skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My bro points out I did not mention a single flaw/example. (I am busy enough as it is)

Besides things already mentioned by others, talking about dead regions, upwards spread of masking perhaps temporal scatter and tuning curves would have made it a lot more juicy.

One flaw: time and volume are NOT self explanatory. Think about recruitment and such.
Another flaw: multi-band compression is not doing what is suggested by the picture of the bear where the bicycle is missing. This visual example fits much better to a person with a dead region for whom frequency compression is applied. And this is not a one-size-fits-all method. Different techniques are available for this particular phenomenon (as there is frequency shifting as well).

Anyway... let's mention a positive side. I appreciate the attempt of communicating on the topic and it was a good try to make things clearer for some. Better luck next time.

Happy bro?
> Bing is currently more literal-minded than Google. Google is using too much popularity-based machine learning to "correct" what you're searching for. It's become difficult on Google to search for a non-popular thing that happens to be close to a popular search target. Google does not treat quote marks as a mandatory exact match any more, just a hint.

One of the biggest things that irks me now about Google. Sometimes I want to search just for the word, "sofa" I don't need you to match it with "relevant" other words like "couch"
Google does not treat quote marks as a mandatory exact match any more, just a hint.

Unless you use the "Verbatim" option. Shame it can't be enabled by default, though.
Installation can be tricky and very much depends on the OS you're installing on.

The people on the very low volume mailinglist are usually very friendly and helpful.

Anyone who is interrested should definitely subscribe and ask for help there.
Doing "One thing well" can be defined in several things depending on what you consider of utmost importance for wellness.

I think that function does what it's supposed to "well" in the sense that 1. it works, 2. the code is clean and obvious and 3. it doesn't try to be clever and do "complex" things which can introduce bugs.

I'm guessing from your complaint that you think it doesn't do things "well" because you prefer code to computationally efficient over conceptually and declaratively clear?

You can argue that "But for -this- little thing I can afford to be a clever and throw the obvious-looking code out the window!", but then everyone else also gets to do the same judgement too.

And then suddenly you're all using "clever" code all over the place with new ingenious ways to break everywhere in your code-base. And just like clockwork, your application will start breaking and nobody will know why without spending hours, days or even weeks debugging.

Let's say I generally don't think computationally efficient code is worth that cost. I'll make exceptions for specific code-portions which needs to be fast, but for my bread and butter code? Make it plain and simple!
> Google is using too much popularity-based machine learning to "correct" what you're searching for. It's become difficult on Google to search for a non-popular thing that happens to be close to a popular search target.

This has been getting me lots lately. It used to be 1 attempt, maybe 2, to find what I'm after.. lately I find myself regularly needing to try >4 different searches before getting what I'm after. I've consciously noticed that Google seems to have lost the whole thing that made them so great in the first place.
I had two lines displayed after I diffed. I could read the answer from there.
Google pays Apple to be the default search provider.
Google scaled buys (e.g. toolbars/default searches) back massively while Yahoo bought up that traffic.
In case you're asking for an order of magnitude, the last vessel presented on HN talked about 10 levels of containers outside and 11 inside.

I recommend at least looking at the pictures. And they're building 20 of those ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8476222

http://alastairphilipwiper.com/blog/building-largest-ship-wo...
>> The only reason to search with Yahoo is if you want their in-house content.

I live in China, and recently switched from Google (blocked) to Yahoo Japan (not blocked, but Google has a majority share in them meaning it uses Google in the back).
Yahoo Japan is the only Google way to access Google that is not blocked in China.
> What makes you think that a sign of a rescue mission means that you should try to escape?

From the article:

> Because the FARC shoots hostages dead at the first sight of a military invasion, Espejo had to convey to the captives to be ready to escape.

