skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
for most of the examples on that page, the first feeling i had was that it sounded like a naive/paint-by-numbers version of free jazz/modern classical/a tense passage in a movie score.

i thought the last clip was actually enjoyable, the busy clattering noisy one with the effects and the variety of instrument sounds. there's plenty of weird electronic music i listen to that's in that ballpark at times.

these clips would all make fine sample fodder.

i appreciate the attempted disclaimer at the end ('That is, "good" to typical Western listeners'). but i think a lot of typical western listeners don't realize how much things like texture (timbre, whatever) and other sorts of things not easily captured by western classical music notation matter to them. for instance, a lot of what makes old jazz sound like old jazz is that great warm scratchy sound that the recording technology of the time necessarily imprinted on the original recordings. likewise, if you scored autechre or aphex twin and got an orchestra to play it, it might sound interesting or enjoyable, but it wouldn't sound anything like autechre or aphex twin. and of course, the intonation and cadence and syllable stretching of well delivered rap vocals or well executed vocal sample chopping is nothing if not musical, but those things aren't easily transcribed by the notation in question here either. but those are all things regularly enjoyed by a wide swath of western listeners. so i think the disclaimer should be more like 'That is, "good" to the Western classical music establishment.'
Lucky then.
Australia Banks attempt to force Apple to open up Apple Pay
Tornado codes to the rescue, then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_code
That's a recipe for getting your ass kicked, or at least targeted for an attempt.
Not a single measure, but this one must be at the limit of how repetitive music can be while still being interesting (at least for a few minutes, for me): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RY26KNRhbOA
This isn't good advice. jQuery will get those variables just as fast. You're really splitting hairs just for the sake of criticizing. http://www.stoimen.com/blog/2010/06/19/speed-up-the-jquery-c...
Basic developers should not care about such minor differences and write code they can read & maintain. $("") stands out as a DOM element, and who wants to add an extra line for variables -- unneeded and tedious. Most developers should not have to worry "oops did i cache declare everything beforehand" or act as ifs a bad coding practice that 'takes points' in the final code
This is one of the better descriptions I've read regarding the appreciation of music.

Thank you.
I am very much in favour of common politeness. Also there is the plain fact that there is no rule saying every utterance must have correct grammar and usage.

But style guides that fail to describe the rules that have emerged over the centuries, and which actively avoid giving guidance on edge cases, do not help anyone. Especially not foreigners wishing to learn English.
Maybe this can be used to distribute tracker IPs / seed information for p2p networks, eliminating the need for a root server.
That video of the crying manager is what made me quit Bridgewater. The craziest part was that the manager who ended up crying became the one who would teach lessons to new hires on how to "diagnose" other employees. Totally psychologically broken.

Ray Dalio won't quit and he won't relinquish power. What you have instead now is this psychotic power grab at the top with three or more people competing for the crown. Any time someone gets close to knocking him out, they get demoted or fired.

Principle #41: By and large, you will get what you deserve over time.

The basis for any oppressive religion is #41. Those at the top deserved it, and, if you are at the bottom, it's because you haven't.
So it seems then that ultra-transparency and a culture of candor bordering on hostility doesn't prevent people from being assholes, and takes away avenues for raising concerns with management. I wonder if this is more a result of the company being an old boys club (like just about every hedge fund), or if it's just a commentary on human nature.
It's also possible they're "mad" (upset) that they didn't get an exclusive out of it as they did with the Manning cable leaks. So it might be a kind of hissy fit on the NYT's part.
Experience here is the complete opposite. When I buy a coffee I hand the guy a few bucks and leave. If the clown in front of me starts waving their iPhone at the terminal, I start rolling my eyes and tapping my fingers.
There's some you can learn from videos and other tutorials, but really you need to read books. You need to read books and you need to write a lot of code. Coding teaches you how to be better at coding, but reading books teaches you what your code actually means. Reading is where you learn the terminology you need to know to really understand what's going on in your code. It also helps you to be a better communicator with other programmers. Programmers who don't read books can't communicate to other programmers what their programs do. Being a good communicator is part of being a good programmer. So yes, read books, lots of them.
This situation perfectly demonstrates the possible repercussions of performing rushed and contentious hard forks (which is actually the worst way one should do a hard fork). Possible replay attacks alone cause considerable confusion amongst Ethereum users. I believe Vitalik and the whole Ethereum dev team sound much more relaxed than they really are at this point.

Note that Ethereum was just used for speculation so far. Had the same thing happened on Bitcoin, it would wreak havoc to its reputation and utility as a token to transfer wealth...most importantly because it would destroy two very important properties: Immutability and fungibility.

Ethereum developers don't seem to care that much about those properties so far.
> ...that it is moving more into the software field.

