skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple certainly has an out-sized influence, and no doubt pushed the state of the art hard in the U.S. (where phones have traditionally been sort of on the trailing edge).

But such high-DPI phone displays were not niche items in Japan, pre-"retina", they were common to the point of being essentially standard.

Granted, HN is basically a U.S. site, so maybe non-U.S. practice isn't considered significant.

[I think the iphone, retina or no, is overall better than pre-iphone Japanese phones too, but its advantages are pretty much completely in software; Japanese phone makers make astonishingly good hardware, but their software is at best, very quirky. The iphone and android are changing that.]
The original sounds a bit lower to me.

Link for comparison: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSm0M-BbVdY
>Dr Kevin Houston, from the University of Leeds, used sophisticated software to split up the sound on the record into its component frequencies.

I love when reporters say silly things like implying that something like the Fourier transform is state of the art.
What this is, is the option to remove "special offers" from a device with them, after purchase.
Python is easy.

Learning easy things and getting used to them makes learning difficult things tougher later.
> And there is never a moral obligation to pay for something that is explicitly licensed for free.

I was with you up until that part. In my opinion there is a moral obligation to donate to projects if you are using them for commercial gain.
Removing Blank Lines in Eclipse
Yes, $7.5M, so they should contribute ~75 engineers. But, not just them, also Cisco, EBay, Amazon, and every company having a lot of usage of Eclipse.

And the same line of thinking for Linux, and other open source projects.
JavaFX in Spring Day 3 – Authentication and Authorization
That logic doesn't make any sense, since you can have other hard projectiles, such as a saxophone or a textbook during those times. They'll have to tell everyone to put away ALL objects, which they don't.
I contributed and the team has been very active in sending updates via email. Nice to know they are caring about suggestions too. In the meantime, you should get the sc2 HOTS expansion when it comes out soon. Everyone is going to have to relearn sc2 with the new expansion anyway, so it's a great time to jump in. Until then... just watch some streams to get familiar with the game. http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/
Amazon didn't cave, this was just miscommunication with a few shills weighing in to create FUD. There was always going to be a way to opt-out. Amazon wants to make customers happy.

How to think of LCD ads: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4490562

How ads work: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4490590
Next-gen Java: We don't need another revolutionary
The halting problem is undecidable over all possible Turing machines (i.e. programs, assuming Turing machines are an adequate model for the sort of programs of interest). It is entirely possible to choose some subset for which you know how to decide the halting problem, and program within the that subset.

It is a matter of cleverness (rather, successful algorithm design and theorem proving) how large you can make that subset. Such a subset could, for example, consist of programs written in a particular (non-Turing-complete) language, such that it is known how to construct a proof of (non-)halting because the structure of the program corresponds to the structure of a proof assembled from parts corresponding to the language's constructs.

This subset, this language, will necessarily exclude universal Turing Machines and other forms of interpreters — but I see no particular reason this is a problem for writing power plant control systems.

The structure of the above argument applies just as well to characteristics other than halting. For example, one can straightforwardly prove that any program does not access unallocated memory, provided that that program was written in a memory-safe language; the language is designed such that none of its constructs, nor any composition thereof, can be caused to do so. The analogous impossibility condition for this example is that you cannot express a C (or other non-memory-safe language) implementation in this language (without a virtual memory layer).
I can see few issues with this that wouldn't work with me:

1) How do you deal with songs that have multiple genres?

It is a standard part of the TCON (content type / genre tag) to separate multiple values through either coma, slash.

For example this allows you to select songs that are tagged as both 'Ambient' and 'Rock'.

2) how do you deal with album that has songs of varying styles?

For example: "Prodigy - Music for Jilted Generation" has a dance track like "Voodoo People", and a chillout track "3 Kilos"

http://www.last.fm/music/The+Prodigy/_/Voodoo+People/+tags

http://www.last.fm/music/The+Prodigy/_/The+Narcotic+Suite:+3...

