skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> NTS shows are very much made of songs the DJ likes - that is all the qualification they need

The idea of DJ-as-selector/curator (rather than producer or 'personality') has had a resurgence in the electronic music scene over the last few years. The tastemaker DJs on stations such as Rinse FM and NTS are increasingly reaching wider out or further back to find old gems and weirder music to build into increasingly eclectic sets, and I think this has been driven partly by the mainstreaming and homogenisation of electronic music culture into "EDM" in the US, but also as an antithesis to the machine-made reductiveness of Spotify genre mixes.

As a regular club-goer here in Europe, it's no longer enough for a club DJ to merely play one genre all night long -- a crowd expects to be surprised and entertained.

If you're looking to widen your scope, the electronic music community has some great resources out there, and you can dive into any of these and find something utterly new and exciting without much trouble:

1. http://www.residentadvisor.net
2. http://www.xlr8r.com
3. http://rinse.fm
4. http://ntslive.co.uk
5. http://musicforprogramming.net
Your observation isn't necessarily in contradiction, though.

People hate Comcast, and yet we all use it because (for many of us) there are no other options.

Sentiment is an important measure because it indicates the activation energy required to leave if a sufficient replacement emerges.
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Daemon/FreedomTM was what first got me interested in Augmented Reality back when I was in Middle School. They're excellent reads.
One of the best tools for a successful event is to have a great host. He or she should listen to the guests and make personal introductions based on common themes.
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Did you try any other providers or only T-Mobile?
I don't care what you call it; the point is, it doesn't save you from anything that the correct SSH configuration doesn't already protect you from.

If you really believe that OpenSSH is too scary to expose to the Internet for fear of memory corruption flaws, don't stop at a half-measure like "port authentication". After all: once you "authenticate" the port, the attacker can simply hijack your TCP connection to trigger the flaw.

Instead, write a plugboard proxy, and have it apply a static-keyed AES-CTR transform to the data.

I think this is silly, but if you're trying to protect yourself from OpenSSH bugs, at least do something that actually protects you from OpenSSH bugs.
Is there any plan to support iPad also ?
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It's a push to get developers to work for the company, not to get excited about the platform
>(and possibly even how you are using them, such as what TV show you are watching)

This seems hard to implement, realistically. I know the theory behind it - they can determine how much power a scene takes to show on a TV. But this is going to fluctuate depending on the brand of TV, the model, and so on. They would need to have data for each scene for each different unique type of TV set, and that just doesn't really seem all that feasible, if you ask me.
That sounds more like a white elephant gift exchange than secret santa.
It's worth noting that single packet auth is distinct from port knocking. fwknop isn't relying on "secret" port combinations: it's using GPG to sign/encrypt requests.
I think it is relevant.

If users generally dislike facebook, but continue to use it, it's a bad situation to be in for Facebook. It indicates that people are using the product because of its network effects and despite the product itself.

It means that if anything begins to actually challenge the network effect of facebook, they will be in a very tough spot.
Small nitpicky point: For method 4 floor blur, the image caption says "Look mom, no overlay!" But I think there is an overlay. The image looks quite darkened. Putting white text on a blurred image doesn't work without making sure the blurred image doesn't have too-light whites.
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I'm just guessing, but they could be using info that was obtained when a user was trying to get a loan. Typically, your info is sent to multiple lenders so you can get the best rate. Somebody could be collecting the info somewhere along the line.
I haven't checked, but I guess it is "drones you can fly with your iPhone or iPad". That's what hey had last Christmas, and it follows the rule that they sell quality/decent/not too rubbish (opinions will differ on this) accessories to their hardware.
I, for one, am outraged. Outraged, I tell you! /sarcasm

Eh, it's the Xmas shopping season. It's to be expected and at least it's not the usual trainwreck of design that pops up on other sites. There's a room in Hell for designers that give people eye-plosions.
For the purpose at hand, having some secrets accessible by multiple parties without sharing the same password comes in handy[1]. I'm surprised that this is not a feature of a lot of software that relies on encryption with keys based on passphrases.

[1]: example: https://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/. I believe that the way it works is it encrypts the actual decryption key for data with keys derived from passphrases multiple times, so any one of the those passphrases can decrypt the key, which then can access the data.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_Future

Don't worry. Google and the CIA have your back.

/duck and covers from incoming thought police
Huge for small business, investors, etc. Person A can only spend xyz amount per month and only to these vendors. Text me if the amount of the deposit last night doesn't match what my point of sale system says. Only send x amount of money to y company once person A and person B agree.
> There's nothing Agile about having a chat between A and B, sitting at a keyboard, and spending money. That's just cowboy coding

Nowhere did I suggest having the conversation was the entire process. I am merely rejecting the notion that a story is a spec. I believe there should be no concept of spec at all. There should be a story, a conversation, and then acceptance criteria (which should ideally be defined in code, not a document)
Am I the only not feeling 100% comfortable with the new design?

