jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
+e^x for Kenny Werner's book.

Kenny Werner's philosophy if you can summarize it in one sentence - is if you are a trumpet player - you must master breath control, fingering so by the time you are in performance - you are truly playing without thinking of the mechanics.

There are many analogies to really focused coding, Kenny Werner's philosophy, and Mihály Csíkszentmihályi's concept of flow [1]. You must master the syntax, the grammar, the idiosyncrasies, the rules and unwritten and written customs, and the is-isms of the language before you can "effortlessly" write code in a given platform/language. This is one of the reasons beginners to programming may stumble on the hike - they are so focused on the writing of the lines of code that they are often pushed by themselves or their otherwise well-intentioned teacher to produce code. The building blocks of code are not the lines of code - it is the concepts and the system and framework and mental model behind it (the whiteboard so to speak).

"This year, forget about the year as a whole. Forget about months and forget about weeks. Focus on days."

http://austinkleon.com/2013/12/29/something-small-every-day/

An excerpt from Kenny Werner's book that I just pulled out of my giant stack of books Jenga style (p.85).

> Practice

Perhaps music feels great as long as you're fifteen feet away from the instrument, but as you move closer, a different energy takes over and your connection dwindles...

How can we retain the bliss of freedom as we approach our instrument? We must let go off all desires and focus on love. To have the nectar flow through us, we must honor our inner being, and practice receiving what is being given. We must practice and strengthen this conviction daily. We may even have to go outside of music to do it. This is really important, because playing, being so addictive, pulls us easily from the true goal and draws us back into more mundane realms.

But when you have made the inner connection, playing becomes more like taking dictation from within. Work with the thought, I am the master, I am great. Then just put your hands on the instrument, trust them, and eventually it will be so.

"Do not fear mistakes. There are none."
-Miles Davis

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
That's true, Viagra is actually proven to work, whereas Meerkat isn't.

There isn't a difference. Spam is spam.
This has existed for some time already - FOAF+SSL. It uses X509 certificates and user owned FOAF files that can be provided by themselves or served from another resource. What's even more cool, is, the user doesn't need to "log in" nor create a "profile" since the cert authenticates the user against their FOAF file and the FOAF file provides their profile and friend connections.
It seems to me that the point is to avoid missing a glaringly obvious problem with a project that, while you may be blind to, a random stranger may not.
It's a great point. Women often have a lot more to lose in situations like this so may be extra wary. And the long hours late nights can be much more of an issue for single moms or moms in families where both parents are working. So it's challenging all around.
Sure. I'm thinking it'd probably be up to the site using the service what their login policy is.
Just noticed HN has alternating red/green link numbers on the homepage. Merry Christmas pg!
When Zuckerberg has been building great stuff for 35 years—-as opposed to hiring people to build great stuff that he didn't even think up, for a year or two--then he can be compared to Jobs.

Until then, it's kind of a joke to do so.
Nice idea! Your server crashed before I could test the site fully, but I did find a tiny css bug: http://imgur.com/kSliFCL (Chrome 40.0.2214.85 beta (64-bit), OS X Yosemite)
What if you're trying to sell breeding animals?
Pretty sure that you're wrong about that.
Aren't those quarterly numbers? So the average annual profit per employee in FB would be about $650k?
At least you're thinking ahead. A lot of kickstarters have trouble delivering. Perhaps you ramp up your ask to 50,000 buy the equipment that will allow you to be super productive.
as long as you don't count on it.
Didn’t know about perf - awesome. I love strace, it’s saved me many times.
Does this suggest Theranos could have been viable?
> Maybe bomb disposal/retrieval.

Don't forget bomb placement.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-texas-crime/no-charges-fo...

