skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No, that's clearly nonsense.

I'm honestly confused here, because you claim to be disagreeing with me, but when I read the content of your post, it sounds like you actually agree with me?

When I was talking about hearing the difference between 16-bit and 24-bit, I was assuming that we dithered our audio. You can't hear white noise at -90 dBFS in typical listening conditions. You'd have to be in a quiet room with the volume turned way up, and you'd have to have very low-noise equipment.

The effective resolution of a -48dB signal on a 16-bit system will depend on that signal's bandwidth. If you don't understand that part, then you don't understand the math.
That... doesn't change the fact that entirely javascript based applications are a wart on web ?

It's very fast and responsive until I want to disable Javascript because I don't want terrible scripts using an entire CPU core to animate your flyout. I don't want to load 20MB of scripts and run them on my machine because the language and platforms you chose are terrible and you needed to fix the shortcomings of Javascript, I don't want your application hitting multiple CDNs telling them where I am (as an example, I do not imply that your application does so).

And most of all, I do not want to have to maintain your javascript based software, only held together by all the libraries you used.

If you wanted to make a responsive application, you'd have written it in a language that compiles to desktop applications (Java/C#/C++/Python/...). Javascript is the easy way out, where you decide to fuck over your users.
From that article:

> made it seem like Yale students are only rallying because of an email sent by Professor Erika Christakis, which suggested that people should feel free to wear culturally insensitive costumes on Halloween.

Having read that email, if that's all they chose to understand from the email, then I don't trust this as a source one damn bit.
> There's no way to programmatically determine which of these cases it is.

There is no need to programmatically determine which case it is. You're way over thinking the problem.

> NULL simply has no consistent semantics in a DB model.

Yes, it's the lack of a value. If you have an end_time field and you don't have an end_time and column doesn't allow NULLs, what do you put in there? It's a simple question. If you put any kind of valid value in there (which you have to do) then you'll be wrong.

> Or does it mean the process failed to write it's end state (for instance, if the machine crashed?)

You sure as hell better be using transactions to maintain consistency. This has nothing to do with the problem. If you do it this way that's just wrong. Has nothing to do with nulls. If you had a perfectly non-null FLAG you'd have the same problem.

> Which means this field no longer models the end time of the process

While the process is running it doesn't have an end_time, so what do you put in this field?
Page hijacks back button.
Advice for a recent grad looking to get into software sales?
Hey all, long time lurker. Found this page from Reddit (of course).

Dunno if this is proper protocol, but I'll ask anyway. How do I get into software sales? I sell IT hardware now but with every spare second I get I'm browsing Arstechnica, Wired, Ycombinator News, etc. Hardware is just so simple compared to software and I'd prefer to deal with larger more complex solutions.

Got a Bachelor's in management, but I've always been tech savvy. I remember one night trying to fix a bootloader from a failed Linux dual boot installation. Good times.

My question is, what skill sets do I need and what states in the US should I be looking at? I'd prefer marketing automation or something like that if it matters.

Thanks all!
it enables you to do lots of maths in parallel in a pretty scalable way.
Blockchain Adoption by Capital Markets Expected as Early as Q2 2016 – BC News
I emailed Jonathon Goldman, the Dir. of Public Works and got a response. He wrote:

Good afternoon. Here's a short answer from MarinMap (attached). The pieces of roadway that have no zoning, are inside the City Limits (the red dashed line) and have no parcel boundaries crossing them are generally public right of way. Roads that transit parcels with a solid color (and are therefore not as visible on the attached), or have parcel boundaries across them or near the centerline are private and not publically-maintained. Wolfback Ridge Road, for example, has a public right of way part between US 101 and APN 064-276-22 (owned by the Marin Municipal Water District), a part that lies outside the City Limits and parts on private properties. Happy to try to answer any more specific questions. At some point, a land surveyor would be necessary to sort that all out.

The graphic he references is here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hcsaclyxglbn1ih/Wolfback%20Zoning....

Honestly, I still can't tell which parts really are public and which parts aren't.
Like Starship, who made the rounds last week: https://www.starship.xyz
I usually do a "milk-rinse", because I have the feeling it brings the pH back to neutral a lot quicker than water. But milk contains sugar, so perhaps a water-rinse after that is a good idea.
What appears to be a simple HTML page requires third party javascript to run before it will render.
Honestly, the things people did with applets probably haven't been replicated by JS in the browser, especially when native got involved (if I'm remembering correctly).
This. Reusing assignments is just asking for trouble.

No, it doesn't excuse cheating, but creating a new assignment is like using a consumer-grade lock: it helps keep honest people honest.

