skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Running "apt-get install unbound" on your laptop/desktop gives you a local caching recursive resolver which performs dnssec validation.

Doesn't sound like a full time job to me.
And an exceptional front light side. I'm always amazed how most people give the best of themselves during casual social encounters. The big effort we do in social interactions is kind of an art, we're not so good in daily life with our close ones, simply because we can't maintain that effort for so long. Telepathy would ruin this, I guess.
>All I'm saying is, if you get the chance, listen to a good LP on some audiophile's equipment.

This I agree fully with. However, this is also (IMHO) part of vinyl's challenge - the entry cost for getting blow-me-away-results is much, much higher than for a digital system.

Now, assuming we use the same speakers (Which, if anything, is the one link in the chain where one should put the most of one's budget!) and amps and are left only with the source part:

You can get an excellent DAC for a couple of hundred dollars. If you want something top-of-the-line, inarguably reference-grade, that'll set you back a couple of kilobucks. (There are lots of more expensive DACs; however, at $2k or thereabouts, the Benchmark DAC2 hardly leaves any room for improvement in other factors than user interface and bragging rights.)

As for source - with the DAC sorted, you can use just about anything. Laptop. Old CD-player with a digital output. Anything will do. Total cost (excluding amps/speakers) for a reference-grade system: $2,100 or so. For a system which gets you 99% of the way there - $300 or so. (Obviously, these are very rough ballpark figures, intended to stress the point more than anything else.)

So, how does the analog side of things look?

Good LP players cannot by their very nature be very cheap; there's simply too much precision mechanics about. So, let us say that a 'very good' LP player is the Linn LP12 with no upgrades. That alone appears to set you back in excess of $3k, luckily including what I assume to be a decent, though not stellar pickup.

Adding to that, you need a RIAA preamp; disregard the cheapest ones - look inside, and all you'll find is an op-amp, a voltage regulator and a simple second-order filter. Say, (I am just guessing here, having built my own RIAA preamp years ago) - $500-1,000 will get you up from the basic designs and into the realm of things which can do the LP12 justice. Grand total - $3,500-4,000.

So, twice the cost of the digital reference - and this is still a -by audiophile standards- very basic analog system with lots of room for improvement. Also, chances are the $300 digital system will run circles around it - even more so if you buy some cheap DSP plugins which can emulate the characteristics of LP playback, giving you an experience closer to what vinyl would sound like.

That being said, I fully understand the people who appreciate the tinkering potential of analog systems; you can mix and match accessories and components to a much larger degree than in digital systems, adjust various properties (needle weight; tracking force &c) all influencing the sound; however, when you do that (I do!) you are not necessarily doing it for the sake of faithful reproduction, but rather as a very expensive, very limited way of doing EQ. (Best investment I ever made to my hifi-system: A four-band parametric EQ unit. Sorry, all hardcore audiophiles.)
Yea, time in this case, not power.
Microsoft Staffhub enables workers and their managers to manage time
Thanks. Yeah. I'd not use it then.

What's the tool you used for this? Nslookup?
Europe/Serbia:

Freenom: 74ms
Google: 72ms
Telecom Serbia: 168ms

It's funny my ISP's DNS servers are so much slower.
You'd still need for someone to cut your skull open to shine the blue light in. At that point, you've got problems either way.
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I would encourage fairly tech-savvy users to set up their own DNS resolvers - fast, more private and a way of bypassing your ISPs censorship.

Just make sure to configure ACLs so recursive queries are limited to you and not part of a botnet. Also BIND9 might not be a good idea for a low-maintenance solution.
I would defer to a period expert at that point.

But iceboxes were certainly common, as were fans. I guess my point being: the people of the 1920s weren't savages, and while it's obvious that they didn't enjoy the same comforts we enjoy today there were still many conveniences that did exist.

The past is a strange place, with odd customs, but it's not totally alien or barbaric.
This is a little long to commit to close reading. Summary, anyone?
Nothing to worry about according to Gizmodo:

> The supposed “backdoor” the Guardian is describing is
> actually a feature working as intended, and it would
> require significant collaboration with Facebook to be
> able to snoop on and intercept someone’s encrypted
> messages, something the company is extremely unlikely
> to do.

http://gizmodo.com/theres-no-security-backdoor-in-whatsapp-d...

I, for one, certainly cannot imagine Facebook collaborating to such an extent with the government.
But git is decentralized. Github is just a UI.
There is no logical way to verify that all activists (or even a majority of them) use Signal over WhatsApp. The perception that activists use Signal may have been enough to block them, but having a huge backdoor in WhatsApp is reason enough to not take action.
I could see that happening, but I feel like slip-ups or crossovers ("oh shit, I meant to think that, not think and transmit it") could still happen sometimes. Also, I wonder what it'd be like for someone with a psychotic mental disorder...

