skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might also consider showing the Pure Data. The intro documentation/tutorial stuff is quite good at explaining the basics of sound synthesis.
>>For those individuals who aren't inclined to common sense, empathy, or civility, and for those individuals with parents who aren't so good at teaching common sense, empathy, and civility, religious organizations can play a very useful role.

It can also make them use religion to justify their lack of common sense, empathy and civility.
while this is true, the justification I've heard is that there are only a few companies that can provide these types of services to the US Govt.
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Like John Wayne Gacy who read bible verses to the young men he was strangling?
Do they really need the code to clone the UI? I'd be more worried about the suggestion system.
Am I shallow that it made me feel good getting all the answers right even though I knew most of the people who tried it would?
I hate the ones that require you to give an in person interview with them before they'll suggest you for an in person interview with a company. Can someone explain the reason they do this?
Um, why is there a running assumption that this is the Chinese government?

A Chinese manufacturer has even more incentive to steal information and sell it given the razor thin margins on making these phones.
See, I immediately went to read it because the video was an overlay and I associate those with navigation tools, but was frustrated when the overlay turned out to be so large; I then deleted it without thinking about it and read the first paragraph before realizing it was a video.

So, I think you should shift it down the screen, below the bio, and keep the effect you currently have where it moves with me as I read the transcript.
I did the same. "Well it's not C++ and not JS so it must be [language I've never paid attention before]" and yes it was.
I wonder how covers/unofficial recordings/karaoke will be dealt with. That ecosystem is a real differentiating factor for Youtube compared to a service like spotify. A lot of the top results for major songs are not the original recording.
When you need the absolute best for something, you need to specialize. That's why there have historically been so many different kinds of aircraft, each with relatively discrete missions.

The F-35 is a terrible aircraft, and the procurement is deeply suspect. The South Korean acquisition process leaked some surprising information about the acquisition process and the F-35 failed the relatively modest criteria the Koreans had set and an older aircraft (F-15) to be purchased. At the time there was loads of news about the F-35 failing the acquisition and it even made it into Aviation week. Doing a google search now, it looks like it was a smooth process from RFP to acquisition and I can't find many of the older articles [1]

The rumor is that Lockheed bribed the hell out of the Korean National Assembly and "won" the initial round of acquisition, but the agency in Korea responsible for the acquisition (DAPA) saw right through it and awarded the final contract to Boeing.

The National Assembly got upset, Lockheed got upset and probably some U.S. congressmen got upset and the entire acquisition was tossed out "recompeted" and of course the F-35 won the second time. It's a sad joke and I can't even begin to guess at the acquisition shenanigans that happened in the U.S.

1 - http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130928/DEFREG/309280008...

edit a great movie about this is the movie "Pentagon Wars" which includes this great scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA
I've heard this suggested before, but seriously, 5.1 million square kilometers of solar panels? Seems to me that we're a long way off from that kind of undertaking.
Of course you're right, but I think a function like

Complex -> Radian -> Complex

offers two points of view. You can see it as a function which transforms complex numbers or a function representing an update to the internal state of a Complex object. The second highlights the need to keep track of identity. Throwing an STRef into the mix just gives you a particular kind of history—one which only retains the "now".

Which is all sort of obvious and meaningless, but I still think it's interesting to think about. I think coalgebras tend to force thinking in terms of identity in this kind of way.
So, the question becomes who is going to enforce these rules? If you have these rules in your EULA, but you aren't enforcing them, you might as well not have them.

Are they going to start suing people? I can't see a whole lot of alternatives here.
You're a founder, so none of this should be shocking, early stage startups are cash strapped, and cash-in-the-bank is the 2nd most valuable commodity a company has, after it's people. In fact, the #1 reasons startup's will fail, will because they run out of money.

Thus, a CEO who doesn't treat their cash as the valuable resource it is, is just putting an unnecessary burden on their company.

Peter Thiel isn't advocating paying yourself nothing. His point (and data[1] backs this up), that CEO's making a high salary is a pretty good indicator of Startup that will fail.

If you need a high salary, then being a Founder/CEO probably isn't the right move. You're putting a burden on the company because of your life style choices.

Conversely, if you don't pay yourself anything, you're going to spend too much time dealing with the pain of not making ends meet, instead spending your energy growing your company.

[1] http://blog.startupcompass.co/73-percent-of-startup-founders...
A simpler, and effective, approach is if you don't like what a CEO is doing, don't invest in the company.

I recall years ago a CEO stating that he was adjusting the accounting to reflect numbers "that stock analysts were looking for." He underestimated the investors - they weren't fooled, the stock price tanked and he went out the door.
I gave in and bought one of the Seiki 4K 39" displays for $330 over the weekend -- it's far from ideal, but it's $330. I'm sure I can resell it for >$200 when I get something better in a few months or a year, but it's an entirely serviceable monitor.

