skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi HN,

I'm the founder of Foundbite, we're a two person team working out of London building an app that revolves around capturing, sharing and exploring sound!

There are tonnes of photo and video apps, but very few for the sounds we hear around us every day even though they play a big part of the atmosphere and feeling of a place or experience.

As well as having the normal feed, profile and following Foundbite also has an interactive soundscape/ map of the world that allows you to find a place you're interested in and listen to the sounds that have been recorded there.

People have been using Foundbite to capture the sounds of nature, sports events and music. Here are some great examples:
Street Music in New Orleans: https://foundbite.co/8408101742
Bullet train in Taiwan: https://foundbite.co/3188702070
Lighthouse on Rhode Island: https://foundbite.co/6846855499
A mountain stream in Italy: https://foundbite.co/9459134084

Yesterday, we launched on Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.foundbite....) but we also have a Windows Phone app (http://windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/foundbite/243343f7-3...) and currently working on iPhone.

Would love to get some feedback, and chat about the idea with anyone who's interested!
8+Things+to+Consider+While+Buying+New+Laptop+|+AnsMachine.Net
For those interested it's available on Project Gutenberg:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5740

(english version)
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This is just a train wreck of misinformation.

First of all, not a lot of people actually use academic economic theories to "play the markets". Ask a trader how often does (s)he use the General Theory or monetarism in their daily decision making. There are macro-strategies, used mostly by fund managers, but it's not such a big portion of the market.

Secondly, anyone found to use astrology in their market activities would be fired in nanoseconds. Whichever institution. You can do it privately though.

The fact that one can get good results speculating while using astrology as a decision generator (or in fact any other random mechanism, like a monkey throwing darts) is actually known and used in the financial theory. It is called "the random walk hypothesis" and is the foundation of a lot of assumptions. A good introduction to it would be "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" by Burton Malkiel.

So I urge you to actually build an informed opinion before succumbing to an Alex Jones brand of reasoning.
>"Decisions made by people speaking their non-native languages appear
to be less concerned with morality and more concerned with rationality
and utilitarianism."

Well, now that explains my embarrassingly immoral uses of Perl.

Speaking of embarrassing, I'd still really like to know why every time I
hack Perl code, the following song comes always to mind?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPkTGm4RtVM

On a more serious note, I wonder if our "favorite" (native?) programming
languages are the cause of some of the far too common overly emotional
responses seen in language discussions?
(2014) Government programmer testifies voting machines are rigged
Not called so delete I guess. What that has to do with style or conventions I don't know.
I think the creators are https://github.com/gabidobo and https://github.com/Mayhem93

I was searching for a good framework for an online booking system, and though one link and other stumbled upon this. I have't heard about it before, so I thought it would be nice to share it with HN; github repo seems to have a low involvement from anyone outside the creators https://github.com/telepat-io .
make has lots and lots of strange little idiosyncracies and things that I would even call bugs.

Take, for example, a line from my current makefile:
LEFTPAREN:=(

It took me lots of studying the manual, googling and stackoverflowing to arrive at that "solution".

Because there is no way to quote a left paren. There simply isn't. And I'm grateful at least this stupid workaround is possible.
Quiet, Richard Stallman might hear you!
First for any non-UK'ers who happen to be having trouble with the terminology used:

If you own the "freehold" on a property it means you own the building and the land

If you own "leasehold" you have a sort of long-term lease on the property for a fixed and agreed upon length of time (could be 50 years, could be 100 years).

On a slightly different but related note (i.e not necessarily foreign owned properties) the Private Eye article only shows the data for England, its actually a good deal worse in Scotland where huge chunks of the country are owned privately and indeed sometimes the owners are not even known. Take a look at the map in the link below for a bleak picture
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/10/scotland-land...
Like Phil Collins of the band that made "Selling England by the Pound".

Edit: What's with the thing where I get downvoted and my comment shows as downvoted for other people (or at least for me when I'm not logged in), but not for me? It's like a kind of half-arsed shadowban or something. Bug?
Shhhhh, that would require to actually be familiar with it.
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> That said, I do agree that economics is taken way too seriously for its incipient state.

I think this is the most spot on statement on economics I've read.
The thing about Go is that some parts, like channels and goroutines (also some of the library designs and tooling), are so addictive that pretty soon it gets hard to imagine ever having to live without them.

But I don't think everyone using Go really believes or supports this "but in practice it's not a problem and if it's a problem then the problem is YOU!" kind of response to every criticism.

