skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AS a former Sound Engineer and Studio owner I am blown away at what a phone can do now a days. It really is asy to have someone down load an app and talk them through live sound and EQ with the visual (accurate or not) to show what happens with sound when they play with cheap EQ (AKA cheap EQ is always for REDUCTION and never amplification)

I think if I was doing any sound work anymore I would quickly pick up an external mic and just always use pink noise and the meter to rough in a system.
As a gopher who has written an errors package for Go, I find Rust's journey into figuring out errors to be very interesting. A lot of the stuff in this article is similar to many of the error patterns in Go. Of course, with Go, it's a lot more ad-hoc and less boilerplate, but also obviously fewer compile-time guarantees.

The try! macro is something I know a lot of people would love to have in Go (those pesky if err != nil { return err } lines really bother people for some reason).

I think it's interesting that the built-in error type has a cause, that seems to be one of the most common patterns in Go error packages as well. Is there any automatic stack tracing? That seems to be one other common thing in Go error packages.
Leaked files show “industrial-scale tax avoidance” by big companies
This should be useful for any type of NVRAM, be it battery-backed DRAM, MRAM, memristors or DMA-mapped flash.
The wasted hours making Winamp skins...
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Integrating with LLVM
We didn't even have VLANs enabled on the switch back then.

And even then, the storm control is useful; the same broadcast storm also made the office wireless unusable (most APs use a basic rate for broadcast and multicast).
I didn't walk out, the company said they wanted somebody who did TDD so I wrote an algorithm that created a function that passed all the tests they defined and sent them the function.

Needless to say I didn't get the job.
The easterEgg is nice, was this in the original ?
IPython needs to be called Jupyter asap or else everyone would think this is a Python only application which happily as an R guy it is not.

Love that there are so many "good" open source options in the ecco-system and people will not only show the work BUT also include the cleaning and tidying up of the data which is equally important in my opinion.
My goto player these days is MOC.
You seem to be talking about something totally different.
Philae landing preview: What to expect on landing day
What about slightly Chinese users? Are they immune to the malware?
Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen do?
Any must listen to? Looking for a few to get into and start up.
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I just landed a patch this past week which changed our `fail!` macro to `panic!`, so there's some small convergence there, too :)
How did Apple forget to focus its product line-up?
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I don't really mind, but I see why people do. What bothered me is when I opened an incognito browser to look at Home Depot, then moved to Amazon, the latter was showing me a bunch of tools and MAN STUFF (weights, leather jackets, etc).
NumFOCUS
Whilst true to some extent, it isn't as new as we think. Window Mobile has been around for a very very long time and Palm OS preceded it with usable Palm Pilot devices.
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I guess somebody actually experienced it, so they wrote down for good that it's a Bad Idea™.
This needs an answer!
Interactive notebooks: Sharing the code
But the whole point is that the so called O(2n) algorithm isn't necessarily slower than a O(n) algorithm if they aren't doing the same operations. Often two fast operations can be done faster than one slow operation.
Ah, I see, and in that regard I agree. I miss the simple, yet featureful classic Winamp when I chose to use something like Spotify. All you get is simplicity.
dont be a dick?
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He published the image online, publicly, himself. It's kind-a hard for him to claim it's violating his privacy.
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http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/performancedata.cfm#d...

http://www.flcdatacenter.com/caseh1b.aspx
Girl Talk in a box and other interactive music tools
I use foobar2000 too, however I don't agree with "function over style", there are some skins and options that change it completely.

I think we should agree it's highly customizable, both for function or style.
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> Companies get taxed without representation

Equating companies with actual people seems to be a uniquely american view (also, complaining about "double taxation" of corporate profits). Personally, I don't think those who pay the tax are those who "deserve" to vote or be represented by politicians/laws. In my view, companies (and their investors) have the privilege of being able to profit by providing services to citizens, and they should pay (be taxed) for this privilege.
Representatives don't draft legislation. They almost never even read the legislation they vote on. That's what they have staff for.
How We Stripped WordPress Bare to Build This Responsive Site
"cars, having houses which are usually > 200 m2, come with swimming pools, have large gardens"

It's a sunny country with a tendency to be outdoors, a lot of space, limited public transport, and a colonial history (another conversation). If you're from a cold ex-soviet country then there is no comparison - Australia far better.
The other Ebola fear: Your civil liberties
I did this same thing back around 2006. I shut it down, since I figured there's no value to it.

