skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or you can get some top quality VST for ~$2-3k (like Nexus 2) and a MIDI-controller with a plenty of knobs where you can map anything you wish for your sound synthesis in a DAW, far more versatile for your creative expression than most physical synths ;-)

For many starters Mininova or Microkorg would be totally sufficient, with exotics like Korg Kaossilator for additional creativity.

IMO the best setup nowadays is to have an ultrabook, a few pads/MIDI controllers, a mixer and maybe a studio 88-key MIDI keyboard if you really need it, that's it. Plenty of people are using 2-3 iPads for their whole live music production as well.
RFC 822 is so loose in what it accepts compared to conventional use that it doesn't help with validation to prevent input mistakes, though it's effectively a lost cause. Since someone could theoretically have the address:

"<blink> !_joe!jim%foo_jay\@sus/\$ch=rist;`rm -fr /`"@example.com

Perfectly fine according to RFC 822.

RFC 2822 is better and rejects that, so things have changed for the better, and theoretically could change again (though I wouldn't bet money on it).

RFC 2822 still accepts:

"joe!jim%foo_jaysus/cee=rist;`rm -fr /`"@example.com

We must accept there's no reliable and correct way to help with many classes of actual user errors on input even if the world's existing SMTP servers can actually choke on valid RFC 822/RFC 2822 addresses.
Ted Nelson had some great thoughts, but fell short on implementing them. Nelson's Xanadu stands for the impossibility of implementing a perfect system. One cannot implement a perfect system, b/c anyone's idea of perfection must necessarily confront reality. Nelson was never willing to compromise to reality. I get the sense that Mr. Yarvin is totally willing to compromise in the face of reality, and has already done so in many respects to get this far with urbit.
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Capital sitting idly in driveways is inherently inefficient. How is that hard to understand?

> People tend to underestimate the true ownership cost of their cars, and Uber uses that to make them believe they're making a lot more per hour than they actually are.

That isn't an argument about its efficiency though.

Maybe the marginal value of a car self-driving itself somewhere is $1 and the marginal cost of that driving is $0.99—it's still more efficient for that car to drive than not. Whether the owner thinks their profit is $1 or 1 cent doesn't really matter.
(Which is what I started off with, two comments upwards, with the statement 'one of the issues is to get right the level of oversight, transparency, and trust in the system to minimize abuse'.)
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Hired.com for it's hybrid staffing agency/collaboration with my recruiting team.

Greenhouse for it's process management and scheduling abilities.
There should be a name for those people who are quick to shout out some truism (that is actually true) but used out of context to a cliched degree.

See also: "You're not Google's customer, you're the product"
Einstein was wrong: First conclusive proof 'spooky' quantum entanglement is real
non-free citation: "Loophole-free Bell inequality violation using electron spins separated by 1.3 kilometres" ~ http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...
I would note that Nock is a representation of an ISA for an abstract machine, not a language. Aren't loop-unrolled x64 code, LLVM bitcode, BEAM bytecode, etc., also "obtuse"?

In fact, the best thing to compare it to, in my mind, would be RarVM bytecode: another ISA designed to be "forward-compatible" in the sense of ensuring that even the first interpreter will be able to run code from years in the future. Nobody ever sees RarVM bytecode; nobody even realized it existed for decades. It was just there, an implementation detail of the RAR encoding/decoding process, doing its job of enabling the RAR format to change its algorithm over time.
Outsourcing the jobs of the same people you sell stuff to only lets you arbitrage price stickiness for so long as the consumers eat through their capital and expand their balance sheet.

Then, deflation.
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I taught in Seattle. I actually read a bunch of reviews before applying and noticed the same trend. I think the quality of the actual instructors plays a huge role which reflects on each markets ability to hire top talent with adequate industry experience. I've met Instructors from all over and from what I can tell it seems like GA generally does a great job at hiring, but being in 14 different cities there is bound to be some variance.

My advice to anyone considering any immersive program would be to meet/vet the actual instructor(s) teaching your particular cohort.
>I think the crucial layer that we need to implement... a lot of things... is a global immutable (aka referentially transparent) namespace.

Theodore Nelson has said this himself, I can't remember the exact source but I think it was in his google talk he said that you need permanent addressing for Xanadu to work. He at least reiterates the concept (though with less principal importance) here:

http://xanadu.com/XanaduSpace/btf.htm

"STABILIZED ADDRESSES

Imagine that everything you type is given a permanent, immutable address. Then to refer to a given sentence, or paragraph, you would refer to its permanent address span (start, length). This would have many benefits.

This is not the way things are ordinarily done, but in this system we simulate such permanent addresses in order to get these benefits."
> interesting!

