skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wharrgarbl. Economists frequently state this as a fact, with zero recourse to empirical analysis.

It's a theoretical statement based on microeconomic reasoning which itself has flawed assumptions (assumptions like "people make rational economic decisions" and "consumers and employees are well-informed about their options). The econ 101 supply and demand model is an extremely poor model of most real-world economic systems, employment included.

When it hits the real world and a standard of evidence, it doesn't hold up. The wealthiest countries in the world with the highest employment rates and the lowest poverty all have minimum wages. Implementation of minimum wage laws is highly correlated with improved standards of living among the poorest, and is not correlated with significant increases in unemployment. (Empirical studies show things like a 0.6% decrease in employment, and only among teenagers, for a 10% increase in the minimum wage.)
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We can't know for sure that said candidates really believe in what they're saying, politicians always try to express opinions that will resonate with the voters.
Fixed for you. Thanks.
Is it possible to disable the hot corners/replace their functionality with a keyboard shortcut?
My submission:

#ActiveRecord::Base.send(:attr_accessible, nil)#comment this line out to let GitHub get hacked

http://hatepaste.com/paste/e18802f3
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Nobody is "shitting" on his project. Ynnv said it best the last time you made a comment like this.

"HN is not your mom's fridge. If you want unconditional validation, ask someone who cares about you. I expect that anything posted here will be fixed with fire, because that's a valuable service that only skilled peers can provide. Annoying less is wasting everyone's time."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3653331
Oh wow my math is wrong. Also 25 billion downloads across 315 million devices is frightening. Each device has downloaded almost 80 apps?

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/03/app-store-25-billion/

(And thanks for correcting me on the reg fee. I thought it was $200 for some reason.)
Broacast local audio on your network (to sonos)
"Finding" them is a warning signal of a poor programmer if and only if the scare quotes mean that they have not actually researched the problem sufficiently to prove that the problem is in one of those areas.

These legitimate bugs do exist, and some of us have a talent for finding them with annoying frequency.

Less experienced programmers often "want" to find bugs in the compiler/OS/whatever because that way it's not their fault, and they lack the skill to track down difficult problems in their own code. More experienced programmers realize that finding bugs outside of your own code is often a disaster because frequently there's nothing you can do to fix it.
This made me laugh from that:
Emo	I don't know what you're looking for but it's no use. Might as well kill yourself.
turned into a Safari extz:
https://github.com/imkmf/soundcloud-download
When I'm working, it's always a bug in the compiler, kernel or hardware. The semicolon was implied. Just give me a minute to work around the compiler bug.
They don't have any official policy regarding number of founders.
I think wedoist is one such startup which has a single founder.
Best of luck to you and everyone trying to be an entrepreneur! Are you trying to get into any incubators/accelerators?
That's really good actually, I'm not even sure I know the difference between aural and audible. (<- also, that sentence is a run-on and not good English haha)
Probably should mention that the backend is (according to the job description) entirely Microsoft stuff.
I'm sure they will add american football this summer.
and I haven't heard of fantasy soccer on cbs sports.
The thing is... you probably also need rather high aptitude to make that much progress in 6 months. These blog posts never mention that cause the authors are too modest.
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It’s iPad HD, not iPad 3.
The sampling theorem is for static signals and perfect filters. Turns out, music isn't static. Once you have transients in the program, you need higher bandwidth or you will end up with phasing effects (time domain aliasing.) This is plain from the math!

Filters are also not perfect (but good oversampling filters are not the weakest link)

Further, even perfectly dithered 16 bit data can't go 20 dB below the quantization floor, unless you give up on frequency response on the high end. Again, this is plain math.

With a calibrated 105 dB low-distortion sound system, in a quiet room, I can hear imperfections from 16 bit, 44 kHz material, especially in soft flutes and triangle type percussion. Of course, D class amplifiers, and MP3 encoding, do worse things to the signal, so let's start there. But 20 bit, 96 kHz (or at least 64 kHz) are scientifically defensible, when analyzing the math and the physics involved. No snake oil needed!
I also think this is an insightful comment. Very insightful. Yahoo! has a cadre of absolutely brilliant people working for it: it would be better to ditch the board entirely, and reform into a reverse-Y-combinator: take 5000 people and create 1000 startups with 5 ppl each.

Wow, actually this is a really good idea.
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>"Who do I call if I want to call Europe?"

You just pick whoever people listen to at the time you make the call. In this case, GTK and Qt have been calling the shots and all Linux installs worth targeting are going to support them or support installing the dependencies necessary (which you can specify in your package, as spotify does).

