skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah you really wouldn't want to convert anything but WAV or any other lossless format into FLAC (mp3 and Ogg are lossy formats). Converting a lossy format (mp3 or Ogg) to a lossless format (FLAC or WAV) wouldn't recover any of the lost data and would be rather pointless. Converting WAV to FLAC, however, will reduce the original filesize to about 50-60% of its original size, while still maintaining the exact same audio quality as WAV. Converting FLAC to mp3 or Ogg will reduce the filesize even more but will remove some of the actual audio data (higher bitrates retain more of the original data but still remove some, though typically out of the range of what you'd notice listening to the song). At bitrates like 96kbps or even 128kbps, you'd probably notice a difference in audio quality, whereas with a 256kbps or 320kbps mp3 you probably wouldn't be able to tell much difference between it and the FLAC unless you have excellent hearing or it's being played on high-grade equipment.

So:
FLAC -> mp3 OK
mp3 -> FLAC Unnecessary
Look at the Github network charts as Git basically uses directed acyclic graphs.

http://github.com/blog/621-bye-bye-flash-network-graph-is-no...

and

http://raphaeljs.com/github/demo.html
Scala 2.8.0 RC1 released
That might be what you meant. But it's not what you said.
Incorrect. Many of them, do buy the ADSL access from BT. But many of the only use BT for them exchange->house portion, and install their own equipment in exchanges. (Local loop unbundling).
The following things look neat and/or interesting for me:

- MPC library integration means that evaluation of complex constants at compile time is more accurate. It also can evaluate calls to complex math functions with constant arguments at compile time.

-Wenum-compare now works for C.

- When the compiler prints template instantiations, it ignores arguments that haven't changed from the default. I think the idea is to make things like std::map<std::string, std::vector<std::string> > look less like vomit.

- Plugin support has been released.
corollary: female strangers get better [any form of communication] response rates from [anybody]
Thanks for the kind words. GitHub does have an organization/teams feature currently in beta and should be released publicly within a month or two.
> "Tales rebounded of bosses that sat around playing mahjong, harassing female workers, or flying all over the world, while exploited workers worked for their enrichment from 6AM-10PM."

It sounds like your beef is with the KMT, not the Japanese - it is true that the Japanese occupation enriched (justly or otherwise) a lot of Taiwanese families, but the ones doing the "sitting around" after the occupation ended were primarily KMT bureaucrats.

As a matter of fact, this is something the older generation complains about endlessly. Despite being second-class citizens under Japanese rule, the government ran like clockwork; contrast with post-KMT-takeover Taiwan where the government became unfathomably inept and corrupt. This trend did not even begin to reverse itself until legitimate, sizable political opposition began to form against the KMT.

Side note: Said opposition (the DPP) turned out to be just as corrupt, if not moreso, than the ones they formed to replace. Thankfully years of pressure from a significant opposition party, and several more of even-more-inept DPP rule has created some saner political choices in Taiwan.

> "Taiwan did not need sweatshop labor to pull itself out of poverty."

Then what did it need? Imaginary capital investments in our many fine local delicacies? Become a tourism-driven banana republic? Grow fruit for American mega-conglomerate fruit companies? The industrialization of Taiwan generated the necessary economic lift that, to be fair to the KMT, under sound governmental oversight, resulted in the country we see today.

I think it's incredibly disingenuous to pin the blame for everything on the Japanese - the KMT fucked up just as much as they got right. If you want to talk about government corruption, nepotism, and downright incompetence, the KMT is a far better example than the Japanese.

> "That is highly insulting. It was not because of laziness or stupidity that much of Taiwan was so poor."

