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Jack is a audio daemon for Linux that performs a similar function to Pulseaudio, but is intended for a wholly different audience.

Jack is intended as a low-latency audio and midi router for audio production. It routes audio data between applications and whatever analog/digital/midi I/O you have plugged into it that Linux supports reasonably well. In other words it's for build a audio workstation.

So you could, provided you had the skills, quite easily create a audio processing pipeline that will do any type of 'beamforming' you want and more.

Pulseaudio on the other hand is designed as a general purpose desktop and mobile audio daemon that is designed to make it simple to manage typical hardware you find in a typical PC. This sort of stuff is designed to make it nice to have a webcam for simple blog or talking to your mom, not necessarily the best choice if you want to run a music studio from your laptop.
Author here -- this was shot with a single Richo Theta S on a rotating Fairburn multiplate on a selfie stick. Positioning was entirely manual, but used software to correct and compensate. There are a few vertical disparities (and a nice rip/seam in one area of the imagery) in this, but I'm curious what HN community thinks of the quality. Best to view with Google Cardboard, Oculus Rift, etc.
I'm not so sure that technology does exacerbate the problem any more than a living without the internet does. This is far from a settled question in my mind.
> They probably have 10 years to deploy the capital

They probably have about that much time to return the capital. 10-year fund doesn't mean you get to keep 10% of the capital in a box for a decade (apart from reserving for management fees).
Question 4 was fun :)

Not sure what technique they wanted you to use, but it was easy to work back from the desired outcome, keeping track of the current IOU balance and the bet that would leave you in the desired position. I assume the early questions illuminate the general way of doing this.

==== SPOILER ====

Create a 4 * 4 matrix BET_m,n and a 5 * 5 matrix IOU_m,n, where m and n are the number of wins for each team respectively, and each matrix encodes how much is bet and owed after that many wins.

Our initial constraints give IOU_0,0 = 0, as nothing is owed until a team wins a game. IOU_4,* = 100 and IOU_* ,4 = -100.

It's hard to see what BET_0,0 should be starting from the start, so instead lets work backwards.

If a team has 3 wins, and wins again, then the bet plus current IOU must equal 100 if it's my team winning, -100 if the other.

IOU_3,3 + BET_3,3 = IOU_4,3 = 100

IOU_3,3 - BET_3,3 = IOU_3,4 = -100

Thus BET_3,3 = 100 and IOU_3,3 = 0

Our matrices now look like

BET = [. . . .
. . . .
. . . .
. . . 100]
IOU = [0 . . . -100
. . . . -100
. . . . -100
. . . 0 -100
100 100 100 100 . ]

IOU_3,2 + BET_3,2 = 100

IOU_3,2 - BET_3,2 = 0

So BET_3,2 = 50 and IOU_3,2 = 50

By symmetry BET_2,3 = 50 and IOU_2,3 = -50

Working along the m=3 and n=3 edges we get

BET = [. . . 12.5
. . . 25
. . . 50
12.5 25 50 100 ]
IOU = [0 . . -87.5 -100
. . . -75 -100
. . . -50 -100
87.5 75 50 0 -100
100 100 100 100 . ]

In general, our constraints are:

IOU_m,n + BET_m,n = IOU_m+1,n

IOU_m,n - BET_m,n = IOU_m,n+1

Filling in through the middle

BET = [31.25 31.25 25 12.5
31.25 37.5 37.5 25
25 37.5 50 50
12.5 25 50 100 ]
IOU = [0 -31.25 -62.5 -87.5 -100
31.25 0 -37.5 -75 -100
62.5 37.5 0 -50 -100
87.5 75 50 0 -100
100 100 100 100 . ]
Not my area of expertise by any means, but maybe quantum dots could be used to filter only a small sliver of the visible spectrum produced by streetlights. Maybe there could be very-nearly transparent foils that you could overlay over your windows that would block just that light.
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I literally LOL @ "white dwarf". I absolutely agree, but, I have to admit... I have those lights :/

My last car was smashed by an idiot who didn't know how to back out of a parking spot, so rather than waiting for weeks while the body shop replaced the whole right side my car, I just traded it in for a new lease; a 2016 of same model. The new model has those stupid lights and I absolutely hate them. They're even unnatural and obnoxious to the person driving the car, not just the poor souls they're blinding.

