skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can point at a house and say "I built that" even if someone else did, and how are you going to know the difference? The same way as you verify that someone in software did the work they said: put in the due diligence. That part can't really be avoided.
Excellent. I like it.
Demonstration: http://www.elitediffusion.com/catalog/product_info.php?produ...

> The Ultima Signature Mat incorporates unique hand laid-up polarizing filaments creating tremendously rapid vibrational energy decay and a new ultra-thin metallic coating which dissipates static build-up in real-time while the disc is spinning.

Yes, you put that thing on your CD before you put said CD in the audio player, magic happens and sound is good. $250. According to "user tests"[0] it improves CD and SACD sound quality, fails to improve DVD image quality but succeeds in improving DVD audio quality.

[0] http://www.enjoythemusic.com/audiophileaudition/0705/margiol...
Tablets yes. Notebooks no. 'Ultrabooks', whatever they are, maybe. The majority of laptops up to 15" and ~$1200 are still 1366x768. Source: I recently went shopping for a laptop with roughly that budget. In fact, I don't think you can buy anything 15" beyond 1080p on that budget.
How about emacs lisp? Would you consider that a scripting language?
What a nice project. This is the kind of thing that I like to see the US government supporting. Now to find the time to learn to map something.
Unless it's possible to power down the communications processor, install fully open source software on it (from the boot and up), and disconnect it from any antennas, I don't trust it at all.
In my view it's a family of processes.

The way we got the term Agile is that a bunch of people in the '90s were experimenting with processes that were less insane that the waterfall approach that had come to predominate. DSDM, FDD, Extreme Programming, Scrum, and probably others that I'm forgetting now. All of those people got together and said, "Hey, we all have something in common. What is it?"

The answer to that was the Agile Manifesto: http://agilemanifesto.org/

Agile is to an actual process what a subdivision is to a house. If you say you live in the subdivision but are not in an actual house, then you're just wandering around camping in back yards and parks.

I agree that a given process is a collection of practices, and that one can compose different practices into a process, sort of the same way a talented chef can walk into a farmer's market, see what's on offer, and compose a balanced, nutritious, and tasty menu on the fly.

However, in practice, what "doing Agile" mainly means is what happens when an energetic but unskilled 7-year-old decides to be helpful and make dinner. Maybe you get a dinner composed entirely of candy. Maybe they use the stove and make something that is a mud-pie version of a gourmet meal.

That isn't to say that people can't create a good process out of raw practices. It's just that doing it is an expert-level activity, and it requires an immense amount of dedication, experimentation, and careful thinking. That's not what I see when I ask after shops that are "doing Agile". That phrase seems to be used exclusively by people who don't want to think hard about process, and just want to cargo-cult and half-ass their way through things because they're focused on getting a project out the door and/or pleasing the HiPPOs.
If you could have a robotic accessory/implant, what would it be?
Set up your own OpenStack Havana in 10 minutes
"You can make and receive secure phone calls; exchange secure texts; exchange and store secure files; have secure video chat; browse privately; and anonymize your activity through a VPN."

People. It's really secure, private, and anonymous, ok?
Nice to know - thanks for the heads up!
I'm sorry if I seem to be using the terms interchangeably. I do not intend to, but Scrum is the particular tactic I have seen used to accomplish what I understand agile to be.

I agree that anyone who is dogmatic about "doing Scrum" for its own sake is missing the point, as is anyone who is "doing Scrum" in order to just make their team more organized or productive. That said, within the constraints of the current business world, Scrum is the best way that I have seen to resolve the necessary tensions of creating software products and let people and interactions take center stage.

But I'd love to hear your experience and advice.
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I think the Hackpad page/read ahead/agenda which becomes the meeting notes are a terrific way to collaborate when everyone is connected to a screen.

Has anyone used any Enterprise-wide tools like this? We've got stuff we absolutely must keep inside the firewall.
Congrats! From the end of the article:

> I’d like to try doing nothing for a while -justin kan

LMAO imagining that in justin's voice.
30 GB personal music player (1999)
I don't get it.

