skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to believe that the reason that the company uses NDA's is to give the Authorities plausible deniability. "We couldn't apply for a warrant Your Honor, because we would have been breaking our NDA". The cops probably love the NDA, it is probably a feature of the product!
On a similar note, the images to sounds thing has been used by musicians / producers for a while. One of the more high profile users of this is Aphex Twin.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windowlicker#Hidden_images
[1] http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/1ac745...
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I think Genius and DigitalOcean = a match made in heaven. The quality would go from "the best" to "untouchable", if the comments were value adding. Imagine being able to dive deeper into any piece of the tutorial you wanted.
It would be interesting to test this out
This has so many MD5s, it must be ultra secure!
In comparison to Unity, Monogame is a good option if you would really like to write a complete game in a high-level cross-platform language (C#/F#) rather than scripting pre-made chunks: http://monogame.net
Worth pointing out that this is only tested in Chrome for the time being.
One of the developers here. The github repo is not linked in the blog, but you can find the code here: https://github.com/kogmbh/webodf/
WebODF.js is can run entirely from your own server so there's no need to depend on 3rd party services.
Happy to answer any questions!
Oh jesus I can't believe this made the washington post. It's basically a bunch of people not-really-understanding DSP. It's a highly known and highly explored field.
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Regarding equations, for a physically unrelated but similar cognitive process, see[0] how we (A) set up a physical wave system, use complex numbers to work with wave equations, then liberally discard imaginary parts as if they never existed to get a physical result (B). (A) and (B) are anchored in physical reality, but the mathematical process in between is — as far as we know — not.

As for discontinuities, another non-thermodynamic physical discontinuity is the speed of light. Special relativity predicts it's entirely possible for particles to move FTL, when it's actually crossing the boundary that's a problem.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_wave#Complex_exponential_...
I hope its not becoming the new Stack Overflow. The home of overzealous moderators.
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What the site fails to explain is why these things are important. Changing a property that effects a layout change means the browser will need to redraw that element and anything that the geometry has pushed around. A full repaint is slow so if you're doing it often the user's experience will be very negatively impacted. A composite event should be pretty fast as it happens largely on the GPU hardware.

For this reason, for example, animating things with a CSS transform is considerably better for the user than animating a property like left or margin-left. Animating with CSS can be much better than something like jQuery's animate().

If you want to know more, google 'layout thrashing'.
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I think your argument is enough.
In some countries even just regular buildings are considered copyrighted if they have at all nontrivial decoration or design, and photos of them require permission of the person/company that holds the design copyright on the facade. The keyword to find each country's laws is "freedom of panorama", an exception to copyright law that allows photographing public places, even if the photograph includes something copyrighted. Some countries give a blanket exception; others give an exception only for buildings (but not sculptures or other artwork that appears in public, which can complicate photographing a building if it also has sculptures); and those differ on whether it includes only building exteriors or also photographs of the interiors of public lobbies; still others have freedom of panorama but only for non-commercial use; etc.

Due to having to sort it out repeatedly, I think Wikimedia has the most up-to-date rundown of each country's laws on the subject: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_panora...
WebODF simply loads the ODF xml as is and adds CSS to make it render well. This means that no information is lost.
The same approach does not work well with OOXML which makes it harder to write a similar library for those formats. For the binary formats the same approach is completely out of the question. One way to build similar functionality for those formats is to take existing ODF converter code from Calligra or LibreOffice and port it to compile nicely with emscripten. The result can then be edited with webodf.
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> Aerospike’s mission is to rain bullshit on the entire field of databases by offering an addictive proposition: a database literally ten times faster than existing NoSQL solutions, and one hundred times faster than existing SQL solutions.

Gotta love Disrupt to Bullshit: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disrupt-to-bullshi...
Yes,they do.
Savvy consultants make a business model out of this: interview the line workers to figure out what the actual problems are, and then repeat their recommendations back to management. The line workers get listened to, the managers get solutions, and the consultants get paid. It's basically trust arbitrage, exploiting an inefficiency in manager's decision-making to turn superficial characteristics into money with very little effort required.

Anyways, the solution isn't to complain. It's to become CEO, or management, or wherever the decision-making power rests, and then listen better than average executive does. This is behind the "software is eating the world" thesis and many of the fortunes that have been made in the last 20 years; the extreme cluelessness of decision-makers has created a number of exploitable market opportunities that you can attack with persistence and better information.
Sounds like decent as it is to me. I guess it all depends on your musical culture (not intended as a derogatory remark).
I would definitely pay for its android app :P
Assuming you are something along the lines of a freelance software developer, would you visit clients undressed like that?
Congrats on the launch! Do you plan to expand to other cities?
Just go eat something.
Oh yes, the US, the exporter of freedom and democracy.
Happy 25th, Firewall
The author used other people's content, packaged them into an app, and then repeatedly submitted the same app (with one minor modification -- the use of someone else's content) to the Play store. 'Beta' apps or apps that you write for close friends/family can be distributed via other means than the main app market.