Unfortunately, most cars will likely have them within the next few years.
It's sort of the AMA's central mandate to know about things that affect health.
I personally don't see any difference between a large enough computing cluster and a supercomputer.
I really hope the directors never let the commenting and ratings features get past the "consideration" phase.
They almost all do, yes. Android offers volatile ranges, OS X offers purgable pages, Windows offers MEM_RESET/MEM_RESET_UNDO. To my knowledge Linux is the only exception, because last time I checked they haven't merged Android's patches to enable the feature.
And old PC hardware, where you aren't guaranteed to have an FPU, or where integer operations were a lot quicker than FP ones.
At my last performance review I was told that I engage in toxic discussion too much and I should halt.

What did they say when you asked them to clarify?
I think the point they're making is that there's this common "Fallacy of the Census", which is like an appeal to popularity.

By only saying that the problems will sort themselves out because a census controls the network doesn't address the other factors that can be influencing the decisions of the majority. Essentially a census-controlled network isn't infallible (i.e. bitcoin block size debate).
I actually disagree with the 10yr time frame (although will admit it has its merits), but also agree with some of your logic. I just think that the 10yr "fix" solves some problems and creates others. I think this issue is that you should:
A) not rob former employees of accrued stock value
B) probably try to somewhat reduce incentives to leave if the company is going to continue to do well

There are a few problems I see here:
1) stock option grants are completely arbitrary and sometimes end up very wrong
2) it's hard to fix that in the future because you'll end up at a higher strike price
3) end up being expensive and tax inefficient to exercise

The closest I've seen to people who seem to get this and have sensible solutions are Andrew Mason at Detour (progressive equity) and Dustin Moskovitz at Asana (larger grants, but back loaded into years 4-6).

I have great respect for Adam D'Angelo at Quora for suggesting a solution to the problem, have known him in school he's certainly smarter than me on almost every axis of intelligence, but I think there are other potentially creative solutions that might be better (although I don't know tax compliance).

For example I think you could keep the status quo, but offer the option for employees to exchange their options for shares (white meat) at the time they can exercise. Example you have options for 100 shares at a strike price of $50, at the time you leave the shares are worth $100, instead of having to come up with $5000, you just get $50 shares free and clear. I think there's still a tax hit issue, but at least it's not doubled with paying for the shares.
So you read the part where it said he does many speeches for free yet decided it worthwhile to create an estimate that you know doesn't align with reality and draw conclusions from it?
If learning is your primary goal:

Your time is the most important investment. If you want to learn, decide what you want to learn. If the cloud credits can help with that (e.g. if you want to learn about large scale deployment, or practice tuning ML models), then great. If not, just ignore the credits and spend time as you would have without them.
First, realize that this logic applies to any conflict of interest.

For example: of course the judge would rule in favor of the company he's invested in. He wouldn't invest in a company if he didn't think it was a company with good, reasonable management!
Everyone has their own specific set of strengths and weaknesses.

It's toxic to compare people's weaknesses to your own strengths, or to compare your own weaknesses with other's strengths.

Enjoy connecting to people and making banter. Stop trying to get "somewhere". Don't even try to push for the project to finish earlier. It finishes when it finishes. The quality it's done at is the quality it's going to be. Do what you're going to do then step back. Focus on the present, and enjoy it because it is everything you have. The only "somewhere" everyone ever gets to is death. What's more important, your joy in the present, or some illusion of the future?

