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My perhaps favourite example of knowing when and how to break the rules is Franz Schuberts "Erlkönig" [1] because it is so stark.

If you listen to it without paying attention to the text (based on a poem by Goethe by the same name; both the German text and an English translation is found at [1]), parts of it sounds like horrible jammering and poor harmonies and it's easy to write it off as not sounding very nice.

Here's [2] a much clearer rendition (two singers, with much stronger delineation of the three different characters) than the one linked from Britannica.

If you do pay attention to the text, it is very clear that the unpleasant parts are very deliberate:

The singer(s) switches between the role of a father, his sick dying child, and the Erl-king that occurs in the hallucinations of the child while the father is riding to bring the child to a doctor.

The big difference between the unpleasant-sounding parts of this song and a bad composer is the clear intent and delineation - Schubert made things sound bad intentionally explicitly at the points he wanted to illustrate pain and fear, rather than because he didn't know how to make things sound pleasant when he wanted to.

The song clearly proves this by setting the childs jammering and the fathers fearful attempts to soothe him up against much more pleasant segments where the Erl-king speaks and tries to seduce the child to come with him.

You only get that clear separation if you know how to evoke each effect precisely. Arguably a bad particularly composer wouldn't even know how to make things sound bad the "right way" - there's a big difference between random bad sounds and making things evoke a child in pain.

[1] http://www.britannica.com/topic/Erlkonig

[2] https://soundcloud.com/sean_contretenor_lee/erlkonig
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C-Mera[0] is also worth looking at. It's a Lisp-to-C-like source-to-source compiler. They're doing pretty neat stuff with that wrt. high-performance graphics[1]. On this year's European Lisp Symposium there was a demonstration of using this to generate and simultaneously test a graphics filter on many different architectures with many different optimizations to determine which works best on what. The video of the talk should be available next week.

[0] - https://github.com/kiselgra/c-mera

[1] - https://github.com/kiselgra/cm-fop
Ask HN: Is there an immutable and decentralized database out there?
Hi Guys,

I am in need of a database that is decentralised and would allow one or more privileged users perform only INSERT and READ operations. This means data stored in it would be replicated across all nodes and are immutable. Immutable in the sense that the principal cannot delete or edit a record even though it is the reason the database exists. Anyone can join the network, but only one or more privileged users can perform operations.

The reason I need this is because I am looking for non-blockchain based model for achieving data integrity and ensuring that a centralized entity cannot mutate data secretly.

Do you think this is feasible?
Are there any existing open source solutions out there?
CLOSER TO DOOMSDAY
Greed and its devastating effects on the people of the world and nature drives the debut novel of Surendra Nath Saxena and Sanjeev Khurana. Titled “Closer to Doomsday”, the novel begins with conspiracy. Set in the year 2060, it quickly establishes that greed will drive us to the third world war. The book projects the dream of an utopian society, in the distant future, where respect and reason rule. Not to say that conspiracies and greed do not exist in the new world!

The protagonist Abhishek moves from the year 2060 to the future and from the physical to the spiritual. There are spirited dialogues with regards to greed of the old society that lead to earth’s destruction. The new world order is built on the lessons learnt from that destruction and Spiritual consciousness is promoted as the answer to the negatives. The new age methods of reading, travelling and learning will fascinate. You will wonder, is that possible?

Angst of the authors against today’s society is quite evident. They have used real life examples while the epilogue lists damning figures and articles that describe greed which they are sure will lead to discontent and destruction. Buy the novel to understand the writers’ anguish that we are moving closer to doomsday if we do not mend our extravagant and damaging ways of life.

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We're a product company. We track time, but only so we can plan our sprints better. We do estimates as a group using planning poker, which has the added benefit of fleshing out (and limiting) scope.

Our minimum unit of trackable time is 30 minutes. This helps us recognize how expensive context switching is.

Most importantly, each member of the team is only allocated ~30 hours per week to allow for all the nonsense that has a tendency to pop up.
Risking playing the devils advocate, checking the EFFs annual financial reports shows 13M support + 1M from investment income against 7,5M total expenses (salaries being 5,3M). EFF is doing good work and Let's Encrypt is a great initiative and I'm sure they can use every dollar, I'm just wondering whether you could have a bigger impact donating your money to other organizations / developers who are worse off.

https://www.eff.org/document/fy-2014-statement-activity
The title is artem v predator, but gives zero information of the content. I clicked out of curiosity but usually avoid vague titled links.
Any distributed database with support for User roles/access will fulfill your requirements.
These are lovely, and made me think of another Tumblr with beautiful animated GIFs (one for the cinema lovers out there): http://iwdrm.tumblr.com/
Ask HN: Is wxPython Dead?
Is wkPython Dead? I was just checking their website and the last update was 2014. Has it been completely replaced by something else and no one told me?
Containers vs. virtual machines: How to tell which is the right choice
They nuke accounts created using Tor. That's not very privacy friendly.
I've always understood the relationship between societies and monks (priests, ministers, nuns, etc.) to be one of "offset". Monks are taken care of so they can pursue the esoteric studies that the common person has no time for. In exchange, the common person's spiritual/religious/etc. enrichment is guided with assistance from the monk, similar to how patronage happens in the arts.

