skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm just saying that every megaproject I've ever seen costs some small amount on paper, then the second ground is broken, we start seeing huge cost overruns that make the original number look tiny. 10 billion for a tunnel under the Bering Strait. Suuuure....
I learned more from this about digital/analogue conversion than from my EE class that covered this topic!
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Are you also a fan of non-oversampling DACs?
When I was drinking coffee, I would usually brew through a K-cup twice in a row to get a larger cup of coffee. My v1.0 machine makes me open the lid and close it again to brew the second time. I guess that method would not work with your idea. That would anger me even more than this DRM already would.
Perl has always had something called "context" :)
I'm almost certain that's a bot.

See https://github.com/sunlightlabs/us-laws/issues/135
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This blog chronicles the author's journey from Vienna to Pyongyang, all by train: http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/

It's pretty interesting, especially how he got to spend 36 hours in North Korea without a guide.
Only if laws were redacted in org-mode.
If you are a traditional SQL kinda person adequate record from tender love seems to offer some performance increases. There seem to be lots of effort to make some of the larger key pieces of rails faster.

I would't expect rails on it's own to get dramatically faster. The way it is going to get way faster is to strip out a lot of why to use rails and get closer to what we get from a pure rack app. The flip side is we lose a lot less off the top line speed see in benchmarking.

Using things like Russian doll caching and turbo links can make apps seem faster.

With some patience jruby and the right server setup rails can get a pretty big performance boost. For long running processes like web servers jruby can be a pretty big win for the ruby ecosystem.

There is some very thorough benchmarking done by Brian Knapp comparing different ruby runtime/server/framework combinations you can see here http://www.madebymarket.com/blog/dev/ruby-web-benchmark-repo...
Perhaps your engineering team favors the workflow of a particular PHP framework.

Perhaps you've estimated that for a particular project, it might be worthwhile to leverage the talent and effort that's been poured into HHVM.

Perhaps you've had continued success solving a certain type of problem with a particular PHP library or tool.

Perhaps you are constrained by regional availability.

Perhaps you're interested in building a product or tool that you intend for your customers to deploy themselves and you want to provide them with the simplest path to accomplish that goal.

Perhaps you're building a complex SPA or an otherwise JS heavy application that only requires a simple back-end, and you want to focus your big bucks on attracting quality JS engineers while choosing cheaper PHP engineers for the relatively simple CRUD API component.
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> Sad that the issue was closed with a 3 paragraph long diatribe laced with venom

It's a snarky bug report. It's like asking the Linux kernel to adhere to Microsoft' standards. Except in this case it would be a start-up with vaporware. I hope CoreOS makes rocket into something awesome, but it pretty arrogant to assume the huge project would start following a standard of a 3 day old project.
that is, if the person only uses disposable K-cups. this wouldn't apply to anyone using it to brew their own coffee without trashing a plastic cup every time.
A market (as far as economics or competition law goes) is demarcated by whether the items within it are substitutes, not by their intrinsic nature or subject.

Examples:

- Aluminium foil and cling film are both in the market for flexible food wrapping materials

- Aluminium foil and aluminium rulers are _not_ in the same market, as they are not substitutes (alternatives)

In cases where it's not clear whether two items are in the same market (e.g. tea bags and instant coffee powder could be considered substitutes) competition regulators will use historical price data to estimate the XED (cross-elasticity of demand) between two products. If XED is high (e.g. a reduction in the price of tea bags significantly reduces demand for instant coffee powder) then the two goods are substitutes, and are deemed to be in the same market.

Now, apply this to your coffee pod/machine and pen/ink examples.
Maybe more effectively. I really don't do phone calls that often, and my cellphone is not always close by.
It's not even linkbait because it's overly connected to cell phones.

It's linkbait b/c it's not as certain as the title says.

TFA says, emphasis mine:

features like pitch, loudness, and tempo that may predict a mood swing in the near future, before any recognizable change in mood emerges. For example, a single feature, like loudness, may flag a person on the path to mania or depression once it crosses some threshold. Or telltale signs could come from a combination of these features, or the way they change over a few days. The project was funded in 2013 by the National Institute of Mental Health, so it’s still in its early days. Though they don’t yet know what will make the best predictors,
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1) It's a decent one-shot coffee maker. 2) You can buy reusable cups[1].

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051SU0OW
Or knew about the Google paper demonstrating this?

http://googleresearch.blogspot.ca/2014/11/a-picture-is-worth...

