skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There doesn't seem to be any mention of SQL Server on the site? I am in the process of researching a move to Postgres from SQL Server, so if you have any other info on how you achieved this that'd be very much appreciated.

EDIT I see it now. Still, anything that you think useful would be great :)
I am bit sceptical. I would not trust phone number associated with my bank account to similar service. Also double or even triple sim phones are very cheap and can recieve text globaly.
Comparing supervised learning algorithms
Foals are far more developed at birth than humans. I looked up the timeline for human development, and it appears that autism starts to become apparent around (or a little after) the time that humans reach parity with the physical development of a newborn foal.
Ask HN: Is the NASDAQ index too far from S&P500?
When examining the NASDAQ index vs. S&P500 it seems like the gap has become significantly larger than usual. Does it mean that the NASDAQ is more likely to decline now?
Google buys .app for $25M
To assume that autism is a single disorder is to get the scientific method backwards. There's no proven underlying cause, just symptoms that vary greatly from individual to individual. What evidence is there that autism is a single disorder with a single underlying cause?
I make appalams in microwave too and have the same uneven cooking problem - putting them vertically seems to help. Here is a commercial product that says so too. https://www.papadumexpress.com
I won't dispute the fact that you can distinguish, 160k vs 320k. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, I'm ready to believe people can hear artifacts at 160k even with the best encoders, especially if these people are trained for these artifacts, have a good headphone setup, and are listening to particular problematic passages (higher frequencies, transients, etc).

However, just for information, there is a lot more to lossy audio compression than just bitrate. A song encoded with modern LAME with VBR at around 64k or 96k possibly sounds better than the same song encoded with a napster-era encoder at 192 CBR. Modern formats such as AAC or Vorbis are even more performant than LAME.

I don't have hard data to back it up, but I think 99% of people would not differentiate between lossless and and lossy with a mid high quality setting (lame at v3-ish, whatever the equivalent is in the best aac encoder these days), even on a great headphone setup. Maybe if they were specifically looking for artifacts in particuliar problem samples.
Totally believable. mp3 at 160kbps vs something better, can make a real difference. Headphones and DACs can make a real difference.

96KHz sample rate for playback? Anything which adds extra shielding and filtering on top of a to-spec $20 ethernet cable? Nope, that can't help.
Unspeakable Ethics, Unnatural Law (1979) [pdf]
I'm really glad to see this. I've build a few apps with Sails.js and I LOVE it, but the documentation isn't great, and there hasn't been too many solid learning resources. This is good news.
You can add POP/IMAP and SMTP accounts and read, write and send emails directly in Gmail with the proper headers (i.e. no the "delivered by gmail.com" message on your emails.)

I can't use my domain with Google Apps now, so I use my domain registrar's mailboxes and SMTP servers from my Gmail account for the same effect.
With the same idea applied to English, "apple" also means nothing, because you need someone that can read English.

[I'm a native Spanish speaker. I was about to write automatically "manzana" instead of "apple", very strange.]

And does Google Image Search count: https://www.google.com/search?site=imghp&tbm=isch&q=apple
Yep, like emus*

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
Harrison Ford Confirmed for Bade Runner Sequel
I really wish people would quit posting Xiph links as if it proves things.

What we DO know is that our ears no not work anyway like how we represent audio in PCM form. We know that they are highly sensitive in some frequency ranges, and that sensitivity includes higher temporal impulse precision than is required, such as the 300-3khz band used for human speech.

As in, for some frequency bands, our "sampling rate" (if such a thing could be applied apples to apples in human hearing) is higher than in others. I suspect this may be related to our ability to localize 3D perfectly sound with only two ears.

Not only that, but also in some frequency bands, we can detect finer differences in sound level than 16 bit can describe.

So no, 16 bit/44.1khz probably is not sufficient.

