skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "inaudible" low frequencies are absolutely removed during mixing, or by the mastering engineer. There's probably no content below 50hz on anything you listen to. Few speakers can reproduce such low sounds (and fewer still do it with any sort of fidelity, and fewer of those are in rooms that won't freak out at the low frequencies). But the amp and speaker use enormous power trying to reproduce them! It seriously injures the sounds we can actually hear to reproduce the sounds we can't hear.

Amps and speakers are the real limiting factors, not the recording medium. They distort very easily (and never read the distortion figures of amps - they're not anything like real world conditions). Mixing is done to make the speakers work well, not to be "accurate".

edit: When tracking and mixing records, I routinely put a high-pass filter on every single track, specifically to prevent subsonic rumble. I often low-pass tracks as well, to limit noise, hiss, and distortion artifacts. This is so routine that even many microphones have a built-in high-pass switch. In mixing, I might high-pass guitars as high as 300hz, throwing away whole octaves of low-frequency information. This is to keep it from conflicting with kick drums, bass guitar, and other instruments that need that space. Solo the guitar in the mix, and it sounds weird. In context, you can't hear the difference in the guitar, and the mix itself sounds better.
mine.

Try to deploy -> bad key -> check github website -> go to hackernews
Classy guy? Anyone is compared to the pres-elect. In his personal life perhaps. Every time he weighed in during an isolated racial incident before the public had all the information really did a disservice to the office. So much so that the current guy thinks it's fine to tweet about every little political gripe. Both have no problem being arrogant and divisive, so long as the base is happy. There's absolutely nothing classy about this cult of personality we're witnessing.
does it mirror issues, PRs, wiki pages etc?
"We are currently experiencing major service outages."

https://twitter.com/githubstatus/status/819940738452615168

Hilarious replies on Twitter.
ssh connection to github servers is also not working.

ssh -T git@github.com
Science isn't being corrupted - people can still write the papers they want, and the eugenics thing is all about that, as well as CRISPR, et al., - but would you be content with a tin-pot dictator in Europe using these kinds of "scientific facts" as a means of developing policies which encourage ethnic cleansing? Because, well, that's sort of still happening as a thing, and won't go away as a thing, until we find a scientific solution to hatred and intolerance. Which are still very much huge things.
We live in the "call out culture" and, ironically, it's how Donald Trump gained so much momentum. People have reacted to this by staying silent instead of explicitly stating their views publicly and creating conversations, opportunities for learning, and ideation.

In this Brown Political review article [0], the author states

> Furthermore, calling-out non-influential figures and handing them the spotlight in the process gives other individuals incentive to make controversial statements of their own. In other words, if someone is desperate enough for attention, even if it’s negative, they might see that saying or doing something blatantly hateful can garner the publicity they crave. It’s the same concept the has boosted Trump and Carson campaigns (to different levels of effectiveness) this election cycle; that is, using controversy and outrage to get their names out there and increase their visibility in the media and public eye.

There is a good study of a case of a (now) popular misogynistic and homophobic YouTube user that actually tripled his viewership as a result of protests on social media about him holding a meeting in their town.

I personally do not "fear" callout culture, but I also realize that the things I put out there on the internet have consequences that I would rather avoid. And like the article states, I am in no position of power.

[0]: http://www.brownpoliticalreview.org/2016/05/26760/
Obligatory Gogs plug: https://gogs.io
It also has an awesome automatic mirror mode that can remain sync'd to a remkte repository. I don't care what your company does or how you run it, but please don't just rely on Github to host your code without a mirror somewhere. There are drawbacks to this incessant centralization.
When I was in high school, my AP Chem class only had a handful of people in it. The chemistry teacher was a pretty awesome laid-back guy, and so in the month of school left after the AP test but before the end of the school year, we pretty much used all our class time to play pinochle.

After a few weeks of playing with the same partner, you can pretty much know what they have in their hand just by the way they play.
Always ready for a GitHub down!
Can you provide stats of the best services availability ?
looks like it is back up now
Very. We all need something to do while the internet dies.
Hacked or internal problems?
Well, in that case, show me your plans for a thermo-nuclear device capable of obliterating a city, and I'll show you an excuse for building one.
1 cent avocados
Too bad git is a distributed version control system, so you have your repositories locally and can continue work without remote access.
Maybe someone posted something that offended the Chinese again.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/04/ddos-attacks-that-cr...
I don't think so (we use other apps for those features) but Github's wiki is just a git repo, isn't it?
Didn't matter, just moved. (I've lived all over the world.)
Numbers from South America:

Freenom: ~260msec
Google: ~70msec
Local ISP: ~6msec
Measuring how perovskite solar films efficiently convert light to power
Now it's back!
I... just had a great idea for a weapon.

