skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I remember correctly, some of it came down to encoder settings as well. Joint stereo, for example, always sounded janky at all bitrates. CBR vs VBR also made a difference. Also, the quality of the source was a factor. A low quality source that was already kind of lossy would sound much worse than the source itself when encoded at lower bitrates.
WannaCry – A Stop of a Never-Ending Journey
You'd pass out long before from the carbon monoxide alone. Not really a great RoA for overdosing.
Look for companies with financial interest in locking down media and playback and patent cartels that want you to pay for their codecs and you will find your "fanboys". MP3 is now both license and drm free, anyone can write it and play it anytime and anywhere they want without paying a cent. For some people that thought is nightmare inducing.
Uh, yes and no. I have gone on and off caffeine for years. The withdrawal is mild--nothing a couple of ibuprofen and staying hydrated can't mitigate. It's not heroin!

After say 48-72 hours, you're caffeine free.

I drink coffee to stay sharp while coding, but like I said, I have quit it for long periods of time due to sleep issues and things. I now mostly just drink decaf for coding (note: decaf is not "non-caf").

I should add, I've never been addicted to anything ever--for whatever reason, I can just walk away and never want <fill in the blank> again. For others, psychological addiction can be tough to get over.
Yes. The British had an Achilles heal in the way it was normal to have hatches open and charged stashed between turret and magazine to increase rate-of-fire. A good piece on this: http://www.jutland1916.com/tactics-and-technologies-4/battle...
It doesn't defeat the purpose entirely in my opinion. Even if you write that core native code and use RN for the rest of the app, those elements will be potentially easier to ship and maintain.
Could be solely defensive. Maybe the food container biz is highly litigious.
Also see:

XInternAtom (XWindow function)

RegisterClass (Windows)
> which is when I hit play/pause in one application, the other starts as well.

Is this the problem you are trying to avoid, or what you are trying to achieve? Assuming you want the play button in Hydrogen to start the other apps, you need to use the "J-TRANS" and "J-MASTER" buttons at the top of Hydrogen. In Ardour there is a toggle button for "Internal" or "JACK" and you need to set it to JACK.
National Trust Open Data
I figure that until we build one of the various nuclear-powered boost options that have been proposed, we're not going very far in the solar system. Either we get over our fear of launching OMGNuclear!!!1! stuff, or perhaps we can loft a booster and figure out a way of launching the fuel in enough smaller launches that nobody freaks out at the idea of a few dozen pounds of uranium being dropped into several quadrillion gallons of ocean, or something.

Because the numbers just don't work for chemical rockets. The already-harsh rocket equations get even worse when you have to carry along the mass to feed, water, and breath, too.
Finally, LAME can become LIME.
That's too often a "reason".
There have been a number of Reddit controversies, but let's be honest: most people don't know or care that much about them. I think that'll blow over just like firing the community manager and the whole Ellen Pao thing did. I'm not even sure that the average person would agree that Reddit is "overmoderated," since their biggest scandals seemed to come from the opposite direction, like having subreddits devoted to hate speech and photos of underage girls.
The building is quite impressive, which leads me to muse that it's probably the last, and perhaps greatest, Reality Distortion Field[1] achievement of Steve's career.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field
That's not entirely accurate in general. If the tolerance is the result of improved metablosim (as in alcoholism), then it could lead to decreased lethality.
Simplicity in Project Management Wins Epicflow the First Software Awards
I dunno, with the recent changes reddit has been rolling out it is no longer a nice place to visit. There is so much hate and anger on the front page and so little good content. I could make an account, but it seems like they shadow ban everyone except for bots ( and not just for content, the last two times I was shadow banned it was because I logged in from my office IP address which they deemed was "gaming" votes )
I heard that Everything is dependent on the exact format of NTFS. The same algorithm isn't applicable to ext4 or HFS+.
Entity Framework Fluent API and Indexing
Sure, classic chicken and egg problem. At some point you need an unencrypted secret.
We had another discussion yesterday about what happens when the automation go awry.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14336897
Strategy is, use expensive GPUs to train.