I'm not sure what I've said that insinuates this... but that's certainly not what I meant. I'm also not sure how this point relates at all to the necessity of industrial economies for developing nations.
We (Braintree) have updated some things since AgileZen integrated: we now provide client libraries that simplify integration and also have much more robust recurring billing capabilities.
What? It won't be magical?
paranoid much?
I have nothing to do with that app. I just saw that posted somewhere and thought it was interesting.
My Stupid (Publishing) Industry
Well, yeah. It'll also be 'beautiful', 'just beautiful', 'really delightful', and 'great'. But he wanted to keep it pithy.
I agree with Apple, 80% of apps are crap and are deleted after a few weeks,
thats not a good app and not how apple what to be seen as having a junk yard of crap apps ? Would you delete Photoshop after a couple of weeks ? No, why ? because it's a good bit of kit, and Apple want to keep that inline with there image.

I am not a developer but have been investigating starting a development company, I have seen 1,000 of bedroom chancers on the fourms....

Yeah man lets make an app and cash in, lets make an app called twitbook, it's a cross between a twit and a book we will get 1,000 downloads a day and we will spend it all the profit on weed, yeah man good idea ! Ok lets start... we can't code but we can use 3rd party apps that even my mum can use and we are done.

Yeah I am exaggerating slightly but thats how the market is going, it means that the app store is constantly full of shite with shite apps and will get worse if these 3rd parties are allowed to run riot to let any Tom Dicks and Harrys to release apps, which will happen if it's allowed to. Apple does not want to encourage that and nore do I, I want quality not quantity apps.

This is a new phenomenon for the world so Apple are bound to make mistakes on how they operate it and they have realised this is a bad thing that is happening to THEIR brand.

I have seen so many good serious developers with good apps, they complain they are not getting seen on the app store and above is the main factor for that, piles of it.

These guys can code with their eyes closed and yes the 3rd parties apps maybe an inconvenience but I am sure they can work round it and actually get the coverage and sales they deserve.

In the short it's not good but the long of it is that it will be good for the people who know what they are doing hence brining us apps that don't sit on our phones for a few days and get ditched.

Why are people screaming about this ? It's all about money on both sides,
not future development of the up and coming kids, end off.

If I rent a room in your nice house and start pissing on the carpet would you want to boot me out ?

As far as i remember it was always Apple being victomised by other OS and software companies, how the tables have turned and good on em.
Nature vs. Nurture in Entrepreneurship: A Discussion Panel
This is the "Changes, New Features, and Fixes" written for users, not what I normally think of when I read "ChangeLog".
Tweet Preservation
Is this supposed to be surprising? Globalized manufacturing is a zero-sum race to the bottom where only share-holders win. Everybody else becomes slaves when "contracting out to the lowest bidder" means "hiring the cruelest whipmaster".
Well, at least with flac the sound won't change. It will just use a lot more disk space :)
"Chinese labor is competing and slaughtering the US machines."

Sure, on the things that humans do better than robots, like sewing chumbies. My understanding is that china imports a whole lot of manufactured parts (computer chips, etc..) does the final assembly step (the one where humans can compete with machines) and exports the result. Some people say that much of our trade imbalance with china should be re-assigned to other countries that sell the chips to china, where they are assembled into a final product and sold to the US.

For example, I'm typing this on a Lenovo brand thinkpad; It was Assembled in China by a Chinese company.

But, the CPU is made by intel (and nearly all Intel fabs are in the first world, many of them in the US.) and the ram and SSD is made in Korea. The LCD was also made in Korea. I haven't taken apart the battery assembly (which was assembled in china) but it would not surprise me at all if the Lithium Ion cells and the controller chips were made in Japan. It seems to me, then, that most of what I paid for my Lenovo was not actually being paid to China; China was just the cheapest place to aggregate and assemble all the components.

As time goes on, there will be more and more things a machine can do better than a human can; that is why I don't think it's a problem for the US that china has dramatically lower prices for rote labour. You can't get a high school student to hand-craft a microchip, no matter how hard you work them.

