skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
House, techno, general electronic stuff. Here's an example of an (excellent) mix album split into tracks that plays perfectly for me: https://open.spotify.com/album/4ZYcd1FAY9GjtIphGqL4Ot (and I mean perfectly, I'm pretty anal about these things ;))
Lots of people buy and install home weather systems, and hook up their data feeds to Weather Underground (or what have you). I'm not a climatologist/meteorologist, but my understanding is that personal weather stations provide a serious bump in data volume. Perhaps the future of pollution data looks something like that? Add a few pollution sensors to a personal weather station? Market a stand-alone pollution sensor with "health" justifications?
> nothing you do on a computer connected to the internet should be considered private

That doesn't excuse Microsoft and others for becoming more and more invasive. And voting with your wallet works.
A democratic DPRK that hates the US is still probably better than a totalitarian DPRK that is ambivalent/slightly negative.
The ability to provide capital, access to a network, personal and professional support, real world experience (in that order) to founders in pursuit of helping them "change the world" is an awesome opportunity. Most VC's I've interacted with truly seem to feel this way. So in that sense, yes, it would be great to be a venture capitalist. Unfortunately, as argued in "The E-Myth", there are probably better avenues, at least for the later 3, to help founders, without the 800lb gorilla of submitting to the "VC system".
I think it would be a very interesting business to be in - I think Id' be more interested in being a VC advisor, which I've done sporadically in the past. Get to be involved in interesting deals and get paid for it, without having the grind of keeping LPs happy.
These flip-out connectors were always the first thing to break on your notebook and would render your only useful connection (modem, ethernet) completely useless.

The Thunderbolt widget is less than ideal, but it fits. Hopefully USB-C will introduce more options with a lower price-point.
>how hard would it be in practice to find someone to front the money for a lawsuit?

I'm paraphrasing, but 'Just assign your patent to [some group of investor/trolls] and they'll let you know if they can make anything of it.'

Patents do virtually nothing useful for small businesses/solo inventors. There are exceptions, but they are exceptional.
It's his/her repo, not being sold, not being advertised, not being linked to specific people e.g harassment.
It's not for YOU to care about.

It's dongle-joke between two friends in the open. Who the fuck are you to act on that? I don't mean you personally, I mean in general.

Don't compare this to racism or hate-crime like someone else did. That's just watering down words.
This isn't the case anymore. Since CORS was introduced, you can send xhr GET Requests to arbitrary domains.

The browser then checks if the appropriate CORS headers are set. If they are, you can access the response. If they aren't, you can't.

As a sane developer you are supposed not to trigger ANY actions on a GET anyway and there are a lot more ways to trigger them, so this is not an issue in the browser.

For POST and friends it's a bit more complicated, the browser sends an OPTIONS request first and checks if the CORS headers are set and only if they are, the actual POST is submitted.

Fun Fact: It looks like it's possible to exploit this issue silently even with javascript disabled and NoScript installed, it's quite lame to do it the way they did.
Good point BTW I've heard good things about https://www.phplist.com/
It sounds like you're saying that if you let engineers concentrate at work, they'll start working on the wrong projects.
I don't want to be stuck with an OS that I don't have a full license for when I replace my hardware.

And I found out that Microsoft basically reserve the right for full access/download of your data and it can't be disabled.
My friends and I want to start a thrift store for old tech company shirts. I bet a "Windows 95" shirt would fetch dozens of dollars.
How can i automate password resets/updates for all my 700+ account logins?
I want to be able to change all my passwords to individually configurable values with just one click.

Is there any software available, or sample code to show how to achieve this? Ever since I started using password manager tools I always was wondering what happens when this data some day needs to be replaced.

I thought a tool for automated password updates would really make sense, maybe with an open plugin api for adding new services. It should be a transparent, open source solution that should definitlely not be web-based (unlike LastPass).
They would have been in competition with NES, Master System, SNES, and Genesis games for that record. After that, Minesweeper and Solitaire probably don't come close.
I go back and forward on this; is it really this brazen or do the people crafting TTIP and TPP really believe it'll make the world better. There must be some involved who think it'll create jobs and money for everyone.

Maybe I'm just being overly optimistic - it certainly does look like what you have said.
This may be what you are looking for:
http://cylonjs.com/

It's a javascript framework for robotics.
A New Soft Technology (1st chapter of essay collection on software revolution)
> Personally I agree that "retard" shouldn't be censored because I hate censoring in general. But I also agree that "nigr" shouldn't be touched either.

The people who use the N-word should be called racists and shamed for using it though.

> Defending freedom of speech means defending the right for other people to have dissenting opinions, this includes opinions that are stupid, racist and bigoted.

Yep. Like I said though, those people should openly be called racists and be forced to know how their racism affects others.
RE DVD, they just rolled out a DVD app for those that used Media Center[1].

