skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It still boggles my mind why they didn't offer a mid-range service level, say 50Mbps for $15-20/mo. I know more than a handful of students here (including myself) who would pay for that.

I have to admit, it's weird that they came here with such a big hoorah and now they're almost nowhere to be found.
By your gun analogy, one could get a prescribed LSD dose every few weeks after passing a few tests and signing some agreements. This is not the current situation.

People in favor of universal drug legalization are all for drug control in the same sense as gun control, plus higher taxes for narcotics. But control is different from prohibition.

So, yes, drugs should have safety rails provided by the government. It's one of many public services governments should provide. But right now, that "safety rail" is an electric fence with thousands of security guards watching it.
There are many that view holy books as a collection of historical accounts given by visionaries or in witness of visionaries - those that view it as "merely" a book of facts to take or leave can still hold this view, and can still be religious. Devoutness comes in many forms. Blind belief in the Bible, for example, isn't something I've really encountered in my religious upbringing - not really all that common to encounter outside of specific examples made a mockery of on Facebook or political rally (grew up in California, likely different in bible belt).

Doubt is often encouraged, though min got the better of me and I've since been pretty distant from faith-based living.

EDIT: grammar and clarity, minor changes
Lifting the lid on Sednit: A closer look at the software it uses
I haven't been there in a while. Maybe I'll do just that...
Nowhere near the same. Last I checked, Microsoft kinda put it over in the corner, where it can be it's own little thing, but not a first class citizen of the system like UNIX is on macOS.
You nailed it. There's a whole crazy litany of procurement rules procedures and other nonsense that you have to do.

A project like this will have monitory and women owned business goals, which usually translate into somebody's wife forming a shell company fronting money and skimming a profit. There are various labor agreements,which include quotas for various groups. Plus dozens of other crazy legal requirements.

I worked in government for many years. The work was great and rewarding, but the absurdity of the procurement process and the waste associated with it was really disheartening to me personally.

Re: starve the beast, you're 100% correct. Out of hundreds of projects, I can think of 5 (all huge rollout type things that had to be down quick) where using consultants to run the project was a best value. But probably 70% were done that way, and usually redone by government staff.
Google Fiber was never in my city, but can those with Google Fiber in their area weigh in on the above? When Fiber came to town, what happened with the existing ISPs in the area? If you called to cancel and explained moving to Fiber, did they give you an offer you couldn't refuse to stay with their services, and if so, did you take it?
California currently prohibits vanity plates which match the sequential plate patterns, although it's possible that was ordered before it was assigned and before they prohibited it. If it's a vehicle you see often, you can estimate the date of the plate based on its style and see if it was made earlier than it would have been if sequential.

Edit: It looks like if it's sequential, it would be a white plate, with California in cursive at the current (large) size, where the descender on the f almost touches the plate number, and it might have no subtitle or the sesquicentennial subtitle.
I'm the OP, and I've never done any work for any government, ever.

As for the title... to sum up +$140k of tax dollars spent on a pointless logo as anything less than a completely fucking ludicrous financial disaster would be almost as idiotic.

Also, I would hate to see how this almost treasonous waste of money could possibly be bested. In one year's time, I myself with no outside help could produce everything this entire shit organization has ever produced, and it would be higher quality. As for the logo, you could get better at 99 Designs for 80 bucks.
Good point. Agreed.

But, don't the free credit cover the bill incurred from bandwidth as well?
> The problem with Scala is not that it has all the features of Swift, it's that it has way more. Scala developers see this as an advantage, everybody else sees that as a liability.

Well for it's intended audience it's exactly what they want I guess, same could be said for Swift IMO. That said, Swift definitely has boarder appeal.
Off topic, I'd actually be very interested in a cryptographer's guide to zkSNARK...
The non-retina MBP keys have less sideways "wiggle", require just a touch more initial pressure to actuate, and have a slightly greater travel. Compared to my rMBP, they have a delightful tactile "crispness" and give the device a feeling of precision.