Bad buys at movies don't kill all hostages as soon as a cop shows up outside...
I wish the FCC could subpoena financial records and to see the price consumers pay for Wi-Fi and the total revenue Wi-Fi sales made for Marriott. I would be willing to bet those numbers would make it harder for Marriott to argue this is anything other than an attempt to gouge captive consumers.
It looks like it's distributed under a CC-BY-SA licence. OSM actually changed from CC-BY-SA licence to ODbL because it didn't look like that CC licence is suitable for geo databases like OSM ( read more: http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/We_Are_Changing_Th... ).

It would have to be relicenced (which I presume would not be a problem since ODbL is spiritually very similar to CC-BY-SA). But as maxerikson mentions it's not clear that it should be in OSM
Link for the lazy: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/isnt-petition-resp...
Is that somewhere near the official price tag, or just some number determined by some bot?
Anti-Piracy Firm 'Caught' Pirating News Articles
How can yahoo Japan possibly be majority Google owned? It was a joint venture by SoftBank and yahoo inc.
That's a half a billion dollars more transactions that will be on stripe instead of Amazon payments next year.
The absolute worst the OSM licence would require would be to allow people to download and distribute your dataset under ODbL. You are not required to enter it into the OSM database. At an absolute worst, you can maintain, and fully control the data, in this (ODbL licenced) dataset, without any worry of anyone changing it.
It's odd that Firefox isn't more popular on mobile, the competition lacks extension support so it should have a bigger edge.
Sorry, but in this particular case I think even javascript would be more readable than this particular DSL in this particular example.
If you draw polygons based on what you see on Google Maps (or any other copyrighted map), your polygons might be found to be a derived work of the original Google Map.

Otherwise, you could just trace all the roads on Google Maps to make your own $BLAH Maps, that's obviously not legal.
I don't see a reason to search twice if I already know a key word I am searching for.

If Google returns a "popular" result, I usually add a second keyword to specifying the domain which usually returns the correct result.
> Me : I think it should mean, you might be the next to be rescued.

You are entirely right. The original message is in spanish, where "you" (singular) is different than "you" (plural). The form used in the message is the plural one. Now it's clear that your interpretation is the correct one ;)
How Reddit Created Dialogue Between Scientists and the Public
By suppressing the "shouldn't we stop Google's monopoly" suggestions in senate or whatever other ways USA uses for governing itself.
The real answer: "Let's be honest here, we don't really know. Some hard work, some luck, alignment of stars, go figure... I mean, Flappy Bird, right?"
Bing won't go away. Search is more than 'searching for a term in a browser', it can and should be integrated deeply into the OS (well, at least a consumer OS) and other software products. Bing will be -- and to some extent, is -- the basis of information lookup in Microsoft products. A first, simple example of this is the 'Insights' menu in Office Online (see http://blogs.office.com/2014/12/10/whats-new-office-online/). Microsoft cannot possibly risk relying on Google in these cases as Google could break the functionality of core Microsoft products in a second.
Yeah, and maybe i was a bit nice. Could just as well have put them down as 1/4 i guess.
I agree. I think that for PHP a huge win would be a big API refactoring, which could be not a big deal, with the right aliasing and deprecation management.
Would it work as a home server ? Uncompressing rar set, downloading from newsgroups etc?
Currently I just use the in-built Firefox bookmarking features. I put everything I bookmark in the bookmark toolbar either directly or in a folder. For sites I use commonly I add the bookmark directly but delete the name so only the favicon shows (to save space). I then use folders for everything else.
Here's a presentation about the Lively Kernel that Dan Ingalls gave at YOW a few years ago...

https://yow.eventer.com/yow-2011-1004/the-live-web-by-dan-in...
The importance of mobile marketshare is overblown. People aren't searching for things to buy on their mobile phones, the searches themselves being very superficial, the attention span being lower. As a result conversion rates and CPC is much lower on mobile.

I also believe that this post-PC era has been nothing but bullshit. Yes, PC sales have been declining, but that's only because people stopped feeling the need to upgrade. And yes, mobile phones are here to stay, with their numbers rising and their utility growing, but if you take a look at tablets, lo and behold, sales are declining and the ones already bought are probably gathering dust.

