skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Random google search for "phoneme compression" turns up this patent: http://www.google.com/patents/US6789066

It sounds to me like you build a library of common sounds that voices make (these are the phonemes), and then you use just combinations of these phonemes at specific times and volumes to get as close to the target waveform as possible. Then you store the sequence of phonemes, which is probably a triplet of integers (phoneme ID, timestamp, volume level), along with a waveform representing the difference between your phoneme-generated waveform and the original. You compress both of them. Since the difference is much smaller than the original waveform, you save lots of space.
Did Carter show anywhere near as much leadership in pushing the limits of technology as Admiral Rickover did, though?
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The title was groan inducing, but the article has introduced me to rotation forests. Thanks!
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I'd love to see his google tech talk. Perhaps, in memory of Dan, google can go through the video and redact any portions they feel are not suitable for public release. Then, repost it to YT.

Is anybody aware of a link to the video that works. After searching for a bit, it seems that every page I visited points the video back to YT. Surely, somebody made a copy of it somewhere???

RIP Dan.
And sometimes good ideas, really good ideas, get stifled by <significant others, bosses, industries, societies, etc...>. Reward is in the success, going back to gloat just makes you look like an ass and doesn't teach anyone anything, except maybe that you are a major dick. Was the professor in the wrong? Maybe, we have a very one sided story here, not the facts, but the facts as seen through the lens of one of the participants, one exhibiting enough childishness to make me seriously doubt their telling in which they were akin to Ghandi fighting the oppressive British Empire.
Anyone who's ever organised an event like HackCyprus will relate a lot to this post!
Lovely post, and I wish you guys all the best for the future! :)
Not original poster, but I favor WD over Seagate because lately all Seagate drives we have got (about 20) failed in a couple of months. I have had 2 WD failures this years (about 100 drives in various RAID configs).

Whatever brand ships with HP netbooks is basically a failure waiting to happen (we bought 100 HP netbooks with 3G from Verizon - they are very sick of us calling).
:/ mostly vac-tube speculation. I'm hoping someone has some other ideas.
An aside – Most stuff like this from Y Combinator doesn’t leak. The fact that this did leak is the most interesting part of all this for me. It may be because there are so many companies coming out of YC now that there isn’t the same sense of loyalty to the program. Or it may be a sign of stress because some of the startups may be finding it much more difficult to raise funding than previous classes.

This is the second time I recall seeing any kind of leak from a pg email. The first being the "warning of bad times" email in regards to Facebook's IPO.

Anyone know if there's any credence to Arrington's theory?
Not sure your meaning other than maybe I should have said "consumer electronics" such as TVs and stereos.
I think you just made timr's whole point. You could have just said "the UX guy runs the observational research and supervises wireframing and usability testing" but that just doesn't sound like a FTE.

For what it's worth, my experience matches timr's: if you get a developer and a designer to each read "The Design of Everyday Things" you'll get further and go faster than you would by adding a full time UX expert that can't design or code to the team.
There are similar laws already in place in some countries:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_1998
I'm wondering if the reason MIT can afford to trust its students so much is that it's recruiting the types of students with more of an internal drive, who aren't just trying to skate through college.
I somehow managed to become a software engineer with narry a high school diploma, how? I had the good forture to be born to two recent MIT graduates who, during my childhood worked on campus. I wouldn't be me, or know what I know, were it not for how open and inspiring an environment that MIT fostered.
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Hey folks - thanks for the post. I'm an engineering manager at Facebook and worked a bit on this issue earlier today. As some people have pointed out, we've since pushed an update to the Graph API.

A bug in a recent update to our code caused this unintended availability of some metadata about the audience of posts. Keep in mind, the intended audience of the actual posts wasn't affected. So far, this is the only report we've received about the availability of the metadata, and we addressed the situation within a few hours.

As always, developers must abide by our Platform Policies, including obligations that protect the information they access through our APIs. For example, developers may not use someone's information outside of the application without the person's permission. Additionally, people can control whether applications have access to their information and posts through their settings.
I really hope they plan to change the user and pass they have printed on two seperate labels on the computer on the right wall near the keyboard
I've been in those shoes many times. I was actually not addressing the developer, I was addressing possible users.

After all, the app did crash about 30 seconds after I started it up and closed EVERY app I was running at the time even though I hadn't started actually using it yet. I could have lost data and I certainly did lose time.

