skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another anecdote: I have played with their JavaScript API about 2 or 3 years ago and it was constantly broken, with no way to report those bugs.

Their support page states "ask on StackOverflow" as it stated back then, which is a terrible way to report bugs. https://developers.soundcloud.com/support
For SSL from Qualys, Inc
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/
This article on the Atlantic is, I think, a bit better and more interesting:

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/01/don...

(Pretty much the same conclusion, though).
A lot of researchers would disagree with the statement "That’s not how science works: You don’t sign a contract to not change anything in your protocol as the research evolves" You've got to complete the test using the protocol and hypotheses established at the outset. If you decide a change in protocol is required you wrap up the original test, report on the results, and then start a new test. Otherwise you end up with some combination of the issues described in A menagerie of messed up data analyses and how to avoid them[1]

[1] http://simplystatistics.org/2016/02/01/a-menagerie-of-messed...
OWASP Wordpress Security Implementation Guideline
If you run your own postfix server, the first part is as easy as setting smtp_tls_security_level = may. You don't need to certificate or anything.

The DKIM authentication just requires a self-signed certificate. It doesn't need to be signed by a CA, I believe.
That's neat! You should add team winning percentage as another stat to see if it improves your results. It might reduce the occurrence of false positives for players like Lillard and Rondo.
They raised $77M USD last year. The auditor's statement is just standard boilerplate for a company that's losing money.

Given the involvement of big investors, it seems extremely unlikely that SoundCloud would shut down rather than raise another round or get acquired.
What do you think is used on mobile.
Anyone know how big it is in terms of available files and total file size?
> Gravitational waves do NOT "shake the mirrors".

That depends on what gauge you're working in. What you say is true for the TT gauge, but not for other choices of gauge. See, e.g., section 1.3 of Maggiore's Gravitational Waves book.
It's not exactly unprecedented. GCC supports mmix, which hardware doesn't even exist for. (An educational platform from TAOCP.)

https://gcc.gnu.org/backends.html
Great!

Tup on Windows doesn't support monitoring for source changes. This will fix that nicely I guess.
But then they go on to say that their "previous binutils used" was https://github.com/myri/lanai-binutils.

It certainly seems believable that this is a third-party processor architecture, but Google has a contract with them to build specific models of that processor that meet their needs (possibly alongside some other proprietary hardware, like a high-speed NIC), and those models aren't sold to the general public. That's pretty common outside x86, right? For instance, is there a way for me to buy a BCM2835 other than by buying a Raspberry Pi?
Suppose the LLVM devs change a function signature used by Google's private backend. If the backend is private, Google will have to update their usage of that API when they do a merge. But if the backend is present upstream when the LLVM devs make that change, then the LLVM devs are responsible for making sure all supported backends update their usage of the API.
Charities often don't value work if it's provided to them for free. If you are providing any kind of discount, make sure you show the full price of your time on your invoices, then any discounts.
I don't really buy this.

In any modern language there's going to be pretty battle tested libraries out there to handle requests/response/decoding/encoding for you. This is stuff that is almost never need to be debugged.

If you have a small team and uncomplicated infrastructure, you're only hurting yourself by moving to microservices. However, if developer synchronization problems make core changes to your monolith difficult and block the work of a ton of people regularly, your monolith takes minutes to build or start up, and you're already having to shard the data your monolith deals with across many datastores, then there's no definitely no developer tax to switching to microservices.
I've been a daily soundcloud user for almost 6 years. At some point they gave up on trying to change or improve the user experience. Soundcloud has done nothing to facilitate the growth of users who focus on reposting/finding/sharing/curating content, vs. content creators who upload their own music. There is no way to gain a following or reputation as someone who reposts content on soundcloud -- and even if you have that following, there's no way to communicate to your audience.

