skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a neat idea - a notch filter. The underlying biology is that colours that excite mostly just one type of cone cells are perceived as pure. In colourblind people the absorption spectra of the red and green cones overlap to a greater degree, so if you can cut out the overlap their vision more closely approaches that of a normal-sighted person - except for the part that is filtered out.

But with the recent Amazon flap, should this be patented? It's in essence a neat idea, and physics supply shops will sell you stock dichroic filters for USD 150 each, custom ones are more but not excessive - development cannot have been more than USD 100000 total. That's a programmer's salary and benefits.

Software patents are universally considered abusive because it is cheap to develop - much cheaper than an industrial process, the thing that patents were invented to cover. With this logic the producers shouldn't be allowed to take out a patent.
He's an analyst. Companies contract with him to research issues and write reports. Oracle is one of his clients.
Ok some one has to run a book on how soon into the pilot the common silly "hacking " tropes turns up

eg the two people typing on the same keyboard trope I am looking at you MS Sciuto and Mr McGee.
Anybody else more interested in when Dr.Dre is going to release Detox? I'd love to hear him rap about multi-billion deal
There's a saying in my country for this: "they pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work" - meaning the salary isn't great, and they're getting what they're paying for.
It's also the examiner's job to narrow the scope of rights granted by a patent to accord with the amount of innovation present. The output isn't binary, and there's some utility in letting weaker filings through the system. An absurdly narrow patent that's impossible to infringe (often called a "glamour patent") still yields over $10k to the US treasury and avoids an extended and expensive fight by the government over rights, that at the end of the day, are of no value.
I thought Google specifically penalised sites which did that?
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What would the artist lose if he removed his work from the streaming catalogs? I wager he'd lose more than $4.20.

How much is worldwide exposure of your work worth? How about the analytics of who is listening to your music and where?

I'm a former pirate of music but today I'm doing my part paying $20/mo to Rdio for my family's music-streaming. Would you like to go back to those bad ol days where you got nothing at all, no money and no analytics?
As far as I am aware, this is not possible. Computer displays work by sending light in a few wavelengths (but in different intensities), using the combinations of different frequencies to produce the same effects as single frequencies. This product seems to work by aggressively filtering out the parts of the spectrum that cause problems. This would not be possible with normal screens, because the light is of a (mostly) fixed wavelength. These glasses would be much better with objects (for example) illuminated by the sun.
why does concatenating bcrypt(salt, pw) with HMAC(salt, pw) make guessing fast?

Intuitively it seems like you'd still need to guess the bcrypt portion, making it no worse than just bcrypt.
Google has ruined maps on my Android. So much so that I have reverted it back to original factory version since thats the version which had the single most useful feature of the app - the ability to add what you searched for to your contacts in one press. The number of times they have changed the UI around is ridiculous. I know Im not supposed to be fiddling with my phone while Im driving but if I ever crash its probably because once again Google changed the fucking UI again and I have to figure it out whilst en route.
Will my grandchildren learn to drive? I expect not
This whole transition period would be a lot less painless if artists and consumers would accept the reality of digital copying and its implications. Record companies already did way back when, and positioned themselves to profit off of non-ubiquity. Now that the ubiquity has arrived, they're just trying to keep their cash corpse alive.

It would be great if creators could be directly compensated as envisioned by copyright, but that is just not how our physics works out. Trying to pretend that's so just enriches (old or new) middlemen, who make money pennies at a time across thousands of artists, treating creativity as a commodity and devaluing it in the process.

The future is here but it certainly isn't Spotify et al, with token compensation based on token control. It's torrents with alternative methods of compensation - concerts, merchandise, kickstarter, donations, commercial licenses. Ignoring this is surefire exercise in frustration.
The "$20 per performance" number, and your math, sounds just about as intellectually honest as the case where RIAA claimed damages totaling more than the world gross domestic product [1].

[1] http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215074/RIAA_request_...
I don't think so, but I think if you could shift the wavelength of the red and green pixels(this would require altered manufacturing process I believe) you could make a colour blind friendly monitor.
I literally cannot understand how so many smart people can, all together, fail to observe the obvious.

That one's easy. It turns out that roles like management and marketing and customer support are actually important for developing good products, but the culture at "engineer"-led organisations doesn't always acknowledge or respect that.
Ah did not know that, it was for sure a neat thing they did. I manage a site that uses KML files extensively for bike and running paths and this switch did cause a minor bump.
Pointing to a hobby is always a great way to silence these ("what are you doing?") questions.
I agree that some "audiophiles" are susceptible to ignorant beliefs, which they then zealously defend. I used to work with a guy who bought a CD player with a weighted turntable for the CD to sit on, on the grounds that it increased the "stability" of the bitrate. I laughed at the time and I'm still laughing now but he just could or would not understand why such a setup was useless. He'd also claim computers simply could not produce good audio, for some ludicrous reason I can't remember. So I suppose that's the type of person you're talking about.

