skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument that the web is slowing down seems hinged in the idea that walled gardens will stall it's development. However Google controls about 80% of the market and they are one of the main companies pushing progressive web apps.
Windows has an msi that also installs pgadmin and sets it up as a service, nothing could be simpler
When I read the title, the first thing I did was laugh and think about telling you to 'check this new thing out'.
For a book that's lightly technical, there's F. Alton Everest's "Master Handbook of Acoustics" that discusses many aspects of acoustics, but does cover noise control and sound abatement.

For more technical treatments, my go-to books are Leo Beranek's "Acoustics" (or Beranek's "Noise and Vibration Control" if you just care about the noise control aspect) and "Fundamentals of Acoustics" by Kinsler and Frey.
See my response to pervycreeper
As a PoC, I could also question how many of the authors are a PoC. But I won't because I care a lot more about the content itself.
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For these fields: http://imgur.com/EPCL65s

Having a link to those numbers as supporting backup would be convenient, such as the 10-K.

I think it is nice to have a quick confirmation, as well as reading other information that the quote provides (footnotes, prospectus, 8-K)
I am confused? How is this being upvoted? This kind of project has been a staple in the programming community from gaming to forums for two decades now.
My question is why are people so insistent on following the academic route with all the sacrifices it sometimes entails. I know everyone has ideals of what they want to do in life some sometimes you have to adjust to the reality. Why not work in the non academic field in the same speciality if there are more opportunities and better pay? Maybe this will even help correct the supply/demand curve for professors in the long run.
Database leak exposes 3.3M Hello Kitty fans
PHP. On my Hacker News? :)
I don't know why you were downvoted - transportation noise is the major noise course in this USA and creates a lot of negative affects. We as a society need mechanized transportation to function as we do, but it creates some negative effects. At the risk of sounding self-serving, we need to do more to help reduce these effects, but noise control is waaaaaaaaaaay down the list of problems that are addressed in capital transportation projects.
She called for a Manhattan-like project to give law enforcement exceptional access without breaking encryption because "maybe the back door is not the right door." Hardly a ringing endorsement for privacy!
The current BSD Now episode[1] has thoughts on this and the passing of @creepingfur[2][3] (Benjamin Perrault).

1) http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2015_12_16-im_talking_about_th...

2) https://twitter.com/michaeldexter/status/676290499389485057

3) http://pastebin.com/4BQ5uVsT
Not so sure. There are plenty of benefits to SSD too. I suspect system designers will just add more RAM to act as cache to offset some of these performance issues. Not to mention further improve temperature control.
Other posters are right, that services should really be started as services. I have a piece of code which turns any basic foreground app into a daemon, with logging and auto-restarts and it's great for node.js and similar. Time being available I'd like to share this online sometime.

As for your specific situation, I do something similar but with screen not tmux. A cron job with @reboot, and then a screenrc file starts each terminal with the appropriate application. This is good for systems such as realtime audio processors which have a live display, which straddle the line a little between a daemon and interactive application.
The perforce website just talks about git. Does the old perforce vcs thing still exist?
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So what do you call a system that uses more than two HTTP methods (e.g. uses PUT and DELETE as well as GET and POST), and has marginally-more-human-readable URLs, but doesn't send self-descriptive representations, doesn't use hypermedia, doesn't Transfer REpresentational State, and probably also isn't stateless?

I mean, statistically speaking, if you have such a system, my bet is that you call that system RESTful. Furthermore, if you have such a system, you vastly outnumber the people building systems that obey Fielding's constraints. So in practice, you win the argument about what "RESTful" means.

Can we please stop legitimizing Rails's whimsical aesthetic choices by pretending that they have something to do with an academically-justified architecture, and just accept that they're just another way of ripping your denim and then safety-pinning it closed, by which you demonstrate that you're not a square and you don't write Java.
Motion JPEG is arguably better suited to the task as the browser knows not to cache the previous frames by rule. It's actually designed for this exact purpose.

I made a little example project a few years back. The format is dead simple, keep the connection open, flush multiple JPEGS separated by a header. It's used pretty often by cheap security cameras and is supported by most browsers. It just seems to be not widely known about.

https://github.com/donatj/mjpeg-php
I don't think the government and guild protections are fictions. This article seems to be relevant:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/21/lawyer-disrupt-thyself/

I don't think they're fictions insofar as lawyers (and laws) command a unique place in our society that other industry inputs don't. Insofar as lawyers have the ability and the incentive to prevent sweeping changes to their industry, the guild mentality seems very real to me.

I take your point though: smaller firms are very willing to make technology changes to find themselves new competitive advantages. Here's hoping smaller firms like yours (and mine) keep nipping away at those monstrous firms =D. FWIW, I have not had positive experiences when dealing with them...
"Why are people upvoting something they didn't know about that I did know about?"
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Again, here we are with that word, "perfect."

