skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then fund a public option. Better yet, make the public option a distributed protocol. Then no seizures of private property, laws prohibiting private enterprise, or internet firewalls to prevent foreign service providers from rendering their service to local residents, would be needed.
Catching SMTP messages from Nodemailer in dev
You mean Harvard architecture?
> So this is Uber for senior developers.

Senior in web developer years.
> That's a slippery slope argument. Do you want to nationalize nothing?

I meant where do we draw the line?
Weird. I was so sure that "Michael Jordan" would be the Berkeley CS professor in this context. I guess not!
Why Did Google's 'Incorrect Settings' Cause Serious Network Failure in Japan?
If Google and Facebook were nationalized, why would they need to sell ads?
It seems more defensive than strategic. Seems like you wouldn't want your competitor to be your infrastructure provider and be in physical possession of potentially differentiating assets.
I do agree that these are some good starting tactics. But I disagree on sending newsletters as Pdf. Why would you prefer that over sending them as inline Html in an email?
I personally hate pdf attached newsletters and my feeling is that opening rates are much lower than inline Html newsletters.
Network load balancing gave me headaches when talking to the cloud
Why do you keep saying my home Linux laptops with 256 and 128GB are NASes? Why aren't Windows Servers some other people use with 12TB of storage marked that way?

I get that you don't want 150TB uploads, but why do you insult your potential customers by calling them hoarders just by the OS they use on their home devices?
So the problem is that one big organization has all this data, and the solution is to put it all under the umbrella of a different organization?

How does that help unless we assume that government can do less bad stuff with it than a private organization?
As Barbie would say: Audio engineering is hard! Let's play with the calculator.
So, an example of how the author doesn't understand the point of these requirements is the 'encryption' (anonymisation) process, added to 'the files had to be kept together!'. The anonymisation process isn't about stolen files. It's about data leakage, and keeping identifying data out of result sets. If you're pulling your all-nighter to prep for the big talk tomorrow, for example, you're not going to accidentally include identifying data from your results page if it doesn't exist on your results page in the first place.

Edit: more important for the scientific process (rather than privacy) than 'data leakage' is 'data sharing', as yread points out below. Anonymised data can be quickly and safely shared, and others can run their analyses on your results. Non-anonymised data can't be shared. If you're interested in publishing a robust scientific paper, why would you be against opening your data for inspection?

> Not to mention that the questions were already being asked. He just wanted to ask them earlier to compare against the eventual diagnosis. It's not the kind of study that should have been abandoned in frustration after two years, as happened here.

Then he could have just asked them and done his own informal study. Nothing is stopping the doctor from saying "are you happy, then sad?" on first meeting a patient. But if you want to do a formal, publishable study, then you should have all your ducks in a row. Make sure your independent variables are properly controlled, make sure any ethical issues have been externally vetted, so on and so forth.

While the IRB certainly had some annoying concerns, so much of this author's frustration just simply wouldn't be there if he understood why those questions were being asked.
"Search engine research has advanced a lot, we can use that."

A strong part of Google's search engine results is leveraging the data it has from Google Maps (including the almost unique Google Street View), actions tracked through the user’s Google account, and proprietary image-recognition technologies. It’s hard for another party to compete with that; Google hasn't been a mere web crawler in a long, long time.
It was Reddit's CEO:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/25/reddit-ceo-a...
Where do you get the 5ms from? Why is 192 more likely to have lower latency? I would think the higher bandwidth required by 192 has the possibility to slow your computer down and cause more latency.
I suppose it is easier to control the actual size, padding and so on with SVG. Unicode does have correct glyphs though and I suppose that the exact rendering of the arrows is not much of a priority. However currently they are blurry on any high dpi screen.
I would say there is a difference. Right now my assumption would be that American Law Enforcement could target someone to have access to everything. And they might be able to surveil unencrypted traffic. But I do not think that they are always reading anybodies WhatsApp messages. Nationalized that assumption couldn't be made anymore.
Are you sure the authors are writing this story out of a genuine heartfelt fear? Do you think the editor who published them shares this genuine fear?
Thousands of Twitter users ‘deceived by Russian agent’
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> but if AWS was discovered snooping on their data that would probably be the end of their business. Not to mention the tsunami of lawsuits launched by other companies spooked by the scandal. I can't imagine any manager or engineer willing to risk their career doing so.

Absolutely correct. Mutually assured destruction[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
I agree to an extent, however I think this is just a part of it. The other part is that these companies are these mega corporations that have more money and power than many countries and they aren't accountable to the people but to their owners. And these are the companies that are going to end up inventing stuff like generalized AI. I don't agree with nationalizing them, but I also don't agree with letting them run around unchecked.
> Early on a web developer they brought on to help build the site tried to stealthily delete everything after Gazin declined to go on a date with him.

