skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent, here's a support group http://caffeine.supportgroups.com/ and here's some caffeine patches http://www.caffeineinformer.com/spot-on-energy-the-caffeine-...

Personally, I'm all for anything that reasonably reduces risk and improves health care outcomes.
Revoking Safe Harbour could be in the long-term best interests of american society, if not of the US government. It may help people in tech companies in pushing harder against the surveillance by government and freedom restrictions it imposes.
I used the word "suspect," didn’t I? The numerical output of B-24 bombers is dramatically undercut by their failure rate.

The quote you’re posting is mostly about Lindbergh. I don’t recall the book trying to say he was "partnered" or "allied" with Ford in a Nazi conspiracy, mostly that he was a useful dupe. This changes nothing. We will probably never know for sure how much of the bombers' poor construction was intentional or not, but you can hardly say there’s no reason to seriously suspect it.
Hmm, didn't work for me. Try this one:

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web...
PHP Microframeworks and the Symfony Micro Kernel
That is addressed in the article.
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Simple how-to instructions:

1. log into slack

2. share a private file

3. go to:

> https://api.slack.com/web

4. generate API token

5. copy the link to your private file, and paste as plain text.

6. a file id is in the link, somewhere

7. try out the file id by visiting links like:

> https://slack.com/api/files.info?token=#secret!&file=???????...?

8. see also:

> https://api.slack.com/methods/files.info

9. in the JSON output you will CTRL+F to see an address like:

> https://slack-files.com/#########-?????????-!!!!!!!!!

10. slackbot warns you, and only you, once and only once
that someone found that link. this notification may
get buried, or forgotten about. it is your only chance
to revoke the public link.

11. if you forget about that link, and it goes viral with
millions of visits, lots of luck gentlemen!
That's different from saying that fast/flexible/free is coming at the cost of security. The cost wording makes it sound a) causal and b) unique in this property compared to other options.

There are security weaknesses in Linux that could be fixed but haven't been. The same is true of Windows, MacOS, iOS, etc.

That's different from saying, that if you choose Linux, you have to pay the cost of lowered security.
The countries that don't exist
Zero Knowledge and the Department of Defense
And those "few better solutions" would be?
So, what do we think of Parse's cofounder and his cheerleading for JavaScript?
Because stronger deterrence against cheating is needed. They got away with it for a very long time. Increasing the risks for cheaters is a rational change to make in light of that.
Ask HN: Open source video streaming (server and mobile clients)
A friend is starting a business and a small part of it involves inexpensive person to person video connections. Does anyone know of any open source projects that cover server side coordination for setting up a link, and Android and iOS clients?
It is generally moot, I've just not heard POWER referred to as non-RISC before.
It kinda gets a little bit trickier when you do pharmaceutical research than your average nodejs web app.
My Encounters with Ghosts Part II
Intelligent Learning: Similarity Control and Knowledge Transfer
Can we stop this nonsense please. There are factual, legitimate issues here.
The "Wait, Google Sent Me" plugin works.
As someone who enjoyed the article and got some good insights, I think it's your loss that you "lost" yourself at that point. Maybe you don't like the writing style, but there were some fresh ideas in there that people don't normally talk about when they talk about Twitter.
A one-line software patent – and a fix
Garry is (and always will be) the man. Have fun in Europe!
I wonder what makes it so slow then. I'm looking forward to the day when we can look at the source code :)
Sorry, you are right, it was too harsh. I am sorry.

I thought I was sharing my perspective on it, I didn't think enough that it would hurt OP's feelings. I made the comment lightheartedly even added an ;-) but it didn't work obviously. Let me explain better then:

What I was trying to say is that I in large agree with how the market reacted to it. It is hard for Twitter to make money. There is a lot of HN armchair analyst advice around (which I engage in as well) such as "why doesn't Twitter just ... to make money". But presumably there are smart people working there and they probably thought of all those things. It has been compared to Google or compared or Facebook. But those offer a richer more comprehensive experience. I give Google access to my life and it helps me drive places, keeps my email, and calender and other things. I don't use Facebook but my relatives do and they like. Twitter is too narrow in that respect. So objectively looking at it, I think it is struggling and it makes sense to me why.

