skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google the work of philip jeck (samples on youtube) for hugely emotional use of the old sounds.

Try and get hold of an actual 78 rpm turntable, the old dansettes could do those speeds as could the cheaper separate turntables that had ceramic cartridges with two 'sides' (78/33).

Enjoy
Flying internationally, with a gun
Fire them. Divorce them. Hire a private detective.

But this product is for kids, and the rules are different.
States with Faster Internet Access Have Smarter People
Would the moon ever need a "boost"? Even though it's probably not hitting any air molecules from Earth, it's still colliding with tons of space debris a day.
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3D Printend Sunglasses + Italian Design
The thing PHP and JSP were designed to do seems to be generally seen as a bad idea nowadays. PHP is used anyway only because it's already installed everywhere, so those who would be able to set up JSP can also choose something else (i.e. neither PHP nor JSP) and probably do.
FYI, the e-mail field on Hacker News is hidden (you should add it to the about text if you want people to see it.)
Kickstarter is an interesting option, never thought of that.

You could jumpstart a service that digitizes rare recordings as a service and make them available. Likely there'd be all sorts of copyright issues with a service like that but the basic principle is useful.
A different point of view about the WhatsApp's growth strategy
Wouldn't that be totally pointless if the data is encrypted in transit or does this also extend to other types of businesses that are not ISPs?
Samsung's New Patent Is Looks Awfully Familiar
Create private chat with private channels
To answer the question that I had, how affiliates will get paid - https://developer.uber.com/earn/ says in Uber credits, and "cash rewards coming soon".
That's awesome! The making of layout is quite effortless.
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I'm curious if you use Uber because of the convenience or vehicles? I use Hailo for the convenience, but I'm curious if Uber is more convenient or you just prefer their vehicles and/or driver service.
I've found, though, that a lot of developers have
conceptual problems dealing with set-based operations.

Yes! I can't help but think that a lot of people are drawn to NoSQL (or find themselves opposed to SQL for other reasons) simply because they don't understand SQL. As somebody who avoided databases early in his career I definitely understand this.

well-written SQL is beautiful

Count me as a member of the club that believes this. Not every problem can or should be handled with a relational data store, but for those that do, I don't think the resultant set-based operations could be expressed much more cleanly or succinctly than SQL allows.
And people say video games are a waste of time.
I started using Clojure about a month ago, after spending a lot of time with Python and I have to say it does make me oddly happy. Once you have paredit set up, the way you can move code around is just mesmerizing.
>Updating your editor, adding plugins, or changing to a new editor is never an issue of "fully capable" or "good enough". It's always whether there are new ways to save time.

Well, most people don't update their editor that often. People use Vim and Emacs, even decade old versions of them. Adding plugins, yes, that happens (again, not all the time, except for fiddly people like us I guess). But ST has a fully capable plugin system.

>Lots of people thought editors were "fully capable" before the "go-to any symbol" functionality was introduced (possibly by Sublime). Now they can't live without it

Well, yes, ST3 added that, and I know about it, and I seldom use it. On the other hand, that doesn't mean if I a new feature I like in Emacs or some other editor, I'll change editors just like that.
What would you use instead? Javascript fetching data from server and doing all UI stuff on client?
You can check this : https://github.com/rails-api/rails-api
Mr. Berlusconi could be their biggest client.
http://digilander.libero.it/annainfuriata/BLOG/scaRPA%20BERL...
I think it's good that a library can become sort-of "standard" without having to be part of the language standard library (where, as the python folk say, modules go to die). We're starting to see this come together in Scala-land - if you want a Monad typeclass you use the Scalaz one, if you want a HList you use the Shapeless one, and if you want HTTP you build on top of the spray-http abstractions (I'm particularly pleased that Play intends to port to run on top of Spray). That's something that you don't really get in C++, with the possible exception of boost; there are still multiple ways to do threading, multiple ways to do event-driven, all with their own conventions.
My first app, please write feedback and suggestions in comment!
Thanks!
He received every U.S. combat award for valor available for his WW2 service
That's a rather "English only" view on the topic.
Spelling is not a bounded problem in every language.

Some power languages (Dutch, German) have an infinite number of words, as you can take 2 nouns (fe a and b) and concatenate them to form a new one (ab means something else than ba). Some languages also have inflection....
Thumbtack, an Online Market for Services, Raises $100M
I organized the silicon valley co-founders meetup for a while. I think it's pretty clear that the goal is to get out there and start pitching your project to people and see who bites. It's not about finding THE co-founder that particular evening.

Network effects (friends of friends) are very powerful. A lot of people who want to find a co-founder need some way to get started. But you should expect that finding your co-founder will take months. You need to keep talking to people and you'll find developers, business partners, mentors, etc. and sometimes a co-founder.