It is more graphically appealing but the user experience is not what I'm expecting on an online store.
TBH, > 6 months old is hopelessly outdated. Welcome to the future, grampa.
The problem with Facebook is that your contacts are there. I'd have left a long time ago if it was a similar service for a dedicated crowd of hobbyists or for work colleagues but everyone's there from my neighbours to my relatives to my friends' kids.

But even that is dwindling.

What I would like to do if follow people, what happens and what they post. But Facebook only gives me a fraction of what my friends publish. I'd basically have to dig up each friend by myself to see everything they've posted. So I don't even know how they are doing, except when I chat with the closest ones.

But disconnecting is hard for a human being.

I happen to know it would feel good, too. When Facebook suspended my account I wondered if this is it, then. Things got arranged back to where they were but before that I felt a wave of relief. I wouldn't have minded being free either.
Turns out the US has announced earlier this year that they intend to relinquish control of the DNS root zone file. However, this is a privilege that they used to steadfastly hold on to, so its hardly surprising that some people (including me) thought this was still the case.
Slimta is probably the best MTA I have ever used. Pure python, cannot get any better!
Ask HN: How do you deal with repeated failure at interviews?
I have failed in interviews at two of my dream companies over the last two months. I always clear the coding round and preliminary technical rounds. But I always flunk the last architecture round where there are many open ended questions. I never seem to understand the questions clearly.

How do you deal with this setback? I am very low at confidence and need some advice.
Yes. We already have laws that protect a person's likeness by default. All that is necessary is to extend the concept to protecting personal information (of which a likeness is one example) by default. It probably won't happen until large numbers of Americans start valuing their personal information, however.
How to manage self-expectations as a new developer
12 minutes into the second episode when they're talking about Ken vs. Chillindude, and Chillindude starts talking about his strategic decisions: "The [strategy] is simply this: you throw them upwards, and then hit them with an up-air."

If you don't like it, that's fine; your complaints about gameplay footage are all completely valid. But if you feel like they're not giving you information about the game, I'm not really sure how much attention you're paying to what they're saying.

edit: especially because some thing you're explicitly saying you want (e.g. what breakthroughs are made) are given (l-cancelling and wave dashing, for example) and then you just totally discount them because I guess you're looking for frame by frame analysis in a documentary.

edit 2: 22 minutes into the second episode they go over Directional Influence. That's more systems information for you and another example of a technical breakthrough that changed competitive play. If you don't like the videos that's fine, but you should probably watch a video fully before you make complaints that are provably false.
"KingOfPol" is known for lying and generally being not too mentally stable, so it's certainly not a stretch. Sarkeesian on the other hand is unlikely to lie about such things, but there was clearly some exaggeration involved.
Wouldn't it be easier to setup individual rooms for each employee within Slack and then just lock that employee out of the room deciding his gift?
The difference between Apple now and Apple a couple years ago is that they would never dilute the main Apple product page with external brands. While I think it's great that you can buy Apple-compatible drones, I hardly think "people who impulse buy $500 drones or $300 headphones" is a large enough market to warrant ~30% of the page.
Fair enough but I was making a statement about the contribution of genetics to IQ. I was making a statement about the notion that someone with a low IQ can do high IQ stuff just by trying really hard. I'm not a psychometrician and I don't know the age IQ sets. In my experience, definitely a 25 year old with a 90 IQ can't do advanced math just by trying hard
>Each of those touch points adds some value. Calculating exactly how much they actually add is at the bleeding edge of problems

And that may be a big part of the problem: short of direct engagement (i.e. clicks), it can be very difficult to determine whether FB or any competitive channel is helping you to "build awareness". I think the relevant and objective metric of effectiveness, then, has to be the CTR (with conversions secondarily providing a measure of traffic quality).

That is, if you know you're getting, say, a 3X click-through rate from Adwords and the same conversion rate on both, then you don't have to guess as to whether FB has the near-impossible-to-measure quality of "building more awareness". Of course, Adwords could also be building that awareness, in addition to the very real value that you can easily quantify.

So, perhaps at some future point FB will be able to quantify this more elusive "awareness" metric and additionally prove its value over Adwords in that department. But, it's a tough hill to climb and the value of the awareness also has to supersede the very real and tangible value of the additional click-thrus realized through other channels.