But yeah, who knows, maybe the two processes will be so distinct that it's not an issue.
They grew out of Jim Crow laws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_taxes_in_the_United_State...

(In addition, imagine an interest group instituting a "we'll pay your poll tax for you!" campaign, but only in counties carefully selected for demographics.)
This short post got me thinking...

Is a working outside the office culture different than a remote work culture? I work from home frequently (some full days, some partial days) but can be in the office any day if needed or if it makes sense. It seems like this is different then what some people would understand "Remote work" to be.
Any reason why you would not try time-sensitive stuff in a VM?
It's a bad idea for performance, because your ISP has caches for Google, Netflix ect .. so you probably won't get them.
> In real dollars, US per capita income has more than quintupled since 1929.

If it's per-capita income, is there any weighting done for different groups of income? I feel if the statistics group together Silicon Valley CEOs and Starbucks waitresses, it's easy to get a non-representatively high (though technically correct) per-capita income.

Also, how much of the increase is from the economy simply recovering from the 1929 crisis back to normal levels?

> So even if you want a rising standard of living, work hours could conceivably be shorter.

2) That assumes that jobs that provide such increased wages are also flexible enough that you can freely choose how many hours per week you want to work. That assumption doesn't seem to be the case in practice.
If you want some real nightmare fuel, imagine a fungus that gets into your body, drives you to a high place, destroys your motor control nerves so you're stuck in place, and then fatally bursts out a fruiting body from the back of your head, spreading more spores?

Be glad you're not an ant :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis
Good point. At least as a technical person, I would like to use an open-source messaging application.

Of course I'm not going to read the source code but at least I'm sure developers behind the app do not open a backdoor for someone else.
I have no idea. Mine will probably break 7000 soon.

Want high karma? Make some really, really popular comments on top posts. Make them early in the life of the post, so as hundreds of comments accumulate, yours is at or near the top. A good response to what becomes the top comment also works.

Comment a lot, and have interesting things to say.
That's fine, sticking with X is a totally acceptable option. If they _want_ to move to Wayland, though, and it's missing something they need, then of course they should help work on that thing.
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Unemployment maxes out in most states between $350-$450 a week.
I want to use Wayland, but it breaks a few tools I use (Autokey [0], marathon [1]) as they depend on X-specific tooling/APIs (for marathon: wmctrl, xdotool). So I'm disabling Wayland for now even though I'd like to use it (for starters, simply to roll with GNOME's boat, since Wayland is the default on Arch).

--> Are there Wayland equivalents to wmctrl and xdotool? Any plans for them? If no, does Wayland provide a complete-enough API to write similar tools for Wayland?

[0] https://github.com/autokey-py3/autokey

[1] https://github.com/ronjouch/marathon
Submitter here. I have been witnessing the recent rising expectations of being able code irrespective of seniority, especially in younger companies. I have been curious to know HN's take on this.

Perhaps this article can provoke some discussion.
Video conferencing with avatars?
I'm curious to know this as well. 5 years ago, it seemed like the big players were ditching hybrid apps in favor of native [1]. The common wisdom is that hybrid is the way to go when you're small, but if you have the resources then native gives better performance. Has this changed since 2012?

1. https://techcrunch.com/2012/12/13/facebook-android-faster/am...
Ah got it -- I thought maybe I missed something in there! Was a great book, for sure.
As rust developer from a higher-level languages , I really struggled with that ,then I discovered format!() macro ,maybe they should make it more visible to new developers.
Look up Niels Provos' (OpenSSH/Google) youtube page, he works F/T and is a hobbyist swordsmith https://www.youtube.com/user/mintwart
I think their point is that they don't know enough about the innerworkings (read: code) to be sure that turning off one feature doesn't enable far more security vulnerabilities than existed when the feature was on...

They aren't suggesting using compile flags requires code changes...
> Bin Laden is dead

A kindergartener, compared to who runs the show in Middle East now.

> we didn't start any new wars

Only to see the age old religious ones reignite - Sunni IS, supported by disenfranchised Iraqi Sunnis vs Shia Iraqi government. That is effectively not only a religious war but also a civil one - Top IS brass is ex-Saddam's military.

> the US left Iraq

Should have finished the phrase: "The US left Iraq in a much, much worse state than when it first came."
That's not how Google GGC and their LB works, the authoritative NSes looks at the IP of the querying resolver and hands out a response depending on that
Is this a more modern practice, in the same vein as the whole compression thing or would it be something they've been doing all along? I always liked the idea of the "Naked Sound" though perhaps this hasn't ever been a thing ...
Affordable Care
This is awesome! I miss my Apple II...
> Seriously though. Someone please make a good, working Wayland tiling WM.

