skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not so much about the practice itself as it is just a general presentation problem.

It's alright to fork a particular software project if you don't like the way the main branch is going, but good luck promoting it by throwing the original under the bus. Same story when starting new competing projects/frameworks. That slippery slope isn't unique to designers.
As I understand, they're controlled, but not driven. Basically a controller lays a path and the truck drives it autonomously; stopping for hazards, unexpected situations and so on.
hey everyone, I didn't see that this had been posted until now—I wrote this as a fun little experiment with audio in the browser. The main hack here was to generate .wav files at the byte level directly in JavaScript by using data URIs. If you want better quality sounds, I suggest using the actual audio APIs that different browsers have exposed. Also, I think the interface came out pretty neat and the CSS for the keys is pretty nice :)

Feel free to ask any questions or suggest any changes. As @danso pointed out, this is the repo https://github.com/mrcoles/javascript-piano
And just to expand...

Let's look at the apple transition from powerpc to intel chips. Geekbench has a reasonable number that we can look at to compare against, so let's use that. http://browser.primatelabs.com/mac-benchmarks

We can see that the one of the late 2005 Power Mac G5 had 2 2.3 Ghz cores. This garnered a score of 2088.

About a year later, a mac mini was on the market using an Intel chip. In this case, the Intel Core Duo T2300 which runs at 1.66 Mhz with 2 cores. This received a very similar score of 2128, even though it is running considerably slower.

Later on in the years, I can come up with a Mac Mini (Mid 2011) that has an I5 running at 2.3 Ghz (The same as the original PPC we're comparing to). However, this gets a score of 5818, more than double the original PPC I picked.

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My only point here is that it is VERY difficult to use processor speed as a tool to compare processors. It's even difficult to use it to compare a Xeon vs an I5, even though they both use the same architecture and are made by the same company.
I don't know of anything like that, but could definitely see a market for it.

We do some of that in a consultancy masterclass I am part of, but nothing that organized.
Because people want to have fun with comments? Why does the comment feature on HN still exist after this silly "is sexist" discussion? Oh right, having fun.
Please be more specific than "non-open-source software development" – what exactly are you suggesting I'm suggesting?

Perhaps I could clarify by defining a cathedral/bazaar axis, and an open/closed axis.

A centralized effort can achieve the original idea more quickly than ad-hoc distributed effort.

Free software has this common downfall: a developer wants to reinvent the wheel, and nobody takes the time to educate him why that's a bad idea. It's easier to just accept his patch and forget about it.

What happens to closed software is completely invisible to the community, so I consider it irrelevant but perhaps worse than what happens to free software.
#MADEMYNIGHT
#TWIST
#CARLTON
Should we extend Petrov Day to him too? http://lesswrong.com/lw/jq/926_is_petrov_day/
I missed a option to share my scenario to my friends =(
I read an article recently that suggested that automated attacks of ssh on non standard ports have already adapted, hence this already offers no extra security.
hrm… maybe my wording wasn’t as clear as I had hoped. It generates the audio ahead of time (as base64 dataURI wave files)—the on-the-fly part is that it’s generated in JavaScript each time you make changes to the settings, like wave-form and volume response (click on the square in the top right or type "?" to see changeable options).

I assume the audio APIs would make less click-y sounds (and don't suggest manually created wave files as a solid way to create perfect sounds), but I also sort of like the clicks. When I presented this at Hack and Tell NYC, I claimed that you had to play it in Firefox 12 to get hear the exact clicks that were originally intended in the product ;?j
They are not all the same. I was replying to the OP's comment:

> The ex-soviet central Asian republics are packed full of secret police.
I just spent at least 4 hours reading that thread (and subsequent pirate threads), totally enamored.
LOL not a serious answer but I can't help myself when reading this question thinking it should be Scott Forstall. It'd sound more like a movie or something where the ousted so-called Steve Jobs protege takes revenge by siding with Apple's long time frenemy to bring back MS' glory
I remember years ago, I had a blog entry hit the homepage of Reddit: http://baus.net/rails-wrong-language/ . I think the user that posted it was Linuxer or something like that. But the account had a ton of karma and there was some question if it was just a bot run by Reddit.
yeah, it can play more notes at once than an iphone screen could!
The post I was replying to mentioned that this may have been done "at the behest" of the US government. If so, it would be a violation of the 1st amendment, which states that the State has no ability to abridge speech or hinder the press, with no reference to any national border.

