skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm certainly not kidding, but nor am i technically adept as your goodselves, so i'm more than happy to stand corrected.

I havent used BitTorrent in a very long time, simply because i was endlessly frustrated waiting for peers to come online for many files so that i could see from them.

Seems like a constant constraint to me.

My experience with usenet has been quite the opposite. No dependency on peers, and no uploading of my own necessary.

I understand that BTs error-checking may very well be good. I dont have any personal experience of it., but so far as extracting the files and combining them and whatnot is concerned there are many clients available today that automate the whole process upon presenting a single NZB file.

Anyway, this is just my limited experience, and maybe i'll begin to like BitTorrent again one day.

PS. Using binaries from usenet, i also have the option of simultaneous connections (20+) as well SSL and header caching.
Only over some threshold (iirc, though it has been some time, around 80k USD equivalent). So maybe yes for someone with a comparatively high income, but not so much a worry for a reasonably large segment of the population. Naturally if this happens to apply to anyone reading I would urge consulting a professional for current advice. ;)
One of the things that's posed this question is whether users would sign up for a web service, then head to Paypal only to find that they are being billed under my name instead of a company's name.

Perhaps I am being extremely confused over the differences between sole proprietorship and a corporation so any clarification on that would be good too.
Guns are pretty irony
While I'm in agreement in principle, in practice there are significant creative differences between conductors as to what the composer intended.

Then there's the issue of pieces that have traditionally been performed one way, but then something turns up indicating that the composer may have meant it differently (I dimly recall this happening with something of Beethoven's in the last decade or so). Do you drop 100+ years of tradition and audience expectation in favor of originalism? What if the evidence of original intent is an early draft? There's a lot of room for well-meaning disputes there.

So at least with music old enough to not have any recordings made at the time the composer was alive, there are always going to be differences of opinion on how to translate the score into sound waves. Very serious enthusiasts will want multiple recordings.
How often do people write this article? I would be really interested to see how many articles in a similar spirit were written during the 1930s or 1980s. For one, based on the 'smart money' investments from China and Russia they still seem to believe in the future of the US.
Thanks for catering to us noscript types. I appreciate you taking the time to make it work.

edit: JavaScript the Evil Parts[1] is what made me start using NoScript and NotScripts. The web is safer and less annoying w/ NoScript and FlashBlock.

[1] http://blip.tv/file/3684946
Indeed; I love the footnoting style -- look and content -- and will surely copy it for something I write someday.
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I hope the author visits here and is educated on his misinformed analogy.
You are right. edanm asked for some evidence that there are idiots who think Japanese worship white people. It seems there are many, so the article really targets an existing problem. That's the point.
#fff would make a great brand-name in a nerdy nonsensical nike swoosh kind of way
Haystack vs How The Internet Works
Some countries don't allow dual citizenship. My German friends had to renounce their German citizenship when they became Americans (again for the green card).
It made it very tricky tax-wise when their parents died and they suddenly became foreigners (to Germany) owning a lot of German assets.
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Or because there are incredibly few new movies worth watching?
> That’s not that much better than the freedom to work or life wherever you want within the US. It only sounds so impressive because those 27 nations are all substantially smaller than the US.

As a US citizen, it's a very appealing idea. While we do indeed have 50 different places I can live and work without applying for new/temporary status, the cultural, and historic nature of the places is certainly not as diverse as in Europe.
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Everyone wants to "beat the market." For every dollar McDonalds gets, Burger King is not. For every dollar Microsoft gets, Apple is not. There are no group hugs unless you work for a non-profit (and even then, for every dollar your non-profit gets, some other, equally deserving non-profit is not).
He knows how to get press, and playing up that confrontation yields links and references. Just as many NoSQL pieces start off with some often ridiculous attacks on YeSQL.

I'm still trying to understand how SciDB differs from VoltDB. We're currently evaluating VoltDB for some analysis processes.
Here's the emotiv thread on it: http://emotiv.com/forum/forum15/topic879/ . Sounds like it may be a pyrrhic victory...
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Here's a simple proof of concept I wrote a while back that bypasses Firefox FlashBlock: https://woofle.net/flashblockblock/

The payload is harmless but silly.
I never considered Oriental a pejorative (heck, I called myself Oriental back then) until I was corrected by my American cousin who was taking Asian Studies in uni in the late 80s: "We're called Asians. Oriental is considered offensive."