Also, you bring up lossy encoding which has no place in this discussion. If you want to discuss how lossy codecs exploit the flaws in hearing to compress audio better, talk about codecs that use wavelets and are highly effective at what they do due to a finely tuned psychoacoustic model, such as exploiting that our "sampling rate" and "bit depth" are non-linear across frequency bands.
There's several things you could be running into:

* Auto-compaction isn't working and so the .msf files are growing larger than they need to be. Thunderbird's per-folder metadata indices are stored in a weird texty append-only database format known as "mork" that you may have heard of, usually preceded or followed by some cursing. The file must be read completely into memory, and in many cases this ends up synchronously happening on the main thread. The upside to this is that the thread-pane is very fast and allows sorting on all columns, etc. Right-clicking on a folder and choosing "compact" will trigger compaction of the mork database as well as the offline cache (a per-folder mbox-style file where the downloaded messages are stored).

* Not leveraging Thunderbird's offline storage and proactive syncing of messages. If you bring up the account settings for the account, and look at the "Synchronization & Settings" tab, you want "Keep messages for this account on this computer" checked. You also want checkboxes by folders you care about in the list that pops up when you click the "Advanced..." button. With these enabled, Thunderbird will proactively download the message bodies to your computer, making them available for both offline access and rapid message display.

Note that if you only launch Thunderbird when you want to read your mail and immediately close it when done reading, you won't be getting much benefit from this and things may even go slower as you fight Thunderbird playing catch-up with your mail.

* You have a lot of of messages in the folders in question. The message file loading is O(messages) and so is sync without CONDSTORE enabled. (Thunderbird's CONDSTORE implementation regrettably has some bugs and was turned off recently. See https://bugzil.la/912216) Additionally, gmail's IMAP implementation can take some time to open an IMAP folder with a lot of messages because it needs to build a sequence number mapping and do other stuff.
I really think you are downplaying just how important the ability to pitch "your general capability and the value it offer to a client" is. If this ability is something that can triple freelancers' incomes and completely change their view of the market that they operate in, it results in a huge difference, even if the actions that led up to it seem simple.
Oh, Ok. Never knew there was a book by that title.
why do you need malloc here?
Thanks! I grew up in Berlin. Let's catch up for a coffee, when I'm back home one time, if you'd like to?

Ismail@fourandme.com
I think he might actually have a hearing problem, or badly setup equipment and his music taste is extremely narrow. The experience that he perceives in headphones he has reviewed I certainly haven’t experienced and is not the general response I hear on reviews. i.e. NAD HP50 does not have a weak treble or mediocre detail.

Go and listen to headphones with your own music and make up your own mind.
I'm glad #1 is #1. If I had to partition these into two sets, they would be "make sure it works (2-7)" and "make sure your definition of 'works' works (1)."
If your income is sourced in the states, USA will say they have first dibs on it, but if you work in Thailand, Thailand technically has first dibs on it also; tax treaties don't really cover that! So what happens is that you pay Uncle Sam rather than King Rama, and hope the latter doesn't find out you are evading taxes.

If you are working abroad for an american company, doing it legit is the best way to go, but that is more like "working abroad" vs. being a "digital nomad". On the other hand, most developing countries don't care as long as you aren't officially working for a company in the country without a proper visa. Anyways, you always have to check "tourist" on the immigration form, and never "employment/work".
You suggest up/down sampling rare cases. Can you please elaborate on the standard approaches for this kind of problem? For both linear and nonlinear classifiers. Thank you.
Stellar: How Does Your Galaxy Grow?
Beautiful presentation.
Good post! A bunch of mistakes is a bunch of opportunities to improve. It kind of complements Domingos' paper:

http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~pedrod/papers/cacm12.pdf
It's truly free. Is that weird?
For this use case, I suspect you wouldn't be able to win much with WebWorkers. You'd have to profile, but having done a lot of profiling with multithreading in several environments I've learned to expect disappointment relative to my initial lofty hopes. It feels like it ought to be easy to get linear speedups and that it ought to take something really unusual and special to slow it down; in practice you're lucky to even get "good" speedups.
Self-control is a skill, not an inherent trait. It can be mastered and become almost effortless.
Why not grant them an exclusive patent on 'search' in every sense as well? Like you can't 'search' (tm) for your keys in your apartment without seeing an ad first?
To that point, it's interesting how many claim that Backbone is yesterday's tech and that we are now 2 or 3 iterations of javascript frameworks past Backbone, yet most of these large sites are still using Backbone! It's possible that a lot of the sites would use something other than Backbone if they were built today, but it's clear that Backbone will be around for some time.
> Also, it is more than a little creepy that Thunderbird is apparently phoning home every day to tell them I'm using it. Not cool, Mozilla.