Wow, if Apple is only just moving into the software field, they must have some killer apps on the way.
I really don't get what the whole hoopla about contact less payment is in the US we have had contact less payment cards for years now. And now they are working on a system that can use android pay and other nfc payment systems for mrt and bus services as well. Currently we can use the same nfc debit/credit card we have but it has a separate top up system.
Thailand is a massively cash based society, especially with that whole "nobody pay their taxes" thing. Credit card are mostly used to take money out of the atm.
My big think with MySQL is that the last time I needed to make this decision (about 3yr ago), the support tooling, community knowledge, and documentation around MySQL was light years ahead of Postgres. There were literally hundreds of MySQL clients and utilities and Postgres was "just a database".

Competition breeds excellence.
Interesting. But I'm a widget maker, not a specialist in any of those fanciful terms you threw around. I'd like to participate in the judges' world, but my widgets take all my time. Is there someone that can sort through the precedents and rules on my behalf if I tell them what I need in widget-speak?
Off topic; hopefully this reaches the author: This is impossible to read on my iPhone 6. The text goes way off the side of the screen, but I can't scroll horizontally to read it. Also double-tapping the screen doesn't make it fit the text on, which usually works. Actually pinch-to-zoom doesn't work at all.
Manul – the madness vendoring utility for Go with Git submodules
Seattle has thousands of jobs. Please come fill some of them.
What percentage of people have an interest like that though? If I had to pull a number from nowhere I would say at least 50%, so using the service shouldn't be particularly damning.
I haven't used cash in Australia in the past year. Contactless payments on any purchase under $100 is dead simple and it's a lot easier to tap a bit of plastic that authenticate and use a phone.
Bad programming advice. jQuery uses best practices for many utility functions. Developers should not have to reinvent the wheel or code every basic call from scratch in every project. Don't act like using pre-built common frameworks is somehow a bad idea for ideal programming. They are reliable and faster, its one less issue to worry of what could be wrong.
Signing actually helps against fraud: Signatures can be compared, PINs cannot – and you can be made liable … :(
"The consumer in the U.K., Australia and Canada is able to use the same form factor everywhere she shops. The contactless card that she taps one place is the same card that she dips at merchants that may not be contactless-enabled. In those places and in those markets, consumers don’t have to put away a contactless card and pull out another form factor to pay for something at a merchant she likes to visit.

Yet, that’s what the consumer is being asked to do in the U.S." [1]

It seems the UK and Australia's concentrated banking/payments sectors (e.g. Barclays drives 40% of British credit and debit spend and has 38% of the British merchant acquirer space [1]) facilitated a fast and coördinated roll-out.

That said, to what degree was Apple Pay designed for in-app, versus meatspace, purchasing? (Irrespective of how it was pitched to JPMorgan and friends.)

[1] http://www.pymnts.com/nfc/2016/uk-lessons-for-us-mobile-paym...
I'm prepared to give them a go at this point, they can't do a worse job of it than me.
Apple's Q3 in charts and commentary
Exactly. Redundancy, redundancy, redundancy.
I had the most unprofessional interview experience of my life with Bridgewater.

They contacted me out of the blue and had me go through one phone interview, their culture introduction and quiz on their website, a HR round with a recruiter, and a coding project. After I passed all these, I was put in another phone interview. (Note: I am in the West coast.)

Remember, these clowns were trying to recruit me. I was at that time working as a Research Scientist in X in one of the big firms over in the West coast.

A good part of the interview was spent by them disparaging X. Then they ended the interview with "We have all the information we need, we won't be calling you."

I felt like I had been hazed by a couple of dimwits who were not even that good at it.

This article assuages my worry that I was being unreasonable.
It will probably increase after back-deals to slow down the chip payment method.

Electronics: nano-seconds,
Software: micro-seconds,
Internet communication: mili-seconds,
Waiting 10+ seconds for nothing: Priceless!

Keep up the shady deals Apple! Mr Monocle Vanity Warbucks you!

Still not as evil as that shady let's cheat the engineers, Arnon guy making salary-cap anti-competition deals between Google/Apple/Adobe/Facebook though. Geez that piece of human garbage.
Just got back from the UK. Nearly everything is contactless. Blows my mind how in the USA credit card companies see chip-and-signature as the solution to fraud. I really need someone to explain this to me!
I've been using my Apple Watch With Apple Pay for the past few months and all it takes is to tap my wrist to the terminal
As I recall, Reason is the current project of React originator Jordan Walke and React contributor Cheng Lou. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a Facebook project emerge that allows you to author React apps in Reason with Bucklescript.
One hypothesis is that music has evolved to be "difficult" to compose, because too much really good music would be bad for us: http://whatismusic.info/blog/OnTheDifficultyOfMusic.html
Contactless from credit/debit cards are a lot faster and more reliable. You just tap the card against the chip reader. In the rare occasion where it doesn't work (e.g. cost is too high, too many purchases per day) you can just slot the card into the slot and enter pin - which takes maybe 10 seconds instead of 1.
Where do you live so I can avoid going there?
Ip? It's hardly rocket science. More like they killed them to get first to market.
The problem is that it's just more fiddly to pay for things using my phone than my card, which makes the use case pretty small (times when I have my phone but not my wallet).