We live in a world of trade-offs. It's disingenuous to act like that wasn't the case.
Tripomatic 3.0: Smart maps designed especially for travelers
I played with the Oculus for about 1.25 hours while drunk, and felt sick for about 20 minutes afterwards.

My guess:

When good headsets hit with 4k and ~20ms latency (2017?), with great cross platform support (2018?), at a reasonable pricepoint, comfort level and UX (2019)? we will all be using them to code.

In a few years when you are pair programming with someone remotely, I'd be surprised if you didn't point to line 12 with your hand.
Just curious: How is this different from the MQTT ecosystem?
I've read the quote in the book "Wittgenstein's poker". After a bit of searching, I've found the following link: https://hengstmengel.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/philosophy-to-...

I believe the explanation you're looking for is under 3.1.
ES6 Object Literal Features in Depth
>The private sector saving too much or too little is explicitly NOT the issue.

Quite. This is what I was saying.

Public sector deficit 'too high' = Private sector saving 'too much' = Not a particularly concerning issue.

Deficits matter only insofar as they cause inflation.

>The question is whether that savings goes into G or I - i.e., whether the money is spent on prisons or a new Tesla factory (to borrow two examples that contradict the standard mood affiliation).

As far as pushing aggregate employment higher and escaping from the liquidity trap is concerned, you could do either. Just so long as it employs people.

The highest multiplier for any government spending was probably FDR's new deal public works program.

ROI is a different question and not one that can really be looked at in purely monetary terms. If the government paid people to write open source software they could end up creating staggering amounts of value but it wouldn't show up in any economics statistics.
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- Platform (Java): http://www.indeed.ca/cmp/WorldGaming/jobs/Platform-Software-...

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Come join us!

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Awesome, I've lately found the quality of articles at wikipedia declining. Let's hope this will make up for it. I really like how the article just get to the core of the matter instead of droning on about various trivia.
AWS S3 as Storage Engine for Your Wordpress Blog
So you actively use the viral aspect of the GPL to make more stuff Open Source. Probably what Stallman intended. :)
iOS Good Pratices
It's not the tools it's the mindset. Thinking of ways to tip the balance and wipe out pests so that you can grow a highly vulnerable monoculture crop is a very fragile solution that is dynamically unstable.

We should be thinking in terms of systems not silver bullets. Lots of farms do this and it's honestly not that hard, it just requires knowledge, process, and some diligence. But we've been defaulting toward auto-pilot agriculture for so long that it's a bit of a dramatic shift.
500 Lines or Less Early Access – From Today for 20 Weeks
Yes it does. http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-danger-of-naivete/

It's random but some results are overrepresented so more likely to occur. If you knew this and bet on this over time you would gain an advantage
Intel Skylake processors launched at Ifa tech show
Core to treating the disorder is

1. understanding how it particularly manifests in (you, if you indeed have it), and
2. developing foundational patterns of action to support repetitive tasks and activities throughout your day.

Talking with someone who has expertise in diagnosing the disorder can be supremely helpful. If nothing else they'll help you narrow further where those effects are stemming from if not AD/HD, and if a diagnosis does make sense, they can help you start to build the structures and patterns in your life that can help alleviate those symptoms.

Driven to Distraction by Hallowell and Ratey was supremely helpful for me in understanding the deficit better and in helping to develop strategies to overcome / shore up some deficiencies in my day-to-day.
That's still an open issue, and the direction of causality hasn't been nailed down yet, but it's interesting.
A european country can either mean "a specific, unnamed country in europe" or "any one country in europe". From the context, I infer the poster meant the former. But yeah - now we're just picking nit, really.
It's email transported and authenticated using combination of Tor, Axolotl, and socialist millionaire. Unfortunately:

> LookingGlass is meant to be run on a local, headless (without monitor), always-on computer. Installation consists of copying a disk image to an SD card, inserting that into a Raspberry Pi, and plugging it into your local network (preferably behind a router).

Appliance designs such as this have 0 chance of gaining significant use.

The author should consider rolling this solution into software packages that run on operating systems people actually have.
You should probably put "Show HN" at the beginning.

Also, it would be nice if the access to the community would be open, or if you would at least give some screenshots and more information about how it looks like and how it works, so it would be easier for people to decide whether they want an invite.
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Opus is tricky, it's royalty free but it's not a "free (as in free software)" standard, it's based on Patents held by the likes of Broadcom and MSFT which make them available without royalties.

This is what I've mentioned earlier there are quite a few royalty free but they are still based on held patents which are offered without royalties.