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/8/8/20747198/philadel...
Thin clients are the easiest way to handle it, all they can do is connect to a terminal server, no local storage.
It is most visible in communities that are shrinking, especially if they were originally very large. Moderate members slowly filter out for one reason or another until only the die hards are left.
They're downvoting everyone who is pointing out that Trump did not win the popular vote. This is frustrating given it is absolutely relevant, even if it is somewhat of a nitpick; the statement that "half of the US" voted for anyone is genuinely misleading.
Thanks for this, appreciated!
I worked on a barely do-not-distribute. Someone's spouse took a project member's laptop as hostage for alimony. Within 45 minutes of discovery and a phone call to the army equivalent of the FBI, agents were at the spouse's work and home searching for the laptop.

Lucky for the spouse they thought it was the personal laptop (it was not marked) so they weren't prosecuted.

This laptop could be much worse, or just fine.
>I prefer to not press my keyboard

Use your mouse then - e.g scroll button (on push, on scroll, whatever you want) or side buttons on modern / gaming mouses
I dont understand how the OP knows/can prove that they are printing tether during the times that btc went up. Is there any more info on that part? It looks to me like they just drew lines under a graph and said tether is printing.
Indeed. Repetition of phrases, images, or ideas - regardless of their truth - is the basis of propaganda and brainwashing.
I see. Indeed, it is useful.
> Cow meat is better when rare

A few pitmasters in Texas would like to have a word with you about over-generalizing....

Seriously though - a cow is a huge animal with many cuts. Some are better rare, some are sublime when cooked to a high enough heat to break down the collagen in it.
"very, very long tail of people with no wealth"

Obviously the tail from median income to $0 is much shorter than the tail of median income to billions/year for BillG.

So... not sure your desired metrics are that meaningful.
Why's Guide to Ruby was pretty compelling, just for the strange humor in it.

Recently I've been reading "Functional Programming: Application and Implementation" with alacrity. Only 50 pages or so in, but very good so far.
Anything to do with Pocoo?
Sweet! Maybe this is a way to create chips for the RepRap, on the RepRap.
I use Flask (Werkzeug), Jinja 2 and have used Pygments. Plenty of people use Sphinx. I have to say, Pocoo has made a lot of great software. I am thankful.
More customers for --> http://autolicio.us/
love tarsnap, but seriously... someone please make a web-gui (you can paste your ssh keys in a webpage a la github) or atleast a java gui.

It does get to be too painful sometimes.
I am not a lawyer or an accountant so my advice is limited. From the sounds of it, them simplest form would be to do an LLC. You can file an S-Corp election to have the taxes pass through and you will only have to file your personal taxes with a separate schedule for the business income/expenses.

The best advice though is to talk to an accountant and determine what is best for your particular tax situation.
In the US, there is a lot of emphasis placed on "closing achievement gaps"

It's easier to slow the smart kids down than make the slow/non-responsive kids perform better.

I don't think there is an active conspiracy or anything, just neglect. In the state of NJ, the only categories on standardized tests given to all K-12 students are Advanced Proficient, Proficient, and Partially Proficient. Advanced Proficient is really what you would just call normal. There is no recognition for high performers. Schools spend almost all of their time on getting kids above the Proficient mark because this is ultimately how funding will be allocated. Also, if you have too many kids below Proficient, the state can take over administration of your district.
He lost me when he started talking about alcohol sales as morally questionable.
I got screwed by a policy like that years ago when I moved from the DoD back into the private sector. I was honest (and naive) when filling out the HR paperwork and listed my low gov't salary. Come to find out later they knocked 15K off the salary.
If you're interested in a more of a "project log" style (rather than a complete article) you might want to take a look at my previous efforts at reversing a wireless USB dongle:

http://code.rancidbacon.com/LearningAboutAtmelRZRAVEN

And if you happen to like reading about other people's (sometimes uncompleted) reversing projects like I do I've got a few more of those too: :)

http://code.rancidbacon.com/ProjectDigitalSpyCameraPen

http://code.rancidbacon.com/ProjectPyX86

http://code.rancidbacon.com/LearningAboutSkannerzRacerz

And a more general reverse engineering link collection:

http://code.rancidbacon.com/ReverseEngineering
Since this community is largely made up of smart people, and since it seems pretty common to spend 'too much time' doing things like HN, and since we are currently the product of a lot of evolution I wonder if focus is actually all that's its cracked up to be. Possibly our overall productivity when viewed on a larger scale is better because we get distracted, possibly idea generation, possibly just the social aspect, or learning of a new technology etc. I just wonder if this is so bad really.

