skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You raise a good point. a second is an arbitrary length, so nothing universally significant about 439 Hz or 432 Hz or etc.

However, when you are trying to build a device that oscillates at x Hz, there are engineering-ly sigificant values. For example (as already mentioned) a 1kHz oscillator might be easier to come by. As an additional example, the AC power in the UK is at 50 Hz, a factor of 440 Hz. So there is a free 50 Hz reference available everywhere, that can be multiplied (with a PLL, which is more robust to, say, temperature differences, than say, building a 50 Hz or 440 Hz reference yourself).

(50 Hz is just an example. AC line frequency probably is not stable enough in the short term to be a useful pitch reference)
Rants are purely emotional and lack any reason or evidence. Polemics are in part emotional, but also contain a significant element of reason and evidence.
Seconded. This was my immediate first thought as well. I love that someone has thought in such great depth on all of these issues.
Sea ice melting doesn't change the sea levels, but Antarctica is a land mass with ice on it (and of course ice around it in the water), not just a massive chunk of floating ice.
> It might be cheaper but only if you don't value your own time or have anything better to do.

No way. My family of four eats around $250 of food every week. That works out to $3 per person per meal.

The other expenses would have to total more than $600 before we would break even eating fast food every day. The food we make at home is considerably better than fast food, so I think it would cost an extra $1000 to eat out than cook at home.
Exactly, and this is a big problem where I work. I believe code should be readable, even by those with only cursory knowledge of the language. Object shortcuts is also a problem I think. For example, I had a method like this:

const getObj = (id, store) => {
return {
id: id
name: store.something.name
};
};

The linter gave an error on it because I used {id: id}. It was like the linter was trying to make my code harder to read.

I think es6 in the wrong hands quickly falls prey to the problems of ruby/scala where it can become incredibly terse and hard to parse unless you are used to the author's particular style.
Unionizing is just a different approach to becoming a soulless, legalistic profession. It would make most of the stuff the article is complaining about worse, not better.
Is the denial of service attack on DNS servers still going on? Major sites are still much slower than last week.
Google Assistant vs. Siri (2016) [video]
The definitely the right regulation but I think regulation is going to be needed. The simplest thing is forcing devices to generate unique random passwords when connected.

After-the-fact liability can't stop a million small users from buying off-brand merchandise and can't stop off-brand merchandise makers from functioning - especially if quality manufacturers add a premium for the liability they face.
Nothing, since you'll keep assuming I'm an asshole by default.

No, he won't. And you have no evidence that he will.

But it's with this very remark, and the mind games behind it: "You're unfairly biased against rich people! I just know you are. So I'm going to call you on it preemptively, until you prove otherwise" -- that you are, objectively, exhibiting asshole-like behavior.
Ah, ok. I guess I misunderstood what he wrote.
Apple has a chance to really essentially poach away people if they could come up with a system of social media and search and email that offers privacy and security at least in the private sector. I would pay a certain amount to use a social media network, email, and search capability that was not open to monitoring and tracking and surveillance.

I think people, in their foolishness abdicated the internet to the siren's song of "free" back in the early aughts and we have been suffering the consequences ever since. I know there are solutions to the kind of centralized power and control and surveillance the both Google and Facebook represent. We CAN create social networks and have search without tracking. It's just that few with the clout have tried to overcome the hurdles and the network effect. I think society is ripe for a shift to a different kind of digital life that is not a dystopian surveillance state. Apple could do that and fully integrate with their phones if they wanted to. It could even open up a whole different market for marketing and commerce, not by tracking, surveilling, and monitoring; but by self-selection, offering, and selling. What Facebook did was just lazy, as all authoritarian, totalitarian surveillance dystopian regimes are.
Yes, that's definitely not true on all the storage systems I've worked on. Some storage systems will pack a single customer's data into a single stripe and others won't.
Just intonation is a system of getting beautiful pythagorean intervals for rich harmonies as the expense of modulation from one key into another (a staple of the western musical tradition for several centuries). It's what makes barbershop quartets enjoyable to listen to. High end electronic instruments let you switch between equal-tempered or other tuning schemas.
Expect a Move Towards Internet Resilience
Its the same for investing - you /cannot/ tax defer more than $5500 a year of your income for retirement unless you have a COMPANY PROVIDED 401k. There is no such thing if you are a employee at a company that doesn't supply one.
That's because they have a lot of superfluous capital and cash flow that needs investing somewhere. If your profits aren't like Apple's it's often smarter to rent and use the capital for something else.
AWS CloudFormation and YAML: What I Learned
Any worthwhile scientific study is going to consist of highly controlled experiments that are designed to answer very specific questions.

To apply research results to negotiation/persuasion scenarios "in the wild" would be intractably difficult because the situations are going to be utterly uncontrolled.