You spelled VNC wrong. :P
> Lisp without symbols or an environment

Why is that an advantage? The ability to give things names seems like a big win to me.
The social implications of this scenario are going to be devastating.

I'm doing my best to prepare for my own future (as one of those laid off early) by learning software development to supplement my systems engineering skill from aerospace. I do not forsee myself becoming a barrista.
Because "correlation is not causation" is just plain wrong. What is should be is "correlation does not imply causation". This is where science comes in. To answer the question, is this correlation because of causation?

The statement is only important to people doing statistical analysis not experimental science.
I'd love more background on why the foreign banks cooperated.

Presumably, the larger ones have US arms to do things like trade on Wall Street. Maybe the American government threatened to penalize Swiss institutions through their US subsidiaries if they didn't cooperate, but I imagine that many of the smaller banks (and the state-owned ones) don't have interests in the US. How can they be penalized for violating the law of a jurisdiction that's literally on the other side of the world?
I guess after doing about 6-7 i18n sites at Yahoo! I know how to build them pretty well now!
Whenever people ask me what a good way to teach kids programming is, I always have two suggestions: Arduinos and Minecraft. It's awesome to see someone else was thinking the same way, and put together the perfect kit to combine the two! Kudos.
I think it has the potential to be creepy. I don't necessarily see aerial observation, something over a century old, no worse than street cameras or cops: a necessary evil, to some people.
The FCC should always be a progressive institution, so a conservative majority would be against this goal by definition of the word "conservative".
Abstract ISAs are still languages.

And at least loop-unrolled x64 code describes what it's doing straightforwardly, instead of throwing around redundant mathematical abstractions and hoping the interpreter will magically pattern-match them away.
Honestly, i was a little sad to see you mention latin out of the corner of my eye, which would mean you'd properly pronounce it oorbit, to then find out you're being as english about it as the internet usually is.
Thanks! I discovered erlibird, but I'll check these out too.
"require"--cute. Even if "required" in all states including federally, who oversees this to ensure that said requirements are being followed? What keeps them from using it anyway?

Also, the very nature of these devices ensure that they capture data that does not belong to the suspect under warrant. Just because a suspect lives in an area near me, does not give them any right whatsoever to collect my data.
The user's cursor will also be moved to the end of the inputted text with every keystroke.
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They use thermal cameras and stingrays. This is not technology that the public has access to. If traffic and CCTV cameras had thermal and cell-interception capabilities, people might be a bit more concerned. If I'm in my house, no one should be able to look inside it or intercept the signals from my phone. Do I need to thermally-insulate my house to get some fucking privacy?
Unless the bully then brings his friends (and they usually have more "friends" than their targets) to have a go at the person who hit them.

I was bullied to shit at school, all anonymously (pre-internet era)....urine soaked chocolates put through my front door, cans of drink emptied and refilled with urine, someone even fired an air rifle through my front door one weekend..not all bullying is "easily" solved by retaliating in kind, and punching someone will have fairly heavy consequences as an adult, so perhaps it is best to learn other ways of dealing with it..."But he started it" does not cut it if someone bullies you at work.

(incidentally, I later found out that it was my "friends" who had been doing this)
> As always when I learn about the guts of the web, I'm amazed anything ever works.

So true. Whenever my wife is complaining about something on her computer not working (or being too slow), I try to remind her of the amazingness that a computer works AT ALL, and quite reliably at that.
Yeah, the WV eastern panhandle is basically just commuter towns for people who work in DC/Baltimore/NoVA, and more properly "belongs" to that area than to the mountainous southern/western parts of the state.
I'm not surprised the numbers are being published that way, but it is certainly misleading. These things are being pitched essentially as "Why waste four years of your life and bury yourself in debt? You can have a six figure career, working from your home, in just twelve short weeks at a fraction of the cost! We have a 100% placement rate!"

Someone should be telling these students the truth. "This is going to be the most intensive, gruelling twelve weeks of hell on your life so far. Three out of four students will drop the program and will still owe the equivalent of one years (state university) tuition at a standard college. If you do finish then you still may not find a job in the field."
> The only reason we're talking about it is because "radiation" sound scary

Radiation doesn't "sound" scary, it is scary. And for very good reason: because at the hands of people who don't understand the dangers, it can be absolutely devastatingly lethal.

Take for instance the irradiation accident in Goiania (Brazil) where a radioactive source was removed from a trashed teletherapy machine by people scavenging for scrap.

This is from the IAEA report on the case:

After the source capsule was ruptured, the remnants of the source assembly were sold for scrap to a junkyard owner. He noticed that the source material glowed blue in the dark. Several persons were fascinated by this and over a period of days friends and relatives came and saw the phenomenon. Fragments of the source the size of rice grains were distributed to several families. Theis proceeded for five days, by which time a number of people were showing gastrointestinal symptoms arising from their exposure to radiation from the source.

