skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would mean that there are a lot more black holes in our local group, which could be a little concerning.

But yeah that's actually an application of LIGO once it's sensitive enough, because gravitational waves travel through just about anything including those annoying dust clouds :)
Auditors are required to issue such statements when there is no line of sight to the company being solvent (and no one can guarantee that the company can close a financing round.) I'd venture a guess that almost every startup at a similar stage to SoundCloud would have the same issue if they are audited.
Do you have backups of your tracks into case Soundcloud goes away?

EDIT: Its on my to do list to write a pipeline for Soundcloud for Archive Team this weekend. Just in case. That doesn't pickup private tracks though. Backup your stuff!!
You are correct. (In the United States at least.)

> [...] maintain books and records by using an electronic storage system that either images their hardcopy (paper) books and records, or transfers their computerized books and records, to an electronic storage media, such as an optical disk.

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/rp-97-22.pdf
Having worked with SChannel to build a Python wrapper, there are a number of little bugs that require falling back to TLS 1.1 or retrying the connection. For instance, if a trust root uses an MD5 signature, TLS 1.2 can't be used. Also, sometimes the dhparams for a key exchange will be encoded in 1016 bits instead of 1024 (the server omits a leading zero byte) and SChannel aborts with a cryptic error about buffers being too small. At least Microsoft generally does a better job with their crypto docs than Apple does.
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Cagliari - Sardinia - Italy

Lovely city, optic fiber (not everywhere), LTE/4G, Sardinia is a paradise for beaches and mountains alike.

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/48-hours-in/cagliari-tra...

Also: https://www.guidemeright.com/ was born in Cagliari
Then why did they choose to use lead pipes?
Using Video Metrics to Drive Product Evolution: QoE Metrics
"But it was rewritten in NodeJs !"

I'm not sure what MySpace could do in order to be successful against. The name is kind of tainted at this point, I guess it could still pivot, focus on a niche(music), and try to compete with Twitter instead of Facebook.
36 Web Analysts Share What It Takes to Be a Great Analyst
Can I just point something out about the "Shell Folders key" article... So he whines that developers don't read documentation. So I went and got the "SHGetSpecialFolderLocation" docs[0] which say at the top:

> [SHGetSpecialFolderLocation is not supported and may be altered or unavailable in the future. Instead, use SHGetFolderLocation.]

Alright, so I go and get the SHGetFolderLocation documentation:

> Deprecated.

So neither SHGetSpecialFolderLocation or SHGetFolderLocation are still the correct function for this and I have no clue which is the correct win32 function here because on the "Deprecated" one they don't tell me? And all because I went to MSDN and actually tried to read the official docs.

Microsoft always likes to blame crappy developers, but their documentation is terrible too. Instead of removing the documentation for the registry shell folder key, they should have left documentation and in that article explained why they exist and why you should not use them.

Ultimately Microsoft, particularly in the 1990s, had terrible documentation and they're in no small part to blame for how badly software was written to the platform.

[0] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb7...
[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb7...
If it was just counterfactual shows it wouldn't be so bad. The disgusting thing is all the contrafactual ones!
I bought a high-speed scanner with OCR a few years ago. MacOS automatically indexes PDFs, so I can easily search through my scanned documents in Finder.

A magic folder system, like Dropbox or Syncplicity, makes sure that the pdfs are safely backed up for me.
12 Key Takeaways from Massive STATE OF MOBILE APP DEVELOPERS 2016 Survey
Your business needs a network assessment
The fb like button came from a hackathon and now is without doubt the backbone of our society.
Machine Learning Company DataRobot Raises $33M in Series B
Black boxes are bad. Yes, you can build things. But you don't know how it why they work, and when they stop working you don't know why because you never knew why it worked in the first place.
What exactly did not work? Have you filed a bug?
Very nice. Added yet another shiny badge to my github project's README.

It seem's a little too easy to get an 'A' rating. On one of my less polished libraries it pointed out a few issues that I feel should bump me down to at least a 'B'.
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
You should avoid sarcasm on HN because it doesn't lead to useful or interesting discussion, and because it's indistibguishable from the viewpoints some people actually hold.

Note that the first point is still true if you include the /s tag.
It's kind of cool, so many things (computers or otherwise) have padding built in.

Remember BASIC, the classic 10/20/30 line numbering scheme? Don't want to be caught without room to expand your program.

Microprocessors manufacture in extra gates in case they need to fix something.

