skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At high bitrates maybe mp3 has the same heard quality. But mp3 has his artifacts, and the problem is if you heard them once, you couldn't stop youself from hearing them every time. It's like interlacing in movies or bugs at borders of contrasting areas of picture in jpeg. And yes, this can be proved by double-blind experiment at least for 128 kbit/s mp3. With 192 kbit/s, I believe, you can hear artifacts also, but you would need some special training for it. So with 192 kbit/s solution is simple: just do not teach youself to hear artifacts. With lower bitrates it's not so simple.

As for me, flac is better for storing sounds. Stored flac has no artifacts (if obtained without them), I can recode it to mp3, vorbis, opus or something else, and get artifacts from that codec, but not artifacts from mp3 plus artifacts from that codec.
But why would you pay if there's no "hostage"?
Yikes. That's what I want to avoid. Since I'm going VPS, I'm looking at RamNode now instead.

The CEO is actually really nice and accessible, and their customers seem to really vouch for them.
I asked the question because as of now it looks like any registered user can create new challenges and/or translations.
Tell the UK Home Office to Protect Encryption
I'm not even mad. It's hard to jam them in the wrong way nowadays! What socket was this?
How is this different from codewars, leetcode, topcoder, etc? Genuine question, not trying to be snarky.
React Native: Sample NativeBase Apps Implementing Mobx, Redux and More
You know what needs to be resurrected? MPEG1 Video Codec. It scales to 4k x 4k and very soon to be patent free.
Spot on. This is something that is rarely mentioned, but having an extremely varied taste in music - I've noticed this exact thing.
What virtual reality can tell us about social difficulties in autism
Tanium says, the max # of endpoints that the "core" can support is 33K. How did you scaled this to 180 K.
5 Remarketing Facts That Will Improve Your PPC Strategy
Blazegraph at the core, is a property graph which persists into an RDF format. A property graph is a simple graph structure made up of vertices and edges. It does not inherently encapsulate any domain or knowledge.

Grakn sits a layer above this in that is a knowledge graph. You can think of a knowledge graph as a property graph consolidated by an ontology or schema which enables it to encapsulate domain specific information in a structured manner. This in turn enables more advance features such as the automatic resolution of data based on pre defined rules.

You could indeed build a knowledge graph using Blazegraph (or any other property graph) but you would have to go through all the pains of coming up with an integrated and flexible schema as well as a resolution mechanism. Grakn comes with these things out of the box.

So Grakn is not competing with Blazegraph but rather builds on the core principals used by Blazegraph, TitanDB, JanusGraph, and other property graph systems. It builds on it to provide a structured yet flexible graph as well as a built in resolution system.
HPE unveils memory-driven computing prototype with 160 TB of memory
My phone is almost always on silent (no vibration or anything) but it is almost always on. I reboot it every couple of weeks though.
I must be in the minority but I think the design looks too empty. I really don't understand why so many UI designs fear putting in some depth or color to demarcate where certain elements begin/end. Mind you, I prefer subjectively uglier UIs like Windows 95/98's or Mac OS 9. I just think GUIs should look like something even if that something doesn't exist anymore.
Nvidia Is Building Its Own TensorFlow Processor Unit
Makes me happy the OP didn't have Flash installed. Fingers crossed they didn't install it just to see the site.
The use of the mask finds its roots in the Epic Fail Guy meme, a character destined to fail at anything he does. At one point EFG finds a V for Vendetta mask in a trashcan and starts wearing it.
And perhaps there was a back button on the video?

(This is not to ding you for this, but to acknowledge that you are helping to make an important point for our times.)