Note that if you follow the blog post's link to https://wiki.mozilla.org/ADI it says "Mozilla measures Firefox usage by the number of Firefox installations that retrieve blocklist updates from Mozilla's servers each day."

The "blocklist" in turn links to https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklist which says the following at the top: "Blocklisting is the ability to disable errant add-ons, plugins, and other third-party software for Firefox users. For graphics drivers, please see this policy."

Note that Thunderbird also can send telemetry data to Mozilla for performance data reasons/etc. This is notified by an infobar at first-run or upgrade that says "Would you like to help improve Mozilla Thunderbird by automatically reporting memory usage, performance, and responsiveness to Mozilla? Learn More" and then has "Yes" and "No" buttons.

relevant disclaimers since this touches on privacy stuff: I work for the Mozilla Corporation. I also previously worked on Thunderbird.
Write your neural network code today, and every 5 years or so dust it off add a few layers and run it on your current computer and watch the its performance improve!
It's true: Apple tends to have very good headphone audio output compared to other phone/laptop manufacturers. The Asus, Acer, and Dell laptops I've used have had very noisy headphone output.

But it's still noisier than well-regarded USB DAC/amps available for well below $100 or just a little over. (Fiio, Schiit, Audioquest, etc. are names to look into if anybody's interested)

As a bonus, using a USB DAC+amp will save some wear and tear on your laptop's headphone jack. Those can wear out if you're plugging and unplugging your headphones several times a day over the course of several years. That is not an easy, fun, or cheap repair.
How would the WTO arbitrate an independent agreement? You'd endorse TPP if it were just part of the WTO process?

I wish the Doha round had gone somewhere. But it didn't, so here we are.
The Roman legions used saddled cavalry. Chariots were only really used for racing. But yes, Romans rode without stirrups.
but end up with only being able to buy approved devices containing more obscure, government-sponsored backdoors instead.

We currently have these backdoors-due-to-incompetence in addition to the government backdoors.

Taking either out of the equation is a win.
Yup. Reminds me of a quote:

"Revolution has already been televised. Revolution has been merchandised. Revolution is a commodity, a packaged lifestyle, available at your local mall. $19.95 gets you the black mask, the spray can, the "Crush the Fascists" protest sign, and access to your blog where you can write about the police brutality you suffered when you chained yourself to a fire hydrant.

Capitalism has learned how to sell anti-capitalism."

From [0], found when reading [1].

[0] - http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/biplog/archive/00074...

[1] - http://lesswrong.com/lw/k6/the_outside_the_box_box/
> Would you pay for a service like that?

I wouldn't. There are enough free options (e.g. onenote, email, physical journal, etc.) that work just fine for me. I personally don't see the value in paying for a service that uploads and syncs my journals, even if it has a really nice interface.
I do as I please. Whether others consider the goals I set for myself sufficiently challenging or making the most of my "potential" does not concern me in the least.
"You can only subscribe to one course at a time".
Beats me.
here's a similar technique I use in lthread to generate functions:

https://github.com/halayli/lthread/blob/master/src/lthread_s...

the arguments are complete function signature
Interview with Joey Hess
Crashplan also has client side encryption, though the security of it is a little questionable (I cannot elaborate for legal reasons).
> HiFi seems pretty rotten to me.

Yes to everything you said. I simultaneously feel guilty about, and take solace in, the fact that a lot of the insanely overpriced snake-oil crap at the high end is effectively subsidizing the really good "prosumer" stuff.