(online here: http://www-pub.iaea.org/mtcd/publications/pdf/pub815_web.pdf)

Result, 249 people contaminated, 4 of which died and 28 suffeed radiation burns, plus environmental contamination kilometers away.

That's why people are scared of radiation. Because it can seriously mess you up.

And I fear that going around and saying "it's totally harmless, like eating a banana" is really not helping the people who use it to be really, really careful how they use it. And they should- because if they don't then it's not at all harmless.

Basically, a backscatter van like the ones we discuss here, if left at the hands of people who do not have any training as radiologists (and possibly even then) is, indeed, for all intends and purposes, a chariot of death with an invisible death ray gun.

Tell me what keeps the operators of this sort of van from forgetting the scanner to "ON" pointing at a crowded building and going for a wee, or a coffee, or taking a nap or whatever. People have done much, much more stupid things than that. See above- glow-in-the-dark powder. They thought it was magical fairy dust and daubed it on their babies [edit: actually that was in a very similar accident, in Ciudad Juarez]. 'Nuff said?
What am I gaining using YAML? JSON is a well-known standard and used everywhere.
Airbnb doubles down on douchebaggery
I take thatswrong0's point to be that you would likely find as much if not more corruption in the federal, state, and county prisons and jails as you do in private prisons. And I'm quite sure that's the case. Inmates are just too easy to take advantage of. They can't really complain to anyone and nobody (for the most part) cares.
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I get the sense that the (unspoken) point of encoding basic operations in an extremely redundant way is, in fact, forcing "production-quality" Urbit interpreters to support jets. It's not really a "magic hope" for this pattern-matching to happen if the language's stdlib is written to rely on the presence of it; any more than it's a "magic hope" that a Prolog interpreter will support backtracking, when all Prolog code relies on that fact; or a "magic hope" for an Erlang interpreter to support tail-call elimination, when all Erlang processes are idiomatically written using terminal self-calls.

As an aside, though:

> Abstract ISAs are still languages.

Not always true. A lot of current abstract ISAs are (because they were designed to be programmed in, as well as as compile targets), but many aren't. Most code read into a modern VM gets chewed on a bit more from its "canonical" form; the internal representation that results, with threaded code and JIT profiling hooks and tracing et al, basically looks like Nock: a graph of numbers. For most VMs, those numbers are just pointers to structs it has allocated, so they can't really "live" outside the VM. Nock just goes a bit further and says "but if you give those struct-pointers persistent wire-representable identifiers ala CapnProto, you can serialize the whole internal-VM-state graph in a portable way—and then that can serve as the VM's ISA."
Something's going on that's more than just network effects. Google was arguably not the first dominant search/advertising company, and Facebook was not the first social network, etc. But these companies can convince very good engineers that it's more profitable to join them than to compete against them, whereas their predecessors failed to do that. How they do this merits more investigation.
Consumer based economy that survives on spending, held back with flat wage increases to grow spending from those same consumers. This is the result you would expect to get.
I still don't understand why this thing was chosen to be the basis for all of Urbit. What advantages do you get from building on top of Nock vs. lambda calculus or SKI combinators or anything else?
no, my point was more along the lines of there being no reason other than pure obstructionism to block this particular ruling, and that a single person could have effectively killed it.
I was a bit shocked by that photo until I went to the page itself at http://diversify.github.io/ and read:

> Diversify was a weekend event at Spotify in Stockholm, where 40 tech students of diverse backgrounds came together and designed, wrote code, and found new friends.

Maybe having students to this is in part pointless, but that picture is not of a group of Spotify employees working on diversity issues.
As it is now, I just don't answer any calls from numbers that are not already in my contact list. Any unknown numbers go to voice mail.
The history section has a lot of errors. The author sort of has the basics down, but there's a lot of "I didn't research this properly" in the details.

And I completely agree about digital. if you can code, digital is infinitely open. Analog is sonic Lego with a heavy dose of nostalgia and positional social signalling.

It's certainly fun to play with, but musically it's a lot more limited.
I understand that you feel very strongly about your perspective, and notice that the arguments you make rely on your personal opinions and experiences. I wish to assure you, that you feel this makes your arguments compelling does not speak well for the college education you prize so strongly.
I wonder how much they spent (wasted) on the advertising that achieved nothing but make them come across as tone-deaf a-holes?
I think you're both missing the part where Airbnb has been arguing for years that it wasn't an hotel operator and as such it didn't need to pay hotel taxes. They were forced to do so after plenty of legal back and forth with public officials. Hence, the "you're welcome" sounds like an insult to to the city and its citizens that pay taxes without flinching more than anything else.

