a lack of data. On a related note, Siri has regressed for me since iOS 8. It won't shuffle my music by genre anymore, always telling me "I'm having a bit of trouble".
It's been posted here repeatedly because sometimes submissions don't get traction for whatever reason. It's newsworthy insofar as it's been in space for ~2 years and just returned, which is a long mission for a reusable. I don't think there's anything wrong with being interested in military technology.
Yes. It is used to contrast with "the rule of men."

In Russia, Afghanistan, and Venezuela, the laws don't seem to matter very much; if Putin or the oligarchs/warlords/chavistas want things to be a certain way, there isn't much to stop them despite laws that in theory constrain them. That's the rule of men, as opposed to the rule of law, and it's antithetical to a free society.
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