skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't Apple + Beats enough to convince people that Apple is not about audio quality?
Genius :-)
Millions will have restricted Internet access starting next week
I'm waiting for something like Daala + Opus starting being used by huge services like Netflix. Youtube already uses Opus.

Apple? It will take them another 50 years to start using free codecs.

UPDATE: A post on IETF blog about standardized free video codec effort: https://www.ietf.org/blog/2015/09/aiming-for-a-standardized-...
Direct link to puzzle: https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/gregable/puzzle.html
Would you mind sharing a few things:

- age
- Bay area/NYC or somewhere else?
- how do u deal with taxes, 401K contributions and still have 100K leftover?

I am possibly overcontributing 401K (maxing the 18K allowed by the IRS) and certainly overpaying rent (bay area :[). How the heck does one manage to save/invest 100K even at that salary? As a soon to be father, I need to get my act together asap.
Not necessarily. Strictly mathematically a (non-negative) fraction q/p is just the equivalence class of all non-negative integer pairs (s, t), t != 0, such that

qt = sp

As such we may make q as small as possible by finding a representative in the equivalence class where the numerator is smallest (using the well ordering principle of the of the natural numbers). You can identify this pair uniquely (when the fraction is not 0) by using divisibility but that isn't required here.
I see and agree to your point, taking that kind of cut in salary is an investment of that magnitude. However, there are not many people that could even afford to put 2k, let alone 10k into a company. For most, putting in the time to help a friend, possibly valuing the time at 10k and giving that to them for free, is a much easier and safer bet. I know that makes little sense in terms of dollars, but no-one I know of, save some very busy consultants, have anywhere near 10k to 'invest'. However, most folk I know of have a few weekends and hour after work to 'invest' and help a friend out, possibly worth 10k in time.
The Evolution of the Unix Time-Sharing System (1984)
What is public knowledge is that CEO Daniel Ek was the former CEO of uTorrent. He has certainly made millions from online copyright infringement, if only perhaps, less directly than Kim-dot-com.
The only thing that scares me more than the current information asymmetry between investors and startup employees is the thought of the kind of structures engineers can come up with when their livelihood is at stake!
You should read them yourself.
Can Ford Become a Tech Company?
He is referring about consumption, not birth rates.
They've been saying that forever, just like they've been saying "Silicon Valley will suffer a brain drain because people will move away due to the high cost of living." In theory it makes sense, but it never happens in earnest.

Working in a startup is much, much more fun that working at a big corporation. I took a paycut several times to go work at startups just because working at a big company where you work on a single API of one of their products gets boring really fast, regardless of the pay.
It looks very promising. I will give it a try.
Why do I get seated near the bathroom when I make an OpenTable reservation?
I don't claim that Apple is as good as OTR or Signal, only that Google could do more, Google should do more, and Google should be out there helping Tim Cook make a case that back doors are a terrible idea.

edit: Microsoft, Apple, Google, they all need to step up their game and make their case in public. Apple's not perfect but they're slightly ahead of the other two major OS vendors here.
agreed, thank you!
AMA for one. It's more like a membership than anything, and they provide guidance and some basic insurance coverage for when things happen, which they hardly ever do. Most fields require you are an AMA member and that you have insurance. Most home owners insurance covers this as well, or at least it did a few years back.
Number 1 rule of working at a startup: really trust the founders and everyone you work with. Look out for yourself, but at the end of the day, if you are working with someone scummy, they can change the rules at basically any time. So work with people committed to transparency and honest dealing.

Also, while it is nice to think of your particular startup succeeding, it probably won't. And even if it "does" it will likely not be worth >$1b.

One of my proudest moments was hearing from one of my early employees that even if the company tanked tomorrow that she would not regret it for a moment. I hope that for every person I work with, because while I cannot guarantee that the world won't collapse or something unforeseen to happen, I can work really hard to make sure that as we grow and succeed, our culture is one of making sure that everyone is learning and growing and going to excel in their careers and lives no matter what happens to this company. Side note: I am also committed to making sure that people here are compensated well when we succeed, if for some reason our initial compensation structure, which I think has been generous, has holes.
So...um...Apple and Amazon have been shipping VBR files for years.
There are a few more here http://imgur.com/r/spacex
> I don't know exactly what bit rate they're streaming at, but, it sounds pretty bad on mobile

Free Pandora maybe but Spotify doesn't. Spotify's bitrates are pretty good for most content and very good if you have a paid account with high bitrates turned on.

