skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to enable higher bandwidth inside a box at lower cost. Quantum computer offers exponential speed ups for very specific types of problems and with huge constant costs. They seem rather orthogonal to me.
Thanks for the explanation. I agree with you that (1) is rather questionable, but to me, (2) seems like a fair tax.
What's the downside of apply a HPF at 10Hz, as it's outside of our hearing range?
Seems like almost a total fail for me...50% over 9 years is about 5.5% return a year for a VERY risky asset. Something that risky warrants more. Also curious if that 50% return considers the upfront outlay, taxes upon grant, capital gains taxes, and the works...
Arrays of run-time bounds as data members (C++) [pdf]
Well when someone is offered a 'key' engineering role it's basically a fancy way of saying 'you'll be building pretty much everything'. Couple that with the fact that it requires a 40% pay cut and you've got a situation that definitely warrants co-founder status.
Having listened to a lot of podcasts over the past several years, my advice would be to investigate industries that are personally interesting to you [and have professional sound equipment]. Interviews where the host doesn't really care tend to be poor.

Good luck.
> Kids today can listen with one ear, read with one eye... Do their research with one tab and chat on Facebook with another. The education system in generally feels like an industry that is just barely stepping into a technological age in terms of format, expectations, and content.

If you paid attention to university research, you'd know you're spouting things well-known to be wrong. Multitasking is detrimental to learning and knowledge.
its always fun when the company issues you a boatload of options when raising money to offset the dilution... But they give the last round of investors a huge multiple, which effectively makes all the options worthless.
Astronauts' Veggie Garden in Space Is About to Grow a Burst of Color
How do we punish it when the effort calculations decide stealing all the books from bittorrent or trivially insecure servers is cheaper than actually performing the work to earn money?

Are we going to politely ask it to stop working with criminal organizations if they hire it for some creative problem solving?
No mention of DJs and electronic music scene in the article at all? Just a big blind spot instead?
One of the great things about business is that they don't have to follow much morality besides their own self-interest to be useful to society.

Subsidies preserve broken business models at great cost to not just taxpayers, but economic efficiency and quality of service. They create and perpetuate structural deficiencies in the economy. They reward political rent-seeking instead of creating real value for people.

As they pile up, the cumulative effect becomes worse and the ability of society to change its mind erodes. At an extreme, when subsidies drive a huge portion of economic activity, returning to a free market requires years of painful readjustment.
Gun deaths map: How many people have died or been injured in shootings near you?
They're not in the blog post, but they're in the full list with 1.2% market share (which happens to be the same as Linode's share): http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/web_hosting/all
> Have we really reached this level of paranoia?

Watching the news in the US from the UK, it's pretty clear that you (in the states) long ago reached the point where it's not even paranoia any more. The police there killed more civilians in a few weeks of the year than the UK police have killed here in hundreds of years. They murder and lie about it; it's going to be interesting to see what happens now that it's routinely caught on camera, but to suggest that there's anything tin-foil-hat crazy about suggesting that the police might have done something wrong here which has resulted in someone's death betrays a naive (at best) comprehension of the situation there today.
A friend respond to the uproar (by some) after the recent Paris attacks that Facebook had not offered temporary logo profile picture for other recent atrocities: "Don't have a go at mourners in a funeral that they didn't go to other funerals."
If you live in NY, you can play this at a currently ongoing exhibit about the history of computing in New York at the NY Historical Society.

(Review: I would say the exhibit was decent, though not great - might not be much new for people already familiar with computing history, and it's very clearly sponsored by IBM, though you could argue that this is not unfair for a history of NY-area computing. There's also a fun little exhibit on comic book heroes at the museum, plus I'd never been there before, maybe all added together it's worth a ticket.)
I don't think that is an accurate depiction of what happened. In reality a company called Blockstream who has a financial interest in limiting Bitcoin's block size has stacked the core dev team with people on it's payroll and they are doing everything within their power to cripple Bitcoin so that they can insert themselves as a middle man in Bitcoin transactions.

Gavin was not one of the devs who let themselves be bought off by Blockstream and in his frustration over all the other core devs irrationality he has been promoting solutions outside of core.
Porn Stars, Muhammad, and a Frozen 4-Year-Old: Wikipedia Deletions This Week
AP-NORC Poll: Online surveillance is OK for most
Every state does it differently. Some allow open carry, but have a permit for concealed. Some allow concealed unrestricted, but a permit for open. Iowa requires a permit to carry in any way.

I have 3 permits, first Iowa and then two more to cover (most) of the other states. Still can't carry in Illinois or the People's Republic of California.

