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Could you describe what about the FLStudio piano roll makes it more suitable for making scores with a mouse than other piano rolls?
How to Open Source at Zalando
I once made that argument, we ended up with reservation_name, I regret I ever said anything about it.

Apparently, it made joins more clear, I seriously wonder how often people fucked that up for them to think it was a good idea to prefix every fucking column with its table name.

It's like when I see unit tests for setters and think, gee, setters seem pretty straightforward to me, how often to people fuck them up?
Thank you for that feedback. I have been using Genymotion and its been a good tool to work with (no complaints). But being able to use the built-in emulator is simpler and easier when setting up other devs. :)
Article certainly piques my curiosity, unfortunately the paywall it's behind impedes getting the whole story. How often have we seen "breakthroughs" fail to live up to expectations, in this case not yet enough info to have any idea how it's likely to turn out.

An interesting side-note here is that cholesterol itself has "detergent-like" properties similar to the cyclodextrin agent. That is, both molecules have hydrophilic and hydrophobic ends, which enables stabilizing lipid droplets floating in an aqueous medium like the bloodstream. I suppose cyclodextrin properties will vary with molecular weight and conformation, but never would have guessed it would have the basic characteristics described.

Always amazes me where discoveries come from, goes to show it isn't always high-cost, specialized research that leads the way.
preemptive. Cooperative scheduling runs the risk that a long-running actor might starve the other actors
The Panama Papers prove it: we can afford a universal basic income
DJP Online – Cara Lapor SPT Pajak Dengan EFiling 2016
Mashable lays off 20 editorial staff to focus on video
Show HN: MIDIWriterJS library for generating expressive MIDI files
I don't think you have enough space for rockets to launch without parts potentially landing on people. Even the Russians end up dropping spent stages in areas that aren't entirely empty: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/baikonur_downrange.html
This uses Monaco, the code editor behind Visual Studio Code (https://code.visualstudio.com) and Typescript Playground (https://www.typescriptlang.org/play). I've spent time with ACE, CodeMirror, and Visual Studio Code, and Monaco puts everything else to shame. Hopefully soon they will provide better documentation of how to use Monaco in your own projects, there's an issue for it: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/446
Admittedly I didn't watch any of build. I only followed news as I saw it come out and people online discuss it.

I'm not sure I know what you consider "real development" but that's not the argument I was trying to make.

Linux does snapshotting just fine. LVM, Btrfs, and zfs have no problems taking snapshots. WSL doesn't get any of those features.

I'm making the argument that enterprise-grade web apps will not require developers to have Linux (or WSL) to run and test applications in the future. Developers won't have to care exactly how their code is being run to publish a web app. They just want the code running.
How do I short the US government?
Hey, in New Mexico we already have a spaceport. http://spaceportamerica.com/ Also, we have enough open space that occasionally we get nuked. So that's pretty sweet.
> the fundamental architecture of Erlang seems to be in conflict with big data and high speed computing

Because they are different problems. Concurrency, meet parallelism.

Concurrency: many smaller tasks that can be multiplexed over one core. The core doesn't need to be particularly fast; it just needs to be able to handle multiple tasks in-flight at once. Web serving, etc.

Parallelism: one big, honking task that can be split over multiple cores (or nodes), and each core needs all the horsepower you can eke out, so it can finish its part of the task quicker. Big Data, etc.

Erlang is not particularly fast (bad for parallelism), but it excels at concurrency.

> I know people do some big data stuff with Erlang

Not sure who is doing big data with Erlang, or why anyone would want to -- unless they have some very fundamental misconceptions about the problem at hand and the tools available.

