skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, there are better codecs than the defaults. Now go to the specifications page for a random popular bluetooth audio device, and see if they even list which codecs are supported. If by some astonishing miracle they do say so, then work out which codec they would use with a random popular mobile device. It is all theoretically possible, but in practise regular folk are going to have a hard time!

I looked up recommendations for Bluetooth devices at Wirecutter and then went to the relevant tech specs page:

Mentions "bluetooth" (sometimes a2dp) and no more:

* https://www.bose.com/en_us/products/speakers/wireless_speake...

* https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Mini-Bluetooth-Speaker-P...

* https://www.marshallheadphones.com/mh_us_en/acton-black

* http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PUSA/Car/Digital+Media+Rec...

* http://www.kenwood.com/usa/car/excelon/kdc-x998/spec.html

* http://www.jabra.com/music/jabra-move-wireless

* http://www.jbl.com/over-ear-headphones/SYNCHROS+E40BT.html

* https://www.ultimateears.com/en-us/ueroll2

* http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/x300-wireless-speaker

* http://www.apple.com/iphone-6s/specs/ - the Nexus 6P page doesn't even mention bluetooth

Mentions codecs:

* http://rivaaudio.com/riva-turbo-x/#specs

* http://www.peachtreeaudio.com/deepblue2.html (Says "aptX bluetooth")

* http://www.bowers-wilkins.com/Wireless-Speakers/Wireless-Spe...
Facebook uses facial recognition... they may not require that someone tag the photo for them to know who's in it. I just assume that every face in every photo uploaded there is turned into a shadow profile which is is being constantly updated with correlations, regardless of whether or not any of that data is public or directly supplied by users.

The fact that they appeared in your suggested friends list probably means there's some overlapping set of interests somewhere, and maybe a friend of a friend in common, even if the the timing itself might be coincidence.
My bad, I wrote Arnold instead of Arion, I mix them up when writing it out. iRay is sort of a feature of mental ray, I guess if you're being pedantic. Octane isn't production ready, but I suppose if you're used to building render farms it's not production ready. It's certainly production ready for someone paying for all those licenses.

> This is not true for anything beyond running compute shaders on large 1D, 2D, or 3D buffers.

Yes, but rendering is a shader on a bunch of those buffers right? That's what I wrote. I'm not 100% confident that you can efficiently render with conventional shaders what they showed in that frame. But I think you can. You could at least cull and tesselate tubes on the GPU, if you really don't want to write a shader.
You know, I've never really paid that much attention to it. I always assumed when they fit me for a specific brand that I had to get that brand. Especially since they had me try multiple brands before writing the prescription.
The GIF on their site makes it seem barely more impressive than using a basic 'make this in half an hour in a hackathon' template. But the bit about continuous improvement is interesting:

"Our learning algorithms monitor your visitors' behaviour, perform automatic A/B testing and make continuous incremental improvements to your site in order to improve conversion rates and help your website to grow."

Consider me skeptical.
Suppose Microsoft wanted to analyze some pretty interesting parameters of typing -

- frequency of different keystrokes

- frequency of keystrokes as a function of the preceeding 1, 2 or 3 keystrokes

- mean delay between any set of keystroke pairs

- standard deviation of delay between any set of keystroke pairs

Would you be able to design a system to collect this information that would not allow reproduction of any particular sentence typed by a user?

Would you be able to design a system that collects this information locally, creates the probability matrixes and sends them to Microsoft without sending the keystrokes themselves?

The proposed system above is almost trival to build, and yields significant and useful information that Microsoft would be interested in collecting.

I am not an expert in this area, nor am I clear that the above is what Microsoft is doing; but it is what I would imagine they want built, and it seems to be a pretty legitimate way to collect information without exposing the user to an actual keylogger and avoids most of the security issues that such a thing entails.
Not everyone, but many people of varied moral qualities _do_ have access to SS7 and carrier operations, and they can be contacted and negotiated for services.
I've been on the uninstall/install cycle. I used to be very much into League, and plenty of games before that. I stopped on January 1st 2015 as part of my new year's resolution.

I knew I had to stop because it wasn't giving me time to achieve my goals. Specifically, to become a proficient programmer. I think this contributed greatly because the sensation of achieving little wins while playing games was immediately replaced by the same feeling when fixing bugs or having code behave just like you want it to. See: 'The Power of Habit'.
Words are losing their power. Not even Jason Bourne can save them now
Also, redirect one to the other.
Thanks vvviperrr, great initiative :)

I may try it some day.
If I need to communicate with a couple of external endpoints that need 5-10 lines of mostly static xml amd the templating is simple i often might prefer using a static templated xml file.

