skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Latencies are also much lower and more predicatable than USB because these are dedicated interfaces

This can't be stressed enough. The article is all raving about speed, but completely ignoring latency. Which is at least one of the reasons why USB hasn't completely replaced the other most common ports. USB only replaced ports for basic consumer devices without much special requirements in the timing department (and don't get me wrong, it did that in a fabulous way, the 'u' in the name was a good choice)

The most common usb-serial converter from FTDI does not have a completely predictable latency (mainly due to the software stack if I'm not mistaken) which can make it a pain to use with serial device which can only continuously stream data: small buffer size = no go.

Likewise, up until now, we still have some software using the parallel port because it's a readily avaiable GPIO with predictable sub-mSec latency, on Windows. USB doesn't even come close to replacing that, so we're switching to dedicated DAQ hardware.
A surge of p-values between 0.040 and 0.049 in recent decades [pdf]
Sure it's a political problem. So -- people who want to change the system are required to define what the system is to them. We all don't have to have agreement. Petitioners for change simply have to clearly define their terms. That way we can judge them on whether our definitions are similar, whether those goals are worth meeting, whether the strategies employed might meet them, and whether or not their argument is self-consistent. None of that guarantees a "best" outcome, after all it is political, but it guarantees a reasonable framework for public discourse.
Is it identifying song names by file metadata, binary fingerprints, audio fingerprints?
Almost no massively distributed applications are written on Windows, so i can see how it would be overlooked.
Yeah?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-th...

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/04/ec...
That's very true, but if the Open Crypto Audit Project finds any TrueCrypt vulnerabilities, there will be no one around to fix them.
If you enjoyed this, I'd really think you'd enjoy the first episode of 'The Twilight Zone', called 'Where is Everybody?'

It's on YouTube! Enjoy! :)
In some of the counties ("Landsting") in Sweden, the patient may log on electronically with a electronic ID (certificate based, issued by banks) and view their journal at any time.

All patients have a right to their journals, as far as I know - although, there might be restrictions on parts - such as psychiatric treatment I guess - and everyone can request to get a copy of their journal. A bit of a pain in the ass to obtain - but surely possible.

I just thought it might be interesting to add to the conversation/article how things are working in another country/part of the world.
It's currently identifying songs by meta-data only. There is an audio fingerprinter (using Last.fm's service) in the works, but as you can imagine that only solves part of the problem: getting fingerprints for data from all the various supported sources is a lot harder.
RationalPlan 4.9 – Better Mac OS X Integration and Improved Printing
Way.js – Simple two-way databinding
For those who wonder how Panama Canal opened up (how hard it is to open a canal at that geography due to diseases, soil, water), you may want read The Path between the Seas

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671244094/bobsutton-...
Look-and-Say Numbers featuring John Conway [video]
What is “the desktop”: KDE and laptops
And stop trying to avoid food. Try adding healthy things to your diet instead. When I can't have something it just makes me want it more. The more healthy stuff you put in there the less room you'll have for crap.
What you say is true if mastery of the foreign language is required or the aim of the exercise. However, if you just want to order breakfast abroad without looking like an uncultured insensitive dick, translating sentences formed in your native language works just fine. Nobody expects people to master five-or-so languages, but putting at least some effort into learning the local language is usually greatly appreciated. Furthermore, depending on the degree of similarity between your native language and the “target“ language, forming sentences first and then translating them will actually get you pretty far – surely it will be useless if you speak, say, Finnish natively and want to learn some East Asian language, but I imagine it to work decently between, say, English and Dutch or Spanish and Italian. Even English and German share enough history that most sentences can be translated one-to-one.
Got it, yes that would indeed be very useful for heavy-use APIs, and shouldn't be too much of a problem to implement.
However it would essentially add a default batch endpoint to an API which isn't defined by the owner. Also, certain things like maximum batched requests would need to be implemented. Also, how would this affect quotas and RPM? Many questions, but well worth investigating, will add to roadmap.
Git: Shallow clone
I like the idea, would it be possible to add YouTube support (or does that maybe already exist)? (Of course, only playing the audio part and ignoring the video)
There's real breadth in their data sources and that's the real unique thing here: the technology itself is not the important thing, it's the data and the agreements they've established with the data providers.
Thank you, that's a really great and helpful answer! And finally clarified the difference between ZeroMQ and the rest, which I've seen hinted at but never explained.
There is a working resolver here: https://github.com/tomahawk-player/tomahawk-resolvers/tree/m...

