skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great, now I have to keep another dozen Chrome tabs open... ;) Seriously, this is pretty nice. I currently have rain, fan, ocean, Indian Drone, Tibetan meditation, and Bamboo running concurrently.

A way to combine sounds without opening a new tab would be be an obvious improvement. Adding a feature that randomly (very slowly) raises and lowers volume of a sound from set of subcomponents could be interesting -- it'd give the sense that the sounds are changing slowly over time and relieve some of the stasis.

Edit: just noticed the babble generator. This is genius, and exactly what I need to mask background conversations.
Have you seasoned a cast iron pan lately?
> US soldiers and others near battlefields overseas are constantly getting ill from dust from the (badly named) depleted uranium ordinance that the US uses (and white phosphorus weapons).

No, they aren't. What's your source claiming this? Why do you say depleted uranium is "badly named"? And if you took some of this dust and spread it on "the east coast" or "the west coast", wouldn't that dilute the concentration by more than a factor of a million and turn an already speculative and unproven risk into a truly truly insignificant risk?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium#Studies_indic...
Tesla unveils a CHAdeMO adapter (50kW) for the Model S
What you're neglecting is the psychology involved... for many of us, a combination of a simple desire to build something or even attempt to build something, is its own intrinsic award... and many of us simply cannot stand to have a "boss" in the traditional sense, and will take running a startup where we get to "call our own shots" to a greater degree, over working for $BIGCORP, even if the financial gains are smaller. Personally, I can say that I am absolutely miserable working as just another cog in the machine, as part of the typical big, bland, bureaucratic $BIGCORP. In fact, "miserable" doesn't even begin to go far enough. So if we can get this startup even to the point of being nothing more than a "lifestyle business" it's still a net win.
You are using the public internet in this scheme, and you would run a darknet on it. The point isn't to recreate communications infrastructure. The point is to make data physically inaccessible to search warrants.

Think of it as a search warrant hardened darknet.
IANAL, but my guess is it's in the same gray area that betting on sports with your local bookie or playing online poker is. More specifically, the site itself is probably illegal in the eyes of most agencies but the players participating probably aren't acting illegally.

That said, given the fact that there were a total of 14 bettors in the first two rounds, this sounds like the smallest of small fry when it comes to the world of online gambling.
A Silicon Valley health startup run by 20-somethings conducting its own private "study" and inventing the "Silicon Valley syndrome" while barking "Sitting is the new smoking".

Of course there is some truth to those problems, but this hyperbolism makes them look like a joke to me..
One side effect of the complexity of government contracting processes (designed, in principle, to ensure that the government doesn't get taken advantage of by either internal or external actors) is that the people who get awarded government contracts are often the people with the most skill in negotiating the government contracting process, not the people with the most skill in the problem domain.
Corrected. I didn't protest anything, I corrected, and it wasn't some random thing, his usage wasn't simply wrong, it was wrong in the way most people are confused about the theory and it needed corrected. One should never write about evolution as if it were intelligent. It's bad enough most of the people in this country don't believe in it, as if facts require belief.
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From the next paragraph:

> An early prototype of the Inspector even included a significant portion of Firebug. Ultimately, integration proved to be too challenging and would have required rewrites that would have been equivalent to starting over.
The business is more than likely violating gambling regulations by soliciting US customers. IANAL, but Satoshi Dice did block US players due to legal concerns https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=135521.0.
Triforce spotted :)

Nice to come across some fellow Zelda fanboys unexpectedly.
> This isn't first-order logic, it's conversation!

Thank you for that eloquent retort. Though I've been on both sides of a pedant's argument (often the wrong side), it's helpful to set the context that a conversation is happening in. Some folks will grab onto anything if it allows them to say, "I'm right, and you're wrong!"
That's true, but here is the paper from Microsoft Research and it seems to be lacking in how those data files were generated:

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/156453/icde12_lars.pdf
You would go uninsured rather than get catastrophe health insurance? You do realize that in America an uninsured trip to the emergency room with trauma means bankruptcy.

Farmers hedge risk for the same reason. A cash crunch could put them out of business. But now that I think about it I can't guess what this weather insurance offers farmers that the commodity futures markets don't.
> people won't notice the difference.

No intelligent investor could mistake an ETN for an ETF. They're wildly different products. One is a bond with a collection of complex derivatives attached. The other is a portfolio of stocks.

The mistake is made, but only by the dumbest of money.

> Take a look at this form to get monthly reports

So an ETN advisor offers some reports to accredited investors. This doesn't prove that there is a law demanding that certain info is kept from retail investors.

