skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How to start? Go back a couple of centuries. Americans reconciling the American mythology with the actions of the American people/government is one of our unspoken national pastimes going back at least to Manifest Destiny in the 19th century.

But on that note I think "every kind of basic human right" is a bit extreme. We have arguably the strongest free speech protections in the world, people are free to move around as they see fit, we're a pretty great place to start a business as we're a massive single market that speaks the same language with relatively lax regulations and low corruption, our higher education is second to none, and most recently we just allowed gay marriage.

Granted some things need a serious overhaul, but while we get a lot wrong we also get a lot right.

And frankly you'll be hard-pressed to find a government that doesn't try to abuse its people when it's convenient. That just a function of power-hungry people typically being assholes. The difference is the US is the world superpower and we wave the flag a lot, not to mention we're just a massive, diverse country. So our hypocrisy is orders of magnitude greater just by virtue of scale, and then on top of that we're held to a higher standard by everybody else.

If you took the government of, say Norway (or some other government that you feel best respects human rights), gave them the size and diversity of the US, and then scaled them up to World Superpower status and gave them some cultural tweaks to actually be able to maintain that status, I think you'd see just as much hypocrisy.
What I didn't say in my original comment is that I don't actually do this for exactly the reason you describe, and that I think spaces-only is the most robust solution.

That said, all you would need is editors to enforce "any line with spaces before a non-whitespace character must have exactly the same number of tabs as the previous line." Which would not be all that difficult, but currently (afaik) does not exist.
Ask HN: What's your next project and who are you missing from your team?
I'm a dev with a fair amount of startup experience and I'm available for a project. I'm sure there are others like me and also from other fields like design, law or financial.

POST YOUR IDEA

1. problem you're solving

2. why you're so sure it will work

3. who do you need in your team

APPLY BY REPLY

1. Why do you fit this project?

2. Link to some profile

3. You may want to send email as PM.

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What did this get flagged for and why is there no way to find out? horrible..
Related:

- Someone with online alias NwAvGuy put the whole AV industry (ok maybe not the whole, but some big players) in a loop by showing in online forums that a totally inexpensive DIY DAC (with a free design he/she shared) could be built with quality rivaling elite products worth thousands of dollars. [1] (well a hazy version of the story goes that he/she exposed various audiophile review sites and forums as being full of sponsored reviews, and that eventually lead to his/her ban from head-fi.org I think)

- As for capsule mics (commonly known as condenser mic), market is flooded with DIY designs and DIY kits which let you build/buy one for $200-$400 (the dominant cost being that of the capsule itself) that will rival the quality of multi-thousand dollar mics. They go by the names Neumann clones, etc. [2] (no affiliation), [3].

In retrospect, and given the shady things AV sellers do, like trying to sell you a USB or HDMI with gold-plated pins, claiming it to be superior, it should come as no surprise.

Though, no offense, but audiophile consumer base is filled to the brim with hipsters who judge the quality of a product by its price (and some of the "experts" were busted after they failed blind tests; I think opus vs flac, I'm mixing a lot of things now).

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/nwavguy-the-audi...

[2] https://microphone-parts.com/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtNH46jpwJo
This is not "hacker news". Flagged.
> The world was divided into order and chaos not good and evil.

What an interesting point.
It would be interesting to see other compiler implementations.

Maybe one written in C89 that has its own backends for various archs. It would be less-focused on optimization and more on portability.
(That's because it's owned by jwz, who's known to redirect links from HN.)
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I'm submitting this after (1) having just run across a spam-redirect and (2) determining that this TLD is exceedingly unlikely to provide valuable service.

Confirmation bias notwithstanding, I'm finding the standing advice to block the entire TLD (as I've just done via DNSMasq) to be useful.

If you run DNSMasq (dd-wrt's spamblocking and Pi-Hole are both significantly built around it), add to your dnsmasq.conf file:

address=/.science/0.0.0.0

This will resolve all hosts and domains within the ".science" TLD to a null route (0.0.0.0).

