skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Get off your high horse. I went to school for audio too. I own a ton of the same stuff you do. I spent 15 years on the road as a musician and 8 of those in the studio as an engineer. I've soldered custom Trident snake heads onto new snakes so we could build our studio with that board as the centerpiece. I used to use Pro Tools before I discovered (as you apparently did as well) that software is a more comfortable living. I have audio credentials.

If you're telling me that there is no sonic reason to put stuff to tape then I'm sorry, you have no authority to me. BTW, the reason old Neve boards sound that way it because of the transformers and the analog components in the path. You're so convinced of your own opinion that you didn't even read what I wrote.
I just googled a passage from one of his screenshots of the hoax - "animantium genere non sponte genita membrorum" - and lo and behold, here's the page that was amateurishly photoshopped: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LrNjAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA4&lpg=...
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I'd say we should get an analog mailing list together for like-minded people, but I think we've all become too accustomed to 23ms response times to allow 1-3 days between messages.
The solution here I think is to open the market for more private providers and let the refugees pick and pay for their service, with the government providing a certain amount of financial assistance to the individual asylum seekers. This way the reputation of a certain firm will rapidly hit rock bottom as word about bad service gets out. This will keep pressure high to provide good service.
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How do we get to a completely transparent society without massive collateral damage? I understand the rationale for the goal but the transition is so very difficult. I wish more thought was being put into it.
It's not really so much the question of who did the crimes it's more an eye-opnener into how the police, legal and court system misbehaved every step of the way because right or wrong they were certain they had their man.
"As long as a measurable percentage of your users are still on these browsers, you're missing out on money of you don't support them."

This seems to be a common refrain here. It's missing an important caveat: "unless supporting those browsers costs more than the customers are worth". Supporting ancient IEs means things like: avoiding features that can't be polyfilled, providing XP images for CI, debugging IE issues, etc. None of these happen for free.
Any text links? Thanks.
Because the vast majority of people pay so little taxes that the "standard" loopholes dominate any savings you might find with esoteric tax engineering.

For the average person who pays federal taxes, properly filling out their existing deductions is much more beneficial. That is already a huge business with well funded players & lots of competition.
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> In general, no Java library works on Android except by happy coincidence

This is not true at all.

Every single library I have ever added in my build.gradle has always worked. Every. Single. Time.

Even libraries that were compiled with Java 8, which is the most baffling thing, if you think about it (since Android doesn't support Java 8).

Most of these libraries were compiled and deployed to the Maven repo by Java developers who had no idea whether their library was going to be used on Android. And yet, it does.

This is no happy coincidence.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GearVR/comments/3c061s/cardboard_on...
Sorry for the late reply. Yes, Google has several research awards, including this one: https://research.google.com/research-outreach.html#/research...

and previously I helped run the Exacycle Visiting Faculty program where we brought in postdocs and professors to use our computational resources.
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Very interesting comparison, glad to see it. I don't have a comment on the content itself but I do have a note on the presentation.

The colors used for S3 and Azure Storage in the graphs are very near indistiguishable to me, as I have moderate red-green colorblindness. It's easier to tell apart on the bar graphs, since the patches of color are much larger, although I still have to work at it, and use the hints of the labels, but on the line graphs, it's basically impossible to tell apart. A darker shade of green would solve the problem for me personally, but I'm not all that bad a case, nor an expert on the best shades to pick for general color-blindness accessibility.

Just something to think about when presenting data like this.
Heh, I'd say tube amps are a bit more out there than everything else you listed (unless you mean tube headphone amps or something). It's INCREDIBLY difficult to accurately emulate tubes on normal computers in real-time due to their non-linear behavior. And there is at least some kind of science behind tubes "sounding better" since second-order harmonics are suppose to be more enjoyable for a listener, and are generated naturally by a single-ended tube amp design. I wouldn't say musicians using tube amps are trying to elicit memories of the past, rather that's just the best way they can make their instrument sound good
The different computer guided CBT programmes are tested for efficacy before they get recommended for use.

Here's some (quite old now) guidance: http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ta97

I use that url to give some idea what process is used to assess and recommend computer based CBT.
You are technically right on all these points and yet, wrong overall. See my response above [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10850585
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"For 2015, Hero Norway expects revenue of $63 million, with profits of 3.5 percent. "

Title correction: Long-time hospitality business entrepreneurs expand business into providing refugee housing and services. The business made 2.2 Million profits in 2015 operating highly efficient refugee care centers.

My guess is there would be at least that much money wasted if these centers were run by less experienced people in that business sector (e.g. the gov't). Also note: the government regulates the business.