But remember, the word "audiophile" simply means someone who loves sound, and in practise that means someone who cares about good sound and will expend money and effort to achieve it. I'd count myself in that category, and am annoyed at the misguided noisy minority who give us a bad reputation.

There's plenty of well informed, intelligent audiophiles who know their shit, aren't susceptible to marketing hype, and just want a faithful reproduction of their treasured music. Unfortunately, there's also a certain type of person who needs "something to believe in" in life and so gets on board with this kind of pseudo-religion with about as much credibility as the healing vibrations of crystals. You'll find them at the high-end stereo shop buying $500 ethernet cables (the network packets are so much more vibrant!) or signing up for the Pono kickstarter.
The worlds wasted wealth...

http://www.amazon.com/The-Worlds-Wasted-Wealth-Environment/d...

The book is poorly written to the point it seems less than credible but it has some interesting takes on the situation.
The author postulates something he calls "waste distribution territories" that have risen to take advantage of technological advancements. The basic gist is that instead of people working less as technology advances, unnecessary jobs are added to society and people work the same or even more at selling insurance, filling out forms in HR etc. etc. He points out numerous specific examples of this waste and there are many more he misses. He does offer some specific solutions to this problem that are very unlikely to be rationally implemented without a major structural collapse first. Overall, a poorly written book with some very insightful concepts.
Exactly. The problem is, Google has all these employees they need to keep busy, which translates into "upgrading" or redesigning products whether they need it or not. Products always suffer from this pattern.

It turns out that Google isn't smart enough to avoid the same mistakes made by the companies it supplanted.
Ask HN: When was the last time you completely shutdown your laptop?
I just thought about it today, and realized I haven't actually shutdown my laptop for a very long time. I have a MacBook Pro and just close the screen; it's quicker, and I can get back to work in less time. I just wanted to see if I was the only one or if some of you do the same.
Ask HN: Please, can someone explain the fascination with the Apple/Beats "deal"?
OK, so I'm not in SV, I don't use Apple, and I have no idea what "Beats" might be. Please can someone explain to me why there are nearly 50 submissions about the alleged possible deal?

Please?

Every other submission is talking about details here, options there, whatever, and I just don't get the background. Explain to me like I'm five.

Edit: I have done my homework, I have searched the interwebs for "Beats," I have read a little about the subject, and I am genuinely none the wiser. It's completely unclear what any of this is about, despite reading for a good 20 minutes. If you can't understand I suspect it's most likely because you already know about it and are reading with previous knowledge. Trying to read the various articles about this deal, or non-deal, makes it absolutely clear that there's more going on than I can glean from my reading. Hence my question.

Additional: Reading the wikipedia article[0] does not explain what's going on. The bare facts about what the company is and does, does not explain the frantic activity.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beats_Electronics
Thanks for this clear, useful, expert opinion. I've heard disparaging things about the Beats headphones and good (I suppose) to have them confirmed. I was shopping for headphones for as a gift and the store chap (who seemed quite knowledgeable) assured me that Beats were way overpriced. I got some Sennheisers at a lower price and they were amazing.
I feel like there was supposed to be a point here but I missed it. A guy captures a tiny fraction of 1% of the plays of 10s of millions of internet music listeners and expects lots of money? Of Hearts of Space pays better than Spotify and Pandora? (does it? how many listeners do they have?)

I think people just see big numbers and expect big money to follow, but when you have millions of people that can just graze songs or songs are delivered to them passively, you need an extremely large number of listens to make money.
I love modafinil. I found more information here: http://nootropicsiq.com
If you live in the NYC are, come to the H.O.P.E. convention, there will be plenty for sale.
Maybe because they were all well educated?
What's unusable about Hangouts? I think it's a better experience on both mobile and web. And Adium still works just fine with it for person-to-person IM.
Prolly a month or so ago when I went away for a weekend and didn't bring my laptop. I do the same, just close the screen to my MBP.
For me the most annoying thing is that apparently I no longer can see traffic and directions at the same time.
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I could go on. How awful. What happened?

My guess? The new Maps was developed by people who use exclusively quad Xeons with 32GB of RAM and perhaps a high-end workstation graphics card.

(i.e., highly paid developers at a wealthy company)

It's not an uncommon problem. Developers work on high-end hardware whenever they can, and rightly so, but it can cause issues with targeting.
LLVM IR is machine-independent, so the NIH accusation is not really fair.

