skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It took a few minutes to process it in Audacity- more the first time while I figured it out.

- Select a pause in the recording.

- Effect -> Noise removal, get noise profile

- Select everything.

- Effect -> Noise removal

- Effect -> Change tempo, 100% change? (don't remember exactly, but whatever is still understandable/not boring to you, try on a smaller chunk before processing everything.)

- Effect -> Truncate Silence. (don't remember what settings I used, but to your taste.)

...

Then manually trimming out repeats, useless questions, extra stuff took some time... it was also how I studied. Then more so by playing it back and fixing my notes.

I first picked Audionote (android and ios) because typed text is time-coded, so you can skip to that part of the recording by tapping on the text.

But I ended up not really using that feature and using it as a dumb recorder and text editor. It did a good job of automatically adjusting the sound level though. (Compressor. You can also do this in Audacity.)

Also it was nice that I could have the mic (at the bottom of the iphone) pointed at the prof, and the screen turned 180 degrees facing me.

...

I wish there was a better tool that:

- During playback, skips pauses. (by audio level threshold.) then easily pick more areas in the recording to skip. (Please just non-destructive editing/filtering though; just build a list of times to skip during playback.)

- High quality time compression playback. Variable, even up to 3x perhaps. (without increasing the pitch like audionote.)

- AND synced the notes with the recording.

- (Even better would be for reliable voice to text, and automatic trimming/outlining... but at some point it may deter grey matter processing.)

Perhaps there are better tools now?
I like the spirit of the article, but I think that Douglas Rushkoff makes these ideas more clear in his book "Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus" in which he nails workers vs. employers issues, growth of corporations, etc. That said, I also enjoyed the article.
I think they are just restricted to selling each policy in one state - but they can have 50 policies, one for each state.
What software do they use to make these animations? Does anyone know?
The social network?
Bioengineered skin with full 3 layers (including hair, glands)
I'd love for you to read the book and provide an Australian perspective. I do think it's interesting that preventing employees from being fired resulted in an uptick in bullying. I've read about similar things happening in Japan. One senior employee was forced to work on an assembly line in an attempt to convince him to quit. It sounds like the anti-bullying legislation has been helpful in this regard.

The one major point in your latest comment I'd disagree with is that companies will never have a problem recruiting new talent regardless of what they did to previous employees. Here in the US, most employees check services like Glassdoor where employees and former employees rate company behavior; the companies with bad reputations suffer certain consequences. (Of course, some companies offer so much potential wealth that employees ignore the poor working conditions, but that doesn't mean people are unaware of those working conditions.) How do people in Australia learn more about what it's like to work at a potential employer?
I wouldn't say the study is wrong, but I think there are two different aspects here: tools used to take notes vs. amount/ kind of notes taken. From the article:

> Laptop users instead took notes by rote, taking down what they heard almost word for word.

That does sound like a bad idea. However, a student could also use a laptop to take more abstract notes (as I assume the pencil users did). On the other hand, a pencil user might be able to write shorthand, thus taking almost verbatim notes (which would probably be less useful).

So, instead of ditching your laptop, think about how to use it.
Fair enough to have ideas, but on 2 I'd love to know your evidence. Quite a lot of people I know fantasize about job security. Did you have any reason to believe 2 apart from personal perspectives?
Your comment makes me think of how they packed Crash Bandicoot into memory. [1]

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-did-game-developers-pack-entire-ga...
I do think that greater liquidity is beneficial to employers and employees. But one of the interesting things about The Alliance is that we believe that being open and honest about what each side is getting from the relationship should lead to longer job tenures, rather than shorter ones.
Sadistic means that they took pleasure in causing the person pain. I really doubt that.
Intervention services (police, emergency rooms, temporary housing) tend to be very expensive. $40K per person per year is likely not dedicated to getting people out of homelessness but instead to keeping them safe and alive.
I like the idea, but I'm not sure I would want to rely on it, say, in an exam.
(Sorry, out of context)

> Would I trust a "redeemed" Greg Gopman. Nope.

Which is exactly the same reason why I will never trust Microsoft: even if current actions are okayish, what they did in the past has disqualified them for life.
Just to clarify, I was saying 'like these other rituals' sarcastically, my point was to say 'look, humans often have ritualization around difficult events, and that is ok, people find comfort in it'.
If someone is motivated enough, they can take offense with every little thing you say.

You seem to understand that you're actually hurting people's feelings, but the problem is supposedly other people who are "motivated" to take offense? Please examine your own motivations (beyond "I like to do this").
I have to admit that I'm primarily familiar with the US economy, where nearly all workers are "at will" employees. This means that anyone can be terminated at any time, without a reason being given.
I'm unclear why you include Berkeley's traffic calming (blocking off side streets) in your litany of NIMBY issues. Discouraging people from driving on side streets is a pedestrian-and-density friendly strategy.