Anybody with a price feed could create those reports and use them as sales literature.

> Does your hat taste good?

Why would I be eating my hat? All you did was prove that you're financially and logically illterate. You also proved that you argue dishonestly, moving the goalposts when it becomes clear that your original post was 100% wrong.

So no hat-eating for me, thanks.
I think you either replied to the wrong comment, or badly misread mine. I wasn't making any remark about the Nest alarm at all.
That's amazing. It just goes on and on with beautiful plots. About halfway down, there's a section on understanding the Riemann sphere:

> From what I can tell, one of the settings used to deal with division by 0 is the so-called Riemann sphere, which is where we take a space shuttle and use it to fly over and drop a cow on top of a biodome, and then have the cow indiscriminately fire laser beams at the grass inside and around the biodome. That's my intuitive understanding of it anyway.

And there's even animation (with Mathematica source) for this one. However:

> (Note the cow cannot be spherical or it will roll off).
Did you purposely link to heritage or was that an accidental result of google?

Because that is pretty much a showstopper as they are wild right-wing nuts.

Okay now you are using wikipedia. Read the rest of the page and realize that only the US, UK and Israel say the DU is okay, the rest of the UN says not. I wonder who has DU ammunition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium#Chemical_toxi...
So, what you're saying is "Eagle Eye" might come true soon then?
With the improvements of the built-in debugging tools, what will be Firebug's future on the long run?

Specially when their feature set starts to overlap.

For me it seems all very political.
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Yes, this is like telling a newlywed that s/he has a 50% chance to eventually get divorced. True for the population, irrelevant for the individual. When one has a more direct knowledge of the relevant factors, it's crazy to make a decision based solely on into what demographics one falls.
Is there any reason for Firebug to continue existing as a plugin? I know it did a lot to further the front-end dev tools in all the browsers, but at this point the default dev tools in FF and Chrome are just as good and in many ways better.
I've also known junkies who buy 1 or 2 oxy at a time from a dealer, who buys 30 at a time, but his source who buys 1000 gets them from a doctor.

My experiences with this are based in canada so there may be a cultural difference there. But the pot dealing crowd and the pill dealing crowd are far removed from each other unless you are in DTE vancouver, and then it's only physical proximity.
We get lucky, a lot, and we can't really change that.

That depends on how, exactly, you define "luck". I posit that a lot of what people call "luck" can be manufactured, or at least cultivated through directed action.

Remember the article that showed up here a while back about "How to date a supermodel"? The premise was that if you want to date a supermodel, you have to move to a city where there are lots of supermodels, and hang out at the places where supermodels shop, work out, dine, etc., and you have to start conversations with supermodels, blah, blah..

So if one of you buddies shows up next year dating a supermodel, everybody is probably going to go "Dude, that's amazing, you are SO lucky!" And this will completely ignore the fact that he did a lot of things to create the opportunity.

It's SUCH a cliche, but I guess cliches exist for a reason, so I'll just come back to:

Luck = Preparation + Opportunity
This is just a company pr puff piece plugging what they are selling.
I think he means a linked button
Wow - I don't remember a company "pivoting" so much, so often, and so drastically as the Turntable team has done. First it was a social DJ site/app, then they launched Piki but shut it down after less than a year [0], and now this. Kudos to them for not quitting - it takes a lot of resolve (and money) to try to break paradigms and move into new markets.

[0] http://blog.turntable.fm/post/60847013839/soundcloud-and-upl...
The kids who are told that if you just go to college and stick with the education system, doing all your homework, you'll get a high-paying job and be a CEO or president some day.
> You can actually replace 1 Macbook Air with 4 Chromebooks

If the web browser is your only application...
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Tiny drones with tasers wouldn't be much of a match for a bunch of guys with automatic rifles - a rifle has a much greater range and a single burst of fire would destroy the drone. Also, it's hard to taser someone who's wearing body armor or is in a vehicle. This kind of weapon would only work on unarmed civilians.
I haven't been following Firefox all that closely. Is the debugger API they're developing interoperable with Chrome's? It seems like it would be good for the web to decouple developer tools from browser engines. If I could run Firebug on Chrome or Blink's Dev Tools on Firefox, I'd only have to learn one set of tools to be able to effectively create cross-browser projects.