I would expect people hooking up nearby would identify themselves a little specifically - I'd be "the guy in the tux with the red carnation". A spammer from across the globe isn't going identify themselves with a description fitting the woman in the table over. I mean, she would be "blue and white scarf" rather than "nearby pretty girl" (unless it's a spammer, yeah).
If you have limited budget don't worry about retina. You're a developer, not a designer so that shouldn't be your priority.
Think about getting some used macbook pro, replace the hdd with ssd for system and apps, and super drive with case for hdd and put there some larger hdd for data.
The money that you save use to get more ram (and maybe faster ssd) and bigger display to fit simulators.

This setup should work for most cases giving you mobility, speed and space to work, when needed.
Ask HN: How do you store your photos in the cloud?
Nitpick: horsepower is not an old English unit; James Watt invented it in the late 18th century (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepower)
"Economic Freedom is the freedom for you as an individual to follow your own path. It has nothing to do with individuals vs corporations."

On the right, we have the toddler. He is 2 years old. On the left, we have the heavy weights world champion.

Ladies and gentlemen, please make your bets. The fight is about to begin!
"Permissionless Innovation" - Why You Have No Privacy & Why the IoT Is Insecure
I'm not really talking about the cable, but the idea that digital interfaces like SPDIF/USB Audio/HDMI are "bit perfect." The digital phenomenon of bit perfection, as programmers see it, is a fiction created by buffering, retry, and error-correction. SPDIF doesn't do any of these, and USB Audio doesn't do all of these in all modes. SPDIF receivers (and depending on the mode, USB Audio receivers) will recover the clock signal from the input signal, and use that clock signal to drive a DAC. So it's not just the sequence of ones and zeros that is relevant (a digital phenomenon), but the timing of their appearance on the cable (an analog phenomenon). Variation from the ideal timing will cause a distorted clock to be recovered by the receiver, which will cause distortion in the analog signal produced by the DAC. Whether or not these distortions are audible, they are certainly measurable.
I actually wasn't trying to suggest onion routing, but a more peer-to-peer distributed internet, similar to the way bit torrent works. If a CDN was spread across multiple sites instead of concentrated at one place (ala S3), it would be very difficult for an ISP to track.
I don't particularly understand how people can code whilst listening to music. The two simply do not go hand in hand for me. I find it clouds my thought process why I'm trying to figure something out or reason about a bit of code. Even when I'm doing 'drone' programming I often think about where this bit of code fits in with the rest etc.

Sometimes I can listen to music without lyrics, but it has to be fairly calm and uneventful. Coffitivity is actually a pretty good thing for me.
"A couple of months" would have been an improvement. They had it on the market for 48 days. I was working there at the time. What happened with Apothekar is insane and borderline criminal destruction of value.
How To Prep for an A/B Test
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While this has absolutely nothing to do with audiophile bullshit, bit corner sharpness is a thing (it's not called that though) in high-speed digital signalling. Basically, each conductor pair has a certain degree of capacitance so making a transition from high to low or vice versa is not a discrete, instantaneous event but takes time. If your signal is changing rapidly enough that this transition time is in the same order of magnitude as the length of each bit, you get blurry bits, and unreadable signal. And in this case, better conductor layout, with less capacitance, does give you sharper bit corners! So yes, fact.
It appears the new definition is going to be something like "the current (in the direction of flow) of 6.2415093*10^18 elementary charges passing a boundary in 1 second", replacing that number with a specific 19-digit value. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampere#Proposed_future_definit...
I don't follow this logic. Toll roads allow the people who want to use a road to pay for it. Tax-funded roads take taxes from all the district's citizens to pay for roads that only some will use. Great if you use that road. Not so great if you don't.
There is a strong tendency lately to abandon social networking sites because users there are harassing and rude and overly sexual. Likemind was created to let us find people who really look for like-minded friends, no dating involved.
Show HN: Introducing Skej (by Quasi Convex Union)
Openness won in the early iterations of online services in part because there was a neutral medium over which you were able to connect to your choice of service: the PSTN.
Take a look at all of your USB cables. Check to make sure that the top side of each connector has the USB logo cut into it deeply enough that it's easily felt by your thumb, and that there's no such engraving on the back. Throw away any cables that don't meet this test. It then quickly becomes very easy to tell when you grab a connector whether your thumb is on the top or bottom, and it becomes second nature to always plug your cables in correctly.