Even in large construction projects you see evidence of mystery tunnels, pipes and other things that enable post-construction changes. Some of the road fly-overs in my area have branch points that are only connected in one direction (since obviously it would be ridiculously hard to retrofit the piers at the intersection 10 years from now to add a road going the other way).
Wonder how they figure out the alignment size.
Show HN: Restful.js 0.9.5 is out  Think Restangular without Angular
Since that was downvoted for some reason, here's the source file I was thinking about. It's 762K, so about half of a 1.44 MB 3.5" disk. The total for the whole directory (itself a fraction of libvirt) is 9.2 MB.

https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=blob;f=src/conf/dom...
This is very cool. Will it work with all the Laravel Spark components?
If we detect gravitational waves, here's where we should start looking for them
>The baby looks at things all day without winking; that is because his eyes are not focused on any particular object. He goes without knowing where he is going, and stops without knowing what he is doing. He merges himself within the surroundings and moves along with it. These are the principles of mental hygiene.

-Chuang Tzu
but at least for Lanai it looks like a CPU used just internally and isn't something that is going to power the next generation of Android devices;

How many times have we seen a huge corporation do something in house, then release it for public consumption several years later? At this time, it will probably stay in house, but if there is a revenue opportunity, trust me, they'll release it.
You sure can. The normal fair weather voltage gradient in the atmosphere is around 100V per metre. When there are close thunderstorms this increases. Unfortunately for energy collection air is quite insulative. That's also fortunate in that we don't get shocks all the time just from standing around in an environment where your head is 200V different than your feet.

Popular Science once ran an article that showed how to build an electrostatic motor that ran off the atmospheric electricity you could get with something like a wire used as a kite string.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_electricity
Unfortunately, it's closed source. A closed source browser in this day and age is laughable.
Some of the variants of the links are broken, acknowledged via blog post: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20160118-01/?p=...
The Winforms game jam
I found this game jam one of the most inclusive recently created. Any developer should submit its own crazy/funny game

http://jams.gamejolt.io/windowsformgames
I love hearthis.at, it's like soundcloud properly done.
never heard of baboom, is it essentially bandcamp? bandcamp seems to do everything right imo
For publishers it's sweet, sweet internet munies.
You mean like GPUs have been doing for about a decade now, with their up to 4096 cores?

There's also general-purpose designs like Intel's Polaris[1] 80-core CPU that's close to a decade old (GPUs of the time had 320 cores, so a modern Polaris might scale to 1024 cores).

Making neuron-like massively parallel hardware is one thing, making software to run on it another – we seem to have misplaced the source code to the human consciousness somewhere, alas, and reverse engineering is taking its time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teraflops_Research_Chip
Related: http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2016-02-11-fear-divine-retribution-...
What was your opinion on the dress? Blue/black or white/gold?
Except if prepared in a table seasoned with a salt of our special dust, courtesy of that place at 10 m that is so peculiar that if you want to rest for an entire night there you need to be... ehum... a beer tin or a cereal packet?.

This would be the place serving the best sparkling donuts in NY probably, and also having the laziest sanitary inspectors in the entire city.
Yeah but the userbase is terrible.
lonte
One reason businesses fail is the lack of the business to be able to cope with a service disruption. I hope you have other avenues!
That's interesting.

The left ones look red to me when I look at the whole picture and orange when I look at one chip in isolation.

However, the right ones are definitely purple no matter what. Do people really see them as red?

Maybe I need to spend more time in violet lighting, I find this kind of lighting extremely alien and bizarre. For example, some reds turn into a dark, dirty shade of green.

I don't think I'm colorblind, btw :)
Karma?
I have posted interesting content and tried to comment in an intelligent fashion, but I still only have 1 Karma? What am I doing wrong?
Computer science meets economics
Lol you should try being from Iceland
Minor usage correction, "until today" should be "to this day". "Until today" implies that something happened today that changed his mind, while "to this day" is saying "even now, as of this day".

(My apologies if this isn't of interest - I'm not trying to be pedantic, but the misusage suggests that English is a not your first language. Most people I know who have learned English as secondary language are interested in these kinds of usage corrections.)
81 interesting links from January 2016 regarding eSports
I'm just explaining why Google might want it merged upstream. The work you're talking about has to be performed in either case.
The sensationalized title tricked me.
I haven't seen anyone create hardware for free-space optics that supports bandwidth above 100Mbps. So, technically the medium of transport has nearly unlimited bandwidth, but it seems like a moot argument as long as no manufacturers are doing anything about it. If I'm wrong in this assertion I'd love to know. I have a project that could benefit from such technology, if you can spare a few minutes I'd love an e-mail chat (see profile).
Unfortunately, the Mac App Store has other major issues that prevent publishers and users from using it. While sandboxing can prevent security issues like this, it also interferes with basic functionality of many apps like IDEs that use multiple files. Even VLC can't automatically open the associated subtitles file for a video you open. So, there are whole categories of apps that are a bad fit as they'll be hobbled in terms of user experience/functionality. Add to that the 30% take for Apple that cuts into the bottom line and isn't made up for by increased installs from the store, the inability to charge for new versions of apps which kills off long-term development funding, and the poor UI and bugginess of the store itself and it's clear why the vast majority developers don't use the Mac App Store and existing high-profile developers in the store have been exiting from it.
The main issue with mesh is the property rights. It's too much of a headache to put mesh devices everywhere. So your market is going to be extremely limited.
That just sounds like an excuse to drink gin. Disclosure: I like the taste of Indian tonic water
You should follow him on snapchat for more goodness. This guy is one insane moffo. :D
Tesla stock up 12% following earnings report
Many (most?) banks, insurance companies have done away with physical paper and are using document management solutions of one kind or another. From a UK perspective a good starting point is BS 10008[1]. However, there is no guaranteed way that every company interprets the multitude of legal and compliance obligations. I work in this space.