That said honestly I'm not sure how big royalties are HDMI has quite steep royalties DisplayPort doesn't and with pretty much all devices that come with a single/mono-cultured display interface will use HDMI rather than DisplayPort.
New+Bromley+Showroom
NASA Reveal Man Made Magnetic Wormhole Cloaking Device
Yes, this is definitely near-field stuff. It can also be done with electric potential!
An interesting corollary to this is the effect that the specific symbol map and grammar of a language has on native speakers. Do languages which have only an active voice, or only the imperative, lead to a more authoritarian culture? What of languages like basque which almost exclusively use the gerund?

I don't know the answer but it'd be fascinating to find out.
Big Leaps for Parental Leave, If Workers Actually Take It
I guess thats what the virtualbox image is for?
I don't like the fact that the Tux logo is linked to http://linux.com

Should be http://kernel.org as linux.com has a spammy feeling..
Cognac is a brandy. Distilled grape wine. With fancy specifications.
Apple Flinger – An Angry Birds Game where the other side shoots back (2 players)
Yesterday's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10152224
From their GitHub README [1] (I'm not affiliated):

"Walkmod can support with any programing language if a set of interfaces are implemented as a third party plugin. The first (and current) supported language is Java."

[1] https://github.com/rpau/walkmod-core
I like the idea. It reminds me of something I want for myself but can't really formulate well.

For example, let's say I'm working on a paper and while writing, I encounter a latex problem that I want fixed so I go off and look it up on stackoverflow (instead of making a note that I need to fix this later).
Ideally I'd go right back to working on my paper after solving the issue. Unless I can't solve it and have to do more digging and on and on. Until I'm interrupted by someone/ something and when I get back to the task at hand I don't even know what I was working on and why.

So I thought that it would be nice to have something like a stack trace of things I'm doing. I'd be able to see where I left off and more importantly how and why I got there. But I'm not sure that a stack is the right data structure for this, and if not, what else to use. Also, I can't imagine how to build something like this in a way that I'd actually use it, because it would probably require too much typing/ other overhead.
It is a relatively novel method for transmitting signals through the body with applications to body sensors, medical devices and ubiquitous computing. People have gotten PHD's on a lot less. Who are you to say it isn't worthy?
The SDSL is very easy to use, and its versatility is quite amazing. It's also rather interesting to look at the list of papers that cite it:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=6772708594529960585 and https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=SDSL-lite
I think I could link faster than MSVC's LINK.EXE.
Here you can find a little preview : https://beta.waevio.com/public_event_group/new_york#connect
Imperial bants!
>According to Keynesians, if real wages fall, employment should rise

AGAIN, that's what neoclassical economists believe, NOT Keynesians.

>According to Varoufakis, "real wages fell by 40% but employment dropped" which is the exact opposite of Keynesian economics.

No, that's what Keynesian economics predicts which is the exact opposite of what Neoclassical economics predicts.

>Another phrase for "Keynesian economics" is "macroeconomic models taught at the best universities", which is what Varoufakis is criticizing.

Neoclassical seems more favored these days despite its atrocious predictive capabilities. This is what Varoufakis was criticizing.
Which is better? B2B or B2C ecommerce?
I think, if you want to truly understand where Yanis Varoufakis is coming from in that comment, read the book Debunking Economics by Steve Keen. Although Varoufakis is probably even more critical to economic theories than Keen, the two guys agree a lot and admire each other.

Besides, Keen (and other postkeynesians) truly shows how the mathematical economics should be done, that is, by having a fully dynamic macro models with time and debt/money. I am afraid machine learning the article talks about is a similar distraction as econometrics. Unless mainstream economists will be willing to rework the theoretical foundations (give up on equilibrium, at least), and base it more on empiricism, mathematical approach, no matter how fancy, will always be a quandary.

But as other have said, the problem is that many economists are pretty much the prophets of the free market (or status quo in general). If you want to somehow claim a moral basis of society, then you can't have a model which allows multiple different solutions, and so you need to stick to equilibrium instead of allowing a dynamical solutions.
I actually made that for Chrome. It worked. I got disheartened that no one ever downloaded it from the store so I destroyed it. All it did was pop up a Yes/No alert that said, "Really?!"

It also had a back off that was configurable. There were times when I was doing actually productive research that the constant questioning was annoying, especially intrawebsite. So you could delay the next request for N minutes based on a configuration.

Other sites were white listed. They were low volume, low distraction or high value like google.com.

