skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
22.4 sounds utterly ridiculous. Bass is omnidirectional, so the .4 is largely pointless, and 22 speakers in a room sounds like an impossible nightmare for the average consumer to set up and an inevitable mess of diffuse confusion and comb filtering in terms of actual delivery. I hope you wouldn't expect content creators to mix 22 spatial channels, either - 5 is painful enough.
Still a minority compared with the GNU/Linux contributions, but nice to see some do actually care.

"The Trouble with FreeBSD" @ 43:20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib7tFvw34DM
Thanks, I was expecting a rebuttal based on experience with PR but this is a particularly interesting one.

Actually I'd be interested in seeing some kind of delegative democracy system like Liquid Feedback. It has some features in common with PR (mostly the emphasis on having to negotiate a coalition given the voting results), but I'm hoping it wouldn't share the problems you outlined?
It won't solve the problem of "how" to redistrict, but as far as finding out if gerrymandering IS happening it seems like there are good ideas out there such as the "efficiency gap" used in a recent Wisconsin case.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/us/wisconsin-redistrictin...
Everywhere else is presumably not fiber in that case.
You are equating making a copy with theft.
Although American colleges are overall the best in the world (and the reason I came here in the first place), my impression of the K12 education system is that it's pretty abysmal.

I went to school in a tiny Eastern European country and came out knowing 2 foreign languages, Calc 1 level math, a decent amount of European and World history, literature, geography, chem, physics...I was pretty well-rounded.

I was pretty shocked to get accepted at an Engineering college here and to see my American peers fail out the first year because they couldn't pass Trig/Algebra, not to mention the abysmal level of spelling, not knowing any literature....and then there were others who were just brilliant.

The same country had managed to produce both kids who could kick my ass on one hand and barely-functioning illiterates on the other. And both would have been "straight A" students in their respective schools.

So there's something really wrong with education in this country. Not saying that DeVos would fix it, I doubt that, but it's already pretty fucking terrible for too many kids.
Pure proportional is probably not a great idea. That is why there are systems where you can tune the amount of proportionality.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-member_proportional_repr...
This is far from a field with which I have experience, so I can't provide any sort of solid answer. I imagine that it would be a significant change, and would take time to do right.

But not a decade. Surely, something could have been introduced in any of the 3 OSs released since that date that could have addressed the issue.

I'm not trying to play them out to be evil, or incompetent. I think this is just an example of a problem that was on the "let's do this tomorrow" list for 10 years running. Understandable, in a way, but somewhat less understandable when in the context of a giant like MicroSoft.
Ok, so let's break this down a bit further, and have a world without copyrights.

Say that I have an idea for a copyrightable work. It is going to take me one year to create it, working 8 hours a day. To make it simple, put a price of my time at $100,000 for that one year.

Now I could find someone to give me $100,000 as a fee for creating that work (assume that I have no other desire to make it for myself, so I would only do that if someone pays me). But now the problem is, to almost any potential customer, that work is only worth $10.00. So it doesn't get created.

Or, I could find 10,000 people to each give me $10.00 in advance to make it. Now this is in the realm of possibility. Kind of like the Kickstarter model. But now everyone either has to pay in advance, then wait a year to receive it. Or sign a legally binding contract that they owe $10.00 each once the product is delivered. This all adds friction to the system.

Can we invent some technique to remove this friction? How about, I'm willing to take a chance on the popularity of my work, and build it in advance. I really don't know how many people are interested -- it might be 10,000; maybe 5,000 or possibly 50,000. So with copyright, I can safely take that chance -- over time, if I create enough works, some may lose (not be popular enough), some may win big (and I make much more than the time I put into it). As long as it averages out, society in general is better off (assuming you think it is worthwhile for the works to exist to begin with -- I'm guessing this is true, otherwise you wouldn't be interested in obtaining it to begin with).