One cool thing that I had on there that you might want to add is little flags next to the texts so you could see where everybody's coming from around the world.
Although it's not obvious, I guess popularity as a lot to do with ergonomics and usability and their evolution so something will only continue to be pushed forward if there's enough people to actually use it. I don't know, I'm just thinking out loud why something which has been on the market for such a long time only recently has seen such a crazy amount of innovation.
Hm, the only thing this app would do for me was optically scan the machine-readable print on the back on my ID-card. Didn't seem to want to do anything with the NFC-chip in it.
Responsive can work on any platform for every platform
No, asm.js is just "an extraordinarily optimizable, low-level subset of JavaScript". It doesn't run x86 machine code, you'd need to convert it (or interpret it).

According to the webs, there are some x86 → LLVM converters, and then Emscripten can convert LLVM → asm.js, but getting that to work would probably take many months.
Linux command cheat codes
Show HN: Facetastic – make a slideshow by keeping face photos aligned
Since You've Been Gone, for Apps
You think 60% in taxes scales better than 2%?
Winkli – The app to discover you'll bump into at your Facebook events
Looks great on any device, and you treated your content authors right. Well done!
Really? When you have problems, they're unoriginal problems that have Google-able answers, defined and to be solved in a vacuum devoid of context, and you're expected to either know the answer already, or figure out the optimal answer in 20 minutes, and code it correctly on a whiteboard while people watch you? That sounds like hell.
Certainly damage can happen faster, since the NVRAM is faster. But my buggy driver could write the whole disk to 0 already.
Hi ! I'm the co-founder of Winkli.
Very excited to launch the app on iOS and Android. Would love to talk with you about your first impression and feedbacks !
Loading might be a little long for users who have 600+ friends on Facebook. Don't worry we're working on it :)
Some games can be finished in 5. I am thinking of even a 10-15 minute grace period.

I buy a lot of stuff on Steam for Dota 2 (cosmetics to support Valve). I usually just spam "next" and get it over with. Yesterday, I had to purchase a game for a friend and I forgot to tick the "Gift" checkbox.

Valve don't give a shit, no replies.
Ask HN: Best read-it-later solutions for Android/Chrome?
I'm using Android and Chrome.
I need an app for Android and an extension for Chrome to easily save and organize links for later reading. No need for offline downloading, pdf saving, or other fancy features.

I used Pocket a couple of years ago. What would be the best solution these days?
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I'm not American and don't live in America, so I guess you need to rethink that bit. Companies are clearly not people. If they were, they wouldn't be able to go jurisdictional shopping so easily.

Taxation without representation is pretty widely recognised as problematic though. Not for nothing did it help trigger the war of independence against in the colonies against the British. Think about it: if you can't influence politicians in any way, what stops them taxing 100% of your labour? The only thing that stops governments doing this at the moment is the fear of consequences from their citizens: either at the ballot box in democracies or at the hands of the mob in dictatorships. Companies can't vote and they can't rebel, so there has to be some kind of pressure that pushes back against ever higher taxation. Usually this is indirect: countries fear that if they tax companies too much, they'll go bust, people will lose their jobs, and then those people will vote.

But when companies are largely distributed and a government doesn't feel any real exposure via their own population, the natural tendency is to say "if you want to sell to our citizens, you have to pay us lots of tax" and there's not much a company can do about it except simply deny an entire population their services, which is about as useful a response as a person deciding the best way to lower their tax bill is to throw themselves off a bridge. Nobody wins in this situation!

> In my view, companies (and their investors) have the privilege of being able to profit by providing services to citizens, and they should pay (be taxed) for this privilege.

Since when is the ability to make a profit by engaging in trade a "privilege"? People were doing that in the earliest tribes and farming settlements where the closest thing to a government was the local alpha male. The privilege of taxation is one people grant to governments in return for the stability and ability to make long term plans that they provide; but that privilege can be revoked and has been throughout history.
How about: a cpu that has scores of hyperthreads? They don't block in the kernel; they stall on a semaphore register bitmask. That mask can include timer register matches another register; interrupt complete; event signaled.

