skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very cool and reminds me of something I've wanted for a long time: a tool like this that is used to make sound. The synthesizers I've used seem predisposed to making a certain type of sound, however, something like but which gives you complete control of the wave form, should give you complete freedom when creating sounds. Maybe I've been looking at the wrong synths... Neat though :)
Mercury FPGA Development Board
Whittaker Chambers versus Ayn Rand
After perusing that list, I have strange desire to get Botox injections.
Building TEDx: A Worldwide Open Source Brand Community
Interesting look into the strategy behind TEDx.
God bless Google for pushing the internet forward.
I wonder if Google will ever end up in legal trouble for such a policy. While I don't support the notion that any company or person should have to support any version of OS or browser, knowing the massive effect that Google has on the web market and the fact that they have their own browser, if there is any attempt to specifically lock out older competing browsers, the FTC or EU might have questions about that. If you're pushing to be number one in a massive market, you have to play by different rules (as Microsoft found out in the 90's).

Google hasn't been playing nice with Microsoft for a while (see how many Google apps are in the Windows Phone store, the issue where they locked out IE Mobile from viewing Google Maps, or how they treat Windows Phone trying to interface with YouTube). In a way it's nice to see Microsoft reaping what they've sown so long ago, but in another way it's incredibly frustrating from an end user perspective to be someone who likes Microsoft software (such as Windows Phone) and also enjoy using Google services like Maps and Youtube.

Google should be careful with how much they're pushing against Microsoft, especially with Microsoft's new market position versus Google. Microsoft is hardly the monopoly anymore.
> I'd never buy heroin from a website

I'd rather buy heroin from Silk Road (where it's peer-reviewed and often tested by third-parties) than on the street.

Buying online is just overall less risky.
As you self-publish, wouldn’t it make more sense to use Adobe InCopy[1]? There is no other app I know of that integrates better with InDesign. As a publisher, that’s what I ask authors and editors to style copy in.

If you’re a Adobe CC subscriber, you already have access to it. If not, a InCopy CC license costs $240 a year.

[1] http://www.adobe.com/products/incopy.html
They are paying for time. The time of the attorney being engaged. Time from an attorney with significant expertise will, of course, cost more than time from someone who just passed the bar.

If you want to bill on some other basis, fine, but you are not entitled to tell your clients you're billing them an hourly rate and then make up the hours based on the value you think is being provided. That's fraud.
The Adafruit Trinket Is a Tiny, Versatile Microcontroller
They've got quite a few snapshots of one, but they're missing a few of the back rooms.
The newer JPEG algorithm JPEG2000 uses Wavelet Transforms which is kind of similar to the Fourier. The Fourier applies a finite window then decomposes into a sum of infinite waveforms. The Wavelet on the other hand applies no windowing function, and directly decomposes the signal into a sum of _finite_ waveforms.

The Fourier has the disadvantage that you can't arrange the components into a time hierarchy; that is, no component occurs "before" any other.

The Wavelet transform _does_ have a natural time hierarchy. This makes it much better for streaming compression like voice calls.

The Fourier perfectly describes signals of infinite duration (think tone or color) while the Wavelet perfectly describes the position of things within a signal (think rhythm or space).

With the Fourier filtering is really easy. You can do hard, hard cutoffs -- literally no contributions within a certain frequency band -- just by removing components of the decomposition. Similarly, you can accurately apply any arbitrary mathematical filtering function.

The disadvantage of the Wavelet is that, well, the only meaningful transformation you can apply to it is compression -- dropping the shorter timescale components. If you want to filter, it's not enough to trim off timescale components because the wavelet itself can contain any frequency components. There's also nothing like a simple mathematical function you can apply to the coefficients to get a smooth filter.

