skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm probably going to submit this + some specific privacy/location/etc. protecting services as a turnkey thing to DC/BH 2014. Also looking at a kickstarter for something on the "travel router which isn't a complete piece of crap" front.
Car Pal allows drivers in Chicago to avoid parking tickets.
Nope: http://www.amazon.com/AudioQuest-Diamond-75m-2-6-Cable/dp/B0...
> 96KHz sampled 24bit digital ones!

Surely you mean 192KHz!

No, really: http://xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
Project Wedge: a smart projector for tablets
I guess it must be a joke.... Ha.

This reminds of some guys I knew in the 90's when CD burners were newer that swore that the gold cdr's sounded better then the blue ones. I tried to tell them how digital audio works, but it didn't help. One of them decided the gold ones had a lower error rate. Conclusion in search of a mechanism/hypothesis.

If 16 gauge lamp cord was good enough for Paul Klipsch, then it's good enough for me.
Agreed - we really should encourage contributions to the discussions, rather than "i disagree points".

(I cannot downvote, all I see is the comment in a lighter shade of grey. If I could, would I be able to see the number of downvotes?)
Practicing is VERY under-rated. If I've practiced a speech 4 times, I've nailed it. Practicing with people who are willing to call me out on "Ummms" is great too. Having a hostile practice audience works wonders. It is painful to watch an unprepared speech or demo.

Be VERY careful on alcohol. The downside is enormous. Appearing drunk at a formal speech is a career killer. Even if you have only 1 beer, if someone sees you drinking and then sees you make a mistake, it could be a career killer too.
Reliable storage is hard (thanks ChuckMcM and notacoward for educating us), distributed systems are hard, security is hard, so secure P2P erasure-coded storage is like hard^N. Would you also like it open source so it can't be monetized? Space Monkey looks like they're making good progress but I have some doubts about its scalability.
In other news, sharp knives have been banned because untrained people have cut their fingers with them. Shoemakers and cooks protest to no avail.
> But no, all we're allowed in a supposedly free market is...

What's more likely: that the lack of such a cable is the result of market disruption, or that there simply isn't a market for a cable like that?
You conveniently leave out the reasonable portions of his article. I read your comment before I read the article, and guess what, you have cherry picked specific parts of the article such that Taleb comes off as stupid.

It took me ten seconds to figure out what 'Goldstein and Taleb' refers to: http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~steele/Courses/434/434Con...

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=970480

He specifies that SD is reasonable as a mathematical tool, but not for inference about society, finance, etc.

Your comment appears to have an agenda or ideology underlying it.

Further you don't seem to have read the article fully.

>Ok so he asserted that people should just use mean deviation instead of mean of squares. Guess what though, taking the squares have a purpose: it penalizes big deviations so two situations which have the same mean deviation but one is more stable have different standard deviations. THis information is useful for many things: risk estimation or calculating sample size needed for required confidence (if you need more experiments, how careful should you be with conclusions and predictions etc). He didn't mention how are we going to achieve those with his proposal. Meanwhile he managed to throw insults towards various groups without giving one single example of misuse he describes.

That is pretty much what his entire article is about: taking squares may not be the best idea universally.
Globalization is Zero-Sum.
Amend your Constitution accordingly.
Otherwise your future generations will regret.
Can I get one that says, "Die Techie Scum, and Take Your Tax Contributions and Technology With You!"?
What's the difference between an audiophile and a musicophile?

"An audiophile uses music to listen to stereos."
My personal favorite: http://bobbyowsinski.blogspot.com/2012/05/485-volume-knob.ht...
You can disable third-party cookies (I do so), and watch how many websites cease to function.
Does this image reveal why there's not many female programmers?
Large Randomized Controlled Trials
As a guitarist, I've played with many, many cheap cables. They all sound the same, except when I take a step to the side. At that point, there's two types of cables: the ones that continue carrying the note you're playing, and the ones that cause your amp to emit the most godawful sounds you've ever heard.