In the end I destroyed because it felt like another failure. No one wanted it. So I took that as a personal rejection. It could just be that I did a poor job of marketing it. I might try making it again, but for Safari since I've recently changed.
In France one mobile operator (Orange) attacked another one (Free) with patent violation and the judge told them something like this : "software cannot be patented: you loose, pay 200k€ of damage".

I'm quite happy about this outcome but that's only a first level judgement and it was this week so it can still be appealed..

Now what would be even better is that the patent office which accepted this software patent (illegal here) should be held responsible for this mess, but I'm not holding my breath..
That is very interesting! I'd definitely like to read more of this stuff as it develops. So many potential treatments out there.
Are there particular cancers that these venoms seem good to tackle, or do they seem to be effective universally? http://www.trainingintambaram.in/web-designing-training-in-c...
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He said "normal people". Virtual machines are not something the general population is fluent with.

Perhaps you can't expect "normal people" to be the target group for everything though. First class security often comes at a price, in some cases this is fine.
"do some non-coding activities when you get home; whether a hobby or watching TV, getting away from IT and programming for awhile makes me feel refreshed the next day"

Cleaning the house / apartment can be very relaxing. It's a task that requires minimal thought and can be a good workout - saturday I washed our hard wood floors by hand with just a bucket of soap / water and a big sponge. 2 hours later my mind was clear as day (or I was high on the fumes from the Lysol haha)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9835922
While pursuing PhD in Economics, I've supported myself working as a data scientist and, like ThePhysicist says, it's fairly disappointing that many are oblivious of datasets, APIs, libraries,..

A good example of what can be done (http://econprediction.eecs.umich.edu/)

On the other side, the claim "literary types who lack the talent or training to hack their way through systems of equations" is groundless and mostly fallacious. The "literary types" have grasped many politicized inconsistencies and dedicate their research by deductive reasoning. Most of them are not 9/11 truthers.
Bootstrap 4 Alpha  –  New Features of Bootstrap in Coming Version
good ideas!
The XKCD Survey
I don't understand how burn-on-view is supposed to work. In my world, if you can see something, you can copy it. (Analog hole, clipboard, screenshot...)
We're working on providing plugins for a wide range of components, so that you can switch couchbase, kafka or elastic for other, lighter products that you might have on your stack already
Bitcoin: A Peer-To-Peer Electronic Cash System [video]
I don't remember that it was harder actually. We were using Mochiweb (was replaced by Cowboy at some point in time), Chicago Boss and some other additional Erlang libs and people switched from it to Elixir and other way around.

Agree with rossj, there're some rules to remember and then it's not that hard.
Regarding (d), has fasting/starvation ever been researched as a cure/treatment? I know there was one study about it mitgating the effects of chemotherapy.
>The library is very template heavy and thus most of the code is in the header files so I guess it wouldn't change much in this case?

Pretty sure the end user is still required to gpl their project if they use your header files.

edit: the more I think about this, the sadder I get. You prevented the majority of people from including your software and it doesn't sound like you meant to do it. Might be worth a rethink in the next version.
September is Childhood Cancer Month.

I lost my sister to Brain Cancer in 1996 when she was 15

I lost my son to Bone Cancer in 2013 when he was 12

Most Cancer Charities give penny or so to Childhood Cancer research and Federal Research Grants give 4 cents to the dollar to Childhood Cancer research.

In the last 20 years only 2 new drugs have been approved till a 3rd this spring.

St Baldrick's and Childhood Cancer Research Fund give the majority of their funds to research and St Baldrick's actually help find the first new treatment in years with a 30% better results! http://www.stbaldricks.org/blog/post/breaking-news-the-fda-a...
I actually think it's pretty good advice. If you haven't used a language [1] before, park the opinion and get to work learning it.

[1] or database or framework or whatever...
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10157272
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Thanks! If you end up using telepat and have any questions / feedback, feel free to ping us @ founders@telepat.io
The book I got recommended from Steve Keen, when I asked him a similar question, was J.M.Blatt: Dynamic Economic Systems. Although he has beautifully simple approach, it is really outside the standard economic theory and apart from Keen and perhaps few other individuals, sadly no one really follows in Blatt's footsteps.
Don't listen to the naysayers. Bill Gates is actually funding technology that kills mosquitos with lasers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser
Every problem in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection. Genius! Genius! Genius!
But how good is it for people with glasses? I wear headphones (around the ear) because it seems to help me focus. It DOES cause pain no matter which pair of glasses I wear. So every hour I have to remove the headphones. All the while I'm fiddling with my headphones. Even now I'm keenly aware of the developing pain.

I can't see myself have a similar issue with my vision.