skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>SM57 at the kick

57 resonant peak is at 200 Hz with steep rolloff below. It will sound like a bedroom recording no matter what you do with IRQs and DMAs.
Under My Skin: The New Frontier of Digital Implants
Ah it was meant to be a fun fact/"were you aware of?" kind of comment, not even criticism (;
You don't leave the transaction open while the user browses; you check for stock at the start, possibly moving items from "in stock" to "in cart" state. And then do the actual transaction for stock->sold at the time before you send off to the payment processor. If it's rejected, you return it to stock.
Nailed it, but I'm curious where you think the throughout suffered; we didn't encounter that problem.
Listening to The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb and wondering how I missed this when it was new.

Reading The Evermen Saga by James Maxwell.

No self help or technical books for me, just pure fantasy.
That doesn't make sense. Apple is telling app developers to make their apps bigger? Even after introducing things like app thinning and differential downloads to great fanfare?

No, the fault here is purely with the developers.
Ecolabel Index
Interesting. At least when I was at my UC 10 years ago we weren't able to skip any classes. Maybe they have wisened up and made them optional or have a system in place to prove them unnecessary. It makes some sense to make sure everyone has the same level of fundamentals though.
Correct. "2^99 + 1 - 2^99" still works because 2^99 < 10^30
Lots of people are happy to pay higher taxes for good public services. There are always fools who want something for nothing, but it doesn't have to be a common attitude.
Do you know that these callers will spoof numbers that don't belong to them? Filing a complaint based on them can be effectively a Joe Job.
"Because some dudes wanted to play golf before leaving Hawaii, they ended up being one of the causes of causing multi million dollar damage to a USN cruise"

That's such a bullshit thing to say. Obviously the civilian dudes didn't asked the ship crew to run aground. And even if they would have with those exact words, it's the job of the person in charge of the vessel to say no. Maybe one can say such things when there is an adverse power dynamics (such as it were with the Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash in 2010), but I don't think that would apply in this case.
Stuxnet as an entity, was just the method to deliver different payloads right? I'm not exactly convinced if id ever class that as a weapon over a clever hack. I mean, is the ability to read and find holes in code, a weapon?

Was it a weapon or a very clever hacking job that prevented and held back scientists in Iran from creating an actual weapon?
Either way, it was peace through superior code and vulnerability finding power

It begs the question though, is the text editor mightier than the sword?
It's about triple-entry accounting, not about blockchain. However they have an intersection.
I have not fully digested yet, but seems very similar to Scala Parallel Collections and Java8 Streams. There are databases which implements such interfaces.
Buildings in the UK usually implement passive fire protection (making sure that fires can't spread easily and that they get contained to small areas of the structure) rather than active fire protection, which is things like sprinklers. They're both pretty effective methods. However, the combustible cladding made sure the fire could spread, rendering the fire protections of the building irrelevant :(
Now a days at least there are apps to do this. There's https://monodraw.helftone.com/ for example, although I never used it.
TIL! Thanks! I had always thought the only rule that mattered was relating to boats overtaking on the right.
Actually it was just a "did you know?" comment, 99.99% of people don't know/care about it. I'd throw a SVG modification but I won't have my laptop around/time until Monday, when I'd just lower the upper wing a bit.
The first time I heard the term chai wallah was in Slum Dog Millionaire — the game show host used it (somewhat disparagingly) to refer to Dev Patel's character.
> prefer Kotlin over Clojure is that I am a huge proponent of static typing

If you're into static typing on the JVM, then Kotlin is the best choice because it's got the best-of-breed types. If you're into dynamic typing on the JVM, then Clojure is the best choice because it's got the best-of-breed macros.

What I can't fathom is why anyone would choose a language that's dynamically typed but without any macros, or only tacked on static typing later on as an afterthought. Apache Groovy comes to mind for the JVM as a language which did both.

Edit: Macros are great for simple elimination of repetitive code in bulk tests, but Groovy's Spock hacks into the statement labels and operator overloading in a clumsy attempt at an alternative. And Groovy's backers only added some static typing in version 2.0 because they were afraid of someone else's addon (Groovy++) taking away their control.
I think this qualifies as the kind of generic ideological comment that we've asked you before not to post. The discussions that follow are almost never the intellectually interesting kind we're after here.
I guess we just have differing philosophies on it.

As it happens, I've been learning React the last week as I move away from templating languages, and your list has been in a pinned tab in case I needed it. Thank you so much for the time you've spent aggregating everything.

It's been smooth sailing so far but Redux's documentation leaves a lot to be desired, and Dan's readthesource episode had too many distractions.