I've been amazed and depressed to find that CS majors in major universities have vaguely heard of Doug Engelbart but virtually none have taken the trouble to type "Engelbart" into Google and follow up on the first 5 hits. (Depressing, because we put in a lot of effort back when things were much more difficult to get most people in the world within a few typed characters and button clicks of most of the important ideas and knowledge in the world -- but ... ?????)
Many cheap hosting services offer catch-all email option for your domains, and my own experiences using various services says it's generally included in the price i.e. "free".
Ideas Having Sex (2010)
It's not misleading, YoY is the standard way to do that comparison which is why it didn't need to be in the headline.
An Interview with Vapor's Tanner Nelson
Has the Internet Killed Real Estate Agents Yet?
This may be the best JavaScript simulation scroll plugin at present
Ask HN: How you stop ransomware?
Yes I guess it would only contain a few hundred laptops if they force all into the hold. I imagine a fire is quite possible though from a rigged laptop (or just an accident) and impossible to put out, unlike a fire in the cabin.
looks quite usefull and simple to use!
What does that even mean? Lots of apps don't need anything that isn't already exposed in newer web apis.
I can second the testimony about lots of upheaval and consolidation in the industry. A family member recently worked at a Big Law firm on antitrust cases, and a large portion of them had to do when recent M&A activity among hospitals, specialty clinics, and small practices. The days of the doctor as small-business proprietor are waning.
When Will AI Replace Traditional Supercomputing Simulations?
Third-Party Apps Will Need App-Specific Passwords for iCloud Access from June 15
One could argue success is a better metric in a revolotion than the body count to those who care about their freedom to decide their nations fate.
Historically, different peoples sharing the same territory usually ended in bloodshed, so the claim that a borderless world would be idyllic is suspect at best.
Species means that there is normally no cross breeding in the wild. You can have two species which will reproduce in captivity, but in the wild are blocked by some geographic feature such as mountains or water, or by some behavioral aspect such as a mating ritual.

It's not uncommon for two species in the same genus to be able to have offspring, for example equines (mules) and felines (ligers).

In some cases the resulting hybrid offspring are fertile, for example the "Savanna" cats which are domestic cats hybridized with servals.

In the wild, when previously separated species are put in contact with each other, there can be instances of natural hybrids. This is what happened with the various Homo species, due to various migrations.
HPC to Deep Learning from an Asian Perspective
This 6 year old article is still relevant but now most of the public seems very satisfied with iPhones or Android phones as their primary digital device. Even though I can hack on Haskell and Python code on my iOS devices, I see them, and am happy with them basically being appliances.

When I program, I am in portable environments (Pharo Smalltalk, Emacs with Common Lisp or Haskell) that more or less can sit on top of any general purpose OS.

If our government (I am in the USA) locks down computing devices to an extreme extent, then that will just screw up our economy and more well run tax jurisdictions (countries) will benefit.
Its focus is on teaching and learning, not getting hired at a big company. Hacker Rank / Leet Code / Code Wars are essentially talent scouts. They want to attract programmers who are already really good. Nothing wrong with that, but it's not conducive to learning.
This. It's the added opportunity that put this researcher in unnecessary danger.

It's like, almost every front door lock can be broken, or circumvented by smashing a window. Leaving your front door unlocked and open however, creates opportunity, that really increases the danger of burglary.
Let's first start with getting more then 15mbit in major cities like Central London e.g. like 50-100mbit before we start thinking about 1gbit.
That's exactly my point, thank you. IMO we hit a plateau of the need to upgrade around the second half of 2016 -- mostly.

While things like Bluetooth 5.0 -- which allows you to be connected to more than one device -- are important and improve quality of life for people with a lot of tech (which inevitably will be all of us in a few decades), CPU/GPU performance and the need for more RAM have ground to a halt. I've seen people game on an iPhone SE and being happy about it, too. Wi-Fi can't honestly be developed much further from now; nobody's phone needs even 50MB/s, let alone the insane projections for 5G speeds. 2560x1440 smartphone displays are meaningless; very few people can spot the difference between that and a 1920x1080 screen in a 5.5" factor; even fewer need that difference. The list goes on.

Add to that the previous point of both of us -- that the iPads are long-lasting -- and I only see such articles as the OP as meaningless clickbaits that don't inform anyone in any meaningful way.

