skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, most radios use standardized IFs.

But some high-end SDRs use ridiculously-high sampling rates (like 200MHz), in which case many applications don't even need to mix a local oscillator with the incoming RF. It's pretty amazing.
Might start a new reciprocity tonight idk
That sounds like a manual webspam action. There's a thing for it under Google Webmaster Tools.
Could this be a 'software eating the world' effect: tech is now a part of all industries instead of its own?
I don't think that's a fair parallel. Box models are different standards, whereas displaying an image in the wrong orientation is just wrong. A better comparison would be the <audio> tag playing everything at 22khz, then requiring { sampling-rate: from-audio } to work correctly.

I haven't seen any examples of a website implementing custom rotation using css or canvas, it wasn't even possible to read EXIF data on the client until a year or so. Is it a real concern?
“Facebook exposes everything and nothing about you at the same time, whereas with Chatroulette you can hide behind the nonentity of it. It’s that kind of danger that’s necessary for honest conversation.”

I think this quote nails the problem of Facebook. Facebook pushes social interaction further away from genuineness and honest discourse we long for. Posting pictures, statuses, etc are carefully constructed user activities to fish for "likes" or "comments". It just seems frivolous and fake. Facebook tries so hard not to be seen this way. If you watch some videos previously released by Facebook introducing Timeline and stuff, they try so hard to be like the real photo album filled with photos taken with 35mm camera you and your family kept for decades. If this is what they are striving for, why do they still attempt to reduce human response to a "like".

Sure, this is not just a problem of Facebook. Even in real life, it is hard to make real connection with people. But at least in real life, there's some level of spontaneity. We can't always think ahead about what we are going to say or how we are going to react to the interlocuteur which brings out some genuineness in human interaction. Making meaningful lasting connection in real life is hard as is. Facebook push a person further down into the trenches of disguises and fakeries in dealing with people.

Just today, I wrote about why it's difficult to have an honest opinion about something online. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6386647) As a response to the problem, I created Dmtri (http://dmtri.com/). I hope HN users check it out. Feel free to comment what you think about it.
I'd say if you haven't used a website in 5 years your opinion is pretty weak. This is like saying iPhones are crap and you stopped using them 5 years ago. There's been many product iterations since then in both cases.
Programmable toys are also a nice way to introduce kids to programming. I wrote my first programs (without even knowing it) on this bad boy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Trak (well, not exactly this one, but it's Soviet counterpart called "Elektronika IM 11" or "Lunokhod")
"... where the client relies on a trusted source (their ISP's DNS server..."

Well, for several major ISP's, maybe even most ISP's worldwide, you can't trust them not to use their DNS servers to show you ads or a sponsored "search engine" if you type a domain name that is not registered.

If a user really wanted a "trusted source" for DNS RR's she would be best to contact the appropriate authoritative nameserver directly, not an ISP's resolver.
First somebody needs to create a TCP stack for Netmap; right now it only deals in Ethernet packets. Netmap has the potential for very high performance; we're capturing 50 Gbps and hoping to hit 140 Gbps per server soon.
People who are legitimate Lego experts know better than to call them "Legos". These guys are being touted as Tech Gods who Have Something Important To Say To Their Generation.

While it may be a little bothersome to hear a random person call them "Legos", it's not the same as hearing a self-proclaimed expert call them that.
But he has assigned the identifiers "X" and "2X" to the envelopes. He could have called them "A" and "B" and his logic still holds. The problem I see with the wiki article explanation is: while using actual dollar amounts as examples, it gives the impression that you get to open the envelope that you picked first to see the amount, but that you don't know if it's the smaller value or larger value.

