skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, glad you like the music. :)

Regarding the Novella quote:

> [no evidence that] altering the brain waves changes the actual functioning of the brain

That post was from a while ago, so I'm not sure if he's updated his opinion, but there's plenty of evidence that changing brain waves affects the functioning of the brain. I feel I should have Giovanni respond to that specifically so I'll get him on here as soon as he's available.

> There is no compelling evidence for any effect beyond the period of entrainment itself.

There is evidence for it, but at any rate we're not claiming that. We're helping people sleep or relax while they listen, helping them focus while they listen.

> does this impart any more benefit than me listening to my favorite working music whilst working?

I'd be super interested to find out! In the study we did on our focus sessions, we compared very similar music - still generated by the AI actually. We have the unique ability to create a sham that sounds nearly identical to the experiment, due to the way we "disguise" the stimulation as vibrato, tremolo, normal instrumental vibrations, electronic LFOs, and so on. So we opted for that instead of letting them choose something from spotify, etc. I actually think we would have gotten a much greater result in that case, because the AI-generated music - although not containing "entraining" modulations - still obeyed rules designed to keep the music from being distracting (no lyrics or abrupt stops, volume consistency, avoiding certain frequency ranges (pitches), and so on). Even so, if you find your existing music to work, why switch? Give both a try, see what you think, base your decision on results. Or use both, depending on how you feel? Today I coded to Queen and then Brain.fm and then some Motown. I especially love video game soundtracks like Chrono Cross, WarcraftIII, Wipeout... Brain.fm is there if I need an extra boost.

I'd love to hear what you listen to? Kind of a hobby of mine to collect people's work music :)
Check out SoftMaker Office 2016. Its word processor TextMaker is superiour to Word regarding features (it includes many that Word doesn't, e.g. address database. epub export etc.)., speed and reliability (never had a crash or screwed formatting which I often had with Word). The spreadsheet and presentation apps are also excellent, and all programs are highly compatible with Microsoft Office formats.
Honestly, I feel that everything in moderation is a good rule to follow. I spend a more than I perhaps should but I enjoy my life.

As long as I am putting money away into savings each month and not going backwards I see it as a win. Going to extremes where you're worried about whether or not you put pieces of plain pizza in with mushroom pizza I feel is a bit too far for my liking.
Written Chinese is not possible to phoneticize, because the mapping of characters to sounds (including the tone) is many-to-one. The poem of shi was written to demonstrate this point [1].

The oral language could obviously be phoneticized, since you can't see the characters when someone talks. But I think native speakers think in terms of characters, not syllables. So you get puns based off of sound and meaning, and written Chinese takes advantage of the fact that characters uniquely describe a meaning, most notably in names. When native speakers discuss names (people, places, etc.) they often ask which character it is. In fact, it is apparently such a common question that foreigners learn the phrase pretty early on.

Language isn't just about productivity. The characters have a lot of character. In fact, you can communicate a lot simply with the choice of character, since there is a long history and connotation.

[1] http://www.fa-kuan.muc.de/SHISHI.RXML
This. I agree with this.

Freezing the work does not work particularly with certain packages. For example, I still see lots of usage of old versions of openssl (0.9.8) and openssh.

If we even just make sure to cover these two packages and the related dependencies/affected applications alone, that would go a long way in covering attack vectors (obviously not comprehensive)
I stopped considering Samsung's phones because we don't get timely OS upgrades and security fixes. I now bought an iPhone. There is a significant price overhead but at least I get software updates and security fixes. No deceptive surprize of defective device when receivîng it like some had with nexus phones. The apple phones are so expensive because all other phones sucks.
Agreed. The article also touches on the point that his blog alone earns 400K yearly. Though it's honorable that he makes an effort to only spend 24K a year, he has safety net that sets him as a 1 percenter.
I think Milton Friedman's matrix of spending is useful here.