Or the Toronto one?
http://deeplearning.cs.toronto.edu/i2t

Two institutions he is affiliated with.
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-10 minutes you spend on breaking the DRM
And it reveals a complete misunderstanding/misuse of GitHub Issues: the issue is filed after the law has been passed and signed into effect, so the issue is "opened" only after we would have closed the issue, and it appears that it will never get closed.
An option to increase text size in the interface is probably going to be even better than allowing zoom, since it will reflow the text and not require the user to scan left and right around the zoomed-in text.
This looks great. Any plans to include a scss or less version?
Also:

"Walking around with a 40-pound backpack has the opposite effect of carrying an extra 40 pounds of belly fat."

Actually walking around with a 40-pound backpack is a bad idea, as compared to carrying the weight at the level of your belly (all other things being equal) because the risk of back damage is much higher.
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To be honest that issue seemed like a troll due to the phrasing and, based on the reaction, a pretty successful one.
It's not intended to provide a medium of discussion (at least pre-vote) - it's intended to be a directory of laws. I would assume Issues is only used for IFTTT compatibility.
He needs to add a repo for his Hour of Code effort!
(http://www.wired.com/2014/12/obama-becomes-first-president-w...)
Instead of starting with each machine having the entire list of numbers, wouldn't it just be easier to read each number it encounters, store it and then check future numbers against the stored list? There are sooo many more numbers my machine will never see. Why keep them all stored in all machines? And if they are concerned about running out of numbers and repeating them, there could be a timestamp attached to each locally stored number and have them expire from the list after X months. The chances that a person would save a bunch of K-cup tops to use to bypass the DRM 6 months later is pretty slim.
I don't know about rest of you but at our company we went through a lot of pain dealing with CoreOS. If we had known sooner, I'd gladly have taken a minimal Ubuntu to run Docker over CoreOS. For one, requiring reboot to update is astrocious!
Because of these experiences, I just don't much faith in CoreOS guys (at least not yet), and the standard they are creating I think kills the best aspect of Docker, the freedom!

And regards to @shykes response, he was right on all points. Who in their right mind would adopt a supposed "Standard" written only 3 days ago? Doesn't matter who wrote it, it is just very unreasonable to accept a Standard without putting it through the test of time. This is a Standard, once in place you can't really change later, so aren't you glad that they didn't just jump on things?

Also, if you are in Docker's position, why would you want to risk limiting yourself to a single standard? Things change, fads change, people come up with better ideas, etc... No one knows. Some may want a much simpler spec (I for one), others may want something more thorough and detailed, etc. Just let the people decide the standard and let it run it's course, eventually the best will come out on top.
Is directory rename an operation that needs to be efficient though? Probably not.
Why use a coffee machine anyway? I never got the point of them. The coffee they make tastes bad anyway.

Just use a good old ibrik. It costs $3 to $10 depending on size and where you buy it from. The more expensive ones will probably cost $30?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2DyulKd6vw
why wouldn't you just take caffeine pills man
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Dithering is known to increase the perceived dynamic range of music. As an example try listening to a song in foobar in 8bit output mode then 8bit dithered.
He was with a rifle company, in mortar squad. The company was over-run during an attack, at night: Marines in fighting holes, bad guys running around in the open, a very chaotic situation.

To eradicate the enemy, and save his company, he pointed the tube of his mortar straight up, dropped a shit-load of rounds down the tube, one at a time. The rounds went up (pretty far, but I no longer recall how high up they go) and came back down all over the place.

Risky, but Marines, generally, were in their holes, the bad guy were not, and so were more exposed to blast and shrapnel.
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This company seems extremely scummy. You may remember them from the "let's ship women from NY to California to date tech dudes" crowdfunding campaign.

http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/05/shipped-to-california.html
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not really. headphones range a lot within the frequencies you DO hear.

also, the weight vs outside sound isolation ratio varies with price.

those are all observable and measurable things.

speakers, they also vary on those audible frequencies, but after you are past $150 per speaker you are only dealing with quality after very loud volumes.

over $3000 for a home system? just be honest with yourself and confess you are buying the prettiest furniture that match your decor.
And even more on this.

We citizens are abstracted from the process of making law now. There is no meaningful way through the hole to participate as it stands today.

The barrier of a pull request would be high, but it would be like water breaking over a dam. What we need is a punch through and then iterations and use to smooth the edges and make participation easier and available to an ever wider group.

We basically need what has happened with OSS to be what happens in government.

I'm worried about the barriers too, but I'm even more worried about today's impossibilities of meaningful participation not changing.
The reason astroturfing is "bad" is because it is beyond rational debate, look up the laws... they are about personal testimonials primarily. "I went to this car shop and they did an awesome job." "This one silly trick made me cancer free".

Compare that to this post, it isn't about the posters personal experience or testimonial, they claim none, it is objective points, not a personal testimonial about how "Uber saved my life 7 weeks ago..."

http://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-rel...