The difference in the cables, of course, being the quality of the construction on the plugs.
Not quite a "hacker judge", but with a mathematics degree and programming experience, maybe "STEM judge"?

Not that we really need labels like that.
Have you actually read his response?

https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29568...

I don't think it was a dodgy call. I think people went unforgivably ape-shit, gained effectively nothing, and made someone else feel bad enough that they stopped contributing to an important project.
Correctly predicting the 2008 collapse
Can you explain? I program in Node and have not encountered any plea for money or such. I am guessing the "scam" is that the former lead developer is now trying to monetize Node.js in someway. I wouldn't worry because the core project is free and that cannot be undone.
IANAL but...

"the term “unlicensed money transmitting business” means a money transmitting business which affects interstate or foreign commerce in any manner or degree".

If you keep your trades to people within your state, I don't see how you'd be breaking the law here.
Congrats to MongoHQ for being bold enough to head in this direction
With Qt, Digia seems to start betting on "here's the free parts, and here's a version of them which is better (Creator)," which does induce some fear.
Draw a character in as few pixels as possible. You will probably end up at 8-10px height. 6 or 7 is possible but looks like shit. Make a display with as high resolution that it becomes totally unfeasible to read this character without a magnifying glass. Then you have reached "high" DPI.

The transitioning all the way down from 320x200 to today was possible because the same character was always readable, even though it previously covered half of the screen.
I decided to check the prices on those cables and was surprised to find that some are even more expensive. For example, an AudioQuest "Diamond" USB to iPod cable runs $1,495! Here's the link: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/audioquest-diamond-16-4-usb-a-to...
it is also reflection of passive position techies occupy in life, ie. the fact that zoning boards and other pieces of government aren't actively affected by the new population. Have salary enough to pay my way through and in good health to get a date - life is grand ... don't care for the rest (who brought it on themselves by not getting a CS degree) or can't do much to help even if feel like care.
Note: i don't bash here because i myself was that way and pretty much is in many respects.

One of the underlying reasons for such non-involvement may be the fact that politics is really a thinly veiled violence, and my generation - gen-X - and the millenials found the sanctuary from it (i.e. feeling like they found it as such sanctuary is impossible, just an illusion of it if you can afford it) in technology.
Are you actually suggesting to divert UN money to run NPM servers? ;-)
I think this focuses a little too much on phraseology and not enough on why people are saying it. The way people use computers is changing fast, and it's going to look a lot different than it does now. It's not comfortable but it's happening. I was going to say more but I think this is just an ad for something the author is working on. Good luck!
I find it rather depressing
No, that's German. Google translate says it means:

The Techie Scum Save San Francisco
It really never ceases to amaze me the things you can do in JavaSCript. That's the kind of thing that up until a few years ago you'd be hesitant to do in Java. This is really cool stuff! I look forward to when we get full powered PC games done in JS. We're not there yet, I know - but it's little steps like this that'll get us there.
Imagine getting a handwrapped solemn gift that you later find out was dug out of the trash and spun into wrapping paper on an assembly line.

Memories are nice, but I want them to be mostly real.
I'm here to discuss anything you disagree with or have questions about.
All three, at the same time.
> the guys that are in their 70s now were in their late 30s and 40s when the IBM PC was released in 1981.

And they were using them back then then too. Growing up in the early 80s on a farm, I don't remember any farming families that didn't have a computer in the home. It was an essential tool.
Some people like obscenity.
> a RAID system has to calculate parity every time it reads a stripe so that it will know how to change it if something in the stripe changes

Nope. On a non-degraded array with parity (R5, 6, ...) it will only read the block it needs to from the drive it is on. For an array that mirrors without parity (R1, ...) it will read the block from one of the drives. There is no need to bother another drive with the read operation unless it needs to check parity (because it has been told to on each ready as some controllers can be so told), you actually reduce the performance benefit of the striping if you do as you may be moving the heads of the other drive(s) "unnecessarily" and potentially away from another block they were about to be asked to read.