It's much easier to understand what's happening later.
I use 2FA and love it, however one issue I faced that I wanted to highlight for anyone having missing sms issues... in our country we can keep the number but change phone company, called porting number to other carrier... it works great however international sms which is mostly the case with 2FA messages, never work after number porting. Do not know it is just issue with our country porting config or universal problem. So anyone having issue of no sms received...may look into it if number ported...
Without seeing any example work on the page it's difficult to tell what's going on, but maybe they're going to

(1) Raise a bunch of VC money

(2) Farm out website design to Fiverr/Bangladesh at cost

(3) Raise some more VC money

...

(?) Maybe plop some stuff into a RNN model and see what comes out
I use www for the canonical domain and redirect the bare domain to the www version.
Yes,it's simple enough to add to the DNS and have both. Many of the everyday users I've worked with seem to want to add it to all the browser urls they type in. It doesn't matter if the original has it or not.
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12195836
I thought it was The Grid.
Having read this, I Googled "Dollar shave club razor brand", and sure enough there are articles like this one explaining how to order the product directly: http://lifehacker.com/5903771/forget-dollar-shave-clubbuy-th...

It seems like their success is essentially a marketing success. That's not exactly a new phenomenon, excepting the use of web video instead of TV/radio ads. Plenty of companies are essentially marketing entities that "rebranded" existing products.
(Not end-to-end encrypted = not secure. Should be obvious these days.)
>Due to it being A.I-based the only thing I can really say is "It's been tried before. Best of luck on doing it better."

I'm sincere in saying that. But unless you somehow draw up some marketing hype - it becomes increasingly unlikely to receive funding for an idea that's failed in the past unless you have some tangible evidence about how you're avoiding running into the same problems.

If (/when) they have an actual product we'll see if they managed to do it better. But there have already been enough failed attempts (TheGrid wasn't the first or only one since) to not be hyped because "AI codes my site".

So with nothing else to go off of other than "This is attempt #x by some new people (or person)" I can't say I'm excited or have high expectations. I'd be lying.
If you know of good quality Canon replacement ink let me know. The knock off stuff I've tried has been awful
Not disagreeing, but Dubai is not a good example since Dubai is as hot as Dubai, and a lot of extremely wealthy people still live there.
This guy is a legend!!

http://haseebq.com/farewell-app-academy-hello-airbnb-part-i/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12197591
Continuous improvement through machine learning seems like fodder for a really fun 4/8chan thread
Hey guys, Marc from Firedrop here. I completely understand the negative comments here about The Grid. I was super excited when The Grid came out and paid up the $90 like a lot of people, only to be hugely disappointed when I actually used it. They're pioneers in this space and they've done a lot of really interesting and cool work... but they've misunderstood their users hugely and made too many assumptions about them regarding design decisions. We're taking a different approach where our platform listens and learns more closely from the users rather than whatever broad abstract data set they're using. It'll lead to less "out there" designs that people will be happy with.
> While the catalog does not disclose data on America’s own military or dual-use satellites (...), it does feature Russia’s defense satellites.

So the Russian satellites are on the US list, and the US satellites are on the Russian list. Fun!
It's just a way to differ estimate a flagship device. Apple is pushing volume to enterprises, etc and will make the iPhone line more diverse.
When I can, I try to just not have a computer at home for this reason. I have an e reader and a shitty cellphone that can is hard enough to use that I don't waste much time with it.

The trick is trying to find things that you can only use productively.

Terrible WiFi can also work if you can set it up. Something with 300ms lag is enough to stop me playing games. If you live with other people making sure your workstation is in the living room and not your bedroom also helps.
50 reqs, 41MB transferred (!), full load in 23.06s, DOMContentLoaded: 1.11s.

Insane.
Yes, it's rather silly. Desktop Linux is like having a machine shop. It's a steep learning curve, but you can do amazing things. Advanced tasks on the iPad is like a dancing bear: it's impressive that it can even be done, but the actual dancing sucks.
For the Dash, surely it can't be that hard to replace the soldered-in battery with a couple of spring terminals so it can be easily replaced in the future..
> My wife needed a few weeks to be able to speak Norwegian on a conversational level, I didn't need much more than that for German (difficult to count exactly due to travelblah).