Neat!
There is also Shard-Query which is build on top of a cluster on MySQL servers. According to its developer, who works at Percona, running Shard-Query with MySQL using a column store (Infobrite community edition) give performance similar to RedShift.

http://shardquery.com/
For some reason this article resists drawing the obvious conclusion, which is that this is just an effort to turn Google Docs users into Chrome users.
This is really awesome. First thing I did was try a sawtooth wave by entering sequential powers of 0.5... this had the intended effect of creating a sawtooth wave, but also the circle diagram was tracing an almost perfect circle in 2D. Really cool for discovering things like that!
I disagree with this article which makes it seem like anybody who has a dislike for the TSA is being manipulated by anti-union PR campaign.

The truth is that the TSA is the physical embodiment of the nanny-state which most people experience. We are never physically confronted by government data-mining, most police activity, CTV cameras, etc. etc. But we do physically come face to face with the TSA, they ask us for our IDs, go through our belongings, make us remove articles of clothing, etc. etc.

We see other people get herded like sheep along with us, we see children being patted down (I see this more in Canada than in any other country I've visited, I know it's not the TSA, but the equivelant), my mother had her knitting needles confiscated, these are real things being done by the government(s), and we as people who have been promised freedom and autonomy know that it isn't right. Our feeling are hurt, we feel our liberties being taken away. We're more afraid of the TSA than we are of any terrorists. We don't look at the TSA and say "thanks for keeping us safe", because we know they aren't.

The reason the TSA has become so powerful may well be because of a bunch of lobbying and the introduction of a union, but that isn't why we dislike them.
I didn't quite understand this bit:

"Going into this I already knew HTML and CSS. I had also already taken AP CS in high school, and CS101 in college. I did well in both. But despite this I basically wasn't able to code my way out of a paper bag.

Why?

Firstly, C++ and Java aren't commonly used in (successful) web startups."

Are you saying you knew C++ and Java prior to this? I would have thought this would be a great jumping off point into other languages - I found the switch from C++ to Python to be surprisingly easy.

Also while start-ups may tend to stick to Ruby or Python, many web companies use Java or Scala (Twitter is probably the highest profile company I can think of). They tend to be higher scale though and it is probably harder to get started with them than with Python or Ruby.
Want: The airbag scarf that replaces a bulky bicycle helmet, inflates in 100ms
I was thinking of the Pro-Ject Stereo Box, which is 2x30W with some quite excellent sound up to its maximum power. But I'll admit there are smaller things sitting on my living room altar.
wow - Netflix has killed Blockbuster a second time!
This market if office software, and web enabled applications. Microsoft most certainly are the closest to a monopoly in office software, how many companies buy Word simply to open files sent to them?
Eventually, that sort of thing will move to the digital versions too. It already is on some blockbuster titles. A month before Iron Man 3 hit store shelves on DVD/BR, it was available for download online, and only as the $20+ version with the bonus content.
I don't understand who/what your markup is meant for? Are you claiming that things you're writing are probably not true and should be ignored? Then why are you writing them? This seems a little too clever.
Motorbike inside a car
I figured out that the arrow keys worked as intended :)
Google is doing the world a big favor with this, forcing people to upgrade to new browsers and defragmenting the web as a whole... not to mention making life a hell of alot easier for all us web developers. Microsoft can just make their browser autoupdate like everyone else is doing.
Thanks for the link, I'll try that. At the career fairs, the recruiters have indicated they filter out people like me who aren't juniors in college, so I'm so looking for someone on the inside to help me get past this barrier.
> Why would anyone use Polonium 210 as a poisoning agent?

It's a very rare agent that only very few assassins have access to, so most routine poison searches would not pick it up. Especially since the symptoms are basically nondescript. In addition to that polonium was pretty much unknown as a poison when Arafat was killed - the high profile Litvinenko killing was after Arafats death. The lethal dose is extremely low and even if it is detected, there's no antidote.