By the same token, I don't think that it's reasonable to dismiss "priming" as a practical business communication tactic just because it isn't easy to perform a repeatable experiment about it.
He pays lip service to the fact that Twitter is not legally required to do any of that, but then just says that Twitter should die anyway. Which is the part that's worrying about these discourses, where they just erode the freedoms and liberties afforded to society to fit within their narrow world-view of how the rest of the world should behave.

I much prefer the person who labels this type of behavior by Twitter as something unproductive or undesired, but to label it as "treason" lets me know all I need to know about the way this person is currently parsing the world.
Your Sundays are more productive than mine.
This is not far from where I grew up, and I've been there a few times. It's an interesting site that's easy to miss if you're not looking for it.

Also, the trails around that part of the FPDCC system are amazing. They might be the one thing I miss about suburban life.
Any idea why there's no FA icon(s) to represent police, sirens, badges? Anything relating to civil authorities? (well, I guess there's some fire stuff).
The biggest drawback of batteries today is high costs, not physical parameters. A BEV with Model S range could be as popular as the Toyota Camry if it could be profitably sold for the same pre-rebate MSRP as a Camry. Tesla doesn't need to find a metal lighter than lithium; they just need to bring lithium ion costs down.

For stationary energy storage energy density is even less important and costs are even more important. IMO the best way to make stationary energy storage affordable would be to increase battery cycle life, via chemistry tweaks and/or charge controller tweaks. You don't have to compete so fiercely on lowering up-front costs if you're selling to institutional customers and can demonstrate lowered lifetime costs.

I'm not going to proclaim that lithium ion batteries will certainly win the storage wars. But I think there's an interesting historical example from photovoltaics. In 1976 terrestrial PV cells were mostly made out of crystalline silicon and a lot of researchers were searching for materials that could lower PV costs either by increasing conversion efficiency or by being cheaper than high purity silicon. The search never stopped, and maybe some day silicon will be overthrown. But in 2016 crystalline silicon is still the most common, most efficient, and least expensive option for making terrestrial PV cells. Iterative improvements on the incumbent technology kept it ahead of all the many disruptive alternatives proposed over the decades. Maybe the same will happen with battery chemistry (either lithium ion or another one that's already been commercialized, like sodium ion) -- iterative improvements that keep disruptors forever playing catch-up.
Ask HN: Roguelike of Choice?
Speaks for itself, really.

I prefer Nethack myself, followed by crawl, then Angband, then DF (adventure mode is okay, but not great. DF kills it in fortress mode - one of the best games you can actually play over SSH - but in that mode it's not a roguelike).
So vengeance is what you're after. I can understand and even respect that.

The question you might be asking is why the "bleeding hearts" like me aren't. For me at least, that would be because I believe that culpability for actions is a continuum. Hell, I even think sentience is a continuum. At some point, criminal tendencies cross a blurry line from willful malfeasance into mental disability. Because I can't reliably determine this point and I don't trust those passing judgment not to let their prejudices and biases influence their thirst for vengeance, I prefer a system that uses extra caution.

We have the material resources to provide meaningful lives to these individuals for their entire natural lives. Not "5 star" accommodations mind you, but far from the hellish gulags we have now.

Lashing out in deadly anger feels awesome, I freely admit. But how many are on life sentences for no less?
If we look at nist guidelines for cryptography then it's fairly stable but really well designed. The official fips and cc certification process takes a lot of time and money.
I think an important offshoot of this is to use specific language and ideas prior to your argument not to necessarily influence someone to the coming argument against their better judgement, but to actually free them to use accurate judgement.

I have no idea if it works, but I often try to lead gently into my arguments here. I try not to make too many assumptions about what the reader will think about the prerequisites for my argument, and so go through my assumptions about them and why I believe them, and then present my actual argument. It's my hope this somewhat softens the natural tendency to ignore evidence and claims counter to their own beliefs by presenting supporting evidence they might agree with first. This is a simple concept and one I'm sure many people use, whether they are specifically working around what they see as a deficit of human rationality like me, or just because they think it's effective (if it is!).

What I think is important about this is that it's an example of how we can use our cognitive biases for good. We can pit them against each other to open ourselves up to the more rational sides of our minds. It's important we don't associate all forms of manipulating our minds through presentation negatively through labeling. It's easy to say it's manipulation, and manipulation is bad, but that's just falling prey to another one of our cognitive biases, where we group similar things, and transfer attributes between them, whether they apply or not. It's very important we as a specifies learn from our weaknesses, and try to mitigate them, not just paper over them like they aren't there. I think the future is bleak if we don't.
Objects coupled with formal proofs, maybe.

Otherwise, nothing has been lost: naïve approach to objects seems to work well for managing memory and garbage collection, otherwise it's just a bothering implementation detail of a language runtime, that does not help a programmer much and is itself a liability.