(The $330 deal was a $399 TigerDirect with a $70 MIR, free shipping, no CA tax. Ended Monday, but I'm sure it will return.)
The F35 is a dog and I suspect as a Brit we are going to get stuck with the thing when everyone else pulls out.
You nailed the reason: inventory management. It is much easier to manage rooms as equivalent fungible commodities than as special unique offerings.

Granted, there are a lot of related industries that do offer guests this privilege: theater/opera tickets, tables at fancy restaurants, luxury car rentals, etc. But these are usually luxury offerings, where they can afford to charge more (and charge premiums based on your selection) to offset the greater cost of management.
How's Xenonauts? Have they made enough changes to justify the price?
Do you one of startup lovers and don't know how to become successful?
Where's the SDK for this?
somewhere there's a much harder version, it has code that could be c/c++, c#/java, scheme/CL, except for one little distinguishing feature.
I travel every 3 days and I have no home-base. The copy really appealed to me, especially the no-weights required. I don't always stay at hotels with Gyms (or hotels) and I'm not going to pay for memberships in 6 different cities. I'm not completely against the copy, considering you are targeting me, and not other hackers / techies - that already lift weights and work out.
Is that really how apple has been working as of late? It's not like they innovate on the software front all the time.
You're obviously not reading what I write. I'm not talking about fantasizing, I'm talking about planning. not the same thing.

What would you suggest that we do with someone caught with plans to bomb a building? Let them go until they actually do it and then arrest them?
Google open sources PDF renderer in Chrome
I personally think there should be a protocol that would turn everything into one big social network where you could sign up on any server and then OAuth to other servers.

We are building it: http://platform.qbix.com

(Better than Diaspora* :)
The only concept stranger than being encouraged to send a photo of such little value that it disappears, is being asked to respond to something you can't see.
I'd love to help develop this (and experiment myself!). Is it open source?

If so, where can I find the repo?
I can't get enough of this site! It's so fun
> but what about JRPGs using the term since forever

Before MTG though? I just remember magic depending on "MP" was "magic points/power" just like "HP" was "hit points" (i.e. 'life'). What's the earliest JRPG to call it 'mana?'
> Did you have to prepare for that?

Yes, I found it valuable/important to study basic data structures and algorithms before my interviews. Specifically, I read Wikipedia articles and worked through problems in Programming Interviews Exposed, although there are probably many better resources available these days.

Algorithmic questions, while often not very representative of the work that you'll do as a dev, are really common interview questions at many companies. I think this is in part because they're usually well encapsulated and don't require extra context/specialized knowledge. They're also usually not very programming language-dependent.
Someone once mentioned a long time ago, that this airplane is garbage for one reason only. Price. Let's say it performed flawlessly, succeeded in all it's goals, it would still be garbage. Because the point being that you counter that with a few cheap drones that all suck individually, but dollar for dollar you can get the hundred drones required to take these aircraft down, while the owners of the F-35 will simply not be able to keep up money wise.

$200 MM is a VERY hefty price. Hell 5 of these guys will cover our education needs across the whole damn united states.
Thanks for PyRethinkORM! I haven't used it yet, but really looking forward to taking it for a spin with Django in a few weeks. We'd love to feature it in our docs when we get through a few more immediate issues.
It turns out lunar dust is an excellent exfoliant!
I really like OpenXcom, but like the original Xcom i can't play it because of its rather stupid hit calculations. Range to the target isn't used for calculating the chance to hit a target. Because the troops can't hit something when it stands in front of them. Resulting in funny battles.

There is an build-in mod to reduce the chance to hit a target based on range. Since this doesn't solve the issue, the melee aliens become even more dangerous. And from all games around, Xcom do have the nastiest melee alien ever.
Ask HN: Do you use Web Application Firewall (WAF)?
I am wondering if it is worth the extra protection of using a WAF or is it ok to rely on our application code to protect against XSS, SQL injection etc. type of attacks? This is for a new cloud application that we are launching. I am leaning towards using a WAF since this is a enterprise/business application. Also, are there any specific products you would recommend? I have been reviewing how to configure the rules in HAProxy/mod_security but am wondering if it is just safer to rely on commercial product. Any suggestions or experiences?
How Large Companies Trick Webmasters To Collect Users Web Surfing History
why? serious question.
Thanks! That means a lot to me.
Show HN: My first Android app, a nutrition tracker. Feedback welcome
I'm interested in knowing more about how people are architecturing their Om projects

e.g. are you using something like:

app component <-> page components <-> (widget) components

where the app creates the page and the page creates the widgets and communication is flowing through channels?

and how do you deal with url transitions?

do you capture and flow up the click from a widget back to the app so it knows it's time to render a different page? and have some (case ...) at the app level?

or using some kind of mix with secretary and changing the location.href/a hrefs?

etc
Look, I found it highly distracting. I didn't say I couldn't understand him. I am free to state what I found distracting from that video.
I've never done that, but one reason is for them to be able to coach you. If you show up to meet them dressed poorly or making a bad overall impression, they will either coach you or simply cut you loose and say they couldn't get you in for the interview.