Flailing about and perpetuating this myth that Linux is impossible to target just makes things worse.
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Pretty cool. I made something like this for Windows Phone a while back that would let your routes to & from work, and your estimated departure times. It would then run traffic data on a server before your departure time, and let you know how long your commute would be. It would then track the times historically and let you know the best times to leave.

http://www.windowsphones7app.com/windowsmobileapps/4/2011-03...
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Great article. I think one thing that helps those who are successful be successful is that they treat "failure" as a stage on the road to success, and this means taking every opportunity to learn and get better.

FWIW I am thinking about applying for YC funding for 2013 but not 100% sure yet. I am still in the process of selecting co-founders, transitioning from self-employment-mode to startup-mode, etc. and may have some investors closer to home. I will probably still do it for the experience that will come with it and the possibility that it may make us more successful.

Articles like this helps make the decision easier. Even if I plop down a significant chunk of change for an intercontinental plane ticket, I want to make sure that it will be worth it.
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There is a local incubator that I will apply for this summer if the time is right, but I am generally avoiding it until I think it makes sense. I know I wouldn't invest in anything without at least one paying customer, so I think it would be rude to try to hustle without one.
> I'm worried that in offering term sheets after a single 60 minute meeting, and in pricing early stage deals like they were already late-stage successes and most egregiously by constantly running around self promoting and self aggrandizing, VCs are falling prey to a cult of personality about themselves and forgetting that their jobs are to help companies be successful.

He's worried about this now?! 10-year returns are negative (and that includes funds lucky enough to have google!)

It's been that way at least since the 90s internet bubble.
Thanks. My (still employed) partner and I are actually taking on small consulting projects right now just to make sure we have money coming in. We vehemently do not want to get into services, but it's hard to have a strategy without resources! At the very least, it gives him something constructive to do coding-wise while I'm pounding the pavement.
That was predicted (and suggested) by Glenn Gould some forty years ago. At the time, anything with higher fidelity than, say, a bad telephone connection, was analogue, but we were stepping into the world of quadraphonic sound (which died soon after in the analogue kingdom), but he was a big proponent of the listener as participant (hey, it was Toronto and McLuhan was still around) and was convinced that technology was the only limiting factor at the time. (To put thing in perspective, he was also very much anti-concert--he hated what he called the "non-take-two-ness" of live performance.) Let's just say that the idea was no more popular among artists then than it is now.
Is a 100-hour video game ever worthwhile?
Mine was this: http://thcnet.net/yetanother404error
Let me put this a slightly different way: Many professions are paid to do research, some engineers included, but I think lawyers are the only ones who are paid to do so by the consumer.

I would analogize it to individual cancer patient going to a research scientist at Bristol-Myers Squibb and saying "Hey, what would happen if you tweaked XYZ molecule? Would that cure me?"

The engineers that are paid directly by the consumer, I would think, are much closer to data crunchers than true researchers. Maybe some architects or other types with engineering experience could jump in and disagree?
I toyed with creating an android game in unity last year, but the cost of the licence ($400) put me off and I ended up doing it natively using java and eclipse (which was fairly painful)

I'm going to give unity another look in, but the unity servers seem pretty well hammered at this point!
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Regarding your wine anecdote: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/10/you-are-no...

If I gave you a bottle of "Table Red" with a '75 Lafite label, I'm sure you'd tell me how rich and wonderful it was. The problem here is that, as you said, "I know what my ears hear". You know you're listening to 192, wow it sure sounds great!
True, I stand corrected :) .

What I wanted to say is that the OP was describing a divison of powers as commonly seen in a Republic, it was not something inherent in a democracy.
Well moving jobs, even for the most talented employees can be difficult for a number of reasons.

1) inertia, there is alot to be said for working at the same place for 10 years, you know the people, systems, and processes. By this time you might be 35 and married with a few kids. Often you don't know if you have the energy to go do it all over again.

2) fear of failure. If you've been somewhere and grown into a role as the go to person it can be a big blow to the ego to tell your friends you're going to go interview at google or facebook, only to be rejected.

3) moving sideways or taking a step backward. Just because you became a senior developer level 5 at yahoo doesn't mean you'd be able to do the same role at google or facebook. You may have to settle for a smaller role or even a pay cut to join those companies.
When a CPU bug is discovered, what options are available for remedying the situation?
> If you didn't want your founders to party it up, you shouldn't have pointed a fire hose of money at them

Ah, but then they wouldn't be your founders would they?
Strongly disagree. That is (and many other examples) are exactly "learning to code". Which is the lowest bar of achievement.

