skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, but no!

1.0 1.1 1.9 2.0 2.1 2.9 3.0

is still a better approximation of a linearly increasing list of numbers than

1.0 1.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 3.0 3.0

and I doubt that any 24bit DAC or ADC in existence will interpolate as bad as I did in this example. Whatever distortion due to quantisation the latter creates, the former will create less of it.
Oh dear. Super fun day at TwitterHQ.
I agree with you for the most part, but I want to comment on the last phrase you use: "If they are bad laws, then we can work to change them. No amount of VC funding should make you immune to their reach." I need to direct you to what happened to Aereo, whose business was destroyed by a Supreme Court ruling [0]. The legal system is one area where innovation is slow, and progress is reliant on inefficient mechanics like politics, bureaucracy, precedent, prosecutorial discretion, judicial opinion, and others. This is by design. Compare for a moment a courtroom of the 1950s and 2014, versus a computer of the 1950s and 2014. Our ability to update our regulatory mechanisms has not kept pace with our ability to create new ideas that need regulation.

My biggest gripe is perhaps not even the inefficiency of the system, but its natural tendency towards systematic support of entrenched players, see the kind of regulatory capture performed by Comcast, or the article about the Chase Whistleblower from a few weeks back. You say that no amount of VC money should make an individual institution immune to the law, but this sort of immunity is conferred all the time by anyone with deep enough pockets, through mechanisms like lobbyists, regulatory capture and the various campaign finance loopholes exploited by Super-PACs. See any of Lawrence Lessig's writings of the past few years for more discussion. I'm reminded of an article that showed up on Hacker News about the downsides of an economy with a lot of entrenched players (permit me to suggest the "cartel" nomenclature) taking advantage of their favorable position in overly-bureaucratic systems:
http://intellectual-detox.com/2013/04/14/rent-seeking-econom...

I do agree that Uber's shady business practices are not laudable, and there are certain important regulatory functions that can only be performed by unbiased parties interested in the public good, of which the legal system/government ought to be the exemplary case. But I think your suggestion that we can simply work to change bad laws is perhaps dependent on a system that currently cannot consistently keep up with the pace of change, not just because of inefficiency but because of perverse incentives (here is where I could begin to talk about the influence of corporate money in politics). I suspect we will have to wait at least another half-generation before a critical mass of individuals with both a true understanding of the exponential pace of progress and well-credentialed clout can begin to make serious reforms and updates in that area.

Until then, "move fast and break things" may, terrifyingly, be our best option.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7943976
Google is super slow in supporting Python 3 for anything, their python API client still hasn't been ported. It's the only dependency for one of my old projects that makes it unportable to Python 3
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I agree that from a technology standpoint, the web development field is absolutely atrocious—at all levels. On the server side, broken languages control vast swaths of marketshare, and the client side has plenty of its own issues.

From the user's perspective, however, there's been a ton of innovation, and they (usually) don't know/care that most applications are built on houses of cards.
I'll just wait on Integrated Plasmonics to ship something. Cue might have fit some market with existing tech, but it looks pretty niche. "Deep" monitoring...and then testosterone. Wonderful. I'll know if lifting weights really affects testosterone levels while completely missing that prostate cancer on the way. We have deep testing. We don't have broad or cheap testing. The fact that the tests aren't cheap, (fertility???) and the marketing strikes me as pretending existing things are new makes me think this is investment fodder. I didn't wake up today decided to be negative. The product gives me signals that seem to betray a lack of sincerity in terms of delivering anything with truly new value propositions.
Am I weird because I actually muttered 'ARP caching issue' halfway through your article? :-)

Love the technical write-up -- thanks!
This is OK Computer by Radiohead with the sprinkled donut theme: http://i.imgur.com/whVq5uE.png

Feedback:

- Overall really nice interface

- At first the messages you get while waiting for the wave are really nice, but then they get slightly annoying. Some kind of indicator of how long it takes would be better. Processing time was acceptable.

- Frankly I think the visualisation is uninteresting. I am not interested in having this hanging on the wall. I tried a wide variety of settings, but it remained uninteresting due to the basic form of the sound wave.

- Tried the record option afterwards. The wave was a little more interesting, and I preferred that experience much more. I would like to be able to play back the sound I recorded and listen to it while I can see the progress on the sound wave.
I'm a member of the 2013 batch. I highly recommend this program! The LSVP team is extremely supportive and cares about developing strong companies and strong founders. They don't take any equity or ask for anything in return.
Just goes to show that the difference between medical use and recreational use is really in the set, setting, dosage, and means of ingestion!

