skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please stop referring to him as "this guy", he's well known in the BSD and Linux worlds. He had commit access to FreeBSD before many things we take for granted today even existed. His name is Matt Dillon and he's one hell of a hardware/OS hacker. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Dillon_%28computer_scienti...
I'll take a shot:

1) Every GUI function results in a SQL log entry so you can learn/improve your SQL if you're not a guru.

2) You can give this to an analyst (whose db user is restricted appropriately) and have them be productive in adding and updating data.

3) Any view can be exported to CSV, so the analyst can use what they know (ie, Excel) to do things you might not care about but are important (ie, pivot tables, etc).

4) It's free.
I'd even skip the dac (I mean I might not.... but a decent amplifier, and I just mean decent, like something that still works from the 70's or 80's) and a decent pair of tower speakers (needn't be expensive), and, well, just don't use the shittiest cables you can find (I mean as long as they are thicker than a few human hairs you're okay)- it'll sound far, far better.

Or get some half decent headphones.
Hrm. Won't let me log in.

At least, I think that's what the "Something smells rotten" error is supposed to mean.

I just registered for Delicious to try this out, as apparently my old account didn't survive the acquisition, so I know my username and password are valid.

Thoughts?
He already had it. Matt Dillon is the business, and that's not a fake name of his. He quit FreeBSD-core because they chafed at his awesomeness, from which he went to start a FreeBSD fork, Dragonfly BSD, one of whose goals is process and state portability across CPUs and machines. He was also the technical stud behind Best Internet, one of the earliest and largest and highest-performance ISPs of the Mom&Pop era of the Internet (~93-97).
I wonder what will happen to the technology research team at YUI. I really learned a lot from the YUI Theater and the many amazing JavaScript presentations from Douglas Crockford.
Yahoo owns a bunch of things like Flickr (and previously Delicious). Though IIRC, I thought that they already cut a bunch of staff from these other projects.
Controls suck. Aiming sucks. Looks crappy. Retro look is over. Get some nice vector art and make it look stylish. Get some game design and make it so you can actually kill the first guy easily so people want to keep playing. Fix the loading times. Make the tutorial at the beginning inline instead of a practice. Also, why does someone on my block want to kill me right away?
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I know where you're going with this I think, and I'm not disagreeing outright, but wouldn't this be captured during the high-bitrate (or good analog?) recording and mixing phase if the recording/mixing/mastering engineer were doing things right? At least, as well as possible?
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Do you really think the US healthcare market is a shining example of the Free Market Gone Wrong? The US health system is anything but free market, the government has its influence at every level. To start off with, let's pick on a topic often picked on here, patents: http://www.dklevine.com/papers/imbookfinal09.pdf After you've read that, let's note that I can't as a chemical manufacturer produce any drug I want at any quantity I want and sell it, and as a consumer I can't buy any drug I want even out-of-country, where in a free market I could do both these things. People die waiting for new drugs or procedures to go through the process, it's not uncommon for people to go out of country to a US-trained doctor to have the procedure/treatment because it's illegal in the US. Some free market we have.
No, templates still buggy, came across one last week.
Some kind of compare-and-set! operator which occurs at the transactor perhaps.

Update:

1. you can do synchronous transactions.

http://datomic.com/docs/javadoc/datomic/Connection.html#tran...

2. transactions can include data functions.

"The database can be extended with data functions that expand into other data functions, or eventually bottom out as assertions and retractions. A set of assertions/
retractions/functions, represented as data structures, is sent to the transactor as a transaction, and either succeeds or fails all together, as one would expect."
does it depend on what you define as a 'startup'. weekend projects should not be considered startups even though every man and his dog seems throwing the term around for every bit of code they hack together.

go dedicated when you commit to the project. Up until that point, you would be wasting money and effort and although service support is good with dedicated providers, that largely depends on 'who' you choose - i certainly wouldnt say a blanket 'great response times from dedicated vs cloud providers' on some (shall not be named)providers..
Ask HN: How to run arc web app in the background?
I download the web app from http://ycombinator.com/arc/arc3.1.tar, and deploy it.
ssh to my host, then :

mzscheme -f as.scm

(load "news.arc")

(thread (nsv))

But when i exit from ssh, the server "nsv" is down. so i can't back to the prompt.

I try this: "mzscheme -m -f as.scm < news.arc &", but i got errors like "Error: "Bad object in expression #<eof>"

How shoud i do?
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All the points you make are negative. I.e. they all point to reasons, fear based, which a Yahoo employee would be staying. That sucks.

