skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, injecting illegally-gotten dollars into a business to inflate revenue and so you can spend it shouldn't be illegal? Lying on federal documents and committing fraud?
> And with that, this study is bullshit.

I... don't know what you're talking about. Apply a log scale to linear data and it too represents a log scale.

> Recorded music has 8+ octaves of frequency range (the bottom octave plus a little extra is almost always rolled off in real-world recordings, to ease stress on downstream components that can't reproduce such low frequencies anyway), and 20-50db of useable dynamic range.

So? We all know that listening to an instrument live sounds "different" from a recording, and it's up to us to figure out how to improve both recording and listening fidelity.

Now an argument can be made that because audio formats today tend to have caps on fidelity that headphones only be measured against the maximum fidelity that the recording produces, but that is neither the argument that you are making nor is this a weakness in the data presented by the paper.

> Frequency response and total harmonic distortion aren't measured in these cases because they're useful or relevant. They're measured because they're easy to measure.

Yes and what should we measure? Phase graphs? Third order components? You're not making a meaningful argument here.

> The article's claim that one headphone can be easily morphed into another through mere equalization is, frankly, bullshit.

First of all this paper used novel methods to back the original assertion made in [1]. Also, let me quote the exact line from the conclusion:

"PCA can account for 90% of the variance across all measured headphones with six eigenvectors. The first eigenvector is similar to published target responses, while the second eigenvector represents a global spectral tilt."

> Audio reproduction is incredibly complex and difficult stuff. Trying to isolate one factor and saying "That explains everything!" is bad thinking.

And so is your appeal to non-authority. The gist of your entire argument is that linear sine sweeps are useless, and therefore the entire validity of the paper is moot and your non-scientific opinion is now superior.

[1]: http://asa.scitation.org/doi/10.1121/1.4984044#
Toronto also has a vibrant Etheruem presence as Vitalik grew up there and started Ethereum while living in Toronto.
Instead, what if the state paid prisons a one-time fee for accepting convicts (the amount would vary depending on the type of crime committed), and then penalized the prisons heavily for any recidivism after release?

So you are proposing paying private prisons up front and then punishing them potentially ten to twenty years later. That doesn't sound workable politically nor does it sound like a good incentive structure.
Certainly, but crypto has the advantage of being counterfeit-proof.
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On one hand, I don't like the glorification of overwork and burning people out for the sake of maybe making a great product: "You're going to have to give up nights and weekends probably for a couple years as we make this product."

On the other hand, they did make the iPhone, so I guess this is a lesson to project managers and executives that death marches do occasionally pay off.
you are correct. It greatly saddens me this organization still exists.
No we don't. Nobody is responsible for this behavior except for the banks that do it. They are run by adults who are perfectly capable of taking responsibility for their actions.
You mostly just need the additional CSQ form to fill.
While I haven't read the SEC filing myself, isn't the idea of them being a camera company more of a software play than a hardware one? Even with Spectables, that's how I took it: most of Snapchat is things-that-people-thing-other-cameras-should-do-but-can't, and that's what makes them a camera company without making and selling lots of cameras. I'm not sure though.
They do justify their methodology, I didn't think it sounded that unreasonable.

They flat out say that out of the two easily-measured factors, distortion and linear response, linear response correlates the most with subjective measures of audio reproduction according to prior research. I don't think they said that they had developed a foolproof methodology for absolutely determining the subjective reproductive quality of a headphone.

I think your description of the performance of headphones is based on soft, unscientific nonsense. Sure, there's more to headphones than single frequency response curves, but frequency response between the ear canal and the headphone is the only differing factor in audio reproduction quality.

If anything is flawed with the methodology, it would surely be with the lack of broad spectral testing or something equivalent. The fundamental characteristics of the driver are the diaphragm geometry, the mass of the driver, and the resistance of the suspension. The suspension changes, probably not linearly, with temperature. Frequency sweeps completely miss the point that the movement of a headphone driver is linear actuation, not some mystical frequency-domain process.
Yes TFA was amended because AFR decided to send AFE and get it corrected.
43 years. I wonder if he has been asked whether he would prefer death.
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Facebook is way over that kind of instability.
A straight couple became a same-sex one and Singapore's efficiency broke down
Is it really that bad? An onsite interview takes the full day anyway.
Go uses UTF-8 internally, but you index a Go string by bytes, not glyphs or graphemes. The "index" function on strings in Go returns an integer, not an opaque index object or a slice. You can create a slice of a UTF-8 string which is misaligned and not valid UTF-8.

Indexing a string in Python 3 returns glyphs (which are strings), not bytes. Not graphemes; if you index through a Python 3 string with emoji that have skin color modifications, you'll get the emoji glyph and the skin color modifier as separate items.

