skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This signal with suitable FEC in a 2700Hz bandwidth should be copyable at a power level where you wouldn't be to tell that there was someone talking with SSB.

There have been some examples showing that for older versions of the codec running at twice this rate.

RE: fading, there isn't really any great way to fix that short of higher delays (longer FEC) or increasing bandwidth to be wider than the fade-- no other way around the signal not just being there.
I couldn't help but be reminded of The Royal Society for Putting Things On Top of Other Things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f-kfRREA8M
!!

Have you ever worked out how many hours you need to support more than zero children at minimum wage and also pay rent in even rural areas?

Any time asking cashiers or retail workers---even in rural areas---what their lives are like is likely to reveal multiple jobs to just make ends meet.
all the systems AND PARAMETERS are redundant in such mission...
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You didn't mention your metro area. $100K goes a long way in some places.
There's still some interesting stuff coming out of IBM, such as Watson:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_%28computer%29
i'd rather kill myself than work with c++
Anecdotally, I started wearing glasses a couple months ago and have been annoyed at how often I have to adjust my ahead when I would have normally just moved my eyes. My glasses tend to slip down my nose just a tad which cuts off a non-negligible amount of FOV.
Do you require students to wear a hoodie too?

Since back-end web applications run on a server, not on laptops, it makes more sense to work in that environment from the beginning. A web-based IDE like Cloud 9 or CodeAnywhere with the LAMP environment (or whatever) already set up would allow your students to get right to coding, without having to jump through your phony hoops. You are imposing your idea of how "real developers" work based on a small sample of hot VC-funded companies in the valley.

I know lots of serious developers and none of them run real applications on their laptop. Few of them use desktop Linux. Web servers don't run GUI-based operating systems. Forcing everyone to try to get your idea of a programming environment running on their own laptop is just wasting time. It's the same as being forced to install Flash to use a bank or airline web site.

Dismiss "legacy IT departments" all you want but there are 1,000 times more jobs with real companies making money than there are at VC-funded startups in SV. Maybe you don't think those jobs are sexy, but you're teaching people habits and career strategies, not just programming.

I think you are already behind the curve with your Mac/Linux laptop requirement. Google engineers use Chromebooks (so do I). Chromebooks and iPads are the default in many schools. Those devices can be great for learning programming and actually writing code.

Regardless of technical arguments about operating systems or stacks or what venture capital firms fund (you really think they base those decisions on what laptops the developers use?) your "amirite" dismissive tone is off-putting. Good luck with that.
Yawn. And oh, please stop using the war metaphor. You are bringing in way too much aggression into something that can be done with a lot more calm and composure. No wonder the tech community is constantly stressed out from hearing the war stories from jerks like this one.
In this case you can literally type:

whois rachelbythebay.com

And get the answer :-)
Eich's career at Mozilla ended when he resigned as CEO and declined to remain as CTO. He resigned because he let a predictable PR problem get away from him and couldn't effectively lead. He had marginal support to begin with; three board members resigned when he was appointed for reasons that had nothing to do with his political activities.

Someone somewhere probably got fired for donating to Trump. Someone somewhere probably got fired for donating to Clinton. Eich donated to curtail civil rights and kept his job as CTO until he gave it up.
You really didn't provide enough information brother.

The main question is what city do you live in?

If you're in San Fran - (lower 100k) You make infact " make less and everyone else is making more".

If you're in Denver, you should be able to live well on low 100k.
He absolutely knows what 'probable cause' is.

"If he does understand what it means, but he knowingly ignored it, then that's a serious violation of constitutional rights."

What he's doing is what he is told.

Obviously - someone far higher than 'a cop' decided to implement the policy of 'camera tickets'.

The 'possible constitutional violation' is inherent in the policy, he's not doing anything but implementing the policy.

He's just the schmuck who has to be in court, validating the policy, which is way beyond his rank.

Also - it's debatable whether this is a 'clear violation of constitutional rights'. 'Camera tickets' are in place all over America, Canada, Europe etc. - if it were a huge violation of rights there would be a lot of court challenges.

In effect the person 'on the stand' should have been whoever in the judicial system is responsible for actually implementing the system. Then it would be 'their responsibility' if there was a violation.

The cop on the stand is basically the sorry dude forced to articulate the obvious incoherence of the policy.
It's not a completely ridiculous theory, but it's pretty crazy. The data is clear that premiums are being driven by cost increases across the board. Moreover, employer plans are in completely different risk pools than individual plans. The only place they meet is in the insurer's balance sheet - they charge enough on all plans to cover their payouts plus the (regulated) profit margin.