Sure, Yahoo is scale - but isn't it in 95% maintenance mode? What innovation is Yahoo doing. I am not aware of any initiatives like at Google and Facebook where they are doing something along the lines of the open computing, or their own hardware dev for datacenter infrastructure advancement. I could be completely misinformed.

I am, however, of the opinion that we are just watching Yahoo on life support. A zombie company with vital signs (users) but no cognitive ability (growth, innovation, new products etc).

I am not trying to denigrate Yahoo -- I just have seen nothing that gives me any confidence what-so-ever that I should care about them as a company.

I don't know how much cash they have - but I have said this in the past here on HN - if there was anyone with any brains in the Yahoo C-Suite, they would be taking their wads of cash and backing every startup in the valley in a YC manner with the same goal of owning 5-10% of the future.

They should be widely investing in the market and then leveraging their "massive scale" infrastructure, datacenter expertise etc to hosting and supporting all these companies.

There is lot of opportunity that Yahoo is simply too complacent to take advantage of.

Yahoo could be a game changer if they stopped trying to think of themselves as a portal or even search site (I don't think they believe at all they are a search portal given their fealty to Bing) and start realizing that they are an infrastructure asset with ~2 billion in cash and over a decade of valley domain expertise in high volume traffic. (They had 2B in both 2003 and in 2009 as far as I can find)

Invest/buy/acquire like mad and get a good % of the action in the valley. Get NEW users on that infrastructure which appears to be rotting.
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Yup... people need to get very clear in their heads the difference between the recording/sampling/mixing/mastering stages, where high bitrate/width/gear/knowledge is helpful, and playback, which is a completely different thing.

(not for eatmyshorts -you get this I gather) - everyone gets that "upsampling" can't add detail to a recording right? You can't get more than you've got.... no matter what you do. There is no magic. You upsample so you drive harmonics generated in the digital-to-analog process during playback further up in the spectrum so when you get to the analog stage you can use a nice gentle analog filter to filter them out. Without the upsampling, you need a nasty steep analog filter to filter them out, and that can have audible side-effects (or at least measurable) in the audible spectrum.
eatmyshorts - correct me if I mis-stated any of that please....
Is there a greasemonkey script to dump SXSW HN posts like the one for twitter?
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Watching a story like Kyle's helps to remind a person that instead of making excuses for the obstacles in your life that it is far better to focus on overcoming them. It also points out that your obstacles can also be turned in to something positive that can help someone else facing similar challenges.
I bet half the people on HN could run Flickr better by themselves.
That would be freaking awesome.

However, my big concern here would be security. You'd need to be able to supply a predicate for which datums are allowed to be synced to the client.
Yes. A 40KHz tone and a 41KHz tone will interfere with each other and can create 1KHz tones that are audible. Edited to correct error, thanks anechoic.
I doubt this is the best way, but you could launch it in a GNU Screen session or a TMUX session.

You can then "detach" from Screen or TMUX, end your ssh session, and scheme will still be running. The cool thing is you can later ssh into your host, and re-attach to Screen or TMUX as if you never disconnected.

Whether it's the best way to run news.arc, I can't say, but they are very useful tools to learn about, and should work for this problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Screen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmux
Windows key + typing easily launches apps since, IIRC, Vista. As someone who is forced to use windows again, I was quite pleased that spotlight search to launch (available since Leopard) exists.
There are lots. For example:

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/60-really-cool-and-creative-err...

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/17/404-error-pages-r...
yes but in twitters defense gmail now is 1.6 megs it was over 2.5 megs some time ago..about the time wave was launched..they heavily refactored gwt due to the problems with wave..
Sure, for 1.5 grand a month, you can get a crazy amount of dedicated hardware, but then, that's one-half to one-third of one developer's salary. Heroku charges a premium to save on developer time (and hopefully benefit from economies of scale).
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It's a remote distributed MVCC data store with a total ordering of writes maintained by a transaction service, nonblocking reads bypassing the writer, and a local data analysis system that reads and caches the relevant facts from the remote data service. Roughly.
I think you might want to rename the post to: "Why the cloud isn't for my startup"

Seriously, people need to stop telling other people what to do. I very appreciate your input and in fact, I am exactly in that situation, but when you tell me what to do, it's less likely I am listening closely to what you say.

On topic: Sure I could learn how to do sysadmin stuff. But for some people and maybe me, the opportunity costs outweight the economic benefits of rolling out without PaaS
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Premature optimization.