People don't buy tablets like they're a cheap new pair of seasonal shoes. They buy them for long-term value.
Introducing the Serverless GraphQL Back End Architecture
> These are small companies not looking to scale

I actually disagree that the only reason why a business would need engineering like this is to scale.

That is a reason, and if that's the reason, these businesses will not need it.

However, there are plenty of other reasons. Automation and engineering of various business processes exposes issues throughout your structure, can safe hundreds of man-hours, and can produce better product than people can.

Much of my business is automating the generation of various reports. It may only save the business 10-20 hours a month, but you know these reports are solid (if the data is input correctly).

It takes the focus OFF the reporting and puts it ONTO the data: where it should be.

That's worth the 10-20k per app 10 times over.
Two bad things that can happen... one, the order entry procedure on the computer (besides being more time consuming) has usability problems that make it easy to enter the wrong thing accidentally. And an incorrect order looks as official as a correct order. In the old scribble system, where everyone deals with the same physical chart, things that may be a bit more ambiguous/indecipherable are more apparent. Plus, equally importantly, there's more communication between different professionals around the chart. The EMR takes a lot of the ad hoc communication out of the equation. For an example of this in another domain, air traffic controllers used paper "flight strips" to represent current state; initial attempts at computerizing these completely missed that the strips were not only information but also a vehicle for ad hoc communication, and that latter part, critical to work actually being done, was missed in the computer systems.
When the World Is Led by a Child
Free Chelsea – The Verge
Looks like it's for those who're coming to grips with the syntax of a language and trying to move to an intermediate level.
And you think the preproccesor is a bottleneck in C++ ?
Are semicolons required in JavaScript?
"The neural network had learned to distinguish cloudy days from sunny days, instead of distinguishing camouflaged tanks from empty forest."

Reminds me of a story and ex-colleague once told me. He'd been working on a project to use neural nets to detect overcrowding on subway platforms using CCTV feeds. The NN worked with the training images but failed when run on live images. After a while they realised that training images showing crowding had been taken in a different season to those showing uncrowded platforms, and the NN was actually detecting the different type of clothes worn by the waiting passengers.
> because of lack of motivation to contribute to some of the worst code bases I have ever seen.

Your job as a consultant, if you're working on existing projects, is to fix this. This is where you'll be making your money. By fixing their crap codebase.

You wouldn't have much work without products like this.
Google Allo 11 prepares for Google Duo integration, adds group QR codes, more
The best I can get is 16mbit in Central London. For the last three years they have suggested we will be getting faster internet. Yet still waiting. The rumour currently is Early September but they have been saying those kind of things for the last few years. The fastest internet I can get here is 4G through Relish.
"We're not trying to speak out totally against caffeine," Mr Watts said. "We believe people need to pay attention to their caffeine intake and how they do it, just as they do with alcohol or cigarettes."

What.
A filtered one, perhaps. But you sure as hell did not achieve a dialouge, just a statement, and a statement to other people about his statement. At no point did you actually interact.
This is great. I always wondered how blind developers managed to navigate IDEs at a decent pace.

I can't help but wonder how Saqib Shaikh navigates through log files for large applications though. Log files usually generate a large amount of noise in the form of time stamps, thread names, log levels, stack traces, etc. that overtime I've learned to "scan" instead of read to find what I am looking for. I would love to see a video of him navigating through a log file to see how he does it. Maybe just lots of string searches?
Quite all drugs have said effects I have to take BP pills and a couple of Christmas's ago I was doing a full roast dinner for the family, I accidently took a double dose and fainted at the table due to low blood pressure - that's a safety issue but a fairly trivial one compared to the benefits of controlling hyper tension
Why extending laptop ban makes no sense
Sites like Bandcamp and CDBaby now support lossless (FLAC and ALAC)

I haven't used it in years, but I'm pretty sure Bandcamp will only accept lossless codecs.
The security-rationale is a fair point, haven't thought of that ;)

Without knowing how you run the code server-side, are there any languages/challenges that are presumably safe? Maybe you could offer the Javascript challenges without the requiring the user to register.
MP3 is now as dead as the GIF. Why, I haven't seen a GIF for at least... 15 seconds.

