skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It was designed to be a manned spacecraft that never put a man in space, by any reasonable logic it was a failed attempt.

It was 1st and foremost designed to compete with the shuttle politically. It was a "we could do it too" project. And at that time it did some things even better -- it accomplished the first space shuttle fully automated landing.

> by any reasonable logic it was a failed attempt.

What does that say about the Shuttle program then? Even a backward bureaucratic and crusty old Soviet system realized it did not make sense to develop it further. It was too wasteful. Yet NASA continued on for years sinking billions into it finally to scrap it.

> By the 70s the Soviet program was in tatters and a joke and by the 80s the Shuttle did incredible things that the capsule based approach simple couldn't do (repairing hubble, etc).

But it also killed 2 full shuttle crews and eventually got scrapped. Yet guess what is still flying humans into Space? Yap, the crusty old 70's Soviet machines. How's that for irony.

> The Russiophilia around here is pretty high and unfairly so

I see so, you do have an agenda. Who said it was Russiophillia. I didn't hear anyone praising the Soviet government. I read about awesome large cargo planes and space shuttles with automated landing system. You don't agree with some point and all of the sudden it is because the other side has some "-phillia"

> 70s and 80s failures and pathetic attempts at cloning western successes like the Concorde or the Shuttle.

Wait, you do know this is 2015, right? If this was 1999, you could still be calling both of those projects successes. You do know they both got scrapped...

> I'd rather live in a world where the Shuttle, Apollo missions, robotic missions, and Hubble were real and did amazing things,

So you are living in a fantasy world. Because except the Hubble, all those programs have ended and you are living in the world where space technology built by "single party stoogies" is taking humans in into space.

> Its a shame it gets hand wringing and criticism from geeks while the largely dysfunctional later-day Soviet program gets all accolades and excuses.

Because they are living in the real world and you are living in a fantasy world powered by retro futuristic dreams.
We have a selection of other sounds too. What about birds and water stream? :)
To your first point, I'm not sure why that is an unworthy cause.

To the second, when many perceive critical assessment of imperfection (let alone mishandling of a project) as meaning that the critic must be "asshole" then it is not the critic who should be examined, but the community unwilling to look honestly at itself.
Is this open source?

Also, it would be nice if one could use a commitid (SHA1) instead of a tag. Supporting "commit-ish"'es would also make "master~3" work.
there are a couple guys at work who are into these types of background noise settings.. but they kept getting upset at what they found because after a while you can clearly tell the cutoff point. you'd hear a quarter drop at some point, then know exactly when it was coming later, and your mind would start focusing on that, and that defeats the point of the thing.

if you could make a mix of coffee shop sounds and then randomize them in a way that feels natural, that would be a hit ;)
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>RadioShack could have decided to turn themselves into a DigiKey or a SparkFun

They could have. I'm very unconvinced that strategy would have supported anything like the thousands of stores they currently have. After all, if there were an unmet mainstream need for that type of hobbyist store in every random shopping mall, I expect someone would have tried it.
arca_vorago,

It's not so much that Apple won't allow it as Apple's terms and GPLv3's requirements are incompatible with each other, and neither Apple nor the FSF is willing to budge.

I'd suggest looking into the VLC debacle. VLC used to be in the App Store, and some VLC developers threatened to sue because Apple was distributing VLC in violation of the GPL.
Thanks for the feedback! If you have iOS we also have an app :) https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/noisli/id862773459?mt=8
Goodbye Nim, and Good Luck
I saw this blow up on twitter over the weekend, but I don't understand how this is different then what Siri does (my understanding is that it gets sent to Apple's servers for processing your speech)... at least Samsung is being up-front about it.
It's also how we denote the people of a certain region in Colombia. I don't think it's related though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisa_Region
Retrocomputing: Proposed Q&A site for enthusiast users of vintage computers
Larger multicopters are free to use alternative control methods. The method used in toy multicopters is both inexpensive and cheap yet other options do exist.
Goodbye Amazon Echo, Hello Kickborn
"is even prepared to rank "there is no good answer" as a good result"

Try an experiment, look at this this:

No results found for "cow thiophenol romanesque establishment".

