skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a professional context, XLR is not the same as balanced. I have several pieces of equipment with balanced connections, but only a minority of the balanced connections are XLR. Most are TRS.

I think you are using a different definition of "noise". "Noise" is unwanted sound.

The GSM noise you hear is caused by demodulation of GSM radio, in the 800-900 MHz range. At these frequencies, even a very small wire works well as an antenna. For example, an 8 cm wire makes a quarter-wave antenna. In my experience, there is often a trace of at least 8 cm within an amplifier or monitor which picks up the signal. In these cases, balanced connections do not help. The nonliniarities in semiconductor components then demodulates the GSM signal into the audio band. The worst offenders at picking up GSM interference are cheap amplifiers and radios. Good equipment is well shielded and doesn't suffer from radio interference, and in my experience, using unbalanced connections over short distances (1-2 meters) won't change that.

Balanced connections fix ground loops and let you run cables over long distances. That is all. They don't save you from GSM demodulation.
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Yeah, you're right, data types matter. Like sibling said, this was more in response to signed/unsigned or different bit sizes. We could get rid of minutiae while still allowing for broad choice when it actually matters.

I do think that the difference between Integer/Fractional is important, but honestly if you're dealing with money you should be using some Money datatype that's smart about this instead of raw numbers.
I think you hit the nail on the head here and probably why so many engineering jobs are gained through personal referrals instead of cold resumes. I know that's how I got hired at most of the companies I've worked at.

The company I work at building a way to capture those recommendations and that concept of trust through peer-to-peer reviews: https://www.roikoi.com/

The site asks you to play a anonymously game comparing your most relevant coworkers to one another and a users' score is generated by their aggregate results from their coworkers playing the game. It essentially crowdsources gauging those qualities that can't be gathered from a resume.
This doesn't allow for new people to enter the system, like new college graduates. While hiring within the circle is great for consistency, it also means you may be missing out on great talent. At fast enough growth rates, you'll quickly tap out on the friends-of-friends network and will need a solid plan for hiring unknowns.
I think it's even simpler just to observe that the way someone chooses to write and target a resume has no particular relationship to how well they would do the job.
PayPal: 1.4% + 30p (GBP)

The fees are not standard, they are more than DOUBLE what PayPal charge registered non-profits.

https://www.paypal.com/uk/charity/

I run a UK CASC (Community Amateur Sports Club) which is registered as a non-profit with HMRC and whose articles of association with Companies House require us to be structured in such a way that we are a non-profit (obligations to invest all profits in the promotion of sport).

Even as this type of entity we are eligible and receive the PayPal charity rates.

The donations by Tilt may work for groups that are not actually legal non-profit entities, but for any group that is a non-profit the fees are excessively high.

The reality is, our donations and contributions are usually fairly predictable. So we work to maximise how much we get from that revenue, by choosing the lowest fees and claiming back Gift Aid (CASCs can do this).

PayPal works really well for us, and with the fees being half what competitors offer I'm not even looking to change.
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It's a joke. Hover your mouse over it to see why ;-)
NASA announces plans to send humans to Mars by 2030
I suppose I might agree with you that it's likely catastrophic events will be caused by us at some point, but I very much disagree that the survivors of those events will ever consider life not worth living. Wanting to stay alive is probably our most fundamental desire, and we happen to be pretty damn good at doing it. I think of those types of events like forest fires. On the surface, they seem devastating, but they actually end up serving a wider purpose and thus, one should not despair.
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The referenced nytimes article (http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/12/01/law-school-becomes-bu...) is more informative. (Also the submission title is a bit link-baity and doesn't even match the Slate headline).

Edit: ahh the submission matches the title tag but not the in-body headline. My mistake.
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This example is bizarre, because a fast implementation is probably going to rely on a SAT solver, at which point the "queens code" (in any language) becomes a declarative specification of the solution!

Also, I don't think that Haskell, OCaml, (or Prolog) are that much declarative: They have a very clear evaluation model, which you need to know in order to write any code. They also have debuggers as a result.
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Interestingly, why didn't she do some kind of text mining/classification to try to show what features gave the highest discrimination between the two classes?
CD-audio "Red Book" data does have error correction (Cross-Interleaved Reed-Solomon Code). Whether you get a bit-perfect audio rip depends on how much error correction and retrying you do.

I remember experimenting with writing a CD ripping program in the 90s, using Windows APIs, and I found, like you, that I got different data each time. But modern rippers such as EAC does this stuff much better and will for the most part give you bit-perfect rips.

