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The First Totally Open Source Laptop Is Almost Real [2014]
Of course CDs are lossless. PCM in, PCM out.

Is an audio signal lossless? That question doesn't make sense. Analog audio is limited by bandwidth and signal-to-noise. Digital audio is limited by its Shannon-Nyquist parameters.

(Monty's show and tell for geeks is great if you have even the slightest interest in these things!)
What a great suggestion!

I like to start Sundays by preparing a somewhat elaborate breakfast for the family. But afterwards, Sundays are a bit bland and boring.

It has never occurred to me to prepare a second breakfast!
On the topic of console email clients, why does Mutt receive so much love and Alpine doesn't? I used Pine for many years in college and I really liked its menu interface and its ability to read news.

I used Mutt some years ago and found it too complex for the task. Maybe it's becaused I was used to Pine.

Has somebody used both recently and can elaborate a bit? Thanks!
Ok - let's say that the retaliation is purely aimed at military installations and comes after a completely successful US first strike. God help us all, but let's think this through.

Only one of the Borei submarines would be on patrol, it's reasonable for there to be some failures, but even with a 50% fail of missiles and warheads 30+ nukes would be hitting the USA.

I imagine that the targeting for Russian SLBM's is calculated to cause maximum loss to the USA - maximum loss of life and economic damage. I imagine this because if I were Russian that would be the message I would want a US president to have when calculating this, but it is just possible that there is a military targets only war plan, and this is the scenario you are exploring here.

In this scenario the minimal retaliation would be 30 ~200 kt warheads striking military bases - like San Deigo, Puget Sound and so on. Each strike would probably result in ~5k dead and 100k other casualties. So, minimum, 30 craters, 3 million casualties and 150k dead.

That's three Vietnams in an afternoon. Now, discount the stain of murdering many more Russians (because the successful first strike would involve many strikes that would result in large scale civilian deaths), I find it really hard to think that any rational human could contemplate causing the death of ~150k fellow citizens for "the greater good".
That greeting got me a bit when I was just starting to learn to read Chinese (I never attempted to learn to speak it). Learning something so different to the languages I know really made me appreciate the similarities between Swedish and English, let's say, and how that made learning easier.
I've saved rather a lot on the discography discount promos that artists will offer from time to time. When I like someone's output it's an excellent way to expand a collection/taste in one purchase as I can hit play and rather than listen to one or two albums have hours of similar content. Especially for genres I wouldn't normally think of buying it can be an attractive deal (such as recently with some superb electronic ambient/glitch and house from one artist, listened to it for weeks).
Given that the French economy has been stagnent for the last 15+ years and given that many countries seem to be doing well or even better without such a money wasting machine of a rail system, allow me to think that leaving those 50+ and growing billions euros in the pocket of tax payers would have been nicer and better spent. Besides, I never use trains for anything crucial because they are always on strike, happened to me once for an important meeting, never using it again. Also, because of our communist unions, they also close early at night so it's useless to go visit friends and come back at night, still need to get an Uber.
seeing it flagged was the reason I clicked it then noticed what an awesome article that was. Not sure what's the issue with this kind of post as long as this content doesn't overtake other more on-point posts. Which would be unlikely anyway considering the audience here.

Whoever flagged this, is probably very stressed. Should take the day off and treat themselves for a good time at home.
1) jump out of bed at 6am, revelling in another fresh day with limitless possibilities!

2) stuff 'n shit

3) wake with a start at 4am in an armchair, with huple's cat on your face. Stagger to bed.

4) goto 1.
Yeah. I'm between jobs here in Australia at the moment, redundancy payout after dev roles moved to India..

I guess I ought to be freaked out and rushing to find a new job, but to be honest having worked my butt off for years / decades, it sure is nice to slow down dramatically and take it easy - if only for a few weeks. Not even actively looking for the first half of the payout, just enjoying a mix of Pluralsight, meditation and whatever, slacking off, plus doing most of the school drop off and pick ups.

I feel like my brain is in a way recovering from years of abuse (the constant stresses). I'm processing the new learning much better; kicking down a number of gears is most definitely making me a better person, and hopefully a better dev too for my next role.

But yeah, slowing down and especially being able to enjoy family time more without being elsewhere (at work) in my mind is almost priceless.
I think especially for those of us that do your plan too often it might be worthwhile to consider this "pretentious" version every now and then ;)
> the Japanese phonetic system writes voiced sounds as a modification of their unvoiced counterparts. why can't we all do that.

Fun fact, we do do that in English, at least for C and G. (G was introduced as a modified C to indicate the voicing).
Amazon is the champion of that

"Oh you just bough a mobile case, let me show you ten other types" or "You just bought this book, here's the paperback version of it"
Books are delivered reasonably fast and at reasonable or great prices.

