jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That will work for an absolutely rigidly pure sine wave of identical frequency, and even then produces a cancellation moire pattern like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Two-point-interference-rip... , not universal cancellation. Any frequency deviation whatsoever will produce something different. Trying to use this technique to "cancel" things that aren't sine waves and aren't even constant frequencies won't have any cancellation effect, it'll simply be two sounds instead of one.

(Record yourself saying something. Record yourself saying it again. Flip the phase of one of them and add them to each other. You can do this until the sun goes out, you'll never get a "cancellation", you'll just get two voices. A nice effect in some cases, it's one of my favorite things about 60s pop music even if it got overdone to the point of cliche, but not cancellation.)

Or, to say it another way, that won't work.

It is not possible to universally cancel one wave with another not in the same position. Noise-cancelling headphones work by, with great effort and with some fast processing, creating a small zone where frequencies human ears can hear are dampened to a significant degree where the eardrum is. This comes at the cost of making it louder in places where the ear drum isn't (which we don't care about), and IIRC at the cost of some very high frequency noise well above what we can hear (which we also don't care about). In a way, it's fair to say they barely work; not in the sense that they are poorly manufactured or anything, but that it takes great cleverness to get something that works even as well as they do. There's a reason why they only came to be very recently; it isn't anywhere near as easy as sticking a microphone on the outside, inverting the signal, and playing the inverted signal on a headphone speaker, which could have been done decades ago. That, too, will produce some exciting acoustic effects, but will only cancel a very small and effectively random suite of frequencies, and you won't find it useful in general. Noise cancellation is just shy of impossible, and only works with some heavy caveats, like having the cancellation equipment extremely proximal to the audio receiver (ears in our case).
Eh? The first version of Facebook was created by an undergraduate in 2 weeks. Web startups are just websites, people just blow things out of proportion. You're not working on the Manhattan project, just a website.

In one month in closet, people can create their own OS. In fact, best CS programs force you to.
A problem with this theory: Flow isn't "I'm passing this level." If you flailed through the whole thing, succeeding more on luck than skill, you probably didn't achieve flow. Flow requires a combination of a tight feedback loop and succeeding at getting positive output from it. So while Bit.Trip.Runner _requires_ flow for any degree of success, lenient music games like Guitar Hero let you use a resource-hoarding strategy(retaining star power for hard parts) to pass songs at a pre-flow skill level, and then return to them later for higher scores.
See ya there, safe trip up!
I too would like a way to see an archive of all previous stories submitted to HN. For example, Digg has an option to let you see all of the stories that reached the front page over the last year, ranked by votes.
No. They simply don't owe "people who care about the web" anything.
Met the founders of the company at a local entrepreneurs event.
When I first noticed cell phones getting popular among the general populous (maybe around 12-14 years ago) the Nokia 5110 (or a model that looks very much like it) was the shit. Everyone had one. Since then they have steadily fallen out of the race for best phone in the US.
I can't believe (yet love) that you wrote code to demonstrate your point.
How did you get mg to work on iphone? I try to open a file with mg on my iPod Touch and I get "bus error".
Nice! Any plans under all this coolness?

FYI flickr started out like this, except with random untagged images. Catherina is doing it again with Hunch.

I'm curious is this is bait for something bigger :P
Try out http://www.stereopsis.com/flux/ - I don't know if it actually helps of if it's just a placebo, but it certainly seems to help my insomnia.
Non-transferable licenses should be made illegal.
oooh, that's how it's happening! thanks for reporting this to us!
Extended support for Windows 7 SP1 ends in 2020.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle
Draw a circle.

Color it red.

Make it smaller.

No, 5% bigger.

Make the radius 5 units.

Refining specifications like that seems like the holy grail of movements like aspect-oriented programming, NLP or no. Separating concerns is a really good thing.
If you play World of Warcraft this is a solid Auction House technique. I find it humorous to see it applied to the 'real' world (not that WoW economics aren't just as 'real').

The ability to push the price down gives informed actors some pricing control on the market, and the subtext is that it allows for folks to push around pricing to understand the elasticity for any product. Now if you can get them to buy a 'put' of your product :-)
My uncle has worked at the boneyard on and off for a long time. He mostly decommissioned radar systems out of B-52s and other things. The B-52s are really the prize there, as Uncle Sam plans on using them til 2040(!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-52_Stratofortress#Futu...
It won't, because although computers have a lot of control over the market, people also look at it pretty regularly. The reason why nobody noticed a $23,000,000 book on Amazon is because out-of-print biology books are not very liquid. If that were Microsoft stock, someone would have manually made a bet on it, and then the price would have corrected after a while.
No. And the official encoder is tuned for PSNR, so it looks worse than even Theora.
I can't begin to describe how much this pleases me. It's straight out of a William Gibson novel, but happening right now.