You can argue that cost increases are due to all of those previously uninsured sick people who are now insured and costing the rest of us money, but that's both wrong (costs have been going up faster than inflation for decades), and a pretty awful worldview.
Scientists say they may have new evidence in D.B. Cooper case
Life Without the Internet (2017)
I read through the rules and couldn't find any mention. Which means it's safe to assume that you can travel freely in and out of US within the parole period.
All Visas to the US are mostly multiple entry Visas unless otherwise stated. Probably this parole is similar.
More experienced graphics programmers have careers working on commercial DCC(digital content creation) applications, Animation/Game studios, Academic positions or some other graphics related position.

A lot of people would like to work on a established project rather then bootstrap a new one. And many could not do that anyways because of NDA terms.

The climate is getting better but only because there is a new crop of applications that sprung up in the last few years that has more interest and understanding of who the graphics community is and how it works. And seems more interested in contributions by people who have highly specialized and deep expertise in graphics.

My general sense is that it has been more fruitful for people to work on specific projects privately or in there professional environment that solve there problems and then release those projects as OSS. Rather then try to wrangle the politics and project structure of some of the older established open source software.
1. 5 day old account

2. Wide array of feel-good details to check lots of boxes

3. Completely anecdotal and therefore unverifiable

4. Facebook-level knowledge of people you likely spent 10 minutes with

5. Glowing review of Uber

Isn't Fear Uncertainty and Doubt great?
Which is quite sad, if you think about it.
Agree, KSP is a great way to internalize how orbital mechanics work. After playing it a little while, everything clicks and things become natural, like the sort of physics one uses playing billiards or building block towers.
The latest variation on this I've seen is sites which repeatedly force Chrome to switch to full-screen view, thus preventing you from navigating away from them. Apparently they've found a way to override Chrome's anti-abuse mechanisms.
Most insurance companies have deductibles AND a percentage of service over the deductible (coinsurance) AND a copay that you always pay and doesn't count towards your deductible.
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

One man's journey towards enlightenment, learning, experiencing, and progressing through life the entire way.
Got a link to that research? Sounds like doing key verification over the phone just became a bad idea.
They're in that ballpark. I know the capsule exceeded 100km. I don't know if the first stage technically broke that or not, but it was closer if it didn't.
- Loop quantum gravity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_quantum_gravity
Yes. (1) because you ask that question, it means land is going to be cheap. (2) my lifetime radiation dose will be lower then if I live anywhere near a coal plant. (3) my respiratory health will be a lot better then if I live anywhere near a coal train line.

(4) you could also argue I'm just saying this because asked - but I live in Sydney with a primary science degree. One of the places I really wanted to work was the Lucas Heights Research Reactor.
Ah, you're not talking about what I'm talking about. That's the issue here. I'm not predicting "historic exponential drop" at all. Glad we can agree that prices will still drop.
There is the silicone oil droplet phenomena which is a classical version of the pilot wave, and it does reproduce some quantum behavior, including the double slit. That a pilot wave has been discovered (granted at macro scale) does make one reconsider.

https://youtu.be/WIyTZDHuarQ
I talked with an immigration lawyer last year. She told me that the period of free re-entry was only within 6 months of the visa issuance. I did check and found a list of varying periods for different countries on some website (I can't find it now.)

However, I just found this paragraph on www.uscis.gov:

"An E-2 nonimmigrant who travels abroad may generally be granted an automatic two-year period of readmission when returning to the United States. It is generally not necessary to file a new Form I-129 with USCIS in this situation."

So I guess one may want to re-check to be very sure if one wants to get an E-2. I'm going to apply for the Entrepreneur Parole since it fits my situation much better.
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BIP39 is a spec for generating secure mnemonics (passphrases) with 128-bit entropy. I've written a version in rust, have a look. github.com/leshow/rust_mnemonic

BIP39 generates 12 word or 24 word mnemonics usually.

This was just a small project I did, and hasn't been checked for correctness. However, it should give you an idea of how you can generate word sequences.
This is a stain on our industry, and I hope the drivers continue to unionize. The buses are the only reason that the big South Bay tech companies can attract significant quantities of engineers from SF and the East Bay. I think you'd see a significant exodus if SF-based employees suddenly had to deal with 101 and 280 on a daily basis.
Also less regulation. When you want to make money off the idea, being able to buy any land you want and start filling it with solar panels is a pretty great model.
Irrational? Hardly.

