skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just about competence though. In the same sense, people are "too stupid" to harvest their own grain, and bake their own bread: we have delegated these tasks to specialists, so that other people in society can pursue different specialisations. This works mainly because of trust: we trust that the baker does not poison us.

We are a social species. Our greatest advancement as a species is the ability to create societies that are stable enough for people to specialize. We are no longer hunter/gatherers exactly because at some point, we stopped requiring that every hunter hunts for himself.

We don't have to weigh up complex decisions, whether we can or not: we have delegated that task to others. Our task is to make sure that our delegates are doing their job dutifully, not make their decisions for them. That is hard enough in practice.
Cloud signature consortium
This is... unproductive. Time has demonstrated that language is just one part of the tooling story when it comes to developing software. It is easily one of the most talked about, but ultimately it is just another tool.

That LISP structured languages have not died despite many instances of people insisting they should have died already is almost evidence on its own that this is a non-starter.

For more relevant disputes, consider https://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-guide/. Specifically, you can use tooling to get types into a LISP.
Aide said Clinton didn't want emails accessible to 'anybody'
Thanks! Will update my post and attribute you with that!
https://github.com/atomicobject/heatshrink, by @silentbicycle, sounds like it might be up your alley.
But sometimes there may not be a single concrete example. Some people just have that unfriendly vibe. Getting an example of "this one time Chad didn't want to talk to you because you were scowling the whole standup" probably won't mean much to you, but if it's a persistent theme, it's still a vaguely toxic behaviour that may warrant dismissal.
Why do you find that 'argument' hard to buy? I find it trivially true from observation and all empirical data I can find (if you remove the absolute)
AMD's RX 480 fails PCI-E specification
> News jobs are already being created.

Not fast enough to replace the abolished ones, and most of those new jobs are knowledge work, which can't scale as there's a IQ floor that will stop most people from being able to work them. The more we shift to knowledge work, the higher unemployment will climb. You're making the mistake of thinking the past predicts the future, but today's automation is unprecedented, it will not follow the same pattern because it has different effects.
That criticism applies very well to javascript in 2016 as well, so I don't think it's a very big deal.
Oh I definitely agree. Yet his numbers keep going up. His supporters are able to look past all his crap for reasons I don't understand.

But then you have to realize it's not even about him. Conservative voters are rebelling against the Republican party. They'd rather have anyone else rather than a career politician.
PacketFence v6.1 released
Or the pages that give tantalising hints about a project, but there doesn't seem to be a write-up anywhere.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/fotoopa_hs/sets/72157611107153...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/fotoopa_hs/4082464167/in/album...
Ways to Maximize Content for Social Media
Shouldn't Canada ensure that drugs are legalized first, before doing this?
> Copyright is the default in the US, not public domain. Without a license you have no right to redistribute it, or to distribute works derived from it.

The absence of a written license is not necessarily the absence of a license; implied license is a thing. Determining the existence or parameters of an implied license, of course, can be difficult.

http://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/license.html#implied
Today’s Renters Are Worse Off Than Their Parents
Taiwan's trains are subsidized
> * Don't assume you know better than other people. I struggle with this a lot, because I genuinely do believe that I know more than most other people in my role.

And if you still feel like you know better than other people, realize that you need to get them to buy into your knowledge. So you need to teach the organization, but teaching people is really tricky, you can't just explain that something is wrong, you need to create a progression of adaptation with buyin.
That depends on how you generate it. When apple builds wealth, not zero sum; when a hedge fund builds wealth; zero sum. 40% of our economy is financial services now, there's a lot of zero sum wealth creation going on.
I really like the write up & simplicity of the explanations. Obviously, choosing Vanguard Index funds and avoiding timing the market it is a great financial advice. One piece that I always find missing is that in my opinion, money is not worth the same as you age.

From my point of view, money in your 20s, 30s have 3x or 4x more value than when you are 50. You can go skydiving, scuba diving... When you are 60 your options to enjoy that money are much more limited. I think that should be factor in financial decisions that it is often overlooked
The linked article is excellent -- really appreciated the history lesson. Thank you for the pointer.
It's not between the microphones on a cell, but between the cells themselves - i screwed up on the sync logic somewhere.
> Are you really suggesting there's really no bias towards certain demographics or viewpoints?

No one's suggesting that, but the fact that you had to pick those odd examples to make your point is evidence that on many common issues (which I hesitate to name because even naming them makes sparks fly) this community is deeply divided. And when people complain about HN being biased against their view, it isn't ISIS or abortion they're thinking of.
No mention of brave.com?
For now! I'm not a cheerleader for Phoenix (I've been once and had a pleasant visit), but I do think it's well-positioned given its anchor university's commitment to experimentation, weather, cost of living, and reasonably good access to outdoorsy activities.
I disagree.