There absolutely are hordes of NIMBY tactics used in Berkeley politics, with nearly zero coherency, attempting to stop dense development especially downtown.
You know that old saying about playing poker, that if you're sitting at a table and you can't figure out who the sucker is, it's you?

Well if you work in the SF Bay Area tech industry and this sentence doesn't ring true to you:

"Imagine a frat house mixed with a kindergarten mixed with Scientology, and you have an idea of what it’s like."

Congratulations; you're the sucker.
> Most payment gateway have a security mechanism to ensure the response from payment server have its integrity remain intact.

I've definitely seen SSL pinning used to this effect. The simple solution to Dominos' problems seems like a server-verifiable transaction token that coming from DataCash (or whatever gateway service). I agree that client-side payment processing isn't wrong -- in fact, it makes more sense than attempting PCI compliance on their middleman server.
Google: letting you dox and stalk someone in 45 seconds.
the word "safe" doesn't show up once in the "Zoning" Wikipedia article

Then that Wikipedia article needs to be amended.

Look at an example from the real world. This is happening right now, in Portland Oregon. http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/two-portland-glass-c...

The problem is that glass factories are "adjacent to a 100-child daycare facility, two public schools (Cleveland High School and Winterhaven K-8), and a city park."

These factories have been emitting metals such as cadmium and arsenic into the air. As you can imagine, this being Portland, everyone is quite upset. And rightly so.

You can argue about the quantities of emission that any given plant should be allowed. But you can't argue that, for any given emission level, society as a whole is much better off if these factories aren't adjacent to daycare facilities and schools.

Keeping schools and factories separated is a very legitimate "safety" goal of zoning.
>* Wood frame construction instead of brick - more noise let in

No. With proper insulation and good windows, wood-frame houses are extremely quiet inside. And they don't collapse in earthquakes.

>* More cars on the road as public transport is less viable
>* Larger, louder cars and trucks
>* Grid layout means more cars on residential streets

Ding! Ding! Ding!

The cars are probably the biggest factor, plus the fact that "cars" here are frequently giant noisy pickup trucks and SUVs.

Another factor is dogs. I've lived in several places where people have big noisy dogs they leave outside to bark for hours on end. I imagine that's not a big problem in Britain. Everyone in America just loves huge, smelly, noisy dogs that bark all the time.
>Inequality is deeply problematic and there are no easy solutions. Liberalism recognizes this.

No, it doesn't. The article points this out very eloquently. Bernie Sanders recognizes it, but he doesn't speak for most liberals, who are all excited to vote for Hillary and Goldman Sachs.

(And before anyone downvotes me for directly bashing a political candidate, go read the article; I'm just repeating what the article says. Don't like it, downvote the whole article.)

>We don't see our own sense of entitlement. It is transparent to others despite our liberal signaling. This isn't going to be a pretty ride.

This is absolutely right. As the article says, this is exactly why Trump is so popular right now: he's playing directly to the working class that's lucky to get a job lifting boxes without health insurance. The mainline Democrats are not: they're telling everyone how wonderful the economy is, how unemployment is at record-low levels, how wonderful Obamacare is, etc. All those platitudes aren't helping actual working-class people at all, and they're not seeing any of these benefits.
Where did you move in the US?

Try moving to the northeast; you'll find things a bit more similar to France. I used to live in New Jersey and I lived just down the street from a convenience store with a pretty decent selection of stuff, and about a half-mile from a real full-size grocery store (though it closed while I lived there; not enough business). Northern NJ is full of small "townships" that have a downtown section not far away from housing. But remember, these places were mostly built almost a century ago; the house I lived in there was built in 1930. They did things really differently back then.
It's not that we expect more, it's that we have more empathy for those without. With good reason, hardship is easier for those with means to fix it.
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I'm sure they don't announce "hey, Bev just got fired for incompetence, lets all eat cake".

It is probably more like Bev announces she is leaving, and then they gather around to say goodbye because even though it didn't work out, she is still a person and worthy of being treated with respect and telling her peers that she decided to move on rather than the truth.
Ya I do agree, which is why I mentioned it at the end of my comment :). However, basic income, elegant though it may be, is likely impractical at the scale that would be necessary, consider a quick calculation:

$1k/month for every US citizen over the age of 18. That's roughly 235 million people, each getting $12k/year. That's 2.8 trillion dollars. Just for the basic income, not funding any other part of government (for scale, the entire federal budget is currently 3.8 trillion).

I am optimistic about the UBI, and I think we would recover an enormous amount of those dollars in increased economic activity, but I think it's not quite ready for prime time yet. It needs to be tested on a small scale to see whether or not the purported economic benefits will materialize and in sufficient quantity to counter the enormous cost of such a program (though i'm optimistic that they may).
A few people have made this same point and the thought of this being true, and it very likely is, genuinely makes me angry.