> compromise some of the ideals espoused in this article to make it work

The article was really nonsense. Most of the terms it throws around have nothing to do with Erlang specifically, and proclamations like Erlang being used for a hypothetical "data center on a chip" are... what? The author's gist basically boils down to this: Use supervision trees with unikernels. I have had the same fantasy, for what it's worth.
His political appointee runs the DOJ. He can't close Guantanamo unilaterally, but he could have done a lot better on civil liberties.
Pretty cool when it appears. You can edit it, and the examples are written in a way that the output helps explain the flow (like showing the pivot and array state in each pass of a quicksort). I'm surprised it doesn't support Javascript though, since it's now so popular.

It also doesn't seem to support anything advanced or synonyms for terms. I can search for "Reverse array python" but not "Reverse list python" (technically a list is the proper name, and array is a different construct in Python), and anything more advanced than sorting algorithms or simple features don't appear. I tried a few pathfinding algorithms, fibonacci sequence, prime numbers.... And I tried several variations of search terms. "Pathfinding in Pyhton" / "Graph Search in Python" / "Djikstra's algorithm in Python", nothing. I don't think it will be very useful because of this.
I'm sure that most coders use Bing for certain things.

Bing Video to be exact.

(we all know it's true to an extent)
Google used to have code search but killed it.
Remote works best when the entire company is remote. It needs to be embedded in the culture IMO. Or else the remote workers often become isolated from the rest of the company.
I think you might be underestimating Erlang's performance. Running on the same single machine, Erlang's perfomance is comparable to python on benchmarks [1] [2]. Its performance obstacles aren't really that different from scheme's, and Racket does a little better than Erlang on benchmarks, so there's definitely room for improvement [3].

But Erlang isn't really for doing computation, it's for communication. If you have an existing erlang system that has a lot of data and you want to perform some computations on all of it, you'd probably use erlang to get the data onto the appropriate servers and then spawn another process, that can compute efficiently, with numpy or just C or similar.

Distributed systems aren't just a way of scaling performance beyond the number of CPUs you can have using the same memory. It's about reliability. Erlang's design enables you to create network services that have decades of uptime. It achieves this through its concurrency model, through its error handling approach, by allowing hotswapping code (an operation that's relatively easy to reason about without mutable state), and probably more ways that I as an outsider am not aware of.

[1] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/measurements.ph...

[2] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/measurements.ph...

[3] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/measurements.ph...
The UK government spent £2.9M on this web site?
Ask HN: What's the best material to learn Analytic Geometry?
> Just like it is impossible to have an ANSI C library without Assembly or language extensions. Extended Algol had what we would call intrisics nowadays.

Sure. It makes your "zero lines of assembly" claim somewhat less impressive, though...
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I believe this is what foreign keys are for, and also, they are usually both ints/uuids/etc so generally they are interchangeable.

I fail to see how

customer.id = product.id

is any less obvious of a bug than

customer.customerID = product.productID
There are CV scientists building some very fun and interesting things at even Snapchat. :)
They claim that some of that money goes to "digital promotion", but that still seems like a hefty sum of money for a pretty bog standard web site.
Yes. I would absolutely not advise to switch over at this point in time, unless you want to support the project. In its current state, I suspect it will be a poorer experience than vim and neovim.
Doesn't work here. None of the given examples triggered the feature.
I've been wondering about the "good faith" assumption that law enforcement, and some other government employees get.

Is that just a by product of the courts and law enforcement basically being two heads of the same beast or is there something else at work?
It's present in my netstat, from `net-tools 2.10-alpha`. Man page says it's shorthand for `--protocol=inet` (as opposed to `inet6`) which shows only IPv4 sockets.
Kakoune is a fine editor.

Regarding vis, Lua is optional (you lose syntax highlighting though).
libtermkey is a 3 file library and despite what the author claims it works, is useful and could be maintained in the vis repository if necessary.

If you think anything C++ related is lighter than something C based, then we just have to agree to disagree.
> most UUIDs are going to be non-matches in their lower bits, assuming a random distribution

But you can't assume a random distribution because anyone using UUID's for database keys isn't using random UUID's, they're using sequential ones.
> I am a big believer in “loving your losers” in the sense that you should not orphan them and you should work hard to get to the right outcome.