I don't think by making it illegal very much is done to actually combat the way people feel. Look at Trump's success. If anything the social justice type movements over the past few decades have only increased Trump's success.

So for questionable gain, you are forcing people to waste everyone's interview time, and -- god forbid if they are hired by racist/sexist people -- waste potentially months and years of their life.

yes you can prosecute after the fact. But You will never get those years back. It would be much more preferable to have taken another job in the first place.
> you're just going to put that newly-hired woman under a manager who thinks women can't code

Yes. The problem is that the manager thinks women can't code, and the best way to solve that is to prove him wrong.
> This is also why you can't just plug four stereo cards into a PC and expect it to make an 8-channel system.

Huh, I always sorta wondered about this. Thanks for clearing it up!
AMD RX 480 review: The best budget graphics card–but for how long?
The evolutionary reasoning behind almost any trait is going to be entirely speculative.

> The fact is that none of this greatly influences reproductive fitness, so it is unlikely to be acted on by evolution.

It absolutely does, in fact, it's probably a key influence of reproductive fitness in predatory species. The species that can gather more energy or more efficiently use that energy is going to out-grow their peers more each successive generation. And it's easy to see the relationship between more efficient learning and gathering more food.

A group of hunting animals that learn 10% faster during and after exercising than a control group would have a huge resource advantage because they increases both the pool of available prey and the likelihood of catching prey. Acquiring just 7% more calories (and translating that into 7% more offspring) would result in a population that is double the control group in 10 generations.
Here is an example of what I claim is not the case. We see angry arguments about all of those topics on HN. They're not even infrequent.

My claim is that you (I don't mean you personally, but all of us in your position) perceive HN as an 'echo chamber' on such issues precisely because it isn't. I imagine there are small biases on some of them, but people exaggerate this into "groupthink", "bubble", "echo chamber", etc., not because that's how it is but because that's how it feels.
I came here to say that this line

"Underneath the braggadocio and evisceration of professional nemeses in Antonio García Martinez’s book lies the beating heart of a formidable teacher."

is everything that is wrong with journalism. It is hard to read a single sentence after that, your brain just shuts off.

...but to copy that line I couldn't just select and paste because of the NYT's weird website, so I viewed the source. And then it hit even harder...

<meta itemprop="description" name="description" content="Underneath the braggadocio and evisceration of professional nemeses in Antonio García Martinez’s book lies the beating heart of a formidable teacher." />
You can do that with some proprietary software too -- proprietary doesn't have to mean no source code and no source code modification, unfortunately it has come to mean that for too many businesses and users willing to pay money to those businesses, so yeah, it's a point in favor of open source. I also appreciate that contributing to and encouraging use of open source has a societal benefit of training my eventual replacements for free, and open source of a particular license guarantees improvements to that software from other parties than the primary maintainer remain open.
Well, starting a business is a good example - doing the work to find an actual market opportunity and investing in it. Or, I could scrimp to put that money in the S&P, or I could invest in myself through further education.
Yay, a sound-field camera! I've been wondering if such things are made. Should I take the existence of this project as an indication that they aren't?

The use case I imagine is finding what part of a machine is emitting a noise, much like how you would use a thermal camera for finding what part of it is running hot.
> While inflation was adjusted for it was not accurately adjusted for as it ignored taxes. If your returns are 10% and inflation is 10% you get taxed on that 10% and lose money.

And if you'd just put the money in a mattress you're down 10%, far more than the loss of paying taxes on 10%.
Wirth's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_law
Have some DSP resources:

Richard G. Lyons, Understanding Digital Signal Processing [0]

Gareth Loy, Musimathics: The Mathematical Foundations of Music (volume 2) [1]

r8brain-free-src (high quality sample rate conversion algorithms) [2]

KVR's DSP forum, frequented by actual pro audio developers [3]

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Digital-Signal-Processi...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/026251656X/ref=pd_cp_0_1?i...

[2] https://github.com/avaneev/r8brain-free-src

[3] https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=33
It's a simultaneously awesome and saddening feeling. Awesome because you know that there are unexpected amazing things that are going to happen. Sad because a bunch of them might give up from lack of exposure, feedback, etc...
> Nobody was happy about it on both sides, so I was like, ‘I must be doing something right.’

So the diaspora Iranians in LA won't fund it because it isn't biased enough toward the shah's old regime. The ruling Iranian regime wants to kill it because it isn't biased enough toward the rebels.

You won't know you really have it right until the CIA and/or US State Dept. also complains that it isn't biased enough to the Americans.
For anyone interested, here is a web browser that care about syntax highlighting :

https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie
But they don't need to be, really, when they can just put it on a boat for the whole journey, or most of the journey and then just truck it a few hours inland.
How critically are you judging the facial attractiveness and "social impairement" of male developers?