The Web2.0 Summit said that the tech sector is innovating at an unprecedented rate. One of the changes in the software industry in recent years is the rise of the social network and sites like HN. Maybe 'time wasting' isn't so bad after all - viewed at a higher altitude that personal productivity.
Countdown to this being abused the same way DMCA is misused on Youtube to delete videos that the uploader actually created themselves, but were shown at somepoint on a commercial TV/news show.

Also a fantastic powerful way for corporations to reverse-hijack domains.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_domain_hijacking
Bernie Madoff ran the same alleged scam for years, including giving interest to people in the fund. It would be even easier to run with a non-interest-bearing fund and you'd never even notice the money was missing unless there was a bank run.
It is hard to say how well Tesla will complete their giga factories and bring them into production. The Chinese one was a Tour de Force, if Texas and Germany get completed and into production in a similar way to defeat the gathering forces of the IC car industries electrification efforts then the share price will tend to flatline as Tesla and reality meet. If the IC car makers create a few years of crappy products(as is likely) their stumbles(which Tesla has already put behind it, I hope), then it may even go higher and the short-fry will become epic...
Why not? It seems like a pretty clear cut move to increase privacy, drive up consumer satisfaction and loyalty, and increase sales. Yeah, they're doing it to sell more iPhones, sure, but I don't see how that's a bad thing.
I came here expecting to read about the tech in the article or how others do big data processing stuff. Instead I get off topic Spotify rants.. Did you read the article or just see Spotify in the headline and decided your gripes therefore are relevant?
That subreddit is censoring all posts about this issue.
The person you were replying to was less implying Wu is undeserving of the honor and more suggesting that when one hears "First Lady of Physics", most would think of Noether (which I feel is likely accurate for those versed in physics history).
I'm surprised to see so many negative comments here. I didn't expect so many readers of Hackernews belong to America's top 1% in wealth.
The Köln and Vienna concerts are my all-time favourite Keith Jarrett recordings. Perhaps that is part nostalgia: They were the first I ever heard of him.
I think it would be better to say that ML works within the PD as defined by its training. Sometimes this is inadequate for application because the PD is not well defined, and sometimes it's inadequate for application because the PD that is defined by training is not the PD in the application. But - when the PD is adequate (not perfect, but adequate) then it works. For example the PD for reading post codes off envelopes is adequately defined. The PD for matching mugshots to crowd video is not adequately defined.

Claiming ML systems don't work is a denial of objective reality - your world is made of ML systems that are working every day. You may as well claim that the sun doesn't work because it's dark at night.
Emacs has a long history with so many versions and editors with "emacs" in the name but not necessarily what we think of emacs today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs

In the 1970's there was TECO and then E. Emacs kind of grew out of these editors.

James Gosling of Java fame had his own Gosling Emacs version that I believe was sold for money

GNU Emacs only started in 1984 and had its initial release in 1985. This interview is from 1984 so we would need to know what version of Emacs is Bill Joy referring to specifically.

Also before fast internet connections the FSF used to sell GNU tools on tape and then CD

This newsletter from 1994 says the CD costs $400. I don't know what the price was in 1984 but maybe Bill Joy is referring to that but the Free Software Foundation was only founded in 1985.

https://www.gnu.org/bulletins/bull16.html#SEC38
Not, it's not, but when two populations of a species are physically separated, they can very well evolve to different species given enough time.
They were acquired by VF Corporation last year.

https://www.vfc.com/investors/news-events-presentations/pres...
Random anecdote; for some (I suppose obvious) reason a surprising number of drug dealers are caught because they are caught carrying weapons - which leads to searches, which leads to the drugs.