When your model is ready to deploy at scale, take the matrices and deploy them in efficient and cheap ASICs.

Nvidia wins if the product of the GPU is as easy to deploy at scale as possible for everyone, not just Google.

A lot of people who don't have the scale are going to use GPU/CPU for the whole pipeline, and the people who have the scale weren't going to use GPUs in the long run, this just helps them get there faster and realize return on their GPUs.
Don't blindly trust your summary statistics
Even smaller bands still sell CD's or at least use Bandcamp.
Is it good to redirect to https when user hit API with http? I have heard somewhere doing so is bad
you should probably display the items as you go through the wizard. allow people to save searches. work on bigger ticket items that I might want to spend some time on to get right. Also, what about reviews do I need to go to other sites to find out about reviews? Also, maybe give it more of a chat interface. So, that as I chat it refines my options.
Reddit is technology wise pretty simple - it's just one step up from a forum. So these guys have re-implemented a forum and added a stack of features that only a bunch of devs could come up with. Markdown support is mentioned twice at the top of the features list!

Anyway this is a site by actual guys that used to work at Reddit so you'd expect them to be pretty smart business orientated chaps right? Well they launch, pull a few strings and get to the the first page on HN ... then they immediately blunder by making you login to browse! Thankfully I was bored enough to do so and as expected it's just a barren 'seed user' populated scaled down version of reddit.

The biggest USP is real time and there's actually only me on there right now. Last story was posted 35 mins ago. I logged in not expecting my favorite reddits to be there, but for an exciting proof of concept. If I was in charge of this company, me and my entire team including the tea lady would be logged into at least 5 different accounts and we'd be creating a frenzy of real time activity so that AT LEAST we give people an glimpse of what we're trying to create.

Poorly executed - you'd really expect more from people with the resources to self finance a start up like this, the connections to drive users to the app and the experience of working for a top notch start up like Reddit for a number of years.
I am wondering why I find it kind of odd that it doesn't have a childcare center.
Yes! I can't get over how people can think "smoking bad" but "alcohol ok". Alcohol is a fuel. Do you drink gasoline?

"But muh beers..."
I'll give you 5 times out of 10. The other 5 is the designer's solution to trying to fit 10 different stakeholder's crap "above the fold."
It would be relatively easy to port to Android. Please open source it!
For those interested in learning Ardour, YouTube has a lot of tutorial videos that have helped me. Seeing someone do something is sometimes easier than RTFM, especially when it comes to workflow. You do need to use some caution because there are so many videos and some are outdated.
Rewriting a web analytics tracking infrastructure in Go
My favourite is the one that pretends pseudo-random binary sequences are only generated by LFSRs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRBS
It's a remote agent. If you want the scheduled execution, you install the program and configure it internally to run on a schedule.

I haven't finished the work yet, but my employer will be feeding the log results into our ELK stack.

There are other frontends like 'doorman' which allow for ad hoc queries. That is a little more work to stand up.
The less a website changes when I turn on Reader Mode in Firefox, the more I like the website.
> who's gonna switch to this?

Probably no one. But you also need to keep in mind that most HN readers probably have a very skewed perception of what Reddit is. E.g. basically my entire 11+ year experience with Reddit is reading and commenting on subreddits that aggregate articles about various topics. But the vast majority of subreddits either allow only self-posts, or else only allow links to one or two whitelisted domains like imgur or youtube. Sometimes this is the stated policy, but many times that's just the de facto state of the subreddit.

I only point this out because it's easy to think that Reddit is mostly about finding and discussing content, which it used to be, when today it's much more about community building.
It really depends. Some are completely salaried positions. Some physicians are completely private so what they earn is directly tied to how much they work. Even those who are salaried often have some kind of compensation or bonus for extra work. And even if they are salaried, having physicians type notes is not making the best use of their training and time.
It an expression of a more generalized need I've seen to disbelief that ancient humans could be capable of the rationality and logical thought we feel is proprietary to our time.