The USB-IF should deny a USB license to every cable manufacturer who doesn't do this right.
This one may be of interest to you:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7060933
Wearables don't need displays, and other contrarian thoughts
On Freund is doing a great job heading up the engineering team at Handybook as well. Really excited for those guys and their contribution to New York tech
But then men can do the same thing today .. with a donor placenta (surrogate mother) & a donor egg.

Artificial placentas alone change nothing for men who want their own children, other than potential cost savings.
>tipping a decimal amount is not fun since everyone is conditioned to local currency value that generally goes to 2 decimal places at most.

That's all I meant. :)
Ask HN:How to switch career from programmer to data scientist?
Doing programming for 3 years, while working in a project, I had to learn basic statistics and I found it really satisfying.Though, the complexity of the project was fairly easy, now I am thinking to switch track. As I have some programming experience, if I can learn data science that would be great. I know there are some online courses but I want "your" comment, feedback or experience, because that would help me to go forward.
Ask HN: A realistic timeline for implementing the JOBS act?
I am aware that the deadlines have come and gone for the implementation of titles III and IV of the JOBS act, but what I can't seem to find is a realistic timeline for when these titles may be implemented. Is this because there is absolutely no way of knowing, or is there a consensus on when we may see these title enacted?
This is actually what I expected to read: "The standard deviation is useful because with the average and the standard deviation, one can fully characterize a normal distribution. However, the standard deviation is less useful a statistical summary the farther away from 'normal' you get, and in reality, there is no such thing as a normal distribution, as a true normal distribution is defined on the entire real number line from negative infinity to positive infinity. Reality always provides some bound, and it's often quite distorted from Guassian. For instance, a 'normal' distribution averaging 2 with a standard deviation of 1.4, bounded by 0, is quite non-Gaussian in many important ways! (Not least of which is that you're going to have to do something to replace the missing probability...)

"People rarely check how closely their data conform to the standard distribution; indeed, many people blindly apply the standard deviation to their data regardless of its distribution! The resulting number is often more obfuscatory than helpful, to the extent that it crowded out more useful summaries.

"It's a useful metric when treated carefully, but it is rare to encounter it treated carefully. Science courses would be well-served to stop teaching it in favor of a stronger emphasis on multiple distributions. (Multiple distributions are usually touched upon, but implicitly our curricula overfavor the Gaussian distribution and end up accidentally implicitly convincing students its the only one.)"

But that's just me.
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Unfortunately I don't. There's the typical areas I put them -- Facebook, Twitter, etc.

In terms of archiving there is no professional solution. Hear me dev's? No quality professional solution. I'd gladly smash $100/mo in your pocket for one.
If anyone could list what support there is that'd be really interesting.
How Pinterest built their HTML sitemap
One of the best things weve done to help with the water cooler problem was to have a group im chat (hipchat). we try to avoid private im whenever possible. This means that not only is it easy to see what others are talking about, you can read it over after.the fact if youre busy.
That doesn't sound right. There is a special setting that lets you change the size of metro apps, have you tried adjusting that?
In a word, no.

There are actually reasonable techniques for doing Agile internally if you have clients who believe they need a traditional requirements-based contract approach. So those people should just do Extreme Programming.

For people with huge legacy projects, I think they really need to do the cost-benefit analysis. People like Michael Feathers make a persuasive case that you can slowly clean up legacy code, and that's much more economical than just suffering through expensive and risky changes.

But if somebody is deciding not to do Agile for considered cost-benefit reasons, they should just say, "Yeah, Agile doesn't make sense for us. We're going to do waterfall." Or they could choose a mini-waterfall process, or any one of the pre-Agile processes that suits them. (If those people exist, they should read McConnell's Rapid Development, which catalogs the options pretty well.)

If that's what they want, godspeed.

The people who make me crazy are the ones who don't actually have the discipline to use a real Agile process and also lack the guts to say, "Yeah, fuck that Agile stuff." I get that people would like to be all hip and Agile, but sending somebody out for a 2-day "certification" and then changing a few labels is not actually making better anything internally, and it's making my life worse.