With an un-degraded array unless explicitly told to check parity on read the controller will not touch the parity blocks until a write happens at which point it will read the other relevant data blocks in order to regenerate the parity block. This is why the RAID 5 write penalty exists but there is no read penalty (in fact there is a read bonus due to striping over multiple devices).

Parity blocks will, unless checking parity on every read, only ever get read if the array is in a degraded state, in which case you can only derive some data blocks by reading the other blocks in that stripe (data and parity) and working out from them what the missing block should be.
Moore's Law - Ready for retirement
What science could you do with the "new" Amp that you couldn't now, with the old?
Your post tends to use "agile" and "Scrum" as if they were references to the same thing. Agile is an approach that puts "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools" and Scrum is an extremely rigidly defined set of processes.

Scrum might be a starting set of processes adopted by an agile organization, but an organization that is concerned with "doing Scrum right" is not Agile.
It's primarily a GUI on existing OS tools - you could create a version that uses Linux commands instead of FreeBSD.
Telepresence robots seem like a narrow niche to me. I'm not sure I see them breaking into home use.

They offer two advantages over video on a tablet-

1) Height, and therefore a certain kind of sense of presence that might be useful in a business setting. It makes you a bit more a part of a meeting than a speakerphone on a desk, or even a tablet on a desk. Harder to ignore or overlook.

2) Mobility. Useful in office settings, certainly. Useful for a doctor making rounds, that kind of thing. Less useful in a home, and currently stairs of any kind would be a showstopper. As would doors (which could be automated in an office/hospital/etc, but not likely in a home).

For more intimate contact with family, though, it seems to me a tablet is far superior. They can be held and moved by the person on each end, and held closer as well. Plus they just seem more personal.

Telepresence Robots seem useful for cases where you want a sense of personal space around your video image. Tablets seem more useful for when you explicitly don't.
Erm… here's a normal TAS article: http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/transparent-referen...

This is an RCA coax cable for ~$3000 a meter. The article is not about laughing at such a silly idea.

Unless TAS is actually The Onion of the audio world, I don't think the editor's choice linked here is self-parody or self-aware.

Here's an other one, $1700/m: http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/enklein-prairie-fir...

Or these $5000/m pieces of wonder: http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/enklein-orion-relea...

Please note that all three of these cables are intended for digital interconnection (AES or SPDIF), not analog. These "reviews" are not uncommon, and yes you'll get the same stuff for HDMI[0]. You'll also get recommendations for $7200 speaker power chords: http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/crystal-cable-absol...

[0] for a mere $350/m for instance http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/nordost-releases-fi...
Wretched leadership. In my opinion, they should have kept the tablet on the market for a year at least. As I recall, they pulled it after just a couple of months. Then they decided to get out of the desktop computer business which while maybe not the most booming market today, they were still the leaders and could have gone after the high end netbook/touchbook market.
Yay, geocoding!

Many years ago I worked for Vicinity Corp., an early maps-on-the-Internet startup (who made the MapBlast site and was the original provider of Yahoo Maps, but was eventually smashed by MapQuest and later Google Maps).

Along with Eddie Babcock (one of the many Vicinity people who came from Atari), I worked mostly on the geocoder portion of the site. It was as fun and interesting as this post makes it sound, with lots of algorithmic work and special cases to make some sort of "human sense" out of the map line data (provided by Etak at the time) and POI database (we had multiple providers for this, a lot of the work I did was creating a unified API into all the different providers).

It is kind of amazing to consider how ubiquitous this technology is now, and almost difficult to remember what it was like (though it wasn't long ago!) when I didn't have a constantly updated map of virtually the entire world in my pocket.
It isn't that limited. Also take a look at shedskin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shed_Skin
Read fat's first post. The code was already changed but fat was purposely trolling.
"Last year" is a funny way to frame 2 months ago.
> What book(s) was most helpful in pinning down what scrum is and isn't?

