skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've not seen a single PAL DVD with a multi-channel MPEG-2 soundtrack. Even a stereo AAC soundtrack is rare. DTS is much more likely to be found, in fact.

The really interesting thing about AC-3 is how it is stored on a film reel. Back when it was developed, multi-channel audio was becoming a thing. For large format film (70mm), the solution was simple: 6 magnetic soundtracks. This actually far exceeds the quality of most cinema audio systems even today. But film companies wanted to get it on to 35mm film which the vast majority of cinemas could actually use. 35mm already has two optical soundtracks, and they didn't want to remove these and force cinemas to change their equipment.

One solution was to have the soundtrack stored on some other medium and synch it together with the film. This the approach used by DTS. But Dolby developed a technique to print the soundtrack between the perforations on the side of the film, thus producing a film that is completely backwards compatible and even has an analogue backup which can be automatically switched in case the AC-3 got damaged. As is often the case with technology, it wasn't the highest quality format that won, it was the one that could be practically used at the time.
Sure:

1) Create the instance the first time: https://gist.github.com/rahimnathwani/40ed3b6f496d377e3d17de...

2) SSH into the instance and run this script (replace anaconda mirror if your instance isn't in Asia, and definitely set the password hash): https://gist.github.com/rahimnathwani/b63ebc5900b832743d9e22...

3) After you've tested the server, snapshot the disk (using the web console) and destroy the instance and the persistent disk.

4) Run this script to recreate the instance and disk from the snapshot (replace with your snapshot name): https://gist.github.com/rahimnathwani/9019df33d4ad7ec4607413...
It's more about drive than anything else. If one is able to maintain one's sense of curiosity and inquisitiveness, then one can always continue learning as effectively (albeit a bit more slowly) throughout one's life.
Only took them 9⅕ months! (With nought achieved in the meantime, too.)
Without getting into the mathematics, can somebody point me to a decent website that can teach me origami from basics? When I google, I get sent to a bunch of sites that are often not well designed to teach.
One stellar example: http://uk.businessinsider.com/how-fling-social-media-app-die...
Why not simply use a software cache (memoization, [1]) to prevent doing things more often than necessary?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoization
All these are basic Common Sense, aren't they though? In fact, structuring them like this appears to take all the fun out of the process of learning, reducing it to a mere mechanical algorithm.

My take is this - you learn best when you are curious or can get curious about something. That kind of learning sticks. Or maybe I'm just different.
Any quotes newer than 19th century?
No range lookups. No order by speedups. One thing that I can see Hash Indexes being really useful for is people who use UUID primary keys. Pretty much the only thing you do with a UUID is equality anyways, so if Hash Index is faster than btree, it makes sense to use that instead.
Worth talking of the pros and cons of a Democracy vs. a Republic. Are we sure listening to a lot of people makes long term sense?
But one is a real story, the other is a hypothetical...
7 Reasons Why Your Exit Intent Is Not Converting
It would be interesting to see the actual data on this.
The other projects did most of the heavy lifting. jsmpeg-vnc does the screen capture and sending the data over websocket to jsmpeg which renders it to canvas without buffering. I then took the canvas and used it as a texture in webvr-boilerplate. I needed to make sure the texture was a power of 2 and set texture.needsUpdate to true on each render update. Three.js made it easy to switch the cube out for a plane which I moved a bit closer to the camera. The command arguments I used for jsmpeg-vnc: -b 1000 -s 1024×512 -f 60 -p 9999 "desktop". jsmpeg-vnc doesn't support sound which doesn't bother me since I can use the computer speakers but I'd like to add mouse capture for when the headset is on. And here's a screenshot of it on my Moto G (2nd gen): http://imgur.com/a/uhRuN
Maybe I'm being naive but how can a company that replaces a whole layer of management and overhead of traditional Taxi companies by an App not reach profitability? Is maintaining an app that expensive? I can't imagine.
It's a thought but I suspect it's incorrect. The harshness of prison policies peaked in the 1980s to 1990s. Private prisons really started booming in the late 1990s and the 2000s. But the trend since then in policy has been a softening (somewhat) of retributive policies. California's involvement with private prisons for example is largely in this decade, in response to court orders requiring reduction in overcrowding. But it past the country's harshest three strikes laws (where people were getting life sentences for a third non-violent felony) in the 1990s. But it softened that a bit a couple of years ago.

