skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The solution is to analyze each song before playing it to figure out how "loud" it sounds to humans. Then the music player adjusts the playback volume of each track to compensate for the perceived loudness. This way, the user does not have to adjust the volume for each track that comes on.

This is just going to perpetuate the arms race, because it's not hard to spoof that sort of thing by monkeying around with crest factors in transient designers, plus people seem to have quite different preferences for compression/limiting. Just tweaking gain and falling back to compression/limiting past a certain threshold is just going to lead to pumping on some program material.

There is a standard for measuring this stuff, and thanks to years of people like me complaining about jumps in volume during commercial breaks on TV and the like, a loudness-measuring standard has been formalized and is being demanded by broadcast regulators (so it will become standard in audio production software over the next year or three). It's here: http://www.itu.int/dms_pubrec/itu-r/rec/bs/R-REC-BS.1770-3-2...

Waves, Dolby, Izotope etc. have all released plugins or free updates for 1770-3 comaptibility so it should become ubiquitous by mid-decade, as will automatic loudness normalization at the mastering stage, which wasn't previously possible in the absence of an industry-standard metric.
Off topic, but if your son has the chance to go Harvard/MIT/Stanford, he absolutely should. The difference is primarily in the caliber of the other students, and it makes a world of difference to have such a concentration of talent in one place.

(Note that I'm not saying there isn't talent elsewhere, just that there's an incredible concentration of it in the top n schools.)
I'm sure you know that it's not a 1-1 relationship between YC startup and accelerator startup.

There are major differences between Incubator like YC and other Accelerators: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_accelerator
How can Teespring afford / justify giving every non-profit $50k?
This seems great - simple, better terms, higher valuation. Kudos @sama and YC.

Stepping back a bit, it's also a sign of the times -- especially given the tone of the last paragraph, it's clear there's pricing pressure on incubators/accelerators and the competition is heating up a bit. There are more competitors in the space, valuations are rising, and YC is adjusting accordingly. This isn't a good or bad thing per se -- just an observation of a byproduct of capitalism and the realism of the market in 2014.
Yuk, that's just manually doing what ORMs give you automatically; that's not a good thing, you're being a human compiler.
Depends on what you mean by SCIF. Coworkers bring confidential paperwork/documents home, and remote access over remote desktop software is blessed. However you might get a phonecall from security if you started downloading lots of confidential data directly to your home computer.
Randall Munroe's handwriting is a bit difficult to OCR because a lot of the letters are smushed together close enough that the 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). Maybe Google's (or Vicarious's) magical convolutional neural net that can solve CAPTCHAs would fare better.
> At some point I plan to write a tutorial article detailing exactly how to get this application running on a Raspberry Pi. It's mostly straightforward but there are enough "gotchas" here and there that I think it could be a useful article.

I'd be really interested in reading that.
I'm particularly interested in your opinions on tagging. Can you explain what most software gets wrong about tagging?

Here's the plan so far, although it's not implemented: https://github.com/andrewrk/groovebasin/issues/30

The idea is that you might edit tags for a file which doesn't even support tags, such as AAC. So it would let you do that, and the changes would then be reflected in the DB. However we would also have a UI pane for "Suggested Library Fixes" or something like that. This would be things like moving files to their canonical location, updating incorrect duration tags, duplicate file detection, etc. It would also have suggestions like this:

* These songs have tag edits that you have made but they cannot be saved. Do you accept this change? (Proposed change: wrap the file in a container format which supports tags)
Do I understand correctly that you're implying that case with "dictatorship" is in place? If so, you are obviously wrong. Good example of "the hard way" was notorious Yukos' case, which is drastically different from this one. Mail.Ru have a good share in stocks for the long time and that's a matter for discussion I won't participate in, if they can be considered to be "part of the oligarchy in place" (they can). UCP has the rest of the stocks, which belonged to different people the last year. Durov had only 12% for quite a long time already. And Durov himself is alive and well and left Russia only after getting rid of Vk completely, and some say he wasn't even fired (they say that he wrote retirement letter on 23.03 already, and never revoked it; Durov claims otherwise; where's the truth remains to be unknown).
SpaceX Brings a Booster Safely Back to Earth
Thank you for the detailed answer.

It's a bit more laborious in the sense of keystrokes, but it's also more explicit, which is, on balance and over the lifetime of a large software project, a good thing.

OTOH, it feels like a high development cost to pay, relative to the alternatives out there. You certainly wouldn't use it for an MVP. Also, it would increase the opportunities to introduce bugs into the application (unless one actually feels they can write something better than, say ActiveRecord, from scratch).