It also helps build a relationship. At some point that recruiter might 'ask' you to take a job with his/her client. Saying no to someone you haven't met is easier than saying no to someone you have spent time with.

Recruiters are constantly doing little sales 'closes' during the process, building towards that big close of you accepting a job offer. It's all part of a sales process, no different than any other sales position.

Edit: changed "the reason" to "one reason"
Probably not without all the subsidy that YouTube gets via Google's scale of internet bandwidth and integration of ads.

I suspect that's why sites like Nico Nico (http://www.nicovideo.jp/) try to overlay as much to YouTube as possible.
The CreoPop Pen Is The Easiest Way To Get Into 3D Art
NASA Cuts Live Feed From The I.S.S As U.F.O Black Knight Shows Up On Cameras
> if you're patient and methodical, it's not terribly hard to win most fights, scratch-free

I was pretty satisfied with how they addressed that issue in Enemy Within. There are optional objectives that give you bonus resources if you reach them before they expire after a number of turns.

But yes, in Enemy Unknown, I gave up on my Classic runthrough after I realized that I could win easily if I just advanced slowly enough.
Upstate NY county rep on working with Solar City
Bezos and Musk are also founders. The basic problem with CEOs is that they pose a huge agency issue: they are supposed to be appointed as agents of the owners who are themselves represented by the Board of Directors. However, no one has ever found a way to provide effective oversight to ensure that CEOs act in the interests of the owners rather than in their own interests.

Attempts to tie CEO interests to owner interests by tying compensation to the company's performance have thus far failed, mostly because a) the fraction of compensation isn't sufficient to overcome the CEOs self-serving motivation or b) the specific tying system can be gamed to the CEO's advantage.

Furthermore, there is an asymmetry in the degree of interest between the parties: CEOs have a very large interest in maximizing their own compensation, while shareholders see CEO compensation as one expense amongst many others, and as such are less interested in it.

These issues have been known for a long time, and again: no one has come up with a viable answer. Anything anyone who is posting here thinks of has almost certainly been thought of before, tried, and seen to fail.
Absolutely, because the US Govt (and other governments) have the companies in question consult in helping to shape the requirements of this type of service.

Simply: Lockheed define narrow criteria that only Lockheed can win and then lobby enough to ensure those criteria are applied.
I'm skeptical because it sounds like this effect should be tradeable, unless they're using some measure of shareholder returns which doesn't imply that you could short-sell high-paid-CEO equities and buy median-paid-CEO equities and get an excess return. In other words, it sounds like this study is postulating an exploitably inefficient market, unless this kind of data only recently became available. http://lesswrong.com/lw/yv/markets_are_antiinductive/

To be clear, I'm very willing to believe that the companies with the highest-paid CEOs have generally poor governance and will antiperform on some appropriate metric, like price-to-book. But that metric shouldn't be equity price changes because CEO pay is public info, people are already speculating about it as a negative sign, and the market should already be taking that into account and pricing such shares lower (meaning that the returns cost less, hence such stocks should return the market rate, albeit perhaps with greater volatility).
This may be a correlation-vs-causation effect. It's possible that companies that are in poor markets and likely to do poorly in the next few years have to pay more to attract qualified CEO candidates, because good executives realize the shit the company is in and don't want to take the risk of a failure on their resume without being compensated significantly for it.

This would also explain why the negative correlation is strongest at the extreme high ends of the pay scale - these are the companies that are in the worst shape - and why these CEOs relied heavily on acquisitions, because they had no talent or useful products in the organization itself. It also fits with Warren Buffett's observation that "When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact."

One way to confirm or deny this hypothesis would be to look at companies that previously were high-performing, and then see what the correlation between CEO pay and the change in market performance is within that group.
I picked up the original XCOM on Steam again, last having played it on an old 486 box--I remembered my lessons, and the first mission I'd intercepted a little scout craft (2 crewman, one of whom died on impact).

So, naturally, I deploy 12 squaddies, leapfrog and encircle the crashed craft on a farm in broad daylight (never, ever, at night, ever), and proceed to fill it full of detpacks. Perfect, flawless run. I'm feeling cocky.