I think the most you can say is that private prisons (and public prison guard unions, which is probably a much bigger force) are slowing the retreat from 1980s/1990s retributive policies.
So in April 2019, the NHS's budget will increase by £350 million / week. Right?
yup. can't change language or anything else, which makes this kinda useless. :(
Well what's happening with all the rats leaving the ship it feels more like the "Der Ubergang"

For non-German speakers, its a pun on the German name of the the movie Downfall (Untergang), infamous for it's Hitler in the bunker clip.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downfall_(2004_film)
Apple is betting on augmented reality
Aren't monopolies also the only ones with a profit margin big enough to invest in research?

See IBM, google etc.

Otherwise it's disrupt or scrape along the edge of profitability at a race to the bottom, no?

(I'm not claiming to be right, it's a complex thing I don't know enough about for such claim)
I'm sorry, you're somewhere around fake news-level in your argumentation.
Any sense of how this will affect London tech?
I'm not convinced this will help. This is effectively what happens on Twitter, and the fact that the replies are full of links to a Snopes article debunking the claim doesn't seem to stop people from retweeting it even on the left.
It seems to be a prevalent mindset:

False positives are better than letting one slip through (see: MicroSoft hiring).
because they subsidize every ride. significantly. traditional taxis are actually profitable with what they charge. uber is not.
The referendum results really saddened me, but at this point the sooner this is over, the better.
The two companies are like two giant vacuum cleaners sucking competition out of the technology industry.

Taken in isolation, the two trends (data acquisition and talent acquisition) are already disturbing. Combine the two, and you have to wonder how dumb we actually are to allow things like Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp.
I didn't mean to insinuate that Europe was perfect just that there are things we could learn that would help us one of which is the rehab vs throw-away-the-key approach to prisoners.
Why not just make it a complete registry. Put speeding on the list too so I don't have to worry about my kids getting hit by an unrepentant speeder.
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

-George Carlin

Really makes you wonder if the populous can be trusted to make big decisions. I'd like to think I'm a smart person but I'm not sure if I'm smart enough (or dumb enough) for politics.
All property (intellectual or otherwise) is organized theft, backed by irresistible force. You are welcome not to face that fact, but it doesn't change the truth.

So libertarian views on this are pots calling the kettle black.
Or a Democracy vs Epistocracy.

I realize how stupid I am in a lot of areas. And if I think I'm better than others, it's in my ability to realize my shortcomings.

If only people more knowledgable than me ruled (and there's obviously nothing stopping me from learning/becoming more involved), I'd be very happy, even if I knew too little to get a vote.
More like, if someone steals $6 out of your pocket, would you trust them to keep walking behind you?
There was a short documentary about pedophilia showing the opposite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Fx6P7d21o

It's a sensitive subject, but treating pedophilia as something that can be cured with medical intervention is rash.

This mindset is akin to treating homosexuality with shock therapy.
You aren't the only one who though of Game of Life. I also expected that and was surprised.
Poor management. If a company is not successful it is because they have a product nobody wants or they have bad management.
It feels like pretty much everyone is adopting a "wait and see" attitude. But i've yet to meet anyone who thinks it's going to be a positive impact.
World happiness report 2017
That's an interesting contrast. I mean, you're correct, but why is the acronym "between" instead of "before"?