Also: an essay about WiMax and LTE? Seriously? That doesn't sound like a very...useful...assignment to me.
First: Learn the essentials of personal finance: savings, taxes, credit.

You already know how to calculate how much your credit-card-augmented lifestyle is costing you, but you don't — why? Why on earth are you going to take out a loan on a new car next month when you could just buy a used Audi for cash?

Go smoke a joint, introspect on why you have that flaw in your character, and fix it.

Next: You will eventually decide to have kids. When you do, this life will be over. A new, different life will begin. Aside from whatever satisfaction you do or don't get out of the new aspects, one of the main differences will be the amount of your time and energy you can devote to pursuits like making software, writing novels, building a company, etc will be reduced by about 80%. So this is your window. Don't let your youth go to your head. You are in the first year of only 10 or 15 that you have left where what you do is totally up to you.

Finally: Stop smoking cigarettes immediately, you stupid little fuck.
Robots, Virtual Reality and Internet of Things? I Can’t Believe It’s JavaScript
Doesn't sound so different from Java applets.
New flu tracker uses Google search data better than Google
I don't see how that really explains the exchange with the student.

"By sending out that email, that goes against your position as master. ... You should not sleep at night! You are disgusting!"

Regardless of what's happening elsewhere, this student's primary concern does appear to be the email.
> This is a pretty international website, I'd like to understand why you believe that mostly those in the U.S. are interested and involved in the discussion of this issue?

I believe (though I do not have the data to prove) that the majority of people on this site are in the U.S. (Not just in this conversation, on this site.) It therefore seems appropriate that U.S. definitions be accepted. (Other definitions should also be accepted/tolerated, of course, but the U.S. definitions should always be accepted - not because "it's the US!", but because those terms are used by the majority of the people here.)

vezzy-fnord has been complaining about the use of the U.S. term in this conversation. If he/she wants to say that the term may not be understood by others who are not in the U.S., that's fine. But vezzy-fnord's stance has been more that our use of the term is wrong. I disagree with that position - language is defined by usage, after all.

[Edit: I mean that the proper definition of a word on HN would be how that word is normally used by the majority of people on HN, not how it would be normally used by the majority of people in the world. Again, this is not intended to be saying that the U.S. definition is the only right one for HN - we should accept other peoples' usage as well. But telling the majority that their use of the term is incorrect... well, I think at best it's wasting a lot of peoples' time.]

> Besides, you assume that everyone in the U.S. have the same understanding of the word "liberal".

Thanks to our media's simple-minded casting of everything as "liberal vs. conservative", yes, pretty much everyone in the U.S. has that understanding. (Fewer people seem to have the understanding of "liberal" to mean "not illiberal, in favor of personal liberty". I wish it were otherwise.)
Looks nice, but I use React. Anyone know of something comparable for React?
The US is 23% of global GDP per the IMF's 2015 projections, which take into account the rather significant shift in currencies globally in the last year.

Going by 2014 IMF numbers, the US was 22%. The World Bank and UN both have similar figures.
I wonder how this ties in with the increasing trend of young people living with their parents. In 1999, a quarter of all 25-year-olds lived with their parents. By 2013 this number has doubled, and currently half of young adults live in their parents home. [1]

[1] https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2015/october/mille...
We Are Addicted to Technology and These Fantastic Photos Prove That
Is there a part of TensorFlow that generates that slick diagram on the front page?
Watch spectre online free
Back in 2002 the advent of online/open-access publication gave an appealing alternative to established journals. As I was among the "pioneers" in publishing on open-access, my bias in favor of it is strong.

The traditional publishers no doubt see open access as a threat to their dominance and economic survival. However in the era of increasing public and government demands it seems inevitable that open access is going to continue to grow.

It's important to understand the implications of open access re: nature of funding. The model is inverted, with costs of publishing falling on the author (or institutional backer) rather than the reader. Traditionally, the cost burden was on the subscriber, with open access it falls on the creator of the content.

Perhaps that's not more "fair" a distribution of burden, but there's value in ability to share research widely. Scientific knowledge is only as meaningful as the degree to which it is available to anyone who wants to learn about it.
Do you have resources on how to incorporate your startup ?
A lot of people advocate cannabis as a cure for cancer.

