skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In practice, professional transcription requires 5-10 times longer than the source material, depending on its content.

Slowing down to half speed and listening to it once isn't enough. You need a first pass to write all of it down which is usually not done with simple playback at half speed (which isn't that easy to understand) but instead with foot pedal switch for pausing and rewinding. It takes much longer than the video (well, depends on the video - different speakers speak at very different speeds), and at least a full pass re-listening everything for proofreading.

Technical videos take extra time - you often need to take minute or two to clarify a single term that you don't know, verify that you're not confusing it with another word and that it's spelled properly; and during an hour-long video such terms and the required time add up The same goes up for surnames - it takes a second to blurt out "paper by Mumblemumble et al", and it takes much longer to transcribe that even if the paper can be looked up in other related documents (and not always it can). A single neccessary clarification + a few related emails to solve it already can taka half an hour.

Captioning is some extra work in getting sure that the written segments align with the speech - it basically means that you have to note the start/end information, usually it's done at the initial transcript stage by the play/pause switches (the software packages apply the previously played segment start/end timestamps) and then you need to adjust many of them in proofreading. Not really an extra stage, but takes more work and care.

Transcribing at double speed, as you propose, is not really practical. People speak at 130-180wpm. Decent typists usually type at 65-75wpm. At that rate you would barely manage to 'type what you think you hear right now', which is usable for some purposes not really a transcript.
Apple v/s Tesla?
Thank you. One of the reasons I continue to draw breath is anticipation of the day when the advanced stats people really look at Garnett and he finally gets his due. Some fans may believe he has already received his due, but they are mistaken.
There's a short documentary on this Ryokan on Vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/114879061
Museums say no to selfie sticks in bid to protect exhibits (and humans)
Mobile apps marketing. The effective approach, channels and strategy.
It could be lack of confidence, but it could also be that they just want to cash out.

To some people, a few million might be more than they'll ever need or want. Or maybe they just need cash right now (pay off debt, start a business, upgrade lifestyle) and a few million is enough.

Tesla was founded in 2003. That's a long time to wait for any kind of return, and some people are going to be impatient.
If I duplicated you and made you play a PD against your duplicate and then sent you off to different corners of the universe to enjoy the spoils, would you cooperate or defect?
Affinity Photo poised to challange Photoshop's dominance in the graphics market
Interesting article. I'm not very familiar with baseball, but it seems to me the "moneyball" approach suits better for baseball than basketball. Although both are team sports, I kinda agree with Barkley that basketball relies highly on individual talent, e.g. the chance of one-man-rules-the-entire-game seems much higher in basketball than baseball. An extreme hypothetic scenario would be that an average college level team, but with prime time Michael Jordan, probably would easily dominate any other team at the same level. I'm not sure if you can say the same for baseball.
SmartFile is looking for 7 new positions- Rockstars wanted
A.I to fight loneliness [video]
You are way off. Standard charge for transcription (without timing) is 1 hour work for 15 minutes audio. You can try subtitling yourself and see how difficult your real-time idea is in practice.

http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/

$60 per hour audio is in the low end.

http://www.transcriptionlive.com/pricing.html
http://www.transcriptionwing.com/price.html
http://www.transcriptionwave.com/pricing.html
Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence: When Machines Know
Yahoo having mass layoffs?
Religious Darth Vader Tries to Convert Neo
raises hand

I bought quite a bit of TSLA when they went IPO in 2008. I didn't buy it to get rich. I bought it because I want Tesla to succeed.
Simple, take away patent protections from the drug companies for derivative works... Then make all unredacted documents regarding FDA trials once a medication is approved for use available publicly...

The first will lead to correcting bad faith efforts and marketing in the drug companies... the second will lead to fixing the FDA.
You seem angry and you are constructing a false dichotomy. No one is arguing that content should not be released, just that content, produced in institutions which are recipients of federal grants, should be made available to the widest possible audience.

What is the standard by which we define 'widest possible audience'? Reasonable accommodation.

Your argument reduces to a statement that it is better for Harvard and MIT to offer this content without making an accommodation for certain individuals (of class D), because:

a/it is unreasonable for them to do so

b/certain individuals (of class A) benefit

It's an interesting argument, but one you've introduced no facts in support of.
(The following assumes "front-end" actually means the Arc source code that runs the back-end. The front-end is HTML/CSS/JS and therefore already open source.)

I'd personally rather it stay closed.

This is a mostly a simple site, except for the spam-prevention logic. Even that logic probably wouldn't be that interesting, because it'll mostly be against generic techniques (which are well-studied) and specific techniques (which aren't applicable to my own projects).

If the spam-prevention code were removed before publishing, what would be left is an incredibly simple "comment/post/list" type of site, which are just thin interfaces between browsers and databases (or should be...)

