skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention how badly stress can screw with memory.

If you're used to entering your password in a specific relaxed situation and now you're filled with dread every time you think about it, damn right you might not be able to remember it. That's just basic neurology.
when are you running for president because I haven't heard one candidate speak as intelligently about any issue as you have so clearly spoken about this one.
Native GUI library in pure Python
Because some old websites serve BMP images?
Reading should not carry a health warning
In a State where the GPL is enforceable would it be a violation of the TPP to require that a foreign company comply with the GPL and release the source code? I think that's the $1,000,000 question.
I've been considering a couple non-tech business ideas lately. Sometimes I feel what we do has no permanence.
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Ah, great question. I sort of view the YC guys as cutting edge, i.e. willing and able to adopt new and sometimes still changing technology. In contrast to a Fortune 500 shop which in my humble opinion is unlikely to adopt a wholesale change to a new technology.
>the people who hate them are jealous

You say it like it's a bad thing -- that those jealous should be ashamed of themselves or something, when it's the other way around.

Democracy is all about people being jealous of royalty (kings, feuds, pharaohs) having all the power, land, free food and honors, for just being "born" special, and putting and end to that charade.
Compressed formats are not really relevant to considerations about the bit depth itself.

Besides, mp3 [audio] compressions have difficulty in handling specific samples, or type of samples (eg. sharp attacks), and they may manifest artifacts independently of the bitrate; MP3, AFAIK, also has a ceiling of 320 kbps within the standard specification, which certainly doesn't help.

Secondly, I'm not sure if you process further the MP3s (when you refer to mixing), but if you do, you're definitely going to make noticeable, artifacts which weren't so in the unprocessed MP3 form.
That the harm isn't noticed is not the same thing as there being no harm. See also the harm caused by petroleum usage that Joe Six Pack also ignores, not understanding that ignorance is no protection from reality.
When you use more water, it comes out over the same time (roughly) as less water, so it carries more kinetic energy and can unstick solid waste from the walls, plus additionally it can help bigger pieces pass through the u-bend.

Source: I poop.
My favourite part of the US elections is the false premise of voting for either a bullet in the left side of your brain, or as a pleasant alternative, the right hand side.
Actually, yes.

mp3, for example, loves to save space by cutting away sounds just above the noise floor, and some less-noticeable frequencies.
What makes you think that Bernie Sanders is any different on this issue than anyone else?

Sure, he says nice things about stopping the programs. But he's clear that Snowden should go through the legal process and receive punishment. In particular he does NOT say that he would give Snowden clemency. Which makes his position indistinguishable in practice from Hillary's.
Experience: I founded my own country
Looks nice and simple enough, which is a good thing.

A few small points:
Because of the redirect to a new pile, the back button in the browser is broken (because if I go back, it goes back to codepile.net, instantaneously pushes a new short URL on the stack and I don't get back to HN). You probably should replace the top history entry instead of pushing a new one.

I can't properly select the text in the "Link to share pile" field. (I have flash disabled)

Is there a way to choose a display name in chat without an account?

Is there a way to delete a pile?
That's not true (that he traded info for safe passage). He was a classic whistleblower, he took his information to the New York Times and the Washington Post first.
Comparing with Android.

- C++ is a first class language on the platform, not constrained like the NDK

- C++ also gets first class tooling not the second class treatment Google gives C++ devs

- WinRT is a very nice framework as the second coming of COM

- .NET is compiled to native code AOT

- Visual Studio rocks in debugging capabilities, specially for parallel and graphics debugging.

- Less resource hungry as Android

- XAML and its tooling (Expression Blend) for UI design

- Common runtime, develop WinRT components and use them from any language that understands WinRT.
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And lately we're seeing that governments often don't restrict themselves to warrants. It'd be nice if we could fix that with reforms but so far we haven't had much success.

