skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It certainly has an expensive ambiance. Personally I don't like glass-windows because of their acoustic properties.

Another thing I wonder: are office plants totally out of the picture nowadays?
Never had a problem.
Is that an anechoic chamber? Why would they need that?
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Fred Jelinek, who was the pioneer of speech recognition, wrote this. It summarizes the revolution that automatic speech recognition underwent since the 60s: from theory to data-driven science. My new favorite quote on the subject:

"Relationship of linguists to data is the same as
that of physicists to their backyard"
Why do you think your selfish and egotistical (and apparently unlawful) actions should have no consequences?

>Mr. Pollock conceded that he told the flight attendant he planned to ignore the sign, which other travelers had questioned in online travel forums.

Do you also drive around on public roads without a licence stating the "Right to Travel" like people also talk about online?
Projecting?

Not-busy != not-productive
Superintelligence by definition does a better job. Think of it this way:

You're a human; how good are you at walking from point A to point B? You're actually quite good at it. You open up google maps (a human invention) and walk to point B. It only takes a small number of humans to maintain the infrastructure for you to find point B.

Now imagine you are an ant. How good are you at finding point B? You're absolutely crap at it. You need to organize an entire complex system of pheromones and ant-conga lines just to find point B (usually a food location). Most of your colony is devoted to this organizational task of just finding point B from point A.

That task that is all consuming for the ant and takes the full attention of the colony is peanuts to us humans, it's so freakin' easy.

By definition a super intelligence eclipses our conception of the universe. If you took the humans who had to try really hard at X, Y, or Z tasks, these X, Y, Z tasks would be peanuts to the AI, they would be so easy the AI doesn't even think about them. The same way ants try really hard and organize their entire colony to find point B and humans don't even think about finding point B.
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Tons of it is just boilerplate, because Mantle has no default. For instance, createTargetStates() is a ~50 lines function to set the MSAA, viewport, color blending, raster and depth stencil states, which mostly have default values in OpenGL.

The API is relatively straightforward, but you have to do almost everything yourself: you need to put your commands in command buffers, you have to allocate memory yourself, and you need to create your pipeline and use descriptor sets to bind your resources (triangles, textures) to it.

So it's not like old-school OpenGL where you could glBegin() and start doing stuff immediately, but it's only really painful at the start; you'll soon abstract away most of the boilerplate, and the main hurdle will be to have to manage your memory and bindings yourself.

I'm sure once Vulkan is released there will soon be libraries that take care of the boilerplate for you and offer some help to manage memory, bindings and command buffers.
I feel the same and regret bashing cubicles in the past, especially if you can sit facing the the door.
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Yeah, it's pretty awesome. I like how they are all transparent about these things.
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I strongly disagree. Market dominance is almost meaningless in search, first off everyone is trying to game your system so being ranked #2 is actually a large advantage from a quality standpoint. Second, switching costs are next to nothing, just look at all the people using duck duck go despite a vastly smaller team.
This has been more helpful than most of the presentations and guides I've seen so far.
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I totally agree with this piece. Some may prefer an open office space, and that's fine for them - but they can probably still work well in a private office. For those who are noise-sensitive, though, it can be a huge distraction. I've started working from home a lot more just because of how loud it is in the office. A lot of our developers and admins have voices that ... carry, to say the least.

It's lucky that I can work from home and not be too distracted, but for some people with kids/stay-at-home partner, it may be difficult. It would be great if employers at least gave people the option to have an office.
I'm not condoning the encouragement of alcoholism. But I absolutely applaud anyone or any policy that recognizes that poor and homeless people are...people.
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And the other 36% are liars?
I've seen a couple of things recently that said that peak consumption (in California, at least) is in late afternoon and early evening, as people return home from work and turn on their air conditioners and other appliances. It's not right in the middle of the day, as you might think.
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If you are recruiter kindly do explain your process as well
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I can't imagine a withdrawal for amphetamine outside the come-down from a multi-day binge. The come-down lasts a day or two. Maybe a week of fogginess if you hit it fear-and-loathing hard.

If you're taking amphetamine at such a rate that you would call it a "withdrawal", then you might want to consider the possibility that you were abusing amphetamine.

It's common to double-dose on the weekend whether for a productivity spree or recreation (they're usually one in the same) even if you haven't taken a pill in months. You just have to pay a day or two penalty and you're good to go.
You're posting on a forum with a "noprocrast" setting, designed to block the user at his/her own request.