3) Compilations

Let's say we have a compilation made by a group called 'Air'. This compilation is called 'Deck Safari'. Do you use Album Artist instead of artist if it is a compilations (aka: if TCMP flag exists, use TPE2 instead of TPE1?)

Checkout the album:

http://www.discogs.com/AIR-Deck-Safari-Part-1/release/215068

4) I don't understand how you handle singles.

Let's say you have a single ""Wamdue Project ‎– King Of My Castle"" released in 1999 by Urban (563 891-2). Your formatting doesn't store album at all?

http://www.discogs.com/Wamdue-Project-King-Of-My-Castle/rele...

And then, how do you combine it with the fact that a year later was a different mix released by Avex Asia Ltd. (AVTCDS-235) with different set of songs?

http://www.discogs.com/Wamdue-Project-King-Of-My-Castle/rele...

To me it looks like your singles folder is intended for random songs, not to handle actual CDS/CDM style singles.
Yeah, and the dissonances are not quite right either. Close...but not quite.
So Wikipedia states the following:

"Quantum teleportation is unrelated to the common term teleportation – it does not transport the system itself, and does not concern rearranging particles to copy the form of an object."

So, in a nutshell, scientists aren't always incredibly creative when conducting nomenclature. Although some people do find subatomic particles quite strange.
A musical instrument would have to be stowed under the seat. A book, though, represents a pretty big loophole. I've never been asked to put a book away during takeoff or landing, even a textbook that's heavy enough to serve as a murder weapon.
Steve Yegge's statement about how programming in the "future" will shift away from desktop apps and towards web-based applications strikes me as being the most prescient.
I think his "special forces" analogy is quite good.

Sure, most people won't join the military.

Sure, out of those that do, most won't be joining the special forces.

Sure, those that do join the special forces know it's "above and beyond", an added level of stress and quite difficult to do for 40+ years, but they do it anyways. Why? Probably because they're compelled by the greater mission and they're willing to do it in spite of the tradeoffs. Oh, and they're the best of the best, so they're probably okay with trading some rest for the work they're putting in.

Yes, most people won't hold up under those conditions, but special forces recruiters aren't looking for "most people". I suspect Musk isn't either.
Here's a Stack Exchange for such questions. In fact HN had a story on this today.

What are the drawbacks of Python?
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/15468/what-ar...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4492899

Just because you like something doesn't mean that it has to featured on Stack Overflow. Same as politics discussion on HN, many might want to debate Romney vs. Obama with the HN folks here, that doesn't mean HN has to tolerate that and turn into another Reddit.

I don't understand all the complaints about having discussions that can easily degenerate into flamewars with thousands of "answers" on Stackoverflow. If it's moved to a Stackexchange with less traffic, go hang out there and make it a better place.
You must see the model s in person. It's so well designed, I wish you could buy one for $30k new as a hybrid version. Just get rid of the front trunk.
> nor do I know any smokers who do so.

I've known several.

> This may be dismissed as anecdotal by the type of vehement anti-smoking zealot you seem to be

I guess your anecdotal evidence trumps my anecdotal evidence. Carry on.
Considering the language he works on is named after Monty Python, his answers do seem rather appropriate.
Also, while you may think 40 hour work weeks are the optimal time, you'll have to admit it's a completely arbitrary number.

Elon himself, first and foremost, is proving your assertion wrong by easily working more, while simultaneously running 2 (I would suggest) of the most important emerging companies around. Sure, other aspects of his life may suffer, but he's willing to make that tradeoff.

Don't try to project your personal limitations onto someone else or create a population generality from a personal anecdote.
purely tongue in cheek, but the title fits the bill: http://www.abebooks.com/Giga-Bites-Hacker-Cookbook-Jenz-John...
Exact same experience in Texas; had to ask optometrist to specifically mark down all required information (pupillary distance was missing) and then went to Zenni to get my glasses.

