skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people can't even tell the difference between 128kbps and 320kbps. Try it yourself: http://www.noiseaddicts.com/2009/03/mp3-sound-quality-test-1...
Tell HN: DigitalOcean NYC1 Appears to Be Down
A cluster of my servers went offline. They have yet to update their status page.
The police should not be using threats and intimidation to teach kids a lesson.

It doesn't even make any sense, tell the kid you are arresting him to teach him a lesson and then announce to the media that all you are doing is teaching the kid a lesson, don't worry about it.

Will the kid notice in the media that you announced that you were just teaching him a lesson? Probably. Will this undermine the value of said lesson? Probably.
At Bell Labs, Eric Betzig describes his very indirect path to scientific success
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9402336

Other submissions, some with a few comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9394364 : 4 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9397675 : 2 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9394147

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9397814

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9394147

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9403338

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9408368

There may be more ...
paging Youri/cmacrae and all the other buddies from http://www.saveosx.org/ ;)
Electric cars have similar CO2 emissions as a Prius on the current US generating mix. Of course, you can drop that to near zero by buying only renewable power (which would cost me about 10% extra if I felt like doing it).

I'm curious as to why you think nuclear wouldn't drastically change the picture, though. Nuclear substitutes nicely for coal on the grid, and coal power is by far the biggest offender here.
Other than Atlanta, none of these are comps for Miami or San Francisco.

Tuscaloosa, like most college towns has a stable demographic of gentry. No sound statistically based analysis would include it given the level of devastation caused by the EF-4 in 2011. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tuscaloosa%E2%80%93Birmin...
In a HN thread...
So the author has to use yum (a package manager), to install node's npm (a package manager), to install bower (a package manager "for the web") to install Vector...

wow
Then do you support dismantling tech companies who exploit tracking?

If people are too stupid to understand taking an HTTP risk, aren't they also too stupid to risk using Gmail?
Classic quote: “Harald is much smarter,” Betzig said. “When I left Bell Labs, I said ‘fuck you.’ When Harald left, he took all his equipment.”
Adding new animals or actions requires access to and recompiling this code. The expression problem attempts to find a way around that.
Reaching and re-engaging users on the mobile web
High school - he was my friend, now he is my brother-in-law - go figure
The creator can give a perpetual license but never gives up creators rights. Germany actually has public domain (Gemeinfreiheit) but according to general professional view this can only apply after copyright has expired.
This issue was raised on a proposal that "would require the use of HTTPS on all publicly accessible Federal websites and web services"; presumably the government would simply become a certificate authority to make the transition smooth.
Taking full advantage of the capabilities of the data layer has effects on the business logic layer. Sometimes it's worth it, sometimes it isn't.
If you live in California, non-competes are not allowed under section 16600 of the Business and Professions code. They could file a lawsuit, but it would be thrown out by the California courts. Lawyers have a term for this tactic: "in terrorem". It is used against persons not familiar with the law.
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So Buzzfeed's ethics are fine as long as they cheerfully ignore major scandals involving high street banks altogether? ;)
Yes, I've noticed there's a distinct racist element to the anti-gentrification movement.

Hell, look at how the article treats ethnic segregation as something that should be celebrated. Disgusting.
Ooh you posted this already, I was just about to.
"wherever you are" isn't the issue with swift. It doesn't matter where you are as-is.

The issue (for me, at least) is it's dependency on OS X. I'd love to learn swift, and potentially do some fun iPad stuff, but installing OS X is the largest turn-off for me.
Current tech doesn't work in rain or snow. Computer vision cannot tell if a car is moving behind a bush, or if it's a bird or a plastic bag. It doesn't work off-road. These issues, and many others, will take a lot more than 10 years to fix. There is also no guarantee that Google will profit from driverless cars when they do arrive. The whole driverless car project is simply a way for Google to distract investors, the press, and the public from the lack of ideas in their core search and advertising business.
Thanks for the link. Aptly looks like a nice tool.