MDIL is described to be the platform's native machine code + some extension tokens (to avoid direct encoding of pointers, for example).

A similar LLVM IR derivative would no longer be by a long shot something resembling LLVM IR, so the property of being "derivative" would not buy you anything.
The color filters on the display screen are fixed, so the best one can do in software is to enhance the colors (e.g., skew the image towards significant red so that a person whose eyes are less sensitive to reds can see it a bit better).

It may be possible though to have the same filters that are on the sunglasses put on the screen instead. This can work only for displays with low color gamut though.
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Also, that these fine locations in the NYC area: https://mapsengine.google.com/map/u/0/edit?mid=zxNGGEaFaiHs....
Scientific computing’s future: Can Haskell, Clojure, or Julia top Fortran?
Competition isn't per-se bad, and if we're assuming they aren't using LLVM, what gains are there to using the IR? More front-ends, I suppose. But I wouldn't be surprised if they had more machine dependent behaviour than LLVM IR (which, let's be honest, includes a fair bit), especially for things like overflow detection. There also are pretty bad limitations to LLVM IR's ability to deal with GC roots, which for MDIL will be especially important.
Spotify claims that they pay 70% of their revenue: http://www.spotifyartists.com/spotify-explained/#how-we-pay-...
I'm supposed to be working about 30% time on a project at work. That translates to about 12 hours. This project has two meetings a week and the meetings almost always take 2 hours each. That means that out of my 12 hours/week on this project, I'm already spending 1/3 of it listening to people debate what conferences we should apply to (rather than, you know, what work we should do to make something conference-worthy)
HsQML – Haskell bindings for Qt Quick now with Qt 5
The contracts are likely not transferrable. And the streaming service is not a huge technical accomplishment, by any stretch. Honestly I have no idea why this would be desirable. It would damage Apple IMHO.
We do, and I found another way to not feel bad - I started drinking.

At least I'm not pretending to work anymore! Win-win.

Thinking out of the box like a boss.
We scraped the World Bank's website
I wouldn't put too much stock into audiophile opinions anyway (speaking as someone who got sucked into the community at head-fi.org before I realized how much bullshit there is).

>Scientific claims to knowledge and the uses of technological artifacts are both inherently contestable, but both are not usually contested together. Consumers of ‘specialty’ audio equipment (known as the ‘high end’), however, connect both forms of resistance. These ‘audiophiles’ construct their own universe of meaning around their equipment; they cultivate a distinctive vocabulary and set of attitudes. In this they resemble other groups of users dedicated to supposedly antiquated technology. But they also engage in controversy to defend themselves against knowledge-claims that would delegitimize their universe of meaning. These debates concern recording formats or media (the relative merits of the compact disk [CD] and long-playing record [LP]), user ‘tweaks’ of purchased equipment, and the supposed audibility of differences between different brands of amplifiers, cables, or CD players. In all of these cases, audiophiles resist the claims of audio engineering by privileging their personal experiences, and they argue against scientific methodologies that seem to expose those experiences as illusory. Some of these patterns of epistemic contestation resemble those in non-musical domains (such as biomedicine). But audiophiles also make epistemic use of values crucial to their identity as music-lovers. They appeal to a common understanding of music as an exemplary locus of subjectivity, emotion, and self-surrender, in order to ward off the criticisms directed at them from a science they construe as objective, detached, and dispassionate

http://sss.sagepub.com/content/34/5/783.abstract
“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.” -- Buckminster Fuller
LLVM IR is machine-independent? What? There's plenty that isn't machine-independent, from the obvious (e.g., x86_fp80), to the less obvious (to create IR in the first place one has to have knowledge of the target ABI), what integer types are supported (i64 isn't supported everywhere!), etc.
Chrome's UI is great because it recognizes that what is important in a browser UI is the content area, not the, well ... chrome.

Sure it is, as long as you only want to look at one page above the fold.

But sometimes I want to navigate between pages, and at that point I do want my bookmarks bar displayed.

Sometimes I want to scroll a page, and at that point I do want scrollbars that work the way my system is setup instead of some almost invisible, almost unclickable little rectangle at the edge of the window.

Sometimes I want to use developer tools, and that that point I do want concepts like whitespace and fonts larger than 5px and coloured icons that are easily recognisable to exist, instead of prioritising cramming so much information into the available space that all of it becomes almost illegible.
> Yeah, the MDIL thing sounds like it could have been an LLVM IR derivative.

It comes from the Singularity OS compiler toolchain, which is older than LLVM.

It is also used to deploy .NET applications as native code on Windows Phone 8 devices.
Full list of changes: http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v2_1_2/ChangeLog
should use Louis CK's approach: self-publish and eliminate the middleman
I watched the Interview, about how he think EarPod quality were poor, and how he wanted the Music to Feel exactly right, with the Beats Headphone.