AWS is mostly easy and great. And they seem to take security seriously. A few annoyances here and there and weird naming, but bad?

Furthermore they have been driving the ebookmarket, both pricing and technology.
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::googles how to start a coding bootcamp::
This release is particularly interesting because it includes the sidebar patch, which has existed in various forms for about 10 years [1].

Mutt has generally been quite conservative in accepting patches. NeoMutt [2] is a project hoping to kick-start development on the Mutt project, by being much more willing to accept contributor patches.

The repository [3] is becoming more and more active; help is always greatly appreciated!

[1]: http://www.lunar-linux.org/mutt-sidebar/

[2]: http://www.neomutt.org/

[3]: https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt
I often accidentally flag things when browsing HN on mobile. It's good that there is an "unflag" button. Maybe that was the case here too?
I saw someone use the phrase "spurned into action" the other day, which may be an autocorrect fail but if not it was a clever usage of the word.
Shenzen ecosystem
Ask HN: What are the open source telecom projects to contribute?
I have 12+ years experience as a professional working for different telecom software companies. I would now like to contribute to some open source telecom projects in the areas like NFV, LTE, 5G, IoT etc. Can anybody please tell me what would be the best projects to get involved with?
I kind of doubt it. The Windows port of PostgreSQL was kind of lacking for a long time (8.0, released in 2010, brought the first native Windows server version) and a large group of PHP developers were Windows developers.
> The neural network is a program that is the result of a search for a function specialized to playing Go. This machine, the program that the parameters across the edges in the graph represent, is logically unable to run any other program. Lee Sedol is a Universal Machine in the Turing sense

I am sure he is using different neurons for playing Go than for playing poker. His Go-related neural net is only able to play go.
Same here:

I feel I simultaneously

* judge authors and artists more leniently when I get to choose what to pay

* and pay more, partially just to support a good cause (I know the artist/author pockets most of it) and I guess partially to spite the big labels and make it more attractive for other artists to leave the dark side.
This is a little off topic and maybe controversial because it is against the spirit of open source but in all earnestness if you make a software that you want to make available to all open source projects but then you want to charge a recurring monthly fees if the software is being used to make money - is there a standard license for that?

I've seen sites do this like readme.io but can you do that for a software library?
I love bandcamp, and music I listen to (hardcore punk) can't be found anywhere else.
Yeah the Japanese version of hànzì is much more ancient (Song or Tang dynasties, I think) and have changed comparatively little since then. Also, they simplified some characters in a very different way than how the Chinese did.
(I'm probably wrong but: if I remember correctly, Japanese has changed a lot, but the writing system hasn't so the sounds like part of the character isn't always correct or even close. It's a lot like Irish or English in that the language has changed much but the writing hasn't.)
> Take the case for games and imagine we wanted a meta-algorithm to select an algorithm to apply to each game.

I take it you haven't seen the previous accomplishment of Deep Mind before they tackled Go. They used a Reinforcement Learning algorithm to play 50 Atari games - the same algo - with great results. They really created a generic learning algorithm.
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It is unfortunate that all people can do is to complain.

One should probably think that about sending a PR for a feature request or a bug report if it really impacts them. An attempt, even if in the wrong direction, would probably push the priority of the underlying issue higher for the core devs working on the project.

If you can't do that, at least attempt to be constructive.
If what you are after is generating AMIs for JVM, Node.js or Go apps, we at Boxfuse offer a great alternative to Packer with very fast creation of very small and secure AMIs https://boxfuse.com/blog/amis-in-30-seconds

Disclaimer: I am the founder and CEO of Boxfuse
The new improved Galaxy Note 7
As was pointed out elsewhere, it becomes GPL, which is not normally unencumbered enough for escrow, where you get unrestricted rights. You also want them immediately on failure, not after the timeout. So it doesnt work well for this use case.
What im missing from this are procedural generated societys.
Imagine a alien-caste system that goes full circle or something alike.
Of course you cant (in reasonable time) procedural generate history, but you could use analoga to a bacteria-growth formula too at least "simulate" different civilisational stages and the clashing of those curves with other civilizations.

You could even have the player interact with the "bacteria" and alter the curves forever.Remember the savages you helped out at the great hunt with your blaster- well they conquered the planet and went to the stars "conquering" to honor you.
Disclaimer: As with all generated content, the main problem is to have the players attention "the hot potato" wander on as fast as possible.
You might as well argue that the only reason that there's any research for breast cancer treatment is because men like breasts.
I'd say the day explained is one without work; no conflict there. ;)
> My opinion is that in the same way you'd struggle to call a human intelligent if literally all they could do was play genius level Go, most people would not call a computer program intelligent if all it could do was play Go.