I'm sure this could be explained in an even more conduct way, but I'm having a hard time putting down in words how I see the relationship works in my mind.
Isn't there an AWS Amsterdam datacenter which would be better latency?
Context switching also creates some overhead. YMMV as the time it takes to switch tasks IMHO depends on particular person, context scale and problem difficulty.
>>> Despite the drop in HDD unit shipments, both sequentially and year-over-year, total capacities shipped by the two leading makers of hard drives increased in Q1

Somehow misleading title. You don't buy a HDD, you buy storage capacity, and this metric is increasing, so it seems that the HDD industry is pretty healthy.
Just cancelled my order based on this.
Knowing what you are doing and not being a entitled brat still goes along way in this industry.
That guideline would likely classify Xhosa as English. See https://xh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iphepha_Elingundoqo , which has no diacritics and three apostrophes.
This looks fantastic!

> So far positioned more as a heating and cooling device

Indeed, the website and esp. the pre-ordering process lets one think it's really dedicated to that use...

Why not have another page with a more general positioning, this could be used for anything!
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Spinning disks still have their uses though. For example, they're ideal for a low-to-moderate amount of disk activity, and they last longer. Just make sure you schedule a daily defragment. Spinning disks are also great for 'cold storage' of files. I wouldn't store anything worthwhile on an SSD though because of their fail-rate. SSDs of course have their use cases too, but there are many trade-offs to using them exclusively for everything. I know people who exclusively work with SSDs naively thinking they're a progression from spinning disks. Not actually the case!
James Gosling on Oracle, Once Again
"It's an abstracted version of time and labour, allowing for transmission of from one person to another."

How does that translate to the billions that hedge fund managers "earn".
Skull soundwaves research could pave way for more authentication methods
Simplicity!?
Do you have do develop those films in the freezer? A normal dark room is not really dark at those wavelengths, even if you turn the red lamps off, right?
It's the survivors that get to make the rules
I haven't done it myself, but I know of teams that use a lock for integrating changes to the main branch.

Without it the rate of change in the branch was fast enough that submissions would be preempted by someone else's and you'd have to rerun presubmission tests etc.
>The ones who have overcome it are always just sitting and waiting for everyone else to catch on..

Yep, that's the problem with BitCoin alright: a bunch of people sitting on coins because they got in "early", thinking everyone is going to climb aboard and make them rich.

Probably not gonna happen.
The reason its complex is because if it was simpler the masses would see how much its ripping them off.
HTTP-01 verification works quite well behind load balancers - it's a simple GET request to a specific URL.

You're probably thinking of TLS-SNI-01, which requires changes on the host that's terminating TLS (which isn't possible on a load balancer unless it has dedicated support for ACME).
Yes, it was a mistake to call it god, but I think that can be excused. At least almost every religious Hindu still believes that bathing in Ganges can wash away his/her sins, so that part is correct. Bringing religious angle is important here to show that it should be even more important for us to keep it clean.
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"The company said it completes more than 11 million rides a day, with more than 87 percent of the market for private car-hailing in China."

If they make $1.00 for each ride, that's already more than $4 billion in revenue per year.
Same for me.

I'm Italian, lived in UK for a few years, and I have problems with Standard Italian, so much that often I use English grammar in Italian or I have to Google translate from English to Italian for words.

Also, I noticed as well that my home dialect is getting stronger than Standard Italian, although I lived in another part of Italy for almost 10 years.
So people are asking the government to protect themselves from their own stupidity?
She should've read the contract before signing.

Everything that differentiates a woman or man is "sexist",
it doesn't mean its bad or only impacts one gender.
(There are rules unique for men too).
>The fact that a minor update got released isn't a rare enough occurrence to warrant a highly-voted post on HN.