Overall from the article, it seems like a good way to care for the refugees.
You are discounting a strong trend: expensive products become commodities.

Plus there are degrees of richness. It's easy to name examples where rich people have been trusting their personal information to faceless entities for years.

> to match their other unreasonable status enhancing purchases

You don't know the purchases of the audience you are referring to.
It's a fine way to run. data based decision based on the cost of support and the amount of traffic.
> You're saying, "We should not trust the government because they did things that I didn't agree with in the past". This seems like an unfair standard to hold any person or group of people to. I would be unhappy if people said "I think that karmacondon has made mistakes in the past, so he shouldn't be trusted to do his job ever again."

Yes, you would be unhappy. But this is not about whether you are unhappy, but whether you should have control over military, police, our tax money, and thus everyone's lives.

It simply is a very well established fact that concentrations of power are extremely dangerous, and that they are extremely hard to break up once you recognize they are heading in the wrong direction. Just look at what the problem is in countries where people are doing badly, both historically and right now, and why things are so extremely hard to improve once they have gone bad. Which is why we have built structures that try to prevent such concentrations of power from forming. That is essentially the whole point of democracy and the separation of powers: To build distrust into the system. Dictatorships are the opposite of that (only one power, and no mechanism to remove the person in office). Yes, democratically elected officials certainly are unhappy when they are voted out - but that is the price we pay to prevent concentrations of power from forming.

And surveillance is undermining democratic decisionmaking. Having a democracy now does not guarantee you a democracy tomorrow if you aren't careful in who and what you vote for.

> If they get out of hand then we, the people, will deal with it.

Yes, "we" will. If history can teach us something, we can expect that it will take about a decade at least, with many unhappy lives, maybe millions of deaths, until foreign military gets into it to "deal with it".

Sure, maybe that won't happen. But given the prospects, wouldn't it be wise to use our experience from history, to try and make predictions where things will lead, and to then try and prevent things from happening in the first place?

You are aware, for example, that Hitler was democratically elected into office, and all his powers were given to him democratically? And you are aware what it took to remove him from office afterwards?
Ah I dimly remember that it also has an Occams razor built-in, so the prior probability falls off with the lengths of the strings that describe the Turing machines?
Simon Wardley blogs at http://blog.gardeviance.org/

One link is http://blog.gardeviance.org/2015/10/agile-vs-lean-vs-six-sig...

(I'm sure his view and his value maps on strategy will be huge in 5 years, although he is relativly unknown today)
His IQ is around 70. That's borderline learning disabled.

An IQ at that level is considered intellectually disabled. Nothing borderline about it.

But, that's completely different than learning disabled - you can have a very high IQ and have disabilities like dyslexia.
Not related to the content, but yeesh, this color scheme is awful. The yellow gradient... Blegh.

I couldn't make it through the article because my eyes kept getting lost between the lines.
In my experience it is far less than the cost of acquiring new customers, onboarding and supporting them, also far less risky.
Not shipping yet.
Would have been nice if each investment was broken out. basically if you don't invest in your 20s your screwed.
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I was able to fully quit Facebook - with the help of my wife. Not that she needed to help me actually close my account, but rather she keeps me posted (via her Facebook) page on the comings, and goings of my/our family.

Without her I'd probably feel pressure to at least have FB for close family, however I'm not sure it would be enough to lure me back in, given the use of group texts etc.
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Giving 15% of your users a shitty experience is a really bad of doing business.
For me, it is game of life. I enjoy implementing it in new languages/platforms.
Anything work related will be subject to confidentiality and is therefore utterly useless for all the examples you give.
Synthetic Biology - DNA is essentially software.

Incidentally, recommend reading BOLD by Peter Diamanis - he's unusually good at capturing the latest trends in exponential technology > http://www.diamandis.com/bold
Comments so far seem to be focusing on the social media aspect of this piece, what struck me was the acknowledgement that he has a limited number of productive years left, and the Longfellow quote. In my mid 40's, I also have come to feel the weight of years passed, without achieving professional goals (ie starting a succesful software based company).

This feeling of unfinished business really set in after the birth of our second child. I had always claimed to be one of the best developers around, yet, I could not master myself to be truly productive when working of personal projects. Overcoming my self imposed limits is where I'm at now. Has anyone else experienced this?
Solution to what? The profit margins the article quoted seem fairly reasonable, for all we know the Government is already willing to deal with others and no one else can compete. Seeing as the Government is the customer I don't really see why they would want to move purchasing power over to the refugees. There's no reason to assume they share goals.
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Go isn't suitable for the kind of mission critical and memory constrained apps that Android requires.

