skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, even if you sum any number of signals, as long as each component signal is bandlimited then the resulting signal is also bandlimited and can be reconstructed perfectly according to the Sampling Theorem. This may be counterintuitive, but it's provable. (I could prove it using just what I remember from a couple of semesters of undergrad signal processing courses.)

Of course a low sampling rate can result in errors, but what the sampling theorem says is that we can calculate exactly how high a rate we need to always perfectly reconstruct signals in a given band. This doesn't change just because your signal is constructed from many component signals.

Of course, if you think the math is wrong, then you have an easy way to disprove it: Construct a counterexample out of "many waves interacting" and show that the resulting signal isn't perfectly reconstructed as the Sampling Theorem claims. (Or perform a double-blind test that shows any human can detect the difference between a 192 kHz recording and the same recording downsampled to 48 kHz.)
Cleaver: 30-second slideshows for hackers

http://jdan.github.io/cleaver
OK, to get this out of the way: the law in the jurisdiction he's being charged in explicitly considers this to be rape. It's not trumped up by the media, it's how the law is written.

> It's sad to see that the presumption now is that a man is guilty

The presumption is that he is accused, and he ran away and never had a trial. You can't really run away from the trial forever, hide behind the "presumed innocent" doctrine, and say it makes you a saint. It just means you haven't been convicted, because it was mechanically hard to get you to the right place to convict you.

> would you consider it rape and a crime if a woman said she was on the pill, and slept with you, and it turns out she was lying about it?

Condoms offer protection from STIs, as well as pregnancy. Lying about using a condom potentially exposes your partner to myriad health problems, in addition to unwanted pregnancy. So no, it isn't equivalent to lying about using the pill - lying about the pill doesn't change your risk of contracting HPV, HIV, etc.

If a woman lies about using birth control, and she does conceive, she's either going to have an abortion (which is physically and psychologically traumatic), or go through pregnancy and birth. The father has some obligation (which he could probably be free from if he can prove she lied), but there's not really any physical risk there. He's not going to catch a life-threatening disease from someone lying about the pill.
With some of them it's based on the fact that your child doesn't have his or her own account, and likely they're advertising to you.
I'm from that area. "Stupid hicks" isn't entirely inaccurate. As in other areas ranging from religion to economics, these salt-of-the-Earth folks are culturally conditioned to adopt the views of whoever gets to speak first.
Snowden isn't real, a 'Facebook Ghost Profile' is.
Edward Snowden nominated for TIME's person of the year
In a proper production environment, you just compact each slave one at a time because you have a replica set rather than a single instance.

Of course, if you aren't replicating your business's production database, you have a whole world of problems.
I love djangothis, https://github.com/amitu/djangothis. http://amitu.com/2013/09/djangothis-for-blogging/.

I am biased because I built it, but if you like jekyll, but prefer django/python, you should give djangothis a try.
> I mean, why are you advertising at all on videos clearly geared towards children.

Are you saying toys, video games, and movie trailers for children should not be advertised to children? To who then, to their parents?
>What do you guys think of having the component manufacturer source the parts?

I'm assuming you're asking about having the contract manufacturer source the parts, right? This is typically called "turnkey" contract manufacturing as opposed to "consignment" where you source the parts yourself. It really depends on the kind of product you're building and your ability to negotiate with component distributors an manufacturers. If it's your first time around and you're optimizing for speed, turnkey is probably the way to go. If you need specialty parts and you know how to source them more effectively than your CM, then consignment may make more sense.
It might be hard to find for the money they're offering.
Someone who was paid to move to a town so they could be on a jury could never get onto a jury.
How much does a phone line, a bank account, and a sales-person costs on average?
Hey HNers -- I run TrepBin and just wanted to get your feedback. Only a handful of people have purchased the deal; I'd like to know why YOU haven't bought it.

Some possibilities:
-it's not a great deal
-I'm not looking for web analytics apps
-your website is too ghetto/I don't trust you
-???

Thanks!

