skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recruiters want your resume in Doc format so that they can add their logo and header to it.
I have those exact earmuffs and have used them for the last 4 years. (I bought them because they had the best dB rating (31, IIRC) I could find within a reasonable price range.) They definitely do eliminate surrounding sound very well. I wear them when I want to isolate myself from my environment and focus on something.

I'll echo that that they aren't as comfortable as headphones. Headphones typically try to be light and have a soft fit around the head. These are a little heavy and definitely a slightly tighter fit, like you said. If comfort is extremely important, I'm not sure they'll be appreciated for extended periods of time. I rarely wear them for longer than 20 or 30 minutes.
Apple is bordering on patent troll, too. They may not have bothered to oppose this legislation, but they recently exerted some of their patents via the Rockstar thing.
I'm happily married and never used online dating, so can only guess at the various factors skewing this data.

- Given that this is a simple yes/no question (would you respond vs not), its not clear whether this preference is for casual flings or long term relationships (there have been studies that show women prefer hot men for flings and bores for family/stability) OTOH, I don't know if that study was really valid

- I imagine I would use an online dating site if my local network doesn't have any leads for me. If my local network is racially homogenous (possibly true for larger america vs metros), I would look for other races to experiment/or meet different people

There have been similar results posted by okcupid[1], so there definitely seems to be some truth to what these guys are reporting.

[1]- http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/your-race-affects-whether-...
Did you read the article, or just the title?
I see this all the time especially in social media blogs. They come to strange, convoluted conclusions about things like "the best time to tweet", without taking into account that 40% of tweets are from bots, and auto-tweets. Or that most of your followers are not human.
For me: Strava (although workarounds exist) and Pebble connectivity.
Foobar does. You have to configure it but you can do it.
Does anyone else think that USPS in New York City is just horrible and shitty in general? I had a similar experience at the branch in Chinatown where I was treated horribly just for asking to speak to a manager (which took over 45 minutes to happen). You just feel so powerless to do anything because even the people "in charge" can't even seem to help you or are mysteriously "off the clock". The package was eventually delivered but only after 2 hours of time were wasted on my end...
Fixed the CSS issues. Can you check?
and heavily extensible. You can basically clone Winamp 2, 3 and 5 with it. The community is really strong, as well.
"It really whips the lama's ass" What an era.

Winamp's goodbye might go in a similar fashion to Sonique's. Slowly and quietly. Sonique was a music player that was bought for about $20 million by Lycos (back in the dot com bubble days) and then shut down after it plateau'd in development and execs realized "dude, it's just a media player". It had a huge community (but no where near as big as Winamp's) and literally a TON (hundreds and hundreds of pages) of really amazing skins and visualization plugins. The site was shut down without much notice.

You can still download the lastest stable versions of Sonique on a fan site and it'll still work. I have a feeling that's how Winamp will be. Unless the developers release the source code.
And I think the journal article about this particular process is from 2009 ( http://icvts.oxfordjournals.org/content/10/3/360.short ).

So, hey, points to the BBC for writing an article about something that continues to be interesting instead of something that's "brand new".
I did some research on my own as I am currently applying to these "hacker accelerators." I think that Hacker School is unique in its lack of structure. This is the second article I have read in which a Hacker School fellow has compared their experience to grad school.

Most of the programs here in the Bay (HackReactor in SF, Hacker Dojo in the Valley) are actually schools where there is a set curriculum in order to prepare you for the workplace.
The roots of the current American predicament go back
to the 1970s, when wages of workers stopped keeping
pace with their productivity.

* head explode *

So this has been going on for the past 40 years and we have stopped questioning it?

What if you were Black or a woman in the 70's? Did wages ever keep up with productivity in the first place?
Indeed. US Society is about as "unfrayed" as it's ever been.
Thanks for the explanation, that really did add the context that I was missing.
My favourite artist has Marfan Syndrome, Bradford Cox of Deerhunter: http://www.miscmusic.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/138.jpg
As an entrepreneur who recently moved to NY, this law doesn't do anything positive (unless you're a paper). Let's do this.
"scandal": you keep using that word; I do not think it means what you think it means.

Selling a device as having 16GB of flash when it only actually had 8GB would be a scandal; pricing something higher than an author believes is "fair" (while still selling so many that supplies are STILL constrained) is not.
Why would you think that inequality is a bad thing?
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In my experience VLC eats a lot more CPU for just playing the same songs. While I like VLC for movie-files, Winamp is nicer when it comes to music.
At the time of that course, Micah was supporting a very large C++ application, and had been for some years. Were his skills rusty? I rather doubt it.

