skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like the virtual "string" is shaped as a random string, and then suddenly let go to make that sound. I wonder what would happen if you shaped the original buffer with a certain shape--for instance a linear rampup then a linear rampdown at some point, much like how you would stretch a string.

edit: hacked together a string plucking thing here: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/ldVSzd

modify the coefficient inside pluckPoint from 0.5 to 0.01 and hear the difference in timbre.
Where can I download Oracle Order Management business process flows?
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Severability was intentionally removed in GPLv3 to make it an all or nothing license. The FSF's rationale is that if they made it an all or nothing, it would be less likely for courts to find any clause unenforceable. Whether or not this will stay true in practice remains to be seen.

I was incorrect in remembering what the CDDL had if a clause is found to be unenforceable. A reform clause has a lot of overlap with severability. While a contract can be altered in such a case, reform means that the spirit of the unenforceable clause must remain intact. Were it severable, then the entire clause would be excised, potentially altering the license much more through omission.
Refreshing viewpoint. I agree with both suggestions.

I hope as you do that humans start limiting their population. It seems to me that we can either breed un-controllable and have the maximum number of humans living awful lives fighting for scarce resources; or we can control our population and have less humans living happy sustainable lives.

Thanks to technological advances, those living today have been blessed with plentiful resources, which has meant most of us have had happy lives. Read Jared Diamond's "Collapse" for what happens when resources run out - in almost all cases, humans start literally eating each other within a generation.

And you are right on the standard of living too. We can (and most of humanity does) have very happy and fulfilled lives with a fraction of the resources most western people consume. Go and knit a sweater/carve a spoon/write a poem, instead of watching the Kardashians (or Cardasians!).
Kernels usually provide quite a lot of abstraction in addition to secure partitioning and sharing. And that's arguably wrong: providing abstractions is complicated (thus inherently less secure), and one size does not fit all.

In a unikernel setup abstractions can live much more comfortably in libraries.
With anyone who thinks there is any grounds on this any kinda lawsuit.

I honestly disagree. They (google) try to employ smart people (as any company should do), they pull from creative areas- have you honestly never thought you invented something only to find out that someone else came up with the idea earlier?

I swear that I invented the Jet Ski when I was like 8 years old- like motorcycle but boat... I drew up designed on graph paper etc- mine had a glass shield though, but also used thermodynamic for propulsion (initial versions used a prop).

Jet skis or whatever were around years before I came up with that. I was just a kid. Still though- a stolen idea or just something that other people as smart as you might also independently come up with is a grey area. And the flaw in patent law in the US. To insist on generalizing such as shape of controller or magnets vs. the purpose of real innovation to make an arms race for getting money back on it... I all it all BS In the modern age. Just MIT open source it if you have the guts to.

I am speaking to the general you. Sorry for my long winded jet-ski example. I totally invented that before it was a thing (at least to child self).
How can you know it's turned off? Remotely accessible Zero Touch Config used to stay enabled, even when it claimed "Active Management Technology: Disabled" in BIOS. PoC was shown with free Intel SCS Console and a trivially acquired certificate.

ME & AMT have become common on consumer gear, laptops, etc. and Intel chip, chipset & nics are a common combination.

The attack surface is also huge for anyone intent on compromising it.
Ontario is blessed with great farm land and plenty of water. If the weather was better it could feed all of North America.

I have been commenting to my wife about why are all the Tomatoes down here in TX from Ontario?

Now I know.
Also, check this out.

http://falstad.com/loadedstring/

A more accurate (?) version of a loaded string. Requires Java.

This guy also has bunch of other really cool stuff. Go to the root of that website.
>I really doubt that zoning laws improve quality of life for people in your average randomly selected town. Zoning laws give us things like parking requirements which drive down density and force everyone to drive.

If you do drive, though, you are not going to appreciate new development which makes it impossible to park when you get home from work.

Not everyone hates living in places where people drive.
Ask HN: How do you keep a record of meetings at your company?
Am looking for a fast and efficient way of keeping a record of meetings at our corporate company, which process has been most efficient for you? Do you record audio take down minutes is there any apps you use to plan and schedule meetings apart from outlook that is.
Same arguments as those in favour of exokernels in the 90s.
seL4 doesn't provide very much to the programs, does it? I think it closer in spirit to Xen than to the linux kernel?
This is a startup...
I'm glad you're enjoying this discussion. I'm enjoying it as well.

My view is a little different.

I don't think abandoning someone who has been a great value to me because they have developed a terminal disease would be consistent with acting in my self-interest. To do such a thing would be to betray the virtues that I hold dear, such as honesty, integrity, justice, pride, etc.

