skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not even the majority of major music production suites - Ableton Live, FL Studio, Propellerhead Reason are all incredibly easy to license, download, and install and all three have easy-to-use market places to purchase and download third party plug-ins. Pro Tools is really more of an exception than the rule. To be honest, I'm not sure why people are still using it extensively other than legacy purchases and lock-in with some hardware vendors.
While this has definitely gotten off topic, I appreciate your story. I hope writing about it was therapeutic.
The artist Anish Kapoor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anish_Kapoor
Earthquake off Indonesia measuring 7.9: tsunami alert
Your checking account is probably easier to hack into than your email
More to the point, the 58% is the fraction of the people who feel strongly for or against the drug question. Those are likely not the same segment of the population that votes for the legislature, and neither group is representative of the population!
No. Kanye is a law unto himself with a vast team of reactive PR people who try and perform damage control as and when needed.
People who vote are the electorate, if you don't vote, you don't matter.

But to answer your question, it was voters.
The Serum team should be pleased with all of the exposure they get from this.
US to renegotiate rules on exporting “intrusion software”
Following "smart" trends and countless problems it causes, I guess it's not long before "dumb" will be the hot marketing slogan.
I am not sure that having a strong cultural identity as anything to do with drugs consumption. For example, I am pretty sure Russians also have a fairly homogenous population with a strong identity, and they still have an alcohol problem (for other reason I am sure). But I can't see the correlation or the causation here.
Mark Pincus, Founder of Zynga, Is Replaced as CEO Again
While it's great to do an opportunity cost, it'll also be good to evaluate the earning potential as well to be fair.

You brought up a great point about the average age. If you're entering a school where the average age is low, I would say that it's not as useful unless you know that your classmates are young high-fliers who actually have solid experience.
Lately my experience has been more like log into website with pre-existing account, download latest legitimate licensed software.
Optimizing applications for power consumption on mobile devices
FBI made mistakes in resetting iCloud password
How Blockchain May Finish Off Big Corporations
Might seem trite but one of the reasons I attribute my rather good PC music laptop experience over the past 10 years is not using any pirate/suspect downloads. Be it software or music itself by others. Sticking with what I could purchase (or demo) meant relatively stable installs. A couple versions of Ableton Live were shaky, but along the way things have been patched and I am a happy customer. Lots of free VSTs as well, it doesn't take a lot of research.

Whether it's him doing it or a member of his 'team' - the guy has a writer stable of 14 known artists[1] and brings in others like he was giving away free studio time and Yeezy shoes - it just smacks of lazy. Certainly it happens in the industry. Lots of various approaches are easy or time consuming type difficult[2], I guess it kind of depends on the producer and the goal.

Personally I just like using great new tools[3] that cost very little but allow for a lot of creative expressiveness. YMMV.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOOD_Music#Current_acts

[2] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-little-known-recording-...

[3] https://www.propellerheads.se/figure
Scientists may have found molecular gatekeeper of long-term memory
I feel you're right that, at the end of the day, prohibition has been based on public opinion. That said, the government does benefit from reasons OP mentioned, and thus politicians may be likely to push an agenda that strongly supports a war on drugs when speaking to constituents, rather than having an open conversation about the pros and cons of decriminalization.
They're not the only ones who benefit from the drug war. It's a tool in order to allow for mass incarceration of "undesirable people". The book "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander really spoke to me as a resident of Philadelphia. I knew full well that if a cop found 1/4oz of weed or less on me, they wouldn't do anything...but if I was black, I'd be put in jail. Now that marijuana has been "decriminalized" (I call it "equalizing" the law because it's now fair for all people) in Philadelphia, that's not as much of a problem in my city...but I'm pretty sure statewide it's still a big problem. Essentially, I think the drug war is a big, lame excuse for putting people in jail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Jim_Crow
China is virtually drug free?

In that case, Wikipedia could use your help cleaning up this and many related articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_drug_trade_in_China

Don't forget to cite your sources! They're sticklers about that sort of thing.
This actually seems to come from a new paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1601.04589v1.pdf
C++ Vector: Resource Management Copy Swap
We're also using a very open development model - most of the code that runs our apps is MIT licensed and easy to use elsewhere: https://github.com/rundexter
I was afraid it would be that kind of article, but I'm glad it wasn't.
Feature request: Skype module. Yeah yeah Slack whatever, non-developers use Skype, Facebook and WhatsApp and I have to talk to such people.
But at least MacOS screenshot keys automatically save the screenshot. Took me ages to figure out that on XP you have to paste into Paint or something after hitting the 'printscr' button.
Modern Organizational theory (coalitions, bounded rationality, etc):

https://www.coursera.org/course/organalysis
Well, there’s no reason to do an MBA if you are interested in learning the content. This is quite true, especially as people who write about business tend to be quite good at reaching people. I did a good part of an MBA as part of my engineering degree at a world class university in Britain.