(Oh my god, we sound like a couple of shills.)
Yeah this is essentially what I did (before giving up and starting my own music database model and management software), except I have a few more collections (Albums, EPs, Singles, Live, Mixes, Best Of), no genre folder, and years/labels in the folder names..
I would be willing to work ~50/60 hours a week if the company accommodated me by helping me with my other goals, such as maid & laundry service, the kind of physical training I would like that I could do during work hours, a cook who would cook my weight loss diet to my specifications and somebody who would buy things on a list for me from target or wherever. That saves me more than the 10/20 hours extra they ask from me. Big clincher is to my specifications, which a lot of places cannot/wont do.
Blue Oyster Cult are one of my favorite bands. I have many of their "greatest hits" albums because they release one every few years, and frequently there will be a few previously unreleased tracks that are worth having.

This means that in my iTunes library I currently have seven copies of Don't Fear the Reaper. Three of these are copies of the studio version. Incidentally, I hate this song, and though I think you're right and I should have two copies of the song, I can't help but react with mild revulsion whenever I realize I'm going to be hosting yet another copy of it.

Again, I think you're right, and it's not particularly meaningful to worry about the extra ~100 MB of space they're taking up (ALAC format), but it's an annoyance.
Letting people opt out of seeing your advertising makes your advertising worth much much less. The people who don't mind spending $15 to not see ads are basically the perfect demographic for expensive stuff.

Also, screw Amazon.
A local policeman is different than a Federal agent.

Basically, in most situations, an officer needs your consent or a warrant to enter your trunk. (there are exceptions) Evidence gets thrown out of court all of the time when the cops overstep.

The difference with the Feds is that lying to an FBI or other agent is a serious crime in itself, and Federal officials get broader latitude to bend the ruled if they are acting in "good faith".

So if you tell the agent that you don't have contraband in the trunk, and you do, you had better hope that you have some valuable information, becuase otherwise you're getting convicted of a serious felony.

Moral: Don't have any association with drugs (or bank robbers) or people associated with drugs, and don't talk to cops.
Why do you think ads are so expensive? If an eighty dollar Kindle has ads, you think the Kindle should be free, so the ads are worth $-80 to you. I don't see an economic justification; is it a personal grudge against advertisers?
These numbers represent under 10% of total U.S. gasoline use so this is no way due to 'fuel economy' or 'driving less', it is just reflecting the fact that less and less gas stations are owned by refineries.
totally agree. Android "Browser" is like the IE6 of mobile web. I bump into so many problems trying to tame android "Browser". Lack of hardware acceleration for simple displacement animation, the best transition animation you can apply is probably fade in and out not more than 2 stacked layers. The canvas was missing toDataURL method, canvas pixel manipulation with alpha channel resulted in some fuzzy pixels scramble. Weird virtual keyboard behavior. It takes few seconds for the device to tell the browser that orientation has changed, sometime has to be accompanied with light shaking of the device. No svg support for some older models. And majority of android devices out there are not running the latest Android OS. Luckily Chrome is much better browser than Android "Browser". Kudos to chrome team to make the mobile web on Android awesome again.
Thanks, this might be it. iOS library:

https://github.com/adamgit/SVGKit/tree/transforms
A more detailed explanation by Kevin Houston on this topic for the British Science Festival, "The Beatles' Magical Mystery Chord" (8m49s) ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKx0DG-5Qyg&feature=playe...
Newspapers have been around for much longer than any dot coms. How many dot coms do you think will be around in 200 years?
I don't think the special forces analogy holds water.

Consider this hypothetical example: If special forces train for 40 hours per week then they have a 70% chance of rescuing the hostages, but if they train 50 hours per week they have an 80% chance of success. Is it worth the extra cost? Absolutely. Having one special forces team with 80% chance of success is better than two teams with a 70% chance.