And I pointed out that Twitter for me in the past has been associated more with negativity -- spats, mis-understandings stemming from reading short 140 character replies as being curt and rude, which then snowball and turn into fights.

Now what sounded most mean was saying some services would die. Sometimes, it is better to just have a service / product that is going down to just go down faster, to maybe something better take its place. There were languages, products, platforms, I enjoyed and liked but they just didn't become popular. Hoping they would have an upswing sometimes is unrealistic. I wished and hope Thinkpads wouldn't suck and IBM would come back and start making them and install Ubuntu on them, but it just won't happen. It is better to just find something else. Anyway that is the sentiment where that comment came from.
Twitter Experimentation Platform Overview
The author admits to the limited comparison. I have a few other reasons:

1. We actually care if our buildings are insulated now and withstand earthquakes.

2. People are so wealthy here they don't have to get it right, they can always pay to do it over again. They don't care to put in the research to make sure it is done right. [0]

3. Corollary to #2, we don't need our buildings to last 100 years because we expect the area to be overtaken by increased density by then?

[0] CSB: Person tells about friend that bought house in Las Vegas just prior to 2008, has enormous cooling bill because house doesn't have overhang to protect southern exposure from the sun and HOA won't allow her to alter it. Asks why the government doesn't protect her. I ask why she didn't do a little more due diligence before spending $300k. He hadn't thought of it that way and considers it.
I think it is telling that Tyan is the manufacturer for these boards. My experience with them is that they're definitely a runner-up company compared with Supermicro, let alone the the big OEMs.
Oh. I see. The problem is that they cause you to turn your volume up, lol. That's my favorite part of Pink Floyd's The Wall, most of the album is really quiet which lets it get REALLY LOUD on a couple occasions.
Working with Garry at YC was one of the highlights of my career. He simply cares more about other people than anyone I've ever met, which makes him both a dream colleague and friend.
That's a fair point, but it's pretty easy for us to say, chatting about it comfortably, with the benefit of hindsight.

Sometimes you leak with the situation you have, not the situation you'd want or wish to have, to paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld.
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I have twice emailed him about upvotes not adding to my karma. System glitch or them updating the backend was the culprit.

I also have the impression that you no longer get all points from articles being upvoted. I have not paid close attention, but my vague hand wavy impression is that you do not get all of the first ten points and you do not get all of the points if two items are being upvoted at the same time.
The link text input behaves strangely in Firefox (or maybe Firefox just has a bad default behaviour for disabled input boxes? I've just recently started using firefox again): I can't click-drag to select, and selection with double-click only works very unreliably and sometimes gets stuck completely and doesn't work at all. I get that you need Flash for the copy-paste functionality. Sorry, I don't have a good idea why that happens.
There are some very interesting techniques in the linked paper, particularly the moving average alternative to bag of words and the use of RankSVM.

But this generated sample (verbatim) isn't rap, it's just rhyming words:

You've been a survivor and we love you so much
You don't know me - I kill everyone who show love
I I know you all love me to be sad and shit but
Will lead you to peace to love to unity and havin' fun
And say I love you momma and you are not alone
To say I love you! I love you! Forever so!
I say I love you you say it don't show
Tell me you love me I love you baby oh oh
Oh baby I love you
Can I love you baby?
What we about to do
''HOW COULD YOU JUST LEAVE ME AND LOVE HIM OUT THE BLUE?!''
But your on it too so you tell me you love me too
Let your love home you Let me move you tonight Baby
I know you love it when I shine I'm waitin' ..
And I think I love him I love him just like I raised him
I love rap no matter how much I say I hate it

Contrary to popular belief, rap lyrics do contain insight and capture cultural moments. The gap there relates to the question of whether or not computer programs can be 'creative'. This line from the linked paper also sheds light on the quality of these lyrics:

"In terms of quantitative rhyme density, the produced lyrics outperform best human rappers by 21%"

I'm not sure if sheer rhyme density is how rap or any other form of music should be judged, but if it is then human rappers are only 79% as good as the best machine MCs.
It's funny to me how many people still fear the early 20th century version of fascism: jack-booted thugs, death camps, fire hoses, wars.

