skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Musical perception is, surprisingly, not shared by all humans".

Uh, surprising to who?
Yes Calibre can read .epub, and there is a decent extension for Firefox I've seen.

However, I'm not yet making the epub available. The book still needs a lot of work. When it gets closer to completion, I will probably will make standalone files available.
The Multiworld Testing Decision Service
That was probably me. :) Yes, it's something that would be possible with the Powerbox.
Honestly, what's the alternative. The land would sit unused otherwise. If they did build it in a more developed area they would be competing against commercial and residential interest, and for what gain? Servers don't care about a 2 hour commute, or how far they are from the airport. In the sticks or downtown, it's the same to computers.

Now that one company has done the research of getting electricity, network backbone, roads, and other infrastructure built. Now, others can come along and build their datacenter next door because they know the infrastructure is there. Which is exactly what's happening in NC.
Programs are stored as S-expressions, are not particularly easy to read or safe to modify.

What you've built sounds very interesting, but this part is a problem you may need to solve before programmers will embrace it. If I can't use git with it, I can't develop any non-trivial software with it.
Ubuntu Linux forum hacked, data of 2M users leaked
Not to mention Flowtype or Type Script.
> relying on something simply thrown up there on the web ... They don't feel like being left to your whims should you choose to change license

Fair enough. Naive question... Does the Wikimedia Commons (and other established sites) not address this? Licensees of CC material will find content and license change histories, archiving, and (thus) audibility if a dispute arises. i.e. claims like "this was the license on date X" become verifiable
You mean "Apple revenue is around $225 billion"
Pinterest is more curation-oriented than the other social networks... And Wikipedia of course functions as a sort of directory for many topics.
I'm only interested if he also sends samples to labs for testing. There's a bunch of "melatonin" in the US that contains no melatonin.

The fact he mentions alcohol as useful for sleep (especially for people who wake early) shows how clueless he is.
This is a very approachable explanation by [mathematician] John Baez https://youtu.be/vzjbRhYjELo?t=426 and going into this with a bit of depth mentioning the 'rigorous' (i.e., analytically 'acceptable' form of the summation of Riemann Zeta function and the radius of convergence and all) along with the naive Euler summation. He goes on to mention a few times as to why it's fundamental in string theory (not to be confused with super string nor m-theory, which are of course different).

A bunch of people had issues with the Numberphile episode where these restrictions where elided (due to time, I'd imagine), but they had another episode featuring the zeta function and a math professor (rather than physics professors, who were featured on the one that went viral) explaining the summation with more context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Oazb7IWzbA.
Doesn't need to be in the CC license. If they ask, you can just offer them an alternative license that costs them, but gets them a signed piece of paper. Putting "requests for clarification mean you have to pay" in a license sounds like a bad idea.
Also not an MD (yet) so grain of salt, but from my experience: Yeah, D50 is a more direct way to get glucose into the blood stream. It does take a lot more time to mobilize liver stores of glycogen.

But using glycogen stores isn't necessarily bad for you metabolically. Glucagon is used by your body everyday during periods of fasting between meals to maintain a minimum blood sugar. Your glycogen stores can supply enough glucose for several hours of fasting before you turn to other routes of metabolism, which would next preferentially be fatty acids. Glucagon IM injectors are given to lots of diabetics to prevent hypoglycemic emergency if drinking fruit juice or something isn't enough.
UTC won't adopt daylight savings, but Arizona might. This is a foreseeable event which you can mitigate against, unlike the sun exploding.
Malcom Gladwell is a great story teller, but a terrible researcher. I had sworn to never buy another book by him even before seeing this news. He's BSing too much.
You can also render full webpages using webkit: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4srze9/watching_yout...
Praise text programming languages all you want and you will be correct. Programming languages used by coders are by far text based.

However when you leave the coder land and when you jump to user land this turns on its head. Overwhelming rejection of text based programming languages and overwhelming embrace of visual programming languages.

Every software that integrates a easy to learn scripting language like Python and Lua and later implements a visual programming language , users will pick the visual language in the vast majority of cases.

A very powerful visual programming language is Unreal's Blueprints which can completely replace the C++ Api for creating games of any sophistication. As a matter of fact as I have discovered it's easier to find documentation how to implement something with blueprints than C++.

It's a just a matter of time till visual programming languages overtake , text based languages because more and more apps prefer the visual coding route because this is why what the users ask.

Why ? Because it's easier to learn
It's easier to write, because there are no syntax or compiler errors.

But mostly it's easier to have fun with.

So if for an experience coder text based language is all he wants, for the user the choice is visual programming languages any day.
Compensation would be worked out in negotiations. That is simple contract law at that point.
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Given that the additions you made were of the "mission" and "values" of a college (which is different from mottos, which are prominent in articles), do you feel that these sections belong in all articles about colleges?