I have a side-project in RoR that would benefit greatly from the performance boost provided by Go. However, the idea of writing all of the ORM functionality that ActiveRecord handles for me (not just managing of objects as you've shown, but the relationships between them) is quite daunting.
The headline is there to draw attention. The article doesn't actually propose that this might be "the beginning of the end." Instead, it uses this lovely quote from Vonnegut's "Hocus Pocus":

> Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

to argue that "Those who benefit most from the gift of the web should also serve as guardians, making sure it can be used safely for mutual benefit."
Not sure if you're on the OS X / iTunes ecosystem...

You can have a playlist that is made up of other playlists by creating a smart playlist and adding a rule that includes songs from source playlists of your choice. This will atomically include any changes you make to the source playlists.

I manage my music with genres — and to a large part, stay away from smart playlists — however they can be a powerful feature.
FTA:

Security - Secure Transport

Available for: OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks v10.9.2

Impact: An attacker with a privileged network position may capture

data or change the operations performed in sessions protected by SSL

Description: In a 'triple handshake' attack, it was possible for an
attacker to establish two connections which had the same encryption
keys and handshake, insert the attacker's data in one connection, and
renegotiate so that the connections may be forwarded to each other.

To prevent attacks based on this scenario, Secure Transport was
changed so that, by default, a renegotiation must present the same
server certificate as was presented in the original connection. This
issue does not affect Mac OS X 10.7 systems and earlier.

CVE-ID
CVE-2014-1295 : Antoine Delignat-Lavaud, Karthikeyan Bhargavan and
Alfredo Pironti of Prosecco at Inria Paris

That doesn't sound good…
How does this compare with Martini?

http://martini.codegangsta.io/
> "The key is to make it someone's full-time job to 1) proactively mine staff networks, 2) extract reputation information from staffers about their networks, and 3) execute scaled outreach to the potential candidates that get surfaced."

My personal network is not yours to "mine". If an HR person at my company contacts a friend of mine to pitch a job at the company I work at, trying to use my name as an "in", that is seriously unprofessional.

If you want access to my personal network, you should compensate accordingly.

> "You should definitely offer a referral recruiting bonus. It varies, but generally speaking, $1,000 to $2,000 for non-engineering staff and up from there for good engineers is market rate."

If you get a referral from a recuiter and then hire the referred candidate, you need to pay that recruiter anywhere from 10-30% of the first year salary of that person as a placement fee. For an engineer that could be over $20,000. But you are only willing to pay $2,000 referral fees to your own employees, who can provide much better candidates than a recruiter? This is not a "sweet deal", it is taking advantage.
Yes I've experienced great ROI on mobile newsfeed, but also desktop newsfeed too. I think both of those are better in term s of ROI than their current right-hand rail ads (the ones on the side of the page they used to exclusively have).

I found if your CTR is TOO high to the point you get tons of misclicks and bad conversion, make your image size much smaller (max 150 pixels).
I would argue the "end" of TDD is working, well factored code. It's a technique for continually getting rapid feedback on every code change that you make, working in very small iterations.

The fact it results in a regression test suite is a happy side benefit (and actually, some of the tests generated are inevitably short lived).

There are other benefits of working in this style. e.g You should nearly always have code in a state that could be deployed to production; It gives a rhythm for pair programming; It encourages a certain coding style.
It is good to have many web microframeworks in a language ecosystem. In Python probably there are a hundred of those. Many of those are not picked up by the community –a natural selection. Only really a few of those survived. It all depends on you if you are going to choose Revel, Martini, Goji or whatever you want. Today, thousands of apps run on web.py, yet most of the source code is untouched last 3-5 years (https://github.com/webpy/webpy/tree/master/web) It's impressive it just works!

Personally, I am looking for frameworks that many people rely on, maintained frequently as needed and works just fine. There could be a +-10% difference on QPS those framework URL routers can handle and render a 'hello world' page.

So this is a nice attempt I would say, looks cleaner than Martini, still supports middlewares. On the other hand, Martini has support to serve static files, logging, panic recovery, which are also good and has a bigger fanboy community around it: https://github.com/go-martini/martini
I have to say Doxygen has matured considerably in the last 4 years. Color me impressed.
"Draft Special Publication 800-90A Revision 1, Recommendation for Random Number Generation Using Deterministic Random Bit Generators."

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/800-90/sp800_90a_r1...

Acknowledgements:
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) gratefully acknowledges.... Mike Boyle and Mary Baish from NSA for assistance in the
development of this Recommendation
For Project Ara, It’s Module–Not App–Ideas Wanted
Shit! Everyone, switch back to Dual_EC!
Annie Leibovitz, Wu-Tang Clan, and the Aura of Expensive Art
I would love to be on the mailing list too. I just wonder if we just go with a google group, or a github repo of "best c++ practical patterns" and use its mailing list. Not doubting your admin skills, but these companies just have more resource to keep things more stable.
While the general nano particle fear is a little extreme, some of the structures (specifically carbon nano-tubes) have a similar shape as Asbestos, which does cause cancer due to it's shape.