Your approach totally works, but we typically run into the problem of "system administrator has thing that works for them on a couple systems", then it's rather difficult to get everyone using the same tool so that people can interoperate (or bikeshedding about which one has a nifty feature and changing tools every six months) -- or worse, breaking something because they didn't understand how the other tool's process was different.
I use the deck package [1, 2, 3], and the pdfdeck[4] client. As stated earlier, using PDFs simplifies both presenting and distribution.

The deck packages uses a simplified markup that is portable, easy to machine-generate, facilitates source control, and not locked to a vendor.

[1] https://speakerdeck.com/ajstarks/deck-a-go-package-for-prese...

[2] http://godoc.org/github.com/ajstarks/deck

[3] http://godoc.org/github.com/ajstarks/deck/generate

[4] https://github.com/ajstarks/deck/tree/master/cmd/pdfdeck
Yes, Milpitas is close to San Jose. But you don't have to go that far, Burlingame is already pretty warm and sunny.

The Bay Area is just microclimates everywhere.
"having failed to win a single victory" is not an opinion, it is fact. Are facts prejudiced against the French?
LOL we used to run free even in the 80's and 90's. Back then society was no safer, it's just we didn't have the media pumping fear into us every day. It's ridiculous how cooped up kids are becoming with parents expected to supervise (or even have someone else to supervise) their kids every minute of every day. That's not helping. Kids need time to themselves to find themselves and learn to stand alone.
Their support has been pretty bad lately, pulling servers offline and they take forever to respond to support requests.
A bit off topic, but I simply thing this is the commenter trying to be grammatically correct without using "him" as is standard in English. I've noticed quite a few writers lately (especially in tech) doing this more often. I seemed to remember RMS doing this in a recent post of his, using feminine pronouns as the generic singular 3rd person.
>I think I was thinking of Milipitas

You were thinking of Milpitas. I was freezing my ass off dropping my motorcycle off at the Millbrae BART station when I had that 1-hour-45-minute-each-way commute.
Just started using Grafana+Influxdb this week.
Could not be happier :)

Congrats.
I make 77k$. 1 year of philosophy / psychology college, 3 years of Game Dev school while working in the same time, and one year on another job. Currently a JavaScript developer
Rather upset to see Ubuntu moving away from Upstart.
Public WiFi is the anti example since if you can read to the WiFi, you can write to it and MITM connections. Passive is probably best, right now, against large scale fiber taps. And only as a stopgap.
I am looking at their site and failing to find that =P

Can you point me towards that ?

(not for arguments sake. I really want a certificate)
I'd like to apologize to my friend for whom I was the buddy who didn't pull through. But to be honest, I was at a different point in my life and had super low confidence. I'd like to think it would be different now.
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I think the technique this is trying to replace is, 'Cranes and forklift trucks haven't the flexibility for this task? Then the workers will just have to lift the 30kg pieces of metal into place by hand. Some of them end up wrecking their backs after a few years on the job? Oh well, sucks to be them.'
I was thinking, "Why not just garnish his salary?" until I read this:

When parents fall short, the authorities escalate collection efforts, withholding up to 65 percent of a paycheck, seizing bank deposits and tax refunds, suspending driver’s licenses and professional licenses, and then imposing jail time.

I don't see how this is legal. If they've seized 65% of your paycheck already and it's still not enough, isn't this basically amounting to debtors' prison?
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Wisconsin's Shame “I thought it was a Home Invasion”
Funny you say that, our Sam's Club has self checkout lanes but they are express only. They used to not be though. We don't have a Costco in our area, so I can't compare.
I've been doing flexbox heavily for nearly the past year, and that post is my go-to reference, because I still can't remember all the properties and values. Highly recommended.
In all likelihood you'll be crossing paths with these folks again at some time. So, be professional.