In three years, it seems they've just made the UI elements bigger, and added background images for songs and profiles. I was really hoping to see the ability to post text messages into people's timelines. Something to communicate to your followers.
If the paper makes these kinds of errors, how can we be sure they didn't make similar errors when conducting the experiment?
Deciphering Real-Time Sales Messages and Build Rapport with Potential Customers
John Coltrane, Nicholas Slonimsky and the Arduino
Startup School Radio Ep 35: Paul Graham [audio]
Skynet – A Lisp Machine – Development/Tutorial Playlist
> Linus built Linux. Then git. Track record counts.

Arguments stand on their own. I assume there isn't enough of Linus point of view on this email to make him justice (I'd like to read his response) but ESR seems to be right on this one. He isn't advocating for a specific source control technology just that one is needed.

From the email: I used to worry about what would happen if Linus got hit by a truck. With all respect, I still worry about what will happen if the complexity of the kernel exceeds the scope of your astonishing native talent before you grow up.

I've been in that situation and it's not pretty, the only thing that gets you by is the believe that you will (conceivably) leave the job before anything bad happens to the project manager.
Youtube is not making any profit either, I suppose streaming based websites are very difficult to make profitable. Must be the constant growing expenses for servers.
> Birds can no doubt sense this corona

So can humans, it's a crackling sound.
It's the content creators who pay soundcloud.
I would totally pay them "a cent", but there are no premium plans for consumers/listeners.
I'm not sure I'd agree there's no other facts. links from the article include excerpts from their financial accounts which don't look good (losing 39M on a 17M turnover is not healthy).

And the quote from the auditor is significant, auditors don't put that kind of thing in unless they have to as it annoys their customers to be reminded that there's significant concern over their ability to continue operations.
As a music producer I pay 79 EUR / year since 2011 because I enjoy having a practically unlimited storage space for my own productions, may it be a complete song or stems (individual instruments) that I share with musicians I collaborate with.

80% of the tracks on my account are private. I mostly use Soundcloud as a musical post-it system so I can easily listen to my productions in different settings (car, friend's hifi system, earphones etc.), share tracks with label in a "secure" fashion.

I was really saddened to see they introduced ads even for people who actually pay for their service, I felt literally betrayed and angry but fortunately it did not last long. However it leaves traces.

I still find it amazing that they did not introduce basic filters for the stream, like "just grab house mixes at least 45 minutes long"...

Anyway, I am still quite happy with the service even if I could do the same on my own dedicated server, minus the social network thing.

I just wish them good luck but I hope that their longevity will not be due to ads served even to subscribers...
I actually was sort of curious as to the opposite. What does it mean if gravitational waves (that we can detect) are extremely common and become fairly easy to detect with future technology given todays news?

The article says many expected LIGO to take much longer but it found it rather earlier equating it to beginners luck (I know the article is written for the layperson but it leaves much to be desired with that phrase).

You never know we could have telescopes that use Gravitational waves instead of light.
It also depends on the violated party still existing and caring enough to pursue a lawsuit. Many of the entities that own these copyrights don't exist anymore. And I don't think a Windows 3.1 demo on the web is potentially damaging enough to Microsoft's profits to make it worthwhile for them to sue the Internet Archive.
This is kinda what set me off, one tend to stereotype with such information - was out written on an xo laptop in a favela, in a logging camp, on a super-yacht - a country name means something, I'm just not sure what. Countries as groups of people just seem too arbitrary to me I guess.
I agree, I love these sorts of things because they make it easy to learn what you don't know. On the other hand, assigning an order based on an analysis like this can be interpreted wrongly, which I find annoying.
Date: 2002
Can I just say I really appreciate the archiving you're doing here? I should probably get round to giving you a contribution. Or uploading my shareware collection.
A 3x Greater Chance of Exit? Hell Yeah
>few documents you need to keep long term

I disagree. While I'm a huge fan of purging, there are many, many cases where you need/want documents.

Theft/fire/casualty: old receipts prove ownership and value.

Maintenance: who worked on the furnace 4 yrs ago?