As the article describes, when replacing a part costs a comparable amount to the price of a brand-new appliance, people buy new appliances. With this mindset, the correct term is no longer "between" failures - when you might replace a part and average the described time until the next failure - but "before" failure - at which point you replace the device and buy a new one.
Google treats their real product pretty well (such as the Google Pixel), it's just that Google has a lot of "beta" products NOT actually meant for consumers.

And concerning Apple, their connector choices have been really stupid for the past 10 years, only the magsafe was nice.
Also, AIs are not constrained by senses shared with humans. Our information passing is mediated by few inputs — a stream of light as a matrix within a very narrow range of possible spectra; a stream of air pressure decoded into frequency series; touch etc.
AIs could have many more modes of input and output.

Also… it seems weird to consider having “human” inputs embodied but having direct access to information stored elsewhere as not — surely there’s disk platters, SSDs and other devices existing in the real world, no?
Taxi's don't have an app to maintain. Uber does everything that Taxi's do, but also has an app (and associated server resources and operations) to maintain.

Your assessment of "replaces a whole layer of management and overhead" isn't entirely true as far as I know. If anything, they have more overhead.
Google[1], Apple[2] and Dyson[3] (ok, not quite London) are making quite big noises about big new offices, so I guess things can't be that bad? Possibly they're betting on picking up lots of tech staff cheap if the banks start leaving London?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/15/google-co...
[2] http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/revealed-apple-to-crea...
[3] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-39117982
I had a boss that helped me learn how to document code. It was extremely important as there were many developers befor me, and there were to be many after me. We even had a plugin that inserted a few lines for comments.

To this day, I still document my work by pasting this at the top of every file created:

// FILENAME: myfile.php
// STATUS: ACTIVE / INACTIVE
// PURPOSE: The purpose of this file
// NOTES: Any additional [technical/non-technical] notes that this file should have

Feel free to use it yourself or add to or modify it.

So it will tell you the filename, if the file is currently in use by the application (sometimes an old file may be obsolete, but is kept for legacy purposes), and additional notes to explain the function or purpose of the file.

This eliminates any questions about what this file actually does which helps any developers involved to kind of get a sense of figuring out what this file is in seconds rather than trying to trace it everywhere.

In the notes, you can also list other files that are associated with this file or anything you want.

You can go through each line or code block and just comment on what it is doing.

While I don't usually work with other developers. I have made it a habit of documenting all my side projects in case I ever need to hire anyone or even just to remind myself of what a file does. I am working on about five different side projects right now, probably thousands of lines of codes, and hundreds of files across all. So the fact that I can just open up a project, track down the file, and know the function of the file definitely saves a lot of time.

I suggest you comment right in the code itself. If you wanted to create a side note or wiki-type deal, it is definitely possible. Ultimately, you want the very top comment code to help you keep track of everything.

Add it to a few files. Go to lunch or something. Come back an hour later. Open up the file. If you can figure out from the comment you wrote up top what the file does, you are in good shape and I'm sure others can follow what you wrote.

I tend to not write a comment for every single line. If I'm reading from the database, the variables kind of tell me what it is doing, so I don't document every single line, but I do comment enough to understand what something is doing in the code, especially if the code is long or complicated.

I don't recommend over complicating your comments of the code. Keep it as simple and to the point as possible. You are just explaining the purpose of the code and what it is doing mostly. Act like your boss is going to read it and he may not understand your job (because he did hire you to do the job). If you think he's going to question something: your comment is over-complicated.

If you think he can read through it, just the comments, because lets assume he doesn't understand the "technicality" of the code, he just wants to know the purpose of this file: your comment is satisfactory.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13883954
Tight coupling is good when you are writing tests
I'm outraged that gasoline taxes aren't higher, if that counts, since it's use literally poisons children and leads to hundreds of thousands of deaths every year amongst other externalities it imposes on people.
How about someone with no accredited skills or accomplishments?

I'll transcribe your voicemail, I'll answer emails, whatever.