If you don't like the non-compete because it is too all encompassing then counter with something more narrow in scope.

However, if you don't like the non-compete because you were forced out and you have an axe to grind, then own that and separate your personal feelings from the business. With your newfound clarity re-examine the situation and you may realize the non-compete isn't a big deal after all. Are you really planning on starting your own startup to compete directly with them?
I’m not sure I understand your comment. I’m a graphic designer and would love to incorporate NASA* pics in my work, but—except for personal projects—can’t, because I would put my clients at risk. Was hoping someone knew something I don’t or that the US government had addressed the issue in the past.

Edit to add:*Or other agencies. Few months ago I went to an exhibition in Berlin of Walker Evans’ photographs. Some of those he did for the Farm Security Administration in the 1940s. And I was thinking about the copyright situation. This thread was a welcome chance to pick hacker news’ minds …
They be like : "Let's get'em young. Don't want no trouble in future".
These are always funny. Read the Risks for the S-1 of 'Restoration Hardware'. It actually goes into (alludes) the CEO's predilection for jumping into the sack with fellow employees!
Yea, California is one of the weakest for non-competes from what I understand too.

I don't think your co-founder really stands much of a chance honestly, except he/she can hold any money etc that you put into the company. So honestly, it might be worth an hour of time with a competent attorney to ask a few questions and make sure you do things to insulate yourself.

That all said, I can't imagine what they would sue you over in this case for not signing. They are literally on the other side of the world, and unless your co-founder is just flush with cash and an ass that is willing to tie up your time in court etc then I doubt this amounts to anything other than hurt feelings and a shit relationship, at least for a while.
> And the breaks go on for 15-20 minutes. It's just unlistenable.

In that case, which losers are paying for these ads?
I was unaware that in Florida it doesn't work like this. I hope for the kids sake then that he gets a slap on the wrist and realizes just how lucky he was not to get the book thrown at him and that it was only by the grace of the judge's goodwill that he got lucky... if the judge had been having a bad day, he could equally have had the book thrown at him.
Yes people have looked into US government agency copyright outside of the US see links in first paragraph of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain#U.S._g... though don't know if anyone has specifically looked into US government works and German law.
Note that the given example has only one place where all combinations are defined. Not sure if this could be done in C++.
As someone with poor vision, I tend to zoom into sites a lot, and stretched PNGs look really blurry.

Also, screen readers don't work. You've even set an alternative text of "". Why even bother to add it if it's going to be an empty string? It could have just been the text that's shown on the image.
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I dunno, the employers seem to like people who don't tale stupid for an answer.

And maybe a kid who won't sit down for buklshit will become an entrleneur.
How so? Autoprefixer allows you to just write spec CSS and let it worry about prefixes.
Ah thanks, I get it :)
Characterizing the loss of the Napoleonic wars as a reflection of french military ineffectiveness is inept at best.
Isn't Miami "sinking", or at least under long-term threat from sea level rise, hurricanes, etc?
We don't really need Retina-compatible, but merely readable and accessibility-friendly would suffice.
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NGINX open sources TCP load balancing
Subroutines and Ampersands in Perl
I don't know the answer to your question but JSON update is being worked on by the PG community. I think it is unlikely to make 9.5, but we will see.

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/54E00D1F.9060101@d...
The car analogy is false.

Buying a mass produced car isn't the same as "rolling your own" from pieces.

And it sort-of has its software equivalent in creating a blog and choosing a theme and a couple of plugins, maybe.

Besides, as far as the "masses" are concerned, software choices are more plentiful and cheap than ever.

So why would the go out of their way, to make apps?
These types of things are already available (and I would wager much more stable than the type of thing found in PPA's) through third-party repositories like http://Dotdeb.org

Honestly I think PPA's only real-world appeal will be for desktop Debian users.

