skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It will be a very long time, if ever, before bluetooth can match hardwired latency

It happened long ago, with Apt-X, especially Apt-X HD and Apt-X LL.

> The latency of the aptX-HD codec can be scaled to as low as 1 ms for 48 kHz sampled audio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AptX#aptX-HD
The crash wasn't really about economics, it was more about people abusing financial instruments for short term gains. There would need to be some sort of meta-field that combines economics, finance, banking, politics, etc to properly analyze the cause/effect and predict this.
> I think values are a little bit like the GPLv3. They virally propogate into anything they are even the slightest part of.

Hm... I have a git repo that includes a) some 3-clause BSD licensed code and b) a GPLv3 licensed plug-in.

The GPLv3 licensed plug-in certainly counts as being "part of" this repository.

Could you please explain how the GPLv3 code "virally propogates" across the full repository? How is a patch submitted to the 3-clause BSD licensed code tainted by the GPLv3 plug-in?
Digging Across Panama (2011)
What a neat way to encode the "DOS" font at the end of the wwwbasic.js file, including the characters that you can use to draw boxes.
Ask HN: Open source and modern elearning plataform
Hello, I am a university student, and from what I realize nowadays, the quality of the e-learning platforms are very bad, they do not engage the students at all, much less the teachers. It has a difficult and complicated user experience to interact with. I am graduating this year and would like to build a modern e-learning platform and open source, to offer as an option to existing platforms, with a modern look and mainly easy to interact. Integrating some open source platforms for video conferencing, collaborative chat, etc. Do you think it could be useful or would it just be one more in the sea of existing LMS? Ideas will be welcomed :)
You have to consider that not that few expenses can wait. Think of the new paint on the walls, or the new floor on the staircase. Or the new table, etc.
Worst case you'll be stuck in a minimum-wage like lifestyle. Best case you're on your yacht in the Caribbean.
I'm a member of Rands too, and I do think it adds some value, but I started this group as an email group because I generally don't think Slack works well for communities. It's one thing for Slack to be used at the workplace where people are usually "always on", but for a community, it's hard to have high value, long form discussions.

The email list discussions have blown me away. People will literally write 10 paragraph emails about their decades of experience, and because it's not in a chat format, all members can check their email whenever and see the thread.
In addttion to the other reasons mentioned, the US higher education system churns out talent sourced here and abroad.
The recent Hep-C antivirals (Sovaldi & friends) should be a counterargument. With a course of medication you actually cure Hepatitis C. Previously you'd be looking at a liver transplant and taking immunosuppressants for the rest of your life.
When most adult humans are confused about many of the n-meta memes floating around, I can only assume 'no'. Perhaps there may be some interesting insight gained, but ai still can't 'understand' perfect speech, much less towering levels of irony and inate human reaction.

I suspect there are humans grading each one for 'hate' or whatever, and then letting the "ai" find variants and flag them automatically afterward.

It all reminds me of those (hopefully tounge-in-cheek) papers analyzing 4chan, SA, or other forums. I miss pre-clickbait wired.
That amounts of specialized hardware. Strong lasers and receivers for each user, network of quantum repeater satellites. How do you connect to your bank in a cloudy day or when it rains?
I run a start-up so I'm biased. I also used to work in academia, and went straight from that to a start-up because I loathe the idea of working for a big engineering firm (I'm an electrical/electronic/photonic engineer). So keep that in mind when reading.

Some comments here point out that only large organisations have the infrastructure required to really pull off certain fields, e.g. ML. Agreed, but surely this is field/interest dependent. I think most fields can be supported well by a start-up environment.

Consider the productivity. Some of the best engineering and commercial achievements were done on a tight budget - see the history of ARM, Microsoft, etc. I can vouch for how demanding, educating, and satisfying it is to work in a closely knit engineering team towards a common goal, with everyone around you pulling their weight and having their talents 100% utilised. There is no room for slackers in a small organisation - you will not have any useless colleagues, no wasted time, no pointless tasks. Your skills will expand in every direction - and not just in technical fields (although you will probably need to dabble in a range of these).

Consider the share options. 6% is a lot. Have they raised any money? Find out. Imagine they've raised £0.5m for 20% (a small angel round). That values your 6% at £150,000 today. If they raise a Series A of £2m for another 20% in a few years' time, your shares will be simultaneously diluted by the newly-issued shares but also stepped up in value. Now your options are worth £0.48m. By the time you exercise your options, you'll probably be a millionaire. This isn't trivial, and it's a typical conservative trajectory. Of course, you need to consider the 6% offer as an investor would - do you think the business is going to succeed? If not, go to Google. If you think it will, why turn down that transient opportunity?