Objects do dynamic checks at runtime, whereas types are known (and verified) before a program is executed.
So if a website intended for adults happens to get popular and pick up young users, they have a moral obligation to censor "indecent" content? I don't buy it.
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https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top10#OWASP_Top_10_for_2013

This is a good one in specific. In general, be very careful of what information you share with who. Information is dangerous, and it leaks all over.
Stash Invest
A Twitter shadowban is when they throw knives in your Cheerios.

Doesn't make a lot of sense, but there you go.
American History Textbooks' Lies: Everything Your Teacher Got Wrong(1995)[video]
It has not made our data safer - rather it confirmed that our data "is not safe" anymore!!

Snowden confirmed that we have 0 (zero) privacy and that government has unrestricted access to all of your personal data, and if needed that data could be "pulled" and used against you.
The links usually expire after 24 hours (attack window), if unused.

Loading the page without clicking does not invalidate the link.

I agree this is not highly secure. It's basically one notch above sending cleartext passwords by email (which many websites unfortunately still do).
> If your device is participating in a DDOS, then it is a bad actor and you should pay for that.

I wonder how that would play into the debate on gun manufacturers being responsible for people shot and car manufacturers for people run over.

It's hard to find a good way to do make a law about this, that doesn't end up taking ownership away from the owners.
Show HN: Content Upgrades Tool for Bloggers / Content Marketers
Siri does indeed send your voice requests off to a server to be 'understood.' But, IIRC, it's all Apple-owned with no third parties involved.
Actually, their mistake is not trying to leverage the privacy first approach better. If as the author stated, Apple had more innovation in its blood, they could come up with things like social networks where the user is in control of content and data and users are not farmed and harvested like livestock.
But from what I've read the British actually tried to adopt the French standard and made some conversion error, they didn't come up with their own thing independently.
https://www.edge.org

This is a very under-the-radar organization funded by the whos-who of Silicon Valley. See the "Billionares Dinner" they host yearly in Napa.

They have great resources such as Philip Tetlock x Daniel Khanmen Superforcasting mini-course and thorough discussions by great thinkings around tech and ethics.
Awesome, you _should_ write a blog post if you have time :)

I'm particularly interested in what you did to get around all the bullet points. Are you still using Docker, with some bandaids, or did you move to something different?
I have been to Gettysburg multiple times. Once did a guided tour of the battlefields with a guide. It was very interesting. I wasn't born in this country (WWII is the major battle I learned about) but it was still fascinating seeing sites and learning the history, since it is my new country I want to know as much as possible about it. It is a different understand to see the place and be told, here is where attacked, then retreated, so many people died here and so on.

What are some other interesting US Civil War battlefields or sites (Antietam, I would guess, Fort Sumter?)
Watch peanut butter drone strikes that could save endangered ferrets
I'm ignoring support - support is a different issue and unrelated when we're talking about the warranty here.

If I hand in my handset to claim my warranty, I'm fine with a 'wipe by default' policy. In fact, my limited experiences (both with my phones and the ones from my closest family) that was implied anyway: You'd get the phone back with a ~fresh~ factory image (and all the crap- and adware that this includes).

So here's the thing: If I claim that GPS doesn't work, you reflash it with a Known Good™ image and GPS still doesn't work - then the device has a hardware problem.

If I can cause a hardware problem by running a different flavor of Android, then .. that's a serious hardware _design_ problem.

I'm not saying that you cannot kill or damage a device. But defaulting to 'You installed stuff, you probably caused it' seems rather simplistic, is probably wrong a good number of times.

You brought up PCs: I think you'd have a hard time if you'd defend the stance that installing Linux on a laptop voids the warranty. Granted, the underpaid tech support might not be able to help me around software issues, but if I claim that the wifi doesn't work and send it in... Do you believe they can/could/should refuse to check and fix the problem under warranty?
iOS, Android Apps Found Leaking User Privacy Data, Researchers Say
Globally Averaged CO2 Levels Reach 400 parts per million in 2015
Wahoo! Good to know. Definitely don't trust the security by default :)
OP is not using such conditionals/qualifiers in his logic.

Likewise, it's silly to make categorical statements to not take the blame for anything all the time.
Awesome, thanks, this is really helpful.
a rant is a failed polemic.
> an unproductive investment (property)

Why is property unproductive? It produces accommodation, doesn't it?
Machine Learning Tweetstorm
WFA?

I ask, because if there's a site that routinely discusses stuff like this (advanced yet practical medical stuff) i'd be very interested in reading it.
> But how often do people share attributes between fonts and icons?

Often.
What are some of your favorite "There is no way that's real" moments you came across in your studies?
Only the home improvements is unique to home ownership, the rest happen whether or not you're renting or owning.
I've been provably shadowbanned by Twitter before so it is something they practice. N/s what happened in his case.
You are wrong. Those two are completely different. People who believes Cheney is war criminal are mostly liberal, non violent side of country.