[1]: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_app...
Berlin and the Future of Cryptocurrencies
Ask HN: Coders of HN. How often do you work from home?
Just collecting some info to build some charts. I want to see how many people and how often people work from home for what reasons.

Good to have side information would be

1. Country
2. Job Title
3. Usual Reasons for WFH
Ask HN: Toronto software market
H HN community,
I'm looking for financial technology software firms in Toronto but am coming up empty. Surely some must exist; perhaps I'm a poor Google-er. I'm looking for firms that build software for the finance / capital markets industry. I've searched Google, Stackoverflow careers and LinkedIn.
Building a Markdown Editor with Meteor
Being offended by racial slurs is a sign of professionalism. You could extend this to ableist slurs pretty easily. I know I cringe everytime someone (sadly including myself sometimes) uses it since I have a family member that is mentally handicapped.
Regardless of whether or not most developers are upset about Safari's performance, most users would very strongly welcome a faster web browser. I'm pretty sure speed, stability, and ease of use are the main reasons Chrome is such a popular browser on the desktop. The thing is, it is not really that much faster than other browsers. However, even that small difference feels like a big difference and wins over many users. I'm sure many developers are aware of this. You can't get away from the fact that only allowing one browser rendering engine has some strong disadvantages and is one of if not the biggest disadvantage of using iOS.
Excellent point!

There's a good case to be made for survivorship bias.

Those who are unwilling to or incapable of engaging in proper opsec don't live to be old.
Can I add sites that try and take over my scrolling ability so it's nice and "smooth" but just ruins my ability to scroll to the target area?
I find Julien Vehent's CipherScan to be very useful
https://github.com/jvehent/cipherscan
Pretty Awesome Scrolling SVG Hack
Well, that's how it works in the printed press or TV as well. You either pay a lot for the content or 25-50% of it is actually ads.
My numbers:

Address	1
Birthday	1
Email	3
Password (encrypted)	3
Phone number	2

Overall, not a bad score. (My passwords are strong and unique thanks to my password manager.)
I have no idea I'm afraid, just going off a fuzzy memory. This seems to go into a lot more detail than I ever could: http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Gapless_playback. There's no way to go back and fix old files, but I know iTunes has done flawless gapless (when the source files are good, e.g. ripped from CD in iTunes) for about 10 years (I remember getting the firmware update on my black iPod video, ahhh now that was a beautiful looking bit of kit! Not very waterproof as it turns out though...)

Google Music doesn't play gapless properly, which is incredibly annoying, and indeed I struggled to get any player on Android to play gapless as well as iTunes. Poweramp was the closest I could find. Ended up going back to iPhone for that and other reasons. Not sure how iTunes Match handles gapless as I could never get it to upload my library properly, never mind play it back...

I still feel there is a big gap in the market for a really good cloud music repository. Hopefully Spotify can get in to that space, their player is the best out of the ones I've tried (though still a lot of room for improvement). I did try using Subsonic briefly but the clients were horrible.
I think you are missing the motivation behind some of these things:

Oracle would probably never have started to experiment with value types and specialized generics, if Scala didn't take the plunge and implemented, tested and shipped it years ago already.

Of course there are restrictions... but the choice was basically either never getting value types and generics, or accepting some restrictions until Scala drags Java into the 1990ies.

It's the same with extension methods. If the only thing you ever knew where extension methods, they would look pretty exciting. But after being aware of the full range of approaches, extension methods are "meh" ... they only implement the least useful part of implicits.

If I had to decide between extension methods and nothing, I'd pick nothing. Extension methods are just not pulling their weight.

Scala does a lot of things in a certain way, because the have > 10 years of experience experimenting with various approaches.

I suggest that you try to understand _why_ Scala does things this way, instead of assuming Scala devs are stupid. It's pretty likely that everything Kotlin does has been considered by Scala developers 5 years ago already–and discarded because better designs were discovered.
The metadata is provided by the labels. For their top-selling popular music that they earn songwriting and performance royalties on, the metadata is typically very thoroughly checked and accurate (although there are still mistakes). For classical music that is long out of copyright for the music, they care a lot less and the metadata is filled with mistakes. Most streaming services make a decent effort to try to clean up the metadata, but to a large extent, it's just a case of garbage in, garbage out.
What worries me the most in this thread is the quantity of GIFs, memes, and blatantly useless "me too, lol" comments. Can you relate how A MESSAGE WRITTEN IN CAPS makes you feel the author is shouting? Well, in the exact same way, those ridiculous pictures and messages feel to me like teenagers joining a conversation with childish jokes adding nothing to the debate, except noise.

Honestly, this looks more like a YouTube comment thread than a community of professionals discussing grown-ups issues.
Not only is it not all TPP related, it is mostly not TPP related. They cited the aggregate lobbying of all the (gigantic) members of a trade coalition, and that statistic is misleading.

