skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Initially I was impressed, but now I worry about the logistic issues in regards to the fine details.

The main problem with general purpose real-time voice recognition is that current hardware is simply way too underpowered to accomplish the task. For instance, running the Dragon 11 SDK on an Intel Atom Z3770 has it about up to a minute behind transcribing the conversation! So I fear Transcene's approach is using the inferior Google Speech API which plainly put, sucks donkey balls, and is no way comparable to the latest Dragon engine. Apple uses the Dragon engine to implement Siri.

There's also the social burden of needing speakers to install an app on their smartphones and also actually have a smartphone in the first place. Will this be a free "remote mic" app such as Dragon 13 provides or does Transcene expect speakers to pony up the monthly cost as well?

I too think businesses and institutions will not allow this because they need overpriced ADA compliant solutions due to regulations. An example would be Interact-AS which is $800 and is essentially a fancy overlay for the Dragon engine (or Microsoft Speech in the low-end $150 version). Dragon itself only costs a one-time $99 to $199!

I'm also skeptical there's a viable business model in this. The vast majority of the deaf are on fixed incomes and not employed, so what is a relatively expensive $30 a month for app access buying them exactly? It better be a superior remote client to server transcriptioning experience! What's to stop Dragon from enabling multiple "remote mic" apps to work all at once with the mothership PC in their next version, etc.? And if not a client server model, what are the minimum hardware specifications to get "one second" transcriptions? A $599 smartphone is a ridiculous and overpriced luxury for the deaf.

As for Google Glass, it is a non-starter. No one wants to look like an idiot constantly staring off into their peripheral vision to read text instead of looking at whoever is speaking -- which is why Google Glass has been such a massive failure. What is truly needed is spatial aware, augmented reality where the transcriptions are placed over who is speaking via beaming text onto normal glasses or directly onto the retina. This technology already exists in various forms; it is just a matter of a real world implemention into a "killer app". Transcene, are you paying attention?

Nonetheless, this is a very important step forward that no one else is really doing, so I'm in for $250... and holding my breath.
Sorry, that seems to be a problem on other similar job sites too. I haven't yet thought about how to solve that problem, any ideas are welcome! Plus, with contract work I've sometimes had to negotiate with a client - I thought it would be better to therefore leave that detail to when the employer is having a conversation with the candidate.
I've seen TPP come up in the news before, and it infuriates me.

Only YOU can prevent global legal catastrophes. Get involved.

https://act.eff.org/action/speak-out-against-the-trans-pacif...
Great link, though it contradicts the assertion that we have one of the top healthcare systems in the world.
Wow. That's kinda awesome. I don't even see /dev/audio on Ubuntu now. I wonder if Plan9 is actually usable right now or is it only suited to talking about how operating systems could be?
So is that the full patch or is there a validation test included somewhere else?
Dart plugin for Sublime updated with many new features
Nassim Taleb is dense, but not in the way you mean...New Yorker-level hand-wavy, extreme generalizations, OMG the horror of how stupid everyone else is...but if you can get past the pompous jackassery it is true there is much to be learned from him.
Pretty nice, but I only see disadvantages in comparison to scrot. Don't see a reason to switch now.
They are still hugely inefficient. The US spends more per capita on Medicare/Medicaid than the UK spends on the NHS and only covers a small fraction of the population instead of everyone.
The problem with differentiating between the "good investor" and the "lavish lifestyle guy" is that the good investor is actually the one that you (rather, Piketty) need to be most worried about.

People worried about inequality aren't (just) worried about the morality of consumption -- a fat cat sitting atop a mountain of cash drinking champagne and eating caviar while the peasants starve. They're worried about maintaining a democratic society, where everyone gets roughly an equal say in how things go. Highly concentrated wealth is a threat to that. Someone with enough money can single handedly change the course of politics (by funding candidates, lobbyists, or directly bribing various parties), public discourse (by controlling media corporations and through them who says what on TV or in print), and even science itself (by funding some researchers and not others).

The sleazy but short-sighted hedge fund manager bringing in a million plus a year but spending it all on yachts and McMansions isn't a threat. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, the good investors, are the ones walking around with nukes. They could choose to blow us up at any time, and it's only through their continuing mercy that they haven't.

Wealth taxes are about disarming everyone -- good and evil -- for the safety of us all, not about morality.
>The risk with a powerful government that can do this is it can be bought.

Only if it is weak and has incentives to do so. Policies like Citizens' United weaken the government and permit capital to further influence politics.
Why do people always use the term punish when talking about taxes? Taxes are levied, you're only punished if you fail to pay.
> Well, except for the bit where they appointed themselves Sheriff without any legal authority.

AFAICT, this is factually incorrect. They acquired a court order, did they not? They didn't appoint themselves as anything. They asked a court, and a court agreed.