So I choose "A" and I don't know if it contains $X or $2X. I don't even get to open it to know what amount is in the envelope. Whatever it contains, if I choose to switch, I get envelope "B" - I always have a 50% chance of choosing the larger amount or switching to the envelope with the larger amount because no information is revealed after the first choice.

for A->$X, B->$2X:

Choose A, stay with A, receive $X
Choose A, switch to B, receive $2X
Choose B, switch to A, receive $X
Choose A, stay with B, receive $2X

for A->$2X, B->$X:

Choose A, stay with A, receive $2X
Choose A, switch to B, receive $X
Choose B, switch to A, receive $2X
Choose A, stay with B, receive $X

50% chance of getting either amount, regardless.
See also: "Internet predators". Sure, they exist, and you need to teach your kids to be safe, but the depressing fact remains that most predators are found in malls, churches, schools, parks... but those things are not as conducive to mass hysteria.
BMAX fitness guru does SUPER PUSH-UP
Ask HN: How to programatically photo-manipulate two images?
Basically, I'd like to create an online tool with which people can upload an image and somehow automatically superimpose it and then shear/stretch/scale it to fit specified areas on top of that image. I'd know how to do it manually with GIMP, but I was wondering if there's a way to do with programatically, provided that I can hard-code fixed sizes and dimensions for everything.<p>Thanks<p>TLDR:Is there a way to programatically photoshop something?
I understand where you're coming from, but saying "a facebook" is not stupid, it's just efficient communication. Does saying "a facebook profile" convey any more bits of information to the average message recipient? IMO, to the average person, that would sound as stupid as "can I borrow a pencil with graphite from you?" It's unnecessarily descriptive.
Do you have data on this? Everything I've heard tells me most people like that are someone the victim knows.
And not to reciprocate, but free markets are much more likely to be transparent than any other.

When a free market realizes consumers demand transparency, transparency becomes an option in the market. Not the only option, but one of the many.

How would that transparency work in a market that is absolutely controlled by regulation and government? Fine, until that government itself ceased to be transparent.

ASIDE: There are no absolutely controlled markets or absolutely free markets and never will be. Capitalism will always seep out around the edges and regulation will always be necessary.
In NYC at least, they do give red light tickets by camera/mail. I think it is like a parking ticket in that the responsibility is to the owner of the car. I assume it carries no points as well for that reason.
"tech industry" by itself is meaningless. That's like having a "things made of plastic" industry.

Near the end he talks about the 2000 kablooey with his anecdote of a very focused "Enterprise B2B-focused Tech Crapping Itself" event, which makes sense when all your Big Business Tech Things just broke the stock market for five years.

The big failures don't impact all the tiny startups now because tiny startups are, by definition, tiny. A single blade of grass does not fear the wind. But, some tech startups are bamboo and become big really fast and then fall over (sometimes not fast enough in the case of zynga and groupon). The bigness came from a seed not long ago, so it didn't have time to get ingrained into society to have any detrimental impact when itself kerplodes.

Ergo, QED, ad infinitum: the current tech failures aren't a symptom of people doubting the future of technology, digital things, and their impact on society, but rather just people manipulating the system for personal gains as fast as possible then flaming out. As long as those cases stay isolated, we're fine. When hundreds of companies collude to do it all at once, we collapse for another five years (unless you're banking, then you collapse for 18 months, regain all your power, and leave the world struggling worse than before).
It seems to be disabled on the mobile web- it's not redirecting to the paywall for me (with an Android user agent).
But regulations may lead to bribery and other workarounds.

Activism may be biased. It may also lead to long-winded debates, and ultimately, to polluted information. (Eg, global warming, GM crops, etc).

Ultimately, it doesn't matter if there is regulation or not, activism or not; there is no perfect information.
yeah. Now I wonder what happens when you have $10,000, and always put 1% of your portfolio in that stock? I think that turns it into a positive growth expectation. You do it 10 times and outcomes are 50/50, 5 times you made about $100, 5 times you lost about $50.

On the other hand, if you bet your whole stack each time, you doubled up 5 times and lost half your stack five times, you're even.

if you bet your whole portfolio every time, I think your long run growth rate is 0. if you bet a small amount each time, I think your growth rate is positive.