Until that day, I can't see the value of continuing to invest in Facebook. There's just no discernible ROI.
But doesn't Rubinius already have a JIT? Why wait for MRI v3?
Except is that information public? That information actually has an extremely legitimate use, which is to better manage peak grid usage and how to optimize that.
No Swift? Wah
Yeah-- it's a little awkward if you have a half-monitor window that is smaller in width than their page: it starts horizontal scrolling, which is slightly disappointing.
I'm not very experienced in Machine learning, just dabbled around a bit, so maybe someone could explain me this:

Looking at the graph number of trees vs accuracy, I would have expected that the line would asymptotically reach a maximum accuracy given more and more trees; however for weka it looks quite wavy and for mahout it even looks as if there's an optimum and more trees are worse.

Or is it just noise and I'm interpreting too much?
It's interesting to see the new direction they seem to be taking.

All of those fullscreen pictures of people don't feel very "Apple-y", they look more like Tommy Hilfiger ads to me. And the contrast is especially noticeable when you scroll down to the all white, all products sections right beneath them.
I actually don't really think so. The people sending death threats and harassment to "anti-GamerGate" and the people sending death threats and harassment to "GamerGate" are not members of the opposing side or the same side. They're all the same people: Internet trolls who see a grand opportunity.
I know someone who had cancer in their skull. The cancer is now removed, but there is some scaring and loss of feeling (i.e., nerve damage), loss of hearing, etc. Recently there was a scare that the cancer had returned (luckily it had not, but it was something caused by the earlier treatment that required further surgery). Was the cancer treated?

A treatment is not necessarily a cure, and something that can make a persons life easier and more pleasant is still a positive outcome.
Noticed that too. What a poor decision -- UA sniffing is ultimately unmaintainable. And what's funny is how everyone is going full on responsive and moved away from UA sniffing because of the move to phones like Apple's. Yet here they're not. Strange.
> This smacks of elitism and it is what makes non-developer scoff at us. Developers are not gods, we're not even the smartest people.

I don't mean to imply that developers can do this because they are cleverer. Merely that developers have a mindset to understanding software systems that business people often lack.

> The spec is the output of the conversation

As I've said in another comment I don't think there should be a spec (in the traditional sense at all). There should be a story, a conversation, and acceptance criteria (ideally defined in code)
> It is unrealistic to expect a non-technical stake holder to deeply and accurately describe anything but the most trivial feature. It needs a developer mindset to poke the idea, see what holds water, see where it falls apart, foresee the consequences.

Lots of developers are pretty bad at this, too; its more of a system analysis than coding skill.

> You can't do that in a spec. It needs to be a conversation.

You need a conversation directed by someone with a clear thought process that can encompass what is important in both the business and technical domains, ideally involving both business and technical experts, to get to a spec. But you absolutely can specify what needs to be done in a spec, and if you don't document the outcome of the conversation in one, its almost always going to be trouble down the road in any significant system. In the best case, its going to result in the technical staff answering lots of questions from business users (often, when neither the original technical nor business folks are in the same role) about what the system is expected to do, rather than actually working on system improvements.

If you replace specs with conversations rather than using conversations to get to specs, then everytime someone would otherwise consult a spec to answer a question later they end up consulting a programmer, instead.
We're not? It sounds like we are... If the project that you're using and need source for is GPLv2, and the code you want to use is GPLv3, then you cannot use it (and it might not be good idea to even look at it -- depends on how litigious that other project is)
Did not Apple buy Beats?
rude reply or not, he was correct.
So they should only be used to refer to someone you are sexually attracted to or what?
Bros, help me out here. Isn't there a grammatical error in the headline? Shouldn't it be "From one gift comeS many"?
Re: challenging the network effect.

A telling moment that happened two nights ago for me. A friend from ~8 years ago came to visit and we wanted to send a joking message out to a few people from the old group of friends we used to hang out with.

The conversation was literally:

A: "Post it to Facebook and tag everyone."
B: "Ehhh. It would be funnier to find an old email thread and reply to it."

We went with B. It seemed like a better idea, plus we weren't sure if folks in the group checked Facebook. But everyone reads email -- and sure enough, we got life updates from the whole gang within 12 hours.
The best hack to get around this is to create a holding company, so then that holding company name appears. However, in most property records also include an address to where the yearly property tax bill is sent.
Does the game track which characters tend to win and lose the most? I wonder if Nintendo could aggregate this and generate their own rankings.
"products"

Except it's not a product, it's a glorified contact book and thus very easy to replace.
Weka is definitely more old-school, but it has a LOT of algorithms available. Weka and Mahout are the two biggest ML libraries on the JVM, but we couldn't find any direct head-to-head comparison so this was the result. In the future we plan to also add scikit and mllib and more in the future.

Your point about being difficult to use is exactly the problem that Algorithmia solves.
The cheapest pair of Beats is $99. Are they moving upmarket or have they always been so expensive?