Anyone know the best way to get DARPA funding?
It says that 80% of the Neanderthal genome produces a selective disadvantage?
I guess I look at it differently: Zelda games are so intriguing and enveloping for me, particularly the puzzle solving and tool usage, that the franchise stands alone, above any other, full stop. Outside of Zelda, I'm not a very big gamer, and the games I do play are ones that appear to have Zelda-like qualities.
And mine
It's back :).
I get the impression he's upset they took a freemium model and wants them to literally give him domains for free. Common sense would tell you that's unsustainable.
Friends don't let friends deploy on Fridays... it's always a horrible idea.
It's back. [END OF THREAD ?]
It sounds like the supercomputer was only used to train the model, which consumed ~1700 years of CPU time.
Site came back online, but ssh/git still down.
How could you forget to charge it when it's main state is to be docked and charging?
Google has the advantage to anycast their DNS server IP addresses. Use a ping service that will ping an IP from around the globe and you'll see that 8.8.8.8 has sub 20ms RTT time for pings reguardless of country. So you will likely always hit the closest Google datacenter when using 8.8.8.8.

80.80.80.80 seems to be served out of a single datacenter. Based on ping times I'm seeing, it looks like they are hosted in Amsterdam. So it will be slow for most of Asia and the Americas.
Daycare exposed
Pretty useless. It even is up for me (UK). People just like the drama.
QMASM: A Quantum Macro Assembler
I'm sure this is where parallel construction will come into play.
A new pair of keys are also generated when a device is wiped and restored from backup (in my experience on iOS).
Github has been down (or very slow) a lot the last few months. They used to have a good engineering reputation (at least with me), but it's been tough times over there.
Maybe Twitter is fully grown. There will be some churn, but it's basically as big as it's going to get. With the current user base, they can generate billions of dollars in revenue.

The problem, then, seems to be with management and the board not understanding or maybe not accepting reality as it is. If they can figure out how to run Twitter with hundreds of people rather than thousands, they will have a great business.
It's a typical example to CONVENIENCE.

It's convenient to re-send the message.

No one serious of privacy would ever use Facebook / WhatsApp.

So the title is a click-bait. The decision behind re-sending is based purely on convenience and cost-benefit analysis.

Actually I think they should display a notification / popup / warning whatever.
I hope they are more anonymous than they are fast...
Have you heard of Ceres - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)
I learned of it recently and it was like learning of a new planet.
Especially in France where it's 5:27.
The point is that she can't post it to the Internet, where anyone could read it without using up her time.
I mostly agree, but I'm worried about what it means for third-party support.

If the Switch is significantly underpowered compared to the competition, it means that developers won't be able to easily port XBone/PS4 games to the Switch which will hurt the Switch's lineup. In that case, Nintendo's best hope for success is that their Blue Ocean Strategy will take off and people will treat the Switch as not just another console but as a supremely versatile handheld.

The reason the Wii got away with it was a) Blue Ocean Strategy gave it genuinely unique games and b) the PS2 was still kicking around so the Wii version can easily be ported to PS2 and sell on twice the number of consoles (i.e. they'd make a 360/PS3 version and a Wii/PS2 version).

The Wii U had beautiful games with beautiful art direction (Yoshi's Woolly World, anyone?), but it still flopped largely because third parties ignored it and Nintendo didn't have a good enough Blue Ocean Strategy.
Sort of.

You could invest your money in a hedge-fund which uses ML, and there are a bunch to choose for. But you will probably not get many details about they go about things.
GitHub's Twitter status post at the start of the outage:

https://twitter.com/githubstatus/status/819940738452615168

Currently 442 retweets, 266 likes.

⋯

OK, they say it's back up:

https://twitter.com/githubstatus/status/819947685503442945
I've heard rumors that a decent number of people will resign from their jobs in the Intelligence Community. This will allow Trump to appoint more political employees. I don't know if this is true or not, but Trump's relationship with those agencies might get less hostile.
Looks like there is some connectivity issues in OVH as well.. not sure if related?
So you seem to agree more with the "race is a social construct" people than it first appears since all the boundaries you talk about are fuzzy and arbitrary, you even suggest that people must be able to distinguish them with their own senses for them to be meaningful, and that if it's not a useful tool to humans then it's pointless. All of which sounds very social construct-ish to me.

Possibly you're just talking past each other, and don't fundamentally disagree at all.
>I guess the performance impact of these WMs is smaller than with full blown desktop environments?

Yes, although with modern processors, GPUs and memory prices that is probably not an issue.
So have an audio version available?
Our standard conceptions of race are also meaningless political rhetoric, so calling race a social construct seems entirely appropriate then.