It would be interesting to see an Arc code base, but there are similar languages with more active communities to look at, if I want to scratch that itch.

So the upside is pretty small for me, and the downside is that it would give spammers a list of all the chinks in the armor. That could ruin the site.
Here's a solver for the puzzle (uses the clingo ASP solver): http://www.takingthefun.com/2015/02/0hn0com-solver.html

Using the solver, I calculated that an empty 2x2 puzzle can be solved in 10 different ways, an empty 3x3 puzzle can be solved in 250 different ways, and an empty 4x4 puzzle can be solved in in 22946 different ways.
Yes their rules might be more specific than the general rule, but that is not a problem. Their rules were a correct subset of the more general rule (if what you are describing is accurate). Now if they are claiming a broad hypothesis and only providing a set of data that asserts a subset of the hypothesis, that is a problem. They are being misleading one way or another. If the researcher is presenting a hypothesis and misses out on data (for whatever reason), then somebody else will (ideally) point this out. Nonetheless, just acting like this misrepresentation can happen therefore don't trust some particular study is little more than baseless criticism.
Oh, definitely. Gitter has been great as a hosted solution!
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Freakonomics covered this in a podcast in 2011. They looked at how businesses all over the world in which the founder passed the helm on to a child tended to perform worse EXCEPT in the case of Japan. The reason is because Japanese firms often search for a strong performer to become the next CEO and then the current CEO formally adopts that person into the family.

Audio podcast:
http://freakonomics.com/2011/08/03/new-freakonomics-radio-po...

Transcript of the podcast:
http://freakonomics.com/2011/06/03/the-church-of-scionology-...

One of the papers cited by Freakonomics is here:
http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/areas/finance/activiti...

That paper's title is Adoptive Expectations:
Rising Sons in Japanese Family Firms, and the transcript is as follows:

A unique Japanese practice of adopting adults, even if one has biological children, makes Japanese
family firms unusually economically competitive. Using a large panel that very nearly comprises the
population of postwar listed nonfinancial firms; we find inherited family firms more important in
postwar Japan than generally realized, and also performing well – an unusual finding for a developed
economy. Adopted heirs’ firms outperform blood heirs’ firms, and match or nearly match founder­run
listed firms. Both adopted and blood heirs’ firms outperform non­family firms (excluding founders’
firms). With blood heir gender and educational records as instruments, we find family succession
events “causing” elevated performance. These findings are consistent with adult adoptees displacing
blood heirs in the left tail of the talent distribution, with the “adopted son” job motivating star
managers, and with the threat of displacement inducing blood heirs to invest in human capital,
mitigating the so­called “Carnegie conjecture” that inherited wealth deadens talent.
Online Algorithms in High-Frequency Trading
I think this is their source:

"We estimate that 30.0 million or 12.7% of Americans ≥ 12 years had bilateral hearing loss from 2001–2008, and this estimate increases to 48.1 million or 20.3% when also including individuals with unilateral hearing loss."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3564588/
You should not receive that from a superior. Nor should one be harassed (repeated uninvited antagonism). Else, society at large, there is no guarantee --taboos change over time. They come and go. People become sensitive to things and become desensitized to other things.

My belief is only our own selves have control over our reaction. We as receivers of all kinds of bad things need to learn how to deal with adversity. Nature is not sanitized, we should be taught how to deal with this kind of adversity. It's a cold place, and not everyone's or every thing's nice. Children often are not prepared by adults for these things.

Now, bullying is something different and there are different aspects to it. Sometimes it's peer pressure, other times it's harassment, other times it's a social mechanism to get people to behave a certain way (don't cut in line), be a certain way (slim, not fat, etc.) Bullying is an intimate attack, a malicious attack on a particular person, typically by a group, but also by an individual often accompanied by explicit or implicit violence. It's about control.
I would give this a read:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/tn/the_true_prisoners_dilemma/
Picking wine for a special Valentine's Day date
Ok, so 50%, 95%--whatever your number is--of the code in Haskell we have established is susceptible to dramatically fewer bugs than any other language out there. How can you possibly claim it doesn't matter? Just because you can construct a situation where it seems to not matter doesn't mean that situation is representative.

