skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's surprisingly straightforward - take your input composite signal C and multiply it by a sin wave and a cosine wave (both of frequency 3.58MHz). Then take the three resulting waveforms (C, Csin(f) and Ccos(f)) and filter them to remove frequencies of 3.58MHz and above. If your sample rate is 14.318MHz (4 pixels per color carrier cycle) then any filter kernel that is a polynomial of (1,1,1,1) will work for this. I use (1,4,7,8,7,4,1). The resulting three waveforms are Y, I and Q which you can plug into the matrix at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YIQ to get RGB. You'll need to fix up the phase to get the right colours (this is what the color burst pulse does in the actual hardware). You might have to swap sin and cos as well, I'm just writing this from memory.
In the constitution of the 5th republic, there is no quorum rule nor a "recall" referendum at mid-term nor a prohibition of multi tenures. That's why we need to change to basic rules of the institutions. We need rules to avoid such democratic thefts in the future, rules written by the people, not the politics professionals. This is what citizen groups like "Mouvement pour la 6eme République" advocates for (http://www.m6r.fr).
Maybe Moore was short sighted.
That's the sites fault, not yours ;-)
Is that so? How are the 10k users defined? Where can one read more about this?
Ten years is over six of Moore's law 18 month periods, so that 'should' give a factor of over 64 (ignoring the difference between transistor density and speed)

Your numbers show a speed up of less than 20.
First rule of Kickstarter: when things go south, Kickstarter isn't responsible for anything and you're on your own, backer or creator. I think they made it pretty clear.
Can _someone_ write a filter for snarky unconstructive comments while they are at it?
Google Opens Cloud Dataflow to All Developers
"Pearson defended its product."

This is a company whose business model is being disrupted and whose life will be getting a lot worse if they don't recognize that students (particularly college students) will no longer be cash cows they can milk via textbook/curriculum sales.
> She said although there have been challenges in carrying out “a large-scale implementation of new technologies ... we stand by the quality of our performance.”

New? What's new about it? It's a computer with stuff on it.
The fact that there is such a thing as 'jaywalking' is a broken aspect of modern society.
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http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-May...
This is a pet peeve of mine. Hackers, when measuring time for software performance, please use something smaller than milliseconds. 0ms is a Dirty Lie!
If that's the only two alternatives, it's absolutely preferably to it being in the open. This at least allows to have an open discussion like it's worthy of democracy.
I'm currently working at a school district in Lancaster, PA.

We have gone with Linux laptops for all of our students. Even more, we've given them root access.

We chose this because of exactly the points that many people are bringing up in these comments.

What does the iPad offer to the pedagogical process? Not really that much outside of the sanitary iOS enviroment.
Are they teaching kids about programming or computer skills? Probably not.

However, with a laptop (and root access), students are able to, and encouraged to play around and experiment.

Yes, we have some students that don't care about it at all, but there are others that have created some genuinely interesting projects. We've actually modified and used one of their projects to help support the linux laptop deployment.

More info:
http://www.pennmanor.net/techblog/?cat=69

My boss did an amazing TEDx talk regarding the subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8Co37GO2Fc
Thanks! That's a big forehead smack on my side.

The numbers are more in line with what I expected. Meaning it is possible to defer some of the time cost by using a single constructor rather than evaluating the string.
Startup CEO: How role changes from 2 to 15 people
Progress isn't just about the upper bounds of human achievement, but also the average. I think it's a mistake to confuse the two, or to place one too high above the other. Of all people you should appreciate that. :) If the next generation tackles calc or recursion even one year earlier or one percentage point more often than yours did, that's a huge cumulative win.
Is there any FS that implements FEC?
Self-referential formulas (truly self-referential ones, not involving the magic constant in Tupper's famous one) are conceptually a consequence of Kleene's recursion theorem, just like self-printing programs, but with a bit more caveats---obviously necessary caveats since it all depends on things like font choice etc. I spelled the details out in a paper [1] but there's really nowhere appropriate to publish it, since it's too trivial for a mathematician/computer scientist audience and too tricky for a more general audience.