This article admits that he ignored all of the warnings he was given, and now accuses Google of unfair business practice. I don't buy it.

There's a lot of logical contortion going on to dump the blame for this back on Google. "The suspension email stated that I was trying to impersonate another company" is followed quickly by "Well since Google was silent about the exact reason for suspension..."; he even admits to intentionally ignoring the warnings he was given because "if I thought a human at Google was giving me the warning, I might have listened more carefully."

That is, at best, negligently poor reasoning. At worst, it's a contemptuous disrespect for the other party you're engaging in business with, which is pretty good grounds for them exercising their option to terminate that business relationship.

Google, Amazon, etc., are for-profit commercial service providers. If you're going to violate their policies, they will stop working with you, regardless of the impact on your business. Anyone who depends on a third party supplier for anything, in any business context, should keep that in mind -- they have no duty to you beyond whatever contract you have signed (if, of course, you have signed one).
Hey! We do plan on launching in other cities by the of this year. If you want to get notified when we launch near you, you can sign up at https://www.sidestage.com/en/city_launches/new
With difficulty. From around 2006-2009 I ran a hotel reservation business in six languages across China with 3,000 individual relationships, map integration, digital fax integration, custom call-center, etc. Didn't sell any of the software: didn't even try. Did, however, look at investors to take it to another market. Ultimately though, I just moved on. Despite the time spent, I look at it as cheap experience.
I've often thought the same. Execution is the hard part, especially with regard to conversions. It is really tough to get right, even with a mature product. And, given the sea of noise that invades everyone's lives, trying to be heard with a product presentation that is purposely subpar seems unrealistic.

So, one problem with lean is that you're actually testing two variables: the idea and the execution. When people don't convert, is it the idea, the copy, the design, something else? It may be that you just need to iterate on your copy/conversion funnel, etc. a dozen times. But, lean de-emphasizes the implementation; encouraging you to instead view the feedback as primarily relevant to your idea, and so move on in the face of low conversions.
This man wanna buy a Twitter account hahaha
I've used both Catalyst and Mojolicious. Mojolicious is much easier to get started with, because you don't have to touch several namespaces just to get a single page to render.

Also doing non-blocking stuff with Catalyst seems to be a real pain (though I haven't tried it yet).
Systems at negative temperature are, in a way, hotter than infinite temperature. Yet, the contain much less energy than the same system at a very large (or approaching infinite) temperature would contain.

They are, after all, created in a lab, so their energy content is limited by how much electricity the lab equipments has consumed.
March 25th post that was on Hacker News at least twice already. This is the only article on his blog.

Here is hi github page: https://github.com/sgehrman He is still developing. I am wondering what the updated status is on this? Seems that if he is still developing he isn't banned for life?

There already were some petition at https://www.change.org/petitions/sergey-brin-respect-the-eff...
Judging by the names of the apps/wrappers (if they were same in the store) from here http://distantfutu.re/page/portfolio.html he is lucky to not get sued at the same time as well. He's even argumentative about trademark infringement in his post. I don't think he fully understands what he really did wrong.
http://www.warmplace.ru/soft/pixivisor/

If you like this, I suggest checking out PixiVisor. It's an experimental tool by NightRadio (Alexander Zolotov), who also made the amazing modular synth + tracker "SunVox".

PixiVisor takes a short video loop (~animated-GIF or sequence of images), modulates the frames (progressive-scan) into audio. A 2nd instance of the app (usually on another device) demodulates the audio back into similar video frames automagically.

"Similar"? Well... after picking up the multi-path room echoes and the "colorful" transfer functions of the DAC, amp, speaker, mic, ADC, etc, there is substantial distortion. This is intentional, as you can vary the signal considerably and the receiver app still reliably demodulates it back into video.

This hit the "wait, isn't that impossible?!" stage for me in this demo video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkdLAWPsONQ

Using two mono channels of an audio mixer to mix video live is already insane. Then the effect insert is turned up, and various types of reverb get added to the video frames in a way that perfectly matches what you hear.