Most importantly is that Google's Android does not own 87% of the mobile market. If Apple would switch to an alternative as the default, that would be a big blow to Google. And if this move by Mozilla ends up working out without Firefox losing market share, that might end up encouraging Apple to do so.
Can drones be the future of police security?
After what happened at Charlie Hebdo(Paris)I was wondering if AI drones' radars can detect weapons in cars and stop this kind of terror by attacking the terrorist? In Europe wearing a weapon in the street is illegal.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS IDEA?
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What makes you think they don't? They just do it manually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_writing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_fiction
what do you diff it with?
I have been using ddg for a good amount of time now and every day I have to use !g to search on Google because the results are too literal. I like the privacy stand that they are taking but it's not close to the search relevancy for a lot of queries.
Significant sound quality differences between digital music storage technologies
A better way around this problem: Go Sprint and get unlimited (to an extent) data ;)
Is Anti-pattern obsession an anti-pattern? Does making lists like this solve any problems in a verifiable way, or is it just The Talker hard at work?

It's great to put people into boxes and clean up by saying "these boxes aren't real; we're all a little bit of each", but what is the effectiveness of doing that? We give people little stories about these unsavory archetypes (and their brains love it,) but if the moral of the story is not to fall in love with archetypal simplifications... it just sounds very hypocritical to me. "Don't be like The Talker: he's a Capricorn, and we all know how dumb Capricorns are: they tend to believe in astrology." Maybe we should add The Listmaker to the end of that list...

Pardon my rant. I get tired of seeing the word 'anti-pattern' bandied about like it's the hottest new thing. Stupidity has many names, but it was never really cool. Maybe we should be jumping on solutions instead of band wagons?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/technology/28yahoo.html
@10:08

on the right merc sls classified as SUV

on the left one SUV classified as two VANs

Their algorithm works at about 1Hz rate when doing signs. This is ~state of the art from 20 years ago, but running on small mobile SoC at a slow rate.
just realised I need to diff with origin/bug. Finished the game now :)
Daily Stand-Up Meetings Are a Good Tool for a Bad Manager
Don't find anything about that in the docs for Gnu ping...
"New Machine Can See Bones, Organs in Stunning Detail"

I call it a big knife. (b'dom ksh)
Try verbatim mode, available under Search Tools -> All Results -> Verbatim or by adding &tbs=li:1 to the URL.
"but the quantity was too much for her"

What is the real quantity? All I could find is a photo of two empty envelopes from a distance and a single nicely done box of candies (what does it have to do with envelopes?).
Can you list those other services, please?
Sorry, but I did not knew that amazon had an url shortener, thank you!
> From the article

Yes, you read the article. But the hostages didn't!

All the hostage heard is "19 people rescued. You are next. Don’t lose hope". How does a hostage conclude "you should try to escape" from the preceding message?
Are extensions really useful for mobile browsers?
Most things I use extensions for have their own apps (chromecast, hangouts, email)
Young Alan Turing and the Arctangent
My wife is an audiologist, and she and her colleagues found this excellent. One suggestion if I may (actually that my wife made), is that where you have the soundcloud files demonstrating MBC, you add one demonstrating what a person with hearing loss would hear, before the one with the MBC.

That way a person can judge the improvement that MBC gives to a person with hearing loss, instead of just judging the reduction of quality to that of a person with perfect hearing.

But again, excellent article!
An Open Source AWS Leader Election Library Built in Akka
Collecting all (API/language) cheat sheets
Bing is the default Spotlight and Safari search in Yosemite. I can find no way of changing it back to Google for Spotlight, which is incredibly irritating as I find the Bing results useless.
> I understand this is just a funny page with some metrics, but seriously calling people who added most LOC the most “productive” developers is somewhat disingenious.

@bottom you can see the real productivity:

lines added 1192696
lines deleted 3484520
files added 2653
files deleted 9995

As Ken Thompson said: "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." :)

So it's been a really productive year.