I can honestly say, engineering is much more taxing on the brain than business. It’s hard to even call it learning, when what you’re doing is just reading through some cleaned up summaries of what various businesses did. Mostly it seemed like storytime, with companies instead of fairies. You better watch out, or you’ll get leapfrogged! As if people in the old businesses hadn’t considered that. In general there was a lot of dressing things up as complicated when really the truth was probably that the firms did what they could with the information they had. Mintzberg probably sticks out as the best guy to describe how decisions are really made.

Looking back, there was also a real lack of practical business skills being taught. The main thing I would teach is some form of agile management. Or any kind of practical how-to-organize a group to do something. Without a guide on the nitty gritty, you end up having a strange birds-eye view of the business, with no idea how to get towards your goal. In my career working practices have made the biggest difference to what strategies could be followed.
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Working mainly as a Frontend Developer you would be working primarily with web apps and interfacing with our private API.

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Even better, have the set top box as a device you control, such as raspberry pi running Kodi, so the software is flexible and less likely to become horribly obsolete. Not a solution for the mass market however, due to the setup work involved.
The most amusing situation to me was when Carnage made a god-awful tutorial for Razer Music, in which he used a pirated version of Sylenth. Once he got called out by the public, he said[1] in a tweet:

> “lmaooo wtf why does it matter?”

LennarDigital (the company behind Sylenth) decided to reply to his tweet and said that they "are happy to make it a matter".

He later on went and accused Razer that it was their laptop in the video, which resulted in them canceling the contract with him and removing that god-awful tutorial from their website. I laughed so hard as the accusations went on and on.

[1] http://www.youredm.com/2015/10/22/sylenth-threatens-to-sue-c...
Your linked article is from 2013.

This feature is in Android 6.0.
That assumes the cities have rectangular boundaries, at least the inference I got from the article is that they are also polygonal geofences.

If you have a nested series of rectangular bounding boxes you're well on your way to building an R-tree.
>I am not sure that having a strong cultural identity as anything to do with drugs consumption.

Why can't it? Drug use could be socially shunned, counter to cultural norms. Consider Islamic countries where alcohol use is haram. Consider also that alcohol use in both Japan and Russia is culturally accepted. Alcoholism is a significant problem in Japan too.
Negatory on Apple winning. I think Amazon is much more likely. They're dominating the connected home right now with the Echo; as a developer, integrating the Echo with Plum's Lightpad is extremely easy, I can't do the same thing with Siri.
In addition to what others said, support for precise garbage collection in LLVM was not ideal at the time. The experimental gc statepoint extension spearheaded by the Azul guys is trying to change that. They've been working on it publicly since late 2014.
He's probably talking about the University of Virginia rape story -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rape_on_Campus (wich was discredited)
High fructose corn syrup isn't marketed to consumers. It's marketed to corporations that otherwise would use sugar. Sugar is much more expensive in the US than elsewhere because of BS tariffs advocated for by Florida sugar barons.
i've been using https://github.com/XNBlank/discord-linux for a while now, and it works quite well.
> why do they persist with it?

I suspect a major cause is that prohibition is a well known method, used to handle other substances which the state wants to limit access to. Narcotics is intended for medicine and research, which makes it easy to regulate to licensed organizations. They use the same method for substances that is used to create explosives, weapon components, radioactive material, and so on. In Sweden, even things like pure alcohol or pure oxygen is regulated and require a license, since the target audience for that is quite narrow.

No one ever got fired for buying IBM, and no politician got blamed if they create regulations that limit use to only the intended target audience. Its not about being effective.
This is genius!
Vodka is part of the Russian identity. Marijuana is not part of Hong Kong's identity.
The problem with all those cool workplace perks
The Dutch office of Arbor Networks, located in Delft, is looking for a full-time web application developer to help build modern user interfaces for our web-based network security applications.

Junior developers with a knack for security, networking and an interest in UI development are also invited to apply.

While your main focus will be the front-end, it is not a pure front-end job! We are a small team and at times you will be expected to pick up back-end tasks which require Linux[1] knowledge.

The main language in the office is Dutch and you will be expected to learn it if you do not know it already. Initially you can get by with English.