Now, does anyone have any other models (I mentioned the Kickstarter model already) that can equally reduce the above-mentioned friction? That is, allowing a creator to take a chance on making something in advance, and then on average extracting the fair fee for everyone who wants that service?
A year or two ago, I went through some old files that had somehow followed me all through highschool. Among them were a handful of music and video files I got from friends passing around burned CDs. I was quite amused to play some random episode of Dragonball Z and have it pop up a postage-stamp sized video on my relatively high-res modern screen!
YouTube bug results in huge subscriber count losses
Gorsuch Calls Trump’s Comments on Judiciary ‘Disheartening’
Right, $50K/year, not $50K/month.

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No, because the barber had to expend effort and resources on you.
Normally I would agree with you but, that hasn't been the case for the past 3 weeks or so.
But I can still rekey everything using my master password and the encrypted private key is still stored on keybase's servers, right? (or something like that)

I'm going to lose the paper key just like I lost my 5 BTC wallet just before the great Bitcoin boom of 2013.
Databases too. Hosting the database on a fast machine with a lot of RAM and an SSD will hide performance problems that should be immediately apparent.
I remember astronaut Alex Gertz somewhere saying the VNC was also for security reasons. Keep in mind that most infrastructure on the ISS was installed in the middle 00s and that the Thinkpads were possible running Windows XP and IE 6 then.
I live in a major city, have an iPhone 6S with good LTE coverage according to benchmarks, etc. and still routinely have AMP take 15+ seconds to render after the HTML has been received. I don't know if that's Mobile Safari applying strict cache limits or an issue in Google's side but the sales pitch isn't delivering.
In the US, the party list would likely be chosen by party primaries (i.e. voters) rather than the party. That would largely negate the first problem.

Similarly, for the second, the US has two very strong political parties and this would really only change House of Representatives (one portion of one branch of the federal government) so the kingmaking power would be extremely limited as the vast majority of the Senate & Presidency would still end up with the stronger parties.
But an hour later, they were thirsty again.
Note though that disabling JavaScript can also slow down many sites. One good use of JavaScript is to detect the speed of the user's connection and then load in smaller and lower-quality assets. Disabling JavaScript can result in the default assets being loaded, which rapidly offsets the benefit of not loading that JS. Other sites will load in portions of the content first and use JS to load in extra chunks as requested, but load in the entirety of available content if JS is disabled, slowing down initial pageload enormously.
Agreed, Dropbox is great in slow connections. Except when they auto update the client and you can't stop it. It tries to download 60 MB and you have to quit the client and restart it every time you need to upload or download a file until you can get the latest update.
My father was a lead in hardware engineering and manufacturing at NeXT. I have tons of footage of the amazing assembly technology that they used. I wonder if people would be interested in it.

It was heavily top secret at the time, but NeXT built their own custom robotics system (called thor) and had all sorts of amazing in-house manufacturing tech that was incredibly automated. The hardware itself was just beautiful, too.
Well I was in the class of '07 and I can tell you that this is simply not true. Over the past 10 years YC has added many more mentors, there are many more alumni to help you and to seel to, their is significantly more experience behind the advice, and the brand is significantly more powerful.
Surely with those numbers, YC doesn't give you anything and never would? You have all the experience. You've mentored so many founders that surely at least a couple can set up access to VCs. Why even bother applying in the first place?
Appreciate the willingness to address it, it would be the completest thing if HTML5 Apps worked as well as safari tabs. Very empowering thing for you to do for us web devs, thanks!

If you can share any history or stories about the origins of that feature landing on the iPhone, I would be grateful. I find it all fascinating.
Out in the country enough that I have 3 meg area wifi with a wife who enjoys streaming and Facebook and two boys who enjoy online gaming and streaming. Not much left for me. All you can eat at least and avoiding satellite.

