skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue that 64 kbit PCM performs significantly better than most compressed codecs in high noise situations, I don't consider it a benefit to include audio up to CD quality for a conversation on the phone, because much of what you do include is unwanted/unneeded noise.
There is a decent C++ one. What's wrong with the C people? Heck, they live and die by parsers.
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>Ban and move on.

This might have mixed results. Some trolls see getting banned as proof of successful trolling, whereupon trolling via another account might still be an option.

I think the users are the key to making trolls go away, because it is a social issue and not a mechanical issue. Put another way: you can't program away trolling, despite how fun XKCD's idea [0] might be to implement.

[0] https://xkcd.com/810/
You're not alone.

I was thinking about an initiative to publish books on recycled paper or something, then I finished reading the sentence.
That'd be an insane amount of money being saved if that really did happen.
Not to mention the aluminum cans are infinitely more recyclable than the used pods are.
You think the F-35 isn't real? I'm here to tell you otherwise. I've seen and touched and been around many of them. They are real, they fly.
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OK, but maybe AP software could be tweaked to play nice with phones. Or maybe phones will stay away from WiFi bands.
This Has been on human mind for thousands of years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%80tman_(Hinduism)
So Obama (and Hillary Clinton) wants tech companies to weaken encryption and strengthen online surveillance techniques, but isn't quite saying it in so many words, and doesn't really seem to be providing much incentive for them to do so.
It's related to a productivity strategy called "inbox zero" where you immediately deal with every email in your inbox when you check your mail. "Deal with" might be to delete it if it's junk, respond immediately if you can, or defer it to later. A lot of these clients are aimed at making this process as fast and efficient as possible. So taking actions on an email are often just a swipe, and there are facilities to defer an email to a particular time, or adding it to a to-do list.

It's mainly intended at people who get too much email.
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Someone started a petition in an effort to lobby dropbox to do just that:

https://www.change.org/p/dropbox-open-source-mailbox-app?rec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expatriation_tax#United_States

http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/23/expatriation-exit-tax-limba...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2015/02/11/thousands-...

https://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Expa...
And guess what? At least in NYC, there are rules about where and for how long those food vendors set up. (Not that all of them follow the rules, of course, but not having your permit is rather costly, I understand.)

"Let the market decide" doesn't work with commons. It's a tragedy, I tell you.
Why are people even trying to formulate a consistent model out of Betteridge's law? It's puerile and missing the point. It's nothing but a sardonic aphorism that observes how tabloids tend to structure their headlines. It's absolutely trivial to subvert: "Did six million Jews really die in the Holocaust?".

Is there a law about people egregiously overestimating the applicability of Internet laws?
Oh, I probably have an old (bad) StartCom cached on my machine then.

http://i.imgur.com/diXXwnQ.png
ASUS Support pages have technical difficulties (anyone else confirm?)
The follow up 1493 is also great.
Isn't landline better quality than cell?
I'd say Ethereum fits that bill.
USA, yep. Glad to see that you've got all of the obvious wrinkles thought through and planned for. Here's hoping you have to buy a new laser soon!
> If the author could provide reasonable proof of who he was, what he was doing and his standing in the community, then there should be nothing wrong with letting him go, pending further investigation. Take his picture, if you like, but don't detain him any longer than absolutely necessary unless there's overwhelming probable cause to hold him. A vague description is hardly that.

The argument is that he simply could have easily lied to them and they have no way to verify that. When there is a crime happening and the cops respond the smartest and best course of action is to look for the suspect(s) who are possibly nearby. This guy could have possibly been one of them. Thus they asked for his info, validated who he was, crossed him off of the list and moved on. There wasn't any probable cause to hold him, which they didn't do.

I don't see how it get's much more cut and dry than that.
So if Wi-Fi performance is hampered then we might have to rely more on cellular data.
It's only more efficient if you tautologically define efficent allocation to be whatever the market decides. Remember, we're talking about an effect that pushes occupancy down, meaning the same amount of scarce resources are being used to satisfy fewer people's needs.
When you say "haven't done much to hurt US interests" does arming Iraqi insurgents with Iranian made weapons that killed many coalition soldiers, and further destabilized Iraq causing who knows how many innocent deaths, not count?

And why would the US get more blame than the USSR or France and Germany? The USSR sent soldiers and pilots to fight for Saddam.
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If he sold immediately after the announcement he'd be in big trouble. Likely there's a lockup for a while and he wanted to sell before the end of the year.
I used to program C++ a lot, several years ago.

