skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t quite understand Frizbee’s promise of freedom, on the other hand. They say they’re a “social news site”; do they ban non-news content then? how they determine whether something is news or not?

Hub’s set of rules basically defines its audience. Having complete freedom—not having any rules—means not having any audience. The feed would simply be overwhelmed with spam, and if you ban spam—you got the rules.
No idea but I'd guess instead of simply comparing the received signal with an internal database of time domain signals, one's database is split into different categories (according to certain features). So you could then quickly go down a tree of options until you end up a song with the most similar ones (features). The unique combination of features would make up the "acoustic fingerprint" they're talking about.

That's probably too obvious though I'd imagine there's something else going on as well.
No, my point is that, yes, the poor
people are poor, way too poor, and
the rich people are rich,
but the reason that the poor people
are poor is not that the
rich people somehow have scarfed up
all the money the poor people should
have that, then, would put the
poor people in the middle class.

Again, the gripe of the poor people
that the rich people have the
money the poor people should have
is at most $10,000 once, and that
wouldn't put the poor people in the
middle class.

Or to get the poor people in the
middle class will take many, Many
times the amount of money the
rich people have, say, over a lifetime,
say, working 40 years at $100,000 a year,
$4 million, that is, 400 times the
$10,000. So, that the rich people
are too rich solves, for the poor people,
at most only 0.25% of the problem of the
poor people. So, what we need for the
other 99.75% is not from the rich people
but, in a word, the powerful people.

That's a longer explanation of my main
point.
This is a false narrative. The poor pay plenty in taxes and fees.

Between sales tax, worker payroll, SS, medicare, and various mandated fees from health insurance to car insurance to additional transportation taxes and tolls, and a million other fees and restrictions, the poor stay poor in part because of perverse government requirements.
The biggest red flag of all is that it is a startup!
I'd like to offer a simple red flag that I haven't seen mentioned enough: deception. If management is hiding information or providing misleading information to employees - even on small issues - it's a huge red flag. First, it says they're not confident in the reality of the situation. Second, people who are deceptive about small issues will also be deceptive about big issues that really matter to you. Deceptive people usually start their deceptions small and then increase them as they lead you down a long, annoying path to failure.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of deceptive people in business, so avoiding them entirely is not always possible. If you're forced to deal with them, my best advice is to be on guard. Be aware of what you have at steak if they turn on you and only work with them as much as required.
I have the same question, the last adjournment I read was about an hoax, as reported by wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BadBIOS
I have performed aquaponics experiments in my own apartment, parts of which were automated. The first thing I would say here is that anything like the setup you see in this video is a mammoth amount of work and is impressive from the sheer amount of investment done.

My experience with aquaponics was just that. High cost, where cost is time, worry and cash. The idea is that the costs are fixed, but that's never quite right. Creeping costs include tools needed, fixtures to make small changes, replacement parts, redundancy, pest management and surprises like HVAC.

After doing aquaponics for close to two years I moved on. It is expensive to do if you don't already live in a tropical area and can't work at scale. Even if there weren't planting, maintance, months to years of time to appropriately cycle and balance an ecosystem, labor to move and replace water, catch and feed fish and plant, replace bulbs, check water conditions, remove sick fish, etc, etc - the labor to merely deal with removing plants was startling.

I learned a ton and had even more fun - but boy are there decades of progress to be made on homestead style scale AP.
Nice Project. And for Qt there is also this:

http://algoholic.eu/qnodeseditor-qt-nodesports-based-data-pr...
This Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Has a Few Concerns
>perhaps with the notable exception of archaeological or other historical artifacts

And those are good not because they are old, but because they provide knowledge of the past.
Functional Geekery for an Imperative Mind
If we can finally cure aging, then, at long last, we will finally be able feasibly tackle inter-galatic travel and planet-level terraforming.
Your point is partially correct, but
Warren told Bill and Melinda that
their foundation will get essentially
all of Warren's fortune. Then
the foundation
will decide how to use it.

I doubt if Bill and Melinda
will just sit on Warren's fortune
and draw a salary for managing it.
Instead, likely Bill and Melinda
will allocate it as best they can.

Spending $100+ billion effectively
is actually not so easy, but I
do believe that Bill and Melinda
and their foundation will spend the
money as fast as they can find
good places to spend it.
TypeScript is a JS superset, though. It's not part of JS itself.
Or not being able to afford it
Why couldn't that happen today? Presumably Wal-Mart could lower their executive pay and undercut Target in the current wage environment, and yet they don't.

If you raise the minimum wage, it will raise the costs of all businesses in a market by the same amount, assuming that they all have the same cost structure (same basic wage and worker efficiency). Usually that causes prices to rise uniformly.
EchoNest used to do this[1] and is open source

1. http://developer.echonest.com/forums/thread/3650
I tried this[0] and successfully round-robin packets in a single stream. Problem was that the two links had different latencies and Linux has no tolerance for out of order packets. Instead, it would cause a huge number of retransmissions.