If I were a hardware guy I'd put that keyboard in its own case and use it forever :)
I think you explain things very well. I've tried several music theory courses and quit all of them partway through. They were too fast or too tedious. It's hard to strike that balance, but somehow you did.

One thing that you did that helped me get further is sticking to that rainbow row of notes, as you explained notes and chords. I think most of the lessons I've tried move quickly to piano keys, where the relationship among the notes is more cluttered, because of the black and white keys.

Also the interactive little things, simple as they are, are very helpful. I know even these simple things took quite a bit of work to throw together. I think they are critical to how engaging your lessons are.
That DSP is good enough for running Quake 2 on Falcon, no joke:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNs6Jw4V4vlvafSs0H3Ww...

there is also writeup here http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=68&t=26775
Lisp -> Scheme -> Javascript -> JSON -> Lisp

Yep, it's come full circle!
Related Article (pointed out by one of the comments in the linked article):

Be extraordinarily cautious about the newest alien claim

http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/10/be-extraordinarily-cau...
Maybe it's just personal preference. I also had (still have) the 11" Air ~2011 before this rMBP and I still prefer the rMBP keyboard.
Interactive real-time electoral map
Anything specifically comes to mind? We are constantly iterating and improving.
There's not really enough of a size difference between us to make "scaling" come into play.
To a programmer's aesthetic it seems they're usually the same.
Still didn't receive an email, anyone else waiting confirmation like us?
Sure, but you'll agree that's not the common acceptation. Anyway, I guess it was a typo for costumes. I found interesting the implication that you need to "consume" to have fun.
Satya Nadella: 'We clearly missed the mobile phone'
If the new MacBook Pros are indeed USB-C only, Apple's just given me a great incentive to ditch the iPhone (with its proprietary Lightning standard) and move over to a USB-C compatible phone (such as Google Pixel). At long last a single charger for all devices could be visible on the horizon... another self-inflicted nail in the coffin for Apple's closed-ecosystem supremacy in mobile.
I haven't read it, yet, only did a quick search to see if I could fine the words "tonal center" somewhere. I think that concept is under-emphasized and resolves a bunch of common confusion about music. e.g. this post[1] that was on the front page a few weeks back in which the author did not understand what's the difference between C major and A minor.

[1]: https://eev.ee/blog/2016/09/15/music-theory-for-nerds/
Good L-rd, this is a horrible idea. The Wikipedia's POV is not everyone's POV.
thank you, we're very excited to do that!
Counter-nit pick:

It is accurate that it tells you what notes are used. It's just not all it says.

Your move.
> 2)What about a hard boot? Is the power key now a soft key as well? Non-removable battery and a soft reboot key do not make a good mix

Are you seriously implying that you think that Apple would make a laptop whereby if it kernel panics and you need to hard reboot, now there is no way to do that because they accidentally made the power key a soft key?

(And I'll add the power key has been a soft key for some years now already)
Which, said another way, is lying for profit.
I'm sure there are a lot of folks on both sides, though, so I'll reserve judgement on whether removing F keys in favor of context-aware touch keys is a good idea or not.

However, I do use them frequently every day, so I'm skeptical. A pricy laptop without F keys doesn't appear to be a 'Pro' offering to me.
Where did you find this job? I'm really looking for something like this.
My problem is people read Wikipedia like it's an encyclopedia. I didn't know they had a discussion page.

That said, I went to my favorite site-- GuideStar.org. A site that used to make it easy to vet 591C3's. They changed it all up. It's now much harder to get to those precious 990's. That's a shame. Those 990's are Public information. Guide Star used to make it easy to access them.

While Wiki is begging, they have 3/4 of a billion in assets in 2014.

2013 to 2014 added 25 million.

Took Jimmy's credit card away. Looks like he got carried away with it? He still works 10 hrs a month on the board.