Oh, we find Amazon, IMDb and Facebook are the biggest pigs on a slow connection.
Ask HN: What's the economic impact of missing string type in C?
How would the course of history have changed if C had, from the beginning, a safe string type?
I got some from Sony's BBS system where fan groups shared (links to) music videos.
I'll observe that the number of capital control circumvention mechanisms for which there is hard evidence can be counted in zeros. If you can prove it, so can the government, and then they can either sue, lock you up or legislate, depending on mood. And then you're back to zero again.
Orange Catholic Bible from Dune Universe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Catholic_Bible
Agreed, enhancements are good (and often nice on a modern devices with all the bells and whistles enabled), so long as it degrades nicely.
Always good to see features from the likes of Python and Apache Groovy make it into Go.
https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/

https://www.debian.org/doc/books#english
It's worth pointing out that if you're using a regex engine that only uses backtracking, then you can't assume all regular expressions take linear time. For example, running `(a)c` against `aaaaaaaaaa` takes exponential time in the number of `a` characters even though it is regular.

A hybrid regular expression engine could, in theory, recognize that a particular expression is regular and therefore use a finite state machine to guarantee linear time and space execution (where the size of the regex is held constant).
Most users on fast connections are not going to enjoy explicitly clicking to download every background image, font, etc. For videos it might make more sense, but there are many more optional assets to deal with.
Scalable Bias-Resistant Distributed Randomness [pdf]
This is the last time I spam a Keybase thread with invite codes :)

https://keybase.io/inv/6953921e2f

https://keybase.io/inv/637bfd5d42

https://keybase.io/inv/20be67f672
...will a luxury car be expected to have better self-driving awareness/features than a cheaper car?

Haha it will be the first time in history for BMWs to be driven in safe responsible fashion...
> I wonder if people would be interested in it.

YES!
All the books I wanted to write when I was younger, but never did.
Not to be pedantic, but it's lane sharing, not lane splitting. Lane splitting, aka riding the dots, is illegal even in CA
When in doubt, slow down. Jeeves would tell you the same.
Hmm, either your experience, or memory, of the nineties / dial-up, is different than mine and all of my (quickly polled friends). We all built a library of painfully-obtained 320x200 horrible overcompressed video... ahh, the memories of RealPlayer. Some video was down to 180p... heck, I still have videos that were one or two megabytes in size in my archives - that I darn tootin' well waited hours to download :)
I wonder if people would be interested in it.

Yes! I've seen stills. Seeing the assembly in motion would be great!
If I cared about karma or being modded down, I wouldn't post on the Internet, at all.

If people chose to download porn over 28.8k modems, that's their choice. Just seems like a waste of time, that's all. Probably quicker just to take your dad's nudie mags rather than wait 6 hours for a 400x300 jpeg.
Google's new AI system unscrambles pixelated faces
Of course! I do own other controllers! There are just some games that don't seem to recognize newer controllers the same way (the original Mortal Kombat being one of them). I'm not saying that my issue is common and I realize that I'm putting this issue on myself, I just mentioned it because it's a situation that highlights why their "solution" to the problem they have is more of a workaround rather than an actual fix. As others have pointed out, the correct "solution" is to de-prioritize their own drivers. It's their driver and their OS. They could even have a flag that's set in the driver for OS that also affects priority.
? Binaural audio with headphones can give you full 360° awareness, the Vive is fantastic at this, such that I can dodge bullets with my eyes closed.

Headphones are definitely enough.
Maybe that's Trump's plan to MAGA. Get rid of all those pesky civil liberties and democratic procedures getting in the way of progress. /s
An interesting breakthrough, but satellite tends to be limited by available downlink power (solar cells) and/or antenna size/complexity.
Which is, essentially, the same explanation. I would very much like a fast, Vim-style modern word processor (the new cursor behavior in Word drives me insane btw). But I'm not the main target. I alone wouldn't pay the bills.

The same goes for almost any website: People with 56k don't consume much digital goods and returns from ads are most likely almost non-existent (especially if the ads are huge themselves). That easily explains a huge part of the web.

