skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclosure: I'm an 'agnostic' audiophile. Meaning I optimize my music experience as much as possible (given time, space & money constraints) - FLAC -- wired-only streaming -- audiophile grade sound card -- decent & no-nonsense stereo amplifier -- floorstanders...but I draw my own line when things like power conditioners & gold/jelly cables come on.

Yet, I call myself an agnostic because I keep myself open to the possibility that some audiophiles might get true value from their esoteric equipment choices. Appreciation of any art is necessarily subjective. Double blind tests have no use there at a personal level, unless you're an academic or a critic because you'd use them to analyze or critique other's choices.

Why should I, or any reasonably intelligent person with his/her own biases and choices, make decisions by artificially isolating some of their senses (sight, smell etc.) via double-blind tests? The idea itself is preposterous and insulting. Worse, if a double-blind test tells me option A was 'better' than option 'B', and I change my preference after that, was it even my choice?

There's a world of subjective and personal choices we make everyday from wine to clothing brands to books to music to personal technology. Are we confident that we can duplicate those choices via double-blind tests? I don't think so. Sure, I might try a fee tests once in a while to 'validate' or 'challenge' my own choices, but I'm never going to allow the tests to alter my individual choices.
I suffer from UC, and a cavalcade of related illnesses. I honestly believe that tools like this are the future.

Particularly for me, I've noticed one of the problems with long term, chronic illness, is that you lose perspective -- an hour in the bog might seem like you're doing better than yesterday (and after 2 years, yesterday is "normal"), but for a normal person would imply it's perhaps time to see a doctor. I've hence come to rely quite closely on quantified self type stuff -- tracking how I'm doing on observable, concrete metrics -- so that I can see from a rational perspective that I've crossed a line. I've been building tooling in my spare time to give me d3 graphs and whatnot of my health, rather than server metrics.

I believe that kind of passive data gathering (active's no good, because people forget, lie, etc.) is going to become crucial for monitoring health, preventing illness, and improving patient outcomes.

Which is a long way of saying: awesome. This is truly transformative. I'll be signing up shortly.
I've always liked http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~manuel/obfuscate/piglatin as well.
"For those of you buying into his rhetoric, remember that Putin is the head of a 'virtual mafia state'"

If a criminal says that helping an old lady cross the street is the right thing to do, would you discard his statement because he is a criminal? No! For the same reason, Putin may be doing evil things in his country, but I still side with him: bombing Syria is a silly idea.
Because people are still buying them.

Once they do, they have to buy your product and it's harder to pirate, so publishers win.

Why do people buy them

A. People get a quick high when they buy objects, this is big part of capitalism.

B. They are only game machines. When you use a console there's no emails coming through to stress you out, your body relaxes in game state. (Why ebooks readers if they are smart won't add features, books are meant to be stress free)

C. 80-20 rule. The little bit of extra work on a PC can be a deal breaker, even if it's cheaper and better.
See the more recent Acme::EyeDrops : https://metacpan.org/module/Acme::EyeDrops
This is a bad argument. There are many illegal things a person can make legal by consenting to them. Is it hypocritical to both refuse consent and cite the law?

(It's also inapplicable, since even if Russia consented, China wouldn't.)
I cannot believe anything other than COTA deserved to win. It is clearly the most impressive piece of technology I have seen in this Disrupt. What if a whole city can be covered by such device? Non-disruptive power on your mobile devices man.

And Dryft? I tried it and it was terrible (to be fair, a lot of people was trying it, so the machine learning algorithm might messed up, I tried for like 2 mins and it was not easy).
Twitter; seriously, things show up there a couple of days before they show up here.
> There are peripheral controllers for PC, but since games are built with the expectation of just a keyboard and mouse [...]

These days, that's simply just not true. Sure there are a good amount of games that are just kb/m, but the many of the newer games support the have full 360 controller support (or PS3 controller if you want to fiddle around with some settings).
I totally agree, there's certainly going to be stuff that most people, audiophiles included, would consider better or worse.

