skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I give? On Mavericks, it just emits the sentence using TTS. Why is it interesting?
They are assuming that you spend 30% of your income on housing, leaving you money for food, transportation, taxes, etc.
If all data is in memory, what happens when it goes down? Is persistence not part of the use-case?
Allowing for food, transport, etc?
Yeah, bad tags are a problem and they aren't any fun to fix.

I would think that you could mechanically recognize many of the multi track pieces though (and then just dump some identifier in a grouping tag). So it's "just" a scripting problem, at least if you ignore finding decent and reliable libraries to do the tagging.
The "big trick" to sports photography has always been learning the sport, and that's only a little less crucial now with, say, a 1DX or a D4/D4S than it was back in my manual-focus days. However, that's not going to be of much help when the kids you're photographing don't know the sport. Expect a comparatively large number of failed shots, and learn to laugh. A 400/2.8 L isn't going to help a whole lot until there's some statistically-valid chance of anticipating the action. (And it's godawful heavy and awkward as well as really good used car expensive.) As your photography develops and your athlete develops, you'll know when (or if) it's time to go for the big guns. In the meantime, a fast 70-200 (with a good teleconverter for some shot types) will fill the bill, and unless you're printing huge, don't be afraid to crank the ISO a bit to keep the shutter speed down. (Look at the pictures, not the pixels. There ought to be some sort of license required to zoom in to 100%.)
Ad platform Decisive thinks transparency makes for better mobile ads
Definitely true, but could those visitors generate more value for you as direct subscribers than as eyeballs? If they're even moderately likely to subscribe, I'd expect the answer to be "yes".

Of course, there's no one size fits all solution for monetising a site - depending on your skill with ad sales (sounds like you're selling direct?), your demographic, and so on, different solutions will work better.
They will start to build a (full size iirc) prototype of a net energy fusion reactor this year.

It is not exactly what Asimov predicted, but if the GF power plants works and is economical, it is closer to actual fusion power plants than what was predicted (the parts of real reactors could be made in factories, in a way that Ford would recognize; it could scale up quickly to lots of places. No one really thought that likely even a dozen years ago).
Brooklyn is the same however I'd like to see this broken down further by neighborhoods of Brooklyn (or all boroughs) because prices can vary significantly by neighborhood
they clearly are doing very well
Cool idea, definitely worth exploring the possibilities. A quick run showed me that it often interprets the "i" as "l" whenever the the gap between the line and dot is not apparant
They are a company with real revenue that's growing and they think the publicity will sort of make up for it, so they don't end up losing too much on it.

If yc does 5 nonprofits per batch, $500k is not a lot of money.
So much for intellectual debate [1], then, I suppose. Congratulations, if you like, on having genuinely astounded me; perhaps it's merely foolish naïveté on my part, but I'd never have expected anyone to conclude that I am a traitor to my country, based merely on the facts that I know a little bit about modern history and that my English is better than yours.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7630065
Can you install rhythmbox on a Pi without pulling whole GUI circus with it? OP already said he had started hacking on MPD (which IMO is much more suitable as a starting point than Rhythmbox), and gave up for really good and well elaborated reasons.
This isn't particularly awesome, because

1. The implementation of Stroke Width Transform is not super good. So far, http://libccv.org/ has the best implementation of SWT. But again, you can neither make the head nor the tail of that implementation.

2. There are just too many false text regions and the text detection accuracy is no where near what you can call good. A mixed use of multiple OCR engines might give better results.

All that said, you can't take away the cleverness of the application of detecting text. Mind == Blown, on that area.
The orbiter (re-entry vehicle) is well know to lack range safety, unlike the full space shuttle (launch system). That is clear from my earlier comments. That is not a point on which anyone is dis-agreeing.

With that out of the way, lets look at the issue at hand.

Two issues comprise range-safety and both are at play: (1) is the egineering; and (2) is the flight paths. Proper range safety requires both (1) and (2) combined. The orbiter-as-re-entry vehicle lacked both (1) and (2). Whist the shuttle launch system had them both.

Certainly space X could engineer (1) and (2) using similar techniques at launch with no issue.

The open question is simply providing for range safety for the re-entry/recovery portion of the flight. The shuttle providese little to no road-map in that regards.

Just the opposite: it illustrates some of the difficulties.[0]

Assuming an engineered solution is present (ie, pt1 above) what would the limitations on the flight-patch (ie, pt 2 above) need to be in order that the comination (1,2) together would qualify as "range safety" in the legitimate sense.[1]

The ~rough~ answer seems to be (2') needs to be kept over water/open ocean.

So, my question is more about ballistics math: what is the envelope of precision needed to keep something either (a) in the ocean; and/or (b) out of harms way if the event is triggered closer to land.