The UK government acts under it's own laws, and so any 1st amendment violation depends on the US government's degree of involvement in the proceedings.
Oh look, another title edit that adds nothing and takes away from the original title that actually told us why we should care about Vasili Arkhipov. Get it together, mods!
One problem here is that you can't really compare OSX to Ubuntu because Ubuntu is not a desktop environment. It has a default desktop environment, but it isn't itself one, and you can swap in another effortlessly and there are typically a wealth of customization options. I'm using XFCE, and I can drag windows to other workspaces just like you, don't have the focus stealing issue, etc.
try some of the other styles and volume responses by clicking on the square in the top right or hitting "?"—to be fair, everything sounds a lot more synth than real… but that wasn't my goal in building this project.
+1 for this. I moved to a new city about 5 years ago (100 miles from my home town) and I now have a whole new group of friends that I met on meetup.com.
It's a shame too because it's a complete mess in these other fields. And the open source community has been trying to fill in the gaps(quite well I might add). But again official documentation is still lagging. Which is understandable, these people have lives and they are doing it in their free time.

If you look at ARM and Microcontroller development, it's really a sad state of affairs. There isn't a single option officially ARM gives you to do Linux based application. Ironically the only software that is probably going to run on those embedded devices...Linux.

Honestly I wish they would scrap their horrible pathetic excuse for a development environment, and listen to the community who actually you know buy their devices.

Case in point. Try to compare the horridness of the Official STM32 libraries with libopencm3, which is amazing and incredibly simple.

Sincerely..
Fed up embedded developer.
A Proud Nation Ponders How to Halt Its Slow Decline (Maybe)
A JIT for Regular Expression Matching
This is a much cooler example http://youtu.be/nsjDnYxJ0bo

If I'm understanding the description correctly, they are just training it to recognize what the image is closest to and taking an slice of a youtube video that most closely matches it.

I imagine if they used a more efficient method or trained it more, they could do way better. It seems like most of the data to build an accurate picture of what they are seeing is already there.
I think you don't really know what sexist means. There is zero prejudice or discrimination involved here. Merely describing a woman or man sexy is not sexist. I wasn't really surprised that this is the first (and only?) issue people discuss here.
Taking a look at the installation process, and it is pretty much trivial, but long. The developers could try creating an apt-get package for even simpler installation.
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The hash modulus reset issue is being worked on.
Source: the original lwn posting.
Well, I agree with you because you're agreeing with me, but I'm not sure your comment that I replied to agrees with you. From my reading, it definitely implies that YAGNI leads to good code and architecture astronautics doesn't, entirely ignoring developer skill. Perhaps you just oversold your point.
It's a bit sad for the front-end JS community that despite using one of the most comprehensive client frameworks in Ember.js, the author of this admin panel still felt the need to swap in a non-native data plugin (http://epf.io/).
The historical parallel is C and Unix.
I put this together to solve my own problems, using Flask and Mailgun. The tricky part was rewriting the Reply-To header and storing the MessageId, so I can make sure that folks don't get dropped. (Piano teachers are notoriously poor at using Reply-All).

Yes, I know it's a default bootstrap theme. (I apologize).
Don't forget that it's election season over here in Germany. Privacy is a talking point that resonates well with the population given Germany's not-so-distant past. It's good to see it on the table, but I'm very skeptical anything will come of it post-election ...
Check out http://system76.com, hardware for ubuntu specifically.
Internet Architects Plan Counter-Attack On NSA Snooping
Stashy: A collection of components for doing responsive things
Oh, nice to know and cool products!