I do like that once I've linked my card to Samsung Pay I get instant transaction notifications whether I actually pay with my phone or with my card though.
You've got a point. BigTable is an example; they've never open-sourced it and instead other OSS projects (notably the Hadoop ones) were inspired by it.

Other examples are GFS, Colossus, Spanner and F1. The OSS analogue of GFS is HDFS (AFAIK), but I know of nothing equivalent to the others. (CockroachDB is a bit like Spanner, but is much more pragmatic about its clocks.)
The entire site hosting this is hilarious - it appears to be an April Fools parody of an academic tech conference and it's very well executed.

"Submissions are double blind and author names must be removed. On the published copy, authors must be ordered by descending number of vowels."
How Does Hedge-Fund Manager Joseph Meyer Make So Much Money?
Hacking Game Quadrilateral Cowboy Is a Bit Messy, but You Won’t Forget It
>>Why do we continue to think burnout and depression are unique problems? Why do we keep letting it happen to ourselves?

The answer is very simple: productivity + youthful optimism.

The fact of the matter is that productivity — that feeling of "getting shit done" — feels good. Being smart doesn't help. On the contrary, it makes things worse, because smart people find clever ways to multiply their productivity, and their sense of pride for doing so contributes to the pleasure and satisfaction they get from their work.

Now combine this with the fact that software engineers tend to be young. Young people can endure longer work hours — they tend to not have families and kids to worry about and their bodies can take more punishment. They also tend to be idealists and really optimistic about their chances of actually making a difference in the world. These two factors can cause them to justify insane work hours, even if they are aware of the dangers of burnout and depression.
> the US used to print $3 bills as well

The federal government never did, but some states and private banks printed $3 bills back when they had their own currencies.
I actually turned down an offer from Skully a little over a year ago. They flew me in and had me spend a week with the team. Their offer was on the low side but I was super excited about the technology, an augmented reality helmet is something I had been dreaming of since I started riding a motorcycle.

However, after spending a week there it was pretty clear to me that they were in a bad place managerially, so I ran away as fast as I could. I highly doubt that the issue is the bubble bursting in this case, it's the investors having no confidence in the leadership.

It's a shame for the employees, I met some really awesome and talented people, although I'm sure they'll have no trouble finding something else; one of them I saw is at Tesla now.

Anyway, my experience was pretty terrible, they dropped the ball in every way possible in terms of my experience being recruited, and left me with the strong impression that they did not have their act togethe at all, from failing to buy my ticket until the absolute last minute to not giving the manager I would be working under any heads up about my arrival, to Mitch repeatedly making inappropriate remarks about women, Maxim magazines in the office bathroom, etc. On top of that the product has some major design flaws that they were punting on, not even trying to address them and instead scrambling to get things ready for the CEO to go on a world tour showing off the helmet and apologizing for it being late.

I understand that consumer electronics is always kind of a shit show and there's usually lots of last minute scrambling and crises, but their situation seemed insane even given that. They were already thinking about version 2, deciding to use a crappier display than was originally planned and then the better display could be a huge reason for people to upgrade to the next version. Meanwhile, the non-replacable helmet battery could only last a few minutes per charge, and didn't even have deep discharge protection in place yet. The night before the world tour kickoff, all the employees pulled an all nighter to get things ready and then someone forgot to plug a few of the helmets in, or plugged them into the wrong charger so the helmets were worthless after that, cutting the number of helmets they had for the tour in half...

After that experience with them I was pretty sure they would not be successful, but then I saw a few months ago that BMW was working on basically the same thing and I knew they were doomed for sure.
Awesome stars
As one of those "clowns" I wish there were more like you as I'm always waiting for someone to grab exact change. You can even order from your phone at some places... actually, the order process is what I find also slows things down. I'd love to put in my order directly by phone and skip that line entirely.
I don't quite follow if you're in the US or not. I've only once in my life seen a US bank-issued contactless card; It was a debit card I had with Union Bank of California, which I never used because it was a side savings account I rarely touched.

I don't know who "we" is, or who is deploying NFC payments for MRT (?) and bus services. I also don't get why using the same nfc debit/credit cards requires a separate top-up system.