In the 90s, I was totally baffled by the popularity of the 'Azn' movement.
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Excellent! Safe search didn't occur to me.
Sure, it was uninformed, but I honestly don't see how that was a hurtful stereotype. He wasn't implying that everybody with ADHD loves meth and Jolly Ranchers. How is the misconception that meth decreases attention span a hurtful stereotype against those with ADHD? I just don't see it.
I completely agree. Not only that, but users will typically deal with lots of software annoyances, but one thing they simply will not tolerate is late or lost email.
Active vs. Passive Decision Points
I don't see that happening ever. Not unless the human condition changes significantly. I currently see it more likely that we will end up with more countries, not less countries.

If countries "go away", what do you suggest they would be replaced by?
Yes, but we knew that, right?
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I think you're confusing concepts. The original point is about the difference between the map and the territory. And, because I'm (finally) systematically going through Eliezer's sequences: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Map_and_Territory_(sequence)

Your second paragraph is about a particular map: quantum theory. Quantum theory has probabilities in it. The dominant interpretation of quantum theory is that the probabilities accurately represent what happens in the universe; they are not artifacts for us to correct. But there is still a difference between our map (quantum theory) and the territory (the universe itself).

Put another way: quantum theory is a map with uncertainty baked into it. But this uncertainty has been accurately mapped.
1/3 would be correct if you set aside the issues about 'given' information addressed in the post. And I think the post has a valid point, that we have to be careful to appropriately understand biases and uncertainties in our data sources. But your reading of it, I think, demonstrates the real weakness of this part of the OP's discussion, namely that he's started with, and trying to expand from, a basic, 'classic' problem that people notoriously have difficulty agreeing on (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryln_vos_Savant#.22Two_boys.2...). So as a pedagogical exercise, or as an attempt to get his point across, he has to trip over all the misunderstandings that cause people to think in the simple, classic case, that the answer is 1/2.

I think he would have been better off expanding the classic coin example, only changing the story such that a naive research assistant is tasked with flipping the coin n times and bringing us the results. Then we could start by finding the probability that the coin is biased taking the research assistant at his word, and then we could reason about the probability that the research assistant either doctored the sequence when he felt they weren't 'random' enough, or the probability that he just pulled an 'HTTH' sequence out of his head without ever touching a coin.
I don't care. Get it right.
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"Whatever patents are necessary, will be filed and protected", Mr N K Sinha, Joint Secretary at the HRD Ministry announced. "But the industry today is such, that most of the parts necessary, are available straight off the shelf."

All the parts, in fact!
Hedge-Fund Man Finds Inner Lion in Outer Space: Michael Lewis
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Welcome to Europe.
500 years ago it was mostly principalities and city states, tried empires for a while, then we had countries for a few 100 years - now we are trying to abolish them again. It's very much a British (actually English) idea that countries are eternal and inviolate.

IIRC Singapore and a bunch of other high tech SE Asian countries essentially did the same thing. Anybody with a high tech qualification, eg a CS degree, could live and work in any of the club no questions asked.
He just disliked the idea of on orchestra having a trademark "sound". Bernstein actually said, if you can listen to a few bars and know which orchestra is playing, they're doing it wrong.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" (HST) also sums up a lot ;)
A SQL Database Built for the Cloud
I'm not too deep in the NoSQL world, but isn't this article conflating MapReduce with NoSQL? NoSQL is a broad AJAX-y term, but generally I thought it was referring to schema-less/document databases, not MapReduce. You don't have to use MapReduce (necessarily) to query a NoSQL datastore, and you could use MapReduce on a relational database, right?
When I visited Egypt, my flamboyantly gay chain smoking guide had a similar experience. He tried to dissuade me from climbing up "Moses Mountain", as it was locally known.

Him: I tried it once, about a year ago. I was showing some healthy mexican girls around, and they decided to climb. But it was so steep, and they just kept walking! After a few hours of pain I just stopped, and shivered on the side of the mountain. It was the worst day of my life.

Me: Sounds awesome. Only 50 egyptian pounds?

Him: It wasn't awesome. I don't recommend it. I'll sleep in the van.

Michael Lewis didn't enjoy Solomon Brothers, just as my guide didn't enjoy a 3 hour stroll up a 1500m hill. Both assumed that an accurate description of the experience would dissuade others. Both simply failed to appreciate the diversity of human preferences.
IPhone vs Android? No. We're fighting the wrong fight
Designing Interfaces
Yes it's a zen thing. But git after a while just pulls you in. From a marketing stand-point it's the awesome product kind that doesn't even need marketing. Word will spread on it's own. And does.

btw, my favorite post on git still is http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ .
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How and more importantly why the process works.
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Really? Quality, not quantity. An hour with my wife is more meaningful to me than half my day at work. No job will make up for that, unless I'm changing the world. So yes. It's just a job. Your (not you specifically, but anyone) startup is just a job.
Nothing burns me up more than vendor-provided "download/update managers". I'll keep my app updated myself thank you very much. No, you don't actually need to run your program 24-7 when it's only used once every few months on my machine.