[1] http://semitrivial.com/papers/eqn.pdf
I told him my job was rather boring and he started telling me his opinions of drilling. Pretty funny even though it's not what I meant by bore.
The latency problems arise with ALSA (mostly hardware-independent) and AudioFlinger (totally hardware-independent).
Does that make it easier to reverse later?
select sum(karma) from user_data;

If the HN server uses an SQL database and has a table users containing the user names and their karma - and they must have something like that since the karmas are displayed on the profiles.
The issue isn't about having your phone play music, it's about you playing music on your phone, in some cases with friends who play on their own phones.
Here's the full text:

Kickstarter: They’re like Wreck-it-Ralph In A China Shop. And Each Piece Of China Is A Backer.

April 15th, 2015

So I just got this email from Kickstarter…

This is a message from Kickstarter’s Integrity team. We’re writing to inform you that a project you backed, Goblins: Alternate Realities, is the subject of an intellectual property dispute.

This is so odd, since they’ve told me repeatedly, that they absolutely cannot send messages out to all the backers. And yet… here’s a message sent to all the backers. Weird. I’m thinking wizards from the future? Maybe it was Ultron and his super high tech?

The law requires that we remove the project from public view until the dispute is resolved (please see our Copyright Policy and Trademark Policy for more info). Because the project already ended successfully, your pledge hasn’t been affected. The creator should still be able to move forward with the project (and send any unfulfilled rewards).

Really?! Really. I mean… seriously? Kickstarter is vastly informed with the current situation. They KNOW that Richard (the creator) stole the money and ran. They KNOW that he is not making G:AR under any circumstances. I have asked them over and over, if they’d send a blanket email to all my backers, telling them that G:AR is not being made. And here they are emailing all the backers to tell them that it WILL be made and assuring the backers that they WILL get their rewards! You have got to be kidding me. You have got to be fucking kidding me.

Thanks again, Kickstarter! Thanks for screwing me over just a little bit more! Now I’ve got a tsunami of emails from people thinking that they’re going to be getting their rewards. I mean, why wouldn’t they think that? Kickstarter just personally told them it would happen. Now it’s my word against Kickstarter’s. I didn’t think it possible, but Kickstarter has made this situation so, so much worse.

Kickstarter… you suck. You’re horrible and/or incompetent people that HAVE to be doing this on purpose. I can’t think of any other reason for this level of ineptitude.

If you have any questions, though, you can still message the creator from the project page.

And finally, we have the climax of this stupidity. Sure. message the creator. Nevermind that Richard stopped responding to all of those messages a loooong time ago. No, no. Please. Please feel free to contact the creator via the link kindly provided by Kickstarter. After all, Kickstarter did just assure you that “you can STILL message the creator“.

Thanks for your patience and cooperation,
Kickstarter

Sit back down, Kickstarter. You’re embarrassing me, yourself and the 3000 backers involved.

-Tarol
Can someone explain in layman's what the issue actually is, because the article, neither its comments here or on Reddit, seem to dumb it down for non audiophiles?
Overall, I'm very impressed by SpaceX's efforts. However, I'm wondering why they haven't tested the Grasshopper out on a water barge? It may be no different than on land, but that seems like a large assumption to make and a crucial variable to ignore.
This doesn't seem to take into account that the video was in slow motion?
I would lay claim to the idea its far easier to land in a field than on a floating barge. For one thing the field doesn't move, second its an awfully easier target to hit with greater room for error
As said, everything.

Take everything, analyse later, break crypto even later.

