skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lack of diversity.
Marc Andreessen: Square IPO Price Proves There Is No Tech Bubble
I just recently purchased Izotope Ozone 7 advanced. One feature it has is "codec preview" which lets you "solo" the codec artifacts for MP3 and AAC format. Even at high but rates it's amazing how swishy bit reduction sounds. It also made me realize what I was hearing with mp3s was artifacts from compression. That said, it's not unlike tape hiss or vinyl noise. In fact I think it can have its own charm and in some cases make the music sound more full. It's also probably why 24/192 digital audio can sound so "cold" or lifeless.
No, I have no more information than is in the article, but I have no reason to believe otherwise.
I seriously get the feeling people are just looking for any excuse to criticize Famous. I don't see what's wrong with their office. What's objectionable? A couple of $5 nerf guns? A cheap Lego board for project tracking? Or is it the fact that people aren't packed in as tight as they are at a place like Facebook (which is ironically something people on HN love to criticize)? The crappy makeshift studio they have? Seriously. Their office seems pretty normal.

The only thing you might find objectionable is the expensive SF location, which the article notes they got on the cheap at below-market rates, or the printer (the printer is probably only 1-2 thousand dollars, less than a Macbook).
Process Billions RDF Triples on a Single M Using Streaming and Sorting [pdf]
It's actually "add m/n" where n is the number you collected and m is the highest sampled serial number.
The first systems to be designed for robustness (and have it in practice) were opposite of Linus's approach to doing things. There's some similarities on occasion, which mainly shows talent learned through trial and error. The proven principles for highly reliable and secure OS's aren't applied, though. This is intentional despite massive evidence to the contrary of his position.

Meanwhile, systems like THE (Dijkstra), Burroughs B5500, IBM System/38, GEMSOS (Schell), RC4000 (Hansen), MULTICS, KeyKOS (Bomberger et al), and VAX VMM Security Kernel (Karger/Lipner) showed how to design and implement systems with ultra-high reliability and/or security. These lessons were mostly ignored time and time again even when they could be applied. User-mode drivers and languages with pointer/buffer/stack protection would have by themselves prevented ridiculous amounts of problems. I heard that, after around 2-3 decades, the UNIX crowd is adding some user-mode drivers. See the problem?

Note: Far as lightweight systems & adaptivity, you should see the work of Brinch Hansen, Niklaus Wirth, and Andy Tannenbaum. They applied safe, modular techniques on systems with less resources than today's. UNIX and Linus resist for both personal preference and inertia, not valid technical objections.
I've played acoustic and electric instruments for over 30 years, and recorded numerous albums.

Compression is the best tool we have for accurately reproducing the musicality and emotion of a musical performance. Without compression, most recordings would be unlistenable.

Don't confuse the foolishness of the loudness wars for "compression is bad". That's like saying the internet is bad because there's porn on it.
Not when it comes to this particular issue: build quality between 1800s and today has declined.

If anything, a whole bunch of perfectly decent old buildings have been torn down. Because they were no longer of any use (prolonged vacancy is the worst for any building), not because they were falling apart.

Somewhat of a tangent. Good architecture has three properties: it's useful, it's robust, and it's beautiful. That's a three-legged stool from antiquity, and I firmly believe architects and builders sat on it for centuries. Modernism was an ideological project that discarded two of these legs: only utility was important. the pursuit of beauty was either for old-regime bourgeois or for unenlightened proles, and robustness was not all that necessary for the beancounters anyway, eternity is not a concept for the godless machine age.

Is is also fairly recent that the architect needed to take on all aspects of architecture. For example, architecture training was often taught in the fine arts faculties. The structural issues then were then taken on by the master-builder. It worked, the latter had a wealth of experiential knowledge, an architect didn't need to tell him how to frame a window, or ensure water didn't drip along the wall. The architect becoming first a licensed professional in need to defend his title, then some sort of artist willing a new pristine creation in the world, claimed more and more roles. Now every detail needs to be in the plan almost, less room for correction by skilled craftsmen (who also are thinning out..).
Some other perspectives on "rehabilitation": it's easy to associate that word with treatments like Anders Breivik's, which to many (most?) Americans seems insane and they feel he should just be shot. A variant of 2 is that "rehabilitation" in a prison setting makes no sense not because of moral failings but because the methods just make it more likely the prisoner is institutionalized instead. This is the case with many mentally ill people who are stable, on medication, etc., but in efforts beyond that to "rehabilitate" by e.g. giving them housing near the facilities or part-time (less than 10 hours a week) work (with 30% of all income they take unless you can move out) they end up locking them in with dependence. Another variant of 2, people for the most part are either "habilitated" already or not before prison and after prison. Many types of crimes that result in prison sentences aren't really indicative of a person in need of "rehabilitation", just a person that made a mistake (like submitting too much to vices like greed). The time in prison acts as a deterrent to help bolster weak wills, but if those who end up there anyway change at all it will only be from forced introspection as their normal life falls away for a while. They don't need much prison time or "rehabilitation", just incentive not to do what they did again. And on the other side, there's the feeling that people like Breivik could never be "rehabilitated" and in fact weren't "habilitated" to begin with. Better to shoot those people, or, failing that, at least make their lifetime in prison unenjoyable.