The search result without the quotes seems to just be noise, any random page about cows or romanesque architecture or thiophenols.
How to present your work
No actually I don't. Haven't been to one in years. Thanks for the tip.
Without knowing the specific data item collected, browser sizes can vary given constant screen resolution.

Just a few guesses off the top of my head:
Font size for the window title-bar, for the bookmark bar, for the tabs. Browser toolbars, whether or not title bar exists, whether or not bookmark bar is enabled. Whether or not window title-bar is enabled.

Status bar, task bar (could be at the side). Two windows stacked vertically on a portrait monitor.

And so forth.
How to make your first date a success
What a great article. My son was diagnosed when he was 2, now he's 10. He doesn't talk, but he can read, do simple math, write a little. There is a lot in common with his behavior and Scooter's - outbreaks of aggression, biting, hitting. It's extremely difficult to expose him to the external world. There is a lot of great support from our school district though, and other kids at school seem to acknowledge the ASD and get along with them. I think society will get there, with proper school district support. At some point we won't be able to support our son (when he'll be teenager and then adult), and external help is extremely important in situations like ours.
The Evolution of Altruism
There was a post on HN a few months ago from an employee at RadioShack retelling his horrors of working there:

http://www.sbnation.com/2014/11/26/7281129/radioshack-eulogy...

I think this is a better explanation as to why RadioShack is folding
There's a way to make this harder to detect: create "loops" which are actually a multitude of loops that have prime number lengths. The individual components will repeat, but "beats" of simultaneous repeats won't exist, giving the illusion of a much longer sequence.

I've seen an example in graphics used to create very large tiling patterns from a small image space. See:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110410071059/http://designfesti...
We Know Why You’re Always Late
> There's no way to know for certain you won't be causing harm.

Harm must be proven to receive civil redress. Potential, unrealized harm is not actionable.

If your neighbor digs a bottomless pit in his backyard, and posts trespass warnings, you cannot sue to have him fill it because your kids might fall in. They would, after all, need to trespass in order to do that.

But you could tell your insurance adjuster, they could apply a risk premium to a policy, based on the presence of the hole, and you could sue your neighbor for that.

The argument against piracy is essentially a neighbor saying that 40 of their kids accidentally fell into the hole, except they also somehow lost all the birth certificates and forgot the kids' names. There's just no way that anyone can prove that sort of harm.

But if the content industry ever tried to take out an insurance policy for sales lost to piracy, that would be a reasoned, independent, and measurable assessment of their harm, and they couldn't make up those BS numbers about how many dozens of their non-existent children fell into the pit, lost forever, even to the public records and the memory of their parents.
I discovered that if you turn all the sounds on, it quite rapidly has the opposite effect of the submission's title.
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Graphity: An Efficient Graph Model for Retrieving the Top-k News Feeds for Users
7 ways to sell your great idea to users, investors and your team
$614billion is almost 30 times NASAs annual budget. We could be on our way to Mars right now.
Christopher Mims related to Forrest Mims?
Noticed this with CUDA before. When I tried to render data that lay outside the buffers I was working on, I would get textures of my web browser appearing instead of what I expected.
Sign up with google permissions:

>"Upload, download, update, and delete files in your Google Drive. Create, access, update, and delete native Google documents in your Google Drive. Manage files and documents in your Google Drive (e.g., search, organize, and modify permissions and other metadata, such as title)"

Hell. Fucking. No.
This is great. Why do you need an 8 character password? Are you planning on adding some kind of a payment feature later?
For things I don't care, I just use a simple password.
Code That Doubled our iPad App's Performance
Future feature request: ASMR sounds.
This is the real story, its buried at the end of the article.

> The UK government is also in the process of introducing the Diverted Profit Tax, announced by the chancellor, George Osborne in the Autumn Statement.