No, most of us can't fully control ourselves on everything, which is why we set up systems that help us. A shared office is one such a system.
In Hawaii, solar meets peak demand during the summer, as in the summer they have a higher midday peak than evening peak. In winter the evening peak is slightly higher, however if you look at area under the graph rather than just at the peaks, it is obvious that solar correlates pretty well with usage in general in Hawaii.

http://www.hawaiianelectric.com/portal/site/heco/menuitem.50...
Or they don't use computers at work - they just waste time in other ways :)
It's hard for me to comprehend, really. Of all the countries, Norway is the one that could afford FM, couldn't it?
It's distressing to me that I have the strong urge to move to a private area to talk to a coworker about their day because the guy next door immediately jumps in and has Opinions about Stuff, so the conversation immediately becomes about him.
There are different kinds of collaboration and you're taking a very narrow view of it. Open offices might suck for explicit collaboration, like pairing, but for the type of collaboration that happens somewhat randomly, they're basically the only option. What I'm talking about mostly manifests itself in overheard conversations where someone who wasn't initially part of the conversation realizes they can add valuable context and joins in. It's really hard to quantify the benefits of something like this but, especially in software development, it can be very useful in leveraging past experiences of the entire team to avoid going down too many wrong paths. It also means that you don't have to put nearly as much effort into communicating context around your organization because employees pick it up naturally from conversations around them.

I'm generally in favor of a somewhat hybrid approach, where small teams have their own cubicle or office and everything is open inside because I've seen what happens when that sort of organic communication doesn't happen either because people work in individual offices or because too many people work remotely.
Someone needs to implement those drivers...
Terrence McKenna's lecture on McLuhan is also excellent-

https://youtu.be/9dROH6aOIUc
Launch a forum actually using python...

Even the largest 'python forum' is on phpbb..
No, I don't really think I would. Search is a great place to capture consumer intent, but it's hardly the only one. Advertising dollars are finite, and Google absolutely competes against non-search advertising publishers for its piece of that pie. Why do you think they run the AdSense program?

Even if it were a different market, Google doesn't hold a monopoly on it by a long shot. Bing is over 20% of search volume in the US, and Yahoo holds another 13%. Searching for products on either of those will return results for relevant advertisers; the simple fact that they have paid ads to run is an empirical contradiction to claims of a search advertising monopoly (or is empirical proof that a large number of very successful companies are economically irrational and are throwing money down a money hole, but that seems highly improbable).
And how do you explain the massive increase in self employment and new small businesses?

Your comment about advertising agencies is very ignorant. You have no idea what you're talking about there. This leads me to believe you just like to talk nonsense on the internet. That's why I'm stopping the conversation here.
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> Of course they would have an economic incentive to over-diagnose.

Why would your Dr have an economic incentive to over-diagnose? I was diagnosed a year ago with ADHD and I have tried every self-discipline technique you can think of without success. The quantified self just becomes an effort in futility and depression when you see where you are wasting time, actively try to correct it and still fail. I saw my Dr every six weeks initially when trying out medications. I see my Dr. every three months now instead of six months so that I can have my prescription renewed as she can only issue three one month non-refillable prescriptions but that's a tiny amount of additional money my Dr. is getting. I suppose if the Dr. is diagnosing this on a large scale the volume adds up but it just doesn't seem worth it. Especially with the changes to schedule II drugs and their prescription/distribution in the U.S.

I've been medicated for the last year and it's been a life changing experience. My own day sounds similar to what you describe below as far as the distractions go. I cut down to two monitors instead of three as I was using the third for just email and other communication tools. I now hide those on a virtual desktop. I do occasionally miss the third when I have a code window on one, and an output/debugging window on the other when having all three full screen would be easier but that's about it. I only let communication apps send me notifications once an hour instead of in real time which helps. I also have scheduled blocks where the notifications are blocked on my phone and computer except for specific people which is a new feature of Android 5 that I really like (Priority notifications). The medication has helped me build a routine and stick with it, and I'm hoping that when I decide I'm ready to try going off of it full time I will be better able to continue that trend. I don't believe for a minute that I will be able to eliminate all of it completely but I hope that I will be better prepared to handle it.
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I was friends with her prior to this.

Her profile is working now. Not deleted but something was broken with it earlier.
By 2017, Norway wants to be the first country to ditch FM radio entirely
Coffee already has vastly superior alternatives if all you want is productive tunnel-vision.