Google's research investment has huge returns (and benefits) for society. Government's spending is extremely dubious. I guess a good chunk of technology spending might be going on figuring out better ways to spy on us.
But there are also the Chromebook and Surface Book, so it`s hardly the only one going with this theme.
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Cute. The screenshots really make it.
Try insert "English" between "parse" and "unambiguously" and you can see how patently false your assertion is.
Yep, my point as well.

For example, right now is the only native language available in all mobile SDKs.

So unless one wants to add extra layers to their tools for writing portable native code, with the consequent increase in development costs, C++ is the only game in town.

For example, Xamarin is great, but now on top of debugging Java, Swift, Objective-C, C#, one also needs to debug their glue code into the platform APIs.

I just picked Xamarin as an example of extra layers, I think they are great.
Digital to Analogue Converter. It converts digitised discrete samples to an analogue signal that you can listen to.
Yes, Win32 API/MFC was a frustration, but then I've discovered Delphi/VCL. I never liked Pascal so I was really happy I've found about Borland C++ Builder. I did some N-tier apps with it, it was a pleasure to work.
How and why tech companies get on the stock market
"there was no way to cancel at the 1 year mark"

From personal experience, if you cancel "now", it simply doesn't renew at the one year mark. You still get the prime benefits you already paid for until then.
Connecting the world with better maps
With just $7m, this startup is challenging Uber in Australia
Adobe Expands Its Mobile Portfolio with Experience Manager Mobile
You mean like Erlang and Go?

Everything else uses concurrency via libraries, which is the right way to do it, because there isn't a solution that fits everywhere.
22 Types of virus with Description
Unity Biotechnology Wants to Develop Life-Extending Drugs
In the past year or two, I've noticed a dramatic rise in the number of counterfeit products. If you buy directly from Amazon, it generally seems ok, but all bets are off when you buy from a third party.

I've also noticed the increased gaming of the reviews system. If you read reviews of many of the highest rated products, you often find that most are shills who are given products for free in exchange for "fair and unbiased reviews." Funny how many of their unbiased reviews award five stars.

It's getting pretty bad.
It could be implementation-defined without being UB.
I think that Amazon, may in the end be better off starting their own shipping company. It may sound weird, but I'm half surprised they didn't buy Uber or Lyft, not for the ride service, but for the drivers and the logistics in place. Large trucks from warehouses, to meet drivers in individual vehicles at drop spots, for final deliveries.
The 2016 Design Salary Survey by HackingUI (to be open sourced)
WTF is a "responsible taxi service" ? Is the bar to being 'responsible' getting some government license ?

Exposing itself to "license" means exposing themselves to arbitrary government control and has nothing to do with being responsible. On the contrary focusing on making good profits is the best way to help both drivers and passengers without compromising interests of both.
The Antennas of Pine Gap
Pretty sure that picture isn't open source, either...
I think the failings in this article stems from a misunderstanding on how to use C++ correctly, and just compares it to a language the author is more familiar with, C#. C++ most definitely has a lot of faults, but at the same time, I've seen and worked with some truly awesome code bases using C++. And the above statement can be used for nearly every language that rapidly evolves (C++ pre 2011 was... well, a pain in the a to use).

All in all, I do wish these articles wouldn't make it to the front page of HN, because they don't really add much value to the community, but simply acts as a negative rant, not adding anything constructive.
I've been using Fitbit's since they first came out. The only ones worth using are the "Fitbit One's" that go on your waist. The wrist ones are all horrible. I'd say, at least for steps, the fitbit one clipped to my pants/belt is pretty darn accurate.
“The only winning move is not to play” has to be an all-time favourite of mine.
The Two Most Important Metrics for DevOps
I hope you and Amazon respect the decision of other customers who would rather not to even think about such stuff. Yet Amazon shows a full screen Prime advertisement & agreement with an small opt-out button on every checkout!
Shortcuts:

Full PDF (7 MB): http://nautilus.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/PG-Antenna-sy...