(edit: updated to fix codeblock :) )
With regard to cross-platform compatibility, it's worth knowing some of the basic differences between GNU sed and BSD sed. I like the GNU extensions -- particularly the extensions to regular expression such as non-printing characters (e.g. `\t`) and character classes such as `\w` and `\b`. I almost always use the GNU `-i, --in-place` option once I'm satisfied that my sed commands do what I want. A couple of years ago, I was using my other half's Mac (OS X 10.4 with a very old version of BSD sed) and I really missed the GNU extensions.

When you say you store common idioms in your Bash profile, do you mean storing the commands as Bash aliases or functions? I have similar issues with remembering syntax and building sed commands and I've been trying to do something similar to avoid spending time building a complex command from scratch when I already created a similar one some time previously.
Thes 3d scans are very pretty when visualized in an oculus rift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWGBRsV9omw
If I'm importing a module for is-upper-case, it had better be for a reason: that someone actually did something significant on that problem and I don't want to reinvent their work.

The module in question is nothing but a #define macro. Javascript lacks a preprocessor and this community's response is apparently to outsource #define macro's to a centralized server.

>And just like clockwork, your application will start breaking

The alternative is that just like clockwork, your application grinds to a crawl and practically freezes the browser. Because you outsourced every last thing to someone who doesn't care about performance. Sure, it's fine for the static-html-page-that-you're-doing-in-node-for-some-inexplicable-reason. Just hope you know what you're doing when you do something more complicated.
There are few adapted examples - http://echarts.datamatic.io/
The pretty pictures in the article can be rendered in real time using GPUs. Unless the pictures here use techniques that I haven't heard about, it is done by treating the voxels as a semi-transparent cloud of different-colored materials and using a fragment/pixel shader to simulate rays of light projected through this volume. It's pretty straightforward; the volume data is stored in a 3D texture and each ray of light is simulated using one "pixel" of the fragment shader.

This is enhanced by assigning more weight to the voxels that are in a boundary region between tissues of different density (you see this effect in the pictures of lungs, kidneys etc; the organ is transparent but the edges are visible) and applying a shading model to these boundary regions to improve perception of their spatial orientation.

Different organs can be pre-selected by marking their constituent voxels, and different models/colors/shading applied to each organ. This process can also sometimes be automated, if you have the luxury of a table that correlates voxel intensity (x-ray absorption value) with tissue type (bone, muscle, air, etc).
DDG uses yandex a lot, not bing.
Is tablet market share really decreasing? For casual users (like my mum) she has bought an iPad and no longer even turns on her PC/laptop, let alone thinks about getting another one.

I thought this was the case with most "casual" PC users who only used it for email and Internet shopping. My wife fits this category, who will never use my laptop, ever. She even does basic spreadsheeting activities on the iPad with Google Sheets.

Are tablets really sat around gathering dust?
Will you pay for this service?
For the HappinessApps challenge, me and my friend developed a web based app (mobile friendly) for capturing the employee happiness surveys after every team meetings (daily/weekly or monthly).

The app is available at www.happymeet.cc

We developed this as an MVP and wanted to hear from the community. Give us a try and share your feedback.

Do you think this is worth as a paid service ?
Evernote. Makes Everything searchable with an highlight option.
link: http://www.happymeet.cc
They do, but it is a feature in Word and therefore not part of the Dropbox game ;)
Tobii and SteelSeries Release Consumer Eye Tracker
Yeah, maybe we can have a government subsidised search engine, powered by the same people that did healthcare.gov right?

I don't think there's any monopoly to be broken in search, it's just that the competitors aren't up to that level.

(In other areas I might agree)
Welcome to the git-game
Tobii made the EyeX Dev Kit available for 95 USD at http://www.tobii.com/en/eye-experience/buy/
It's not the legalities that's the real problem, it's the complacency that results from being the only game in town, and the ensuing attraction of employees who want a cushy gig with no real competition and exodus of employees who want to be challenged and pushed forwards.
What about the differentiation function here[1]?