Of course if you're getting something physical shipped to your house, anonymous currency doesn't help you.
I imagine the data sources are proprietary; i.e. I as a layperson could not call some API to find the exact location of every ship in the world.

So I imagine Bloomberg must negotiate for access to this data, and that's what I'm really paying for? The actual terminal application is secondary.
Logz.io Introduces Library of Free ELK Stack Apps
I don't think it works well for text manipulation. For example, in Go, how would you truncate a string and add ellipsis, without dropping an accent or otherwise splitting a grapheme cluster?
Traditionally the cost per seat/mile is lowest on wide bodies and skyrockets as you get towards regional aircraft. The higher (per seat/mile) cost of operating smaller planes is offset by the near poverty wages payed to regional airline crews.

Maybe someday small point to point aircraft will be economical, but we aren't there yet. Southwest has done pretty well operating outside of hubs mainly due to smart management that knows when to hedge fuel costs and a fleet composed of a single type of aircraft (737).
Dithering is a horrible thing to be doing, and 44.1 is an awkward rate. So while I agree that 192khz is dumb, 24/48 is a better standard than CD.
> its UI is optimized for users who actually take the time to go through training.

I read another take on Bloomberg terminal's dominance.

A (potential) competitor might look at the Bloomberg screens and think they could recreate that more cheaply with Angular, React.js, or some fancy GPU accelerated DirectX. Maybe they'll have interesting ideas like beaming price charts to Google Glass, Apple Watch, etc.

However, that's just looking at the surface level.

The thing that's very hard to duplicate is the relationships that Bloomberg has built up over the years with all the data providers to get you ultra low latency data feeds. That's hundreds of golf games and 3 martini lunches the competitor would have to duplicate to establish the relationships Bloomberg has. The programming of the hardware and GUI would be trivial compared to the wheeling & dealing that has to be done.
500 Lines or Less: A 3D Modeller
One of the greatest (and nicest) guys around. Best of luck Garry!
Microsoft's Price Hikes Paying Off as SQL Server Business Hits $5B Mark (2014)
should i assume that the 'javascript' setting also covers java well enough?
Recently I have been thinking about this more, particularly whether this is spreading to things other than SQL Server such as Windows.
It's pretty hard to accept that this is just a technical problem.
This just sounds like a religious argument more than anything. I would have taken it more seriously if you said "I do not find Facebook to be useful for my needs".

Instead, you're actively angry about Facebook, which is really quite similar to Twitter in many ways.

I find value from Facebook and 0 from Twitter. I've tried many times over 5 years to find use out of Twitter, and I just can't.

That doesn't mean I want it to die in the hottest fires of hell. I just means I don't care.
I don't use Twitter for having in depth conversations in those fields I'm interested in. I use it for finding and sharing the sites and articles where you do go into depth. With the amount of people invested in Twitter, it's easy to find good posts on a regular basis.
See drops of water 'trampoline' higher and higher
The energy at this event is just going to be incredible <3
I'm sympathetic to this sort of critique, but my impression after years of observing this industry is that anything that makes air travel less insane also makes it less affordable, so there is strong pressure toward insanity. It doesn't seem odd that a market for expensive short-term services would be like that, or at least would have a segment like that. After all the utopia you envision exists for those who are willing to spend more, e.g. on fractional ownership.
Take care! One thing that I want to point out (and it's something I hate to point out) but would it be a good idea to edit out the upcoming trip and how long it'll be? Normally it's the best idea to not post, publicly, where you're going and how long you'll be gone for and Gary is semi-well known.

Just throwing that out there.
This reminds me of my experience with Imgur's private images.

A few years ago, I wrote a little js tool to browse random Imgur images by guessing their urls (i.imgur.com/<5-digit code>) until it found one that succeeded. It would add the found image to an infinite-scrolling page. It was kinda fun to browse, and a lot of people seemed to enjoy playing with it.

After a couple years, though, Imgur suddenly started blocking access to their images on my site. It turned out they were blocking based on the referrer header.