Next mission, terror mission, and within three turns I've lost like half my team to friendly fire (unfortunate incident with an incendiary rocket), a quarter to enemy fire, and the last few guys are either panicking or getting crushed in a pincer between alien tank units (cyberdiscs) and heavy infantry.

And that's when I realized that pretty much no modern games are as hard and unforgiving as that old DOS wonder. You start the game with a bunch of folks in T-shirts and M16s, and by the end you are literally space marines whose mere presence sends elite enemy units scurrying in terror--and more importantly, the game made you earn it, every step of the way.

EDIT:

Their Github!

https://github.com/SupSuper/OpenXcom/
Since it has essentially the marketplace problem (two separate audiences, neither of which has any incentive to participate without the other), you can use the classic marketplace solution. Assert the existence of one side of the marketplace. Work like a dog on acquiring the second. Use your possession of the second to bring the first on a bit more legitimately.

They're not selling anything which doesn't already exist, in readily accessible quantity, in their target markets. Thus, handwaving away the problem of lacking supplier relationships is easy. You just go to them like a normal consumer, pull stuff off the shelf, and pay with your credit card. Then you pack it personally or with a team of underemployed people, and deliver it in a similar fashion.

This "doesn't scale" but carries little execution risk, and lets you focus on the (first) really hard problem, which is "How do I sell $100k of groceries every single day?" After you're selling $100k of groceries every single day, doors open magically. Those particular doors don't help you bring on more customers, though, so don't focus on opening them prior to having customers.
There are maps that don't allow jumping. Ducati maps, for example. All sorts of variations are possible.
Anyone interested in fighter design process should check out the biography "Boyd". John Boyd is acknowledged as the 'father' of the F15 and F16.
Icinga 2.0 has arrived
It is rather reminiscent of the Skybolt affair from the 1960s:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAM-87_Skybolt

Edit: Even more like the fantastic idea to cancel the wonderful TSR-2 in favour of the F-111 - a decision which was then cancelled later on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAC_TSR-2

""All modern aircraft have four dimensions: span, length, height and politics. TSR-2 simply got the first three right."
No, the parrot is very lightweight http://ardrone2.parrot.com/ardrone-2/specifications/

And yes, it isn't the act of sticking the fingers into blades, it is its stated use of autonomously filming around a person. When I direct the camera to maintain an angle and elevation with respect to a target and it impacts that target, this is a liability problem.
This is partially true, although you have to keep in mind that agency recruiters never have the incentive to minimize your compensation. They do have an incentive to get you more money, and their biggest incentive is for any offer (high or low) to be accepted - but their incentive is never to get you a lower salary.
Maps can slow down everything. Try Hix in slow motion... (there's also Hix in fast motion, but you shouldn't try that one!)
Looks like a modern (in-browser) take on CSound[1]. I love the idea of modifying the code during runtime.

[1] http://www.csounds.com/
Thanks for sharing that interesting link. He has a good point and ends with a wise standing:

However, this is a good time to re-iterate my standard disclaimers: Bitcoin is still a work in progress, and you should only risk time or money on it that you can afford to lose. Mining centralization is one of several potential risks; read Jim Harper’s excellent Risk Management Study for a clear-headed assessment of risks and consequences.
IE11 didn't ship for Windows 8.0 it only shipped for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.

Windows 8.1 is a free upgrade on Windows 8.0, more like a service pack release (when you look at the changes). Why not port it to Windows 8.0, it didn't make sense, 8.0 should fade out as people install the free upgrade that comes via Windows Updates (or the store, I forget which) and is a mandatory update. Opting out of mandatory updates means you opt out of associated upgrades.

This isn't a new or unique policy in Windows, look at iOS, you won't get WebGL on Mobile Safari without iOS 8, OSX doesn't back-port Safari and Andriod has a lot of versions with terrible browsers.
I wouldn't consider buying a company's stock really as investing in that company, because 1) the company doesn't receive any benefit from your purchase except at IPO, and 2) your only incentive is to wait for the price to go up and sell.

Larger investors that buy up significant percentages of a company may be more invested, but again their goal is just for an increase in stock price, but for the long-term stability and growth as a company.

If a company is privately owned, the owners and employees have an incentive for the company to grow over the long term and focus on stability rather than quick wins and short-term financials.
It's not always as simple as a PUT landing. Imagine you're tracking something like a phone call in real time. You want to fetch the current state of the call and start tracking it, but it's changing relatively rapidly. You also don't want to have to push the full state of the call down the notification pipe on every update, because you're handling a lot of these.

Merging the incoming deltas with fetched API state becomes a bit tricky, because you have to account for changes that might be happening while your GET is in transit. Alternatively, it may be that your notifications are slower than the GET request, depending on network conditions. An option that works in both of these cases (and doesn't involve version tagging all of your assets) is the approach described in the blog post.