The Kelly Criterion or gambler's curse in action. In the first case you're taking a positive EV bet and turning into a long run no-growth situation by overbetting.
It's time for free-range, coffee-eating kopi luwak farms!
Of course I want responses if I post a picture on Facebook. It's exactly the same when I show a picture to a friend out in the world: I want a response. I have something I want to share. This desire does not become magically "bad" just because it happens online.

I have family and friends who live far away. I don't have the opportunity to visit them as much as I would like. If it was not for Facebook, I wouldn't see these pictures, or find out about events. The obvious counter to this is, "You would probably visit them more." I do not think that is true. Because I am able to find out what is going on with them on a regular basis, they stay in my mind, and I miss them more, and I want to go visit. I think that without Facebook and the ease through which I can maintain connections, these relationships would fade.

And the obvious response to that is that the relationships weren't that strong to begin with, which I also don't think is true. Maintaining friendships over distance can be awkward for people who don't have a history of talking on the phone, or expressing themselves through text.

Spending an inordinate amount of time on Facebook is bad. But this notion that using it at all is bad seems silly to me. People used to say similar things about phones.
Your nickname cracks me up.
Except if by portability you include non-unix systems. Then you're probably better off with Perl (for example) again.
"Hate" might be too strong but "preference" is too weak for something that both looks bad and is extraneous. And is trivial to eliminate.
I've deactivated my Facebook account too, but it wasn't weakness that kept me there. Just like with anything, moderation is the key. If you can't do that then the best thing to do is delete. But I wouldn't call >1 billion people on Facebook 'weak.'
The trouble is that there is no point sending upvotes to anything more than a couple of hours old since it'll never make the front-page and be read.

At least the original submitter gets a vote for the resubmitter the first time the submit (before they change the URL).
"Pencil with graphite" is redundant. "Facebook" and "Facebook account" are two entirely different things. You don't say "I have a Bank of America" do you?

If efficiency is that important, say "I'm on Facebook" or "I'm not on Facebook". One fewer syllable than "I have a Facebook".
Libre Projects: 133 Open Source Hosted Web Services
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that there's more to the story than what you have stated. There are numerous reasons why your site may have been removed. It could have been shady SEO tactics such as link building or invalid meta data, which is a big no no for Google. Should definitely check your Google Webmaster Tools to see what's up.
With things that have functional differences, one way is definitionally "better". They can't be the same and they aren't merely aesthetic preferences. ("over" and one-space are proper).
Take a look at https://github.com/jpetazzo/gunsub to get the notifications under control.
The trilogy of Neuromancer, Burning Chrome, and Mona Lisa Overdrive is still my favorite work of fiction, and also, to my mind, exemplifies the kind of taut, awesome writing that I would want to do if I wrote novels. It the only series of 3 books I have read more than once.

I caught these books at just the right time in my life (age 13 or 14), leading my high-school fascination with Japan and rekindled interest in computing, and probably played an inordinately large role in me ending up as a programmer who lives in Tokyo, two decades later.

I like great sci fi best, but I think most of it is crap, including virtually all of the old pulp sci fi and Asimov I grew up reading (which was basically all of it), Star Wars/Trek, etc.

Other than Gibson's stuff, some of the truly spectacular sci fi I have read is the very-dense-and-not-at-all-thriller-ish Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars), and the fast-paced-and-awesome Spin by Robert Charles Wilson. That led me to read all of Wilson's books, many of which are also good. Also Haldeman is an author worth reading, though not all of his books hit their mark.

Great sci fi is my favorite fiction, but IMO most of it is broken by being fundamentally implausible. Other fiction I consider great in other genres include Memoirs of a Geisha, Cold Mountain, REAMDE, The Son, The Road, the lighter but still version of that post-apocalyptic concept The Dog Stars, City of Thieves, and All the Pretty Horses and its sequels.