Ted
Yes, but it's more complex than for example, replacing MySQL with PostgreSQL, where the basic structure is going to be the same.

You have to think and adapt to convert from a RDBS to MongoDB
Might be system dependent, though couldn't help but notice a non-trivial difference in the OpenGL rendering quality, between Firefox and Chrome.

Chrome 32 beta on OS X, produced an anti-aliased canvas, whereas Firefox 25 had the dreaded jaggies @ 1680x1050
Trying to Build the Next Amazon—in Nigeria
And its greatly appreciated.
Because both of them suck. They suck thousand times more when they try to reach outside of their native environment, like third-party Facebook comments or third-party sign up with Facebook/G+. The problem is that both G+ and Facebook try to be the 'ecosystem of the web', and that's wrong and everyone hates that.
As a registrar we get notices from ICANN regarding taking over a defunct registrar. Bidding on this is obviously a non starter.

ICANN basically asks you what you would charge the domain owners and also if you are willing to pay ICANN per name transfered.

Per their RFI:

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Regarding renewals:

4. What fees would you charge (in USD) for .com renewals during the first renewal term following the bulk transfer? (Fees will be evaluated after rounding to the nearest dollar.)

$36 and up (0 points)

$30-35 (5 points)

$25-29 (7 points)

$20-24 (10 points)

$15-19 (12 points)

$14 or less (15 points)

Regarding the "kickback"

8. Would your registrar be willing to make a payment to receive the de-accredited registrars’ domain names? If so, how much would your registrar be willing to pay per domain name transferred? If not, please indicate whether your registrar would require payment to receive the names, and what payment amount would it require.
If selected as gaining registrar, my registrar will pay this amount per name transferred.

OR If selected as gaining registrar, my registrar would require payment by ICANN in the amount (flat fee only)

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You will, most won't.
Introducing GraphLab Notebook
Try to imagine that this is the stock market: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Populatio...
Paper also had great value for document storage for thousands of years.
This still says nothing about what they are willing or even expecting to pay. Pretty much all I can infer is that they are not interested in trying to attract people based on seeing a ludicrously high number in a posting.
RethinkDB and MongoDB, the value is the same.
Come on.....at least look at it before commenting.

"start vendor/conemu-maximus5/ConEmu.exe /Title Cmder /LoadCfgFile ../../config/ConEmu.xml"

It's ConEmu with a modified config file !!! Also .....don't want to be negativist...but Monokai and portable mode have been part of ConEmu since.....forever.

Again....maybe it's just me....but why try to "spin up" a ConEmu config file as ...something else instead of just ...you know...show the world a customzied ConEmu ?
"It's stuck as web development language due to design constraints"

PHP comes with a CLI SAPI that allows you to use it on the command line just like python, ruby etc and has done so since version 4.2.0 (released April 2002). I've written and maintained many cli tools and deamons in PHP over the last 11 years with great success so please get your facts straight before perpetuating falsehoods .. sorry, but I'm getting pretty sick of the ill-informed PHP bashing going on round these parts.
Logged in just to comment on this as well. Housing and construction? We already have way too many homes people can no longer afford either do to foreclosure or income limitations. Manufacturing? Have you seen where real wages are at? Maybe business capex, but there isn't a whole lot of disposable income at the moment if you have a family and make under $100K/year.

And finance. Oh finance. Like we need Yet Another Financial Product To Fuck Us.

Returns? Its hard to generate returns when the majority of your population is shifting towards retirement (in the US) and the wages of your up and coming audience/consumers (18-45) are anemic at best (if there at all).
And if they ever need to raise money and you are not, at that moment, vital to the company, your 0.25% becomes 0.05%.

Assuming success at a $50 million valuation, you did all that sweat equity for 25K, while probably giving up a lot more in salary.
It sounded like they might hire against it in their description. That's not much compared to a potential salary over a few years.
Because there are very few ways of receiving payments from multiple source types reliably. PayPal is not reliable.
Then I guess cash and gold have a fatal flaw too?
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From my view, it's the chipmakers looking at the high-end of the market getting locked up by Apple, Samsung, and the like.