By definition, I think that would have to be the Scrum Guide [1].

"Scrum is defined completely in the Scrum Guide by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, the originators of Scrum."

[1] https://www.scrum.org/Scrum-Guide
SUBTERRANEAN WEBZ
Honestly, it's a rant I felt compelled to share. The note at the end isn't overbearing IMO, and helps show practically how this affects what I'm working on.
You didn't think commercializing NPM would be the lead of that post? Seriously?

You seem to have an utterly different perspective on this than anyone I know who relies on Node.

This is all starting to look rather amateurish and scary to me now where before I saw stability and excitement.
You say it's clearly parody, but they post breathlessly positive reviews for cables on a regular basis. So unless you're suggesting that the entire site is an extended parody...

http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/?categories=30

http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/?categories=32

http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/?categories=33

http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/?categories=34
From an electrical perspective it would merely squirt an amp or so around 5V to my charging cellphone in my car. It would do so in a physically indestructible, infinitely long lived and perfectly mechanically reliable manner in any imaginable environmental condition. Rather than value engineered so I have to buy a new one with each phone (roughly).

Most likely I'll get a wireless charger for the phone before I'm able to buy my "super cable". At that technological point, audiophiles will discover that taking a green magic marker and drawing a circle around the wireless charger unit makes the battery charge quicker...
Wow, this looks really cool!
The hardest part about working remotely is convincing the non-remote developers to stay engaged. When everyone is in the same office except for one or two people things can fall apart. Hallway chats happen over coffee, decisions get made offline and things start to happen without keeping the remote people in the loop.

I like the idea of encouraging people in the office to, "work as if you're not here." The advantages will add up over time and not just for remote people: you'll have databases and logs of everything! Throw search engines on it, watch trends evolve and use it to be more productive!
You gotta love the acronyms: STD versus MAD!

Taleb is definitely mad but his use of the MAD acronym (mean absolute deviation) is actually correct. However the STD acronym (all caps) refers to "sexually transmitted disease" and not generally used for "standard deviation". Most people use SD, Stdev, StDev or sigma.

Once again his ability to coin new terminology outstrips his ability to form coherent ideas that are anything more than trivial (eg. we have known about fat tails in stock returns for 50+ years). Like George Soros[1], Taleb's success says more about the state of the world of finance than their contributions to our knowledge.

[1]-See his book "The Alchemy of Finance"
And an old one, at that.
That can work probably, since Docker claims that it doesn't impose big overhead, so it can be suitable for gaming.
just actual amazing tweets
Have a look at Wickard v. Filburn
Playstation Vita Now Supported For Unity 3D Game Engine
Who Killed Net Neutrality? (Tim Wu)
Sort of the placebo effect of the audiophile world.

Now, the question is do the people who buy $700 cables not knowing it's equivalent to a $10 cable get more enjoyment than the people who know they're equivalent and buy the $10 cable?

If so, that's somewhat sad for us educated people. Ignorance is bliss, I guess.
Evan Schuman: Starbucks caught storing mobile passwords in clear text
It's a cable. It can't do anything weird to the data. If it gets through intact, it will be identical.

Factors like attenuation and shielding matter in certain circumstances, but not for a meter of USB.
In 2012 I attended an A/B blind test for speaker cables...
https://sites.google.com/site/audiosocietyofminnesota/Home/a...

It was interesting that there was a preference for the higher priced cables. It is too bad that I did not save my votes to see if my poorly trained ears matched what the others preferred. It is hard to say if there is justifiable benefit in spending big money for cables but I would say it is worth spending a little bit more than the cost of lamp cord based on this test.

