skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sort of foam isn't for soundproofing, but for reflection-proofing. If you treat your room with this and make noise, your neighbors will still hear it just as loudly as before, but inside your own room, the sound will have less reverberation and echoes, making it sound more focused.

For soundproofing you need dense materials with lots of mass. Things like mass loaded vinyl, rockwool sheets, or even full-on room in a room. It can get pretty expensive [0]

I agree with the other commentor, a nice digital piano with headphones, or speakers you can adjust the volume out of would be the best option.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Loaded-Vinyl-Square-Acoustic-Barrier/d...
Thanks for the comment. Yes, the title of the article does sound negative (I was just trying to for something that caught the eye - something that is perhaps harder to do these days than back in 1991 when Linux was released). But the body of article is supportive of the spreadsheet approach and looks to ways that we can improve it and reach out to the existing user base - not to knock it down.
My comment was clarifying OP’s. Their point wasn’t that the US spy on everyone but that they think it’s acceptable.
I am not so sure. The fine is about the right to be forgotten, which is a very different thing from censorship. This may be of interest: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/files/factsheets...
We're talking about China creating a new "China right to be forgotten" law, and with that new law then forcing google to censor information globally. We're not talking about China doing anything with the European law.
Well I've never heard of most of those, so why would I trust them? I mean, my phone basically pushes unwanted ads at me, so why would I do anything that would indicate that I'm willing to spend money over the phone?
The actual ride comfort however is very different between road vehicles and rail vehicles (with trams being somewhere in the middle).

In road vehicles I am pretty much limited to listening to music while staring outside if I don't want to get motion sickness.
While traveling in the subway or on the train I can read books, use my laptop, etc with no problems whatsoever.

Thus I only take the bus for short trips or when the alternative takes much longer.
Why is there no helipad on Trump Tower?
You're catching some flak for your unrelenting attitude, but I agree. Directors make films as a cohesive whole. That's why people watch complete movies rather than just a scene. Skipping a scene is just the same as closing your eyes at the theater and then opening them later: you just missed a part of the film. How can someone claim to have seen a film if they didn't see the whole thing? Even the studios have this problem with cutting out parts that might not appeal to audiences, resulting in many films being compromised until a director's cut was released. The only time I'd advocate rearranging a film is for educational purposes like those people who played The Shining forwards and backwards simultaneously or played Memento chronologically to understand the plot better. But to do so in the first place is not the experience the director intended. If you're doing it because it's not appropriate for children, either put on some Disney or try not to shelter them so much. (It's ridiculous how people freak out over sex but not all the violence in the media) If the film offends your sensibilities and you're not willing to challenge yourself, then that's too bad and it's your loss.
In Dallas, I was one of the 95% who almost never used transit, because it didn't go to 95% of the places I needed to go.
Does this site get updated on any regular basis? It doesn't feel like it it's ever changed.
Can you post a demo of multiplexing? That'd be extremely interesting.

Also, most importantly, are there man pages?
There are two broad categories of approaches you use when dealing with sound. One is controlling sound transmission, and the other is shaping/controlling diffusion. In general these types of foams act as diffusers, which influences the sound inside the room, but have very little impact on sound transmission, which is what most people think of when they say 'sound proofing'. Dealing with sound transmission generally requires lots of mass, isolation, and careful attention of air-tightness. Think about how a thermos is constructed and you start to get the idea.
Finding MH370 last location is not rocket science
Seeing 'xml' trees reminds me of a child from ML and XSLT...
Do the anti-fungibility regulations and/or your sponsored relationship require you to preemptively submit your transaction information (eg card#->bank# mapping) for surveillance, or only in response to a specific court order? If the latter, what is your retention period?

Do you have any plans to add batching+noise to foil global passive adversaries? For example, I opt to keep a running balance target of ~$50 and today's charge for $34.56 is debited as $31.37 a week later.
Yes. I agree. That's exactly what I've been arguing for. Maybe you should read my many arguments in this topic again. I'm arguing against people claiming that this will be used for taking down of news articles and censorship. I thing those things are bad. I'm talking about online harassment, shaming, and public information detrimental to the individual that was posted by that individual or others in attempt to harass out of spite. I'm not arguing legitimate news articles should be censored. I strongly believe in freedom of the press and speech.

There's a difference between whistle blowing/journalism and harassment and public shaming. We're not in the dark ages anymore.
I doubt they forgot that. It was a clever marketing stunt: drop the album into the library of every iTunes user. And it worked. They probably anticipated some backlash.
DMC in pure C++: Tabled, for now (2015)
The accuracy is about the same. We process store circular images which are actually pretty easy to OCR. It helps that we have large images to start with and are converted to grayscale and then edge sharpened in imagemagick before being sent to the OCR process.
Public transit sucks because the quality of governance has corkscrewed down as the media gets weaker and dumber. This is literally the best time in history to be an inept and/or corrupt politician -- nobody is watching.

