skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inside Walt Mossberg’s gadget museum
Very cool (soundpipe). Since I was a wee lad, I've been thinking about colonizing all major open source DAW/sequencer/audio editor programs with a single processing core, to the extent which would be acceptable. I think a lot more could be done if these individual projects (like Audacity, Hydrogen, Lmms, etc.) were just basically "shells" on the audio processing pipeline.
What makes you think that the cheerfulness is "inauthentic"?

Some people actually do genuinely like other people and enjoy helping them.

That you find it "inauthentic" may say more about you than it does about the service workers you're encountering.
SAT - Satisfiability

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

Acronyms are always a pet peeve of mine. I would know what a SAT is - since I've spent more than 50% of my life with Computer Science. However, not many people would understand the acronym you'd use. So, it would be great if in general one mentions what SAT refers to rather than using the acronym. Mention the long form the first time and then use the short form later in your sentence.

Sorry if this came across as too affront, just a personal observation. I saw this a couple of ago with GRUs on another thread too.
No way, raw stuff on HN, moar please. Lots of learnding for all
Gruber is a well known Apple shill.
It's 'unsafe' like how working with raw pointer arithmetic is 'unsafe'. It escapes the paradigms offered to provide regular flow and might also require the compiler to restrict how it handles those sections of code. As others have pointed out elsewhere, it also affects how humans interpret the code, thus it is more likely to be related to bugs as well.
No mention of Hydrox cookies, which were a) kosher from the beginning and b) the original cookie of which Oreo is a knockoff.

They were far better than Oreos, in my memory, but sadly they went off the market some time ago.

They've recently been revived, but I haven't tried the new ones. No animal fats. No HFCS.
It's fine to have out of band payments for subscription services on the App Store, so long as it's possible to subscribe to the service through an in app purchase and you don't advertise paying outside the app within the app.

Apple takes these matters pretty seriously, it is their bottom line after all. I once had an app get rejected by App Review because it was possible to buy a subscription from the WebView that opened the Forgot Password page.
Usually a Morton ordering is used for things like improving average memory locality of N-dimensional data (e.g., loop iteration order, data layout, ...). But it is average locality that is being improved, because of huge jumps between many neighbors.

In a small number of dimensions, without knowing what search algorithm is being used, this is just more work than comparing the original values. It doesn't mention what "k-NN algorithm" is being used, beyond brute force search.

Lossily compressing N-dimensional data (from 2 to 1000s of dimensions) into a representation that requires fewer bits can be done via quantization as well, either scalar quantization, vector quantization (aka k-means) or product quantization, if your data has known statistics.

It also matters if you are building a static data structure that is queried many times, versus one that needs continual updating.
I would love to see one day iPad Pros with the capability of being plugged into an external GPU and running desktop-grade applications instead of the meek productivity tools that the Apple App Store is constrained to. As a college student, I recently bought an iPad to take notes, and the one thing that's stopping me from selling my laptop is the lack of connectivity and full MacOS. But then where's the future of MacBooks if tablets overtake them in utility?
I agree very aggressively with this.

Further, often I've found some of the biggest problems in product development, turn out to be things that can be discarded or shouldn't have been in in the first place. Something that was adding complexity unnecessarily for example, a feature that you don't know for certain will be useful, etc.; it's a hint as to the difficulty in finding a satisfactory resolution in the first place.
Yes, 90% Of Germans live in small- to medium-size cities (I.e., not in Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg, and Munich). Berlin in particular has exceptional public transport.
Wikipedia says one cause of dandruff is yeast-like fungus. Perhaps PH plays a role in that. Also vinegar has cleansing properties and may be less drying than detergent, and dry skin is another cause of dandruff.
Sounds like a lot of work, for not much information recorded lol.
I think Emmett Shear's story in this video[1] is a fantastic example of how sometimes the best solution to a perceived problem is to take a step back and realise the problem shouldn't be solved at all. In his case, the problem of determining when to show ads during live streaming.

[1] https://youtu.be/6IFR3WYSBFM?t=37m26s
Investors will always tell you that they want big multiples on their investment in order for their fund economics to work. They are right. They will also however concurrently never, ever be mad at someone for returning their money. (And in doing so, you'll be able to raise money again, much easier.)

The harsh criticism against acquihires is mostly reserved for companies who raise too much, too fast and/or lavishly waste money and opportunities available to them. That doesn't sound like you at all.
I doubt that's true, unless you mean it tautologically.

There are plenty of good programmers working on software that matters that should absolutely not be trading off hazy possible benefits in 2052 for significant costs now.