Choices are illusory. Our lives are not ours to control. We can follow the flow of life's river and enjoy the sights life offers, or push against the current, and encounter resistance, spending all our time bucketing water out of our boats. The only choice we have is between focusing on reality of the present, the small boons we experience every day, a smile, an eye contact, a joke, listening to a story, and focusing on the illusions of the future, finding weaknesses in yourself or others through comparison, fighting against the current of life. Who are you in this moment?
The Sudbury Valley school is one of the first US schools based on the original child-driven school called The Summerhill School, which is based in the UK:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerhill_School

This "democratic school" movement has spread across the world since the Summerhill School was founded in the 1920s:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_democratic_schools

If you want to deep dive There's a book about The Summerhill School that was written in the 1960s:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178734.Summerhill
Outside of crypto-anarchist circles, there's nothing cool about a 'democracy' where the only people who can vote are those who own the means of production.
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150 engineers can simultaneously build 10 startups! Not impressed.
In his response on quora he said he:

* left palantir in 09

* is a major shareholder

* left after he "had successfully replaced myself in both parts of the company we'd created and had fully vested".

So I am not going to speculate whether he was pushed out, but it sounds like he has much less latitude for steering the company. Especially when you consider the power of the other founders and the initial VC capital that was put in. So this (claims of palantir going public) are what I would expect a major shareholder without control of the company to say. It is effectively the only way to put pressure on them.

Even if this is wildly incorrect, and it quite possibly is, that comment was made several years after he had little more than an advisory role at palantir.

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Joe-Lonsdale-leave-Palantir
What problem does reactjs solve? Why are javascript libraries used instead of generating HTML server side? I feel I'm out of touch, could someone give me a quick primer?
As somewhat alluded to in the article, some of the graphs here extrapolate historical data and assume it to be a good predictor of the future. Without an understanding about the deep nuances of economics - for which someone else can supply good or bad reasons why this or that might happen - there is no reason why the future should necessarily rely on anecdotal evidence.
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Yes, I will think about it.
Japan has a very low subsidy and most of its railways are private and receive none.
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But what's left on your rag after you do so becomes a free meal!
Amazon's acquisition of Kiva is one of the best examples of vertical integration in the e-commerce industry.

The article reminded me of acquisitions in the Gilded Age. Perhaps one could compare Bezos to Rockefeller, presuming Bezos was the one who pushed for such purchases.
At Harvey Mudd College 54% of CS graduates were women.
https://www.hmc.edu/about-hmc/2016/05/17/class-2016-mileston...
There's a huge tax hit. Giving shares is taxed as ordinary income.
At least it's not 400%.
Suppose for a minute the miners and the software developers disagreed strongly on some important decision. What do you think would happen?

* Would the software developers suck it up and follow the miners?

* Would the pool of software developers shrink because various developers do not find implementing the will of the miners to be an enjoyable hobby and/or job anymore?

* Would the miners hire new software developers to replace the ones that leave?

* Would there be a fork?

I don't know, but pretending that "the protocol is decentralised, the technology is completely agnostic to anything but the will of the majority" is ignoring the realpolitik of this kind of situation.

Saying that Ethereum implements the will of the majority is like saying American democracy implements the will of the majority. Sort of? But meanwhile there are a lot of empirical studies [0] demonstrating that the will of the people has little to no influence over American public policy. A democratic financial system is much more corruptible than a democratic political system.

[0] https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
We have to assume Satoshi saw this problem and actually did something about it.

No one can come out and say, "We must change bitcoin. You should follow me because I created it."