I was going to check out some of the Redux tuts you listed, and since you're here... any particular recommendations on which to start with for someone now already familiar with React?
These maps were largely a work by Steve McGeady, who later went on to be an executive at Intel. His testimony in the Microsoft antitrust trial in 1998 had a big impact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_McGeady
Somebody posted a breakdown of Facebook.app earlier this year. Looks like a lot of duplicated assets in there (too many developers / teams working on different parts of the app?)

http://blog.timac.org/?p=1707

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14082491
The team working on Lantern/Outernet is working in this area, using a satellite to beam wikipedia to all of the Earth.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lantern-a-global-satellit...

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/outernet/

http://outernet.is/
Flexible PCBs look pretty cool, for sure - I saw some sheets made of copper-clad Kapton on Amazon, but they were pricey. Still, I think that's what all those TFT ribbon circuits are made of. I once tried soldering little wires to one of those, and I was amazed at how good the tiny gaps between the contacts were at repelling solder and preventing it from bridging.
Please don't post unsubstantively like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There are certainly a number of Americans who feel the same way. Most of us, though, like to believe we value liberty above loyalty. Both are valuable, but where the two conflict, the former takes precedence (even if we sometimes end up in a messy debate over the interpretation of "liberty").

If that attitude has yielded "one of the least corrupt, most democratic country out there", as you called it elsewhere, I don't see that as a bad thing.
Not sure that I'd agree, though it depends on the outcome of the investigation as to how much it'd apply to this situation. One line of thinking is that the US is now about to pay tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, not to mention the loss of life; that's a pretty expensive lesson that was learned, why would you throw away that valuable knowledge/experience?

Of course it remains to be seen if there was indeed dereliction/incompetence/any other more-malicious issues at play, which would be a different story -- not advocating one way or the other for this scenario. I however do think that, in the majority of organizations, firing people for honest mistakes tends to not be the best course of action.
> A similar leak in my country would be condemned across all the political arc regardless of whether 1 document out of 1000 showed something bad.

That sounds like the result of a polity entirely disconnected from the citizenry. The US is the way it is mostly because the politicians' reactions are an extension of the identity-politics at play in the popular culture itself. If the people of the US left think secrecy-culture is bad, then the politicians of the US left will also condemn secrecy-culture to "score points" with their electorate, no matter how obviously necessary such a paradigm might be for their day-to-day lives. In this way, the US is a lot more of a "democracy" than it seems to be at times—both for better and for worse.

(The "worse" is that it's very hard to enact measurably-good-from-every-angle technocratic policies in the US if they have bad optics from a populist perspective. The politicians are just summaries of the people they represent, rather than technocratic experts derived from them. "The lunatics are running the asylum" and such.)
The news coverage of the Snowden leaks being taken at face value probably played a part in this. Non-technical journalists made assumptions which were either unsubstantiated or even sometimes refuted by the leaked material accompanying the coverage.

Examples which I still hear repeated: The claim that NSA considers TOR users to be extremists (Based purely off XKS DSL code which was used to filter connections), claims that there is a loophole allowing NSA to collect American information via GCHQ (In reality US Person Information protections apply regardless of who collected the data), and claims that companies are willing "partners" of the NSA via PRISM (Whereas PRISM is actually the term used to describe use of the FBI and a FISA warrant+gag to collect non-US Person data from US companies using an assumed-to-be automated process, the companies themselves not actually having a choice in the matter).

NSA seems to have decided to not push back on the untrue claims or assumptions which were conveyed. There were responses along the lines of "the organization does everything within the bounds of US law for national security purposes" which is quite meaningless and only served to make people more upset. With the material already out there, NSA PR probably could have done much better if they responded in an informed and blunt manner, instead of allowing the "blanks" to be filled in by assumptions.

I understand and fully agree with your main point, but it isn't too hard to see why this attitude is prevalent regarding the US IC these days, as most folks have not read the source material and are relying on what the press coverage either stated or implied.
You get your data when you fight an enemy airplane.
I saw the option to play against the AI. Have you considered letting players write their own AI?
I think we all have topics that are taboo around family. Perhaps career achievements are one of yours, as unfortunate as that sounds.
Lightsail?
>You have the privilege of being in one of the least corrupt, most democratic country out there

Why do think that is? Governments that have the blind trust and loyalty of their populations are more vulnerable to corruption.
It is worth mentioning that coffee is much more popular than tea in Bangalore (and other cities of southern Karnataka) in most middle class joints. However on the streets, tea still rules. Probably because cheaply made tea is more palatable than cheaply made coffee.
I don't miss those days at all. I chose to build a fairly expensive setup ~10 years ago that is now completely obsolete. I'd have to build a 32-bit Windows XP machine to get it to even work. It got replaced by maybe $400 in USB devices and they'll power up on any computer I plug it into.
I'm looking for good books (fact or fiction) about vikings for young children - under 8.