Reality appears to disagree with you on this point.
Great article. It seems that she has an outgoing, friendly personality. Companies need those types of employees just as much as they need good technologists.
>> Evan later wrote a paper basically saying that was an awful idea

Is this paper available online? Thanks.
Power needs to be controlled in a distributed way that doesn't put too much power in anyone's hands. Because power corrupts.
When were the trade lines to China established? Skimming of the Wikipedia article about the silk road suggests that its precursors are from around that time.
I find it to be a bit hit and miss. Sometimes it just takes 5-10 seconds for the results to appear, for no apparent reason.
Ask HN: How to get projects if you are development company?
I see freelancer.com and upwork.com as one of major source for project. But this days there if you see the size of projects are getting small and the no of bidders is going high.

So is there any other way to directly contact companies which wants to outsource their work?

Plus mostly project posters here specify "Only freelancers bid no consultancy or agency bid"

Can we have Job style Agency/Consultancy post every month?

Agency/consultancy looking for work or startups looking for agency.

Like I am running a agency where we help startup to make their MVP with ease (startuppixel.com) but we are not able to find how we can find potential clients for the same.

Thanks
Not everyone has enough bandwidth in their lives to actively fix every broken free/open source project out there.

Rather than being seen as attacks on a project, these sorts of comments are often just highlighting some things that whoever is looking at that particular project might want to fix.

The "don't criticise unless you're prepared to fix it" attitude is very similar to the sort of "Don't bring me problems, just solutions" attitude that some managers have that results in a culture of people keeping quiet about stuff they've spotted but don't have either the time or ability to fix themselves.
Sure, but if you've got essentially limitless production, you must have de facto solved logistics too. (I can't imagine a scenario where you get production without the infrastructure)
Effective in what way? I guess people do it for the fun and experience but I may be wrong...
> But those probability models are really far removed from real world/human experience. No human is going to claim a leopard skin sofa could be an actual leopard for example. Not gonna be even a little confused.

Mhm.

When humans see a jeopardy answer looking for the name of an ancient king, they might give the wrong name, because quick, did Hadrian rule before or after Caesar?

If Watson gets it wrong, its answer is something like "What are trousers?".

It seems quite obvious that different things are going on there.
I regularly fold all methods to get an overview of the class and its flow. Or if I quickly want to scan the class to maybe find something.

Or even just to go into "zen mode" to feel that I can focus in on one method while the other ones are "gone".
Best grammar is the one that best matches actual language use. What you describe is similar to how link grammars (try to) work: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_grammar
The distributed databases I have looked into have a user who grants roles/access to every other user. This means someone has to be trusted with full privileges. A solution where the access/role is baked into the software could be ideal.
at first I guess it'd be great, finally eff found a solution that any companies can implement their own security layer that's compliant with new standard and EME, but it's not.
Even if W3C accepted this open letter and changed, there would be nothing changed at all.
They spend their time engaging in an activity (labour), for which they're given financial reward. Just because you don't equate what they do with work, doesn't mean that it doesn't follow the same rules. They just get vastly more for their labour than other people.
I'll just throw this in. John Oliver on science and bullshit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rnq1NpHdmw
I like the idea! What you also could do to expand the smart playlist feature even more is if you give in an artist name, and only put in related artists' songs. The current features you have implemented are only based on search queries if I'm not mistaken.

Also the playlist scrobller you mentioned would be a great option. What about groups of playlists? What about playlists you follow?

One big plus is the era's playlists already at hand! I think it's a neat thing to have!
> She should've read the contract before signing.

The point is, the clause in the contract about high-heeled shoes should be null and void.
Or, rather, please, please, please don't follow advice from 2007 on clever PHP hacks. That's a recipe for trouble in any circumstances, and even more so in case of the (buggy) attempts at concurrency present in PHP5.

It is now a decade later, there are other tools (PHP version seven has been released, ffs).
Regardless of what SRE actually means I guess it must start with Senior. I have yet to hear official definition of that word but self-reflection, realization of own limited abilities and means-to-an-end mentality are something I personally would consider a strong candidate.
Awesome mindset sir!
Alan Rusbridger Steps Down as Chair of the Guardian’s Owner
RSS Collector in Ruby and Go
Tutanota never stores unencrypted mails on the server. If you send an encrypted mail to an external recipient, the recipient will receive a link to his end-to-end encrypted mailbox. He can open his encrypted mailbox only with the passphrase that you (the sender) shared with him.
Never happen. In the US those jobs would be done by robots, as they will shortly in China. Manufacturing jobs aren't coming back.
Commission report also includes that the US destroyed vast amounts of information following the attacks and the US refused to allow numerous individuals to testify before the commission too.