[1] https://gist.github.com/divs1210/b4fcbd48d7697dfd8850#file-m...
Work on an opensource project! There are tons available on GitHub, some with really basic stuff. It will look great on your CV, you'll learn a lot from other devs, and it's good for the open source software movement (i.e. everyone!).

We're always looking for contributors, you can check out what we're doing here - https://github.com/Warewolf-ESB/Warewolf-ESB
In Asia there are tons of places with free Wi-Fi, even where there the tap water is not potable. At a bus stop in the middle of nowhere in South Korea. At a roadside cafe in Malaysia. At a cheaper-than-cheap hotel in Indonesia. Even some airports!

There are no "portals," no "user agreements," just beautiful open Wi-Fi scattered all over the place. It's hard to imagine spending even $5 at any place that wouldn't offer you internet access, much less the $150+ that Marriott charges its "guests."

Sooner or later all this unnecessary friction (sorry, "added value") is bound to catch up.
Considering Microsoft's efforts on Cortana and AI in general, I don't see them closing Bing.
For a while, I had the problem that I got feedback depending on the temperature: Going out into the winter cold was enough to change the shape of the hearing aid versus my ear so that the fit was not tight enough anymore.

What I mean to say is that hearing aids are a piece of technology that it tuned (pimped?) so much that there is very little buffer.

Today, my new hearing aids detect feedback and compensate, but of course that will eliminate sounds I need to hear, as well.
Polymer Web Components with Marionette.js
No, we are Not all Charlie (and that’s a problem)
> Did you read the last two paragraphs?

Probably. I mean I skimmed the article, didn't read it very carefully.

> That sounds pretty language specific to me.

I failed to express myself properly: sure TFA is Clojure-specific, it talks about Clojure implementation of X after all.

My point is that it's 'X' that's important here, much more important than 'Clojure' part.

'X' here is "directness and liveness", which are extremely powerful ideas, first described in seventies, then implemented many times by many different people in many different languages and environments. Probably the most well-known implementation is called "Morphic" and comes from Self ('95, by the way: http://web.media.mit.edu/~jmaloney/papers/DirectnessAndLiven...), but there are others.

It's really a good thing that one of the most powerful ideas in GUI programming finally is getting some traction. It took it only forty years. It's unfortunate that it's coming to Clojure: it would be better for it to come to JS with node-webkit or something similar; that way much more people would have a chance to see and work with such a system.

So, in short, in this discussion my perspective is idea-centric instead of language-centric, which is why I don't consider the "Clojure" part important.
Cached link: https://archive.today/odiwW
Hang on, are you saying that an online search engine should be responsible for indexing all a user's information?
That's very good reasoning. If a person with visual impairment walks around with a white stick, it's obvious and people normally cater for their needs. It shouldn't be any different with hearing.

What a good point.

I have an elderly friend who has suffered complete hearing loss in one ear after an infection and the other ear can only detect very very low frequencies, and he's constantly saying "PARDON?". It must be very difficult to hear ANYTHING going on, other than the rumble of lorries and buses. I wonder if they could put a pitch-shifting circuit in his hearing aid to shift sounds up/down so that they fall within his hearing range, whilst not shifting frequencies already in that range. That would help significantly, surely?

Just thinking out loud.
Interview about what is a browser
I dont think we'll ever get rid of laptops and desktops. I think they'll just evolve and keep with technology and lifestyle demands.
Really? Who from? That's terrible.
You named your DSL the same thing as an industry standard animation tool known and used the world over.

Do you want to be completely ungooglable?
baby talks with cat on iPad – enjoy and Please share it
Apply, Filter, Reduce Package by Rob Pike (Golang)
I understand the sentiment, but Git is hardly meant to be a simple tool that anybody can pick up and use without any prior experience. I don't use Git just to version and share my code -- I'd use Dropbox if that were the case. No, I use Git because I want to perform complex operations on a directed acyclic graph which represents the history and structure of my project. I use it because it can be interacted with in a programmatic way, and extended to meet my needs. Git is supposed to be complicated, and you do need "Git skills" to use it properly.