skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Of course Facebook wasn’t marching in with gun in hand, seeking to subjugate all who stood before it — it was only partnering with local mobile operators to give people free access to certain online services.However, there are parallels worth drawing."

Regarding the parallels, neither did the British come marching in with gun in hand, seeking to subjugate all who stood before it. (British East India Company)https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=British_East_Indi...

(Foothold in India)https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=East_India_Compan...
> getting irradiated doesn't cause you to become radioactive.

Well, actually... Neutron activation and photodisintegration via high energy gamma rays can produce radioactive isotopes via irradiation.

But this generally requires a high flux or high energy to produce noticeable secondary radioactivity. So depending on the type and energy spectrum of the radiation the sandwich is exposed to it might pick up tiny tiny amounts of radioactivity.

But yeah, that's probably going to be drowned out by any kind of radioactive dust.
Mirror, if you can't get past the paywall: http://www.nasdaq.com/article/andreessen-horowitz-sells-some...
I really liked their summary site http://www.stupidhackathon.com/ the "holding" app cracked me up.
Those who have to account for their productivity (like devs) are probably in short supply.

Those who do not have to account for their productivity (like managers, accountants, and marketers) are probably in excess.
Somewhat related to the general discussion I'm reading in the comments: https://www.williamghelfi.com/blog/2015/12/26/william-versus...
Yep, but with Google, there is a big chance of success. The technology itself was not enough, it needs an execution, an example for others to follow, like Google did with material design
I would be happy to pay something to Soundcloud as long as it's not per-song. It's a good service. Really easy to use as a musician and great for finding new music as a consumer.

Hm, maybe they should be selling some "audiophile" subscriptions with ability to tag and hierarchically categorize songs you liked? I would buy that if the price is not astronomical.

But I also think it's really important that the basic usage stays free for people who randomly wonder in from other websites.
It'd be neat if you implemented PGP encryption of messages to a designated keyid.
Microsoft released 16bit TCP/IP drivers for win3.11 as downloadable package, you can use that with Netscape Communicator 4.0 or several versions of IE. Unfortunately almost no web servers support clients that don't send the "Host:" header, so additional proxy servers may be necessary to get anywhere. Also, you can pretty much forget about modern TLS.
his time at Microsoft?

I had the impression he was still there last year.
LIGO Update Live Stream – National Science Foundation
Press Release: Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein Prediction
A lot of these project could easily qualify as contemporary art..
Cheers, fixed. I wrote this in a hurry while calibrating my device ;)
Probably a good idea, so I've added e-mail verification.
What I described is narcissism
What I learned teaching my 9-year-old how to code
We are living in the age of data impermanence. There is no mechanism to archive all of the content we are generating efficiently. Soundcloud represents but one of the many websites whose content will be lost forever to the digital dark ages.
OK, but that wasn't the gist of the article. The article was only about one company as if the author is unaware of how VC works, for better or worse.
In my experience, Twitter advertising just doesn't work so well. The specs are difficult to design around (and there's a lot of different requirements for different types of ads) and the performance just isn't as good as Facebook or Google ads.
I pay for it and I'm not a pro. I really only paid because I wanted the spotlight feature and I also felt that I used the site so much it would be prudent to throw them some funds. Like most I have been thoroughly disappointed with the lack of upgrades to the site but so much good content is there that it's hard to walk away from it.
Sent you an email
That first one makes me think about the argument made for merging systemd and udev, code duplication.
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This is using a Hilbert curves to transform a single dimension into a two-dimensional space, isn't it?

(As demonstrated by: https://xkcd.com/195/)

Hilbert curves preserve locality --- points that are close to each other on the curve are close to each other on the map. The human brain has lots of hardware acceleration for dealing with space and geography, so this is a really good way of visualising single-dimensional quantities in an intuitive way. I've always thought there were really cool things you could do with this technique.
I've found adobe acrobat x to be great for OCR and indexing of PDFs. Nothing else I've used comes close to what it can recognise.
Gravitational Waves Discovered at Long Last
You think Hitler is great? Think again
No this helped him move to BitKeeper.
this trick is completely new to me. Sorry for a basic question, how do i generate lots of email addresses is my problem. Can I achieve that without having to host my own mail server ?
Gravitational Wave detected: LIGO live feed
I wanted to replay that it already does that. Apparently you implemented and deployed that very fast.
Execute My Packet
thanks. I work in python so this looks promising
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I wrote most of the docs, and my default day-to-day python is Python 3, so it's really just a matter of forgetting that "Python 3 ready" is something still needs to be mentioned at all. In fact we even have a python 3 only feature at the moment (python->JS compilation) But yes, just to clarify our CI tests run on python 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5
Free as in beer, which is a step in the right direction at an institution where other textbooks could cost hundreds of dollars.
Sure thing. For whatever it's worth I totally agree that everybody needs to quit screwing around and enable TLS, like, yesterday if they haven't already.
This is pretty cool for those who would use it. I for one, do not want more notifications in my life. :) Even my iPhone doesn't notify me on anything besides calls and texts. Everything else is at my convenience.
Your comment has been downvoted, I guess. I don't see why. I think the is important so I'm willing to walk/think through your argument. Of course! :) That's discourse.