All these are great. His sales pitch was Apple ish too. There will likely be people on the net falls for it.

But may be, just may be he loves Rocks and Dre is Hip Hop, their Beats Headphone are essentially only suited for these two type of music. And may be that is what is was talking about how the music should feel.

And may be, just may be, Amercians love the way it sounds, as in Audiophile world there are people who could distinguish those Stereo equipments from different region.

I am definitely on the UK and Japan camp, B&W being my favourite. Not that they are the best, but most of the time it is best suited to me, and it depends on price range and other factors.

Beats? If it wasn't for the design and looks, i would put it at the bottom of all branded Headphones. And that is not a problem because there will always be a loser. But for a Brand that consistently put out crap at its price range, and talk about it so passionately as if they were the best? I just feel sick. The worst thing about Beats headphone is the audio coming out has no soul in it. I dont feel any attention to details were ever put into it.

Heck that is why there are so many cheap knock off, and some even claim those fake version sounded better.

Now back to Apple, assuming the Headset business worth nothing. Why would you spend 3.2B on a streaming services? Do knowing what songs next really worth 3.2B?
This is why I always bring up the consideration that the issue is not exactly software vs. hardware whenever I see that discussion.
No, I'm not, and it's one of the things I enjoy about programming. Some weeks I work 30 hours, others I work 60. But if I did the things I committed to doing this week, then I go home. Why sit in the office and pretend to be working? It makes no sense.
LLVM goes back to 2003, and Sing# is based on Spec# which is only 2004?
>This is very similar to what we do with the search box: we choose Google as the default because we think they're the best default for the users, not because they got to us first or paid us the most

Is there a public record of this discussion? I'm kind of curious if anybody brought up the idea that not having your searches tracked by an ad network would be best for the users. Unfortunately that leads to the conclusion that the default search should be DDG (or similar) and I doubt they could afford to pay you enough to keep Mozilla running. Call me cynical but I'm not sure I believe that anybody in the room was going to take that suggestion seriously when it meant their paycheque was on the line.

I can accept the argument that Google is a better search engine right now so the tracking is 'worth it' for most users (although that does seem to conflict heavily with Principle 4 of the Mozilla Manifesto: Individuals’ security and privacy on the Internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional). What happens if DGG catches up enough to be functionally equivalent for most people? Do Mozilla engineers collectively fall on their swords and lose their jobs to improve the privacy of the internet for most users? Or do we have to engage in 'lesser of two evils' style mental gymnastics about the world being better if Firefox is well funded?
When reading stuff like this I wonder, how do the Windows folks manage to do the same? A browser disguised as Visual Studio? doubledesktop.exe? I'm so thankful for my *nix with all these little toys.
So where does the money go? Subscribers pay real money.
None of the videos work on Chrome version 34.0.1847.131 / OS X 10.9.2. Just a black screen and the play head stays at 0:00.
I've heard that one too. It's brilliant! I don't think it's really what we're talking about here though.
Combine this with how miserable low-rank work like shopping bag packers and store work is, and you have a great clusterfuck of a society.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9JXtTj0mzE
Patent law requires something to be "non-obvious". It cannot be a single step away from a previous patent. This patent would count as prior art for such an obvious change, and as such the patent you describe would not be valid or granted.

Non-obvious is supposed to be a broad term, but in reality a patent examiner will just search through prior patents for prior art. In this case, if you really did copy everything else word for word, he or she would very quickly find the existing patent and deny you.
Regarding circular imports and #7:
The main problem in arises when using the from mymodule import mysymbol notion.

The example solved this by properly using import mymodule, although this might cause some more problem if your design is wrong, as see in the example. Calling f() from the module ("library") code itself is a very bad idea. Instead one should do this:

a.py:

import b

def f():
return b.x

b.py:

import a

x = 1

def g():
print a.f()

main.py:

import a

a.f()
Agreed. It will be very interesting to see if this deal actually happens. Only time will tell whether the leak was very clever or completely idiotic. The whole world now knows what Beats is "worth" and that Apple is interested in them. I would love to know how much Beats sunk into the development of their flailing music streaming product that they are now trying to unload. If anyone can make it work it is Apple, but regardless something smells fishy. It seems like leaks like this happen when deals are on the rocks, to try to find a lifeboat in the form of another offer, only time will tell
My initial thought is the amount going to artists with volume like The Rolling Stones, and Bieber (or whatever the kids are clamoring for these days) must command a much higher rate per listen presumably shifting the total percent going to artists to be much higher than that.