From the guy who talked about cutting off losers early a paragraph ago.
As much as I love ClojureScript and libraries like Om/Reagent, you're comparing apples to oranges here. React is a lower level API that other abstractions build on top of. Reagent itself is one such abstraction. Saying that Reagent is more elegant and understandable than React is akin to saying C is more elegant and understandable than assembly: An obvious truism.

A fairer comparison to Reagent would be something like Redux, which is far more elegant and understandable than low-level React code. I personally still prefer working with ClojureScript frameworks like Om/Reagent when given the choice since they have a much more robust solution for handling async tasks, but Redux doesn't fall very far behind in most other aspects.
Not at all.

The calculation was based on $150k (high end Amazon) multiplied by 1.3 which at $195k comes out to "almost double" a Canadian $100k.

It's a full on stretch of cherry pick-ery but it isn't tounge in cheek.

The basic conclusion that they're actually pretty close is the impression I meant to leave behind.

But I can see how my comment may have been poorly communicated.
>"if they had not stirred up the hornet's nest of populism from the right through the healthcare act fiasco"

To blame the President for this is ridiculous.

Our centrist President promoted a conservative think-tank idea battle tested in the laboratory of a large state, and was ridiculed as a marxist and a communist who was on the level of stalin. No hyperbole, these very attacks and words have become so common in conservative media that I am being very literal here.

The healthcare fiasco you point out was a manufactured fiasco.

The compromises made: conservative ideas, preservation of the private market, total lack of centralization are wholly anti-left anti-social ideas, and yet the opposition to him was as if he was an actual communist.

>"we would not be having Trump running for office today."

I consider this supremely naive.

The leaders of the national Republican party met before Obama was inaugurated and created the now-infamous obstructionist plan.

They promised each other: NO COMPROMISE, no assistance, no crossing the aisle. The only answer to ANY Democrat in the White House was simple: TOTAL uncompromising obstruction with the only valid and acceptable outcome being ideologically pure conservative policy.

The depth of the manufactured fiasco is proven by the simple history. A conservative idea to preserve the private market in the healthcare industry was hilariously tainted as socialist and the GOP successfully dragged their voters through another round of the Red Scare. This is indisputable: the renowned conservative think-tank Heritage Foundation is the genesis of the individual mandate which was battle tested by a Republican state administration. And yet, the second a centrist Democrat touches the plan, it's immediately the worst form of communism ever conceived...

>we would not be having Trump running for office today.

Trump is running today because the Republican Party promised their voters the Blood of any America-Destroying Commie-Democrat and failed to deliver what they could never deliver.

Republican leaders and Republican media stoked a fire for eight years and now they cannot control the four alarm blaze they've transformed their party into.

This is not Obama's fault. This is purely cause and effect. When you stoke a fire irresponsibly you get an irresponsibly large fire. Obama is a bystander. Republicans could have and would have stoked this fire for anyone who does not pledge fealty to their ideology. Look at how the #NeverTrump movement stokes this fire for Trump who they believe does not pledge true fealty to their conservative ideology. This is now how their party operates: Pledge fealty or you the problem that must be fixed, a RINO, an anti-Christ, a Muslim, a Marxist, a Leftist. Pledge fealty or you're the enemy. Obama was just a convenient target.
We've open-sourced several other mostly-KA-specific parts of the site, including these:

https://github.com/Khan/khan-exercises

https://github.com/Khan/perseus

https://github.com/Khan/live-editor

Contributions are few and far between; good contributions are even more so. It hasn't been worth the time investment, unfortunately.
Want to start a small data journalism team in your newsroom?
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One thing that comes to mind is that vim doesn't support multithreading very well or at all, when it comes to plugins. This is one of the issues Neovim is tackling.
I find the article's implication that replication of scientific studies is something invented at Yale in the 21st century beyond preposterous. And I'm certain that "Re-Bunked" isn't actually a word.
I don't disagree, but they often have coworkers who work opposite shifts (7am - 7pm vs. 7pm - 7am) so they can share an apartment space without running into each other too much.
Yeah, that sounds better.