If encrypted or not, doesn't matter to these folks. Their buddies at GCHQ do the same, remember?
It's beyond my understanding why non-native windows, buttons, menus, etc. are a requirement for 'live-coding' or 'visual coding'.
A small suitcase might get lost...
McIlroyVDornan
THIRTY FUCKING ASSHOLES.
There are 577 deputies in France and only 30 of them are present to vote Big Brother.
Fortunately, there are several steps to go: it has to be approved by the Senate and then the Conseil Constitutionnel (in charge of the Constitution) might still reject it.
Nevertheless, this proves how much our political leaders DO NOT understand the Internet.
There was a recent episode of BBC radio's In Our Time covering dark matter, which was useful to someone uninitiated like me:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b054t3s2
In this case the performance measure in question is whether the latency is perceptible to humans or not. Milliseconds is the appropriate unit. Nobody is going to notice differences of less than 1ms.
OVH seems to be turning back on their threats. In his Twitter, Octave Klaba modestly announced that everything is OK now after an amendment 437 was added.

This is largely disputed: http://www.numerama.com/magazine/32806-boites-noires-le-gouv...

Black boxes are still there. Some light safeguards are added, notably approval of Prime Minister, but it still remains quite vague.
Why would you make an archive format depend on a third-party service (keybase)? That's just a terrible idea for data longevity.
Ah, for that I have a workstation. But as my guitar playing is very poor it doesn't help a great deal.
I think the argument comes down to the fact that audio latency is preventing the makers of the most popular/lucrative apps from developing for Android, the implication being that they would develop for Android if the latency wasn't there and the music category would therefore increase in revenue numbers.
Why would they want it to pass? What benefit are they reaping from such a thing?
It doesn't want to do anything other than ask me A/S/L, even after I tell it!

---

Stop asking me where I live!

> I'm not really good with locations, so I don't know exactly where you live, but it seems to be Where I Live network.

> Do you live in the United States? If so, in which state?

I live in Scotland.

> Really? You live in scotland? Tell me more about it.

> Do you live in the United States? If so, in which state?

It's cold.

> Why do you think it cold?

> Quick question: in which state do you inhabit?

I don't live in the US. Scotland is cold because it's so far North.

> Well, I do live in the us scotland is cold because its so far north, even if you don't. By the way, I've heard that US is a very nice country.

---

It's now trying to show me the temperature in the US, in degrees Farenheit :P
With all due respect, you are way blowing this out of proportion. This is the same thing as Snapchat currently supports — a silly little sticker based on your location. Just because it's an advertisement instead of Big Ben doesn't make it any more of a "breach of privacy".
It's built with Pinegrow as a static HTML page, with documentation part done with Jekyll. For some sites static HTML works better than CMS.

But the plan is that we soon transition to WP because we need more flexible documentation / support section with tags, categories and multiple users.
Did you even read the article? Snapchat is not a car ride app.
The point was that this particular problem (oscillation due to control lag) would still have caused a crash even if it had been landing in a field.
Just a word of caution. Sometimes I read "OffTheRecord" chatlogs that have been posted on Cryptome.

A false sense of security can be more risky business than weak security, as pertains to what gets exposed.
Yeah, no, you don't make a project open-source and expect people to improve it as much as you will. It just doesn't work like this.

An open-source project is a burden, you probably won't gain anything from them, and will probably lose a lot of time. Almost all of my projects are OS, but I don't do it expecting people to come over and help (even if it is sure nice when they do).
> but nobody thinks twice about treating that as a well-defined sampling problem.

This is what I wanted to show the OP: That it's not a well-defined sampling problem.
While I understand where you are coming from, obviously the bot is not flawless, but it is ridiculous to compare our technology today to Eliza. ACUMAN uses a wealth of knowledge bases and natural language processing to comprehend and accurately give responses. Obviously, the field is invariably complex, but I find it absurd to say that it has increased so little, considering that it was never dreamed of that a bot would be able to answer the exact release date of a specific musical album, for instance.

It is still a work in progress, but I don't understand why it would be a huge turnoff that there was a simple grammatical error in the bot where he inadvertently prepended a contraction "it's" before the actual answer.
At least there the Congress approved the changes, while in the US everything is hidden from the citizens.

Which means that the french people are socialists in their hearts.
>The district selected Pearson based only on samples of curriculum — nothing more was available.