Learning to code is not learning to engineer software / systems.
Be careful not to let your long runway slow you down. It's long enough to make this a success, but not if you launch in 2 years time because you can. Push yourself to get to beta early and live launch not far after. This will give you plenty of time to pivot (although I hate the use of the word these days, it's appropriate) or even just listen to customer feedback and improve.

I guess I see a 2.5 year runway and think that's got to be enough to make something work as long as you still act like you have a 6 month one.
The landing page makes a nerd joke. How cliché.
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Even without debating the science and signal processing arguments raised...

In any test where a listener can tell two choices apart via any means apart from listening, the results will usually be what the listener expected in advance; this is called confirmation bias and it's similar to the placebo effect. It means people 'hear' differences because of subconscious cues and preferences that have nothing to do with the audio, like preferring a more expensive (or more attractive) amplifier over a cheaper option.

The human brain is designed to notice patterns and differences, even where none exist. This tendency can't just be turned off when a person is asked to make objective decisions; it's completely subconscious. Nor can a bias be defeated by mere skepticism. Controlled experimentation shows that awareness of confirmation bias actually increases rather than decreases the effect!

Doesn't that completely negate his conclusion, that there is no point to distributing 24/192 music? If people want to pay for 24/192, and even he just admitted that they will legitimately enjoy it more, how can you conclude there is no point?

Life is short. I want to enjoy things. Whether or not my enjoyment can be quantified or scientifically defended, I really don't give a shit. But that's okay, if you don't want to sell me 24/192 music, Amazon will. Between this and DRM-free content, it's no wonder I buy all my music from Amazon these days.
This looks remarkably like http://kout.me/ - are there substantial differences?
Not surprising that someone who has already shown a willingness to spend hundreds of dollars to become a "user" (Apple) is more likely to pay than someone using a free service (Facebook).
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People said the same thing when they acquired Siri.
Patch around it in microcode (applied by the OS or BIOS on every boot; releasable as an OS update), disable the related CPU feature if possible (twiddling bits during OS initialization), or trap any related exception the CPU throws, detect the bug's condition, and patch up the running task's state from the exception handler (again, another OS update).

If all else fails, issue a product recall or downplay the bug's severity.
All republics might be democracies, but not all democracies are republics, which was my point:

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

http://lexrex.com/enlightened/AmericanIdeal/aspects/demrep.h...
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Well, if we accept that argument, then just about any means of signalling "this sounds better!" will work. How about we choose something that doesn't waste bandwidth?
I would rather say the syntax of the DSL is the same as the Clojure Datastructures witch makes its easier to work with in Clojure.
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Out of curiosity, if someone paid you to find compiler bugs for a day, how would you go about it?

(I've found several missed-optimization bugs in gcc, but I found them while working on a project where I examine assembly frequently; I have no idea how I'd go about looking for a compiler bug).
or recall all CPUs and replace them with new repaired ones. That's what they do in Wonderland. :D

On a more serious note, I wonder what auto manufacturers do. (There are many CPUs in modern automobiles, and auto manufacturers are often compelled to do recalls.)
Just tested this out with a friend. Mad simple. Great service.

Are there plans for more numbers to call?

Also I'm a little confused, when I "Secure" a custom pin, I just enter that in at the prompt on the phone? Instead of the one it shows on the steps list?
>I'd prefer recording technology to err on the side of capturing what we need to reproduce all of that, even if we aren't sure that we need it.

Again, this article is about distribution, not recording.
I am not getting these things mixed up, because the sample rate is related to the maximum frequency that can be stored, and lo and behold, look at all these people claiming that those higher frequencies matter. 44.1 kHz sample rate can only encode tones up to about 22 kHz, whereas 192 can encode frequencies of up to 81 kHz, and those people up there are arguing that these higher frequencies are exactly why 192 kHz is superior. Now, if you want to say that sampling a tone at 44100 times per second somehow won't sound as good than 192000 times per second, I'm not saying that isn't possible, but I don't really take that claim seriously at all.

The fact is, simply distributing music in lossless format carries the vast majority of audible improvements. Arguing over whether or not its 24-bit or 16-bit or making a chunk of sound last 5.2 microseconds instead of 22.67 seems incredibly stupid to me, because you're better off simply improving the mix itself then fiddling over such microscopic differences. These things only become relevant if your mix and performance and recording equipment (or synths) are absurdly close to perfection. This becomes even LESS relevant in an age of indie-musicians.
We've had others point us to Kout as well. There are certainly similarities between what we're doing and what products like Kout and Gumroad are doing. We really focus on the embedded product design, so that it is almost a mini storefront. You can place it anywhere, and so can your fans. Sort of like how people share Youtube videos today, but for products. Rather than just monetizing links, we're taking our cue from ecommerce platform that allow sellers to have more control over the design and messaging of their listing.
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> If people want to pay for 24/192, and even he just admitted that they will legitimately enjoy it more, how can you conclude there is no point?

