skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author follows the intro to that topic (which says nothing about EM waves causing 'sound' I might add) by saying:

Finally, there's a body of empirical evidence that makes this theory more appealing. A study funded by the Canadian government and led by University of Windsor mechanical engineering professor Dr. Colin Novak spent the last year listening to the "Windsor Hum" that's been torturing residents in the Windsor area of Ontario since 2011.

If you read the intro to that paper, it's very clear that it was acoustical noise that was measured and likely to be caused by a blast furnace. So that study provides no evidence at all that EM waves are causing 'noise'.

The author continues with:

The study concluded that not only does the Windsor Hum actually exist, but its likely source was a blast furnace at the U.S. Steel plant on Zug Island, which reportedly generates a high volume of VLF waves during its hours of operation.

The study did not find that the blast furnace was radiating VLF waves (VLF being a term limited to EM waves) but rather that it was emitting sound waves in the 30-35Hz range. 30-35Hz is the SLF EM range, so even if the author conflated the types of 'waves', I'm not sure where they got VLF from.

And then:

Dr. Novak's study caps off decades of Hum theories

No, it really doesn't, it just found a loud blast furnace. Not to take anything away from the work needed, locating a sound source at frequencies that low in a complex environment isn't trivial.
Supreme Court Deals Major Blow to Patent Trolls
I'd bet on UI and marketing.

The player is very unobtrusive and minimalist, and simple things like pronounceable random names probably appeal to the user.

Also, features that are well-known to heavy reddit users (such as easily resizeable videos) only helped with the word-of-mouth.
I'll be that guy: this seems nice, I'd love to use it, I'll take another look some time around 2018 when I can start to consider pitching dropping IE9 support. IE10+ is simply ridiculously prohibitive for something like this.
Right click the video. It's probably Flash. Plays using Flash in Firefox on my machine.

OS X is the last platform where Firefox doesn't support H.264. They're working on it, but it doesn't seem to be landing soon.
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An electric motorcycle is the complete opposite of what Harley sells and how it succeeds.

Interesting that a company that's succeeded by selling... old technology is attempting to innovate again.

The V-Rod(attempt at innovation) was met meekly.

Buell, where they actually innovated, shut down a few years ago.

Harley Riders don't want innovation and change. They want noise and an image.

The 'young crowd' wants cheap bikes made to look tough and vintage. Hence the redesigning and marketing of the Sportster(entry model).

The rockstar lawyers want big heavy cruisers that can carry their leather shells loudly across the country.
Well my wrist reflexively ached when he described it and a picture of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_Air_Wing_%28video_game%... inserted itself into my head :-)
It's funny how being closer to the reality and more informed about the technology can mean one's guesses about the future are more pessimistic than people making pie in the sky guesses (think scientists versus sci-fi authors).

I'm not directly involved in tech/hardware and I'm imagining full on reality-quality 'virtual reality' beamed into people's brains within 20 years. I imagine those in VR would scoff at this, but I'm kinda hoping I'll be closer to the truth ;-)
>We eat meals in the office around the dining table.

Yes, teams never eat together

>Most everyone has nicknames for each other.

This is certainly a thing no athlete does.

>We take our shoes off in the office

You're right; athletes hate being comfortable

>Not everything we do together is all about work.

Again, you're so right. Sports teams do not ever hang out together outside of practice.
And there are all sorts of other non-monetary things that are part of the overall deal: commute time, what city the company is in, what industry the company is in, etc. (In economic terms, the employee is maximizing their complicated utility function over a large number of variables, one of which is money.)
More like Yeoman competition.
This is perhaps a bit overzealous, but for those who aren't aware, IKEA does have a dubiously legal corporate structure:
http://www.economist.com/node/6919139
Instructions at the point of need (2005)
I'm suggesting that he should be mindful of what he's saying, and how that impacts his staff, and the message that he's projecting to future hires.

I really don't mind if people roll their eyes at me :) just that they consider the possibility that it was a poor choice of words.
Every conclusion he comes to are also described on Basho's site when it comes to using last-write-wins. At the end of the post, notice CRDT's preserve 100% of writes, and the same could be had if allowing siblings. Punting on high-availability is different than the company being upfront about the tradeoffs.
> I am currently writing a Golang client for Elasticsearch
> which uses the native binary protocol

Why on earth would you do that? Is request serialization and transfer time via the JSON API even approaching 1% of mean request duration?
And the IDE support is far worse too.
The 'Nic' he quotes in the article is me :) This is seriously the highlight in my career folks!