I wrote this web app in May 2012—I don’t think iOS was there yet? I’m open to a pull request though https://github.com/mrcoles/javascript-piano but since the project was mainly a test for generating different wave files as dataURIs (and the piano was an afterthought that was actually spawned from this half-baked idea http://mrcoles.com/media/test/guy/ ), idk if the dataURI approach is any easier on iOS yet (or ever will be)?
Saying that saying that calling it sexist is sexist is sexist is calling it sexist.
I notice a lot of very low karma users have commented enthusiastically on this thread.
FWIW...

$ ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -r 30 -f image2 frame-%5d.jpg
$ gm convert -delay 20 -loop 0 frame-*.jpg output.gif

Ffmpeg is probably able to convert a video directly into gif, but I couldn't get it to work from a single Google search.
Soaring rents in Seattle force lifestyle changes
I think that the fruits of all these contemporary advancements won't be really seen until the global population starts dropping. Right now, automating generally puts someone out of a job and forces them into one that is more or less made up just so that they can have a job[1]. With a declining population, automation will pick up whatever slack worker 'scarcity' creates.

It's interesting to think about how that world would look like. Imagining a constant rate of production, this means that cheaper goods will be spread around fewer people. I imagine that this would drive a push away from mid-level jobs, probably into highly educated roles that innovate or maintain complex autonomous systems.

[1] http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
Is that so? I personally go to HN for the comments, mostly. The articles themselves are just fuel for discussion, as I see it. Then again, I only use the daemonology Hacker News Daily as well, so I'm hardly seeing all of it.
"I wouldn't have given a nickel for their stock": Apple in 1976
It is sexist. Mayer's appearance has nothing to do with the context of the video and focusing on it perpetuates the double standards about what we expect of men in terms of appearance, effort towards it, dress, etc and what we expect of women in the same. Mentioning it implies it's something worth mentioning. It isn't, for either men or women.

The trick is it's self evident that mentioning it for men would be irrelevant. For some reason, however, people take issue with someone pointing out that it ought to be irrelevant for women.
Even professional athletes shouldn't overtrain or else they will sustain injuries or simply be too fatigued to perform. During the season, professional soccer players might play a match once or twice a week, run 10-14 km per match, and need intensive recovery work to be ready for the next match. 2-4 hours of training is usually typical.
> Women openly drool over hunky men.

That should tell you all you need to know about the rest of his comment. I actually find his comment quite ironic.
Unfortunately there's not enough time to learn everything I want to learn.
This is The Weather Network's website, where every other week we are subjected to headlines of 'apocalyptic storms' or 'catastrophic weather'.

This entire news organization (if it even can be called that) is a terrible weather service, in my opinion. I cannot check the weather casually without noticing some overly exaggerated headline talking about the end of the earth tomorrow.

Frankly, I stopped visiting their website.
Has to be paid by the hour. The time to wait for things just does not make up the savings...
THese were not against concept of secrecy. This guy is misrepresenting everything. The kind of videos and documents he shared from american wars showed the world how much morally corrupt America has become in these wars
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Hey, can you guys let me know what can be improved about this site and product? I would be happy to provide a trial for any of you.

Thanks,

Chris
The death of Cloud has been greatly exaggerated
Chrome Canary has basic support for MIDI in/out:

https://plus.google.com/+ChrisWilson/posts/cs4J6sS9qmJ

You download the experimental browser, then turn on this flag:

chrome://flags/#enable-web-midi

You can get events by plugging in your USB MIDI keyboard and loading a browser page with this code:

http://pastebin.com/ZipfybfZ

I've verified this with my Casio keyboard, and the webpage can receive events when I play. It can also play audio out through my Casio's speakers.

This will open up a whole new type of website, where you can plug in your instrument and jam with friends, or learn along with a tutorial visualization or video.
> If you compliment Elon Musk for being good looking, he's not going to think that detracts from his abilities, and nobody is going to care. If you do the same thing to Mayer, you'll create a firestorm; suddenly it's sexist and not being fair to her.

