skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a company that's building UIs their website in Firefox is unreadable due to the horrible font:
http://imgur.com/8ANC4bH

I don't hate thin fonts - for example in bigger sizes it looks good - but the thin an small combination is a bad choice. In Chrome it's a little bit better but I still won't read it.
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I wonder if the decline of labor unions is a factor, or some similar thing that affects the willingness of people to make a career of a skilled trade.
Original study here:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03622
Honestly, as an Epidemiologist, you should view hand washing less as "I got pee on my hands" and far more "You have to pee regularly, and bathroom implies water, which implies the ability to wash your hands. You should probably wash your hands."

You should also wash your hands before eating. And after laundry. And all manner of other things. It's just a particularly convenient prompt.
If you don't mind me asking, do you have any plans to prevent extremely small bids like this in the future?
ISIS+TRAINED+WITH+AND+BY+USA,THE+PROOF+-+YouTube
Why does GDP matter if you're calculating individual wealth and thus purchasing power? (Genuine question btw - not disagreeing just interested)
People doing ‘crazy things’ with Tesla’s autopilot are spoiling it for everybody
I will gladly trade a 100 year old washing machine (rusty and hand-powered, I assume) for a Miele.

I'm sure you have an argument here, but I don't see how washing machines further it.
In benchmarks MIPS usually means "we arbitrarily say that reference machine X runs this benchmark at Y MIPS". Then, for a different machine Z, Z_MIPS = Y * (X_TIME / Z_TIME).

For example, the 7zip benchmark used in this article is "normalized with results of Intel Core 2 CPU" [1], or the famous Dhrystone integer benchmark's "VAX MIPS" [2].

Still I agree it's weird terminology. It would make more sense to use the true units of the benchmark, or just say "performance relative to reference machine".

[1] http://www.7-cpu.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhrystone
As soon as a bug affects them, they want it fixed
immediately. If you don't fix it in 24 hours (because maybe
you have a real life or a family or you're sick or any
number of other very valid reasons) then the threats start:

"Well if you're not going to take this seriously, we'll
have to start using another project."

What's the downside to an individual at a corporation for trying to guilt the maintainer into doing their bidding? If the bug gets fixed, they look good within their company. If it doesn't, what do they lose?

I'd guess that companies take this approach because on net, the benefits outweigh the downsides. If guilt can get 1/3 of your bugs fixed promptly and for free, and if the other 2/3 of the time there are no repercussions, then guilt is probably a good strategy.

To change this, one either needs to reduce the success rate, or penalize the request. Judging by the prevalence of spam, you'd have to get the success rate very, very low before it would curtail "bad" behavior. So what's the appropriate penalty?

Has anyone tried a "black list" license? Take some standard open source license, and add "This software may not be used by anyone employed by the following corporations: [list]. If you are employed by an company on this list, and use software without specific license, you will personally be held liable for liquidated damages of $XXXXXX. If you would like have a company removed from this list, please contact [x] to discuss how we can better align our interests."

I'm not suggesting that this is the right solution for most (if any) projects, but consider the "glee" of being able to respond "Great! In fact, I think you might want to switch to a different project immediately. I've added you to the blacklist, and while you are allowed to continue using the current version under terms of the license distributed with it, all future releases and bug fixes are now off limits."
True and possibly also a lack of focus on product in general. Most Japanese products I know are STUFFED full of features too complicated to use (see: every Sony camera ever). Sometimes the focus should be on reducing the number of features to more comfortably insert yourself into the users workflow. This is probably true for almost every Japanese commercial robotics venture.
He can only blame himself. He should explain his situation, and ask for a reasonable amount to fix bugs or implement requests. And reasonable is not minimal wage, it's proper payment for the work he does. If the user doesn't like it, then they can ask someone else to fix it.
I think Mike Perham does a great job of leveraging his open source project into direct contributions.

http://sidekiq.org/

Sometimes if you respond to 'we need feature x, y, and z.' with an upsell, they actually will give you money.
No, you'd expect brick for ornamental purposes to look prettier than what it's covering.
I think the problem is that though Square really did change things there (I agree w/ you), the space now is very competitive with a lot of different players, and it's not clear what Square can do that their competitors can't. It doesn't seem like there's really much lock-in or network effects that are helping them out.
Selectively using code generation to implement closures over immutable variables could get you part of the way there while allowing a lot of the work to be done at compile time and avoiding the need for a full JIT.