[1] http://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/bs-10008-electronic-informatio...
Time is at a premium during childhood. I think many children resent having to spend time on something pointless.
Just curious whether YouTube could fill the void if Soundcloud wasn't around.
Tesla Motors Earnings: Demand Is Robust, Operating Cash Flow Jumps
I agree MSDN's documentation isn't perfect, but trust me, it is far, far, far better than almost every other API's documentation that I've seen. I can't speak to its quality in the 90s.

Also, your second link says """As of Windows Vista, this function is merely a wrapper for SHGetKnownFolderIDList. The CSIDL value is translated to its associated KNOWNFOLDERID and SHGetKnownFolderIDList is called. New applications should use the known folder system rather than the older CSIDL system, which is supported only for backward compatibility."""

(Fun Fact: I implemented much of the knownfolder and some of the old shell32 PIDL folder stuff in Wine :) )
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Wow - thats the first I've heard of AMP. I've gotta say, I can't say I'm comfortable with the idea...
Structure in jazz and math
It's weird seeing people on reddit who grew up in the same town as you, but it's even weirder seeing it on Hacker News for some reason.

I never heard the broadcasts through metal objects in the house either, but maybe they scaled back the power in the time I grew up there. Never heard any VoA broadcasts either.
Are there any good standalone, linux commandline tools of this kind (for ssl and mail config too)?
Should we wipe mosquitoes off the face of the Earth?
The description, which says that you can start at any of the first 12 words, doesn't seem quite right; you can start on any of the first 8 words and it works, which seems amazing (but apparently isn't—I haven't read the linked analysis), but starting at the 9th ('sitting') or the 11th ('her') will leap-frog you right over 'sister'. (I suppose it's debateable whether or not this 'works' starting at the 12th word, depending on whether you count starting there as winding up there.)
Global crypto survey proves govt backdoors completely pointless
> Now we use it to mean various flavours of Linux.

?

"Portable" htop 2.0 works on FreeBSD[0], OpenBSD[1] and OSX[2], not just "various flavours of linux".

[0] https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/tree/master/freebsd

[1] https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/tree/master/openbsd

[2] https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/tree/master/darwin
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That's something I could live with.

But honestly, the complete lack of stream customization is just sad for $1B startup that has been in the game since 2007.
Looks interesting. As with Quark, I think we'd hve to wait until you have reached a higher level of maturity and a broader selection of languages. We need at least Go, Ruby and Node.js to get going, which is what our current apps our built with. We're also evaluating Elixir and Swift as possible future languages.
Announcing Parity
I follow 2,000 on soundcloud and wish I could follow more (there is a limit currently). I agree that the way reposts are shared on timelines is annoying in the sense that it is inadequate. Obviously the user needs the ability to filter reposts and just see tracks posted by artists (not currently possible). But I also follow people because I know they repost quality content from obscure artists. That's the main way to discover content on soundcloud right now, and it seems completely broken, both for the person doing the discovering, and the person being discovered.
80k/year probably includes the 28-ish% "Lohnnebenkosten" (incidental wage costs)

So the actual paycheck would be around 60k. I think that's pretty ok for Berlin?

Having worked in both, Germany and Silicon Valley, I'd say that the middle management hiring is certainly a bigger problem in Germany than I've seen on either the east or west coast in the US.
Let's dispel once and for all with this fiction that Apple/Google/Facebook doesn't know what they're doing. They know exactly what they're doing. Apple/Google/Facebook is undertaking an effort to change content creation and consumption, to make their own platform less like the rest of the Web for their own gain.
And every day it's cheaper and cheaper
If you watch the announcements you will notice that the individual detector teams do thank them for providing them with an excellent beam to work with, etc..

Also I would like to mention that unlike in the GR wave case the detectors do make the discoveries independently.
Having multiple independent detectors on one accelerator is one cheap way to take care of reproducibility of results.
A better way to publish a new version of your node module
Well, I've been waiting for the "final nail to the coffin" and I got a shank...

Oh well, at least there are alternatives, like SeaMonkey, Vivaldi, Otter... or I might just start using Pale Moon.