I like that Musk will "not ... think that detracts", but Mayer is just figurehead for feminism. It's almost a textbook example of objectification.

Here's the thing: as a feminist, I fully agree that it is okay to "openly drool over" sexy people. It's important to recognize that the overwhelming majority of us are sexual beings and that sexuality is a significant factor in how we look at people.

The problem is when C-style languages are so pervasive that it's practically impossible to get a LISP in the door because all people see are the parentheses and not the actual value that the language adds on its own merits. That's changing these days, and people like Mayer can be acknowledged proudly on their capabilities as human beings. After all, C is just naturally closer to the operating system, and languages built on top of C are obviously faster. That will tell you all you need to know about the difference between the two language paradigms.

It's true that stereotypes can fail to completely prevent someone from succeeding if they're ambitious enough and determined enough. But that doesn't mean that Gates didn't take licks for it. Maybe he really didn't care. Maybe he did. Short of him actually coming out and saying so, it's hard to know. Maybe he lost a deal because he seemed too nerdy and the other person didn't tell him and there was no social infrastructure to help put the possibility under consideration. Maybe he had subordinates who couldn't stand to take orders from a nerd and ended up walking off when he could have used their help.

We can't tell, because there hasn't been enough scrutiny on the subject, and the amount of data available out of one person's career is meaningless. How many entrepreneurs make a pitch to VCs and get laughed out more because they didn't dress up than because their idea was terrible? It's hard to get that exact estimate. And of course it matters whether or not they dressed up. But why does it matter, and is the fact that it matters okay? Maybe that's a social justice fight we'll have to have in fifty years or five hundred years.
(1) You can keep your username, and it won't be linked to your profile. (You get a Google+ page instead.)

(2) You don't have to have a channel at all if you just want to watch videos, subscribe, etc. But you do if you want to create playlists, even private ones.

Your channel has privacy settings so you can hide everything. But if you don't trust YouTube to keep them hidden, then you probably shouldn't use it.
How does this compare to gitorius or gitlab?
I came in here expecting to see a pedantic debate about the use of the word "concurrency", and I was not disappointed. Though of course you have a point.
PRISM data used to to help the entertainment industry tackle pirates
I wonder if Justin has a login password on his computer.
That’s a fun idea. I directly used the existing keyboard mapping that garageband employs for keyboard to piano in their app, which tries its best to mimic a piano.

There are lots of things that make actual QWERTY piano difficult, e.g., fewer keys than notes on a piano, hitting complex chords would be very difficult (regular typing doesn't train you to type entire words in a single combined press of keys), computer keyboards have no benefits of weighted keys—but perhaps at least one note a time melodies could be played pretty proficiently by non-musicians with a QWERTY player?
Why Scott Forstall Should Be Microsoft’s Next CEO
Really? PayPal has always protected buyers more than sellers. This scam has been running since BitCoin started being traded.
A) You can use CTRL-s just fine, and B) that's far more to do with legacy terminal cruft than anything related to UNIX. Mac OS X has all the UNIX that Linux has, albeit with much more non-UNIXy stuff on top of it.

Or, to put it another way: Darwin and Linux today are far, far closer than either of them are to most UNIXes in existence.
The issue is that her appearance should have no relation to what she said.

Imagine if you were her. You just spent some time preparing this and then spending an hour giving a speech to Stanford students. Meanwhile, all someone states about you is

> Intelligence has never been this adorable: Marissa Mayer, the sexy, hyperactive, geeky Vice-President of Search Product and User Experience at Google. Her Googliness was at Stanford University, giving her insightful take on creativity, followed by the usual Q&A. She's really the girl of the millenium.