Ketamine is already very commonly used medically, because it is relatively safe (compared to other similar dissociative anesthetics) and has a very short half-life, making it a good choice for certain procedures.

Unlike many anesthetics, ketamine does not suppress breathing much. Combined with the fact that it is a bronchodilator, it can be used in many situations for which other anesthetics would be risky or inappropriate.

If you've had a colonoscopy[0], there's a good chance you've already had ketamine, just not in the same doses that you would have taken at a club!

[0] Which, if you're over the age of 50, you should do! Colon cancer is very treatable if it's caught early.
Which is interesting because of the SSRI I'm on all MDMA did was make me grind my teeth really bad. I want to try it again but don't want to stop the SSRI to do so.
The link now works. Try http://lsvp.com/summer-fellowships/?src=HN
I disagree. App file sizes are displayed in app stores because many users care about them.

A significant number of users would notice an app being dramatically larger than it ought to be. I've seen a lot of reviews like "why the hell this app over 100mb??!!1". There is a huge spectrum of technical competence between "I don't have any sense of what a megabyte is" and "Developer".
I don't think you're weird, I think you're probably a great candidate to work as a sysadmin / SRE, or at Clever, we're hiring: https://clever.com/about/jobs#engineer-distributed-systems !
Thanks a lot on your feedback. Your confusion is understandable and we clearly have to make the message clearer. We are marketing all 3 segments, as they are inter-related: the individuals, the businesses and the social cause organizations. Each one is served in a different way. Each one has pains/gains being targetted at Goowi.
> RSA Encrytion uses padding (usually OAEP)

Heh.
So it's basically the SoundCloud song visualizer, flipped across the x-axis, colored by amplitude, and printed for me. I feel like the visuals need quite a bit more "wow!" to make that worth it to me.
How to design more with less
Things happening out of order should never be observable. So this should not be an issue.
What is the '=' symbol for in Python?
completely clueless programmer checking in. How is atom's performance? The one app I tried that used it was always slow and cludgy...
As one of those crazy functional programmers who uses python, can you please explain to me what the benefit is in remove xrange, lazy map/filter/reduce, and other functional mainstays in exchange for what is essentially more syntax to do the same?
The value (per weight) of dimes, quarters, and half-dollars is the same
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Did anyone else think of the book when they read the title?

http://www.pbrt.org/
Pirate Bay cofounder Peter Sunde says he’s happy to see site gone
Really good stuff, really nicely done, I love it. And good pre-Christmas launch timing :)

Small issue: I grabbed an .m4a, uploaded it, and the screen just sat there. Console errors and whatnot. Didn't take a rocket scientist to guess that .mp3 might work better (it did). So I'm all good, but just reporting it.

Again, really good stuff, congrats.
VLC is 106 MB. Do you care? I don't, it plays my videos well.
Sorry, that was absolutely not my intention (and I didn't downvote you). I was trying to figure out your intention because your phrasing confused me. As I said, I hoped I was misinterpreting your sentence, and I was. Your intent is now clear and thank you for clarifying.

The term gypsy is widely considered derogatory, but it is also widely used and accepted as normal by people unaware of that.[1] I don't think it's fair to assume pico was using it as a smear, but in the ignorant casual sense that people refer to illegal cabs as gypsy cabs, or say they got "gypped". Still insensitive, but I don't think he was trying to use a slur.

I'm not trying to defend his usage. You're right, it's not okay. But I think there is a distinction to be made in educating someone as to the history of a word vs. assuming they used it intentionally.

[1] In Conan O'Brian's documentary, there's a scene where an attendee of his show says to him something like "we got jew'd", to which Conan says "you know I'm part Jewish, and my producer over there is Jewish?". And the guy says "sorry...we got gypped" and then everyone carries on like it's normal. Meanwhile I was like "wait, that doesn't bother you in the exact same way?".
The Pirate Bay has been raided. Fortunately, the tracker has been RESURRECTED
If you have no clue whatsoever about how your table could ever possibly be queried then sure, three separate indexes would probably be the best way. But most tables are not queried on all possible combinations of columns, but instead have regular query patterns.

Adding N 1-column indexes for N columns on every table is at best is a lazy cop-out for actual data and query analysis.

Edit: to address your example specifically, you'd probably be better off having two indexes, one on (a, b, c) and another (b, c) instead of three separate indexes if that covers your query patterns.
lsof is an expensive command to run.. if you're looking specifically for TCP/UDP socket descriptors better to drill down to the specifics with lsof -nP -a -i
then listing all active file descriptors and grepping.

