skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keurig has already tried to use patent law to prevent competitors from selling pods.

Their failure there feels like the reason their trying to make a device that they think can be protected under DMCA.

http://blogs.findlaw.com/federal_circuit/2013/10/patent-exha...
"Random numbers such as these translate to random noise (hiss) when converted to analog. The amplitude of this noise is around 1 LSB, which for 16 bit lies at about 96 dB below full scale. By using dither, ambience and decay in a musical recording can be heard down to about -115 dB, even with a 16-bit wordlength. Thus, although the quantization steps of a 16-bit word can only theoretically encode 96 dB of range, with dither, there is an audible dynamic range of up to 115 dB! The maximum signal-to-noise ratio of a dithered 16-bit recording is about 96 dB. But the dynamic range is far greater, as much as 115 dB, because we can hear music below the noise. Usually, manufacturer's spec sheets don't reflect these important specifications, often mixing up dynamic range and signal-to-noise ratio. Signal-to-noise ratio (of a linear PCM system) is the RMS level of the noise with no signal applied expressed in dB below maximum level (without getting into fancy details such as noise modulation). It should be, ideally, the level of the dither noise. Dynamic range is a subjective judgment more than a measurement--you can compare the dynamic range of two systems empirically with identical listening tests. Apply a 1 kHz tone, and see low you can make it before it is undetectable. You can actually measure the dynamic range of an A/D converter without an FFT analyzer. All you need is an accurate test tone generator and your ears, and a low-noise headphone amplifier with sufficient gain. Listen to the analog output and see when it disappears (use a real good 16 bit D/A for this test). Another important test is to attenuate music in your workstation (about 40 dB) and listen to the output of the system with headphones. Listen for ambience and reverberation; a good system will still reveal ambience, even at that low level. Also listen to the character of the noise--it's a very educating experience."

-- Bob Katz http://www.digido.com/articles-and-demos12/13-bob-katz/16-di...
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I've heard of Tahoe-LAFS before, I am under the impression it's for when I own the storage server rather than using a network of other peoples server? My dream is of a network of other people operating the servers for both liability reasons and it would be cheaper because given a network of people paying with bitcoin, it would be oversold, reducing the price more than getting a dedicated server (assuming there is competition).

If I'm wrong, and other people provide storage with Tahoe-LAFS, how are you recieving money for it? Storage is expensive when done on enterprise scale, we can't rely on peoples open internet idiology for something as expensive as that.
Great! Nice to see optimisation on the web presented so beautifully. Greetings from the 9 KB framework http://natuive.net
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Mitochondrial damaged human speaking (genetic cause, not antibiotics)

Hormesis is about dose. In these cases, the dose is just too high and our body is unable to cope with it.

In my case the damage is just below this threshold and my body has created a powerful antioxidant machinery [1] that is keeping me alive. In other cases of my disease, the burden - % of mutant mitochondria - is just too high [2] and sadly, the kids die when they are 3-4 years old.

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1096719203...

[2] http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/leigh-syndrome
That's so true.

Down and dirty and out the door may be the only solution when you're a startup because they need to get money in the door.

"Sufficient high quality" was not in question ever as they just needed to get code out of the door and if the solution required you to do the worst hack then so be it.

Shouldn't there be a fine balance between these?
You gathered all that from 2 data points?
Am I a data scientist?
LXD will be another Snappy Framework, just like Docker...
Margaret Hamilton: Director of the group that developed Apollo 11 flight s/ware
Why, yes, of course. Or are you saying that as long as there are enough indirections and 'wink wink nudge nudge', anything is legal? So I'm a drug runner and it's illegal for me to take your money and point you to the guy at the other side of the street who has your stuff, but it's OK when I give you a piece of paper with a map to a rock under which is another paper with a phone nr which you need to call that will then tell you to walk to the other side of the street?

Or let's say I'm an electrician who wires indoor marihuana plantations. That is illegal. Do you think it would be OK to stand next to some other guy and tell him what switch to connect to which socket and which tools to use to strip the wire? 'Oh your honor I was just distributing instructions on how to build a plantation, not doing it!'. You might want to prepare your diddly hole when you rely on such argumentation as a legal defense.

Again: INTENT MATTERS. When something is done with enough proximity to actual illegal actions, that 'something' is quite likely also illegal and punishable. Which is why Uncle Fester is a free man and Kim Dotcom isn't (well only barely).
This concept seems strange, a random person calling to wake you up.

It makes me think back to an annoying app idea I had, Spam the Spammer - the idea for this was, anyone that sends me spam, I send it back to them and crash their account. Don't worry HN community, I didn't build this product.

Back to the topic, their features on having recorded celebrity voices seems a bit stalkish to me. I don't see any real need for an app to call me to wake me up. I'm a heavy sleeper, and usually set about ten alarms each morning - this works fine for me.