The description is whole focused on her appearance and doesn't even go into the subject matter of her speech. Her entire speech that she devoted time into is summarily dismissed and turned into "Intelligence has never been this adorable."
I think the idea is one name per account. So if your Google Account was Sam Smith, your channel was Batman, and your G+ page was Joker, you would end up with three "accounts", each with its own G+ profile/page and channel.
> It is Unix with no driver problems.

If you only use Apple hardware, sure. Otherwise, it has the same driver issues as any OS.
> then you have a poor understanding of money.

Nah, I'm just not a gambler. I know when to get out of a deal and take a small loss instead of going broke later.

And the US government seizing funds of a company I have money parked in is a pretty strong signal to get out.
This hit the news three weeks ago. Here's a submission with 305 comments, including a reply from the Chrome browser security tech lead:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6165708

Here are some other submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6167331

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6171813 (many comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6171979

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6173106 (many comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6173582

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6175012

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6177417

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6180711
I've also tried Xubuntu (= Ubuntu + xfce) and I preferred it to Ubuntu, although Xubuntu's window resizing is even more busted.

Your post prompted me to give it another try. I found that you can drag windows between workspaces in the "mini workspace viewer" in the upper right, which is definitely an improvement over Ubuntu. However, you can't move them by simply pressing the windows against the side of the screen.

The focus stealing issues are the same as in Ubuntu. Start launching an app and switch to another window; the app will jump in front when it's done launching. Argh!
Yep, the classic paypal chargeback scam.

People buying your bitcoins for 100-200% above market price.

After you send the bitcoins, they do a charge back on you.

Can't get your bitcoins back and Paypal is on the buyer's side. SOL.
That is awesome! Despite all the fun I had making this "html5 piano", for electronic pianos, you really can't beat having an actual midi device with weighted keys. I’m looking forward to all the future awesomeness with audio and web—its current state is really frustrating, but it keeps slowly getting better.
This is only your fourth longest comment.

Your longest is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=943618.

Ask me how I know that ...
I'd guess that's PayPal that lacks protection, since they are the ones making the decision. Probably because their arbitrators are ignorant in what Bitcoin is and how it works. I don't even blame them - they can't know everything, but one must know there's a risk PayPal would rule against you if you sell something that you can't prove is delivered to their satisfaction.
Check 41... why Google desperately tried buzz, wave and now G+
> the ambiguity might confuse those who are unaccustomed to reading the entire article.

Indeed. I clicked to watch the video of a comet exploding---not read about it!
This is the most classic bitcoin scam - buy with paypal, then claim you didn't receive the item. The seller has no way of proving that you did, and Paypal will rule on the buyer's side every single time.

This is why trading channels like #bitcoinotc discourage any use of paypal - but for times where you have to use it, there's the trust system.
True. This is neither new, nor limited to Bitcoin. I got burned last year on a small sale.

I did appreciate the author's "discovery" of a market mechanism... I'm going to go bid on some bitcoin now and do this arb the right way!
How do you make people aware that there are better alternatives to doc resumes?
We at cvsintellect knew the power of LaTeX. LaTeX based resumes were just stunning. Could beat anyother format hands down.
We realized that its hard for non devs to use LaTeX for their resumes and wanted to make it easy for everyone to use LaTeX. We built a web app which anyone can use to create LaTeX based resumes. You do not need any programming experience. You just need to fill in data, choose template, select font - color - spacing etc to configure it to your liking and you are done.
Whoever has used it to create resume was really happy with the result. They actually got back to us saying recruiters / managers were really surprised the resume looked so "neat" / "professional". We are really exited by it :)
Now that we are doing everything for free we dont want to spend a lot of money on marketing it. We are kind of puzzled how do we spread the word that people can now get LaTeX resumes without too much hassle.

Please drop in your feedback / ideas here.

website: https://www.cvsintellect.com
blog: http://cvsintellect.tumblr.com/
appreciation: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2013/08/22/this-week-in-web-2-0-14/
Why don't you think you can stay anonymous on YouTube? Don't all the prompts let you keep your channel name?
I think Ayn Rand described Dominique as "myself on a bad day".