skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that we need a better system, one that does better at either rehabilitation or deterrence through punishment, as our current system is bad at both.

However, we can't let these types of offenses continue. Altercations in prison indicate a type of extreme stupidity and/or violence, given that the offender is committing a crime while in the punishment stage for another crime. Drunken driving kills ~10k a year (http://www.cdc.gov/MotorVehicleSafety/Impaired_Driving/impai...) and gang violence kills about the same in Mexico (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-10681249). The numbers for drug overdoses (often indirectly caused by said Mexican gangs) are far higher. Do you really want to let literally tens of thousands of people in the United States and Mexico lose their lives every year because we were too soft on the offenders?
Are you people aware that what comes up comes down ?
'Replicate' is clear to me. 'Reproduce', in this context, still isn't. Could you give an example?
... That's so backwards. How about we should find ways to make proper opiates easily accessible, so patients don't need to buy crap "heroin" off the street?
This is a great point. The model probably could have worked, it's just that the framework isn't very desirable. A really easy to point at example of why this is so hard to do: they implemented their own formula for inertial scrolling, since mobile browsers don't really (or didn't at the time) let you interact with scrolling behavior at all in javascript. So simply scrolling through a site written in famo.us felt _off_. It's a small thing, but emblematic of the problems with their approach, in my mind.
>I don't know if it's always the case, but where I live, any kid can find weed easily. Ironically, it may be more difficult for adults!

This has been my experience. When I was at university there was cannabis everywhere, it was relatively cheap, and finding someone that was willing to sell to you was very easy. When I left university and started working (even still living near the same university) my schedule would have made it more difficult to obtain (as the hours where I was awake did not often overlap with the hours of my friends who smoked pot or would be willing to provide it). Now it is even more difficult to obtain (having moved across town) because everybody I knew that used cannabis have stopped because they're in a career that drug tests and everyone else that sells it would want some sort of a reference (which I don't have).
Ryanair has a very effective marketing department, which seems to work on the basis that any exposure is good.

Hence there are press releases and news articles about plans for standing tickets, or charging to use the toilets.

I guess the theory is, if you tell people how cheap Ryanair is often enough, they won't check other airlines.

Norwegian is the budget airline that's flying US-Europe, for example NY to Oslo in January for $300 return (hand luggage, no food, no seat reservation).
What are the long term effects of opiods, apart from constipation? A potential dip in sex drive? What's the part that's not safe? Other than respiratory depression which is fairly easily avoided with properly labelled medicine.
I have a pair of Roger Sound Labs studio monitors for my speakers at home. I got to look at their insides when a technician was replacing a blown midrange speaker (they have a "lifetime" warranty, however that warranty expired when RSL did). Looking at the cross over filter network I could see a network selecting for frequencies > 20khz and it was shunted to a resistor. I asked about it, and the reponse was exactly like the authors, by filtering out signals higher than the tweeter could reproduce, they improved the listening experience.

It made sense to me, and I love how the speakers sound. Understanding is not inserting distortion makes even more sense.
Having just come back from a conference where, as a very tall person, I had to use very short urinals ... there is a serious problem in the overall height of the urinal itself. You know how when you walk up to a urinal and there's pee all over the top of it? What kind of asshole would do that, right? Unfortunately, a well-intentioned but very tall person may end up peeing on the top of a urinal placed lower to the ground because he didn't get the angle just right at first.
Do you have any way to actually scrutinize app updates? About the only thing the constant update notifications do is cause me to uninstall apps that I'm not using any more.
And sales engineers, which the author has apparently never heard of.
The Either Monad
Interview with Yann Lecun on what AI can do
"You want me to pull this thing?
That’s way more physical contact than I’m comfortable with."

This. Hand-operated manual flush levers on urinals need to die. Why? I happen to be flexible enough to flush urinals with my feet. I usually feel too self-conscious to do this if other people are present, but if I'm alone I do it every time. I know I'm not the only person who does this, so I also know that whatever is on the floor of bathrooms has a high probability of coating flush levers too. This behaviour is probably even more common for sit-down toilets because the handles are lower and privacy is greater.

Motion detectors work. You almost never see foot pedals, oddly enough. I really hate the two-mode flush buttons on toilets that are too small to hit with your foot, not that it will stop me from trying.

UX lesson: Pay attention to people's pre-existing habits. You can try to force people to use your interface in a certain way but, if there are no tangible benefits, they may insist on mashing it with their boots.
Insofar as Watson (the brand) seems to be the next Websphere (the brand) it's really, really hard to tell what's going on there.
With regard to point 2, isn't this what newsletters are for or email notifications? I get notifications of sites I have subscribed to via email. I find it is still a very reliable and good source because my email lists are curated to suit my needs all in one place. I get payment notifications, site update notifications, and correspondences to varying lengths with people. It's pretty great, actually!