The other thing about China is that there is a huge gap between unskilled work and skilled work. Much larger than here. I mean, here, there is maybe a 10x-20x (give or take) difference between the hourly rates of our lowest-skilled workers and our highest skilled workers (I mean, if you discount managers.) In China, this difference is much greater; The very skilled workers are paid at almost 1/3-1/2 global parity. I'm helping a Chinese friend set up a hosting company in China, and he tells me that he's going to need to pay close to the equivalent of USD$40K a year for a good software engineer. (I mean, someone with a masters or better.) I mean, that's a lot less than US rates, but it's not pennies. Hell, It's slightly more than I paid myself last year.
These people are working 15 hour shifts and they work 6.25 days a week. That means they are working over 90 hours a week; every week. I can't believe you actually compare that with the conditions in the west. The marginal cost for the employee of each additional hour is huge. Big difference between working 40 hours with frequent overtime and 90 hours a week.
I'm nowhere near fluent, but I believe "will be awesome" is Jobsean for "will finally be written in Cocoa".
Worked for Apple.
As I recall, the contract was vague and bullshitty and I didn't see any upside for the potential customer and suspected it had been offered as a "favor" in relation to some larger deal. I don't roll that way. That it was also then signed in spite of my specifically not agreeing to it was also the penultimate confirmation that I really no longer had any place at that firm.

I didn't look for a job before quitting because I'd never before had any problem finding a job. It was like I say: you call a few people, chat a bit, you get job offers. It didn't take courage to quit that time, just anger.
Facebook is relentlessly and constantly capricious with its API users. This kind of thing is an every day occurrence with them; if they're not doing it on purpose, they're doing it by accident because they don't appear to test their own APIs.
There's a ton of great and long-awaited stuff in this release, but I'm especially excited about the delimited continuations (http://www.scala-lang.org/node/2096) support.

If you've struggled with asynchronous I/O in the past, libraries implemented using delimited continuations might seem like a breath of fresh air. They make it possible to write functionally asynchronous code in a traditional blocking style. Further, continuations can be serialized, introspected, and passed around from machine to machine.
Only the iPad version.
Wouldn't the taxes they do pay (such as sales tax) equal a larger amount of their disposable income than the higher brackets?
Deja vu. Back before Zuck gave his awkward f8 platform speech I built an app called FaceFreaks... even though their DEMO application was called "MochaBook" they later shut down all the apps that had "Face" or "Book" in the name. The moment I got that email I decided I would never depend on another platform again. Since then it's become clear to everyone that you're borderline mad if you do.

"Open data" is a joke. the same human beings who ran AOL in 94 are running Facebook today. Their openness was only a competitive advantage they used to build their business (much more open than match.com or AOL profiles). Just because we all read reddit and hackernews we shouldn't delude ourselves into thinking people are somehow nicer or more open now out of goodwill. They are only open to the degree it supports their business model, period.

One day someone will out-open facebook. Imagine facebook without any privacy controls and no way to manage your personal online "brand" -- it's coming, but it won't be out of altruism.
A Comparison of Dedicated Servers By Company
From the headline, I thought this meant that making all comments harder to see will increase quality.

In fact, the proposition is that rewarding good commenters with higher visibility will increase quality. Makes sense, and it's nice to see some quasi-empirical evidence for it.
I was surprised to not see Amazon anywhere here...
What advantages would first class IPs, networks, & humans bring over the ability to make first class objects for anything?
It is just as likely that female professors are more likely to respond to female questions because they expect that females are more likely than males to listen to the answer. Why do we have to jump right to a presumption of negative sexual bias?
ESR had a nice overview of Plan 9 in his book "The Art of Unix Programming":

http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/plan9.html

It may well be that over time, much more of Plan 9 will
work its way into Unix as various portions of Unix's
architecture slide into senescence.

(Still one of my favorite books on software development).
I think you are missing entirely the value of a cultural and societal system. The alternative to what is currently going on in China isn't a workers' paradise where everyone is happy with a middle class, 40 hour a week job. The alternative is a nation starving (Mao?). I think your view discounts the rubble that China has come out of and the place it is today entirely. I doubt many Chinese feel their parents were better of than they are.