Just thinking about it makes my blood pressure rise.

(Yes, I know I can go back and uninstall the download manager, but now there are 2 of them - one specifically for IE/ActiveX and the one for Firefox that they recently created).
I work in the CNC programming and design field. I've often wondered how easy it will be to build what we now consider sophisticated weapons in 20 years. People currently build homemade cruise missiles. What will the future bring?
as far as I know, it's possible to apply for keeping your German citizenship when gaining the one of another country. you have to justify it with family relations or something like that. at least it's possible, but I don't know about the trouble you have with that ...
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It's funny, a friend of mine asked me why "all Japanese people want to look white" as I am from japan (I don't look even a little bit white, let alone Japanese). The fact is that paleness has been associated with beauty there since before they knew that Caucasians even existed. So I don't particularly have an answer, but it's clear that it's not that they want to be white because Caucasians are white.
An anti-NDA email might come in handy
There are some differences, a US friend of mine did law in the UK which meant she could work anywhere from Finland to Greece. But when she passed the New York bar she couldn't work in New Jersey.
Things like the European Union. It's not always pretty but it works.

Perhaps after that it will be planets (if you like Futurama), or religions, philosophies or even brands. :) Who knows.
Duplicate entry: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1685902
Why are we paying for voice/text/data when it is essentially all just data? We should just be paying for data plans. It shouldn't cost extra to tether either.
Oh :-)
That is certainly part of it. But I also think some other countries do a worse job welcoming immigrants. Japan notoriously so. Is it easy to become a citizen of China or India if you want to "outsource yourself"? The EU gives essentially a free migration pass to all member countries, but how is it coming from outside of Europe?

Any of you hackers care to comment on the situation in your nation of origin, or the one where you live?
No but it's still a hassle not being a citizen - especially if you travel a lot.

By contrast Canadian permanent residents are treated exactly the same as citizens - except you can't vote in federal elections. Although with the choices on offer that's probably a blessing !
Close-micing (which is the term of art for what you're describing) would potentially be interesting in terms of letting people remix the recording, but it wouldn't "let you recreate the experience of sitting anywhere in the concert hall."

Recordings made from close-miced instruments sound very "dry". That is, there's little to no 'room tone' to give you a sense of space or place. I've listened to recordings like that, and it sounds like you're having the instrument wired directly into your brain. In some cases that might be what you want -- a lot of pop music (virtually all) is recorded that way.

I prefer my classical music recorded "wet", on an X/Y or ORTF pair setup. This is basically where you take two identical microphones and set them up down in the seating area of the concert hall, right in the acoustic sweet spot of the room. Done well, and played back on a good set of speakers, you can hear the placement of various instruments across the stage. (Another fun technique is binaural recording, which is designed for playback on headphones. It is not very popular right now, though.)

There are some techniques to make a "dry" recording "wet," by basically faking the room tone, but they're, well, fake. Tossing in a little reverb and messing with the EQ is never going to give you the same effect as the natural acoustics of a concert space.

A lot of modern recordings have a mix; they'll use some mics up on the stage (relatively dry), some down in the audience area, and others on key instruments to give the engineer flexibility later on. But a lot of really excellent classic recordings from the 50s and 60s were done with nothing but two condenser mics.

What you could probably do, if you really wanted, would be to do some sort of multichannel recording using a big microphone array ... if you did it right, with the right playback equipment, that might give you the ability to "move around" inside the listening space. I'm not sure if it would really be any easier than just doing multiple X/Y-pair recordings from different parts of the concert hall, though.
Ask HN: Just launched our last startup. Any feedbacks?
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Not true. You can hold US Citizenship and gain citizenship of other countries as well. The question is whether the other country will allow you to keep your US citizenship or not.