Although to be fair, he quotes me generously. Later on in that discussion I give up my wisdom and get confused again.
Finding correlations in complex datasets
Do you have any good links/articles/discussions on these systems? I've read a bit about the origins of NeXTStep, but the work at PARC is something I know little about and RAD tooling is something completely new to me.
But why would different training data lead to the same error? I could imagine it would lead to something with the same type of flaw, but why do the same exact adversarial images work, out of the near infinite number of possible images? Doesn't intuitively make sense to me, but I can't say I have much of a background in machine learning.

Like if you fit 5 close-to-linear 2d points with a 4th order polynomial, you'll overfit. Change the data slightly and you'll still overfit, but your fit will be very different.
Android SDK Manager Tool Upgrade Hell (Windows)
I'm in there as well.
Still beats write-multiple-times-debug-everywhere.
I Resent You – An Open Letter to Shanley Kane
If you're curious about other stuff we use at Beeminder: http://blog.beeminder.com/weusethat
You're correct in stating that it's impossible to truly "verify" the source code of a website - essentially, it's a remotely hosted black box unless you have direct file access to the server. But this seems to suggest that if you can't trust a site which doesn't publish its source code, you also can't trust a site which does - that "show of good faith" means absolutely nothing.
Supreme Court rules software patents that cover 'abstract ideas' are invalid
Presumably you could delocalize it with something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Frequency_Active_Auroral_...

I realize that this is entering conspiracy theory territory, but generating VLF from a distance is one of the things this thing does.
I assume that only work with single line text?
Pretty close. The game was called FlightDeck and the publisher was Aackosoft. It was a bit earlier though, 1980s, I'm a bit hazy on the exact date but it would have to be somewhere around 1988 or so.

Here are some shots from the MSX version (which was made a few years earlier by an absolutely awesome programmer called Steve Course).

http://www.generation-msx.nl/software/aackosoft/flight-deck-...
look at hattrick.org it's been running for years now.
It's hard in the same way asking a girl on a date is hard.
Sure. I use Thunderbird as well and love it and I am aware you are involved with other projects.

But....no matter what else you do, you are a browser maker. And, I have some reservations about your involvement with news organizations that are sometimes used to push governmental (or other) positions. The concerns are not large, (after all the same type of concerns could exist with Google involvement). Nor is it necessarily my decision and I'll probably continue to use Firefox up to the point it welcomes me with "Hello Citizen...for your protection your surfing habits and posting opinions will be reported to the Ministry of Attitudinal Correction".

I'm just pointing out a potential conflict and minor concern. Hopefully it does not grow larger.
Exactly. This all leads me to wonder if work can't be done to take the good web concepts and back port them to the operating system level, per the ideas I've briefly touched on in these two prior comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7917921
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7891913

edit: the two drive-by downvoters are invited to elaborate on how this comment could be improved or what they disagree with so vehemently that this merited downmodding.
Good luck to them. They'll have some pretty tough competition from Mission Motorcycles, Brammo, Yamaha, KTM and countless others.

Electric motorcycles are undoubtedly the future, but bikes are totally different vehicles than cars. They have very different use cases (recreation vs. utility), and riding on public roads comes with outrageous risks. I've been riding since my teens, and finally sold my road bike in order to preserve my life. I only do track days and regional racing now to get my riding fix.

Electric bikes will have an advantage in areas that gas bikes are weak, such as noise and emissions. For the road, battery technology needs to get much cheaper to compete with gas. In terms of performance, nothing beats an electric drivetrain. The only issue is with the massive weight of the current gen battery packs.

KTM electric dirt bike:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-AzDZt1IcM
Linux PI futex self-requeue bug
Yeah, why not rewrite every filesystem?

But there is http://www.fusionio.com/blog/under-the-hood-of-the-iomemory-...
However in the USA there have been ongoing attempts to sell automatic transmission motorcycles (Honda being the strongest proponent, but others too including Aprilia) All of these attempts have seem very limited success. If I had to guess I would say it is because the MC market in the US is an enthusiast market. There are very limited numbers of people that buy a motorcycle to commute. Enthusiasts are like linux users. They not only don't care that it is more complicated, they prefer the complication and the flexibility it provides. So IMO, for automatic (or in the electric case, no transmission) to become a selling point, you have to start selling to a different group of people, or you have to show some material benefit over the status quo (like for instance on a race bike no shifts means no momentary loss of power during shifts. However that isn't Harley's field.)
This requires #vertalign to have fixed height. You cannot have variable height (based on its own content) and also be vertical align.
I think "hey guys" has come to be accepted as a gender neutral term (from my experience in the UK). Somehow "That guy" however is still gender specific...
I think Aegisub (http://www.aegisub.org/) is the current golden standard in the anime community, which is one of the most active when it comes to subtitles.
Can you please forward me his contact info? Thanks :)
I think firefly will be amazon's siri. Attractive, but not that useful.
It's (for now, anyway) a fairly routine process. If you've been a legal, self-sufficient resident of Sweden for 4 years, you get permanent residency after a straightforward application.

