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> Is there anyone on here who uses DAW's seriously, and has tried Ardour? Can it compete with the big boys?

Can it compete? Yes, a DAW hardly decides what the final result sounds like. The problem is integration. Often controllers come with presets for Pro-tools,Logic, Cubase, Live so integration is seamless, there is virtually no need for configuration. Now Is Ardour popular ? right now not that much. But it's a great project non-less and perfectly capable.
Building better video
Consuming fermented foods may help, too. I enjoy pickles and sometimes kefir. Powdered miso soup may be a short path, too.
All major drugs should be treated individually depending on their effect and how they are used in the same way we treat coffee, booze and tobacco separately. Heroin like marijuana has medical uses - my cousin was given some as a treatment for angina - it's a very good pain killer and one of the safest strong pain killers under medical supervision. Heroin of course causes problems when used recreationally.
Thanks for the feedback, and I'm glad to elicit such emotion with our landing page. ;-)

Yes, we are working to show as much useful info as possible to a visitor before they need to sign up. We went live yesterday, and we are working make it better every day.
Incidentally, this is why I'm glad a nausea emoji is being rolled out.
That seems like a lot of extra work. The end goal is to have clang on plan9? Create a plan9 target and then use clang to cross compile itself for plan9.
Thanks, Josh. I appreciate you saying this.
We think so too. ;-)
Depression is a disability and you're not allowed to discriminate people because they're depressed.

http://work.chron.com/eeoc-discrimination-depression-workpla...
Agreed, qualifying 75 k$/yr in the US as "not much money" is hyperbole for a developer with 20 years experience of multithreaded multiplatform C++.

As to funding from big OSS players, the problem is that Ardour is niche software, far away from the interests of those big OSS players. Regarding your examples,

- Mozilla has interest and invests into web/infrastructure tech (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11956234 ), Ardour doesn't fit in here.

- GNOME... can you name these dubious programs you are referring to? To my eyes, GNOME just tries to survive with limited funding.
Maybe. But the author of the article at least does make it fairly clear what he's arguing for. Not that his diet is the perfect one, but that we need far more research into the hunger drive, not the chemistry of food and sustenance.

While many scientists would scoff at him making this argument outside of the scholarly journal orbit, it's actually a pretty good place to do it. Many scientists I know read broadly, and many decision makers at funding organizations are looking for ideas and perspectives wherever they find them, not just in journals. Especially as, in most journals, this would have gotten promptly rejected as the "study" wasn't scientific. But the point is made and shouldn't be ignored (IMHO).
This article does not cite any references (and is from 2010) so I can't tell if the author was aware that packrat parsing can support left recursion (PDF, 2008): http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~todd/research/pepm08.pdf
Binding an SSH launcher to a GNU screen hotkey
Now that it's recreational and all of the THC and CBD percentages are listed on the packages, I've noticed cannabis high in CBD is sticky, much more so than cannabis high in THC.

For the many years it was illegal and I smoked it anyway, sticky cannabis aka 'dank' was always preferred. I believe CBD cannabis is more popular than it seems.
Simple question
What can you recomend me to help me learn about internet. How it functions and how does server making work and other stuff like that?
>The D.E.A. and the F.D.A. insist that there is not enough scientific evidence to justify removing marijuana from Schedule 1. This is a disingenuous argument; the government itself has made it impossible to do the kinds of trials and studies that could produce the evidence that would justify changing the drug’s classification.

This can not be overstated. I recently discussed a prior client of mine on HN who is one of the few patients who receive the federally authorized marijuana from University of Mississippi (at a dosage of 360 joints/month). My client has a rare bone disease and has been in the federal program for over 30 years, one of my clients biggest complaints is that while he wanted studies to be conducted regarding the use/effects of marijuana the Government has refused.
I'm not qualified to comment as a "serious" user (as would be, say, someone doing mix/production for a living), but as a hobbyist it has been a joy and powerhouse to use and produce two little homebrew albums.

Another popular alternative for that kind of audiences is http://reaper.fm/ , from Cockos from Justin Frankel & co from Nullsoft who made WinAMP.
Trump publically called on Russia to hack on Hillary

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/28/us/politics/donald-trump-r...
It's also that most people don't meet "normal" people who admit to be heroin users, so they don't get a counter.

With cannabis, anti-cannabis messages trying to portray cannabis users as all a bunch of layabout half-criminal pot-heads won't work any more because so many people know productive, intelligent, hard working normal people who use cannabis and are fine admitting it.

I bought into that image of heroin users too, until I realised I'd worked with a heroin user for a long time without realising, and he didn't look like a wreck, and functioned well most of the time despite being a hardcore addict.