Thus, either the connectivity around the globe has to be improved (thats the route Facebook seems to choose, albeit with debatable conditions for their new "customers") or create other incentives for anyone hosting something on the web to attract people with low bandwith connections.
Anyone knows how those technologies work at night time ?
I think GM is going to crush Tesla in the long run.

Maybe in the short run.

Jan 2017 EV sales:[1]

Chevy Volt: 1611
Toyota Prius Prime: 1366
Chevy Bolt: 1182
Tesla Model S: 900
Nissan Leaf: 772
Tesla Model X: 750

The Bolt has only been shipping since late December. That's just getting started.

[1] http://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/
Likely because your comment doesn't add anything to the conversation, and the guidelines ask not to comment on downvotes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Trump as a kingmaker with a vastly outsize influence

Hmm, now you mention it, didn't something like that happen to the Weimar Republic?
The kingmaker effect happens in the US system with factions within major parties, it's just less visible to people who don't deeply study politics, because the factions are less visible than actual parties in a multiparty system.

Enhancing the power of parties is a function of systems that establish proportionality by party list (either wholly or by MMP) more than it is directly of proportionality (proportionality vs. a duopoly-reinforcing system encourages party cohesion, because it reduces the cost of people splitting off to form their own party because they dissent from existing parties, but that decreases rather than increasing the power of parties, in that the party majority or leadership -- outside of party list systems -- has less that they can threaten wayward members with to keep them in line.)
A Look inside Django Channels for Concurrent Django with Andrew Godwin [audio]
Teachers wearing body cameras to film unruly pupils
At first I was like, "Wow, this is a cool effect, let's try a different col-- HOLY SHIT". Color me impressed!
Designing for communities in crisis – Facebook Design
Not necessarily. Wasn't there an article recently about prescription drug abuse being more of a problem in areas of economic instability, higher stress, etc.?

In fact, the previous article in the blog is looking at the correlation between drug abuse problems and areas of the country that voted for Trump---a hypothesis being that poor social outcomes are linked with both political upheaval and addiction.
Compute Performance Improvements and Magic of Caching
Shouldn't make a difference as, as far as I know, none of the tech they're using is visually based except for a few of the cameras. Most of the primary systems are LIDAR, RADAR, or some other tech that doesn't rely on perfect visual detection and even the ones that do have a mode for "night vision" or a modifier to allow a similar type of function.
Not to worry. The Chinese leadership is thoroughly pragmatic and will eventually write off as much of the balance as necessary:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAZARA_Railway
The lenders will remember that they don't have much leverage over Djibouti, unlike the Eurozone with its debt trap for Greece.
Point taken about the quotes. It was thought as a figure of speech, but I can see how that could be misinterpreted.

"Lecturing everyone" is not at all name-calling. That's what he's been doing repeatedly, with code examples in several if not most threads related to C++ and safety.

I also don't consider pointing out to someone that they're lecturing offensive or abusive. In this case, this behaviour has derailed the thread and attracted criticism from many other people.
The 2 links for UI/UX comparison ... https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/11500046858... https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/202528808-Searching... ... I think on Discord it is based on the context of what the secondary thing is you are doing outside of chat (gaming - it will show you what game the others are playing - or any app based on file process - which is pretty slick) and on Slack it will be primarily thinking you are at work so it's all about quicker access to files/presentations/etc.
I can imagine a distorted future reality where the natural progression of WebObjects was based on early successes with NeXT's OOP stuff with AT&T and Chrysler.

While iTunes, the App Store and the whole "Digital Life" stem from a Web-based Minivan Configurator, looking back at WebObjects as a product to enable that for others seems so contrary to what Apple is today.