God, I love living in The Future.
Built in Ruby on Rails 2.3.8, designed in Illustrator.

Other resources utilized:
- Heroku for deployment (Amazon EC2 hosting)
- Amazon S3 for upload storage/hosting
- Paperclip + Uploadify for uploading
I'd argue that the author let men off the hook, considering that a major contributor to Reddit's initial success was a large community of pedophiles, misogynists, and incest apologists given a safe haven under the premise of free speech. For a long time, violentacrez, the mod of many of those communities, had celebrity status on Reddit and had close connections to the administrators of the time.
This really does put the rest of the web to shame.
Buried in there this gem:

"The first is that she would recreate the technological circumstances of her users in her own life. Mayer went without broadband for years in her home, refusing to install it until it was also installed in the majority of American homes. She carried an iPhone at Google, which makes Android phones, because so did most mobile Web users."

edit: this one is funny:

" As she spoke, two of the people seated near her typed away like crazy, trying to take verbatim notes in Google Docs."

Yahoo using google docs for their email strategy :)

Who is leaking to Kara Swisher?

Having a leaky board member can be lethal.

"She said that Tumblr was an excellent product — an amazing tool for self-expression. She noted that it was beating Facebook with younger consumers."

Aha. Younger generation+mobile->tumbler acquisition.

Funny how in the same breath that Yahoo acquires companies to shut them down they can state with a straight face the new way of doing this is to let them stay independent post acquisition.
Quite unrelated, but can anyone explain to me how the first picture of the Pi in it's case stays static on the page until you scroll past a certain point (around the 4th paragraph) Then it scrolls just like any static image. Interested to know how this is done.
> In the Fountainhead, capitalism comes off as looking rather corrupt and dishonest

There is a lot of corruption and dishonesty in the Fountainhead. Ayn Rand was trying to show the difference between firsthanded and secondhanded people (i.e., people who try to let others think for them or dictate their values). That can happen in any society, whether it's a capitalist one or not.

Ayn Rand does not simply equate "capitalism" with "business." By "capitalism" she means "pure capitalism" (as opposed to a mixed economy or something else), which is a system where all people are completely free from having force used against them unless they first initiate it. (In other words, a system purely based on trade, never on coersion.) This whole issue was not really a topic in The Fountainhead.

> exploited by Peter Keatings at the expense of Howard Roarks

Was it? Peater Keating's life was completely miserable.

> I couldn't really discern a clear and consistent philosophy from that book

The point is that Howard Roark lives for his own happiness and his own values and actually achieves them, while all the other characters live in some secondhanded way and are miserable.

> a heroic uber-mensch, Howard Roark

Gail Wynand, the newspaper baron, was the Nietzschean uber-mensch in the book. He achieves complete domination over New York (he controls what people read enough to control public sentiment, has all the politicians in his pocket, and is wealthy enough to buy anything he wants). Yet he ultimately hates himself and is miserable. Because dominating other people is not a means to happiness; it is empty and ultimately miserable. Gail Wynand did not achieve _his own_ values. That was the point of that character, and it was also Ayn Rand's response to Neitzche, who she rejected.

> The Dominique character I interpret as an idealized Ayn Rand.

There is a character that can be interpreted that way, but it's Dagny from Atlas Shrugged. Dominique was psychologically perverted because she didn't believe that values were possible in a world full of second-handers; that's why she goes around smashing artwork in the beginning. This is definitely not an idealized version of Ayn Rand.
Worked in normal chrome and Firefox windows for me, unless I'm missing something.
So many problems with this, but let's just start with the most obvious: there's a big BIG difference between firing the bottom 5% and firing the bottom 5% IN EACH GROUP (which is what MS did). When you do the latter, bad employees become a valuable resource because they provide protection against termination for the other members of the group. Ranking relative to group provides as much of an incentive to surround yourself with losers as it does to improve your own performance.

> the technique of doing forced ranking is and of itself a useful thing.

Maybe if you're taking a psychological self-evalation with no actual consequences. Things are very different when there are actual stakes on the table. When jobs are on the line there is a very strong incentive to game the system, and some people do. As soon as people see other people being rewarded for gaming the system, that provides a strong incentive for them to try to game the system too.