Sorry, no time to reply. I gotta run and write up my biz plan to distribute 32/384 audio.
They are worse than hammered. I have been refreshing the 500 error for 30 minutes to log in to my account.
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Yo! Thanks for giving it a test.

If you add a security pin, then after you enter your conference room number, it'll prompt you for the pin you entered (think of it like a conference room password).

Also: we're in the process of getting more numbers. :)
I'm not sure what you're getting at.

As a thought experiment, let's consider a pulse that has been band-limited to 20kHz. Are you arguing that the analog output of a (filtered, idealized) DAC would look different depending on whether the dac was running at 44.1kHz vs 192kHz? If so, I don't think many people would agree with you.

Any difference in the "timing" of the output wave would have to come from energy that falls above nyquist of the slower sample rate. So, while I agree with you that the timing would be sharper, this is exactly caused by "higher frequencies", not by some other sort of timing improvement.
heh, your story reminded me of the bar scene in Good Will Hunting:

WILL: The sad thing is, in about 50 years you might start doin' some thinkin' on your own and by then you'll realize there are only two certainties in life.

CLARK: Yeah? What're those?

WILL: One, don't do that. Two -- you dropped a hundred and fifty grand on an education you coulda' picked up for a dollar fifty in late charges at the Public Library.
A PC's gaming user might be worth even more. Just saying.
I think you're referring to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_fundamental

Which, since it's a psychoacoustic phenomenon, wouldn't hold true when the partials involved are above the audible spectrum.
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Definitely think we'll be looking at applying again, it would be a phenomenal experience. Hope things are going well for you guys!
I had to google "wolf-fence debugging".

I found I knew of it under a different name: binary search debugging. Git includes built-in support under the bisect command.
Bell Labs immediately comes to mind.
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That sounds awesome. I've seen this NT flying over my city but never up close.
Try to learn one of the hot techs(JavaScript, Ruby) and write a small app in one of those. I've noticed that despite having serious knowledge of Java, C#, C++, my JavaScript skills are what people go after.

Secondly, what do you have to show for your skills? Github? Profile? Blog?
Would you care to provide more information? I'd love to know more, but I don't see anyone else doing this. Maybe I'm searching poorly? I'm collecting barometer readings, and I'm been search for others doing the same thing for about 12-15 months now without luck. Any help would be appreciated.
To bad the Roadmap didn't include being able to access your blog/article. I'm forbidden....
I have no problems with Vista and still use it to this day. I will upgrade to 8 when it comes out but I ran Vista on a Pentium D for the longest time with no issues.
I don't really know much about this, but wouldn't the 22kHz sounds potentially create beats in the lower frequencies?
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SUCKER! I'm already working on 48/768 audio. It's amazing how clear the recordings are.
Of course there are.

How easy it is to install and maintain. How performant it is. How good are the tools associated with it.

I've yet to run into a situation where MySQL was holding me back. Since the only thing postgres has got going for it, from my standpoint, is that my friends prefer it and it is cooler… I think that until I have a better reason I will stick to the one with the better toolset.

Right now, Sequel Pro is that tool. I use it almost every single day.
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Where are these calls terminated? I ask because I am always concerned that these sorts of services are being monetized by pumping traffic[1] into Iowa.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_pumping
A note for Ubuntu users: there is a PPA for the unreleased 0.8.0 version of LÖVE: https://launchpad.net/~bartbes/+archive/love-unstable/.

Google failed me today while trying to find the syntax for adding a PPA from the command line (largely because Google will not search for punctuation, even inside of quotation marks), so after a long search trying to avoid pages about human colons and professional associations (eventually settling on the query "ubuntu ppa apt-add-repository"), I'm posting this here (ref: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/CommandLine):

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bartbes/love-unstable

Followed by the obvious:

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install love-unstable
love-unstable mari0_1.2.love
Actually, that sounds a lot like a bug in your build system. Did you have a custom Makefile (either hand written, or provided by a teacher)? If you didn't keep track of dependencies very carefully so that you always recompile all the .c files that depended on shared .h files when the .h files change, you can wind up with situations where different object files disagree on the layout of structures -- it could cause exactly the sort of problem you describe. Changing the name of the variable could force the file to be recompiled, thus appearing to solve the problem.