Roads suck because capital is easy to come by, so real estate squatters control central business districts. It's cheaper/easier/more convenient to build commercial space in he burbs.
But Azer was right on the money.

A request, by definition requires a binary response.

A polite request, by definition, means that you can live (however badly) with either a Yay, or a nay.

Kik's attitude (whilst claiming to be polite), was that anything other than a "Yay", would be met with lawyers.

On this one, #IStandWithAzer.
OK, so that would have protected Ashley Madison users. Because none of the likely interested parties (partners, private investigators, etc) would have leverage to get information from you. Same for users buying porn, unless they get investigated for child porn. That's not a KYC issue, but there will be a subpoena. And I'm assuming that you must comply with all subpoenas.

Edit: I wonder what your burden would be in bankruptcy cases.
His smartwatch wasn't successful and some people don't like his music which translates to a lack of confidence this this show will be successful.

Which is a shame because at the end of the day he is an entrepreneur and giving it a shot. Much better than most of the other artists which just sing other people's songs and look pretty.
France has the absolute right to protect its citizens.
It's hard to imagine why the drivers wouldn't unionize. Why wouldn't you want to increase your negotiating leverage? It's just part of business. I'm sure Uber management increases theirs every chance they get, as does everyone else running a business.
Chip-Card Payment System Delays Frustrate Retailers
> When people joke about us we usually only get a link

I take it you're not familiar with the Bile Blog, e.g.

http://www.jroller.com/fate/entry/rip_jboss_mail_services

Alas, service ceased ten years ago.
The answer probably is not very helpful but... change the TTL to a lower value? Is it essential to have such a big TTL of 1 day?
I think this is one of the best aspects of the product. The power is shifted to the customer.
Not-news (support for two new hypervisors implemented, already dodgy package altered) voted up to 718 points. God you people are sheep. I guess what we take from this is docker is getting desperate for newslines.
I see what you're trying to do, but it doesn't work. Our arguments need to be like the Doomsday argument, presented here: https://what-if.xkcd.com/65/

If most species looked at themselves and said "my species is ordinary" the majority of them would be right; however, it doesn't give you any statistical reason to think that humans are ordinary.
Microsoft held up a mirror to humanity, and humanity was so horrified they assumed the mirror was broken.
These are Android, but some that I really enjoyed (I would put any of these on par with those game-boy games):

* the Broken Sword series
* The Shivah
* Machinarium
* Yesterday
* Silent Age
* CLARC
* Osmos
* Auralux
* Kingdom Rush series
* Cordy
Where There's Smoke, There's Stagecraft
I genuinely don't believe you. I believe they look at your phone and that influences the opinion they have of you. I believe that if you tell yourself this isn't true, you're deceiving yourself. If I believe this, some of them do too, and that makes it true. I don't think I've ever met anyone who looked at the latest iPhone the same way they looked at a ten-year old phone held together with tape and a rubber band.
As soon as I saw this tool I predicted this kind of response. The idea is not just in the parent post but echoed throughout these comments. That is, nothing should be filtered. This is the prevailing sentiment in our culture with regards to entertainment. And frankly I'm tired of the hypocrisy. We see on the one hand movements to protect and empower women. On the other hand exploitation is loudly defended. I agree with the parent: skip these films. I'm happy this tool exists but I'd rather not give any kind of support to those who demoralize women.
YC Summer 2016 Application Deadline Tonight
Who else is applying? What with?
You're getting downvoted because Trump is anti-intellectual, anti-small-business, and anti-American.

Everyone should feel violated by even knowing he exists. He is everything America isn't. If he becomes President (very unlikely), say goodbye to the Valley, say goodbye to every startup scene in this country, and watch the money flee to pro-business nations.

Side note, I expect to be also downvoted for my view (and for discussing politics on HN at all), but I don't really care.
This Intuit? http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/02/turbotaxs-anti-fraud-effo...
Kayia (kayia.org) is a spreadsheet/reactive programming environment but where the code can be 'diff'ed. All values in the spreadsheet are versioned, so you can either look at the current value of, say, Cell B2 or its immutable value at a specific point in time, or see how its value has changed over time. And since the code is stored in the same way as the data, version control of the source is a first-class part of the language.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11354593
Ashley Madison and porn users are easy targets. But broadly-speaking, we just think you just shouldn't have to share your personal info with a random merchant you want to buy something from.

It's anti-privacy in the guise of being anti-fraud.