(If you substitute the native dev tools in this thought experiment with Brackets or Sublime Web Inspector, you start to see the power of decoupling tooling from the browser.)
Suggestion: post a Bitcoin address; there are be people here who don't need 40 hours of marketing work but can donate a small sum to help crowdfund your trip. If you don't have one get one right now. See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Address.
I don't think this device or this thread will affect me after I stand up and leave the room.
How does it compare to Bugsense or Crittercism?
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I though sugar was the new smoking?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2443316
The author has posted a follow up here -- http://drew.roon.io/responsive-retinas-strike-back -- that offers some alternatives for getting around the extra download issue (which a number of people brought up, including @ricardobeat in the comments).
What guarantees are there and how does one locate a fire-alarm installer that offers a perfect installation that is impervious to toast burning or strong ovens? Any evidence that safety is degraded between the ability to wave off an alarm versus the oft-used removal of batteries? As the saying goes, the lesser of two evils -- we're only human.
In the UK most smoke alarms are not mains connected and run solely off a battery. As such they can be easily repositioned.
> People would definitely moan more if AMD cards blew up non-AMD adapters/monitors connected via non-AMD adapters.

Oh please—Nothing is going to "blow up". Sending audio packets in the stream is not going to affect adapters (adapters are passive--no electronics!) and any reasonable monitor is only going to pay attention to packets it understands.

And that's not even mentioning that you can use EDID to determine if a monitor is capable of receiving audio packets or not.
Hawkins also holding out for recognition if anyone finds confirmation of Hawking Radiation.
Some of Google's security team has helped to stiffen the safeguards[1]

[1] http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/nest-smoke-detector/al...
Thanks, I appreciate it. I hope the code is useful.
Believe me, I'm not happy that my government is all-in on the American mass surveillance game. But my specific concern here is with Americans who think it's okay for the US government to conduct mass surveillance on the rest of the planet, just not on Americans.
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Does 0.00006% factor in how many companies are started with goals that have no billion dollar potential? While any company may have an outlying chance of accidentally coming up with a billion dollar idea, most have business plans that would never scale to a billion dollar valuation no matter how well executed or lucky they are. I'm curious whether this statistic is only based on the success of those companies that are _trying_ to get there.
> a dying art form

> music as we know it...is dying

> the music industry is dying

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Robert Brout would almost surely be sharing the prize if it could be awarded posthumously.

I often saw him and Francois Anglert when doing my Ph.D. Robert Brout in particular struck me as the kindest man on earth, and was perhaps someone who though even deeper and more profoundly than Francois Anglert.
Interesting Firebug story: Years ago when Netscape/Firefox was being built, some developers wanted to put a bunch of developer tools into the browser. Mostly so Firefox developers could inspect the browser (remember, websites were pretty bland back then).

However, they were worried about the codebase becoming too big -- after all, 99.9% of people wouldn't need a DOM inspector. So, the add-ons architecture was born. Firebug was created as a separate tool by Joe Hewitt. Add-ons and Firebug probably ended up being the reason why Firefox took off.
> This is good for free software and good for the web.

What free software? Locked down behind SaaS walls.
fantastic - simple easy solution to the basic problem, supported by a university that is not going anywhere soon. well worth getting into a habit for
When it's mentioned in the "potentially harmful" scope, "radiation" is shorthand for ionizing radiation.
> Yes, this is like telling a newlywed that s/he has a 50% chance to eventually get divorced.

FWIW, I really dislike it when people perpetuate the myth that 50% of marriages end in divorce. We actually have no idea what the true percentage is, and I think they myth got started because people compare the annual marriage rate with the annual divorce rage.
Someone who posts that a fat person is a "waste of space" and should kill themselves to "spare everyone's eyes" clearly already believes in vigilante justice without due process. If you think it's OK to limit someone's freedom of speech to ban doxxing due to it's negative affects, then it's obvious that speech that says a person "should be put down" should also be banned, since that's more harmful.

The fat person is not a "heifer" (a type of cow), we're already out of the bounds of "accurate information".
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I still don't understand your objection. What feature are you specifically objecting to?
I am sorry, but this sounds like you simply don't know the language.

Javascript has one big problem and that is that most people either know it from front end people who are NOT really into programming and on the other side there are many people that just don't know JavaScript and use it like C-style languages, just because it might have some similarities with it.

That's actually a problem a lot of multi-paradigm, flexible, expressive and powerful languages suffer. People want to use it like the language they mostly used, get frustrated about how it's a different language and not just a slightly different syntax.

So either you do it like Python and force people into something or you have to deal with a lot of people, complaining about something they don't understand, which simply is easy with JavaScript, because it has a lot of features.

I mostly blame it to the fact that most people learn Java and a certain style of Java as their first language. It's actually saddening, because it causes computer science to become more and more a "just good enough" thing. It's sad, because it started with people (and with that I mean Ada Lovelace, just like various scientists in nearly every decade of the last century) who did what they did not because it was cool and well-paid to do computer stuff, have your own startup, etc., but because they had enough enthusiasm and imagination to make this possible. Lovelace in the 1th century(!) imagined that there could one day be "calculating machines" used to draw paintings!
No thanks.