Not sure about brandishing vs private property. I'd guess anywhere you need a permit, you could be accused of brandishing.
I don't see how a project like Spectacle, which is OSX specific, relates. If someone wants to make an OS specific project, more power to them. The issue arises on platforms that span OSes, and they just never quite span onto Windows correctly.

Microsoft is very happy that Node, Java, Clojure, etc work on Windows. It helps them a lot. But they make little to no effort to help bridge the gap, they usually leave that to everyone else. That's my gripe, right there.

And to be fair, this is not a black and white situation. It's complex and Microsoft's role in all of this is complex too. And sometimes this issue does crop up on other OSes, for example Docker on OSX is sometimes a little painful.
What's your new year's resolution?
I agree with the approach indicated by the title ("caution required"), but the tone of the article veers toward being alarmist.

Takedown articles tend to share similar characteristics. Many are on a
mission that emphasizes the
negatives of their subject, even minor ones, while overlooking the positives
and handwaving away problems with the alternatives.
They set the bar higher for the subject by finding issues that it
shares equally with its alternatives, and presenting them as damning evidence against it (since users may expect it to be better and be disappointed). The specific alternative that's
held up as superior to the subject varies from point to point--no one
alternative is actually superior in all points. They may even acknowledge that
many of their arguments are weak, but make up for it in volume.

In its favor compared to such articles, this one does make some attempts to be evenhanded, but they're
overpowered by the dramatic language used to make the opposing points.
(For example, the brief acknowledgement that point 1 is the "weakest argument
against WebSockets"
is surrounded by phrases like "wreak havoc",
"weird stuff will definitely happen", "rogue proxies will break you").

This article puts itself squarely in the category of "the case against".

A more balanced article might discuss:

1. The situations where you might want to avoid WebSockets (no HTTPS, IE 8 & 9 compatibility, a server platform without good support, or where they don't provide actual usability benefits).

2. Pitfalls that both long-polling and WebSockets share (you have to handle reconnections and synchronize state, be mindful of the open connections when reconfiguring a load balancer, account for server load, and use a server platform with good support for long connections).

3. Differences that can be viewed just as reasonably in WebSockets' favor, which
the article counts as negatives. Example 1: Resynchronizing state after a network interruption is necessary with both long-polling and WebSockets, though the article notes it as a WebSockets disadvantage. The reconnection process is explicit with WebSockets, but some long-polling libraries make it very easy to ignore these events, leaving the client out of sync. Example 2: WebSockets aren't limited to 6 connections, unlike long-polling, so you won't get a silent connectivity roadblock on some tabs when the user has several of them open.

4. Advantages unique to WebSockets: responsiveness is improved due to not needing to send HTTP headers with every request and response, and the underlying TCP connection is already warmed up; load balancing and redundancy may be simplified by no longer requiring a session affinity mechanism (because the connection itself preserves short-term state, which can be
re-established by the client transparently to the user in the rarer event of reconnection); less overhead than long-polling; a whole class of problems resulting from cookies as the sole mechanism of state transfer is avoided; the same protocol can be implemented simply and efficiently by native mobile apps.
But if he believed in the changes XT made, then the right thing to do was to contribute to it, publish the fork, and let the community vote on whether to adapt the changes. I think he did what anyone who complains about core devs should do: Take action to make a change in Bitcoin.
What problem is that? That they have a different operating system?

npm is also a bit different, in your objection: they're a company. Companies need users. Supporting more platforms to get more users seems like pretty much, well, business as usual.
> Yes, you can use timecode vinyls with some DJ software, but it's error prone and you experience latency issues.

This may have been true in 2008, but not now. I don't follow DMC closely, but as far as I remember, a lot of winning routines now actually use timecodes.
I found that diving into openFrameworks (looking at their examples, etc...) and hacking my own stuff was a great way to learn. Cinder would do the same.
LeCun has a comment on this paper here: https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun/posts/10153293764562143
It has to do with amount of "dynamicism" present.

I.e. are you using HTML and CSS to read formatted research articles, or are you building a collaborative equation WYSIWG editor?
Homosexuality was classified as a psychiatric disorder for a long time. It was only removed from the DSM in 1973:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_and_psychology#T...
And in 99% of cases, the weakest spot in sound chain is the room anyway.
In a future world of no cash, Craigslist will probably be black market underground bartering more than it will be about the sale of items. Probably isn't high on the priority list of people like William Buiter who would like to see cash outlawed. Hard to collect tax on people selling on Craigslist.
I get the point about belonging but your comment reeks of dehumanization.

Join us or else....