That's a pretty good stealth poison in my book.
Zimbra is pretty damn nice. A bit resource hungry, but very functional.
> if there is any attempt to specifically lock out older competing browsers

If its not current, I'm not sure that it is "competing" in the sense that would normally be relevant in antitrust/competition law.
Click "new" on the orange menu bar across the top and scroll down looking for what I recently posted. You are right, some of these FPGA technologies should get more coverage because a lot of hackers could build cool startups around hardware as well as software. But don't complain about it. Find articles on cool stuff and submit them. Many will be ignored but eventually people will catch on that there is something worthwhile in hardware hacking. Just keep plugging away at it.
Unfortunately, it's not illegal.

Immoral? Yes. Evil? Yes.
First: Lacks uniqueness

Second: Nice iOS7 feel and has a brand

Third: New age feel, strong brand, not as iOS7y

Fourth: Old school, too shiny, spam app looking

I'd go with the second from left as first choice and my second choice would be the third from left.
It's another attack vector. The working theory is that Alexander Litvenko was poisoned with tea laced with polonium.
I agree with other comments, the first two, second is probably best.

However, I don't think most people will get the clipboard to training analogy. Clipboards mean much more than that to most people I think, so why go with that at all?
I agree I think it would be better if the label floated up the moment the text box gained focus.
Arafat died in november 2004, Litvinenko in november 2006.
I did (and do) vote in local elections. I even voted in our local election two days ago. I agree that local voting is still important, even if I disagree with some posters here who say that local voting has more of an impact on our daily lives than our national government.
Developers can now share APIs through API Commons
Google has been using regular people like you and me as scouts for years.

We all have certain patterns and interests and the order of priorities - and Google know them all. They are the sysadmin of the Internet.

If we save a link, share a link or return to a page more than X times in $period, G. knows we think it's valuable. Multiply by the number of Google users who share $this_interest.

Conversely, any freshly created Twitter account associated with a freshly created Gmail account registered from an Indian IP has little authority in any field.

Any abnormal activity is an eyesore to Google algorithms and jumps out right away.

If your site sucks, you can't make Google think it doesn't. Fancy crap won't make your boring content look attractive. SEO today is customer satisfaction, disruption, uniqueness.

It doesn't matter any more what you say about your site - it's what actions of other people, real people, not your shills, say about your site.

This is, very roughly, how it works.

Source: SEO work since 2003, including a year as Google page quality rater.
But if they don't, ironically, google may be helping microsoft by encouraging users to upgrade their PC.

And there's no sign that MS will ship new browsers to old platforms.
> That's not much better ...

Yes it is. As I said you'll need a majority-wins system, i.e. the list of revoked certs is signed by a majority of the signature committee members. Using a window is wide open to attack, it has no redeaming features.

> It's enough for me ...

Unfortunately, "it works on my computer" is not going to cut it. I use a few browser extensions, but now those extensions' own update mechanisms can be used to attack your cryptosystem - even a "good" extension could be hijacked this way. That gives me a lot to worry about...

My point with bookmarklets was that many bookmarklets pull down code from an external server and inject it into the local page, so if the user makes use of any booklets as part of their email workflow then those bookmarklet sites now become attack vectors for your cryptosystem. Likewise, browser 0-days are also attack vectors for your cryptosystem which would not be present in say, a stand-alone client. The attack surface area of a browser is huge.
This one's the Fed Pirate Roberts :p

The way this site launched so soon after the original was shut down--with the same name, same styling, even the same "Dread Pirate Roberts" moniker--makes me very suspicious.
Table bases do include pawns. I don't think anyone would think humans are stronger than the best computers even if the computer didn't have opening books and table bases, I was just saying that to compare ratings isn't really fair.
Seriously? You don't think that sending a schedule I substance to an unknowing stranger through the mail and across state lines isn't irresponsible? Are you going to valiantly turn yourself in if your neighbors get raided?