But now imagine that my job is to install headlights into a car chassis. If I work 40 hours per week then I can install 70 headlights, and if I work 50 hours per week then I can install 80 headlights. Is it worth the extra cost? No - two people installing 70 headlights per week is better than one person installing 80 per week.

Having said all that, it may be that "willingness to work 50 hours per week" is a good indication of passion and energy. If you ask a potential employee, "are you passionate?" the reply will always be "Yes". But if you ask, "Are you willing to work 50 hours per week" then you'll be more likely to get someone who loves the work.
Alrighty then.

I know something about color theory. I even know some arcania, such as the fact that the X and Y coordinates of the XYZ color space are on the projective plane and that the XYZ color space contains non-existent colors.

Let me be a bit pedantic about psychology, though: shawnc never really believed that the world was sepia-toned a hundred years ago. He was just expressing amazement due the "uncanny valley" of which you speak. I feel confident that he knew why he felt this way, and that he didn't really need an explanation for it. When he said "my brain is having a hard time", this should have been a dead give-away that it was not his rational mind that was having a hard time, but rather his unconscious mind that was rebelling and making this "wow" feeling conscious. If it had been his rational mind that was rebelling, he would have said, "I'm having a hard time", not "my brain is having a hard time".

Or at least that's how I interpreted his comments. Your mileage apparently varies.
I thought JavaFX is dead. :-)
It seems that in the anonymous email that was sent to me, the user's apostrophes weren't formatted correctly, and turned into "&#039;". Otherwise, I like the service!
Are self-created fire hazards in your home illegal? Because that's PROBABLY what it would be considered.

IANAL
Pretty hard to tell if its a real difference or just the recording quality. Most of the Beatles recording I've heard sound pretty washed out.
It looks awesome, kudos! Just a quick question, are there any plans to support node.js / Express? :)
Tumblesocks, an Emacs tumblr client
Hey guys! Here's my weekend project, an emacs client for Tumblr.

You need Emacs 24. If you have Marmalade, it's just M-x package-install tumblesocks.

It's "fairly" feature-complete; you can view your dashboard posts (as well as posts from arbitrary blogs), compose posts, and edit/delete your posts.

Images are displayed inline -- tumblr does tend to be pretty image-heavy, so it sometimes slows down a bit.
I've shot weddings before. You're partially right, wedding parties are willing to pay, and pay well. The flip side of it is that they can be some of the absolute worst clients possible, and you only have one chance to get it right. So a lot of the "wedding markup", at least in regards to photography, comes down to "how much do I have to get to make the headache and stress worth it?"
Do you have any real statistics to back up your statement? I can counter with other anecdotal stuff - where I live, housing prices are rising and unemployment dropping. So I guess I'll state that the economy is growing strongly. That doesn't make it any more true than your unsubstantiated statement.
Suppose I could go make that more clear in the article.
TL; DR: C++ really sucked back then
I think Figs is onto something though: the OP is clearly worrying about how to stuff all this information into the filesystem, and the plain fact is that while all of the information needs to be accessible beyond the database, either in the hierarchy or in the tag embedded in the file itself, a lot of that information is not structured in a manner conducive to access via those two rather limited methods.

For the sake of argument, let's be platonic idealists for a second and say that a song is a concept and the files are simply recordings of performances—they're not "songs" at all, per se. Say I play "Black Betty" by Lead Belly. I get curious about the song, so I want to hear other versions of it. There's no way to express this data in ID3 or through a naming convention—it's just a reference to a concept that has no existence in a pile of MP3s—and it's hard to imagine a linking regime that would be maintainable. To do this, you need a place to put metadata that isn't attached to the files themselves, which can point to them. Note that this kind of scenario is not outside the OP's scope: they say in the article they are interested in providing all music to everyone, so these kinds of relationships would need to be documented and searchable.