People need to know that. Imagine if this happened to numerous people but nobody mentioned it because they were all being supportive?
Did anyone tell these guys that that president Lobo is the result of a coup? and that the previous one was a recalcitrant pro-cuba guy? or that Honduras already had a serious problem with marxist guerillas in the '80s?

All I'm saying is that if this guy Lobo makes a mistake and gets himself thrown out of office and replaced by another old-school communist then things are going to get really ugly really fast, just check Venezuela and tell me I'm wrong.

And besides you can't "lead by example" because that doesn't works in politics, demagogy does! which is why all the hardcore leftists that are dead-against libertarians are going to use the old formula of "we are poor because they are stealing from us!". I know that's not always true, but you go tell them and see if they even want to hear you.

BTW "neoliberal" is a dirty word over there, don't describe you as one.
Completely agree. The key point is not "applying" these traits, or treating them as "tricks," its simply that the professors there embody that ideal. As an undergrad, it was easy for me to grab 10 minutes of any professor's time, even if it wasn't related to their courses or study. A lot of my classes had over 300 students in them, yet that didn't keep a professor from meeting with me either.
Everyone has their own horror stories about drive manufacturers. I personally had a bunch of WD drives fail a while ago, so I've been hesitant to buy WD. Now, this was 10-ish years ago, so I know reliability has improved, but that doesn't change my hesitation.

It used to be that Maxtor (when they were around and independent) had the most reliable drives. Now, it's who knows...
Care, this path leads to Lucifer.
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Your attitude is what drives the organizational experience.
MIT's attitude is revealed through these "tricks". They're not giving away freebies to win people over; they're building an environment where you can focus all your time and energy on your work.
[note: I wrote the StarCraft article]

You're right -- it was related to the size of the units. Because they were larger they needed to find wider paths that weren't obstructed by terrain or other game units.
Agreed on the value of using 60 except it is too many divisions to make a coin profitably.
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Whether or not this particular experiment goes well, I think the super-cool thing is that it's being tried. I think there are probably a number of models that could lead to a stable and useful society, but existing governments are so entrenched that they've lost the ability to experiment. Their laws are mostly filled with legacy code and compromises made for a time and a political context that's long gone.

What would it look like if we could throw everything out and start over in the age of the internet? Laws under version control? Online direct democracy? GetSatisfaction for local government? One thing I can guarantee is that many, even most, of these ideas would be terrible and ruin the hard-won stability that most democracies currently enjoy.

So what's a large and slow-moving organisation to do? You want the benefits of a fresh slate, of innovation and iteration on all the crazy ideas your best and brightest can come up with, but you don't want to lose what you already have.

So in the time honoured tradition of generations of risk-averse innovation seekers before it, Honduras is starting a skunkworks. The Honduran government skunkworks. Damned if that isn't the coolest idea I've heard in a while.
My school didn't lock doors and I had friends visit and be amazed at how every building was open to study and meet in. Unfortunately we did have to pay for printing. It is very easy to take these liminal spaces for granted and abuse privilege of access. Overtime students began to do drugs and abuse other things because of the "open" attitude. Buildings I used to stumble out of at 4am from studying in the summer time were now closed at 12:00AM during the semester.

It is nice to read someone else is aware of the power of access and space... I try not to forget there is an assumed privilege, responsibility, and level of maturity that comes with access.
Does anyone have a javascript deobfuscation tool that will autorename variables in different scopes? I love working with javascript through the shell, but js-beautify doesn't always cut it.
I was going to read this, but the site had a stupid pop-over that I couldn't close on my mobile (well I could, then it would just immediately re-open). The irony was it was trying to get me to subscribe, though treating a non-customer to such an annoying experience is not going to get them to subscribe. Consistently writing good articles might, but it is hard to read them to determine quality with pop-over garbage.
Sounds to me like the ultimate a posteriori argument.
So true, so well said. Could not have said it better.
Honduras, the second poorest country in Central America, suffers from extraordinarily unequal distribution of income, as well as high underemployment. While historically dependent on the export of bananas and coffee, Honduras has diversified its export base to include apparel and automobile wire harnessing. Nearly half of Honduras's economic activity is directly tied to the US, with exports to the US accounting for 30% of GDP and remittances for another 20%. The US-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) came into force in 2006 and has helped foster foreign direct investment, but physical and political insecurity, as well as crime and perceptions of corruption, may deter potential investors; about 70% of FDI is from US firms. The economy registered sluggish economic growth in 2010, insufficient to improve living standards for the nearly 65% of the population in poverty. The LOBO administration inherited a difficult fiscal position with off-budget debts accrued in previous administrations and government salaries nearly equivalent to tax collections. His government has displayed a commitment to improving tax collection and cutting expenditures, and attracting foreign investment. This enabled Tegucigalpa to secure an IMF Precautionary Stand-By agreement in October 2010. The IMF agreement has helped renew multilateral and bilateral donor confidence in Honduras following the ZELAYA administration's economic mismanagement and the 2009 coup.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
Data centers usually can be considered a long term type of thing and I´m pretty sure that Google is not going to build a "smallish" one, but I see your point regarding bandwidth and links.

