skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just an FYI really; I have a pal who's the sound engineer with Introducing Live, who are touring Daft Punk's Discovery and playing the lot actually live, which had never been attempted before, even by DP themselves. His main gig is writing pro music software, so he knows his waveforms. Pretty neat, so if you want to know how it's done, that's another source. Some might be interested in links. Google's easy, so here's their tube: http://www.youtube.com/user/introducinglive
Photocopiers and books never stopped authors. It's all about the packaging and the full-service offered. A book is nice because it is bound, or comes with extra goodies. If your software is just software, well, step up your sales game.
I have a lot of valuable data in Evernote and haven't experienced any of the syncing issues described in these threads, but have two significant issues:

1) when you reach a critical amount of notes in the system, the tool itself doesn't offer enough functionality to deal with this and I tend to stop looking for old notes. 2-3 times a year i go in and try to manage all of it, but I feel like a lot of new Evernote development is around creating shiny new toys for new customer bases but not actually iterating the core of the tool itself.

2) i hate the flat green Evernote homescreen on iOS that was introduced in recent versions. in fact, i almost never open it anymore. i enter data on the desktop and will open Evernote on iOS to access 2-3 notes, but searching across notes and folders is confusing.

{snark}

1) I think that Evernote feels like the ACT! or Goldmine contact managers of today... exciting (ahem) productivity apps of yesteryear that gets disrupted hard and suddenly by something out of left field. I can't wait.

2)But, ya know.. at least their physical goods marketplace is bringing them revenue

{/snark}
I don't agree with the rationale, but the FAQ does indeed reflect what is currently expected on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572466
> Instruction codings are complex and irregular in size and structure, with multiple addressing modes and no consistent memory placement for operands, very often multiple possible encodings for the same instruction

It's only complex and irregular if you look at it wrong. ;)

The x86 (like the 808{5,6} and the Z80) instructions look organised in an octal format: ftp://mipt.cc/Opcode.txt

I haven't inspected the code in any detail to see if it takes advantage of this.
This Self-Cleaning Plate May Mean You’ll Never Have To Do The Dishes
While I respect the effort, this doesn't really do much about thwarting the NSA, assuming that's a big part of the reason for this. The suspicion is that they have the master keys anyway and can decrypt SSL/TLS at will.
If there's a pill that allows me to learn stuff as readily as a child, perfect pitch is kinda low on my list of to-do's.
> the fact is that the reactor(s) are not contained

But the gist of the bullshit is that Fukushima poses a threat to Americans.

Contained or not, Fukushima never has and never will pose a threat to any Americans on the US mainland, or any other country for that matter.
Cosmetic neuropharmacology seems to have a miracle drug for everything and the side-effects to match: ie armodafinil, adderall, on and on.
This has been covered on HN a few times, and I should point out that the sample size on this is in the low tens, so don't get too excited.

But every time I see it, I remember a really odd side effect that I had while on a mood stabilizer (not sure which -- could well have been valproic acid, the same drug referenced in the article). A few days into taking the drug, I found that music that I knew well sounded different; specifically, it sounded like it was being played back too fast, as if you were playing 44.1khz audio at 48khz. I initially figured I screwed something up on my machine, but tested myself with various other songs on other devices, and every one of them was too sharp.

This continued for several days and was the primary reason I ended up switching to a different medication; I don't have absolute pitch but I have very finely tuned relative pitch and that's not something I would be happy about giving up. Discontinuing the meds fixed it within a day, but I've always wondered exactly why that happened. Very odd.
triclosan is also found in toothpaste which is more readily absorbed compared to skin contact.
The Entropy of Nations
Yeah, it is, I just read up on it, it's this function: http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v3.12.6/fs/namespace.c#L404

From what I can gather, if the file handle isn't in write mode or is a special file, then we call __mnt_want_write, http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v3.12.6/fs/namespace.c#L305, otherwise we clone the write handle or something.

I'm surprised how simple this code seems.
Public perception is also the reason that Microsoft can't hire machine learning and search quality engineers, because the question "Do you want to work at Microsoft on search quality?" starts with "Do you want to work at Microsoft?" and for many people the answer to that question is "no" regardless of the remainder of the sentence.
Note that you can link with MSVCRT.DLL to get an even smaller binary. Now you have a tiny emulator binary built from a tiny emulator source.
Yes, I agree that starting by caching when you have something that could be a lot faster by just doing smarter things with the code in the first place is not the right path to go. However, my point was just that there are many levels of caching going on in a computer and often times developers aren't even aware of them.