I emailed them asking what was up, and apparently they were attempting to ensure the privacy of public-url images by manually going after any tools like mine (if you google 'random imgur', you'll find dozens).

I didn't bother circumventing this, I didn't want to be a jerk just to prove a point. I did try to point out that there were a number of ways to get around something as simple as a referrer block, but I don't think the customer support person I was dealing with was really interested in discussing the issue and I let it drop.
Explain? I don't get it
But the article makes a compelling case for why > 48kHz is completely pointless.
Here's a classic "OMG I can hear him moving around" recording that works with the cheapest of headphones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUDTlvagjJA Most of the audio experience quality comes out of the production phase, and artists can put as much or little effort into that as possible and consider several mediums of listening (headphones, TV, surround, concert, vinyl) and make tradeoffs for the medium's particular experience.

I don't know about double blind trials but people do tests on their own. It's further complicated though because the hardware you use could be optimized for certain types of music, e.g. have a read through http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/07/some-of-the-worlds-mo...
It has the form of a podcast that was transcribed to text. Yes, it would have been easier to follow if it was all audio.

It took me a few to realize when the conversation was changing from the narrator to Snowden.
No, you want to burn all the short lived isotopes, not just Uranium. So the designs I am talking about use spend fuel dissolved in acid as a fuel. There is also spent fuel recycling, where you take Uranium and Plutonium out of spent fuel and manufacture MOX fuel, but that is an entirely different process.
ActBlue responds to the technology gap between Republicans and Democrats
But why defend and keep regulations that make things harder to use?

I'm sure there are many regulations that are born out of sensible tradeoffs, but then the things you are defending aren't the regulations, they are the other sides of the tradeoffs.
Mozilla is hiring three engineers to work on Servo
It's the commentary that has the value. Reading a paper is a large mental investment. Reading a conversation is a conduit into 'maker' time. It gets the juices flowing.

I get lost on twitter just to see what the world has to offer, and sometimes I find something amazing.
This will fetch something to pay back the lenders and investors if the company is shut down.
How I decide when to trust an R package
Reminds me of http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/10/attack-of-we...
Apple doesn't sell 320kbps anything, but 256kbps AAC, which is probably better than 320kbps MP3.
There are group DMs now.
mp3 encoders have gotten better over time. As well as general improvements in fidelity, older encoders had bugs that would cause occasional terrible encoding for fragments of a sample.
Hey author of the article here. Thanks for posting. Would love to hear everyone's thoughts!
European low-cost carrier Ryanair had a net profit of 523 Mio. €. Seems there are ways to make money. http://investor.ryanair.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Q4FY-...
as you've shown, upbeat critique is hard
You still have to pick up the items or have them delivered. Even if you open a PO Box or something, Amazon would still aggregate your purchases all shipped to one PO Box into a profile. That data is still valuable, even if it's not personally connected to you.
bitcoin address or "donate with paypal" (last one only if first option is not there...)
I agree with all your points. The benefit is per-core performance is very very fast indeed. If you need that, and price is no object, then you should use POWER.
Thanks. I know that but it might help someone who hasn't realised it yet. I'm sure I've also read that some servers require the 0x prefix when searching by ID.
So, no point in 24/192 because it makes no difference in playback... but having lossless downloads is important in part for enabling remix culture? There's a bit of a double-standard here. Maybe I can't hear 24/192 audio, but isn't it better input for sampling?
Yeah, but divide that rent rate by 8 roommates ...
As someone who recently joined the firm to develop software for the terminal I find it heartwarming that it is so well regarded in the HN community.
I did struggle a lot with the UI initially though I hear that most of users are hardcore about keeping it as it is.
MS is trying to make iOS and Android applications easy to port to windows phone apps, so hopefully having an easy path from your existing app to windows phone will be almost a no brainer, but Windows Phone 10 dev tools or phones are not out yet afaik.

