skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The choice to pick up Utau instead of Vocaloid is interesting. Usually the open source version has a halo around it, but in this case the commercial version is gowing forward fast enough, there's efforts to have the technology on about every platform they feel they can break even, and overall the software has very permitive licensing concerning the end product (the songs), so there isn't much legal friction surrounding the product's licensing right now.

What's also intersting: the image characters of the vocaloid packages are under a CC license and can be used freely for non commercial work, and quite easily for commercial work as well as it seems. The availability of the character and all the community surrounding is often cited by the son makers as a major attract to show their work to a larger public, and not have to take too much time on the image, "marketing" side of it.
Reminds me of Teller's article: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/teller-reveals-hi...

"..You will be fooled by a trick if it involves more time, money and practice than you (or any other sane onlooker) would be willing to invest."

Teller's friend Tim appears to have taken the same attitude towards checking out his Vermeer hypothesis. Amazing effort.
Oh they almost certainly have, they're just not finished and published yet :)
Difference from FON? [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FON
Microsoft fights U.S. warrant for customer e-mails held in overseas server
Huh? Why not buy these?
http://www.amazon.com/RK3188-Quad-core-Bluetooth-headphone-s...
"For full specs and comparisons, check out the complete
comparison chart. We’ll begin shipping out pre-orders for
the Myo Developer Kits next month, with final Myo units
shipping this September. All pre-order units will have
final hardware."

So if I understand this right, there is absolutely no difference between the hardware you ship to developers soon and the hardware you're shipping to end users in september? If so, what is the qualitative difference between the dev kit and the final design? Just the software and documentation?

I personally want the dev kit, but if the only difference is about a month or two of wait time, I'd rather wait for better, more refined hardware.
What I meant by that was, the Objective-C runtime is still needed.
How do you deal pre-warming the disks before running a benchmark like this? I was recently doing some benchmarks on an AWS I2 instance type, and while doing research, I came upon AWS's "Optimizing Disk Performance" [1] page, where they suggest you pre-warm the disks (note: I2 is the only instance type that is exempt).

Because of the way that Amazon EC2 virtualizes disks, the first write to any location on a standard instance store volume performs more slowly than subsequent writes. For most applications, amortizing this cost over the lifetime of the instance is acceptable. However, if you require high disk performance, we recommend that you pre-warm your drives by writing once to every drive location before production use.

Do you write to the disks before your benchmarks? Do you have any notes on how long it takes, etc?

[1] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/InstanceS...
Your birthdate in the decimal expansion of Pi
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When I experimented with rust, I ran into 6393. ezyang had a good blog post about that and 6268:

http://blog.ezyang.com/2013/12/two-bugs-in-the-borrow-checke...
Max Levchin Plans To Reinvent Consumer Finance with His New Company Affirm
I always like this Vocaliod opera song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VseHlKR4Ew8 (Voi che Sapete)

While the song is playing you can see the settings. I've played with it once but it's hard to get it right.

First you place the notes to add pitch and length. Then you attach phonetic codes to the notes. So it's not like you are adding words to notes. It's all about how it should sound. Then you also can add things like amplitude settings.
Pac-Man confirmed for Super Smash Bros.
https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop will install Homebrew, Tmux, Silver Searcher, Postgres, Redis, a few programming languages, and other items.

https://github.com/thoughtbot/dotfiles sets up a bunch of slick aliases and plugins for Vim and ZSH to make development productive.
Designing the iBooks format for offline reading
For those like me that do not know the term "tree shaking", it is «a technique to "shake" off unused code» [1].

I suppose it is dead code removal done at link time. But what is "link time" in JavaScript?

[1] http://blog.sethladd.com/2013/01/minification-is-not-enough-...
This comment is much more useful than your grandparent comment. Down voting might be the correct action (if you were able to), but a short meme/snark comment is almost never appreciated.
The OSX preferred app install process (used by FF) is simply to download the disk image, and move your app to the /Applications folder.

The Mac App Store likely also prevents apps from clobbering other apps' folders while installing.

I try to avoid software the requires an installer if at all possible.
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Should a Content site look to migrate to Cards Interface asap?
Hi we host a significant content and we are seeing the content access pattern from our users shifting to Mobile. Presently 60% of our users are accessing from phones, 10% from Tablets. Our site is just about responsive but not the best out there. We have been thinking to make some changes. So the big question we see is should we look at cards Interface, that everyone is talking about? And if we should what are our options to get started there?
Apparently this is bad news for the NSA:

http://www.vox.com/2014/6/10/5798554/eric-cantors-loss-is-ba...