See:

http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html

https://pi-hole.net
Yup, this is exactly what I do, though as a hobbyist. My instagram "feed" has very few pictures not taken on a DSLR and edited in lightroom. My stories, on the other hand...
I, for one, would love for a game to give me choices and for those choices to have in-game consequences like failing to complete the game.
Well, in a team with a bunch of programmers each with their own preferences is kind of tedious to talk and enforce a single formatting standard...
So, I just make sure a small script runs
#astyle -A2SKnjfUHpk1cn -R .h .cpp
before their commits .. and it made my diff look much nicer.. I don't really discuss tabs or spaces anymore..

I never thought that such styling would really matter much ... I wonder how much a developer using a beautifier earns in average..

Anyhow, statistics sometimes brings up some weird conclusions.
Seems like kind of a prime time to increase your holding if you bought shares on the IPO and have any faith in the vision of the company. Having such an intense fight against such a dominating company could kill Snap, or it could be the disadvantage they need to be successful in the long term.

How often is it that the now-huge tech (or any industry) firms DON'T go through trying times when they first appeared on the markets?

-Apple kicked Steve Jobs out of the company convinced the monolithic giant IBM was going to cut them out of the equation.

-Amazon almost went bankrupt when the market crashed

-Facebook dropped for almost a year when it wasn't obvious how they were going to monetize their mobile platform profitably

-Nike got hit with a customs battle brought on by Converse for millions

Obviously it remains to be seen whether they will show the resilience the aforementioned companies did but the fact that some are already speaking of Snap in the past tense is kind of crazy, they've had ONE quarterly report come out since the IPO.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels this way and prefers IRC. :)
WhatsApp is (AFAIK) the only major chat service that offers a J2ME app. There are a _lot_ of feature phones in the Global South, and a lot of telecoms that charge gouging rates for SMS and MMS.
Win16 can run in 64bit mode as long as it is 16bit protected mode code. WINE uses that to run Win3.1 apps in 64bit Linux. For example:

http://i.imgur.com/KtgLeWu.png

(this is an old shot of mine and yes i used a XFCE theme to make it look like Win95 :-P)
The roll out for spectacles was horrible. Where the heck do I get one? If I can't find them while living in Downtown SF, I don't know how they expect Spectacles to get any traction.
I wonder if these cards could also be a cheap alternative for entry-level deep learning?

Unless they crippled something else besides removing the display output, a 1080 for $350 sounds like a steal.
Throw chime in there to which is really good: https://chime.aws/
Give us (TandemLaunch) a ring if you want to do "real tech". We admittedly don't spend much time in the coffee shops, but we most certainly do about as deeply technical work as you are going to find anywhere. Hundreds of people working on world-class problems in AI, CV, robotics, sensors, etc. in collaboration with dozens of top universities across the globe. You won't be disappointed :)
Didn't Zuckerberg claim "Je Suis Charlie"?
Three blogs deep, there's a link to the actual paper.[1] It's a study of one project, a geospatial database:

"Starting in 2009, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and its partners developed GeoNode: web-based, open source software that enables organizations to easily create catalogs of geospatial data, and that allows users to access, share, and visualize that data. Today, GeoNode is a public good relied on by hundreds of organizations around the world ...
GFDRR’s direct and in-kind investment in GeoNode over the past six and a half years has been in the range of $1.0–$1.5 million USD. Partners have also made significant investments in GeoNode; a conservative estimate of these partner investments comes to approximately $2 million USD over the same time period.
GFDRR’s investment in GeoNode would be a reasonable amount even viewed strictly as a software development cost: the GeoNode software today represents an approximately 200% return on investment in terms of code written, since thh current GeoNode project would most likely have cost $2.0 – 3.0 million USD if GFDRR had produced it alone as proprietary software, without building an open source community around the codebase."

