skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's always interesting in audio (or lab/automation) how you want to filter out noise (isolated ground, etc.), but naive ways of doing that can cause serious problems.
Where else do you get your news?

Google News, with some custom sections to emphasize news about science and technology and about education, and the many friends I have on Facebook, who post interesting links regularly. I follow several blogs and other websites with regular news updates, especially about science. When I really want to research a subject in depth, I go straight to the academic libraries of my alma mater university across town (now often via its extensive subscriptions to databases that I can access from home with user authentication I gain through an affiliation with that university). For articles to look at for submission to Hacker News, I

1) make sure to have a science section in my Google News set-up, and additionally use Google News and Google Scholar keyword searches to check submissions by other users to HN,

2) follow the recommendations of certain key Facebook friends of mine who are either professional scientists, science writers, or science educators,

3) daily read Science-Based Medicine
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/

(I don't submit to HN from Science-Based Medicine every day, but I have found some GREAT articles there over the years)

4) daily read Why Evolution Is True

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/

(which sometimes has personal posts by the site owner but also has EXCELLENT posts by him and by guest posters on cutting-edge science issues, some of which I post directly and some of which lead to professional journal articles I post directly)

5) daily read Skeptic Blog

http://www.skepticblog.org/

(which goes from very ordinary to EXCELLENT in quality in unpredictable fashion, and has several very thoughtful co-bloggers contributing)

6) daily read Respectful Insolence

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/

(which has had some EXCELLENT posts about the methods of research over the years)

7) receive specific suggestions of research articles to read on human intelligence and human behavioral genetics either by request or by researcher nomination from the Minnesota Twin Family Study researchers with whom I discuss issues in a journal club during the school year

8) occasionally look at Pharyngula

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/

(which is going through a dry spell right now while its author finishes writing a book that I am very eager to read, but which in the past has had some great posts on topics of much interest to HN participants)

and

9) generally prowl the Web and recommendations I see anywhere else in cyberspace for good articles on science. I test most articles I see submitted anywhere with the checklist from Peter Norvig (Google's director of research)'s article "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation,"

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

which is my all-time favorite link to share in discussions on Hacker News.
ts;dr :-l
Well aware of his work, but I realize I probably misread the article. :) I think I just expanded statistical modeling to encompass more fields than I meant to (you can, in fact, employ statistical methods to augment "deeper" systems like automatically developing rule systems for propositional logic).
A pointer itself is not a composite data type. It can't remember two things at once.
China roboticizing
They don't demonize it, they are just showing how much power Google will have. Power that could be used for good or for bad from the world's perspective, but will always be used for Google's benefit.
I'd recommend contributing to an open source project that aligns with your interests, as that's much more understandable and verifiable to someone reading your CV.
Their Secure Development Lifecycle guide can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?display... .
selling antivirus software is a lot less about fixing viruses than it is about convincing the average computer user that they are at risk without XXX antivirus suite.
AFAIK the guy who built it has written a book to appear this month and that's supposed to fix the standard. There's some stuff here

http://www.shenlanguage.org/Documentation/shendoc.htm
Really? Even my friends (from Cambridge) who went into finance aren't earning nearly that much in base salary. Is that including bonuses and other benefits?
I'm not convinced.

I'm not familiar with the last approach but it seems to me that with a couple of higher-order functions in JavaScript, the code will quickly become more manageable.

function getPhoto(tag, handlerCallback) {
asyncChain(requestTag, requestOneFrom)(tag, function(photoSizes) {
handlerCallback(sizesToPhoto(photoSizes));
});
}

getPhoto('tokyo', drawOnScreen);
The other issue with Cambridge is that they think they can get away with paying people -- senior people -- £35,000 a year\. Even if you hate London you're better off contracting in the midlands where you can probably get £350/day if you're not completely hopeless.

\ based roughly on my experience investigating the job market there a few years ago.
Really? What we learned from antennagate - hardware design has a huge impact on reception and call quality.

It would be like testing a car and never driving it.
"it's a trap!"
Not when the market is flooded with cheap commodity handsets, no.
The Competent Man
That number includes bonus - but it's certainly accurate. These guys might have no commercial experience, but they certainly have plenty of programming experience (and are typically top 1 or 2 in their year at university).

I've emailed you the name of the company using the contact form on your website. We look forward to your application!
I know publishers who will actively unsubscribe people who are not opening.

Aha! Makes sense. Especially if these publishers offer email marketing as a service to other publishers.

I remember hearing that before long ago but it slipped my mind. Thanks.
I have started trying out Galera Cluster[1] for MySQL, to replace a single MySQL server node with 3-4 nodes, all synchronously replicated. This should hopefully solve the problem with having to split writes to the master and reads to the slaves, and provide redundancy in case of a server going down.