Was mass surveillance even an issue during these elections? Not that I expect the corrupt mainstream media to even raise such questions on behalf of the population.
You did. Perhaps my last sentence should have read:

If prices didn't move fast enough in response to changes in demand/supply then the market wouldn't clear, and some capacity or demand (at the current price) would be wasted.
This is only the beginning:)

Thanks for submitting, Justin. If you're ever in SF I'd love to catch up and just chat.
She is facing the right way but her reflection in the mirror isn't.
An interesting counterpoint from Bruce Schneier: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/my_open_wirel...
Which is interesting, because it implies that female programmers are less likely to use SO (or at least respond to SO surveys) than male programmers are. Why is that?

EDIT: or they're unwilling to specify their gender
TED Talks – Keren Elazari: Hackers: the Internet's immune system
/me buys more RAM.
The other recommendations are awesome.

For me, I like using a lot of desktop window management, however the Mission Control transitions are too slow for me, with the fact that are bulky and uncustomizable.

There is TotalSpaces2, which basically is similar to Ubuntu/etc spaces, but you can customize the transitions, hotkeys, locations, etc. Even though I don't have any transitions (so my switching is instant), you can have cube transitions, etc, very similar to Gnome. Downside to the program: $18, with a trial. If you miss proper desktop management, do it. Combined with Spectacle (A tiling window manager), I have functionality similar to XMonad, so I can use my mac effectively.
I'm sure the amount of IR light involved is far less than the exposure you get from walking outside on a nice sunny day.
Sure, but they're not even publishing SRPMS any more.
Alibaba to launch online shop for US
Ok, this is pretty cool. I always thoughts robots would be the first users of this sort of technology.
isn't it? their complaint about the beagles is that they don't have enough ram to be compiling anything without refactoring the build system.
> I think Netflix just shows what's the "maximum" speed needed to deliver their service.

Exactly this. Assuming your connection is faster than 3 Mbps, the number they are showing is neither the bandwidth your ISP is providing you, nor the instantaneous rate that bits are flowing to your home network. If you have a faster connection, they will send you large chunks of bits at a rate higher than 3 Mbps (upto 35 Mbps from what I've seen), and then send nothing for several seconds.

It seems that Netflix tops out at 5.8 Mbps and 1920x1080 no matter how capable your network connection is -- that's the highest number this test will produce.
Is this because they spent the money on the hardware and by the time the steam machine/controller releases the time/money spent researching would be wasted?

Wondering what software they will try to push on top of Windows 8.1 to make this more of a living room computer.
CP has a point.
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I'm pretty sure his wife had it, last I spoke with her shortly after his death. Nowadays, it's likely his daughter might have it.

Have a lot of great memories thoroughly enjoying that book as a kid. Used to flip through it and test him through-out our sessions. Loved every minute of it.
Mercury Passes in Front of the Sun, as Seen From Mars
> They're not like upgrades from ext2 to ext3, it's like ext2 was modified in a weird way to support new features that older ext2 implementations do not know about.

It's my understand that this is exactly what ext3 is, though! It's designed to look like ext2, but with some extra hidden stuff for journaling...
It's easy to read the first persons post either way. That you're lucky they ONLY got 26 corrupt files, or that 26 is extraordinarily unlikely.
Try looking for brewer rather than brewmaster. You'll find Marcin. And yes, we know suggestions need some improving.
Windows has a number of native compilers: MSVC, MinGW GCC, Clang, icc, Pelles C, Embarcadero C++Builder etc. Nothing makes MSVC special, except that it happens to be from the same vendor as the operating system. MinGW GCC is free software, has better standards support, better warning output and can compile more FOSS libraries. These are all pretty desirable features, especially if you're a FOSS developer.

I consider myself a Windows user and developer, but I have no love for MSVC. I'd much rather have everything I use compile under MinGW GCC.
Protest against mobile apps: Taxi drivers want to cripple European cities
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People who are normally getting <500Kbit connection on a Verizon DSL can get the full 3Mbit connection over a VPN during the same time of day. So, is it that Verizon does not have the capacity, or is it that they are specifically throttling your connection to Netflix? These last miles ISPs get all kinds of benefits for their wire, they get tax benefits, and protection. For instance, they have sued in many cities to keep Google Fiber or other municipal fiber networks out.

I have no idea how this isn't an antitrust case yet. Also, considering that most cable packages cost $80+, and Netflix costs $7, what makes you think that the ISPs will stop at charging Netfix just a few dollars extra per customer. Don't you get it, they don't want to get Netflix to pay them more money, they want to drive Netflix out of business.