For example, how many people write their own file system or memory based caching scheme or jump right to memcache to cache database queries, when they really could just cache the whole page using Varnish or Squid? Just understanding that there are those various levels of caching from processor to memory to filesystem to web server to opcode caching (or JIT'ing) to memcaching to database caching. A lot of developers just flat out don't understand that all of those things exist and what to do make the most of them in the right situations.
Agreed. Great copy.
I don't think Bing is as good as Google, no other search engine in the world can compete with Google, at least when it comes to content in English. Google can almost read my mind, I can't say the same about competing search engines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7011954

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6504324
I'm not sure libpurple needs to be modified. This all sounds like things application developers can already accomplish by using it right.
Even that seems a bit questionable...

Living near Tokyo, after 3/11 I rather compulsively monitored the various web-available radiation counters, and many of them also stored historical data. The readings were almost universally so close to normal background radiation levels that it was questionable whether there was any difference at all. There was, as I recall, one notable spike at some point, but it was only notable because it was above background level; it was way too small to have any health impact.

[Radiation levels were a little higher in places like Chiba that are closer to Fukushima, but still quite firmly in the "no possible effect" region.]
"Writing your own OS." Eh? Seriously? Maybe if processes were somehow linked to Dogecoin and DOOM.

I'd say if there's something that doesn't have a driver, and you need it, that's motivation enough. I remember one of my coworkers busting out a driver for the cuecat and some random sony vaio peripherals.
This is very interesting to me. A while back I was fascinated with the concept of absolute pitch (some people have a qualitatively different, categorical perception of pitch) and did quite a bit of research on the topic. One resource that I invite anyone that is interested to read is the research done by this guy:

http://aruffo.com/eartraining/

Ignore the fact that he has a "learn AP here!" link - usually that is a signal that it's a scam of some kind, but in this case he has quite a bit of interesting material to back his theories if you go to "AP Research".
It is also guaranteed to be extremely stable, and will be supported nearly forever as some important libs just won't get ported.
There's a strange preoccupation with perfect pitch. It's not very useful today since there are inexpensive electronic and mechanical tools to give you absolute pitch. It wasn't even that useful previously.

I believe that people confuse it with relative pitch which usually translates to the skill of transcribing and memorizing melodies. This is very useful as a musician or even in daily life sometimes. There are people who have an innate talent for that too, but it's unrelated to perfect pitch.
> This is because we already know that the NSA get GCHQ to do little favours for them to get around domestic spying laws.

It's just as illegal under U.S. law to have GCHQ do it for you as for NSA to do it directly.

This is a well-discussed loophole already and the courts have already made clear it's illegal.

E.g. you have a Fourth Amendment right to avoid having your postal mail (or any other papers or effects) searched unreasonably. You do not have a Fourth Amendment right to avoid having your UPS parcel searched by UPS.

Does this mean that the government can simply tell UPS to open your UPS parcel to evade the Fourth Amendment? It's not UPS's personal property so they have no Fourth Amendment protection to the parcel. And you have no Fourth Amendment protection from UPS.

But as it turns out once UPS acts under the direction and control of the government, they also have to comply with the strictures on the government. So they cannot legally be made to violate the Fourth Amendment on behalf of the government.

The big catch is that a third party may voluntarily divulge information (e.g. if they rip open your parcel by accident while throwing it out the truck on Christmas Eve and a bomb spills out, they can tell the government). But they can't do so on request of the government.

And so it is for GCHQ and NSA. GCHQ could conceivably tip off the NSA if they happen to get evidence of a US person plotting a terrorist act (much like the USA might tip off Germany to a German national, if it were discovered). But the NSA can't ask GCHQ to deliver information on a US person. At least, not legally, but if you're assuming the NSA will just break the law anyways you're already screwed.
If your startup is actually shutting down, then this period you're in is as good as a notice period. I suspect you might find chatting with the Pay With Tab guys interesting, they were in a similar boat and also wrote that article about startup failure: https://medium.com/on-startups/b0722086c0f7
Google Glass prescription lenses to hit the market within weeks
For the PKI/CA part, yes (kind of.) There, the NSA can command a CA based in the U.S. to issue them an intermediary CA cert which would allow them to do active MITM for nearly all servers in the world. (They would still need the individual service providers' private keys to do passive MITM and decrypt already-captured traffic, though.)

With just self-signed certificates, the NSA would need an individual's private key. The problem here is that there's no third party to confirm that public key X really belongs to your friend Jane and not the NSA, and thus it's hard to confirm that you're actually speaking directly to Jane, and not to Jane through the NSA. This is a hard problem, and one of the most effective workarounds we have is the support in OTR (typically used over XMPP) for the socialist millionaire protocol, which is a way for two people to confirm that they both know some low-entropy secret that they exchanged over an outside channel/in person, e.g. "batman", without revealing what the secret actually is. If the protocol fails, you can just break the connection.