Mind you, it does require Tomahawk's latest nightlies / git version.
Hey,
That sounds awesome, I am curious, how do you work with the providers (google, soundcloud and co ..) so that they can make some revenue ? (because you know these guys are just not streaming music for free ...
Also I tried the web-app with a good album (Pixies - Doolittle)
http://toma.hk/album/Pixies/Doolittle
but all the songs in that albums are actually covers or remixes and none are the original Pixies version ... (probably what's happening when you look for "pixies debaser" in youtube or soundcloud.
Anyway, the interface is super polished and cool, and I really like the idea of "having everything in one place" + jabber integration, there is really some major things to do with this, and there you are..
I really like the concept, but the software is totally broken in Linux. Not even adding files to a playlist works. The song names are in the playlist, but the files can't be found. The program crashes every time it's closed. And there's a problem with the default Ubuntu theme: Selected menu items have white text on a white background.

A few patches and it could be a great player.
Nutritional research is more ridiculous and less scientific than any soap opera could ever hope to portray.
I work with machine translation - such artifacts would be a natural result from multilingual webpages that aren't yet fully translated. An article would have correct text in English, Chinese or Spanish but the "translation" in some other language could have some Lorem Ipsum left there.

Statistical machine translation systems would easily pick that up, as crawling 'multilingual' sites with same/similar content is a major source for machine translation training data.
I agree with others that it doesn't matter in this case. The author used a tool he knows to perform a simple job.

At the risk of providing something useful to the discussion though, I'd like to point out the excellent tool jq: http://stedolan.github.io/jq/

Here's how to use it for the conversion in the article:

jq '.places[] | [.n,.i,.p[0],.p[1],.s] | map(tostring) | join(",")' hotelMarkers.js

(after editing hotelMarkers.js into a proper json file)
Do you really consider the Iraq War to be an occupation? Especially one akin to any of the Reich's annexations?...
Just add "wm" to your queries...
Quote from Kaplan's Clinical Hypertension medical text:

"The practitioner must take direct responsibility for the individual patient. We know of nothing more helpful in achieving good control of an individual patient's hypertension than the home monitoring of BP. In the best of worlds, the patient could alter his or her antihypertensive regimen based on his or her home BP readings just as diabetics are allowed to alter their insulin dosage based on their home glucose readings. Such self-modification may be too much to ask, but phones, faxes, and e-mails can easily send the readings to an office assistant or practitioner who can then provide appropriate advice.

For too long, practitioners have kept patients out of the loop, either too proud to give up some of their power or too suspicious of the ability of their patients to help themselves."
Looks like a "lungshugger", inside that Ovomorphs-like transparent egg ;)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0hPg4IHnn8w/UKXOfyVo9FI/AAAAAAAACY...
Does not work, github.io always redirects to https.
Ask HN: What's your preferred method of online payment?
If you're given the option to pay for a product/service online using any payment at all, which would you prefer? E.g. Paypal, Stripe, BTC etc.
The Top 15 Startup Accelerators in India
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/07/03/awesome-desktop-music-...

"Playdar was really a headless, UI-less technology that could be leveraged by online sites and services to let users bring their own content to other people’s contexts.”

Why was Playdar not successful as standalone technology? It would seem applicable to a broad set of use cases for content-addressable data stores.

Calibre (also open-source, also Qt-based) has metadata plugins for various online ebook services. There's a growing number of browser extensions which overlay user data onto websites, many of these extensions would benefit from a widely-used content resolver that works in cross-domain (home, work, mobile1, mobile2, site1, site2) contexts.
Theoretically, you are right.

However, gamer keyboards that care about compatibility opt to appear is several independent keyboards, each one responsible for at most 6 keys. I would be surprised if they chose this despite a "much simpler route" such as the one you describe.
If you want to order breakfast, you can memorize things from a phrase book, or you can just carry the phrase book with you.

And yes, of course, what I said was with "mastery of the language" as the goal in mind.

You might have a point for "similar" languages, but even then you will be setting yourself to learning bad habits.

My native language is Arabic. I learned English when I was in high school, and now I'm learning Japanese. All very different languages.
People like to gamble. GE will never return 5-10x your money over two years, a VC investment just might.
"The most stupidest problem you could conceivably imagine can lead to the most complicated answer you could conceivably imagine."

"Somehow it was supposed to guess [the sequence] ... in the end he had to tell me."

Reminds me of those IQ tests were you are supposed to guess the sequence. This sole anecdote is not enough to invalidate the method, but gives me a hint judging someone intelligence by having him complete number sequences (or geometric ones for that matter) may not be that effective.
Actually this would not be great. It's kind of an unsolved problem. There is no way to do it safely.
Julian Assange planning to hand himself in for health reasons
Tried it, but unfortunately it basically didn't work at all for me. Last.fm history download broke at 8%, all Spotify tracks were rendered unavailable after they played once, and soundcloud doesn't work.
This is a dumb question.

