skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. This is wrong. First, sampling need not imply quantization[1]. Second, the signal to noise ratio of the continuous signal source is important. With sufficiently many bits and sufficiently many samples, you can exactly reproduce any band-limited continuous signal above the noise floor[2]. Those last four words are important. Analog data never comes without noise, and a "sufficient number of bits" is nowhere near as high as you think (particularly with noise-shaping techniques like dithering).

Now, it is the case, as user rayiner mentioned, that there can be advantages to using more than the required number of bits and samples (though not quite for the reasons he mentioned). For starters, you do need an anti-aliasing filter between the signal source and your ADC. Increasing the sample rate reduces the complexity of the AA filter, and digital-domain math can make up for it (and increase the effective number of bits, to boot!). But when you go to reproduce the signal, there's no good reason to use more samples and bits than necessary. That was the whole point of the "Niel Young paper" that has been linked to so many times.

Vinyl does not come close to the limits of consumer-grade recording devices (except maaaaaybe in certain bands, but that can be dealt with by using noise-shaping techniques). Does that make those who like the sound of vinyl bad people? No. Just like those who enjoy sitting in front of a wood fireplace are not bad people. Gas fireplaces have a lot of advantages, but some people like the crackling of the wood and the smell it produces.

[1] Tektronix made a very nice set of (entirely analog) sampling oscilloscopes in the 1960's which used sampling techniques to measure high frequency signals (on the order of 1GHz when contemporary continuous-signal CROs could barely reach 100MHz). These oscilloscopes displayed discrete-time, continuous-amplitude signals, and deliberately excluded the anti-aliasing filter I mentioned above (though it wasn't true heterodyning as most RF people would think of it, because samples were taken based a delay from a trigger recognizer, and thus not necessarily equally spaced in time).

[2] Signals below the noise floor are outside the scope of this discussion and usually require some form of synchronous detection (like a lock-in amplifier) or frequency-spreading / -despreading (like GPS).
Thanks for trying. It's really strange that it doesn't work on your OS X while it does on mine (and on someone else's system who tried it somewhat recently). I'd like to figure out why.

I've pushed a small update [1] that prints the current working dir of the app. Perhaps you can try it and verify that it's being set correctly. See this screenshot [2] for Xcode setting that sets the running app cwd.

[1] https://github.com/shurcooL/Conception/commit/37bbbb57e56caa...

[2] http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/7548/imagexcsb.png
That our evolutionary history includes eating meat is by no means an argument that the nutritional benefits of meat are irreplaceable.
OTOH, Latvia and Estonia have both done very well with austerity.
the "hide vs delete" problem is incredibly prevalent in corporate financial statements.

Accountants during preparation of these documents often "hide" for a reason - they want to try out how certain numbers work, and want to keep their work-in-progress easily accessible without deleting them. And often corporate secretaries just send out these documents "as ready" without thinking that there's tons of confidential and sometimes very wrong (or very incriminating) numbers "hidden" as work-in-progress.

This happens so often on Quarterly financial statements that it's an embarrassment, frankly. Disclaimer: I worked as a lowly proofreader of financial documents, quarterly and annual reports, etc.

The problem is not Access Control. The problem is people failing to recognize when a document is "ready for public consumption" vs an internal working draft.

The real story of "lacking access control" is when these excel worksheets actually link into MS Access databases hosted inside the firewalls of these companies - and holes were poked in the firewall to let the data out because executives wanted to work on these documents in their lodge in aspen, etc.

I see this all the time - it's really freaky when the excel worksheet I was proofreading start reaching out over the net and into supposedly private networks deep within financial houses. If I run something like little snitch, it would show access attempts over nonstandard ports, etc.

It's scary.
Sounds similar to Aaron Swartz' project to analyze the research being done at universities. Might be worth forking that project to jump start yours.
I don't approve of attacking other people, but when you sit such a high horse, don't be surprised when someone tries to pull you down.
I ordered the 60gh/s SC Single the night preorderes opened like a year ago. I think there are maybe ~7 orders before me. I hope I get it soon. I paid 220 btc@5.45 usd for it, let's see if its worth it.
Excel does have that. Exactly that.
If you want to understand terrorism
The word "consumer" does appear in CISPA, but only in one paragraph, referring to "consumer terms of service or consumer licensing agreements". I don't see what's so bad about using "consumers" to refer to people who consume a particular service, though. It's not denying them personhood; it's just a way to refer to the subset of people who use a service, whereas "people" would refer to all people.
I doubted that these ASIC rigs would ship any time soon. Wouldn't it be more profitable for the vendors to simply to delay/cancel orders and run the rigs 24/7 themselves?
Interesting. Perhaps it was in part motivated by Sandy Hook a couple weeks prior, then reposted in response to this week's incident.