Pirate Diary - The Journal of Jake Carpenter by Richard Platt, illustrated by Chris Riddel. (I think this is good. The illustration is very good (and it won a Greenaway medal for the illustration).

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pirate-Diary-Journal-Jake-Carpenter...

A Flat Stanley collection. (I don't think it's much good. My son enjoys it though.)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Flat-Stanley-Collection-Jeff-Brown/...

And I'm about to start re-reading everything by Fred Vargas.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fred-Vargas/e/B001I9OXT6/ref=sr_ntt...
What the heck are you storing that you've used 20-30TB? I don't really get it.

UHD Movies? Why would you save those in the age of streaming? Family pictures/videos? At 20TB, you must have hundreds of thousands of pictures. There's not enough time in your life to look at all those! The only thing I can think of is that you shoot photo/video professionally, or maybe do some kind of 3D/video rendering?

But I agree with you - when you have this much data, why the hell are you transferring it to the cloud? Buy a couple harddrives, load them up, and stick them in a safe.
Pureact – 65 LOC implementation of React+Redux
Charm is also in Bach's works for lute eg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8QhlrczGOU, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3GsparAiVQ
I suspect that human ethics transfer much faster memetically than genetically. In which case, their heritability is relatively unimportant. What matters is believability. It seems as though there will be a natural ebb and flow between ethics which propagate by defeating others, and ethics which propagate by convincing them. The equilibrium ethics will be somewhere in between, as I believe we observe for most real societies.
Actually, I have another approach for you.

You're suggesting doing something incredibly expensive (in time and money) based on an assumption: that it'll make you more money.

Why not test your assumption? Ask people at your target companies if they'd hire you for a management role without an MBA. Ask then if that would change if you had an MBA.

This is too big of a decision to make without knowing whether your assumption is wrong.
It's true that their titles often need de-baiting, but many submissions at https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=atlasobscura.com have been more interesting than that. Good historical material is particularly welcome on HN.
Isn't Firewire that port no one uses?
i'd argue it's more of an hn in joke

if you look at the previous thread(o) i think gp is either directly of indirectly referencing most of the comments therein are of the "now you've watched it you can't unwatch it" variety(i)

now, should a meta joke be the top comment about this tool? i suppose that is for the forum to decide..

but the op may find it useful information.. perhaps thae missed the previous thread

op: awesome tool

(o) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14460013

(i) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeIJ8l3PZ88
C suite member still doing coding 80% of the time is extremely unlikely in my experience. You may still be able to steal away some time on nights and weekends to be able to stay sharp but day to day you're much more concerned with worrying about the future of the business, interacting with customers, and often acting as a service provider to other parts of the management team (vetting out partnerships/acquisitions etc) from a technology perspective the same way in house counsel and CFOs do for legal and financial matters.

What this seems to be calling CTO is more akin to a most senior engineer/fellow/hacker. I've seen it called Chief Engineer before. That's the person the the CTO should be able to hold their own in a conversation with but being that person would seem be unlikely for an exec team member as the business grows.

*Titles are more to less meaningless unless there is internal conflict or you're interacting with someone external, ignore that bit and think in terms of roles
Hello? You are aware that leaking, a.k.a. treason, is actually illegal :O? Shocking I know. Guessing by the example of all the politicians in the US, who leak everything that politically fits their goal, you were led to believe there's any correlation between what you leak and the legality of it. Hint: there isn't.

You are the one inviting everyone to be a law unto himself. If any would-be-leaker feels the government is doing any wrong doing, he's free to take the law unto himself and release that information to the public along with whatever else fits into his usb key. There are proper channels to handle this, which don't involve betraying your country and breaking one of the most fundamental laws in the country, and the fact the government was acting illegaly doesn't justify breaking the law.
Could you please not post unsubstantively like this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm not sure what the difference is between the two. Aren't they both underground?
Here's a video of a steam train going thru the underground to celebrate 150 years of the tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3_rxuOFTm8
I wonder how long it will be before compilers/interpreters of async-aware languages just do this by default. CPUs and low-level language compilers jump through all kinds of hoops of out-of-order execution, branch prediction, caching, parallel execution, etc.

I picture a day maybe 10 years from now where developers in most languages don't even have to think about these things. All the old-timers will still be structuring their code "as though it didn't exist" whereas the new kids will fly along without even thinking about it. Kind of like garbage collection the first few years.
> flash player
If people don't leave a voicemail (or send text), they don't have a "timely legitimate reason" then.
The EFF document "List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots" has (update 2017). It mentions it's not necessarily yellow dots and it appears likely that some sort of forensic tracking code is used on all printers.

https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d...
I wish there was a way to explicitly consent for all my health data to be free and public for any purpose.
British Parliament Hit by Cyberattack, Affecting Email Access
Sounds like a 80/20 rule. They initially got 80% of the features with 20% of the code/digital assets.