But, of course, there are a lot of other nice things about coffee like how it's engrained in our culture, socially acceptable, something to grab a cup of on a date, its aroma as you sit tired in an airport terminal, when all you want is a cheap narcotic buzz with minimal come-down, etc.
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Wonder if this will trigger an avalanche of returns in markets with 5 year mandatory warranties?
An excellent overview of the scale at which we need to integrate renewables:

http://www.vox.com/2015/4/15/8420297/fossil-fuels-race-renewables
Clean energy is growing fast but it's not yet winning the race with fossil fuels
Sure we should consider it, and the people working on it are considering it. But that doesn't mean we are at a point where we should do something drastic like regulation that would slow down research (Sam Altman's idea).
As someone who has lived in the UK, France and Spain - the whole concept of it being normal that "downtown" is grim is really strange. Over here the city centre is typically the nicest (and most expensive) part of the city to live in.

I guess it stems from the relative ages of cities in North America vs Europe. A typical city centre in Europe would have been the entirety of the city at some point and is therefore where the most historic buildings, oldest businesses etc. are located. Whereas in NA, cities are a lot younger and grew much faster meaning that is not so much the case.
I thought DAB is dead, really. How widely is it adopted worldwide?

Here in Russia it hasn't even launched, and there are no plans for it; and I certainly haven't heard worldwide news about it for a while.
Look. If you want to give cash to homeless people, do that. If you want to give to shelters instead, do that. If you want to send your money to Partners in Health to provide medical care for innocent people in other countries far worse off than homeless in the US, do that. If you want to give your money to the Republican party so they can pass legislation restricting same-sex marriage because that is truly what you believe in, do that. If instead you want to save your money and ensure your children have an easy time getting through college: fine. If instead you want to keep it for yourself for your retirement to ease the burden on the rest of us: also OK. Want to buy 6 PS4 consoles so you can use an HDMI switch to select different games without reloading them or physically getting up to insert a disk in their drive? Fine too. Nachos. Fine. Guns. Fine. Meth. Sandwiches. Ferrets. Lightbulbs. Nobody cares.

Where you lose people is telling other people that they're wrong to give cash to homeless people.

What's worse is, this thread kicked off with someone laying out in very simple terms --- terms you didn't really address --- the logic behind giving money on the street despite not knowing the purposes to which the money would be put.

You can argue however you want, including that people are wrong to give money on the street, and that it's not OK for them to give to homeless people or buy ferrets or whatever. But you shouldn't act hurt when people argue back at you.
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Her Facebook page is working now. Earlier when I clicked on it, it would just go back to my newsfeed. (She was on my friends list prior to this story. She already had 5,000 friends.) Perhaps some bug or automated restriction, maybe from a bunch of people reporting her profile.

Her page is facebook.com/shona.banda
Imagine a random number generator that picks 128 bits from a uniform source of 0's and 1's. Then, if I understand this correctly, if this RNG is implemented using PFP, the result will consist of 2^128 different bit-strings, each with the same probability (?)

How is this represented internally? What is the time and space complexity? Is there even a way to practically do this?
Is that a new development? I thought open-plan study halls were common in universities and libraries.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/proimos/5914733818/
There's more to it than just a general percentage-based productivity boost.

It's also about gaining the energy to drill down into things you otherwise couldn't be faffed to care about.

People always joke about popping amphetamine and organizing their sock drawer in incredible detail. Apply that to some product you're working on. In software, it's common to gain the energy to spend time coming up with the perfect abstraction. Or fleshing out those API docs in great detail. Or really just fully immersing yourself in a problem and your solution.

Often things you otherwise simply wouldn't ever do because your sober self isn't going to spend half a day obsessing over the UX of a form.

It's not just about getting more work done.
Ubiquiti makes wireless equipment, so this is not the traditional sort of anechoic chamber: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anechoic_chamber#Radio-frequenc...
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I try to take weekends off of my Vyvanse and do skip at least Sundays every week. If I go two or more weeks without a day off when I do finally take one I'm extremely lethargic. I just want to sleep for the entire day, and often will sleep an extra two-three hours in the morning completely unintentionally.
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Nietzsche was co-opted by his sister (who was a proto-National Socialist) and was strongly misinterpreted. In fact, Nietzsche was strongly anti-German nationalism and anti-Anti-Semitic, which lead to a fallout with his idol, Wagner.
>I think it's possible that human thought can't be simulated on a computer. It's far from obvious that it can, and this point needs justification.

Fair enough.