I won't let you down.
I deleted it because the only GPS option is "always on" now. Can't limit it to when app is on. Load of crap. I'm surprised Apple allows that to be an exclusive policy at all.
There is little to suggest that the presumptively priced iPhone 8 will not start at $1000

"I made up this number, now let me tell you how terrible it is!"

The iPhone 8 of January 1st had fast cabled charging,
wireless charging over a distance of one metre, a curved
screen, a bright and vivid OLED display, touchID embedded
into the screen

All the bullshit we made up before to fill the lack of news is now turning out to be untrue. OMG HOW DARE APPLE NOT DO WHAT WE THOUGHT

Revenue no doubt will remain high but the per handset profit levels
could be set for a drop that may never be reversed.

Oh noes, they might only make two-thirds of the total profit in the entire smartphone sector.

runs the risk of Apple not only missing a large part of the Q4 sales
window but also Osbourning the iPhone 7S and Phone 7S Plus handsets
that are also expected to be unveiled and released shortly afterwards

PRODUCT WE HAVE NO EVIDENCE EXISTS MAY CUT INTO SALES OF OTHER PRODUCTS WE HAVE NO EVIDENCE EXIST

Past performance is not a guide to future riches or losses.

As evidenced by editors continuing to greenlight articles made of raw speculation frosted with bullshit.
Here's a little anecdote: https://www.indy100.com/article/brexit-leave-remain-voters-1...

Problem is, a non-binding referendum with just a binary subject with virtually zero clarity on how the process will be exercised was shoved down our throats. It's easy to blame the masses but the real problem was created by the politicians (e.g. David Cameron/the Tories) and their arrogance and short-sightedness.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc.... but they're also incredible wealthy. I'm not saying money can buy happiness, but it pretty much can.
Right, no one would ever make products intentionally worse as part of creeping modernism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel

No one would ever, for economic reasons, plan (or just allow) for the lifespan of their products to decrease. http://resource.co/article/lifetimes-household-appliances-be... Technology is always getting better!

The old timers who almost universally report this phenomenon just don't know enough arm chair statistics. Delusional, basically.

If a study were done, or a set of studies, say between changes in average appliance lifespan between 1993 and 2007, these could never show a dramatic decrease in the average lifespan of most appliance categories.

1993 NAHB results
http://www.metrohome.us/information_kit_files/life.pdf

2007 NAHB results
https://www.interstatebrick.com/sites/default/files/library/...
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> they've stopped writing and compiling them with the backwards compatibility shims that made them work on older hardware

That claim doesn't stack up. Windows 10, for example, works fine on older hardware. As Microsoft said, they're blocking updates to Windows 7 and 8 if you try to run those OSes on newer hardware.
No.

But, I don't think this is parallel to butt-dialing Uber.

Maybe if you had $6 hanging out of your back pocket, they flew out, someone picked them up, and when confronted said that they didn't do it.
What does durable mean in the context of a Postgres index? I can sort of guess but from the way it's used here it seems like it has a well know definition. A quick google search (on my phone) returned this article a few times but not much to else that explains it.
> China already has an excellent way of controlling fake news

Here's the fun part, in China, spreading rumor is a criminal offence, but debunks (or at least one sided debunks) are not. So people and PR firms and using fake news to counter fake news.
Note that if you click on the time next to the comment to open the page for the comment, you can click "vouch" and at least help save the individual comment.
Absolutely. I wouldn't be suprised if most of the recent bad PR Uber has been getting is actually being driven by Google ahead of the lawsuit to hurt Uber's reputation and distract them from preperation.
I can't delete or edit it though. Sorry.
We had a top loader that spins around horizontal axis, just as front loaders do, should have the same water consumption.
It's cooperative before an event happens, then adversarial while deciding whether an event is covered by the policy. Nobody wants a house to blow down in a hurricane, but they don't necessarily agree on the value of the property or how much of the damage was caused in which ways (wind, water, acts of God, etc.).
I agree, but honestly Windows 10 now has Ubuntu bash included. Windows is a much better choice for Mac users who want to migrate.