It's occasionally necessary. When I wrote the code for Long Bets [1], I took a number of prudent steps to make sure things would have a good shot at surviving for decades. But I only took the cheap ones; the important thing was to ship on time.

And I think that's the right choice for most people. Technological change has slowed down some, but 35 years is still an incredible amount of volatility. Betting a lot of money on your theories of what will be beneficial then is very risky.
Probably not bad to re-read once a year, but yea it was posted only a few months ago.
This is a great question. Shareware locked into this idea that if I could only get my game or application into people's hands, then they will love it and pay for the other features.

This definitely is a similar model to a free app with in-app upgrades. The challenge is coming up with a model where the user will decide they want to upgrade. Is it more features? Is it a restricted timeframe? More game levels?

I bet different app types do better with different options. I'd be curious if anyone has captured data on the best option for the different categories.
Detecting Loops in Compressed Video with Python
That's insane. I know that taxes are used to create disincentives, but that's why Americans think Europeans are insane--you let them rule you like that? Insane. Sorry.
Already happened.

Rabbi Yisroel Belsky, who was a senior advisor on kosher correctness ("kashrut") for the Orthodox Union, was implicated in the "Prodfather" operation. "Rabbi Mendel Epstein, 70, was dubbed “The Prodfather” after he was convicted of charging desperate wives thousands of dollars to torture their husbands into compliance. The white-bearded Talmudic scholar once bragged about using an electric cattle prod to persuade the men to sign a religious divorce document, known as a “get.”"[1]

Epstein operated in Brooklyn. His goons used a warehouse in New Jersey for the beatings. Belsky was the rabbi who certified that the documents signed by the victims were legitimate. "Epstein ... explained that it would cost $10,000 to pay for the rabbis to approve the coercion at a beth din, plus $60,000 to cover the “tough guys.”"[2]

This racket worked for about ten years, until somebody complained to the FBI and the FBI set up a sting operation, with Epstein's goons kidnapping an undercover FBI agent. Epstein is in Federal prison; Belsky died in 2016.

[1] http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/rabbi-10-years-beating-j...
[2] https://www.villagevoice.com/2013/12/04/bad-rabbi-tales-of-e...
The important thing here is the objective : there are different methods and tools to reach that objective.

Primarily, the objective of Computational Social Science is to understand human behavior but with computational methods. Traditionally, social science was done offline with surveys. But, with the increase in social information on the Internet could we use that data to know more about humans?

How? There are various methods on how one could do so - network theory, statistics, text mining etc. are some tools that are useful to achieve the objective.
LOL! I meant more like a one click thing for regular users to use, not people familiar with development tools.
That's great! How does it handle account key and certificate re-use (and certificate expiry and renewal)? Does it register a new account and/or obtain a new certificate every time it's run?

If so, it's likely to run into registration and issuance rate limit problems, but if not, it's like to run into certificate expiry problems.
Its the retweets, dude. /s

On a more serious side, that number won't be reached anytime soon..
How much of your codebase is error-checking?

https://anvaka.github.io/common-words/#?lang=go

(the top 4 by far are err, if, return, nil!)
Sounds like you are from a very warm climate. A lot of people consider Berlin winters mild and summers hot.
This is a negative outlook to me and misses the point of taking actions that are 'responsible'. I mean that, composting itself might not save the world but the action people take and the culture it creates of consciousness and responsibility will.
Has the price per elastic IP ever gone up though on AWS? I don't think so, but you'd expect price to rise over time as less addresses become available.
Was It a Story of Love or Exploitation? It Was Both, and More
The one who run/ran Theranos is arguably worse. And Meg Whitman? The one who did the same to HP. There's a lot of over-rated male CEOs out there, too. In fact, I think most all CEOs are over-rated and definitely over-compensated, too.
Life, like engineering, is all about trade-offs.
Is snoozing bad for you?
If you’re a basic dev (uneconomical to hire and train), the market works against you. If you’re halfway decent and hungry, companies are scrambling to get you on your team. I’ve been recruited just from random conversations at bars or on Muni. The “real world” is not a winner take all place, there is enough room for everyone and everyone can up their game/differentiate. Nothing is stopping people from going up or down the ladder but themselves.
Yep, for most apps design is typically the more important factor than the technical implementation.
You might want to start by telling the potential mentor what you can offer in return. Otherwise, your post comes off as entitled and divorced from day-to-day reality.
If I look at my linked in, and I look at those who work in the space, I'm going to have to answer with a resounding NO.