Really?

Or as artists did they have no idea wtf he was doing technically and made this up in their heads.

Sorry, artists do not make for good business people or logical purveyors of the world.

They do however make (hopefully) great art.
As "googling" becomes the most common way most people obtain information, I believe we do need some means to provide for this need w/o private enterprise, and lots of new regulations to defend the users, e.g. in case of Facebook. Persons' private data has become an acceptable good traded silently behind the scenes. The industry needs to gain a means to maintain the quality of software, and basic software needs must be guaranteed by those who we appoint to furnish us roads, electricity and water. WRT nationalisation, well, nations are slowly becoming obsolete as globalisation progresses, and what is most apt instead is that we engineer a globally distributed system at least for search.
Facebook goes "non-profit" -> becomes regulated in terms of privacy/earnings -> competing social network springs up -> is able to advertise and boast features that the "non-profit public" Facebook cannot have due to cost or regulations -> new social network is now the de-facto Facebook, and you're right where you started.

and this is assuming that the whole "lets beg Mr. Zuck to pretty pretty please stop doing that whole business thing and start serving us for free, we'd appreciate it" thing works out.
We're already drawing a line since some things are already nationalized. We'd just need to move it.
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I like the idea of standardised ways to provide semantic meaning but every time I look at it beyond a sitemap.xml, I feel like I need to hire an expert just to know what to use where
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I'm deeply disturbed to see comments here defending this. The top comment no less! At every single step the things the author went through were absolutely ludicrous and indefensible. Actual real people are getting hurt by the IRB. This study alone could have saved thousands of people from getting misdiagnosed as bipolar. God knows how many tens of thousands of other similar studies have been stopped by this bureaucracy.
That is 100% the point of python.
This seems the best place to plug one of my favorite musicians, 24192(https://m.soundcloud.com/x24192)
In practice, all audio converters are modulation converters of some sort, because it is simply too expensive to achieve the high AC linearity wanted at the required sampling frequencies with other kinds of converters. This already relaxes LPF requirements.

In practice, signal quality issues are usually layout and supply issues, not problems with the converter itself.

In practice, the speakers and ears are the worst parts with the largest non-linearities and a frequency response that looks like a nuke test area compared to the FR of the converter. Of course, in the case of speakers, we have concluded that we want them to have their own sound, because neutral speakers are not possible.
6951.999999 lumens :D
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The current situation is close to what you describe (PRISM, etc...)
A front end developer in State Gov in Australia can easily be $90-110k, fwiw. Can confirm for east coast anyway.
Traktor stems and remix decks though.
I'm not at all convinced that there are any substantial new features that would overcome the inertia of lock-in (via one's existing connections).

I mean, G+ couldn't do it, and Google tried damn hard. If they can't do it at their scale, who can?
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why this is linked to corridor
Reducing load on root servers. Been doing this for many years by running local copy of root.zone and making judicious use of HOSTS and local authoritative nameservers. I have a localhost caching resolver but I rarely need to use it. I wrote my own non-recursive stub resolver which is faster. Unlike the majority of ICANN DNS users I am not mindlessly querying the same servers for the same records day after day. And I am certainly not querying remote root servers like the ones mentioned in this blog post. I am storing the addresses I need permanently and updating them periodically if they change. Guess what? Most addresses do not change. It is likely that few if any users are doing what I am doing and as such, there an enormous amount of gratuitous DNS traffic on the internet. I can safely say I am not contributing to that. A smarter way? Yes, I think it is.
Ask HN: How to teach my five-year old electronics?
Starting next month I'm going to have a 30 hour work week. I want to take this extra time and spend with my family and one of the things I would like to do is to encourage my five-year old sons interest in electricity and electronics.

I've chosen to not go down the Arduino/Raspberry Pi road (computers will come later), nor the Mindstorms road (to pricey and I'm afraid he will treat it as just another Lego kit).

What's the best way of introducing power source, lamps, resistors and capacitors? Are there good kits available? Should I make my own kits? I'm guessing a prototype board and an assortment of components would be cost effective but some kind of guidance would be nice as well.
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I think that's what the demo showed, a deleted file is put into roamer's trash directory. So when a file is deleted (or moved), the hash points to the new location, the trash in this case.
The thing is, in this case, there was no one in the 2nd category who wasn't also in the 1st category. The question is already being asked to treat them. The risk is already being taken. Using the data from that action for research doesn't expose them to any additional risk.
and kill concurrency (a bit like microsoft in the 90s)
I'm hourly user of Midnight Commander on linux, bash.exe, cygwin, mingw, whenever it comes.