... so I stand by my initial point, when you CAN have a rational debate, DO have a rational debate. When you can't -- you are right to call astroturfing, no way to argue with how people feel or unsubstantiated personal claims.
And that is exactly why they should never even be allowed to handle something they don't understand.

Gosh, it's like a fundamental obvious thought: don't make decisions about something you don't understand.

How to solve this is another story.
long story short, transparent plastic containers tend to imbue their contents with a chemical called bisphenol-a (aka bpa), which is a compound similar to estrogen which may impact human physiology in a wide array of ways[0], or chemicals that are structurally related that aren't well studied but could be similarly damaging[1]. this applies to all transparent plastics and isn't specific to aeropresses

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A#Health_effects

[1] http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/03/tritan-certic...
I used an attorney, because I wanted to make sure we did everything we needed. But you don't need an attorney, you can do all the paperwork yourself. There are instructions on the government website on how to fill the firms out.
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I thought of a few troll-worthy comments, but then moved on to others. Few things came to me though later that are less abrasive so I guess I'll share these nicer sides of my opinion:

I don't know if it will be the same for perl6, but at least with perl5, backwards compatibility was rarely broken. Every time my debian-testing box upgraded a ruby version, it broke something. From 1.8,1.9,2.0, and I think 2.1 actually worked without any issues...

This is never an issue with perl5. And before you say "perl is dead it never changes", go look on the perl5porters mailing list. There are a ton of changes going on. I had every intent this year to join the dev team, but the commits come in so quick on that mailing list, I can never find a place to start. When perl5 updates to a new version (which has been happening once a year for like 5 years now), it is not just a few bugs that are fixed, but a whole lot of new features are added and plenty of new syntax to scare the heck out of anyone. So an argument of the ruby dev cycle is 'slower' probably won't hold up.

Onto more perl6 specifics, I think one of the original goals was perl6 being able to compile a script into a raw binary. Don't know if that feature will be implemented. Ruby can't do that, though it does have the JIT compile stuff. So I guess that could be one reason..

Perl6 is new, so I guess it is full of new "technology and stuff" right?

I personally never did much with ruby. I tried to use it as my first language to learn with. I signed up on some hacker forum wanting to learn to hack with my new found ruby skills... They just booted me with the message of "ruby aint really programming". This was back in 2007, but I never could get over that...

From then on I only used Ruby when I couldn't figure out how to do something in perl. So none of my ruby scripts have ever been seen by another pair of eyes. I keep them all hidden, knowing that they are cool and all in their own right, but knowing if I were just a little smarter... I could have written it in perl...
Which is what's so horrible about the law. The carrier lock prevents you from altering or swapping out the code that allows negotiation with other carriers. In this case the "security" is "protecting" code defined as content.

Make no mistake, DMCA is not about copyright or redistribution, even if that's what it says on the tin. It is about making it illegal to circumvent DRM, regardless of how or to what it is applied.
I'm not an expert in Go, Emacs or Lisp in general. I think I should have said Go has 2 levels, local (no prefixes) and imported (always prefixed). While the import lines are super long (usually a URL), the prefixes tend to be incredibly short because, by default, the name is the last segment of the fully qualified name. From what I gathered here, are the Emacs prefixes only a convention and have to worry about conflicting with the rest of the world? I think it's the short names and the required prefix (to avoid function name conflicts) that set the Go way apart. Like I said, I'm no expert, but when I saw how Go did it I thought it was a very good balance between all the tradeoffs that have to be considered for namespaceing.
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I'm not sure how much I agree with what you're saying, but I don't think you should be downvoted for it, so I gave you an upvote.
Than why did you qualify it with "only"?
Efficiency is important if the operation needs to be atomic though. POSIX for example requires rename to be an atomic operation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rename_(computing)
Also, have the entire thing versioned/archived into the Internet Archive.
Agreed. Solution, get a popcorn popper and head over to sweetmaria's: http://www.sweetmarias.com/store/instructions.html
Ask HN: Are companies open to a 4-day work week?
I've been experimenting with a 4-day work week at my current employment. I'm curious if any other employers are open to that kind of arrangement.
Agree, nut punching not required for re-usable cups. I have yet to see someone actually use them, though, and I've seen a lot of Keurig machines.
Strangely, I heard somewhere recently that french press coffee has toxins in it that would normally be filtered out by the paper filter...
I think one of the problems reading the critique is that her points are buried in too much ranting and wild exaggerations, so it's off-putting.

The approach is good for politicking (soundbites and getting the choir feverish) but it takes from presenting reasonable ideas for regular people to consider and process and say, yeah, that makes sense, or no, that's not quite the way i see it.

That said, one approach garners thought conversation, the other garners lots more clicks.
It requires voting. and being informed. voting for publicly funded limited campaigns. and being active in the courts
I think you're on the right track, but it's a bit more complicated than just 'moving to github'.