The "champagne and hookers" snark is silly. Where do hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying fees go? Approximately the same place as the hundreds of millions of dollars of donations to giant institutional charities go:

* Salaries for formal employees of the organization

* Contractor fees for copywriting, advertising, event planning, legal

* Giant advertising and promotional campaigns

* Fundraising

* Direct political donations

* PAC donations

Just replace "food banks" and "medical care" with "report writing" and you're close.

Lobbying isn't a great thing, and it interacts very badly with PACs, but it certainly isn't millions of dollars in strippers. Mostly, it's a scam to skim money off the political process and into the pockets of lobbyists and their firms.
The Native OS X Wireshark is great! I always hated the one that required X11 as it rarely ever worked right :(
I don't aspire to be any sort of capitalist.
If you're not using Mozilla's SSL config generator, you should check it out. The Mozilla OpSec team did a nice job on this. I love when teams give back to the community.
https://mozilla.github.io/server-side-tls/ssl-config-generat...
Docking stations ARE awesome. Seems like USB-C is going to kill docking stations though. Already they feel a bit like a relic from the 00's.
Also see my reply above for an example of an album that plays seamlessly for me in Spotify. It may just be that I have got lucky, to be fair quite a lot of the mix CDs I listen to on Spotify are uploaded as one single hour-plus long track so would always be gapless.
Chronicling the innards of the Dot-Com Boom
I sometimes fantasize about setting up a website or a kickstarter that lets people send balloons with the $9 chip, GPS, and tiny fans that will guide it any point in the map. The problem with weather balloons that are being sent from South Korea is that 1) Korean government are too much of a pussy to aggravate North (given their lack of response after naval ship attack and island shelling) so they attack activists 2) The weather balloons mostly end up in unreachable places, no way of knowing if it was successful.

It would be like a website or a kickstarter where people could pay to send packages that include communication equipment, non perishable food items, medkits, insurgency, guerilla warfare, etc.

Imagine the impact this would have on North Korea when suddenly the citizens are communicating anonymously with each other and outside world.

This can only be done if the balloons could self guide themselves using GPS with a high degree of accuracy, and they be launched outside of South Korea. Maybe it can be done from America but the pacific ocean is turbulent and it will be tough to make it all the way in to North Korea. Japan is the best bet but South Korea will probably pressure them. So this leaves out launching it directly from the States, the challenge and costs go up dramatically since the journey must be made across pacific ocean.
Why reserve something for which scarcity is impossible?
Vector Meshes
Hey all, a lot of people I speak with imagine a "launch" as a single email you send to your audience. The effect of this is quite suboptimal–it doesn't build anticipation or give you data about what's resonating.

We recently went through 100's of online course launch email sequences and pulled the best types in one place (I've seen data on hundreds in the past year). I'd argue a similar set of emails could apply to any online product you're launching. That said let me know what you think here.
the context would be obvious. your hypothetical is a silly fiction
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Wouldn't a subreddit be better for this type of voting platform?
Google Hatsune Miku. See e.g.

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

Vocaloid is an example of marketing genius. The software appeared in the UK, and most people thought "Huh - sounds like a squeaky robot" and ignored it.

In Japan they gave one of the packs a name and invented an anime character for it, and made it possible to share music and 3D animations freely. The crowdsourced market exploded into a huge cult following, with some of the best J-Pop writers creating popular vocaloid songs.

And then there were holographic tours and parties, and Hatsune Miku became half in-joke, and half viral marketing diva with a distinct personality.

The best songs are very good indeed, IMO.
There are two main tracks in the AF, bomber/cargo/tankers get have a much larger emphasis on gliding as fighter’s really can't glide for crap. "Approximately 50 percent of cadets are enrolled in a soaring course during their third-class year." http://www.academyadmissions.com/the-experience/military/air...

The AF does promote people learning more general skills in their free time, but fighter jets are very special aircraft and that tracks focus is defiantly on becoming a better fighter pilot not just a well rounded pilot.
> be concise but still expressive, toolable, as fast as Java, easy ramp-up time, and very important, interoperable with all the existing code base we had

... and when you went to the Scala developers, they said "no, we aren't interested in such improvements at all, even if you implemented them yourself"?

Hard to imagine...
The technology is already there to create movies and and distribute them digitally. You could probably, as an outsider, even send your movie to a theater as long as they have digital projection. A talented, hardworking team of outsiders could produce a variety of films just as good as anything out of hollywood. But that remains rare. I believe the bottleneck is talent and experience. There is no market for a competent movie. Even what you would consider a bad hollywood movie is a top 1% kind of thing. Consider the similar field of music. Lot's of people play music. But if you were given the choice between listening to a good local band and a top world famous band, almost everyone chooses the latter. This is partially the result of technology especially distribution technology. Our media appetites are so set to expect the best of the best that 90% of the best of the best seems mediocre to us. That is the problem you need to solve to disrupt the movie business.
You're a bastard - in the strict sense - which is uncommonly used nowadays, other than mischievously - if born out of wedlock. Being brought up by a single parent is a separate matter.