Either way, if it's a critical service, I'd rather have it running on hardware where there isn't much competition for resources, so not a whole lot of virtualization.
"Plus ça change..."

The older you get, the more you realize just how true this is.
Yeah, but I did my PhD in theoretical computer science and have published research papers in ML. So I shouldn't have such a hard time. (It could just be me, but maybe it's a weak signal)
exact same here. its really great, and i honestly think im much more productive than people who have to go in to an office- insulated from distractions and stress in a mostly good way.
If you can't deal with rejection or selling people on your idea/yourself, then entrepreneurship is likely not the right path for you.

If it takes a few rejected applications to learn that, it is time well spent.
Apply HN: Signl.fm, the first spoken-word blogging platform (Podcast 2.0)
www.Signl.fm is the first social, spoken-word blogging platform — "Medium for Audio”.

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Imagine if you could create live or time-shifted audio in the same place you listened to it—then instantly share it with your followers.

Imagine if you could connect with co-hosts and guests around the world.

Imagine if you could record live, invite listeners to contribute their voice in real-time—then subscribe to or download that content, stored in one place, forever.

Imagine if you could rate, review, share, and respond to content all in one social ecosystem.

Imagine if you could seamlessly transcribe your content using IBM Watson.

Imagine if monetization was painless for both creators and listeners.

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Progress: We have an MVP (broadcast, record, & playback on desktop, iOS, and Android, and the basic product flow). We are working with an alpha group to amp and incentivize our social features to max level.

Market: We started this because we didn't have enough spoken-word audio to listen to. We want people to make more, and social is an *awesome way to make that happen. So, first we take on podcasts (~$120M worldwide), then Radio ($50B).

Team: Two co-founders, Kimberley(CEO) & Clifford(CTO), who have between them created many of the best-loved video games in history (Mass Effect, Assassin's Creed, Hitman Go, etc). The two previously had a small game studio together, and have a tonne of experience in gamified consumer apps (i.e. We Know Product). 2 other devs (also out of games), a finance/PM dude + an intern. An INTERN. !!!

Traction: a bunch of folks who want to live-cast and record with us; the biggest meetups in Vancouver, reporters who want to take us to conferences, and some others that we can't discuss here, but would be happy to chat about in person. We've also been interviewing podcasters for 6 months, and they're all pretty excited about us. We've got some nice notes from them to prove it.
Reddit is penalized on HN (sorry for the shock), but this is obviously real news, so we've taken off the penalty and restored a few hours of clock time to this post.
I can't speak with regard to Hong Kong. This article is about Seattle. Underground tunneling here is very expensive and subject to unique engineering problems that most areas don't have, which have been covered adequately elsewhere.
Small correction, you're not redacted down in soccer but relegated down.
Which would still make the low-order quadword not match.
Ask HN: How did Uber acquire its first customers?
1. In many talks Travis K talks about picking up the phone and dialing for dollars/calling up SF limo companies. But what did he tell them? Why did 3 of the 10 companies he called, (as per Travis) show interest in his venture? (AFIK, that seeded the start of Uber. Please correct me if I'm wrong.)

2. How did they specifically convince Riders to join their platform? (I somehow feel this was the easy part, as Travis had Sacca and other SV influencers as part of his close buddy network..and the money through Red Swoosh's acq.)

Very curious to understand the strategies they had in place, to solve the Chicken and Egg problem initially.