If you were loaning money to someone wouldn't you want them to have a history of paying back loans to others?
That is quite reassuring. Thank you! :)
I don't know why you'd need to scam people on Twitter. There are plenty of people who just post photos of their cards:

https://twitter.com/needadebitcard
It sounds like the bus company believes employees can magically be available only at certain hours, and in between they need neither pay nor facilities nor respect. Can anyone really work a split shift and actually use the time between for anything constructive?
I really need to look at how libwmf does things...
The one tool that saved me quite possibly a few months of typing paths over my lifetime is autojump: https://github.com/wting/autojump. I can't imaging a terminal workflow without it.
I find it odd that "we" can't train them fast enough but India can. (Ignoring other countries, as India is by far the biggest share here).

What is so magical about a developing nation with a billion people living in poverty that allows them to solve them problem and prevents us from solving it too?

Further, why is nobody asking this question, instead of just saying we can't do it?
I'm getting bleary eyed from a day that has gone on too long, but how does something approximately 33x33x42 feet equal 140k ft^3? Same question with the first one too. The cubic-feet measurement is including something else, right? What might that be?
Women receive 40-45% of the degrees in math and statistics, but less than 20% of degrees in CS. The percentage of CS degrees degrees awarded to women is down from 30% in the mid 1990s.

There is no rational "biological" explanation for why women would somehow be "biologically" averse to CS while pursuing degrees in a closely related field at much higher numbers. There is no "biological" explanation why women's interest in CS would drop dramatically over just a few decades.
I'd say windows 10 almost brings things back to the Windows 2000 era in this respect. Changing the wallpaper changes the accent colour (or you can pick one seperately), and you can choose whether titlebars have that accent.

A fake dialog won't know that my titlebars and buttons should be teal.
And the beauty of this is, launching these Iridium satellites is just a beta test for what they're going to do next: launch _four thousand_ of their own satellites which will blanket the planet with gigabit broadband.
I'm so glad that Qt is gaining wider adoption in a post-GNOME world. It seems that everyone went Gtk because Gnome was the default DE for most major distros. With that constraint virtually gone, Qt has seen much wider adoption, which is awesome, as it is, in my opinion, clearly the superior platform.
>Nothing short of blind fanatical rejection can withstand it, but even that is contained into a few pockets and used as a bogeyman.

I'm sure most HN readers already know this, but just feel the need to shout out to Snowcrash, one of the more interesting literary treatments of this topic. The thesis being that most humans are susceptible to NLP mind control except a small subset who happen to have the supremely logical minds of systems engineers. They had to first be taken out by a mind bomb cleverly concealed in visual display static.
I do love the "we contract to a third party" line used by multiple companies. It's pretty much the H1B body shop contracting applied to service jobs. Just because you hired someone else shouldn't mean you are off the hook for what you are well aware is going on.

I still think split shifts should be illegal unless compensated.
GTK3, maybe, but QT? Yeah, you and the dude who barged onto the PostgreSQL hackers mailing list and tried to talk the community into rewriting the project in Rust should hang out.

"You should completely rewrite this project, consisting of hundreds of thousands of lines of code that people have worked on for years, using the tools I like better!"
You're acting like the Republicans had no choice but to obstruct Obama. And when I say obstruct, I don't just mean denying legislation. I mean performing stunts like literally shutting down the government. Like irresponsibly fucking with the debt ceiling. Like attempting to repeal the ACA with no replacement plan, screwing over so many of their constituents. And let's not act like these were attempts to better America in light of differences of opinion on policy; the ACA was based on Republican health care initiatives for christ's sake.

Obama needed to be a better leader? Give me a goddamn break. Maybe he wasn't perfect, but in order for him to have done a better job unifying he would have had to bend over backwards to the GOP. There's a clear right and wrong in this situation.
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> Rents are set by wages, prices by credit.

NO. Prices are set by supply and demand. No one is being forced to take out a loan, and if they could buy a given home with a lower loan, they would. Hence the loan is only enabling demand. You could say the same thing about employment, or inheritance, or tax breaks. The only reason prices change is because supply or demand changes.

You are basically saying that you'd like everyone to just accept their lot in life, and not compete with you for your current house. And in exchange you'll not compete with those in houses you'd prefer. And you're blaming the banks because they're helping those who don't agree that you deserve the hose more than they do.

When supply is scarce, prices go up. The value of the good does not go up. What is that extra price doing? That's you bribing the owner of the good to sell to you, and not to some other guy. You're paying to make the price so high that the next guy in line would rather live somewhere else, share a room, or go homeless.

> http://i.imgur.com/oWxV1po.jpg

The image, though interesting looking, is missing context. What units is the Y-axis in, and why does the X-axis only go to (what I assume is) 2012?

> People live in one home, whether we work 3 or 7 days.