Warranty: our windows have a 20 year warranty (and we're using it!)

Basis for home improvements: when you sell your home, if you can document improvements, you can raise your basis and lower your capital gains.

Repair: where's the part number & diagram for the faucet that's leaking?

School records for your children.

Etc.
I think we're going to see this phenomenon - wringing efficiency out of what we have now - across a lot of different fields and industries in the coming years.

One example is the whole IoT movement. Most of the real (industrial, medical, automotive) applications are efficiency/cost-savings focused. The central theme is connecting devices that we have now to better monitor, analyze, and utilize what we've already built.

Another example that is a bit further removed from computers is the whole Uber/car sharing trend. At any given time 95% of the cars in the world are parked somewhere, not in use. Even if we could only bring that down by 5%, we would be utilizing billions of dollars in capital more efficiently.

I also strongly believe that we will see this reflected in living situations with growing urban cores/hubs of activity and jobs. Suburbs are no longer economically viable at the scale at which we built and inhabited them post WWII, and as the infrastructure begins to decay and inequality increases, more and more people will move to the city to take advantage of the economies of scale of living a dense, vertical lifestlye.
I wonder if that speaks to the general issue that Twitter has had in terms of being an effective advertising platform - either in terms of targeting capability or demographics of the userbase.

If even the candidates who are spending money like it's going out of style aren't even using it...
He's The Right Honourable Lord Rees these days.
Please stop linking to the page-that-talks-about-the-page.

They're actually referring to this Quora page:
https://www.quora.com/What-should-I-do-if-the-pilot-passes-o...
wait, are you talking about mental health/suicide?

I'm talking specifically about puberty and physical development. Suicide and gender crisis is a social issue.
How much more over the top do I need to be?
Arvo Part: Most-performed living composer
10K+ worth of training. Some people with PTSD claim that having one is life changing.
IIRC, sound waves are hugely dispersed in water (group/phase velocity change with frequency) so it would be difficult to understand what the speakers say / to enjoy the music, etc...
And the annoying bug on the native mobile app where it randomly stops playing, which has been a problem for so long and still hasn't been fixed despite the companies worth...
If you're more worried about connection and discovery semantics, you'd want to use Datawire Connect which is built on top of Quark. Quark is being used by companies that for one reason or another need/want to build their own protocol. This is admittedly overkill for most people.

Datawire Connect integrates discovery as well as connection semantics (next week we'll have a release that supports full Hystrix semantics, e.g., circuit breakers and timeouts and load balancing).
It was just that one and her reasons showed that she has virtually no understanding whatsoever of what high functioning autism is.
We can deliver short texts and audio for free, by tweaking an Asterisk installation. It's not super convenient, but can provide an information channel for some isolated communities, and get news on weather, market prices, health, etc.
For me the problem is stability and future-proofness. Technology changes very quickly. If the maintainer loses interest, the software may rot away as the dependencies change, etc.

Important documents often need to be stored for 5-10-20 years. Why put everything in this shiny new software, when it may change in 1 or 2 years?

I think it's best to just put scanned pdfs in folders based on year and topic. Those can be easily and transparently backed up and searched.

But on a few months timescale this software could be useful.
Presumably they also have the internet in Kansas, giving you potential access to all sorts of different languages.
It seems it has reached a peak, or at least has not been really growing in 2015, if you check worldwide

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#geo&q=soundcloud
>The plant processed Monazite sand, which, when treated with Sulfuric Acid, separates into the rare-earth Sodium Sulfate,

Sodium sulfate is not a rare-earth. This looks to me like a case of copying from Wikipedia without understanding. From:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monazite#Acid_cracking

"leaving a solution of lanthanide sulfates from which the lanthanides could be easily precipitated as a double sodium sulfate"

