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I'd somehow never heard of this guy. The piece of his they link to doesn't contain any microtonality (at least not the parts I listened to) and sounds _very_ much like mid-period Scriabin. I was a little disappointed at first, but then dug a bit more and found a couple of the microtonal piano pieces:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCvSkmIMRMY and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOat_xsGUOw and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EGriPbFmKE

These were more interesting, and had some good moments. You can kind of see what he's getting at with the color wheels (particularly with #5 from his Twenty-four Preludes in Quarter-tones - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCvSkmIMRMY). But ultimately I'm not sure how illuminating those wheels are from an analytical perspective.

Also, the article's contention that "standard pianos cannot play this kind of music," is incorrect. There are lots of microtonal works for piano, it's just necessary to properly tune one to perform them.

On a somewhat tangential note, there seems to be a lot of synesthesia (specifically Chromesthesia) among 20th century composers. This guy, and Scriabin, and Olivier Messiaen, Amy Beach, Leonard Bernstein, György Ligeti, Michael Torke. (And going further back, Liszt and Sibelius). I don't know what the incidence is in the general population, but I wonder what the connection is, if there is any connection.
Do you mean they push wrecked cars down the length of the bridge to get them off? Or are they literally in such a rush that they just chuck it off the side of the bridge? Because that would be awesome.
Sure, but my point is that for this very specific one (app may use location in the background) we are unable to do the priming as this one will be displayed by the app automatically (as opposed to most/all other such popups).
Or the head electrician on a film or theatrical set - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaffer_%28filmmaking%29
... to say nothing of the duplicate content penalty for having the same content x4. Even if there's no penalty, there's no shortage of unproductive anxiety over it.
Love this site. It's amazing how many steps users have to go through to start using even simple apps. (It actually made me feel better about my app-- not that the on boarding is perfect, just nice to realize that I'm not alone.)

Sam-- any thoughts on how many screens someone should have to go through, or tips for reducing that number?

Or, if perhaps sometimes it's better to do something in multiple screens that many of us developer types would group onto one screen (Slack comes to mind here)?

Thanks for your contributions to making software easier to use.
If you're interested in something ownCloud-ish but with more security emphasis, you might like Sandstorm:

https://sandstorm.io

https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/developing/security-prac...

(Disclosure: I'm the lead developer.)
Yes it was a very interesting read but Nick wrote it, I just top and tailed it.
We don't really know he's bad at it. Maybe that was just the last level they had coded, and he needed to be wrapping up. The goal of this demo was not to show off his play skills, but his game design skills. And at the end of the game he showed off being hit multiple times, being killed, and falling in a pit.
It's been pointed out elsewhere that your 1000' figure is incorrect.

I'll add that there are many airports inside class G airspace (the formal definition for what people call "uncontrolled airspace").

For approaches to any airport, there is an exemption to the FAR 91.119 minimum altitudes "except when necessary for takeoff or landing".

So by no means does being outside controlled airspace (in class G airspace) and under 1000' keep you separated from aircraft who are following the FARs.
I'm a PC gamer, and that is honestly the only reason I am still on Windows.
Hm, that's what I'm thinking as well. Scala's Any list is probably not the same, but I think with Haskell you can do it if you make a union of types. I just want to see if there are ways to allow type inference while keeping the list flexible and heterogenous as otherwise the Lisp loses power if I need to use functions like (car-int '(1 2 3)) to get an int. Do you know how pattern matching works in the case of matching cars to their respective types.
yeah, yeah, yeah... when someone visit the US for tourism, they don't go to Alabama and Mississippi. They go to the big apple, las vegas and disney world.

When you are applying "Free market principles", you go to the place that maximizes your enjoyment/treatment per $$ spent.
On the input side? Absolutely! That 2.2M/330nF combo is a really low value highpass filter to keep any DC adjustment transients from a level mismatch out of the audio chain, which would result in one of those nasty loud "pops" you hear when you unplug a circuit. It's also serving to set the DC bias point of the input transistor without loading it down from the 2.2M pulldown.
The only problem I see with hiring an attorney is that being such could be a weakness. An attorney is bound by some rules normal people are not. It is a bigger ask for an attorney defying a court order than for a normal person without a law license to be yanked.

Tor is a tricky beast. One can see a day where those in charge may have to take drastic actions (think lavabit). Perhaps a non-US person, or cross-boarder team, would allow tor to better survive an existential crisis.
Or give the the answer to what they want to know, not to what they asked.
I don't think this is the case. On iOS 8.0+ there's a method on `CLLocationManager` called `requestAlwaysPermission` that causes this popup to appear. I'm not positive about older iOS versions, but I thought they asked for permission when you started using `CLLocationManager`.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/CoreLo...
> Cars should yield to pedestrians and cyclists

The problem is if they don't and pedestrian gets killed there is not way to resurect the pedestrian, and start over. Therefore, pedestrian's goals is staying alive regardless of what laws are written in the books.