Sorry, but to say that Sweden's problems are largely "first world" is incredibly naive.

Sweden is really struggling to find the resources to adequately deal with accepting, feeding, and housing all the refugees streaming in. Hardly a frist-world problem.

Sweden's security services are under immense pressure to identify, monitor, and stop any terror threats from within, and do it under strict privacy laws. Hardly a first-world problem.

Sweden's social welfare system cannot possible sustain all of the support given internally and externally to her borders. It was never designed to accomodate and support thousands of refugees who cannot immediately (or ever) pay back into the system.
Very inaccurate summary, since I skimmed: Up to 12% of women have an X chromosome mutation that creates a fourth cone. This cone generally overlaps the spectral region covered by the cones sensitive to red and green. The exact area of overlap determines whether or not each woman sees "more": If the fourth cone completely overlaps the region covered by an existing cone, no new information is presented to the visual system and the input is effectively discarded (she sees "just as much" red or green, not more, not less). If, however, the fourth cone has peak sensitivity in the gap between the cones covering red and green, she will she up to 100% more colour than women with normal vision.
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"1x1 transparent pixel" is called a "tracking pixel".

Gmail still allows marketers to track when a user opens an email (even better than before, since it no longer asks users whether they want to load images). However, they proxy the request so that the tracking pixel host no longer gets the user's IP address or third party cookies.
The difference between e.g. -> and --> is a length of a small solid line. To me that's equates to a huge drop in readability, countering the easy to brain-parse argument.
I see that my original choice of words was poor, and it could be taken the way it was. Thanks for showing me that. Not my intention. Hope that my intention was made clear in the second sentence: "Why is the jump being made to foreign governments?"

There's also the choice of an encryption scheme that no sane actor would choose on its own. So the likeliness of a malicious state-level attack is higher than the baseline you probably assign to accident / disgruntled employee scenarios.

Quite possible. Not my area of expertise, so I will defer to others like yourself. :)
We hear a lot of things from candidates. But something seems to happen to frosh presidents that makes them go all squishy when it comes to screwing with the natsec apparatus, something more tangible than just the usual collection of forgotten campaign promises. Something more effective than a simple "Four Horsemen" briefing that the CIA/NSA/ETC dust off every fourth January.

On the other hand, politicians are snakes and will say anything to get elected. So there's that.
Creating Intuitive APIs – Lars Knoll – Closing Keynote Meeting C++ 2015
FYI: This not about climate change and how the world is warming (as I expected) but about significant population growth in the tropics, leading to more of the world's population is tropical.
In my experiments with this three years ago, the loopback device didn't work if you didn't have a sound card in the source machine. This didn't work on an EC2 machine or other shared server.

Anyone know if this has changed?
That's political doublespeak. No one is going to sit up on a stage and say that they think "backdoors" are a good idea.

But if you've been paying attention the past few months, when they're not on stage, both Hillary and Obama have been calling for key escrow. To think she's changed from that while still using the same exact statement of, "Silicon Valley geniuses are going to come around and be our Manhattan project" is wrong.
We have ways of keeping keys like that secure. For example, the master recovery keys used for HD encryption on NSA / Google / Lockheed laptops. Those are all pretty valuable, and yet they've been kept secure.

I don't think legislating away single-user encryption is a good idea, but not because backdoors are inherently bad.
I just left a 3 story walk up with central air and I can say the during the summer the large roof mounted AC units (technically split systems as you describe them) drove me absolutely insane. The humming caused by multiple machines running made it almost impossible for me to stay at home and fall asleep.

I'm sure there are smart mechanical engineers working on vibration free AC units, but until then I'm looking for a house.
I have a theory that about a third of all people's jobs exist simply to define a reason for having said job, lawyers even more so. The only ones incapable of seeing that AI will remove the need for many lawyers are lawyers who's job already is largely just them justifying the need for their services
The Archive doesn't delete anything; depending on the current robots.txt, they may not show pages from past crawls.

Update the robots.txt and you should be good to go.
> Either way this will have a big economic impact for Juniper. In no way are they going to win the next big banking or government contracts.

If I were in a three-letter position at any big company, I'd choose Juniper over Cisco gear now. Juniper has proven they do code audits and throw such stuff out if they find it. Cisco, not so much.
Great share!

I noticed something funny about myself after reading Ayn Rand - I found her writing influenced my mindset and made me (personally - not casting this on all Rand fans) more isolationist, individualist, and just a little bit more of an asshole.

Interested by that phenomenon, I've been on the lookout for books that might subtly influence my perspective in ways that would make me warmer, kinder, more sympathetic/empathetic.