Shame. You can almost pick a motivating tragedy.
And I believe that peer review would have caught this mistake. My understanding is that their paper was published without it.
I really like the idea of "Burned Bridges Consulting!" There is something there...
Visualizing Java Garbage Collection
Curt Schilling, Rhode Island and the fall of 38 Studios
Some sort of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_programming
to the masses would be nice.
I think there a huge difference between a common cold and a mental illness the effects on your life and the stigma that we as as society give it is impactful enough.I have a family member who is battling dementia its not something to be tallied about to describe "not very nice people" He was mean to someone people so what, If I where to interview everyone you've come across in your life ex coworkers, friends, girl or boyfriends there would be some people who said you where mean and a jerk too . 5 sides to almost every story
That is actually quite a bad arrangement.

Unless the fixed return is something intolerable to the startup, such as 100% return, that would make a terrible investment. Even ignoring the go-big-or-go-home type of startup in SV, the vast majority of startups that seek to make profits from day one do not succeed - they'll fail and the investors lose the loan. The only situation in which this makes sense is for the loan to have a very very high return - usually a multiple (1x, 2x, etc), since investors will need that rare winner to subsidize the losers. This is how the entire VC industry in SV works, and it definitely still applies even if you want to make a profit-first company, it just applies to a sightly lesser degree (usually for VCs in SV, one company in their entire portfolio will need to deliver 50x+ return). This is also bad for the startup because now they have this loan that they have to pay back in X years that has a huge interest rate.

Essentially, this is bad for investors because investors get all the downside, but their return is quite capped.
Destruction is exactly what "sunsetting" is all about. Or to be more accurate, its like saying you're going to stop watering your fern. No, you're not destroying the fern you're just... not keeping it alive anymore.

The problem with people using online services is that their data is stored there and can't be recovered ever again. You can say the data is pointless crud or everyone should know better, but I don't see how you can argue that the data isn't being lost against some people's wishes.
The faxes still come through serially with the receiving machine able to set the maximum rate of transmission. With one phone line and four minutes per fax that's a maximum of 360 requests per day. Send some long outgoing faxes and availability for receiving notices goes down.

In any event, spooling up a lot of faxes would tie up YC's fax machine, not YC's staff.
A more interesting moral dilemma is whether you support giving the weapon manufacturers money through videogame developers who pay them for a license to use their weapons in-game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeIHH0XEs6E.
Blame the tool. Yeah, very mature. Garbage in garbage out. What do you expect?
So Excel is garbage and the best solution is to hire you? Let me guess...you're a consultant.

Watch a skilled engineer or accountant use Excel and you'll see it's good for more than "toy problems".
I doubt that will be much of a problem. There are a lot of vets out there with huge student loans and dire employment prospects. You could probably find one to write whatever you wanted.
Being "pissed" doesn't really make people any more rational than being scared, though.
From what I understand, Office 365 is provided free of charge. The website is down. Would be nice if people can provide more information.
You should run some A/B Testing on your landing page.

For example, try a version that specifies the state in which you live and one without. This should give you better conversion metrics.
I think mediocrity is a function of the risk your company is willing to take. The more risk-averse, the more mediocre. I don't have data to back this up, but I'd bet dollars to donuts there's a correlation between risk-aversion and company size. For example, here's a speech by a guy working for IBM during days they were developing the PC explaining his gripe with the organization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbRmaIzGTOM#t=5m55s
Totally agree.

Why would anyone wants to sell the goose who lays golden eggs while gold cost more than the goose?

They'll pile up cash from "preorders", mine bitcoins and when time is right - will dump outdated devices to customers.
"So sue me" creates friction. If sending the request by mail or fax is too much trouble, arguing in court that emails must be accepted probably isn't attractive either.
> needs an MTA

From the same docs you linked to:

> Bugzilla is dependent on the availability of an e-mail system for its user authentication and for other tasks.

> This is not entirely true. It is possible to completely disable email sending, or to have Bugzilla store email messages in a file instead of sending them. However, this is mainly intended for testing, as disabling or diverting email on a production machine would mean that users could miss important events (such as bug changes or the creation of new accounts).

(emphasis mine)
yeah, those are baller advisors to have. On the flip side, while that means they will write interesting algorithms /modelling tools correctly, that doesn't mean they will build the right tools.

For good or for ill, many academic folks are technological curmudgeons.