We still, at least subconsciously, apply the "one drop rule" in all sorts of situations, including describing the race of the current US president. Sub-saharan Africa contains more genetic diversity than everyone else, yet we lump them all together in one "race."

Yes, there are distinct genetic differences between various groups of people, and many of those differences have real-world consequences. But the relation of those groups with what we call "race" is almost zero.
You are aiming too low. Why do you want to be on par with the best? Why not exceed them? My advice to you is to learn more than computing. We tend to obsess over languages, frameworks, algorithms & tooling.

Learn "software engineering", this has nothing to do with language, framework, algorithm or tooling. This is about code organization, managing complexity in code, deciding how to structure/architect an application. This is where you are going to read what some will consider "boring" books, these books will hold very strong opinions and are not exact science. You will have to take that knowledge, apply your experience and come up with your own reasonable opinions too. Here are sample of such books in my library, "Business Process Management", "Ship It", "Architecture Principles", "domain driven design", "Enterprise integration pattern", "Clean code".

The real world doesn't care what language, framework, algorithm or tool you use. They just care that you solved the problem. This means you must understand some other domains outside of tech. If your domain is only tech then you will be building tools for programmers/IT folks. If you understanding banking, insurance, health care, automotive, shipping, etc, you could apply your knowledge towards the difficult or poorly solved problems in those areas.

If you become well rounded, you will have the skills to implement, the domain knowledge to solve pressing problems, but more importantly the wisdom to know when to and when not to break rules.
I'll have to check out the source code for their github replacement when github is back up.
The scientists who already had this great idea, perhaps?
Yep, exactly the same process here.

:( Now my travis build might be red all weekend
The Switch GPU does clock down to 307MHz when undocked. In docked mode, it can run at 768MHz, about 2.5x faster. CPU and memory speeds are unaffected.

The built in screen is fairly low resolution so there are potentially fewer pixels to push when the Switch is undocked. It remains to be seen exactly how quality/performance will be affected by undocking.
I'm going to have to come to the Guardian's defence here. We may take issue with the term "backdoor" but, for a general readership, their headline is a good summary of the issue using appropriate language.
> more than the number of atoms in the universe

Ah, I was scanning the article looking for this phrase. They delivered.
The Drones of ISIS
At least it's 5 pm in here.
excellent point sir.
Never heard of bplaced before. What's the catch? How are they able to offer free hosting?
If somebody told me "hey, I'm going to buy a gun and murder someone - would you like to buy my new album?" I would certainly say no. I don't see why it's any different when the consequences are abstracted a little.

No, I can't save the world on my own, and nor can anyone. I've done a good many things which have directly and indirectly resulted in harm towards others, because I need to in order to survive in today's society. But that's not the point - the point is to build an ethical framework in which we can aim towards intentionally enabling less harm, even if we can't ensure no harm.
"Github is down" is the new compiling.

http://xkcd.com/303/
Is that not an extended variation of the https://cachethq.io logo?
Your first link is misleading because it's targeted toward onboarding new Firefox contributors and includes a Mercurial tutorial and development workflow guide in addition to build instructions. Simple build instructions are here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g...

On Linux I clone the source and run "./mach build".
I've noticed this as well, do they even encrypt the backups the upload to google drive and if so with what key? If they use one key then the advantages of perfect forward and perfect future secrecy that the double-ratchet protocol provides is lost.
Mine. Let this tree grow!
Ask HN: Vested shares, create covered calls, sell immediately, hold etc?
I was curious how you guys manage your positions with the vested shares in your publicly traded companies, and what circumstances promote your decisions (assuming they are objective at all).

Do create covered calls on all or some of the position (if not all, then why)?

Do you sell them immediately for the cash?

Do you sell them to buy other equities in a brokerage account?

Do you hold them and occasionally wait for a window where employees can sell to liquidate a little here and there?

Not a formal survey, just looking for opinions
XBox was comfortably more powerful than the GC, GC was ahead but more similar to PS2 in practice, both were well ahead of the Dreamcast (Dreamcast launched first, PS2 next, XBox and GC last, so kinda to be expected). GC was hamstrung by memory issues (PS2 had better bandwidth, fill rate, media capacity, iirc), so was a bugger to use its power, but that's by the by.

So, I disagree with the first claim in your second paragraph, but my pedantry only supports your main point: PS2 won, selling 3 times the others put together. But PS2 was a long way from being the most powerful.