I prefer to use netcat(1),nc(1) to test port firewall traversal then telnet. assuming i don't have nmap/hping etc.. around.

dbsd:~ $ nc -vz www.google.com 80
Connection to www.google.com 80 port [tcp/http] succeeded!
23 Patents Released Under New Defensive Patent License v1.1
A chaos monkey that takes out personnel instead of servers. I like it.
Thanks a lot for your comments !!!. You are right, we somehow compete with loyalty programs. We add value to businesses to help them become socially responsible. We add value to individuals by giving them money & comfort on getting funds and disbursing them. We are prodiving value to social causes by giving them funds & spreading awareness.

We are working on making the message clearer.
Thanks. That is indeed an incredible level of transparency. I didn't see a CSV download but just scanning, it looks like it's more like a $200k median, with 1.6M average. Medians just make far more sense in letting someone outside the system know what to expect. Just like, "The average actress in Hollywood makes $250k, when in fact the median is $30k and a few make $100M).
I think that it is a great idea. It might be already served by a site like http://www.internships.com/computer-science. I say this because really what you should be doing as a student is doing an internship. If you didn't want to treat it as an internship, and build your own site, you do still need to provide some way for prospective employers to see your school transcript. I think this company provides such a service: http://www.ellucian.com/. See
http://www.ellucian.com/News/Ellucian-and-National-Student-C.... I assume that using their API has a fee, so your students are either going to have to pay to enroll in your service, or you are going to have to have the capital to pay for the API calls.
I watched this TED Talk last night which I found very interesting:

http://www.ted.com/talks/pia_mancini_how_to_upgrade_democrac...

> Pia Mancini and her colleagues want to upgrade democracy in Argentina and beyond. Through their open-source mobile platform they want to bring citizens inside the legislative process, and run candidates who will listen to what they say.
Gave it a try, but I have a server that gets this response to the "Test" button:

TLS handshake error: error:140773E8:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:reason(1000)
No drug user starts out by saying, "I'm going to get addicted to this." It creeps up on you. 100mg works for a week, then you need 125mg to maintain the effects, then 175mg, and so on. There was a post on reddit about a heroin addicts experience with the drug. It was eery to hear how it becomes part of your life so easily.

I think Ketamine has great potential, but the risk of abuse far outweighs the benefits.
The music scene is pretty good down there. Been to some great shows over the past few years.
I live in Ann Arbor, and I've worked at a start up in Detroit, in what world is Ann Arbor the start up hub?

Detroit has far more start ups and venture capital firms...mostly owned/invested in by Quicken but the point stands.
Tunnel Boring machines (TBMs) fascinate me. A machine that is part excavator, part factory, part structural support. And generally custom made for every job, wicked expensive, and by all accounts very high maintenance. Seemingly only "slightly" better than just digging the hole the old fashioned way with sand hogs and trucks.

Given their nature, I have always wondered whether or not it would be possible to use the excavating end as a 'portal' to manually excavate in the case of breakdown, such that you could get to the "outside" of a damaged TBM but clearly that isn't a design feature (the Swiss needed to get to theirs as well as I recall on their tunnel project through the Alps. That we got a pair under the English channel seems amazing.
A lot of this stuff seems rather obvious.

Vitamin D low? Pretty sure people know whether they should be more active. If I'm sitting at a PC all day (like most developers) I know when my activity levels are low, I don't need a machine to tell me that.

Inflammation? I've been an athlete my whole life, so I'm pretty tuned into my body. If I have inflammation somewhere, and it's not sports related, I'll most likely leave that to a trained professional, not some machine.

Influenza? See above. If I get really sick, I got to the doctor. Since there's really no pill you can take to cure you of the flu (it's a virus), by the time I'd check this machine, I'd be better off just seeing my doctor, which is most likely a worst case scenario.

Testosterone? I'm an athlete by trade and have never had any issues with this. I have a healthy diet and am still very active for my age. Not sure this would help me other than to confirm I have normal levels; something I can find out at my yearly physical if I really want to.

Fertility? Not even going to go there.

Basically if you're a couch potato, and have a shit diet, this might be helpful to you. The vast majority of people I know who smoke and have a crappy lifestyle and diet, they know it. It's just up to them to make the change. Not sure this machine would get them to do that.
First of all, thank you for the feedback.

Agreed on messaging/processing indicator.

The size of the bars is based on the amplitude of the sound you're processing, so your results will vary, depending on the dynamics of the sound. Have you tried In Rainbows? ;)

Recording - You are correct. I think a count down would also be useful. Currently, the recording starts as soon as you hit the button, which can produce some silence at the beginning of the recording if you're not on it. I like the playback idea a lot, though.