I think more so than Netflix, Google has a stake in this. Block youtube and gmail for one month on any ISP that does not sign a Net Neutrality pledge, and see what happens. If black mail is good for the goose, it's good for the gander.
The author of cjdns himself admits that it is aimed at power users/enthusiasts.

cjdns will never be a workable solution for the general public, and I wish people would stop recommending it.
You can't call this a debate. Ron is seriously upset with CPs comments. VCs and Angels don't want to hear the inequality debate. They feel it's mostly dogmatic and exaggerated outcries of left-wing economists. But I think CP has a point here.
The parent comment talks about 11000 dollars per year. According to google that translates to less than 7500 Argentine pesos per month: https://www.google.com/#q=11000%2F12+usd+in+argentine+pesos
Alibaba acquires UCWeb in ‘biggest Chinese Internet merger in history’
"Microsoft, one of the world’s largest e-mail providers, is resisting a government search warrants blah blah blah"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY

Edit: Why the downvotes?
Most of the jobs right now are artsy / techy because those people are easiest to reach from our personal networks and that's where we started signing up mentors. Feel free to throw a janitor in a suggestion box, we'll try to sign one up.
It's worth noting that this uses Salt as the underlying controller.

To the Kubernetes devs: It's probably worth mentioning that somewhere in the Readme. I say that partially because as an end user it's nice to know you're building on solid building blocks that have stood the test of time, and also because it was moderately disheartening to learn about Kubernetes with no mention of Salt and then later learn that it was build partially on the hard work of the Salt team.

Using their project as a building block is great, but give credit where it's due.
I agree! Read a book, take a drink, smoke a cigar. Sit back and enjoy where you have gotten so far in life. If you don't stop to enjoy it then what is the point?
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I can't speak to the kids/school aspect at all, however I'm not sure that subscribe to the "LA isn't a nuclear city at al" idea.

It's not that LA isn't a nuclear city, it's just that LA is 5 nuclear cities all within a (traffic free) 30 minute drive of one another. So the problem is when people want to live in one city and work in another.

There are more than enough (schools, companies,etc) within any one 'LA' to restrict your search to that and not be missing out on a golden opportunity.

As far as the friends thing, that's true too, but like another commenter pointed out, they start to become long distance friends, so you make it a point to go hang out with them, and you just end up socializing more with friends in your neighborhood, which is natural because when you go out, you meet people who live near you, more often than not.
How Twitter uses Apache Mesos
A video on how Twitter uses Apache Mesos - interviewing Twitter's Mesos engineers.
sorry, I took the second person verbs as real second person verbs.
that looks like a 3-5 years affair, too. rust interests me greatly so i'll be really happy to be wrong.
Using an open network without encryption allows a passerby to listen in to all of your traffic. Unfortunately not all websites are using SSL yet.
I've tried chrome/mozilla, and did not like either.

I use Opera and highly suggest it!

Issue I had with chorme is when I would open up a new tab it would flash to a white screen quickly before loading the background image of my home/speeddial page.
Back in the day, we used xfs instead of ext3 so that when something happened and there was a bad shutdown, our samba servers weren't stuck in fsck for an hour (or a day).
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Alibaba Acquires UCWeb
Afaik, around Mac OS X 10.5 had native ZFS support (but not as boot partition).

And there is http://code.google.com/p/maczfs/ and http://downloads.maczfs.org/
www.bracqet.com I created this site easy to signup and use.
Purpose: Bracqet.com is a University of Technology Sydney, academic project designed to explore the network effects on a product with a high hypothetical viral coefficient. Viral Co-efficient (K) and is a quantitative measure of the average rate of invite sent per user multiplied by the actual signups per invite. Typically actual K > 1 is required to achieve viral growth and the eventual exponential "kick" in the number of user sign-ups. The fundamental premise of bracqet.com was that people would want to fill their brackets (who they are supporting) for the Football WorldCup2014 and publish it on to their Twitter and Facebook accounts, which in turn would induce their friends to do the same. Hence the product design was purely centered around achieving K > 1. This included premature scaling utilizing an HA Proxy load balancer and multiple web server instances to handle the hypothetical viral growth. To find out more about the results of the actual K achieved and the results of this experiment feel free to contact us at admin@bracqet.com. All data is used for academic purposes. Your contribution and feedback to this project is greatly appreciated.
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If that's true, and after having watched the documentary it's hard for me to believe it's not, then Vermeer was kind of like a magician : his paintings were made with a trick that he kept secret. On one hand the whole story is charming but on the other hand I have the feeling Vermeer was kind of a dick not to reveal this technique to the World.
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Mexico, the country where the president couldn't even mention reading 3 books. And the preference polls being a candidate where way way off... Corruption and crime runs rampant.

It was already pretty hard in here, many new laws hampering growth, way too much corruption, poverty, and desperation. You can see it on their faces.