Also why many people cannot understand how the pyramids could be built without alien intervention
Haha, but any website whose audience is mostly that group rapidly becomes exclusively that group because normal people don't like them.
doing that in PHP would be a bit uncomfortable.

Why? PHP works fine as a daemon, there are many servers written in pure PHP, as well as frameworks for "async" programming.
I own "high-end cables" (not sure if the contacts are gold) and my low-end-of-high-end HiFi might sound just as good with cheaper cables but I don't know, having never (yet) tried it that way. It's very likely that all that super great sound is just the high quality amp and speakers.

The same thing could be happening with lossless. If you are going to the trouble of encoding and storing a lossless digital music collection, I think chances are good you're listening on very good equipment. And you might scoff at the idea of trying out high-bitrate MP3 on it, because the MP3s you have from your Napster days really do sound terrible through your tube amp.

OTOH I wouldn't go too far down the "can't hear it anyway" road. I'm in my 40's and there's plenty I can't hear, but I assume not everything in my collection will be on YouFacePotify for my grandkids to listen to while their ears still work.
Eh, here Fowler just falls into to the trap of the Perfect Solution fallacy.

I repeat: there are no perfect measures of productivity. But there are imperfect measures that have some utility. The idea that we cannot measure at all because we cannot measure perfectly is simply untrue.

In this case we could, for example, take 1000 individuals with similar years of programming experience and given them two languages and a non-trivial problem to solve and see how long they take to come to a working and correct solution.

Is that perfect? No. But it's still something that's measurable. Do that with a reasonably large sample and you can probably start making inferences.

Our industry suffers from a horrible lack of concrete, scientific studies to back common wisdom. We would all benefit from ignoring Fowler, here, and getting down to the nuts and bolts of finding solutions to that problem. Until we do, while we'll have lots of fun having pointless debates on HN that cannot be resolved because we have no real data, the industry simply won't move forward.
And it's said those Trident subs are running Windows XP.
What database were you using and what bottlenecks did you run into? Curious as I have yet to work with dbs in React Native.
Has anyone signed up?

It's very interesting what the first topics are. There is a #conservatism with 8 members already, but you can't make #liberalism, #communism or #leftists. "The_Donald" is "coming soon".

(Edit: I must have hit a bug because I tried with a few names and my attempts just didn't do anything, but someone else did it immediately).

I wonder if this is like Gab, an attempt to make a more single-issue-politics-friendly variant of a popular site.
Show HN: Leerraum.js – A PDF typesetting library with hyphenated line breaking
As a real estate agent DocuSign is used immensely. Not just by agents, but the documents are sent to customers and clients who are probably more susceptible to these types of scams. Sigh.
what could they offer in Europe compared to Lidl or Tesco? heck I've been there few times in China and it was maybe the worst chain i experienced, even almost any Chinese chain had better variety of products and better prices, even Carrefour was one level higher
I would bet those designers never try to read the text on the site, they just adjust the contrast until it "looks good" with Lorem ipsum.
Add Inkscape to that list :)
To be fair, "logging in" is just making a username and password. No Email is required. That's really not a huge deal to me, but maybe others disagree.
Title should be changed to 'AWS Snowmobile'
Rubbish.

Lisp 1.5 wasn't just a theory, and ran on the PDP-1, thanks to Peter Deutsch.

Here's a copy that can run on an IBM 7094 emulator. [0]

Several people have made interpreters over the years. [1][2][3]

[0] http://www.sonoma.edu/users/l/luvisi/

[1] http://mentallandscape.com/Lisp.htm

[2] https://www.oskarth.com/lisp-interpreter/

[3] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mom22/tphols09-lisp.pdf
Gibson seems like a person who'd appreciate the joke.
Looks really nice. Modern clean layout, uses OAuth2 for login. The content is really light, but I guess we can see how that progresses
I think you mean medical care in the USA. The schemes health providers resort to over there are world-renowned.
Being shadow banned has no impact on what content you see so if you just want a better front page experience, try creating an account and joining smaller subreddits that are more aligned to your interests. I don't think I have a single default sub on my front page anymore.
Why would you pay to change something that works fine ? And
pay more to have your software redone, and pay more to have the employees retrained.