No one with any rational thought process is going to use a PPA sourced package on a server environment.

edit: missing closing parenthesis.
So fall back to display: table for the garbage browsers. This is not difficult stuff.
I can easily intercept all snailmail my neighbour gets and peek through it. I cannot do that for his http-traffic.
Coming from Miami SF probably doesn't seem warm, but coming from Oregon, I assure you it does! :)
That's not a solution; that's a workaround.
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Are you sure about that? Perhaps you have mixed up "artisan" and "artist"? Both come from the root word ars (“art, skill”); from which we also get "artificial", for "made by skill", and the web site "Ars Technica" for the art/skill of technology.

Quoting again from Wikipedia, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artisan : "Artisans practice a craft and may through experience and aptitude reach the expressive levels of an artist" and "Artisans were the dominant producers of consumer products prior to the Industrial Revolution"

Of course, WP can be wrong, so I pulled up a few examples from Google Books from the 20th century, so there could be no feedback from Wikipedia usage:

I found https://books.google.com/books?id=CIH912O6ogAC&printsec=fron... :

> Nehemiah Wallington was a London Puritan artisan .... Wallington remained in the house of his birth, where he learned his father's trade as a turner and became free of the Company of Turners by patrimony.

And https://books.google.com/books?id=oRgNAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA34&dq=ar... :

> His set of motivations, ambition, resentment, acquisitiveness, duty, and altruism, is typical of that shown by the uneasy class of artisan and petit bourgeois reformers. Like Lovett, Place, and later George Howell, Linton was confident of his skills and entrepreneurial abilities and needed litle capital to make an income; but he, like them, remained vulnerable to market changes, indignant at his lowly status, and sensitive to rebuffs from superior powers. .... William Lovett, the upright, self-educated artisan radical ...

And https://books.google.com/books?id=8YukeIgFlL4C&pg=PA105&dq=a... :

> In olden days, these village artisans used to be self-sufficient in meeting their family requirements through the payments received by them by operating agriculture supporting artisan enterprises. ... Among the several artisan enterprises, the business of only blacksmiths, carpenters, cobblers and ropemakers is in existence today

None of these suggest patronage of any sort. Until the industrial age, artisans were self-employed, and free from direct financial ties to a single patron.
Interesting point. I'm not sure I agree with the connotation of sexism that it promotes. I would feel a gender neutral pronoun such as they/them/their would be more appropriate, regardless of grammatical correctness.
Deliver porn, spam, political messages, or illegal content.

Or MITM a recipes site and deliver incorrect dietary advice.

MITM someone's personal site and add small comments that imply they wish the KKK was a stronger political force, thus discrediting them.
The conventional wisdom is just that - MP3s don't sound any different than their CD counterpart, but we all know that they don't have the same degree of fidelity to the original mastered audio files. While it is true that most cannot detect the differences between MP3 (and other lossy formats) and PCM (lossless) audio, this is beginning to change as consumers become used to a higher quality of sound delivery than before. The popularity of Beats headphones, for instance, meant that hip hop producers could no longer just push the limiter until the sub bass begins to sound farty - their fans were all equipped to hear the differences now.

Vinyl playback, in the pre-CD days, had consumers interested in a whole different kind of audio fidelity. The noises in the record were largely ignored, and nobody tried to get past them. Now, all listeners notice the sound of a vinyl record immediately, and people either love it or hate it.

The point I'm making here is that audio fidelity and quality are separate topics, but while fidelity is an objective measurement of audio, quality is a subjective one, and it shifts with the culture of the day. The problem with the MP3 and other lossy audio formats is that they are taken to be the same as their lossless origins. Consumers will catch up to the decay that MP3 codecs cause and feel the same way about them that a millennial feels about VHS tapes. It may take a few years, or even decades, to arrive there, though.
Do you mean instructions to run a mirror of the official repos, or a repo with your own packages?
It reads like he put a picturr of his own butt on the computer, not spy on anyone
> "HTTP has become the de facto standard in sharing scientific data. [...] HTTPS would cause an undue strain on limited resources that have become even more constrained over the past few years.