CNTs aren't graphine, and I'm not sure that graphine can be easily made into tubes, but it still should give some pause for thought.
I've got a project I'm porting out of Erlang to Go. It's not a transliteration, since it can't be, but by design it's a drop in replacement, modulo a smidge of configuration for each (dozen lines of config, tops). As much as I'd like to GO WILD AND FIX ALL THE THINGS!, it's advantageous to be able to switch back and forth freely during QA and early deployment, because you need a smooth transition.
Well, refocusing is what the marketing and the reviews of this camera focus on (ha, I kill me...), but personally I find the 3D possibilities a lot more interesting. On their not-very-usable website, the refocused shots with most of the image blurry look like gimmicks, while the ones with a 3D effect (they are reconstructing the view from different points on the surface of the lens, letting our point of view move around the scene a little bit) look more promising. I don't know if I would buy the camera just for that as a consumer; to me personally, it would be more interesting in a computer vision product.

Returning to the focus, it's true that this has some potential to turn the photographer adage "f/8 and be there" into "f/2 and be there", letting you keep more of the light while the subject is still in focus. However, this is not automatic, since multi-view matching has to be done to superimpose the images of the subject captured from different points of the lens; and this will bring in the difficulties we have with stereo matching, such as occlusions (some parts of the subject can be seen from one point of the lens, but not from another), or ambiguities (it's hard for an algorithm to tell which points of the pictures correspond to the same point of the subject).
Not sure how you can call these apps anonymous or "semi-anonymous". I tried Secret a month or so ago, and the first thing it asked me for was my phone number. So, this one requires Facebook? Maybe I'm misunderstanding the meaning of "anonymous".
> In addition to the direct 3.3% - Norway's petrochemical economy provide 36% of government funding through taxes.

That is a pretty big industry. Crude petroleum and crude gas consists of over 50% of exports. A lot of economical activity leads to a lot of tax revenue. Imagine if this industry did not exist, that the petroleum simply did not exist to begin with - the people that work in this industry now would be working in other sectors and industries. (The real problem is to replace this industry with something else once the well dries up. But that is a problem brought by such a big oil industry, not a problem that exists in spite of it).

> In addition, 445 Billion dollars from the oil fund is in reserve for pensions.

I think the whole point of the fund(s) is for them to be pension funds. But it may vary how strictly they are ear marked.

Now you're undermining your original point of the oil sector subsidizing the budget. The whole point of the Pension Fund is so that the incumbent government can't go on a spending spree and leave the future generations in the mud.
While I don't like what Russia is doing regarding civil rights and Ukraine - accusing the people you debate of being paid to tell lies is poor form and hurts the point you're trying to make.

Especially because most people that support Putin do so not for money, but because they are Russian nationalists and consider Putin foreign policy a good idea. That's sad, and explains nicely why Russia couldn't transform into democratic country, but whatever, it doesn't mean everybody who thinks differently is paid.
I'm glad that NIST removed this from their recommendations.

That said, I'm surprised that it took them this long to do so. From the article:

"In September 2013, news reports prompted public
concern about the trustworthiness of Dual_EC_DRBG..."

Dual_EC_DRBG has been suspect for quite a while longer. There were concerns going back to at least 2006: http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/190
Heh, when ever I read these I think "So why do they care?"

It reads as yet another "I don't understand so it must be {wrong | criminal | crazy | bad | what-have-you }" kind of rant. Fair enough, but focus on the 'don't get it' part not the conclusion based on non-understanding part.

If company A's stock is 100x over valued, and they buy Company B with it for 100x more than Company B is "worth" has that changed anything really?

In the dot com bubble there was a serious problem, individual retail investors who had no idea how to value a company were buying stock in those companies at what ever price the market set. The market kept raising the price and the retail investors kept pouring in money. A seriously large transfer of wealth from people who didn't understand to people who took advantage of that. Once they were no longer willing to do that, poof the market makers took their money out and left. Boom!

As long as the folks doing the buying and selling are using their own money, why should anyone get upset if they are "over paying" ? When people ask me if they should invest in tech companies I tell them no. They should invest in index funds, they are low load, maximally diverse, and resilient. So billionaires are out competing with each other to buy companies, sit back, grab a bowl of popcorn and watch the show. But why get emotional over it?
Stuff like this is great. It's like watching kids who grew up in the Twitter/FB age rediscover anonymous internet forums and imageboards like 4chan. People like anonymous services because you literally don't need to filter what you are saying. That can lead to a whole lot of bad, but some really, really great nuggets of truth and goodness coming out - it feels like tapping into the collective subconscious of the internet.
Can anyone explain why would someone use GitLab vs Enterprise Github?
Seeing as though I live in Hilton Head, I'm probably in the ideal market to try a scheme like this (#2).