That mat does nothing. And if you read that linked page, you will see that he claims it drastically improves audio quality (bass, etc.), which is pure nonsense.
Skype has stagnated ever since eBay bought them, and then sloughed it off to Microsoft. Sure hope Wire brings something new to the table, apart from the Microsoft/Facebook/Google ecosystem.
That essay is generally good, and I agree with the general point (quoting: "object-oriented programming is a useful technique in some cases, but it isn't something that has to pervade every program you write"), but the specific quote you pull out is quite bizarre, given that "defining new types" has nothing at all do with OOP. It has more to do with statically-typed programming -- idiomatic code does a lot more of it (even equating "class" with "type", which is a dubious equivalence outside of statically-typed OO languages) in a statically-typed functional programming language like Haskell than in a dynamically-typed OO language like Ruby.
Mods, please change link to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnbJEg9r1o8

This "sun-gazing" site looks like the worst sort of zero-value content aggregator.
There was a great Ben Horowitz blog about exactly why this is incredibly poisonous. If you force people to negotiate for every raise instead of having a fair, scheduled process in place, you create a horrendous atmosphere where people feel like they constantly have to nag for a raise.
Well, if you're willing to allow a bit of wiggle room in the form of "up to associates" (which is a qualifier that I forgot to add), there are integral domains in which every nonzero element equals the product of a unit and a power of a fixed nonzero nonunit element. This qualifier isn't too much to ask since "up to associates" is the generalized version of "up to a plus or minus" when factoring integers (which has no real bearing on factorizations).

In particular, let F be any field, and consider F[[x]], the ring of formal power series[1] over F. Given any nonzero f(x) in F[[x]], we can "factor out as many x's as we can" to write f(x) = x^n g(x) where n is a nonnegative integer, g(x) is in F[[x]], and the constant term of g(x) is nonzero (here we explicitly define x^0 to be 1). Thus, g(x) is a unit[2] (ie invertible), and every nonzero element of F[[x]] is a unit multiple of a power of x.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_power_series

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_power_series#Inverting_s...
Bose knows marketing.

I've got excellent bookshelf speakers that were cheaper than the equivalent from Bose, but the reviews and tests showed them to be way better.

My (small!) speakers end up producing way too much bass for the room they're in, in fact, and I use Foobar 2000 with the "MathAudio Room EQ" plug-in to get a flatter speaker response from them. But their problem isn't that they can't produce bass notes.
I am not sure how I would feel if my resume was posted here. I've already found someone I was able to quickly identify by looking at the resumes. I would have expected more discretion on the recruiters part.
NYU's schtick isn't exclusive of feeding to BigLaw, clerkships, or highly selective government positions like Justice. Law School Numbers reports type of employment for 2013 with 64% law firms and 15% public interest. That is a lot of public interest, but it is still (traditionally) the highest-ranked school in the nation's largest market for private legal services. Michigan's numbers, to give another data point in the 14, are 56%/13% for the same period.

People are still hired for public interest work out of law school. My impression is that the number, overall, is very low, and that it always has been.
You can make the subjective assertion that college was worthless to you personally, and who can challenge it? But a subjective assertion by one person is not data nor is it representative of any population (I learned that in college).

Also, education has many benefits beyond earning money. It's seems absurdly narrow-minded to evaluate college solely by the marginal income gain. Life is so much more and education benefits much of it. I could not write nearly as well, use mathematics, understand science, understand art, understand humanity, be as creative, etc. etc. without the years I spent studying those things.

I can't imagine doing what I do with my high school education. Can someone waste their time in college? Of course and I'm sorry for those that did, but don't impose it on everyone else. I remember most of my peers' intellectual curiosity and how much they learned. Someone could own a computer or raise kids and gain nothing from those things either, but that doesn't devalue my computer or family, or argue that they don't provide great benefits to humanity.
This comes up once in a while. Alternative view is here:
http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2012/05/when-bad-scienc...
I guess that's useful for people who are already bought in to the .NET world, but isn't LINQ encumbered by patents that pose a risk to anyone building on top of it?
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> As it turned out, people were pretty bad at filtering resumes across the board, and after running the numbers, it began to look like resumes might not be a particularly effective filtering tool in the first place.

Her theory - people suck at filtering because the tool they use is poor.

> it may not be a matter of being good or bad at judging resumes but rather a matter of the task itself being flawed — at the end of the day, the resume is a low-signal document.

Resumes suck for hiring all people. But that's not the purpose of a resume -- it's a low-signal filter to weed out the initial batch of candidates. If you treat hiring like a sales funnel (and you should), then a resume is a great way to eliminate unnecessary time for your team to assess someone's cultural fit. Expecting the resume to be high signal filter is pretty naive.
As a counterpoint, here's the rationale for why GitHub uses regular git repo storage instead of webscale object storage: http://devslovebacon.com/conferences/bacon-2013/talks/my-mom... (maybe skip to 16m)

Given Amazon's completely different philosophy, it's natural for them to implement git on S3.
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H1B visas create indentured servants with no guarantees of the payoff of citizenship. If you're an advocate of this, then you're one of the villains who exploits your fellow man in an uncommon harsh way.