The absence of generics and exceptions makes Go a step backward compared to Java. It was also absolutely not designed for Android (its driving design goal was to compile fast).

Dart's type system is also much weaker than Java so it would be a step back as well.

Right now, Google doesn't have any in-house credible alternative language to Java.

Interestingly, Kotlin is growing on Android without Google having anything to do.
I think this is true, but definitely not in real-time. Go observe how fast a complicated analog SPICE emulation is. Typically it's about 1000x slower or worse than real-time, though in the end the wave form might exactly match the actual circuit.
https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/684452792971341824
> The right to bear arms is partly about the people having the same powers or greater, collectively, than the government.

This only works in the US and even there I have no illusions at all about the ability of a present day militia being able to fight off a trained army, it's a pacifier for overgrown toddlers. The only people that have to fear from citizens with guns are other citizens (with or without guns), the military would have absolutely no problem whatsoever dispatching those if it was decided that their lives and the resulting PR fall-out are less important than whatever objectives they were given.

> In the modern era it is information asymmetry that we should worry about.

Note that there are always provisions in the law to protect the lawmakers from having the laws applied to them.

> How to prevent such a thing pragmatically is tricky.

I think it can't be done unless you simply outlaw it wholesale and are prepared to follow up on it. And from a practical point of view this is now a rear-guard action, fall-back bit by bit and try to push back the point in time where we will have to conclude the battle was lost. This is not a problem that will simply go away, it has already gone way too far for that.
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Yea the headline has more than a tad bit of click bait to it. It sounds like they're raking in money hand over fist but profits of 3.5% seem entirely reasonable for the work they're doing (and pretty low as for profit industries go).
My unsung software hero is Dr. Jeffrey Lewis Fox (deceased in 1999 at age 51), Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Utah http://pharmacy.utah.edu/pharmaceutics/news/1999.html#fox He wrote MINSQ (now called Scientist), the only piece of software I have ever fallen in love with. He sold the first version for $10 (if I recall correctly) in 1990. It was so user-friendly that I was using it within 10 mins to solve a system of differential equations that were part of my PhD research. (Unfortunately, I don't find the more recent versions, "updated" by others, anywhere near as user-friendly.) He called his company, at the University of Utah, MicroMath. I assume he used the algorithms from "Numerical Recipes" to write MINSQ - I know that was the alternative facing me till his excellent software appeared. I really think the U of Utah should have kept the rights to the software and maintained it in his honour.
I've completely ditched Microsoft, mostly ditched Google, and haven't even tried to ditch Apple, yet. Of the three I think Google is the hardest to ditch entirely - and that's because of the ubiquity of YouTube. There's a lot of DIY, how-to, product information and conference videos on YouTube.

I've willingly allowed myself to be lulled into the Apple ecosystem because their hardware/software combination is so good. The wife and kids also like it and yet I still retain a Unix work environment. So ditching Apple probably isn't going to happen for me anytime soon though for me personally I'm thinking when my MacBook Pro dies I'll probably replace it with a ThinkPad and run FreeBSD on it. The family will more than likely still be running Apple.
Color blind here as well, I had to zoom in incredibly close to distinguish the difference.
The service is $100 an hour, which is bananas, but I guess that's not too surprising when their target customer is someone who casually buys two iPad pros like a normal person buys packs of gum.
Kinda relevant: http://edge.org/responses/what-do-you-consider-the-most-inte...
Is Idris related to Idris Elba, the British actor, by any chance?
It is extremely rare that the cost to support a browser outweighs the economic importance of those using those browsers. If it is then you are probably too small an entity to matter anyway, but as soon as your IE6 users are numerous enough that you can assign a percentage to the population you would probably be well advised to simply serve them rather than to attempt to force them to upgrade, if they haven't done so yet they either have very good reasons or you won't be able to convince them anyway.
Right, because yet another half-backed programming language is exactly what the world needs.
It's not as if web developers like supporting broken, outdated browsers. It's done because without the users using those browsers, the business would be worse off.

There are lots of intermediate steps like warning about an inferior experience, but at this point it's necessary to test most websites on at least a few versions of IE9.

I've found that using react I've had very easy compatibility with older IE, etc. The only thing I've had to do is install a polyfill or two.
My goal is more modest, to fix the problems with posting using real names if possible (and not by using real name policies).
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Growing up, my Dad shot on Super 8. And it had no audio - the camera had C-sized cells that only ran the film motor. I see from Wikipedia that cameras with audio capability were added in 1973, so it may be that Dad's camera predated that.