For example, I believe Singapore requires you to renounce any other citizenship you have if you are eligible to become a Singaporean.
Originally posted as http://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/why-do-the-japanese-...
I don't understand the appeal of these articles. There was another one a while ago that had a quote like, "I asked someone with 10 years of PHP experience what they thought of the Rails project they had been working on for the last few months, and they said that it was completely worthless!" Why would someone who has worked deeply with a diametrically oppositional technology be qualified to talk about NoSQL?
That might be true if you're playing live or mainly for fun, but when you're playing 12 or more tables, poker starts to look a lot like those video games in terms of decision speeds. Throw in the need to remember how you've been playing on 12 different tables in addition to how 100 other players have been playing, and your attempt to trivialize poker playing looks somewhat silly.
The Sad State of Vendor Security Patches
That's the wonderful thing about math. You can verify its correctness without reference to anybody's reputation or personal opinion. Indeed, that's pretty much the definition of math.
Yes!

and if people wanted a fuller result, you can say, "more lower quality links found. Click here to view all" similar to the way that searching in gmail lets you search in trash & spam.
I suspect in my case it is because I said "European country" rather than "European Union country." Not all European countries are in the EU. The Wikipedia article on the EU has all sorts of interesting information:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/European_Unio...
"There were other characters in this drama. The sales guys were complete tools, with a total IQ, summing over all of them, still safely in the double digits. The traders were crafty and quick-witted, but technically unsophisticated and with the attention span of an ADHD kid hopped up on meth and Jolly Ranchers."

Ok it seems perfectly possible to make a lot of money while being a complete idiot. I'm getting an MS in engineering and since I was studying the last few years I don't have any money (except about the minimum which is required for a living) What worries me most is that many engineering jobs are not well payed, even though they require skilled people. So I wonder how I could turn the hard work I did (and still do) to get my degree into money.
That's certainly a very constructive and not at all trollish opinion to offer in a thread that is all about a popular distribution format for new movies.
I voted you back up to 1 because even though it seems you didn't finish (or even read?) the article, your post did have interesting content.
What is the probability that a pronounceable domain is registered?
Thats the big advantage - imagine having a choice of bread or cheese that actually tastes different!

Apart from a few of the more 'third world' european countries (like France) if you speak english and work in high tech it's not a big problem to work in Scandanavia/Germany/Netherlands.
The main difficulty is they drive on the wrong side of the road - but as consolation the coffee and women are much better.
Yeah this is no big deal. If the government want to subsidise a product so that it easily available to its citizens, more power to them.
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But that doesn't mean that large eyes means white. Black people generally have characteristically large eyes too.
Not a true story, an attempt to frame the parent post I was replying to in a different light to show how much of a prima Donna overreaction it would be, and as you say, directed at the wrong people too.
Ask HN: An interesting idea that I wont build. You like?
I call this Site Sounds.

Visiting a website is interpreted as audible music (could be a plugin that plays the music while you visit sites).

Colors within an html document represents different tones.

The types of content being transmitted represent different instruments. html, css, javascipt, images, flash, pdf, etc.

The bandwidth speed represents the metronome/speed of the music.

Javascript libraries represent different rhythm patterns: jquery, mootools, etc.

CDNs represent different instruments: amazon, akamai, limelight.

External resources and APIs represent sounds.

As traffic is brought through the network adapter, a listener passes the type of information to the synthesizer that analyzes the type of traffic then outputs the appropriate music.

I assume at first it will all sound like garbled non-sense, so there would be some need to map each entity to a certain type of instrument/sound to make it somewhat musical.

Worth building?
My two cents ...

I find the results often unexpected as a result of matching a search term to several app fields. I search the word "instant" and receive AIM as the top result (presumably because AIM is an "instant" messenger application). Same thing occurs due to matching against developer names, causing what I'd consider to be false (or 'less true') matches to show up because the string matches a developer name, and yet matching app names are lower in the match results, even though the string is in the app name--and often the beginning of the app name.

It'd be worthwhile to consider tightening the parameters. I'd wager a typical user performing an instant search is not searching by developer name. I'd further wager an average user is searching by keyword and description less frequently on an 'instant' search than by app name. So perhaps you could try a bit of weighting, pushing X app name matches higher in the results, followed by X description matches, followed by X developer name matches. Perhaps tweak the UI to reflect this.

And, of course, I could be completely wrong and this is all just a matter of my expectations not being fulfilled after searching.
Just like C is not Assembly, Digging in the Ruby/Python/etc source code is not a hacking.
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And there will be oldies and IP abolitionists like me who get to say "I was RIGHT!" since we are vindicated by the history.
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I'm a dual Canadian/U.S. citizen, although I was born so in both countries (born to American parents on Canadian soil). I've never once had to worry about this whole renunciation thing.

Additionally, my brother became a Canadian citizen (born U.S.), and again had no problems; Canada didn't care about his U.S. citizenship, and the U.S. doesn't care about his Canadian citizenship. He could officially renounce his U.S. citizenship by walking into a consulate and doing so, but there's no up-side to it.