It's probably symptomatic of a major flaw in my character that despite also buying dozens of nonfiction works (Lincoln, On China, and so forth) over the past few years, I haven't finished any of them.
Nice article and nice use of primary sources.

The convention was: put wider spaces than word spaces after punctuation, and put an extra-wide space after a period.

I will try this for two weeks: three spaces after the period; two after the comma, semi-colon and friends. Already, I note a difference. Already do I seek alternate syntax to regulate spacing.
There are mixed messages about the user counts... 3.4 million is much different than 400 million.
> Brace is the new way to host websites

This website needs to get over itself before I'll pay any attention to it.
See: https://twitter.com/mojombo/status/379073293505937408
It's a testament to their lack of product diversity. No one would say "My Microsoft" or "My Google" or "My Valve" or "My Betty Crocker" because those companies have many credible products. "My Facebook" means "My Facebook account" because the whole company is nothing but a message board.

For serious products, this isn't the case. You might say "My Ford", and everyone would know you're talking about a car, but a car is considerably more significant than a username/password to a message board.
Modern Ads for Discontinued Tech
The NSA can't hack my Polaroid!
> There are individual games that generate over one billion dollars per year from in-app payments

There are a handful of such games, and another half million games generating between $0 and under $5 a day. "Superstar economy" ;)
Well. Being cynical for a moment, that's a great way for Apple to guarantee the fingerprint scanner always gets a good capture.

If I ever own one of these phones, I might have to make it a point in my muscle memory to use my knuckle to press the home button.
Can somebody explain to me why what students do outside the school is any of the school's business?

Oh well, I'm sure the students spend at least as much time cyberstalking the teachers as the schools do cyberstalking the students.
Are other browsers supporting webp anytime soon?
You're conflating things. You can have ab200% regulated market with total transparency either by regulators or the participating companies ...

I mean actual the implication that you get a transparent market from a free market because of "consumer demands" is sort of laughable when you consider that the free market on planet Earth does not contain perfect agents.
The general point is that fresh coffee, from an awesome roaster, prepared with some extra love & care does not taste bitter to me or the people I've made it for. Thought I'd toss out enough to get started for those interested.

It sounds like you've gone down that same path, and if so, then I just have to assume we experience or describe flavors differently.
Same problem: I used to work with people who would say "Can you send it to me in Adobe?" or "Do you have Adobe installed?" to mean PDF or Adobe Acrobat.

Adobe still had a dozen products back then, but they had one "consumer" product and the rest were for pros or creatives.
Mitzuku (AIML bot) by Steve Worswick wins Loebner Contest 2013
It looks kind of cool at a glance, but I can't imagine actually owning one of these, assuming it was anywhere near feasible to begin with. It's clearly conceived by people who have no concept of the engineering that goes into squeezing entire computers into something small enough to fit into your pocket. It's supposed to solve the problem of electronic waste, but we'd just be throwing away individual outdated blocks instead. Ugh.
Would Steve Jobs have been allowed to drop in on Calligraphy classes in Soviet Russia?

Steve jobs quit college...[==$$$ reasons]

[Under a system of free college, he would not have been forced out. That's a relevant datapoint. Just sayin.]
The Gospel of Consumption [2008]
s/even/especially/
Guides like this are tricky. They secure one facet of lots of things, and not always the things you actually want.

If securing a server were as straightforward as changing ssh settings and firewall rules, distro providers would do this sort of thing out-of-the-box, or at the least there would be a script circulating on github for doing this specific setup.
It was a classic I bought about 20 links. But as soon as the webspam action happened I removed them (through text-link-ads.com). I was on top of it and cleaned it up but I have 3 times resubmitted it for re-approval over 1.5 years now with no luck.

I broke the rules but Viagra sites get better treatment.

The problem was that 80% of the customers came from lists given out by courthouses. Customers would type in the web address into Google search instead of the address bar.

Once the website disappeared from the Internet the only way customers could find the site was by Google adwords which went from spending $150 a day to $500 a day. A total win for Google I guess!