This is an unusual situation; many people need geospatial databases, and contributing their local data is useful to them. The value here is in the data, not the code. This is more like Open Street Map than a software package.

[1] https://opendri.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/OpenDRI-and-G...
I really love my spectacles. They are great for capturing POV experiences and very simple to use/transfer.

Surprised noone has been working on a jailbreak for them though.
Some typefaces have spaces as narrow as 1/5em. Many are around 1/4em.

Spaces in a fixed width typeface will be up to about 5 times as wide as in some proportional width ones.
We've been experimenting with three setups so far: the Matrix Creator, the ReSpeaker and the Conexant. We will soon publish an in-depth benchmark, as well as (highly needed!) tutorials on how to set them up so that they work optimally as audio capture devices on Raspberry.
> Arnie says he feels safe for the moment because it's the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Once it ends, he's afraid his uncle will hunt him down and kill him.

I want to understand. I really do. What compels someone to attack another person because their beliefs fail to align with yours? Like, how in the world does your nephew's sexuality relate to you? Not one damn bit.

It's the year 2017. We've made major leaps in technologies (e.g. Snapchat—I kid) but sometimes I feel humanity still has a lot of catching up to do.
Industry-specific deep learning interviews and walkthroughs
No, I don't think it is.
> What absolutely is a problem is manufacturer fuckery with frequency response ala 'megabass'

Yep.

Now, that happens in any industry where consumers don't have an easy way to quantify what they're buying. TV screens in showrooms all have color saturation turned way up. Etc.

It should be said, however, that "megabass" or a V-shaped frequency response tends to be the case with intensely advertised, mass produced brands. The kind of stuff you find at Best Buy. It is much less of an issue, or not an issue at all, with brands aimed at people who pick transducers specifically for accurate sound.

E.g. I would expect to encounter "manufacturer fuckery" with Bose or Beats phones, and the like. I would not expect to encounter that with Sennheiser (at least their top models), AKG, Beyerdynamics, Audeze, Hifiman, Stax, Focal, Mr. Speakers, Oppo, etc. Okay, maybe a bit with Beyer. :)

That's not to say that some of these brands are not messing with the response at all. But when they do it, they do it in very subtle ways. The frequency response might be super-flat (or, rather, following the Harman curve which is appropriate for transducers placed on your ears). But they might "brighten" the sound a little, very subtly.

And then when another manufacturer comes along and says "screw those tricks, let's aim for perfect honesty instead", they sound a bit "veiled" in comparison. I'm talking about this in much greater detail here:

https://florin.myip.org/blog/audeze-lcd-2-compared-sennheise...

Anyway, we are still pretty far from perfect accuracy when it comes to transducers. All other parts of the audio chain have been figured out long ago. But transforming sound into electricity and vice-versa is still a hard problem.
I don't think that is a problem. One could think that if someone doesn't hear sounds above 17 kHz then they lose 3/20 = 15% of sound spectrum but in fact they just lose a small part of the highest octave (from 10 octaves total) which is about 5%. In most cases those high frequencies contain only overtones from lower frequency sounds.

The hearing can really get worse with age, but definitely not because of beeiong unable to hear highest frequencies.
How the iOS App Store Redesign Will Affect Marketers
They cared once upon a time. The watershed may have been with the civil rights movement. At that time, liberalism may have shifted focus from the economically disadvantaged to the structurally disadvantaged - disadvantaged by race, and then by gender, then by sexual orientation, then by not being sexually binary.

In doing so, though, those who were economically disadvantaged felt that the liberals - at least as represented by the Democrats - didn't care about them and their problems. This was a major factor in Trump's election.
Let it drain if it has to. We don't need a hyper-saturated VC market.
Well a good interview process has steps that come first to evaluate the individuals substance, certainly if someone is simply approaching an interview going... Here do this quiz, that's not beneficial.

What's important to us is the person, their ability to communicate, learn, interests, then their skill set and what we have is a good fit for them and us.