What a waste of time and effort and human potential to have hundreds of bright young minds, sitting for hours just to catch details that could have been written down years ago in a shared textbook and tested on a shared exam. Across the globe this must squander centuries of human progress.
Disappointing to see such a supposedly august institution jumping on the current 'science communication' bandwagon of trumpeting minor psych results under clickbaity headlines. This is just trolling for REF impact points.
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You are straight out denying the reality.

They didn't give it to you. They put a wall and said "You cannot pass this wall with adblock turned on". You decided to circumvent it. Because...?
> It is really inefficient. A lot of energy is wasted compressing the valve springs to open the valves.

This isn't as bad as you might think, because of the nature of springs. When the valve closes again, most of the energy spent compressing the spring is returned to the engine!
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11464777 and marked it off-topic.
Also, I think it helps that I'm writing/reading/editing and listening. multi-sensory.

Perhaps it could be better by adding video, smelling, tasting, and feeling... :)

But no, just capturing the exact words, and being able to trim to what's needed helped me.
I see. One advantage over web workers is that the DOM would be accesible so this could be used to speed up views rendering.
I have mixed feelings about QML.
It somewhat looks like a new flash engine, except for mobile devices, and it became old the day React-Native appeared.
But I like the design, and the way the UI is built (descriptive ui language with javascript, integrated event management, bridged with c++).

Anyway, I starred the project and I'm very curious about the kind of traction QML can get.
Wikipedia Android app now requests identity permissions
> Have you ever left the US?

Please don't do the personal-swipe-as-a-question thing. Your comment would be good without that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I can think of three reasons other than outright waste and poor organization:

* It's not the same 6000 every year. The number of people who are homeless in SF for any part of any given year could easily be several times that.

* There are a few individuals who cost way, way more than that. The ones that SFFD refers to as their "regulars". The drug addicts and mentally ill who go on ambulance rides every week or more. I'm not saying they're the majority, but they certainly exist, and like any industry it only takes a few whales to add up.

* Land to put shelters on is really, really expensive.
I was talking about her job performance not her sex life you complete walnut.
Economically, it isn't purely voluntary. Aetna will factor the cost of this program into their hiring decisions, so you're working for less than market rate if you do not let Aetna track your sleeping patterns.
I often think about what the world would do if we all did have a chance to do it over again. I would hope that all the fossil fuels would stay in the ground and easy routes to electrical, wind, water and other energies would be discovered instead. As a race we took the easy way out when we discovered the huge stores of energy in the Earth, but now we are paying the price, and I'd rather we had worked harder in the beginning to find methods that would have prevented what's happened (my particular pet peeve is the awful air quality that is now accepted around the world). But also as a race, I know we would have been capable of pulling it off, but we didn't because humans more often than not take the easiest path.

So I must respectfully disagree with you. The alternatives should have been rigorously pursued from the beginning.
I wish I could upvote this more than once. In my view, this is one of the fundamental problems with the healthcare system in the US. People may not love car insurance - but it's a far cry from the vitriol reserved for medical insurance. And I think this issue is the fundamental cause of that problem.

I want to be insured against rare, ultra high cost events that would otherwise wipe me out financially. I don't want to be insured against the price of my yearly checkup or an antibiotic prescription. I'm happy to pay for that out of pocket, and do my own price shopping for it.
Loving it, thank you. Had not run into your repo before. Feels incredibly tight, logical, and easy to learn.
Yay another front-end framework...
It's good and fair that you have been able to lay out your real position in this discussion to people who haven't read your full text. Your comments certainly deliver a much more sensible and reasonable perspective than the article would indicate. I especially agree with 3, the corner cases of behaviour on both sides (labour & capital) can be mitigated and controlled with policy and law. Capitalism and socialism both seem to fail as you start to skirt their extremes. From the outside it seems like the USA needs a little bit more government intervention in industrial policy and also in labour regulation. Perhaps the rise of insurgent candidates for President is pointing that the mass of the Demos in the USA is hankering for a bit of this?
From PHP to Rust
Hi,

I am a PHP Developer who has nearly 5 years working experience from small to large PHP web application development. I started from Zend Framework & JQuery UI, then worked with different frameworks like codeigniter, Yii, Laravel and now Phalcon. But on past years I saw many revolutionary changes on web technologies and tools. Twitter Bootstrap, Backbone, Angular, Node.js, NoSQL, HHVM, Hadoop, Spark, Go, React, GraphQL, Rust, Swift and etc. But still I am a PHP developer who is becoming more outdated in IT world. About 2-3 years ago I learned at least some basics of Backbone, Node but couldn't move from PHP to Js in my carrier. Day by day I've become a self hated outdated web developer.