How much it would help performance in practice I couldn't say.
One quote I saw somewhere said something like "if inequality grows too extreme, you will have the choice of redistributing wealth through taxation, or redistributing poverty through revolution".

I had never thought of poverty as something one could distribute, so that quote has stuck with me.
Speaking of UX: what is the justification for disabling text highlighting on a web page?
Very true. These are rates in the SF Bay Area and NYC. IDK what it's like elsewhere, though I've been told it's possible to get offers in this range in London too.
Just out of curiosity, why don't the Bernie emails tag @SenSanders?
"Progressive" is such a stupid word. Who gets to decide what is, and isn't, progress?
.Net provides a couple of different ways to dynamically emit IL, but that's not quite the same as being able to emit your own native machine instructions, though. I think the challenge would be that you'd need to work out a calling convention between the jitted code and the emitted native code, at which point you might as well stick the native code in its own library function and compile or assemble it with a native tool.
Square will obviously have to grow more, but the reason I think they have a future is they're getting merchants who didn't take cards to take them, easily and cheaply. My family is not on the coast and there's still a lot of places that don't take cards for whom square should be a really good solution. Then they can do the classic microsoft strategy: start with the smallest/cheapest and relentlessly move upmarket. Will they ever be the solution for Safeway with hundreds of stores and a very complex discounting system? Probably not. But there's a lot of smaller businesses. Small to medium restaurants should be a key target customer.
I think that's exactly what that shows. Real median income (2014 dollars) was 51,000 in 1986. Today, it's 53,000[0]. Wealth in the middle hasn't changed much, and all that GDP growth is being gobbled by the very top.

[0] https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/MEHOINUSA672N
Shorter ceilings are better for climate control, though. No need to heat up a bunch of air that just floats around over your head.
PM of Canada Wants to Bring in a Basic Annual Income to Replace Social Insurance [pdf]
This article really misses the facts of the Nyquest-Shannon theory.

In order to decimate a signal to 44.1 or 48khz, and preserve high-frequency content, high frequencies need to be phase-shifted.

This phase-shift is similar to how lossy codecs work.

For what it's worth: I'm a big fan of music in surround, and most of it comes in high sampling rates. When I investigated ripping my DVD-As and Blurays, I found that they never have music over 20khz. It's all filtered out. However, downsampling to 44.1 or 48khz isn't "lossless" because of the phase shift needed due to the Nyquist-Shannon theory.

I still rip my DVD-As at 48khz, though. There isn't a good lossless codec that can preserve phase at high frequencies, yet approach the bitrate of 12/48 flac.
Stack Overflow is down
no, because if you play at lower volume, that simply means that the quietest parts are closer to (or underneath) the threshold of hearing.

I see it this way: let's say 16 bits is needed to represent the entire discernable dynamic range between the threshold of hearing and the threshold of pain. if you turn the volume to 50%, then you throw out 8 bits, but you also only need to represent 8 bits worth of hearing range.
I agree with you on the probable time frame here.

I guess I had an implicit assumption—which may be wildly false—that maintaining the old BMP decoder wouldn't be too much of a burden. If it is a huge burden, then it would make sense to rewrite it now in C++. Otherwise, thinking long-term, I think it would make sense to rewrite in Rust, trading short-term bug fixes for improved memory safety in the future and less work overall (since you save one rewrite).