I think you can get people to agree to other mandates of the justice system beyond pure punishment as deterrent if your other mandate is more specific, detailed, and limited than "rehabilitation". For instance, lowering remission rates, or keeping employment rates pre and post prison similar...
We'll all miss seeing you at YC Garry!
if you're thinking of MPHG, it was "1, 2, 5".
If you don't know whether or not the founder put his own money into it, then don't say things like: "I also think it's deplorable that Steve Newcomb went straight to investors for this without putting any of his own money into paying employees."
It seems like a good strong business could have been built on the initial function of accepting credit card payments. What if (I wonder) Square had stuck to that and not tried to become a huge multi-billion dollar company? There's lots of room in the world for modestly sized companies making respectable profits.
The title is the original from the story. You mean the story's title is misleading because it paraphrases "crazy videos" into "doing crazy things"?
I'm not sure what he meant either.

But it might be this: https://www.reddit.com/r/ledootgeneration/
Meet Ruby Rails, the Tech-Savvy Doll Teaching Girls to Build Their Own Future
RollerCoaster Tycoon is written in x86 assembly language
> Low ceilings minimize material costs and maximize profits.

They also minimise heat loss, which is strictly regulated in the UK. Hence that other annoying feature of many modern build - tiny windows.
Or security, for that matter. Reversing, malware analysis, black-box auditing, &c require, at minimum, the ability to read assembly.

The article is begging the question. I'm unaware of anyone who thinks assembly is not relevant.
From mastering records at home, I've found that in all but the most golden-ears focused listening, I can't hear the difference between 192 bit mp3 and 44.1/16 cd quality. But 128 bit mp3 is audibly degraded and irritating.

That's a pretty cool feature for Ozone 7, for sure! I'm still using Ozone 5 and don't feel a need to upgrade, but that might make it...
> If compilers were designed to emit self-modifying code

... then the high-level language isn't expressing self-modifying; the compiler is doing it to optimize the code while preserving the abstract meaning that is free of self-modifying.
CIA Email Hackers Return with Major Law Enforcement Breach
I don't think you've read the investment chapter [1].

It isn't a 'secret court':

* 9.23.1 Documents from the complainant are submitted and they should "make them available to the
public"

* 9.23.2 "The tribunal shall conduct hearings open to the public"

Of course there is a section (9.23.4) detailing that complainants can withold any 'protected information' so perhaps in practice the process will not be as transparent as proponents would have us believe.

There is nothing about 'damages equal to their lost profits':

* Awards (9.28.4) "the only damages that may be awarded are those that the claimant has proven were sustained in the attempt to make the investment, provided that the claimant also proves that the breach was
the proximate cause of those damages. If the tribunal determines such claims to be frivolous, the tribunal may award to the respondent reasonable costs and attorney's fees"

I think there is much that's disagreeable about the TPP but detractors relying on falsehoods opens TPP opposition up to easy attacks relying on the fallacist's fallacy.

[1] http://www.mfat.govt.nz/downloads/trade-agreement/transpacif...
At least for a while they had powerful brand name recognition and a head start.

Bigger, badder competitors (i.e. VISA) seem like they haven't been interested in competing with Square, and you can leverage momentum & recognition against smaller newcomers.
Inasmuch as any branch of economics theory depends on homo economicus, it is IMO little more than astrology.

There’s a lot of really interesting economics research out there (at least the stuff that the Freakonomics podcast is surfacing to my notice is interesting), but it’s on edges that are, by and large, rejecting homo economicus and is trying to reflect what people really do. (There’s a lot of behavioural economics research that has been reported on for the last several episodes, which is fascinating.)
My response: that will be $10,000-$20,000 please. And no I don't care if you go use another project.

Or you can also sign up for our enterprise support package for only $2,500/mo with a 1 year contract minimum we can figure out a way to get that bug fixed asap.

Ultimately it's all a question of money, if you are not getting enough to provide the kind of service they demand. DEMAND MORE!

And don't give a shit about the manager trying to manage you. They don't pay you, you owe them nothing.