Let me in fact make a much bolder but still true statement: very very few of the folks who are strong both algorithmically and mathematical are also adept at helping engineer transformatively better to use tools. Why? Because skill in any subset of the math, cs and engineering things nicely requires deliberate practice in that entire subset of skills. Deliberate practice of all three together in tandem does not happen in an academic environment, ever. (measure zero sized counter examples exist admittedly)
Study: Neurotics shine over time in team settings
I am humble and arrogant at the same time.

I am humble in the sense that I have a keen awareness of my limitations. I don't know what happens after death. I don't know if there is a God. I don't know more than 1.5 natural languages. I'm a mediocre athlete. On most topics, I'm less smart than a person with a passing knowledge of the field, and my opinion is consequently less useful.

I'm arrogant insofar as I've seen through the corporate nonsense and, after having watched people way inferior to me making huge decisions that affect peoples' lives, I feel an urge to step up. I know for a fact that these intellectual children are not the best people to be making such calls, because I am better.

Now, that said, I'm far from the smartest person out there and if someone smarter than me steps up so I don't have to, then that's great! I don't care about being the leader and I'd rather not. I want a competent leader. If that person is someone other than me, then great! But usually the people who are smarter than me shy away from power; they're smart enough to realize that that competition is utterly soul-raping.

The world needs people like me with actual competence and the courage to, at least, try to turn it into something.
This may have also been done to prevent whatever interference or vigilantism may have occurred from a city who was pissed and not scared.
Yes, but the silver lining is that you'll open your thesaurus and learn words like

"jeremiad"

"screed"

"phillippic"

"tirade"

MOC is a strong advocate for scala and clojure, so I figure he's ok
I think Jefferson's comment is relevant here:
the price of freedom is eternal vigilance
It seems that different groups are constantly picking away at your rights (in all sorts of areas). fight (as much as practical) _all_ the small steps, otherwise they might eventually amount to something that directly affects you.
> Corporate America is founded on mediocrity being good enough.

Corporate America isn't founded on anything in particular. Corporations are founded on what its individual founders think is important.

This implies that if you have a better idea on how to run a corporation, start one and prove it's better.
Indeed. The more data points, the better. At least for speech recognition personalization for Google Voice Search, it is opt-in: http://support.google.com/android/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...

Not so long ago, the primary goal of the 1-800-GOOG-411 service was to record people's voice queries for the purpose of bettering their voice recognition technology. After they got sufficient data samples, they discontinued the service.

http://www.infoworld.com/t/data-management/google-wants-your...

> "Google had stated that the company originally implemented GOOG-411 to build a large phoneme database from users' voice queries. This phoneme database, in turn, allowed Google engineers to refine and improve the speech recognition engine that Google uses to index audio content for searching."
The shutdown of Boston was an incredible event without precedent. It is absolutely correct for people to discuss whether the right choices were made, and it is a little bit frightening to have people declaring such a conversation "offensive".

In the end it was pretty clear that these two perpetrators were not the brightest of terrorists. They operated in plain sight, during a massively photographed event, and then went about their life as if nothing had changed. Their bombs, while sadly effective to a degree, were much less devastating than they could have been (and that they were throwing pressure cookers at police borders on...the word comedic doesn't quite fit given the carnage they have wrought, but it certainly is ridiculous).

Did the lockdown help catch them? We'll never actually know, as the suspect could have been caught using traditional means in a fully operating city. On the flip side, if the suspect wasn't seriously injured, as they purportedly were, they could have been murdering people in house after house during the lockdown.
Living in the UK with our (IMHO) wonderful, sane gun control laws, the idea of a shooting seems surreal... and the jump from playing an FPS to the visceral horror of actually stabbing someone seems unlikely to be manageable without substantial help. Whilst a bat or other blunt object of some description is an alternative weapon, the environment around us seems to provide the feeling that the law does a good job of discouraging wanton violence and bringing things as close as possible to homicides committed out of the interaction simple frustration[1] and a little psychopathy (which it may be impossible to stop?)

(for reference's sake, 0.07 per 100,000 intentional gun homicides 2011)

Similarly, when I see the people out and about that actually seem like they could be dangerous... they don't appear to be particularly interested in video games. It makes me wonder where the connection arose from and whether it's the case that the furore is just that or if it is motivated by any particular group's personal distaste for FPSs.

(Caveat: I'm quite aware that I haven't quite covered the implication both ways around, but... tired. stalks away)

[1]: I really, really want to avoid writing 'crimes of passion'... but shrug
"I don’t think that’s quite right. I’d bet the American people, if given the opportunity, are as capable as the Israelis and the Brits of withstanding the occasional deadly attack by extremist groups or individuals [...]

It’s the authorities and the media that tend to go a little crazy, and their actions reinforce each other."