Yes, we do have to comply with subpoenas.
Author here! This is a little side project I created because I found myself using scp + email to send a file from a server to someone sitting right next to me more than once. I have a different project which does relaying over HTTP so I figured it might be a good idea to reuse a part of the codebase for a simple file streaming service. I finished it yesterday and it already proved useful for myself, and I hope it also proves to be useful for you.

If there are any (more) questions on the what or how, I'm happy to answer them. The day here is however coming to an end so it might take me a couple of hours. While I'm gone, please be aware that the service is running on a $5/month VM ;).
There is no cloud: It’s just someone else’s computer
The Importance and Art of the Intro in Silicon Valley
> This "identification" problem is what requires mass surveillance.

But the identification problem isn't unique. It's true of every crime there is. Criminals don't come with tags labeling them as a terrorist or a murderer or a pedophile. And there is nothing you can ever do to eliminate 100% of all crime. It's about the most cost effective way to provide enough deterrence to keep the crime rate low. And mass surveillance has a huge cost in privacy and in money and in security itself. It's a terrible trade off.

> This brings "cancer" to my mind, as in case of "cancer" also we face a very "identification" problem: problem of identification of dangerous cells.

You're kind of making my point. Cancer kills way, way more people than terrorism. Why are we spending more resources fighting terrorism than cancer?
We'll work on the multiplexing demo, sure! Man pages are a good idea, we wrote a bunch of docs:

http://gravitational.com/teleport/docs/quickstart/

but haven't packaged it all into man pages yet
I think it's the humanoid robot aspect more than the defense contract thing.
2 Years Later: Facebook’s Oculus Acquisition Has Changed Virtual Reality Forever
You should know there was a pretty big bug fixed in .dockerignore in just the last release. [edit] That bug was in the logic for white-listing files, which is generally the safest way to keep from accidentally publishing things (that is, if it works).

And it's possible a similar issue still exists in docker-compose but it's still open.

.gitignore keeps me from checking my files into git, but it doesn't keep me from publishing them in a docker image. So now I have a second way to screw up.
Bubble wrap is reputed to work well.
Raymond's The Art of Unix Programming is a good resource for understanding the design philosophy of Unix...and by extension Linux. It explains much of the context and history behind why things are done the way they are done and what good nix programs do to be good nix programs.

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/
Texas Teacher Remakes Macklemores' Thrift Shop for State Testing
Often this topic makes me think of some of the fictional technology present in Deus Ex, released back in 2000, e.g:

> The cells of every major tissue in the body of a nano-augmented agent are host to nanite-capsid "hybrids." These hybrids replicate in two stages: the viral stage, in which the host cell produces capsid proteins and packages them into hollowed viral particles, and the nanotech stage, in which the receiver-transmitter and CPU are duplicated and inserted into the protective viral coating. New RNA sequences are transmitted by microwave and translated in to plasmid vectors, resulting in a wholly natural and organic process.
I feel very similarly, but also feel very strongly that is is very welcome thing in a world that seems more and more obsessed with shoving culture/content down our throats (ad-blocking software comes to mind as a similar thing). That being said, while I do use ad-blocking software, boycott companies that do excessive advertising and go out of my way to avoid advertisements (I pay for Netflix and Amazon prime and don't watch regular TV), I will not use this filter, for reasons you have stated. If I don't approve of the artist's vision (such as Michael Bay or McG, although that's more a case of artistic merits versus the content), I simply won't watch it at all.
Take a look at Marqeta.com, this is their bread and butter.
Is there a right to be forgotten? Because if there is,

a) it should not be limited to the internet: one should be able to request to be forgotten by a certain group or by the humanity altogether. This is not possible.

b) it is not practical: to what extent does it apply (in essence, not in practice)? I grab pdf-prints of articles sometimes. Am I guilty if an author wants their online presence removed? More, there are many search services, many other services that index and archive online content, which of these would have to respond to such requests? And if the right is not limited to the internet, how it is possible to do, practically? Well, it's impossible.

c) it is a right that conflicts with the freedom of thought: It should be at one's own will to forget something or not, this is a state intervention into peoples knowledge and memories.

d) it has implications on posthumous publications of work: after someone is passed away, who decides if they shall be forgotten or not? Or does anybody have the right to?

e) it has implications on the collective knowledge of the man: if, say, Stephen Hawking wanted to be forgotten, we'd have lost some important part of it.

f) it has implications on derived works and citations: If one quotes person A, in, say a blog post, and if that person A wanted to be forgotten, what will the citing author would have to do? Anonymise the quotes? Remove them?