That's old school. It still survives in a few backward places like North Korea but it's now obsolete. It's not something we need to fear.

The new fascism is kind and gentle. It doesn't arrest you, beat you, electrocute you, draft you into the army, or kill you. Instead it surveils you, models you, and gently nudges you into doing the Right Thing as determined by a benevolent class of philosopher kings.

The new fascism only wants good things. It wants lower unemployment, higher GDP, better education, health, welfare, less crime, cleaner cities. Who doesn't want those things? Who wants more filth and violence? Who wants people to be unemployed? Only bad people oppose the new fascism, and who wants to be a bad person?

Interesting times indeed. Plato would be proud. Of course all this is well-trodden territory in sci-fi and fantasy. Fiction is full of gleaming utopias with a dark secret. But that's fiction, right, and fiction isn't reality. Who says we can't really engineer a perfect utopia?

Prepare yourselves folks. Prepare for the absolute tyranny of the good, enforced with a smile and a gentle nudge in the right direction.
A Better Algorithm for Area Proportional Venn and Euler Diagrams
You dither before quantization in order to decorrelate the quantization error. If you don't do this, you risk artifacts in any digital filtering (or for that matter, playback) done afterwards. This includes any requantization.

In audio if I recall correctly it is also important to avoid obvious noise modulation.
>You started by disagreeing with kazinator's objection to typed strings,

You misunderstood our subthread. Kazinator was talking about "fat" strings. I was pointing out that there can be "string types" that helps detect defects. We had 2 different ideas of "string types". I can't say we disagreed insomuch as clarified what each of us was talking about.

I also don't care for your accusatory tone as if I'm deceiving people. My examples of string types has been consistent from the very beginning. I was never talking about NSURL/UrlString but you did. I simply didn't pick up on that divergence which was huge.

Also, an internal memory representation has ramifications on external semantics. That's not a rewrite. That's been my point all along (see my earlier clipboard example). A sequence of of bytes on disk, or network port, or memory always requires correct semantics to process.
To me it makes sense that post-IPO market cap would be lower than private valuation. Investors in public companies are well known for having short-term interest: "we want growth in every metric, and we want it next quarter." Anyone who has worked for a public company has felt this pressure.

VC, PE, etc. arguably incorporate more information about potential future (2 year, 3 year, 10 year) growth than public investors.

Maybe we should stop comparing the two valuations so equally?
A free tool designed for the startup community. Hope you like it
That seems a bit circular.

If there is no value left to get out of a company then the company is worth nothing. If there is value to be got, then there is some correct price. We might disagree on the price but if there are any future profits the company has a price.
Maybe, but practically every change Twitter makes is to make it look and work more like a Facebook timeline.

Given that Twitter is overrun with trolls, especially women-hating gamergate-style trolls, it's rapidly losing its value. See, for example http://femfreq.tumblr.com/post/132152537305/talking-publicly...

You don't get that on Facebook.
Unplug for love: how technology is hurting your realtionships
If you're in New York, I'm pretty sure the library has a few terminals.
We don’t save for the future because we lie to ourselves. Qapital changes that
Huge mix of incentives here. I agree with you from a financial perspective, but it's just more complicated (for all kinds of dumb reasons).

A) Publicity. Do you want good headlines or bad headlines from the IPO?