I personally think a relational database is a fine tool for this problem, but lately I've been looking at RDF for things and I think RDF might be an even better choice, since it's really designed for metadata description, ontologies (like music categorization) and graphs. I think it would turn out to be a ton of work, but I think it would satisfy many of the requirements.
Not that I'm advocating paying bribes (I'd much rather see corrupt officials jailed), but there's a right way to phrase a bribe offer. Something along the lines of "Is there a fee I can pay for expedited service?" gives you plausible deniability. As some government agencies do provide expedited services for an extra fee, it's an entirely reasonable question.
1) How do you deal with songs that have multiple genres?

In "Singles" I sometimes copy individual MP3's into both Rock and Metal. It comes up less often than you'd think.

2) how do you deal with album that has songs of varying styles?

I just pick the one genre that makes the most sense. As long as I know, or can quickly find which genre an artist is in, that's what matters. How long does it really take to check if I put an AC/DC album in Rock, or Metal?

3) Compilations

I either place it in /Albums/Soundtracks (if it's a soundtrack), or make a "Various Artists" directory in /Albums/Electronic or whichever genre makes sense. Almost all of my compilations are dance or electronic music.

4) I don't understand how you handle singles.... To me it looks like your singles folder is intended for random songs, not to handle actual CDS/CDM style singles

I actually removed most of the EP's and CDS rips from my MP3 collection because I found I never listened to them. I would take the individual MP3's that I really liked and placed those into my /Singles/ directories. Otherwise I could treat them just like I do my Albums.
It may well be that cellphones present no danger to airliners, but I have had two occasions when forgetting to turn off a cellphone produced interference noise in my headset while flying a C172SP. Of course it was my own cellphone so I just turned it off.

Maybe it's not a problem on airliners because they are better shielded, or just bigger, than a Skyhawk. But I can say first-hand that it is at least possible for a cellphone to interfere with an aviation radio.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d07825.pdf

More info here. TL;DR: Gov't still trying to figure it out.

GAO was asked to review the approaches used under TSCA and REACH for (1) requiring chemical companies to develop information on chemicals’ effects, (2) controlling risks from chemicals, and (3) making information on chemicals available to the public. To review these issues, GAO analyzed applicable U.S. and EU laws and regulations and interviewed U.S. and EU officials, industry representatives, and environmental advocacy organizations.
GAO is making no recommendations.
While I agree that their logic may be a bit suspect, your counterexample is also false.

Chinese kids who do not command at least passable English are barred from the best (or even slightly above-average) schools and jobs. So yes, they do pay a heavy price.
"... if the employer is clever.. they may notice a difference in rep from an older copy of your resume and current. ..."

may/maynot & explainable. Would and employer look at a third party like that without looking closer at the candidate? Or are they using the suspect rep numbers as a basis of exclusion?
Vinod Khosla in the right context on the coming disruption in health
The founders in YC are hardly naive innocents who are undervaluing their startups. A) the empirical evidence shows that they get the highest valuations for their seed rounds; and b) the current conversation explicitly addresses the case where they already have an offer with a cap 2x that what Google Ventures is offering.
What a Delightful Story, Thank you Sir.
Speaking as someone that wrote some code that interfaces with the Magicshop API, it works nowhere near as good as described in the video. It's a simple color matching algorithm that gets easily fooled by trees and dry grass.

The project is a great start, but has basically been abandoned.
If you'll revisit my comment you'll note it was a statement regarding my reasons for not participating on SO.
I barely notice it, especially since, reading books, I rarely visit the home screen.
I violate this rule all the time. It's pure superstition, and verifiably wrong. Rules like this cause a distrust of ALL rules, making people think twice about following rules that actually are necessary. That's why having misguided rules like this makes us less safe.
Sure, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. But I'm not risking getting my funds frozen in he meantime! I won't be using Paypal for business sales.
Somehow I figured that Linus still uses Pine to read e-mail.
I absolutely agree that it needs a rethinking in terms of UI. Now that they are trying to consolidate google products, maps should be more aggressive in identifying useful destinations. I'm guessing they want to err on the side of not creeping people out, but I expect a popup introducing these features soon.