At any rate, (pun intended), I'm perfectly happy with my vorbis files and not in any hurry to convert to MP3. But I'm glad I don't have to worry about the silly patent any longer.
Khronos Unveils OpenCL 2.2, SPIR-V 1.2, OpenCL CTS Open-Sourced – Phoronix
Perhaps they could tell a bit about the history of the heart based on the post-mortem? Just guessing though, I don't know much about medicine.
I wonder why people get off on writing articles and hinting at the reader about the original article or PDF and then never linking it? Are they that desperate to keep people on their site just for the ads?
Turns Out the World's Best Sales Development Rep Is a Robot
@aeronautic, there's a typo on your website front page : "acccount" with 3 c.
Instagram is looking to put Snap Inc. out of business, not surprising that they'd look to introduce features that had previously been unique to Snap Chat, plus Snap Inc's quarterly report was abysmal. Talk about having a rough couple of weeks.
Science: Chasing Psychological Power Will Make You Miserable
There seem to be genuine, but used, 10G NICs from many vendors under $40 (Myricom, Mellanox, Chelsio) which might be a cheaper option for a home lab setup. Even 10Gbase-SR SFP+ modules are cheap used, but for a 2 card setup, I'd go CX4 or SFP-DA / Twinax. Most of the failures we see at work in the field around 10GbE or 40GbE hardware is the SFP+ / QSFP modules.
Except that the "hang" is all the malware downloading to your computer.
My wife is a doctor, over a dozen years in practice. Tell our mortgage about how she's a millionaire. And to me, a life of her choice would likely have a lot less stress and shorter hours, and not worrying that the income would dry up if she has to stop working.
Good list, but one is missing:

(6) basic health care is not a market and pretending it is has been nothing but a moral and economic catastrophe in the US.
In similar stories I've seen, the stories usually indicates a posthumous diagnosis of some condition. It seems like there was something else going on here that caffeine triggered. That's far outside of the norm for young people though.
I'd love an open source DAW that was easy to use and didn't slavishly follow the UI constraints of a physical mixer (which works great on a physical mixer, but not so great when you're trying to control it with a mouse). Is there one?
This is not passing the smell test. I, and many familiars, have greatly exceeded this kids intake. There has to be something else going on here. The media FUD surrounding this is deafening.
People have been drinking coffee for ages, if caffeine would be so dangerous wouldn't it be very clear by massive evidence?

Me and basically every friend I have exceeded this intake several times.
This story is confusing to me. There are even studies where previous heart failure patients were given acute high doses of caffeine with no adverse effects. http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article...
That's just underwater cables though. That's not the actual land infrastructure that connects everyone together.
Why ESPN is losing subscribers
They were downhill well before Conde Nast. Almost every article they ever did on LEDs was horribly out of date, using information that was true maybe a decade ago.
Caffeine's ld50 is estimated to be 80-100 cups of coffee worth in a single sitting, more if any time is given to eliminate some of it. Seems like the kid just got incredibly unlucky or had some sort of latent sensitivity.
Ask HN: If acquihired/acquired, what questions were you glad you asked?
Really, what questions were you glad/not-glad/wished/not-wished you had asked? Sometimes it is the questions you think of in hindsight that are the ones you most wanted to ask if you could turn back time.

It would be helpful, but not necessary, if your reply included if you were a founder/key member of the deal team or not part of the deal team, rough size of deal (round numbers, like "below $20M USD", or "$1-10M USD"), how long the deal took, and how long you stayed at the acquirer.
"Since code is being executed on my server, I want to be extra careful." If you mean security I think your concern isn't necessary, if nothing else you will have less people using your site so whatever issues you do have will take longer to surface. If the concern is performance or loading your backend that may be valid but is also a great problem to have! I would try to get as many people to use it as possible OR at least make the first challenge or two available to anonymous users.
The link to caffeine seems rather tenuous, given the low dose of around 0.5 g mentioned in the article. In another incident someone was given 30 g of caffeine and they survived (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/25/students-caf...), and the same article mentions a reported death at 18 g of caffeine.