Don't be afraid to say no. Free software is free because they should pay you to either provide support or fix problems when they pay for them to be fixed. You be a good little capitalist and let them get up the creek without a paddle and then charge them an arm and a leg to get back down. If they don't like it, they can figure out some other way to solve their problems.
Okay. But that's not the scenario I outlined. I made it clear that my points were referring to the scenario I outlined.
The many (type) faces of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Isn't this what lists are, albeit perhaps more prominent?
Software Sales is dead
As marketing takes over prospecting and lead gen, customer success takes over the renewals and account management. So where does that leave the traditional role of sales as closers? Something that's explored in the post. Looking forward to thoughts/feedback and disagreements :)
Did some brief Googling to see if I could participate in a blind listening test and hear the difference between 24- and 16-bit recordings. I found this instead [0], an even more interesting gap to see if you can hear the difference between 8- and 16-bit!

The source song, PSY's Gagnam Style, is the epitome of modern pop. I got a 3/10 on the listening test on a decent pair of Sennheiser headphones in a quiet room.

Some people are commenting that modern pop pairs well with 16-bit because of the heavy-handed mastering techniques and that older music thrives under 24-bits. Well, Audio Check offers the same 16 vs 8 test, using a Neil Young track from 1989... I couldn't fool myself into hearing any differences between the source WAVs at all and didn't even attempt to score the 10 soundbites.

[0] http://www.audiocheck.net/blindtests_16vs8bit.php
I was renting a place that had a washer and dryer set from the early 60s. It worked wonderfully, until one day the washer wouldn't cycle properly. I tore it apart and there was a stack of plastic gears that ran the state machine for the various cycles, one them was worn.

I didn't have the means in 2000 to disassemble the gear pack and a replacement couldn't be found and god I tried. The land lords endedup scrapping both machines and replacing it with shoddy new stuff that didn't work as well. A total shame.
I fully understand the authors frustration. However, as an hobbyist I would always publish my source code under a strong copyleft license such as the GPL: The companies that can't live with these conditions are most probably exactly those you don't want to deal with in the first place. And as the source code was created as the result of a "hobby", the size of the user base doesn't matter anyway.
<glances at the UIDs in his system's /etc/passwd>
I love Morocco but I've taken a bunch of sad photos there of huge masses of carrier bags in otherwise idyllic spots. I'm really happy to hear this news.
I think what the parent means to say is: "The lower the bid ceteris paribus (all else being equal) [0], the better." In this particular case, the article states: "Not only did Brendan Sudol meet the requirements of loading the data, the new code had 100 percent test coverage, an A grade from Code Climate, and included some new functionality to boot."

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceteris_paribus
A blurb I recall: Upwards of 90% of people on death row have such severe head injuries that you can find evidence of it with an x-ray if there are no medical records.

For some people, "rehabilitation" that does not involve serious medical intervention not currently possible is just not going to solve the problem. No amount of disincentives or will power or whatever is going to help someone behave better if they are literally brain damaged.
The Vault Apps That Keep Sexts a Secret
The exception of the US telecommunications market, the US pharmaceutical market from the free trade regulations, for example?

These markets are not part of the free trade deal and not subject to ISDS.
What Silicon Valley Thinks About Politics
Ok, so i just read this incendiary article titled Programmers: stop calling yourselves engineers. First, it was terribly written and researched and i can only imagine the author had very little respect for his fellow man. Second, Let me clarify that the word engineer is more a verb than a noun. It describes an action, not a person. We engineer a solution to a problem. We are all engineers in our own right. We solve problems that are important to us. This is the one downside to the freedom of expression the internet provides.
Not got time to look at this in depth right now, but glad to see somethibg like this.

Is it swift to ES5, 6 or 7?

Update: looks like ES5.
Did you zoom in on the brick underneath? It's helter skelter.
Does anyone know anything about the authors, Knowledge Ecology International, or their predecessor Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech)? They look interesting but their about page doesn't tell me very much.
Sam Hughes implemented this puzzle in Javascript to demonstrate how the solution works, and why some other proposed ones don't: http://qntm.org/gods
Thank you, was going to say this as well. I read (some) Claude Shannon in my degree program, but I remember thinking how cool it was to see its influence on all the other stuff I'd learned from textbooks and lectures, rather than thinking, "wow, this is all brand new!".
They can easily expand, but they already have established competitors in that space, such as Xero and Quickbooks. Give a shot to Xero, it definitely has all the things you desire for.
Economics is pseudo-science. I refuse to recognize a man made construct as a valid scientific field. I used to argue with my BBA room-mate, I asserted markets were fixed, he would try to counter with law of demand. HA! Libor scandal, crude prices, utility price fixing honestly I could go on for days.
Please change your first line to match the requirements, you are causing noise for other users.
Companies try to get rid of open source alternatives
Hi guys,

Just had my open source project been suspended on GitHub...

About half a year ago I decided to get my hands dirty with node.js and as best way to learn new tool is to do something with that I decided to write some open source applications.

It appeared that there were not many open source alternatives for web applications that helps businesses to manage employees absences. So I started http://timeoff.management

At the beginning of the project I went through all available commercial solutions just to get an idea of what features they have. All pretty much had the same set of functionality. So I selected 3-4 of them to use as an inspiration.