There's https://github.com/Immington-Industries/way-cooler

It's alpha, but gets extra HN brownie points for being written in Rust.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this sounds like the plot of "Kingsman"

Warning violent Movie ahead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25683IE5v9g
Maluuba does more than publish a few datasets.
This is a fairly well known and common estimate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe#Matter_con...
It's the word "largely" in "largely React-compatible API" that scares me.
Not when a lot of code / packages by default rely on github servers for hosting and delivery.
Gee, I've been using Windows since version 3.1 and never ever, ever had a major problem with the allegedly bad desktop security. Also, Linux since RedHat 5...and I've definitely spent way more time configuring Linux to do shit that Windows does without any configuration than I ever spent on Windows security issues.

Windows has always had the best desktop system and it still does. Some loud minority always talks about how great the Mac UI is but I think it's hideous and most of the world agrees with me since nobody copied the Mac OS' major UI gimmicks (and if they did, it was seen as a stupid unpopular mistake).

Anyway - I run all three in my business and I'm well versed in each of them. Linux is great for servers and I need Macs for iOS stuff, but nothing beats the sheer convenience of Windows, the best desktop OS that ever was.

Maybe one day Windows will become open source and all the Linux folks can stop trying to catch up on the desktop. Until then, I'll gladly throw my money at Microsoft for providing such a beautiful system for me to use.
Celebrating 20+ years on the WWW
You should at least have a backup of your private key so you can import it on your new phone rather than having the sender re-encrypt to whatever key your new phone decides to generate.
I doubt they were acquired based on their datasets! The "Frames" dataset states 12 users over 20 days.

But if one of the next 12 users was a Microsoft executive who liked what they saw, well then that's an important data point :) Having Bengio as an advisor definitely helps too.
Let's not forget that speaking/talking is telepathy, right people? Speech crosses all the boxes:

-- It's invisible, travels via 'waves'
-- The 'waves' I use to speak can cause your brain to show you images
-- It can convey emotions, thoughts, images.
-- It can be used to persuade others, change the way they think about a subject.
-- **tree**. Did it work? Did you see a tree?

Of course recognising that speech really does check all the boxes is kind of a let down when you're expecting sci fi voices-in-your-head (wait, that sounds familiar...) telepathy
"First, they infected the mice with a virus that made their amygdala sensitive to augmented optic nerve activity in response to specific pixel patterns."
> "There are typically 40 million bacterial cells in a gram of soil" [1]

That would mean 4 in each gram of soil, if Wikipedia is correct. Bacteria scale is so disproportional to what we deal in daily basis that I'm pretty sure we know almost 0.01% of all existing species, families or any other kind of grouping them you like.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria
Unfortunately, life is hard, and if someone cares deeply about reducing harm in the world, it's harder still. You can very much choose to not care about people outside your close family, but that's not how I wish to live, and aside from as a mental defence mechanism against having to think about the horrors that people go through every day and how the system they're forced to take part in supports those horrors, I don't understand why other people would want to live that way.
No, it means that an apparent perception of easing symptons might just as well be another symptom. I don't think the claim you defended is verified, and OTOH cannabis use is linked to activating (or what's the word) latent schizophrenia, so it seems unreasonable to expect it could aliviate the condition.

A crutch? Wouldn't that be rather positive?

edit: mobile typos
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022399903...

http://circoutcomes.ahajournals.org/content/2/1/25.short
http://data.whicdn.com/images/87516929/large.gif

I wish I had never read that, damn nature, you scary.
That's in there, see part 2.
But the paragraph from the EFF article that follows the one you allude to was this:

"
However—and this is especially troubling—“if analysts stumble across evidence that an American has committed any crime, they will send it to the Justice Department,” the Times wrote. So information that was collected without a warrant—or indeed any involvement by a court at all—for foreign intelligence purposes with little to no privacy protections, can be accessed raw and unfiltered by domestic law enforcement agencies to prosecute Americans with no involvement in threats to national security.
"

That is not "spread further". Given the lack of a warrant and probable cause to initiate the search, prosecution using 'serendipitous evidence' flat out contradicts the 4th amendment.
>Didn't USV invest in Twitter?

They sure did. Fred Wilson (USV partner) has talked about it (Twitter as a portfolio company of USV) many times on his blog avc.com .

>Did they cash out after IPO?

Not sure.
Even if it is open-source you still can't be sure unless you build the app yourself. Otherwise there's no way to know whether the source code you're reading is really the same code that's running on your phone.
> On OSX, it usually means running X11 instead of the Mac display manager which is usually not really a great thing

If you're using OSX, you may want to try Amethyst[1] which provides Xmonad-like experience (at least the tiling part of it, under OSX-specific restrictions) in native Cocoa environment.

[1]: https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
Have you considered the possibility that they are seeking to leave said corrupt nations for a better life?
I'm of two minds here. I certainly sympathize with the fear that people out there on the Internet will misinterpret what you've said and bash you for it in ways that are inappropriate. There are really two separate dynamics, though: one is that people may twist your words. The other, that gets less attention, is that perhaps we should build a discourse that is more tolerant of mistakes.