By removing the founder role, Bitcoin is just that much more decentralized.
And people go install 4,000 and 5,000K LED lights in their kitchens and homes because it feels modern, can you imagine the disruption. I always insist on installing 2,800K at a max with my clients.
Given that the buyback price is above market price, I don't see a problem with this. Palantir is compensating you for signing a noncompete/NDA. If you don't want to sign those things, you are free to sell on the private markets for less than what Palantir offers you.
An interesting take on this space. I think something with frames that flipped up over your head (imagine you have your sunglasses on your head pointed upwards) would go a long way to quelling fears of being surreptitiously being filmed.
They reserve a chunk for follow on rounds.
Exactly. Plus the phrasing of the criticism is so odd: "no longer contributing to the business." Let's all accept that as true, so allowing original employees' to purchase for a longer time period simply preserves their ability to be rewarded for their work. That's a good thing, not a bad thing. Plus, the dilution argument is pretty weak: the employee pool is usually 10-20%. So investors get diluted by 10%. Whoopee.
I don't know if I missed it, but I would have liked to have seen a performance/accuracy comparison between wide+deep learning and a simple ensemble between wide and deep models. The advantage to having 2 separate models is that you could use just one or the other if something went wrong, or if you needed to make a faster prediction (i.e. when the escalator breaks, you get stairs).
Difficult Conversations is great. Two other really good books are Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg, and Crucial Conversations by Patterson, et al.
It's somewhat difficult to create tons of new Facebook accounts, so you can ride off this perk of Facebook to handle spam yourself. Flagging conversations is a good idea, so after three or so flags, you can automatically ban the account, and I think that would auffice.
There are two layers of counterparty risk here. One is to the broker who holds custody of your ETF shares. This aspect is thoroughly regulated and insured by the SIPC: not much to worry about. It's the same kind of counterparty risk you take when you trade any stock.

The second is to the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust, which practically speaking is mostly a risk of security breaches or corruption involving the trust custodian, Gemini Trust Company, LLC. There are some reasons to think this might be safer than holding bitcoin yourself on the blockchain, or holding it through an account at an online bitcoin exchange, but this risk is not even close to being insured by a big stock exchange. In fact the S-1 says explicitly that the bitcoin holdings are not insured by anyone. I would say this part of the risk is much closer to counterparty risk with an online bitcoin exchange than it is to counterparty risk to a big stock exchange.
Too late. Way better alternatives exist nowadays.
Really ???? I bet if this had happened in India or China or Africa there would have been a ton of comments about how this is noth g but a stunt and how it is more important for those countries to worry about the poor. Just because the actors involved is white no contrarian viewpoints are being entertained. No Sir the hate is not outside HN the hate is all there all the time among all the white establishment including HN white and colored hipsters in a very subtle fashion. In fact hipsters are very discriminating and they discriminate against people who look older, who don't wear tight jeans or tshirts, who speaks with an accent and even who expresses any old school opinion including calling a stunt a stunt!
The API of Botan forces you to use `secure_vector<byte>` to store data to be encrypted or decrypted. That makes it impossible to eliminate unnecessary copying where possible. A huge design mistake.
If we assume it is important to hire great programmers, then I would want such a system to signal to everybody who don't fit the standard nerd type that they won't waste their time if they apply.
It is just as much a feedback loop as PayPal or the Swift network. Bitcoin is very useful to those who transfer money internationally (I pay 6% on ATM fees in foreign countries), who pay online (no more 3% VISA/MasterCard fee!), who buy things the state does not approve, and anyone who believes money should not be based on debt like our current system is.

It's totally fine not to like it, but it is a system that provides value for many people, and assuming there are more value to be provided from network effect is not a crazy idea (like when a business can have multiple steps in it's supply chain happen on the blockchain).
I'm surprised how easy it is to set up, since I already have the Facebook Messenger app on my mobile device. I actually thought it was am official Facebook service for a minute.
Quite a few inaccuracies in the article which indicate misunderstanding of how additive light temperature works.

You don't want to "cool it" - that means more blue! You want to warm it with less.
Very true. But this is good oppurtunity for other countries to bring out their own versions.
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Color temperature of "white" LEDs is due to the amount and type of phosphor to downconvert the blue LED spike to warmer colors. The more phosphor and conversion that goes on, the less total output (no free lunch in physics). So in markets where amount of light (like exterior lighting) is a selling point, vendors sell their cooler temperature LED's for performance.
> Mr. Kupor notes that extending the exercise time for former employees makes their options more valuable at the expense of employees and investors. (It does so because former employees have a longer time to exercise their options and dilute the other shareholders.)