So the Israelis and Brits don't have authorities or media? Or are their authorities and media not Israelis and Brits? Or does he mean that the authorities and the media in America are not made up of American people?

Seems quite a stretch to make this distinction without a difference to try and sidestep any actual discussion of why these differences among cultures exist. Cheap rhetorical trick. Not that I can blame him I guess, it's "un-american" to propose rational reactions that might decrease terrorism rather than scorched-earth vengeance seeking.
If Tsarnaev will get a good lawyer - this will play well in his defense in court after emotions will cool down.
Thanks Jonaphin, I'll get to work building a few options.
"I feel that when it comes to making AI, a better definition is something along the lines of "intelligence is the ability to make good choices when faced with a decision"

I love it. Mine is even more constructivist (and Wittgensteinian). Something like "intelligence is the ability to detect patterns and act accordingly."

The problem, as many philosophers have noted, is that such definitions -- in fact, most definitions -- make it hard to argue that the thermostat is not intelligent (or conscious, or sentient). And that, of course, is at the heart of Turing's most famous argument.

I, myself, find it hard to argue my way around what is essentially a "walks like a duck, talks like a duck" argument when it comes to these matters -- which is to say, defining something in terms of its activities, behaviors, likenesses. That perhaps tilts practical AI toward the statistical, though, and it's hard for me to believe that that's the whole story.

I have never presented the arguments back-and-forth on this issue without watching my students collapse into confusion and desperation.
IANAL; I think the term "consumer" is from the relationship with the providers. The people being protected are specifically the ones that use the service.

Congress is a black box to us. I've read the text of CISPA, and I don't think it's unreasonable, but you have to trust the people using it, and we don't. That pretty much ends the conversation.

My friend has been working as a PA in a law office that's involved in health-care legislation. We recently had a fight about Internet regulation-- copyright. He took the position that we should write good legislation before somebody else skews it in their favor. I agreed, but I thought it was premature. You write the legislation now and you risk things like nation-wide lock-in to IE6. Software takes time, and the Web's immature. Right now, it's very noisy, it's not private, it's socially chaotic, and it's not quite secure enough - online elections, anybody?

That said, the things that IT touches tend to become more open in the long run, and eventually that'll include Congress. I don't know if CISPA is a good bill, but I don't think it helps to make a cause against it either. If we care this much, we need to participate in the writing of the laws. If we can't do that, then the Web isn't ready yet, and Congress stays a black box.

EDIT: brevity
Something to consider: it worked. It would still be presumptuous, but at least a little less misdirected, to Monday-morning-quarterback a team that lost the game.
The Value of Downtime
For people requesting a refund I tell them to contact App Store support. Their official policy is no refunds, but I've never had someone come back saying Apple said no. With enough hassle they might add a way for developers to do refunds.
I thought I noticed something... you are the first person to make me aware they improved their infrastructure. sweet!
"Anonymous Calls For Internet Blackout On April 22 To Protest CISPA"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/19/anonymous-blackout-...
I am considering launching as a freelancer and I'm trying to figure out how to finance it in the context of my bidirectionally extreme (high magnitude; both directions) reputation (which is somewhat an exaggeration of my actual personality; when I write, I'm trying to communicate and sometimes I drive hard.)

I'd prefer to spend most of my time on actual work. I'm getting back into Clojure and rediscovering the joy of coding (which disappeared, with fleeting breaks in it, when I went to Google and had to answer to a middle manager, which just sucks all the life out of what we do). That said, if someone is willing to give me $40,000 to tell him what he's doing wrong, I'll do so.

(In person, I'm much less abrasive, though. If I actually respect someone, and I respect most people, I'm nice.)

Burned Bridges Consulting would work because it's structured to produce the only employment relationship in which telling the truth is possible: one where there is no possibility of continuance.
are there any alternatives to this? and some thing that's already selling them and not pre-orders?
I say, misuse it deliberately (and perhaps repeatedly), and you lose the ability, as an and for the entire entity, to use it in future. Oops, material you think is infringing is online? Tough shit.

That's my simple solution: Abuse it, and you lose it -- for everything.

P.S. And your little dog, too. I.e. any subsidiaries or shell companies you create, and any subsequent purchaser of copyright for the specific material in question. (In this instance, Fox's copyright surrounding their "Homeland" product.) And any material passed to another agent under the terms of your sale to said agent remains excluded from DMCA action.

Copyright is a monopoly granted by the government -- in our democracy, by the people -- to serve the common good. I'm perfectly happy with the people changing the terms of such grants when they find that they are not serving the common good. If we can "Mickey Mouse" ever longer copyright term extensions, by goodness, we can curtail them, as well.