Just want to understand your perspective here, because that information seems promotional to me, and adding those blurbs to every college article feels like it would do basically nothing, especially since I can just go to the college's web page to get that same information.
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Converting between TAI and UTC requires tables that must be periodically updated and distributed to any system that converts between the two. Smooth UTC is a good alternative for most computing applications.
Well, they could actually explain why it was allowed and then not allowed. It is not a good way to get future participation.

Mission and Value statements are real for colleges and universities. You are judged on them in many situations. I have problems with the idea they are not important in an article about an institution. Founding values and chartered mission is a very important part of the University / College charter. Even if business makes fun of these things, it matters to others.
You're either a lousy web developer, bad at estimates, or I totally need to hire you. Hmm :)
Is it saying that the complex version of the series (1+0i)+(2+0i)+(3+0i)... = -1/12?
I saw this last night and signed up for oasis on my chromebook. I created a Jupyter notebook and entered an expression in it. Nice. Then I closed the lid to my chromebook for the evening.

Next morning I opened up the lid, and it helpfully told me it wasn't connected. I waited a bit longer and updated the expression. The cell text updated but after pressing 'play' the result value did not update, leaving my screen in an inconsistent, incorrect state (wrong value for displayed input to function). There was a little sign telling me I wasn't connected.

I had signed in originally with gmail. People are going to expect a similar interaction model to google docs. There was no obvious way to get back online, short of killing the tab... and getting back how? Remember a link? A bookmark?

This doesn't work yet -- not for most people.

Beautiful, beautiful job. Get the rest of the way there please...
And to be honest, the visual programming language fad for "actual" use was so 20th century as well. Visual programming has found a bit of a home with "programming for non-programmers" around kids'/intro stuff and some game tools.
Another interesting thing is that your body has three signaling mechanisms to maintain a minimum blood glucose (can't live without it!). First glucagon, then cortisol, then epinephrine all function on a variety of pathways to generate glucose.
examples of what is wrong?
Action Figure Motion Capture
> There are various techniques for reducing TLS roundtrip time, and it's so heavily dependent on the environment that it doesn't make for a practical baseline.

One of the best techniques is using a CDN to get the TLS termination closer to the user. This is done by every major company. There is no practical alternative if you serve a global audience.

> But this is typically solved by bundling assets (on the server side) or increasing that amount (on the client side). On a well-designed site, this should not pose issues.

It's not just the number of requests but the latency involved. Having a request done in 20ms from a local cache vs 500ms from a far away server makes a massive difference in web performance. You are just making up these scenarios where there are countless discussions, tests, studies, reports and conferences that talk about best practices for performance which is exactly the opposite of everything you state.

> The point is that the same applies to Anycast CDNs (which CloudFlare is not, really, it's a proxy), but without the privacy issues. CF isn't really a good solution to this.

Every major CDN is an anycast reverse proxy today, name one that isnt. I dont think you understand what a "proxy" is.
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> Although you can obviously just stock a pond with fish anyways.

That is assuming you have a pond. And even in that case, you need to get rid of the nitrogen build up somehow: either frequent water changes, or bio-filtration (which is a form of aquaponics).

> No it doesn't. Even in drought areas the amount of water needed to water a garden is negligible as long as you don't make the mistake of leaving it bare earth.

You do realize that not all water goes to the plants you're targeting, right? Some of it will run off and/or water other plants that you're not harvesting. That was my point about the water.

> Virtually all of them do, they are called sprinklers.

The burden of proof is on you to prove that virtually all gardeners have sprinklers (the automated ones, anyway... we were discussing automated irrigation systems).

> But I think it is still cheaper to just do a normal garden. All you need is some organic waste to pile up in layers ...

Sure, it's cheaper when you have organic waste available for free in a convenient fashion (i.e. not something you have to haul from your city's waste center). Also cheaper when you just want the veggies, not the fish. A lot of people enjoy eating fish, however. If you want to grow fish and veggies in your backyard, aquaponics really is the best choice.
Why didn't you just ask them for money? They surely would have happily paid you.
Not really news.

Also quarter-tone music sounds weird to western ears and is common around the world.
Sandstorm's business model is selling enterprise-oriented add-ons and support (e.g. ability to integrate with LDAP/SAML/Active Directory, or (eventually) providing HIPAA compliance, etc.). The hosting service actually exists more so that developers know that their apps are usable by everyone, not just people who run their own server.

There's actually no need for a mail server to be always-on. It could start up whenever a message arrives. Sandstorm is good at this kind of on-demand starting.

