skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't care about the accuracy of their response curve (I know it isn't flat) after I found Grado[1] headphones. They are the only headphones I've found that don't add a "headphone" quality to the sound. It's hard to describe what I mean - it's that most headphones don't sound like a proper set of (quality) speakers. I've speculated it's something to do with most headphones not being able to move enough air. Grado uses very large drivers (voice coil is about 4cm in diameter) in a supra-aural (open back) design, which may move more air? Whatever the reason, Grado Labs has discovered a design that I consider categorically better[2] than everything else.

[1] http://www.gradolabs.com/headphones/prestige-series/item/1-s...

[2] In terms of music quality. Other use cases may prefer designs that focus on other features.
Thanks Jay Huang. I am very appreciated your feedback!
Regarding your suggestions, I totally agree and am working on the changes.
But as kabdib has said many times, "You can't grep paper."
I haven't had time to read the report in detail, but it appears that the 200% ROI figure is simply derived from the ratio of externally written software to internally written software. So, by writing an open source tool instead of keeping it closed, they got contributions of code that exceeded their own investment. However, this is not actually the main point of the paper, and neither is it the whole picture. For example they discuss sponsoring in-person events and I don't think that kind of cost is accounted for in their ROI figure. Indeed, the paper goes to some effort to explain that the benefit they received goes far beyond the outside contributions of code. I know nothing of the project, but from their description it seems that it was very well run. I'm not sure that we can reasonably assume that they wouldn't get similar results from a well run consortium, for example.

Anyway, it looks like an interesting report and I look forward to reading it in more detail, but I think the headline in the blog-pointer is unwarranted.
I have never in my life been concerned about counterfeit dollars. While I may have unknowingly handled one at some point it's never come up or negatively impacted me making that benefit marginal at best.
> The frequency response and the impulse response are correlated. You can just get one from the other through fourier transformation.

It's true. It should be added, however, that when the frequency response is complex (and it always is with transducers) and the measurement conditions are not very repeatable, it's probably beneficial to also get an impulse response.

> Phase shift can also be measured through this approach

I thought headphones are zero-phase-shift devices? This is because of the very small volume of air between the membrane and the eardrum - they both move in lockstep, hence zero phase shift.
Would you agree that the Kodak Instamatic was a serious camera? That is, technology isn't serious, it's the use that it's put to that determines.
Handspring could have left the keyboard off the Treo, their earlier PDAs were much closer in style to the iPhone.
Truth be told I love Amazon for the innovation they've brought to most of the industries they've touched but it's like there's some aura of trust around them just because they have brought some of their might against Facebook and Google which seem to be considered the evil twins on HN.
Most registers including x86 segment registers need to be saved during context switches, regardless of its between threads or processes. E.g segment registers used for TLS. There are maybe optimisation for flat segments.

> Context switching when dealing with threads is typically done in software, not in hardware

I'm not sure any OS exists that does register saving in HW for switches between processes and in SW for switches between threads. Its especially doubtful for Linux, given it does not really have a very strong concept of what is a process vs. what is a thread.
Trump Orders Government to Stop Work on Y2K Bug
Covariance OO problem – reddit comment
Yeah sometimes I wonder if Canada anticipated the massive brain drain the TN visa has ended up being. It would be ironic if Trump shut it down.
>Recidivism rates in the US show it is objectively not working, with state prisons leaving inmates to re-offend 76% of the time. [1] In Norway, much derided for their lavish prisons, it's 20%. [2]

You can spin this and say that American criminals need to be locked up because they just cause more crime in general.

Some see that 76% figure and conclude prison makes them worse.

Others see it and think, well these are the bad apples, keep them locked up.
We just used it for a trusted/whitelist of users to send encrypted emails to one another, usually in the same company, and to forward on invoices/purchase orders to be sent. We just used default PGP setup with symmetric keys (which used PGP/IDEA internally I think). We switched this portion to Bouncy Castle with RSA.

We were just using it for additional ways to send financial docs usually invoices/purchase orders and acks/receipts using PGP where users traded keys, in places where the company was too small to warrant EDI needs and to send invoices to/from the system. PGP was being productized at the time and people were about encrypted email for a while so we added that feature in.
This bank helped build the American West. It was there before the current batch of executives arrived. Will it still be there after they leave? Possibly, if they accept personal responsibility for these problems, pay big fines, do some time at Club Fed, and get out of banking.

Will they do that? Probably not. After all, no organization in the 21st century is conceivably more valuable than the people who are lootingxxxxx running it.
I think part of the issue in examples like this one is that journalists read (legitimate) criticism about e.g. Telegram and simply don't report all the nuance (whether due to an actual agenda or honest misunderstanding).

Secret chats are not enabled by default, and most users don't enable them; so yes, messages are generally stored without encryption on the Telegram servers. That's a more neutral way of presenting the information.
This feels like the Arcology of Shadowrun lore.