For example, consider honesty. If this person was a great value to me, we would have some kind of understanding that we don't just toss each other overboard in tough times. If they get sick and I do toss them overboard, I would be a liar, and that brings a ton of other negatives with it, such as undercutting my personal integrity.

There's also the issue of justice. If this person has treated me well, if we have fallen in love, would it be just to abandon them when they are in the fight of their life? That sounds like injustice to me, unless there was some kind of (weird) agreement covering this situation.

This reply is getting a bit long, so I'll stop here.

If I haven't explained this very well, please say so and I'll try to be clearer.
Sounds like the yamaha chip that powered the Sega Genesis[0].

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agmckeYH5NU
Some (relational) databases go to great lengths to recreate on top of a file system an interface that looks more like the block level storage that's underlying.

A unikernel can cut out the middle man here.
If your 4-motor idea really made sense, I think Tesla would have done that. They didn't: they use a single large motor (or two, for the P85D, front and rear), driving a single-speed gearbox, through a differential, to two standard CV axles.

The Chevy Volt, too, uses a single motor. I'm not sure about the Bolt or the LEAF but I suspect they're the same.

>I don't need a battery. Give me a supercapacitor that is just big enough to handle regenerative breaking from 80 MPH to a stop, followed by running the engine while waiting for a drawbridge or freight train.

Then you're going to have lousy fuel economy. If this idea made sense, the Chevy Volt would have used it. They didn't. No one wants to buy an serial hybrid car that has crappy fuel economy. They can just buy a gasoline car for a lot less money.

>It's not about fuel economy. It's about acceleration

The Tesla P85D has this already, and without all the complexity you're proposing.

>It's about getting all this when there is no place to charge an electric car.

If you have a house with electricity, you have a place to charge your car. If you have an apartment with a parking space and no way to get power there for a charging station, then you're too poor for anyone to bother making a car like this for you.

>They could be out at the wheel, affixed to the body, missing the top and bottom to allow the wheel to move around them -- the car effectively being a mag-lev inside centerless wheels.

As an engineer, I have no idea what you're talking about here.
Gigster (YC S15) is hiring ML engineers to automate software development
Is the tour supposed to end abruptly at "this is r1" ?
Here's an editable demo written in JS (just hit "preview"): http://tinyrave.com/tracks/67/remix
There are windows, garbage, the very many commercial tracking sensors in your home and your pocket, Internet connection, phone calls (at least metadata), etc. Plus everything you do outside your home. Infrared sensors are only one small possibility.
They're pretty sandboxed, but every Android app gets a JVM, no exceptions allowed (even Android's pure C++ API is just a wrapper around JNI calls). And in the case of the old Dalvik VM, it's a terrible JVM.
They release drastically less CO2 than the richer people do.
It could be hardware switch on motherboard.
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Thanks. That looks more liveable.
> So no, stricter gun control laws do not reduce gun crimes.

There is solid evidence against that point of view, and has been discussed/disproven numerous times. https://vimeo.com/97417009

The US is a special case compared to Australia, for sure, due to the massive difference in population. However many countries in Europe with similar population densities can manage low rates of mass shooting homicide via gun control laws...
A modular platform is a much fatter interface than a display + touch peripheral. To me larger, more complex interface is more likely to go out of date and focused minimal interfaces last longer. People are still using VGA today, and will be using HDMI/DVI for a long long time. Whatever I carry as a phone is going to be updated much more frequently than my car or even a radio/consumer electronics module in my car.
Question: are frequency, consistency, and productivity important metrics for bubbling up users that get noticed as really good candidates?

I poke around every now and then on stockfighter but am definitely not looking for a job change in the near term. Is this use case something y'all support?

Thanks!
Funny coincidence that I just stumbled upon a nice video about sound crafting for cinema:

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/wonderful-short-film-reveals-the-p...
IBM terminology might be confusing me - but looking at published security targets it appears LPAR's themselves have only ever been evaluated at EAL4 with flaw remediation (ALC 2) and PR/SM being evaluated at EAL 5 but neither to any specific protection profile. This means that IBM created their own evaluations and gave themselves a "certification".

Protection profile less CC evaluations are worthless in the eyes of most governments and CC schemes, but kudos to IBM product management and marketing for creating competitive FUD.

As of a year ago LDOM's (Oracle VM for SPARC) hasn't had a CC evaluation and I'm not seeing anything currently in evaluation. Solaris Zones have been evaluated under the Solaris OSPP EAL4 + extensions evaluation.

The biggest reason that virtualization technologies haven't had a CC evaluation with a protection profile is that no US NIAP approved protection profile existed and the draft ones that were circulated were crap.

Assurance levels (EAL) are deprecated for newest NIAP protection profiles as the higher assurance levels (EAL4) were cost and time prohibited for vendors to complete before the product was outdated. Many people wrongly think common criteria is a security evaluation (free of bugs) - it's not - it's a security architecture evaluation (is the documented behavior working correctly).