And oh by the way, we can easily prevent your situation in Haskell as well.

safeRm :: SafeFilePath -> IO ()

Then we create the SafeFilePath data type (it can even be a newtype, which means it will have zero performance overhead) and we can write a smart constructor that makes it impossible to ever have dollar signs, stars, or anything else that might cause this kind of bug.

mkSafeRm :: String -> Maybe SafeFilePath

Then you hide that stuff away in a module and only expose a safe interface. Now, BOOM, safeRm cannot possibly ever have the bug you described. This is made possible by purity, strong static types, and the module system. Some mainstream languages allow you to partly achieve this, but it usually incurs lots of boilerplate and the lack of immutability means that there will be more holes in whatever solution you can come up with.
I am in a similar situation, using a product which the FDA has declared unfit for human consumption based on anecdote. The FDA has stolen my mail a few times, despite the substance not being controlled or otherwise illegal. The FDA has a really bizarre set of priorities, and "protecting consumers" is somewhere either at the bottom or just not even on the list at all.
You can have a look at Waartaa - https://github.com/waartaa/waartaa
I never went down the actuarial path, but studying for exam P helped me ace data analyst interviews I had.
Five Years of Sun: Our Star’s Best Close-Ups – Video
I've already graduated and I likely won't be returning as a paying student, so these aren't really viable options for me.
A mathematician at the helm. This is cool.
Wow Dan is so nice. The first post I saw on the page was somebody asking if Dan would give the poster pointers about their site. I recall recently reading something about reaching out to other successful people by asking if you can help them somehow rather than the other way around. Yet, Dan went out of his way to write a fairly lengthy critique of the poster's website. Nice guy.
Is Orbitz still running lisp code?
I'm looking to move off of Gmail and this looks like an awesome value. Going to try the trial but I might grab the $20 before it ends
It makes it difficult in any VCS or diff tool, by default. However they can usually instructed to ignore white-space changes.

As an example, in hg I have the following three revisions of a file:

abc
def
ghi

abc
deg
gHi

abc
d eg
gHi

Different invocations of hg annotate yield different results, then:

> hg blame a.txt
0: abc
2: d eg
2: gHi

> hg blame -b a.txt
0: abc
2: d eg
1: gHi

> hg blame -w a.txt
0: abc
1: d eg
1: gHi

-b ignores changes in the amount of white-space if there was already some (e.g. indenting changes). -w ignores all white-space changes. Generally you can get back to the actual revision where a useful change was made.
I've personally lost my platinum card about 7 times and it is the most pain-free experience. Also I've had a number of fraudulent charges and amex just wipes them away. It's wonderful.
Virgin Galactic to Open Long Beach Plant
Macau would probably be a better subject if that's your aim. There was almost nothing in Hong Kong before the opium wars -- a couple of thousand people in fishing villages -- but the Portuguese were in Macau for ~400 years. Unfortunately, I'm not very well versed on the latter.
A good design team would look at a competitor's site and say, "we can do better". A poor design team would look at a competitor's site and say, "we can copy that".
Just to clarify, Shumway converts/interprets/executes Flash files as HTML/HTML5?

That is very cool, if so.
The article talks most about moral anxiety because it is targeted toward philosophy students, but I've been looking for a while for insight into survival anxiety.

Growing up male, I was always morally anxious about the possibility that I would harm someone else accidentally or (when I was considering joining the military) through violence or (when I became sexually active) through misinterpreted signs of lucid enthusiastic consent. A thing that I've never fully been able to grapple with is anxiety around the possibility of being assaulted or having violence done to me and I feel like this makes me fail at properly empathizing with many of the women I'm friends with. Does anyone know of anything I could read or watch besides Gavin, Captain Awkward, or MVC? I feel like I just don't get it and, well, feel anxious about that.
Why and When Could We See an Apple Electric Car
The game somehow reminds me of go. Sometimes you have to "grow" the blue dots, and sometimes you have to stop its "growth". Like playing both sides at the same time.
Sense of Urgency
I was gonna write a reply arguing against your comment, saying something along the lines of "why NOT open source it?", but your last point changed my mind.

I guess no point open sourcing it, especially when there's the potential for an adverse effect.
Trick to extract YouTube video by manipulating URL
You can extract YouTube video, create short clips and animated GIFs by adding (gr) to YouTube URL in the address bar as shown in the after example.

(before) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AqnCSdkjQ0

(after) https://www.gryoutube.com/watch?v=0AqnCSdkjQ0
Da fuck?

"Making a program proprietary is an exercise of power." So is releasing source code and limiting what they can do with it. Or forcing them to do extra things (share source) if they do certain things (modify source).

Stallman believes that linking against a DLL constitutes a derived work that would be subject to the GPL's copyleft nature. The legal validity of that belief is unknown. You're free to call that freedom if you like. I'll be over here in a corner considering it an abuse of power.

"If we confuse power with freedom, we will fail to uphold real freedom." On that I do not disagree.
Why Typescript, out of curiosity?
2015 Cheap Homecoming Dresses
+1 for the demo. If there's a 1click2heroku script for this, it will be golden~
Messier Monday: The Eagle Nebula, M16
Or give him a drone(or parts/instructions to build one). That could be a better starting point I think.
Is there a way to migrate a grandfathered apps email to this but still use the account to access Google services like the Play store?
The standard is reasonable accommodation. Having someone walk the soup to people unable to climb the steps might perhaps constitute reasonable accommodation and not be an undue burden on the soup kitchen (which we'll assume for the sake of argument to be the recipient of a federal grant).