This is how the legal system should work.

If you have a problem with it, then you can petition for laws that bind a court to do something else instead. This is what I am saying: a court should be bound by law to ensure the target is adequately protected financially in this sort of case.
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Thanks, you're right. I was aware of this issue when I was building it, and I do have a few ideas regarding traffic building which may or may not work.

For now I just want to see if such a job board would be of any interest in the first place, especially given that there are other job boards (e.g. nomadlist, weworkremotely) that overlap it. I really wanted to see if some the differentiating factors (e.g. Github auth, remote region specificity) would be of interest to anyone.
It's focussed purely on developers (hence the Github integration that some jobs require) and it provides clarity on whether a job is truly remote anywhere or remote within a specific region.
> Take a look at the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans. About half the people on the list are entrepreneurs whose companies did very well (thanks to hard work as well as a lot of luck). Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the list whose ancestors bought a great parcel of land in 1780 and have been accumulating family wealth by collecting rents ever since. In America, that old money is long gone—through instability, inflation, taxes, philanthropy, and spending.

The USA are somewhat of an edge case here due to their youth. Look at older countries, such as France (where Piketty and I are from) and you'll see a marked difference.
I think you touch on an interesting issue. If I look at myself and my life, or at my friends and acquaintances and their lives, there seems to some inherent transience and change in my and their social world. This change can be prompted by entering new stages of life, or moving from one place to another, or simply a result of a changing environment. But it's there. I think for a large amount of people, maybe the majority, social life always changes over time.

This, of course, can pose (and has posed) a problem for companies that have 'social' as their core mechanism. Where companies like Apple can rely to a certain degree on the continuity of lifestyle of an Apple customer (well-off, relatively, for one), 'social companies' have to deal with a constantly shifting landscape.

If such a company aims at a particular demographic, they face the problem that merely being popular among another demographic (previous generation) is a big reason for them to be 'uncool' (snapchat/facebook).

I don't know if there are companies that instead focus on a particular generation, but perhaps that'd be an interesting business model. Grow with your customers.
"The irony is that No-IP had worked with Microsoft in the past. The company had collaborated with Microsoft’s anti-piracy group, and it also worked on the takedown of the Mariposa botnet, which was dismantled in 2010. Especially give their prior relationship, No-IP’s Zigenis wishes Microsoft had reached out for help with the takedown instead of going to the courts. “All this action, all the work that Microsoft did,” he says. “Whatever they spent on their lawsuit could have been saved by a phone call.”

"His point is that, with the No-IP takedown, Microsoft didn’t work with others. It didn’t even work with No-IP. It served the company papers without asking the No-IP to shutdown bad actors or even telling the company what it planned to do."

Fuck. Microsoft.
Really. They've been demonstrated to be easy to break. You leave your impossible-to-change fingerprints (basically your permanent "password") lying around everywhere you go. I'm quite happy that android manufacturers aren't encouraging users to think that profligate "security" is a feature.

http://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2013/ccc-breaks-apple-touchid

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/1999/08/biometrics_...
I don't know if I agree with you on photos. I can't really see a difference in photos displayed on an iPhone 6 and 6+. Definitely not in general use, they might as well be the same display to me for viewing photos.

I can notice a difference on the thin 1-pixel line around the battery indicator. That's the most obvious thing.
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Needs to have some search filters. Salary, Technologies required, etc...
Very true. I also have another angle I wish to pursue with respect to this. But it's good to know that there's interest in such a job board. Furthermore, my focus with this board is on developers and developers only. WeWorkRemotely focus more broadly than that.
When telling others they're fooled easily, do check your assertions first, otherwise you look like an ass!

7.8/100,000 -> 8.7/100,000 is an 11% uptick in the number of deaths by suicide. I'm not saying that that's even remotely related to weed.

There is a 20% drop in overdose - that's not -0.6% no matter how you shake it - that's -0.6 deaths per 100k - which in absolute terms means the OD rate per cap has shifted from 0.003% to 0.0024% - so actually a 0.0006% change in the overall rate - but a 20% delta. It's -23.3% for 2010 -> 2012.
Nobody has a voluntary choice in their birth and eugenics doesn't have to breed people for a certain position or job. It may be something as simple as egg/sperm analysis that calculates a favorable (in whatever way the technology designers determine that) gene sequence and then the child would be raised normally. Eugenics doesn't mean the decay of the moral fabric of society or the loss of basic ethics in research. Why is it so hard to imagine eugenics integrating into modern society?

This fear is really surprising to me.
Thanks, this should now be fixed.
Glide attempts to automate some of that. For example, Glide knows what your GOPATH for a project should be and using `glide in` your GOPATH is set. No needing to remember it. Using `glide install` will read the dependencies listed in the yaml file and install them while setting them to the specified version in the same place your GOPATH should be for the project.