Susan makes over 300,000

Jones law firm makes close to three million a year.
I see. Thank you. Cool name. Keep up the good work. :) In other news: http://blogs.microsoft.com/next/2016/10/25/microsoft-release...
There are talk pages that are locked! Some topics are too controversial to even discuss!

See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AProtect...
No, that's not how the stock market works.

If a company's project/product were failing and/or losing money, then investors would have priced the loss into the stock price long ago.

If a company announces that it is ending a money-losing effort, then investors will value the company more highly.

In theory, therefore, this announcement should raise the stock price. In practice, who knows.
Still waiting for the email
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/08/22/comcast-hopes-you-d...

That doesn't prove anything, but their prices certainly are eerily competitive with Google's in any market that Google entered, while they're... terrible everywhere else.
Dine Dating App Shows Off UI in Silly Promo Video
As usual, the news leaked out well in advance as rumors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12364270 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12362830
This is very similar to Verizon. They also stopped their FIOS roll out when they realized it was a bad business.

http://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Verizon-says-FiOS...
And is "dank" good or bad?
First class citizen? Have you seen how old most of the versions are of GNU utilities they ship?

I'm sure it because of licensing, but then it's up to them to either improve them or provide modern replacements.
Show HN: A visual workbench for manipulating graphs using JavaScript
Next we extend the 7 Subway to NJ?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_Subway_Extension#Proposed_...

The Path stops about 2 miles from the airport. That would be a good project to finish.

http://www.nj.com/traffic/index.ssf/2016/05/push_to_expand_t...
> What is the difference between a currency and a commodity?

Whether you want to spend it.

> If the rate of appreciation is perceived as high enough, and the exchange rate into goods and services is high enough, anyone will have a tendency to hoard a currency - why wouldn't you?

Of course it's reasonable to do in such a situation, but that doesn't make it good for the thing being hoarded. Ideally a currency would have minimal appreciation.
At what point does corporate speak become nonsense gibberish? This post is amazingly close.
The weird thing is no one will buy it and every media company out there will lead with "Google fiber is dead". So why be so convoluted at all?
You think the time off would be more frowned upon today?
http://integer32.com/ is the first Rust-focused consultancy I know of.
Decoding the micro moments of baseball through data
Worth noting that we got the idea for if let from Swift :)
Liberal is the correct term to describe those economic positions. Using liberal to describe left wing politics is an American thing.
No, you don't have to alter audio in any way, you just leave it untouched.

Let's say you have 100 seconds of film material with corresponding audio duration. That would be exactly 2400 frames, because film is 24 fps. When you do 2:3 pulldown (that's one of the methods used to do telecine, i.e. film conversion to television format) you'll get back exactly 3000 video frames. But in NTSC format, (if you'll leave audio untouched, i.e. it's duration didn't change, it's still is 100 seconds) for 100 seconds of video duration you must display 2997 video frames, not 3000. So you just throw away 1 frame from every 1000 frames to get the exact 29.97 fps.

Doing this, at worst case you'll get audio/video desynchronization of 33 ms, which I don't think is noticeable (I tend to visually notice desynchronization when it's at about 100 ms or more). But if you'll drop that 1 excessive frame in the middle (not at the end) of the sequence of 1000 frames, you'll get audio/video desynchronization which only varies from -16 ms to +16 ms. Which is not worth the trouble of fixing this by going the other way around it: leaving video untouched and slowing down the audio by 0.1%.
https://developers.google.com/amp/cache/

"Google products, including Google Search, serve valid AMP documents and their resources from the cache to provide a fast user experience across the mobile web."