My way, today, to avoid complexity in C++: Avoid C++!

C++ is at least three languages and the complexity is at least that of three languages. If you really want to be faster at programming and don't need to have the last 5% of performance, do you a favor and use an other language.
Yuck. Keurig is a horrible company and this will stain Peet's reputation. Too bad.
Settlers regularly burned their houses to the ground to recover the nails.

The nails aren't a completely tortured analogy to repurposing the operation/maintenance budget.
considering 2.4ghz is basically unusable where i live this isn't really good news.
Those are two cherry picked extreme examples in the sense that both Audion and OmniWeb were fighting for markets that Apple moved into in a big way. However, I think Brent picking any companies at all as "examples of the good guys" undermines his larger point.
Why does Verizon want LTE-U so badly? They were against wifi calling until recently! I thought their network was perfect :)

The only thing I can think of is that they don't have enough high-frequency spectrum (1700/1800/2ghz+) which means lower theoretical data speeds.
Proprietary tools just aren't worth the turnover for me.

It's untenable to depend on developer tools that a company owns. I love free software, but in all honesty the reason I incorporate it is more selfish. My workstation is exclusively free software so I don't have to be abreast of business news to get my job done.

I've basically settled on my emacs + notmuch + offlineimap solution not because I think it's better than all email clients -- but it's the one that if all parties involved quit, I could probably use it for another 10-ish years.

For example - offlineimap right now still has this old bug where sometime it uses all my cpu (and a bunch of memory) in some sync case. Ok, I don't have time to debug this. I set limits and have it be killed when that state occurs. Annoying? Sure. Have to configure whole new mail client? Nope!
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Thirded. It took me years to become interested in history, and books like this are what finally broke through.
How is that good news?
History doesn't teach anything. It only helps with understanding the present.
You can't ask "What is E-Prime?" if you are not allowed to use the word is.
I would imagine back then a lot of work was unspecialised, and anyone could do it. If you're building a wooden bridge across a stream, even dummies who aren't carpenters can help carry logs.

These days you have engineers and cranes using special materials.
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Are you familiar with proof-of-share?

There's also proof-of-burn in the context of bidding for the right of block validation, though that's far less developed than proof-of-share.
Actually, I added that disclaimer on performance because of your first comment. I realized people were getting the wrong idea about my little example, and were thinking this could be used in place of packages like Caffe, Torch7, Theano, TensorFlow, ect...
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I don't think downvoting is fair but when you criticize it's good to provide explanations. So when you say it's "absolutely implausible" and it "couldn't possibly" then you should write why exactly it is so.
money == value

>What would you do if [value] didn't exist?

huh?
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I just wanted to comment to say that that is a brilliant idea. I only use my Soda Stream for sparking water as well, but I pay about 25 cents per liter for the standard refills.
The problem is that there is often/always a disconnect between what a client says they want, what they think they want and what they actually want/need. What separates a great developer from a merely competent developer is being able to talk to clients and negotiate that disconnect.

A company that simply takes a spec sheet and implements it as written will end up with many very unhappy clients.
Why, oh why can't companies just focus on their core competency? Does Dropbox really consider the sync-and-share problem solved?
Acquihires are more about hiring functioning teams composed of engineers and executives who are used to working with each other. That's a lot more expensive to build than just the salaries; and you can generally take that team and throw them at a problem with a reasonable expectation they'll accomplish something.

Also, there's generally some amount of IP and customer data involved as well.
It's called a "joke."
What does LTE-U do that you can't already do with wifi, and WiFi calling? Seems like a solution looking for a problem. Or an evil conspiracy to cripple the open, free, firmly established standard.
If you love Commodore computers, then Brian Bagnall wrote a really good book on the history of Commodore's 8-bit machines.

http://www.amazon.com/Commodore-Company-Edge-Brian-Bagnall/d...
The stark recent example of this was the Rwanda genocide, and there was little or no escape from the crowds wielding machetes.

Review videos about the Tueller Drill (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tueller_Drill) and you may become less confident about your ability to try to escape an edged weapon.