That kind of attitude creates and/or enforces much of the negativity in this world such as the actions of cops alleged by Ian Murdock.
There is a lot more going on here than just "a tragic misunderstanding".

from http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/30/opinion/clevelands-terribl... :

> Officer Loehmann had quit a suburban police department where he had showed a “dangerous loss of composure” during firearms training and was found to be emotionally unfit for the stress of the job.

> Officer Loehmann joined a police department that itself had acquired a well-documented reputation for wanton violence and for shooting at people who posed no threat to the police or others. In a particularly striking event, documented by the Justice Department last year, officers mistook the sound of a car backfiring for a gunshot. They chased down and fired at the vehicle 137 times, killing two occupants who turned out to be unarmed.

> The Police Department’s disregard for life was fully evident in the way the officers behaved after shooting Tamir. A surveillance video shows them standing by the child for four minutes without giving medical assistance, which was finally provided by an F.B.I. agent who happened to be in the neighborhood.

> Officer Frank Garmback, Officer Loehmann’s partner, nonetheless tackled the wounded boy’s 14-year-old sister as she tried to rush to his side.

> One can only imagine her suffering as she watched in handcuffs from the back seat of the squad car while her brother lay bleeding on the ground.

Even after they must have realized their mistake, no medical assistance and even preventing (arresting!) his sister for trying to?! I wouldn't wish the US prison system on anyone, but this guy should face some repercussions.
Different groups develop competing clients, when one proposes an incompatible feature, the other groups and the users in general choose if they want to implement it or not. Whichever direction the majority chooses is the direction of Bitcoin.

At least to me, it sounds much more in line with the original conception of Bitcoin than a central foundation managing its direction.
I used to sigh every time I saw "British Library" headlines, as they usually found some stupid way to wrap everything in icky Microsoft technologies long after they became unnecessary encumbrances on web sites.

There's not enough detail in the article to see if they've grown out of that phase, but it would still suprise me if they actually made these bits of "cultural history" freely available in a straightforward way.
Once upon a time, cash hoarding was called "saving". But the central banks of the world have declared war on savers so I guess we need a new term for it.
> philosophy of creating profitable business models to provide public goods that are traditionally the realm of governments or charity

Unless we're talking about B-corp's [1], such a philosophy is not compatible with the legal responsibility a corporation has to its shareholders.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation
If this is news to you, dear HN reader, then you really haven't been paying attention to the discourse surrounding education in the last 30 years of the United States. I believe the big work to hit the popular mind initially was Bloom's Closing of the American Mind, which essentially says the same thing, but the disease was slightly less advanced then.

As an interesting linguistic note: the liberal arts were conceived of as the arts for free men; rather then the techincal things - technicalities - which were to be done by slaves. A careful reading of michaelochurch's polemics should suggest to you that this has not changed in substance in the general case.

No computer science will save you from someone who can out-rhetoric you.
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There have been proposals to sharply raise pay as part of reforms that make it easier to hire and fire teachers. Teachers' unions have always been extremely opposed.
Scaling the 8tracks Music API
one of the better quotes from the thread:

Just think for a minute how amazing Bitcoin is, that it can not only survive but continue to grow despite the huge number of dipshits and saboteurs so intimately associated with it.
Or maybe it just shows that this is a very subjective matter. I can rationally know that digital is more precise, and at the same time like more the way tubes and other analog devices changes the sound.
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I wonder if IQ tests (already discredited as far as I'm aware?) become considered less interesting/relevant in the same way chess has lost some of its lustre once computers exceeded human abilities? Eventually the only things humans will have to distinguish themselves is religion and incompetence. I'd love it to happen in our lifetimes to be able to see what real AI does. Maybe it's just as likely as judgement day is that we simply ignore each other...
There are plenty of instance where a "Bitcoin Foundation" would be helpful like in promoting the technology in general to the general public and in mediating things like the current block size debate. The problem is that the current foundation lacked a majority of ethical board members and they pushed out anyone who advocated reform.
Entirly true, it's kinda cool to see the evolution - Though it makes sense the games would run bare metal, since that would give the best bang-for-your-buck, and presumably it didn't matter at the time.

The 3DS actually has a somewhat complicated architecture - My understanding is that it has a dual-core CPU, but one core is dedicated to running the OS kernel, and the other is used for games. Thus, there is also a 'kernel-mode' 'user-mode' split in a way, because the core dedicated to running games doesn't have full access to everything, and doesn't have full access to mess with the other core. You can kinda see this in action when you note that the 3DS can only ever have one game running at a time, but certain home-screen applications can be run while a regular game is suspended - Due to the application running off of the OS kernel's core and not the game's core.