This is an additional step that happens after the steps shown in the diagram, to separate the different lanthanides. Sodium sulfate is added to the mixed lanthanide sulfates, some of which form lanthanide-sodium double sulfates (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_salt) which precipitate out while other lanthanides remain in solution. See
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HPyNk-cU-nQC&pg=PA402&lp...
What?, Wait... React Native have windows support? or is comming? And linux?
There's an interactive piece from a couple of years ago for more background/history of the Wolff-Alport site http://projects.newyorker.com/story/radioactive-nyc/
from http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/ouch-soundcloud-losses... definitely not profitable at the time of those accounts
This article didn't really say anything interesting. Is there a better article or even book about the gin craze and its effects? Is this just clickbait spam?
I’m a web developer and can't make anymore the simplest web app
Really, for this kind of paper, the only reasonable approach would be to figure out how to get actual babies to proofread it. Tricky.
Does a Google Study of 1,685 Clueless Parents Justify $4.1B in K-12 CS Spending?
Glad it could help!
Not insightful? I'm the author. I drew attention to several important facts about JavaScript...

1) The language has terribly inconsistent semantics, esp. with regards to its loose typing and aggressive coercions.

2) Just because JavaScript is the native language of the web browser, it does not necessarily mean that you must program in it directly. There are dozens of better languages that transpile to it.

3) Despite Node's popularity, JavaScript is ill-suited for the server side. Have you heard the axiom, "Use the best tool for the job"? On the server side, JS is definitely not the best tool. There are much better languages, such as Go or C# or Scala, just to name a few.

4) ECMA is turning JavaScript into a very complicated language. Just look at the size of ES6's language spec! JS can no longer claim to be an "easy to learn" language, which was one of the key reasons for its growing popularity.

berserker-one was correct: I wrote a satirical article. It was meant to be funny, and I can testify that many people do find it amusing (based on the responses I've been getting). I'm sorry you don't share my sense of humour. You need to lighten up.
The parent was speaking of software that does fit within the MAS model. It seems disingenuous to start talking about software that doesn't as a counterpoint.
Houston: We've Got a Problem. 1 in 5 Houstonians will have Diabetes by 2040
Offtopic: wow, I can't see anything on the linked website without enabling JavaScript.

What a wonderful days to live.
Check the "Who is Hiring" thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11012044

It comes out monthly.
> I've been a daily soundcloud user for almost 6 years. At some point they gave up on trying to change or improve the user experience.

Yeah, probably at the point when they started hemorrhaging money. Why do people expect a company that is dying to focus on UI improvements? Like any other business in the world, their focus is on staying alive.
I don't know why, but seeing Brazilians doing good on open source makes me happy and encourages me to contribute too!
Show HN: Pull-to-action gestures for angular
> Really exciting would be the Power8 based on IBM's new 7nm, which would finally blow away Intel advantages on an fully open (and unbackdoored) design.

Sounds like you read https://raptorengineeringinc.com/TALOS/prerelease.php :-)
From http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/11/senator-ted-c...

"... used Amazon’s crowdsourcing marketplace Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to access a large pool of Facebook profiles, hoovering up tens of thousands of individuals’ demographic data – names, locations, birthdays, genders – as well as their Facebook “likes”, which offer a range of personal insights ... For every individual recruited on MTurk, he harvested information about their friends , meaning the dataset ballooned significantly in size ... users had an average of around 340 friends ... the Facebook data was then used to generate sophisticated models of each of their personalities using the so-called “big five” personality traits and characteristics – openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism."

From http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2015-11-12/is-the...