Just calling it the way I see it.
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Done. Url changed from http://www.sun-gazing.com/physics-girl-unique-crazy-pool-vor....
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> If you treat hiring like a sales funnel (and you should), then a resume is a great way to eliminate unnecessary time for your team to assess someone's cultural fit.

Where's the evidence that it is great at this? Certainly, its a basis for narrowing the set of candidates that get further review, but is it a good basis?
Amazon's forward P/E is 366. Clearly, investor confidence in Amazon's strategy is hardly over. (A usual P/E is around 15.)
I too would like to echo the sentiments that already have been expressed here. I remember discovering nginx through his blog post about how to easily set up rails with it. I had issues with backgroundrb and he was so kind to help me out over irc and countless other moments. I also remember him bringing Redis to my attention I think he did so for a large number of us. I followed his work as I had a deep respect and admiration for him as a person. So tragic to hear this news. Really gutted. I will never forget him.

Never had a chance to meet him in person so Thank you Ezra.
Sounds like it'd be hard to get statistical relevance in most companies...
True. But how much will going to Mars bring back?
Aline here. I got permission from everyone whose resume I used in this experiment.
>Self-styled audiophiles are, by and large, idiots with way too much money plagued by magical thinking.

I agree on the "plagued by magical thinking" part, but not all these people are idiots. Some of them are quite intelligent, in fact. I think they just want to be "in the know", and are able to suspend their normal skepticism in order to belong.

One of the smartest and most productive programmers I ever met was taken in by this nonsense. He replaced all the metal bolts in his power supply with teflon because the metal bolts disrupt the magnetic field around the transformer and you can hear that, maaaan!

He did have a nice sounding system, for which he spent about $10k more than one that would have sounded the same.
Gangnam Style's YouTube view count crosses 32 bit integer limit – goes negative
The article brings up Dr. Tyson.

He actually commented on this article and linked to these Facebook posts:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/neil-degrasse-tyson/email-exc...

https://www.facebook.com/notes/neil-degrasse-tyson/partial-a...
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Price to Earnings (P/E) is literally the least relevant metric to use for Amazon. Given the company's very public approach to seeking zero net earnings (while maximizing capex/investment), the denominator will always skew the ratio to levels that make it non-meaningful.

EV/Sales (LTM and Forward) are much more in line with other comparables.
I'm always fascinated by the light show in the Western Australian desert... apparently it's bushfires (http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/wa-bushfires-creat...) but there's no bush out there to burn, it's all flat sandy desert.

There's an unusually high reporting of UFOs out there too, so maybe that's it ;)
Look up the methodology, it's on the Department of Labors website. Are you suggesting that the gov't is conspiring to keep wages low?
Google has had plenty of scope creep but it hasn't been mission-fatal
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One of the fun things about the price mechanism is that it reduces everything down to its valuation in currency. Ethics, knowledge, emotion. It's terribly convenient.
The `sum(1)` and `order by...limit` approach really isn't the best way to build the funnel. And if you take another approach then this could have easily been built with normal left joins.

Also, you should probably show some explain plans before making this claim: "Without lateral joins, we would need to resort to PL/pgSQL to do this analysis. Or, if our data set were small, we could get away with complex, inefficient queries."

Here's a comparison of the explain plan from your query without the `sum(1)` and `order by...limit` business and a query using only left joins (no use of lateral): https://gist.github.com/ajw0100/0d86715d6ce97389f306. Note, I ran this against an empty copy of your exact table (no data, no statistics). However, the explain plans are the same.

My understanding is that lateral was really meant for set returning functions like generate_series as others have already mentioned.

Edit: I should mention I know you were just trying to demonstrate how lateral works and that it is always good to see people writing about new Postgres features!
Oh god, this one hits way too close to home for me.
Seems like it's only free if you have Kindle Unlimited.
It takes a couple minutes to get interesting, but it really is an interesting phenomenon that she's looking at.
MP3 in particular has issues above 16KHz. This is solved in modern formats such as AAC and Ogg Vorbis. It has nothing to do with "any kind of digital".
No, Real wanted their music to be playable on the iPod, so Real encrypted songs with some reverse-engineered version of FairPlay. Then Apple changed FairPlay so that Real's music wouldn't be playable.
In what way it isn't? Just look at this beauty [1] and its consequences. But probably nobody uses the equality operator anymore because it is such a mess. Less than is even more messed up [2].