What I mean though is there are certain aspects that can't be reduced to technical terms- like going to listen to a live performance from an artist who isn't going to perform any longer or listening to a piece on a rare, hard to produce system. The value isn't coming directly from the technical aspects of the production for the listener at that point.
Sorry, just a question - how long were you in risk mgmt? less than a year? or just rounding issues on the time frames?

>I did not know this at them time but I started in 2007 and after 2008-2009 I came to this conclusion.

>I started quant trading

> After I went to managing a portfolio (2 years after). And successfully did that for 4 more years.
If you are ok with CentOS/RHEL, there is a scalable way to boot multiple machines simulataneously using ........ bittorrent !

http://www.rocksclusters.org/rocks-doc/papers/two-pager/pape...

Rocks is used at production cluster installations with thousands of servers.

http://www.rocksclusters.org/rocks-register/index.php?sortby...
Haven't played video games in about 5 years, so you're right that things have probably changed.
Bob Howard will come and get you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Atrocity_Archives
Glorious. I kid you not, I thought "Latin" and I typed "French".
For context: This piece of C code from 1990 was mentioned recently in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6371968. It was discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=375945 over 4 years ago.
It took me about 3 weeks to acclimate to Dvorak, but I actually used a copy of Mavis Beacon to help with the transition (no joke.) I mean 80wpm. It felt both faster and more comfortable after that.
Here is a link to what must apparently be the new range of Sony hi-fi equipment the article talks about (but doesn't link to) in the first paragraph: http://www.whathifi.com/news/sony-launches-high-resolution-a...
Still a dedicated gaming handheld.
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It doesn't occur to TC that a page with several videos that play upon page load is super annoying? I wanted to watch one of those videos but it was easier to just close the whole thing.
I'm kind of surprised that game companies now expect you to pay for a game twice to play through a two-player co-op campaign. Remember when local multiplayer was a thing? When you'd buy a game, and several people would sit around a TV getting "simultaneous value out of it" for the cost of that one purchase, because that was the game's value proposition to begin with?
How do you 'read Twitter'? I mean, how do you get 'the news' there?
IPhone 5S And 5C Will Still Not Do Simultaneous Data And Voice
Okay, I'll bite. Let's say the U.S. actually knows where the chemical weapons are made/stored or just scores a "lucky" hit with a cruise missile. Explosions happen to be great for spreading stuff over large areas. What could happen if a major stockpile of chemical agents gets hit and it happens to be near or directly upwind of a major population center?
Worsened security; they have 32 bits more to secure. I have no doubts it will be a lot easier for developers to jailbreak it with this new architecture.
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"Depression, at least as I’m experiencing it, is the absence of emotion, rather than negative emotion. I don’t mind it, not yet, but maybe depression is what keeps me from minding depression."

More likely, what you experienced was anhedonia, a symptom of certain types of depression. Anhedonia is technically defined as the inability to experience pleasure from once-enjoyable activities, but those I know who've suffered from it have often described it in terms very similar to yours. They say things like "I just didn't care about anything," or "it was like I was bored of being bored, but too bored to do anything about it."

To simplify depression -- a neurologically and idiosyncratically complex phenomenon -- as the "absence of emotion" is to mischaracterize the affliction. There are other shades of depression in which emotion is, if anything, severely heightened and labile. Pure, raw, unfiltered anguish. The absolute lack of hope. Like the shit they talk about in the Harry Potter books, when the dementors suck out your soul (incidentally, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling battled with severe depression, and she modeled said dementors off of the suffering she went through).
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If the controls are the thing, maybe Nintendo should make a controller that docks to an iPhone and have exclusive games that require their controller.
Exactly; it's really about the form factor. However, gaming accessories for smartphones already exist, and it's only a matter of time before they become refined enough to be competitive with consoles.
NSDate is luckily already using 64bit precision, so every current iOS device should be able to keep ticking seconds _far_ into the future.
Also, they're considerably cheaper than a gaming PC. I can get an Xbox 360 for $250. I'd need at least twice that for a modest PC. While the PC would be more powerful, the optimization allowed when having every user on the same machine with the exact same specs on a closed platform makes a big difference too as far as performance goes.
I've tried switching to Colemak three times, and I just can't do it. Here's why:

I can currently type 110-125 WPM on QWERTY, which I've projected would take upwards of a year to re-achieve on Colemak, which is a total no-brainer if I could reasonably expect positive long-term gains.

However, from what I've read (and heard from friends on Colemak), switching back to QWERTY is painful, so my typing speed on anyone else's computer (which I realized, after trying to switch, I do fairly frequently) would go down to 30 at best.

The primary argument for Colemak is that it reduces finger travel distance from the home row. But my fingers don't naturally fall precisely in a line: my left middle finger naturally drifts between the space of E and D, my middle and ring finger on my right hand drift up closer to I and O.

Culturally, being on Colemak means the world is suddenly against you. It's like choosing to be a left-handed person in a right-handed world: vim keybindings don't make sense, applications and flash pages ignore your custom keyboard layout and switch you back to QWERTY, and every single keyboard|laptop|smartphone you buy for the rest of your life will require a certain amount of tweaking before it's maximally usable (think iPhone autocorrect).

Keyboard layout hacking in general, however, is fantastic. Here's a few tweaks I've accumulated that have immediate benefits for little of the above downsides:

1. remap `caps lock` to `ESC`: goes without saying for vim, but extremely useful in other situations too (like playing starcraft and de-selecting units)

2. remap 1234567890 to !@#$%^&*(): as a programmer, I use these symbols far more often than I use the numbers. Switching to shift to numbers with symbols as default makes all the sense in the world. It no longer takes finger gymnastics to surround something in () or negate a term with !.

3. (optional) shift doubletap for caps lock: I missed caps lock after a while, so I brought it back with a double-tap of shift.
This seems to be kind of artificially introduced by consoles. The current generation of consoles stuck around forever, and they so dominate the gaming market that games were basically anchored to that rough level of computing ability for years.
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AspectJ would probably be the most widely broken dependency, even with UseSplitVerifier enabled. Version 1.7 of AspectJ fixes the issue, but most corporate IT consumers aren't in a position to update it themselves.
"A terabyte holds 250 full-length movies. It is a lot of data." =]
FYI, from the [Hacker News Guidelines](http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):

Please don't sign comments, especially with your url. They're already signed with your username. If other users want to learn more about you, they can click on it to see your profile.
What I find interesting is the positioning. Fry's has the $150 hdmi cable at eye level, then a $15 hdmi cable a little bit below that, and then on the bottom shelf, you can dig around and find a $1.50 hdmi cable.

I suspect that the $150 cable is there to make the $15 cable look like the "reasonable" or "middle of the road" choice.

(from experience, the $1.50 cable works just fine.)
When I switched to Dvorak, I adapted pretty quickly to vim. hjkl are effectively exploded across the keyboard, and I had to adjust to that, but adapting to the new locations for other commands was easier if I thought about the semantic meaning of the commands, and the keys themselves as abbreviations.
The Colemak FAQ answers that:

http://colemak.com/wiki/index.php?title=FAQ#What.27s_wrong_w...
This was so much fun to use. I built perl scripts around this (learning at the same time differences between lat/lon and UTM) to map wireless access points[0][1].

0. http://wigle.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=9
1. http://wigle.net/gps/gps/main/download/
Well feel free to release your compiler under whichever license you want.

The LLVM people released theirs under a BSD style license precisely so that people and companies could do things like this

If "the community" wastes their time solving ARM 64-bit problems it's their own fault for not waiting for Apple's code.
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> The idea itself is preposterous and insulting.