All this mostly depends on how timely your reaction is to whatever's happening. Once you're a fair distance away, say the 21 foot metric of the Tueller Drill, against a bad marksman you probably have a pretty good chance; the average distance of gun fights as of some years ago was 7 feet.
They will just point out that PoW incentive systems existed in the 90s along with Merkle chains; bitcoin marries the two but maybe its rise is simply revealing to banks how useful distributed consensus protocols could be for building private exchanges instead of these crypto primites remaining one among many in the huge collection of esoteric crypto protocols to arise in the crypto-Cambrian era of the 90s.
This is probably one of the most insightful threads i've read on hacker news in the entire year of 2015. Reasonable and positive discourse explaining racial disparity and discrimination. At the same time, expressing the poignancy of the topic without woe is me tripe. Job well done sir... Job well done.
I'm talking about his "if Islamists acquired nuclear weapons, a nuclear first strike against Middle East countries would be the only way to protect the Western Way Of Life."
Cents must have been more common back then.
Considering 5 GHz doesn't really travel well through walls, is this a serious concern? 5 GHz Wi-Fi typically requires an access point in every room. Conversely, I imagine their cellular tech would really only improve the outdoor cellular experience.
A quick Wikipedia check [1] says that there are other towns in Finland, I would expect them to grow a bit. I would also expect people to take a bit of time to decide what kind of work they could do within the new system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland#Urbanization
Did your dad have anything to do with the Crowley Ridge turbines?

I went there to have a look, those are really special machines even though they look ordinary at first glance.

http://www.gettyimages.nl/detail/foto/crowley-ridge-wind-pow...
JFK was the last president openly addressing the FED situation [1]. We all know how that ended.

But yeah, he also slept around, so by that logic who cares right ?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_11110
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Like space, energy is also a non-argument, there's plenty of it.

The thing we don't have is infinite petroleum resources to make single use plastic cups. The other thing we don't need is unnecessary amounts of toxic production polluting the air, water, and land far and wide outside the hole in the ground where the waste goes.
If all you want to do is sit on a beach an hack on trivial CRUD apps why would you bother to go to MIT in the first place?
I strongly believe we'll end up with an ecosystem of major blockchains with smart contract support where it's standard to push transactions across them as needed to interface with applications working with a given blockchain or set of blockchains.

Not to mention sharding solves a lot of scaling issues.
Stonehenge may have been first erected in Wales, evidence suggests
What does that equate to, about 40k a year for the US?

$40k * 300M = $1.2 * 10^13, or the whole GDP of the US

Okay maybe that's too luxurious for the common people. Let's say only 20k per year, and to only 200M people.

$20k * 200M = $4 * 10^12, or about the total federal spending for 2015.

So how exactly is the 'richest' nation in the world able to afford this, easily?
Poor people having more disposable income means it's a good time to sell things that they want, like food and shelter. Joke's on them!
A VIC-20 was my first computer. I still have fond memories of writing random-sentence generators in BASIC on that thing.
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But windmills complement solar, on Mars as well as on Earth. The sun isn't always visible and you will want to have multiple inputs to reduce the amount of storage required. Upgrading your battery after a couple of years is probably a bigger problem than shipping a windmill once.
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How does this get rid of the 'poverty trap' by spreading free money to every person?
Ah, well if a company makes k-cups I wouldn't expect them to make decent espresso. Not sure what the OP is getting at.
I'd love to see what else Dropbox is working on besides Paper and enterprise features.
We need to move on from NASA anyway. As a government organization it is always going to be somewhat capricious and compromised by the needs of politics (eg: part of the reason the Space Shuttle was so expensive is that it was spread out all over the country so each politician could claim jobs from it.)

NASA needs to get out of the way, and congress needs to get out of the way. Yes, some civilians will die in private spacecraft, but that doesn't mean that space tourism is not a valid thing. Civilians have died on cruise ships!

We need sub orbit, then orbit, then hotels, then a base from which trips to the moon can be considered. When all of this is an economically viable industry, then the civilization can consider the possibility of visiting another planet and not having all of our eggheads in one gravity well.

Government will not get us there, and at this point, given the hurdles put in front of Virgin Galactic, they are a hinderance-- at least part of the time.
It's far more likely that he was overly optimistic about Mailbox's chances of success at Dropbox. Founders are notoriously delusional about this kind of thing.

Dropbox wasn't worried about maintaining the small existing Mailbox userbase, they were betting they could grow it by millions of users. When it didn't work, it messed up their plans (and promises).