You guys must be both geniuses. Either that or those "learn X language in 14 days!" books actually work.
Show HN: Graphene-GAE – GraphQL for Google AppEngine
Ask HN: What's the last thing that blew your mind?
One answer to this is to be the first one who does it.
(It's also quite hard to succeed as a centralized twitter clone at the moment.)

Why do you think that the decentralized model is inferior when it comes to user acquisition?
A team with enough tokens in their pocket would have enough incentive to do the same kind of user acquisition as the centralized counterpart.
> GDP overcounts:anything we spend money on is GDP

It's not as if they are blind to the problem.

Economists understand this, but laypeople tend to, out of a desire for simplification, subconsciously conflate the concept of GDP with "health of the economy". There is an old joke about how when an economist marries his housekeeper, the GDP of his nation goes down.

There's a raft of different metrics that economists have devised to get around the problem that not everything that's measured is relevant, and not everything that's relevant is measured. Of course, you have to be an economist to really understand them.
Tell dang: Bug with hide
Sorry to post this here, I don't feel like sending an email.

While clicking around to hide on the front page I noticed some stories were listed twice.

https://imgur.com/a/wSYyf
Backgammon.

It's a good metaphor for life. You have to weigh up probabilities and likely outcomes, know when to take a risk and when to play safe. Sometimes the other player plays better than you, sometimes worse, and sometimes the dice just come along and kick your arse.
Rev 2 is already out and mine has spring terminals and a Duracell battery. But the case must be cracked open
Was being a bit sardonic in my comment due to where the discussion went, but yeah, XML Literals in VB.Net create XDocument instances and are just like string literals except:

* Enclosing quotes aren't required
* Assumed to be multi-line so line continuation characters aren't required
* Are validated for being well-formed XML by the compiler (and at design-time, if VS)
* Can have embedded expressions
I'm curious about the relevant economics here.

A fully automated system for designing websites could make it easier to design good-looking websites without hiring a designer.

If your system works perfectly, that allows someone who wants a website to save: (1) the transaction cost of hiring a designer, and (2) the cost of the designer's labor (wages). Additionally this person has to "pay" the cost of learning to use the automated system.

Which of factors (1) or (2) is larger? I imagine it's probably (1) -- the hassle of hiring and managing a designer is large relative to the actual cost of labor. Does that sound right?
They are outrageous. Women's blades can be even more so: However, I wouldn't consider shaving my legs with such a contraption. I don't know how I'd keep the proper angle on my legs, knees, ankles, and bikini line. Taking longer to shave means I could easily run out of hot water in the winter (small water heater). I'll just stick to buying men's razor blades (cheaper than the women's version, at least) and keep my convenience.
I don't get this idea that desktop Linux is challenging, not at all. I've been using a Linux box as my primary desktop since 1999, and as my sole desktop since 2000. It's not challenging, it just works.

I won't say that there are never challenges, but they are rare and — unlike Windows and macOS — if I search a little I'll find an answer and am able to bend the OS to my will.
This is common for some developers, but a lot of people view themselves as an "experienced" developer who aren't making this much money: They should read your post carefully and appreciate the fact that either they aren't as experienced as they think they are, or they are selling themselves short. Or perhaps they want to use the term "experienced" to refer to someone less experience. Whatever.

That said, if you want to be making $750k programming outside the bay area, it's possible, but the recruiters on cybercoders and linkedin aren't going to help you get these jobs...
Transit agency gets $13.3M grant for new buses in Las Vegas
Grrr. If you adjust for population of course the top places in the list will be dominated by small populations who've had a particularly bad time recently.
> I prefer to be judged on the content of my comments rather than the number of internet points displayed by my name.

It is not up to you how other people judge you, no matter your preference, and attempting to make them is abusive behavior.

> It allows for much more honesty and sincerity in discussions, and I think those are two qualities that HN could use more of.

