skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, not quite. I publish things on Facebook, et al when I want them to be public. It's the equivalent of a bulletin board for me.

When I want something to be between myself and a specific person or group of people, I make a phone call or email. Obviously it's not as restrictive as saying something in person, as you might for something truly private.

But there are degrees. The only way to keep something truly private is not to tell anyone but it's not fair to equate a private conversation with a public broadcast, just because you sometimes use the public broadcast.
Wouldn't this question be answered with a large-scale double blind trial?

If more people prefer the sound at the higher bitrate and sampling rate, then that's the better format, even if there's no technical reason why that format is superior.

Much like how some people prefer the "warm" sound of tube amps, even if that means more distortion.
I'd welcome any feedback, positive or otherwise!
The normalization is song-by-song to my knowledge. It doesn't normalize the audio within the song itself. (Over)compression is a key part of the aesthetic of a lot of pop hits today, and while in the face of normalization you won't be able to make your song overall louder than the next, it won't necessarily stop you from creating a "wall of sound" waveform if that's the sound you're looking for.
How is your suggestion any better than the actual Swift code for these?

"String".characters.count
"String".utf8.count
"String".unicodeScalars.count

Looks pretty much the same to me in concept and typing difficulty.
As a modestly tall guy, using a short urinal is a bad experience. It's almost impossible to control splash, and the large attack angle makes the target area appear very small. And I'm not even that tall.

Viva the high urinal
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Thank you for this great article. I appreciate the efforts made by people to look past themselves and the "obvious" reasons for things. Isn't that what makes good engineers good?
Developing native GUIs since the mid-90's, I think there have been quite a few better solutions.
> you don't seem such a big fan of freedom as I am

I think you might be surprised.

> it is of no one else's business what I do with my money

If you use your money to, say, hire a hit man to kill me, how is that not my business?

> It's really that simple.

No, it's really not that simple at all. You should read this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
Lossy vs non-lossy compression is orthogonal to the sampling rate and bit-depth (which is what this article is about). While the MP3 standard effectively means sampling more than 48kHz is useless, there's no reason you can't have a lossy comprssion scheme that attempts to capture higher frequencies.
I think my favorite part of this article is how my Zalgo example doesn't render even remotely correctly in any browser I've tried it in.
Ask HN: How would you donate a few $20 bills?
Any suggestion is appreciated, but let's add that I care about wildlife and environment preservation, and that I don't want to just send the money to an association that I have no idea what it'll do with it.
I suspect their heavy bet on hydrogen will sink them long before they see any returns from AI and Robotics.
The advantage of trough-style urinals is not so much the large catch area, it's that they handle a large number of users in situations where rule #1 can be broken. It's unpleasant, but it sure makes the lines to the infield men's facilities shorter during the Kentucky Derby.
> Note to self: when manufacturing tanks, use UUIDs as identifiers, not sequential integers.

The post-war Soviet aircraft industry was saddled with ridiculously convoluted Construction Number schemes in order to defeat such analysis. They varied by type, model and factory.

Here's an example for one model built in one particular factory:

All start with 353 plus three more digits which indicate the sub-type (242=Mi-24V, 246=Mi-24D etc) The seventh digit seems
to represent the quarter built while the eighth digit seems to represent the year built. The last five digits as the famous post
1974 random nonsense number.

They only abandoned the schemes in the early 1990s.
It just beats me that parts of Sagrada familia were made out of concrete. Not quite the material one would expect to last for centuries.
i kinda figured the gui stuff would be impractical, but what i was more interested in was a low friction way to play with midi / audio buffers. i haven't worked with c / c++ since college (too busy paying the bills in a managed shop), but i guess this is as good an excuse as any to get back into it. the fact it comes with its own ide / tooling is nice because learning an entirely new workflow / tool-chain is a barrier in itself.
I would be very curious to listen to SACD on some good headphones in a quiet room. Not sure if I've ever even seen a SACD player aside from maybe in the Sony store 10 years ago. The trick would be to find something that would be mastered for the format.
10 base-36 digits is only around 52 bits, compared to the 112 random bits in a UUIDv4. 2^52 might be enough for particular use-cases, but it's nowhere near a UUID in terms of randomness. Even 10 base-64 digits is only 60 bits.
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Yep plus it involves lots of customer traffic into neighborhoods not zoned for that, and neighbors will start to notice.
That is not what investor-state dispute resolution does. If it was, the GPL would have been broken a long time ago because ISDS has been part of bilateral treaties for decades.