The answer to that is something the engineers at SpaceX have surely considered.

I don't know what those calculations show; it (surely) can be safely done up to some threshold.

The question then simply is "what is the threshold"?

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[0] The scale of the debris cone from a columbia's ("natually occurring") event @ 100,000+ ft is illustrative of a couple things. None of: China Lake, White Sands, and Barry Goldwater etc alone could ~readily contain such an event. We know this because all were proximate to the debbris path (ie, western CA, Southern AZ, South/Central NM).

[1] see, eg s.6.2.1 (ff) of this report> http://sites.wff.nasa.gov/multimedia/docs/RangeSafetyManual....
how do I buy one?
I wonder if that assumption is fair. Also, do you know where it says that in the article?
> it's not possible to unambiguously segment the text into distinct letters (which is a necessary first step in any OCR engine that I'm aware of)

This made me realize I never saw such a thing as OWR, i.e. a software that would first try to recognized whole words, then go down to character level if no satisfying match found.

Found out this exists already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_word_recognition
Mark imprecise words in HN comments (chrome extension)
One problem that really interests me is the "dynamic playlist." Once your music library becomes sufficiently large and diverse, simply shuffling songs ceases to be an acceptable way to listen to music. You'll randomly switch between vastly different genres, come across tracks that aren't enjoyable outside the context of an album, jump in halfway through some pieces. It's a mess.

I wrote a simple script which uses Last.fm data to generate a "path" through the artists in my music library based on their similarities. It's very far from perfect, but it suffices to build an album playlist which slowly takes me through several genres. Some day I'll improve it to work based on albums rather than artists.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to run queries on my music library and have an interesting playlist returned to me.
Why is Raspberry Pi listed as a supported OS?
A donation to fund operations.
$750/$1160 is ~64%. The common definition for affordable rent is ~30% of monthly wage[1] (based on some quick google-fu).

[1] http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/special-topics/files/...
It doesn't necessarily make world of difference. When you compare students who attended top private schools vs. those who were admitted but attended state schools, they actually have equivalent incomes down the line.

What's likely happening is that really smart kids at good state schools end up finding the pockets of talent there anyway.

Pretty scary implications for the value of a Harvard degree.

source: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/10/10/051010crat_atlar...
Funny that the author uses the YouTube acquisition as an example of one that "justifies a high valuation by eventually paying out".

Back in 2006, it was a company with very little revenue that was under threat of being sued out of existence by copyright holders -- arguably a worse place to be than a lot of the more recent acquisitions he's taking issue with.
Yeah, I don't think a programming quiz to get a ticket is a great idea, but definitely agree (and it seems to be the general consensus amongst more technically capable attendees) that it's nice to get free things, but if they got rid of the giveaways it would improve the audience demographics and actually increase my desire to attend.
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The thing I don't get...if braces are mandatory (Good), why keep the now completely, unambiguously, irrelevant () around the cond?
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Do you really think the NSA hasn't had access to OCR technology until now?
Python is interpreted, not compiled... Of course it has 0 compile time.
That's cause you haven't tried the whisper. Try: say -v Whisper "Dun hate"
Manhattan isn't a county. Look for New York County. It is $23.27
The concepts might have merit, but the challenge is many failed as sustainable and profitable businesses. Have that many underlying assumptions changed in 14 years? Probably not
This may be a case where Dropbox feels it's more important to keep her around than kowtow to activist's principles.

Individuals have feeling and morals, etc., and may cancel accounts. Businesses do not, though, no matter how much we try to make them people. Ultimately, Dropbox wants businesses, not people.

That's my take on it.
OS X Beta Seed Program
The white list of torrent is on the disk: a folder of .torrent files. So when Hefur restarts it scans this folder and recreate the white list.

The peers will recontact the tracker periodically. So the restart is safe.

If you push torrents to the tracker through RPC, then you'll have to push them again on restart.
What's up with expensive counties in north central N. Dakota?
This Vending Machine Uses Arduino To Tweet-Shame Your Sweets
When I hear words like "decent" I check for my wallet. When I was at a start-up making very below-average wages (in the Boston area, in fact), I lived in a very below-average place.
It doesn't say that in the article...

It is an important point that would provide context to a lot of numbers.
Texas, where I live, is notable in the map for the diversity of costs, in particular the frequent juxtaposition of the highest and lowest cost counties.

The rich live in cities, and landlords set rents according to the ability to pay.
Natural gas boom.