Also, this video, of live room echoes and hand waves that clearly result in changing reflections/blocking across many frequencies. Multi-path is also very visible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF5C93cDocA

It's even multi-platform! (Windows, Linux, OSX, Android, iOS)

/* sigh, now I'm going to be goofing off with SunVox instead of writing RSpec */
Ask HN: Tab + Enter in Chrome after searching opens Google+
There used to be a lovely gimmick in Chrome.

When you search a phrase, you send the keystrokes Tab + Enter and it would automaticly open the first search result (or you could use the arrows for switching through the results).

Now it opens Google+ and it takes about 20 tabs before it reaches the first search results.

I'm curious, why has no one complained about this? This is actually frustrating for a "power-user".

Now i have to switch to my mouse, instead of typing: Control + L (= searching), Type: {{Searchterm}}, Enter, Tab, Enter (or Arrows)
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The author used others people's content and spammed with play store with official sounding apps, then ignored warnings to stop. Got caught and punished for it, now Google won't let him do it again.

Honestly, it just sounds like Google were doing the right thing and protecting it's users from low quality spam apps.
Definitely not Adam Curtis' best work.

In particular, his connection between Boole (and Boolean Algebra) and recommendation systems seems weak. The latter are for more probabilistic.

And just when you think the article is going somewhere it ends with a strange detour into the Boole family which doesn't seem to have much to do with the rest.
So the people least equipped to evaluate the security implications of the friendly instructions are the ones who are most encouraged to do something awful?

"Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling-block before the blind"
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And to be honest I don't know why he's scared to make a new google account. Yeah sure they track your IP address and whatnot but they certainly wont do anything about it. They wont ban an entire household, that's just bullshit.

I don't know why he thought getting suspended wasn't a big deal because he was "innocent". That's also a fairly stupid idea as well.
to wit, "In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash Installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions. If you're reading via RSS, you'll need to visit the blog to access this content"
This is a great example of what I'm talking about. He even claims to be based on science! But where are the studies this program is based on? I'm betting they are mostly studying untrained individuals for about 10 weeks with low sample size.

To be clear, I didn't write my previous comment because I'm looking for workout advice.
It's amazing that people take this seriously. It's random stream of conciousness stuff.
there are but it is very rare and comes with drastically limited eye sight anyways.

Red/Green confusion is quite common though, there are estimates of up to 8% of ("western") males. Definitely a number to consider if you want your whatever to cater as many people on the market as possible.
On the same subject, earlier today as a pet project I decided to break out a new page on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_superfoods

Dandelion leaves, anyone?
I don't like Reddit, because it always felt like a family friendly-/light- version of 4chan.
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I'm more concerned the Italian police were allowed to collect the DNA over 100 000 people in order to find the potential criminal.

People don't seem to realize how valuable and many times private DNA information really is otherwise a large number of them would have resisted this dragnet.

Am I the only one thinking this kind of large scale collection of DNA information should no be allowed without some very powerful circumstantial evidence.

Not just you happen to live in the same city a person was murdered in.
These days there are a number of audio synthesizers which do basically what you said, such as the Beepmap plugin that comes stock with FL Studio.

Among the first to use the technique artistically, Aphex Twin famously drew his own face in the spectrum of his track "Equation" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSYAZnQmffg - skip to 5:20 for the face).

Here's a few more, if you're interested: http://twistedsifter.com/2013/01/hidden-images-embedded-into...
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>Sometimes I comb my hair, or bite my fingernails.

You don't even need to comb your hair to leave DNA all over the place. A normal person will lose 50-100 hairs every day.[0]

Also, everyone sheds dead skill cells, and certain dermatological conditions can exacerbate matters.

[0] http://www.aad.org/dermatology-a-to-z/diseases-and-treatment...
people forget the story of simplecdn
I'm assuming that's a paid CDN with clients like CloudFlare or Akamai, not you distributing your website to multiple datacenters in order to serve more clients faster. If you happen to use CDN like DNS features to route the client to the closest Digital Ocean datacenter, you're probably in the clear.
You can find a list of coworking spaces in London with reviews on Good Coworking. https://goodcoworking.com/cities/london
It also shows you who works from these coworking spaces so you can find spaces with a community that is of interest to you.
> Interesting contradiction isn't it? Our slowly rising atmospheric CO2 level today is just reaching 400 ppm, and this is claimed by some to be disastrous.

There is no contradiction other than with the reframing that global warming deniers use to communicate with their less educated members. Anybody with 2 working neurons realises that fit for life and fit for human are 2 distinct concept, otherwise they can jump in the thriving ocean and live like a fish.