At 24 fps, with each frame being 4.01mm tall, means 96.24mm (3.7 inches) per second of magnetic stripes (there are two, presumably for left + right channels). This is roughly twice the speed that cassette tapes used (1-7/8" per second). Their announcement doesn't say if there's any audio compression/encoding used, but I used to use a dbx compression/expansion box to lower the noise floor on cassettes with very good results.

One of the nice things about Super 8 was how easy it was to edit. You used a cutting station that had pegs to ensure your cuts were between frames, and glued them together after scraping off a little bit of emulsion. Adding audio complicates matters, as the audio track is offset from the matching frame by about 3 inches.
I'm making this book my Bible for getting stuff done in 2016. Social media = crack.
I think I conflated your current role as a software engineer with your previous job as a CSR. Besides poor reading comprehension on my part I think assuming a position like CSR is hourly and (typically?) only salaried employees answer emails after they go home contributed to that. Sorry.
Without access to their books, it's hard to evaluate their actual profit. But, later in the article there is this quote:

"The Adolfsens claim that theirs is 3.5 percent, but Herning calls that figure “highly unlikely. All the other refugee companies that I’ve looked at have a much higher profit margin.” She says that in handling revenue from nursery schools and nursing homes, the Adolfsens have played a shell game, shifting profits from one business within their conglomerate to another. “I wouldn’t be surprised if they were doing that for Hero as well,” she says."

Also, quick searches seem to indicate that for-profit prisons (in the US at least), an analogous industry, have profit margins significantly north of 3.5%. [1] I wouldn't be surprised if the actual profit margins for the refugee care companies, when all subsidiaries are included, are between 5-10%.

I don't know if there's a perfect solution to refugee care that optimizes spending and societal harmony, but private enterprises running the show with close government oversight (and no shell games), seems like a somewhat happy middle ground.

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/id/48675641
This strikes me as a pretty serious failure on the part of Facebook, Twitter and their ilk. I'm not sure what the solution might be, but I would prefer to read the posts of the actual author or personality, rather than a stream of PR posts. Neal Stephenson is not the first and surely won't be the last person who's account will now be ghostwritten (by publishers, agents, trusted people, etc.)

I understand why he's managing it this way and I might do the same if I were in his position. My hope is that Facebook, etc. start to realize that their current approach isn't the best fit for everyone.
You should abstain from speculating and posting your personal analysis in threads like these. When I say "you", I don't mean the indefinite second person form that stands in for saying "people in general"; I mean you in particular. Your understanding of the relevant statutory and case law is bad, and your comments are, at best, unhelpful. Realistically though, we can call them harmful. Better to just hold it in.

If you're posting to satisfy an earnest effort to be productive and helpful, instead use the time that you would have otherwise spent writing these comments to go somewhere and ask questions in an attempt to better understand the area of discussion here. But don't do this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10836988
Woah, woah, woah! 10,000? If anything tweets are too long! They should reduce the size if anything. 16 characters and a selfie should suffice for all inter human communication.

If we increase the character limit how does it foster innovation in the realm of human to human interaction? I mean, they might as well be old school print media at this point, slightly democratized to allow celebridiots to poorly market themselves and occasionally post something offensive which will create media outrage.

How will news anchors have segments where they "read people's tweets"? We don't have a segment called "Anderson Cooper reads the New York Times." They're direct competitors!

It's crazy! It makes no sense, Twitter has gone too far this time! People will just keep typing their stupid thoughts to fill the tweet up to the stupid limit because they have to be entertaining in long format. I don't have time for that shit!
I just added this to firefox because of this page.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reader/
There's a difference between "not compatible yet" and "rips out Swing and implements its own UI library."
You don't think any traditional economy companies pay $500k a month for anything? How much do you think airlines spend on fuel a month for example?
How did you manage to block the event loop? For all of JS's warts, the language makes it basically impossible to do this.
Where can I find those?

I never even put internet on my phone. All maps are downloaded at home - an amazing amount of people seems to have never considered that and were astonished to find me navigating without signal.
Yes, but the state, not the refugees, are the buyers.

This means that service and quality quickly become irrelevant, and the race to the bottom begins. Before you know it, you have unscrupulous folks taking government cash to lock refugees in a gritty basement without food and basic facilities.

I'm not saying this is an inevitability, but it's the dynamic that this creates - and that's why this should be the responsibility of the state - or set up so the refugees have a choice where they're put.