There is some debate over adding a Swedish-language requirement, but there isn't currently one. That is one of the two difference with Denmark: if you're a non-EU immigrant to Denmark, you need to live there 5 years under the same conditions rather than 4, plus pass a middle-level Danish competency exam.
I would think that feature is an added benefit and nothing should be done about it except ensure TRIM is enabled and active. We should not be running our private lives with a goal of assisting lawsuits and prosecution, particularly actions against ourselves.
It's annoying to an oldtimer, like me, that animated gifs have now simply become gifs.
Inspiring Women
It's only sending a message if you're looking for one. Did you consider that it could simply be that he was describing the current state of affairs? He only has male employees, so they're his brothers. If they hire a woman, it'd be "brothers and sisters" or simply "siblings".

I agree with the sibling poster that it seems like some people go out of their way to be offended.
The article was really hard for me to read, because the author just thinks so much differently from me. i.e. if an area is driving you mad, do you get instant relief if you leave the area?

It could still be chemical / something in the air that makes you hallucinate, but not talking about such basic questions is just so different from how I think.

the next most basic question is whether there are actually any physical sounds at any frequency - if microphones aren't sensitive enough at certain frequencies to tell us, then I would lead with that. If they're sensitive enough, but show nothing, then I would lead with that and then show a differential as to why it's not psychosomatic, or a chemical poison that gives you this effect, etc.

I just found this article too different from how I think to read through.
The clients actually acts as a cluster node and therefore has knowledge about the cluster state, its indexes and shards, because it receives notifications from it, once it joins.

This allows to execute operations on a specific shard of a specific index on a specific node of the cluster resulting in better performance than going through the HTTP interface.

It can be used to efficiently store big quantities of data, for instance logs, which then can be visualized with Kibana.

It's just unfortunate that Elasticsearch presents the problems mentioned in the article and which I also experience in production, because it has a series of plugins which makes it a good solution for specific use cases.
I wanted to do exactly this, but I wanted to do it at a word level granularity. So that you could input any text and get a video of random clips from many sources each saying exactly the words in the input string.

I don't think the metadata is quite there yet.
Ask HN : Need Help from Hacker News Community
So im doing this challenge and have been given the herculean task of getting 1000 surveys filled up in 24 hours (By Chinese demographic).

Here is the link
[https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NHTR236]

I am open to any and all suggestions for help. Remember I have 24 hours to do this.
> The hardware outperforms off-the-shelf solvers by a large margin

But it doesn't outperform classical algorithms specifically written to solve the types of problems that the D-Wave machine accepts.
"I'd rather work with friends than co-workers."

You might come to regret this if you ever have to fire one of your friends. You're a manager/owner of the business, and you need to realize that the people who report to you have a very different relationship with you than they have with each other (even if it's not obvious to you) - you sign their paychecks, you can fire or promote them, etc.

I speak from the experience of having been a manager whose friendship with his staff made it hard to make the most effective business decisions.
Introducing Certifi: Trust Database for Humans
I wouldn't agree that it was a poor choice of words. The kind of people who are so sensitive that they get offended by trivial things like that are not the kind of people I'd want working with/for me.

And yes, that's a value judgment of mine that it's "trivial". Others are welcome to feel differently, but I'm welcome to (as you put) roll my eyes, and think it's a bit silly.
While living in the city of Groningen, the Netherlands I experienced a Hum during some nights (I doubt that there is such a thing as the Hum - there's too many possible sources for low-frequency sounds). I have not had that issue before or after. However, in my case the most likely case is easy to pinpoint: the control centre for the Groningen gas field[0] was just a few blocks away from where I lived, and I expect that if they open or close a valve, that can cause some low-frequency whistling sounds that propagate through the ground.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groningen_gas_field
My take away from the article is "environmental pollution is no fun": Noise pollution, particularly low frequencies that travel huge distances and through most materials, can be infuriating, especially if other people aren't as sensitive to it, making you seem overly sensitive.

I can actually appreciate that it could test people's sanity over long periods of time.

That part seems obvious and a given. The whole bit about radio waves... The article tries to bridge the two by claiming that the suspect furnace near Windsor is producing "VLF waves" (maybe they're adopting it to audio frequency, but given the other parts it seems like they're trying to bridge the radio thing), only it's actually creating low frequency acoustic waves, measured seismically. Just normal noise, carrying enormous distances and irritating people. Just as irritating as the guy in the Honda Civic with the giant subs playing rap music.
And it's awesome. Where I'm working we've embedded it into Node-WebKit for an app we're building ;)
re>"thousands of motorcycle riders believe" means nothing. Idiots can believe anything they want and it changes no facts of science.