I guess this right to be forgotten is either not a right, and is an example of a freedom that violates others' freedoms. It's unbelievable that serious, smart people (!) got convinced enough about this that this became a law. Publicising something is completely at one's will. Will brings responsibilities, and one should either take the responsibility for what he publishes, or live with the consequences. Because if there is a right, it applies globally, i.e. equally to the non-digital realm, and the right to be forgotten would have really bad consequences.
See http://brandonlive.com/2008/12/22/why-does-windows-put-64-bi...
I wish banks would offer something like OAuth - a service-specific, revokable credential with access only to the stuff it needs. I'd be a lot more inclined to use a product like Mint, for example, if I could grant it ONLY read access to my transactions and I knew I could revoke that access at any time without having to change my primary credentials or disrupt any other services/apps I have connected.
Your details show that you know your business well. What exactly does high volume of payments mean? What does low margins mean? With credit card processing, it is about specifics. The magic numbers are:

1) Dollar amount processed by month

2) Average dollar amount per transaction

From there, you can figure out the rest

For startups, the default is ALWAYS Stripe (IMHO) because you can get to processing cards right away - like in 5 minutes. Their API is easy, their virtual terminal works as expected for manually keyed in transactions. There is even a super dumb screen that is just HTML (Checkout) if you don't even want to deal with an API.

As far as the fees, the $0.30 per transaction fee is always going to be there. The 2.9% percent is negotiable, specially if you are doing volume. If you are doing $1,000/mo, 2.9% will be your rate.

If you are doing much higher volume, that rate goes down. For example, if you can show (with proof via bank statements or from your current merchant provider) something like $300-400k per month for the last 3 months, I was able to get them very close to what is called the "interchange rate" which is the lowest rate you can get even with traditional processors like Moneris (FirstData). My current "effective rate" is about 1.6-1.7% (effective rate is my quick math of fees/total).

Like somebody already said, micropayments are pretty bad.

High volume + low margins make it sound like you are operating a restaurant where the fees are much more different due to the physical nature of the business (less fraud due to card present) vs internet (card not present)
(Jason from Citus here)

Yes, that's what you're seeing right now, but in the past Citus (used to be "CitusDB") was a superset of the entire PostgreSQL codebase. During the lead-up to the open source release, we removed the use of any static methods or internal machinery and rewrote the installation process to use the PostgreSQL CREATE EXTENSION command. Additionally, we moved all of pg_shard's DML functionality into Citus to unify the product line.

So ultimately CitusDB was a fork but is now entirely an extension.
I don't see why it couldn't be done, that's kind of a goal of programmable microfluidics.

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/cag/biostream/

It is sci-fi though, a biolab that operates like aws for biology experiments is featured in 'Rainbows End'.
Lawmakers warn of 'radical' move by NSA to share info with law enforcement
Odd. My Citi cards have virtual numbers still.
For the confused: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_Verification_System
Citi still has this functionality FYI, just tech that powers it hasn't changed, so stuck with Flash or Windows EXE
Does it work if I live outside US?
Lol I guess that's true. Or start to use a nickname / middle name. Or even just do enough neutral / good things that get reported online that you bury your own bad stories.
Their fraud prevention is practically non existent and they won't lift a finger to help you. I recently had to layer minFraud on top of Stripe because so many (very obviously) stolen cards were being let through.
We make chargebacks just as easy. There's a button you can click next to the transaction that will initiate the dispute process - we'll deposit the funds back in your primary funding account and follow up with you, then resolve with the merchant. You're also covered under Visa's zero liability policy.
I remember Austin, Texas making headlines several years ago when cops started going into bars specifically to find drunk people to arrest, even if they were calm and were staying overnight in the same building.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find clear substantiation of specific cases other than this article, which only talked about the danger of how the law made it possible to do what you're describing:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/texas-racist-law...

>>Arrested for drinking in a bar? Sounds like the ultimate catch-22. Since 2006 ... cops ... have used a 1993 law as a pretext to enter any bar and arrest its patrons on the spot. The public intoxication standard, backed by the Texas-based Mothers Against Drunk Driving, is so broad that you can be arrested on just a police officer's hunch, without being given a Breathalyzer or field sobriety test. State courts have not only upheld the practice but expanded the definition of public intoxication to cover pretty much any situation...
wait is google trying to sell off nest?
Google parent Alphabet ushers in ‘fiscal discipline era’
I consider both of those bad examples; in the first case, adults shouldn't be so picky. In the second, no, you shouldn't skip part of a candidate's speech, as you would then not be an informed voter.
LINKEDIN NETWORKING: THE SOCIALIZER VS. THE CREEPER
This gem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz2MPcsZJcM

http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/5/7162861/will-i-am-puls-sma...
SECURITY NIGHTMARE!!!!!!!!!

Without any sort of nonce, this service is trivially susceptible to a replay attack
which it to say: don't these type of pieces usually come out as part of a structured public relations campaign that culminates in an announcement that the company is for sale?
Could you use an ACH solution? I guess consumers may not be familiar with it, but stripe ACH looked customer friendly. I think they charge 0.8%.