[0] https://github.com/erjiang/tuntuntun
Indeed, one should avoid quoting Fox News or using it as a source, too. (Although that name is an umbrella for a large number of 'products' - I would trust something written on foxnews.com more than whatever Hannity said in his daily primetime show.)
I can't really give a comment on this, since I haven't developed on a 8GB MBP. I think you should just expect a performance decrease once you're running your VMs next to your development setup. If you run XCode with your iOS Simulator next to it, I don't think you'll notice a large performance difference.
Anything that large will have blind spot for a user. Even commiters might be surprised by some kind of idiom in elisp or in a particular mode. That syndrom can be found in languages. It would be of great value to document this side of things. Some spectrum of learning, showing how everybody travels through and that most people go through the same stages. Maybe how to not waste time or feel frustrated by that process.

ps: emacs should have 'didntknowthat...' as subtitle.
Virtual fortune cookie
Delta-V needed to get around the Solar System (gravity assist can reduce these)
Wow, I have an app that also does this on Google Play. Maybe I should rebrand it and try again...
Ok that is fine but where is the correlation between what someone feels in their gut and what ends up being true in the end?

Plus, what is the downside risk of being overly cautious since that has to be factored in.

If the gut is based on things that you have observed in the past, or your personal experiences, then it is also possible that you will jump the gun by being overly sensitive and matching a pattern incorrectly. [1] In that case you could be wrong. I guess what I am saying is "it's not that simple" as trite advice typically makes it sound.

"minimize potential loss" also means "avoid potential gain".

[1] This actually happened to me and although this is just a single example which I highlight and where I choose to ignore the gut and plug on, in my particular case I am glad that I had done so. (Was with a relationship..).
Its probably not the end of the world. I just suggest it because if you are running VM's and if you are actually doing work with them actively while still using the primary OS too it really makes a difference. For example, I will run services in a VM and then my "remote" application either in another VM or in my main OS to test. Sometimes this is to test across OS boundaries to make sure nothing funky is happening, so I need them to run reasonably decent and not be super sluggish. Having the RAM helps.

So its a judgement call, if you do that 10% or less of the time, 8gb is probably totally fine. If you do it 50% of the time, then I'd rethink that personally.
If you're on OSX and want a good Emacs, go to https://github.com/railwaycat/emacs-mac-port and read the installation instructions under the Homebrew section. It follows the official Emacs repo pretty closely, but has useful OSX additions (smooth scrolling, gesture support [font size e.g] and more).
do yours save me from typing my name and room in a hotel? that one seems to also do that.

not that it's something I'd like (as I assume when i type it it goes to their servers so the next person doesn't) but that's what makes it tick from the article
See "An Industrial-Strength Audio Search Algorithm"[1], a 2010 paper written by one of the Shazam developers. The analysis itself doesn't seem complicated[2] but having a large enough database to compare against is probably the hard part.

[1]: http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/papers/Wang03-shazam.pdf

[2]: http://www.royvanrijn.com/blog/2010/06/creating-shazam-in-ja...
My post is about what a great blog it is. I'm fine with my original mark. If anyone wants to remove computer points from me please fire away.
You're missing the key detail. In most cases, scum landlords aren't really soaking the tenants, they are soaking you, as poor folks are often recipients of aid where a local or regional housing authority is paying the rent.

Rent seekers always behave badly, subject to market conditions. They behave badly because there is no incentive for them not to.

In my city, the "prevailing rent" for a two bedroom apartment in a rough neighborhood with open retail drug sales and other issues is about $1200/mo. Apartments that don't qualify for section 8 subsidies (because the buildings should be condemned) are a bit less.

A two bedroom in a suburban style complex 8-10 miles away with covered parking, good schools, and pool is $1250-1350.

The solution IMO is to make life as difficult and onerous for larger landlords as possible through regulation and fees for negative outcomes, and use subsidies to get tenants into a position where they can own a their home or a 2-3 family home.
Speaking from experience here?
I tried watson too, but it told me I needed to hire 30 "IBM" chefs at 2000USD each per day, but instead of top chefs they sent a team direct from the subcontinent who were being paid 100USD each per day who had never ever cooked.
It's important to note that the opposition to the USA Freedom Act contains two distinct factions: The so called "defense hawks" led by Mitch McConnell, who want to renew section 215 Patriot Act (that is to say they want bulk collection to continue) and the Rand Paul camp, who say that the USA Freedom act doesn't go far enough and are happy to let section 215 lapse without any replacement.
Unofficial (but mostly up-to-date) ebook versions (PDF, EPUB, MOBI, HTML): http://killercup.github.io/trpl-ebook/
AES-GCM allows the caller to supply additional authenticated data (AAD) -- data that is only authenticated but not encrypted. However NaCl's authenticated encryption mode doesn't seem to provide anything like this: http://nacl.cr.yp.to/secretbox.html