As for point 3, text images seem like a poor way to digitise text, because it makes it very unsearchable and is prone to pixelation if you are writing a lot of it. It seems like a silly solution to something that was never a problem.

Actually, I sense a hostility in your response that I sense in Twitter users often when I bring up things I don't agree with. I am not at all attacking you, but rather find the way users use Twitter interesting, because it is something I no longer do. I know every single point you have made because I was a Twitter user for about 4 years -- I deleted my account last year.

Why would I Google arguments for and against Twitter when what I am interested is in your opinion? I would hate to put words in your mouth.
I was there on vacation not too long ago - it is a very interesting place. Most of the "weird" things we associate with Japan as outsiders are usually very practical and sensible solutions to local problems.

I think it's definitely true that Japan is a leading nation in many ways - not just technologically, but also socially and both in the good and bad aspects. But because Japan is a fairly unique place the local solutions don't translate 1:1 to the outside world, so you have to and disentangle their solutions with their particular environment to get a true sense of what's coming.

Smartphones are a good example - everything they do today (and more, TV for example) existed in Japan years before, but it was in local format. I take is that it was easier for Apple and Google to implement similar technologies rather than for Japanese companies to translate their technologies to a different mindset.
In the real world, it is almost impossible to make a voltage divider with 24bit resolution. So all the DAC makers have to convert 24bit audio into lower bits(6bits to 1bits), this step requires oversampling the original audio. It is a lot easier to oversample a 192KHz/24bit audio than a 44.1K/24bit audio, and the ringing is much less after oversampling the 192KHz/24bit audio.
You must consider a few things. India didnt have a lot of private organizations to work for before the 80s. And most of the youth are second generation college educated. At least the ones you're reading about.

Post Independence in 1947, govt jobs have been held in very high regard and no one gets fired from those jobs. They're mostly patronage.

Getting fired is a concept is still a new concept for most. People don't get fired, they're asked to resign. Even labour laws haven't been updated with the times. You can hire, but can't fire.

Also, people feel entitled to job security here and have not experienced a single recession in the last 30 years.

You must understand, Tiny Owl pays very well. Relatively. People with six months of managerial experience are getting paid $40,000. That's a lot here. It takes 8-10 years to get to that pay in regular large organizations.

But where they went wrong:
1. Hiring one bad apple who encouraged others to gang up on the founder. This is no way to resolve a professional dispute.

2. Not anticipating redundancy in positions well in advance, and communicating and disclosing the risks. Perhaps those jobs could have had a built in expiry and conditional renewal clause in their contracts.

But had they been growing as they did earlier this year, there would not have been any redundancy. The problem was credit dried up and competition became too fierce.
So, what are the better settings for ripping songs?
Actually inserting that code was the first anti-human action of Toyota's rudimentary Skynet-inspired AIs.
Wringing two necks – a plea for redundancy
I wonder how it will stack up against Bitcoin. Zero-knowledge proofs (zk-SNARKs) should eliminate the need to store gigabytes of data on everyone's computer that wishes to participate in the network, which is a win in and of itself.
They're a publicly traded company with a "big-4" auditing firm to make sure that doesn't happen. The law is very clear on what counts as CapEx and OpEx. Obviously, companies occasionally outsmart (or team up with) their auditors to defraud the public, but the vast majority follow GAAP and succeed or fail on the merit of their business.
Kenn White said it best: "This will get very ugly: unpatched, full remote exec on Java-based web svcs that use a popular serialization library
Mysterious billion-dollar car company is taking on Tesla
Nope, it's all just pointer games. I just tested it here and inspected the guts in the debugger. My initial string containing "123456789" contains a pointer internally to 0x000000010006d326 which contains that data. The result of .characters contains that same pointer. The result of .dropFirst(1) contains 0x000000010006d327 and the result of turning it back into a string still contains 0x000000010006d327.

That's the great thing about abstract APIs and immutable data types, you rarely need to actually copy anything.
There's uncertainty introduced by the idea that you don't know how big that range is supposed to be. Technically the M/n figure should be (M-L)/n, where L is the sample minimum observed, and the estimated population minimum would be represented by L + (M-L)/n - 2 [1].

[1] two degrees of freedom should be lost due to estimating both M and L, thus subtracting 2.
Visual cryptography
Not only is it cool to honor David Kelly, it's also probably more useful to have a speed limit like 17 vs 15. The thinking is that 15 feels generic where as 17 is specific.
Rumblr Is Tinder for Fighting People
This parody of "Male Restroom Etiquette" illustrates many of the design constraints brought up in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTXNvzTbe8Q
What Apple TV app developers need to know about the Siri Remote
As mentioned below, birdshot is really not that dangerous when it is coming down from its apex. Unless maybe it hit you in the eye. I've had shot fall on me goose and duck hunting before. Not worse than hail.