It simplified GOPATH handling in addition to working with dependencies.
I applied for an anonymous company once. It was also a remote job. They had this website with all kinds of stuff about how great they were, based on a survey of their employees. But no real information.

Their application was one of the more onerous, asking all kinds of questions, but I put up with it. It took me about an hour to complete.

The promise made on the website was "once we get your application, we'll send you an email with info about the company".

Well, I got an email... and in it was several more questions, plus the comment "we're in europe so we're used to paying european salaries, are you willing to work for less? How much will you work for?" ... but no information about the company.

Won't be doing that again. They basically just wasted my time.
Agree with you, but it´s still antiquated. I'm a Brazilian guy who´s living in Colombia.
> Quora is not a private communications network.

Issues of marketing aside, if it has a login and a password, it is a private network.

If I publish on the open web, then pretty much what I say is public information. If I publish on a private network, I am turning that information over to them to do as they will, unless the ToS says I retain control.

I don't feel particularly bad that the Internet Archive is unable to catalog things that are behind closed doors, regardless of the reasoning behind closing the door.

And given the propensity for people to (rightly or wrongly) attack others by dredging up things long in the past, yet posted on the net, I'm not sure I disagree with Quora.
Think about what default means: someone lent you money, and you never gave it back. Now think about that it terms of fairness.

Sure the bankers lent money and never got it back, but who gave the money to the banks in the first place? Lots of private individuals were hurt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icesave_dispute

No clear-cut good/bad guys in this mess, lots of moral hazard.
Great concept, cool idea.
Unfortunately: you hot link to google API, there's no search, and all of the jobs are web dev. The last one isn't really your fault I know, just a personal frustration.
Seems like a very small amount of evidence to base such a large idea on. You could probably form the same argument against the more modern consumption taxes. Since for many this translates to a sales tax, and not the early excise taxes that are covered under the same category. (Right?)

Though, your argument falls more heavily on the mistake Gates seems to have also made. The type of wealth that the book refers to as "old wealth" really refers to a rentier based society. This is somewhat important, because much of what would have been the "old money" in the US was effectively disrupted by massive technology changes. It isn't that the old wealth just disappeared, it was not created in such a way that it sustained itself.

This is important, because wealth in the modern US does sustain itself. Quite heavily, even.
Looks like a really painless way to handle forms. I will be using this.
I don't think that's a given. It might be the case, but it's not like one 'bad' example is enough to assume so, or have fears about this.
I don't think that encourages spending....I think that encourages offshore bank accounts and the like. Anyhow, I'd think that anyone with any type of massive windfall is pretty thoroughly invested so in some capacity it is contributing back to the economy.

I also can't imagine there are many who receive some type of windfall and are just sitting on it!
Better yet, have something that looks like this at the top of the subreddit view:

[ Sidebar > ]

When the user clicks it, Alien Blue would show the sidebar. The sidebar view would have this at the top to make it easy to return to the post view:

[ < Posts ]
The Cost of Being “Social”: Tweeting Isn’t Free
I always dislike the negative comments in Show HN, but I have experimented heavily with writing code on mobile devices, and there are much bigger issues than the editor. This may be a good product, the screenshots look good (though the same number of people buying the app as the number of current upvotes on HN, so that looks fishy as all hell). Regardless, the form factor just isn't suited to content creation, and nothing in the description or screens addresses this.
Show HN: No coding native app prototype demos
Ah, must have overlooked the months. Makes me wonder why they left this in the wild for a month and now suddenly put thousands of installations at risk.
Yeah, Spotlight is pretty good. I have too many files that need organizing to follow your workflow, but after a couple minutes of fighting with finder to find something I can usually just spotlight it.
I agree with this. I also somethings think that I use the type system the most when I am refactoring/redesigning code and at that time I might be sending a bool instead of an int as someone wrote which is being caught by any good type system. Regarding the cost I think an optional type system, like in Dart, is intresting. You can do some prototyping or quick coding and then add types when you have some working code in order to develop fast, or you can use types all the time in order to be correct.
>The problem with relying, even partially, on philanthropy to correct some of the imbalances of capitalism is that one encounters the free rider problem.

Do you think that the free rider problem is corrected by state-run welfare programs? I'd be skeptical of such a claim, myself.

>There is also the issue where a very wealthy person has as their philanthropic cause something which few others think is a good choice of philanthropy. Such decisions should be made by society as a whole through their elected representatives.