At least; that is my impression from the cases I see.
the auto-translations are specifically against Google's TOS, just FYI. Beyond that Matt is looking into some specific oddities we found and stuff was forwarded on to the Google search quality team. Not sure what will come of it, but Matt Cutts is awesome!
I heard a story, possibly an urban legend, that the Israeli army had classified a particularly underpowered .22 rifle as a "less lethal" weapon so they could use it to shoot protesters, juvenile rock-throwers, and other targets with which they were supposed to exercise a certain amount of restraint. Soldiers then measured their marksmanship by how lethal they could be with this "less lethal" weapon until the government was forced to correct the "mistake."

This is a pretty ugly story that would have gratifying appeal to many people on either side of the issue (I heard it from a conservative guy who was grinning with glee at the supposed cleverness of the Israelis) so there's a good chance it's an urban legend. Confirmation or refutation would be welcome.
Doc with a degree in physics, previously a weapons and anti-terrorism officer on an aircraft carrier and recently (a year ago) took the combined forces combat casualty care course, and have done a few trauma rotations in inner-city ERs (New Orleans and Norfolk).

Chapter 1 of the Emergency War Surgery Manual (updated in 2006 to collect lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan) dedicates Chapter 1 to dispelling misconceptions about injuries. The science comes down on the side of the cop answering in Google: the weapon is of little use in predicting the outcome.

http://www.bordeninstitute.army.mil/other_pub/ews.html
Do people agree with the TechCrunch analysis that there's going to be a Twitter QA site?

I don't really see Twitter having separate sections, but it does seem natural that questions in your stream could be handled better.
Google at some stage had to decide whether they wanted the carriers' cooperation or the the full openness. I don't really blame them for choosing market traction but for exactly those reasons I will buy an iPhone next time as I'm very unhappy with my T-Mobile branded HTC phone. (I fell into the trap of thinking that all Android phones will be rootable, about a year ago when that wasn't so well known).

If I have the choice of bending over in front of Apple or T-Mobile I choose Apple. You'll probably say that I should get a Nexus [One|S] but the entire episode has left a bad taste in my mouth.
Google voice can dial an existing landline. What i mean is when i get home, I want to be able to place my cell into a cradle and when it rings it rings all the home phones, and calls made from any of the phones in the house would route through the cell network using my phone.
> "I've said it before but: don't invest in companies raising too little. They will fail."

I presume that by 'they will fail', you mean that the company will fail to make your required ROI as an investor, being acquired for millions?

At first read it seems like you're saying that unless you raise a ton of money you can't build a successful profitable business...

IMHO Newslabs failed because it was a terrible idea, not because of anything else.
By focusing on the gender pronoun thing, most of the replies here seem to be missing the more important point.

The larger and more important issue is the utter contempt for feminism (which, at its best simply strives to have women be treated no worse than men), and the contempt for "social justice people" (ie. people who actually care about justice for everyone) that the poster's friend demonstrated.

And this contempt came from someone who feminists and "social justice people" were concerned with helping. Instead of any kind of constructive or even thoughtful comment on the issue, the author's friend simply contemptuously dismissed her and everyone who cares about any of these issues.

That's the larger problem. Contemptuous dismissal of people who are actually interested and motivated to help move society forward.
You surely can't be unaware that Eric Raymond loves both tech and guns?
I agree. On the surface, this looks ridiculous and I am very surprised. Hopefully there is a good explanation... but pregnancy status as a query parameter? I don't understand what that could be other than data mining.
Not sure if you've ever worked on an enterprise website before but this would have nothing to do with the development process. This is all the work of the various marketing/product teams wanting to use the tools they are accustomed to.