For example: racism is bad. A good person should try not to be racist (to say the least). But maybe, as a part of recognizing our own human limitations and pervasive reach of racist thinking, we should accept that even otherwise admirable people sometimes fall prey to it, and temper our reactions accordingly. Perhaps we've uncritically allowed our hard work towards greater awareness of these sorts of moral mistakes to result in a constant ratcheting-up of the opprobrium that they invite.

Here, the problem with complaining, in the abstract, about the fear of having your words twisted, is that it assumes that you, the twistee, are right, and the "twisters" have it all wrong. But if this happens to you frequently enough that you feel compelled to write this sort of blog post, I can't help but suspect that things may be the other way around.

Reframing this sort of concern about the growing social costs of routine moral failings helps with this because it recognizes the possibility that the author is not really a smarter person, with greater moral insight, than those that criticize her.
Uh, your article does not support your thesis.

And it's not a mainstream perspective, it is at best a hyperbole of people saying hyperbolic things.

Two hyperboles don't make a right.
The effect of an attack like 9/11 is primarily nationalistic outrage, and a subsequent power-grab by whichever parties or individuals conduct their politics accordingly. Now ask yourself, which parties and/or individuals in American politics stand to benefit most from being handed a Mount-Everest-sized pile of nationalistic outrage, should another 9/11 level event occur? How much power would they try to grab? What would be the outcome for the US, and the world for that matter? Obama isn't acting on ideals, he's choosing a path in an ugly world.
One word: YES!!!!!
You wait for other games to come out, like any other console?
I think it boils down to what your response would be if a brand new manager asked you to come in.

Remote work - "Well, I live in [location on the other side of the world], so let me know when you have the airfare settled!"

Work outside of the office - "Okay, see you at [time later today]."

A lot of American companies allow you to "work outside of the office" but I think a lot of managers would not react too kindly to their people randomly being halfway across the country without being told.
But what you gain from being politically active is the right to not be abused, at the loss of productivity. Its lose-lose situation.
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What happens when something like nuget.org/npm/other equivalents that you have a dependency on from your code/build system go down?

Unless you are self-hosting everything then there is a reliance on 3rd parties. Even when you self-host, you have a dependency on your IT team for maintenance - 100% uptime is impossible for anyone, servers sometimes need to undergo routine maintenance or an upgrade. Yes, I understand the difference being it's on your own timeframe, but often it's just been one of those things.

Even with these small outages, would be interested if anyone is able to keep higher uptime themselves.
You don't have to be activist yourself.

You have to be inside the party machinery where you can show up and vote occasionally and influence who are the activists that get selected into different party positions. Many of them hidden from the media spotlight but set up the scene. There are different interest groups and divisions within parties. Just being member of few and giving some support for others who do the hard lifting work is enough.

Just follow the issues from within the same way as you do now and raise your head sometimes.
As well as a lot of other stuff, which you may or may not want.
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> Now maybe Obama knows something we don't, maybe he knows there really is damning information about Trump out there that just needs to find its way to the right hands.

Makes no sense. If he did, a couple of months ago would have been the best time for it to come out.
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I listened to this program on NPR yesterday too and was very intrigued. For everyone else, the guest on Fresh Air was Michael Specter, who recently wrote an article in the New Yorker about CRISPR. Here's a link: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/02/rewriting-the-c...

(Glad you're doing well by the way)
Yes who needs better and more correct code for critical missions, If we all shout loud/longer enough we would win.
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I think your diagnosis is on target: "the cost was real and up-front but any benefits were largely hypothetical based on enough other people deciding to pay at all and some of them building apps."

But freemium is hard: Either you make a market for ads, and have intrusive data collection and analytics, and you have to compete with the most intrusive ad-supported products that already dominate the ad market and you become as bad as them, OR you have pure freemium and you have the question of how to make the up-sell compelling enough while keeping the free level of service interesting enough. The only good example of success at freemium is LinkedIn where they segmented their user population and only made the recruiters pay a very high premium price.
Would it kill them to add a button in settings. This is very useful.
I gave ionic a try after a year may be - development process is really-smooth - they have new ionic-view app which makes iOS app dev more easy I think in terms of deploying. And since Im into angular - it becomes a little easy as well. But it still falls short in rendering - one of the checkbox looks little weird. I wish they could 'convert' app to native like in react.
I'm sure they are. That doesn't really change things, though.
Since Windows phone has such a low % of users and then expense in supporting some thing as complicated as Google maps it would make sense to focus on the two. With Android and iOS they can hit 90%+ of users.
I think you may be confused...they had 12 "wizard" participants converse with each other for 20 days in order to build out the logic needed for the dataset...not that 12 people used the dataset for their own projects/products or as customers.