We very much intend to support using Sandstorm as your email server. It turns out, though, that e-mail is a complicated subject which operates on a different set of protocols from the rest of the web (SMTP vs. HTTP) and has a whole lot of hairy stuff you need to do to make it actually work (SPF, DKIM, ...). Since there are quite a few options out there already for handling email, we've chosen to focus elsewhere in the short term, but I hope to loop back to email in the coming months.
In the extraordinarily unlikely event that both Arizona and Sonora adopt DST, you can just put an entry in your /usr/share/zoneinfo for Fakeville, US, an imaginary town that honors the time that Arizona and Sonora used to.
That doesn't say anything about the servers timezones. SMTP is a service on top of those.
There are missing edge cases with this.

Say I want to serve a static HTML website from a Google cloud storage over SSL. No way to do this for free with let's encrypt. 1 click and free with cloud flare.

Is there MITM chance between cloud flare and Google? Yes. For a static website with no login or input from users, seems safer than any free alternative I know of.
trivial observation packaged in flowery language to sound insightful ?

tl;dr: there is too much going on in the city to give a shit.
Some people say there is a reason for text being used in programming, of course there is a reason: the terminal, that evolved from the teletype, that evolved from the typing machine and morse codes.

For someone to make a new system you need two things:

1- Completely rethink and redesign how things are done.

2- Modify all the tools in use today. This is the biggest part by far. The amount of work you have to do is so much that most people will just choose to continue evolving over the current system.

E.g for making your own visual language you not only have to develop the language itself, but make the compiler also visual, and the debugger also visual, but the tools you could modify, like llvm are text based and terminal based. Modifying llvm for it is hell. And consider yourself lucky if you have to modify llvm, because in the past it was gdb with monolithic design and no libraries.

An example of a redesign was Xerox PARC GUI. Instead of one input-one output development system in the terminal they added 20 or 30 inputs and 20 or 30 outputs. For this they had to use a new programming concept, so they had to use object oriented programming(without it handling 20 inputs-outputs at the same time becomes so hard it is in practice impossible), that at the same time forced them to develop their own tools in order to see object oriented data structures and methods.

Any modern UI development inherits from Xerox design.

Another paradigm change was the Iphone: it forced every smartphone to have hardware acceleration video and touchscreen and used it as input methods.

People like Bret Victor and MathBox creator are trying to redesign the whole concept using new tools like GPU programming and video displays. I agree with them. The current system is so wrong , even when it is the only thing we have.
Where's the data?

A "data flow language" that only visualizes functions isn't. IMHO.

I agree with most of the perennial discussion that takes place here for all of these projects: text is good, but not for everything and everyone, yet graphical programming has never taken off... why?

Because if people want a data flow, they care more about the data than the flow. Spreadsheets have secured a rock-solid place in the "lingua franca" of userland, without ever visualizing the "connections," which are seldom enlightening.

I would not criticize something for failing to achieve what it doesn't attempt, and FMJ may be fantastic for developing logic. But it calls itself a "visual dataflow language," and I'm not seeing any data. (Yes, code is data in lisp, that's not what I mean.)

To visualize code is to focus on the means to the end. I would respectfully disagree that "21st-century" programming will resemble the static modelling of systems represented by code in whatever form. Systems will be "live" as a rule. And that is what will improve the lives of programmers. Remember that "interactive computing" was once a radical idea, the realization of which required people to spend their lives and resources fighting for it (Licklider, Englebart, and Bob Taylor et al, to name a few). Well, if you feel any resistance to the idea of relinquishing your rinse-and-repeat development cycle, I have two words for you: punch cards.

I hope I am not trolling here. Just this month I've been "sniped" by a data flow side-project that has me thinking about these things, and I'm extremely interested in how other people approach the subject (and their discussions here).

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You could simply set the TZ variable to a fixed offset:

$ TZ='<UTC-7>+7' date -R
Sat, 16 Jul 2016 11:04:52 -0700

Or use Sonora in Mexico:

$ TZ=:America/Hermosillo date -R
Sat, 16 Jul 2016 11:05:39 -0700

Another option is Pitcairn Island, which is -0800 all year.

$ TZ=:Pacific/Pitcairn date -R
Sat, 16 Jul 2016 10:06:23 -0800

though the standard abbreviation, PST, is probably confusing.
Scan the QR code hand-drawn in Elliot's notebook.
Unable is not the same as unwilling.
The neat thing about this is that it breaks away from the tightly-integrated IIS/ASP.NET model (which, while normally a great thing for performance reasons, can be unwanted or overkill).
Very strange (and somewhat embarrassing! I work on Firefox). It works fine in Firefox for me. Can you give any more information about your platform?
> All of the arguments in this post supporting UTC could be applied to any timezone without daylight saving.