But the other side is nothing like that.
That's not going to work--we just had the discovery of a major vulnerability in Linux that has been around for years but got patched last week! It is what it is.
It's fine. But I'm not going to pretend it's not BS when they try to talk to me about it. Now my mom no longer talks to me about homeopathy.
Mac Pro, Apple Watch, Pencil, Apple Music were not iterations. There was nothing similar before them from Apple.
I have no idea. I'd say check the wiki, but that's spoilerific. By the way, did you see the excellent article about the Seeking The Name quest on RPS? https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/06/20/seeking-mr-eaten...
I'm not American, I'm European, so you're really putting the ass in assume there. And frankly the moralising so many Europeans are so quick to engage in is an embarrassment.

This really isn't complicated. If your carrier contract doesn't forbid tethering but they sold you a phone that does, take it up with them, that sounds messed up and rare. If your contract forbids tethering then you're just trying to weasel your way out of a market you voluntarily entered in to. That's the opposite of the free market.
On a personal level the disclosure was that "little additional push" (a wake up call) that made me abandon use of main Google services (email and voice). I advocated my close friends and associates to do the same and some of them are following the lead.
I live in a world where Donald Trump is a hair's breadth from becoming president. It's unreasonable to expect a mob to behave like anything other than a mob.
Masters at this "game" may prime you long before they need you. It's like a game of Go only more complex.
As someone who enjoys a good hot sauce or pepper, I was interested in this article. Have I done damage to myself by eating 5 million+ scoville sauces?

Unfortunately, this article is almost completely devoid of real information, and doesn't answer the question at all.
Growing pains of the different european Pirate Parties
That TV show is great.
A polemic is a rant that they teach about in literature classes.
We've definitely spent some time and talked to a number of startups there. I'm happy to talk with you and help you with your pitch, and if we end up investing then all the better. garry@initialized.com
If included, in full, via a CDN, wouldn't this be mostly cached? (I use bootstrapCDN)
My two favorites are Brogue (https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/) and Dungeon Drawl Stone Soup (https://crawl.develz.org/)
How does anything on your list stem from owning vs renting?

Presumably if you were renting

- you would still garden and you or your landlord would still maintain the lawn

- your landlord would still maintain the house

- you would still be living in the community and therefore motivated to participate in it's government

- I don't understand this one at all. Why would a second family suddenly move in if the house was rented?
I the small electronics market, price is everything. Thus any compliance that raises costs is likely to be routed around, especially by Chinese companies. Do most products coming from China even get UL listed?
Shockingly, the original blog post's title is much less sensational and certain than the submitted title. Mods, please update.
I mean, I expected that, but this isn't just biased, it's actually wrong. As in, it directly contradicts reality, and anybody who had done five minutes of research would know the real story.
An equilateral triangle whose area and perimeter are
equal has the area of exactly the square root of 432.

Let's say we have an equilateral triangle with a perimeter of 3x units. Then each side is x units, and the area is sqrt(3) * x^2 / 4 square units. So we set:

3x = sqrt(3) * x^2 / 4
3 = sqrt(3) * x / 4
3*4/sqrt(3) = x
12/sqrt(3) = x

Then the area is:

sqrt(3) * (12/sqrt(3))^2 / 4
sqrt(3) * 144 / 12
sqrt(3) * 12
sqrt(3) * sqrt(144)
sqrt(432)

Fun!
Hi Garry, and congrats on your new firm.

the age old question comes to mind; how do you value startups with a prototype with little traction. assuming the target market is the size of markets for airbnb,facebook,dropbox, etc.

do you guys follow YC with a fixed rate, (7% for 120K) like 10% for 1M; do you have a min and max for equity and valuation?

Thanks,
I wish that I hadn't read this link. I've enjoyed Dilbert for many years, and it will never be the same for me now that I know that Adams is crazy.
If you can barely afford the deductible, you will NOT be able to afford the bill at the end of the day for anything remotely complicated like a surgery. You will still end up with a >$50,000 bill you won't be able to pay, because you'll have to take time off of work to recover. There is nothing protecting someone from being fired from their job unless it was a workplace injury.

Everyone in the working class in the US is a single major medical event away from bankruptcy, insurance or not.
It takes ten minutes to earn $10 doing software engineering. In no universe am I cooking a better meal in less time.
Some more:

W2202XA Walked into lamppost, initial encounter

W34111A Accidental malfunction of paintball gun, initial encounter

W5629XA Other contact with orca, initial encounter

Y36511D War operations involving direct blast effect of nuclear weapon, civilian, subsequent encounter

V657XXA Person on outside of heavy transport vehicle injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in traffic accident, initial encounter

Y92331 Roller skating rink as the place of occurrence of the external cause