It was impossible to spend $500 a day forever, I put the website (the same website, no changes) onto a new domain and now it spends about $200 a day in Google adwords. Much better. I seemed to have received the worst possible webspam action for really very little. Consider other site buy thousands of links.. my 20 links were small potatoes that I thought would fly under the radar.

The whole incident cost about $100,000+ in sales mostly from customers who if they just knew how to use the address bar would have made it to the website.

When I see other websites have issues with Google, I know it doesn't take a whole lot to bring a great deal of Google issues upon them. Google if they wants to can just remove them or send them to page 200 and since Google gets 80% or so of searches and people don't know how to use the address bar the website is going to have to buy Adwords in order to stay online or change domains (assuming it is not an on-page issue).
I would. Naked apes strive for status: facebook is (sort of) a super-version of that striving. If I were an alien tasked with invading earth, I'd figure out a way to convince humans that surrendering would get them laid. Since there are so many humans, their ancestors must have wanted to reproduce; therefore, they probably do too. It targets their weakness, ergo, they're weak. There's no shame in it.
As I wrote in my past blog(http://mattzlw.wordpress.com/2013/07/24/ios-7-beta-ux-thinki...): "Making users think which part of the iOS application I am in less, instead, a more strong feeling in one single place Apple provides." Apple made their move. Whether the rebalance can be reasonably achieved or not, how and when remain uncertain. I do think, in terms of graphic design choices, it seems to have fewer variables. But, perhaps this is where a more dynamic 2D physics UI engine comes to help.
> When you're elected from a single-member electorate, there's a lot more incentive to be inclusive and to govern for all.

Well, no. In FPTP, you just have to cater to a plurality of the voters in your district. You very specifically do not and should not "govern for all". Out of a U.S. population of 313 million, you should govern for a group of perhaps 50,000 (less, really) people in your district - the only ones capable of voting you out of office. The U.S. has a huge number of extraordinarily radical and pain-in-the-ass representatives - over a quarter of the U.S. House is currently trying to force the country to default on its debts, because those are the views of the pertinent slice of their individual electorates.

You seem basically to be upset at the idea that any politician might exist with any sort of radical-to-you views. You seem to prefer stultifying politics, where a few rich white men meet together over brandy and decide what's going to happen, and everyone follows along nicely. That preference is not shared by everyone, or even most people. PR allows views with wide but shallow representation to get represented in government, and that's considered a good thing by most people.
Just going to point out here that iOS is already a 6+ year old operating system. Tiger came out 4 years after OSX's debut. iOS hasn't found it's niche yet?
The link you posted is on shaky ground and is quite unrigorous. The whole "democracy" example is poorly thought out. and then oddly enough we have a "regulated" democracy in the form of representatives and checks and balances ... to just add insult to injury to your argument.

... and medical licensing ... really?
He's posted the content as a comment on this page.
I run BSD on all of my desktop boxes, but I have not found any way to run it on a laptop. It just doesn't seem feasible; there are just so many mobile drivers that are missing. Has anyone else had any luck with getting FreeBSD to work on a laptop, or is Linux still the de-facto?
NSA’s Corruption of Cryptography and Its Methods of Coercion
Exact same color scheme, down tot he forest green, so I'm guessing it's either a blatant ripoff or made by the same guys.
> Due to the increasing popularity of casual dining and the decreasing accessibility of Danish nobility, I've rewritten Hamlet to be an Appleby's assistant manager.

Replace "casual dining" with "megacorporations" and you get an actual movie made in 2000 [1]. And, of course, that example is not unique [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10].

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171359/

[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114279/

[3] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117509/

[4] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184791/

[5] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265713/

[6] et cetera

[7] et cetera

[8] et cetera

[9] ad nauseum

[10] ad infinitum
And yet even with flaws, there is evidence to suggest regulations by those funny "humans" have made products significantly safer.