Some content is poorly recorded, mixed, and/or mastered which will sound bad at any bitrate.
What about hard numbers? Anyone has delta-v figures for first stage ascent, velocity both vertical and lateral components at meco, and delta-v for boostback, entry, and landing burns?
I'd just like to add: NOT Telegram.

Because some people need it explicitly stated.
Specific to the US, my interpretation:

Prior to SECs recent ruling which allows companies to sell shares (aka securities) by crowd funding, companies are allowed to sell shares to Accredited Investors, the definition of which is regulated by the SEC. Further, they can also sell shares to non-accredited investors, but with added due diligence required by the company.

An individual can meet the definition of an accredited investor, without being an "Angel Investor." Angel Investor is a term for someone who is known for, as part of a financial strategy, investing their own money to startups.
> Helpful to keep in mind that
> India recently changed the way it calculates GDP...

The researchers are doing their own calculation, not using the government's.
YouTube, T-Mobile Battle Over Video Throttling
you can't look at Germany outside the context of being a member of the EU and Eurozone (and currently a very important creditor in the Eurozone)

This is exactly right. If a few of Germany's key debtors end up defaulting and exiting the Eurozone, a prospect not so far out of the realm of possibility given the leftward political trend in those countries, then Germany could fall on hard times very quickly.
For me, this article is literally the first time I've ever heard of "Google Messenger".

A few other students at my university use Hangouts and Docs, but generally everything is done via email and github.
Breaking down Amazon’s mega dropdown (2013)
But everyone can do more, including Apple. Meanwhile, I think if you build a scoreboard for this, it's not at all clear that Apple is ahead of Google.
Yeah, typically you have to make at least $200k/year or have a net worth of $500k (the term is "accredited investor").

Thanks to a new law, though, you no longer have to be accredited to invest small amounts.
Redux course notes
Nowhere in the article does it say that Apple actually compromised the end to end nature of an iMessage conversation. All I see is this:

> Apple could collaborate with law enforcement to provide a false key, thereby intercepting a specific user’s messages, and the user would be none the wiser.

Key word is "could". Apple "could" also use its signing keys to install any kind of software on your phone to do whatever it wants. For example, to read your keychain and pull your private keys.
I dunno, I think proper anonymous functions would have been a lot better than hooks and forks.

Though I'm not sure if that falls under syntax or semantics for purposes of this discussion.
What surprises me is that www.ah.com is owned by some health center in Wisconsin. Now I want to know how they got it, and how much did Coca-Cola offer them for it, if anything.
John Coster-Mullen is in the comments, too! Very cool. (Background: https://www.reddit.com/comments/gey2l/iam_john_costermullen_...)
The number is "high" as a single datapoint, but only due to an inflated SanFran economy. A $250k SF job adjusted to where I live in Dallas is actually considerably less than I make. I would need nearly $370k in SF dollars to do the same thing.

http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/cost-of-living/
* Program design in the UNIX
environment (1984): http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/unix_prog_design.pdf

Glipse into unix essentials. Do one thing well on an example so you'll never forget it again. Doing less requires more care and attention to detail.

* From Frequency to Meaning (2010): https://www.jair.org/media/2934/live-2934-4846-jair.pdf

A nice summary on vector space models along with three basic matrix layouts: term-document, word-context, pair-pattern and the resulting applications and algorithms.

* A Roadmap towards Machine Intelligence (2015): http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.08130v1.pdf

Emphasis on communication. I liked the fact, that the AI is pictured as a research assistant, since I would love to see a more dialog oriented interaction with machines.

* 50 years of Data Science (2015): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23421017/50YearsDataScie...

Great essay on how the past had a handle on todays data analysis landscape, just without the enormous computing power and data availability, that we have today.
I suspect the cause is the shift in how startups are viewed in Silicon Valley. Even though there've been startups here for a long time, they were always considered risky, marginal and low-status. So the supply of potential employees was low and the early payouts you're thinking of were paying people for taking a risk.