"... “This is really trying to use psychology to understand why hostile audiences do what they do, and to use this methodology to deconstruct that behavior and then use communication to try and change attitudes and ultimately behavior,” Nix says. “Persuading somebody to vote in a certain way,” he goes on, “is really very similar to persuading 14- to 25-year-old boys in Indonesia to not join Al Qaeda.”
Amazon updates its terms of service to cover the zombie apocalypse
Many households did not have phones until well into the second half of the 20th century.
Not yet but nothing they charge for has been relevant to me yet as a consumer. I am launching a couple of podcasts in the next month though and want to embed audio on Twitter so will be doing so soon which is one reason I'm concerned at this news as nothing else is suitable IMHO. (I pay for lots of online services, but not if there's no product targeted at my use case.)
Almost every city is calling themselves the next Silicon Valley.
Being bilingual is just another proxy for a middle class or higher upbringing.
one excerpt of their P&L does not equal "excerpts from their financial accounts" (plural). And again, it's from 2014.

For all we know Soundcloud was profitable last year. Maybe it's not likely.. but the article has no information at all on last year, yet they feel comfortable making this statement.

The auditor statement is standard boilerplate. It applies to every company that is losing money. That's right -- if the company is losing money, they may need to raise money in the future to continue. No kidding.
Weird how Pakistan seems to be Soundcloud central! I suspect that the advertising sales team at Soundcloud only care about the Western markets, hence I posted the US 'trend'.
You'd need a sensible way of programming it. Perhaps when 'deep learning' stabilizes a bit there will be commodity neural network chips (there are a few at the moment e.g. http://www.cognimem.com/products/chips-and-modules/CM1K-Chip...).

It's already possible to tweak the process parameters to produce slow-but-efficient chips. I recently saw http://www.ti.com/lsds/ti/microcontrollers_16-bit_32-bit/msp... : 45 microamps/MHz up to 4MHz, runs down to 0.9V. Pair with a suitably low self-discharge battery and it'll run for a decade.
I agree, hopefully the majority will see benefit in it. It's intended as more of a way to educate rather than a definitive security assessment.
It was interesting to learn that charges were per word and not per character. And that "2nd" counts as two words while "second" is one, dispite being twice the number of characters.

Weren't all telegrams sent by morse code on the wire? Or was there another protocol?
Having run a music site for 7 years or so I am not surprised. We started before Soundcloud and created a very engaged community for musicians that many paid for.

However I never understood how Soundcloud could justify raising so much money given the revenue potential (from producers) in the space. By the way, the site I ran was http://www.muziboo.com
What do 200 people do in such a company? (serious question, I just wonder how the workforce is usually distributed for a single online product of that size)
Is this why michaelochurch account hasn't been posting as much lately? I always thought that was the most interesting user that posted here, why push him away?
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. If you tell your daughter not or send nudes of herself to her friends, they might not end up on the internet.
Power transmission lines have a similar effect when they are disconnected. My father was a lineman and told stories of hearing radios, intercoms, etc when working with HV lines.
A lot of advice online, including my own, recommends that once you start enforcing a policy you keep the max-age quite short for a period of time. The report-only mode is helpful in identifying issues but given the nature of what HPKP is and does, jumping straight to a high max-age value when you start enforcing the policy isn't wise.
> it seems they've just made the UI elements bigger, and added background images for songs and profiles

The last major attempt at "improving" UI/UX that stands out to me was in 2014 when they launched the redesigned iOS app.

That was when I stopped using soundcloud on my iOS devices. Everything became more difficult for me.
I think this has been unfairly downvoted. It doesn't match accelerator hardware well, it's something of a historic path dependency because it was the only open API, and the one used by 3DFX for their "miniGL" drivers.
Single data point anecdote: an acquaintance from Kansas met and married a Thai woman there and they moved to Thailand. Unlikely that he would have previously ever considered learning Thai as a second language, but he's trying hard to learn it now.

Just a funny anecdote. That is all.
DirectX on Windows Phone, Metal on iOS; and mobile GPU vendors are one of the driving forces behind Vulkan, as OpenGL (ES) is just too shitty to keep using.
I emailed you yesterday and haven't heard anything.
You are asking the interesting question. I have nothing to add.
There's also https://starttls.info/ which will check mail server configurations.
Tesla to debut $35,000 Model 3 in March
Feedback is more than welcome!