"Arcology (short for Architectural Ecology) is a term used to describe a self-sustaining colony, typically a massive building which does not need to import or export supplies to stay running and maintain a population of humans. The most famous arcology is the [...] Self-Contained Industrial-Residential Environment (SCIRE), and now known as Arcology Commercial and Housing Enclave (ACHE) [...] Originally was home to over 90,000 Renraku employees and family members. The SCIRE served as a shopping mall, industrial complex, and basically self-contained private city of Renraku within the Seattle Metroplex."

It's worth noting that this universe has the widespread concept of a "wage slave", employees that have to work to keep living and live to keep working.
This reads like an advertisement...
Sure thing. I have two boxes that run sshd exposed to the internet: 69.164.221.163 and 45.79.85.20. sshd runs on port 2020 now; I was running it on port 22 before but I got so many failed login attempts that it was actually causing noticable load on the system (something like average 10% CPU usage just for sshd).

I still get a couple hundred failed login attempts every day. Reasonably strong passwords and fail2ban mean that it's nbd.

Also, my phone number is on my website (it's 320 584 9293) and most of the spam calls I get are through whois, not the fact that there's a tel: URL out there pointing at it.
iOS support?
Because it would be irrational to assume that they lie all the time. You are right that they've calculated it to be a good move, but good moves are not universally applicable.

You should definitely give lower weight to the statements of an actor with a record of being untruthful - we could get into discussing how Clapper is no longer at the NSA and that equating the NSA with his statements to Congress is a fallacy of composition, but let's go with the idea that the NSA as an institution is rather untrustworthy. What I'm arguing against is reflexively reducing that weight to zero, which I claim is irrational.

Morality is something that is important in decision-making, but extremely distracting in analysis, so I ignore it when trying to figure out what people are doing or whether they're truthful.
As someone who grew up in Eastern Europe but moved to US over a decade ago I can say that there is still an overwhelming stigma in regard to alternative sexual orientation. People are slowly changing their views but not quickly enough in my opinion.

I don't really know what the cause is. My best guess is a mix of deeply embedded catholicism along with strong media propaganda and shaming.
Roskomnadzor Policy Allows Blocking of Arbitrary Websites in Russia
That's why the "Too Big To Fail" mentality needs to be erased from Americans' and especially American politicians' minds.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/u-s-sues-wells-far...
Although a little dramatic, this is fair enough of an assessment.

I'm honestly surprised SnapChat doesn't let you purchase Spectacles in-app, so there must be more to the story.
Other phone vendors also felt tantalizingly close, but they were all busy optimizing their local maxima without making that final "finger-controlled" breakthrough.

I remember using a Sony Ericsson Symbian UIQ phone in 2006 (the M600i IIRC, Jobs was rumored use an earlier phone in the same OS series, the P800), where they had put the action buttons at the bottom of the screen at a finger-friendly size. I remember often quickly using my fingers to do common tasks, but it was a resistive screen and they still used scroll bars and tiny checkboxes. In hindsight it shouldn't have been that difficult to make the leap to finger-first, but it was Apple who did it.
Frequence range is measured so that the response amplitude is within some range (like 6, 3 or 1dB for example). Of course allowing large amplitude range gives larger measured frequency range which can be used in marketing purposes.
Will the Georgia Special Election Get Hacked?
I hope they have a company store too, and you can get paid in credits for it! /s

Personally, I don't like the idea of handing money right back to the company you work for, for property they own and you just rent.
I strongly disagree. The US is the most powerful country EVER in human history. It has the ability to invade and influence any country on the planet. No country in the past really had that ability. When Great Britain rules much of the world, they were no superpower like the US today. There were countless countries in Europe which could all challenge Britain militarily. Back then there was many great powers. Today there is only ONE superpower and that is the US.

What is unique about the US historically is that they have always claimed to be spreading freedom while frequently doing the exact opposite. Of course it is really just a new twist to the old western excuse for invading: we are civilizing your, or: we are bringing christianity to the poor masses.

Since the US is the main power today and it is a democracy, it is VERY important to protest the US and make Americans aware of the role the US plays world politics. Today very few Americans know about the countless abuses, power grabs, and human rights abuses the US has engaged in the last 100 years. Instead all around US schools American school children are served up propaganda about the US being the best, freest and most human country ever in existence.

How can America ever change if it keeps brainwashing its population like this?

At least the Germans owned up to their atrocities.
Ask HN: How do you mitigate stress as a single-person business?
I went to the hospital with chest pain on Monday night. ECG and blood work checked out fine. BP was sky high, and still is higher than normal.

The doctor asked me about acid reflux, sleep deprivation, anxiety/stress.

My answers were: no, tons in the last couple weeks, no more than the next guy(?).

Was talking to a CPA friend the following day, and relaying the conversation with the doctor to my friend.