For example, majority voting isn't always the best solution to every problem. Should court cases be decided like a reddit link where most people don't read the content, or the highest comment is a stupid pun?

I have no doubt that our institutions need to be updated and/or replaced, but it will likely have to be done piecemeal to minimize negative disruptions.

There are a lot of (technical) problems that will need to be solved to support such a system.

Don't forget that you'll need to convince everyone else in the country to switch to the new system.
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If you visit /r/videos right now (05:20 UTC), the custom subreddit style has been changed such that clicking anywhere directs a user to a Twitch channel (http://www.twitch.tv/alisha12287).

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yes, I don't need its decoding capability and I don't think its syntax is pretty but if I ever decide to write my own library I'll probably wrap xed in some C++ sugar.
Dude... it's really weird to quote varius tiny details of the natural world as proofs of the existence of a god. At what point is the particular system under observation dull enough for someone to believe that it would not have needed an 'outside' designer?

Because, the amazingly crazy details are present at every tiny bit of matter, alive or not. We don't know how to make life? Yeah, well, we don't know how to make energy either (we just transform it). And organization? Every friggin atom is apparently composed of the same kind of elementary particles that know how to behave with other particular kinds of particles when they interact with them exactly by the same rules.

Matter is not a chaotic soup. It's a dance by very specific rules.

The whole universe is rigged for organization. Why? I surely don't know.

I believe in the universe being awesome. It probably gives me same vibes as the belief in God gives others. I suggest we leave it at that.

But as mind blowing details of the natural world go:

Self similarity is a mathematical artifact of nature and you can observe this in "simple" matter. A one of the most striking examples of this is the von Karman vortex pattern that can be observed at any scale when there is a small obstruction in a 'flat' flow.

If you google 'von karman vortex' the image results will mostly display images of cloud vortices. However, the same pattern can be observed for instance around rocks in streams (even really tiny rocks in really tiny streams).
Unless your 'bros' give you a push :-)
This makes no sense to me. Please explain. The difference between 24 and 16 is 8, not 4 for one.

Are you saying the "16-bit" sample files actually had noise added to the least significant 4 (8?) bits? This is not dithering. Dithering is adding noise BEFORE truncation. A dithered 16 bit rendering of 24 bit audio will only be 16 bit. An undithered 16 bit rendering of 24 bit audio will also only be 16 bit.
The Aeropress has been BPA free for years now.

http://www.aeropress.ca/faq/
Yeah, let's please not automate the cops, or anything with a weapon.
I look at their source.

The ones I actually tried appear to have only been implemented as far as required to crack the author's own archives, then were posted as-is.

I'll have a look at ocl-hashcat, I had not heard of that one.

On my macbook pro, I have a core quad xeon, which has hyperthreading, so sorta kind 8 CPUs, and two GPUs. I don't recall whether one is amd or if they're both nvidia. I do know that apple made some macs that had both vendors' gpus.
Git blame, for starters.
Niven & Pournelle's Footfall also had an Orion-type ship. It was a desperation tactic on the part of the overmatched Earthlings, but it worked.
A full answer will look like a book.

The short answer, is that the comparison isn't fair to either communities. Perl 6 has many killer features. Concurrency, Macros, Grammars, Regex goodness, functional programming features, OO features, Strong typing support, user defined operators, multiple VM backends, Continuations to name a few. But there are many many others.

Perhaps the most killer feature of Perl 6 is like lisp, you can use the language to grow itself without breaking backwards compatibility. This alone will ensure that the community can grow without worrying about breakage, regression and backwards compatibility.

Read more here: http://perlcabal.org/syn/

Ruby and Perl 5 definitely have more libraries, users and a far more mature ecosystem of things. But I guess the sheer awesomeness of Perl 6 will attract a lot of developers and that will have a healthy community of its own.

In short I think there are plenty of reason why one would chose Perl 6 above Ruby.
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As much as I loathe the immorality and idiocy of these programs, there is no reason to lose all historical perspective.

> This stuff would make Gestapo, KGB and Stasi proud.

A big difference is that those groups tortured and killed many of their own subjects for their political dissidence. In this case, the CIA tortured (albeit counterproductively) to protect its citizens, and there was a free press to uncover and help stop these programs for the most part.
Ask HN: What non-profits might the HN crowd be interested in?
A lot of people are starting to make their year end donations. I thought it'd be interesting to hear what non-profits and charities exist that might be of particular interest and relevance to the HN crowd.

The ones that immediately come to mind are Watsi (YC) and Wikipedia.
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I'll probably get downvoted but fuck it - I use disposable plastic K-cups every day, and I do it with gusto. Some days I use styrofoam cups, but most days I use my mug.