These chipmakers need the growth, but the low-end chips are too cheap to make the margins add anything substantial. So, hey!, let's see if we can get the low-end chips into EVERYTHING and sort it out later.

There are obviously industrial and commercial applications aplenty for this, but does every lightbulb in your house need to be networked?
Climate Change and Nuclear Power [pdf]
Not unless they offer a large discount -- Stripe can't process transactions for a million dollars or more: https://support.stripe.com/questions/what-is-the-maximum-amo...
this is awesome, can you implement posh-git style change notes too?
http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/speed-up-apt-get-downloads-wi...
site's down, perhaps a sign from the domain gods??
According to the following page Miley Cyrus has 25% of the vote...WTF?

http://poy.time.com/2013/11/25/vote-now-who-should-be-times-...
Same situation here, I think I spend way too much time on HN already.
I was a teenager during the the dot-com bust in the Silicon Valley (Palo Alto/Stanford to be precise). Even PhD's and extremely driven & accomplished people could not find jobs. They simply weren't there. In the event that there is a bubble in start up investing I don't think that it will be as bad as it was when and if it deflates. The primary reason I think this is because the amount of demand for skilled software/hardware workers has grown to such huge & global proportions that it is not possible for VC's to affect it meaningfully anymore. Although I guess you could have said the same thing about housing in the U.S. back in the 2000s.
To start, you can instrument the loop using a function like clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, ...)[0], or you can compile with the -pg flag and use gprof[1]. If you instrument, put your instrumentation outside the loop and divide by the number of iterations. From there you can start researching tools like valgrind (and its different internal modules like cachegrind, helgrind, etc.), OProfile, and others.

Your available tools will be different once you start using CUDA or OpenCL; you'll need to look for profiling methods designed for those environments at that point.

[0] http://man.cx/clock_gettime
[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gprof+tutorial
Stock options and equity make you a half-partner, they rarely bestow you more than a honorary partnership. Just ask Marissa Mayer.
Ah, so everyone is pulled toward the average of what people think, not the average of what people are. My reading nerfhammer as saying the latter is, I think, what is responsible for my unease with his characterization.

Distributions still overlap, though.
One thing to note that I left out above, I also use the same severs for mysql. Our mysql working set is something like 30gb now, so I have a decent chunk of that ram apportioned to mysql.

Additionally our mysql db sees many more queries than mongo, so the overbuilt hardware is a bit less overbuilt when taking that into consideration :)
It assumes that being subjective blocks objective arguments

Take this as you will, but I would (subjectively, natch) contend that the only objective argument is that objectivity doesn't exist. There is always selectivity in play when making an argument, both by what is included to support the argument and by what is not. So, subjectivity itself blocks objective arguments. I'm willing to be proven wrong, though.
A letter to the fans of A Dark Room
A double-album (more or less) of songs and dance music.
Although it's nice to see a politician taking an interest, that's the mildest possible letter. The reason I say this is I can't imagine any politician, of any party not agreeing with it. "Of course," they'll say. "Intelligence gathering should not be abused. Next."

If a politician actually wanted something to change, I think they'd write a more focussed letter, with actual demands for things to change - eg how long data should be stored, independent inquiries, codified powers, public reporting of statistics on surveillance, etc.
and make a more than a mental note to cancel the domain name if you don't use it in a year's time. It's the re-occuring domain charges that really get you in the end. (no pun intended).
Also very true. These guys will definitely have to pound the payment to drum up staffing agency business.
And broken commenting. I finally gave in and linked it to G+ and now I can't comment at all. Totally, utterly broken. I click on the comment box, a blank pop-up shows up for a second then goes away and I can't type at all.
Yeah, I really don't want my personality associated with the company I work for. I love my company and I believe in the things we do, but I am so much more than an employee. My Facebook profile says nothing about who I work for, nor do I talk about my company to friends and family except if they're looking for a job or if I'm directly asked what I do/what I'm working on.