> The tax aims to counter the use of "aggressive tax planning techniques" to divert profits from the UK to low tax jurisdictions.

> Profits made after 1 April 2015, and diverted to other countries, will be taxed at 25%.

This is a pretty watershed moment for world wide business tax strategies. It will be interesting to see how it plays out.

I would hate to be one of the big accounting firms, or an employee of one, right now. Inter-country tax laws are about to get alot more complex and my guess is that at least of of the big accounting firms get bankrupted in the next few years due to this.

Current tax law is kind of like trying to follow the bible, or quran, to the letter of the law. There are so many inconsistencies and just plain old conflicting rules that you just can't do it.

EDIT To clarify, I'm pretty convinced, mostly from analysts I've talked to, that sooner or later a PWC or ther accounting firm will give a company tax advice that a country doesn't care for and they will get taken to the woodshed by that country. I'm not even referring to outright illegal activity like Arthur Anderson and Enron.

So yes, more money in the future due to increased tax regulation but a heck of alot more risk due to it as well.

You have to realize that Arthur Anderson was taken down because a relatively small team of auditors was corrupt.

PWC has 10,000 partners and almost 200,000 employees. It just takes a team of 50 to mess up and the firm can be gone.
Show HN: Playlists for the connected generation
I always wondered this about Xbox one, how much of the processing is done locally? Given that it relies on a beefy dedicated device (Kinect) for audio/visual processing, has it got to a point where it doesn't need a central server?

The funny thing is that ever since Xbox one I have gotten so used to voice commands for playing/pausing/muting videos that I ended up building one on raspberry pi to control the tv, lights and other devices.
I can't help but to view their decision as this kind of greed that turns people stupid. They could have been leaders of local tinkerer communities, but they chose to sell useless junk instead. Sad, but I guess it's Moloch at work again.
The “Cashification” of Healthcare
This is delicious!
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CoffeeScript 1.9 Released
Exactly. That was a perfect textbook example of moral hazard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard
Well, there is https://pancake.io/. You can try it.
It's a bit of a basic overview of docker-compose. I would have liked to see how to handle more sophisticated patterns such as the data volume container, and how to manage database initialization, both in development and in production.
No. I risked it and it only sends your password to GitHub.
true...i guess for me it's another potential option for working with git like the prezto git module and git plugins for vim
As a point of comparison, an approximation (ie. untested, probably some syntax errors) of the corresponding Ansible tasks:

- apt: name={{ item }}
with_items:
- postgresql-server
- nginx
- pip: name={{ item }}
with_items:
- flask
- peewee
- copy: src=nginx/static dest=/www/ recurse=yes
- copy: src=nginx/sites_enabled dest=/etc/nginx/ recurse=yes
- service: name=postgresql state=running enabled=yes
- service: name=nginx state=running enabled=yes
- postgresql_user: name=foo password=oof priv=table1,table2
- file: path=/usr/src/app state=directory
- copy: src=app.py dest=/usr/src/app/app.py
- copy: src=templates dest=/usr/src/app/ recurse=yes
- copy: src=python_app.conf dest=/etc/init/
- service: name=python_app state=started enabled=yes

Implementation note: this uses an init file for the python app, which will depend upon what OS and init system you're running it under. Also missing handlers for restarting services when config files change.
Very interesting and educational read. Even if you know a little bit about how IPOs work, reading through the complete timeline helps understand the roles and the steps involved.

One question that came after reading:

The underwriter won’t move forward unless they get a very
high percentage (99-100%) of employees/shareholders to sign
a lock-up.

What are the incentives for employees to sign such an agreement? It sounds like the only point in the process where an (organized) group of employees could have some leverage?
Maybe activate just a few for now ;)
Cheap shot against BBC. Related Stories includes two reports from a year ago with LG Smart TVs doing the same thing (but more):

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-25018225

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-25042563
With all 3 of my babies, there is a single magical track on iTunes that has done wonders - on the album "Sweet Dreams: Soothing Sounds for Babies", track #6, "Running Shower".