B) Secondary sales: It's kind of silly, but if / when you go to sell more shares the people who have made money are more likely to buy (against all logic) because some of them think of the money they made as a cushion against losses.

C) Banks want to please their customers. Think of this as part of the fee for the IPO. Typical underwriting fees are 7%, but they could be 10%, all arbitrary, but they basically charge some extra points that they choose to give to their clients in the form of IPO allocation for continued business.

D) Those same banks in (C) might be the people who help the executives moves large blocks of stock in the future (not easy to sell 10 million shares of a company without having large price impact). Executives in particular want a good relationship with their underwriters and if they're too aggressive on price they might not get it.

Agreed that none of these are super compelling, especially for a very long-term owner like Zuckerberg.
Ask HN: Reasonable to ask for signup before Demo?
I'm being asked to sign up for a service before being shown a demo, this is kind of weird right?
Interesting stuff. Thanks for explaining.

I was surprised that IBM even had physical stores at some point and today average consumer probably has absolutely no idea what IBM does.
Yup, well worth it :-)
Early lessons from the micro-purchase experiment
I don't know that I'd say "I want to see the service you enjoy die", but it'd be really nice if I didn't have to hear about it anymore. Alas, many of the same people who are interested in things I actually care about also like to talk about Twitter, so I end up hearing about it all the time even though I find the whole thing inexplicable and vaguely irritating.
> Much like how some people prefer the "warm" sound of tube amps, even if that means more distortion.

The difference from my perspective is that an amp is a tool for sound production while a digital music format is a tool for sound reproduction. When producing sound, choosing more distortion over less distortion is a valid choice. When reproducing sound, the goal should be accurate reproduction of the original.
Exxon, Keystone, and the Turn Against Fossil Fuels
This is one of my favorite things. Look at what they achieved with foxes in less than a century, then think of the tens of thousands of years we've domesticated dogs. The whole field of "dog science" is both fascinating and heartwarming.
I enjoy long-form articles, but I still prefer the concise over the verbose.
> I'm not sure I see why it's sexist, aside from the fact that it is tangentially related to gender.

That's usually all it takes nowadays.
Could it be survivor bias? What if the cheap shitty hundred-year-old buildings are torn down or covered in plaster or siding, thus leaving only the good specimens?
Not Even Twitter Understands Twitter
>Vinyl actually has far less fidelity.

Vinyl mastering is sometimes better than CD mastering though, due to the loudness war.

I would love to sell my turntable and vinyl collection and rely purely on digital formats. Takes up less space, technically superior format, etc.

But one thing keeps me buying vinyl:

AWFUL mastering on CDs. A significant portion of LPs are released with more normal mastering on the vinyl, while the CD will be brickwalled all to hell.

I listen to metal, and rock as a broader genre is particularly bad about it. One of my favorite albums of last year, Fallujah's The Flesh Prevails, had a dynamic range of 2 to 3 on almost every track on the CD. The vinyl master? 9 to 10. Still not great, but leaps and bounds better. The CD actually clips if you convert the songs into MP3.

Until they go back to not murdering CD mastering, I'll continue buying vinyl :(

(I know your comment isn't directly about vinyl being bad or anything - I just have a compulsion to bitch about the loudness war any chance I can)
Anything can be psychologically addictive with habitual use and what one might call an "addictive personality". Video games, work, porn, caffeine, bacon & eggs, all the same. Some of those things even have support groups, pills, patches, etc.

Nicotine is addictive on a scale far beyond that. Comparing caffeine and nicotine is like comparing nerf and 9mm. That's my argument, and even though every single comment I've made on this thread to that effect has been downvoted into the negatives, I don't care. Apparently that's the hill I'm dying on today, and I'm just fine with that.
When Photographs Become Evidence
Survivorship bias is a really important caveat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

Many cheap brick buildings from 100 years ago are gone, where the high quality ones are more likely to remain.