It's not worth worrying much about what will happen when shit hits the fan if the fan isn't spinning yet. First, figure out how to get some power to the thing.
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I missed the part where he convinced me that EC2s weren't for me. If I have to learn enough sysadmin to run my own box, then I'll have learned enough to handle my own AWS cluster without needing a support ticket answered within hours.
1: He said "harmonics", not overtones.
2: You can not hear inaudible frequencies. Because they are inaudible.
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Everything happens at such a rapid pace on the Internet that only a few can maintain dominance for very long. Only companies like Google with its comprehensive online service and versatile web technology, like Flash can last for so long.
Android Increases App File Size Limit to 4GB
Are there any HNers in the Melbourne, FL Area?
Putting together a HN meetup in Melbourne, FL. There are tons of Engineers in this area & FIT. Hoping there a others here who also want to get the startup culture going here!
URL for meetup: CodersHackersFounders.com/MeetUp
Good idea! The registration page should really be encrypted though. I'd also work on refining the design of the home page.
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Try Navicat. Works cross platform and is extremely powerful and robust. Best GUI RDBM I've ever used.
I'm for one is limbering up to outrun our new robotic sprinter overlords
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DDG's default search is Bing.
I think the comedy that goes on at the rest of Yahoo is quite unscripted.
Thank you. Yeah, there's work to do, you're right. I just needed this asap for my own purposes. At least it works right away and I hope it proves useful to somebody already.
No, Holosonics is not creating sound from beating, they are using heterodyning, which takes advantage of how high-amplitude ultrasonic sound waves interact with the atmosphere, that's different from beating.
ZODB in real life?
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"However once you're project starts growing, the costs can grow exponentially." [sic]

Exponentially, really? What exponent?
With Bluetooth on, I don't see how a store will make it through an entire day without going through at least one iPhone battery charge. It would defeat the purpose.

Bigger stores can probably use an iPad instead, but I don't think we'll see a Bluetooth solution for the above reason.
Think of it as a boilerplate repository. I wouldn't be surprised if half of all initial legal maneuvers could be handled by a wizard in software. Yes, I know: "which half?"
I consult for XMLTeam, and if you call them up, explain what you're trying to do, they'll be reasonable about it. Good guys, there.
Advertising on the Internet is going the way of social. The new Facebook timeline changes for brands that have a very influential affect on how companies can promote themselves on Facebook is one example. New expectations for advertisers by Facebook & social media will shape the online advertising of the future. Much of what many of us don't like about advertising now may not even be allowed in many places. If you don't believe me then ask some marketers how they feel about not being able to use landing tabs for their Facebook page.
I scrape ESPN data for this tool:

http://recaps.raptorsrepublic.com/

Generates recaps/box-scores that are used by....yup, ESPN TrueHoop bloggers.
So it appears that the slang originated with a fictional pimp, but really took off in the 1960s with Selby's Last Exit to Brooklyn (he'd later write Requiem for a Dream). Fascinating stuff.
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iZettle are eerily similar in that they have - what looks like - great UI design and promotional videos as well.

Shame they require you to have a Facebook account to sign up as a user.

https://www.izettle.com/
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The "POS" acronym is really, really unfortunate.
Maybe I phrased it wrong, but the cost per worker vs the amount you can fit per dedicated machine are drastically different.
I get 10mm vs 1.7mm but it's roughly the same argument http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=speed+of+sound+*+0.03ms... http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=speed+of+sound+*+0.005m...
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I trusted Google, I bought their products and I used their services, I bought a nexus one and always said yes to them monitoring my data, I thought it would help them understand me better. I loved wave, got into the plus beta, I thought Google was part of my brain.

Then they banned me from G+ for using my own name. The appeal process took two months, was entirely impersonal and finally resulted in me remaining banned. When combined with their widespread censorship, capitulation to corrupt governments and the new privacy policy.. As far as I am concerned, I am not leaving Google, Google left me.
The cloud worked great for IndexTank, thank you. We launched fast and our costs grew quickly, but our customers paid for the growth.