This is a completely useless comment, and exactly the sexist kind of attitude that drives women out of tech.
> You want gender ratios, so just hire based on gender ratios and deal with the fallout.

That would be illegal, at least in the US.
You could load static html and have it on google drive without a huge of death. :P
True Fakes on Location: World-Building, Hollywood-Style
That's a very sensible use case. I was thinking more like, super-trippy live music visuals.
20% of CS degrees are awarded to women, but they get only 10% of entry-level software jobs.

Please stop blaming the pipeline for the difference. Interested, qualified women are being pushed away from the field by bias and attrition, and that's a problem we should be trying to solve.
Brotli's fastest compression is slightly faster than zstd's. Zstd decompresses faster, but neither is slow. Zstd can use sliding window size longer than 16 MB, in brotli this is limited to 16 MB to have guarantees of the maximum resource use at decoding time. Zstd's longer sliding window helps with the longest files (16 MB+), and often benchmarking is done with 100 MB or even 1 GB files.

Brotli compresses usually more, and quite a lot more on shorter files. Try with cp.html, sparc sum or xargs.1. Brotli compresses these 9-19 % more densely on the following benchmark:

https://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/unstable/

Note, that on this benchmark brotli is always limited to the 4 MB sliding window. Other algorithms are run with wider windows, too. This will make brotli seem worse on large files (4+ MB).
There's a documentary titled Brainwash: The Gender Equality Paradox that explored those differences [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiJVJ5QRRUE
> "Gender gap" is a fancy way of saying "not 50%".

No. Gender gap is underrepresentation relative to the qualified labor market. Right now the gender ratio in entry-level software engineering jobs does not represent the segment that would be interested in and qualified for them (CS grads).

The 10% difference between grads and junior developers is on us to fix.
This is the definition of what a 'hacker' is, great read.
Also, Apple replaced the Magic Mouse with a new model with a built-in rechargeable battery.
> More and more it feels that corporations have discovered that with FOSS, those that do the work get to define the standard

Not quite - those that employ the maintainers define the standard, as shown multiple times by Red Hat (multiple projects) and by Apple with WebKit.

IIRC, before the Blink fork, Google was pushing more commits into WebKit compared to Apple, but there was a - let's call it a difference in perspective - on a feature a Google employee wanted to implement, someone with an @apple.com email said "no". I can't remember what the issue was, but this development unfolded on webkit mailing list.
In practice, companies that are attempting to address the "gender gap" seriously are well aware of what the labor market looks like. Realistic goals are set to attempt to have the company's workers mirror the market - and not just in the broad "software engineer" category, but for skill levels within the org. "Bottom-up biological factors" aren't germane to the process.

Addressing disparity in the pipeline is a separate issue.
The concept of "voting with one's dollars" or "letting the market decide" is predicated on all parties having perfect information, i.e. everyone understands all laws, including this one. Naturally, this is rarely true in practice, hence the need for consumer protection laws.
So what you're saying is, based on what he actually spends his time doing, "sailor" is basically a euphemism for "boat repairman"
http://www.deathbycaptcha.com/
The winner in mixed reality will be  Snapchat
Hi, I took a look at your site and the NASA Space Apps site. You have some very impressive accomplishments. I agree with Peter that you are well on your way to an O-1.

The NASA award is definitely strong enough to build a case around, if you file in the next year or two, so that the evidence is not stale.

The Makers UPV website is very cool. With proper documentation it could be counted as an "original contribution of major significance." It would be good to start collecting specific examples of its impact on the field, how it's helped people, and what it has created, that was not there before.

In general, other student-level accomplishments aren't considered O-1 caliber. Phi Beta Kappa, academic awards, student papers, etc. are considered by USCIS to be at a preparatory or entry level. They are best omitted, as they will weaken your case and make you look small.

Instead, I would focus on your substantive accomplishments - things that you have made, and how they have helped people, or made an impact on the world.

Also consider seeking some media coverage for your stuff in tech publications or general-interest media.

Write some papers, or do some podcasts or videos, that showcase your work and show its practical applications.

BY FAR the biggest O-1 challenge faced by makers, engineers, and developers, is explaining what you did, and why it's cool, in language that a 7-year-old can grasp and understand right away.

When your O-1 application hits the adjudicator's desk, you will have 5 to 15 minutes to make your case. He doesn't have a clue about JS or Angular. It's very difficult to explain why your work is new and different and cutting-edge, when you have such a limited window to explain it. Yet that - plus your evidence - is THE key to O-1 success.

My best advice: Practice on your grandma. Or your artist friend. Or your GF. Explain it, and explain it, and explain it again. Just bore the crap out of them, until they finally say, OH, I get it! That's so cool!