It really all boils down to game theory, and if the game is zero-sum, cooperation is not an evolutionarily stable strategy. (And if you don't know what that means, you need to read "The Evolution of Cooperation" by Robert Axelrod.)
L7 SPI is expensive whereas simple routing of 1 Gbps usually demands only a single core and 64-128 MiB of RAM. Large production shops have such FE load balancer / router boxes in HA mode (ie CARP) that barely break a sweat.
there really should be a penalty for issuing illegitimate dmca takedowns (beyond some reasonably number - so you don't get scared to do it).
Link to actual article that was posted on Reddit:

http://alpha-ux.co/new-years-resolution-product-managers-8-b...
> Most of the cost here is Intel margin

Hard to say. Intel has taken a loss on their mobile division lately [1], and I'm assuming this is a mobile-class processor. ARM has had them spooked, enough to make a major shift into mobile-first development and offering heavy discounts (or perhaps even selling at cost or at a loss) on mobile hardware.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-to-merge-pc-and-mobile-pr...!
>Isn't that most news organizations these days?

Seems so. But, I think it's a question of relative degree. For instance, the comment to which I was responding seemed to take exception to the WSJ comparison with Fox News. That's a tacit acknowledgment of a certain belief about Fox News and their degree of bias.

>There's no arrangement of facts that is completely neutral. You have to lean one way.

Well, the phrase "arrangement of facts" is a bit loaded in that it suggests a manipulation of facts, so given that premise, yeah, the objective would seemingly be to "lean". However, I don't see any reason that the mere presentation of facts must lean in any direction.

But, maybe it's just a testament to how far gone we are in this age of infotainment that it's hard to even imagine that facts can be presented without bias.
So one could file a bogus takedown for a competitor's website, etc. Ugh.
There are ARM CPUs available that do network forwarding in hardware. Some even support iptables rules.

I would be very surprised if a quad-core current-gen Atom could not do that in software, though. I could route 300Mbps through OpenBSD's pf on an AMD Geode.
Am I the only one who thinks picking a DVCS tool based on the GUI is a bad idea? It seems to me that hg and git were designed to be used from a command line, and (for git at least) it works brilliantly. The GUI DVCS frontends try to hide a lot of the complexity of various tasks from you, but in that insulation you also end up with a clouded view of how things actually work, leading to the branching/merging mistakes the author talks about.
You're right, but I don't think he's a native English speaker. He may mean pride, as in arrogance, in the same way many people think of the 'sin of pride' from Christianity. Just a guess.
Actually, no, that's not how it worked when I last looked at it. At the high-level it was:

- bank asks terminal "Here's a random token, have the chip sign it with its private key"

- terminal asks the customer for the PIN

- terminal feeds PIN into the chip, and this enables signing function

- terminal feeds bank's token into the chip, gets the signature back and forwards it to the bank

What you described looks like something designed by a layman with very basic understanding of the cryptography. I will not be shocked if this was in fact deployed, but I still find it very unlikely.
Relevant? http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
"I don't see what any of this has to do with the initial premise that the web provided a way of avoiding the complexities of cross-platform development."

That was not the initial premise. It was about the web supposedly removing the platform dependencies. Not the technical ones but the business ones - basically an unremovable third party between the developer and their customers. Here's an example of such an article by Tim Bray:

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePla...

Quote: "You’re not a sharecropper, especially not a sharecropper, if you’re building on the Web platform. If you can define your value-add as a series of interactions via a browser, or an interchange of XML messages, nobody can whip the land out from under you."

The above is no longer true. The Web alone is not enough to avoid being a sharecropper.
Why are they so against minors watching porn when it's a normal part of sexual development?
> His "Black Boox" series is hard to find online but highly recommended.

Could you possibly give a brief description of what it's about?
Not to mention Cloudflare Tunnel is a loss leader. Basically any new entrant has to either get funding or justify charging money for tunnel traffic.

Cloudflare Tunnel has gotten good enough there aren't a lot of ways to be better left. A couple would be offering e2ee and a less stringent ToS (technically anything other than normal HTML websites is not permitted, though I'm not aware of this ever being enforced, yet).
> whereas Rust is more comparable to C++

That only in matter of complexity. If rust were actually comparable to C++ it will a major mess.

Rust is actually a ML + C + Haskell-ish lang..
That’s not at all comparable since you’re not really paying. By that logic we’ve had contactless payments for hundreds of years in the form of opening a tab at a merchant.
Just make sure you're not swapping out one slog for another. Is it that you lost interest in the material, or that it's the amount of work required to pursue it? I doubt that you're going to find medicine less mentally (and physically) demanding.