(Example: Audioquest, maker of $1,000+ audio cables, also makes a very solid little USB amp&DAC called the Dragonfly that costs just over $100. I'm not suggesting that they're selling these at a loss or anything, but I'm sure that product lines like $1,000+ audio cables give them some freedom to try products like the Dragonfly...)
No one could see the color blue until modern times
It's weird that you deride celebrity culture with 'obsessed', then immediately ask for a celebrity-acknowledgement device.
Alt + Speak (Alt+S) = How to Enable Text-To-Speech
You could look at Passmark:

http://m.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_available.html

Low-end Xeons are on top, but the first you might want are the FX-6300 and 8320, followed by the Pentium Gs. Since you are not comparing equal cores, the cheaper Pentiums do make sense in a lot of cases, but AMD does often have cheaper motherboards. Actual performance is going to depend on use case. I feel like the console situation speaks for itself. AMD is still putting out some good stuff, especially for an undedog.
We want you to form a good daily habit and not tire yourself out at the same time. Thus, you can subscribe to only one course at a time and take all the courses one by one.
A Brief History of the Speed of Light
Washington D.C. Think Tank Hacked – 700,000 Charities at Risk
It makes sense for the main app. The question is why their blog is part of the main app.
“Like mother like dauthter,”who loves hair extensions
Any chance we could customize which languages and which features to display?
This test is largely bunk. Its over 100 feet, in direct line of sight, using a client device that is a test device built exclusively for this (as in, it is not a phone nor a laptop nor anything small and underpowered like that).

They say "5G speeds" but neglect to tell you this is not done using LTE or Wimax (the only two protocols that ITU-R recognizes for 4G; 5G will use descendents of these as they are designed for many generation forwards and backwards compatibility in mind).
Not really, according to the update the entire result is sim. From your link:

> According to Tafazolli, the new class of Detector (a completely new approach) was tested through computer simulations (these simulated a real mobile/wireless environment) and were found to achieve the 1Tbps rate claimed. In our view that’s quite a bit different from conducting a practical test.

It doesn't look like there was any actual lab result.
They're not the first. Speculation within http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/233641-prominent-dc-...

Source of news: http://nccs.urban.org
How do you "limit the protocol to a regular or context-free grammar" in a consumer internet router?
None of that matters to some. Nobody wants just a bunch of half working files they don't know what to do with.
Similarly in the atheism movement movement there's 'freethinkers'. It annoys me that being a freethinker is just subscribing to another labelled group with a doctrine, as opposed to being a free thinker. A small space makes a lot of semantic difference.
I guess that's true, but Occam's Razor applies too. I'm not claiming anything either way.
You can "view source" by selecting all or part of the message, click on "Insert, HTML".

URL links: If you hover the mouse above a link, do you not see the full URL in the Status Bar at the bottom?

Font size: I hear ya. The mix of fonts make the messages appear amateurish at the receiving end. It's caused by entering text beyond the last </font>. Annoying. I hope they fix it.
This made a lot more sense when I saw who the author was...
Yeah, but I can also buy a combined DAC+amp from Schiit called the Fulla, and I'm buying it directly from an American company that manufactures and assembles their devices in America, built using all American parts except for the ALPS (Japanese) volume pots.
You guys are putting out some amazing courses. Congrats! React.js would be pretty cool too.
VISA, Mastercard and SWIFT have damaged their own brands by showing themselves not be neutral but controlled politically. By not being neutral, it shows they cannot be trusted and dependable for all users.

Other entities will arise that are neutral around the world and will replace VISA, mastercard and SWIFT.
The people who want to move but can't afford to are the exact same people who would be forced to move without prop 13. At least with prop 13, people are not forced out of the homes they have purchased.

The problem is not with Prop 13. It's with property taxes at all. I'm not fundamentally against a wealth tax of some kind, or against cities raising income, but if you base this on assessed values of real-estate, a highly illiquid asset for most people, you are guaranteed to generate these problems, not to mention undermining the very notion of property.