The kill switch and blackbox chips are exactly the sort of thing I want to avoid.

I'm not sure how we'd get there from the rule I want. I guess the rule I want is "No machine shall disobey its owner". And device manufactures could be punished if they sell devices that are found to disobey their owners.

Seems to me that would address the fritz chip, and the kill switch, etc.

Related: are all rules inherently bad? Or do we just have a lot of bad ones and no reason to think new ones would be better?
Exactly right. The only browser that will send HPKP reports right now is Chrome and that was very recent.
Gravitational waves: discovery hailed as breakthrough of the century
Haskell doesn't assume any ordering, but nobody managed to make it scale across cores automatically. The problem is that automatic parallelism like you suggest creates lots of small tasks, but to go fast you need fewer large ones because of threading overhead.
Teh typos bothered me inordinately.
Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas thread: go!

My submission: Robot Pan Handlers.

googles

Shit. Nevermind.
The htop package on Homebrew is a fork of the original for OS X called htop-osx.

https://github.com/AndyA/htop-osx
>What you've described is what I refer to as "sex" while totally ignoring the topic of gender. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_gender_distinction

What I was describing was just an example of common sense having application without the need of a scientific study it has NOTHING to do with anything else. I could have easily used another example such as "All dogs have two eyes."

>I'm not sure what your politics are, but a lot of people who have traveled down this path in a conversation ended up expressing very intolerant opinions towards transgendered people. If you do feel contempt for someone whose gender identity and/or assumed gender role doesn't match their biological sex, please don't share that opinion with me.

I don't feel contempt. I believe in equality for all and I believe all humans should afford equal rights.

This is offensive. It's a highly condescending comment implying that you believe I'm some kind of racist prick. Disguising your accusation with a hypothetical "if" doesn't mask the insult. To be accused of being racist is a mark of death in modern society. It can prevent you from getting a job and it can cause other people to hate you. Such an accusation without basis is as vile and disgusting as the people who condemn and feel contempt for transgendered people. In Salem they hung "witches" because of finger pointing. Hence the term "witch hunt." What you are implying is NO different. Please STOP now.

I wonder why you have decided to accuse me of this when I have only presented scientific and logical concepts. What are the foundations of your beliefs? Do politics shape your reality or does science? Am i describing science that goes against a perception of reality that is shaped by politics? I can only guess. At least for me, science shapes my reality and it often depicts a reality that is ugly, cold and not ideal. Politics shapes my behavior, and the way I behave is the only place I can strive for an ideal.

On the topic of transgenders. I feel they should be treated the exact same way everyone else is treated and afforded the exact same rights. However the science and the numbers speak about something that transgendered people often don't like to think about: Being transgender is not a normal condition.
Exactly. The imprecision of the mirror surface (and various other optical surfaces in the system) cause their own interference pattern that can be measured and subtracted from the recorded signal.

Even so, measuring gravity waves requires ridiculous amounts of precision in the construction of the interferometer. I'm working at the 10^-6 scale, where optics can still be adjusted by hand. They are working at the 10^-21 scale - the sheer engineering challenge is awe-inspiring.
I think different people respond differently to various stimuli and sexual stimulation or titillation is no different. Just as some folks find reading the book to be more engaging than watching the movie, I'd imagine that depictions of sexual fantasies may be more appealing in written form rather than visual, depending on the person. The more I learn about people, the more I realize that the variety in sexual preferences and practices is pretty wide.
I have doubts.
Thanks, this definitely sounds useful!

I think it would also really help to have some kind of notification in the HN header.
AMP doesn't do anything you couldn't do just by shipping an optimized website. The only difference is that you're outsourcing a lot of the experience to Google, hoping that better ad sales will balance out the loss of control.
A useful layman's explanation of gravitational waves and the LIGO experiement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tstyqz2g7o
Oh boy. WWV is great when testing out ham radio propagation for the same reasons it was a nightmare for you. Powerful signal being broadcast between about every major amateur band. 2.5, 5, 10, 15 and 20 MHz.