I'd expect this app to be semi- faddish.
> biological gender

This is getting ridiculous. Just call it "sex" already.
Yes learning is good but if her/him is looking to build something fast and get the job done learning a new language whilst doing this is not really very feasible.

There is the time for development and the time for learning.
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In your analogy, TPB acts as the middleman, hooking the user up with the supplier. Yes, when it comes to meth, that's illegal.
No I wouldn't, but this is not a party so you're making a really weird comparison. This is about an organisation with great power in Sweden that tries to stop piracy, they should know what they are talking about.
Let me make a comparison instead; saying that The pirate bay uploads illegal files to their site is like saying that google uploads thousands of porn sites and torrents to their site, when they are just uploading links. Should google stop displaying links to thepiratebay, streaming sites and Bittorrent and god knows what?
Well, one shouldn't confuse middle age crisis with the failure of his project.
That is the premise of the Intelligence Explosion hypothesis: http://intelligence.org/ie-faq/

It's likely that once we get to the first reasonably powerful AI, it will only be a short time before it is able to improve itself and go significantly beyond human level.
Could you not consider legislatures programmers as well?

Programmers create software.
Lawyers create law.
As a layman, I think this is the real problem: the law assumes that people are smart and tools are stupid. However, computer programs like torrent clients have become frighteningly smart about efficiently turning scarce information (like a short hash) into illegal actions. Imagine a GPS unit that could turn "don't go downtown, there's a strong mob presence" into a route to the nearest drug dealer.

Most of the "intent" of going from a hash to a download is in the torrent client. It's a smart tool. But to my best knowledge, the law assumes that intent has to happen in a human. If you have two humans, and both have weak criminal intent, but they're connected by a program that makes illegal acts very easy, I don't know how the law judges that. Probably badly.
I'd have loved to see Spam the Spammer come to fruition!
Even if this was true it's ridiculous when taken as evidence for radiation lowering cancer risk:

Survivorship bias (or survivor bias) is a statistical artifact in applications outside finance, where studies on the remaining population are fallaciously compared with the historic average despite the survivors having unusual properties.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias#As_a_general_...
1994 seems like dated information.

former and continue 'grad student' - aka DROPOUT.
Mom got cancer. I learned how to care for her and continue without
professors or even the school.

After all, I' interested in Mark Twain - never let your schooling interfere
with your education.

THE KEY CHALLENGE STILL REMAINS and even gets worse,
IMHO. What is that?
too much risk - financial, personal, etc.

1.) financial - even engineers like me have troubles and ahemmmm
I consider myself above average - after all I ws BORN AN ENGINEER.

2.) personal. the reason for avoiding Columbia U for ladies is the
safety problem aka PERSONAL VIOLATIONS. and no I have
never had a problem. But the BIG CITY, crime, 'rape culture', etc
and BIG CITY is a challlenge for some. So, choose the location
carefully.

PPS. I went to grad school, sight unseen, two phone interviews
with some professors, etc. new city, new house, new roommates,
new school, new studies, and I am happy i did not CHOOSE Wisconsin
madison - engineering with the freezing weather.

What a darn shame graduate school is not more 'ffriendly.'
yes, i have audited and just copied the class notes at COLUMBIA U.
When in doubt, my only regret is CUT MORE CLASSES.
avoid siting being talked to. Wander the libraries more.
hang out more in the coffee house and have interesting conversations.

don't just learn 3 languages, not including SWIFT or RUST.
learn FOUR languages

and of couse for the reality lesson of today since I am over age 51+2

Date more 'exotic women' or men as the case may be. Insist
on talking more languages. that's part of the 'graduate education'
Which is quickly becoming a tedious exercise in cheap point scoring. People go for names that reflect the intent or otherwise associate with the system they are building. They also prefer existing words. Sometimes that will mean reuse of the same words. Lets accept that and move on with our lives.
It's not just one argument! I't consumes as many arguments as you like, there is also the HYPER WHATEVER which is two asterisc in a row * * (without white space a limitation of HN!) which is a dimensioned form of whatever for dealing with higher dimension data structures.

The following are identical with and without whatever:

perl6> "ACAGATAAATTA".comb.map: * ~ * ~ * ;
ACA GAT AAA TTA

perl6> "ACAGATAAATTA".comb.map({$^first ~ $^second ~ $^third});
ACA GAT AAA TTA

It's worth pointing out we're lucky that 'first' is lexically before 'second' in the second one though. The $^ consumes parameters in the lexical order of the variable names. So it's used normally for $^a $^b in sorting. So .sort({$^a cmp $^b}) versus .sort({$^b cmp $^a}). But a general feature was made rather than an obscure exception. In general Perl6 is very consistent. It might also just be a bit too crazy at times, some of the stuff you can do like the (* * *)(2,3) below you obviously would just not do in real life.