Urban dictionary has a definition for git that is a bit closer to how I've always understood it. See #2: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Git
Unfortunately not in English: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorch-Fock-Klasse

This one is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorch_Fock_%281933%29
We're also using redux in production, after having switched from reflux. In redux, it's so much more clear where to put stuff.

In reflux, it was never clear to us whether certain async server operations should be handled in stores or in the actions. In general, you would always want them to be with your actions. Though every time you need a store variable to do the server call, you end up putting code in the store again (or passing the needed state through your react components, which is even uglier).

Not so in redux, where you have access to the stores in your actions. This way, stores get really dumb, which is the way they should be IMO.

And, btw, replacing reflux by redux is relatively easy and straightforward, as the same general concepts (flux) apply.

I also find the redux code easier to read, as the whole library is doing less (while achieving the same).
You're contradicting yourself, you say that "Not once did he come forward and say it was him" and then you say Alexis publicly admitted it himself.

My point is that we don't really know why she was fired (and why should we?). If Victoria wants to come forward and explain what happened then we can discuss the merits, until then it's speculation.
Forked and reverted, let's see if they're willing to make this a policy.
This is another example of a theoretically neutral policy being used to enable harrasment, because it's not applied in a uniform manner.
Agreed on all counts, I really don't get why you're being downvoted. Not that we care about internet karma, more that I wonder why others disagree with the points you've made.
That's so oversimplified that it's not true. mklim's comment is more accurate.
I found the resources at CHARM fascinating as I have an interest in the evolution of recorded sound and how that has worked to change performing styles.

http://www.charm.rhul.ac.uk/studies/chapters/intro.html

The ISGM provides competently recorded professional performances of chamber repertoire (mostly classical/romantic eras) for download and in their biweekly podcast. Some well-known performers.

Remember that a professional musician at the start of a career now has to compete with 100 years of recorded material, all potentially simultaneously available!
I'd rather be an adventure capitalist: contribute excellent products and services to the market, while living an adventurous life with the proceeds.

What's the fun in sitting on your ass rating/gambling on others' fortunes? Make your own!

BTW Aswath Damodaran once made a very astute point regarding VCs: they're traders, not investors, looking to enter low and exit high. Period. Anyone under the delusion that these people invest for the greater good is (largely) mistaken.

That's not necessarily a bad thing, but just not how I'd personally like to see my occupation defined.
Large over-ear headphones exert NO pressure on any part of the ear. They are basically inverted cups that go over and around your ear and insulate.

Are you saying those don't work for you?

Unless you're talking about the volume of music making your ears hurt in which case guess what - I didn't say anything about listening to anything on those headphones. Just having them on provides enough insulation that you don't need to pipe in any additional sound
China-Tied Hackers That Hit U.S. Said to Breach United Airlines
> I'm pretty sure speed, stability, and ease of use are the main reasons Chrome is such a popular browser on the desktop.

Unfortunately they don't seem to care about efficiency. I know numerous people who have given up on Chrome (on Mac, don't know if Windows is better) because using Safari keeps the laptop's fans from spinning up and gives them an extra few hours of battery life.
Good point.

http://spotthedrowningchild.com/creator.html#T5mDQeDkca0

How would you set this scenario up?
If you're wondering where the content actually is, take a look at the commit, where comments are written alongside the code:

https://github.com/brson/annotated-std-rs/commit/e50c2b16455...
Microsoft wants you to pay for Solitaire, again, in Windows 10
I actually received this guy's book as a gift and it's been quite the cool "life hack" to be able to tie my shoes with superhuman powers basically. And also to understand what someone is doing wrong by looking at their knot. And to browse through a catalog of lacing techniques each time I get new shoes and pick an optimal one.

I use the knot he calls the "Ian Knot" and after about 7 years it's come untied maybe twice.

The easiest thing to learn is, on the "typical knot" most people learn at childhood, if your "loops" stick out up and down instead of at the sides, then you're doing it wrong (tying a granny instead of a square knot) and need to reverse half your technique. Since the first "X" is simpler, the easy path is to just reverse the X you normally do and proceed from there. Suddenly, your shoes will come untied much less.
Reclaim Your Coding Life: Be a Catalyst Developer
The first one is probably the main reason behind answer to OP's question. "Do you aspire to be a venture capitalist?" "Do I have the ability to provide capital?"
WiFi Sense: Yes, it shares your passkeys; no, you shouldn’t be scared