I wouldn't talk bad about my company and I would agree that people who talk bad about their company yet continue to work there have some strange priorities, but I don't talk much good about them either. I just don't talk about it at all.
Processed food vendors get away with some pretty awful stuff, like Vitamin Water claiming their customers couldn't possibly confuse their product with something healthy.
If market conditions warranted it, someone would find a way to make a profit on modest construction. I would think that the Bay area is bursting with people yearning to buy a real house for around $350K or less. If you could magically find the land to create such a subdivision, I'd bet you'd sell out in days.
Googlers should be banned from HN as they skew many Google-related threads / comments a bit too much.
Not bashing, I actually want to know: How did a terminal emulator get blown up to 250MB?
A Theory of Hygienic Macros (2008) [pdf]
Data recovery guy here...

Failure of external drives has mostly to do with their handling.

They get bumped around while runnning.

People trip over the cords and knock them over.

They stack them like pancakes and they overheat.
They block the fans and cause overheating.

Many enclosures are designed to look stylish - but don't cool well.

Heads fly at nanometers over the surface - they dont tolerate bumps well.

The drives we recover from external enclosures appear to be the same as bare drives that we recover.
Now how about something about their relationship with the venture capitalist, Gustavo Fring? The efforts they had to go to in order to convince him that they were personally trustworthy, his nefarious plans to steal their IP and put them out of business, etc?
In the general case, equity could serve to create a realistic in-between position between employee and partner. An employee with equity might not have control or responsibility for the entire business, but they have a more direct stake in its success. So there's that.

In this specific case, Penny Arcade's job offer doesn't mention anything about equity. Their IT guy won't be part of their branding or image, so they don't even get any social equity out of the deal. The IT guy would be an employee, who'd be expected to expend effort like someone who's bootstrapping the business.
Most people wouldn't have thought of using graphics hardware to do physical simulation, especially of fluids.
One feature that I'm waiting for with RethinkDB is unique indexing other than primary key. I frequently use unique indexes, and lacking that feature has been something that has deferred my interest in trying RethinkDB out.
Wow, that's kind of funny, because I didn't even notice that was gone until you mentioned it. I guess I was so used to it that I tuned it out.
But they claim to have added 50 Petabytes of storage in 2 years, which surely runs to over 10K drives per year.

It's a cool story but something just doesn't add up here.
perhaps, but you have a ton of people going through 10 week crash course "learn how to program" courses and pulling down decent jr dev jobs.

there's a whole cottage industry around this, see: starterleague.com

basic html+css with some passing familiarity with Rails/Jquery and some common libraries = 80K, $100/hour programmer bro.

not too far off from '99...
There is nothing to stop you writing persistent PHP socket servers and there are many examples out there.

A quick and easy to digest example of an implementation of memcached in PHP: https://github.com/AndrewRose/cached.php
TeamChat Progress Report
Google has some interesting stats on IPv6 usage: http://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

Currently ~2.53% of traffic going through Google is over IPv6. Adoption Rates:

Belgium: 4.1%
Peru: 4.26%
USA: 4.88%
France: 4.91%
Germany: 5.24%
Romania: 7.63%
Switzerland: 9.47%
not having a SD card nowadays is crazy. Ask ANYONE who has the galaxy nexus S (maybe i have the wrong model... the only nexus without SD slot)

you can't install swype, firefox, google voice and skype on the same phone! and that is a 2 year old model.
I've seen communities that banned flame wars. They succeeded, in the same way that ghost towns have no crime.
Same here. Seems to be an "allow 3rd party cookies" thing. Broken as designed, so no more you tube commenting for me.
By "kids don't watch TV anymore", I assume you're referring to them only watching TV for an average of 20-25 hours per week, or 3-4 hours per day?
From Bruce Schneier:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/jun/26/politics.u...