(Again, though, since we're talking 1,000 lines of code of something that's probably line-for-line-translatable either way; I don't think it's a big deal.)
This definitely feels like they're advertising using through Streisand effect. Especially as it looks like it's pretty simple for them to get unbanned - don't have a function that allows users to post to both at the same time

> Facebook says it will unblock Tsu if it changes just one thing: Tsu users shouldn't be able to simultaneously post to Tsu and Facebook.

Apparently I signed up to this site at some point in October last year and have since completely forgotten about it. I actually thought there was something dodgy going on at first when my email address was in the login field!

As for the site itself, I think the adverts are a bit much and can definitely see why Facebook sees it as spammy. Don't get me wrong the adverts aren't terrible, but there are at least 4 of them on every page I browsed to - all of which were animated images. I was also unable to reproduce it but there was also a "Sponsored" post under my one single post on my profile which was also animated, excessively so even. I wouldn't go as far as to say it needed an epilepsy warning before it started but it wasn't far off!

I think the problem is that there's money involved. The more people see your post, the more you earn. The more people you invite in, the more people see your post. That's definitely an easy-bake recipe for spam.

Having a browse round (indirectly via Google searches as I somehow signed up without joining a network) I couldn't find any profiles that were there for any other reason than solely to make money on their posts. From what I can see this isn't really a social network, it's a get rich quick scheme..

> The other half of your earned revenue on tsū comes from the growth and activity of your personal social network. One third of all users’ content-generated revenue is passed up to the person that directly invited them to join tsū. A third of the remaining shared revenue will then go to the person that invited that user, and so on.

..if not pyramid scheme.
Stackoverflow down?
I would love to be able to write software full time. Alas, without a Uni degree, it looks hopeless. I wish software was my life's purpose :-(
Devs aren't supermen. A lot of people get into open source because that's the way they feel they can best do something good for the world, to put their software development talents at work.

Asking them to now go and develop a new set of skills, political savvy, that aren't just not in the same ballpark as dev, but not even in the same sport, they're going to just throw up their hands and walk away from OSS.

When firms have talented but politically-averse individual contributors, they give them managers so as to best direct those talents. OSS needs to stop expecting themselves to do everything and get some bosses to shoulder some of the burden.
I don't recall black people referring to themselves as "niggers" when the term was conceived. In contrast, SJW was coined by the people describing themselves unironically.
GDP per capita isn't per capita wealth (or even PR capita personal income), so your conclusion doesn't follow from the statistics you offer to support it.
I just wanted to keep the post short(er)
wood is definitely cheaper than brick but i have a hard time believing that a brick building will be more expensive than one made of steel and glass. the architecture, engineering, transport, etc. is where most of the cost comes from, not the building materials.
What if we are alone?
> Nigger just originates from the french term for "black"

It originates from a latin root, most likely by way of Portuguese or Spanish.

> how offensive could it possibly be!

As offensive as we agree to consider it. There's nothing intrinsically offensive about words, the public view about what's offensive and what's not is rather arbitrary. That's why a certain culture considers "nigger" offensive if used by pink skinned people, while "black" is perfectly neutral.
This is long, but there's a lot of really deep ideas in there and I'm super glad I read it. I'm going to remember this.
As per previous comment threads this is currently just an example of experimental bias.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3025

Although I have heard of this behaviour before in government bidding, the fame makes it meaningless atm.

The 10th iteration will/would be interesting.
I didn't refer to "heterodox" as a school, but rather a higher taxonomic rank. Nor did I ever make the case for formal math specifically.

It is true I am not an economist.
no, it addresses it fairly clearly (albeit briefly):

> So the math is ideal, but what of real world complications? The most notorious is the band-limiting requirement. Signals with content over the Nyquist frequency must be lowpassed before sampling to avoid aliasing distortion; this analog lowpass is the infamous antialiasing filter. Antialiasing can't be ideal in practice, but modern techniques bring it very close. ...and with that we come to oversampling.

if you accept that the limit of hearing is around 20 kHz, then you must also accept that frequencies above that can freely be removed without loss of fidelity to the human ear.

the article notes that higher frequencies can be heard, but only in the form of ultrasonic intermodulation distortion. (i.e. not in fact the higher frequencies at all)
Calling someone a "moron" is the exact antithesis of YC.