Python 3 also has a type "bytes", which can't quite decide whether it's a string type or an array of integers. Print a "bytes" type, and it's printed as a string, with a 'b" in front of it, not as an array of integers. But an element of a "bytes" array is an int, not a bytes type. This is for backwards compatibility; it's roughly compatible with legacy "str" from Python 2.

Rust struggles with this. Rust tries to prevent you from getting a invalid UTF-8 string. The solution used involves re-checking for UTF-8 validity a lot, or bypassing it with unsafe code. This gets messy.
I've looked into electronic notebook software, and kind of started out with a similar view. What I've learned is that there are two ways of thinking about it:

1. Replacing your personal notebook with an app on a computer. That's where things like Excel, Jupyter (what I use), or EverNote, could work for you. It doesn't seem like there's much for a science-specific app to offer here.

2. Then there's electronic lab management, where you're not managing the entry of data so much as managing the people who work in the lab. This is where the software developers are active, with a variety of ideas for what lab management consists of, that probably vary depending on your discipline and industry. For instance, the website mentions protocols, collaboration, and security, none of which are issues in my work, but are very much issues in a large managed research group that is potentially in a regulated or litigous industry.

The first option works just fine for me, because it addresses the main feature of my work: Almost all of my experiments are automated, my data are produced in computer readable format, and all of my analysis is done with software. So I pretty much have a computer handy whenever I'm doing "lab" work. It would be a different story if I were, for instance, doing field or wet lab work. Then I'd probably stick with a paper notebook.
On sale where?
Wow. You know you screwed up city planning when "having to use company housing" is an improvement.
Is it? I feel there are other things to strive for that are more important than if we have a "free enough market" or not.
They were.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/wells-fargo-corporate...
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Right, you hear a lot of griping about moving from Python 2 to 3 but I personally didn't have as much trouble as expected. Some of my projects just worked. One small tip I don't think they mentioned. Start using the logging module instead of print and it will eliminate one class of potential issues.
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Replying to my own comment:

Just independently saw a link to Bounty Source today. This appears to be very similar to what I'm asking for, although more designed around adding bounties to GitHub issues for features/bugs on existing projects.

https://www.bountysource.com/
Vast and sprawling discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14560042

I've read a of of that discussion, and I'm deeply disappointed at the quality. There's pretty much nothing there that actually addresses the issues and questions.

Very disappointing.
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The public/private keys could be changed periodically. Old private keys could be deleted. Once lost, access to the messages they decrypt would be permanently lost (no searching of message history).
You really don't think that Uber should do any background check, such as whether their drivers have suspended license?
He didn't leave Russia as in "exile", he did leave Russia as in "it's nice to leave somewhere else". Here [1] is a news report about him throwing out someone's phone for trying to make a photo of him in one of Saint-Petersburg's malls. Here [2] is an article from 2014 stating that he's visiting Telegram's office daily. By the way, Telegram's developers sit in the same building as VK's (also in [2]).

Durov seems very keen on supporting the myth of his "dissent" (to the point of outright lying) and very shy about the actual location of Telegram's developers and servers. Guess why

[1] https://lenta.ru/news/2017/03/20/durov/ (in Russian)

[2] https://tjournal.ru/p/durov-back-in-ussr (in Russian)
As I stated also above - this raise is not only observed in Latvia, Lithuania, but across eastern countries in EU as well.
You ask about the reason - how about "let's try to compensate the loses", or "let's try as a preventive action", etc.
Now - I believe they are not going to keep this long down the road. You said "if people are willing to pay", but that should really be the question - are they? We'll see. I personally will downgrade my plan, as a reaction to theirs. What is important and strange, that even with less national data, there is a lot more in roaming.
Isn't it weird that the stock exchange where you're also runs an article with your smashed logo? I'd expect a more "robotic" reporting from nasdaq.com
I think a lot of people feel this way, but under the right circumstances (i.e. a meditation retreat) and with enough practice, you'll have access to states of deeply profound peace beyond anything you imagined possible.
> Do Oakleys block the sun better than $5 checkout counter sunglasses?

Not all sunglasses, especially cheap sunglasses, block 100% of the UV spectrum. If sunglasses are just tinted but don't block UV light they're actually worse because the tint causes your pupil to dilate more than it otherwise would, allowing in more UV.

You won't find a pair of brand-name sunglasses like Oakleys or Ray Bans that don't block 100% of the UV spectrum.

That said, the lens quality between cheap and expensive sunglasses is significant. Clarity and contrast are improved with good lenses. They're noticeably worse with cheap ones.