Pardon the expression.
From the article: "A dark swathe of North Dakota that appears to cover the geography of the oil and gas boom stands out as well."
Oil boom. All the various workers are making triple digit salaries, and like any good boom, people offering food and housing are adjusting their prices upwards to match.
> I'm sorry to offend but she is incredibly full of herself and quite immature. Like she's on some sort of pulpit, spouting things she thinks people give a shit about. I mean, she quotes herself numerous times in this post.

I'm confused. What do you find wrong with her quoting herself? If she had been quoting herself for her wisdom or wit, the way one might toss in quotes of Thomas Jefferson or Mark Twain, then yes, that would qualify as being full of herself. That's not what she was doing. The self-quoting here was part of the narrative. For instance, she wanted to write about something that someone said in answer to a question she asked. She quoted herself to tell the reader the question.
Upgrading DNN? 9 Crucial Questions to Ask First
It would be incredibly useful if there were a link to the App in question.
WUT isn't very googleable, it wasn't entirely obvious from the article that it's an iPhone exclusive App, not a website or available on Android.
The money matters, of course. But I think you are attracting a certain stage company that is somewhere in the ballpark of your standard offer + what they expect you to accelerate. Companies outside that ballpark, should probably look elsewhere. Also, it must be thrilling that other accelerators are competing with you guys. YCombinator has birthed a very critical industry to the new economy. Exciting times.
The thing about loudness compensation is that it only further reduces the dynamic range of your music collection (unless you have programmatic control over the analog gain of your amplifier, which you probably don't), so the arguments for it shouldn't really appeal to dynamic range.
He's wrong about Oculus having no revenue: they've sold about $27million in Dev kits and DK2 pre-orders. The writer suggests a valuation of $20million, but didn't even do any research.

What he says at the beginning about the reason inflation is low despite low interest rates being a game of trust is pretty odd-ball as well.

One thing thing that is inflated is Forbes-blogger pagerank, due to Forbes smothering a bunch of crappy blogs in pools of their magazine operation's pagerank.

(I think the Oculus valuation might be high because I don't know of any exclusive patents, etc. they hold. But, both the Anderssen round of investment and the Facebook buyout were supposedly in response to a prototype that hasn't been revealed yet. If they have integrated foveated rendering in a proprietary way, etc. they could take a huge lead as VR explodes)
Oh god yes, we're in a state of package manager hell with all these languages, the worst part is that they all act so differently that it becomes hard to manage with puppet / chef etc...
These "principled stands" seem very selective and subjective. It looks a lot like the online version of mob justice.
The wage data that drives the document is here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/county...
In some dense cities, the bulk of the transportation costs are rolled into your housing costs, because you are buying walking distance to a subway.
Note that Hefur has not been designed to replace existing large scale (in the number of torrents) BitTorrent trackers.

It is very useful for small setups and distributions like Archlinux and Debian: http://tracker.archlinux.org:6969/stat http://bttracker.debian.org:6969/stat
Programming In Time For Dinner
> Didn't Altman just say that they sometimes do value companies differently?

It seems like they're planning to significantly decrease that variation. Almost all companies will give 7%, and a few exceptional cases might give less. This move eliminates all signaling risks (7% is now standard, so it's not a mark against companies, and any deviation is likely upwards).
The only substantive criticism of MPD in the article was it oddly choosing APEv2 for it's replay-gain headers on MP3s. This is fairly easy to work around using one of the various scripts that will add the APEv2 tags to mp3s and MPD has good support for Flac and Ogg-Vorbis replay-gain tags.

But it's cool to see more going on in this space. MPD has really been the only player on the field for to long. Hopefully it will work with ffmpeg as it is seeing most of the active development these days and looks to be back in Debian soon [ https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=729203 ].
I love the way Eric cheerfully ignores the practical aspects of thawing and freezing cooks while explaining by analogy the difference between asynchronous and parallel processing. I wish I could do that as flawlessly as he can.
10 things I have learned over the years
Yeah, but that's a stylistic choice. IMO this is one of those cases where one choice isn't better than another, and it's just better to have made a decision.
Interesting, indeed. The article was on the very top a couple of hours ago...
NEW VIDEO REVEALS POTENTIAL NOMADIC CUISINE TO ENJOY
An online travel agency specializing offering the best deals on tours in Kyrgysztan has hired a professional video production company to produce a video about some of the traditions that Nomadic cuisine offers to the people of Kyrgyszstan.
> SecureTransport (Safari, iOS): notified January 10, 2014. Security update issued for Safari 7.0.2.