So it's Google who does deliver from the cache. Moreover, they motivate others to do the same on the same page.
> instead of something I care about

Are socioeconomic issues not important? Or are the well-to-do non-minority programmers of HN above discussing them? For all you know, donretag is directly affected by this and wants to voice their displeasure. Calling it virtue signaling is dismissive and refuses to actually acknowledge or even touch on the problem.
RethinkDB Is Dead, Long Live RethinkDB
Hey folks... wow, we just got an invite to come to California :-) Good luck everyone... and regardless of your application outcome - make something fucking amazing anyway.
I worked briefly on the Fiber team when it was very young (basically from 2 weeks before to 2 weeks after launch - I was on loan from Search specifically so that they could hit their launch goals). The bottleneck when I was there were local government regulations, and in fact Kansas City was chosen because it had a unified city/county/utility regulatory authority that was very favorable to Google. To lay fiber to the home, you either need right-of-ways on the utility poles (which are owned by Google's competitors) or you need permission to dig up streets (which requires a mess of permitting from the city government). In either case, the cable & phone companies were in very tight with local regulators, and so you had hostile gatekeepers whose approval you absolutely needed.

The technology was awesome (1G Internet and HDTV!), the software all worked great, and the economics of hiring contractors to lay the fiber itself actually worked out. The big problem was regulatory capture.

With Uber & AirBnB's success in hindsight, I'd say that the way to crack the ISP business is to provide your customers with the tools to break the law en masse. For example, you could imagine an ISP startup that basically says "Here's a box, a wire, and a map of other customers' locations. Plug into their jack, and if you can convince others to plug into yours, we'll give you a discount on your monthly bill based on how many you sign up." But Google in general is not willing to break laws - they'll go right up to the boundary of what the law allows, but if a regulatory agency says "No, you can't do that", they won't do it rather than fight the agency.

Indeed, Fiber is being phased out in favor of Google's acquisition of WebPass, which does basically exactly that but with wireless instead of fiber. WebPass only requires the building owner's consent, and leaves the city out of it.
So if you have nginx 1.7 or higher you're ok?
I might be the odd one here but I think ghc has great error messages, but it's written in an academic style that takes more mental effort to parse and understand.
It usually means "good", though some people use it in an ironic sense to imply something is bad. Kinda like how "bad" can also mean "good" in the right context, but in reverse.

Here I took it to mean "good."
sudo apt upgrade
Size can lead to a tremendous difference in performance on modern CPUs, particularly if you can take advantage of L2/L3 instruction and data caches. It still matters, even on modern "big memory" systems where gigabytes of installed RAM are the norm.
Just correct him/her if you don't think it's a joke, why the down vote?
Congrats !! hope you guys and/or girls ace the interview !!
This is a tool that fell out of needing a quick way to test a variety of hypotheses regarding a problem that had a natural interpretation in terms of graphs for an academic project. I started it by plugging together bits and pieces of old gamedev projects because I was fed up with having to pore through textual representations and repeatedly write very similar code to make it at least slightly more palatable, but before long, it had grown into something sufficiently big and useful that I figured I might as well clean it up for an actual release.

A good representation of its current functionality is this short video of executing the sandpile model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelian_sandpile_model) on a graph:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blackhole89/graphicdepicti...
This is still an open question after multiple millennia. Some posit that it is innate and have primate studies to back it up. Others posit that it is a culturally learned phenomenon and have social studies to back it up.
> Also if GC was such a huge problem, exchanges or HFT companies wouldn't use Java for their low latency stuff, and there definitely are companies which do.

Can you name one?
Synthesia is crazy good. You can learn to play 10-15 seconds of quite a complex piece in a few hours with zero music background.

A good private tutor if your other option.
ML Music Theory – Classification by 18th Century 'Tonnetz '
Well, autonomous cars have real advantages in terms of transportation flexibility and comfort. Those are two factors that are very important in people's transportation decisions.
One year of blogging yeeeee
Really cool project. I wonder if transportation agencies would want to use something like this for studying traffic.
Labor while cheap is still hard to find, especially on public-works projects where everyones papers need to be in tip top shape.