In a situation like a max-security prison, where you've already got cleared dead spaces around it to shoot escaping prisoners, its not really an issue.
Excellent encapsulation.

I'm far from an expert, and this is pure, naive speculation, but on a philosophical level, I wonder if the issue is that we've not yet really mastered the technology of air travel. By that I mean we seem incapable of building and managing aircraft at a sustainable, "MVP" level, operating on a fuel consumption minimal enough to withstand the vagaries of commodity prices.

Perhaps Boeing and Airbus are overengineering their aircraft and baking in economic rent to a degree that makes the airlines fundamentally incapable of sustaining a profitable business model. Perhaps this industry can't actually survive with current technology and design methods absent some sort of government backstop or subsidy. Not sure. But the supply-side theory of this business seems like the most compelling (if not wholly complete) theory I've heard.

Maybe we need a firm to come along and build the AK-47 or Toyota Prius of commercial aircraft, so to speak: cheap, reliable, efficient, elegantly engineered, and innovative in its use of parts and fuel.

I also wonder if there is a correlation between airline profitability and the airlines using the oldest aircraft. Seems to me (again, naively) that aircraft from back in the day were more purpose-built and simpler, with less complex global supply chains. Sort of a similar situation to the military's concerns about phasing out the old, reliable A-10s and F-16s in favor of the massive, modern boondoggle that is the F-35.
Certainly not illegal. Why would it not be nefarious?
I'd really love to see Twitter implement something approximating the reverse of Google+ style circles. Sometimes people follow me because I'm a developer, but I feel guilty when I post stream-of-consciousness nonsense into their feed. It would be great if I could separate that out - subscribe to @me/dev and/or @me/nonsense.

Of course, such complexity might put off new users, which is the problem they already have.
The article is specifying 24/192 as useless for playback quality only. Halfway down he addresses the benefits of 24/192 for the sake of mixing and mastering different digital audio signals, but a final mix offers no benefit to the human listener when choosing between 16bit/44Khz and 24bit/192Khz.
Syncano.io
Torvalds about practical hash collisions
No, in fact the interview addresses this specifically:

"The home of Thomas Drake, a senior executive at the NSA, was searched, his passport was cancelled and he lived under the threat of 35 years imprisonment for four years, prosecuted under the Espionage Act. He lost his job, his pension and spent everything he owned on his defense lawyer. Today he works at an Apple store in Maryland and has been able to establish that the only person, who was investigated and prosecuted, after trying to talk to his superiors about the mass surveillance, was himself."

The whistleblower laws in place a) wouldn't have applied to him, since he was a contractor, and b) are a trap anyway, since whistleblowers end up getting prosecuted, regardless of the laws. Snowden's only other possible course of action was to do nothing.
Even on the premise that it is acceptable as a last resort for violent inmates, the way it's currently used fails to meet that bar.
What to do? Roboadvisor has underperformed the S&P500 by 12.5%
>> I think there is an argument that Snowden's actions could have put at risk the former for the sake of the latter

This is actually addressed in the article:

"CIA, NSA and DIA (Defence Intelligence Agency) Directors all have been brought on the floor of the congress and they have been asked by my strongest critics, begged for any evidence, that any national security interest has been harmed, that any individual has come to harm. And not in any single case have they shown concrete evidence that this occurred."
I sort of agree, but I think fundamentally Linus is right to marginalize most infosec people.

The vast majority of people in infosec can't see the forest for the trees, and do active harm to both usability/performance and to security by implementing security controls that are such impediments to getting anything done that people just go around them. A security control or system that nobody uses does nothing for security.

The basic mentality is "you secure things by blocking things and making them harder to access." No. This is wrong. You secure them by making them secure. A firewall with no open ports is not impressive. What's impressive is a system that does a lot and has many things open to the world and is secure. Security achievement should be measured not in an absolute sense of invulnerability -- as this is impractical -- but as the ratio of surface area to vulnerabilities. If you have no surface area exposed you've accomplished nothing; any system can be secured by turning it off. The more surface area you can safely expose, the more secure your system is and the more impressive an achievement it is from an infosec perspective.

There are some great minds in infosec who think this way but they are few and far between. Most infosec people just like to block stuff and make it harder to use.
Some [consumer] digital low-pass filter can benefit from higher sampling rates, leading to an overall better representation of the analog signal up to 20kHz. But there are diminishing returns as the filter "folds" the octaves above 22kHz; A rate of 96k for certain lowpass filters is better than 48k, but at some point there's little (if any) benefit by going to 192k or 384k. For recording studios, go as high as you can in both bit-rate and bit-depth. Especially when you're processing the signal "in the box". Give the software as much data as possible to operate without introducing errors and artifacts. There are diminishing returns there as well, but RTFM for (for example) UA gear and software and you're good to go.
I don't live in Japan but, on the surface, the problem seems self-evident -- Japanese innovation is dead. The heads of the conglomerates (Sony, Mitsubishi, etc) are all old and Japanese, and anyone that is not old and Japanese is regarded as a second-class citizen.