You seem to imply that Brazil may be lacking political stability, infrastructure and/or trained professionals, but I don´t know to what extent this would be true. You have to consider that, aside from the economy, Brazil has up to 34% of all latin american population with the vast majority of it living on the eastern coast line. Placing a data center on the west coast does not add up.

There might be some other underlying reason why Google decided to settle in Chile. Maybe the cooler climate can reduce their operational costs.
I find both of these analogies inadequate.

Spend more time around young children. They most definitely do not learn grammar before they can communicate. It is not a linear thing at all. People pick up parts of grammar like the Subject Verb Object syntax as they learn to mimmic diction and build vocabulary. They're constantly "wrong" and need to be corrected. With persistence and practice and, most importantly, interest, we acquire taste and style.

Communication is very much a trial and error kind of learning that is holistic rather than linear. "Learn x, then do y" versus "do y, then learn x" is a false dichotomy.
There are quite a few Christians here. I've made connections with many of them.

It's true that you are in a sense a guest of materialists in communities like these. I've found the only helpful thing is to make individual, atomic points or to write on a topic about which my conversant has no opinion. To say anything that is built on premises recognized and disputed by another is asking for a huge headache and yes, the CS training here greatly outpaces study of metaphysics.

Take heart and spend most of your time here talking about programming!
More like Shenzhen than a gated community. Thirty years ago Shenzhen was a fishing village of 3,000 people. It was chosen as the site of the first Special Economic Zone in China, based on Ireland's successful experiment in Shannon. Today Shenzhen is one of the richest, most populous cities in China. Millions of people have been directly lifted out of poverty by Shenzhen's success and millions more indirectly because its success made arguing for similar policies elsewhere in China easier. Whoever put their career on the line to propose the SEZ may have done more good for more people than the entire post WW2 aid industry has.
Oh frig. You should see CNN during election time. The obvious biases last election made my stomach turn.
Gamasutra has some good articles; check out http://www.gamasutra.com/category/programming.

Here's a good one: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3094/1500_archers_on_a.... It talks in detail about the network code and unit synchronization logic used for Age of Empires, which is more or less the same as that used by Warcraft and StarCraft.
But it isn't just the students that they trust. I have never taken a course at MIT but I, too, can visit the libraries and roam the classrooms.

It's awesome.
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Is this a joke?
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I wonder what would happen if Twitter decided to charge people to use their service...
That's quite interesting, did you ever end up attending college at all? What are you doing now, and what did your parents do?
I guess the reason that I like Arch (new software releases quickly) also caused them to beat the official guideline here :)

Thanks for the pointer.
I know. It's stupid to think we should try having a revolution in government policy and function in the 21st century. Twerps.
> If you're being paid by your employer to attend meetings, what phone call could possibly be so important that you can't let it go to voicemail and you get to it after the meeting?

A family member is suddenly in critical condition in the hospital? Your spouse was kidnapped on a business trip and is being held for ransom? Use your pretentious old school imagination.
Awesome read, thank you. I do intend on doing just that.

Like I said in the post on founder2be, I am looking for someone to help bring this MVP across the finish line. It's just an MVP, and the way this is constructed I can easily just change wording and start to target any specific niche/segment I decide to go down.

That is in the future. I'm trying to bring it to life first, as a living breathing prototype, and I need help. I've already gotten a couple of interested people who seem to bring way more experience to the table than I expected.
How would you summarize MIT's attitude?
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IANEM (I Am Not Elon Musk), but in a world where most news and media organizations were NOT online... getting them online could be world changing. Can you imagine if the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, etc were still only delivered to your doorstep once a day?

That is pretty world changing.
I built a very simple todo list + week planner based on a similar concept, that I use every single day now. Check it out sometime - http://weekis.com
A lot of this rings true to my memory of grad student days at MIT. For example, MIT libraries were open, but I wasn't even allowed to browse the stacks in some of Harvard's libraries-- let alone to check out a book.