Personally I think Airbnb are a bunch of douches that seriously need to grow up.
Hmm.. odd. When I submitted, it didn't point me to one of the others.
If you read the FAQ on eevblog, 100 KHz frequency ultrasound will lose 90% of its energy at 2 meter range or just over 6 feet. That energy goes to heating the air that the sound travels through.

Then you have to contend with any orientation offset. If the receiver is off by 90 degrees or more, there is zero energy received. If your hand blocks half the surface area, that's another 50% power loss.

If you boost the power above 140 dB safety limit, you can burn your hands or cause other problems. At 140 dB at 2 meters, the theoretical best case with 100% efficiency transmitter and receiver will deliver 0.85 watts. You obviously lose even more than that.

http://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/the-ubeam-faq/
Personally, I don't agree with your assumption. It is totally fine for 2 people to have the same globally recognized name because the people who need to differentiate between them will spontaneously invent a system to do so.

In Japan nobody has middle names and family names in some areas are very common. For example, where I live Suzuki is ridiculously popular. At the school I taught at, 10 of the 80 teachers had the last name Suzuki and 3 of them had the same first name. It was absolutely not a problem.

These teachers responded to many names. Sometimes their first name, sometimes their last name, sometimes their home room class number and their last name. The name that was used depended on context. There was absolutely no reason to have a globally unique name for them. Their family called them something, their friends called them something else, their colleagues called them something else, their students called them something else.

The important part is that the person interacting with someone has a distinguishable name for that person. However, they do not need to share that name. I don't need to know that my colleague's wife calls him Pooky, while I call him Tarou, while his students call him Mr. Suzuki (if they can even remember his name at all -- quite a lot of the students will just call him "teacher").

This is also true of computer systems, from my experience. You need a globally identifiable identity (like an SSH key), but you do not need a globally identifiable name. The people who interact with the identity can choose any name they wish. The name is not important.

Sometimes you have 2 or more people who know the same person and want to reference them. As long as they have a globally recognizable identity, then it's fine. So if person A says "Pooky (who controls ssh key 1234) is a very kind person", I can easily identify the person that they are talking about (or verify that I don't know that person). My determination of whether the person is kind or not will depend on how much I trust person A.

As the other poster mentioned, in virtually every case, web of trust, and nick names are exactly what you want. The only time you need a globally identifiable name is if you are interacting with someone that you have never had any dealings with before (and none of your acquaintances have had any dealings with before) and you want to be assured that they are who they say they are. But in this case there is still a gap -- you will need some kind of authority to vouch for their identity (like a government with a passport number or something like that). A block chain will not do that for you.

Like the other poster, I can see no utility in this. It's technologically interesting, but there are better ways to disambiguate names.

Edit: Reading further in the comments, key revocation is an interesting problem which I hadn't considered. I can see a use for a ledger in that case.
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Hydrocarbons are molecules that contain nothing but hydrogen and carbon. That includes things like gasoline.

Most living organisms contain no hydrocarbons at all. They might contain carbohydrates or proteins or fats, but not hydrocarbons.
I had to do a task like this recently, but I cheated by using the Clarifai.com API. Given a picture, it will return keywords it thinks describe that picture. That might be objects (building, people, apple) or the setting (outdoors, night).

So instead of dealing with images, I was dealing with image tags, which allowed me to build a naive Bayesian classifier to determine which of two categories an image fit most closely. Sadly, while I got very few false negatives for one category, I got about 50% false positives on the other, and haven't been able to improve on this yet.
I don't see what's wrong with: "joe!jim%foo_jaysus/cee=rist;`rm -fr /`"@example.com

This is what the user says their email is. If their mail server accepts it, what's the problem? I'd rather like the original 822 to be accepted, than "simple_email@example.com" be rejected because "OMG you can't have `_` in your address!". It just leads to validation of what the developer think is kosher, rather than what will work.

This extends to so many other things: email, post code, phone number, names, ... It's terrible when developers think they know those details better than the user does.
I feel like a better title for this article on HN would be "General Assembly partners with Google to create bootcamp for Android Developers"

The current title implies two things:
1) That Google is creating this bootcamp on it's own
2) Google is hiring the developers

As written it's pretty linkbaity.

I am not even sure if they are promising jobs in any literal sense "General Assembly has said in a statement that it will connect developers who finish the course with jobs in its hiring network".

To be clear I am a big fan of GA and bootcamps in general, I just feel that the title of this article is misleading.
I think I recall this website at one point existing at a domain from Bell Labs. I came across it almost 8 years ago searching on Google for a particular number sequence I came across in some research. The website is fascinating and I found myself looking at sequences for hours, amazed by all of the different ones that had been posted. This website is definitely one of the great hidden gems on the Internet.