Anyway, I've had great experience with Apple Pay, just need NFC more widely adopted in the US. It's amazing how few places have even EMV readers active. It's great to be able to go out for a run or whatever, take my phone with me, and be able to buy coffee on my way home without having to worry about a separate payment device. Yes, credit cards are far smaller than a phone, but it's still one more thing to remember.

I've used Apple Pay with my US-based bank cards in a number of countries; many places had never even seen someone pay with a phone before. Memorably, a petrol station in New Zealand in April 2015, and more surprisingly, somewhere in Denmark or Sweden a couple of months ago (!).
> how do you ensure that there are viable career paths for senior people who prefer to focus on code over "knowledge-sharing" kind of activities?

From what I've seen, those Senior and Really Strong people who prefer to code, do NOT even want to become architects (and to move their career beyond Really Really Really Senior Developer - whatever the name this position carries). But this is a different problem (at least in part related to too much responsibility and "comfort zones"), and I don't know of any solution for it...
Thinly veiled advertisement?
And they would quickly demonstrate the value Kubernetes brings to the table when the spots are terminated out from underneath your app (yes, provided the Kubernetes API and etcd are running on the survivors ;-) )
This already exists, it is called flirting.

Given two socially well adjusted participants it allows either party to back down without hurting the other parties feelings and allows everyone to save face. The person escalating the flirtation doesn't feel bad because they aren't outright denied and the respondee isn't put in the awkward situation of having to deny someone.

It also has the added benefit of allowing each person to get to know each other better and figure out if they actually have real 'chemistry' to begin with. Furthermore, attraction isn't binary, you might initially start chatting with someone with the intention of escalating the flirting process but figure out, hey, I just want to be friends with this person! With the SENPAI protocol you might just end up in an ill fated relationship with your would be friend
And as Assange's only motivation is to make certain the voters are informed, I'm sure the RNC leaks will be coming any time now...

any time now...
I had heard that contactless was moving backwards in Canada; used to be more widespread but now fewer places accept it. True?
Yeah, I'm aware of that aspect, but I've never been anywhere else where the staff can't follow a simple instruction (No signature required) because they are so ingrained that card === signature.

Also, for the younger generation (i.e. 20s/30s) I think credit cards are much more popular than their parents generation - my sister-in-law and her husband (both Thai, so not influenced by western approach) use cards most places they can, while my mother in law regularly has anything up to 100K THB in her handbag.
OVH is really cheap and good.
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Huh. Contactless cards effectively don't exist in the US, but I'd expect any Apple Pay-compatible system to accept your card as well. Sounds like its more foreign bank issues (eg, the banks can't agree on rules) than a technology issue. NFC is NFC.
Tipping probably has something to do with this. On US EFTPOS terminals you're prompted to add a tip/percentage/cash/okay/okay/okay/pay with card.

In Australia you're given a total, the cashier sees the card in your hand, asks "Paypass?", and bang, it's done. Entire transaction is over in <10 seconds, and the only customer interaction with the terminal is waving a card over the top of it.

Additionally, the lack of tipping means that people who pay with cash expect their exact change back and will wait for it, or will fish around for coins to find the exact amount, which slows down transaction processes.
You are not alone. I also hate flat. And I also think the original Aqua looks best, even today. I'm probably the only person who loves the Aqua pinstripes, which Apple had to tone down gradually and finally completely remove, presummably due to negative user feedbacks.
That people are buying and investing in bitcoin is hard to fathom but why would anyone after this bother with ethereum? Oh well, it's good entertainment.

I had my share of moving internationally and it's not trivial occasionally (although Transferwise took most of the hurt out by now!) but https://steemit.com/ethereum/@pauls/ethereum-fork-step-by-st... this is ridiculous.

Ah yes the downvote brigade is here. Hi!
> You can code and knowledge share also.

The problem with it is that there are only 24 hours in a day.
Exactly.

In my facetious examples, the European vacation actually would be for customer acquisition. There would be a meeting or two with potential customers, but they would still fly first class and stay in top hotels, plus have a few extra "fun" days.

The motorcycle really would be for testing, but they may think what's the harm in taking it home for personal use in between testing sessions?
That won't survive video compression.
> Signing actually helps against fraud: Signatures can be compared, PINs cannot – and you can be made liable … :(

cough There is specimen of your signature on the back of the card cough
i propose we formalize this system in a protocol with a snappy acronym: "TRUST Resolves Users' diSputed Transactions" (it's my loose recursive acronym, i do what i want). parties who implement the TRUST protocol would be "TRUSTed" parties.
There's almost certainly already a micro-economy of exactly that sort of thing happening at companies like Facebook.

People sit around in offices, organizing daily stand ups about project planning, and assessing focus group reports for eye-motion-tracking data tied to Like buttons, and accelerometer metrics surrounding ringtone events.
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