Can files be created with "-" in Unix? I am using a Linux system and I am not able to do so using vim or touch commands.
Good info. With no specification to back it up, I might go back to my hand-rolled gestures-style library. I retired it because of imminent standardization, but at this point, it seems as likely to be standardized as everything else. I promise to take PolymerGestures for a spin, though, since I was happy with the coding going into those libs now deprecated. Thanks!
5:
Using 1, 3 for later and 1 regret that I won't renew when it expires.
Technically there's no upper bound on the reverse speed in that game. A curious decision.
Future as a developer and the ever changing picture
Live press conference: http://www.livestream.com/cancilleriaecua
That is correct. The interesting question is, why did it translate to 'China', rather than something more banal?
This is mitigated quite a bit by tracking the source of information, and adding rather than ever deleting any data.

A patient can (and should!) be able to correct the doctor's notes reporting the patient's experience (symptoms, priorities, etc.), and self-reported medical history.

The patient would not be able to edit lab results, or the doctor's own notes from a physical examination, or prescriptions, and so on, though they could be able to add comments (again, clearly sourced).

Just as all data from doctors, labs, etc. is clearly sourced.
Ducky Shine for instance has a "turn on N-key rollover" button which you press once you're booted to Windows.
Actually incorrect. (Not legal advice, but read the licences yourself.)

The previous version of TrueCrypt (7.1a - the one you'd actually want to fork because it could still encrypt things), was still under a licence that'd allow you to fork it as long as you didn't call it TrueCrypt (or anything resembling it).

That was basically inherited from E4M. It's an ugly licence, however.

https://diskcryptor.net/ might be worth looking into (this is not a recommendation, I have not audited it). It's certainly cleaner - TC's kinda ugly inside, with a decade of maint cruft.
Ferguson’s citizen journalists revealed the value of an undeniable video
CSS tips and tricks #3-Animated 404 page
I haven't seen myself, but apparently still happening in Denmark.
The physiological effects of Shinrin-yoku
New Google Penguin Update Is Getting Closer
Five Levels of Big Data Maturity in an Organisation
Was posted 3 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8176672
> So I'm not sure where you got the impression people ate so much meat in the early 1900s

I said this in the comment you're replying too "We're eating more meat than we did 100 years ago sure". I'm agreeing with your assertion that we eat more meat than we did 100 years ago. 100 years ago we ate significantly less meat than our hunter gatherer ancestors did.

>I'll check you references later, but I'm wondering where the hunter gatherers got so much meat before they had industrial meat factories that we have

They didn't need industrial farms because there were far fewer people. They hunted animals, which were relatively abundant. Meat is much more calorie dense than most plants.

Hunter gatherers didn't have agriculture, so many of the plants we eat today weren't yet domesticated. They lacked entire categories of food that we have today.

The largest percentage of daily caloric intake today comes from grains--hunter gathers didn't farm grains, so they had to get the largest share of their calories from something else--meat.

>Besides, percentages is one thing, absolute intakes are another, too.

An average adult male can't live long term with fewer than around 2000 calories per day (A very active hunter gatherer would require a far amount more than 2000 per day). The average American male eats about 2700 calories per day.

Let's take the lower end estimate for 2000 calories per day for a hunter gatherer. At 65%, meat accounts for 1300 calories per day.

At 20% of 2700 calories, an average American male gets 540 calories per day from meat.

So 1300 for the hunter gatherer vs 540 for the average American male. Almost 3 times as much. Even in absolute numbers, the hunter gatherer at much more meat.
Parameterization Part 1
You may want to add a "local files" icon in the Multi-Source section of the home page.
Which assumption are you talking about?
This long-winded essay about "how the civil rights movement will end" boils down to a couple sentences in which the author describes a few Republican votes he didn't like:

"Republican majorities in Southern statehouses are undoing so many of the hard-won gains of the civil rights movement suggests that the end is nigh. Whether it’s by imposing new voter-ID laws, slashing public assistance, refusing Medicaid expansion, or repealing progressive legislation like North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act, the GOP-controlled governments of Southern states are behaving in ways that are at times as hostile to the interests of their African American citizens as Jim Crow Democrats were half a century ago."

So his basic thesis is, if you don't believe in welfare you're as hostile to blacks as Jim Crow.
"But looking back significantly further than that", says the GP. Our bodies are mostly what they are based on thousands of years ago (or more), not hundreds. In other words, the 1900s are irrelevant.

It cost a lot of time/energy to hunt, for sure. But that's basically all they did. And reading descriptions of say, the Americas before European colonisation, meat was plenty despite industrial breeding, or any breeding at all.
How many radio stations were locals choosing from? What are the barriers to entry? Where I live, there might be a 10-20 radio stations. It's difficult to start a competing station and bandwidth is presumably tightly controlled.

If the same happened on the net (say, the US government regulated such that only a couple dozen sites could exist), I think you'd see those properties being quite lucrative.