Today startups are considered to be glamorous. They have access to a lot more investment and potential employees. The whole country seems to be making a beeline to pony up for the high rents because the salaries more than compensate for it. There's no longer much risk of lost earnings. Is it any surprise that the equity has gone lower? Arguably the valley as a whole has taken the deal suggested in OP: more salary, less equity.
I'd be careful about drawing conclusions from those tests. We know that the number of bits in a container does not directly influence how much RAM it consumes. Therefore, there must be something the images are doing that consumes memory which is not happening in the "smaller" images. The key would be to find the culpable process or daemon(s).
Zimbabwe’s curious plan to adopt China’s currency
I've been loving Pandas used alongside Seaborn as well. It's really just so easy to manipulate/visualize my data (and make it look gorgeous) with the combo.
I was lucky enough to once be employed by a company that didn't promise me any equity. They paid me a good salary and treated me well. The founder sold the company after I'd been there for about 10 months. I was called in to speak with him and given a nice check. (Still had my job too.) I'd much rather work for a guy like that.
Many people who join startups have "invested" an opportunity cost of similar magnitude. If the company they're working for goes south, they've lost the better salary they could have had at the larger company, they've lost their job, they've lost their health insurance, they've lost their equity they have in their company, et cetera.

That doesn't seem like much in today's hot market, but ask anybody who went through a crash how much a stable job is worth.

If you're not comfortable investing ~100K in a startup, you probably shouldn't join one.
True, just play the radio in the background, go at it, and unwind. Really is a great relaxing effort.
In the link I provided Nicholas Weaver explains how iMessage's encryption is compromised.
Google's not making a public case. And Google, as far as I know, can read messages you send on Google services. Those are both Big Deals. I don't disagree (I don't have the expertise to!) with what you said on Apple and browser security. There are many parts.

Everybody can step up their game, I absolutely agree there.
I'm a little outraged that the skier was outraged while being interviewed. He's in a sport that is very risky, and part of that risk is performing for an audience which wants to see things better and in more detail. Those drones are part of the camera network of an event he's performing at, so it's unlikely anyone did anything wrong, other than maybe they put in the wrong battery packs. You can't have it both ways.

Note that I'm not saying he can't have some emotional response, but public outrage is basically saying "this shouldn't ever happen and people should be afraid of this" which is stupid given shit happens when you are doing highly competitive and dangerous things as a performer - which includes the venue and staff filming it in new and interesting ways. The audience demands it, and you as an athlete and performer are part of it.

The older I get, the more the unnecessary spread of cognitive dissonance irritates me.
Pretty much every large business and government is also explicitly hierarchical. For a particular firm it's such a common choice one has to imagine it's a good one. For organizations or broader scope than a single firm (industries and economies, cities and nations) independent competition and cooperation seems to work quite well.
But at a big company you can also spend 2/3 of your time day-dreaming or browsing the Internet. At a startup you need to be more engaged.
Ahh. That makes sense then. The value of the key being optional is indeed a different concept. Fwiw, this is one huge downside of Swagger APIs. Swagger supports the concept of optional keys but not optional values >.>

I have yet to find a validation library that supports all the sorts of things I expect it to. One place they tend to fail is the ways they can fulfill default values.

Say a field has an error and I want to just give it a default value when it's broken? That particular feature doesn't exist in any library i've found so far (for python) =/

Granted, this sort of blends into the usual "It's a validation library not a serialization library". But they all make a half-assed attempt at the other side in my experience.
Thank you! Great feedback.

Lambda is just going to be handling logic to receive some reporting emails from an outside system (via SES incoming email). It will just be storing the entire message payload in S3 and notifying another system that a new message has been received.

These reports are expected to be infrequent (maybe a dozen times a day).
ditonal's comment (currently below yours) is relevant here. Doesn't look like they stumbled to me!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10784180
She made out like a bandit with $6m and no need to turn up to work ever again, so for her I'm sure it was pretty triumphant.

The fact that the very first action of the acquiring company was to give her enough money to never come back tells you all you need to know about her ability as CEO.
How Apple’s Trojan horse will eat the credit card industry
I'm 30 years old, and my rent is about $1200/month (I'm married, which helps cut down on costs).

After taxes, $250k becomes $150k. After rent, food, staying alive, some travel, etc., I'm left with about $100k disposable per year. Like most of you, I don't really have nice things, fancy clothes, etc.

I would continue to max out contributions to retirement accounts, though! You can invest in startups via IRAs and Roth-IRAs (I have done it).
Blockchain Predictions for 2016
I'm having a hard time taking the links seriously. The WSJ article is behind a paywall so I am unable to read it. However, it's dated 2006 which would mean it was authored at the height of Wall Street "shenanigans" (for lack of a better term) while the Forbes article appears to be a canned editorial written by the Ayn Rand Institute.
You got to realize too that this was during the war and our boys were facing danger immediately on the front line so the ones who went to Los Alamos felt obligated to take some physical danger.