I believed web technologies like HTML5, CSS3 will replace native app development but it was not happened that way. I was finding a new language which I can use not only for web but also for native app development. I don't know why but I don't like Java & Go, didn't had a chance to learn Python. I heard about Rust and from syntax to concepts that is the language I was waiting for. But unfortunately still it is not ready for web.

Again I am trying to move away from PHP. I am learning Rust and blog time to time about my progress. But I really need to make it happen this time and make it faster. Please help me to make my dreams come true, guild me what I want to do if I want to move from PHP to Rust.

Thanks
Whilst every fibre of my being is revolted by the comments this guy made, the fact that Valleywag made it so controversial is just as bad.

The Valleywags of this world are ridiculous and a blight on any society.
Also, the phrase "push the boundaries" means he knows that what he is saying is potentially offensive.
Honestly, I don't see any redemption here. Rather than looking inward and questioning his beliefs and place in everything, it just seems like he was desperate to do anything to salvage his image—which was all his doing in the first place. (He even says "apparently, this wrong I’ve done to the city.") So not only does this show him to be a hypocrite, it also shows a complete lack of introspection or change. His advice to Keller is "Don’t apologize" and "instead, put your words in context". While I can respect his attempts—it does show that he put effort in—I disagree that "self-interest ... isn’t mutually exclusive with doing good". This is a guy who wanted to make a profit off of homeless people. His solutions include making them work for Uber, which requires a drivers license and a car (I doubt they'll be able to finance), or as a last resort, rent out their domes on airbnb, putting them in potential legal trouble even if they had any takers. Maybe I'm one of those haters, but I think he should keep his "disruption" and NIH-syndrome in tech startups.
Large marine diesels have very low RPM. Some of them red-line at 102 RPM, and normally operate much less than that. A typical passenger cars idles at 1200RPM and redlines around 6-7K RPM.

Then again a single piston in the marine engine weighs 2x of an entire car so they can easily do things that one wouldn't bother to do on a smaller engine.
It depends on the state you're in. For example, in California it's $800/yr if you're not making any money after the first year. The process is pretty simple; a hundred bucks to file the papers with the state, and $25 every other year to file an information update with the SoS. (There is some bookkeeping required to maintain a minimal corporation so be sure you understand all the requirements before incorporating. If it was me, I'd do everything possible not to incorporate until I had a good reason.)

It seems you can reserve a name in advance but only for 60 days (again, in California). The language "The name reservation can be renewed to the same applicant or for the benefit of the same party, but not for consecutive periods" suggests you could team up with a buddy to alternately reserve the name as long as you want, but it sounds like a lot of work. http://www.sos.ca.gov/business-programs/business-entities/na...
Collective bargaining?
Reminds me of the Treansformers comics where the Autobot computer thought vehicles were the dominant lifeform on the planet...
This may be true nationally, but it is not true in SF.
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SF does have a moderate number of city-funded "supportive housing" units.[1] These are typically old SRO hotels now run by nonprofits, paid by the city. This sort of works. In addition to the visible homeless, there are even more "near homeless" in such facilities. It costs the city $20K - $40K per person per year in such facilities. This is called "Care Not Cash" in SF. Most of those facilities are pretty bad to live in, mostly because of the other tenants. Some people prefer living in a tent over living with crazies and druggies. "Hell is other people" applies.

Until forty years ago, states ran big mental hospitals which warehoused the bewildered. The "Agnews Developmental Center", once called "The Great Asylum for the Insane", in Santa Clara was such a place. It's now an Oracle facility. In 1975, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in O'Connor v. Donaldson, that the Government does not have the power to confine people who are not dangerous, even if they are not sane. This began the shutdown of the big mental institutions. This is why homeless people can no longer be forcibly shipped to some big institution in the country and hidden away.

This change, plus the decline of low-skill jobs and the rise in the cost of housing, created homelessness as a problem. Cuts in welfare didn't help.

Estimates are that about half of SF's homeless are on drugs. Others are just broke. Some have skills, but the wrong ones. Printers, longshoremen - SF once had many of those. Not any more. There's no easy answer.

[1] http://dishsf.org/ http://www.ecs-sf.org/programs/housing.html
[2] http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/152/notsosupportive.html
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I'd like to think it's a mark of HN's improvement that unsubstantive, snarky putdowns turned out to be rare in this thread.
There's often an advantage do a dual-mode strike. That's how many existing armour-piercing weapons operate. E.g., tungsten-alloy armor piercing rounds:

http://www.tungsten-alloy.com/armor-piercing.htm

Another alternative, depleted uranium, relies on the exceptionally dense, and self-sharpening DU penetrator to defeat armour. Rather effectively.