But, both as a developer and player, and purely subjectively, I do think XBox was the 'best' of that generation.
You're definitely not looking hard enough then. Like I said, they are typically hiding somewhere under the seats. There is NO WAY a super common flight like LA to NY does not have power.
The fundamental principles behind MobX
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The day following a full moon...
Just this week I setup gogs on my VPS to mirror all of my repos on github. It's part of my new year goal to avoid my dependence on 3rd party apps. Of course I still am depending on my VPS provider so...
Deploying on Friday is fine if you can rollback quickly :)
That course sounds amazing, you should blog about it.
I use it all the time on desktop. Couldn't even get the mobile app to start.
If You're Not Paying for It; You're the Product;
Given that the 20th century is the century of genocide, it seems less than certain that the long term trend is "increasingly vitriolic".
So there was an outage yesterday which required failover to another data center. Wonder if both are related. Either way I want to read their postmortem. GitHub's postmortem is usually very educational.
I remember those days, thinking to myself "why would anyone actually choose to use this junk of an OS, let alone actually develop for it", because: Think C/Metrowerks Codewarrior.

But now I sit here wrestling with merging Storyboards in Xcode and casting a green eye at my friends, doing React apps, in the background.

I sure do miss the simpler days, before all these great tools got in the way. You know, coding for X and POSIX .. /ducks.
RTT is >5x higher for me. (~140ms vs ~25ms) I'm in Minneapolis, and the traceroute to 80.80.80.80 ends in Prague.
Instead of Gogs it is now recommended to use Gitea, since it has more activity (~400 more commits last time I checked) and is community driven: https://gitea.io/

According to their Blog:
Gitea is a community fork of the popular self-hosted Git service Gogs. We’re a growing group of former Gogs users and contributors who found the single-maintainer management model of Gogs frustrating and thus decided to make an effort to build a more open and faster development model.
https://blog.gitea.io/2016/12/welcome-to-gitea/
It was fun discovering music with pandora, but I got sick of hearing the same thing over and over again. I started paying for Spotify. I discover music with spotify too by just searching for people's playlists too. Sometimes I just wanna listen to the same track in a loop for hours. Sometimes I don't, I love that choice.
aka fMRI
That's not what geocar asked. He didn't ask anything, actually.

Rather he pointed out that what you see in the WhatsApp UI is meaningless because you have no way of knowing that the app you're running matches the code Moxie linked, or that the code your friends are running does. Moxie replied with a link to the QR generation code but this didn't answer geocar's question, probably because there is no answer.

Here's a simple way to put it. End-to-end messaging security is assumed to be (at least traditionally) about moving the root of trust. Before you had to trust Facebook. Now you don't. A closed source app that can update on demand doesn't move the root of trust and this probably doesn't match people's intuitive expectations of what it does.

Many people have pointed out similar things to what geocar has pointed out: E2E encryption is essentially meaningless if you can't verify what your computers are actually doing. Unfortunately fixing this is a hard problem.

I wrote about this issue extensively in 2015 in the context of encrypted email and bitcoin apps (where you can steal money by pushing a bad auto update):

https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2015/001510....

I proposed an app architecture that would allow for flexible control over the roots of trust of programs using sandboxing techniques. Unfortunately there's been very little (no?) research into how to solve this problem, even though it's the next step in completing the journey that Signal has started.

By the way, just to make it super clear, the work Moxie has done on both Signal and WhatsApp is still excellent. It is, as I said, necessary work. But the Guardian has unfortunately not understood security well enough, nor have people from the cryptography community really helped journalists understand the limits of this approach. Nor has Facebook, I think.
87% of Maryland lives in an urban area, versus 48% of West Virginia. Maryland would drift way to the left if it wasn't forced into political compromises to accommodate other states.
Currently 98.9212% app server availability in the last month.

That means 7h 52m 49.7s of potential downtime/unavailability [1] in the last month.

And the trend of that percentage doesn't look that rosy.

[1] https://uptime.is/98.9212
Many ISPs abuse DNS to serve ads. One method is to rewrite all NXDOMAIN responses to an ad server. Another involves injecting ads into HTTP responses by hijacking DNS.

Although your points about capability and motive are valid, I don't think that Google does feed DNS queries into a database. Given all the evil DNS servers out there, I think that it is in Google's best interest to provide a clean alternative and contribute to better internet infrastructure.
Tox Handshake Vulnerable to KCI
Giant Middle East dust storm caused by a changing climate, not human conflict
It sort of becomes your Internet and computer. No computer no work. No Internet no VPN no work.

But in this case I guess investing in local mirror is a great investment.
For what it is worth, Firefox also has a security bounty program, one that is older than Chrome itself. :) Of course, the payouts are smaller than those from Pwn2Own, but on the other hand, reporters don't have to demonstrate a full exploit that can actually execute arbitrary code.