The work is hard, the pay is shit, nobody wants to do it if they have even a slightly better option.
Shake Up at Copyright Office Possible Preview to Fight Over Copyright Reform
> investors would have priced the loss into the stock price long ago

That's a misconception. The investors had done expectations. They were either met or unmet. But unless there is insider info, a project going bad won't get priced before the news is known.

Stuck prices isn't some magical thing that knows all. It's simply an average of what everyone believes. Beliefs are sometimes wrong.
Basic income with an endless supply of Internet porn and video games is a recipe for success
This was the correct answer.
Not bad. I like the screenshots + videos approach. Really hand-holdy which can be good for someone starting out.

Wordpress is probably the best choice for beginners to get a presence on the web, but the MySQL configuration could be an issue if they have to set it up manually.

You should probably recommend a specific theme, or have a shortlist of WP themes for people to use because otherwise the configurations/customizations for each theme will be different.

BTW, little layout bug on your page: http://imgur.com/a/wBQu4
All I know about confused deputy is from the Wikipedia article, but it seems like it wouldn't apply in this case. From Wikipedia: "The confused deputy problem occurs when the designation of an object is passed from one program to another, and the associated permission changes unintentionally, without any explicit action by either party. It is insidious because neither party did anything explicit to change the authority."

In the case the GP describes, the proxying web server has no additional authority on the API server: if the API route requires a cookie from the user, it doesn't matter whether that's passed directly or proxied.

That being said, feel free to correct me if I'm missing something. Also, thank you very much for giving me the name for this problem, it will come in very handy.
Alphabet Presses Pause on Google Fiber
What is it about Haskell? I'm currently heavily invested in Rust and have very briefly looked at Haskell, but find it to have some oddities that I can wrap my head around.
I totally agree with the philosophy but for me it's Django, python and postgres on ubuntu server.
Socialism
That sounds consistent with my experience with the older Apple Wireless Keyboard (second or third gen). I always wished they'd make one with black key caps and the backlight.
The number given in the article is really not that big considering that most of these transistors are made as part of integrated circuits rather than in the form of discrete components. A modern large-scale integrated circuit can easily contain more than a few million transistors each.
It's possible that highly biased editors drifting toward center is just another instance of "a lie repeated often enough becomes the truth" where the lie is the opposing ideology that one must read in order to edit.
Did you use it? Usually for it to do things you have to instantiate the objects, use their functions etc.
The Big League Prospect Who Became a Mob Hit Man
DFP Playground
To be honest, my ratio is probably more like 750/hour, considering that I do 100% of my work in terminal windows, use nvim as my main code editor, use a tiling window manager (whose keybindings include escape for some sequences), use mutt for email, newsbeuter for rss feeds, weechat for irc…

I just didn't want to seem overly hyperbolic in my original post :)
Because bloating your client's experience has negative effects too: lower battery life, lower performance, higher memory usage, ...
When Tomatoes Were Blamed for Witchcraft and Werewolves
Yes, I was a contractor billing in 15 minute increments until a couple of weeks ago. I haven't cooked so much as an egg since college.
Does this apply to just the 4.3 branch or others as well?

The immediate effect is that jessie (stable) users won't have updates to the stable release of Virtualbox. There's the option of backports.

https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=jessie-backports&se...

Stretch (unstable) presently has 5.1

Oracle once again prove an exceptionally bad citizen to Free Software.
I don't understand this logic. I've had great success in driving traffic my FB to websites, and for much lower cost than Adwords.

Buying FB page likes seems like a pointless exercise considering that only a tiny percentage of your users actually ever see your posts unless you boost them.
I'm good on music theory right up to time signatures. It seems like black magic to me, and often it is taught by just asking you to hear the beats and I just don't hear them.
I honestly wonder if a little corruption and so-called 'honest graft' might actually be cheaper and lead to better results than what we have now.
maybe the function keys accessible with fn+number, thinking about it it makes sense.
Holy crap you're right.

How'd you think to open it in libreoffice? I used file on it, and all it said was 'data'. Sure enough as soon as I changed it to .odt it opened up fine.