Does anyone have any experience with Galera in a production environment? Is the setup in this article preferable to that?

[1] http://codership.com/content/using-galera-cluster
I don't know what any of those academic terms mean but what have you coded and are most proud of?
This post seems a tad negative for one that ends with "have fun, be nice...happiness".
So is my mother. Almost 200GB of photos just from a point and shoot camera in the past 6 years.
You really need a "how it works" section. Few people are willing to read the source code to see if you have interesting or useful ideas.
Here's a graph of open rates and click rates for a newsletter I send out 1-2 times a month:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/97lfk7clhj12flu/newsletter.png

According to Mailchimp, the list has an average open rate of 58% and an average click rate of 20%.

EDIT: hippo3 mentioned actively unsubscribing people who are not opening, in order to get a list with a high concentration of people who consistently open. As my newsletters contain no third party ads or promotions, I don't do such pruning.

I think there are a few reasons why our newsletters are well read:

- The content is very specific to our niche

- The target audience is members of our services

- Even though most readers are customers, they still have to opt-in to receive the newsletters

- I don't send newsletters out often, only 1-2 times a month

- The newsletters are sent out at pretty regular intervals, usually on Tuesday morning in the third week of the month

- The newsletters aren't very long, readers have to click through to read the entire articles
For some it isn't I agree.

-Also I advice do not plug in in an outlet via male to male.
Reason: if your peak is over 5kw/h, the wiring might not handle that! See the 48kw/h wiring of yours is the calculation of the total amount each breaker can have. I don't know US breakers but lets say it is 120v/40A per breaker, you have 10 breakers. But if you connect your generator on the outlet on one breaker the electricity has to travel through one specific pair of wires all the time (from outlet to wire intersection spread from there)
That's the same realization I came to, that it's actually less risky to be a contractor than an employee.

Better to be paid more and have a nest egg for the rainy days than live day to day on a salary and always fear the entire department getting chopped one day for reasons beyond your control.
It's still happening. I'm constantly seeing ignorant comments about AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean!
The license is such a huge deterrent that very little can be inferred from "the license is the only complaint". Nobody knows whether we would have found the language to be amazing or terrible, if only we hadn't stopped considering it because the only implementation is not open to hacking.
> I know the saying many eyes make bugs shallow, but so does billions of dollars and years of concentrated effort.

The saying holds. Billions of dollars buys many eyes.
TIL ye olde Financial Times now has a cool web pricing table.
It's including bonus, but no other benefits.
"Yep, 75% of the market loves to buy crappy devices with crappy OSs"

No, 70% of the market doesn't care and merely what the blingest device for the lowest cost with the highest amount of minutes and texts, data is barely an afterthought. Samsung offering sales commissions doesn't hurt either, or is that 'just a weird inconvenient fact'?
Locked bootloader, so it's not an option. Also, only Nexus series phones are really worth it these days.
It's not quite that simple. Facebook has changed the way many people interact.

Delete your Facebook and you will almost inevitably miss out. You will miss event invitations — "Oh, I sent out an invitation to everyone on Facebook, did you not get it?" — your friends will change their numbers without you knowing — "But I put a message on Facebook telling everyone my new number!" — and you'll find people talking about you, and posting photos of you without your knowledge.

We have a rather fascinating collective action problem here.
Have you considered adding your configurations to a GitHub repo?
I'm totally motivated and committed to Mars. Would that commitment survive in a mission? IMHO, totally because I'd even say yes to a one-way trip with a time limit (ie your "life support system will stop working in 3 years")

But the idea of an enclosed isolated test environment just doesn't raise the same kind of enthusiasm in me.

Unless there are side benefits (like freedom - ie build a new country from scratch in the middle of say Antarctica!!) I don't know why, but I really don't feel like taking part in the experience.

I guess it's all about selfishness - being on Mars matches my selfish motives. Doing a 10 years test somewhere in a controlled bunker on earth, a sacrifice for the next team who might do the same on real Mars??? I'll pass the opportunity.

That makes me wonder if it would be a good thing to run such an experiment, considering the volunteers would certainly be different (in their reason and personalities) from the ones who would volunteer for a real Mars mission.
He is invested in the issue, if not with time and money, then with emotion. People can become very stubborn and blind when they are invested in an issue, probably because they are adverse to risk and some variation buyers remorse.
Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my first iPhone game
Here's a chart of stats by industry that MailChimp published -
http://mailchimp.com/resources/research/email-marketing-benc...
for reference. As petercooper said the industry isn't the best breakdown to compare against. It's probably more helpful to benchmark your own campaigns using A/B and optimize for your goal.
Agreed. We created a backup database in a west region and it only took a few minutes to provision with Chef.