>Computers can only run Turing complete programs. Human intelligence follows the physical laws of the universe (the mechanism being unknown).
Those two substrates are different things; hence it's possible that humans can do things computers can't. Or at least the burden of proof is on the person who posits that they are equivalent.

The Church–Turing thesis directly says that computers can do anything humans can, and it's pretty well accepted.

Physical laws, as far as we can tell, are Turing computable. I think once you accept the materialistic thesis you should agree that computers can in theory simulate humans, and I'm not really too interested in the opinion on this of anyone who rejects the materialistic thesis.

(Penrose has tried to argue that computation depends on QM, but I think he's been largely disproven.)

>We have the facility to use computers to achieve our goals, but AI algorithms don't use us to achieve their goals, to the extent that they have goals.

Why couldn't they? Why couldn't an AI convince someone to do what they want?

>For a concrete task: consider producing a movie that will win an Oscar. In theory this is possible: the Godfather has a very limited number of bits, all of which can fit on a single computer many times over. The bits could just be manufactured it out of thin air.
>In practice I suspect a computer would need physical agency in the world to create such a movie. It would need the ability to negotiate with Hollywood producers to raise funding; to make creative decisions to direct people who operate cameras, microphones, lighting, etc.

Assuming it had access to an internet dump, it could download thousands of existing movies, determine what characteristics are likely to win Oscars, and generate voice and picture based on previous videos. Voice can definitely be generated using information already online, and video should be possible to patch together from existing movies and pictures.

>Computers don't yet have physical agency, and I suspect they won't for quite some time, for both technological and non-technological reasons.

See http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/07/no-physical-substrate-n....

About Roko's basilisk: Yudkowsky does not take the idea seriously. See https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/2cm2eg/rokos_ba... and https://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/2myg86/xkcd_1450_aibo....

>As I said, practically speaking, we should be focusing on the bazillions of problems that computing and the special AI that is already here present. In the 50 year time frame, the planet could be destroyed or the population could be decimated for many other reasons.

Do you say we shouldn't worry about climate change because it's in the future?
In CA, at least, net metering is in $, not Watt/hours. So I can push 1kWh to the grid in the daytime, when rates are high (typically $0.35/kWh), and pull at night when rates are low (typically $0.10/kWh). Thus, I can reduce my net bill to $0 while still being a net consumer on the grid.
What language/framework are you learning? Use whatever you learning to solve the issues in your father's practice. That is the best way to start.

Look for opportunities where practice is doing something manually repeatedly. Try to figure out if there is a way to automate the process and perform more efficiently. Look for incremental improvement opportunities in the processes.

Pick small problems, build small solutions, demo to users in the practice, improve based on feedback, roll out quickly.

Don't try to change the process, users are already familiar with.

Small quick wins will snowball into bigger opportunities.

Don't take on more than you can handle.
The forums are also interesting (and active):

http://www.conwaylife.com/forums/
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I don't recall if it was 1.5mbit for both ensembles or if it was 1.5mbit each (there are actually two data streams that are broadcast by the two satellites to give redundancy and time/space diversity). There's also forward error correction built into the data.

The "warbly" stuff is the artifacing in the AAC decoder. That's how compressed the stuff is. I can hear it and it drives me nuts. Many can't.

Protip: two of the best quality channels are the Preview channel (of course) and the classical music one.
Why can't you be a human that produces deliverables? Seems like a weird hung up to have.
"When I work from home what's stopping me from opening up news or playing video games?"

It sounds like the low grade anxiety and stress of an open office actually helps keep you on track. Frequent deadlines is a similar kind of pressure that some people excel with.

I'm the same when I get plenty of downtime at work. If I can take a long lunch break and follow it up by going to the gym and nobody at work minds because I am overall very productive then the low grade stress etc actually helps me focus.
Google holds 65% of search engine volume in the US. Or, to put it another way, they don't control about 1/3 of search volume. They hold a majority, but it's incorrect to characterize it as "Google is the internet".

It's fine to have these discussions, but let's please not do it with a "Google is 99.998% of search traffic, we have to stop them!" straw man.
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Downtown Seattle's geography didn't allow for the sheer number of parking lots Denver's earlier buildout phases did, but...

We call them infills here. Watch for residential development popping up around you. Seattle is ripe.
I like how documentation is the blob itself.

However, this is just a thin wrapper around S3 or similar. Someone will need to pay the bill eventually so unless developer is upfront with business model, I wouldn't use this.
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