ISDS is intended to provide standing for a company from one country to request relief from the government of another country. Without ISDS, the Vietnamese national government could simply take whatever U.S. property is located in Vietnam, and the U.S. company would have no recourse.
The random ones don't have to be unpredictable randomness, either. For example, you might seed a good RNG with the local MAC address and boot time and then use that to generate v4 UUIDs. As far as I can tell, this would be perfectly legal and should produce UUIDs that are as likely to be unique as any other, but they would also be easy for an attacker to predict.
Couldn't agree more:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-impact-investing-could-tu...
Well, no. I can think of a very good use case right now: sending money is a PITA.

Say I want to pay somebody in another country for perfectly legal goods. (Example I've personally done: local food from a friend in Japan)

My options are:

* Bank wire transfers (expensive and annoying to set up, requires paperwork)

* Cash transfer services like Western Union or Moneygram (expensive and inconvenient, requires physical presence at a branch location for both parties, if one exists in the location)

* Electronic cash transfer services like PayPal (awful and opaque CS/policies, expensive, requires linking a physical bank account/credit card, something people in many countries don't have - if they operate in the country at all)

* Currency through the mail (danger of never getting there)

* Something like Bitcoin (annoying to set up.. once)

The last one ticks all the boxes in a way that the previous few do not.

- It's available everywhere with an internet connection without exception

- It's not subject to any middleman fees (though you can splash out a very tiny amount of money to get the transaction processed quicker)

- It's not subject to any middleman misbehavior, the transaction is strictly between you and the other person.

- There's no paperwork or going to a physical location required, it's all electronic

- Once you send a transaction, it will most assuredly reach its destination

- It requires nothing from the sender/receiver other than a piece of software

The (pseudo?)anonymity is just a bonus in this instance. It's none of the GCHQ, NSA, their associated cronies, etc business knowing what I'm buying and why.
Obama was promising to launch cruise missiles and drone strikes into Pakistan during the campaign; why did you think he was going to be less violent and more restrained than Bush?

It seems that many Obama supporters whipped themselves into such a hatred of Bush that they never really considered who they were really supporting (, though I do not presume to accuse you of that).
From the article:

>Empirical evidence from listening tests backs up the assertion that 44.1kHz/16 bit provides highest-possible fidelity playback.

You can read the article if you want to find the actual references. No one is arguing that higher rates/bits produces any sort of distortion that anyone would prefer.
"About half the world’s population uses them"
"Design with everyone in mind."

I don't think this article was designed with everyone in mind.
>Don't model your business on the freelancers at oDesk. Model it on McKinsey, Accenture, Bain, etc. Look at how those companies describe themselves. You will necessarily be operating at a smaller scale than them. But that still leaves an awful lot of room.

Thanks for mentioning this comment. I didn't think to do this, but I'll start reading a bit on these companies and try to model myself a bit more like them.
This is what El Niño will do to the global economy
Fixed in https://github.com/renstrom/shortuuid/commit/847debec9c7c091...
I think he's just saying that it's hard to draw a circle around security, which is true. In the face of that, you can only proceed as you were. You can make things operate predictably (fix bugs), relative to the design, or you can revise the overall design targets.

To my mind, I see security meaning so many different things to different people (mostly politicians twisting it against the public) and those definitions are different enough that I couldn't reconcile them if I tried, so I don't bother. I just focus on my work. As long as the kernel is 1) reliable and 2) general enough to be used effectively by other projects that think they can define security more universally, the kernel is doing it's job well.
Selective disclosure means you decide who can see your transaction information (value, recipients, etc.) and that it's not publicly knowable by default.
>"What part of him being a creationist affected the technical aspects of his MRI studies?"

Nothing, I just gave those examples of people to show science can be systematically corrupt/wrong (since it is in their minds) and there will still be advancements.
I only couched it in those terms because the comment I was responding to couched it in those terms.
Whenever a company writes a press release with a large sounding number in it my first question is "Is that a lot?". I have no idea how much it costs to run a robotics lab. As this is over the next five years, what would an average of $200m/year actually buy you? Is that a team of 50 very clever people working on cutting edge stuff, or is it 5 interns and a really expensive patent lawyer?

Headline numbers are designed to appeal to our "Crumbs, I wish I was a billionaire!" instincts, but without the context of what's being invested in and the domain knowledge of how much the industry typically spends, this could be awesome or it could be entirely non-newsworthy. I don't know.
24bit has been shown to be excessive in actual tests, and it doesn't really pass the "bullshit test". 24 bit allows you to switch between a whisper in a library and a jet engine or shotgun blast in a single recording—yes, it would instantly damage your hearing.

By comparison, 16 bit audio can "only" record a whisper in a library and a motorcycle or jackhammer.