[1] http://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es5.html#sec-11.9.3

[2] http://strilanc.com/visualization/2014/03/27/Better-JS-Equal...
Google the term "activist investor".

A Carl Icahn type (or more likely Carl Icahn himself) could potentially force Jeff to reconsider the detached attitude.
While negative numbers very often provoke exceptions like IndexOutOfBoundException, with unsigned integers error could be uncaught for much longer time. I'm all for signed integers, unless storage requirements so tight that you really need that one bit.
Sorry to be a party pooper but this is sales 101 - nothing special either about the talk or the slides. Maybe interesting for people who has zero experience. I won't drop a dime for this education - sorry if I am being harsh.
I didn't say solely :)
> People with college degrees earn significantly more over their lifetimes.

While your statement is factually correct, the slogan has been adopted by the sleaziest of the institutions pitching the most useless degrees to drive potential applicants into thinking that a student loan + years of their time = automatic cash further down the road.

To quote The Economist http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21600131-too-man...

"But not all degrees are equally useful. And given how much they cost—a residential four-year degree can set you back as much as $60,000 a year—many students end up worse off than if they had started working at 18."
Bup satisfies both.

https://github.com/bup/bup

But the frontend is kinda bare-bones. In many cases, it's git.

I have heard that attic is similar but more fleshed-out. But I have not tried it myself.

https://github.com/jborg/attic
Seems like a far cry from "cast[ing] a shadow over the software world for almost 20 years..." Is there anything else?
People working on program synthesis consider the Occam razor "the shortest/simplest code" to be a good heuristic of the intended function (given a good test case.) Their main problem is the exponential space search.
How much stock does Jeff have? Can he retain control easily?
The part that has been opensourced is under MIT license.

According to the wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License),

> Whether or not a court might imply a patent grant under the MIT license therefore remains an open question.

This probably means MSFT is unlikely to enforce those patents.
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No, I need to get away from the computer completely. Word docs (or any other computer typing) is still bound by the computer structure and the computer distractions.

With paper, I can draw graphs of relationships, write tables, add notes to things I drew earlier, etc. It's far more expressive, and far faster, than any computer tool I've tried.
Where's the evidence that there is a better alternative?

I was slightly perturbed by the original author as she offered no real solution.
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The coolest part is at 2 minutes in when she puts food coloring in it.
>Proper average market salary and inflated market salary are two different things

I don't think you can have "inflated market salary." Instead what you have is the true market salary (for an experienced engineer that's good, that's a minimum of $200k at this point), and then you have the amount that most companies are willing to pay (which typically caps at $125-150k).

In the US, until the 1970s, average income (in constant dollars) rose at a pretty compelling rate. After the 1970s, a number of factors have combined such that we've not seen the same rise in real income -- despite the fact that productivity, as in, the amount of value we're adding to companies' bottom lines, has been rising.

This is why the gap between the rich and the rest has been growing so quickly. The added productivity is enriching the few at the expense of the many, except for a very few exceptions; one of those is exceptional software developers, who can take advantage (at the moment) of their rarity to actually negotiate salaries commensurate with their productivity.

I'm one of those who was able to secure a $250k+ offer from a big company, which is awesome, and I'm really lucky to be in this position. But the reality is that I know a lot of developers who are really good and who should be making over $200k/year, at a minimum, but who make $125k or less.

Importing H1-B workers in large quantities keeps those salaries lower than they should be. Instead companies need to raise compensation to keep up with demand. Maybe it means they can only afford half as many developers, but they're likely better off with fewer good developers anyway. :)
"Cultural fit" is far too often code word for discrimination.
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1. Yes, if both applications fail and OPT expires, the candidate has to go back to the home country.

2. Working for a big company will not help in getting a H1B slot in anyway.

3. Typically, these things are done by a resident starting the company and hiring the cofounder.
Here's an etherpad collecting the articles, tweets, and other links in memoriam of Ezra:

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/ezra
> It absolutely, positively hurts local labor [...] This is not a Xenophobic reaction, it's simply reality.

It is absolutely xenophobic; you are insinuating that somebody "we" get "hurt" when "they" come.

It's the most insidious brand of xenophobia there is.
Some of the worst people I know also have the best resumes. I think they've learned to optimize where they can.
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In some cases, 2x or 4x is worth the risk. Imagine having a warehouse-scale computer where you can use 50,000 CPUs instead of 200,000.
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You throw a lot of alleged experience behind your opinion, but, having had to hire MANY employees in the Bay Area, it sure as hell doesn't seem like anyone's getting cheap labor, and I sure as hell don't see anyone languishing on the market thanks to this influx of ferriners.