[0] http://www.slideshare.net/alain94040/co-founder-issues
As a 6'5" guy, I can finally hit on the 6'7" ladies.
I was looking for a job last year and interviewed at multiple places (https://matt.sh/searching-2013), so I think I have a recent multi-employer perspective here.

The biggest flaw in the entire current "standard accepted interview procedure" (read: cargo cult hiring process) is: they don't care about the interviewee's time. The secondary flaw is: the tech people designing interviewing processes don't understand the nature of "work," "thought," or what makes valuable employees, well, valuable.

Companies enjoy using coding tests (sometimes lengthy) as a simple filter, but they don't really care about it. Every company I did a "coding test" for accepted me for an interview, but at no point did any of them ever mention or talk about my submission. I could have plagiarized every submission whole from some random site online. They'd never find out since they never asked me to talk through the work. One company, after 10 hours of my working on their exercise, even told me "sorry, we sent you the wrong one. do this other one instead."

If you ask companies why they have their interview processes set up the way they do, they'll probably just say "because that's how company Y does it too." They want to be part of a successful pattern without understanding the underlying meaning. It's like a sales person using a dozen buzzword acronyms without understanding how anything fits together.

But, if they do want to continue handing out 10 hour coding tests, society has a generally accepted way of handling issues like this: pay for time. If there is a power imbalance (employer vs. interviewee), the more powerful party should refrain from exploiting the weaker party without compensation.

If coding tests really get annoying during your search, just launch a startup to destroy all the companies with bad hiring practices. No fury like an interviewee scorned.
Why not get to know the person well? Launch a side business in a week and see how you both work together under pressure. Essentially this is going on a few dates before you get married.

As a side bonus (and unlike a date) you will have a longer runway with a small side income.
Square toe shoes are extremely dated and unfashionable. In fact, they all look awful. Who did you guys consult on what styles to put out?

On another note: I do not understand the short person complex because I am 6 feet tall, but my shorter friends have never tried to hide their height. In fact, by doing so, you would come off as extremely insecure and lack confidence. You might be putting on 3 inches of height, but you're not kidding anybody when you take the shoes off. If you're artificially increasing your height because you think you'll increase your odds at picking up women (or men?), two things you need to realize: they're going to eventually find out and you should probably work on yourself (and your confidence) before shelling out cash for ugly shoes... You could at least spend that same money on a nicer pair of shoes / outfit.
Ward-Takahashi identities prevent, in some sense, the virtual particles from screwing up the speed of light.
Code that runs the Game of Life on itself
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Agreed. This certainly doesn't excuse Uber's behavior, but as a startup you have to adapt and adjust to whatever issues you are confronted with. When abusive cancellations became a problem, they should have made it either impossible or expensive for the behavior to continue.
I wonder what the chances are of getting a pair with differing lift heights?

My son has one short leg and is very conscious of how odd his one lifted shoe looks in comparison to the other.
David gave a nice lecture on RAID over a decade ago when I was taking a computer architecture class at Stanford.

Perhaps the next edition of his textbook (bible for computer architecture) should use RISC-V, it would probably help as a learning aid and spread the gospel about RISC-V.

Of course, it's possible that the current edition of the text already does this.
I also want to point out that the mathematica community never swears. :)
ah okay so this isn't a place to deploy the apis
An interesting indicator from the "mentions" graph: how compatible or co-used two technologies are in practice.

For example: C++ programmers apparently don't mention SQL at all, while it's very popular with PHP (which doesn't have a built-in ORM). There is also no overlap between C++ and JavaScript programmers.

Rust is obviously very influenced by C++ and Haskell, but the C++ community doesn't even know about its existence. Somewhat naturally, the Matlab and PHP communities really don't have much in common.
Thanks for the link (grand parent) and the posting of the original text.

You're correct; the original is rather accurate.

Chalk it up to sloppy translation :)
In order to be as efficient as a more naïve RISC architecture, x86 has to be very optimized with an Intel-sized budget behind it. For a RISC core to be as performant as a modern x86, it has to become much more complex (and it starts to resemble an x86 core, without the x86 decoder in front of it).
If you're uncomfortable being shorter than average at a bar, it might be easiest to just move to NYC...
This is true in the Tampa area too. My Lyft driver said he was using both to increase the chances of getting a request. He also said that he got more requests with Uber.I suspect this is true in smaller cities where neither Uber nor Lyft have significant traction yet.
The moon is actually moving away from the earth.
It's a nice approach, I've implemented it in Golang a while back. It's really fast, but the cost in memory is huge, especially if you store bigrams and not just single words. But it's really elegant in its simplicity.

BTW - if anyone's interested in the Go implementation let me know, I'll try to find it and post it somewhere.
"More to the point, loop buffers and µop caches on the last couple generations of processors make encoding density mostly irrelevant to performance"

As in, the part where x86 processors get to fully enable the "operate as a RISC" processor mode.
That's a really high quality site for a community effort.