Compare with Skullcandy earbuds, which seem to be of similar quality, starting at about $20.

Interesting strategy if that's the case. Definitely fits with the Apple image.
Is reality a computer simulation? Does it matter?
Is apple only now falling in with the useless-giant-image-and-lots-of-scrolling trend, or is this just 'refined'?
It's a combination of both.

There are far FAR too many CC numbers available out there and when you consider the work needed to find a viable one, not to mention the legal issues resulting from this...it's pretty clear why they are so "cheap".

It's pretty comparable to the current stolen iPhone market(assuming iCloud locked), as they are basically a paperweight in that configuration, which makes them a "traders" commodity of sorts. Much like this, I've seen CC "packages" used as a sort of commodity, where the partners aren't as much interested in using the CCs, as they are merely selling them off later.
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Australian baby monitors hacked, footage appears on a Russian website
Given that stolen credit cards create a lot of headaches for the people who actually use the credit cards, I'd say it's pretty immoral.

(Yes, yes, the CC companies are on the hook for it, and you're not liable for any money charged to a stolen card, etc., etc., but it doesn't make it pleasant. It's stressful.)
>It indicates that people are using the product because of its network effects and despite the product itself.

This sentence does not compute. The product called Facebook IS the network itself. The two are one and the same.
Because you're required to participate in some sort of re-distribution activity that is unrelated to your primary goal.
This is what the Apple Store page looked like in 2011 shortly before Steve Jobs died: https://web.archive.org/web/20111001165346/http://store.appl...

I am very confused as to why people are saying he his rolling in his grave over third party accessories being sold through the Apple website - it has been this way for as long as I can remember.
All I see is the fancy-scrolling kind of website with pictures of products.

No photo of the redesign of the store?

It's not even clear if this is about a physical store or an app store...
The best hack to get around this is to create a holding company, so then that holding company name appears instead. This might be a costly measure, but well worth it if you value your privacy. However, in most property records also include an address to where the yearly property tax bill is sent, so you might also want to set up a PO box.
Theya re doing something about it, which is why chip-and-pin will become the norm in the Us in the next couple of years. From October 2015 liability falls on whoever is the weakest link in the security chain, so get used to online vendors demanding a lot more personal info from you so they don't get left holding the bag.
6th month old Macbook Pro, I'm getting jank on this page in both Chrome and Safari. This is legitimately disappointing.
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Also, try echoprint
Running on the adsense network, though...

I bet this'll be a powerful incentive for publishers who don't want to annoy their users to switch to adsense.
That's Why No one gets rid of Facebook because there's nothing like it.
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> How "immoral" is it really, facilitating the sale of stolen CC info?

Very.
At my University, I really wished our assembly class was taught in x86_64. Unfortunately, we learn IBM System/360.

I'm not well versed enough in Assembly to know if learning one "flavor" of assembly would help me learn another "flavor" faster.

But I do know that I use a x86_64 machine myself. Perhaps, Knowing how to write assembly for that instruction seems like it would be more useful.
What do you mean? The page doesn't work?
The Java code wouldn't look so bad if it was indented.
Unless they are directed at undesirable groups. Then it's ok by you, because reasons.

Your justifying it right now, for the second time. Hence the cognitive dissonance.
Or just use an IDE so you can focus on the language rather than his idea of the proper (command line) tooling. This would be ESPECIALLY helpful for complete beginners.
I've taught many people C, and it's always gone a LOT smoother with an IDE.
IIRC VW doesn't have the easy integration with the hadoop ecosystem that mahout does, I am not sure everyone has moved to VW.
On the flip-side, I find that "letting go" aspect to be somewhat...freeing.

Being able to acknowledge that there are things you won't be able to address in this lifetime is reassuring to me, as it allows me to focus more on the things that "immediately" matter.
This is apparently what the UX profession as a whole has decided is the best, most pretty-looking thing. Interestingly I've not seen studies that show people like it when they go to a web site with intent to find things, but that's secondary to looking pretty.

The pictures don't have to be meaningful or relevant - they just have to be big, and avoid distracting you with silly text that might convey relevant information. To get to anything like that, it's 'good design' to force the user to scroll first. hadn't you heard?

</rant> Sorry. This large picture + no meaningful up-front content + much scrolling trend is so irritating.
accessory attachment rate is huge in the cell phone industry. the companies care about it so much they fire sales reps who don't sell enough accessories with the phones in the overall numbers
> The settings app requires some sort of double swipe down that's just plain awkward.

TIP: Pull down with two fingers to go straight to the quick settings shade.
When you REALLY look into how the carding operations work. All the major banks backends are compromised, constantly. They simply "zero" any liability to the government.