BEEEP dooo dooo dooo dooo
Your genes actually play a large role in how you perceive the taste of quinine http://www.monell.org/news/news_releases/quinine
Consistent look is great for consistent content. But if the content is different, having a different look helps the user get to the content.
Ask HN: Do you need a Google Alerts for jobs?
If your dream company doesn't currently have a job listing that matches your skills, you're forced to continuously check back. And if you find the posting after a long period, it might be too late. Would you use a tool that scrapes your favorite job sites to notify you of new listings? Or, do you have some way of managing this problem already?
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Do they have public accounts? I can't understand what SoundCloud could spend $60M USD on? Apparently they have over 300 employees, what do they do all day? Clearly I don't understand their operation.
It had two levels of persistence. There was a database layer for long term, persistent storage. But the clever(?) part was that the C threads persisted (in memory) beyond each single HTTP request. e.g. you could create a calculator web app where you would press buttons and have the calculator display numbers, and all that would be handled (across multiple requests) by a single C thread. The calculator display might be stored in a stack variable.

Of course you can imagine ways for this to fail - restarting the webserver wasn't very nice for your users for example. Also you needed a smart front end which would direct user sessions back to the same web server instance. (And since it used cooperative threads, each core would be running a separate web server -- but this was 15 years ago when multicore machines were not too common).
Celebrating Day 1 of the Gravitational Wave Era
I use moneylover, works well.
More info here http://corte.si/posts/visualisation/binvis/index.html
First fully approved ‘off the shelf’ stem cells launch in Japan
I didn't get this whole "JavaScript fatigue" thing...

When I started web development. There already was a bunch of different stuff and no one tried to learn it all.

Pearl, PHP, .Net, ColdFusion, Java and what not...
Ovh.com and customer servers are down
FYI, that dhparams bug happens with 2048/2040 as well, and it's fixed in windows 10.
Elastic Beanstalk drove me nuts. I went with Opsworks and was much happier.
Perhaps it's a variation on Parkinson's Law [1]? "The amount of bloat/bureacracy expands so as to fill the budget available to the company?"

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law
As a counter-point though, the role of SoundCloud in a diversified music commerce portfolio is not ideal as a catch-all archive. A professional elsewhere mentioned it is a useful tool for sharing and A/B/C listening tests with tracks set to private, but that's not the end use-case scenario. In principle, SoundCloud should not be the sole - or even main - distribution channel for a music act.

To put it another way, SoundCloud at its core is a free streaming site, and it also allows free downloads if enabled by the music act. There is no way I know of to set up SoundCloud for paid downloads or streams. Thus, using Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, Tidal, Google, Deezr (etc) are wise to capture a modest revenue stream and listener data in ways SoundCloud simply doesn't support.

SoundCloud a lot more like Facebook than it is iTunes: socially important, great for sharing, a way for something to go viral - all important angles in modern business, sure. Is it such a monolith that I'm worried about its future? Not really; it'd be sad to watch it crumble (further, in some respects) but that doesn't seem likely for at least a couple more years. Lots can change.
Is there anything new here? This site was all over the tech news last year when it was released, but I can't tell what, if anything, has changed now.
I have been doing something similar for a couple of years.

My printer can scan to a shared drive on my home LAN, saving files as PDFs. These are then uploaded Google Drive where everything else happens automatically (e.g. if you search for something, it will find it in scanned PDFs automatically).

Its super-useful especially since the mobile clients for drive is rock solid. I can be on the phone to someone and pull up basically any document I've had since the 90s in a couple of seconds, for free. Its kinda fun being on the phone to a call centre and being able to pull up data quicker than they can. Tax returns are an absolute doddle when everything is paperless.

The only thing that is missing for me from Google Drive is like a "Knowledge Graph" for my own documents - I can search by keyword or filename etc sure, but I'd like to get some "intelligence" next like we're used to with Google Now, but for my scanned docs, like "show me my bank statements with a payment to Amazon in the last 3 months" etc.
Yeah that was a super quick change, good work :)
> I'm not sure if I like Google's regular backwards-incompatible updates of their VPx codec family.

Interesting that you brought this up! I went to watch a video on YouTube for the first time in a while, and suddenly all of the VP9 video plays back out of sync with its audio track.
> There used to be a site that did this, but it disappeared a few months ago

I was just about to link HN Notify for this, but sure enough, it's gone. Thanks for the replacement!
You do land on the second 'sister'.

SITTING by her sister on the bank, AND of having NOTHING to do once or twice she HAD peeped into THE book her SISTER.
you can easily live 100% english in montreal, no one will even try to make you feel different

just speak english
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If you used something like ipfs, syncthing, or generic torrents you could easily distribute anything you want at large scale at no cost, as long as people were interested in having it.

If you choose to centralize distribution on one web server that is your own choice, but the better phrase is "digital distribution is free if you want it to be".