Consider the transferability of the skills you will develop. If you work for a large org you will focus on one field, probably. You may become renowned for that. If you want to work in a start-up later, you need to find the one that suits, and they better be able to afford your specialist skills. If you work for a start-up now, you will develop broad skills and a huge amount of experience solving multiple challenges. Your engineering confidence will be immense and this will be recognised by employers. A very capable generalist who can be trusted to learn whatever is needed to solve tomorrow's challenge is every engineering employer's dream.

Do you want to be an anonymous cog in a corporate machine, or do you want to be a genuinely valued member of a team that is producing something new and valuable, that is creating its own culture, its own processes, its own market?
Which is weird though, I had a few sites not render properly on Edge on iOS but did on Safari. Some kind of compatibility mode?
Mysterious 'security issue' forces a solar observatory to be evacuated – CNN
Some people are stuck in black and white thinking. They struggle to visualize the gradual transition that often happens in real life.

Some people are stuck in seeing everything gradual. They tend to discount systems flipping and long tail events.

Then there a few who see mostly nonlinear systems and neglect the spoils that lay in linear analysis of a localized space.

And on microscopic level there is the weirdness of quantum effects.

Knowing into which toolbox to reach is not always clear.
Not really a CTO when I only have 3 people in my team, should I try to join?
I use USB + Dragonfly. The obsession with the headphone jack is strange because the audio isn't very good.
Domestic flights in the US are relatively cheap if you're flying between two international airports. Cheap, as in less than $120.
Interesting, found these links for a bit more (incase anyone else is interested)

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/NETAndWebAssemblyIsThisTheFut...

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2018/02/06/blazor-ex...
I had this question all the time. I agree, they should do something like google20p, which would have the side effect of advertising the fact that 20 percent still exists.
That I would agree with. I probably won't peek under the hood and fix any bugs with numpy, but someone else probably will.
Ask HN: How to quickly check what JavaScript marketing tags are collecting?
Marketing department is integrating lots of 3rd-party JS tags into my client's webpage. What is the quick way/tool to check JS marketing tags for such behavior like:

Access to PII, access to card data or any suspicious behavior
One of my biggest fears while cycling in the city is uber. Drivers frequently pull to the curb aggressively without signal, often blocking bike lanes. Unlike a taxi there are few markings to alert cyclists that the car will show this behavior. At best you might spot an airport rideshare pass in the back window, but these are often placed in the corner of the drivers side, making them hard to see from the edge of the road.
While I don't know about the status, but compensation is definitely is the correct thinking. Startups need to offer something for less compensation, a lot of times they offer less and even less flexible than a big co.
We call it nuts from one of the biggest, country-in-a-state administrative regions, the second biggest I guess in amazon rainforest, after the absolutely humongous state called Amazonas (AM). Sometimes here it's also the one implied if you just say "nut" (castanha), though cashew nuts are also common and plentiful but come out more from northeastern regions, the ones with a beautiful coast and equatorial climate, than the northern directly associated with humid continental Amazon geography.
How is it startling? Some people don't care to leave the country? So what if it's not their thing? Not everyone cares to travel and even if you do, there is a million places to travel within the US, you'll never get bored, there is always something new to see. Why does it bother you that people enjoy doing different things than you in their free time?

It's not cost prohibited, discount airlines like Norwegian Air and Air Lingus run non-stop flights from the East coast to Europe for $100-$300. Flights to the Caribbean are not more expensive than domestic flights.
You realize our government is a hostile actor from our perspective? They are as likely to be complicit in any compromise of the system and thus unsuitable to trust to design a system suitable to preserve our democracy. The mouse can't guard the cheese.

We the citizenry can probably resist and discover interference which has to be done in a fashion that is broadly distributed and plainly comprehensible by common people. Ditital systems are commonly found to be vulnerable to manipuluation that can be done by one or a small number of actors and only discoverable by a tiny portion of the population if and only if the people that compromised our democracy allow you to audit them. It seems like the best case real world system would be an unacceptable risk and astoundingly unlikely that the real world result would be any better than ACTUAL existing government IT projects which as mentioned are hot garbage.

As far as I can tell its already entirely possible if laborious to prevent malfeasance at scale. The only possible benefit to the system you are describing would in decreased cost of operating the election after we pay off the billions required to build the system and slightly quicker results. We are short on neither money or time. This is still one of the wealthier nations and transitions from one group of assholes to the next in practice takes months from reasons that have nothing to do with tabulating votes.