So an example where the lexical ordering is kind of neat:

perl6> "ACAGATAAATTA".comb.map({$^third ~ $^second ~ $^first});
ACA TAG AAA ATT

Contrived since you could just split the string by three characters and flip it :P But hopefully you get the idea!
Thanks for the news. is it just me or is the app link broken?
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i find that difficult to believe, because almost everyone who would go to the pirate bay would have adblock of some sort no!?
I may have to move up my Uber death watch. I said they wouldn't exist in five years; they may not even last five months at this rate.
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Did you see NixOps?

Basically Nix obsoletes much of Puppet&co, to the extend that you probably want to go without it.

On top of that Nix also provides great means for deployment.
> If one is not allowed to mention or entertain an idea without career repercussions, it harms the scientific process.

Can this be extended to politics as well ? What about the recent Uber executive mentioning that they thought about investigating the private lives of journalists to give them a taste about their own medicine ? If they did not actually do it, is it OK for them to mention it ?
In all honestly I don't think this is just jobs ads. Just look at this place (hacker news) for example, everybody is using the term "hacker" to designate anything.

Today putting lettuce and meat together to create a salad is hacking.

I agree that this is ridiculous though, also I currently work in a company that was hiring a "Jedi angularJS developer", I had 2 days experience with the framework when I signed (they knew, long story short they didn't want me, the recruiter pass me a test that was not for me and I did way better than the original guy).
Ask HN: Would you spend $ on 24/7 vet hotline?
Our pets are precious to us and a part of the family, would you spend $ for a 24/7 vet hotline for questions about your dog or cat?
The 2006 documentary "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple" is worth watching. The whole thing is on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9o1vUSLhOs

In particular, it gives a glimpse of why Jones' message was so appealing: in a time when people were fighting for gender and racial equality all over the US, Peoples Temple seemed to have found the answer.
I'm sure your sources are correct but the view and sample data are biased. Cancer rates, as you note, go up with radiation and also withUV exposure. You make a dangerous point that some people who don't read carefully might buy into fast and make poor decision. A warning at the top of the post or another analysis of the effects of these exposures, on a large sample that also presents the downsides would be more balanced.
The laws they are accused of violating are listed in the article. Did you read it, or were you expecting the actual state statute numbers to be listed? Those are presumably listed in the civil suits.
The reality distortion field of caffeine is very strong :)
I never understood ad blockers or the people promoting ad blockers.

People complain about ads, yet they are unwilling to pay for content, with the popularity of something like ThePirateBay being testament to that.

And then, I can understand that many websites are showing distasteful ads, but if you don't like it, then don't use those websites. This gives a chance to competing websites, being practically like voting with your wallet. Because in truth, ad blockers help the companies that are showing distasteful ads, just like how piracy helped companies like Microsoft.

EDIT: if you're gonna down-vote, at least mention why, otherwise I'm going to assume you are a just freeloader that wants everything for free.
When I was in grad school, they wanted me to help run a seminar and a meet and greet for prospective graduate students. When the coordinators weren't around, the first piece of advice I gave the students was to not go to grad school.
I'm waiting for you to get MirageOS on my Nexus 9 (64 bit AArch64 tablet) :-)
Guix is based on Nix, with a Guile API.
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I am new here. Please suggest whether it is OK to post our blogs here and get insight on it.

Cheers
My Master's thesis in electronic engineering was supposed to be based on a previous work written by a maths phd in c++ on XWindows. I'd only used C and Basic before and not done any GUI programming. I couldn't believe how much code was involved to set up a few simple windows. It really put me off and I pretty much gave up and started writing my own [image manipulation] code in C. I wish I'd had the sort of resources you can get for free nowadays available it might have been a fun project!

It was the mid 90s and I didn't have unix/linux at home. In those days you had to pay for a compiler on windows and I didn't know anyone running linux. Just a couple of years later it was so much easier!
I'm in the UK and still using MS Money even though it hasn't been in development for years now.

Microsoft still let's you download it though:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=2073...
If you wrote down the number Pi in hexadecimal, I conjecture that any possible 40-digit sequence would appear in there somewhere.

Indeed, how could it possibly be illegal to share pieces of Pi? :)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/08/21/use-of-ad...

Maybe 30%, worst case?
By "disruption", you mean skipping the insurance, background checks, and licensing to carry passengers?

This isn't innovation. It's gypsy cabs with an iPhone app.
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The .NET sdk is pretty fantastic as well.

But anyway, goamz is "Hashicorp's" AWS Go SDK in that Hashicorp forked it and refused to work with the larger community because it's "critical" to their business. This has, at least until super recently, stranded certain functionality into the different forks and severely fractured the AWS Go offerings. True story.