Two of these recommendations look spot-on for that. Purchased:

The Road to Character

"Focuses on the deeper values that should inform our lives. Responding to what he calls the culture of the Big Me, which emphasizes external success, Brooks challenges us, and himself, to rebalance the scales between our “résumé virtues”—achieving wealth, fame, and status—and our “eulogy virtues,” those that exist at the core of our being: kindness, bravery, honesty, or faithfulness, focusing on what kind of relationships we have formed."

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

"Cheryl Strayed was an advice columnist called Dear Sugar, and this collection of her essays is a guide to finding inner strength through tenderness. She masterfully links the problems of her readers to her own painful experiences, and the result will cling to you with its vulnerability, sweetness, and intimacy. I’ve been in love with this book all fall."
> A single process, non-threaded (SPNT) OS runs one process at a time

There's no multitasking in this scenario. Think MS-DOS 6.22.
What? AMD has support for IOMMU.
I ask candidates to explain this when I interview them. I read that first paragraph and was upset/unsurprised.
When the government gets involved just expect the law to be ignored. We saw this with the auto manufacturer bailouts as well. Those in power make their decision and then find means to execute it and redirect the ire. Washington is all about power and manipulation of the public's outrage.
B.b.but! He knew about it before it was cool!
I agree with you about Shogun. I think the transformative properties of that book relate to the Samurai mindset.
"I'm not bullshitting."

Funny you'd say that, this pegged my bullshit meter to maximum.
or we could do what we do in technology and jump on the next wave...

Someone just has to invent it and people have to start using it. Entropy is going to be pretty hard to overcome, but it has been every other time.

I look at how fun it was to develop on the NeXT the web was invented on and realize its still harder than writing an app on the same NeXT computer.
If it does just the numbers 3, 5, 7, 9 for ع and خ and ح and ق - that's what everyone I know is doing online
Well to that point, NSA contracted out both with NSA and with RSA. At least they didn't give NSA their complete trust.

The nasty part is that NSA went behind the backs of everyone and bribed RSA for their own nefarious purposes. I don't think anyone saw that coming.
My building, from the 80s, has no central air, but through wall cutouts the size of a window unit. However, when I went to buy an air conditioner I found that only one company made a unit the exact right size and the cost 3x more than the BTU equivalent window unit.
That's certainly true now but it hasn't always been such a given because the NSA has a defensive mission, even if they've grossly neglected it, and in the past acted to make crypto standards safer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard#NSA.2...
Have you tried Pinboard? Their archiving option might suit your needs.
It has? Can you give an example?

This is generating a custom GIF file on the server. It's most likely been done by someone somewhere before, but not something I've been both gaming and forum-ing for a little while.
More RAM means more reserve power needed to flush it to permanent storage when the main power is cut.

What's more likely to happen is exposing the low level storage and software to kernel drivers.
Please don't say things like this.
NVMe is just the communications protocol between the host and device. Garbage collection is due to hiding the non ideal properties of the NAND from the host. Primary among them is endurance limits and the size difference between write and erase units. You could for example move the handling of some of these GC details to the OS filesystem level but then that becomes more complicated and has to deal with the differences with each NAND technology generation. You couldn't just copy a file system image from one drive to another for example.
"Open borders" but a firm embrace of a welfare state?

That's an invitation to migrate for welfare.

"It's just obvious you can't have free immigration and a welfare state,"
-Friedman.

(dang, thanks for the down votes. Parent gets a dig in for "open borders" and pointing out that concept has a serious cost is "unmutual" thought here at HN? How about some serious feedback instead? )
I wonder about the spikes. The year-end ones are probably for Christmas presents, but what are the summer ones - summer holidays maybe? (people might want to bring something lightweight for reading..)
Heres why:

> Due to changes in FCC regulation in 2015,

It wasn't a change in regulation. There was an enforcement advisory that the FCC considered interfering with WiFi connections to be interference under 47 USC 333. That's not a new law or regulation, it's just the FCC publicizing that they have already and will take further action over new way to violate a law.

> it appears intentionally de-authing WiFi clients, even in your own home,

The radio spectrum is a public resource, even when it radiates through your home. I can't use a stingray just because the phones are being used in my house either. I can understand why some people might disagree with the public resource nature of RF. But it's neither clear if the author is trying to pick that bone for real, nor am I here to defend that classification. Just pointing it out.

> is now classed as ‘jamming’. Up until recently, jamming was defined as the indiscriminate addition of noise to signal - still the global technical definition.

Jamming is used colloquially to refer to all interference under 47 USC 333. But with a little googling I don't see the FCC using the term "jamming" for this style of WiFi interference. The law is written the way it is because spoofing deauth messages is just one of the many ways to cause interference without "jamming."