I would be curious if there was an open source tool that copies your current security groups and writes them to other regions.
Not sure how Java is better than all the "hipster" languages as you say. It doesn't seem like you're just using some design patterns that are present in basically every language.

Clojure has futures too, but the syntax isn't as clunky as Scala or especially Java. All these synchronization primitives are in basically every other language. Maybe I'm missing something but I don't really see what is special about Java here. Has the OP ever tried any "hipster" languages, he might be pleasantly surprised if he did.
Maybe I'm weird here because I've grown up as a geek and a nerd so most of my social skills were built online.

But that's exactly what I would do in a face-to-face conversation. When I call bullshit on somebody (or somebody does on me), we usually whip out a smartphone and find relevant links to see who's right.

And when the other person is taking too long to say something, they will often get interrupted. Conversations often go on tangents because somebody said something interesting.

Conversely, when somebody isn't being interested, people will just walk away mid conversation.

But as I said, maybe I and my friends are the weird ones here.
I know developers with 3-5 years experience in Cambridge earning significantly more than that. Redgate Software, for example, pays its junior (i.e. zero experience) engineers £35k / year.
They've fixed all of the bugs I've reported to them.

They are a popular software product, with a public bug tracker. They are likely to get more bug reports than they can deal with. Every software project gets more bug reports than they can deal with. I have never found a software project in which there weren't people who were unhappy with how quickly they fix or respond to bugs. Could they hire someone to sort through their bug tracker, or hook it up to an analysis engine to look for potential duplicates? Maybe. But that would be a lot of time and money spent, for not much gain.

I don't see Chrome as being much worse than any other random project you can name; and in fact, their automated testing is good enough that I am comfortable running their Dev Channel browser as my primary browser, and have run into very few problems doing so. Once or twice it broke for a few days in ways that I never tracked down to report, but was fixed within a week; and there have been a couple of bugs that I have reported that have also been fixed within a week or two. I've been running Dev channel as my primary browser for about 3 years now, with no show-stopping bugs, and only a handful of minor ones.
IE9 passes 20% market share, Firefox falls below 20%, Chrome loses users
However, that's where hybrids shine - the slightly increased complexity of my Prius still makes it 2x as gas-efficient as a non-hybrid gas car.

I remeber a slashdot post a few years ago about a Prius onwer who mentioned how the evacuation of Houston during Hurricane Rita was an absolute nightmare for most car owners - the roads were packed and everyone was doing 1-2mph for 8+ hours. Many SUVs were simply abandoned on the side of the road. He ended up getting 55mpg for the week.

If I didn't own a hybrid already, a Volt would be an awesome car to get - can be electric for it's full range, but like modern diesel trains - it simply uses the gas engine as a powerplant to run it's electric motor.
"Happy that is finally being acknowledged on the outside."

Not to mention by a reputable security company in the business (we all know there's some sources whom are... biased... to put it nicely). Congrats to Microsoft, glad to see they've put security so highly on their priority list. Not to mention the involvement they try to get with hackers, and worldwide trying to stop spam botnets, etc... Very nice to see a corporation working like that.
Morning Joke still didn't take the bet.

Nate probably didn't care about whether he won or lost - it's just these right-wing media windbags say whatever they want, seemingly without consequence.

Good that he deflated that clown.
Google is the false messiah. They don't care about innovation or creating great products. They don't care about user experience. they don't care about you. All Google cares about is serving you crappy ads.
We use Powershell and WMI remote exec (which is underneath all that anyway). All our Win admin is via console.
Back from Callback Hell with Bacon.js
Gawker is still down
Android is a technical term. I don't think it is important to this discussion what the press/ "average" consumer think the word Android means, because they are not part of this discussion. Consumers/press also have a very different meaning for the word "hacker" than most of us here have. Yet we can still use the original term here without getting confused.

Gmail and Google Play are not Android, they are pieces of an app suite from Google.

Samsung licensing Google Apps for their android-based operating system is not that different from Samsung licensing Adobe reader for their Android-based operating system. And Amazon is not making a fork. Amazon's software is fully compatible with Android 4.0.3.

Android is what you find at http://source.android.com/
That's not really how secure coding works at Microsoft though. There aren't more eyes on the code, just more developer training and more processes in place. (At least that was my experience working there from 2006 to 2009.)
What can we trace this security priority initiative of Microsoft back to?
Well you've successfully called my bluff....

Unfortunately I have no particular interest in that industry, and more importantly, if I'm honest, wouldn't have a chance of getting through the application stage.
The problem is, I care about what I chose to read. I care what the author had to say in this blog post. Since it was nice and short, I read it all but if he wrote a 1000 word essay, I would have liked a nice brief tl;dr. If there wasn't one, I'd just save the article and read it when I have time or can be bothered.
This kind of confuses two important ideas, both discussed by Dijkstra.