Please stop trolling.
Even if its not a performance or code bloat, its a UI bloat. An unnecessary button that very few people will ever use.
This is only true if your climate makes it more expensive to heat the building than to cool it.
He coordinated with the New York Times and The Washington Post and The Guardian specifically to review, redact, and limit the scope of his leaks. The releases from the press were redacted. To argue that he did not limit the scope of his leaks with intent is to deny reality.
Creating Drinking Water Using Ocean Wave Power
7' is accurate for many new Housing Estate houses eg AV Jennings. The buildings all look similar except for roof color. It's very disorientating.

My house is 1860s with a 12' ceiling. Those other places feel like claustrophobic rabbit holes in comparison.

Low ceilings minimize material costs and maximize profits.
Such a license would not be a free software license, which basically means that no one can use the software for anything beyond a hobby project.
I don't think the physical stores lasted long, they eventually were sold off to ComputerLand, possibly as part of a consent decree (before my time). A lot of bad business decisions at IBM start with the various consent decrees it operated under as a result of various antitrust cases, and the utter fear of yet another antitrust case developing.
Yeah, that comment was strange. I had a PhD mathematician in my class in grad school, one that had worked as a math professor for years and was well published, and he said he felt comfortable with the rigor of the courses. There are a lot of math PhD's publishing in econ journals and teaching in econ departments.
Inflate the price, lock in their returns.

If Facebook had few investors and not much equity sold, they would have the option of offering at a cheaper price to the public -- fewer folks to be paid back. The GP comment is also suggesting they might IPO earlier, when more of their value is potential instead of actual, which also makes it cheaper and more profitable (but riskier.)

By having more private equity (or VC) rounds before IPO, more of the risk-to-money conversion happens before random members of the public can participate by buying shares.
I hope others can help too, but I noticed that your sentences sound a little bit off. They seem directly translated from Spanish.

Here are some examples:

My principal goal (Mi principal objetivo)[My main goal]

not the money (no es el dinero)[not money]

need it for help my family to solve some things (lo necesito para ayudar mi familia a solucionar algunas cosas) [need it to help my family solve some things]

to help my mom be quiet(ayudar a mi mama a estar tranquila) [helping my mom have no worries]

and so on and so forth. As another comment suggests, you should have a native English speaker look over your CV, and overall grammar.
I use gometalinter which runs it through a whole suite of linters.
You would first have to build a suitable dual prop for long flights which costs hundreds of billions of dollars (boeing doesnt sell dual props I dont think for big commercial flights). Thats assuming you can get it working and fits with all the safety requirements and what not.

As such perhaps only for short distance flights? i.e. 3 hours.

Dual props are also a lot slower.
Seriously. And it's not just the seven-footers who'd have issues. I'm 6'3, and I'd feel claustrophobic in a home with 7' ceilings. I'm above average in height, but, like, not wildly so. I certainly don't think I'm an outlier or anything.
> No they're not. And no matter how many times this gets linked to on the Internet, it's still wrong.

The article is still correct, just like it always was.

Ironically, most of your analysis is also correct. Somewhere in your understanding though, you're leaping sideways to an incorrect conclusion.

>The basic problem: the quieter a sound or detail gets, the fewer bits of resolution are used to represent it.

So far so good, but you're about to go wrong again once you start thinking in terms of stairsteps and boxes and looking instead of hearing.

Back to the bits.

What lower amplitude (and fewer used bits) means is that the sound, as represented, is not as far above the noise floor as a full-amplitude sound. The digital noise floor is completely analogous to, eg, the noise floor of analog tape. If you use a dithered digital representation, you get something that behaves exactly as analog does. You hear and perceive both the same way.

>In 16-bit recording, there simply aren't enough bits to represent very low level details without distorting them with a subtle but audible crunchy digital halo of quantisation noise.