And staunch FAR Commander supporter for Windows. I sometimes call mc from FAR and back and forth (okay, very rarely :))

Long time ago there was PC Tools, and a program called.. yes "File Manager" for DOS - both were single-column, yet very powerful - browsing megabytes of text files effortless on 286 :)

back then, there was a tool that allowed direct directory manipulation - renaming, copying, but nothing like the tool demonstrated. Thank you!
The "admin" lives in a random-generated subdomain, is basic-auth protected and is alive only for the time needed for the editor to make the changes through the dashboard. For the rest of the time WordPress simply doesn't exist.
> Yet, if you have 30 people in a room, there is a greater than 50 percent chance that at least one PAIR has the same birthday.

Not quite the same because Huston is not the only city that has experienced extreme climate these two years, many other cities also have (maybe not 500 years flood, but close).

So that would be like: one pair is born the same day, and 20 other people in the room are born a week around that day.
Hardly a coincidence.

It's more likely that there was a party about 9 months and X years before that day. (I'm not sure how far we can go with this silly birthday analogy:)
Same reason that BBC Worldwide does.
What's even worse, is that there is no RFC or even a standard that defines said protocol. That means it's not publically auditable, and generally speaking people who have that luxury tend to screw up their designs, starting to cut corners. And the carry water with you wannabe-counter-argument is nonsensical in this context.
As judging by that logic one should always have a baseband station handy to spoof the provider's IP and turn on the car. (Side note, cell coverage actually depends on reflection on buildings)
That misses an even more important point:

At this point any kind of cloud environment should be considered public infrastructure. It is not so much about all these companies, it is more about being able to keep the things you bought after these services reach their inevitable deaths, as no company survives forever.
Seriously? Do people actually use it besides check weather?
> When we started development in 2009, few rich web applications existed. And with so few examples, there were no best practices to follow.

I think what you need is not best practices. You need principles.

If you take performance as a matter of principle from the get go, you will never ever ship a slow product.

Most startups nowadays seem to value design more than performance. They even value the design of their landing page more than they value the design of the actual product.

Another thing they seem to value is _perceived_ ease of development, at the expense of performance.

I say perceived because, in my experience, what you may perceive initially as a productivity boost ends up becoming a productivity burden as the code size grows.
> I'm not aware of any force pushing in the other direction to make the scrutiny proportional to the risk.

Each research institution has its own IRB, which I expect is composed by faculty/researchers. The have an incentive not to block their own institution from producing any research output whatsoever.
Do you think we should have regulated AltaVista and MySpace as utilities, way back when? If so, what would this have done to Facebook and Google's prospects? If not, what makes something a utility?
I can't imagine an engineer creating a Diesel engine designed for fraud. But it happened. I'd say that in a company with an aggressive business culture like Amazon this is only more likely.
The problem is that Google has a monopoly on search (>96% in EU), and is using that to gain a monopoly in other areas.

For example, where I live, Google maps hasn’t updated map data since 2009. They have no transit in it, no integration with taxi or ridesharing companies, nothing.

Here maps has up-to-date maps, with all that in it.

Yet, people use Google maps, and not even consider that there might be a better competitor – because Google maps is the default, and shows up first in search.

A significantly worse product is winning here, and doesn’t even have a market pressure to improve, just because of anticompetitive powers.

You surely can see how that’d be problematic if you’d ever try to disrupt an existing market as startup.
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I have been thinking the exact same thing, but once again based on nothing other than a hunch and following lots of altcoin stuff from the sidelines.

Doesn't mean I don't regret throwing some BTC away when they were worth cents!
Perfectly valid point. It's not a technical limitation that "normal" recordings are spoiled by compression, but it's a commercial limitation (or whatever you call it) that has a very real impact.

You cannot buy good recordings in other formats, in this format you can. So there's a market - not a very big one as such, and maybe created for all the wrong reasons, but it is there.
My problem with Jupyter is that it doesn't produce good plaintext files, i.e. you can't edit it using your favorite text editor.
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The US and Taiwan draw chairs differently
Yeah, I agree. Most of us haven't even heard of it until now…
Not sure if that's the right path to take, but I definitely agree something need to be done to add further consumer protections. Many people have a large chunk of their lives tied up tightly into their ecosystems, with no simple way out.

I've been reflecting on the impact of oauth / openid during the last few years. For some people, losing your Facebook or Google account could mean ending up locked out of dozens, if not hundreds, of services! Haven't checked Facebook's TOS, but Google's TOS says they can shut down your account at any time. Considering the size and reach of both, I think they should be required to at least provide a reasonable migration period before fully closing down an end-user's account.
Or maybe author wants strong reaction, clickbait or dont care. There will be backslash against tech arrogance, sure, but there is no need for it to involve nationalisation.
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As a workflowy user I want to know which query is this "slow query" they keep referencing.