If you're interested contact gertjan.schoenmaker@arbor.net or check the full job text and apply here:

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[1] Well, mostly Unix knowledge actually.
Yup. Using teachable.com
I would strongly recommend looking at Racket and/or Closure. I tried the Haskell world and what a hassle to get it working on more then one machine the same way. The package management in Haskell is still more painful then other systems and is overly taxing. I work at two locations both using the same exact Dell machine with OpenSUSE and both gave problems. I also tried it on two windows machines and ugh.

OCamal also suffers from portability issues but haven't tried that hard. I love the idea of OCamal but the practical/pragmatic side of me gets rubbed the wrong way.

Personally Racket has a ton to offer and has been growing its user base a lot recently. I love this language and you can amke it whatever you want to do. Racket is a progamming language for programming languages. Clojure gives you a more pragmatic functional language and running on the jvm with a very large community.
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KW only does a thing with the intention that people talk about the thing, and by extension KW. I never thought I'd see a KW thing on hacker news.
I still think C++ is the best possible language that could have come out of the constraints they'd given themselves - near-complete backwards-compatibility with C, while adding OOP features in a style that maintains the C ideology of being as close to assembler as possible.
He used his friggin phone to make the screenshot. That just shows how intuitive he is. And I may joke about it, but it probably is the easiest way to do this when you're not logged into twitter on the laptop.
So it's a non-starter that you can't remotely control a Nest when the broadband connection to your vacation home is down?

If it's that critical maybe you need to design in some network redundancy. That's not really a Nest issue.
And the fact that who is to assure that Apple doesn't leave one or multiple bugs around that makes the compromised OS not so tied to a single device as they meant it to be?

It's a ticking bomb, man.
MH370 possible debris found outside Mozambique
As a curiosity, how much are you paying your consultants vs. your employees?

I ask this as a consultant who has had several clients try to hire me as an FTE. The consulting life isn't always awesome, but there are certainly financial and lifestyle perks to it. Here's a few of them:

- work remote/from home pretty much whenever I want to

- "unlimited" unpaid holidays (as in, if I don't do any work on Tuesday, I don't get paid, but I don't get fired either)

- 100% paid "overtime", I get paid for every hour I work at the same rate. No multipliers for extra time, but no expectation that I'm going to work for free.

- No penalty for "moonlighting" - If an interesting project comes my way and I can fit it into my schedule, I'm more than welcome to.

- My current invoicing rate is $120CAD/hr. I'm definitely not at a 100% utilization on that, but the given the other perks, it works out to a very comfortable living.

As an unrelated curiosity, do you have developers right now who you feel are awesome? Do they not having anyone in their close networks that they could try to bring in?
Boston Dynamics' Atlas Robot Is More Capable and Human Than Ever [video]
Hey Daniel, what are the plans for monetizing apps I build in the marketplace? Will I be able to define my own prices?
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see Vaskivo
Toenail off
Writing a Gender-Neutral Job Description for Developers
I did not know about this until now (and I, sorta, follow EDM). What a dumbass, that is hilarious
JavaScript, the Universe and Everything – Part 3: Comparing Node to PHP
It was a tricky class, a lot of it wasn't about explicit rules or frameworks, but reading chapters of biographies and other books, and identifying the sources of power and how they were used.

We didn't have a specific book, and it was a very unique class, my favorite after competitive strategy (essentially applied game theory).

Some of the readings were on Robert Moses, LB Johnson, the movie 12 Angry Men (Henry Fonda version), etc.

Essentially you can take any good biography of a powerful person and try to proactively identify the sources of power they had, how they harnessed and yielded it, and what impact it had.

It requires some suspension of disbelief, since power is usually seen as negative, so you need to be a bit cynical while doing it (just don't be cynical in real life, nobody likes an asshole).

You can do the same in you job (that was actually the final paper): who holds power (and which type of power) over you? Why? Where do they source their power from? Skill? Reputation? Formal authority?

What power do you have? Over whom? Why? Where do you get it from?

This was one of those classes where it would be hard to replicate the same learning by yourself. The other one was negotiations.
I love this guy but he's so long-winded. Ironically, some of his message feels lost due to all the details. It seems to me he has enough evidence where he could be more hand-wavy and just point to sources when asked for details.
>We already have plenty of voice and video chat options

Can you name some good ones? Like to try them out.
“Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.” – Marvin Minsky, http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/sciam.inherit.html
Seven Ways Trump Is Right About Taxes
Well if ISP-s try to make themselves smart I will politely explain that I pay for connectivity to 3+B ip addresses with 65535 ports each. And probably also ask FCC if they think that too. I've heard that this guy Wheeler is kinda sympathetic towards the rights of the end points in the network.
Bingo on both fronts. Low-wage, low-quality establishments get away with not automating because they are subsidized by low minimum wages and food stamps.