Given that WP10 and Windows 10 should have a similar "universal" runtime, maybe once you are done with your android/iOS to WP10 port it will work quite nicely on Windows 10 after you update the UI to support larger screens.

So, hopefully once enough people are on Windows 10, the windows (phone) 10 ecosystem will be attractive enough that people want to build things for windows 10, rather than the web.

I have no idea if this strategy will work out, but it's what I sort of expected windows 8 to be, but hey, maybe the ship hasn't sailed so far as to make this pointless.

I used to work at MSFT though, so this please excuse the bleakness shrouded in the unwarranted optimism.
who believe it is in their best interests to cultivate a populace with unquestioning deference to authority

Facts not in evidence. You really think you can know what they believe in their hearts?
Couple of responses:

0) Your arguments seem to be targeted at social media in general (eg. why I can't follow them on their sites, etc). Don't want to get into a conversation on benefits/disbenefits of social media

1) There was nothing in my comment to imply that my friends were from the U.S (they are not), but as I said, the user growth could be just for me.

2) >Why can't you follow the experts...
Twitter IS their online community. As everyone has mentioned, it's like RSS, where everyone is, and they let me know when their 'communities' are updated. Because I wouldn't want to check a hundred sites every day.

3) A tweet is 140 characters. All large tweeters post texts as images to get over the limit. People often engage in multi-tweet conversation. The 140 char limit is useful there because twitter shows how many tweets the user has in the conversation. If you're not interested, you don't encounter a wall of text: you see a tweet, and then bail out. Subtlety is lost in 140 characters, but if both parties are looking for a fair conversation, they usually engage in multiple tweets.

4) I do indeed use twitter to bookmark. I also use twitter as RSS. And to get to know people I don't know and follow them too. As a public social media. You could also have Googled 'arguments for and against twitter' and be done with this entire thing, but you chose not to. : ) Twitter is a community, and that's what people are there for.
Square sets IPO price range, would be valued below last private round
About the only thing I have used Twitter for is writing topical one-liners related to the Comedy Central television show @Midnight's "Hash Tag Wars" segment.

It makes me think I'm funnier than I actually am. But I also have to sift through a lot of bad and mediocre humor in order to get a good laugh from all the amateur comedians that participate.

There may be future conflicts between the people using Twitter for casual socialization and jokey-jokes and those using it as a serious platform for news distribution, public relations, political activism, or announcements.

There's just no good way to keep your vaguely prejudiced or non-PC attempts at humor away from the social justice warriors that will pick it up, sharpen it to a razor edge, and cut your throat with it. If you're at an open-mic night, you just get booed. If you're on Twitter, you might get fired from your day job, too. But there's an upside. If you Tweet one of your baby steps on the long road to beating cancer to your 6 followers before going to bed, you might wake up the next morning to a Harpo Studios production assistant ringing your doorbell.

No one is really listening to you on Twitter, but anyone could be.

Richelieu's maxim: "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."

Twitter's corollary: "If you give me 140 characters from the most unremarkable of feeds, I will find in them an excuse to dogpile upon the author."
Garry was the partner we leaned on most at Ridejoy. He believed in what we were doing, helped us cut through to the highest priority work, and gave us tough love when we needed it.

Thank you Garry for being an amazing YC partner. I'm sure we'll be hearing about what you work on next soon, and in the meantime, enjoy the well-deserved R&R!
And they may actually believe those things. That's the issue I have with the parent. He's basically suggesting they're all liars.
An interesting side effect of this would be the invalidation of the Nevada law requiring the source code for all electronic gambling machines be disclosed in order to operate in that state.

It seems like it would also apply to new or existing laws requiring the disclosure of code inside proprietary voting machines, medical equipment, and of course, the Volkswagon ECU. Then again, could those things be considered "critical infrastructure"?