I'm not asking you to make decisions according to my criteria. I can even sympathize with the multisensory approach: I like the tactile experience that CDs offer, for example, and only reluctantly switched to downloaded music in 2013 because I simply couldn't find physical copies of the music I wanted.

However, you seem to misunderstand the meaning of "double-blind". It does not mean "blind" in the literal sense. It only means that neither the experimenter nor the subject are consciously aware of which piece of equipment is under test.

The reason I like making some choices based on double-blind tests is because I know I have a ton of cognitive distortions. I want to believe that the more expensive amplifier is better, I want to believe that the open-source codec is more transparent, and I want to believe that my gear is better than my friend's gear. Sometimes (not always) I actually want to know the answers to these questions. So, science!

I'm all for embracing subjectivity, but if you are selling me a $1,000 or $10,000 audio system, I want some more objective justification that it is worth the cost.

Or, put another way, you may want all of your vinyl blessed by the pope, but I'm not going to pay extra for it.

> Worse, if a double-blind test tells me option A was 'better' than option 'B', and I change my preference after that, was it even my choice?

This is pretty esoteric stuff. I can say that my goals are closer to "I want a decent sound system without paying through the nose", not "I want some kind of existential assurance that I used my free will to make this particular decision." I change my preferences all the time, based on all sorts of internal and external data.

Or, put another way, the person that exists five minutes from now may have my name, but he's not me, and I trust him to make his own decisions.
Personally I enjoy the ecosystem, the standardized hardware and input and the community that envelopes it.
If infrastructure (eg system) configuration is the goal, there's already a much more accessible project with backend support (flexibility to hack up support for ldap, zk, etc):

https://github.com/puppetlabs/hiera

Intro: http://www.devco.net/archives/2011/06/05/hiera_a_pluggable_h...

Note: Does not depend on puppet, so it'll work with chef. A hiera-databag adapter would make sense.
Yeah, totally agree. But this is also because the PC has lost a lot of exclusive games which were usually pushing the specs higher and higher. Nowadays most games are made for consoles and ported later (or at the same time) for PC. The PC is not a target platform anymore, except for a few genres.
For those not in on the joke, ASLR on 64-bit is actually a lot better than on 32-bit; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_space_layout_randomiza...
Variables in perl are preceded by a sigil($,@,%,*). Those undefined words are not variables, but, at least in perl5, when you don't use strict, perl tries several fallbacks in order to find their value: see if it is a function (called without paranthesys), see if it is a constant, use it as a string otherwise.
> Is it hypocritical to both refuse consent and cite the law?

No, but it is circular reasoning to base your argument for refusing consent by saying it is illegal. It's much less compelling if he comes right out and says: "Don't do it, because I don't want you too." So he tries to make the logic convoluted.
Apart from attacking the author personally, do you have any stronger argument. Usually stronger argument focuses on the content of article shared.
Not sure what you mean here. It runs a linux distro so you can use it as a computer (more like as a netbook replacement) and not just a "gaming only" console. Plus, being open, you can create and port your own applications on it using standard languages.
You're lucky. Back when I still worked in an electronics store, the $15 was your only other option. Except back then it was a $30-45 cable.

Aside: Anybody else remember $50 6' USB A-B cables?
She's not if I let her keep her sleep schedule! A couple of days off of it and I'm afraid she's going to move in to a tin garbage can though...

I am trying/have tried other methods of sleep optimisation though. I tried Gnaural (brain entrainment software - placebo or not I found it worked reasonably well) combined with Sleep Phones (http://www.sleepphones.com/). The sleep phones also help with an alarm that I can hear and she can't.
Tablet Shipments to Exceed Personal Computers Amid Mobile Shift
The quality of games are significantly lower on mobile than dedicated consoles, a lot has to do with hardware, a lot has to do with strategy. A PC was a lot closer to the ps2 than an iPhone is to the ps4. Casual games may be the hot new thing, but you should be able to see the difference when you compare the production value to a Naughty Dog title.
Back in the day, we did this with drugs.
True that, I haven't had a hands on experience with 5C yet but my assumption is that it is capable of running basic gaming apps flawlessly. As long as it does that I think get a china android phones from http://www.nextbuying.com/
> Worse, if a double-blind test tells me option A was 'better' than option 'B', and I change my preference after that, was it even my choice?