I prefer my laptops, with my data, my native applications, on my hard disk, only accessing the Internet when I say so.
I think it's just an excuse to say "fucking" a lot.
This just in: being alive is bad for your health.
> Also seems like this would make heroku's routing problems[1] even worse.

No, this will not make routing issues worse.

The routing issues described in that post specifically apply to single-threaded / non-concurrent applications (or those with very low concurrency, such as Unicorn w/ 2 workers).

WebSocket connections are like requests that last forever. If you're using WebSockets in your app, you'll need your app to be highly concurrent in order to maintain lots of open connections to your users. You don't want regular requests to block behind never-ending WebSocket requests.

Random routing should actually work pretty well on apps with high concurrency. Node.js, Play, Go, Erlang, and even Ruby apps with Faye should all work great.

If you're concerned about this for your app, the best way to find out is to test it!
They probably look less high if you compare them with the percentage of VC-backed companies valued at $10M, $50M and $100M in their last round of funding...
National defense is a bogeyman for liberals such as myself. It's one of the most justifiable evils available, because the current peace of the world is somewhat of a modern illusion.

Personally, I don't like the existence of national borders of any kind, but I also can't wish them away. And when you draw a line, that says there's something you want to exclude on the other side of it, and the stuff over there just might decide to cross the line in a way you don't like.

My general strategy has been to support inclusive immigration policies, globalization efforts, and joint international operations. The more of these that exist, the less meaningful national boundaries become, the less necessary national defense will be.
Sounds like content-centric networking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-centric_networking

There are upsides, like decentralization, and downsides, like everybody knowing exactly what data you're asking for if it's strictly addressed by hash (no way of obscuring your political activities from an oppressive regime by using an unrelated name for common data).
I wasn't aware there was any grey-area for domestic bookies... just because it's not sports doesn't mean it's not bookmaking.

Online poker is grey-area because the poker outfit itself is generally outside the scope of US law. If it were more legal, you can be sure their servers would be hosted domestically in the US where it's cheaper and faster.

Your local bookie, however, is in the same scope as a guy running a local card room -he's taking a cut off of people's gambling habit. Whether it's sports or not, it's still going to be bookmaking, and still trouble. Extra trouble if it's over state lines.
That is true, to some extent. That's why I elaborated a bit and said that it's "...good fortune through chance, only affected by positioning."
They answer that question in the article:

> We thought long and hard about including Firebug wholesale and considered several approaches to integrating it. An early prototype of the Inspector even included a significant portion of Firebug. Ultimately, integration proved to be too challenging and would have required rewrites that would have been equivalent to starting over.
I find the 32GB Pixel more than adequate, but admittedly I am probably weird that way. The last time my primary computer happened to have 32GB was only 2007 and I've never really grown out of those usage patterns.
Yup. Our smoke alarm in the kitchen didn't go off when I did.
Yes, divorce demography is complicated!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce_demography

But I was just being illustrative; my point applies even if it's 20% or 80%.
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Anybody has experience of developing android apps on those devices ?
I was thinking of something like http://www.amazon.com/First-Alert-SA320CN-Double-Battery-Pow... for $20.
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The point "about the transience of linked information" has been made. But the problem isn't new to anyone, including NYT. It should pointed out that Justice Alito included a date with the URL, which allows the URL to function as a citation even after the content changes. It's no different than citing an unpublished source.
Hey, recent U of M grad here. Go talk to the Center for Entrepreneurship in the Duderstadt. Tell them what's up and you might get a grant.

Shoot me an email at jmbirnho at umich . edu and tell me how it goes.
I suppose anyone who wanted to be securely citable could provide some sort of checksum?
Didn't think of that but just added it to my post...thanks so much!
Not necessarily. If the market is large enough and you control a significant portion of the hashing power (e.g. pool operators), you could bet below and then halt all hashing for the checking period. You would potentially lose a block, but would offset that by gaining more than 25 BTC in bets.
Multiple hypothesis testing is built into the design of the studies, and has been from the very start. When it comes to proper interpretation of stats in science, geneticists are at the top of the hierarchy.

It is built into the design of the studies. But studies that do not find results do not get published. Thus there is a lot of room for exceptional results to sneak through despite the attempts to get the stats right.
Nothing evident from the title, it is 68 characters long.
Australia, too, and the IAEA. I think you are in too much of a hurry to make your point.
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