I remind them that Bob Marley died from cancer.
I believe it's a GitHub thing, so people can't simply host static stuff inside repos.
The Pokemon story you show in an example (and you wrote and submitted) looked interesting so I looked it up. I recall now that I had started reading it but never got through more than the beginning, because I got totally sidetracked by Twitch plays Pokemon which you linked to in the very beginning of your article. I guess I get to revisit and read that, so thanks. ;)
I kept thinking the password was actually the text 'not secure' and I'm still not sure I'm wrong.
Like in their search engine indexes? The EU has been attacking that for a couple of years now.
This seems like a huge liability waiting to happen. By donning the jersey and working at least once a month as a participant in their marketplace they blur the distinction between employee and market participant, thereby opening themselves up to having those that participate in the market more than 40 hours a week claiming that they are full time employees and are entitled to things like benefits.
Finding value in the much aligned “networking event”
I'd like to postulate that the average disposable income of an active hn user is probably, with respect to forums of the same class as hn (metafilter, reddit, digg, etc) one of the highest. (There's been historical self-reported polls eg. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6464725 - 44% of respondents are in the top 10% income, ~25% are in the top 5% and ~4% are in the top 1%)

I'd also like to postulate that if you were to segment the market into "early adopters", hn would have a larger share of this segment then other forums in the same class, of an equivalent or greater volume of traffic.

If this postulation is correct, then effectively hn is "trendsetters with money" ... a good group to listen to.

I don't have data to back these claims up, but intuitively I feel they are pretty safe.

This of course doesn't give any indication of market velocity. I've done a number of investments based on HN at the wrong velocity - I presumed the stock had been undervalued because of hn content, when in fact, the market had YET to undervalue it. I forecasted a distant chance of success given an undervalued stock (in this case blackberry) - knowing that they were going to do an android with a physical keyboard <eventually>, and I invested upon this speculation --- well before the market doubted the future of the company.

As a result, I bought it way early and it fell precipitously and is only rebounding slightly now. So no, this isn't a magic sauce to time the events or how they will affect the market price, just perhaps one to forecast their eventuality.
Ask HN: Three jobs in eight months...am I justified?
Long story short, I'm a statistician in the automotive industry who has had a colorful history over the past eight months. Here's a brief review.

a. Laid off from job
b. Started two businesses
c. Got an interesting job offer and accepted it. One month later, I realized that I couldn't juggle all three things. Furthermore, my venture was doing fairly well
d. Fast forward five months, and I'd poured tens of thousands into my two businesses and things had turned for the worse.
e. I accepted the first job offer I had and moved to another state.
f. Another company offered me a job one month into job two, and it seemed better, so I accepted.
g. Have been at job three for one month. It's acceptable, even though they mis-characterized the work responsibilities and I don't think I'll get much out of this job.
h. Have sent out my resume just to test the waters and have had some great responses.

For the future, I won't be putting the two one month stints on my resume. But if a company does a background check and finds the job hopping, how do I explain it?

So here is my justification for my behavior. I have a degenerative neurological disorder that impact my walking, stability, and will eventually leave me bed ridden. I have about 6 to 10 years until that happens. Due to these circumstances, I have little patience for staying at jobs that I don't feel are benefiting me or are as advertised. Look, I'm trying to cram a fourty year career into about fifteen years. If a company isn't delivering, I'm going to jump ship. So....am I justified? If I'm not justified, what can I do to counter-act my job hopping.

Also, before to these eight months, I've had two stints at companies for two + years. I'd also note that if I found a good company, I'd stay for as long as I'm able to
See also the story of Machine Learning editors, who quit to found JMLR in 2001 for the same reason:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Machine_Learning_Re...

http://sigir.org/files/forum/F2001/sigirFall01Letters.html
Every time I see a comment starting with "Thank you." here, and specially on Reddit, I read it as "I now feel better because what you wrote aligns with my views, and that somehow makes them valid".

It doesn't make them valid.

I've also read the article and it's more than about just the email or the racism: it's also about how giving up to bullies and censorship leads to abuse and injustice.
Tip is actually hardly related to quality of service. Michael Lynn's[1] research shows that people reveal their prejudices through tipping more than anything else. Being a young busty blonde female gets you way more in tips than being a middle aged black male, regardless of the actual quality of service.

In regards to that, I don't think tipping is a good system unless what you want is pushing discrimination in the workplace even further. Service should just be included in the price. But at least, the blind tipping model of these apps eliminates that bias. If you don't know who will deliver, you are less likely to tip the busty blonde girl more than the black man.

[1] https://sha.cornell.edu/about/directory/instructors/wml3

edit: grammar and typos
If you're testing all the kits, you may find you have information you didn't know you had - like the presence of a rapist in rapes they hadn't been suspected of.
did you see this?