Also, steel Lintel are often used over windows in brick buildings. They don't last as long, but are fine for cheap construction that is not expected to last. AKA the kinds of building that are unlikely to be around in 100 years.
Yeah if you go back and compare an 8mhz ARMv2 in the Archimedes machines with equivalent code in an Atari ST or Amiga, the ARM wins handily. Of course the Amiga had the advantage with custom graphics hardware for certain workflows. But the 68k is not as cycle efficient as the ARM.
I guess it depends on how much it'll cost to access those profits. It might turn a profit if it receives another $500mn in cash to keep operations running. But what if it can't, and it needs another $1bn worth of runway to reach it? There's always the hope of a profit down the road, but taken to the extreme, $1 of profit down the road in 10 years isn't worth the $10bn it'll take to get there (I know this is a very extreme example).
So once this becomes law ( and surely it will ) how do these finer points of the law get decided, will it be done by the arbitration panel, ie the high paid lawyers who take turns being plaintiff, defendant, and judge?
I would encourage you to look around before deciding on Pulley. While I haven't used them in a while, when I did I was really blown away by how little support, features, and service they provided. It felt very half-assed and very slow to grow. I emailed them once about something and they seemed annoyed that I'd have a feature request. I left immediately after that, and that's when I went to Gumroad. Been happy there since. However, should I launch something new, I'll definitely look at SendOwl
How would any of the issues with the Dartmouth brick building in the article have been caused by #1?
> Dart + "Unfortunately, due to iOS restrictions, updating your Flutter app over the network is not possible" means 100% no thanks from me.

Indeed. One of _the_ biggest selling points of React Native is the promise of near-instant over-the-air updates for iOS and Android.
Mostly. I think society would collapse if civil disobedience had zero cost to the individual engaging in it. I think having that cost come in the form of risk to personal safety is far from optimal, but still far better than nothing.
I don't think the NASDAQ glitch had anything to do with it. FB flopped for many months after the IPO, not just on the first day. A much more likely reason for the decline that lasted months and brought the price down to $18/share is that investors didn't like the stock.

NASDAQ glitches don't curse a stock for months at a time.

Edit: https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...

Edit 2: Actually it looks like it took well over a year before the stock rebounded above IPO price.
Isn't this simply an instance of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias?

The only brick buildings you can still look at from the 1800s are the ones that were built very well - all the shoddily-constructed buildings from that era have since disappeared.
Go find a CD that has been mastered to be just below the clipping point. (e.g. Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails)

Convert it to MP3 directly, use whatever settings you want

Watch as the mp3 rip is now clipping due to further compression of the dynamic range.
With the right spin, I think it would still be allowed by a State to not allow a software in a market that violates an OSS license. This is because they are blocking software that doesn't have the right to be redistributed because it doesn't complete the requirements to be redistributed. The State isn't requiring the source to be revealed, just that it has the ability to redistribute the software.

To make a poor analogy, imagine that the law said States can't require people to kneel and kiss a pinky ring in order to enter the State. However, they can require a valid passport, even if in Guilder in order to get a passport you have to kneel and kiss the pinky ring of the King of Guilder.
> making it even more difficult for women in OS.

A good start here might be to admit that some people who claim to support women in tech are actually making it harder for women in tech.
No food from NY to Oslo? It's not exactly like there are grocery stores in terminals.
Seems to say current valuation is below previous valuation.

The really bad scenario is 'current valuation is below current levels of funding'

So it sounds like they are ok, they aren't just going to reap as large of rewards. Crunchbase says they have taken $590.5 million in 9 rounds, so that's still a crazy huge amount to be valued at.
I am pretty sure it was written by vezzy-fnord, whose other postings on HN do not lead me to believe he's an economist.
IRC on Twitter would be popular if only because Twitter is about a frillion times more popular than IRC.
I think the point was that sometimes you do want to apply some effect to the sound at playback time, e.g. an equalizer, and in that case a higher bit depth could maybe conceivably become useful.