It's ridiculous how many times I've seen this happen before.
I'd love to see the results from visiting the Qualys SSL Client Test: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/viewMyClient.html

I imagine the issue is that we only support TLS 1.0+ and not SSLv2 or SSLv3. https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=news.ycombina...
You're right. s/anyone/anyone with half a brain/
I love this poem. It's also one of my favorites. As a non-religious person, the poem inspires me to always look for hope, no matter what. Thanks for posting!
We, as an industry, need to start pushing employers to make job posts talk more about "Management measures your value to the company in these ways, and rewards them in these ways" and less about "We've got a kegerator and a ball pit."
One thing to suggest:

Instead of picking what tests to run, it may be better to change the order in which tests are run instead.

In particular: sorting tests by "how often did this test change results when these lines were modified?", descending.

(And also running a background job that asserts that tests don't change results when run in a different order.)
the fact that Glass’s music contains no fully developed melodies

I had to look up the date on this piece because taking into account Glass's post 1995 (at the very latest) works, I couldn't disagree more with the conclusion and perhaps misunderstand the author's concept of melody.

Glass's distant history with melody is not particularly strong (although Façades is a good example of early melodic work), but his work has become more (and to choose a rather tricky term) "human" over the years. Reviews of Naqoyqatsi (both the movie soundtrack and the concerto it turned into) frequently cite its "melodic" nature and "lyrical melodic lines" (BBC Music) and it is far from the only modern Glass piece to adopt a melodic approach (his epic first Violin Concerto comes to mind). Heck, I'm sure I even saw Glass and Yo Yo Ma being interviewed about Naqoyqatsi and how it was designed for the cello to drive a powerful melody to counteract the technological nature of the movie (note that Koyaanisqatsi was the other way around - more 'mechnical' electronic music set to scenes of the natural world).

One problem some new to Glass can encounter is Glass's melodies frequently occur in lower registers on instruments that don't generally play melodies, particularly in his operas, leaving the traditionally melodic instruments to instead provide the rhythm. Appomattox provides modern examples of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J14flyMOQo
I guess that makes sense if frameworks care about placement (which I generally don't) because otherwise they'd have to express placement constraints to Mesos.

I still can't find documentation about what fairness policies are actually implemented, though.
One of my bucket list projects is to build a celestial navigation unit using a prosumer-grade CCD and BeagleBoard grade hardware (star maps stored on MicroSD card, computation done onboard providing NEMA output).

The SR-71's celestial nav unit was a work of art. Kudos for the reference.
I have always been ashamed that I rarely consider reporting a bug. Though, most of the time I assume that the "bug" is caused by my ignorance.

I think this man's efforts should be applauded. :)

Good luck!
I think most developers were seeing 3 day approvals at times last year. I recall Apple boasting about their fast turn-around at some point (high 90th percentile in 7 days, IIRC).
Fair enough. I'm certainly going only from my own experiences and the review process certainly is opaque. I asked @pschiller so perhaps he'll grace us with some info. :)
This proves that sometimes you need deep understanding of the tools at your disposal or you risk developing flawed software. See: https://github.com/composer/composer/commit/ac676f47f7bbc619...
Being able to listen and see how changes to the waves make a difference to what I'm hearing is interesting for me as an amateur musician with some understanding of the physics, but I wonder how well this works for kids in this classroom environment. Are they actually being taught synthesis, or are they rather being taught to make music and treating each piece of code as an instrument where they change what notes it plays rather than what it does?

I can see how the automated synthesis could be more appealing than classical instruments because they sound like what one hears on TV or radio, and doesn't need years of practice for good technique.

Is there an advantage to showing kids the actual numbers though? And how effective are these numbers compared to "conventional music" concepts like BPM and named notes of a scale (even if they are just named, 1st, 2nd, 3rd or do re mi - and even if the scale is not assumed to have 8 notes).

If I'm reading the list of contributors right it seems like these are musicians rather than computer scientists, so it would be interesting to hear from them.
The correct response is that people of all stripes are capable of both promoting and destroying civil society. And I would personally add all animals, machines, and so on, too are capable depending on how society is defined.