With the digital cables to me it seems like a high data rate, low error rate and decent buffering system is all that is necessary for good sound. Given the data rates required for audio (even SACD is in the low MiB/s range) a cheap USB cable should do the trick.
Congratulations Justin and Daniel.
Doesn't appear downvoted to me.
This looks pretty awesome. It's something I can see us using in our office where people want to show stuff on their iPads to a group. I'm sure there are ways, but this looks pretty nifty to me (just to clarify: I don't know anyone behind this project).
This doesn't really answer 'why' though, does it?
Except that if you don't notice the corruption, you'll just back up the bad data.
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He's inflammatory. Really, really inflammatory. He also tends to write about obvious technical points so if you do pick through the morass and find the gem you'll be a bit underwhelmed. In this instance, standard deviations are obviously important statistics to compute and have many, many useful properties, sure, but Taleb rightly points out that they can be misused and I agree with him that their misuse is endemic in science and a downright travesty outside of it.

But to just say that some tool is both useful and misusable is boring and wouldn't cause people to talk about this nearly as much.

I don't really like Taleb's style, but I can't deny that it causes conversation about things that people often would not give a second thought. In that way, I can see the outlines of a really great point underlying his inflammatory rhetoric.

Don't hate the player? At least he's arguing that people ought to be smarter and worry about what data really means.
I don't know how Marc squares his free markets love with his presence at the table being substantially enabled by the government (internet + UIUC + NCSA).

Surely people have not forgotten what it was like pre-neutrality (Compuserve, Prodigy, Genie, AOL, et al)?
The Cinematography of "The Incredibles" Part 3
Completely OT: Is there any reason why all their content is SCREAMING? I'm stuck on IE 8 in the office, do they have some js or something that produces normal text on non-outdated browsers?
> If a company is privately held, then its owners can use it to pursue a mission other than maximizing profit

Well, that depends on your shareholders.

Mozilla Corp can do this, because its only shareholder is Mozilla Foundation.

However, the minute you take institutional investment, hand out shares to employees, take on debt financing, etc., you are now bound by a fiduciary duty to do right by those other parties. You still can focus on other things, but only if they don't conflict with turning a profit.

In my opinion, "turning a profit" in fact serves the greater needs of the npm/node community, because servers cost money. npm isn't just a program, it's a service, and services require infrastructure. So, it's not a conflict at all.

It is a very foolish business person who sees an exponential curve of user engagement, and decides that the best way to make money is to screw all those people.
We want more people to use it intelligently. If they're not capable of understanding the implications of this research, are they really going to be able to use this software effectively? How much hand holding do we need to do, here?
Lying this badly about the product you're selling may be over the line into fraud.
This isn't a parody.

For another example:

One of the best value rooms in Munich featured Marten Django L loudspeakers at €6900/pair, Nagra electronics, and the surprisingly affordable Purist Audio Genesis Series cables including a $300 interconnect, $375 speaker cable, and $250 Vesta power cord.

from here - http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/a-quartet-of-new-ca...

Here is that power cord on sale - https://www.thecableco.com/Product/Vesta
Wouldn't you get higher read throughput (2x for R1, less for R5) by reading the parity disks as well?
I've gone through a ton of cheap guitar cables, and then one of my housemates got a Canare cable. Ever since, it's all we buy -- insanely high quality construction, and it has a sheath over the sleeve of the guitar side, which cuts off signal when you unplug. No more having to kill your amp to disconnect your guitar. They're a bit on the pricey side, but not bad at all considering what you get. (What I normally buy: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004I46DS2/ref=wms_ohs_prod... )
Hiding the source or destination of traffic (which is one of the major things ISPs want to discriminate on) requires onion routing which will make things ~2x slower and more expensive. If we end up in a situation where a significant fraction of Internet traffic is being onion routed I would consider that a massive failure.
Really interesting idea for a project, but is this just a blog about analysis of different hands from the WSOP? Or is there some sort of API / product behind all of this glorious poker data that is coming soon or is simply not so easy to find on the website?
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