(Yes, I know that all of this assumes that the client software is written right, and that the NSA hasn't broken e.g. AES-GCM or chacha20poly1305 in TLS 1.2. As of right it doesn't look that way.)

(I'm also acutely aware that our hypothetical attack model doesn't factor in all of the NSA's other tricks, but that's a very deep rabbit hole.)
I found Quora answers on this topic to be good. http://www.quora.com/Would-you-currently-read-Godel-Escher-B...
Regarding the commercial BASIC project mentioned in this letter - Gates facilitated non-student Allen coming onto the Harvard campus, to use a computer they did not have permission to use for their commercial project. The computer they were using without authorization was one which was being used by the US military. Like Mark Zuckerberg in later years, Gates was called up before the Harvard Ad board for this.

From Paul Allen's book "Idea Man" -

"Returning to Aiken late one night after a fast-food run, we were stopped by the campus police and asked for our IDs...Harvard split the computer’s maintenance costs with the U.S. Defense Department, based on usage. I’d relied on Bill’s password account for my work on the simulator, which ate a lot of processor time. When the January bills came due, Harvard’s share was up conspicuously, with one student the prime culprit: William Henry Gates III. (he appeared before the university’s administrative board that summer...)"
I'm honestly surprised how simple this code is, now that I started reading it. Julia, you've shown me in one succinct article that the linux kernel isn't a big scary black box of a place, and that maybe I too can hack on it or write modules.

The kernel code also reminds me a lot of the code to Node.js circa 2009/10, which I find a little strange.
Will The iPhone 6 And iWatch Be Made Out Of The New Curved Gorilla Glass?
I'm interested in it from a purely philosophical / phenomenological point of view. It is as if most people are colorblind, and some people can see colors. You certainly don't say that yellow is "higher" than red but "lower" than blue.

If you listen to how people with absolute pitch describe their experience, you will realize that they are experiencing perceptions that you cannot. That is interesting.
TL;DR: Anecdotes of how my perfect pitch does and doesn't work

I discovered I had perfect pitch as a 7-year-old on the way back from church. I was newly a cathedral chorister annd had had a lot of classical music lessons (piano, singing, even recorder) and exposure since I was 4. I just remembered what C was, assuming other people could do that.

However, it's variable, and I had to work on tuning over the next few years to calibrate my sense of pitch, because choirs go out of tune when unaccompanied, as we sometimes were. It was good practice, but I did become somewhat obsessed with knowing "correct" pitch. There are others with much more finely-tuned perfect pitch, including some who claim to hear 1/8 semitone very easily. I was never that precise, and even having not played or sung much music for a few years recently (never really bought into the magic, but loved the music, so not much church really) found my pitch calibration had dropped a semitone, although this could be general memory confusion because of all the Baroque music I did at one point in time.
It's fast, but I agree you need to add "top" lists. People don't really know what to search for when it comes to movies, they just want someone to tell them what's good/popular. You should curate lists like "Top Action Movies", and then have the search tool as a side feature.
Sometimes that's the answer. But just yesterday this set of library vcxproj s ended up being generated by CMake... with one supported platform each and absolute paths in them. Not worth even checking into the depot, nevermind including in your .sln, not that the first person to take a crack at it didn't try checking them in and adding them to the sln...

It's not even that great a library from what I can tell.
A prof gave me a copy when I was in undergrad and I read it over the summer and it really inspired me. I have gone back and reread sections of it over the years. I think it is still relevant and recommend it. It is definitely worth the time, my only advice is to not to get hung up on sections you don't understand, dog ear those pages and go back to them years later and it is fun to see how now those sections make sense and don't seem complex at all.
The parent company is famous for its dirigist attitude, it's hard to believe a subsidiary would do this on a large scale.

Still, Amazon is also famous for being unpredictable.
I have worked with recruiters before and just wanted to say a few things about this:

1. The Word Doc is not the fault of the Developer.

Every time I send my CV out it is a PDF, but Recruiters usually ask me to send them a Doc instead.
"How can I hire a developer who can’t even understand file formats?"
This is a wrong conclusion I think, the Developer probably knows that a PDF would be better, but he has no choice if he wants to work with the recruiter.

2. how relevant is a traditional CV

I don't know how relevant a traditional CV is, but I know that there are great developers that simply can not pump everything they do onto GitHub because the type of Contract they have with their employers.
This means that a CV would be the only way to show what they have done in those years without breaking their Contracts. Or do you think that someone that can do a little Play project on GitHub really does not even have to show what else he did?