Curious. Isn't this a different update?
Apple’s new program lets anyone, not just developers, test OS X beta builds
You're simply empirically wrong [about the 'amount' of money that represents, whether it is large enough to make a substantial difference], and your anchors[1] are not only irrelevant and misleading in an early-stage context, but extremely toxic.[2] What was Google's first check in the amount of? $100K. It was a ton of money. As Wikipedia points out, "The first funding for Google as a company was secured in August 1998 in the form of a US$100,000 contribution from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, given to a corporation which did not yet exist." They used that to raise "On June 7, 1999, a round of equity funding totalling $25 million", about 10 months later. Pop quiz. Which was more money, the $100K in the first context or the $25M in the second? Well, as I've heard they never did spend much of that $25M, it sat in Google's bank account while they grew and raised further rounds....

But that $100K? That was a ton of money.

Basically, you are wrong that it was not a ton of money, your anchors and comparisons are toxic and misleading, and if he had not cut that check then Larry and Sergey would not have created Google. That is what actual reality shows us.

You simply do an incredible disservice to all early-stage startups by talking in these terms.

I gave you several actual examples of far less than $120K being a ton of money in an early-stage context. As little as $5000 being a ton of money. I also specifically stated that if, say, $20K, weren't a lot of money, then it would make no difference empirically if YCombinator did not actually pay that cash. And YC companies wouldn't have either relied on or even actually spent that cash. But it does make a difference, and they did.

As I specifically point out: your FTE expenses are completely irrelevant, and even part (less than 100%) of the after-tax portion of a single FTE salary is a ton of money. (In an early-stage context.)

To imply otherwise does a huge disservice to all first-time, early-stage founders everywhere. The very idea is toxic and needs to die.

[1] The meaning of anchor I use is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring

[2] Your figures both about (1) the cost to the company of a fully loaded FTE senior engineer and (2) the amount that a good freelancer can generate above living expenses in a year, are irrelevant and do not need to be argued. I will grant both as irrelevant to the discussion.
I'm guessing it's areas where demand is high, but supply is low, due to increased oil & gas activity.
expect it is quite hard to write a generic data mapper in go as well. something like Hibernate or Doctrine ORM would be nearly impossible to write with go.i'm not talking about the basic features but advanced features of both frameworks.
This will help applicants cover the ever increasing SV rent.
Interesting concept, what are your thoughts on ownership of the house? Does every that invest in the house gets owns a small part of it?

Insurance/liability is another topic for a rental property.
>$120k, which we hope is enough for the founders to run their business and pay their living expenses for at least 6 months, and sometimes longer.

So, do you provide personal expense guidance to the founders?

How can I get, without joining YC, just this portion of the program ;)
Yes, here: http://jabtunes.com/labs/lensblur/index3.html
and here: http://quasimondo.com/QuasimondoLibsJS/demos/DepthMapLensBlu...
what does this accomplish, exactly? is it just another slactivist outrage to feel like you're participating in something that feels meaningful?
Sure, I could do that, and I don't mind driving command-line tools to do the tag modification so that's no real problem, but even with a 99.9% success rate, the size of my music library makes manually fixing up the ones that don't come out right a considerable task -- to say nothing of identifying them in the first place, another problem which doesn't really admit of easy programmatic solution.

In theory, I suppose I should just block out a weekend day or so, put on my headphones, and bite the bullet. But being able to add playlists, as playlists, to playlists, would neatly solve the problem without requiring me to spend a day engaged in such drudgery, and would offer other UI benefits besides. What I've got right now works well enough to be going on with for most of my purposes, and I suppose I just keep hoping someone will come along and satisfy my now rather forlorn hopes as to the rest.
Regulating Digital Currencies: Bringing Bitcoin within the Reach of the IMF
Host a Personal Data API on Heroku
I don't think being excited/passionate about something means "messy and can't complete projects" - that means they are perhaps excited about the wrong thing.

Some plumbers actually like plumbing. The act of creating things, reading about new techniques/materials/tools, solving the occasional interesting plumbing problem, working with customers and other contractors (and learning about THEIR needs so they can be a better plumber). If they are that kind of plumber, they go home and read Plumberblog.com, hang out with other plumbers talking shop, etc.
But you would not want to send your children to school in a very below average school ... which may or may not be the point.
> Basically, I don't see any reason to question their use of CVS.

Why not ?

With CVS, the security rely on the security of a single server. Anybody with root access to the CVS server can modify history, and nobody would notice.
What do you even mean by that? Statements like that make no sense at all to me. Do you not believe that those who organise this are principled? Why exactly?

Also, you see exactly how powerless they are. Mobs tend to have power through violence. That’s just not to be found here. It’s just some people not using the product and being open about their dissatisfaction …

Really, this line of argument confuses the hell out of me.
It may have spin, but it also has a lot of interesting information I hadn't seen before.
I'm sure it's as representative of "reality" as Southern Charm.
... but it mentions them in a legitimate way. Did you actually read said opening paragraph?