Instead, I can start a web site laden with advertising for free and in minutes. Completely different space prior to the growth of digital radio and online streaming.
Try this:

touch -- -asdf
Thanks for the detailed answer. On a tangential note, do you have an opinion on http://triceps.sourceforge.net/ as a CEP engine, or recommendation for alternatives?
This For-Profit College Wants to Compete With Harvard
Bioconjugation is an important niche! :-)
Online/Offline Encoder/Decoder
If you guys check the file (http://www.lq.com/lq/data/hotelMarkers.js) its not actually valid json but rather Javascript, so it was probably just easier for him that way.
Back from the time I was obsessed with firewalls (having written one at work at the time) I started to write an IPTables firewall rule optimizer in a bid to speed up the rule processing.

https://github.com/baruch/fwopt
Great platform & great team :)
Why online anonymity is essential for an open web
Afaik, Soundcloud makes its money from their artists, not listeners.
I don't think this is confined to Americans.
I can testify to the benefits of SR apps too after using Skritter to improve Chinese reading and writing. Once you get the ball rolling you quickly find yourself easily memorising characters and in some cases even predicting the formation of characters you've never met before. For anyone who wants to learn written Chinese or Japanese I would highly recommend it!

That said though, for learning the spoken language there's no substitute for communicating with native speakers on a regular basis. SR tools simply help as an additional tool to speed up your spoken learning or help with reading/writing.

http://www.skritter.com/
Booksaying.com / Favorite Sayings Pool
https://github.com/alistra/data-structure-inferrer

Source code analyzer for C that optimizes the usage of data structures in your code.
A hungry crowd. And private access thereto.
That works. Thanks :)
Skritter has a whole bunch of curated lists out of the box including those for popular text books and academic levels. You are paying a premium for its use though (£10 a month).
Taking that one step further, you can convert RSS to NNTP via http://gwene.org/
Brief article, but well-done -- this is one of the core ideas of our start-up (though we have no direct association with OpenNotes project).

I liked this in particular: Delbanco tells me that he considers OpenNotes to be "like a new medication." Just like any new treatment, it will come with unexpected side effects.

We've been negotiating these side-effects for a few years, now, with more & more success. Many of the obvious objections ("I need to discuss test results with patients before they see them!") have simple technical solutions, so we implement them (blacklist a set of tests that have a built-in delay before the actual result is shown to patients --though they can see that a new result is ready -- and give the clinician a daily list of what patients have gotten delayed-view results).

It is difficult for many doctors to get used to the idea; I have personal experience trying to get access to letters being written between specialists about me & my treatment, and just getting evasive answers even to persistent attempts. But it's so valuable to good care.
If you're on linux switching your phonon backend may help. Try removing phonon-gstreamer and installing phonon-vlc.
> keto recommends between 3 and 5 grams of salt per day

While I'm on keto myself and I love it, that sentence isn't exactly a proof for anything.
Céline Dion halts career
Ask HN: Books or other resources for someone starting a computer science degree
I'm in my mid 30s at the moment and have been a programmer for a long time. I finally decided to take a break and get some formal education. I've been accepted in to a university to study towards a bachelor of computer science.

What I want to know is if there are any books or good resources online that can give me a leg up towards things like the math or Java programming etc that are covered in a computer science degree.

Also, I have the option to choose a general degree or mathetics and statistics or software engineering. Would it really matter on a resume which major I chose?
Great idea, I used it with spotify and last.fr plugins on Windows), it takes 15s to start playing a song (from spotify) and changing the volume level takes few seconds (it feels like VLC a few versions ago, it seems to use the same libs).
I'm close to launching a memory trainer for remembering Names and Faces. It uses a spaced repetition algorithm based on Super Memo 2 (Anki does as well, but I'm not sure how far it has evolved from its SM2 roots): http://www.supermemo.com/english/ol/sm2.htm

I've also found SRS to be incredibly effective when combined with other mnemonic techniques, while learning French. I wrote about this recently: http://www.ubermemory.com/blog/understanding-mnemonics
Assange 'to leave' Ecuador embassy
Feel free to help out: https://github.com/tomahawk-player/tomahawk and we're available on #tomahawk on irc.freenode.net for better support/troubleshooting.
" I've written a big CRM webapp that uses two-way data binding extensively; the old "every click is a full HTTP round trip" model would deliver a shockingly bad user experience."

Worth noting that, from what I can see, Salesforce largely uses the "every click is a full HTTP round trip" approach and it seems to be quite popular. NB I'm not saying that Salesforce has the best interface ever, just that old-fashioned web applications can still be pretty successful.
The only thing I came across (not my area) was this http://worp.zevv.nl/
At the moment we are just supporting file metadata but we will hopefully add audio fingerprints soon.