We cannot risk our democracy so that you or others like yourself can work on a neat new IT project. Our fearless leader will just have to find another way to deter millions of imaginary illegals from voting for his opponent next go round.
...we rode on trains and buses that had their own dedicated sections for families, with places to secure strollers and a variety of seating arrangements. But it wasn’t just about the kid-centric accoutrements. I saw that the real beauty of reliable, accessible transportation is that it allows people of all ages and abilities to move freely around a city—at their own pace.

Author was in Sweden and I think it's important to see their transportation system as a feature embedded within a larger context, one where government and social support structures are different than they are in, say, Los Angeles.

For example, with LA's context of higher homelessness rates, poverty rates, gun and weapon possession rates, crime rates, and drastically less effective government support for people's needs, we may well expect a different outcome in a similarly designed transit station. Transit design choices do not exist in a vacuum. They exist in the context of a society, cultural norms, government and law enforcement rules and behaivor, etc.

You could probably make an argument that in US cities many transportation fixtures (e.g. bus benches, train seats) have been intentionally made less comfortable, less accommodating so that they are easier to clean and less likely to attract misuses such as permanent habitation.
>crypto token [...] redeeming Building grade Sand

haha. A sand backed crypto token...that's amazing.
Amalgamations. Love it!
It's one of of the quoted reasons at least: https://www.macrumors.com/2016/09/07/apple-explains-headphon...
Aren't both of those attacks all-but-negated by djb's Curve25519?
You can't set an upper limit for what can be lost unless you force other traders to buy what a short seller is covering. Non-deliverable futures markets with no shorts are not possible, and it isn't practical to make every futures contract deliverable.
You're downvoted for saying "You, person I don't know, should have used a different solution because of reason X" without considering they thought of that when they made their decision.

It was in the phrasing, not in some defense of the "Cloud", which is overrated for existing businesses.
Did the article change? The rest of the “hard to analyze” sentence you quoted above is “linear systems respond proportionally to changes in variables, whereas nonlinear systems have more complicated relationships.“
> My understanding about why Amercians don't fly international is the same as the UK used to be - not many even have a passport, and even less have an interest in cultures other than their own.

There's a much simpler reason: the US is unbelievably large compared to European countries. The US equivalent to a London-Rome trip would be Washington, DC-Miami. Another example I give is that I used to live in Urbana-Champaign, which is "near" Chicago, which is roughly commensurate to saying that Paris is "near" Brussels.

And of course, the sheer size of the US also includes a massive diversity of climates and environments. The Florida Keys, North Carolina's Outer Banks, the Great Lakes, badlands in the Dakotas, Yellowstone, the Shenandoah Valley, Maine wilderness, Utah's canyons, Nevada's salt flats, San Diego--all of these places are completely different from one another. Not to mention we have our own Caribbean islands (US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico), subarctic wilderness (northern Alaska), and Pacific paradises (Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas).
I have found OnePlus does the trick for me. I actually prefer if it to any of the mainstream phones.
Actually it worked out to the best for me. There’s two occasions where I use headphones: mowing the grass and working out. In both cases the headphone wire gets in the way and causes problems yet I was too cheap to buy a Bluetooth headphone set. By forcing me to buy Bluetooth headphones (I didn’t buy iBuds - I’m way too cheap for that!) Apple actually improved the quality of my life. Even if only a somewhat minor aspect.
It's like "honey you need to do something about your weight; here I made you a burger on a doughnut bun with triple cheese and fudge sauce".

You only really have one way to communicate with a large corporation - give money, or withhold money.
I never had such an option but I agree. I picked a big company and after a couple years was able to leave in a much better place, financially, than I went in.
Here we call it Pará Nuts, or castanha do pará. Pará is the most famous state were the nuts grow.
I fail to see how Marxs LTV is shitty, infact I would say that long term predictions show approaches like Marxs' works a lot better than any praexological or more traditionally neo classical methods.
Switch statements got an upgrade in v7 which makes things better

https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2017/02/01/pattern...
How a College Degree Became a Basic Need
Of course your consulting rate is a measure of power! The question about your rate is a question of how easy you are to replace. If you have skills (which are a form of capital, which is a form of power) or relationships that are hard to find then you have leverage to negotiate a higher rate. Power is at the heart of that question.

Whenever you are negotiating a rate or salary, you are forming a relationship, and the terms of that relationship depend entirely on your relative levels of power and leverage.
Sales.
Steve Jobs was a sales guy. Apple's first order was from The Byte Shop for 50 units, he convinced The Byte Shop to buy, before even having the funds to build 50 units. So he went and convinced Cramer Electronics to allow him to purchase on credit everything that they would need to fulfill the order.