The Department of Homeland Security considers the entire
"Information Technology sector" as "critical infrastructure":

http://www.dhs.gov/information-technology-sector
Same here. I started using Twitter about a year ago. Before that I thought it was just silly status updates about what someone had for breakfast. I couldn't have been more wrong. It is the counterpoint to the decay of mainstream media, always my first stop when I want to know whats happening in the world.

I can understand why it doesn't have the same broad appeal as Instagram. My brother describes it as a bunch of people who take themselves too seriously ranting about some world problem or some academic concept that nobody understands. That's probably not far off, but that's also its appeal.

FYI - Twitter has already started adding tweets to the timeline from uses you don't follow. Seems like a curated timeline is inevitable.
I'm totally with you in spirit. Solitary should not be used for long-term punishment for offenses in prison, or as punishment for what happened on the outside.

But what do you do about an inmate who terrorizes his cellmates, his peers on the yard, his peers in the cafeteria, etc. You've tried solitary for a day, for a week, etc.

If you leave this inmate in with general, he's taking away their rights to learn and rehabilitate. If you put him in with a bunkmate... well, that seems like punishment to the bunkmate. You end up creating a new ad-seg unit that looks just like the old one, but with a new name.

I'm not meaning to say that solitary is used correctly in the US right now. Not at all. But it may be an inevitable result for a very small group of prisoners who would otherwise take away the others' right to rehabilitate.

(Edit: replaced stray ? with .)
Great article! One minor nit: When explaining the bag vs duplicate_bag thing, it says

> The difference between bag and duplicate_bag is that duplicate_bag will allow multiple entries for the same key.

bag also allows multiple entries per key. After reading the ETS documentation, it appears that duplicate_bag allows the same object instance to appear as a value for a key multiple times, whereas bag only allows an object instance to be added once to a key (e.g. so if you add the exact same object instance to the table using a given key, bag will only end up with one value for the key, but duplicate_bag will happily have many identical values for that key).

The following sentence is still fine:

> Since each socket can only connect once and have one pid, using a duplicate bag didn't cause any issues for us.
Religious children are meaner than their secular counterparts
Paying sub-minimal wages to population in desperate need of income. Taking advantage of the the situation that working poor find themselves in by appearing to act as a benefactor while obscuring the fact that enployment with them is likely to make situation even worse.

Why is sweatshop labor considered bad? Dont those people need money?

Why is predatory lending is bad? I thought they willingly borrowed?

Etc. Taking advantage of desperate and uninformed.
Response_type of OAuth authorization endpoint is no longer what you know
Until a technological leap as large as the move from piston engines to turbine engine occurs and flight crews are replaced by computers, airlines will scrape by on the narrowest margins of almost any industry. As much as it seems like the airlines torture passengers for the shear joy of it, this model is the best thing that could come out of intense competition, high overhead costs, and the prohibitively high fuel costs of the early 2000's
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It's not really as simple as that. Just because you have data doesn't mean you have (sometimes dizzyingly complex) analytic tools to make sense of the data. An API and Excel plugin exist for people who want to do things themselves, but the Terminal app is definitely not secondary for the vast majority. You're paying for service, which includes everything as well as continued enhancement, new features and data sources, and 24/7 technical and analytic support.
The biggest brand in the world is Colgate?
Pretty much every major airline has gone Bankrupt at some point. I think there are short periods when they can make money, but based on history it is unlikely they can make profits long term.
He's not exactly Donald Knuth when he writes about technology, either.
> I really hope twitter somehow makes money.

Never really saw the benefit or value in Twitter. People I care about are not on Twitter most of the time, or if they post, they don't post stuff I care about.

In general I found 140 character sentences are not just good enough to have a discussion (it ends up sounding curt and snippy). For links and all I just follow communities on forums (reddit, hn, github, their own sites, mailing lists etc).

> I would be willing to pay a subscription fee if that helps it sustain

Well, given that I don't see a value in it, I hope they start that too, because I think it will accelerate its downward trend and it will just be over sooner ;-)