Now I can do almost all of my I/o, timer and inter-process synchronization without ever entering a kernel or swapping out thread context. I've been waiting for this chip since the Z80.
The software can be provided with Bittorrent Sync: launch, enter some code and you're in a shared space with whoever has the code. I'm currently writing an opensource equivalent.

The difficult part will be to come up with a packaged hardware that is simple to install, though, but you can start with friends' computers.
To save others the time of looking it up: "NUL [ESC] L [ESC] SOFT"
Why aren't we using git like hashes for compilers? Take referentially transparent parts of code, blob together and make a hash of the AST in a canonical form and a hash of the assembly, source, transforms used, and benchmark stats. The compiler would run continiously searching for new solutions.
Your analysis is extremely one-sided in favor of producers and against consumers.

In economics, the difference between the maximum a consumer is willing to pay for a certain good and the the actual price charged is called "consumer surplus". For example, if I buy an apple for $0.50 but the maximum I would have payed is $1.25, I enjoy $0.75 of consumer surplus.

Essentially what you are proposing is that consumer surplus should always optimally be zero. That in a perfect world, every producer would charge each consumer exactly their maximum willingness to pay for each good.

But just as there is consumer surplus, there is producer surplus. Producer surplus is the difference between the minimum price they would be willing to sell a good for and the actual price they sell that good for. So, as an apple producer, if the lowest price I could profitably sell an apple for is $0.10 but I actually sell if for $0.50, I enjoy $0.40 of consumer surplus.

In traditional free-market models, at an equilibrium price there is a mixture of consumer and producer surplus. Consumers buy things for a bit less than their maximum willingness to pay, and producers sell things for a bit more than their rock-bottom just-marginally-profitable price.

In your model of perfect price discrimination, there is a huge shift in surplus from consumers to producers. Yes, it's efficient in terms of allocation. But there's a huge loss in utility for consumers.
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Readability

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Project Jupyter – Evolved from the IPython Project
So why not connect the disk to the shaft, and have it rotate instead? Not a mechanical engineer, but that would have way less mass, way less clever mechanical linkages for valving, spark.
And to answer the question, yes, it was: http://www.eeggs.com/items/856.html
Thanks gmillard. Our team thought a lot about the reading experience.
This is true. The story here isn't so much the responsive bit, but how we built this beautiful if slightly complicated site (that doesn't LOOK complicated) with nothing but the Wordpress structure.
What's wrong with transparency?
What if the computer just chooses a random rectangular region, or it always answers 'no face here'?
Love this. Would love to see similar stuff from Switzerland, Singapore, Channel islands, UAE etc.
I use Pocket.

You can try Everynotes, but it has too many features for me.

I've tried many of them and Pocket seems to be the best, specially because of its wide support. It also focuses on reading without trying to push 1000 useless features on you.

If you use RSS feeds, Feedly is a very good reader IMHO and it also has a 'read later' feature.
Maybe useful for a stationary generator? Currently my options for a natural-gas generater are one: Honeywell makes a line of 5-12KW device. But they are god-awful noisy; its all any of the reviewers talk about.

But this gadget would shine there! Quiet, no vibration, run it at a single optimum speed all the time. Where can I get one!
From the article:

Doepfner said the resulting dramatic drop in traffic to his company's publications was proof of Google's overwhelming power in the search market. He said he hoped lawmakers, courts and competition regulators would take action to curb its powers.

"Others will have to pick up the ball now," the Springer boss told reporters on a conference call following the publication of the Berlin-based company's quarterly results.

So indeed it sounds like that's exactly what they are saying.
Yeah, we are hitting the same wall right now and we've been going down the same route using HAProxy/Chef. Our plan is to put an API in front of it and treat it similar to an ELB. Are you still using hardware load balancers for SSL termination?
But its supposed to be 1/3 the weight of an equivalent engine. Sounds like a lot?
Building a drone, or robots is one of my dreams. I mean, as I programmer, I build things all the time. How awesome it would be to code something that ends up moving in the physical realm? Even better if it had some limited form of AI.