Thankfully they work in the adspace, because it keeps them out of other industries where the code is important and their presence would be a burden.
It seems "VPN" is what people are calling the service now, getting good IP service over a bad last mile ISP.
I don't disagree with your points, but I'd like to point out Shopify as an exception. Started in Ottawa, grew, got VC funding, grew some more, IPO'd on NYSE, and is still headquartered in Ottawa.
Eh, he'd referred to Apple serving a shit sandwich before. So he can be critical.
A long time ago I made a DOS shareware app and posted it on various BBS/ftp servers. 6 months went by, and to my great surprise I got a check for $10 in the mail with an appreciative note asking for the full version with the extra features. By this time I completely forgot about the app, and of course I'd never made the full version. I think there might be a moral in there somewhere kind of like how backups don't work unless tested regularly.
> I think there is still some duty to a website creator to consider what else people might want to use it for.

I could not disagree more with this opinion. The creator presumably hosts this website on her own dime & invested the time and effort to create this piece of art - and you are connecting to their server, free of charge. I don't see how you could reasonably claim that they have a "duty" to do anything.

You're right that an image of a nude woman would be make this unacceptable in a school setting - however, it is your duty to vet the content that you show in class, not the other way around.

Finally, I don't see what educational purpose this would serve - as it's not like this is actually an OS, perhaps as an example of html5/js programming or nostalgia. In fact the whole thing is a JS app, so there is nothing stopping you from running it locally, where you can edit to your heart's content. Ironically the first JS file I clicked on (desktop.js) contains the shortcut definitions for the desktop.
I think that they do exist, and I have no problem with them spending UBI as they see fit.
I found your code last night, and it really freaked me out that there would be another person in the world who would want to make a C port of pink trombone and call it Voc as well.

Voc is pretty much a line-for-line port of PT as well, but I removed some bits like the simplex noise. I also wrote some small utilities to go with Voc, like small plotting programs and some plugins for my audio language for both the whole source-filter model and just the filter.

Still sinking my teeth into the literature. Voice synthesis has a very rich history!
There are reasons not to when creating RDBMS schemas.
I think both you and the original commenter agree that the "intangibles" make a significant (perhaps decisive) contribution to the heritability on outcomes. But that's where you both disagree with the article, which argues for the importance of "tangible" factors (growing up in a neighborhood with exclusionary zoning; receiving an expensive college education; etc).

Like the OC, I've seen the dramatic impact of the "intangibles" in my own homeland, a former Communist state. Many of the leading businessmen and professionals today are descended from pre-communist elites, even though these elites were not only deprived of all their material wealth but actively discriminated upon during the five decades of communism (for example, by receiving "class background" penalties for university admissions). The idea that "money breeds money" is intuitively plausible, but turns out to be largely an illusion.
LSP, haskell-mode, landscape of tooling in the Haskell Universe for Emacs
> What does it improve compared with Geohash

From what I can tell, it's the exact same algorithm used by Geohash.
I'm just storing the certificates in a local cache dir until expiration. They would be in ~/.autocert. Haven't worked out renewals quite honestly.
It was the first time I've read this. Glad I did, at least
I think prospective mentors need to know which country you are in, your current position and your goals. That would help any potential mentor decide if they would be interested.
> "President Trump’s frequent, unfiltered use of his personal Twitter account as a means of official communication is unprecedented. If the President is going to take to social media to make sudden public policy proclamations, we must ensure that these statements are documented and preserved for future reference. Tweets are powerful, and the President must be held accountable for every post,"

Archiving tweets != holding people accountable

There were countless screenshots on archived websites across the web of the tweet immediately after it went out.

This is merely political theater to create more layers of control with little real ROI of the intended problem. What matters most is the feeling of controlling something which you don't control. The type of policy politicians love!

I'm sure if this passes it will result in tens of millions of dollars in consulting fees to what largely could be solved with a server or two hitting the twitter API to capture each tweet and stored securely. Or a single person hired to document tweets manually in a database.

I'm curious what exactly Trump isn't being held 'accountable' for here because every major US and international news organization documents each of his tweets with whole articles - and clearly including ones he deletes.