At that point in time, health problems in nuke workers could have as much to do with chemical exposure, i.e. uranium is toxic in the same way as lead, but with 1/3 the dose.
> Most startups are more than happy to take your money. Just email or meet with the founders, explain your enthusiasm for the company, and you're usually good to go!

I would be highly skeptical of any startup founder who is going to take money from just anyone. Taking in random investment dollars could come back to bite founders and company in the ass pretty badly. From the time demanded by the investor, to working on subsequent financing rounds, you could really shoot yourself in the foot by doing this.

This is one reason why Angels are more sought after than "friends and family."

> For higher-profile deals, though--e.g., Uber--you wouldn't be able to invest such a small amount.

No. For late stage investments, even if you had the capital, you're beholden to the terms dictated by whomever is leading the round. They're not going to invest large sums of money and want to share rights with just anyone with the cash.
This is very cool.

A complete tutorial on compiling Quake is already online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mKd3tPr9As
I get the draw of working at startups, but I didn't think it was worth it. The big companies here are offering 2-3x startup salaries (with real room for growth). Is the market here out of whack or is that really a trade people are making?
I don't really understand what you're trying to say here. I agree that she doesn't understand the tech and that specific statement could very easily be taken as just another example of ignorant politician double-speak.

> You’re going to hear all of the usual complaints, you know, freedom of speech, et cetera. But if we truly are in a war against terrorism and we are truly looking for ways to shut off their funding, shut off the flow of foreign fighters, then we’ve got to shut off their means of communicating. It’s more complicated with some of what they do on encrypted apps, and I’m well aware of that, and that requires even more thinking about how to do it.

This quote (video: https://vimeo.com/148092658), shows a more perturbing side of the issue that goes beyond simply not understanding encryption. She might not understand the technology, but she does understand that freedom of speech and, arguably, one of the other bits of "et cetera" she's referring to would be privacy, shouldn't get in the way of "fighting terrorism".

Not to turn this into a purely political argument, since this is a problem on both sides of the ticket. (Trump has said equally egregious things, but I'm still hopeful that he won't sniff the White House). Just saying, _please_ don't be so naive as to dismiss the political rhetoric as simply technological ignorance.
While we're on the subject of python modules: sqlalchemy is, and will probably continue to be, my favorite library for any language.
> stuff like kids getting severely injured

A baby lost an eye: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-349367...
Yeah that's cool, but my main point is that images which make use of the stable debian package system and are actively maintained are a better approach than an image that makes use of more obscure technology that could be abandoned, or worse, maintaining your own container infrastructure.

> No well, written software won't spawn zombie-processes - sorry.

And yet it happens.

> The ssh server... Containers are no vm's, if you have to log in on a container running in production - you're doing something wrong

The SSH server is incredibly useful for diagnosing problems in production, so I for one applaud it (although it's not really necessary anymore with docker exec).

> Cron - again - same thing: run in a separate container and give access to the exact things your cronjob needs.

Or just run it in-container to keep your service clusters together.

> That is for me the essential thing about containers: separate everything.

It's a question of degree. Where you draw the line is almost always a personal, aesthetic choice.
This is SecUpwN, the project maintainer of mentioned app. Let me say this: Before discrediting an eager project like ours, RTFM! Obviously you closed your eyes the whole time when doing the "full code review", otherwise you would have read:

* https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector#war...

* https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/blo...

* What is the first thing popping up in our app? Right, our DISCLAIMER!

Bummer, huh? Furthermore, where are your contributions to below Issue?

* https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/iss...

Everyone with a pair of eyes is able to clearly see the warnings, disclaimers and statements all over our project that our app is still in ALPHA development. And if you really are a skilled developer and not just a troll wanting to discredit our app in favour of making another one more popular (which I think you actually are), you'd have contributed. But you're just a fake "security researcher", ranting on public sites about an open source project where everyone is invited and very welcome to add a bit to make it better. Next time, please think twice before publishing shit like yours above.
Wow. Didn't realize how HOT deep learning was in 2015.
Take a look at this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10758278
Scientists develop a computer chip that transfer data with light