To put it another way, most countries out there have laws about "cars yield to pedestrians on crossings" but in a lot of places I wouldn't want to prove a point or rely on the drivers to obey the law vs just staying alive and in one piece.

> autonomous police cars who bringing reliable traffic enforcement to all road users.

Hmm. Now this is interesting. We are almost there -- red light cameras, speed camers, automated toll booths, cars are always recording and logging their speed, acceleration and hundres of other parameters, onstar system. Now we just need an incentive such as an insurance discount to have cars be remotely disabled and pulled over of they speed too much where it becomes unsafe, or if they run red light.

At first you'd think nobody would buy it, but maybe if car insurance goes from $500 a quarter to $150 there would be some takers. Then before you know it, it would become illegal to drive cars that don't have that feature.
Seems to be back up now.
Edit: ellaboration. Stopping in traffic and calling the cops because of this is going to be a non-starter. If you're the cause of the blockage how are they going to get there? The GP is right, there are many situations where it's not going to well, and I can see lots of pranks by highschoolers that will completely mess with self driving cars.

Heck an accidental release of confetti would be an interesting experiment.
Or maybe the job of the tool has become more complex in it's nature.
More likely are laws introduced against willfully and unconstructively obstructing autonomous vehicles with right of way and by way of facial recognition the autonomous vehicle turns in the perpetrator., else it summons its neighbors to swarm the offender till authorities come to resolve the impasse.
To be precise, it's not pilots claiming the airspace. There's a Federal law that grants the FAA oversight over all the navigable airspace in the US.

49 U.S. Code § 40103 - Sovereignty and use of airspace

The FAA is doing exactly what that law directs and compels them to do. Don't like the law? There's a process to change the laws.

I'm a pilot, and I'm not happy about the proposal to register all drones, but I certainly understand the FAA response to the large increase in drone popularity and increased conflicts between drones and aircraft.
> freeware

Did you mean "free software"?
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do you know if they do well at seeing through heavy rain or running water on the road? Coming down from Snoqualamie resort near Seattle the snow turns to water with about a good inch over the road and the lines are invisible. Traffic suddenly becomes a negotiation from 3 lanes (actual stripes) to 2 (comfortable) and in between, mostly determined by what the trucks decide.
You can fly over the desert at 1 inch if you want. FAR 91.119.c (subject to the catch-all exception in 91.13)
But we might not have Doom.
I find this more than a bit ironic since WD was working with the NSA to insert backdoors into all of its hard drives, and the entire point of OwnCloud is supposedly privacy and escaping surveillance.
Insurance companies like to slice their customers up into buckets of similar risk and charge more or less accordingly.

Insuring an automated car will be cheaper. Insuring a manually operated car will be more expensive.
The real question is how do we push for that to happen. Most of the tech people I know move around- they rent one place for a few years, then end up in another part of the bay shortly after that. There's no real incentive for the politicians on the local level to give up power, and the state doesn't seem to care.

Regional governance seems to be the answer, but making that happen seems like an impossible task.
Wait...

33% food cost

33% labor cost

30% overhead

07% profit

_______________

103%

Er... wat?
>I go out drinking every night

Not so appealing
It's almost there. There are license plates readers everywhere, toll booths record your times and toll gates use.

Also note, it doesn't have to be a "government" thing, where you'd expect some protection (at least on paper). It can be a completely private affair between the car makers and insurnace companies.

In fact it is already almost there and it is called CLUE ( https://www.privacyrights.org/clue-and-you-how-insurers-size... ) -- a database used by insurance companies to evaluate indivicuals and record the claims they've made in the past. Feed info from these self-driving cars into them and you can't even claim any privacy or constitutional rights were violated.
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> Kinto is a server allowing you to store and synchronize arbitrary data, attached to your Firefox account.

Why does the repo readme says this? What does it mean? I mean, why Parse kinda service is related and attached to Firefox account?
That was actually one of my favorite moments! Someone pulled up the TFS chart of lines of code added/removed per developer. First, I removed way more lines then I added. But second, the number of lines I removed was (completely accidentally) the same as the number of lines my team lead added. When he saw that, he just kind of looked over at me to make sure I wasn't following him commit by commit to rewrite his code!
Then either the person in the car behind will jump out and tell the idiot to move or if all the cars waiting are autonomous then they can all collectively out-wait the deranged idiot blocking traffic since they have infinite patience unlike humans.
And the reason pilots are confused about your argument is that controlled vs uncontrolled airspace is not a useful distinction. In many parts of the US, class G (uncontrolled) airspace extends from the surface to 14,500' MSL.
So I have to ask... why not try to revert after 90% drop? It can hardly get any worse.
Is this screw method used so you lose guarantee if you change the software?
Didn't know. Would be interested if anyone could provide an explanation as to why a company would do that.