If someone chooses to give their money to a cause that isn't widely recognized, is that really a problem? If they've zeroed in on an area that they feel has been neglected by "society" (which you use here in place of "government"), this could be quite a good thing for the beneficiaries.
Agreed, although it certainly wasn't the start of it.
Interesting, thanks. Color me much less sure then.
The form factor of what? I could be sitting in front of Android running on a 21-inch display using a normal keyboard and mouse. And the CPU behind it might be the same one that usually runs OS X or Windows.
In theory, but Apple has seemed to copy the MS playbook of releasing software by an arbitrary date—whether or not it is ready. They seems to add more features, instead of fixing bugs. It seems the only time I get a Software Upadate pop up is for Camera RAW, iTunes or a patch for the exploit of the day.
It's management instinct to want to see people. IF they can't see you, I think they feel that maybe you're slacking off. (Of course, the manager never sees you when you write a bunch of code in the middle of the night because you didn't get any real work done in the office.)

These changes, particularly in the Yahoo case, reflect poorly on those managers in my mind, not on the concept of remote work.

The ideal programming environment is effectively remote- every engineer in their own office, with multi-party audio or video (e.g.: google hangouts) for collaboration.

If your primary cost is engineering staff, why would you make them %50 less effective when they're working and on top of that take 2 hours out of their day each day for a stressful commute?
Another study from 2007 finding similar correlation between patent ownership and higher chance of successful exits for software and biotech startups:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=802806

Another 2010 study (paywalled, unfortunately) showing startups with "stronger than typical" IP more likely to succeed: http://m.iam-magazine.com/blog/detail.aspx?g=ae1d78db-9c5e-4...

(Note that the study was done by MIT Sloan and IPVision, an IP consulting firm, so something to keep in mind.)

There are other studies (that I cannot find offhand, unfortunately) that found similar results in a wider range of industries.

Of course, there is no solid explanation of what causes this correlation. It may be that startups with patents truly are more innovative or more immune to competition, which gives them an edge. Alternatively, it may just be that startup teams that file for a patent also tend to be those that prepare for all contingencies, and are thus intrinsically more suited to succeed. Nobody really knows.
Why not treat them identically to any intelligent child born today? This doesn't have to be weird.
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>Philanthropy strikes me as anti-democratic. Why should the rich get to choose which causes are more deserving of their generosity? Let the elected government pool the money and make this determination.

The reason the rich get to choose is because it is their money. Just as you can decide, today, to donate your money to the charity of your choosing. And really, this isn't any different from asking why the rich (or you or me) get to decide which car or house to buy.

If government is failing to give your money to areas where you think it should go, perhaps this is what is anti-democratic.
Just putting a relevant wikipedia article here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_silver_fox
Talk about information overload. :/
You write (sarcastically):
> a group's most unhinged members only stand for the movement when it's GG, even when those members are denounced by everyone else

I have missed the part where those members sending threats were "denounced by everyone else". (Certainly they have been denounced by a few.) Where are you seeing that?
I'm curious what the bigger issues you've experienced are. I've never done any serious content creation on a mobile device, but the obvious issues that come to my mind are lack of keyboard and mouse, and the responsiveness of the UI. Presumably, those can be addressed or mitigated through hardware. Are there issues that go beyond that?
Biggest missing feature: Free text search box.

Let me search for that elusive remote FORTRAN position! :-) I would prioritize this over all others as it lets you search for "european" or technology, or "hip chat" if, for instance, you're sensitive to the chat system the employer uses.

Covers a lot of bases.
> but the world he seems to be inhabiting (men's fashion! weightlifting!) is not even adjacent to mine.

I doubt the service would be valuable if he were offering advice on subjects you're already comfortable judging for yourself.
"Surprisingly we do it all the time, on animals, and we call it breeding. It is very successful"

Breeding is successful in some sense, but certainly not without its issues. For example, by breeding pedigree dogs we've left them with a number of genetic defects that are hard to remove due to the reduced gene pool, e.g. Dalmatian deafness, Bulldog respiration, King Charles Spaniel syringomyelia, etc...

Addressing the article, I find the idea of quantifiable intelligence to be one of the dumbest ideas we ever came up with. What does an IQ point mean, really? From my understanding, testing it basically boils down to using a specific subset of symbolic puzzles. Intelligence can be quantified numerically in the same way love can be quantified numerically, i.e. not at all, without losing the essence of what you're looking for.

Also, intelligence by itself is not a goal in its own right, it's the purpose to which it's applied that matters. If super intelligent people exist, what would we have them do? The same things we do but faster? No thanks.

Instead of wasting our time trying to group ourselves into categories, we should be looking to bring out the best of the talents we find in the people around us. That seems like a better goal than chasing a 1000 IQ person.
>So much of the mod was on top of this de-obfuscated version of the server that any distribution would require distributing large amounts of de-obfuscated code - there was no other source for this.

How much of the updating and deployment tasks could be done by a script on the user's computer/server? Decompile with MCP and pull in all the changes as patches, like the Craftbukkit github was when I saw it?