So they bought hardware to run software that didn't exist.
If a window manager does not support dealing with multitudes of applications with multiple windows, then the window manager does something wrong.

> Imagine 20+ browsers, inspectors, playgrounds opened, all mixed with your regular browsers, mail, any kind of applications and you will understand why we prefer to keep the MDI.

I simply hide these other applications - actually I use auto-hiding after some time period. No need for an MDI.

Let's look. My Mac now has 11 apps open: mail, calendar, contacts, browser, previewer, notes, two Lisp systems, several terminals, a finder, twitter, ...

Both Lisp systems use native windows, menus, buttons, dialogs, text fields, ... each Lisp editor is a separate window, ...
> Do you want "unique" to be just a redundant synonym for "different" or not?

I could care less.
I don't find it sneaky, and since it doesn't expose what's supposed to be a private and short-lived message (image) I also don't think it's "snooping". Geo-location is with us whether we like it or not. If you don't want applications knowing where you are, don't install them or turn off geo-location on your phone (yes ... this will break things).
Because if you don't understand "an IDE , OS rolled into one" then you don't understand what Smalltalk is anyway. Its not easy to explain what Pharo is , the same way its not easy to explain what Emacs is , etc. There are may ideas and workflow integrated into it and its development workflow is radically different to normal programming languages.
"Does it compile to executables"

No it does not , but there is no need. Pharo can be distributed with your application and it does need to installed its a standalone.

"or does it require an interpreter or VM at runtime?"

its interpreted to byte code and it has a JIT VM. It is always runtime ;) Meaning everything is live and running even your source code. Compilation happens under the hood without the user being aware of it.

"Can applications be built from command-line (or a build script on a CI server), or is it tightly coupled with the IDE?"

There is a command line interface , also any method can be exported to command line and Pharo can run without a GUI.

"The Wikipedia article mentions some web frameworks, but the Pharo website shows screenshots of what appear to be desktop GUI applications (or maybe data visualizations running inside the IDE, a la R with RStudio?)."

There is a web framework which quite popular and actively developed Seaside that allow you to use javascript , html and the usual suspect. Plenty of others frameworks exists as well but not so actively developed. Most success stories in the web site use those frameworks.

"Maybe someone with some hands-on experience could provide a TL;DR, for those who aren't willing to read the full book just to get a high-level sense of this?"

you can also drop in IRC for general directions, and ask questions to the mailing list, the community is very welcomed for newcomers. But give pharo a try and ask questions and you wont regret it Pharo is a great way and fun way to create software.

I have made also video tutorial for newcomers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol5ivaEATLQ&list=PLqbtQ7OkSt...

I have also made this simple guide to explain what Pharo really is

http://thekilon.wix.com/pharo-about
Imagine if you were playing an instrument, and your hand moved a little (36ms) before any sound came out.

Or imagine trying to listen to your own voice, but having the sound delayed by that 35ms, so it feels like someone is talking over you every time you open your mouth.
That only means the french people are more socialist and open to oppressive government acts than US people are.
the law draft in english http://wiki.laquadrature.net/Patching_the_French_Intelligenc...
Thank you for checking out ACUMAN.

I have fixed the glitch just now that prevented it from answering those questions normally.
"It’s extremely hard for these companies to find good engineering talent"

As someone who's trying to get his first junior position: is it really that hard or do they mean experienced engineers? Are companies generally not interested in hiring and training juniors?
Black over a noisy grayscale background. It's the longest CAPTCHA I've ever seen.
Are you an education professional? I'm not, but I wonder why we don't go back to the model of segregating students by ability/need. It seems like the trend today is to "mainstream" everyone into a common classroom, so you have high achievers, low ability, as well as genuinely abnormal (mentally retarded, severe behavorial problems, etc.) all together. I see no way that can be effective for any of them because you will not be able to provide the style of instruction that each of these constituencies need.
> "Of all people you should appreciate that."