The problem is not prop 13. It is that something else should be taxed instead of property.
Yes, I have several production applications built on sails. It's wonderful, especially with the v0.10 improvements.
TC Makers: We Sample the Goods at the Dogfish Head Brewery
You mean in web dev? It's been many years since I left this domain, but you can find a lot of remote/freelance postings in HN hiring threads, and other similar sources.
I do it sometimes as well, I would not call sound fantastic, but its ok for movies and remastered (flat) music. But so does $120 Major.

I just think it is really bad advice. Why buy expensive headphones optimised for amps without amp? Just waste of money.
Well, at least our generation has "My Dinner with Andre".
Public warmer on 'climate change' than 'global warming'
Trying to Hire a Diverse Team of Engineers? It's Not Just a Pipeline Issue
Booking flights with Bitcoin: Taking off
I use Sails.js in production for few products were I work.

Basically it's just Express well structured and organised with some fancy features and nice CLI.

L.E.
If anyone is interested how to replace Waterline with Mongoose into a Sails project, let me know. I did that a project.
The WebRTC Race Begins Today
Interesting to me as a native node.js addon author (nanomsg), but I'm more concerned with the upgrade cost; NaN seems to suit me well in this regard.
Start Sharing and DISCOVERING
Although being off topic, I think this is still a good observation to make.

About five years ago, I was looking up something related to bulimia. Low and behold, I ended up on a site that had advice for young people with this disorder, and the keyword ads on the right of the page included a bunch of "Lose weight fast using this pill" type ads. I was quite horrified (and reported the ads to the ad network).
The largest issue I see with this is compiler vendors dragging there feet on C11 support, vs C++11 support which is much much more competitive.
Well, duh. This is obviously not a production device. Nothing about the title leads us to believe that this is a production device.

You generally have to achieve breakthroughs in lab settings before you can achieve them in real-world settings. 1Tbps is well beyond anything we have in production today.
Moneybookers?
MoneyBookers?
What's wrong with forking the git repository and submitting a pull request?
var hash = crc.Crypto.Hash.SHA256.hash(password.value)
crypter = new Crypt.Mode.Licobo(new Crypt.Rijndael256(hash))

And it looks like they didn't bother to use a KDF.

But I guess when your mode is "Crypt.Mode.Licobo" then that is the least of your problems...
Good grief.

> Indeed, most of the illnesses and conditions that are the focus of epigenetic research, except for cancer, are contested conditions. One reason they are contested is that many of them have come into being through measurements and statistics that effectively define illness as a deviation from a norm rather than as an underlying pathology. Just as type II diabetes is now defined by elevated blood-glucose levels (rather than a set of symptoms), the Body Mass Index (BMI) clinically diagnoses obesity as a larger than average (or what used to be average) weight-to-height ratio. It does not actually measure adiposity; in fact, a high BMI can be the result of large amounts of bone or muscle as easily as fat. Meanwhile, IQ has long been under attack as a culturally biased and non-objective way to measure intelligence.

Type II diabetes: does the author not believe a disease can be present before noticeable symptoms?

Obesity: the shortfalls of BMI are well-known; I doubt there are a lot of doctors out there who see an athlete with a high BMI and think, "time to burn some of that muscle"

Brain damage: the author is attacking their own choice of metric for the condition, in order to... deny the condition's existence??
Note that if you follow the blog post's link to https://wiki.mozilla.org/ADI it says "Mozilla measures Firefox usage by the number of Firefox installations that retrieve blocklist updates from Mozilla's servers each day."

Right, but the fact seems to remain that Thunderbird is phoning home in a way I can't obviously switch off (I use few extensions, and don't feel any need for such a blacklist) and that wasn't disclosed.

I did turn off telemetry when I first installed Thunderbird, as I do for all software on any device I use where I'm not intimately familiar with exactly what it's really doing.
This is an excellent book...but I would not recommend it to beginners. Read "Head First C" first, then maybe this book. Would also recommend "21st Century C."