People aren't born with homes. If you lost yours, someone would move in. Where do you think this other person is currently living? Why do you deserve your home more than they do? How should homes be allocated if not by whoever is willing and able to pay the most? Who will make new homes in this new system of yours? (an especially worrying problem since I think you suggested all the construction workers only need to work 3 days per week, and housing is already scarce)
bill bryson, a short history of nearly everything. It is basically a history of what we know and how we came to know it i.e. what experiments were performed, what led to other things etc. Really well written.
Did you saw double slit experiment reproduction in 2D macro?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsaUX48t0w8

Observer breaks interference pattern.
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I know that Eliezer Yudkowsky is very controversial and some of his statements cannot be taken seriously, but I really liked his sequence of articles on QM. It made it a little bit more accessible to me, who knows very little about it.

I cannot judge how accurate it is; but from googling around, it doesn't seem he does any strong errors. Also he makes some very strong statements in the end which I found preposterous (mainly, that Bayes reasoning is better than scientific reasoning, and that Bayes reasoning must lead to Many Worlds theory).

The sequence is here

http://lesswrong.com/lw/r5/the_quantum_physics_sequence/
Most desktop users are better off with unstable.
Yes, but don't many job applications have equivalent incentives for lying?

- Have you ever been charged with a criminal offence?
- Do you use recreational drugs?

Etc.
I don't think that the blood donation questionare is especially problematic on that regards.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/07/msg00...

> The release managers have determined that Debian 11 will be named Bullseye.
Better dead than bad: Status competition among German fighter pilots in WW II
Not an expert, so perhaps this isn't the only way. But i could envisage a malicious DNS server (such as in a coffee shop or airport, perhaps even an AP run by a malicious user inside Starbucks called "Starbucks RLY SRSLY") serving up mail.gmail.com A records that point to their own server, which listens on IMAP ports and logs usernames and passwords. For this to work, the application in question (such as Mail.app) would have to do a poor job of certificate trust verification. I am not familiar with how that works on OS X, but i'm assuming that it'd be somewhat hard (although not impossible) to obtain an SSL certificate for mail.gmail.com that a usual OS X installation would accept. Personally i tend to prefer the TOFU (trust on first use) way of doing things, after having connected on a (relatively) trusted internet connection, e.g., at home. If someone is more knowledgeable feel free to weigh in.
Stallman founded the whole free software movement on the theory that asking a user to execute code without the ability to investigate/modify/share it is unethical. Read any of his essays (and you definitely should if you haven't) and it's clear that his motive is moral/ethical. This sentiment is frequently shared among open-source developers.
From what I see, the spin on this phenomena in this story is incorrect. The real story here isn't the tech companies, its the lack of available housing in the area due to a decades long aversion to building more housing and a huge jobs/housing imbalance amongst almost every city in the SFBA. The real answer is not raising wages to increase competition for a fixed amount of housing, but to increase the amount of housing such that the needs of these workers can be met.
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> A growing literature argues that status competition can have corrosive effects. Neighbours of lottery winners often make extravagant status good purchases (Kuhn et al. 2011) and are more likely to go bankrupt (Agarwal, Mikhed, and Scholnick 2016). Card et al. (2012) and Ashraf et al. (2014) show that job satisfaction and performance suffer when there are direct rankings and explicit comparisons with others in the same group.
> The main time you want to be able to index by code point is if you’re implementing algorithms defined in the unicode spec that operate on unicode strings (casefolding, segmentation, NFD/NFC). Most if not all of these algorithms operate on whole strings, so implementing them as an iteration pass is usually necessary anyway, so you don’t lose anything if you can’t do arbitrary code point indexing.

Another algorithm for unicode strings which wants to index by code point is unicode regular expression matching. I heard that you do lose something here if you can't assume all code points encode to same length. Unlike other algorithms you mentioned which only iterate forward, depending on implementation regex needs to backtrack.

I once heard that complexity of implementing regex directly on UTF-8 is one reason why Python will not use UTF-8 internally.
And that bit of Snowcrash always reminds me of Blit, a short story published in Interzone. It's got a few mentions on HN before too.

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm
GTK3 is years behind Qt in features. And I doubt it will change. So, I'd recommend to use it instead of GTK to everyone. The only issue with it, it's in C++, and bindings with C++ from other languages is a huge pain if possible at all.
What's money going to do? Unless you're suggesting they bribe millions of developers to switch.

Some things can't be solved by throwing money at them.
My understanding is that there is no bright line in linguistics and that language definition is by default messy and political
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Well, the final completed constellation would look something like the video in [1] which is available at the Iridium website [2]

[1] https://youtu.be/sXUmBJmf_DI

[2] https://www.iridium.com/network/iridiumnext
Then, how about these descriptions:

"long article on long winded text forms misses the point" or "... tries to prove a point"

"ad copy by example's the charm"

"author missing pulse of time reminisces on golden age"

disclaimer: too long; didn't read