This is simply a falsehood. Exercises of options of do not dilute shareholders -- new issuances do. Former employees do not issue new shares.
Hmm. An article in 2016 about async javascript without any references to async/await?

Also, using promises to make code look prettier is kind of missing the point, and can be achieved with callbacks too. The real reasons to use promises are:

1. Error handling/bubbling

2. No chance of 'double callbacks'

3. Value-oriented code

4. Easier composition of async tasks

5. Ease of migration to async/await
Kudos to your team -- having access to the fantastic work you guys have done (especially the AudioProcessing module that we use in PulseAudio) has been very useful indeed.
The stated reason is that Urbit addresses are for "responsible adults", and that each responsible adult will have 1 address. Each address has 96 bits worth of subordinate addresses, so you should be able to give all of your devices, dependants, etc an address.
The biggest advantage of client-side rendering is that clicking a link doesn't require a full-page reload. Dynamically updating small portions of a page allows for a more snappy experience, especially when on a cellular data connection.
You can't just tease us like this, if you won't say it then don't make a comment about it!

It's like when kids run around saying 'I know a secret!'

Either say it or keep it to yourself.
Its not the channel, its the implementation
Same as with gold ETFs or any other ETF. The amount of regulation in this space is enormous so these are hardly fly-by-night operations. This application has been pending SEC approval for years.
why I have to use zend? I have found it so complicated and there is no good support recourse for it
True, but there's a real problem with people and places using lights with far too high a temperature, and even when shopping for home LED lights it's surprisingly difficult to find low temperature lights that aren't low on lumens output.

Pretty much anything over 3000K looks horribly blue at night, and if it wasn't such a massive pain to find them I'd prefer <2000K.
Interesting. It doesn't amaze me the continued popularity of PHP. The language, framework, and ecosystem just work. Plenty of people well versed in it. It's not sexy, and I've done more than a few years of consultancy there.

New energy in an ecosystem is never a bad thing.
Ah so its a templating engine.
Perhaps?

I suspect the random variation between the two would account for far more difference than the casualties directly attributable to method of destruction, though.

Unless you mean destroying the transformers with blockbuster-size HE, or dirty nuclear devices?

I guess my point is that the number of people who would die from sustained, widespread infrastructure disruption would be huge, and not greatly changed by casualties around the blast site if you decided to blow stuff up literally instead of just metaphorically.
Hi, cosmile, Thank you for addressing this issue, though it's a little bit later to change the repository name, because I also use the "phone" as all the apis prefix. I am not native english speaker, I just think this library is for the mobile phone app development, so I name it as libphone.
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Referendums aren't the same thing as elections - they don't come with a set of manifesto promises or a promised programme of government afterwards beyond carrying out the policy suggested in the Referendum.

The politicians making the promises may not even be in the government (it tended to be Leave.EU and Farage that focused on immigration, Vote Leave was wary of doing the same and focused on the economy). All politicians can do in a referendum campaign is talk about implied benefits one way or the other.

It's now up to the politicians to work out the best deal for our country. It's going to be a much smoother ride (and much better for the country as a whole) if free movement of people is allowed and we join EFTA than if the government tries to hold firm on that one, for sure.
Tunisia.

Not sure why people like the GP can't just include the obviously important information in their comments
Yeah, this is a pretty good point. IMO it's a major flaw in the paper that they didn't empirically compare their new model to other models (like just an ensemble, as you mention), though they do discuss it.

I wouldn't be surprised if a simple ensemble performs better!
"Hot" and "cold" have different meanings in different contexts. In the article, they're referring to color temperature, which is about the temperature of the source, and assumes black-body spectrum. So 3000K means a source at 3000 Kelvins. Light from a 5000K source has more blue, and so is cooler. But the color temperature is higher (5000K vs 3000K).
React minified is 147kb, which is actually significant if all you need is the functionality offered in Monkberry.