In general actual debate are around either if global warming happens or not ( which is pretty much settled ), if CO2 is the main factor or not ( also pretty much settled, although some other gas are investigated ), the actual effect on human ( pretty much settled that it is going to cause grief, the debate is around knowing if that affect us in the first world yes or no and the timescale )

The bitter debates (the actual contradictions) are around what to do without destroying your economy, not sacrifying your economy for a problem that will not really affect you and position your economy to profit from it.
When in the future the same happens to workers - when most workers are terrible at the (very few) skills that are still needed and nobody wants to hire them - then we'll have a problem.
Agreed - the whole thing reads like a giant whine, to me. The author has zero concept of what he's done wrong, which is astounding to me.
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I'm not sure I understand your comment, but I think that's what is already happening. Consider this: WAV is a sequence of samples - BMP is sequence of RGB values. So you can more or less treat it the same.

If you would try to read JPEG (i.e. frequency domain data) as WAV it would be a mess. The "appropriate" format would then be something like MP3 but you would run into issues - MP3 contains more metadata in the streams, JPEG encodes 8x8px 2D images while MP3 encodes ~576 1D samples...
In addition to carefully making Google's case for them, he then descended into paranoia about Google's tracking. For someone supposedly so experienced in software development, he has some weird ideas about what's right and what's wrong.
On top of that, you can only use a .re TLD if you are a EU citizen or a company that resides in the EU...

http://www.afnic.fr/en/products-and-services/the-re-tld/
Banana's are best eaten at the instant in time when the brown spots cover the peel like freckles and are just about to make contact with each other. Why anyone would want to delay this moment is beyond my comprehension.
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"I thought I was doing these guys a favor. The apps I wrote would have cost about $50,000 each if I had charged for my time. I basically donated $500,000 to the Android community. That’s how I saw things."

This is where i stopped reading - the author is a bit delusional.
Did OP do something wrong? Yes, definitely. Is being banned from all other Google-related activities forever without recourse proportional? No. The response - being the sum of all its direct consequences - is tyrannical, and worse, automatic and faceless. Unless you enjoy being A Perfectly Obedient Citizen (TM), the only real lesson here is to not put all your eggs in one basket. Use Google, use Apple, but beware of letting them have full control of important parts of your life.
Lol, Indeed. I built an digital butler app inspired by Iron Man's JARVIS assistant called CyMan. We've got a great community and dedicated helpers in our Google+ community. Feedback on that community has been excellent! If you ever wanted to give it a try...
They might commit some crime in 15-20 years' time though.
Well while claiming ACID specifying that it is only for single record transaction seems to stated clearly.

As you were describing, there could be many changes performed when doing single record operations as well e.g multiple column updates / secondary index updates.

Does it really need to be multi record transaction to claim ACID ??
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This is a perfect example of how conversations on HN go completely off-topic, due to an irrelevant observation or the whims of one person.

Edit: I'm not saying the person who made the comment is responsible completely, but has played a part in doing so.
> I continued to be an Apple fan until they announced the “walled garden” and the app review process for iOS. I am totally against having to get permission from a corporation to write and sell apps (...). All Apple products are banned in my household to make a statement about programmer freedom.

> Now my Google play account and Google Wallet account are both banned for life. I’m no longer able to write Android apps ever again, and my family and I can’t even use Google wallet to purchase from Google Play.

So much for programmer freedom. Apple is at least very explicit about its rules. Google seemingly lets you do whatever you want, but then bans you if you do something that they don't like. Now of course one can say that the ban is justified, as author clearly misused the Play store and didn't follow the guidelines.

If he did try to do that on the App Store his apps would be probably instantly rejected, but he would not be banned. The funny thing is that there's a big chance that he would then write a blog post about how App Store is a "walled garden" and that on Play store that would be OK.
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In the Perl realm I chose Mojolicious because it has very little dependencies. It does not come with an ORM or a built in user login. If you wanted that, Catalyst is a better way to go. The Mojo Lite aspect of Mojolicious makes it really easy to get a prototype up and running.
Come and try Huckletree for a day. I'm community manager there. Happy to help out. http://www.huckletree.com/
It's a big misconception that user testing is luxury, even for very small or one person teams. Applying some of the most basic principals can save you a ton of wasted effort. In nearly every case it will make you much more productive / efficient. The earlier you catch the mistakes, the easier to fix them.

Check out the 'discount usability' movement. Much of it is written for web / mobile development but the principles are pretty much universal and can be applied to both game design and/or interactive learning aids (in your case the tutorial).

If nothing else read up on how to run a usability test. Without even being an expert it will help you get much more out of your testing.
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Frankly speaking I wouldn't care if I can read code and learn something new ....
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