In my memory, one of the things MIT did very well was avoiding barriers between academic departments. They had lots of research groups comprising professors and students from multiple fields, and there were no limits on what classes you could take based on what department you were in. (When I moved to Berkeley a few years later, I was surprised to discover I couldn't take a class in the journalism school unless I was enrolled as a journalism student.)

On the other hand, MIT did somewhat cultivate an exclusive attitude among its students-- particularly the undergrads. During my time there, I felt there was a pervasive strain of "We're the best in the world..." getting shaded into "...therefore nobody else is any good." I imagine if I had gone there after attending Harvard, I wouldn't have noticed so much, but as a midwesterner whose prior academic experience was at University of Cincinnati, it did seem to me that MIT spent a lot of time stroking the egos of its community.
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And then, there's always some folks who like to deviate from the norm:

http://www.retronaut.co/2010/06/smiling-victorians/

I dare ya to scowl at these cheshires.
I think thats a valid example/counterexample.

But to rephrase slightly, is that the exception that proves the rule?

[nb - I don't disagree with your point, but what is missing to encourage more things in this direction? Wikipedia is another utility example, but again is so rare]
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Interesting read. Reading articles like this makes me wish the sources to some of those older RTSes (Starcraft, Warcraft, Age of Empires) were available to look at - I'm sure there'd be some interesting stuff in there.
> MIT's attitude is revealed through these "tricks".

Precisely.

MIT's behavior is the projection of its attitude. Through inertia, MIT aligns its participants' attitudes to various approximations of the overall attitude.

Or, the overall attitude is the reduction of the participants' attitudes.
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Update [REMOTE]:

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yes, I would love to see third party replication for this result.

Another thing to keep in mind with this study is it tests users in an abstracted environment. E.g., things you might find useful when comparing two sets of ten results may not be the things you find useful when you're looking for a hotel in new york.
Essentially ...

"ENCODE, the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, is a project funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute to identify all regions of transcription, transcription factor association, chromatin structure and histone modification in the human genome sequence. Thanks to the identification of these functional elements, 80% of the components of the human genome now have at least one biochemical function associated with them. This expansive resource of functional annotations is already providing new insights into the organization and regulation of our genes and genome."

What used to be called Junk DNA is not junk but rather millions of switches that contextually control the expression of proteins by the other 1% of DNA. ENCODE is working this all out.
May sound corny, but I'd have to say "Fostering." If you show interest in something, be it knowledge about a subject or field (or entrepreneurship), they will always make sure you have all the resources you need. Part of this (and has been voiced in some of the other comments) is that they will never block you from learning or exploring something.
This is possibly the most important thing to happen to my frontend development workflow all year. Amazing contribution. Thank you.
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When I read this article a few months ago, I wondered if protesters should just start wearing hats: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/05/04/152011840/who-k...
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Other aspects of the institute do a pretty good job of putting those egos back down.
I used to work in a very client-focused industry. Internal meetings, even those led by a CEO, were secondary to your relationship with your client. People would pop in and out of meetings constantly taking calls and following up on things.

My current company doesn't have a very big team or office space, but if/when I set one up that's the sort of culture I would expect. Mettings should be voluntary and secondary in importance to the work that you do. It's me talking after all, not a prophet.

I'm probably 10 years older than the average HN'er as well.
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Why would they? That computer isn't hooked up to a network, and there's a very small probability that Joe Random Hacker would be able to talk his way into a nuclear control room.
Seems like a pretty snarky comment to put into their job posting.
Hmm that's true. I never thought of it like that. I wish someone would ask him about how he gauged the opportunity for his earlier ventures.

And his core operational and strategic steps in starting a startup.
That is true - I was thinking of places with a functional government where the people have participated in its building. ;-)
30. pick a domain that people actually remember. 3 hyphens on a .net wtf, bro?
If you haven't seen it yet, you'd probably be very interested in Planetary Annihilation (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/659943965/planetary-anni...) which is being made by a significant portion of the original TA and SupCom teams.
I wish this could happen, if only so their stupid splash screen stops breaking my iPad. I doubt it will ever happen though, YC and techcrunch seem to enjoy a very symbiotic relationship
Yeah, I'm starting to come to the conclusion that modern design == hard to read websites. Incidentally, they are also usually slow.
Been lurking here for months but I made a profile just to say Thank God. Thank God someone else gets it.