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.03009v1.pdf
The basic premise of the residential college system at Yale (and elsewhere) is to bring intellectual development (read: challenge) into the home. It's quite literally on the brochure.
moochers
I understand your point of view, but let's be honest here -- college campuses have become so PC that they have knee-jerk reactions to even Jerry freaking Seinfeld [1].

People have become too sensitive to everything -- everything. When everyone feels that they are being victimized constantly how do you move forward? How does anyone accomplish anything? Did someone look at you this morning? Might have been a micro-aggression. Did someone say hello, but you detected a "tone" in their voice? Fucking sexism!

Perhaps these students might focus more on moving our country forward as they take the reins rather than being apoplectic over incidents that no one, including them, will remember in five years. There are very large racial issues in the US, but these are not them.

I read the medium.com article and feel that it has an equally political agenda behind it.

Both are people yelling "look over here!", but neither with realistic solutions to those problems.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/08/jerry-seinfeld-coll...
Concerned Students 1950: List of Demands
An interesting article, but it has that overly optimistic, "Gee, Whiz!" feel to it that Popular Mechanics articles of the 40s had about helicopter commuting, and computerized kitchens and self-cleaning houses.

The article focuses on the human interest, portraying the National Cryptologic School through two of its teachers. The article does not take into account any of the NSA's history of human rights violations, which should probably be covered in any story about the NSA. It does drop the factoid that the NSA is the Washington area's single biggest employer. That's pretty weird, and that should probably be an article unto itself.
I think it's extremely significant that the agent in McCarthyism was the Federal government, and that is what made it such a dangerous phenomenon. Not just for the people directly affected, but indirectly due to purges in the State Department, chilling effects on the civil service, and encouragement to demagogues for decades thereafter.

I understand the analogies in principle, but they leave out this key distinction.
I. we demand that the University of Missouri system president, Tim Wolfe, writes a handwritten apology for the Concerned Students 1–9 – 5–0 demonstrators and holds a press conference in the Mizzou Student Center reading the letter. In the letter and at the press conference, Tim Wolfe must acknowledge his white male privilege, recognize that systems of oppression exist, and provide a verbal commitment to fulfilling Concerned Student 1–9 – 5–0 demands.
In the end, I'm getting really tired of people taking one side of an issue as the universal truth when there's much more going on.

This is what I find missing in most discourse anymore. It's like nobody has a feel for nuance anymore so every issue is black or white and couldn't possibly be anything else.
> What can I say, it works for me and few more people I know.

You don't know that - it could have been other unknown factors that made the difference. The same claims of 'working' are made for homoeopathy etc.

In general 'trying stuff' is a waste of effort, time and money unless there is supporting evidence for efficacy.
I wouldn't mind HN upping the indention when I have an iPhone 6+ in landscape mode. Its kind of hard to tell parents and children.
I think very highly of JIRA and would use it again, but at a previous workplace ( over 1000 users) we required to have a JIRA/confluence admin who was spending over 50% of his time either keeping it running, adding connectors, or making modifications to suite various interest groups.
A Play framework 2.4 (scala) and Slick 3.1.0 (MySQL) tutorial
Nothing. Very sensitive people get pissed over anything and everything. Sadly those people have time on their hands to write, picket, and generally get attention.
I highlighted the meaning Zikes provided for New McCarthyism, which applies as fully to Old McCarthyism and to many other related periods. I'll highlight it again:

> The harassers will gladly sign their own name to the actions, with the implication that if anyone should question them then their detractors will be the next target.

This characterizes a witch hunt. Old McCarthyism was a witch hunt. The satanic-abuse-slash-pedophilia day care scare was a witch hunt. What we have now is also a witch hunt. Cultural trappings may vary -- the House of Representatives was more heavily involved in hunting reds than usual; the day care scare saw more involvement from the judiciary.

This isn't a resurgence of McCarthyism, it's the same thing in new clothes. But I wouldn't think of this as coming from people remembering what happened in the 50s and thinking "I bet I could make this work today". It developed organically then, and it's developing organically now. This kind of thing is the natural state of human society; it will emerge when the culture doesn't restrain it, rather than being initiated by some unusual problem element.
Publication cost should be considered on an equal footing with all the other costs necessary to run a lab. Reagents and buffers need to be paid for out of grants, why not publication costs?
Google open-sources machine learning to smarten up our apps
Kemal: Super Fast Sinatra Like Framework Written in Crystal
I wouldn't call it typical, but I didn't have any fillings until I was 33. Everyone's biology is a bit different — salivary flow, composition, etc. Probably the most important thing that you mentioned is the limited sugar intake. Carbs => acid => cavities.

Keep in mind that these things tend to deteriorate as we age, so you might not be able to get away with rarely brushing forever.