Per your question. You NEED two core competencies to build a company: sales and the ability to fulfill what it is you're selling (product/services). Being strong in selling and building products (or providing services) tend to be separate skill sets, so often two-person teams form due to this concept (like the 2 Steve's). It is important to note that having a sales skill set does not negate the need for technical competency anymore than engineers can ignore building products that align with the business- it's about efficiency.

I will end by saying... you don't need co-founders. Solo Founders are responsible for more than half of the exits. (https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/26/co-founders-optional/) There are advantages to having a cofounder(s) and the same can be said of going it alone.
For those interested in Causal Inference, here is Judea Pearl's fairly accessible intro "An Introduction to Causal Inference":
http://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r354-corrected-reprint.p...
Obsolete how?
Ask HN: Website file integrity tools
After recent BA hack many security experts started to recommend file integrity tools for the critical areas of websites like payment forms or registration pages. Are there any free tools which allow to automate this task?
I'll second this. If you do brain work to pay the bills, there probably won't be enough left for your own project.

I believe there was some studio guy who once made the same observation about musicians: the ones who had low-mental-effort day-jobs eventually made it. The rest backslid into white-collar wage-slavery.
For anyone curious how that ~$170 USD fare is possible, it's WOW airlines and doesn't even include an overhead bin. It's great that WOW exists as an option, but it's hardly standard.

For example, from St. Louis, the cheapest round trip is in the ~$900 USD range.
Honestly I dont understand why NASDAQ could be involved if he was trading european electricity. Even if he was trading ADRs they'd be on NYSE.. The article must be missing a few details.
Has anyone done that and what is the advantage over modern autoencoders?

I would really like to know, because I'm currently working with autoencoders. Relying only on synthetic samples can introduce all kinds of biased denoising and require endless tweaking.

When you tie the weights and convolution kernels in the decoder to those of the encoder, you get relatively fast learning without excess number of variables and encoder-decoder can be much deeper.
I'm in that minority too, I guess. There's nothing more grating than to explicitly close all tabs, only to be asked whether you want to open them again. For me, tabs are like this useless plaque that slowly accumulates and needs to be blown away every two or three days.
> Sample size of one: my company tends to ding candidates from Google if they have any whiff of the kind of status- or compensation-driven thinking

Does it ding investors for return driven thinking, or does it happily takes checks from people so crass as to care about money?
Vuelify Payment Plans for Airline Tickets
I grew up in the Canal Zone. I'm an American and was one of the colonists. This quote from the article brought back memories:

Theodore Roosevelt wrote to a friend at the British Foreign Office that just as British rule in Egypt and India benefited those countries and the world, so American hegemony would be good for the Panamanians.

On October 1, 1979 my hometown was given to Panama. I was young but it was a sad day for us. The Canal Zone police force would be disbanded a year later. We thought that Panama would never be able to run the Canal. We thought once we left that Panama would be doomed. That they couldn't do it on their own.

There were valid reasons for thinking this at the time. Panama did a very bad job of running the railroad and, I believe, tried to give it back to the U.S. to run. But the Panama Canal Treaty did some things right. Slowly Panamanians were hired to key position on the Panama Canal Company. By the time they fully took control of the Canal Zone and the Canal on December 31, 1999 they possessed enough institutional knowledge to keep the canal running.

I went back in 2008 and met an elderly man who went to school in the Zone but was Panamanian. Rich Panamanians could pay tuition to come to the American run schools. He said, "When you Americans left we had to grow up." Panama has done very well as far as I can tell. I'm impressed and glad for them.

I'm on the fence about whether or not we were a net positive for Panama but one thing seems clear to me, giving them the Canal Zone set them on a good path. I was sad to lose the Zone and not be able to live where I grew up but it was good for Panama.
What a beautiful discovery!

For context, 50k years ago was the early phase of a North-African pluvial period when the Sahara was a wet and fertile region; this lasted 20k years. The Neanderthals disappeared 40k years ago. The first evidence of the domestication of dogs dates to around 35k years ago in Europe and Siberia.

For the Northern Europeans here, reindeer and caribou are actually the same species, Rangifer tarandus, but with substantial differences: caribou are large, wild, elk-like animals which can be found in northern North America and Greenland and have never been domesticated. In my experience the meat tastes the same.
> Audiophiles probably aren’t too keen on being unable to listen to high-bitrate files.

Ignoring issues of latency and connection robustness, is this a bandwidth limitation of Bluetooth or is it that the driver/codec support isn't there? Or is it audiophile hyperbole?

There's no technical reason why you couldn't stream lossless digital audio to a pair of headphones, which might well have a better DAC chipset than the phone.
Rings a bell on Progogine parlance about Onsager relations.