On an audio tape, the magnetic grains are just too large to represent very low level details without distorting them with a subtle but audible crunchy halo of analogue distortion and hiss.

In a 24 bit recording, the noise you mention is still there! It's just shifted down [theoretically] 8 bits or -48dB. That's the only difference. The noise floor is lower.

[In reality, 24 bit isn't. Most recordings don't even hit a full 16 bits, and no recordings, unless they're mathematically rendered, can get deeper than about 21 bits. There is no such thing as a 24-bit audio ADC/DAC that delivers 24 bits. The very best available today
are about 21 bits of signal + 3 bits of noise.]

So the difference in playback between 16 bits and 24 bits is about 5 actual bits. If you're complaining about soft sounds in a 16-bit recording 'not having enough detail' because they're down at, say, 3 bits of resolution, are you saying it's all fixed by using 8? Aren't 8 bits woefully too few for any kind of quality sound?

(I hope at this point, you realize you're barking up an incorrect tree)

If you're following me so far, we can continue, but I expect even this much is going to require more conversation.
It's a comparison of how relatively rich people are. Adjusting for inflation ignores economic growth.
OpenGL Setup GLEW and GLFW in Xcode
> Economics is mostly microeconomics.

Please elaborate. Macroeconomics and econometrics are very much a part of economics.
1) They did not burn 30M (as stated in the article, most of it is still there).

2) You are conflating difficult to monetize with inherently impossible to monetize. They are not the same thing. Just because it's challenging and failure-prone, doesn't mean it's impossible.
Instead, the learning point here maybe is that, if you spend the time to spec something out properly, and make it into a nice little package, and say its for the good of the government and community, maybe you can get some altrustic programmers to help out, if you give them sufficient credit.

Maybe instead you should think about how to better create a list of timeboxed /scopedtasks that any programmer can come and submit a PR for, and how to better reward those people with fame or other perks

- Leaderboard of contributors, # of prs, dollars saved taxpayers?

- Let users link to their contributions / put in resume?

- personal letter from the mayor once you submit 3 successful PRs that are accepted?
Do you have inside information we don't know about? You know for sure he didn't put his own money into the venture?
A social website that gives people a voice
Yep, the discussion should've been about kexec and secureboot.
* Rounded corners

* Gradients on buttons

* Text shadows

* Superfluous drop shadows

* Videos as background images

* Fading in, fading out

* Sliding in, sliding out

* And like you said, parallax. I'm so glad that's dead.
If you think there's a tech bubble on because the latest private round came in higher than the IPO, consider what the explanation would be if the IPO valuation was 3x the VC round.
I think that's the joke.
When you say

> In order to decimate a signal to 44.1 or 48khz, and preserve high-frequency content, high frequencies need to be phase-shifted.

What do you mean by high frequency? If you mean frequencies below but near the Nyquist frequency then no, there is no phase shift. If you mean at or above...

I'm struggling to avoid a blatant appeal to authority here, but your position is that the author of the Ogg Vorbis coded doesn't understand digital sampling, which seems challenging to believe.
Not to be dense, but did you mean bills themselves or possibly electronically transferred money?

If it were cold hard cash then you'd have to go local. If it were possibly electronic check out : http://www.givewell.org/
In current Internet usage I have never seen "Tea partier" used once in anything except a derisive way, outside of Tea Partiers calling themselves members of the Tea Party. Much how SJW call themselves SJW's. Unironically.

>In current Internet usage i have never seen SJW used once in anything except a derisive way.

The reason you see "SJW" used in such derisive ways is because many people hate SJW's. Just like many people hate Tea Partiers. The meaning hasn't been changed but the connotations have been co-opted to mean something else.

When I call someone a Tea Partier or Tea Party Member it's never a compliment but that doesn't mean I should call them something else if they identify as and call themselves a Tea Partier. Unless you have a suggestion on how to refer to the Tea Party without the words "Tea Party"?

I can either use their term `SJW` or I can use another accurate term `totalitarian cultural Marxists`.