> It’s worth noting here that all wireless routers necessarily ship with the ability to de-auth, as part of the 802.11 specification.

I don't think I understand that it's "worth noting." There is a large difference between an access point managing it's clients, and a rogue actor spoofing messages to mislead those clients that the message came from the AP. The fact it's part of the spec is the only reason this tool works at all, and the concept of layer 2 interference isn't particularly hard to grasp, especially when that's the explicit purpose of the tool.

Also:

>The very fact this code exists should challenge you to reconsider the non-sane choice to rely on anything wireless for home security. More so, WiFi jammers - while illegal - are cheap. If you care, use cable.

There are a great many things in my life that someone could fuck up if they wanted to break the law that are much more important than my wifi based home security. Even with this tool, the greatest threats to wifi devices are still lousy wifi performance before interference, and lousy residential internet connections.

I don't need someone with a baseball bat loitering around the parking lots I use to pester me about my car. That doesn't "challenge me to reconsider the non-sane choice" of using a mode of transportation that is just so darn easy to damage with a baseball bat.
A 12-year-old Sikh boy is the latest victim of racist terrorism paranoia
> living a decent life in scandinavia is just available for a larger percentage of the population due to equality.

To put it another way, its one of the last industrialized nations able to hold onto a homogeneous culture and rooted in a shared ethnicity. A lack of immigration or colonial baggage, combined with culture deeply rooted in a "don't stand out too much" mentality, makes governance and social welfare quite easy. Its an impenetrable boundary for immigrants and effectively creates a whole new social class; reactionary political movements are thriving in ways not seen since German occupation. It doesn't hurt that there are only a few million people, all living very close by. This system will slowly fall apart over the next quarter century as Sweden continues to globalize in order to maintain population and economic growth. Sweden and the Nordic countries are an exception to the rule of social society and, though we can try to mimic some of their successes, not an example to model off of.

Its also worth noting that their government systematically props up the labor market, especially professional classes. They employ massive amounts of engineers and scientists, working on projects that never see the light of day. A country free education combined with a comparatively small business culture needs a blow-off valve in order to maintain quality of life.

The European social states are a product of their place and time. Huge parts of developed Western Europe were completely destroyed during WWII, leaving much of their populations homeless and destitute with little economic capital. These countries had no choice but to guarantee extensive social services. This was economically possible due to massive stimulus by the Marshall Plan and UN during the post-war reconstruction years.
I think the "market" may be getting more efficient with Tinder etc, and is tending to few-winners-take-all.
Bad link, correct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVHDQagLsrg
Looking at that person's other posts, they're clearly a nutball.
Taking a look at the ALSA code now; at a glance the loopback timer comes from include/linux/timer.h -- it doesn't look like there's any immediate dependency on a hardware interface or indeed any other device in the system. And I do recall using loopback without a hardware interface.

I would predict that the difference is actually in the virtualisation, the implementation of that timer may be very different to a physical or bare-metal machine.
They're helping their friends at the time, and helping themselves when they decide to go back to work at those firms.
Oh, this is actually neat:

> what about progress bars for stuff that your server is doing in the background

This seems like a really good micro-service.
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IANAL but pretty sure arguing a motive is not a requirement in any criminal trial even though it might be common. But it's akin to character witnesses and so on. I.e. used to establish plausibility.
Ask HN: Should I move?
Hey Guys,

I recently got an offer from Amazon to be an SDM in their Seattle office. The problem is, I have to move my family across the country for this. When I talk to my friends and family, they say I shouldn't pass up this opportunity given how difficult it is to get into Amazon. The few things that worry me about the move is.

1. My wife has a great gig in my current location, so I really don't want to disrupt it until it makes sense for both of us in the longer term
2. Will I survive in Amazon? In all likelihood, it would seem like I will have to stay away from my family for at least 6 months. Just to make sure Amazon/Seattle is a place worth moving to. The notion of staying away from my family (wife, toddler (not in school yet) and a dog) really pains me. But on the flipside, if I do make it in Amazon, it does open up greater opportunities for me (in Amazon and other high tech companies in the neighbourhood) which will help me secure my family's future.

So question to fellow HNers...should I take the plunge? Love to hear more from working couples who have done this with Amazon in the past. I am really confused by all this, so any suggestions is appreciated.
I have always believed that printed books will never go away, the same way that movie theaters didn't stop existing because we now have DVD players. Printed books and e-books present a different experience with their own advantages and disadvantages. E-books are good for quick access to lots of information and have a novelty factor. But traditional books are still easier to read, can be stored for a long time, and work better as gifts, among other advantages.
That device is called ear-plugs.
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