When I then started reading up on it, I finally realised that not only can heroin addicts be high functioning people the same way alcoholics can, that you can't see it on most of the time, but most heroin users never get addicted the same way most alcohol users never become alcoholics, and it became impossible to hold onto my previously very strongly anti-drug views.
I would too!
For a software developer... Software development skills.

Git

Html

JavaScript

SQL

Web frameworks

Many people fresh out of school skilled in computer science.. they have no programming experience. They can code a linked list but that isn't actually useful.

Remember the pain of learning all this
Per gram (or per serve) of product, I very much doubt it.
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Driven to Suicide by an 'inhuman and Unnatural' Pressure to Sell
The DC badge is generally pretty cool, though I seem to be on a cycle where I go for the non-electronic years.

Last year was my first time actually being in the DC program and not just an attendee. I got a rudimentary version of Hacker Jeopardy running directly on an old parallax-based badge (DC20 and 22 I think) and demo'ed it to lots of people with a couple buddies of mine. It was a good time!! Unfortunately I think a lot of people were under the impression the badge was connected to a computer; we should have made it more clear the badge was running the whole show.
TL;DR the tolerance in length of pool lanes doesn't allow for thousandth of a second timing resolution. That is, one swimmer's lane might be shorter within the margin of error that allows them to finish faster by a few thousandths of a second.
I think you clicked on the wrong thread, you probably wanted to post here:

> Machine Learning and Ketosis

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12279415
so "waterfall == bad and agile == good".... is that your point?

I would beg to differ... I've got pretty extensive experience of both and can say for sure that there is a negligible difference between the two as far as productivity goes.

That view is against popular opinion, but the only thing that really makes a difference is the commitment and intelligence of the people on the team... not the development process.

Also.... agile development is a less-good fit with hardware development... and the embedded software that goes on the hardware has to fall in line with that.
Someone smarter than I will likely know this but are probability and functions nature's compression techniques?
Krita is quite honestly a very impressive piece of software. It's shaping up to be quite a formidable FLOSS Photoshop competitor. For all of GIMP's effort, its interface comes across as a little too far removed from Photoshop, and as a result, it failed to win over many artists at all, whereas Krita, even if it does not aim to be a 1:1 PS clone, it remains in an area that's comfortably close to PS in the overall "feel." There are definitely areas, e.g. the brush system, that I'd argue are an improvement over PS anyway.
Haha, already heard such idea a couple of times
The big question is why drugs are illegal at all?

Drugs are a multi trillion dollar business. 100's of billions of dollars turning the wheels of the shadow economy every day.

Who stands to lose all that money if drugs were legalized? Who is involved in drug business? think of all of the players in the chain..

We know examples of developed countries where drugs are legalized and everyone did not become a junkie over night, or next week, or next year.

Drug money fuels a lot of things in this world, entire countries are built and destroyed using drug money, new political systems are built and presidents elected using drug money. It is convenient "invisible" hand that makes a lot of things happen in this world.

Drug problem is not about me or you becoming a junkie. Its about money, a lot of money, its about economical and political power that comes with it.

The day when drugs are legalized the convenient way to make lots of money out of "thin air" all of the sudden would be gone...

Hearings on the CIA and Drug Trafficking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km0Z2XmzBDw

John Kerry committee:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvFr5K8zJRA

Police Officer Mike Ruppert (dead now, shot in the head 2 years ago) Confronts CIA Director John Deutch on Drug Trafficking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT5MY3C86bk
Do you have any real evidence to back anything you've said up? Sorry, but you can't quantify 10 years behind, it's just purely subjective.

Just because you know people who are lazy and use cannabis, proves very little I'm afraid. Do they drink beer also?

Not attacking you, but it's comments and attitudes like this that help politicians justify silly things, such as, "The war on drugs". The war on drugs is one of the most destructive, wasteful, pathetic ideals of our time.
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That book was more like the inspiration for the company, not the actual investment itself. They had to make those devices, and the cost for those isn't less than 95 cents.

A modern analogy would be someone finding some interesting tutorial or video online (for FREEEEEEEE probably) that gave them some information and sparked an idea that they decided to found a business on.

This is basically just a way to attach a cute, marketable, "humble" story to their company. It's useful that they have one, but it's not a blueprint for how to start a successful company.
You do not want to refine something, for the sake of simplicity, to the point where you can no longer easily understand what it's ingredients are. You need to be able to manipulate its ingredients (and the ingredients of others), at will, if you are true developer, inventor, creator.

I've also been using the Linux on the desktop since 1994 when Yggdrasil and Slackware got started, everyday as a developer.
You bring up a fair point. The only reason I feel the need to emphasize "the current system works" is that so much cryptocurrency discourse seems to act as if the current system is horrible beyond repair and literally anything would be better than it. That's far from true, and it's definitely far from true when you've reintroduced humans caring about fraud--just human programmers writing soft-fork code (that didn't even work right, according to this manifesto) as opposed to people who make a profession out of understanding fraud.