Also, hopefully the sharding goes well and the new features rock.
You seem to be saying there's a high threshold for extreme opinions to be published in the Guardian, so the fact that someone wrote such an article suggests that there is a genuine problem that needs to be taken seriously. Guardian writers do not live inside a "bubble" and therefore, there is inherent merit to what they write.

I wonder how often you actually read the Guardian, which is famous for having wildly extreme opinion pieces, especially lately. It's basically the Breitbart of the left, a more or less constant stream of clickbait designed to make people angry and upset.

Just a few random headlines I got from clicking around just now:

"Who paid for the leave vote? Brexit should be halted until we know"

"The car has a chokehold on Britain. It’s time to free ourselves: Our insanely inefficient transport system is in thrall to the metal god. Electric vehicles are not the answer"

"Ask Hadley: Why do older people hate millennials so much?"

"Men on the left are sexist. Labour needs to do more to fix it."

"Feminists don't hate men. But it wouldn't matter if we did."

... and in case you think asking the government to take control of internet companies is new idea from Guardian writers:

"The Guardian view on censoring the internet: necessary, but not easy"

"Internet regulation: is it time to rein in the tech giants?"

"The EU is right to take on Facebook, but mere fines don’t protect us from tech giants"

I wouldn't exactly claim the Guardian floats above bubbles and groupthinks.
Honestly I'd be more worried about nation states having access to the information held on Facebook and Google than I would private corporations.
Ask HN: Plain text emails in 2017?
Hi, guys. From day to day, we send lots of emails and a huge fraction of those are of marketing nature. We're used to actionable HTML stuff in our inbox, and there are very few clients that don't support HTML email layouts. Still, we usually send two versions. HTML and plain text. Do we really need to send plain versions or it's just a second system syndrome of doing everything "right"?
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Why doesn't the author mention Microsoft? Why hasn't anyone else mentioned Microsoft in the comments?

Mobile might be what people use most of the time. But for productivity, specialty applications (X-Ray software, billing, medical applications, scientific, tool software, video editing, 3d rendering, ATMs, cash registers) Windows dominates. There is a huge body of software that can not be used on mobile.

Bill Gates threatened to withdraw Windows from the market during the anti-trust trial. I assumed this would also include security patches and key registration. This would have threatened millions of businesses and government services. If you can have any argument against a tech company operating against the public interest you have to include Microsoft.
A reddit discussion thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/6wsj1h/the... . I didn't see this submitted here anywhere.
Before anyone else gets enraged, this was Terry's will being honored. However, there's a debate to be had regarding whether it would have been worthy to release his final works even if incomplete and against his wishes.
I don't know about Amazon but I remember Microsoft sneaking into personal hotmail accounts to find who was leaking information to the press.

Microsoft issued a statement in justification saying that it didn't need a warrant since they consider that the data stored on their services is their, and no warrant is required to search oneself.
I get a little nervous when I hear about a new fund but its run through an existing 501(c)(3), Greater Houston Community Foundation.

501(c)(3)'s must disclose their finances to the IRS where they are publicly available. I didn't look at that rather an audit summary, some highlights:

2016 income: $197M

Total Assets: $529M

2016 CEO compensation: $379,139

Board size: 14

Estimated total Salary of Board: 10% of income ($19.7M)...this should definitely be verified in light of CEO compensation.

Program Expenses: Estimated 65% of funds spend on program activities.
Quantum computers are still in the "we have discovered the basic science, but the engineering is lacking" phase. If we'd manage to make them work as amazingly well as classical computers we could do some things we're currently struggling with much better. Foremost anything that has to do with quantum mechanical simulations, for example designing new drugs, creating useful protein nanomachines, predicting material properties...

Another cool step up in terms of technology would be the manipulation of black holes. Black holes are, via Hawking radiation, excellent mass->useful energy converters. If we manage to create some small black holes we could for example travel much faster around the universe, without having to create and store dangerous amounts of antimatter.
Now I'm curious to know about your startup. Care to share?
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Cassini readies for fiery plunge into Saturn after 13-year mission
This is such a widespread idea I wonder where it comes from. At least your government (hopefully) is a somewhat democratic institution and is to that extend accountable and is providing standard procedures to make it more accountable if you believe it ought to be.

There's no such thing in Facebook or Google. Managers dictate policy and if you don't like it you can leave/stop using their service.
Or our assumptions about climate / wheather were wrong.
for DAW use - this has been mentioned before on this thread, but 192khz has two beneficial effects - lower latency for realtime playing, and it "forces" some synths and effects to oversample, thus reducing aliasing.

All this comes at a high computational and storage cost though.

I personally use 44khz 24bit settings for DAW use.