Ubuntu is missing Office 365, all Adobe Products and much more. Yes you can run it with Wine, but that's not that easy.
I had an LG fridge stop working and the reason was that a fuse blew on the circuit board. A cheap $2 fuse. It was not replaceable. I was lucky that I was able to un-solder it and replace it but otherwise you have to replace the entire board ($150). If you are not that handy you then have to pay something to do all this for you. Now you are talking $300+.

Unbelievable.
The problem is not competition from traditional taxi companies (they do indeed replace taxi companies' management structure) but other ride sharing companies, ie Lyft. Uber has only managed to stay ahead of Lyft by undercutting Lyft's prices, incurring severe losses in the hope that as soon as they have self-driving cars they will be able to become profitable by eliminating one of their main expenses, the drivers themselves, while maintaining lower prices than Lyft.

Without self-driving cars, that strategy isn't sustainable, and so eventually Uber will find itself unable to maintain its advantage over Lyft.
>> Really makes you wonder if the populous can be trusted to make big decisions

They can't. That's why we elect representatives who should be talking to experts and figuring out the impact of decisions. And then for some reason they take the biggest decision of our generation, give it to us, lie to us about the impact, and tell us to ignore the experts.
Definitely not a reflection of a large group of people with different opinions of different strengths. It's actually a big HN conspiracy designed specifically to piss you off. You figured us out.
That's a good point. I'm not sure why I misremembered the term but in this case it might actually be more accurate.
Could we build spaceships with that ?
The problem with all variants of "only subgroup x should be able to vote" is the potential for abuse. Who writes the test? Who grades the test? Who defines the correct answers? And so on. As long as we don't have a solution for that all "only subgroup x may vote"-systems are not really feasible.
It's not unusual that important topics require more than a simple majority.
"Wait and See" == "Uncertainty". I work for a FTSE100 and nobody in management is talking about it. Nobody. It's head in the sand time as far as we're concerned, although I imagine there's frantic discussions going on upstairs.

Tech people are already leaving and not being replaced, I'm ready to quit my six-figures and bail out while the going's relatively good - just have to await my EU spouse getting their residency so we can definitely move back and forth freely.
For anyone interested in the full report: https://s3.amazonaws.com/sdsn-whr2017/HR17_3-20-17.pdf

The U.S is 14th.
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Durable in the ACID sense, or specifically that write operations go through the WAL (write-ahead log, i.e. a journal), with all the consequences this brings (both durability and replication).

Before this work was done, hash indexes could literally be corrupted by power outages, etc.
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My experience, which is not anecdotical and is shared with friends, say the same. I just change a refrigerator bought less than 12 years ago and I am changing a washing machine with the same age. My family is using the same refrigerator for more than 30 years.
My blood is boiling from thinking about soldering a fuse to a circuit board.
The $20 Starbucks Test
The "$20 Starbucks Test" is the best test of a startup idea. You don't even need a prototype. You just need to get to your local coffee, walk up to strangers and talk to them about your startup idea pretending it's your brother's. Then collect feedback.

Great... great ?! However good this idea might be, some might have some problem to strike up a conversion with a random stranger.

How would you (have you) overcome this ? What pushed you to do it ? Do you have any idea of a startup-idea-test that does not involve coding ?

Any advice welcome.
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This is about prediction of supply. In other words, becoming a weather forecasting organization, mainly wind and clouds/shadow.

Demand is predictable so little to gain there.

How big is the market of providing excess demand? If I can turn on the AC or charge electric cars in the millions, what can I earn as a company?
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cruel and unusual punishment anyone?
Ouch, so this looks like the final coffin into ptmalloc2, and esp. a shout to emacs, which still hasn't finished their portable dumper. But not much missing there, should be ready soon. (I got a not working branch on my GitHub)
Hope glibc will adopt this soon.