There's a lot to be fixed about our current financial system. But I think both Ethereum-with-fork and Ethereum-without-fork are demonstrably worse than the status quo (which I think you also agree with). Ethereum is great as an experiment, but now we have experimental results from the DAO hack, showing something that clearly needs to be rethought. This manifesto seems to instead be presenting Ethereum-without-fork as a good and complete option, and all of its reasoning could have been written the day before the hack.
The OP speaks of a lack of studies due to a lack of supply. That's incorrect. There are plenty of studies and plenty of research-grade marijuana out there. There is just very little American material. The plant has been studied in Canada and Europe with plenty of material available from a variety of producers.

Canadian government's list of sanctioned providers:

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/marihuana/info/list-eng.php

Their trade association:

http://cann-can.ca/

The growing supply of research-grade material:

http://www.universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/medical-ma...

So stop harping on about a lack of research. The fact that a medical substance hasn't been studies within the magic bounds of a particular country should be irrelevant to any reasonable person.
Prisma for Video OSS
Behind where they want to be (not my opinion, theirs). They look round when they come out of the weed stupor and realise that everyone else is 10 years further ahead in anything.

I'm not just meaning careers - often they never go on vacation abroad/travelling (past maybe Amsterdam). They look around and see their friends who have been all over the world after university, when they've done really nothing.
As far as I remember Poncho for Messenger reminds about that
https://chatbottle.co/bots/poncho-the-weathercat
The biggest change I've seen since marijuana was legalized here in Colorado is that pot isn't just one type (just like beer isn't just lagers, etc). There's hundreds of strains and some are VERY different than the others (again think Guinness vs bud light vs your favorite IPA, etc).

You can walk into a dispensary here and choose your levels and mix of THC and CBD - want 20%+ THC for an intense high? Maybe 15% CBD with no THC for almost no psychoactive high but a focus on pain relief / relaxing? All that and everything in between is available.

As research into all the other cannabinoids increases I expect to see their breakdowns included on labels as well.

And that's where the analogy to alcohol breaks down - there's typically just one active ingredient in beer but dozens in pot. And the different strains can deliver various ratios of the cannabinoids to create very different effects.

Bottom line is that I could easily see how if you only ever experienced illegal pot i.e. no choice and low quality I think you are likely to hold a different view on it than if you'd experienced the variety and nuance of legal pot.
I am surprised piracy has not solved this problem.
"[Upon ceasing to exercise,] I pretty quickly noticed a return of worse mood and energy levels. Maybe it's just true for most people, but not everyone?"

"Most people don't exercise in the first place, I don't know if we can say how much it helps most people vs us selecting for people it helps."

You don't see how my interpretation of this (your) argument was a reasonable one?
Ask for part-time for proportionally reduced salary?
Lanyard looks impressive. I hadn't heard of it until today, but I will take a look around. I'll drop you a message through the site, would be good to talk.
The DEA needs to go bye bye, and be replaced by the DRA, Drug Rehabilitation Agency. While I respect the risks operational agents take against crime syndicates, the war on drugs is a disaster. Even the government’s own RAND corporation concluded enforcement is far worse than rehabilitation, with rehab being 7 times more effective than policing, 400 times more effective then border interdiction, and 800 times more effective than actions in source countries.[1] Not to mention the privacy violations it’s enabled. If the goal is to reduce drug use, the US policies are stupid. If the goal is for politicians to sound tough and maintain a never ending drug war so they can keep sounding tough, then it’s a success.

And letting the DEA decide what is Schedule 1 is like letting the fox guard the hen house. I’ve never heard of a government agency voluntarily reducing its scope and budget. Just more of our leadership deferring responsibility to so called “experts” with a vested interest. A pretty rampant phenomenon these days ranging from the banks to the military.

[1] http://www.rand.org/pubs/periodicals/rand-review/issues/RRR-...
In Ubuntu, the mouse pointer disappears after locking the screen or suspending [1], and the Fn button combo can take minutes to change screen brightness [2]. These bugs have been around for months and years, respectively. You simply cannot get non-power users to use an operating system with issues like this. Perhaps there's a more polished distro, but if the one that's touted as the beginner-friendly one has such obvious user-facing problems, it's just not feasible to get past 1% market share.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1573454
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manage...
Try

https://www.edx.org/course/applied-machine-learning-microsof...

https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/HumanitiesSciences/Sta...

> This is not a math-heavy class, so we try and describe the methods without heavy reliance on formulas and complex mathematics. We focus on what we consider to be the important elements of modern data analysis. Computing is done in R. There are lectures devoted to R, giving tutorials from the ground up, and progressing with more detailed sessions that implement the techniques in each chapter.
This is fantastic. I'm planning to build something similar in the coming months.