Someone informs you, and documents impeccably, that your girlfriend / wife is cheating on you. As a result, your opinion of her is lowered. Is that your choice? Suppose that the informant's specific goal is to get you to think worse of your girlfriend, for reasons of spite and malice. Does that matter?
A salient point re: the existence of different types of depression. Some cause a physical slowness (can't get out of bed), some cause anhedonia, some are the dementor type, etc.
I find that my Sleep Phones (www.sleepphones.com) work pretty well without putting the pressure on my ears. The only problem is that the speakers in the headband can move, so you have to fiddle a little bit to get them over your ears.
Consoles end up feeling older and outdated as well (and games even show lag at times on consoles), just it's harder to notice when they abstract away all the graphical choices and settings from the end user (as well as generally sitting farther from the screen). It's very telling when you play a bad console port on PC and see how low quality some of the textures and draw distance are compared to games made for PC or better quality ports. Even games such as Mass Effect 3 had all sorts of low resolution textures thrown in the PC version that were glaringly obvious when playing.

PCs, you become aware of all that and how outdated things are when you realize your cannot run max settings for whatever game you're playing anymore. I guess it's sort of the "content with what you cannot change (consoles) versus discontent in realizing you no longer have the 'best' of something anymore (PC)".

In short, it's much easier to see flaws on PC overall because you realize you can do something about them (given the time to reconfigure game/pc settings or upgrade), while consoles you cannot.
It's not because you don't have the hear that nobody has it. That's perception bias at best.
I'm currently working on my first freelance project.

I got it through this guy I worked with at a company. He was my desk neighbor, he liked my work, I told him I was looking for freelance work and he told me he could use some help.
On Verizon and Sprint- it's a network issue, not a device issue.
Because a lot of people aren’t technoweenies like us.

The reson why consoles sell is because largely they "just work" Hook it to the TV pop in a disc and you are rivalling the arcade. No dealing with popups, driver incompatibility, installations, etc.

Why are consoles are popular for developers? Because if they write some super spiffy game for console X it will run on ALL of them since they all have the same hardware - no-brainer to buy, not too hard to support, etc.

Where if they write something for a PC you have to cross your fingers everyone knows what sort of system they have (even Aunt Edna buying little Tommy's Duke Nukem Forever game), that their system is relatively virus free, they have the proper controllers, a decent monitor, understand what it means when they need to update a driver, etc. etc.

As far as quality, a lot of folks, don't really care. As long as the game is reasonably fun and they can take it out of the box and have it playing in under a minute. Heck I appreciate the resolution of DVDs, but frankly I don't give a darn about blu-ray, the ability to see Leonardo DeCaprio's nose hairs doesn't make really make the movie all that more enjoyable to me. Only thing that sometimes compels me about blue ray may be some exclusive feature... But again, like consoles, most blue-ray stuff is also on DVD primarily because all the DVD and Blu-Ray folk can use it and there is better potential sales.
I meant to say "except" where i went on explaining the opposite kind of lookups.
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follow newspapers, magazines, journalists, whoever can provide you with the kind of news you're looking for.
My, how times change!

Come to think of it, a terabyte is a lot of data still (as is a gigabyte). Just not for movies these days though.
Phones can take pictures. Why do cameras exist?

Because a phone is a shitty camera.
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CleanedStar, it looks like your account has been hellbanned.
Thank you for sharing this.

Do you have a snapshot archive since you first started this? I wonder how much the landscape has changed since then.
What's to stop them from mutilating you until you reveal your pin?