"Online-optimized" PDF (2.6 MB): http://nautilus.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/PG-Antenna-sy...
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Psychotherapy must be up his alley, he seems to have come to terms with it quite well and taken it with a sense of humor.

An initial run of 4 million copies is a lot of pressure on a single developer, the sort that can make you a legend or a catastrophe. I wonder if release management was considered to allow for bug fixes in subsequent production runs or phased production runs with hedged risk.

Probably adding to the pressure is the frustration that immediately following the production run you find a one-liner bug fix but you are 4 million copies too late.

Interestingly, Pac-Man also had millions of unsold cartridges left over. This candid Q&A talks more about the failure of ET, the frustrations and challenges:

http://www.denofgeek.com/games/howard-scott-warshaw/33708/ho...
> Working from home for me was likely slowly sliding into a deep depression with no one to talk to.

Thats why Working From Home is very productive. You dont get disturbed by others and can get a lot done.
I rematch it almost yearly and I never tire of it, though of course I know it all off by heart by now.

Curiously it also engendered a life-long curiosity with Seattle which I finally satisfied last year by actually going to visit the place. Odd how one's mind can fixate on such fictions and make them points of interest.
Just checked on my system (fairly recent macbook pro) and a loop that does nothing but increment a memory location and runs 2^32 times takes 8 seconds. Doesn't Java stop the world more often than that?
The increased bundling also came with an increased price, and that's why I canceled. I would have kept paying the original price for the original deal.
The Berlin Set Theory clock is a similar idea. It still exists, somewhere.

http://www.3quarks.com/en/BerlinClock/
Couldn't we store only the hashes or other ids in blockchain and split up the content to smaller chunks storing it in separate blockchains?
Don't worry, as a Prime member they just replace that nag screen with one to watch Prime Video.
A very rough pixel face:

https://dandelany.github.io/vector-toy/?s=eyJpc1BvbGFyIjpmYW...
This is Hilarious
Still happens in the Netherlands, which is of course far smaller still. People switch from their local dialect to standard Dutch on TV, but still have accents that confuse city people or those living on the other side of the country.
Geektime: 5 Lean Startup Lessons Learned While Building a Startup
Ask HN: How do you organize your list of bookmarks to read later?
I love to read a lot online, but there is only so much time to read articles and watch video lectures. I now have accumulated a backlog of several thousand bookmarks I might want to read later (currently in Pocket and OneTab for Chrome). I’m never going to actually read everything. I need a way to organize that volume of bookmarks to be able to fish out all links on a specific topic or those that are relevant to my current work.

So I’m looking for a super-efficient solution that would not draw away my attention from the actual content during day-to-day use. I tried Pocket, Readability, and Instapaper. They all share the same drawbacks.

First, when you decide to read something and you open the original link (because the images or the video are missing or the formatting has been removed), you have to go back to the list and archive your bookmarks. There’s no option to open the original link and archive the bookmark in a single click. (OneTab has this, but it doesn’t support tagging very well.)

Second, most articles are actually coming from a relatively small set of websites. Sometimes I want to sort all bookmarks by domain and open those from a couple of specific websites. Other times, I want to assign a tag to a whole domain, so that the tag would be automatically applied to all bookmarks from that domain, both existing and future.

Carefully tagging every link individually feels like a waste of time. Am I wrong here? Do you tag everything in your to-read library manually at the time you are adding a link?

If there are no existing solutions, I’m starting my own read-it-later service. :)
My natural burn rate is well below my income and I like my job. It's very nice that money is mostly abstracted away: I swipe my card when I want to, don't look at my accounts or pay stubs that much, and maintain solid financial health.

As long as I don't lust after anything too ridiculous, money isn't a point of tension in my life. I certainly wouldn't want to make it one.
Awesome-Swift Repostory Browser
Great coverage and love what the guy does but I understand people are annoyed with him. The guy makes around half a million from his online work each year. That excludes ROI of earlier escapades. Yet he is living on some 30K a year. So what is he doing with all that money? Accumulating wealth for the sake of accumulating? Proving you can be rich whilst spending little? As long it makes him happy, but it has always stroke me as odd.
> Is it absolutely essential for value producing programmers
> around the globe? Yes.