Focusing on a singular part of the interview without taking a step back and reviewing the whole isn't too beneficial.
"Snap has warned it may never become profitable."

Then why the hell was there an IPO?!?!
Anyone COULD be lynched in the 1950s. See your problem?

Prisons systems and welfare programs exist the way they do in the US mostly because of racism. If we were a country that all looked similar, we wouldn't be able to see our fellow humans treated this way. But, when it's someone that doesn't look like me? Sure, they look dangerous. Lock them up. Or, sure, they look lazy. Don't give them 'free stuff.'
It's common to use a boombox, Auratones (or similar), and Yamaha NS10Ms for this purpose, but cars do have their own audio quirks that make driving tests a good thing to do once you're close to finalizing the mix.
Link references link:

https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/leveraging-open-source-...

Which references link:

https://opendri.org/resource/opendri-geonode-a-case-study-fo...

Which references PDF:

https://opendri.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/OpenDRI-and-G...

Titled:

OPEN DATA FOR RESILIENCE INITIATIVE & GEONODE
A CASE STUDY ON INSTITUTIONAL INVESTMENTS IN OPEN SOURCE
As you note: if PDF is what you want, then the option to request it, or whatever other format is your preferred option, would be excellent user-centric behaviour.

The idea of requesting, say, <item>.<extension>, where extension is [html,pdf,epub,djvu,txt,json,tex,md,csv,dir,...] would be interesting.

This presumes that there's a way to represent the content as, say, a directory listing, CSV, or JSON archive.
I use LTE for my home's main internet connection, and it will never roam.

(I can't get fiber without paying five digits sums of €, and ADSL is around 3 Mbit/s).

So, if prices rise due to roaming charges, I'm paying more and get nothing.
"Interestingly, sound quality does not seem to be a major attribute for purchase decisions."

This is a silly assumption, and easily explained.

1. Most headphone purchases aren't and cannot be made by comparing sound quality. Reviews of sound quality are so universally understood to be subjective that most consumers probably ignore those details.

2. There is no one subjective or objective standard that is meaningful for all listening material. Podcasts, modern pop music, older pop music, classical recordings, television shows, and movies all have wildly varying acoustic profiles between and among each genre.

3. The vast majority of headphones have Good Enough sound quality for the vast majority of consumers. Sound quality is highly unlikely to be the primary reason most consumers buy a set of headphones, and it's unlikely to be the reason they are dissatisfied with certain headphones.

4. Headphone design, form factor, build quality, fit, feature-set, and even color are all much more important factors in terms of consumer satisfaction with headphones. They are, after all, a highly noticeable part of your ensemble. They are intimately in contact with your body. And you want them to work without thinking about it too hard. In addition to being more important, most of these factors are far easier for consumers to judge between headphones than sound quality, so again it's no surprise that an arbitrary single standard of sound quality would fail to correlate with perceived value.

In other words, this is silly for reasons that have nothing to do with technical arguments about actual sound quality, whatever that means.
Who? Are they like Hummingbird or that lawnmower company Mike and Ted founded?
So just to try to drag this back to apples-to-apples comparisons, what measurable criteria would you say correlates with price?
Online? (https://www.spectacles.com/)

They made it very easy to order online, and I thought the initial rollout with the vending machines was a good way to build hype.
Recouping costs is different from charge through the nose for international traffic.

Yesterday, that traffic typically was priced at euros per _mega_byte, starting at the first bit transferred; starting today that's at most €7.70 + VAT per _giga_byte, starting after you have used your (fairly generous) fair use allotment, going down to €2,50 per gigabyte in the coming years.

Naturally, countries who see many tourists heavily opposed this change and lobbied to keep the maximum price that the EU now has set high.
I've been following this practice for a while, but never really thought much of mentioning it until I watched an interesting talk the other day:

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/2013/The-Care-a...