Thanks!
Well done on mentioning non-parents; a subset of the workforce usually overlooked in these conversations.
The problem is NIMBYs. No one wants their view ruined so The City has height restrictions. Developers want to max out profit and only build luxury high rises downtown. New developments in Daly City, South San Francisco, San Carlos, San Mateo, Pacifica et al. don't go anywhere because Peninsula, East Bay & South Bay suburbanites don't want to expand a borough like New York City. Comparisons to NYC are difficult because NYC is one city. To truly accomodate the demand for Bay Area housing, we can't just focus on San Francisco. Per Wikipedia, Manhattan has ~1.6MM people in ~22 sq mi of land. We need many, many more taller buildings. Try getting current landowners to change the 3 story restriction.

1. My goal for San Francisco is a diverse city
The City was diverse before the tech boom. The tech boom is pushing people out. Contrast the population of San Francisco with San Jose. Why is SJ more diverse? The white, suburbanites move to SF not SJ because they want NYC on the West Coast. A city of 860k vs 8mm have much more opportunity to have diversity. Again, there needs to be coordination across multiple municipalities that simply don't want to work together.

"I want to live in a beautiful, multiethnic, socioeconomically mixed community. A city where people of low, moderate, and high incomes live together, and people of different ethnicities interact." You should have moved here 20 years ago and then you would understand why long time residents hate the newcomers.

2. A little self awareness about my my role and position in San Francisco
You grew up poor but aren't now. Super.

3. The cause of our housing problem is huge demand in the face of limited supply
There were population exoduses for many years. The demand is relatively new problem. If you had been here in 2002, landlords were begging you to rent in SF. Granted, you graduated college in 2009 so you wouldn't know that but believe me, this is a recent problem caused by recent graduates.

I want to keep responding to your posts but I'm too tired. This isn't NYC and there aren't 5 boroughs that are able to be coordinated for building codes and transportation. This isn't an easy fix and, forgive me, I find your youthful perspective insulting as you have no idea how long these issues have been brewing. Chris Daly was a big proponent of affordable housing. Read up on him.
I disagree with the parent, but there are several issues with your post as well.

For starters, it's wrong to suggest that there's a direction or purpose to evolution[1]. The current shape of human life is no indication that we have 'progressed' from where we previously were, or where we will be in the future (as far as evo bio is concerned). As such, to suggest that we were 'supposed' to get smallpox because we did not evolve a natural immunity to it is not a statement that conforms to our understanding of evolution. Neither does it make sense that, because in the developed world, people have tended to become more sedentary, it is a desired end goal for humans to become 'lazier'. If that were the case, we should also be willing to argue that childlessness is the desirable state for living organisms, as the more education and wealth humans accumulate, the less likely they are to have children[2]. I don't fully follow your reasoning on exercise, but as it is intended to counteract the documented effects of overeating, I'm not sure it is a sound thesis to suggest it won't increase your lifespan.

1: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolphil/teleology.html
2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkSO9pOVpRM
Thanks, we think it's cool too!

The new books we're adding come from Project Gutenberg. We parse the ebooks, and using our tool and a combination of open source technologies (http://mokk.bme.hu/en/resources/hunalign/ for instance) we do the matching and then manually review the result, if necessary.

We started building an app, but then realised that the interface would basically be the same, and a lot can be accomplished with modern web technologies. We plan to leverage local storage and to make it feel as native as possible for now, since we have fairly limited resources and a lot of work in front of us.
I'd love to have a debate with you offline about this. I think I've already gotten a little more political than appropriate for this community, and if not my response to this most certainly would be.

I will only say that if you are tired of fighting for scraps - change your perspective, work your ass off, and earn yourself a bigger slice of pie. This is the United States of America. Everything is possible.
Further south matters. Basically, from the earth's rotation, you get 1000 MPH x cos(lattitude) of free velocity toward orbit, so being closer to the equator is a fairly big deal.
The article points out that there's no solid evidence suggesting a strong correlation between caloric intake and obesity.
Since that one has the comment and came earlier, we've put it in the second-chance pool (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926 and the other links there) and marked yours as a dupe. Sorry Bill!