Quality establishments are seen as artisan because all it takes is a personal touch in a sea of robotics to feel that you're getting more than you are. I'm sure a pure price analysis of ingredients would show little differentiation (except, in MCDs case, that terrible "meat")
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https://twitter.com/c8ters/status/699701086656077825
Do we need Control Groups (cgroups) for the Web?
You can also use component following the KNX standard and build a smart home based on a standard (with about 400 providers of appliances, switches, etc.) and control it fully using open source software[1]. Note that the components can be programmed to work without any cloud or centralized control system. So, your heater will work even if your "app" to control it is not working because of a faulty update as everything can work in "standalone" mode.

[0]: http://knx.org/

[1]: http://www.openhab.org/
I agree that many people have an inappropriate attitude towards sex. And I am not saying that castration is even a solution in the first place - as the other commenter pointed out, that wouldn't really fix the psychological issues that we're trying to solve. Keeping one person or several people sane and agreeable in a tightly confined chamber for months or years is a hard problem, and not just because of the biological life support systems.

But I was proposing this drastic action as an example of the drastic solutions and risks we could take for these missions. I was not proposing it just to deal with the "problem of sex", I am saying that we can consider crazy actions so we can FREAKING COLONIZE ANOTHER PLANET.

And yes, I see the irony in starting a colonization operation with castrated astronauts. Obviously, it would be a while before the colony was self-supporting for air, water, and food, much less self-populating.
Who's behind these?
How the emotions of your customers play a role in their decision-making process
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>I felt like it was nothing but a bag of tricks... had to substitute a "2" with "1/2 + 3/2".

Many techniques in math are "tricks" like this. Think of solving a quadratic by completing the square, or integrating by substitution or integrating by partial fractions, etc. You could arrive at these techniques on your own, but that is a lot of trial-and-error, deep understanding of theory, and applying it, which all takes a huge amount of time. Meanwhile, previous mathematicians figured this out and we get to benefit from their work. ;)

Maybe your instructor didn't present it well - plopping out the answer without a good enough explanation of the technique, why it works, etc.
February 2015: The Position Gap
MBA here as well. If you're thinking of an MBA, think really hard about why and if it's necessary to achieve your goals.

For me, I knew what I wanted to get out of it so it turned out well. Knowledge about business is everywhere and you're far better off trying to start a business if you actually want to learn about business.

What I got out of it was:

- Networks: Great friends from many different industries and skill sets

- Communication: Being tech and introverted, I learned how to communicate my ideas better. I've come to since realize that while your ideas might be the best, if you can't communicate it well, it's not going to be adopted. Also, different people require different communication styles.

- Self-awareness and emotional intelligence thinking: Lots of group work - teammates might be shitty and don't do anything. Figured out how to identify who's going to do work and who's not and how we're still going to deliver despite being handicapped.

- Strategy, frameworks, theories: Just helps with the thinking process. Helps me understand what executives are thinking about.

- Confidence: Wasn't born with a lot with confidence but going through presentations day in and day out helped me develop that.

I was able to switch from startups to large companies in different industries to get a greater understanding of the differences between the two. From this experience, it's no wonder why startups that try to sell to big companies usually have a tougher time than trying to sell to smaller companies (depending on industry of course).
Yours do look lovely. Might get an electrician to give me a quote on rewiring some of the switches.

Either that or move to the USA ;-)
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How to answer prospects' questions to land the sale
Good question!

Yes! Eventually we will support paid modules (the building blocks of the apps you see in the marketplace) that allow developers to define a price and a license. That will in turn dictate how much an app would cost a user to use.

For example, you can imagine a Twilio module that costs a penny to use, so the end user of the app would be charged a penny per use.
I thought I was all over VR and AR, how did this one sneak past the press?
Looks interesting but I think a lot of developers will be leery of trusting their data to another Baas[1] or db-as-a-service because of shutdowns such as Parse.

To help alleviate fears of the service disappearing overnight, I'd suggest crafting an "About" page on restdb.io that talks about who the founders are, what the financial backing is, etc.

Open question: what's the prevailing sentiment out there? Would developers feel better about using a db-as-a-service from GoogleCompute/AmazonAWS/MSAzure because it would be one offering in their cloud portfolio that probably won't go away? Or do they find features of resdbi.io (e.g. Excel-like-data-as-a-service) very enticing and worth the risks?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_backend_as_a_service