He said that he deals with a lot of self-employed folks, and he thinks we're more stressed in general. We're making all the decisions, where an employee has very few, if any, decisions to make.

It got me to thinking... okay, maybe there's a LOT more to this than I think. I don't want to go back to working for someone else, if I can help it. I'd like to grow my business, and take on contractors and/or employees, and get to a point where I can delegate.

How can I mitigate the stress? (which at this point, doesn't seem like much, but it obviously is)

How do you mitigate it?

Thanks.
The definition of a trust has also changed. Before the '70s, a merger that would result in a single company owning, say, 20% of a market would be a red flag. Nowadays, you have giants in any mature industry: it's the nature of capitalism.

Since I like the idea of free market, I wish the market size of any company was limited to 15%, to truly allow competition and diversity of players. However, our economy is now global, and unless all the other countries play by these same rules (which I find highly unlikely), it will be a race converging to a few giant players and the occasional disrupters.
I just noticed that the last sentence in the first paragraph above should read "but does not observe any defensive preparations". sorry about that.
Watch the extant powers -- state and extra-governmental -- entrench themselves, one by one, step by step.
Bitcoin is tumbling – Off almost 40% from its high
Both the Dell XPS 13 and 15 are solid machines with a wide array of options. Personally using a XPS 13 over here without any issue.
A USB smart card like a Yubikey NEO or 4 might be useful. Keys are securly stored in the card and never leave it.
Alternatively, a USB smart card reader and a normal smart card, but this is physically larger.
I recommend reading "Debt: The first 5,000 years" by David Graeber. It made the idea of honor as a social currency click for me. In a community where your good name is your main asset, honor killings are rational (not making any excuses for it of course).
If I find a shiny rock and sell it to you for $100 and you find a fossil and sell it to me for $100, that's $200 added to the GDP. If we trade rather than pay each other, then it's $0 added to GDP. The same goes for services. If I mow your lawn, paint your house, hypnotize you to quit smoking, or sing you a song - all of those things (are included in GDP.

When you pay for entertainment it's 100% included in GDP the same way as when you pay for somebody to inspect your car.
Private prisons have serious issues, but public ones have issues as well; often they are underfunded, which allowed the private company world to get involved to offer a service for cheaper costs.

I would suggest the solution is properly around the question of the willingness of the US taxpayer to adequately fund the government services.
> I think that the basic interface for the iPhone was fairly inevitable

I hear that a lot, and I'm not convinced.

I think people needed to have a strong motivation to get used to software keyboards. I think most companies implementing one would have screwed it up (see: RIM).

So you'd need a compelling use case and compelling software to force that sea change. I find it plausible that, absent Apple's existence, we'd be using clunky GUIs on desktop computers and even clunkier GUIs with physical keyboards on smartphones.
We're talking CA here. Just parking a double wide requires a 30-man crew paid prevailing wage, ten grand in permits, etc, etc. Land and construction are both expensive.
this is all nice and dandy but it's still only half job, since this doesn't mean there are no charges for international calls

so yes receiving calls or using internet will be same as home, you still have to watch what number you are calling, if it's from country of your carrier or different

please correct me if I am wrong

EDIT: so I was right, now it's even more insane than before:

For example: If you have a Belgian card and you travel to France and call either a hotel in France, back home to Belgium, or to any other country in the EU and the EEA, you are roaming (refer to legal text on the regulation on roaming) , and you will pay Belgian internal domestic prices (refer to legal text).

However, if a Belgian SIM card holder calls from Belgium to Spain, she/he will pay the international tariff. Calls from home to another EU country are not roaming and are not regulated.

source: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/faq/frequently...

TLDR: there are no fees for international calls while you are in roaming, but when you return back home enjoy fees for international calls, using your SIM in foreign network is cheaper than using it in your own network at home
I think the very open nature of Grados are what probably give them less of a "headphone sound". I'm a big fan of Grado as well, unfortunately since they are so open they leak sound like crazy, which makes them hard to use in an office environment.
Actually it is. You see, pointing out that every man is potentially a murderer doesn't excuse those that are actual murderers. Why is it acceptable to do wrong based on others doing the same? I certainly teach my kids otherwise.
Sure, but they could instead sweep all the customers away from their competition since the same parent company has a foot in multiple countries. They could have even undercut business from Skype by offering almost-free roaming.

Also, if roaming charges are prohibitively expensive, people just stop using roaming. If they are at least reasonable, they will profit significantly more because people will actually use it. At $15/MB I just shut my phone off. They're not making any money from me.
On the CYOA site you can buy old CYOA books for more than $20 apiece, so it might be worth something.
1) how many hotwords can you have ?

my application would need only around 20 distinct words

2) can they be non dictionary hotwords ?

say "fruznumble" ?