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
For me this article contained a Ghost Address: the Ogden Drive swimming pool highlighted in the article is located just a few buildings south of a place I lived for four months in 2007. It was only four months because I unexpectedly applied to and was accepted by Y Combinator, and thus had to move to the Bay Area on short notice. Nevertheless, I walked past that building dozens of times—never seeing the oddly shaped pool, never knowing I was walking past a ghost.
While I have no idea if OP was being hyperbolic, EMS level 3 could be shoved into 8 weeks if you were motivated, its only like 20 credit hours plus practical field work.
What was the problem? There were already machines that self filled with water. Just toss coffee in a filter and go!

I promise you, it's NOT that hard.
or https://pypi.python.org/pypi/intbitset/2.2.1
The idea is to do the same design as in a scientific paper. As a framework I use django and python. The font is the default font of Latex, which is the framework that is used in many sciences to write a paper.

I will explain how the blog is done in a future post. It's not focused yet.
Thanks
Here are some other lists of 'Best books of 2015':

Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2015

Amazon http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=13108091011

The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/entertainment/best-b...

The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/books/review/100-notable-b...

The Economist http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21679439-best-b...
Someone made an edit that reintroduced the "is".

change: reintroduce the word "is" to the opening sentence, for clarity; fix sentence where a "speaker" becomes a "writer"
Yes, but there won't be a whole lot of power unless you make a very large machine.
Thanks for the info. That was a frustrating read.
Agree that everyone's sense of time is changing. I struggle with this - I can't keep myself from speed-reading/skimming longer form text.

I do think this is problematic, and not all good. A great deal of knowledge still requires significant length of text to convey -- sure, the retrieval cost for any individual limited concept on the internet is much lower, but you're not going to develop a rich understanding of, as a hyperbolic example, the history of China, from one article or from Wikipedia.
Yeah. Dropbox Paper is like Box Notes. It's nifty but why switch from Google docs?
Well Saeed (or Said, Syed, etc...) WAS one of Mohamed's companions...

And I'm well aware of the bigots, who attack Sikhs for what Muslims do, and attack Jews because, well, Jews...

I don't know if you follow politics, but the far right is rising in Europe. Those bigots and idiots are raising their voice. Every time there's an attack by Muslims, those idiots gain more votes... A decade ago the FN was a joke. Today there's a real chance the next French President comes from the FN.
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Thanks for the referral. What kind of projects did you do?
By that (burning for nails) analogy, we'd be disassembling and reusing the ISS rather than discussing deorbiting it (in 10-15 years).
Unfortunately it's not under active development for several years. Lots of good ideas though.
> Right now, Muslims won't turn in their neighbors and children to the authorities if they're radicalized.

In Turkey, we've seen on TV or heard of many families turning in their children many many times. In fact, the suicide-bomber-brothers who killed upwards of a hundred victims in Ankara were reported to be islamic state militants multiple times by their parents. They've reported them many times to different authorities.

Death of a hundred people may be alien to French, but it is not alien to us. It's middle east, both killers and the victims are often muslims. And muslims themselves are the ones that suffer the most from this radicalism.

> Since extremist sects recruit from within moderate sects, the moderates need to be more diligent in truly eliminating the extremist element. That means more consequences to the community. Which is unfair, but it's either that or the rise of the 'Sixth Reich' in a generation because right now, we're just kicking the can down the road.

It's not easy for the moderate muslim to avoid extremism. And I speak as an irreligious agnostic. Fact is that if they are not in Turkey, they are either in direct contact with war, or a subject of a kingdom. And then there's Iran. And Turkey is not the most serene place either. Here, the west is to blame. They drew these borders in the middle east after WWI, they spoiled them in the 20th century. Now if this "Sixth Reich", if I understand you correctly, is a threaten of genocide, I will not be shocked. That is the best possible fruit of the western canon, which is built on the extermination of the other and national pride, with the motto "it's not sin if we do it".

A hundred people died in Paris, and all EU now wants to taste muslim blood. That's mundane here in middle east. The most serene of the countries has at least two wars at the border. Isis bombs mosques, kills people for being of a different sect of islam; and it rapes children, enslaves women, steals immigrants' goods here, in the middle east. Before it was Saddam, etc. But the fact is that since WWI there has been a power that killed innocent people here. Neither France nor any other europeans are in real danger. All that happened was a side effect of what they did, how they messed up the life here, always for imperial affairs.

I may go on, but I'll finish here. You're not the europe that built the Roman Empires, you're the europe that made them suffer and die. You're no more good than islamist terrorists. The world is a bad place because of your empire building games.
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