Double blind tests show that 8 bits are not enough, but 14 bits are.
Oh nice sweet little homebuilt. Looks pretty fast. Maybe 200 or 250 knots....?? 390MPH out of a piston single!?!!!
Absolutely, and nor should it. But what it should mean is that if you make your song mostly quiet, your peaks will be louder than a wall of sound.
In the sentence "But it's much nicer than Qt.", what does "it" refer to?
> All religious beliefs are personal. Every member of every religion will pick & choose which tenets, sacred verses, etc that they want to believe and only believe in those things. No one agrees 100% on every little detail and only "extremists" follow their religions to the letter.

You're using a lot of absolutes in your statement. It's as if you have some secret knowledge about the way all religious people think. Care to expand on your reasoning?
The only purpose of money is to trade work and the captured value of work with other people, therefore it is by definition always someone else's business what you do with your money.

But I know what you mean, you don't want non-directly-involved third parties to know about transactions you make. But then there are always contracts, laws and regulations you must follow and be held to account on. These are the things which bind the economy together and make modern civilisation work.

Your bank balance and the things you buy with your money do not exist in a vacuum. There will always be a trail of your spending left behind anyway, even if it's just asking the people you bought things from what you bought and when. It's an inescapable fact deeply embedded into the nature of what money is, and the function it serves in society.
So, after "[announcing] $7.67 million in fresh funding... TinyOwl was reportedly offering post-dated checks to [the laid off employees], which concerned them as previously laid-off employees had yet to receive their payment." And we're supposed to feel bad for the guy?
Why can't you follow the experts in that field via their site or their online communities? The depth of which they would go into their chosen subject would be much more enlightening, surely. It sounds like you just use Twitter to bookmark the links and "soundbites" experts say. How much depth can a conversation that only allows 140 characters per response relay? They are meant to be "soundbites", only telling part of a story.

You could have easily gotten into those other areas via Google or following their conversations on their online communities, no?

And yes, your viewpoint is tainted, because, as the article says, it hasn't added active US users in 2015.
You're one of a kind, my friend. Our industry needs more Garry Tans. So... I guess what I'm saying is make more babies!
Garry, you provided feedback on a YC application in 2008. Thanks again for the help then, and all the best moving forward.
Telephone audio is 8khz, so recording at a multiple of 8k helps with downsampling for IVR prompts or hold music. With dithering, it isn't terrible to downsampling from 44.1k to 8k, but it's nice to avoid it.
They are two completely different things. Check out the link. Would you accidentally say "It's cloudy therefore there is a high probability of rain" when you meant "It's raining so there is a high probability of clouds"?
Yes, your understanding is correct
I typically agree with that sentiment..... but then I think about all the information that Amazon has about me: e.g. political and religious views, cosmetic and OTC pharmaceuticals....... I'd really rather I could buy things anonymously online. I'm ok with the government seeing these things with a warrant; I just don't want the stores I'm interacting with to have such a thorough profile.
Man, famo.us.

I dove in because i try to get a balanced view of things before I make up my mind about things, and there was some stuff in there that I really liked.
I tried building something with it, and it didn't really work out.

But even worse was the way that they interacted with their open source community.

It was completely cathedral-style, for a long time. And just as they became more bazaar-like everything dries up from them.
Nobody was on irc, nothing on the issue queues. The only thing we heard was more promises for x integration, and y integration.

Eventually the community got fed up and called them out on it, to which they finally admitted that
they had started a complete rewrite behind closed doors to use 'mixed mode' css3d and webgl rendering. 6 months later, they released their new 'engine' rewrite, and an additional 'framework' on top of it, which really did not seem fully baked.

They subsequently made a really big deal of helping found the jquery foundation, and organized
a jquerySF conference that had them on stage promising to replace major jquery widgets with drop-in famo.us ones.

And then nothing. Commits stopped, feedback stopped, slack channel was closed. News started filtering out of devs working there leaving one after the other.

The entire thing did teach me some important life lessons, though =)
At least there's a few mistakes i won't make again.
Blockchain currencies make all transactions public. Given that, if they're not anonymous it's kinda like posting everyone's credit card statements online.
Hansard Corpus: British Parliament, 1803-2005
Trading additional information to other countries to avoid standing trial in the US would be a grave offense. I don't think that's what he did.
Whenever I read someone write about UX about anything, one common quality I spot is how negative the writer is about the object in discussion. They all take the tone that they know something more than the people who created it. Have these UX people given any considerations to countless number of factors involved in something seemingly simple as installing a urinal?

Immediately questions sprung up for me. Has the writer thought about possible regulations surrounding installation of urinal in millions of localities around the world? How about the regulations of manufacturing urinals? There's also countless rules surrounding import/export laws for 200s countries around the world. I'm not even accounting for interstate laws within US and other countries. This was just grand legal issues alone. Consider availability of time before deadlines, experts who can install the urinal, money budgeted for urinals and bathroom space, etc... You can imagine countless situations where even installing "subpar" urinals are actually really hard.