In any case, --- what does this have to do with the article in the title line? It seems odd to be talking about something my son did nearly a decade ago in response to an article I wrote today?
This would definitely benefit from a .it tld
If I were writing such an article and needed to change the reason why he couldn't go to the halfway house, I would make up another reason why he couldn't go instead of making up the fact that he decided not to go. That's just sloppy journalism.
The magic moment was when we all realized, pretty much simultaneously, that CDs and radio were obsolete. And this wasn't from some iterative Moore's Law like growth in hard drive size, it was sudden algorithmic brilliance that allowed music to be compressed small enough to be easily downloaded and shared. Suddenly digital distribution seemed inevitable and obvious. We could listen to whole collections of songs very, very fast. Old bands became popular, and we would sit around for hours playing song after amazing song for our friends. Winamp was the app that made it possible. The skins let us change its look to fit us better, and its music visualizations were an awesome backdrop for parties. A great app and a great time.

We live in the future.
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>I would be shocked if the timing on this release wasn't at least tangentially related to sponsored posts.

I'd agree with that, I was just disagreeing with the theory that an indie developer's app that allowed ad hiding somehow forced Instagram's hand.
I'll be looking at a pair of the ear protectors as we call them in the UK.

Can you not swap your desk with someone who is on manager schedule and nearer the edge of the room? I got myself moved away from the door and network printer in a large open plan office. I'm now over by the back wall. Much less travelled area.
I guess I should be impressed with this product but it's actually just depressing.

Obviously this is just a tool and it's up to the companies how to use it, but I think we all know how that will work out.
the advantage here is the ability to have several (like 8-16 motors) so the failure of one motor isn't leading to a crash). It is the same paradigm shift as when horizontally scaled commodity hardware systems with expected multiple points of failure have almost everywhere replaced the highly-reliable Big Iron systems.

Another advantage is the possibility to have the propellers in ducts/shrouds (eVolo didn't do it, yet nothing prevents it) that is not doable for one big helicopter's propeller, thus such machine can fly near buildings/trees/etc... where helicopter can't. There is also issue of control in tight quarters where air flow is hard to predict and is affected by near by objects - multiple electric motors are much more flexible and faster reacting than one big engine+propeller.

Like with electric cars, the main issue is "range". It is solvable by having a series hybrid drive (especially once new gas engines specifically developed for series hybrids - ie. higher efficiency and lighter weight at the cost of power band - come to market). While such system willn't beat efficiency of 787 or fly transatlantic, it would be unbeatable for Santa Cruz to Mountain View commute.
Ah, yes, terrorism.

Terrorism is what we call punching up.

Law & order what we call punching down. Stuff like locking workers inside burning buildings, using thugs, cops, and soldiers to crack labor heads, forcibly deporting undesirables.

I'm finally starting to get the hang of this. Now I am learning.
try foobar
Indeed, but it's a distinction without a difference since the biggest cost is TV and Radio campaigns and Super PACs run ads.

The issue was that Obama blessed a super PAC officially and his cabinet and campaign folks talked to the donors at their meetings.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/72531.html
Slide 11 puts the average equity for a software engineer at a 51-100 person company at 0.07%. That sounds correct-- I hesitate to use "right", here-- but that means that a person is getting about 1/20 of a proportional share. To me, that's absurd. Yes, founders and management and investors deserve their take, and 40-70% is reasonable. But not 95%.

For those who'd argue, "0.07 percent is generous for someone who just joined, hasn't done anything yet, hasn't taken any risk" let me remind them that the 0.07 is vested over 4 years (as it should be). After 4 years of loyalty and good work, she probably deserves much more than 7 pennies.

I think startup equity is toxic because it's designed to look like real business partnership, and it confuses the naive into thinking they're actual owners, but actually falls into the uncanny valley.

I think it's better to be honest about the employer/employee relationship (in the way that Wall Street is, with its generous profit sharing) than to try to hide with it bullshit. Startup equity: people paid in penny stocks that couldn't be legally sold to them and that they can't possibly evaluate because they aren't even given the social access to understand the relationships (e.g. investors) involved-- because if they had that access, they'd go off and start their own companies.

If you want to do the Cravath model and promote people to real partnership after 7 years, then do that. If you want to be like a hedge fund (which prefers generous cash bonuses over the increasing ownership complexity, and employees usually prefer that too) then do that. But the VC-istan "ownership" culture is (for engineers) a fucking lie. If we (as engineers) are going to own something, it'll be something we build ourselves and it won't happen in VC-istan.
It's slanderous to call them prostitutes unless they are caught fucking someone. I shit you not.
Give AIMP a shot. Same as winamp2 but with built in flac and cue support.
If this is for development, is there a reason to not run it on your dev machine?
Oh, memories. I've been using Winamp for at least 10 years. I still have a Netscape skin for the legacy version (came out with Netscape Navigator, I believe). Yes, Winamp was the audio player back then.