The law is not as black and white as you make it out to be.
Aha! My memory doesn't fail me... I recall her discussing it on #perl 18 or 19 years ago.
A better implementation will only check to sqrt(n), as there can be no prime factor greater than that.
I've never been more motivated to sign up for FB like I am now so I checked out the eligibility rules for the bug bounty and I found one interesting rule:

> Not reside in a country under any current U.S. Sanctions (e.g., North Korea, Libya, Cuba, etc.)

Keyword there is any. Some Russian officials are under U.S. sanctions, does that mean Russian citizens are not eligible for the bounty?

I ask cause according to Wikipedia[0], I reside in a country under U.S. sanctions but the sanctions apply to certain people instead of the entire country.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_embargoes
There are plenty of dual licensed codebases that make a profit with no additional value add (other than not having to respect the GPL.) For example, the popular C++ gui framework JUICE[1]

[1] http://www.juce.com/faq#t78n75645
On Colors, Gradients and Chat Bubbles
An adult can still be in his/her parent's koseki until they marry. Most Japaneses do so.

When you marry, if either you or your spouse already have his/her own koseki, the other will be registered to it. If both are under their respective parents' koseki, then always a new koseki will be created for the couple.
How is your solution different from hdf5?
I have wide interests, and my problem too for a long time was similar - not being able to decide what to work on, and end up not working on anything much at all. In other words, classic procrastination.

But from past couple of months, I've improved tremendously by "time slicing"...like a CPU. Meaning, I quickly pick a small list of 5-6 interests every morning from my Evernote notes. Rest of the day, I randomly pick one from this list and work for exactly 1 hour on it. Then I pick randomly again and work on that for 1 hour.

For me, the 1 hour time slicing takes motivation, decision and procrastination out of the picture, and replaces them with discipline. Drawing up the daily list of interests is still prone to motivation and mood, but now it's a one off decision, not something I've to do repeatedly rest of the day.

A single time slice results in only a little progress, but cumulatively over a period of a week or month, I've managed significant progress in every one of my interests, including revenue generating ones. I'm nowhere near as frustrated as I used to be.

It may or may not work for you, but even if it doesn't, I'd like to generalize the concept as follows: settle on a process that depends less on motivation and more on enforced discipline. Rather corny way of stating it is, motivation is only the ignition, but discipline is what keeps the engine running and takes one ahead.
I will take that bet, if you explain the odds you are offering.
Providence: What technologies do you know?
Sounds like Shumway is already further along than Gnash or Lightspark.

What versions of SWF does Shumway aim to support? 7, 8, 9, 10, all of the above?

How does Shumway interact with click-to-play and similar mechanisms to stop unwanted Flash objects from playing? Does it have that functionality built-in?
Exactly this. Say I raise 1m of VC money for 20% of my company. I could sell the company tomorrow for 1m (as I own 80% and have majority voting rights), and get to keep 800k without doing anything. The VC would lose 80% of their investment in a single day.
I agree on the security issue you bring up, but I also disagree.

I don't see it as a step forward to add an extra port to my cellphone or tablet. Lamps and small kitchen appliances don't even read data.
How do you go from swf files to "action script"? Do you use flasm/flare for as2? How do you turn as3 abc files into action script? Did you write your own decompiler or use some other open source ones? There's a disassembler written in D for as3 that I used to use called rabcdasm, did your team ever take a look at that?
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Please don't post job ads outside the monthly dedicated threads.
Nice. My team uses mobile phones a lot for messaging. I will try to wrap it into a native mobile app so that people can get notification
> Erlang introduced lightweight CSP-based concurrency. Go popularized it.

Erlang introduced fault tollerant concurrent programming. With isolated heaps (thus fault isolation) and a framework for supervision and distribution. Nobody has popularized that except Erlang so far.

Besides even if you want to talk about CSP, what Erlang has is "Actor" based programming. And even that fell out organically out of concurrency and fault tollerance rather than through academic channels or academic literature survey. Creators at the time didn't even hear about "actors" only years later someone associated the two together.
Thanks! Let me know if you have any questions about SigOpt or the math behind it. I'm happy to explain things or provide references!
Stateman: A standalone alternatives of ui-router to handle complex routing
Coming from Denmark that basically sounds like "normal" heating to me (except we usually only heat through the floor or dedicated radiators)

But I really like your idea about carpeting the walls. Might do that if I end up living here long term!
Facebook Unveils Tool for Sharing Data on Malicious Botnets
I think there are many things that current statistics don't measure directly: setting good screens, spacing, help defense, match ups, garbage time, lost opportunities, pass that results in another pass to an assist, intentionally resting players to make a championship run, saving energy in a game to make plays in crunch time, etc... Measuring many of these things require judgement and understanding the game...