...as a secondary browser to Opera 12.
I've been watching the Google SERPS view of his website tank since he switched to his JavaScript stack a few months ago.

It's a eye-watering example of what happens switching from a static website to a client-side generated one. There's basically nothing on the first page of a site:scripting.com search anymore.

Even the Google Sitelinks view lists the RSS feed as the most important page after the homepage.
Midway down the page for SHGetFolderLocation is a remark that says this function is a wrapper for SHGetKnownFolderIDList, which seems to be the one to use.
> It's not about being elite. I know a ton of guys in the bodybuilding community, and they basically say "if I don't think I'm going to WIN, I'm not even going to start."

Yeah, this is a trap. I actually enjoy the training, as long as I'm seeing some progress.

> When I compete in sports, I compete to have fun, make friends, and compete to NOT GET LAST PLACE.

I'm not interested in the social aspect at all, for better or worse. In part this is because I've seen social / club players fail to improve because of bad habits they pick up and reinforce during social play. My parents spent a bunch of money on training, but I also picked up a lot of bad habits due to incorrect technique from parental coaching.

I should say that for me the sweetest moment is after hitting an ace, a winner, or running down a ball I didn't think I could get. It's not necessarily about the win, but about the perfect shot, the sweet feeling of it, the sound of it, the smell of the ball, etc. So, that's definitely something I can still enjoy.

I spent some time this fall solo-practicing against a ball-machine and watching Roger Federer videos on Youtube. My backhand is better than it's been at any point in my development.

I think it's important to aim for excellence, not just competence, because I see many players' development limited by basically not taking the sport seriously.

But of course, what ever makes you happy. My cruel task-master is that excellence makes me happy.

So overall, very positive. The core of the regret is more like -- huh, if I had realized how to study / train systematically ten-twenty years ago I could be on a different trajectory.
First of all, thanks for sharing, I didn't know about many of these headers!

From recent scans I see that www.google.com got an E with missing headers:

Strict-Transport-Security
Content-Security-Policy
Public-Key-Pins
X-Content-Type-Options

Is this negligence on Google's part or ...?
> There's a lot of low-hanging performance fruit in programming language design

Modern code generators are really, really good at straight-line code. Sure, if you're writing everything in Python or Ruby or PHP then there's a bunch on the table. But if you're already doing C or C++, probably not so much.

And going parallel / multithreaded / distributed is still hard.

I don't see low-hanging fruit unless you've already chosen to burn cycles for productivity. If you're already at the performance floor, all roads are going to be difficult.
related: http://www.zdnet.com/article/when-it-comes-to-windows-10-pri...
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A History of the Windows Start Menu
Indian tonic water (modern stuff) has vastly lower levels of quinine than what you would take back then.
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The companies fled in the 90ies. Not really now. And it's only _public_ education that's in French, and only if neither parent has gone to an English school in Canada.
Yup. Quality is worse, but the sound carries much longer distances.
Edit: Sparkle uses signature verification as mikeash pointed out in reply to my comment. I'll leave it because I still agree with my second paragraph but feel free to downvote since it doesn't really contribute much to the topic at hand.

The fact that sparkle renders the feed in a webview is bad, but the reason this is a big issue is because developers aren't using TLS/SSL/https for their update feed URLs. Even if Sparkle is fixed in the app itself your list of binaries can still be hijacked. It always could and always will.

It's 2016, every developer needs to take this seriously. Just because it's a pain in the ass to install an SSL certificate on a web server doesn't mean you can just skip it.
That's why I archive my document scans as one bit per pixel PNGs. It ends up being 20KB-50KB per page at 150 PPI. I figure that there will always be a way to get the pixels out of a PNG. PDF is a more complex and dynamic standard.
C isn't a terrible language to write a web framework in. (Not using version control is a terrible idea). About 15 years ago I wrote a simple high level framework in C for writing web apps:

http://git.annexia.org/?p=c2lib.git http://git.annexia.org/?p=pthrlib.git http://git.annexia.org/?p=rws.git http://git.annexia.org/?p=monolith.git

It actually does stuff that even current frameworks cannot achieve, such as providing long-lived stateful web apps entirely in HTML (no JS required), although you are entitled to doubt if that matters these days since JS has won and is available pretty much everywhere.

The best thing about it was that it was so fast, because the code + data of a small web app would fit entirely in the L1 cache of the CPU.
i don't think it would change (probably wrong) since the active energy is only generated by the final PA's in the system. the Antenna's gain is only from the passively reactive design. Its like making a violin string resonate by only moving the bow and not physically the string.
>I hope Forbes realizes that blocking access to users with add blockers is not only a way to get rid of freeloaders

What if they also start blocking access to users with subtract blockers, or even multiply or divide blockers?
Why not? The current HTML standard and downloadable apps is so oldschool, AMP looks like a leap forward.