My criticism also extends to the book that started it all, The Design of Everyday Things. It's such a simplified platonic world view, I couldn't take the book seriously. The condescending tone of voice the author had was really annoying as well.
Are you forgetting about PyQt and PySide? If they don't meet the requirements for "good, simple, modern, cross-platform GUI library," then I'm hard pressed to think of a library or binding for any language that will.

I guess I could see a sticking point on "simple" but IMO it's significantly easier to create a GUI using PyQt than it would be to mess with web servers and HTML to create a web based UI.
Please work with your governmental representative on patent reform.
You pointed out a huge problem to find the right people with highly specific needs. That's why we are working on an identification tool that automatically returns people according to their intent (stated interest, complains "e.g. if I only could..."). The grand idea is to turn around the annoying sales funnel who many preach is just the right thing to do. However, such a funnel produces a lot of waste, first the seller's money, second the prospects time and nerves.
http://sircular.rocks/zocialgraph.pdf
> And insulting the upstream people like this doesn't make your job any easier.

The upstream people are pretty wedded to the idea that throwing insults is a reasonable response to frustration with poor behaviour. They do not have any legs to stand on re: hurt feelings.
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Not in the least.

First, because making money isn't a final justification for everything, and especially keeping an antiquated and anti-democratic institution around.

Second, because a country can still make money showing off palaces, changes of the guards, its royal past and the like without maintaining a royal class. Heck, maybe even more money, e.g. by expropriating their castles and estates as state property and making them into luxury hotels and such.

In fact this whole "we're making money off of them" only counts their annual expenses, and balances it by some touristy influx and purchases (that it also assumes would go totally amiss without the royals). That ignores all the land property they occupy which amounts to tens of billions -- (£7.3 billion for the Crown Estate alone), and which could be state property in a democracy.

Finally, there all these "blue blooded" that get a "royal pathway" to politics in the House of Lords and such -- further pushing their agendas and interests into the whole of politics...
You seem to be making proclamations here without really saying much.
Or if you apply an equilizer, like lots of people do in consumer applications.
Read everything, disclose only information that he could reasonably connect to the NSA violating the rights of Americans. Not reveal everything all at once. Not assume that a particular journalist whose politics he supported would (a) carefully minimize the leak to whistleblowing material only and (b) be competent enough to protect it against the intelligence services of other countries.

I don't see what's so complicated about that.
Garry is an incredible person and like most remarkable people he is also deeply humble. This kindness and approachable spirit, I think, allow him to be a great student of founders, startups, and cultures. I've learned quite a bit from Garry about how systems evolve and operate. He is a very rare person and a gift to the startup world.

Thanks Garry for all that you've done for the YC community. I wish you the very best in this next leg of your journey.
Citation? The article is talking about dithering, which you really don't want to do, not least because the end result will probably compress worse than the higher-bit-depth version. The fact that they suggest it at all implies, to my mind at least, that 16 bits isn't enough.
> Others do the opposite - the stuff they tweet is useful but the stuff they retweet is nonsense. I have limited options, and I usually just unfollow.

There's a [good IMO] solution for this already in place, turn retweets off for those people/accounts. You can turn off Retweets for a specific user if you don’t like what they share. Select Turn off Retweets from the gear icon drop-down menu on a user's profile to stop seeing Tweets they've retweeted.[1]

[1] https://support.twitter.com/articles/77606
> "formal education makes you better"

Any kind of education (unless it's a cargo cult education) makes you better, that's the entire point of it.

> "better" than a person who knows a lot about the history of, say, American Football or ice hockey.

Sports are good for education - and they're not practical and not earnings-oriented. How many of those who had a passion for sport in school went into a professional sport?

I am not opposing sport, STEM, music, arts, whatever else - I'm opposing an emphasis on any "practical skills" in general.
Thanks for the help Garry, enjoy!
This is the crux of the problem. We are all forced to watch the world like a film and it is them who are the directors and its director is Michael Bay.

Even the directors cut is only part of the picture and even if you are privy to the fact that there is a story book on which the movie is based, you'll find that it is out of print and the TPPA has prevented it from being published for another 125 years.
The "spy mall catalogue" doesn't fit the definition you used. Implants into COTS hardware to accomplish SIGINT missions against foreign governments is neither nefarious nor illegal.
https://github.com/pybee/toga

IMHO, it's rather amazing, though it needs to be developed further, to support more widgets, remove bugs, etc. Sadly it did not gain much traction after release. Maybe due to not comprehensive documentation and few nasty bugs in the beginning.

I would give this library a go if I would be developing GUI application in python, though apart making few exercises, I have not used it a lot.

Major pros, that it's in python, so debugging is easy, and what is not covered with documentation, can be uncovered also. Another thing you can simply install it with pip.