3) how do headset mics work. a lot of the hotness is mic arrays for roomscale commands, but how does it work with older style mics ?
Ask HN: Should I open-source my side-project website?
I'm actively working on my side-project Booknshelf (https://booknshelf.com) which is a website to discover books, organize them in online shelves and do more.

I've been thinking for a while to open-source it but not entirely sure if it's a good idea for my case.

What will the benefits be? Can it be valuable at all to the open-source community? I know it's not common to open-source the codebase of a website.

I need your help! Thank you.
Moving from Amazon to Hubic (https://hubic.com/en/offers?referral=LCUAXF) - 10TB for ~$55/year
Yes absolutely. In fact we created a dedicated Labs team within Snips (check out http://labs.snips.ai) with that in mind: to create DIY hacks, proof-of-concepts, benchmarks and related material for the community. We are just getting started, and have published our first post on building a connected speaker: https://medium.com/snips-ai/how-to-build-a-voice-controlled-.... Stay tuned, many more are coming over the next months.
British social welfare is considered (sorry, no source) one of the top in Europe (Swedish is probably higher).
Local government consistently fails at enabling adequate public transportation to the point where the large tech companies need to step in and fill in the gaps with their own bus services. Is it any surprise that local government fails to enable adequate housing?
Google image search with Curl and Nodejs
They "warned" in an SEC filing that is supposed to state possible investor risks. The way this was reported is the problem and not Snap's statement, which any investor should understand is factually correct.

Snap is a volatile play: there's a high chance, maybe bigger than 50%, that it never becomes profitable, as they warn, and there's some small chance it becomes extremely profitable. The real question is, what's the net present expected value?
The number of respondents who included salary is almost half of the overall sample size. So it could just be that developers who use tabs make more and are less likely to hand out their salary.
The Taliban isn't really the Mujaheddin that America funded in the 80's. After the Taliban took over most of Afghanistan, many former Mujaheddin joined the government, but it's leaders were distinctly not Mujaheddin.

In fact, the CIA contacts from the 80's were reactivated after 9/11 because, for the most part, they were in charge of the Northern Alliance forces that were battling the taliban in the civil war.
In a region where building housing is disruptive innovation...
The housing crisis is the result of both policy and innate incentives to rentier asset inflation. If you want to attack housing, you've got to change the system, not simply construction.

We know how to build attractive and high-density housing. And there's a hell of a lot room for improvement above Palo Alto's 960 persons/km^2

Redondo Beach, CA, ranked at #132 on the list of most densly-populated U.S. cities, clocks in at 3,900/km^2.

Changing tax laws, real-estate financing, and costs of failure to develop will have a far greater impact.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities...
(79) the Code: Story of Linux Documentary
Garcinia cambogia and apple vinegar to lose weight
Reminds me of the title my favorite book: cryotonomicon. Highly recommend it.
And at that scale you can make additional microservices for the critical path where it matters.
I thought most of the problems with prices in the area are geographic constraints (think peninsula nature of San Fransisco) coupled with city zoning laws (that, for one, limit vertical growth). In general, I never saw speed and cost of construction as the biggest issue.

So the innovation here would be Google adding housing supply on its own land—a company camp met of course with healthy critique.

I do think modular construction is set to dramatically change the way we create buildings. For anyone interested, there's a still-operating 1968 modular 500-room deluxe hotel in San Antonio, Texas —designed, completed and occupied in a then unprecedented period of 202 working days.

The best tidbit: Before arriving on the construction site, each room was fully decorated, including color TV, AM/FM radios, beds, carpeting, bottle openers, automatic coffee makers, ash trays, etc.

http://www.modular.org/htmlPage.aspx?HtmlPageId=400
> so that each day is like "Groundhog Day" – work, eat, sleep – leaving little time for shenanigans

Someone didn't watch that movie very closely.
This article is a little light on content, but bear in mind that they're only talking about adenocarcinoma pancreatic cancer. There are other tumors of the pancreas including neuroendocrine (aka the Steve Jobs kind) and squamous cell (hyper-rare yet somehow my father ended up with this).

The distinction in important because neuroendocrine can be treated with good outcomes. They're making good progress in treating adenocarcinomas (Drs Von Hoff and Borazanci in Scottsdale making good progress).

Some sort of early detection mechanism for all of these cancers would be amazing for everyone involved.
That statement is correct, yet the commenter mentioned two variables who are caused by years of experience and are only correlated with age.
You'd think this is the case but in practice it's actually pretty solid. Right now I've got a nontrivial(opengl + vm language + ssl + http) project with a mix of C/Rust I'm bringing up that runs on:

x86_64-mscv
x86_64-osx
x86_64-linux
armv7-android
i686-android
arm-linux-hf
armv7-linux-hf

Aside from needing a linker per-platform rustup takes care of all the LLVM stuff, it's really much simpler that I thought it would be.