As for prostitution, if the family doesn't need the money to eat and survive that is one thing, and actually based on the economic specifics going on there I don't actually think it's relevant. If they are selling their daughter for hunger/survival, well it really sucks but we with cushy lives forget that survival is actually the most important thing. In that case, sadly, the buyer is supporting the local economy. (hello downvotes...)
Are you just trying to avoid it looking "bad" for visitors, or do you actually require your site to be up that long?

If the former, one hack is just make the downtime for users more fun - I added a chat interface so that anyone waiting doesn't get too bored and can interact with other members.

Screenshot: http://lamby.uwcs.co.uk/b/playfire_maintenance.png

Architecturally, it doesn't touch our database or "main" site at all so we are free to break everything during an upgrade.
The info in the link you provided to "Building Clojure Projects with Leiningen" is out of date.

After installing Leiningen, at the command line:

lein new <project name>

... and that takes care of creating your project directories and the aforementioned 'project.clj' file.
My mother lost a segment of her right middle finger

So she couldn't even properly flip-off her manager when she quit? That sucks.
It's tribal cohesion, pure and simple: keep close to those like you, and fear those not like you. I wish there was a more widespread understanding that "racism" is just one facet of our instinctual fear of the other.
Well, if they really believe it they should be aggressively funding electric/hybrid and fuel cell vehicles. They've got the kind of budget that can make a big difference in innovation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darpa
It's not clear enough that this is not meant to be comprehensive (lacking Amazon as htsh points out, and noted at the bottom of the graphic) but rather an somewhat arbitrary selection of companies for comparison. (I also personally know of at least two research labs with more servers than some of the boxes in this graphic.)
And mp3 <-> ogg vorbis: harmful.
good point. Some nations were able to pass through in peace, but in other places it generated an unimaginable blood shed. I totally believe in market economies, but you have to make sure human beings are not abused.
Lisp is not too hard. What I found missing are the standard library, standard threading, standard database interface, etc.
Books were intended for wide distribution, but not all tweets are.

I don't care that this was done, and it's nice that this snapshot of 2008-2010 will be available for future researchers. But I think this sort of dataset is more useful for nefarious purposes (government investigations) than a bunch of books or newspapers, and it would be too expensive to build for just one investigation.

"Build it and they will come." It's built.
Google: we plan to open up our Goggles platform
That button looks just like Facebook Connect.
This is great. So far I have resisted moving all of our repositories from self-hosted SVN to Github only because it's not free, and I don't see enough benefit to pay for it.

However, we could definitely use Assembla
Even for non-USA citizens?
When good interfaces go crufty [2002]
Only on archive.org but worth the wait.
Really? Interesting. I presume though that it's a name that you're invested in somehow, and that you wouldn't like to tarnish by leaving crapping comments?
That's really cool. We're aiming for almost full functionality in this case, but I can see how that would work great for some projects.
"Despite their lack of racial bias, children with Williams syndrome hold gender stereotypes just as strongly as normal children, the study found. That is, 99 percent of the 40 children studied pointed to pictures of girls when asked who played with dolls and chose boys when asked, say, who likes toy cars.

The fact that Williams syndrome kids think of men and women differently, but not blacks and whites, shows that sex stereotypes are not caused by social anxiety, Meyer-Lindenberg said."

Call me a crazy ignorant bigoted redneck, I don't think there's ANY bias in these kids minds. These kids do not think black kids are naughtier than white kids because they don't have the deep-rooted xenophobia we all do, so they just observe that on average, white and black kids are equally likely to be nice or mean.

On the other hand, girls ACTUALLY DO play with dolls more often than boys do, and boys ACTUALLY DO run around making explosion noises with their cards more often than girls do. It's not sexist to observe that. Whether you want it to be that way or not is a different question. Whether what you want is realistic is still another.
Ask HN: Less features with new releases. Have you done it?
Does anyone here have experience with having less and less features over time?
Yes, for such a limited use case special rules are quite good.