Microsoft wants more money and push newer revisions of the same crap instead of actually improving the existing one.

Until win10 that is, win10 is now the only windows version and offers more spying, a worse UI and UX while also including ads.
The US had a secret launch code - Permissive Action Link (PAL) - but that code was allegedly set to 00000000 and launch operators were told this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_Action_Link

The combination was changed in 1977.
RxDB relies on PouchDB. It mentions it in its README <https://github.com/pubkey/rxdb/blob/master/README.md#feature... and in its package.json <https://github.com/pubkey/rxdb/blob/master/package.json#L64>
Hardly any pictures "inside Apple's new campus"
Reading your reasoning. The mod is certainly on the wrong here. But what can you do about it \_(ツ)_/¯
Great post. We have been building our native apps on React Native for about half a year now and it has been awesome. Completely agree with this whole article.

Related: I would highly recommend trying out/using Expo.io if you are new to React Native and just want to get something working incredibly fast/easy to "hack" around with. It's a fantastic wrapper around React Native to jumpstart the whole dev experience.
Nothing wrong with stored procedures. Like anything else, they might not be right for every application.
It's a huge deal if you care about conversion. Anyone with web experience should know this.
This is exactly what I saw. Is it just the conservative outcasts from Reddit? Will we see a #creepshots in a few weeks?
I would like a decentralized Reddit.
They need to reserve that space. Without banners, their would be no where to put banner ads.
Real-time will lead to even 'lower quality' discussion. Consider email vs. chat.
This is actually the worst an internet comment can be - no real insight, judgemental, thinly veiled insults and accusations, excusing bad ethics for business sense, bad tempered and rude. What new platforms need, is less of this.

I have no real horse in the race and am generally sceptical about reddit alternatives as the refuge of whoever gets banned on reddit, but hey, feel free to shit over other people's efforts!
Inside the Gentrification of Grand Central Market (2016)
Digg was once too big...
You are keeping a living being in a state between life and death chemically while they are undergoing massive trauma.

Why can't this be automated?
DANM! I wanted to start learning NN and write an app after watching the Silicon Valley episode. You beat me to it. Congrats.
Test Data Generation: A Secure Alternative to Test Data Management
AMD Releases Optimizing C/C++ Compiler for Ryzen – Phoronix
First of all, malicious developpers can still ask for unreasonable access and often do. How many times did you want to install an app and wonder why they ask for insane permissions like sending text messages.
You may be aware enough to refuse and uninstall at that point but that's not the case for everyone, and Apple washes their hands with this issue.

Furthermore, you may not allow such an app to access your privacy, but Apple itself is above the permission and will happily gather all kinds of data about you, with your implied consent (after all you DID buy a tapped piece of hardware). That's Siri and every remote Apple service for starters, and god knows what else in their closed source shiny software.

The random developer is the least of my concerns.

Now a truly open model where people can enforce torch apps cannot ask for ridiculous permissions, that's better. Enforced by enough parties that nobody can pull the blanket.
Oh yes indeed. ;) I suppose I'm happy to boot up a machine and go and make a coffee while it goes about its business. But when shutting down a PC, people are usually trying to leave it. (OK. Or reboot it) ;)

[Ex daily Windows user for 10 years+ now]
Curious what you liked about imzy.
Ask HN: Is Karma on HN Useful?
I would like to know what people's thoughts are on Karma (essentially rating ideas an opinions) and how's it has affected the way people participate in online discussions.

Has karma become a form of censorship for you personally and does it actually add value to online discussion?

Some comments are better than others and that's fine, but the idea of karma kind of feels superficial and unhealthy, like tinder for people's viewpoints. At times HN just feels like a popularity contest.