My family suffers...
I think Scalaz is a pathway to Haskell. When people start loving Scalaz, they just happen to migrate to Haskell.
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A surprising comment! I thought it was clear with all the obesity, diabetes and definitive rise in cardiovascular disease that there must be something fundamentally wrong with our food, one way or another.

Imagine that: people eat until their arteries clog, literally stopping the flow of blood so they die.

Oh but the branded, and yes, overpriced food-product was oh so satisfactory for the senses, the sugar, the fat, the flavoring, all carefully designed to overwhelm instincts and to create little addictions.
Easy audio capture with the MediaRecorder API
Hmm, wonder how Johannes Vermeer did all of his self portraits ...
For show and press. Microsoft was the first company to cave in giving the NSA total unrestricted access to user information.
This is Glenn Kelman, Redfin's CEO. Thanks for using Redfin and glad to hear that we gave you a jump on getting a place.

To answer your question about Zillow, Trulia and Redfin: Zillow and Trulia are media portals; Redfin is a brokerage, started by software entrepreneurs but with our own real estate agents to represent people buying or selling a home.

As a brokerage, Redfin has complete access to the local Multiple Listing Services (MLSs) used by brokerages and their agents to list homes and record sales. In addition to MLS listings, Redfin shows for-sale-by-owner listings, foreclosures, and new-construction listings, but most of the listings on our site come from MLSs.

There are hundreds of local MLSs, each with different data publication rules, but nearly all MLSs only accept as members brokerages willing to contribute their own listings to the MLS database. As a result, Redfin has the most complete and most timely listing data of any major real estate app or website, but only covers about half the U.S.

Zillow and Trulia get some listing data through services that syndicate a selection of listings from the MLS and some by asking real estate agents to upload their listings. A variety of studies, sponsored by Realtor.com, ZipRealty and Redfin, have shown that Redfin and other MLS-powered sites have significantly more agent-listed homes than the portals; Redfin also gets data much sooner, both to show new listings and to recognize when old listings have been sold.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/03/on-big-real-estate-...

Hope this helps to answer your question!
Best, Glenn
Could make a mini map for the living room (with the humans marked on it) and/or a perimeter alert system to avoid being the subject of practical jokes.
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How does the functionality of Haxl differ from a mature ORM system? I'm thinking about .NET Entity Framework + LINQ in particular since it not only does the mapping but also assists in query generation, scheduling.
What about a chromebox?

http://www.asus.com/au/ASUS_Chromebox/
I'm in Estonia, and my predictions are not being saved either =( I can see the JS error:

TypeError: c is undefined

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'rule' of undefined... tz_manager.js:9
Show HN: World cup prediction challenge
Your predictions can be seen without your friends having to Sign-up

Example: http://www.bracqet.com/published/shiv86

Bracqet.com is a University of Technology Sydney, academic project designed to explore the network effects on a product with a high hypothetical viral coefficient. Viral Co-efficient (K) and is a quantitative measure of the average rate of invite sent per user multiplied by the actual signups per invite. Typically actual K > 1 is required to achieve viral growth and the eventual exponential "kick" in the number of user sign-ups. The fundamental premise of bracqet.com was that people would want to fill their brackets (who they are supporting) for the Football WorldCup2014 and publish it on to their Twitter and Facebook accounts, which in turn would induce their friends to do the same. Hence the product design was purely centered around achieving K > 1. This included premature scaling utilizing an HA Proxy load balancer and multiple web server instances to handle the hypothetical viral growth. To find out more about the results of the actual K achieved and the results of this experiment feel free to contact us at admin@bracqet.com. All data is used for academic purposes. Your contribution and feedback to this project is greatly appreciated.
If attacker knows network pre-shared key, and intercepted handshake, they can decrypt your traffic.
The Samsung Chromebook is a fanless machine, relying on cooling from the ambient air around it. Having to remove the lid switch to allow the machine to power on with the lid closed should have been a pretty strong signal of this.

Since they are far, far into voided-warranty land already, I would say just remove the lid completely and thus get better airflow and cooling for the board.
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Firebug 1.x (only with activated "Scripts" tab) is only slow in newer version of Firefox. http://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1f4u9x/firebug_make...

I read that Firebug 2 now uses the newer JSDBG2 API of recent Firefox, so there should be no performance problems as there were with Firebug 1.x in recent Firefox versions.
That's pretty cool! It's also possible to put the cameras below the eyes, if you're comfortable cutting through the lenses: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/06/why-eye-tracking-could...

(disclaimer: I work for SMI)
Checked out your site - awesome work!
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HFS+ is old an ugly but in practical terms it's good enough. Obviously you cannot rely on any single file system no matter how many mirror/parity disks you throw at it. You need at least one local backup on an independent file system / disks and ideally also an offsite backup. The odds of HFS+ corruption of the same file 3 different file systems are incredibly low.