I can't really see how the causality is established from the article between the caffeine and the death.
The facts are true, the news is fake.
A lot of things can be triggers for undiagnosed heart conditions.
Unrelated but is Central Methodist University well regarded for their CS department? Or is this paper a bit of a one off.
Mayo Clinic recommended you do not exceed 400 - 600mg of caffeine a day. It's a drug like anything else.
> Next, plan your Redux store ahead. I feel like I made the mistake of overusing it. Almost every property of my app is managed by Redux and this results in large reducers and many many actions to control all that. It’s very important to figure if some prop will be needed outside a certain component or not and, if not, keep that inside that component.

How can you possibly know _in advance_ if a prop will be needed outside a certain component (you haven't written yet) or not? This seems to imply a suggestion to completely architect the entire app (what components exist, how they relate) before you write much code. And then somehow being correct, even as you develop the app and add new features etc.

I haven't done anything with React Native, and am only a beginner at web React, but this kind of data management architecture has definitely been one of my biggest challenges. I find it hard to change things once they're there, but hard to know what should be there up front.
A bit of an aside: I cut caffeine out 8 months ago except for the occasional caffeinated coffee or coke. Felt great after the first week, even, and haven't looked back since.
I hadn't spotted that in the hasCode() implementation. Thanks, that makes sense.

Regarding .equals(), indeed that shortcut exists but it didn't help my benchmark because it spent nearly all it's time comparing Strings which were not equal.

I switched the benchmark to compare all equal (interned) Strings and even then there .equals() is about half the speed of the reference equality check. I guess because of the method call overhead?

Yes I would have been sure that everything to do with Strings would have been optimized to the last cycle hence my surprise. I'm not sure about the state of Java intrinsics with the Oracle JDK but I would have thought that most of the String methods would be handled by intrinsics and be very heavily optimized.

Edit: correction - indeed microbenchmarking is tricky and I had a bug. If the (interned) Strings are equal then .equals() and reference comparison run at roughly the same speed.
He had 3 caffeinated drinks. Obviously, he had a heart condition, but I'd guess this isn't the first time he'd had that much caffeine in his body. Kid just got dealt a shit hand.
"Have a strong feeling there is going to be a cultural black hole where large segments of music etc lost in the post-naptster/post-piratebay world because it only existed on the artists machine, Spotify's servers and YouTube's servers."

That has already happened several times. Anyone remember silent films? Most of the scores were never archived, so most of the original music that went to those films is lost to history.
Crypto export restrictions, I believe
Reducing inequality by deconcentrating capital
I believe https://www.freecodecamp.com/ is perfect for that!

I used myself to learn to code and it was great. I went to complete the first certificate (front-end). After that, I decided to go for more personal projects that I would choose by myself using technologies I wanted to learn. But I am glad I started with freeCodeCamp.

It has a standard path (people can compare evolution, share tips, help each other, even have some healthy friendly competition). It has projects where each student can use creativity.

Include a mentor to help and encourage people who are struggling (watching some outliers doing amazing stuff in short time might be very discouraging for people who are stuck, you can witness that in the forums) and you can have the perfect environment.
True, but there's not a simple, unified way to maintain packages across all major platforms that does not involve having your own package manager like Cargo.
Randomly, this happened in the county where I live.

But more pertinently, this seems like a horrible fluke. One time my dad, a chaplain, was called to a scene where a girl was hit in the chest by a tennis ball and killed. The ball stopped her heart. Crazy accidents happen, but that doesn't mean caffeine is suddenly the silent killer.

Very sad though.
HTTPS: Fundamentals and Performance Impact