With time I deployed an app online where people can register to have a try. Majority of them were just small businesses.

Then about week ago I was approached by a person from one of the commercial solutions, claiming that I completely cloned their application (including database structure).

Prior contacting me that person filed GitHub DMCA takedown notice.

In email conversation that followed, I asked about list of concerns so I can tweak my project and eliminate issues. After receiving couple of points I quickly remove or changed content of open source project or argued, in case of calendars, that it it not vendor specific concept.

To be fair there were couple of content wording that I took from their site, but that content was not part of the suspended repository but belonged to promotion page. And I had updated that text the same day an issue arose.

My intention was to cooperate with that organisation and eliminate all concerns.

...Unfortunately today my GitHub repository was suspended...

This is sad situation as it was an attempt to give wider community something back as a result of pet project.

I am wondering where the line when somebody can just come and claim your project to be a clone and request it to be suspended?...
Talk to a data scientist.
I didn't say they weren't part of the discipline. What I meant is that most professional economists are not making prognostications about the economy; they are typically analysing costs and benefits at several degrees of indirection, developing models from data, and more generally optimizing choices - economics is the study of choice.

What I'm particularly arguing against is the idea that the average economist is some kind of marketplace weather forecaster and that consequently, owing to accuracy little better than chance, there's nothing worthwhile in the discipline.
Okay, then which version of Firefox supports a single tab crashing without the whole browser crashing with me not having to enable e10s?

Because I have enough of Firefox Stable with just recommended settings completely hanging up or crashing every time it encounters flash or similar things.
> There's always Bernie

If you think Bernie is going to actually do anything different if he makes it to the White House, well you are living in a dream world then.
Whats the benefit of this compared to using https://github.com/kripken/emscripten ?
I hope they don't. In fact, I hope they encourage these kinds of small bids from qualified individuals.

100% test case coverage for $1 is amazing and to the benefit of all taxpayers.
Technically, given that the last funding round had a stipulation saying "We'll give you more stock if the valuation falls short" I think it's arguable whether the public figures for the last round really represent a true valuation number.

I think a better headline would be "Journalists who reported the last valuation didn't dig enough to see that the contract actually stipulated a lower valuation."
Overvaluing the "original voices" in a discipline where you don't have to is unhealthy. Take the Turing test: the important part isn't the test, it's the high-level idea. You can get the high level idea without reading Turing's original formulation, and that's all that matters.

If you do read his original description, you'll get bogged down in details like running the test in an ESP-proof room. At the end, you'll either be more confused or, at best, not come away with a better understanding of the concepts themselves. Having read the article myself, I don't recommend except out of historical curiosity. It's not the best option to expand your understanding of CS or the philosophy of CS.

The same goes for a bunch of other foundational writing. We could take a topic I'm deeply familiar with: functional programming. It's fair to say that much of it goes back to Backus, to his Turing-award speech with the catchy title "Can Programming be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?". The title is worth it, the content isn't. It was brilliant, of course, but it was just the beginning—one limited in arbitrary ways. You're better off learning functional programming as it is now than getting into Backus's FP (what he named his language) because that's a less clear and, crucially, less complete presentation of the important ideas. The language didn't even have named variables back then, it was like always writing in point-free style!

Again: it's fine to read this from a historical perspective, but it's not the best way to learn functional programming and you could be a perfectly capable, insightful functional programmer without having read it. Honestly, it feels like the call to read specific works like this is just signalling that you have the "right" background and education to work in a field, which is not where we want to be.

This is pretty consistent. Coming up with brilliant theories and insights is a different skill from polishing and completing them which is a different skill from presenting them well. And there's nothing wrong with benefiting from the last part of this pipeline and skipping over earlier, "historically relevant" works especially in fields like CS and math.

This isn't to say that you shouldn't learn the concepts, which you probably should. But there's a big difference between "having read Shannon" and "understanding information theory", and only one of those matters.
Yeah, I don't see what's wrong either. The CEO is a fantastic interior designer. And his LinkedIn self-summary[1] is a real piece of art in its own right.

I find it hard to believe any of what this former employee wrote[2].

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenewcomb

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/06/nopen-source/?fb_comment_id...
The Case Against the Universal Basic Income
Seriously, a tech company that can't even shut off the stupid "While you were away..." feature when I tell them repeatedly I don't want to see it?

That only lets you hide images, mute hashtags, etc on mobile, not from a regular browser?

Where every answer to "why doesn't this work normally?" is suggestions to go buy a third-party tool?

Twitter is unfortunately "annoyingly useful" but I would love to see a different, open source solution gain decent traction
True, I think there's been a trend towards less programming for specialized applications. But in a way you're making my case for me anyway: If what you are saying is true then the fabulo.us claim of being "the first" is false regardless.