So when I have AAD, what should I do when using NaCl? Add it as part of the message to crypto_secretbox(), or should I authenticate this data separately?
Actually, EFF (and ACLU) pulled their support from USA Freedom after the Second Circuit court ruling [1]:

"In light of the Second Circuit’s decision, EFF asks Congress to strengthen its proposed reform of Section 215, the USA Freedom Act. Pending those improvements, EFF is withdrawing our support of the bill. We’re urging Congress to roll the draft back to the stronger and meaningful reforms included in the 2013 version of USA Freedom and affirmatively embrace the Second Circuit’s opinion on the limits of Section 215."

And, your link [1] is to a discussion of last year's version of the USA Freedom Act.
From memory, they do a spectrum analysis (frequency vs time) and look for peaks, specifically sets of three peaks in a row, evenly spaced. Gather a lot of them and send them in.
Didn't notice at first that it was from Thomas Ptacek.

But still feels odd OP is sharing it since it was a secret link.
One thing I hated about magit was that I couldn't stage multiple files with a region or similar. I'm currently on my phone for the rest of the evening so I won't have chance to check - if you notice this has arrived in your testing, do let me know!

I usually use shell emulator + company for dir/file autocomplete. This is the fastest I've got to staging individuals files or dirs, especially with projects that have a dir depth bigger than 1.
So basically, labels are now treating music production as an optimization problem.

And because they're terrible at this type of optimization problem, they're getting stuck in a local minimum (the space is anything but convex), which happens to be repetitive, awful, and targeted at the largest common denominator.

Treating music as an optimization problem may not be a bad thing in itself, the issue is being unable to solve the problem properly.
I wonder why the Windows installer has grown from 22MB in case of original to 40.5MB in the reboot project. Anyway it's great that someone made an effort to reanimate this tool.
>Who are you to tell a teenager they can't work part-time after school because the company can't afford to pay them whatever amount you believe is the amount to be paid?

I wasn't making an a pro-minimum wage argument but rather an anti-EITC argument. But anyway, for your information teenagers are exempt from the right to a minimum wage.

>Regulations are what cause the gross mis-allocation of labor and resources, when you distort the free interaction of individuals to buy and sell their goods and services you end up with perverse structures where an adult willing takes a minimum wage job at walmart if they can also qualify for food stamps and other government assistance.

The market is not only about money and Wall St. branded financial products. The market is also affected by power and influence. Regulations are just another part of the market. It's the free interaction of individuals who choose to unite together as one, in order to influence the market to their own benefit.

Because after all who the fuck are you to think that you can conduct whatever business activity you like in other people's neighbourhood. It's only at their own discretion that you are allowed to do that. You don't get to benefit from their property right laws, and their courts, and the infrastructure they built and paid for, and yet expect to do as you please without any interference what so ever, even when you are obviously being detrimental to the neighbourhood that is hosting you, and allowing your commercial activities. Individuals exist but they function at all as modern businessmen only because society also exists.
There are lots of barriers actually. These folks are usually poorly educated and pretty clueless about ownership and financing. These are folks using check cashing, payday loans and title loans.

They are caught in a cycle of learned helplessness and poverty. You need to give them support in the form of counseling and other things to get them to be successful owners.
> If your threat model is criminals, prefer DH-1024 to sketchy curve libraries. If your threat model is governments, prefer sketchy curve libraries to DH-1024. But come on, find a way to one of the previous recommendations.

I got a serious chuckle out of this. :)
tptacek posted it to twitter, so I don't think it was secret.
I get that. Time to first byte isn't critical with the internet archive, and they could use a robust caching later (varnish?) in from of their s3-similar storage system.
Well, I am not a blue tooth expert, so you might want to double check my understanding. But from what I do understand, you could restrict key functions right? For example, maybe you restrict it in that they need a magic key that your device will recognize and you only issue that when they register. This allows you to control who has access to those key features. Also, you don't publish your API unless they register.

Again, I fully admit to not being a bluetooth expert so maybe my understanding isn't accurate. Happy to talk through ideas though, love learning and coming up with options to figure out how to get things done.
I've already switched to fennec on my devices. Firefox has turned a dark corner than I can no longer support.
And they say there isn't a bubble. This is a company operating in an already crowded space (aren't there like 50 companies doing local food delivery now?), with no proof of customer base, doing something that is literally more work than walking down to the supermarket and picking up a pack of precooked chicken, collecting millions.
I don't believe spinning disk is long for this world. 6TB SSD drives are already out, the price just needs to be driven down. Much lower power consumption at idle is a side benefit.
This is one of the reasons I left a startup. As an example, bonuses were promised to the hourly employees if a specific deadline was met. Deadline was met, backpedaling ensued and no bonus awarded after the fact. (I was full-time, so not eligible in any case, but I didn't want to work for someone I couldn't trust)
Yes dan that is how money works. You'd rather the poor have no place to live??
This might sound odd, but lately I haven't noticed any bugs I've introduced to production that were type errors.