On top of that they have strong ties and reliance with the government -- this guarantees their survival, so they have no interest in maintaining international growth.

And, if it's any consolation, Sony's semiconductor business is quite successful, so much so that it's been spun off[1].

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/6/9460463/sony-image-sensor-...
Yes, but for the typical sort of talent that Apple, Google, Facebook, etc. want to hire, you need those things first.

Also, while those companies could start a long-term investment in an area, it's not something that could be done in a year or two, and ultimately they could only influence the process.

You need relatively successful leadership in that community to start to ensure those things happen -- the money alone isn't enough.
You're implying that businesses only care about absolute profit with absolute no care for the customer experience whatsoever to the point of poisoning their kids and killing them on the spot. You either have never run a business or must be a horrible business person.
In order for someone to see your site and think they want to hire you, you have to change the wording of your actual work experience.

Instead of saying, "I worked on a team who did A and B", you should highlight what you did, "I was the architect for the database and monitoring the network" or "I built a relational database using python which allowed our customer to store their data on our servers."

Your CV should be focused on what YOU did and what some of your tasks were and what technologies and tools you used. IF I'm going to hire you, I need a lot more detail about your capabilities. Did you work in an agile or waterfall environment? Did you work mostly independently with little supervision, or did you work and collaborate with other teams (designers, project managers, business leaders) and did you have to work out issue and be able to communicate effectively? Are you capable of working on tight timelines and meet your deadlines effectively?

You probably have the skills, you just have to communicate your capabilities and achievements a little better is all.

You should also get rid of the Inconsolata font, it makes your site look amateurish as others have pointed out. Here's a good article on other fonts you can pair that will look much more professional. Just switching your fonts out will help polish your site.

http://www.labnol.org/internet/best-google-font-combinations...
So the Clark Griswold Christmas Vacation plan?

I'll keep that in mind next time I don't even get a subscription to the Jam of the Month club at the end of the year.

It may well be that India is bad for contract enforcement, but here in the U.S., many of us don't even have a contract to enforce.

Last time my entire office was escorted out of the building by security, on 3 days notice and with no severance package, there wasn't even anyone around that we could have taken hostage. It would have been a dream come true to be able to mildly inconvenience the person most directly responsible for our permanent layoffs for a couple of days, get a monetary concession, and have the cops and local political flacks on our side! Instead, all we got was a fresh boot-print on our collective backsides.
First thing I do when I walk into a public bathroom is stuff paper towels in my back pocket. That way, if I can't use my feet, I at least have something I can use to get between me and nastiness.
Not my department.
Hey wpietri, thanks for writing this comment. Sometimes, I read through threads like these, and see a lot of vocal white people saying shit that makes me lose hope for the future. White people are in charge in this country, and any change will require them to back it. Reading this helps undo some of that despair, and gives me some hope for the future.

Thank you, and keep being exactly what minorities need right now.
Um, no.

Let's review: the comment to which I was responding was by someone who considers Snowden a hero and couldn't understand why his midwestern family considered him a traitor. The OP specifically couched his confusion in terms of Christian values, and even cited a Bible passage. I responded with an answer to the question that he posed in the terms in which he posed it, and which made a factual claim that I believe to be correct, and which I can support with evidence. That's what I meant by "if the shoe fits..." (Just in case you're not aware: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/if_the_shoe_fits)
Reminds me of building codes for waterless urinals. Here is California the building code requires them to be plumbed with incoming water even though no water is needed, as a sop to the plumbing community.

"Provide water distribution and fixture supply piping, sized as required elsewhere in this code, roughed-in immediately adjacent to each waterless urinal fixture installed."
when ripping songs you are probably starting out with either 44.1 (CD) or 48kHz (DVD) sound. Just keep whatever the native sampling rate is.
Maybe you are living in China and want to donate to a group fighting for freedom of speech. Maybe you are in the US and want to buy medicine for your child that you can't afford to pay the US price for. Maybe you are in Venezuela and want to sell something for what it is really worth given the actual exchange rate. Maybe you want to make an online purchase of something embarrassing that you don't want anyone to know about even if they see your card statement.

In short, those checks and balances are starting to become corrupt and thus people create a means to do away with them.
Make some new friends on Ello? The big picture stuff like ad tech and tracking is becoming a touchstone for measuring companies in my opinion. Ello earns respect for their stand and I use it regardless of whether people I know use it or not. I've met some cool people on Ello using their Search and looking for similar topics of interest.