Say the tint of your glasses reduces outdoor light levels to what would be comparable indoors. You'll see worse outside with your cheap sunglasses than you would indoors without. Cheap lenses distort. A good lens doesn't, and make things look sharper and better defined by increasing contrast, optimizing for desirable light wavelengths (e.g. yellow lenses when skiing in flat light), polarization to cut glare, etc.

Added bonus, sports-oriented glasses like Oakleys are shatter-proof. This is a significant consideration for me, as I participate in many outdoor sports where eye protection is mandatory.

Bottom line, price does make a significant difference in sunglasses.
How can you be valued at $5 billion and not be a functioning business? Investors will never see that money.
> Instead, what if the state paid prisons a one-time fee for accepting convicts

I might to too cynical but I'm guessing that more prisoners would mysteriously die.
I think you're being a little naive here. If you could wave a magic wand and make it so private prisons got a one-time fee for accepting convicts then I don't think they would invest more in preventing recidivism.

What would likely happen is that private prisons would spend even less on each inmate, doing the accounting to determine how much they have to cut from what they already spend to account for the amount of their fees if a prisoner reoffends. The already ridiculous cost of the prison phone system would skyrocket. Fees assessed to visitors would be increased or added. The cost of items in the commissary would go up. The private prisons would bump fees associated with being released from prison. Private prisons would also take on more forced labor contracts to cover the difference and pay the inmates even less for their time.

Further, you'll see a spike in prosecutions for in-prison crimes, causing a convict to be convicted on a new charge and more money being sent to the private prison to cover the sentencing on the new charge. So you're going to make the indefinite detention problem even worse - before, inmates got to leave. Now they may never get to leave.

In short, this is likely only a viable solution if you can force private prison owners to act morally.
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Montreal is really hot in AI/data science. U Montreal is arguably the top research university in deep learning at the moment, and McGill and Concordia also have good CS departments.

The IVADO (a cross university data science institute in montreal) recently got a $93M investment for research and promotion of data science in Montreal.
This is one of the reasons I like DPReview over DxOMark. They have both sample images and a standardized studio image. The studio image lets you compare the same picture over multiple cameras, while the sample images give you a better feel of the camera in several scenarios. Pick the pictures that look better to you, because that's what you're going to be looking at after you use the thing!

I went in to buying a camera last year wanting a Fujifilm X100T. Not least of which because it reminds me of the Minolta camera I learned to shoot on. But I ended up with a Sony RX100 IV instead, based on perceived image quality and video capabilities.
Maybe. I think if a site like GitHub or Stack Overflow added bounties they'd do it in a way that kept the spectrum more on the relationship side, rather than the employee/employer. And the bounty is an extra perk.
This was a big contribution from Dropbox: http://blog.zulip.org/2016/10/13/static-types-in-python-oh-m...
If my business wants to sell me a token for $5M, that should be my right. The real crime is how I got that $5M, not that I decided to put it into another business.

Where's the fraud? If I want to run a pizza shop and record a million orders to myself that I never actually deliver, so what?
My statement was more a reflection on the reasons than asserting he was saying they weren't. It was a commiseration.
Why not simply make guacamole in a cement mixer?
I wish Intel (IACA, VTune, ...) or Agner Fog would list instructions which divert to the MS-ROM. A 2 or 3 instruction equivalent is often faster.
Can you elaborate on this - would love to resolve my fear.
Harman did a large study of frequency response preference, and came up with the harman FR target as ideal.
Sennheiser HD600 (from 1997) is closest to this, has reasonably low THD, and is generally considered very good. It doesn't cost all that much, either, at $280 in amazon.com last I checked.
What makes a frequency response "good" is subjective. A lot of audiophiles prefer flat, but many like e.g. tube amps, which aren't exactly flat, or headphones with V-shaped frequency response etc.

> meaning that a "flat" or otherwise non-average frequency response would distort music in an unintended way.

Not sure how to make sense of this. A flat frequency response is by definition the one that does not distort the recorded music.

If for the sake of the argument bass-heavy headphones and speakers were all the rage and a sound engineer set out to record music compensating for such devices' frequency response, then they wouldn't sound "bass heavy" anymore.
As someone who pays for Slack and uses it throughout the working day, I hope nobody acquires them, especially Microsoft.