Inevitably my code will produce results of the right type, but have a logical error that makes either the answer flat out wrong or more or less inaccurate based on our cloud requirements.
I'll take this comment and my comment score (which I admit is probably due to lack of eloquence) as evidence to support my claim.

People really like their freedoms. Others', not so much.
I know us programers have a proclivity towards binary thinking, but these people aren't arguing for a world without any change, just a way to decrease the volatility of a housing market that fluctuates beyond human scale.

Humans are big, blundering slow moving beasts at the top of the food chain. It takes us years to settle in to new homes and communities and find our footings. Having rents double over just a few years is just too much for most people to handle.

Call it "rent stabilization", not "rent control" and it makes more sense. The goal is to slow the rates of change and make sure things are happening at human scale. Real estate, contract law and marketplaces are all human constructions and we shouldn't let them get the best of us.
The problem is there is no incentive for industrial food to find out how to truly make things healthier, it's primarily about taste and marketability. So whatever the latest scientific study says is just fodder to be reduced to a small change and a bullet point (witness gluten-free), while the lab scientists continue to pour effort into synthesizing better and better tastes and addictive qualities to the food. We can demand healthier foods yes, but it's nigh impossible to ensure that the best nutritional and scientific knowledge makes it from the lab all the way through the food design process to the products that end up on the shelves.

Plus, even if we did, nutrition is not a simple thing that we have all figured out. So even assuming the best of intentions from everyone involved, it's still a big leap that chopping everything up into its constituent parts, then reformulating it to be as tasty as possible (while still meeting nutritional standards of course!) is going to result in a healthy diet.

In this light, eating whole foods is not about declaring the superiority of "natural" foods, it's just a hedge against the ignorance and mis-aligned incentives that exist in the industrial foods industry.
Probably posted as a "secret" gist so as to not clutter up his gist history? That's the only reason I can imagine.

Or, more than likely, he had it as "secret" to get feedback from colleagues and other crypto folks before he published it.
Media measurement company BigChampagne tried to do the same thing by monitoring file-sharing networks.
> Splitting up the wealth of the top 1% and giving it to everyone else doesn't even make much of a dramatic difference to them.

If it was remotely feasible to confiscate the wealth of the top 1% and redistribute it, there would be enough nominal value to double the net worth (or halve the net debt) of the remaining 99% of people. That seems like a pretty dramatic difference to me.

I agree there's a long list of reasons why we shouldn't attempt this, but top 1% don't actually have much to share around isn't one of them.
You could use libsodium instead of NaCl, which has an AEAD interface:

https://download.libsodium.org/doc/secret-key_cryptography/a...
Live popularity Analysis of #ESC contestants
We've done some sentiment analysis foo to predict the outcome of todays Eurovision Song Contest.
Isn't this what the mobile reader on iOS is for?
Thanks for that amazing link. Anyone who enjoyed the original article will find the FAQ on this site {earlyretirementextreme.com} very insightful and interesting .
You are saying that all or even a little
more than all of the growth went
to the rich people. Okay.

But you also wrote:

> The basic argument I have is that they are not sharing adequately (i.e., sustainably) in the rewards for their labor.

Let's see: Suppose a company has 100,000
near minimum wage employees and the
CEO got $50 million last year. So,
for some arithmetic

50 * 10**6 / 100,000 = 500

So, distributing the CEO's salary among
all the low level workers would
give each worker only about $500
more a year, that is, about the
same as working one week. Wouldn't
even start to put the worker in
the middle class.

Might argue that if the CEO does
his/her job well, then the company
will grow, hire another 50,000,
currently nearly unemployed,
low wage workers and promote some of the
present 100,000 workers to management
positions where they start to get into
the middle class.

Net, to get the poor people into the
middle class will take more money
than the CEOs get, and one of the
best approaches is to have more and
better CEOs who create more and better
jobs. One example may be the
large company (?) that recently
announced that all its employees,
many at the low level,
can go to college for free.

Again, it appears that the key to
getting the poor people into the
middle class is not rich people
but powerful people, yes, maybe
powerful because they are rich;
but to be successful they need
to use their power, and smarts,
and not just their money --
because even the rich people
do not have even 1% of the needed money.

Power? Maybe. Money? No.
In this context the owner of the car and the owner of the parking garage are the same party, so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.