Most of the sound is projected behind the bike where it has little effect of warning anyone in advance. Meanwhile, I'm buttoned up in my sound-deadened auto with the windows rolled up, A/C blasting and set to "Ice Cubes" and the iPod jacked into the in-dash blowing some Sammy out of four or more 6x9's - All I hear is the thud as I bounce over your bike. source: I rode for 6 years.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7917749
Thanks for the feedback, there was a minor glitch with our DNS config which caused a few of our outgoing signup emails to bounce... All fixed now and you should have received your welcome email.
i would be shocked if they did not already have a back door in place
You're missing a few points:

1. Not everybody who works at these companies welcomes the blurring of their personal and professional lives equally. There are absolutely employees who want an employer to provide a social experience, but you shouldn't assume that there aren't others who merely tolerate it because they want the job.

2. These types of environments create a certain level of peer pressure among employees. Don't want to go on weekend bike rides with the folks you work with because you have a significant other, friends of your own, etc.? Want to lunch quietly by yourself and recharge for the afternoon? Prefer not to do your happy hour drinking with your coworkers? Be careful. If you too frequently refuse to engage with your "family" outside of regular work hours, it's likely to be noticed. That's problematic when your employment is contingent on "culture fit."

3. From what I can tell, more and more companies, especially younger startups in San Francisco, have this type of approach, so it's increasingly difficult to escape if you're dead set on working at a typical early-stage startup here.
Yes, exactly. Every time I see one of these I wish they would plot the per-capita occurrences as a heat-map instead, which would actually be useful. (A bit more work sure, but certainly doable.)
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It might be a bit tangential I guess but did guy always mean male person? My mum and quite a few people from her generation seem to often use it to mean both men and women. This is in the UK though.
A more reasonable definition might be "5pm Friday till whenever you go to sleep Sunday night" but this is not about being reasonable (quite the opposite). I have no particular attachment to my sleep schedule so I'm hoping I'll be on a roll Sunday night and push straight through to 9am Monday and then collapse.
Harley-Davidson testing electric motorcycles
The JavaScript solution to everything is the best way to explore which ideas are actually worth converting into a standard. It's much better to implement something as JavaScript that can then be used with any browser than for some half-baked idea to be implemented in a browser, that the other browser makers end up copying and now we're stuck with yet another standard, but half-baked way of doing things.

Every javascript solution that becomes popular ends up informing those ideas the browser makers end up standardizing. CommonJS and RequireJS have both informed the ES6 modules API. All the promise implementations out there have informed the promises API in ES6. etc. etc.
I don't, except to note that bad presentation is way more annoying when paired with high-quality content. If it was just about anyone else, I'd have closed the tab.

If enough people complain this time, maybe I won't have to waste a couple minutes clicking "Inspect Element -> display: none" on all the animated junk before reading the next article.
Hello -

Some feedback from someone in the market you're targeting - if I were to receive an email from you, the first thing I'd do is hit up the website - which is default bootstrap linking to a poorly edited PDF. I'd dismiss it based on that straight away based on your description here of being "launched".
Are you willing to pay the ultimate sacrifice for me?

That's the only bar for this word. Other than that, you're just people linked together by checking accounts and employee contracts.

The only other organization I've worked for that matches that standard was the US Marine Corps. It's a head trip to leave that community and reintegrate into society.
> and promised their chances to make millions after retirement -- if they wish -- back in the patent bar.

This is a bullshit angle you're working. It is exceedingly rare for a federal court of appeals judge to return to private practice. The ones who do are usually appointed very young. 75% of former CAFC judges have died on the bench. The rest retired outright, or taught. Judge Rader isn't going to be making millions teaching IP law in China.
Browser lock-in?

What makes you think web applications made with this kit work only in Chrome?
Jack White understands big data
> ... but only opportunities that match their specific, mostly unspoken, criteria. As someone on the sending side of a cold email, you're generally not privy to this criteria

You are thinking about the above average recruiters. My resume and linkedin have a clear "note to recruiters" at the top where I try to articulate the criteria and explain why. For example I say small companies/startups. Yet 95% of the recruiter emails I get show they haven't looked at the note at all. Fortunately having such a note makes it easy for me determine if the recruiter has done any work.
The 7th Circuit is also not very generous to debtors in bankruptcy practice. Yet the world goes on. This variation isn't a bad thing, IMHO.
Supreme Court Sides With Whistleblower In Retaliation Case
The article link is broken for me. Here's where it should point to:

https://mayday.us/internethasasuperpac/

I looked on the page for any mention of specific legislation that the SuperPAC will advocate for. Didn't find anything. The closest thing I could find was a link to Lessig's Rootstriker reforms listed here:

http://reform.to/#/reforms

This information should be more clear on the SuperPAC page. The how of reform is just as important as the why. And the lack of info made me hesitant to pledge.