I switched to Winamp lite when they started adding "bloat" features like media library, video playback, etc. It plays music and it does it awesomely. It's likely I'll be using it for 10 more years.
It does image capture as well as selection.
I agree, another point that article is missing, is that buying extra 16GB of memory will give you more mileage compared to base 16GB. That is because significant portion of base 16GB is occupied by OS and required apps.

So adding 16GB does not double effective storage, more like increases it by 2.5-2.75 times.
Hey bretthopper, thanks for the feedback. I didn't quite get your comment of being depressing. Could you explain? or feel free to e-mail me: vivek [at] interviewstreet
The movie doesn't treat this as a twist.

Want to know how I know this?

http://joyhog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Enders-Game-pos...

"This is not a game."

Right there, on the poster, is literally the "twist".

They wrote the movie assuming you read the book. Sorry, but this isn't a spoiler.
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I think they complement each other rather than directly compete with each other. I have all my files stored locally, but I also have them all uploaded to Google Music so I can listen to them on my phone. Even if Google Music shuts down, I have local copies.
http://www.yasamotors.com and similars. 75kw/27kg
Why does Paypal have so many problems in the UK with freezing cash in accounts?
Wow, perfect timing. Just learned about R for the first time today and I will definitely be using this.
If you set up an LLC elsewhere and want to qualify to do business in New York, you still have to publish notices (http://www.dos.ny.gov/corps/llcfaq.asp#pubreqreply).

If a company incorporates as an LLC in another state, New York loses out on the formation filing fees. Also, if the company also chooses to set up its office elsewhere, New York would lose out on additional tax revenue.
I'll hazard a guess that they have some dreadful ad platform that greps keywords on the site and replaces them with a mouseover popup ad.
40 comments, not one trace of "Congrats", who cares what Obamas intentions were, for any founder out there you know this is exciting -- HN is becoming difficult to read.

Congrats guys, it has to feel great having something like this go so well!
Trough WinAmp I discovered MP2. Then MP3. I even created an amazing skin for Winamp back in 2000, before they went with the scalable one. It was hellish popular back in the days, it was a Puma skin :)
The irony here, is that individuals and through them society are hurt tremendously by the loss of individual privacy, while institutions and society as a whole are benefitted by becoming more transparent. Yet, the balance of power is such that it is the individuals who are disclosing more and more information and the institutions who are controlling it.

Seems like there's room for another series of disruptions in the relationship between individuals and governments. I have a hunch that a society where rationality, privacy, and data security are truly prized would have economic advantages over the current ones.
These are the advantages and disadvantages I can think of:

Pros

* Probably much cheaper than a traditional helicopter - you don't need any complicated mechanical components like swash plates.
* Increased redundancy would be much easier - you can wire up batteries in parallel, and it can no doubt fly with a significant number of broken propellers. The only other component is the microcontroller, which is cheap enough that you could have multiple copies of it.
* Looks like you could fly it indoors fairly safely (in large buildings). With minor modifications it could be flown closer to buildings more safely than a traditional helicopter.
* Easy to remote control, as already demonstrated in the video! This could make a great medical evacuation helicopter.
* Should be virtually maintenance-free. The only thing I can think that you'd need to do is replace the battery.

Cons:

* Undoubtedly has a much shorter flight time than non-electric helicopters.
* Lower capacity than (most) traditional helicopters.
* Can't autogyro, so running out of fuel is much more serious!
* Possibly costs more to run when you consider the cost of replacement batteries. Hard to say for sure.

It's certainly not a worthless design.
Sennheiser HD-280 Pros. Run about $90 on Amazon ( http://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-HD-280-Pro-Headphones/dp/B0... )

With music playing through them, you'll never hear the darkness creeping in.

Without music playing through them, the screams in your head will be louder than they've ever been before.

Highly recommended.
I recently made a blog post on which universities have the most successful startup founders: http://minimaxir.com/2013/07/alma-mater-data/

In the post, I made it clear where the data came from, how I processed it, and additionally provided a raw copy of the data so that others could check against it.

It turns out the latter decision was especially a good idea because I received numerous comments that my data analysis was flawed, and I agree with them. Since then, I've taken additional steps to improve data accuracy, and I always provide the raw data, license-permitting.
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Central planning does not require micro-management and one could easily imagine a system where central planning provides a person with more options than what a free market provides a lower income individual.
Soft jobs for favoured ex-politicians and ex-bureaucrats won't show up as campaign or lobbying expenditure either.

Oh, and then there are the insider trading tips too.
> The media have a voracious appetite for controversy, because 2-hour news cycle.