In it, they mention an autoformatter as one of the best tools they gave their developers in terms of productivity gain and it really got me thinking about how this should be versus how it is in practice. There are some really bad autoformatters and some really good ones - find one that works and is configurable to match your standard and I think it really does result in a good productivity improvement.
It seems a lot of influential software projects were death marches. I just finished a book about Windows NT which almost drove its developers to the breaking point. Mac development was the same.

However, I believe most death march projects don't end as something influential.
How Much Are People Making from the Sharing Economy?
Neat! A dealbreaker for me is the lack of markdown or similar for the editor. I understand WYSIWYG is more important for most users, but it would be nice to have a plaintext entry alternative.

Also makes it easier for external clients (CLI, etc.) to use the service as an API.
> a mode of 'voluntary' interaction that others, myself included, argued is indistinguishable from feudalism

Good thing you've got The State extorting and enslaving you then, to protect you from that "feudalism".
I went through the same thing and ended up with the X100F. I noticed that the T was on sale and realized that the F was up for pre-order. I waited a while but it was worth it. I take it hiking with me all the time now, since it's small enough for that. I really wanted a full-frame DSLR, but the RX1R is expensive and others are too big for convenient travel (for me).
Like New York, Chicago and others there's significant risk on being on US soil now.
Ok, if anyone relevant from Google is passing by, please consider spending a few percent of total cost on soundproofing.

Your tenants will thank you. And they will be better rested and more productive.
Does anyone actually do that? I've never noticed that style in any code I've read, but maybe that just means it works.
It doesn't. Maybe they were looking out for customers? Custom encryption is usually frowned upon because it's not tested.
Part of the problem is that even thought a lot of people generally agree that we are too harsh on criminals, they don't stick to that viewpoint when the rubber meets the road during situations they care about.

People who are liberal on sentencing get angry if short sentences are handed down in rape or financial crime cases.
It's actually astonishing how people who've lived in urban Montreal for over a decade speak almost zero French.
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Equinix was originally what is best described as the Switzerland of network interconnection. They were simply a meeting point for various isps to get cross connects in a neutral facility. As such, floor space in what I would call the legacy equinix is at quite a premium. In the last few years however, they have branched out. They've made several acquisitions to provide more traditional DC facilities for general purpose compute and storage. Not just network interconnects.
My Tandy Color Computer 3 had 512K (standard was 128K) and an 8-bit CPU (6809). It did have something akin to a MMU though (the GIME chip) - which paged the RAM in banks of 8K.

As far as what it was used for - people mainly used it for RAM disks; it could also be used for page-flipping for the higher-res graphics modes the CoCo 3 supported.

For the OS-9 Level II operating system, it was used much more efficiently to allow for larger (or more) programs to be multi-tasked, along with other uses.

(for those unaware - OS-9 was a multi-user, multi-tasking operating system for the 6809 and other 8-bit microprocessors of the day - but mainly geared to Motorola CPUs - including later the 68k family)
I'm curious, do you mind expanding on the fallacy? I read the book you mentioned some years ago but don't know what you mean.
I see blockchain as an evolutionary step for computing and the internet.

The internet is great because it grants the ability to communicate worldwide at minimal cost, to distribute software at minimal cost, and to replicate information at zero cost.

While copying is great for knowledge, it's problematic for value. Blockchain solves this, now you can share applications and communicate globally with objects of value. That's it.

I don't know if any of the current implementations will survive. I could see blockchain only running a small subset of online activity relating to finance, insurance, and law. I could also see it rendering our current conception of the internet sector as the media/advertising niche, the way cable changed broadcast TV forever.

Mostly I think the tech is really cool. So I'm going to keep messing with it. But I appreciate the skepticism, it means there's work to do.
Picking one or the other will be slightly discourteous to the other side, in this case this is an advantage only tabs hold.
What tax loopholes are used to avoid local taxes ? From my understanding corporate tax doesn't go to the local government. Looking at City of MV page they only tax Business license, property and sales tax. From what I know they prefer offices due to prop 13 which limits property tax growth.