Are you too afraid of downvotes to speak your mind or tell your story?
Hospitals run life critical equipment, Ubuntu is not suited for this. AFAIK hospital running linux choose debian for stability, or red hat for support.
Adding Go's Context Package to NATS
“Show HN” posts where “a fast” something was built
Never mind that email addresses are sent in the clear all over the internet every day in normal SMTP traffic?
Yep, you're essentially paying for the administration costs by going private, but that's not what the Bupa adverts sell you, and it's not what people seem to assume when you say you've got private healthcare. They think you're in some kind of special institution where you're pampered 24/7 by medical professionals, when in reality you're in the same NHS bed as the person next to you with some minor benefits. Additionally, as you've rightly pointed out, your private insurance will only cover non-existing illnesses. A&E isn't covered, nor is anything that might've existed before you picked up your insurance, and they'll be sure to check up on that. Take away the NHS, and the infrastructure becomes fully private, and that's when the costs will go through the roof.

For the life of me, I don't know why this isn't what Labour are driving home to people. They should be telling people "Vote Labour, or kiss the NHS goodbye".
I just signed up and created #liberalism to test it out. Worked just fine

https://voten.co/c/liberalism
I noticed the article on MetaFilter [1] and there's some discussion about the word processor in the comments there. Some people are suggesting Apple Writer or Word Perfect.

[1] http://www.metafilter.com/167000/Sulaco-has-entered-a-sector...
What I should have included is the idea that just like with physical exercise, moderation is necessary. You don't see doctors recommending sitting all day to avoid wear and tear, because then you'll get blood clots and all sorts of other problems.

It's up to you to decide whether each situation is closer to "training for a marathon", or "too tired to do stuff".
Since the number of pixels is the same, I think the 11" is a nicer deal - smaller, lighter and probably with a better battery life
Bill Gates' Advice for Class of 2017
IANAA[0] but there are some pretty good techniques for telling the difference, from what I understand. Publishing something like this only for it to be something like 'Oh wait, I guess Denis did it' is a great way to end your career as a scientist.

[0] I am not an archeologist
Why would anyone use ubuntu for critical operations in the first place ?
AFAIK it's Red Hat or Debian.
They are probably thinking of Word Perfect.
https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started...

The official documentation is a good place to start.
Show HN: Radio Talk App,Listen to South African Radio Stations on Your Phone
Beautiful building.

I wonder though - for those who read the article and have worked in both suburban environments and urban ones - would you rather work in the amazing Apple spaceship in the suburbs, or a normal office building in a city-center?

For me, I think I'd still prefer a short commute and the density of stuff that comes with being downtown.
>> I'd really like to know why devs think they can rival Reddit, it's just too big.

The same people said that about Digg before Reddit took all their users.
I don't know about worldwide, but don't believe what you've been told about U.S. flyover country. Understand that when somebody says a state is a "red state," we're still talking about a ~45% liberal population, almost all of which is concentrated in cities.

Your Kansas Citys and Cincinnatis and so on are full of interesting people. And they have a lot of what you'd expect from larger coastal cities, albeit on a smaller scale.

And, despite what the HN crowd thinks, they got the WWW 25 years ago there, too.
Huh? Did you read my comment?

* They have a well funded + experienced team

* They are currently featured on the front page of HN

* The number #1 USP of their site is "Real Time".

So after forcing me to login to check out what it actually is, I find that there's actually no real time content. It's dead.

My insight is clear even if it is drenched in negativity. These guys should be doing better, even if they had no resources whatsoever, for the next 24h, the CEO, his girlfriend, their dog, the grandmother and every other person they know should be logged in creating the illusion of users.

I think even Paul Graham/YC advocates this method, it's how Reddit got started - so beggars belief that these chaps don't think they need to go to those lengths :/
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What do you mean? I for one not only had a chuckle over morning coffee, but, learned a few things about what I would do and not do for my own startup. That's my opinion on the original comment. My opinion on you is that your feelings are too sensitive and are muddying your rationale here. "What new platforms need, is less of this." I disagree, brutal honesty goes a long way.