Ultimately, what the Go community probably needs most is Amazon to step up and support a Go SDK officially. The Java, Ruby, .Net, and even Python SDK's are very robust at this point. I can't speak to the others.
I don't know, he just seems like one hell of a bigot in general.

Science could probably just as easily prove that consuming human infant meat is very healthy, that wouldn't make the idea any less revolting when one applies common sense.
"Unfortunately VIM's formatting is different than Eclipse's"

Now can't THAT be fixed without throwing Vim away?? I've never used Vim, but I think its fans hail it as very configurable etc., the best thing since sliced bread (or is it Emacs? I can never remember which one cures cancer) :))

Anyway, these are discrepancies that "leak out" of your machine; like code formatting. That's a showstopper to be sure.

But keyboard shortcuts I see as a "private area", just like being left-handed and configuring one's machine to accommodate for that - sorry, but Ctrl+X and Ctrl+C aren't that convenient for someone who uses their left hand to control mouse (statistically 1 person in 10).

Maybe Android development isn't the best example here, since 1. no offense to those who swear by it, but Eclipse is inferior in compare to Android Studio, I don't think anyone would fiercely insist on sticking to it, 2. both these IDEs are closely integrated with different build systems.

But, say, in PHP? You can (or should be able to) freely switch between PhpStorm, NetBeans, Eclipse or even a regular text editor without affecting other team members as far as code itself is concerned.

To put it that way - personally I wouldn't like to work in an environment where it's prohibited :) That's just fascist, man...
Amazing but I'm a little bit frustrated at the username he chose. 'PresidentObama'. One day he will no longer be president and then maybe he will understand the difference between identity and value.
In Lush a similar construct is called INCR. See its documentation. INCF in Common Lisp might be more general, since it supports a concept called place.
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Short answer : no.

Long answer : I would want to talk to a real vet that have a physical clinic where I can go with my pet if the need arise and not and Indian telemarketer that is reading her prompt and can't do anything for me if my pet need surgery.
I'd like to point out there are magical errors put in to keep Perl6 code relatively sane too:

> .map: ** * * * **
===SORRY!=== Error while compiling <unknown file>
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It also involves offsetting the pointer with the beginning of the mmapped area. And this gets really cumbersome if you have to do it for every pointer dereference. Basically all standard libraries are immediately unusable if the language does not provide support for this operation.

For example, try storing a C++ std::map inside an mmapped file. Practically not possible AFAIK.
Sometimes I really don't get why stuff get upvoted and frontpaged on HN.
I think US Presidents keep their title.
If I remember currectly, the Fthip dropships used a similar (but cleaner) pulse technology. They even claimed to have taught us the trick...
You're right. As a wealthy person with technical knowledge, nothing is stopping me from doing this.

I'm not entirely sure what your point is.
> Ah, the stories where arrogant, condescending "top of the Field" scientists get proven totally and utterly wrong. Wonderful and a good lesson in humility.

Max Planck is reported to have said:

Science advances one funeral at a time.
Would be fun to try to compare this with a decent GC and see what the difference is likely to be. The reason why I say this is because Javas default GC pre-allocates a heap (a Java allocation is mostly just bumping a pointer), and since it "frees" memory by copying survivors to a new space you also avoid fragmentation.

If it turns out that what you mostly pay for, when using a GC, is that collection happens at one point in time instead of incrementally, then Go's plan for the evolution of their GC just became a lot more interesting.
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I believe you do not lose that title after you step down. Bill Clinton is still referred to as President Clinton. And its not just for Presidents either, same holds true with other posts. Mitt Romney was Governor of Massachusetts from 2002 to 2006 but he was still referred to as Governor Romney during the 2012 Presidential election.
I read somewhere that president is the one job where that is not supposed to happen, I.E. you revert to your previous title (for Obama Senator). I have never observed this to happen in real life.
> yet they are unwilling to pay for content

Hold it right there. The problem is that there is usually no way to pay. There is currently no way to automatically reimburse website owners when you just read a blogpost from them without going through the trouble of finding a donate button or emailing them for their paypal.

I do use ad blockers and I donate whenever I find something useful. I pirate books and music and I want to pay when I like it.

> don't use those websites

That's not always as easy as it sounds. I've tried DuckDuckGo for weeks but I just can't get the same results, so I'm back to Google now. I'd love to pay google, but I can't and they keep serving me ads.

Now Google is a pretty extreme example with all the data gathering, but you're almost forced to use some websites because it's a social norm (without Facebook, I'd miss a lot of events and messages from the school group). And you can't exactly decide whether ads on the page will be annoying before clicking on a link from Hacker News.

> ad blockers help the companies that are showing distasteful ads, just like how piracy helped companies like Microsoft

That is actually a good point, I hadn't thought of that before. Then again, I hardly use Microsoft products (just skype, but I could switch over to mumble any minute), but I see what you mean.
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