If you get drugs shipped to your house, they will charge and probably convict you. Doesn't mean it would hold up in an appeal, but why would you risk an innocent's life, freedom, finances, and social standing just to order drugs off the internet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayor...
I look forward to the day when the same thing happens to Music Labels, and with any luck eventually Movie Studios.
The Internet Bug Bounty – Bounty program for the Internet stack
"Our chief operating officer announced yesterday Tony has accepted a position in private sector,"

so long and thanks for all the rotting fish?
French couple win legal battle to take down wind farms spoiling their view
Hacker News is an Incubator
W.H.O. escalates polio fight in reinfected Mideast
I've made something similar on a data editing UI back in 2011. But I found that showing the label only on field focus wasn't really suitable for UIs that contained multiple fields of similar data.

Like in the example below[1] there are two fields where you can enter coordinates data, but without a hint you wouldn't be able to distinguish where should one or the other go.

[1] http://www.pmura.com/media/af-ui-input-2011.png
I think this is a very good point. Of all the actors who would interact with Arafat, what motivated one of them to (presumably) kill him in Summer/Fall 2004?

Also curious: why did his wife refuse to permit an autopsy?
In addition to being a cinemaphile, i'm also an audiophile; so the lack of Dolby 5.1 audio content being streamed for the majority of movies on Netflix basically makes blue-ray/DVD my only option if I want to make use of my expensive receiver + surround speaker setup.
Alternatively, they may just not have thought about it in that much detail.

Yep, I'm betting on unintended consequence rather than deep plan here.

It would certainly be pretty unwise to exclude the best-paying customers intentionally.
I just happened to start my own gag @reply bot last night, https://twitter.com/AssHobby, and quickly hit this same problem. I tried to get clarification on what I was doing that was different than a bot like StealthMountain but of course just got a canned response that answered nothing. It really can't be anything other than followers count or special exemptions. Maybe drastically reducing the frequency such as sublimino is doing would help keep it off their radar. But a definitive answer would be nice.
Microsoft Earns $2 Billion Per Year From Android Patent Royalties?
See also: Hangouts, which for some reason work well only in chrome, and only in chrome have an addon that integrates with your desktop.
I'd like to be able to make a triangle wave, but I think the program needs to be able to input negative values for the components.

Nicely done.
TogetherJS works on any website too! Just grab a Firefox addon (https://togetherjs.com/togetherjs.xpi) or Chrome extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/towtruckcrx/hpobkk...)
- First, Google extends support for Chrome on XP for a few more years
- Second, Google ends support for IE8/9.

Sweet move Google/Chrome.
Seriously, he probably asked himself "why bother with all this nonsense, I'll just get another job?".
And that would very quickly end up with the question of whether all this isn't greatly Microsoft's doing by dropping IE support for older versions of Windows.
Those features have been missing from rental discs for years. The studios know that customers like you are willing to pay a premium for bonus features, so they don't include them in cheap rental/streaming services.
This is a good point; I feel the same thing. Do you think it could be solved by replacing the inline label with a floating label when the user selects the text box, instead of when they start typing?
An Open Mind: The Modern Gospel of Wealth
3.2.14
Bootstrap 3.0.2 released
Why would mom and pop want to base out of Mexico?
It may make sense to learn it eventually, but so far there's nothing I haven't been able to do with ease in Pages. Here are my books, you should be able to see inside them to get a sense of the formatting:

http://www.amazon.com/Graeme-Blake/e/B009A0YBWO/

What would be the major advantages? I'm sure there are some, I just don't know much about it.
Questioning an appeal to authority is ad hominem? That explains plenty.
Why do I need to register? Couldn't it be anonymous, like TogetherJS?
Whatever happened to the "CTO" of US - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Technology_Officer_of_the...

Park has been running his part of the massive government agency "like a Silicon Valley company," according to the Atlantic. That approach was particularly relevant in the development of HealthCare.gov, the first government website that provides consumers with a searchable database of public and private health insurance plans available across the U.S. by zip code - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Park
You're right, it looks like the capability was there before Microsoft bought Skype. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/06/new_details_o...