I don't want people to be fake anything. Be real, everybody! Especially managers. Because it's only admitting where you're at that's going to let you get somewhere better.
Im not sure how the second case incentivizes them to build out their networks either. They have barely done that for the last decade or so (consider how expensive and slow internet access in the US is compared to much of the first world), so I'm not sure why they would start now that they have even more control.
A stock (or a fund) has an average return of 0%. It moves
on average 1% a day in absolute value; the average up move
is 1% and the average down move is 1%.

How does that yield an average return of 0%?
The algorithm calculates all possible specular reflections up to some order. I really don't think I can explain it any better than this paper:
https://mediatech.aalto.fi/~samuli/publications/laine2009aa_...
Jitter is definitely a real phenomenon: http://www.tnt-audio.com/clinica/diginterf1_e.html. It's easy to forget that these "digital interconnects" are all fundamentally analog. Whether you can hear the distortion created by jitter or not is an entirely separate issue.
I guess that's a matter of opinion. I personally meant the mean average deviation.
You have calculated the mean. This is only the first step in calculating the MAD (mean absolute deviation). You then need to take the absolute value of the difference (deviation) of each datapoint from this mean - for your x you get (.3, .3, .3, .3) and for your y (.5, .5, .5, .5). Finally you take the mean of these absolute deviations to get MAD(x)=0.3 and MAD(x)=0.5.
I recommend "The Scrum guide" and "Extreme Programming Explained" as ways to learn about the systems themselves.

Thinking about it, the book that actually taught me to understand what the early agile people thought was Christopher Alexander's book "The timeless way of building." The book is about architecture rather than software, but the underlying idea is right on. It starts by addressing what is the point of building? Some people try to optimize speed, or predictability, or how good the building looks. But Alexander says the point of a building is to be lived/worked in, and it should be measured by how it improves the human lives of people around it. This implies doing the design and building in a whole different way, and thinking about the relationships between builders and users in a different way.

The "agile" idea is similar. People who try to "use agile" to accomplish their goal of just making software really fast, or making lots of money, are missing the point. Agile is actually about building software that is good, in a way that is sustainable for users, builders, and a company, and makes everyone involved better. If you use Scrum in the context of those values, you may succeed.

But the vast majority of people who adopt scrum, and perhaps the majority of consultants and explanations trying to "sell" Scrum, just use it to wring every ounce of effort out of your employees, or to ship something crummy fast. That ends up not really working, and in my experience making environments even worse than they were before.
This is actually a great illustration of the reason we have common carrier laws in the US.

Should we allow Cintra to let you go 100MPH instead of 70MPH if you pay a higher toll on the Indiana Toll Road? Maybe every 10MPH is an additional $1. Or maybe Cintra knows that Tesla drivers are rich, so their tolls could be set 10x higher than a Kia's toll. Or maybe people with Illinois license plates are on average more wealthy than people with Ohio plates, so they can pay more too...
...weird that someone would register just to post that...

The implication is obvious. 'gggggggggggggg is either an employee of yours, or is in some other situation such that she doesn't want to get on your shit list. Nevertheless, the truth must come out! Hence, anonymity.
Keep NSA out with Black Phone
Possibly the best thing I've read all week. Thank you sir.
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I wonder what effect on your life you'd like to observe as a result of the thing being implemented?
CudaSharp - Making C# run on the GPU
I don't know but I can tell you I stopped reading at "teh poor menz." Do people still do that "teh" thing?
Actually, yes: http://www.audioquest.com/resource_tools/downloads/whitepape...
ESports Startup Battlefy Raises $1.3M from Former Riot Games Board Member
Google is punking Microsoft with Chrome 32 on Windows 8
I've never used Windows 8. From what I've heard, there are 2 built-in browsers, an IE "Metro" version, and an IE "desktop" version. Apparently they have different capabilities. And apparently IE "desktop" and IE "Metro" don't sync bookmarks even on the same Windows 8 PC. (Hard to believe, but apparently that's how it is.)

Supposedly Chrome 32 on Windows 8 is basically a layer of Chrome OS on Windows 8, with its own app environment, app launcher, and windowing logic. And apparently it's a same version of Chrome whether you launch it from "Metro" or the "desktop."

Fun, fun, fun.