Now, I don't have to wonder about all the ships sailing on the Hudson river.
I've spent more than 2 seconds on Google for this topic. This StackOverflow post[1] was actually very informative. See the answer by Jörg W Mittag, specifically this quote:

>>In several interviews, the Twitter developers have pointed out that Ruby on Rails was not responsible for their scaling problems. On the contrary, only the maintainability of Ruby made it possible to do such large-scale architectural changes to fix their scaling problems.

Then again, that seems to have been written in 2010. I'm sure things changed since then.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3514633/do-ruby-on-rails-...
ITunes Connect is down for some
Rega make a dedicated 78rpm turntable:

http://www.rega.co.uk/rp78.html
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Apollo 12 retrieved a Surveyor 3 camera that had been on the Moon for over two years and contained Streptococcus mitis bacteria that survived in a dormant state and were recultured back on Earth. Pete Conrad, Apollo 12 commander, said, "I always thought the most significant thing that we ever found on the whole...Moon was that little bacteria who came back and lived and nobody ever said [anything] about it."
I would highly recommend this as well. BUT - don't try to dive too much deeper into code patterns. The last decade has a massive spike in patterns and I can remember a lot of meetings wasted debating patterns.
Eh, that seems a bit of a simplification. If by "we", you mean, the "West", then sure. But if not, as one of the maps alludes to, China was busy building its own empire, and in many respects, in terms of local cultural influence, could be seen as the Greece or Rome of Asia. As Rome still influences Western culture today, Chinese culture heavily influenced Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. They have or continue to use Chinese script, their traditional architecture derives from a Chinese model, heck, the South Korean flag is covered in more Chinese symbols than the current Chinese flag.

Except unlike the Romans, they survived their barbarian problems, which is not a small feat, empire management is definitely tricky - just ask England. Arguably China's survival seems a bit awkward - perhaps it's better to go out with a bang rather than dwindle into decline and be spited. Though in the grand scheme of their long history, their current (or past, depending on who you ask) waning is a comparative temporary aberration. Personally, it'll be interesting to see if they'll ever recover from the cultural schism post-civil-war (ask many Chinese people that were on the losing side, and there's a good chance they will distance themselves culturally from "the Mainland", I imagine not too differently from how a South Korean would respond to being called North Korean, but who knows, I'm totally rambling now).

Here's what third-century China thought about the Roman Empire:
http://io9.com/heres-what-third-century-china-thought-about-...

THE STANFORD
ANCIENT CHINESE AND MEDITERRANEAN EMPIRES
COMPARATIVE HISTORY PROJECT: http://web.stanford.edu/~scheidel/acme.htm

Roads: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/283915/Imperial-Hi...

Woodblock printing, paper, silk, porcelain, gunpowder, compasses...
I'm a huge fan of window functions, but one restriction surprises me: in Postgres, you can't put a window function into a WHERE clause. Does anyone know if there is a good reason for this, or is it just a bit of missing functionality?
>As a developer:

>* Because I can use any editor I like - free, open-source, paid, whatever.

You can write .as files in any editor and compile via the command line...

>* Because I can build and use tools which are themselves built on top of the standards, and choose which tools I want (SASS, LESS, >CoffeeScript, etc).

There was a very active OS community, lots of frameworks, tools and libs.

>* Because I can build responsive websites that work on screen sizes from watches to 60" TV screens.

I'll give you watches, but responsive design is a concept that can be carried out in any language. Flash apps actually responded quite well to screen resizing, more so than the table layout HTML that was the alternative for most of it's life.

>As IT support:
* Because my users don't have to frequently upgrade a bit of software which most of the time offered little benefit, but big security risks.

Could make the same argument for most software at the time, even now most browser and OS updates are security based.

>As a user:
* Because I can use just about any browser I like, and (usually, at least) get at least some experience of the website more than "Sorry, you don't have Flash installed, so bugger off."

This is a good point, but these days people are only developing for <your browser> version x and above. So no real change.

>* Because the user experience has become a lot more consistent. Weird navigation controls have become outliers rather than standard.

The same people that designed flash websites are now designing HTML ones, the technology hasn't dictated that change, I expect it is down to the prevalence of UX.

>I have no ideological opposition to Flash, more to the way it was used. While Flash was popular, the progress of open standards was slow because it was less urgent.

Indeed, but the progress of Flash was very fast as it didn't need a commity, without it the web would likley be very far behind.
I think they meant it the other way, from Earth outwards.