So, sure, it's important what the Saudi's did, but why stop with them?
What Kind of Voter Is Most Susceptible When Pols Pile It High and Deep?
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Google and Facebook haven't really had rough times yet, so it's hard to tell. Does anyone know about Apple?
I recently updated from Sublime Text 2 to ST3. One thing I loved about version 2 was that it was insanely fast. Version 3 is significantly slower. Can anyone point me to any resources that might help me determine why the slowdown?
Is peace more terrible than war?
On reflection, I think I may be wrong to say that he is begging the question, but not because of your counter-argument. If we start from the other end of the list, the first thing that is not unambiguously not a pumpkin is not necessarily the last unambiguous pumpkin you picked in the first pass. You have introduced the ambiguity that the author is trying to insist is not there.

My other claims stand, I think. The point is that his linear model is not an adequate fit to the problem (for example, the ambiguity you introduced really is there, but the model excludes it.) Maybe there is something like question-begging in thinking that this is an adequate model.
This also means that automattic can take down your .blog if they don't like you.
Indeed, the title brought to my mind the Alien vs. Predator movies, so I clicked to see what it meant when you replace Alien with Artem in that context...
That is simply not true. We have a very high degree of Tor users. Unfortunately, some spammers also hide behind Tor. That is why we disable accounts that are used for spamming purposes.

You can always contact our support if you feel that your account has been disabled without reason. We check every case... :)

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Matthias
Founder tutanota.com
That's what they thought a couple of decades ago too. I've heard of some research into programming languages decades ago not getting funded because "in a few years we won't need programming languages anyway". It might be true this time, but it might not.
Care to give some pointers?
Hey Canada, why don't you stick to maple syrup, amiright?
Well, traditionally the Scots in their legends said that we came from Scythia which is in that part of the world:

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

From the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath:

"They journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage tribes, but nowhere could they be subdued by any race, however barbarous.

Thence they came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea, to their home in the west where they still live today."

http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/the-text-of-the-declaratio...

NB One of the kingdoms that eventually became Scotland was the Irish/Scottish Dál Riata:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A1l_Riata
Beautiful and useful gift idea
My biggest objection to Atom over Sublime is the memory overhead when opening even moderately large files.

I'm in ops rather than dev, so often deal with 10mb+ log files - but don't have a lot of the IDE type requirements of my colleagues. Sublime open them in seconds and is nice and quick to search through and look at. Trying to open a 10mb file in atom causes it to chew up 1.2gb of ram and it's laggy when scrolling nevermind when trying to search etc.

Sublime on the other hand not only starts up quicker and is more responsive, but it's only costing me 100mb of ram for my 10mb file as well as 20 others I've not bothered closing.

If I try and load a 100mb file in sublime it doesn't balk. Takes about 8 seconds to load, but once loaded it's amazingly responsive (to the point where I thought I still had my 10mb not 100mb file loaded). Atom attempts to open the file but takes forever and then dies after exhausting the 8gb ram on my laptop.

tldr: sublime feels stable, lean and fast vs memory munching and perceivably slow.

Edit: oh, and atom's installer is 104mb, the new build of sublime3 is 8mb.

edit2: Even after a clean boot atom just crashes trying to open a large file well before it fills up my memory, so no idea.
At $20, who would by this?

Has anyone seen a DYI that's cheap?
I just skimmed through, but dont see them saying anything about where they get their data. Hedge funds are generally secrective about their investments. Why should I believe anything in this article is real?
An ESP8266 can go from deep sleep to publishing a request in less than three seconds. The expensive operations are the DHCP request and the DNS query, but that can be cached for hours, often even days.
Walls are transparent to FM (~100MHz) radio, so you won't see anything.

WiFi is closer. High microwave is probably what you want here.

And of course, this already exists. It's called radar. Haven't seen any radar "photos" though. Interesting if that's indeed possible.
They actually doubled the wages to combat crazy rates of attrition. (Way more than 100% a year.)

That workers afford cars after that was a nice side effect that made for good PR.
TrackMania is NP-complete
Mining resources are not correlated to scaleability.

Once again, whatever people's views on bitcoin at least realize that mining hashes don't dictate how many transactions can be processed by a miner. They mine a block, then they include as many transactions as they think they can get away with and keep the latency low enough to propagate. Right now they are capped by a block size limit which is the real next hurdle. Some people think there should be no block size limit - latency already becomes a limit in itself.

To hammer it home - someone using bitcoin does not need to use any more electricity than a computer and internet connection. The miners use the electricity and the amount of transactions they process is not directly linked in any way.
The epistemology of pizza
Johannesburg has an annual mean pollution per city of 44 micrograms per cubic meter, according to the World Health Organization.

My first reaction: "WTF? it's not that bad. There's so many trees here you feel like you live in the forest."

My next reaction: "Oh yes, the +- 2 million people driving in shitty cars that continually shart out visible carcinogenic gasses, because they refuse to maintain their vehicles."
Words and pics spill out of the black container when viewed on a wide screen.