TL;DR, but hope you can use this in the future. Best of luck.
He says "believe it or not, I'm wearing a wig" ... the better to re-enact how he would have spoken in 1969 :-)
I couldn't get through the first paragraph of that review. I'll try a sample of the book, but that NYT piece was utterly unpleasant.
Because without data, it's a circular argument.

"Women aren't interested in programming, so none of them go into programming professionally.

Why don't women go into programming professionally? Because they aren't interested."

Separate out whether women are interested from whether women are being forced out for other reasons (harassment, gender imbalance in the field, etc).
Second place totally counts as a prize or award.
But women are more frowned upon for being confident than men.

Again, see this study regarding women vs men asking for raises:
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/cfawis/bowles.pdf
http://www.proactiverisk.com/ is almost as bad.. or maybe worse depending on if you like the agressive red colors.
You know that it's colder when you see the sun in January :P
Read Comments from VSD File and Render Visio Text with Subscript/Superscript
Aspose.Diagram for .NET 6.5.0 allows developers to automate the task of retrieving comments from VSD diagram. It retrieves connection points of shape from VSS stencil and brings improvements in the rendering of text styled as subscript or superscript. This new version brings improvements in rendering of text styled as subscript or superscript. This version also addresses the issues of missing text items, partial rendering of the dynamic connectors, missing background color of the checkboxes and radio boxes as well as the resolution change of the output graphics.
It would seem rather petty to unfriend someone based on political differences. I suppose at that rate the friendship wasn't worth much to begin with.
If your vesting cliff is 1 year, then people who job hop after 8 months get nothing. Thus discouraging people from bouncing around to collect equity because there is a minimum tenure needed to collect.

Just set the cliff to match your definition of "bouncing around jobs".
You're basically putting up a straw-man and attacking it at this point. I never claimed the actual interviews should be verbal but the fact is they are and they are preparing you for what actual interviews are like not what ideal interviews are like.
'Star Trek' USS Enterprise model to live long and prosper at the Smithsonian
http://www.gizmag.com/seesv-s205-sound-camera-locates-noises...
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2vuvhf/pre...
Pretty sure we've had a number of big discussions about the implications for journalism (didn't Jay Rosen or somebody like that write about this?) and you're welcome to use HN Search to find them.

The community reaction to this post is unremarkable; it isn't a very good submission for HN, primarily because the site has been Gawker-Thieled thoroughly already, but also because it's sensationally written and doesn't go very deep. The community norms on this kind of thing are well-established. Perhaps there are other communities that would enjoy debating this piece, but there's no surprise in HN not being one.
Kleiner Perkins has raised two new funds totaling $1.4B
Right on. Reminds me of Richard Feynman or Steve Wozniak, the way they just casually talk about taking things apart and putting things together while following a curiosity on an adventure. This is representative of the sort of ethos that drew everyone here in the first place, I think.
I wonder if this could be auto-calibrated, like prompt the user with "sit in a quiet place and say '1,2,3'" then brute-force the audio offsets to get the highest peak signal; and from then on you could have the mic focus follow the user's head as they move it by constantly trying slightly different offsets and jumping to a new offset if one sounds stronger?
For anyone interested, here's a monkey doing the dishes:

http://giphy.com/gifs/monkey-dishes-dj3oNKpPWAGB2
Agreed. I'm also struck by how pretty the issues are as physical objects. Something about the dimensions make them function in my life more as books than as short-term periodicals, i.e. they sit on the bookshelf for years rather than the coffee table for weeks. I wish there were more publications doing stuff like them. Though admittedly, it certainly helps to be the scion of a billionaire oil family like Lewis Lapham.
This seems perfectly appropriate. Who else is gonna sign their certs?

We trust us, you should trust us and we don't trust anyone else.
Efficient essentially means random.
Not exactly unheard of, but quite rare. I found a company that made large arrays like that, but they seem to operate in near field, measuring only the sound volume.

Imagine a wall of microphones next to a truck - you can tell which part of the wheel makes the sound. That sort of stuff.

As for an actual "camera" that turns sound into an image - i've never heard of one.
And that's completely irrelevant to the current discussion.

BTW it's not even debunked from the biological perspective. It's debunked from a brain anatomy perspective.
These tips sound very actionable. I will certainly commit to trying them out for at least 6 months. Thank you.

My specific problem is probably one of communication (long distance) and tilted priorities. My priority is the functioning of the product. Their priority is many products as cheaply as possible. Any advice on how I can resolve this conflict?
Shouldn't reminders be in the calendar app? I hated having event-type things spread around in multiple apps, when I have a personal event-database already. I really liked the change.

I don't use iOS, so maybe it's different there, but other than storing the data in Calendar, I didn't notice much a change in how reminders are set from voice.

Disclaimer: I work for Google
The problem with infrastructure spending isn't that it doesn't potentially have a good ROI, it is that the process channels the money to wasteful projects that don't have a good ROI.
Interpreting the results of linear regression