There are a ton of remote homeowners renting out their property here without using a property manager or without using a good one. Unfortunately the homeowners I mention here tend to be extremely greedy people and don't have property managers because they don't want to pay anyone. They do things like advertise their units have cable TV and free wifi and have the cheapest, worst tier of service and constantly call the cable provider every month trying to get credits for fictional outages.

There's probably some money to be made here but I'm not sure I'd want to be the cog that keeps their greed-machine running.
Agree on Facebook, but how would you get around the phone number for Secret? I don't have the app, but as I understand it, it uses your contacts list to find out who to send messages to (i.e., the phone number is the username that it uses to know to send your friends' posts to you).
For HTTP, Microsoft recently opensourced a C++ Rest SDK called CasaBlanca [0].

For debugging, I'm still partial to the Visual Studio debugger when appropriate, though it doesn't seem to be able to debug lambdas very well.

Also possibly missed the hype train for "replacement" languages like D, Go, and Rust. We'll see where that goes. Some people are really excited.

[0]: http://casablanca.codeplex.com/
My source is the eXile, and while their archives from the years during which they published in print are in some disarray, you may safely take this article [1] by John Dolan as representative of its editorial stance on the matter under discussion. I grant that this does not constitute a primary source; on the other hand, my reading of the relevant history gives me no reason to find the claim at all incredible. Perhaps your understanding of history suggests otherwise. If so, you would do well to detail that understanding in order to support the claim you're making, rather than persisting in your attempts to discredit my statements by means of blatant ad hominem.

You seem to be reading a great deal into my statements on the subject. A more objective reading of those statements will reveal that I have uttered no more praise for Vladimir Putin than merely that he has consistently acted in Russia's interests, as is the minimal obligation of any head of state toward his nation. That's more or less what I've said about those from the West who have purported to act on Russia's behalf in recent history, as well; while I grant some of them acted in accord with their claimed motivations, others have acted in accord with their own interests and without regard to those of Russia, a claim which seems to me rather trivially defensible.

I am a citizen of the United States, and I have no particular love for Russia beyond the basic respect which any citizen of one sovereign nation may reasonably be expected to extend to another. Where you're getting the moral weighting, which you insist upon applying to my remarks in this thread, is a mystery to me, but regardless of its origins, the interpretation which results is entirely your own, and does not well represent the facts of the matter.

Of course you're welcome to your own opinion, as is anyone who participates in civil conversation, but I will thank you very kindly to desist from further accusing me of being in the pay of the Russian FSB. Quite aside from the fact that to act in such fashion would constitute a betrayal of the nation which has commanded my lifelong loyalty, I am, as already noted, subject to the laws of the United States, and I cannot imagine any way in which I could act as you've accused me of doing without placing myself in grave contravention of those laws.

[1]: http://www.exile.ru/print.php?ARTICLE_ID=6677&IBLOCK_ID=35
It looks like https://pictures.lytro.com/ got a facelift as well

disclaimer: I used to work at Lytro
10.6 and previous are out of support. Apple seems to support n and n-1 only by and large with n-2 updates if it's bad enough.
He has great insights and uses classical analogies to explain ideas. Here is his stackoverflow profile

http://stackoverflow.com/users/88656/eric-lippert

containing a lot of answers, worth reading even if you are not exactly looking for solution to the problem at hand.

A classic one
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6441218/can-a-local-varia...
I've never used WUT, but was intrigued by the anecdote at the end: "Sun’s out; in Washington square park. Who’s around?”

I've seen tons of apps that try to solve the "I want to hang out" problem. They all fail because cool people don't use those apps. Psuedo-anonymity can potentially solve this.

Some tried to do anonymous matching, but those had cold-start-network-effect problems. Psuedo-anonymous social networks might be able to back into a solution by attracting early adopters with their "gossip network" use case.

This reminds me of how Facebook backed into essentially being a status, photos, and events platform when it started life as a networked address book.
The killer app for professionals would be shooting video. You could eliminate the job of the "focus puller" in a live action video shoot and "focus" on the performances during the shoot, knowing you could pull focus (and extract 3D info!) in postproduction.
You probably don't (but you knew that). But that is why we explicitly call it semi anonymous not anonymous. (with no quotes)

It isn't a contract just a word choice that guides people to the expectation of how the app works.
This is actually a very good content marketing strategy. I'd enjoy being the canonical publisher of these pieces of unique long-form content about an industry that just gets bigger and bigger every year (and interest in it at 3x).

It will make an even bigger name from them outside of the "core" startup community... can piggyback off any big brands, directly from their own, as all they need to do is call someone and say "hey, we're from Basecamp" since so many people love them.
>There’s no way Oculus VR is worth anything like the $2 billion that Facebook is offering for it. The company has no revenue, no product on the market, and an unproven technology.

Many keep repeating "there is no bubble", but it is hard for me to believe. The party has to end sometime.