This is dubious. Care to elaborate what you mean by that?

There is, of course, huge amount of effort needed to support existing critical software written in C++, but there's never (I'm using "never" rather than "rarely" very deliberately here) a need to start a new project in C++. Almost any alternative option is better.
considering that the single-use nature of this exploit is a fundamental part of the ruling (and of the validity of the search warrant itself), you would not be able to use precedent to just get an uncontrolled backdoor.
Not nearly the same, but Daniel Rybakken does lots of cool experiments with artificial sunlight that might interest you as well:

http://danielrybakken.com/daylight_comes_sideways.html

http://danielrybakken.com/daylight_entrance,_stockholm.html
So now, living on your own is a luxury. Next will be access to water? I understand that the US is lacking proper cheap housing, but this advice is pretty ridiculous.

As a bonus, if you look poor, you will be denied high profile jobs. This is the likely reason for the bourbon image, not bad spending practises.
I agree, having to swap your battery is a pain in the ass, but even with a good battery life in the days it's nice to have that option as a backup.

The main attractive of a swappable battery, to me, is replacing it 2 after 2 years of use.
Hey everyone. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

As of now, the product is in a very very early stage of development and I am aware that it still needs some fixing and improvements.
What you see in the first page is essentially what I believe this product should aim to be: an open, anonymous and secure messaging system on the Web.

DanBC: I think a people need a secure and completely anonymous messaging system like the one I imagine. As of now I wouldn't trust the service myself because I know a lot can be done to improve security and the architecture itself needs a lot of work.
I believe the only way a product like this can face the attacks you describe is through the support of the open source community. A product like this should be free and open for all.

What do you think? Are there similar products you would trust or that you like? How do we make encryption free and safe - and easy - for everyone to use?

Thanks again!
The article vaguely mentions a plan of giving it away to charity, which seems reasonable enough to me. If he's just as happy with his current life, why should he feel obligated to spend it?
Exactly the same reasons I jailbreak.
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I'm using Kifi (https://www.kifi.com). It's like a bookmarks. Moreover its not just a read later for links also clustering links organize to different topics etc.
Middle class? That actually still exists in the US?

I'm pretty sure the divide is now razor thin: either you're pretty rich, or poor...
Yet certain parts of education like abstract mathematics do not translate well into VR.
When a State Balks at a City’s Minimum Wage
Reckonings – A Rent Affair (2000)
Yeah, I would want my next laptop to be oval. Much better ergonomics IMO.
I believe he is using the word occidental as the opposite of oriental - rather than the easier to comprehend western
I'm not criticising the product, I just said it /felt/ like that.
Regarding the last point: one of the most common deathbed regrets is to have worked too hard. An extension can be made for being overly frugal: leading your life hamstering cash is not much fun, and ultimately, pointless.

A common pitfall of frugality is to save money at the expense of your personal happiness. Example: In many companies, people head out to lunch together, grab a sandwich or whatever, eat together, and try to have a social time. That costs about $3300 a year, assuming 220 working days with the price of lunch at $15. That's a pretty large expense, and if you frame it solely in terms of food, probably not worth it for most. MMM would say that you should bring a packed lunch to work. However, I would argue that it is absolutely worth it for most office workers: chances are their jobs are in some way unpleasant, and if they bring a lunch from home, it's only a small step to eating that embarrassing, soggy PB&J in front of the screen, working and missing out on that small break. That can be very demotivating.

Beyond that, I think that some contrarian cases can be built for high-income, high-expense lifestyles. For one, an expensive lifestyle can be a great way to meet other successful people, which may open doors to opportunities. (There's a caveat on this: some kinds of expensive goodies, like vacations to Zermatt or living in a great area, are probably much better investments than buying a $15k handbag.)