It doesn't actually, absent names, people become vile. Anonymous comments aren't more honest and sincere, they're more petty and flippant.
In my opinion there is a cultural difference here: While in English, as I see it as a foreigner, if many people spell something wrong, it becomes an accepted spelling, in German if lots of people spell something wrong, it is still considered as wrong. There are even websites for common spelling errors and wrongly used words which you can link to in internet discussions to convince someone that/how their spelling was wrong, such as

> http://www.das-dass.de/

> http://www.dassdas.com/

> http://seit-seid.dassdas.com/

> http://wie-als.dassdas.com/

> http://einzigste.dassdas.com/

> http://standart-standard.dassdas.com/
The outer case is fused together and the battery inside is smothered in cement. From the photo, it looks like trying to remove it also destroys a bit of the plastic cradle. And at $4.99 a piece there are better, cheaper ways to do things.
Fascinating. It is indeed very easy to judge, with the benefit of hindsight, but - who could ever expect computer literacy to become mainstream? Especially since GUIs were bad and the command line still ruled, as you've pointed out. It still seems unlikely.
This ruleset leads him to special sort of companies that "hunt stars at any cost". If you're so precious AND have speech skill, maybe that's for you. But maybe get less-tech, speech-oriented job then?

Most employees are just workers, not stars, and at least among my management environment there is a simple rule: skip negotiators. If he can't tell what he wants, we do not call again. If he said X, we do not negotiate that. Negotiation is about skill and whether he will work here or not, which position and/or responsibilities he will take. Not about salary. It is stupid to constraint employee's living and needs, no matter if these are first- or second-class needs. It is also stupid to not know how much you need.
> If you're going to compare the two fairly, include appropriate indentation for both, not just the S-expression version.

When I pasted it in from https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/atom.html#sampleFeed I guess I lost the indents. No idea why: they are clearly there in the original.
Think about Scythe as an Eclipse without the ship customization and upkeep phase, simple production (only one type per area, augmented by a max number of production units) and fixed map (with barriers!)... it goes much faster and less downtime. Another game which I like and is a bit similar as a simplified eclipse is Hyperborea. I only read about Game of Thrones, but the comparison would be that in both Eclipse and Game of Thrones you are like in Scythe more or less allowed to negotiate, bribe and trade t a certain extend
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I think a big problem with XML in most languages is the tooling around it. The libraries to parse/create it are not very pleasant to work with because of the immense complexity they have to deal with. If they only had to conform to a very small subset of all of XML's features and quirks, you'd have a very sane ecosystem.
It's possible to receive SMS sent to your number without your knowledge. The GSM network cannot be trusted, so SMS is not a very good 2FA method.
"We brought it all to them and found out that if you know you have it and are asking a fair price for it, 99% of them are too scared to jump on board of a train that's already full steam ahead. They'd rather be the one discovering it." --

Interesting. Have you tried to reach out to non-German VCs as well?
According to the URL, it appears to be 1991-2012 changes in precipitation. I suspect the filename is trustworthy (based solely on it coming from NASA) but it might not be.
You never mention the name of your country though :)
My `tron` bot reaching top 300 ;-)
https://www.codingame.com

And seriously - to find out I can (sort of) do NoSQL with Postgres.
Airware (YC W13) is looking for a JavaScript developer
We're looking for a creative software engineer to work on our single-page application, mapping frameworks, and visualization of drone data.

https://boards.greenhouse.io/airware/jobs/215896

Check out our engineering & design blog to see what we're about:

https://makers.airware.com/
From the creators of "PC is dead, long live IOS"

Remind me again the argument for using the ipad instead of a... say mac air... or the macbook? 1 pound? 2?

Sure there are some people for which this is critical... like the guy who is 40 pounds overweight but buys a new 10000$ new road bike because it's 1 pound lighter...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the original Macintosh didn't have networking support
It's a case of sensible compromise and balance between offering suggestions, taking feedback in frictionless ways, and learning. I've learned from running digital agencies over the years that a lot of the processes that you go through in a web project can be distilled down to heuristic choices and that's what we started with. The rest us refinement through machine learning techniques.
Curl and http/2 on Mac
Awesome-hyperterm:  Delightful HyperTerm plugins, themes, and resources
That's the point. Indeed, it's nearly a 100% marketing success. Just because you CAN buy the same razors another way, doesn't mean that any normal consumers do. As another HN post pointed out, DSC was able to combine existing tools like AWS, Facebook, YouTube to build a $250MM business in a matter of years, exceed $1M in revenue per employee, and sell it for $1B. A decade ago, this would have been completely unheard-of -- think how much you'd have to have spent on building your own tech stack, display/print/TV/direct mail advertising, phone operators, etc.
Except that to those of us who cut our teeth on DOS & Windows, and grew to the point that going away from the GUI was either the mark of doing something the hard way or because of a specific failure, *nix presents a vastly different working paradigm.

Not to mention compatibility issues and other general issues.
Hacking CSS rem into a responsive unit