BUT, I had to edit it so that it stitches together when played on repeat. It fades out and then comes on loud again, startling the baby awake.
MySQL to Redis Event Syncer
NtSeq: JavaScript bioinformatics library for DNA sequence manipulation, analysis
Interesting but no way I'm just handing over my email without a price and some information on the value of the box.
PocketSphinx/CmuSphinx [1] is your best bet. I have combined it with raspberry pi to voice control my TV, Xbox360 and the lights.

Its not very accurate, but if you limit it to a small set of keywords, you are going to be fine.

[1] http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/
Putting words in people's mouths is one of the most juvenile possible ways to make an argument. Please don't.
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Ridurile TRATAMENTE NATURISTE
We have a built in text editor feature, and you can also save on Google Drive
Your comment, while informative, puts the cart before the horse. High work stress and poor employee treatment are usually symptoms, not causes, of a business going under.
You activate Siri. These TVs listen constantly feeding your voice data back to Samsung's servers at will.
Answering the Call for Werner Koch's Everywhere
> Albert Einstein won a Nobel Prize for his discovery that if a light hits a component and it generates a charge, it causes that component to reset.

Wait, what? Are they really saying here that Einstein got his Nobel Prize for discovering that light resets electronics? I recall being taught a different definition of photoelectric effect at school.

> Raspberry Pi creator Eben Upton told the BBC the glitch was an "unintentional educational bonus".

Got to give them points for humour.
Be warned, I love Digital Ocean but they have been caught doing the same thing. Hosting blogs there that push any edges is dangerous.
Many Samsung Smart TVs have built-in cameras.
Marx predicted that tensions inherent in capitalism would cause the system to destroy itself. Radio Shack's story seems like what he thought would happen to the entire system: relentless expansion beyond its core mission, in order to serve capitalism's need for unlimited growth, caused its inevitable downfall.
MailCatcher –  Catches mail and serves it through a dream
There's an app for Mac/iOS ($4.99) called WhiteNoise that does a similar thing. It also has a really extensive library of new sounds you can add: http://www.tmsoft.com/white-noise/
Future Forecast AI Edition: Deep Learning and Why Elon Musk Is Wrong
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Wtf, javascript?
Awesome tool! I've been a big fan of Rainy Cafe for quite some time but I'm going to give this one a shot this week. Thanks!

http://rainycafe.com/
The medium is the morality
It's a pity he doesn't talk about how the stock was priced.
GrubHub closed up 31% the day it IPO'd, which means that they left $59.2m on the table.
What happens if you just ignore it?
> Why are people so enthusiastic to give hours away for free to commercial projects?

This is a naïve view of the situation.

You claim these people are working "for free." In reality, many of these people derive income directly from Apple's software ecosystem. Their efforts to improve this ecosystem will in turn improve their ability to make and sell software, so it's not necessarily purely altruistic.

Second, Swift/XCode is a means to an end: developing software to run on iOS, OS X, etc. If someone begins with the destination in mind (e.g. is letting the product determine the tools, rather than the tools determine the product), then the choice of tools is secondary. You imply that bettering your tools is fruitless if you're not the one making and selling the tools. This seems very shortsighted.

Also, while open source is great, I don't understand this hardline value judgement that open source is good, and commercial is bad. That's your prerogative, but it's a personal preference.
While I doubt any recruiter will ever take the time to fill this out I love the idea. That said it would take a miracle before I would work with a third party recruiter again and I would never send something like this to recruiters that work for the company in question. In my experience they have been very good at their jobs, third party..... Not so much. I've had third party recruiters make me jump through hoops (tests that prove nothing), try (and fail) to hide the name of the company, harass my references, and be completely useless.
I also wondered that when I went through, later I got clarification that it was for those reasons, and to remove the individual, so that we can follow commands faster and with less hesitation.
Thanks for the hint ;)
Neat tool. Your page completely fails to render, however, if I keep connect.facebook.net blocked.