There is a schism in CC - everything is changing - anything we know today is wrong and will change.

TL;DR: Common Criteria is a joke and doesn't actual mean what you think it does.
If Reddit were representative of voters then Sanders would be the Democratic nominee.

Are you trying to tell that r/The_Donald reflects genuine views of Trumps supporters and moreover it reflects the views of the majority of Reddit?

r/The_Donald is the textbook example of the Internet trolling -- as in you literally can write a book on how to become a troll using its submissions as the educational material. Though usually trolls are not hired guns and have less malicious motivation (the usual motivation being to induce an emotional response for your own amusement).
If it seems that cut and dry, the argument is missing many things.

One thing to consider is that nothing is a literal absolute in the law; it's not an algorithm. For example, nobody denies the government's right to regulate arms as far as background checks, denying them to criminals, and until very recent history, much more stringent bans on possession - until recently, centuries of American jurists interpreted the law differently, and many still do; were/are they all illiterate? So easily dismissed by online amateurs? Also, government can outlaw advanced arms such as anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons, and fully automatic weapons.

The government also can't regulate speech according to the text - except that it can: Dangerous speech (shouting fire in a crowded, dark movie theater where there is none, or inciting someone to murder), false commercial speech (lying in your ads), slander, etc. are all illegal.
Did they form a consensus on this?
They don't have the cash MSFT does. As a matter of fact last time I looked they were still losing money. If I remember correctly and you look at their most recent 10k, they lost a couple hundred million (not 100% sure). It's one of those companies that brings in 6 billion in revenue but profits are elusive. It's been 17 years so you got to wonder what's going on? They are valued at 55 billion.

MSFT paid cash. I have no idea where CRM would come up with that kind of dough.
How many times do you put up with your kid beating up his mother when he comes home drunk in the middle of the night before you require him to move out of the house? Keep in mind that his is 15 years old...

As parents, we tend to believe that we will always love our kids in a way that allows us to maintain healthy functioning relationship with them no matter what happens.

But when you see what can go wrong in families and how 1 member's behaviours can have a massive detrimental impact on the other members, you realise that there are limits to that.

While I will always love my kids, I know, objectively, that there are circumstances that could force me to fundamentally alter the terms of my relationship with them. I pray that never happens, but I know it's possible.

Similarly, I know plenty of people who no longer have any relationship with one or both of their parents due to the way they were treated as kids. Society (rightly) tends to be more accepting of a child who decides to sever their relationship with an unloving parent than the reverse.
Ouch. I went through three LG Google TVs about three years ago. They all seemed to have the same firmware issue (which LG refused to acknowledge), resulting in the TV restarting every 5-10 minutes.

LG paid to have the first two repaired. The "repaired" devices stayed on...but they no longer tuned channels. They gave me a TV that lacked the whole "tele-" part! I returned the third one without going through the silly repair process, and got a Sony Bravia. Never had a problem.
You may say so but, with due respect, that's not evidence any more than my subjective claims. The U.S. government enacts many laws, often within the same day or hour, with vastly different intents and authored and supported by people with vastly different interests.
> different organisms will thrive

Like mosquitos, ticks and other disease-carrying insects that kill 1 million humans every year.
Not exactly what you are asking for, but http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/ comes close.
Their growth rate, not their emissions. US is double per capita, but China is double for actual emissions. Sheer scale.
I have no problem reading the primary sources but where does one who is not in academia without expensive journal access obtain them all? I've tried digging around for pdf's but it seems they're scattered all over the place or locked behind paywalls.
... and god help you if you were a 'scene' group and released a movie in anything other than a multi-part RAR set of 15MB files containing 2 x 700MB files. nuked!
I do not understand devs who justify low salaries this way.

Why make 50% of your potential?
You don't even have to participate in commerce to participate in commerce.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich
Almost worse is the HBO site from just last year. They had hours of operation posted.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140208060432/http://www.homebo...
A bigger problem is positive feedback loops.

Historically we've had much more CO2 in the atmosphere than we do now. Why didn't the methane bubble up and kill everything then?
That's unreal. I had appendicitis when I was 35. You know how doctors ask you to rate your pain level from 1-10? That experience reset the scale entirely for me. I suffered on the floor of an Army hospital ER waiting room for 8 hours before they brought me back. They quickly realized what was wrong with me and gave me morphine and I've never felt anything so blissful. Looking at that doc's pics from your link just blows my mind. I can't even imagine what that must have been like. Maybe he had lots of morphine on hand.
Citation please. Not at all disagreeing with you, I'm just interested.
The civic applications you mention solve an obvious problem. The problem solved by the hypothetical smart blender is not so obvious to most folks.
Ask HN: Where do Chinese property investor hang out online?
I always hear that one of the problems with the housing market in the US, Canada, the UK and other places is that a lot of "foreign investors" are scooping up the properties.
Apparently it's to diversify their portfolio in ways that protects their worth from their national currency price fluctuations.