I do know that - I know that very well. I'm just interested to see that with all the vast amount of progress that has been made, and all the tools available for language analysis, this system still make mistakes like that.

I'd love to see more about how much this is gluing together existing components, and how much is original to the project. Back when I was doing this everything had to be written by hand, from scratch. So much time was spent/wasted in basic, underlying stuff. It's fantastic that people now have so many resources that they don't have to start from so far back, and the inventiveness can shine through.

I'd love to see the inventiveness in this and other projects, but it's hard to see what's really new.
Would that save them much development effort? I would think they would have to do a lot of refit each time they dumped it in the ocean.
COG JIT VM is still the main VM, though the old one is also supported for mobile platforms like Raspbery Pi. There is also work to move Pharo to 64 bit.
With regards to the survey, would you consider adding a third option to each of the answer sets to cover null cases (i.e. not applicable or insufficient information).
Alternatively giving context in which the statement's made (e.g. previous 4/5 comments from both parties) may help.

e.g. "I am a guy"

-1: inventive/curious
-2: consistent/cautious

#2 given it's a simple statement with no follow up question.

-1: efficient/organized
-2: easy-going/careless

#1 as it's a statement with no fluff or politeness surrounding it.

-1: outgoing/energetic
-2: solitary/reserved

Hard to say. I picked #2 as it's a short answer trying to avoid more conversation, but depending on the context could just as easily be #1 (e.g. "Do you like sports?").

-1: friendly/compassionate
-2: analytical/detached

As above; opted for 2 because it's a statement of fact (but again, if the previous statement was something like "Do you think Natalie Tran's attractive" it could be #1)

-1: sensitive/nervous
-2: secure/confident

This is the hardest one each time.
#1 - they're trying to give short answers to move the conversation back to the other person / away from them.
#2 - they're not waffling on nervously, but are communicating clear and simple facts (with confidence?).
I would play the hell out of that, just like I did with Game Dev Tycoon!
Say you want to create an app that adds a sound-effect to your voice, live. On Android, the time it takes for the audio from the microphone to get into the app, be processed, and sent back out to the speakers is long enough that it'll be jarring to use. For musical instrument apps, the latency between touching the screen and the speakers responding is too long to be useful.
This is not a good analogy. McDonald's and Ruth's Chris are not direct competitors, they are targeting completely different markets. Android and iOS are in direct competition.

If we have to use a food analogy, I would propose Starbucks and a competing coffee shop. Almost all the major players in app development make corresponding Android and iOS versions of their apps. Imagine if Twitter or Snapchat only had an iOS or only had an Android app. Similarly, customers expect to have certain things available at all coffee shops, regardless the brand behind them: cappuccinos, flavored syrups, alternative milk choices, etc. So a better analogy would be one coffee shop chain not supplying their stores with espresso machines, or flavored syrups, or alternate milk choices... or maybe just not letting them have refrigerators at all to keep milk cold.

The prevalence of orders for highly-sweetened, cold, milk-based drinks at Starbucks almost certainly means that customers would order the same thing at similarly positioned coffee shops if it was available, and indeed most coffee shops offer such drinks now.

There is no reason to think that somehow Android users are in such a different market that they would have no interest in these apps on Android even though in almost every other case platform parity is expected from large players in the app market.
Excellent project. I especially liked slide 5 of your presentation...

http://www.pennmanor.net/techblog/1to1devices/#/5

I'm wondering what materials the students are working with. I'm hoping it isn't some kind of holistic purchased package as per the OA.
If you actually read that post, you'll see it talks about how he got started, and that it also contains a clue as to why I think I know a bit about that. In any case, I'm not sure what this has to do with Patrick's "underpants gnome" secret. Is the trick "have a high-karma HN account"?
>They just don't want their Facebook login stolen, or their banking login sold on some forum, or their family photo gallery erased.

That is confidentiality, no? If login credentials are transmitted in the clear then anybody listening can impersonate them. That's exactly what FireSheep demonstrates.