Also: anything else they have disabled?
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That's just an extra step sadly. But yeah
Palo Alto, Mountain View, and other peninsula communities don't spend money on homeless shelters for two big reasons:

1) San Francisco spends a ton of money on the homeless. Over $40k per homeless person per year. "If big SF spends so much on the homeless, why should little ol' us?"

2) The weather in the Bay Area is not particularly harsh. Yeah, it might get cold 1-3 days a year, but it's not really bad. You're not going to die from exposure to the elements like you would in Cleveland, Detroit, or even Dallas. "No one will die sleeping outside here" is a common thought.

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with these thoughts, but this is what peninsula planners think.
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In fairness, it sounds a lot less like an inability to find more permanent housing, and a lot more like an optimization to maximize savings.

Still, though.
I feel that will work only okay even if there is one car manufacturer, but get tthe differences between a lot of them, then throw in porsche and others programming in "advantages" and "agressive" as options and where do you end up?
> Restarting the SSRI of course did the trick

No, not "of course". It is very possible that stopping and restarting drug treatment will put you in a different place entirely, and you may find that things that worked for years just don't anymore. You say it above, but it really cannot be overstated: if you are on a psychotropic medication regimen that is working, for the love of god don't fuck with it except under the supervision of a trained psychiatrist.
Which is just lame, its mostly because the block layer doesn't support file based fencing. A mistake made a decade an a half ago, and no one has the will/political power to fix it.

If the block layer supported it, solving the problem of fencing an ATA device would be as simple as issuing a whole device flush instead of a SYNC_CACHE with range. Which for soft raid devices would make a huge impact because only the devices with dirty data need to be flushed.

Of course the excuse today, is that most scsi devices can't do range based sync either, and just fall back to whole device because no one uses the command. Chicken/egg.
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This was/is very cool! I'm going to keep coming back :)
Great point -- there's a huge disconnect between what is needed in terms of the data and algorithm development and the profit motive. This is why I think some portions of this, especially the data generation and curation portions, may need to be driven by non-profits and/or the government.
I once travelled in my car for couple days and the hardest part for me was staying fresh in terms of hygiene, I can not feel good unless I have a shower in the morning, bath twice a week and brushing teeth/shaving daily, I can not imagine doing that while in a car or in a public restroom, I guess I just need a private space for that. It is actually the main reason why I can't relate to homeless people, most of them have a horrible personal hygiene and are very unappealing to talk to because of that.
Lots of offices have showers these days. Just pretend you rode a bicycle in and hop in the shower.
Sure, it will be more expensive than the automated car. But why would it be more expensive than today? Why would automated cars on the road make manually operated cars more risky than they are today?
Sorry for typos, eating fried chicken...

I cant wait to see what happens once the modders and criminals get a hold of self driving cars. My awesome car would pretend to be an emergency vehicle. Pretend to be a truck and that it can't stop easily, pretend emergencies so people move, claim that it's chaging lanes to mess with people. Without a centralized authority it's just negotiation. With a CA then humans and remote locations will have issues.

It's going to be a great dystopian future.
It's interesting how almost everyone, and certainly those who harassed our good plumber, sees the words "extremists in Syria", completely ignores what group it actually is (the name is there, it's not ISIS), and just assumes it's ISIS. Even a lot of people here just go with "it's ISIS". If only the Syrian War was that simple. This is actually a group[0] hostile to ISIS, although affiliated with Al-Qaeda.

One other interesting thing, from the article, that seems ignored – this car was exported to Turkey.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaish_al-Muhajireen_wal-Ansar
I've occasionally discovered new music from the SoundCloud recommended tracks, but at this point I follow so many users that I barely have time to keep up with what they are posting/reposting. As with virtually all social networks, the users are the content creators. Not only do they actually create the content (they might not), the bulk of what you get from them is their likes and repost.

If I catch up on my SoundCloud stream (posts/reposts) I'll switch over to somebody's list of likes. Some of my favorite producers are buried in their passion for music 24/7 and have upwards of 1000 likes to listen through.

Recommended tracks are nice, and it's something to fill the void if you are low on content from people you follow, but in my opinion it's not that much better than going out and seeking new music and artists in other ways. I'm sure as SoundCloud improves the algorithm though it could automate some of the behaviors I'm doing manually (e.g. playing content from and following users whose content is liked/reposted by the users I follow). It might be doing this already, if maybe only indirectly, I guess I just like having control. One of the most annoying things I'm afraid it could do is promote sponsored music. I love listening to music that people are passionate about, not music that is funded by large amounts of money.
Yet is the thing. See Amazon's discontinuation of Chromecast and Apple TV sales for a clear example of how Amazon will gladly leverage their ecosystem in an anticompetitive manner.
You're the Google Van guy? Or is this becoming a trend?
Interestingly, Tcl was parsed the same way all the way up until Tcl 8.0 introduced a bytecode system in 1997. Each line was parsed right before execution with no separate parsing stage--your code could crash in the middle of executing from a syntax error.