Is there an online community where some of these property investors might hang out? I want to see if I can convince someone to rent to me in exchange for Bitcoin or shares in my startup or something equally unconventional.
A few people mentioned Python. Me, too. I left PHP (mostly) and can't stand the ascendency of JavaScript for everything under the sun (it's madness right now). I recently chose Python as my "go to" language for everything after reading a compelling post on Java for everything (not a typo). But I just don't like messy C-based languages like Java.

If someone would pay me big bucks one day for Java, I'd do it and program cool little machines and gadgets with it, but I love the web a lot and I am not about to continue the shoe-horning of Java and the Web (don't start with me).

So, I like Python for everything. Good web stuff. Great scripting and command line. Good for the Internet of Things (if you want to go down that path). Good for writing desktop. And yes, you could do games and mobile (although I admit the shoe-horning begins to show a little here). But I'm not in that space so much, so I accept that. And its pretty and stable (like Ruby) while not being quite as pretentious as Ruby.

Someone wrote WebAssembly. While not a language.... yes, yes, yes... I'm very excited about it. Because do you not SEE the reality that soon we could be writing web code on web pages with pre-compiled speedy fun stuff but written in our language of choice, including Python? Is no one talking about this? It will just take someone writing a Web Assembly Compiler (not sure if that will be the right terminology) in your language of choice. Oh. My. Goodness. Death to JavaScript. Maybe. Or at least an arm lopped off its torso.
The wind instruments stand out a bit because the performers need to take pauses to breathe.
As a customer, these shops have to jump through some amazing hoops just to provide standard POS debit/credit. One store has to process all payments as an ATM withdrawal, and must give change so the "ATM withdrawal" will round to the nearest $5.
I would suggest you stop worrying and get on with your biological imperative to reproduce your dna, only in slightly variated pattern to ensure parasites and viruses are kept guessing.

Also know that people have been grappling with this question for centuries and every doomsday prediction has turned out to be wrong. So there is cause for optimism.
> Tenured federal employees have little reason to hide the impropriety of an elected official; on the contrary, they can get a cash bonus for reporting the malfeasance!

They have a very big reason: Appearing disloyal - the cardinal sin - and never working in Washington or anywhere near it again. I hope that cash bonus is a big one.
What do you expect? It's the push from the "never again" crowd. Sandy hook, Boston marathon, San Bernardino, and Orlando to name a few. People are so scared of the big bad terrorist that they are more than happy to be watched 24/7. If you have nothing to hide then what's the problem?
This is called traceability, and it's a fundamental aspect of food quality and good manufacturing practice (GMP) throughout the food industry. The devil is in the documenting.
Maybe not exactly the situation you're describing, but similar. Spent a month of one of my deployments at a small operating base in eastern Afghanistan. Our barracks were small, minimal structures that had two to a room.

We slept during the day. Planned missions in the early evenings. Huddled around the fired pit, drinking coffee and looking the stars for a few hours each night before conducting missions in the middle of the night, in remote villages far off in the mountains, which would extend till morning.

It required helicopter operations flying low, between the mountains. Long offset infiltrations... we'd land a few km away from the objective, and walk our way, for a few hours at a time through mountains and valleys on our way to the target.

Being in this remote post was surprisingly an enjoyable part of that deployment (most of us were disappointed when told we'd be going here at the last minute)... The (relative) isolation from other units, cleared your mind and focus. We all enjoyed the camaraderie and time we had to just hand out with each other during down time. During off days / nights I got a lot of reading done, probably more than I've ever been able to in a short period since. The scenery and beauty of that country, and specifically that location is something I'll never forget.
It is not! You are the third person to tell me that's happened. Looking into it.
I wish this contained a delta between the previous release and this release. It's difficult to find the differences just by skimming.

Edit: apparently I hadn't realized that the changes were so few that what was in the outline really did cover everything. I thought it was a summation. My fault.

That being said I continue to be disappointed in the built-in standard library of JavaScript. As far as I can tell ECMAScript 2017 also has zero plans for incorporating useful libraries for file IO or sockets (currently both are provided through different APIs by node or the browser). This really needs to happen.
Sounds way better than the original author's demo!

Original author's demo: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MdyXRd
Well if you're looking to donate, Equality Florida is on the Humble Bundle charity roster. They're collecting for and helping distribute money to Pulse victims and their families.

http://www.eqfl.org/
https://www.gofundme.com/PulseVictimsFund
https://gpgtools.org

Oh look a unicorn.