Also feels a lot like adware bloat...
Is it feasible to increase the distance into surrounding clay that heat can be conducted? Could metal be used to conduct heat from clay surrounding tunnels to clay that is presumably cooler, further away? I could imagine that if a material exists that insulates electricity but conducts heat very well, the track itself might be useful in transferring heat to cooler clay, making the track colder and cooling tunnels.
the dynamics of solder is quite funny, when you look at all the guys soldering chips with pin gap of 0.1mm; solder paste aggregating on metal contacts and leaving the pcb clear all on itself ..
Whereas, on the current footing, all it will take is a bunch of 12-knot cargo ships on autopilot to take them out. Either the captain and OOD should both be court-martialed out, or USA Navy needs to go back to the drawing board.
I can only imagine that developers are adding assets for all the variations of Apple devices now, with retina everything. But that still shouldn't add up to hundreds of megabytes, should it?
I believe the point is, no corruption has been shown in the Vault 7 leaks. They are getting cheered on by some folks simply due to the fact that they are leaks, whereas all that has been shown so far is methods used by CIA to do their job.
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> So it's a hugely clickbaity title. The article provides no new evidence or even offer any possible causes as to the accident, it just details what happened and wonders why.

That's how news works when something is still being investigated. And your comment proceeds to do the exact same thing: offer details about when happened, and then raise the same unanswered question that everyone has arrived at (including the article). So... what's your point, exactly?
Well I think my intro was pretty rudimentary. My knowledge of computer architecture is as well, I can tell you what pieces do what, and what a buffer is, but I couldn't really tell you how memory addressing, logic gates, instruction sets work.

Is the JPEG question a test? If so I don't know!

The last ones you mentioned sound good, and I think I'll add those to my list and start with Accelerated C++ and see how that feels.

I appreciate the info!
I like the hustle of a landing page to gauge interest. However, there's no description of how it will work. Maybe a simulation video can communicate your vision, but there's no reason to sign up now
The activist who asked about tea selling asked a fake question.

The activist does it all the time.

Also, Modi never claimed he was registered to sell tea.

Had the Congress government been so proactive in 55 years by mandating registration of tea sellers, India would be much safer, more cleaner, and less corrupt.

Fun fact : That activist is from Congress party.

Another fun fact : Such activists do not disclose the exact wordings of the RTI query, they intentionally post ambiguous queries and use the reply to create sensational headline.

I can challenge any of the Modi haters to share their exact RTI queries before they make sensational headline
Don't you think that they already are doing that?
Air use not very good at transferring heat. To have effective air cooling you need to pump lots of air. The current ventilation shafts certainly have their limits and especially night time the noise may become an issue if you put serious jet engines there.
I still love it. =)

FW800 gets close to 80MB/sec, which is really as much as I need for my backup/archiving needs. And the daisy-chaining is just awesome.
Nice tool! Not too obvious from the landing page that there is a terminal version. Also, some units come with implicit assumptions:

≫ 1 month -> days
1 month -> d
= 30.4167 d
≫ 1 year -> days
1 year -> d
= 365 d
Here is the video of David Cameron taking a Jibe at Mani Shankar Type people.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OXJL_0eOKk0
They use basic detection to listen for keywords locally, and only if they keyword is triggered will they start sending data to their servers (which has significantly more powerful language parsing logic).
This is way faster than Wolfram Alpha and much simpler to use for most use cases :)
Should have a disclaimer, founder is the founder of RavenDB and it's clear he's cherry picking things and blaming it on the database vendor, instead of whomever wrote that example.
Included on OS X, too! (though apparently a BSD version). Wow, I did not know this.
“Snow Crash” Author Neal Stephenson Talks to the Hive
2GB is 1.5% of the storage for a mid-range (128GB) late-2016 iPhone; or 6% of the storage for the lowest-end (32GB) iPhone SE.

Any decent product team – which I assume these apps have – is tracking this, and is continuously setting direction for the tradeoffs among space optimization, speed optimization, bandwidth optimization, battery life, usability, stability, server costs, feature velocity, and probably a half dozen other factors.

The implication of some of the comments here is that they've been making these tradeoffs incorrectly. I'd be interested to hear more about the reasoning behind this conclusion.
Additionally, it's difficult to imagine how a boat with its AIS transmitter intentionally turned off could ever be a "stand-on" at night.
Really great tool! Thanks for the hard work.
It would also be really nice to specify custom units, such as

≫ U = 1e-6/60 * kat

U = 1.66667e-8 kat

Because now it does this

≫ 1 kat -> U

1 kat -> U

= 1 kat