This also means that an exploit in a game doesn't automatically result in full-system control - A separate exploit in the kernel is necessary to gain full control over the system. This is completely different from the Wii's setup as you noted - I'm not sure if the Wii had the OS running while games did or not, but regardless since games ran with full privileges a single exploit in a game resulted in full-system control.
That's fine.

And surely you'll agree with the GP that they're not really comparable.
From what I've come to understand, JSPM works a lot like NPM, except you can pull packages both from npm and git(hub). We're using it at our startup, and it works quite well. Had to do make a custom build script to make it fit into our Rails application.

Edit: JSPM biggest strength is possibly that it supports a vast set of module loaders (AMD, CommonJS and ES6 modules).
> Socialism, the labour movement, and communism all come from the same place.

That doesn't make them all equivalent.

> It's funny, you're arguing for progressive taxation, but you don't understand the history

Yes I do, put your phony superiority aside, there's no place for it here.

Communism is not relevant just because we're talking about progressive taxation and that you think is simply shows you're too biased to have an intelligent conversation.

> I do get it though - Americans have been taught to hate communism, and thus have purged an entire century of socialist philosophy from their collective thoughts.

Then you don't get it, because that's not what's happening here. What's happening here is you think you're smarter than you are when you're not even able to engage intelligently in the conversation. A conversation about the fairness of progressive taxation does not have to devolve into a conversation about communism or socialism.

You're taking it there because you have nothing more intelligent to offer. You have no thoughts of your own to offer other than regurgitating what you think you remember from history while pretending no one else is aware of history. Your arrogance is sickening. You're a kid, still in college, and you're acting like no one else has heard of history, grow up and learn to engage like an adult. Have some thoughts of your own. No one is here for a history lesson from a kid who screams communism and socialism every time tax policy is brought up.
Yes, this mostly only makes sense for immutable data.
"Faith" doesn't describe how you feel about your paycheck. It's an expectation grounded in experience (the job you don't like paid you last week) and lack of contrary indicators (e.g., weeping executives). It's a justified and defensible belief. If it were not, then it would be faith.
think they know better than science and math

It's not really like that. "Superior" is subjective when it comes to something like this. Yes you can look at the numbers for dynamic range and distortion if that's important to you, but generally what matters for the listener is what his or her ears like. And this is a matter of individual preference. Sound from analog recordings and vacuum tube amplifiers have different characteristics than digital and some people prefer that. They aren't denying any science.
"Those that don't understand history blah blah blah". And that's why we have things like The Constitution, Bill of Rights, etc. They are a focal point for us to say "Oh right, we were getting a bit emotional and got carried away. We should probably scale this back a bit."
I guess you're right, I formulated that too flippantly. I meant, they have no use in the utilitarian sense, in the neo-liberal university-as-a-trade-school.
I think they will eventually converge.

Probabilistic programming is already a hint of this. The most general class of probability distributions is that of non-deterministic programs. ML is just a quick and dirty way to write these programs.
What exactly is understandable? Their outrage? Or their hypocrisy of provoking the Fourth Amendment, for example, to defend their right against unreasonable search and seizure under the constitution as regular American citizens and not government officials? Is it understandable that they think they're above the law? If so by which law? A secret law that no one knows about and is just understood if you're a government official? If so how can it be understandable by anyone else? Is it also in the same way easy for you to understand when a person lies to their teeth and commits the most heinous crimes? What about war crimes? Can you understand those too? After all everyone believes something.
The filter isn't the problem, it's just hiding the real problem: the song has been mixed so loud that it "clips" at recording medium's max volume. That means you've lost a lot of waveform information on the loud sounds and it comes out very flat-sounding.
Thanks for the analysis! We can only hope that the SAT is not also inflating.

Oh! They did! SAT was redesigned and rescaled in 2005 to 'reflect today's high school curriculum'. And that whole debacle over the written exam part. So I'm not sure how much we can learn from comparing scores before vs after that watershed year.

But ok accept that scores might be going up. The meat of the OP's rant was, college is no longer a place of learning but instead a place of 'earning'. The degree is what matters, and nobody is expected to actually learn, master, internalize subjects particularly in the liberal arts which are termed 'fluff'.

That is an argument worth examining. Notwithstanding the codgerness of the ranter, and his evident desperation at being ignored and shouted down for a decade.
I have mixed feeling about this article. On one hand I agree with heavy commercialization of education. I feel same about my life where all my education was one step closer to better life in term of money and comforts that money brings. Now after working for more than a decade and having reasonably successful career I feel more and more empty. On other hand I slightly disagree or more accurately, feel sad and scared that online education is not something that will bring any intellectual fulfillment to life. I use to think a few online courses here and there will bring in some content to me.
A few years? More like 14 months if he's living reasonably.