Stops processing at
FB.init({ appId : '1496974077209368', cookie:true, xfbml: true, version:'v2.0'});
And among those 1 in 68 are people whose brilliance in extricably tied to that disability -- including most of the greatest scientists of past and present.
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Thank you! And please let me know how it go ;)
I just tried this out. I love the simplicity of the homescreen and the simple volume toggle is great.

2 things:
1. The coffee shop has the Joe Walsh song The Joker in the background. It's a ridiculously catchy song and I found it very distracting.

2. I couldn't figure out how to turn this off. It went haywire and I ended up with lots of white noise. I had to turn off my bluetooth speaker, and going to applications to force stop. Nothing I did in the app would stop the sound.

A big play or pause button might help in this situation.

Hope this is helpful.
The best use of emscripten I've seen to this day is this compilation of the big complex piece of software that is GNUnet to the browser: https://github.com/amatus/gnunet-web

(Also, it is useful to bring anonymization to the masses)
> Inter-country tax laws are about to get alot more complex and my guess is that at least of of the big accounting firms get bankrupted in the next few years due to this.

could you expand? My feeling would be that with increasing complexity, big accounting firms stand only to make more money.
Wow, that's a lot of accusations! :)

> They clearly dropped the ball after a few early successes in the space race.

Not true - even in 90's when designing ISS Russian experience with space stations was one of the reasons to invite them to the project.

> By the 70s the Soviet program was in tatters and a joke

Presumably while continuing space stations program with ever increasing capabilities and flight times? Or have you heard about VEGA interplanetary automatic project - admittedly in 80's?

> by the 80s the Shuttle did incredible things that the capsule based approach simple couldn't do (repairing hubble, etc)

Have you heard about reviving Salyut-7 using Soyuz spacecraft? Dzhanibekov-Savinykh flight?

> Obviously, the cost estimates of the shuttle were lower than real cost, but I can't think of any major project where that wasn't true.

But Shuttle was particularly bad miss by costs, wasn't it?

> the Shuttle was retired for a capsule based approach that is a private and public partnership

I'd agree - but note how many years NASA pays to Roscosmos for flying astronauts to ISS and back. Shuttle was retired rather for safety reasons.

> between NASA and companies like SpaceX who are showing us how cheap rockets can be

Which also might be an attempt to reach Russian low cost figures by other means?

> Its unfair to compare failed test projects, which were also fairly uninspired copies, like the Buran and the N1 to workhorses like the Saturn V and the Shuttle.

Here you're clearly missing the mark. N1 wasn't a copy of anything whatsoever. All-kerosene 5-stages stack? Record (bigger than Saturn-5) liftoff thrust? Number of separate engines? Spherical tanks? Not that Buran was particularly uninspired - for one, Energia was capable of flying even without Buran, for another, Buran used kerosine-LOX as main orbital fuel - with advantages both in efficiency and toxicity over Shuttle.

> The Russiophilia around here is pretty high and unfairly so.

You might be right here - it's highly subjective - but you have to admit USSR had plenty of original achievements.

> oddball projects like mounting 50 cal guns on space stations

If you'd analyze carefully, you'll see that those were mostly perfect rational decisions given information which was available at the time. Sense of oddity can be explained by incomplete review.

> pathetic attempts at cloning western successes like the Concorde

That one I don't get at all. How Tu-144, which flew before Concorde, be a copy of Concorde?
Yes, we hide the apprenticeship approach behind internships for cultural compatibility.
I listen to this whilst surfing the web:

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

Also handy:

https://coffitivity.com/

http://www.getworkdonemusic.com/

This is a personal favorite too - Star Trek TNG Ambient Engine Noise (Idling for 24 hrs):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPoqNeR3_UA

Personally, whilst coding, I enjoy absolute terrifying silence.
I use BitTorrent sync on a box and installed ownCloud as the UI to access those files from a browser. It works well.
But it's plenty liveable elsewhere in the UK, and there are plenty of descent tech companies looking for devs. And the point is, that's money you're earning, not money your borrowing as a student.