I doubt we will see a return to pay-to-listen models in music. Reality has taken too big of a bite around the copyright extortion ring surrounding sine waves. The future of music is in patronage, merchandising, and live performances - which really, it has always been. Only extremely rare unicorn performers ever have the stars align to be able to monetize their music itself (in the past it was making it big with a label, today last decade it was topping itunes) while we are seeing the rise of music as a viable profession without extraordinary fame as long as you can provide a niche and be good at it, you can attract enough whale fans to support you regardless of if the tracks themselves are free - your real audience is those that not only want what you already made, but want you to continue to make.

Remember, as in all things IP, it is not the actual music file that is scarce or expensive to produce, it is the idea behind the music that took an artist hours or days to hand craft into a digital creation. The first iteration was the expensive one - all other ones are effectively free. It is essential that going forward we culturally recognize the distinction and move to seek sustainable business models around the former rather than the later, which we only invented as an imperfect way to translate ideas into the physical goods market back when they were less distinct than they are now (ie, costs of distribution did exist for paper books, so pigeonholing writing into markets via copyright was a reasonable train of thought when per-unit costs still existed and thus people could not effortlessly propagate the information on an individual basis).
For the first case, you would need a signal that lasts for at least half a year. Does that cover two black holes merging?
At my company we have a bunch of content that's only archived on SoundCloud. The main barrier I've had to backing up original uploads (only available through the web interface) is the terrible reliability of all the AJAX calls. Even with browser automation, it requires a LOT of error-handling just to navigate between resources successfully.

It seems that all these microservices[1] are there for the sake of blogging about using microservices[2] as there haven't been any new significant new features delivered in years, and the whole application now seems to be delivered through AJAX calls.

[1]: https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/building-products-at-...
[2]: http://philcalcado.com/2015/09/08/how_we_ended_up_with_micro...
dstat, the best one imho. Can replace quite a few of the other tools.
Yes I have all the originals on my music computer, plus do regular backups of all my music projects to my dedicated server.

I'm not afraid to loose what I created. 8 years ago, I lost 200 tracks. When I realized it, I decided consciously to make it a good experience, no grief at all.

I found it to be a formidable opportunity to start fresh, change my process, change my habits and create more!
IBM actually seems to be taking design very seriously. They're hiring 1000 designers, and the design program has significant support from the CEO. More background here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/business/ibms-design-cente...
If we listen to you, it would seem that SC is both blameless, and - in fact - not in trouble at all.

And that's all fine and well. It sounds plausible. But it seems like every company is "blameless, and things are actually going peachy... but we still need more funding". And at that point the whole thing starts to become unraveled.
No, it is around 70k/year pre-tax. Note that social sec payments are capped and Arbeitgeberanteil is smaller.

http://www.brutto-netto-rechner.info/gehalt/gehaltsrechner-a...
The Sound of Two Black Holes Colliding
> the misusage suggests that English is a not your first language

It isn't. I'll try to remember, thank you.
They did mention him.
Didn't know that! Thanks for sharing.

I hope the fork will be deprecated now for the official one. There's already a related issue on the repo.
Status page is also down, which I guess is not such a good sign...

http://status.ovh.com/
The problem is that some people pay $10 a month for Spotify and others pay for services like Apple Music or Tidal.

The question is how this income is split between the services (which deservedly should be profitable) and the musicians.

Art has always had a shady connection to commerce in which the gatekeepers tend to profit more than the artists themselves.
Last I checked, Qualys only scanned port 443. I like testssl.sh - you can point it at arbitrary ports:

https://testssl.sh/
https://github.com/drwetter/testssl.sh
I remember few years ago there was something like forum (or groups) on Soundcloud. It was really nice way to collaborate with other musicians, but they decided to kill it. I lost interest in SoundCloud since... I still have an account, but I am not using it that often. Also how they present tracks is very annoying, so I stopped sharing soundcloud stuff with friends. It actually got me into creating my own service.
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There's a bizarre but very fashionable form of self-loathing in which any way in which we differ from someone else, it is automatically assumed that the other thing is objectively superior. Do we, as adults, see one way but babies see another? Babies see objectively better! Does another culture eat differently than yours? Other culture is objectively better! Does the other culture have different music, art, story structure preferences? The article about how their way is objectively better than mine is already templated and ready to go in the minds of people held in thrall by this fashion.

I have to warn you that once you start seeing this, you'll see it in a surprisingly large number of places.
Have you tried using youtube-dl? It extracts the relevant data from Soundcloud's JSON API to perform the download:

https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

I know you mentioned originals are only accessible through the web interface, but I was not sure if you were aware of the JSON API.
Not having download capability in iOS is almost entirely at the whim of the iTunes reviewers.

Source: I work at competitor, and iTunes blocked the Download functionality from our app - until we made a few changes.