Spending money on great experiences while young is also probably worth it. Having had "boring" 20s and 30s is another common regret, and it's quite feasible to prevent that, if you're confident in your earnings potential later on.
This paper is nearly 2 years old from 2014. One can probably assume this has been addressed and fixed by now, although I have on proof of that.
<3 Nujabes RIP

For the hip hop heads check out 9th Wonder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBX_ADoO-7E
FBI Director Denies Wanting to Create a Backdoor into the iPhone
Need to mention the original: The KLF - Chill Out.
Hey, on clicking on the link it takes to the home page and nothing happens, am I missing something here?
SQRL has been in development for years, not officially released yet. Right now they are in polishing phase and making sure no major flaws exist. So, what changed? Nothing. Once SQRL is officially released, it has the potential to take on FIDO and others.
If you apply this reasoning to iPhones, Jailbreaking should also increase the preceived value of an iPhone. Yet, jailbroken iPhones are the most vulnerable iPhones on the market, so it could actually be detrimental.
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Ask HN: Does this old horse have a few years of useful work left?
So, my most recent stint at Microsoft just didn't work out. The tech was cool, but the day-to-day workflow was tedious and torturous. I only held out for 4 months - my shortest gig ever, but it really was the most I could muster. I really wanted it to work, but ultimately couldn't strike that bargain with myself.

So... now I'm back to living on couches and wondering / researching where I might still be able to be useful and productive in the world. It's not an easy question. There are more technology stacks than ever, and I'm suffering very severe paradox of choice. I sure miss the "good old days" when you just focused on writing a single app in C that ran on a well-understood machine, or even a single well-understood OS API. But those days are mostly gone. Now it's all distributed, multi-level conglomerates of varied frameworks and languages sort-of working together. I can't decide whether I have any interest in that. I sort of envy the people who can simply state, "I am a Rails dev" or similar.

I feel a lot of pressure to pick a niche. Something. Anything. Because living on couches gets old, fast, and even more dire financial straits await after that. So I'm being driven by the stick, and not the carrot - which is an unpleasant position.

I found a great game (on Steam) called TIS-100, where you progress by writing small, well-defined programs in assembly language, for a strange, highly constrained imaginary processor. It's great for its pure distillation of machine-level programming. There was a time when people used to get payed for doing what you do in this game. In other words, I fear I'm getting old, and my career options have just begun to seem uncomfortable.
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Unfortunately, SQRL has been in development by a small group of people in a tightly controlled development cycle. I don't want it to continue to be vaporware as it seems like it'd be an awesome solution and competitor, but you are right that FIDO is more likely to be adopted. It's possible that SQRL could affect FIDO's development in positive ways nonetheless.
It's the 90s all over again. Dell, hp, compaq destroying the experience for Windows users. Apple holding the line on what is acceptable. Let's see how it plays out...
The customization popup seems a bit too aggressive. The first sound I tried was cool, but I want to hear two or three different example programs before I invest any amount of time into the site. I like the concepts of generated music and brainwave entrainment, but I want to hear at least one sample from each category.
It's possible to construct ambiguous sentences in any language, including Mandarin.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=9916
But while running your C program through the C interpreter, what user input would you give your C program?
My go to source is http://www.buzzoutroom.com/chillout/ been around for years and always introduces me to new artists, great playlist.
Sony Xperia puts AI assistant in owner's ear
It is an interessting analysis. I think you're right saying that its a matter of philosophy after all.

In my experience, the clean linear history can be important when you build a product which is going to be certified since the developement process is key to obtain the certification.

Also, I like the fact you can always reorganize your commits before rebasing, making them more atomic / cleaner.
Lately I bought a book (python machine learning) from a local bookstore for 15$ less than on Amazon. Crazy - never happend before. To me it seems like Amazon is constantly losing competitiveness as they try to get more profitable.
Anyone else remember the "E.T. Comes Back" text/graphic adventure for Apple II?