That's not to say they didn't help:
http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/microsoft-patents-vo...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4254925
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Ignores-PRISM-Claim...
Ask HN: Quit my job for a year to write open source code, what should I work on?
I've saved up some money and am interested in doing something different for a bit. If I quit my job to work on some open source projects (probably mostly existing, but open to new projects too) what should they be?
For what it's worth, mp3s do not store the signal as a DFT. The frequency domain data is produced as a MDCT (modified discrete cosine transform). A DFT is performed during MP3 encoding, but it's used to apply the psychoacoustic model (which is much more complex than just throwing out high frequencies) to figure out how to layout the frequency bands in the MDCT. I don't believe JPEG uses a DFT at any point, just a DCT.
It's more than just prison owners. What would happen to the DEA? Hell, huge numbers of local police would be unnecessary without the drug war.
I agree completely, but while my process on the Android side isn't as fast as web development, it is improving as testing tools get better. More and more my process is to edit some XML file, hit the go button, and wait 16 seconds for test results.
Right-click the page for some pre-defined wave patterns (pulse, sawtooth, triangle, etc.)--at least it worked for me in FF.
Wow! So cool. I love the connection between the waveform and the trochoid curve on the left.
Anyone else look at that title and think that it's pretty hilariously unprofessional? Haha

EDIT: To print an article with that title, not job title.
Constitution, huh?

You may have noticed it getting thrown out the window already, what with American citizens in danger of being declared "enemy combatants" and locked away indefinitely without trial, or just droned to death on the spot and all.

Then there's Mr. Snowden, enjoying his Constitutionally protected right to freedom of speech.. in Moscow.
Myth: It’s easy to go from client services to products.

Reality: It’s really really really hard. As you’re selling client services you’re also marketing and building a product, so you’re basically working two jobs. You’re promoting two company offerings, the product and the consultancy. In your brain you’re working through two problem spaces, juggling and assessing opportunities for two company, all without going insane or broke first.

I know many consultancies of all sizes that have tried to make the hop. They look at valuations of services firms (1.5 times revenues) and compare it to SaaS firms (10-12 times revenue) and try to make the move. The Accentures have tried this, as have the 5-6 people shops. The reality is it is very hard to go beyond reusable deliverables and into technology that people independently pay for.
Fourier Swarm
It's the modern day equivalent of a deathbed conversion!
Try pure data. You can fill a table (an array) with whatever function you like, and then use the tabosc4~ object to generate a signal with that as the waveform of a single cycle.
Apple Announces Upcoming Features for iWork Mac Apps Following Criticism
sorry to hear that - if you would like to get a replacement, email sarah @ getpebble.com and she'll sort it out.
Is the problem that you're younger than that or older than that?

In the case that you're younger, at Google, we offer something called Engineering Practicum internships. In this program, you get paired up with another freshman or sophomore, and work on an intern project together.

https://www.google.com/about/jobs/search/?src=Online/TOPs/NA...

Feel free to email me if you're interested in this. I'm doing some heavy data analysis and would be more than happy to host some interns next summer.
It's easy to blame one guy, but I'm sure his task was next to impossible.

It's not just some independent website where you have full control of your creation. It had to interact with a dozen of other systems, and I'm sure a bunch of APIs were created just for that, and I'm sure bugs in just some of them could render the whole system nonfunctioning.

And yes, maybe it is this guy's fault. We don't really know.
Maybe it's obvious to others, but just a heads up that it is caching/saving information it collects from your API access and then making its assessment public. I ran it on my own Twitter handle and can access the results page[1] even in private browsing mode and with its API access revoked. Fairly annoying considering its "insights" are mostly wrong.

[1]: http://fingerprint.leadsift.com/?username=itafroma
New ligament in the knee discovered
I think we can blame Gordon Brown for this one.
There are real plaform differences in the way the browser interacts with the OS. Significant differences aren't inconceivable - it's not just stuff like GFX, there's also threading, power saving, async, I/O, memory, caching - I've no idea what's going on here, but it's definitely possible.

Also, is it possible some of these browsers are running as x64 on macosX? Because on windows, I'm pretty sure chrome and FF don't.