But I know nothing about hardware, and very very little about programming a UAV.
Also missing "a copyright notice, ... a disclaimer notice, and a link to the material."
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Streisand effect, do you know about it?
Show HN: My startup PrintMosaic runs a contest for the first time. Any advice?
Hello,
I've been running PrintMosaic for a while (https://www.printmosaic.com) and I am now experimenting with contests.

PrintMosaic allows people to create photo mosaics easily. Choose your main image then choose the small images and it assembles them for you. It is then possible to order a print or a high resolution image if you want to print yourself.

The current contest allows people to win a free poster as well as credits for high resolution images.

In order to enter the contest, all you need to do is to create your mosaic and apply with it. The mosaic with the most votes wins. So you might need to invite your friends to vote for your mosaic. This contest ends on November 30, so the votes will be counted at midnight that day.

Here is the contest page, with rules and prizes: https://www.printmosaic.com/contest/events/1-November

Is there anyone here who has run a similar type of contest on their startup? I would be curious to hear stories. I'll be happy to share my experience once this is done as well.
I am not a huge fan of NIH but more often than not it is simply easier in the long run to roll something in house that does the job. Although the debt that piles up tends to dwarf the original choice it is often still a better idea due to having employee churn. Its much easier to keep it within the standards of normal coding conventions.

I don't work at FB but near the bottom in the comments you can see that they build on existing C++ libraries that have been tried/tested. We do the [same thing][1] with smaller services simply because its easier in the SDLC process to move libraries that are already in-house.

[1]: https://github.com/bloomberg/bde/tree/master/groups/bsl
There's this little place called the rest of the world where I happen to live.
clickable links:

Home Page: https://www.printmosaic.com

Contest Page: https://www.printmosaic.com/contest/events/1-November
Well, now is the best time then. It's good to see on what ground the modern european leaders are built.

Dont forget that germany officially punished Cyprus for doing similar things.

And lets not forget he is not an elected President
If we could al stop using HTML5 when we mean HTML+JS+CSS. Let's just use HTML.
I opened this article expecting some deep knowledge of JVM internals. Turns out that the author just found out that you can name your classes same as any library class. Then you can get amnesia and try to use the library class and woah!
Can a big TelCo still be called a startup?
If you think that is bad, try to understand the product lineup of Dell, Lenovo, or Samsung.
I would understand how small countries would have a hard time dealing with big corps but could not a big country just tell them to close shop and go elsewhere if it deems them to be evading taxes? Probably some kind of FTA forbids his but in principle it should work, shouldn't it? After all countries are supposed to be sovereign entities.
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Both principles have an impact, and in this case, I think the second one is the one that causes most of the impulse.
In some countries we discuss openly about salaries.
I've tried a few systems and apps, but time and again I find myself coming back to a notebook and a pen.
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> Taxation without representation is pretty widely recognised as problematic though.

Obviously, but here we're talking about people having no representation - not companies.

> "if you want to sell to our citizens, you have to pay us lots of tax"

No country that I know of demands "lots of tax". Usually, they just want to receive their "fair" share of tax - e.g. 20% on the profits on the products sold in the country/to the citizens. That's not outrageous, and companies still increase their profits by serving the market. Of course, companies and governments might disagree on what is a "fair" tax, but basically, this just means "as much as local companies are paying" (otherwise, being foreign amounts to having an unfair competitive advantage).

> Since when is the ability to make a profit by engaging in trade a "privilege"? People were doing that

People engaging in trade is not a privilege. Companies, however, is! There are many benefits of forming a company, if nothing else the legal structure (profits can be legally distributed in predetermined ways), liability protection, and (probably the most important of all) immortality.
I do like the connotation of "panic" - I envision Kermit running around flailing his arms :)
Agreed there's more to it than just hiring the diverse team, but that's a chunk of it.

People work together, and project assignments aren't made to put friends together, but to group the skillsets needed and to help people do the work that interests them.

Of course there's some time spent hanging out in the break room or possibly after-hours, but most socializing (in my experience) happens around work, in groupings that are work-project based.

The small talk is quite different (and honestly, much more interesting!) when you have a more diverse group, automatically.
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