3. "desperate, so driven by money"

Every time I work with a recruiter it works like this: The recruiter contacts me and tells me about a company that would be interested in working with me and I send him my CV.
The reason I send him my CV is because it is no work at all and I want to find out if it is a interesting company. This doesn't mean that I am desperate and so far money didn't even come up once.
And also I have not "gone to" a suit-and-tie recruiter the suit-and-tie recruiter came to me.
If you're that ignorant about Sanders, I hope that you are not an American. He's about as pro-liberty as it gets, unlike say Rand Paul, who only gives a crap when it suits him politically.
If you run the numbers, it is at the same level as some 9/11 theories.
The comments really confused me. I thought the article was about delivering a pitch for your startup.

I have a habit of reading the comments on HN before reading the article. Helps me confer some context to it usually, and also see if it's worth spending my time. (Yes I know I should be making my own decision.)
Fascinating. Did it seem like a fixed pitch increase on everything, or did it actually mess with your relative pitch? Did you play around with a musical instrument during this?
I can sort of respect not taking a position if you haven't researched it... but on the other hand, why even mention it if you haven't researched it enough to take a position? The claim smells like Grade A Bullshit, and while that's not necessarily enough to dismiss it outright, it does mean that you should check into it before spreading it around.

Some brief research indicates that there is a national stockpile of potassium iodide maintained for emergency response to domestic nuclear disasters. The tablets in this stockpile don't last forever, and have to be replenished. This is probably just a stockpile replenishment.

More info here:

http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/emerg-preparedness/about-emerg-...
I thought it was great the first time I read it.

Then I read "I am a strange loop" and am now of the opinion Hofstadter is full of shit.

The description of Godel's incompleteness theorem is still excellent
They have verified artists program (http://rapgenius.com/verified-artists) where artists pop into explain the lyrics themselves. It might not be perfect, but there are only so many players in the "song meaning" arena & I bet RG is pretty high up there.
As someone who lives in an earthquake zone I think this theory isn't consensus by any means (that earthquakes release tension and reduce the probability of a followup earthquake). That is no one actually knows if having a strong or a weak earthquake increases or decreases the probability of having another one. Once we can dissect the earth and model accurately what's going on in there it will become physics, until then it's more like geology... Tsunamis can also be triggered by earthquakes in different locations.

I'll agree with the part that earthquakes aren't independent events...

EDIT: "The opposite occurred in Turkey along the great North Anatolian fault. A large quake in 1939 sent stresses farther down the fault, triggering a 60-year series of quakes whose latest installment was the deadly Izmit earthquake of 1999. The stresses have risen in the crust near the city of Istanbul, and a quake there is now considered more likely. " - http://geology.about.com/library/weekly/aa022303a.htm
Yeah, we still use them. They work without any problems on Ubuntu.
How can you optimize for niches in new networks like that?
Fantastic, I'm in the market for a USB gigabit ethernet adapter as the thunderbolt one from Apple (and all other thunderbolt adapters it would seem) disable the sleep on windows. I found this on Amazon in the US under the brand "Unitek."

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EHDNAOE/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
Wow, now that's a blast from the past! Never really thought I'd see this on HN.

I heartily recommend Chris Aruffo's work, as well. All the stuff in Research Phases 1-17 in "AP Research" is really quite fascinating and well cited. I hung on every new post as they came and was convinced that by the end of it he'd have acquired perfect pitch, but alas 10 years later it seems it was not to be. Still an interesting read, though.
Not sure if this fits the bill -- http://theopenphotoproject.org
"Alpha particles in sunlight"? Come on. This kind of nonsense just gives ammunition to the crazies.
The "big catch" is what makes all that cooperation possible. GHCQ just happens to be spying on Americans and then giving the information to the NSA; the NSA returns the favor with a wink and a nod. Sure, nobody ever demanded that the other side do this, but both sides know that if they continue to give each other these "presents" then they can continue to exploit the loophole.
Intervals seemed to remain the same, but it was like the root was shifted up, IIRC. I really wish I had studied it more when it was going on (not sure I did anything but listen), but I was a bit too freaked out, honestly.
(1) is debatable. The cost of living during development and the loss of potential savings count for price. If you estimate that as, say, 50k for a year-long project, then you need to do 50k of sales to break even on your investment. That shouldn't be a high number for a niche product that gets used, but I think it tends to be in software.

(2) I agree with. It doesn't matter what's best if your product doesn't sell. I think developers need publishing labels (read: app stores) to monetize. Users might pay not pay for note-keeping applet, but they might pay for a fork of it in their GitHub account that's been audited for security & privacy by a reputable publisher. Social P2P software can also be designed to exchange receipts of purchase on connection. Users would be able to disable it, but failing to publish a receipt for software would be awkward in business contexts.