> "We live in a unique time in our society: the cameras are everywhere, and we can still see them. Ten years ago, cameras were much rarer than they are today. And in 10 years, they'll be so small you won't even notice them."

I'm agnostic on whether the UK is much worse than anywhere else in the developed world. But the main thing I've learned from the recent revelations is that what I can see by looking around me is a very small part of what goes on.
Couldn't it just as easily imply that people reading the /newest page tend to flag NSA stories?
It's also a single-point of failure. I have to wonder what the turnover for these unicorns is. Maybe that's why they're trolling LinkedIn with this stuff.
Then I hope those companies fail because honestly, if you're working a clean efficient 7.5, there is no reason why the work shouldn't get done. Hire GOOD people, not mediocre slaves.
For your consideration...

http://boingboing.net/2013/11/24/before-goldieblox-beasties-...
Most serial killers are born in the month of November?
I'm a big fan of npm but there are unanswered questions here.

1. Why $200,000? Can we get a rough budget so we can understand how it will be used and how long it will last?

2. We should all be thankful for the time and resources Nodejitsu/Joyant/IrisCouch puts into node and npm. That said, wouldn't the projects be better off separated from these businesses with their own funding? If we were donating money to the projects instead of a for profit corp we would have more certainty of how and when the money will be used. "Donating" to Nodejitsu just adds to their bottom line and in reality could be used however they want. If something happens to the business we have no guarantees the money would continue to be used for npm.
YouTube hilariously impotent against ASCII comment pornographers
> Jewelery's value is as a price tag you can wear.

That may have been the case at some point, but it's taken on a life of its own, such that people value it for its own sake. Maybe that will leave the culture if gold's price drops, but I think it won't happen all at once. People care about gold specifically, and diamonds specifically, for weddings. For some reason, but it's there. And I use "shiny" as a half-joking way to describe desire for something unto itself.
There's no node involved in the registry itself. This is purely CouchDB.
Dark Matter Developers != Bad Developers
Hmmm, perhaps I'm old-fashioned but I'd never use a cloud-based development environment such as this, especially something that (seems like in the future it will) incur a monthly fee to use otherwise free libraries.
Really nice work! Helps me a lot in my research.
anigbrowl "the US Constitution needs amending to create an explicit right to privacy"

Actually it shouldn't. U.S. Constitution, Amendment 9:

"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." [1]

If this had had a good-faith interpretation in US constitutional law, many decisions would have been more favorable to individual citizens.

It's not the words that are decisive, it's the cultural willingness to honor them.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_Amendment_to_the_United_...
According to the page Comcast linked to: http://www.worldipv6launch.org/measurements/

in terms of percentage deployment, Google Fiber is at #4 with 67.05% .
Also, sell side users want to max the depth of market and liquidity, and gate-keeping is a problem for them.
Nice Article! thanks
NodeJS by Example
I never post on HN, but I will say I've been using RethinkDB for a couple of weeks now and it's fantastic, the Ruby drivers work great. It's a big change from writing sql for over 10 years, but the pros far out weigh the cons. Going to upgrade now. They are also very helpful in irc.
thank you.

I'm constantly bugged by the level of privilege amongst the startup crowd. Not even just being able to borrow from family, but being able to rely on them, or friends as something to fallback on when it all goes wrong.

There are a lot who seem to be seeking investment and I really don't get it. If your idea needs money then go make money... or don't be so selfish and take the risk and illuminate someone who does have the money. (hint, how dare you ever complain about patents when this is your attitude)

For me not having money rules things out. Borrowing that money to take a risk /is stupid/ it just is - even if it pays off - success is nothing to do with intelligence, sensibility or even doing anything right necessarily. I simply never enter into such an arrangement, nor does the thought realistically warrant consideration - I might lose my home and the few meagre possessions I have - along with an enjoyable lifestyle - if I screw up.
The second rule of backups is, always test your backups. Never trust a cloud service, backup software or tape drive status. Test a restore periodically, or you can't be sure you're backed up at all.