That Old World of Software Product SKUs has been turned on its head to great effect, and I think it really is better this way.
On the new "One Plan" it's now 128Kbps, and 256Kbps if you pay for the One Plus International plan ($25/mo).
Firefox OS apps also were HTML+JS with a few extra APIs, e.g. for file access.
That's not what I'm saying "not sure how you got there", what I'm saying is that YC wants to fund strong teams that are going to see things through. If a small bump in the road like not getting into YC is such a proof to the team that the idea didn't work, that is 'A' proof that the team was not strong enough. It obviously isn't everything.

Not getting in and continuing is not proof that you are a strong team, all it says is that you're focused on the business/project not everything is weighted on how one group views what you're doing.

Does that make more sense?

I strongly disagree that not getting accepted to an accelerator is the same as not winning. I can't tell you how strongly I feel that way, and I've been through an accelerator before (not YC).

It's like saying not getting investment is the same as not winning, and that is also not true. What does it even mean. Not getting into an accelerator or getting funding isn't boolean. It's a 'yet'. You met with an investor and they didn't invest. You don't stop and give up.

My very first customer call I had an amazing target tell me they "didn't want to use my product and wanted to ensure that nobody did!". That sounds like failure to me.

The next 10 customers I spoke to couldn't wait to use the product. We've had 30k+ users and millions of visits. This was only one persons opinion, and you need to look at getting accepted by accelerators and investors in the same light.

You have to find your own confidence. Listen to their feedback if you can get it, but I'd hope you take their acceptence as a weak signal.

I hope that clarifies. Keep up the good fight.
Haha. That chapter was revised a lot and ultimately shortened a ton in the final version. I agree it had a lot of repetition. Hopefully it's better in the final printing.
That's KDE Dolphin, has been improved a lot over the last few years.

KDE in general has been in good shape, better than GNOME 3 in my opinion. I've been using GNOME 2 and GNOME 3 (up to 3.8 when they completely got rid of fallback mode) for about 10 years, always felt that Nautilus as a file manager was basic and useless.

I switched back to KDE 4 (AFAIR it was 4.10 at that time), the desktop search and index implementation - NEPOMUK (what a bad name) had big performance issues when doing the inital indexing and when it does periodic indexing the desktop simply choke. It took a while to search for tips and best practices to settle it down. Later on I decided to completely disable that as I don't need it...

Later on KDE switched to a new search and indexing engine called Baloo, it seems that the design is better and configuration is more straightforward but I still cannot justify, disabled ;-)

In short, have been running Linux as my main desktop / workstation OS for 15 years, I come to a conclusion that OOTB (most distros) setup is not ideally optimized and secure for Linux Ninja, it takes time and effort to tune the system to suite your personal standard / taste (Now I run Arch Linux on most of my devices).
Actually, 60% of YC companies are pre-launch when they apply.

We care deeply about making sure YC stays a place for early stage companies.
I used a Pentium 100 MHz and it would play just fine. Encoding them would take real-time (i.e. a 3 minute song would encode in 3 minutes), but playing back was fine. I even listened to music while doing other things. This was with Winamp.
Hey, Slackers, you can't find what isn't there.

Most of the time I search for information I need is because I don't know anything about that part of the software. I never found this kind of information in Slack.

Parse the company docs, or our rep, and now we're talking.
Except this page discloses it...
Does this do object detection as the title suggests? From the README, it seems like it only does classification.
You'll likely be familiar with this article, but I'll leave it here for other readers and the off chance that you are not: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2010365
The first is a problem with party list proportional representation, but there are constituency-and-candidate-centered means of achieving proportionality (pragmatically, less perfect partisan proportionality than party list, but arguably better direct representation and possibly equal practical proportionality of substantive views) such as STV in multimember districts.

The second is just making visible a problem that exists even in the US system with intraparty factions.
Take a look at the second previous article in the blog, part 1 of this series. It discusses drug prohibition in this country being shown as a foreign problem, starting with China exporting opium abuse to the US.
Local funding in Texas gets re-distributed from richer to poorer areas. Given the terrible conditions down in S.Texas it's probably a good policy.