Tcl is now about as fast as a typical scripting language and its implementation is regarded as a model of high-quality readable code. I wonder if John Ousterhout (the creator of Tcl) knew he was building a rough first system that he would need to rewrite later, or he really thought it was the right way to do things at the time.

(To be fair, Tcl is a whole lot simpler to parse than JavaScript and Ousterhout is a good coder, so even the pre-8.0 versions were fast enough to be practical for everyday scripting tasks.)
The New York Metro Area might be a helpful model of regional cooperation. It has its own growth problems but the New York Metropolitan Area is home to 20.1 million people as opposed to the 7 million who live in the Bay Area and involves governments across four states.
Unexpected, high medical bills and crappy insurance coverage would probably bankrupt most Americans. A really unfortunate hospital stay can ruin many people's lives.
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That's opaque; of course it's the same as if he had donated directly.

I'm not accusing him of illegal tax evasion. I'm accusing him, and Facebook, of legally not paying taxes. That it's legal, though, is of little consolation. Remember that it was legal to send Rosa Parks to the back of the bus, at the time. The criticism is directly that its legality is a poor veil and its morality open to debate.
$277K/yr doesn't sound too bad, compared to lawyers and finance folks and business VPs. That's not why healthcare costs so much. Even if you booked 1 anesthesiologist for a whole day long massively intensive surgery, that's only about $2k of your cost
Ask HN: As an employee, what kind of company do you wish existed but doesn't?
Companies tend to be defined by their missions.

Apple, to make kickass consumer products.

Google, to organize the world's information.

SpaceX, to populate Mars.

What kind of company do you want to work for that you wish existed but doesn't?

What is its mission?
Somebody trying to develop a standardized AI road etiquette protocol?
Maybe I'm a dinosaur all my experience with Chat comes from IRC in the 90's (which was horrible - net splits anybody) maybe it has gotten much better now. I wouldn't know I use email heavily today. Chat - rarely.

The key difference to me is that Email is broken down into discrete messages by sender and subject it is easy to archive retrieve and resend (forward) those messages with additional attachments if need be. If you can do that with Chat now great.
If that's the case, Roger Dingledine is probably the one that should become a non-US person, given he is still leading the technical side of things from what I can see. He could be NSL'd just the same. At the end of the day, Tor is an American project, and still has to play to some extent by American rules. Doing that above board is really all they have.
Citation needed for "$40k per homeless person per year". I used to work directly with homeless people and that doesn't sound even remotely true. And even if you have the top line figure correct I suspect there's some missing context.
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Can you provide a source? All the ones I can find (Der Spiegel's article on TAO, Kaspersky's "Equation Group" report) seem to claim that the NSA had found ways to reflash the firmware on the victim's machine to add backdoors, and had high-quality, robust patches to WD's firmware to add backdoors. But I can't track down a claim that WD shipped (knowingly or otherwise) malicious firmware, or that they knowingly provided unpatched firmware sources to the NSA.
Am I the only one who remembers LiveWire? It didn't last long, but it was Javascript on the server.
I can see that, considering Nintendo's puritan stance on violence etc.
This is hopefully a first step towards more understandable deep learning networks. Great job!
the truth is they aren't asking you how much you are making

Correct. They're just trying to figure out how little you will accept.

they are asking you to start the salary negotiation

Never be the first to give a number.
The "homeless situation" is roughly the same in San Francisco as in every major city, where a near-constant 1% of the population are homeless. There a variety of reasons why homeless people are more visible in San Francisco than in other places, but there aren't more of them.
Heh, so last week my buddy Tarek Ziade (one of the developers of this) and I were talking about this (kinto) project he's working on. I asked him what the meaning behind the name was. He said "you know the cloud from Dragon Ball. They don't use it as much in DBZ since they can fly."

I asked him if he meant "flying Nimbus?" Apparently, something was lost in translation (I'm in the US, he's in France).
Another vote for Z-Wave. As others have said, the lack of being "open" means that stuff actually interoperates. I'm using a Razberry with an older Raspberry Pi as the controller, and Linear brand in-wall dimmers and lamp modules, plus a motorized drapery system from Somfy.

The software that comes with the Razberry acts as a basic controller, but I wrote my own web front-end that talks to their controller over local http. It's all very customizable, and has been very reliable. (I don't know if there are Z-Wave colored lights, though, mine just dim.)

http://razberry.z-wave.me/
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Hacker Dojo and TechShop had to crack down on people sleeping there.