The most popular was his article about gotos.

Another idea in his writings was that time-dependent programming was dangerous. He was talking about interrupt based programming specifically, and also addressed the common practice of some hardware to have asynchronous IO. You would start an IO operation, and go on and do other things, come back later and see the values there.

So these two things are not alike. They both cause confusion about what the program is doing, but they are not "like" each other.

To be a better programmer, it is good to read Dijkstra. It is really all about avoiding errors in programming.
If you're running Chrome please for the love of all that is holy enable Click-To-Play for all plugins. With it disabled it is like running without a pop-up blocker.

You can do so in Settings -> Advanced Settings -> Content Settings -> Plug-Ins -> Click To Play.

When you visit a site which has a plug-in you'll get a UI control similar to the pop-up blocker which allows you to add it to the exceptions list and or to allow it just this one time. You should add YouTube to the exceptions list.
Mid-range phone? Quite the opposite. At least according to most of the reviews. E.g. Gizmodo:

"As of right now, it is officially my favorite phone by a healthy margin. It’s just so fast, so smooth, and the software is great."

NFC, 2 times bigger RAM, gerat build quality, quad-core processor.

Even if you think that iP5 is superior, you have to admit that N4's value / price is way higher.
You're clearly wrong: if using TLDR didn't deliver some sort of value, nobody would do it. Your argument is similar to how my parents argue about texting - you just don't get it, and because of a cultural mismatch, you probably never will. But as an entrepreneur, you need to be able to notice when you don't understand something, and you need to be above disregarding trends because you don't understand them - you should be trying to understand rather than just giving up and saying "this is stupid".

Separately, there are several reasons why people read tons of news articles they don't really care about. In general, they fall within rewards of the self (desire for mastery, completion, etc). For more info, check out http://www.nirandfar.com/ and pay attention to his explanations of the different types of random rewards that drive behavior.
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Not everyone in Silicon Valley is a douche like you seem to believe here. Just because someone lives there doesn't automatically make them a part of the culture or 'detached and not personal', so I don't understand why you're generalizing here.

I've lived in the Bay area most of my life. I grew up in Silicon Valley and I'm living in SF now. Frankly, I've never seen this startup culture everyone talks about because I've chosen not to be a part of it. I've never been to a launch party, never been to a tech meetup, never been to a hackathon or these hackerspaces. Sure, I agree with you that the startup space is filled with douches and that's why I don't hang around those people. But that's a fraction of all the people living in Silicon Valley.

Have you even been to Silicon Valley before? Or even the Bay area in general? It's a huge place with lots of people. Your assumption is like me saying "Dallas can suck it because I don't like cowboys." It's a terrible argument.

In the future, please don't submit content to your own blog with link bait titles, thanks.
I'd rather have destructuring.
Brighton is also fantastic for new media and I see lots of emerging companies all the time. The culture for growing talent and laid-back attitudes is definitely very strong here. We also have excellent places like The Skiff which are mixing pots for talent, and events like Farm which get talented people together with people that need it.

So yeah, we have a great freelancer culture and small agency culture, it's about whether we want to also foster the start-up culture too.

It's definitely not as bro-centric as Silicon Valley seems. We have great events like Bar Camp, but it's much less "in your face" seeming.

Brighton is also a lot smaller than London - so we have all the right things, and moreso than most cities, but it's less foreboding and intimidating than places like London. I'm also not sure how many people would be happy with risking becoming like those places. Things are really tight, and people still have their passion for coding. I hate to think of that being pillaged by greedy capitalists.
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So you refuse to hang out with any of the millions of Reddit users because some of them laughed at you for not knowing what tl;dr meant?
And all Apple wants to do is make a profit, wavy hands oh how terrible!

I don't know how you define innovative if you don't consider the amazing intelligence behind Google Now innovative, or don't find the new 4.2 features innovative, or at least innovative in a smartdevice OS. I hate to tell you because it seems you are vitriolic about the point, but it's always been about ads, they're a business. But obviously the experience has to be compelling enough to get you to buy into it .... so OF COURSE they're competing on experience. And anyone who's used an Android phone recently in good faith knows that.

What's this nonsense about them "not caring" anyway. Do you REALLY think that Irving "cares" more about the design of iOS than Duarte cares about Android? And does it really make a difference, especially given that Android has managed to avoid the 2005 era plastic skeumorphism and created something awesome in its own right with Holo?

Again, this isn't 2009 anymore.
It's about twice better in OpenGL tests but I would be very surprised if it had faster CPU. N4 has quad-core CPU with higher frequency.
Java is an excellent language, it has a elegant syntax, but... it's not made for web development.
JSP/Servlets development is a joke.
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