I think you mean "...because advertising".
Apple seems to be doing pretty well on the profit front given it's $147bn in cash reserves, all hail their profiteering but a large part of that has been acquired through blatantly milking a naive user base.

http://bgr.com/2013/10/02/apple-cash-reserves-147-billion-do...
Well, sure. If you think about inequality in terms of variance from the mean income, an increase in the size of the very wealthy class (an "outlier class") increases the variance in the same way that an increase in the size of the extremely poor class (another, less extreme "outlier class") does.
Indeed. I still use the 100% perfect XMMS 1.

Audacity and XMMS 2 both were a lot worse for some reason (like slower, weird bugs, needlessly unneeded server/client model, ...)

In XMMS 1, you can have 10000s of songs in the playlist (i.e. your whole harddisk), and jump to any of them immediately by just pressing the "j" key and typing part of its name, and it remains blazing fast.

Not sure how Winamp was these days. I remember it was good at version 2, then starting from version 5 ("2 + 3"), it became bloated.
Ask HN: What is the highest amount a pre-revenue company has been acquired for?
Instagram went for $1 Billion. Is there a history of other companies being acquired for more?
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The point is, the people who benefit from those tax laws and the people who made those tax laws are, to a first approximation, the same people.
I wouldn't mind this segmentation if you could easily upgrade the available flash via your own microSD card, but this option is quickly disappearing, even on the Android side (especially among the "flagship" Google nexus devices). So that sucks.
Ah OK, that is definitely true.
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I'm looking into that. Running a VM is easy, I just want to figure out how to deploy docker containers.
Oh this takes me back... I redesigned WinAmp's website back in 2004 or 3 for Odopod in San Francisco. The wonderful Andre Adreev assisted (he now running http://www.dresscodeny.com/ ).

Here are some comps for those interested...
http://smokinggun.com/projects/winamp/index.php?id=0
noooooooooooooooooo.....
This seems like a good time to plug my latest open source project: libgroove [1]

It's a cross-platform music player backend C library. It's meant to be generic enough to be the backend of any music player.

I use it as the backend for Groove Basin [2] which just might hit milestone 1.0.0 around December 20.

[1]: https://github.com/superjoe30/libgroove
[2]: https://github.com/superjoe30/groovebasin
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The NYT blog doesn't once mention Mixlr and instead refers constantly to this being something offered by OFA... so the reverse of what you state here.
5,000 apps in Google Play Store are "thief-ware"
You can install Tonido (http://www.tonido.com) in your desktop and listen to your music from anywhere (iOS, Android, Windows 8). Your data, music and app is all local to system but still can access from anywhere as cloud.
Winamp + Napster reminds me of 1999.
I believe that's true for contributions from private companies who don't have to report their earnings. Maybe a finance guru can pitch in, but don't public companies like IBM and Microsoft have to declare such donations in their earnings statements?
Nice idea but your not really selling why a worker coop is a better way of structuring a company - you also neglect the issue of how you access capital and remain a coop.
Amazon RDS has a free tier if you qualify.

I really like Heroku's Postgres service which is free to an extent and then very reasonable for varying levels of production-ness.
I think foobar2000 was created by a (the?) developer who worked on Winamp many years ago, before it was bought.
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Noooooooo.....

(tears)

Anyway, why are they shutting down?
Like most dead closed-source apps, probably licensing.
I had trouble parsing that statement as well. I think at heart it comes down to how inequality is a very slippery if not vacuous concept, but here's the most plausible explanatory mental model I could come up with:

Let's define the elite as people who have, say, 10 times the income/wealth/power as the median person. As inequality increases, the cutoff point for people who have 10x what the median person has decreases from 99th percentile to 98th percentile (or whatever).

This is workable numerically if you think of income as falling along a Pareto distribution. I'm not sure it's workable as a definition of the elite, though: why would the 98th percentile have more access to power with more inequality? Although they outstrip the median fine, they'd be even further away from the 99th or 99.9th percentile.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruritania
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The problem with these types of discussions is that everyone has a different idea of what "socialism" and "capitalism" mean. Scandinavia can be very capitalistic. For example, they perform quite well on the Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic Freedom[1]. I consider this is a reasonable metric for how capitalistic a society is.

Some people, as I believe you did, use socialism to describe strong social safety nets and social programs -- essentially strong wealth redistribution. That is separate from the capitalism I mentioned above; with these definitions, capitalism and socialism can work hand-in-hand, whereas they could not if you take socialism to mean what I would call "communism."

[1] http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
I would say that the enforcement of private property is what requires the top-down approach. Not the abolishment of private property.

e.g: If I would build my house at someones former vast private property (land). The property owner would somehow have to enforce he's or her's private property. Today this is done through the state.