I'm sure they could legislate processes to eliminate mistaken tweets and the risks of human error here, but lets be honest it's not going to make Trump stop making bold statements at will - which is what they really have a problem with regarding his Twitter. He does the same on every platform he uses directly. Are they going to screen his calls to journalists and other people he talks to as well? Or his aides who leak to journalists version of his day-to-day interactions without the usual PR filters? If that's not the target goal then what is really being accomplished here? Eliminating typos and draft tweets from being accidentally sent out?
the OP is a sequence of brief (100 - 500 words) (skillfully edited & translated) vignettes from people who have first-hand memory of the events related to the Chernobyl disaster.

i clicked and began reading the first one; two hours later and i just read the last one. The editor (who compiled, edited and translated these brief accounts) did a remarkable job, but stories themselves are extraordinary and compelling--many deeply sad; many of them provide revealing snapshots of the former USSR.

here's a portion of one from a radiation scientist working in Kiev at the time:

> Both sides of it were lined up with buses. Dozens upon dozens of them, parked bumper to bumper. People were streaming out of them endlessly. Most wore house coats, pajamas, tapochki (slippers),…. Very few passengers had as much as a purse on them....it was almost silent. The trolley had to stop and I walked all the way to the institute mingling with these unusual and unwilling passengers. They were evacuees from Pripyat. Their destination was that same facility I was heading to. Reason: decontamination. It was only one place that can handle it en-masse. I remember marching with them in a very solemn procession. Not like a funeral one, rather a trip to a “then what?” destination. People talked in hush tones, kids didn’t jump and yell, even infants were uncharacteristically quiet.”

i'm from southeastern Belarus (Gomel region) but at the time attending Lyceum ("science high school") in Moscow. Like many students, i listened to Voice of America on the radio late in the evenings; at 0800 the next morning, i went to the Lyceum authorities and requested immediate leave to visit my family. The response was not a disposition notice ("approve"/"denied") but an urgent request to meet in an administrator's office. When i was led into her office, she spoke to me in an uncharacteristically gentle voice and told me i should not go in sum because there is absolutely nothing i could do to help my family and because to do so would likely irreparable damage my health. i asked her what she would do if she were in my place. She signed my request, then after a 14-hour wait in the queue at the train station, and a 17-hour journey by train, i was home.
Here is Reggie Watts, at actual TED, near as I can tell live synthesizing a ted-talk out of radiation picked up through his hair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdHK_r9RXTc
As a recent immigrant to NZ this annoys the hell out of me. Excellence should be rewarded and strived for, but people prefer comfortable mediocrity, because then they don’t feel like they’re underachieving.
Exactly, living in California or Ontario, if you're kid wants to go to Stanford or Harvard, it'll cost.

And you can't count on your kid getting into Waterloo, the only university anyone in SV/SF have heard of, it's very competitive.
I wasn't issuing platitudes. I meant what I said.

I've been through that situation before, and without AirBnB being the culprit. In fact, it was how well my girlfriend and I had done up the place that the owners wanted to take up residence there.

I think my biggest peeve is the ease at which indiscriminatory lease is made to anonymous people for an unchallengeable fee, rendering buildings where security has been paid for open to anybody who's willing to put forward ~$50 - $100.

I've used AirBnB to visit Montreal and stayed in a couple's charming townhome and it was a great experience.

The two applications aren't equal in my eyes, so it seems there needs to be a line drawn -- the question where is a tough one. But that's me. There seems to be a wide range of opinion here.

Anyway friend, I'm all for regulations where fitting but there are no guarantees no matter what guards you put up that you won't hit a bad run, so it's not something I'm going to spend my time worrying about and instead prepare for whatever I can.
You reached the point where you hate your project. It happens when you burnout after spending countless hours working on your idea. You already have the money to build a team, investors are backing you up. Take a 2 week vacation Alone (empty your brain, get some fresh air, don't bring the internet with you, go somewhere cheap and isolated up in the mountains).

Then when you come back, spend a week brainstorming with your co-founder on a new idea (pivot). Prepare a few slides, setup a meeting with your investors and ask for their support.

If they don't like it, sell.
> Is that always "kosher"?

Yes, that is always required. The basic rule: The same type of heat that was used to cook the food, is the same type of heat needed on the vessel to clean out the food. The minimum heat is boiling water.

Since an oven gets very hot, you need high heat to clean it. (Hot enough that a tissue pressed on the metal turns black - it doesn't need to glow red hot.)

> and seems like requirements for that procedure could easily vary between certifying organizations.

No, that's not one of the things that vary, that one's universal.

To an outsider, the stuff that varies would seem very minor. It won't be anything large like this.
Ask HN: How do you trust people?
About four years ago I started working on a startup and got some investment from relatives. After we hit our first milestone, the relatives reneged on their handshake commitment, and demanded more control, coupled with less outlay on their part. I didn't comply and it took me along time to process what happened. The most shocking thing for me was that I considered these people family, yet they behaved so treacherously. I couldn't accept it and lived in denial for a while, until I finally saw the truth that I couldn't even trust my own family.

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