Only minor nit pick, not the easiest to read on mobile

http://m.imgur.com/Uloatup.jpg
Without the drug economy, it's not clear how the CIA and DEA would remain profitable enterprises, which is what fundamentally matters to them - so until it becomes illegal for the CIA to produce and import drugs, don't expect anything to change. The incentives to maintain the status quo are just too big. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_traf...
You missed my point. If a "genuine" character of a diamond is its ability to display wealth, then a synthetic diamond is "fake" by that measure, or "ersatz" or whatever you prefer. The point is that actually expressing that would make diamonds tacky and pathetic, so it's all done with implications, lobbying, and advertising.
A google search of "US Government 128 bit quantum factoring".

Stop trying to blame the government for corporations not doing due diligence.

If anything, the real failure is Government not enforcing agreeable security measures like NIST and ISO across all US Organizations.
There were systems that embraced both models. Remember the Amiga? When using it for work it'd run off of hard drive and would multitask between productivity apps. Some games though required the isolated boot model.

Personally I always found the isolated boot model to be kind of a pain (and even now I prefer VMs over native boots for running non-native software), but I can see why some like it.
If you hold the joint of one of them for a long time, a much larger robot appears.

Also press F12 to send them all flying upwards.
Stephen Fry said

>You know that scene in Animal House where there’s a fellow playing folk music on the guitar, and John Belushi picks up the guitar and destroys it. And the cinema loves it. [Belushi] just smashes it and then waggles his eyebrows at the camera. Everyone thinks, "God, is he great!" Well, the British comedian would want to play the folk singer. We want to play the failure.
Just steal your neighbors wifi..
It's a scam. Meet some h1bs. I have that did my same job. They made 20-50% less than maket rate.
This is all true, but honestly no matter how superior it may arguably be to lead an active life, some people for their own reasons and experiences just need the break. The idea that one can judge oneself based on accomplishments seems more harmful than helpful, and the pressure of such a culture would seem to be one of the primary motivators for just wanting to chill and get high. If that is how they choose to spend their lives, please remember they get there honestly like the rest of us.

Edit: also wanted to add that the humanity of the world views of many of the people commenting here is a source of great hope for the future for me. You all are thinking hard about how to improve the way we think of each other, and it's really moving to see it evolve each day on this site and elsewhere.
>MUDs, MUSHes, Doom, Quake, Starcraft, shit posting on Reddit

This is my progression as well :^)
USCIS publishes annual reports that include the number of approved H-1B visas.

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Re...

So clearly there are lots of people working outside the cap. The approvals listed there would indicate the maximum possible number, I think you'd have to combine 3 years of reports to get an estimate of the total population.
Have you read the article?

The underlying problems have not been fixed. They added some band aids to prevent the specific attack Green found, yet the protocol is still a big mess, an ad-hoc design that is doing a couple of things that every cryptographer who knows a thing about modern crypto designs knows to avoid.
We're not talking about a disposable, your HVAC system has a significantly large price tag. As you contend, doing is learning and self-sufficiency is a virtue, I agree with the sentiment wholeheartedly and practice on systems whose complexity I understand(and/or I've broken and learned through cost & attrition). The potential I speak of is costs; blower motors, controller boards, micro controllers and transformers can be replaced when your common shorts another wire or the previous installer/service guy decided not to wire according to specs due to broken wire(s), retrofit anomolies, myriad of other reasons. Of course, we learn by doing, choose your lessons accordingly.
I am 10000000% against the war on drugs. This is obviously anecdotal. I am simply saying that cannabis has a very dark side to it which robs young people of a lot of their productivity and ambition.

They usually never drink alcohol I find - or very little.

I know about 5 people who fell into this trap and when (some) of them packed it in have enormous regret. My point is that this isn't talked about with cannabis.
a modern iPhone can stand up pretty well to physical access for extended periods of time.

In fact, the attack used in this whitepaper would've likely been thwarted had VW used a secure hardware device analogous to the iPhone's secure enclave.
The Android performance gap is getting wider
Great book on that topic is "Proofs and Refutations" by Imre Lakatos. Good read, very insightful. He shows using an extended example the iterative back and forth between definitions, insights, theorems, proofs (which in the real world evolves in a much more convoluted and messy way than it is ultimately presented).
I've had similar experience in insurance. Our predictive algorithms have been used sparingly and guides our strategy but we don't fully trust the actual data. That's how we leverage our analysis.

For us, small increments does give us sizeable impact. And we don't aim for predicting 100% of the cases either. We take what we get and see how we can use it.

In business, we don't care about accuracy. We care about improvement.