If your costs grow and your revenue doesn't, THAT is your problem. All the optimization in the world won't fix it.
When I give a talk and my bio says J2EE I'm a bit sheepish, and all the twenty-somethings

You shouldn't feel sheepish at all. With how the client side JS frameworks are shaping up I think for many apps the optimal architecture is going to end up being JS in the browser calling web services in the backend written in Java/.Net ecosystems.
The article AFAIK states little about distortions introduced in remixes & samples. I would expect certain high frequency samples, when mixed together to overlap in time, would introduce moire artifacts (beats).
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How about a "rail gun" for shooting things into orbit?
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Ask HN: When self-driving cars arrive, what language do you want yours coded in?
There are benefits to each programming language, style and associated tools. Given all this, what language would you prefer them to be written in, and why?
I've often thought this too. I wonder if it's because of HipHop

https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/358/
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As opposed to an Apple? I get that the logo is modelled on the dongle (which may or may not get phased out), but it's extremely generic and will probably not work very well for branding purposes in the future.
You could argue it's the quality of the master, and the mastering process, and you'd be right. That's a no-brainer.

"but if you take a copy of the original transcoded to 16/44 and compare it again with the 24/96 copy you can hear the same effect."
I could believe that, but do you mean to do the transcoding yourself? IN this case you become the engineer, and the tools you use and all that become vital as well.

Having heard stunningly awesome CD's of DSOTM on a homebuild heathkit amp and some old speakers and not believing my ears when I saw what the setup was, I'm skeptical... can't help it.
I'm an offender of the 'this guy' thing. I have heard of Matt before, but come on, there is almost no context as to who he is given in the posting, and do you really expect everyone in this community to know every semi-significant kernel hacker of the last 2 decades?

The link is nice for everyones education, but I, for one, would appreciate a little less condescension.
The post seems to discount using EC2, for it being lumped together with Heroku's free tier as the same kind of a PaaS.

The post also does not talk about elasticity (the E in EC2) -- how easy is it to add (and later remove) that extra dedicated server to handle a spike of traffic from HN/elsewhere?
It's not the timing differences, it's the phase differences. The ear is exceptionally sensitive to phase differences between the ears below 1kHz. This information is captured exactly (to well beyond the naive precision of the sampling clock) for any frequency below Nyquist.
I posted this on HN to see if anyone is working on a product that would be suitable for shout.com. I am open to creative partnership ideas. Thx for your comment Jonathan.
The most astounding fact.
There are a variety of keyboard shortcuts:
http://win8review.com/2011/09/windows-8-shortcuts/
Sounds like a nightmare to work there. How can they be successful with this attitude towards programming?
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"His rant doesn't seem too informed"

Worse than that, he seemed to lack some basic understanding of the modern web. The Twitter webpage is not simply a "page" in the traditional sense - it is one instance of the Twitter client app, that happens to be written in Javascript and runs in a Browser.

2MB for a rich client app? Doesn't sound like overkill to me.
I'm an audio engineer, too, and I agree that this has been debated to death. And I agree that frequencies above the threshold of hearing are more important than standard dogma (based on Nyquist theory combined with Pure tone audiometry) allows. It helps explain how audio gear with a 100kHz bandwidth sounds clearer than gear with a 20kHz bandwidth even when they measure the same in the audible band.

Have you read the Audio Technology magazine interview with Rupert Neve?

Greg Simmons: Geoff Emerick, the famous British Producer ?

Rupert Neve: Yes, he started me off on this trail. A 48 input console had been delivered to George Martin's Air Studios, and Geoff Emerick was very unhappy about it. It was a new console, made not long after I had sold the Neve company in 1977. George Martin called me and said, "please come and make Geoff happy, while he's unhappy we can't do any work".

They'd had engineers from the company there, and so on. The danger is that if you are not sensitive to people like Geoff Emerick, and you don't respect them for what they have done, then you are not going to listen to them. Unfortunately, there was a breed of young engineers in the company ( I hasten to say this was after I sold it !) who couldn't understand what he was bitching about. So they went back to the company and just made a report saying the customer was mad and there wasn't really a problem. Leave it alone, forget it, the problem will go away. They were acting like used car salesmen. I was very angry with it. So I went and spent time there, at George Martin's request, and Geoff finally managed to show me what it was that he could hear, and then I began to hear it, too.

Now Geoff was The Golden Ears - and he still is - and he was perceiving something that I wasn't looking for. And it wasn't until I had spent some time with him, as it were, being lead by him through the sounds, that I began to pick up what he was listening to. And once I'd heard it, oh yes, then I knew what he was talking about. We measured it and found that in three out of the full 48 channels, the output transformers had not been correctly terminated and were producing a 3dB rise at 54kHz. And so people said, "oh no, he can't possible hear that". But when we corrected that problem, and it was only one capacitor that had to be added to each of those three channels, I mean, Geoff's face just lit up ! Here you have the happiness/ unhappiness mood thing the Japanese were talking about.

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