Interesting that this keeps coming up. I saw the same thing at the top of the comments on the Python 2/3 article here yesterday [1] That academia is full of people trying to do technical things and doing them poorly, so everyone else should hold back progress because they're barely managing as-is, with no engineering training or staffing, if you change anything it's all coming down.

Why is this a problem with Python or HTTPs and not a problem with the priorities of academic departments?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9397320
Except it's more like he opened the (locked) screen door to put a poster in it and didn't open the (locked with the same key) door that led to the rest of the house. If anything, it's criminal mischief..
Being a subsidiary of a company that does exactly what they are advocating against is an endorsement of their activity.
Again, semantics, but I'd say it's more akin to a kid breaking into school, not the teacher's home.

Or, more likely, the teacher's briefcase.

Yes, using a computer feels a lot like going to an actual physical place. But we forget, it's a portable piece of property. It contains sensitive documents, but it's not breaking and entering.
That is awesome you got to there in 5 years. Curious as to what region/city you live near for your cost of living.
It feels to me that this is very similar stunt to encrypting smart phones. After Snowden published details about various spying programs, people became more cautious when communicating.

This is just to convince general population that now it is safe again and you don't have to worry about someone snooping on you, because the communication is encrypted.

Yes, your communication with let's say Google is encrypted, but that doesn't mean Google won't share your data to the three letter organizations. And this is the simplest way, ignoring NSAs various efforts to place vulnerabilities in encrypting software.

Similarly as with phones encryption, it doesn't really help that much, for example when last time NSA ever needed physical access to your phone?
Ask HN: Convertible note question
Can anyone please help me understand the following:

I recently raised $20,000 as a convertible note with $2,500,000 cap and 25% discount.

I'm now raising another $100,000 round at $3,000,000 valuation.

What happens with the first convertible note? Does it convert at $100,000 valuation or at $3,000,000 valuation?

Is it the dollar amount raised that goes into formula for calculating conversion or the valuation of the new round?
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I'm glad it finally runs on Windows, but I can't help but get a wistful feeling. Ardour was the program that made me try Linux for the first time, a good decade ago.

I was really getting into multitrack recording and was using the best Windows freeware I could find ("Kristal", if you want to compare). I hungered for more and a Google search turned up Ardour. The screenshots looked amazing, but it only ran on Linux at the time. One "Musix" ISO later and I was busy being awed by the power of the system. Now here I am, free *nixen on everything I own. Thanks Ardour!
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This is a scourge. And of course most employees who get a call from someone purporting to be part of the company have a reasonable fear of creating problems at work and so often seem to err on the side of giving out more information.

The sad thing is that as we open up more and more ways to "do" things remotely (like move all your checking account funds from your account) the more danger involved. In many ways this makes the whole requirement that you authorize at a specific terminal in a secure space make much more sense.
Do you expect the EU to openly state that this is political and entirely about who gets to curate the information available?
I could tell the difference. I produce music, and I can usually tell the difference between low and high bit-rate MP3s. Certain sounds are handled poorly at lower bit-rates: especially high-frequency sounds - you tend to hear obvious artifacting which comes across as 'mushy'.

The link above is clearly a biased example where there are barely any real high-end sounds, and therefore it would easily fool an untrained ear. I think if they had more than one example, across a range of music styles, then it would be a fairer test.
Be careful with this, I come from a country where someone below 18 can't be indicted for a crime. Regardless of the crime.

There has been cases of 17-year-old minors raping and killing that went completely free (or spent a few months in juvie).

What I'm saying with this is that yes, I agree with you: The age of the perp should be considered. But we should also consider the crime in question.

In this case, both age and 'crime' account for what is just a prank with no harm done (apart from bruising some teacher's ego). Even expelling the child would seem to me a bit excessive, but I could understand the school doing that. Anything more is just disproportionate.