So if you find x living microbes at 200km from Earth, given thermal dispersion, shouldn't there be some y number of molecules from Earth on the Moon? (And so on)

Even if y is a really small number, it effectively means any one planet with life would most likely "pollute" the star system it finds itself in. (Would need to do the math on this, but I believe that was the commenter's point)
If yoga is a way to watch the way we spend time, this is a beautiful tribute: a short montage of yoga demos by BKS Iyengar over the years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaba-PUd5PU
RIP BKS
"Live happily and die majestically....Happy death...No anxiety, no sorrow, no distress...with hope let me leave this Earth". BKS Iyengar, May 3, 2014.

http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/walk-the-talk/watch-walk-th...
Good free ebook for learning how a computer does what it does:

"Programming From The Ground Up"

http://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases//pgubook/Pr...
Once concern is that while we still discover ancient works, with digital if something is lost, it's 99% lost for good.
"....to get its service on as many apps as possible, it is launching an affiliate program to offer up free credits to developers who get people using its service."

If they aren't offering a cash percentage, I don't think they're going to find many takers. I certainly wouldn't integrate a new API in exchange for Uber credits.

Edit: On the affiliate page, it says "Cash rewards coming soon" but it seems rather odd that they wouldn't launch with that. Generally affiliate programs pay money.
You use a structured framework that has some separation of concerns (typically Model-View-Controller or some variant). In Java-world, some examples are Struts, Spring MVC, and Play, all of which can be used to write high-quality software for real-world applications. JSP might even be involved in the view/presentation layer.

There are also MVC frameworks for PHP. The most popular, though, are those for scripting languages like Ruby and Python, namely Rails and Django.

What you shouldn't be doing is interleaving data access, business logic, and presentation all in one file, which is what straight PHP and JSP usually consist of. This is called "spaghetti code" and it's been widely regarded as a really terrible practice for around 10 years.

You can do client-side apps in Javascript that fetch JSON or XML from the server, but you want to be using a framework with some structure to serve the data, still not just straight PHP or JSP.
> How does this submission/question not fit the description of the news guidelines as you posted:

Because the answer is obviously along the lines of "they were tweaking something and they broke something but now it's fixed".
Makes perfect sense!

Thanks
Excellent comment Renaud, you know what your talking about.
> well-written SQL is beautiful

I say often that software engineers/computer scientists produced good solutions for three and only three problems:

- Networking

- Compilers

- Databases

And that's it. On the one hand, it's pretty poor for ~70 years of serious effort. On the other hand, the solutions for each of these are beautiful -- mathematically and engineering-wise.
It will be an iron curtain around a large subset of the Anglophone internet. I don't think that countries outside of Five Eyes are very appreciative of the spying that the NSA and the GCHQ have been carrying out.

Not that it would necessarily be the only intranet at a (inter)national level; I'm sure that the Chinese government would love a political excuse to cut off their citizens' access to parts of the internet outside their borders.
30-60% depending on the product. Some stuff carries a much higher margin but requires extremely high volume purchasing and sales like phone cases for example.
Couldn't agree with you more re: the artificial heightening and for the same reason, I don't understand the current trend in women's shoes to have absolutely massive platforms under their shoes.

What's the point? I can stand on a wooden box to make myself look taller but I'll soon get found out when a. I get off the box and b. someone looks at my feet. I'm 5'11 (and a half) anyway so haven't go too much of a height problem.

As for how the shoes look, I don't mind them at all to be honest. I like the Everyday Casual shoes more than the others although I feel like I've seen them before (and probably have).

Not sure why they're $129 though. I could get a similar-ish pair of Adidas Gazelles for almost half the price.

If the additional cost is offset by these shoes being made ethically, then I don't mind at all but if they come out of the same/similar factory as Adidas et al, my wallet is staying in my pocket.
See, I've wondered for quite a while whether the internet qualifies as a 'brain boost' device. Does a person on the internet do better on an IQ test? How much better?
Works with Sarkozy too.
On reason that's mentioned in the article: paranoia. If the chip is open-source, you can at least theoretically audit its manufacturing to make sure no backdoor is being inserted.

Also, return to the taxpayer. To me, a publicly-funded verification of RISC-V would bring wider benefits than that of a proprietary ISA like ARM [1].

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~acjf3/arm/
75,000 jailbroken iOS devices infected with malware that steals ad revenues
I remember hearing that the nand2tetris people were going to do an edX course on it in the fall. Does anyone know anything about that?
From a technological standpoint, there are many reasons why I feel excited and lucky to be alive during this time in history. But smarter safer transportation, spearheaded by companies like Google and Uber, tops the list.
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I could see these sites working out if you have a decent amount of cofounder material in your local city. In my city there are very few so finding a good cofounder is a much more difficult prospect.

I have heard mixed things about those trying to work with a cofounder remotely. Generally that only works if you have a previous working relationship. Such relationships are hard to establish remotely while also pursuing a new, risky venture.