I started a PhD and found that I just didn't love it enough. I think one's innate curiosity and drive regarding the investigation the subject matter needs to outweigh the undesirable aspects of the pursuit. I saw other people absolutely driven by their work, and they basically sailed through. The others who found it more of a chore often completed the program but then left the field.

It sounds like you and your program are not aligned.

The way you frame it, it almost seems like a no-brainer to switch. Perhaps that kind of work is just something you're more comfortable with. You can try these deep, introspective thought experiments, but I know it's hard to really know without actually doing it. The grass is always greener on the other side. Sometime it actually is.
A few areas:

- Working for an organization that provides some service or product that you believe is valuable and under appreciated

- If like protecting people, you may find purpose in security, fraud prevention, etc

- If you value privacy, you may find purpose with encryption techologies, etc

Don't rely on the company to give you a sense of purpose. Decide what is valuable to you and find a way to fill it.

I've spent time working for a company that made software for churches, working for a special needs therapy practice and working to advance DMARC adoption. All of these roles have been very fulfilling in different ways.
Peloton employed 2,800 people? Doing what?
Great recommendations!

One small bit of extra advice, albeit poorly timed (with covid) and also quite an extreme luxury when compared to radio/podcast listening is: visit & walk Dublin. The novel is firmly rooted in geography, so as you "read it, plowing through verbiage without taking too much heed of references", you may at least get some better hints at the sense of place permeating some of said references.

As another commenter suggests, digital maps may help here (seriously). One can also try and solve Bloom's famous puzzle[0]...

[0] https://www.lonelyplanet.com/ireland/activities/the-cross-du...
The author treats his personal life as a job, with productivity tools and benchmarks. Whatever works for you, but I couldn't live like that.
What do you mean? You can still like to other documents, just drop the idea of linking to the same list of documents on every page
I agree that visual programming can be great - my argument would be that starting from a model that we know works and making incremental steps towards something more visual is more likely to succeed, than attempting to jump all the way to something fully visual based
12,000 victims is small in an absolute sense, but per capita it is close to the US's numbers (US is about 25% higher: 1681/M vs 1340/M).
I'm probably going to get flagged/whatever for this, but if there's any chance that I'm going to get blood clots (and potentially die/stroke out/etc. from them) from a vaccine for a virus that has a high percentage survival rate for moderately healthy individuals - I'll pass and either find another one, or wait until the kinks are worked out.

And yes, I did read the article. I'm aware that they said the benefits outweigh the risks, but I'm still not taking any chances.
That’s fair, 4x9 is indeed more the standard these days.

On real part-time: I think once it moves below 3 days a week it works better for transactional roles. E.g. I know dentists that work for a few days per week in a practice, people with 8-16h per week in chat-support, 3-day/wk secretaries, etc.
Most of these roles measure their work in calls/appointments/hours rather than longer running projects though.

But with the right culture it can be done in IT as well, I think Gumroad is a good example.
There does exist a lot of Java code, and this just seems more like an MS attempt to try to entice them to their "cloud" with their own Java stack.
you're allowed to be biased against sets of ideas. I hold no ill will against leftists and as I've already said, I agree with most of the problems they identify, but I am pointing out a logical issue that I have noticed commonly occurs within the group of people who hold these ideas. I could be totally off-base, I'm not arrogant enough to say that I know the truth for certain - I'm expressing a belief, in sincerity and with positive intent.

I don't think we have anything else to talk about. You don't like the way I think and talk - I accept and am OK with that, we don't have to like each other.
There's a big difference between having nothing to do and not having to do anything. If you have nothing to do but need to keep up appearances, being in the office/online, etc. you're just wasting your life. But if you don't have to do anything and can disconnect and go on with your life it's much better.
Sorry, but I don't get the point of this application. All this can be done by sending a simple email to the webmaster of the site.
I use Marker markdown editor + MathJax + embedded JavaScript to achieve similar results.
I actually like their UI - I think Azure or AWS looks fairly scary to me, someone not that familiar with cloud architecture.
I could see this being very useful.

My one criticism is that I find the all-caps League Gothic much too difficult to read here. A non-condensed sans-serif would be a lot easier on the eyes.
The page says that the brain should integrate both pictures and show a 3D view. I don't think the 'integrate' part works for me, the rapidly changing pictures are quite annoying and I'm unable to stare at it for a longer time. What's your experience?