Not this one:

>> I have (in the past), seen servers where the system timezone is set to PST, but the database is set to UTC, causing more crazy bugs, because for 8 hours a day, calling now() in the database has a different date from the application that talks to it.
Yeah, actually, that wouldn't be too hard for apps that ship a changelog.
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Programs are stored on disk as lists of program elements in S-expression format, so are still accessible to grep, diff, etc., and there's no reason why a version control system couldn't be used. Even with text-based languages, use of diff runs into problems when text is moved about or reformatted.

It was never my intention to develop a language that anyone could use. It's for programmers. You still need to write algorithms. It will attract different people, just like different text-based languages.

I am planning to incorporate automated testing into the language, but haven't decided upon the best way to do this yet.
LabVIEW is a marvelous, highly productive programming language. It has been around longer than Java and has been through coherent, well-planned development since the late 80's.

The underlying data is all binary, but LabVIEW has built-in diff tools that allow you to compare diagrams (the source code) between two vi's (LabVIEW files). As a result, you can use it with source control and coordinate multiple developers much like any other language. It isn't really necessary for the underlying data to be text. Search is also pretty decent.

The beauty of dataflow languages is that it frees the developer to think about what is really important while the runtime handles the nasty concurrency issues. Does this approach work for all problem domains? No, but it works fine for a lot of stuff. Nothing comes close to LabVIEW for making concurrency trivial.

Its a pity that LabVIEW and programming languages like it haven't seen much mainstream adoption. In the right hands and in the right problem domain, a good LabVIEW dev can do things that would make other programmers' jaws drop.
The pokeman locations where crowd-sourced, and unsurprisingly the crowd was skewed white.
> Musical perception is, surprisingly, not shared by all humans.

s/surprisingly/unsurprisingly/
Condoms aren't prescription only in many jurisdictions either.
The fund is a RRSP eligible investment in Canada (I think the equivalent of 401K in USA?). We are not currently serving the American market, sorry, I should have mentioned that but I think the growth management would be similar in both markets.
I really like it but it seems it cant work on the old linux server kernel. PLEASE fix that

Thank you
It seems unlikely that the SMTP process would run in a timezone different to the server. What benefit would that give?
Ask HN: Whatever happened to TeamViewer?
Never saw an apology from them, no acknowledgement of any security flaw, nothing. Of course I could have missed it (but I doubt that, would have made the front page).

Is it safe to use them again? Got rid of all the PCs on my account for obvious security reasons. Two-factor helps but there were reports of compromised accounts with 2-factor enabled.
But people take it at face value.

And if 10,000 is just a made-up number, then is he even saying anything of value? It takes thousands of hours to become an expert at something. Wow! Really? Who knew!?
I agree with you entirely, which is why I resubmitted it and made the extensive comment[0] about why it is not a duplicate, and deserves to be here in its own right. If I could gift you the karma I would, not that it's really worth much, to be honest.

The current method of handling duplicates is quite simply not working. Consider the multiple large discussions about Google deleting a blog without warning[1][2][3].

HN needs a way to merge items, not simply mark some as duplicates, which kills the item, and any discussion on it then sinks without trace. There must be a better way.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12105922

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12097063

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12099757

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12100843
That isn't an argument against non-UTC servers; it's an argument against using different timezones on your servers and applications.

If your servers and applications are both on Arizona time, it doesn't manifest itself.
XML's human editing experience is typically bad. XML has a syntax that I can only describe as inhuman. I wouldn't want to be quick to take the badness of XML storage formats that are primarily meant to be edited with WYSIWYG editors as anything fundamental about the idea of having a language with a dual textual/graphical representation.

Even if XML isn't the cause of all the problems with the format's hand editing experience (it probably isn't), the decision to use XML is a clear indication that human edit/readability was, at best, an afterthought. Probably nobody spent any time worrying about making sure it was a good experience.
Not sure why this was downvoted. I'm professional QA and this was a very straight forward feedback review.
I'm not saying having you look at the code would be a bad idea. I'm just pushing back on the notion that the code isn't "ready for prime time" until you do.
Of course there's no hard-coded number of required 10.000 hours of practice, but Gladwell just simplifies the process of excelling on anything: Lots of practice with some other things depending on the field. That's enough for me.

I always mention this guy [1] whenever this topic comes into the discussion. It has tangible aspects, you can see the improvement in his paintings along with the number of years passed, it's a journal.

[1] http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php/870-Journey-...
Its like with Bill Gates-you mean someone interested in computing in the 1970s started a famous tech company? What are the odds!
So glad to see more hobby-level projects happening in the software/simulation side of quantum computing.

I could criticize some of the design choices, but honestly they're all fine for 5 qubits. Quirk also started out with hacks that worked fine for a handful of qubits, then fell on its face and required rewrites and profiling as I tried to get it past 10.