Just don't fall into a trap.
Twitter launches Facebook Connect competitor @anywhere
You know what, I never actually thought about doing a migration by having a duplicate of the tables running in the same database. That sounds like it could work really well - thanks for the tip.
Putting ask.com in perspective
Same story here. I liked Assembla but moved away, which was costly, and I'm not going to move back now.
No, I was torn between the W510 and the then-unreleased macbook pro update. Now I'm not.
Hey, you are the one proposing a limit of 45 hours - which is HALF of what you cite here, and which would take away the fat from many people's incomes not only in China but in Europe & the US as well. I guess that the next thing you're going to say will be that the limit should be at 50 or 60 or 70 or whatever - I say, let people make their own damn choices. If these people are being whipped into working 90 hours weeks, I'd be all against it; in fact I think that a democratic regime overthrowing a dictatorship that oppresses its citizens like that is morally perfectly fine. But as long as nobody is made to do anything, I don't see the problem. In fact if you give this guy the choice between working 90 hours in a factory for a few years and subsistance farming for the same amount of time and still being afraid that you'll starve because of a drought, too much rain, locust plague or whatever, he wouldn't have to think too hard or long.
Look harder (below Google)...
People often ask me, Ask.com is still around? Yes, it is, and obviously it's bigger and doing better than some other things they do know of.
That might be true, though I don't know whether that depends on the entropy in the file. It is likely the case that one of them compresses text better but takes a larger performance hit with binary data or somesuch.

Turns out the paper I was recalling and referencing dealt with LZO, not LZMA, so maybe I have less to say about LZMA than I thought. Shows how much you jerks read before upvoting. ;-)
"sweatshop labor permitted my parents' generation to pull themselves out of poverty, get educated, and get white collar jobs "

That may have been possible in the 1960s, but it's certainly not going to happen for 99% of these workers now. There is way more menial, blue-collar labour to be done than white-collar work, and there are less jobs than there are people already.
I agree. We're iterating on the site, and I think we'll be reducing the size of that. Its actually smaller on every other page.

The homepage is going to be more about the content, so we'll be moving towards making the non-content elements smaller an less significant.

Also, we're to make the site about the journalists, rather than about us, so we'll be changing the design to emphasize the journalists' brands more than newstilt.
They are not prisoners for the simple reason that they can quit at any time.

If they choose to stay at the job it means it's because they want to - by definition they want the money more than they want to leave the job, otherwise they'd leave.

If anyone wants to go there and provide better opportunities to lure these workers away from Microsoft, they are free to do so. There is a market for labor just as with any other product. But until then, Microsoft is offering these people the best job at the best wage available to them, so we have no grounds to criticize.
Great, now future generations can see how obsessed we are with Justin Beiber.
Only on archive.org but worth the wait.
ah, didn't know they did that - thanks.
Luke wants you to check out a photo on MySpace in the My Photos album
There is also a marketing lesson here. Panic got positive publicity, and positive brand associations for things that weren't directly related to their products.

Thus, not only did they do a positive thing for their community, they also added a little bit of value to their business.
Anyone have any ideas of what some common ugh fields might be? I can't seem to come up with anything of my own.
Maybe she (he?) has stumbled upon the single most important mechanism by which any single gender dominated industry self-compensates.

(I'm assuming here that - since the author emailed mostly males - this field is predominantly male; I have no facts to back up that assumption)

Would love to see a similar study into replies to emails from male/female aliases to professionals in a predominantly female field.
This is plain false. They become richer because we are rich and let them work. When the tide goes up. all boats rise.
Shouldn't this be called C++1x now?
Git is fine. The other distributed version control systems (darcs, mercurial, bazaar, etc) are also usable.
Can we report shorteners? For example, I host a private-use one at http://ajh.us that's powered by my project http://lessnmore.net
And in other news, Steve Jobs ate breakfast. Or was that Paul Graham?
I heard that Apple has a patent on "How To Be A Douchebag".
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