Thanks again!
As an audio professional, I just find this strange - rather as if I offered to turn your favorite picture into a record you could listen to whenever you want on high quality vinyl (all of which end up sounding very similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwyQtdEMFJc).

I'm curious to see whether there is a market for this, but I already spend so much of my time looking at waveforms I'm not sure I want to look at more. Have you considered spectrograms or spectral phase diagrams, both of which can be considerably more visually interesting than a straight waveform?
Thanks about this comment. We will be addressing this concern soon with a different approach :)
From my understanding, SSRI's negate the effects of MDMA. So you can't do both.

https://www.erowid.org/chemicals/mdma/mdma_info9.shtml
Quorum, an evidence-oriented programming language
well, range in python 3 is lazy. They replaced the non lazy implementation with xranges impl.

Same applies to map, filter and I believe reduce as well.
The article's title is "The State of Desktop Applications in Node.js", and chrome applications do not let you run node.js on the local machine. If you can't run your own userland code on the machine and talk to hardware, then you can hardly call it a desktop app.

Google wants to keep you locked in their sandbox.
Horrible website. I don't want to watch a video, and couldn't figure out what it was from the text on the page.
I knew patent law was hard, but
Microsoft's $150M investment in Apple in 1997 would be worth $22B today
A friends cousin from Australia visited Austria and upon hearing that he will drive to another country brought 5 kilos of food and a sleeping bag. The drive was an hour and a half.
How does Ann Arbor fit into the community? By all accounts Ann Arbor is lovely and Google Maps reports it is about 40 minutes away from Southfield/Ferndale/Royal Oak.
Or WX widgets.
Thanks for pointing this out. Right now, we're supporting wav and mp3, but I'll be adding a couple things in the very near future - greater support for various file formats, and better error handling for the ones we don't support.
Surely you could go self-employed with contract in the same company. This way you can follow your own path while everybody else can use what os provided by the law. You would also earn more per hour to compensate for holidays you would normally be entitled to.
It's the other way around, they are not removed, the default implementations are now lazy. So in python 3 you get an interator:

>>> map(lambda i:i*i, range(5))
<map object at 0x010622F0>

and have to explicitly construct a list:

>>> list(map(lambda i:i*i, range(5)))
[0, 1, 4, 9, 16]
>>>
Reminded me of the bigtrak http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Trak
Really, you don't understand how much of a marketing scheme my degree was. An absolute disgrace in terms of what education should be, I'm an idiot for falling for it.

I learnt convolution in my own time, so if you have resources (that don't include integration) I would absolutely love to read them. DSP is something that seems hard and I'd love to get into it.
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I would say this year would probably be around around 4-5 weeks, with a 1 week and a 2 week break mixed in there plus a bunch of random days off.

This is a ways off, but in Jan 2016 I will probably be taking even more, because I have a 3 week long trip with my wife to visit her family in the Philippines + plus typical holiday time off and random days off.
Indoor Location using WiFi signal and SVM
That is where this originated, at least in part. :)

BTW one of the best references is this: http://blog.selfshadow.com/publications/s2013-shading-course...
Oops, sorry, all but one of my stars got eaten as formatting. I meant "`ls a/[star]/b/[star]` has the same effect as a bash-style `ls a/[star][star]/b/[star][star]/[star]`."
Chelsea, my partner on this project said the same exact thing about the custom color palettes.

Let me know how it goes tonight!
* Plus several hundred dollars of non-lego equipment.
Given that effecting a change in government policy is what politics is, and that's the aim, what exactly would deal with this situation that isn't politics? You've got a snappy attitude, denigrating the idea of politics; do you have anything that isn't politics, or are you just a smug soundbite?

I'm sure all the previous people who used politics to change things did indeed find it an easy ride. Martin King basically phoned in his efforts, didn't he? And I recall Pankhurst effected her changes with a single stern letter to the London Times.
I did something like this in college, and I was thinking semantic annotations would be an editorial pass like copyediting. These days you'd probably let some ML system take a crack at it before using human effort to bring the quality up to your publication's standard. In any case, it doesn't have to get in the way of writing a good story.
Airware (YC W13) is building commercial drones in downtown SF
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Is it just me, or are questions biased towards Python2?
Try an arping from the new workers on first startup? Ran into this quite a bit when using VIPs for DB failover, and an arping fixed the caching issue in most cases.
Press release - https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2014/12/10Apple-and-IBM-Del...
I know this is a bit of a dirty trick, but so far it has worked without problems for me at least:

The issue seems to rise from a missing ensurepip module. I fixed this by just downloading the Python 3.4 sources, unpacking them and copying the unpacked lib/ensurepip/ to /usr/lib/python3.4/ after which python3 -m venv seems to work fine.