I don't have anything against Microsoft per se, but in my opinion, they ruined Skype.
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FYI, you don't live like a rockstar in SV with your pay. You can buy more gadgets/vacations and afford an ok apartment. If your dual income you can afford a house! It's pretty much like new york.
The problem is that the general population is very removed from the prison system and inmates in general so they don't see the long-term effects. So when someone is 'locked up' for a long time they view that as redemption for their or someone else's suffering. So being 'soft on crime' would be viewed as taking away those victims vindication. (I'm not saying I agree with this, but I have just noticed through general conversation that people want criminals locked up for a long time. It is very short sighted and vengeful if you ask me.)
Yeah I'd like a local tool. Maybe I want to do a test before I put it on the internet.
This is like saying that the Tesla P100D is the best car, and any other car more expensive is silly because the Tesla has the best acceleration. Frequency response is one aspect of sound, but it's not everything. Much about sound is subjective. I personally didnt't like the way Audeze LCD-2s sounded when I listened to a pair a coworker brought in, greatly preferring my Shure 1540s. There are, to be fair, plenty of headphones in the $150-$400 range which try to do something to the music (like add xxtreme bass) and end up not doing a very good job of it. Sony even made some, check out the MDR-XB500 and the super over-the-top MDR-XB1000 which apparently actually sounds pretty good.

The Sonys you mentioned are great headphones and a super deal at $60. They are actually used in the pro world for stuff like location sound work and in studios. Another popular studio headphone which is a "a good deal" are Beyerdynamic DT770 Pros (~$175 street, you've probably seen them before). Giving either of these to someone who has no experience with nice headphones is a treat they won't forget if they're into music. I was lucky to get my first pair of nice headphones when I was about 14, some MDR-V700s. They hurt my head after about an hour of wearing them but they sounded way better than anything I had heard before (this was also in the 90s before headphones were a common hobby).

It is for sure a game of diminishing returns beyond a few totally-great headphones which are actually used for making music. Other equipment also plays into this; the difference between a JDS Labs O2+ODAC and Chord Hugo + Cavalli Liquid Gold is there but probably not worth the price difference of a decent used car for most people. Go to a hi-fi store and listen to some setups with your own music. There are also headphone meets all over the place, and huge events for this stuff: http://www.canjamglobal.com and of course there is https://www.head-fi.org if you're interested in getting into this stuff.
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That's already happening, deliberately, in the music production stage. Arguably the most popular speaker in the world for professional music mixing is the Yamaha NS-10 (you may have seen pictures of them in recording studios, with their distinctive white woofer cones). They are terrible in terms of frequency response! They are aggressive to the point of nasty right in the 2khz range, where a: our ears are most sensitive (ears do not have a linear frequency response!), and b: human vocals are most present.

For vocals and vocal-like instruments such as saxophones and lead electric guitar, the NS-10 is downright evil. And that's why it's popular. If you can make a mix sound good on the NS-10, it'll sound good on almost anything else.
Trust me, I've seen people lose their homes through no fault of their own, because their servicer made mistakes and they had no legal recourse except getting a check for a few grand several years later as compensation.

https://www.propublica.org/article/bank-errors-continue-to-c...

"Bank Errors Continue to Cause Wrongful Foreclosures"
It's 2017, that wage gap is outrageous and discriminating!

...but at least with tabs everyone can adjust the gap size to their liking. :>
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Meh, I've got two hosts running SSH that are accessible from anywhere. They run OpenSSH on OpenBSD and are pretty locked down (only specific ciphers, key exchange algorithms, and MACs are permitted), root login is disabled, and password authentication is disabled, among other non-default configuration options. These two hosts allow access (via SSH) to another 40 or so boxes running various flavors and versions of Linux that can't be locked down as much.

I do not worry one bit about those two hosts getting compromised as I took the time to minimize the chances of that happening.
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The available frequencies are limited, this means new companies can't enter the market.
I was excited when I saw this too but it's pretty limited, from memory you can't do methods, functions have to be globally defined, that are more limitations that make it hard to use in any general way I think.

Edit: no closures, I think
> more likely

My point is that guessing without actual data isn't evidence. It's easy to speculate and guess at what we think is going on, but it's a bad idea to assume any particular speculation is right in the best situations. It's foolish when the subject of the investigation's core business model is based on sending different things to specifically targeted groups.

> just turn on these features

Perhaps. There are many ways a feature like this could be implemented. See the various obfuscated code contests for extreme examples of how functionality can be hidden in a program. This just means network logs from different clients are also needed, in addition to hashes of binaries.
safer for you, not safer for the server.
> It's like looking in the wrong place, because the light is better there.

Yes, and actually one of the challenges physicists face, is that looking by the lamp is not self evidently reasonable for most people. Of course you start with the easy case and then you build on that foundation, otherwise your analysis just hangs in thin air. (Plus you have to deal with the easy case anyhow if you want to do comprehensive work, you can as well start were you have a chance.)
I got a pair to play with it. They are very fun and silly. When I go out everyone at the bar wants to goof around with them. I think to use them you need to enjoy Snapchat for what it is.
A silly fun stress free way to share what you are up to to exactly who you want to share it with.
I'm not sure of the fix, here.

1. We need a currency which supply and distribution of isn't under the control of corruptible humans.

2. We need to teach humans how to manage their own money and not give it away willingly to corruptible humans.