Let's see, how many skills/domains can a particular human cover? For example, I can't speak Chinese. I haven't learned Chinese. Also, I have no idea about medicine. But people who learned medicine, know a great deal about it. Maybe a human can do 20-100 things, like walking, low level addition and multiplication, speaking a few languages, playing a few games and working in a few domains. Not an infinite list. In the same way RL systems and CNNs can be used for hundreds of different applications, depending on the data they are trained on.

Also, it is not the same neural net in the brain that handles two different skills, we use specialized neural nets for any of our skills too. If you stick together a few neural nets and a controller that selects the right one for the task, you could have a "single" system doing many things, just give it training data to learn those skills. Humans take 20 years to learn the necessary skills to function in society too. Neural nets can do it much faster and often surpass humans. DeepMind started Go a couple of years back and surpassed the best human player - how is it possible to do that, in such a short time span? And it wasn't a case of 'clever tricks' like the chess program Deep Blue.
How about using Pandoc[0] as part of your wrapping pipeline? It supports the full round trip between markdown, HTML, and back. Seems like this would be a perfect use case for it.

[0] http://pandoc.org
Nah, the worst ads are the ones that advertise the very thing I've recently bought. Almost every time I buy something on-line from Amazon or some company's store, I then keep seeing ads for that very product. Not before I buy it, but after I've already bought.
Nosulus Rift by Ubisoft
Oh, but quite often they do know. Amazon knows perfectly well what I bought on their site. Vendor X should know perfectly well what I bought on their own site, using their own store instead of showing me the ad for that product for the next two months.
Very interesting. It's a bit like the fair source license model https://fair.io but more open in event the project looses traction is abandoned etc...

Sold. I will be moving my project searchcode server over to this within a week.
If you're planning to spend the day alone like this, a useful life hack I've learned is to skip the shower, and spend the time saved staving off the existential dread by reading webcomics.
The method of "Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters" ( https://www.amazon.com/Tuttle-Learning-Chinese-Characters-Re... ) is working very well for me for memorization.

It uses mnemonics, but it only loosely follows real etymologys. It diverges to nonsensical, but memorable stories when this will make things easier to remember. It also has mnemonics to remember tone and pronunciation (for Mandarin Chinese only though).
Right! I agree with you! I'm saying that because T'so is wrong, that the kernel RNG, while still better than other options, will not be as good as it should or could be.
> Really? You don't think someone with less experience in English would say "what does... inkonsayvaybull mean?" There are plenty of instances where the word is not pronounced the way you think it is.

You're missing his point and English is a crappy example because it's spelling is an unmitigated disaster. For example, if you can read and vocalize the Greek alphabet, you can just ask someone what "νόστιμο φαγητό"* means because you can vocalize it. You only need basic knowledge of the alphabet there. Where as with Chinese/Japanese you need to have a good base of characters to be able to potentially vocalize an unknown character which requires much more work than learning a new alphabet.

(* νόστιμο φαγητό means delicious food)
I use Markdown Here for this - - compose in Markdown, click a button, get nice html-formatted email.

One annoyance is not being able to get back the original markdown. But a mutt workflow could easily deal with this.
Destroying the sun grid group and bad mouthing cloud wasn't the smartest way to handle the buyout of Sun, in retrospect.

Solaris engineers know quite a bit about their stack and what it can and cant do.. the trouble is trying to make a standard consortium by relying on garbage code that sort of works on Linux. Anything you do better than Linux will just be a problem for achieving ultimate bland.
Hmm, could there be something in the analytics that could be used to claim, in aggregate as opposed to you personally, that the ads influenced your buying decision, hence demanding a higher price, perhaps for future ads? Coz it doesn't make sense why they'd do that.
The weirdest ones for me are ads for lumber. Like, I go to the local lumber yard website to check dimensions of what types of lumber is available when I'm planning a project. That lumber is typically costing $1-$2 per yard, so I frequently only buy lumber for ~$20, and they'll show me ads at least ten times. Their ROI has to be very low?

Adding insult to injury, I only buy lumber from their competitor, who, although having a sucky website where I can't look up dimensions, will let me use their compound mitre saw for free, saving me a $600-$1000 purchase.
the claimed relevance of the adds is the selling point of google and friends; maybe they do not quite anticipate what a 'power user' might want, however maybe they are more relevant to some people who are not connected day in and day out - sometimes you might do better if you have less data to extrapolate from .
True in the 90s. Nowadays it's Club Mate.
Mods don't see all comments like this, and I think they want people to email them if stuff like this happens.

I think there have been a couple of things that got caught in some software filter before, and mods wanted to unflag / unpenalise the submission.
I've even seen this for what the companies must know is a once-a-decade purchase, like a big lifetime-warranty espresso grinder. It's not like I need a second one! Offer me some accessories instead, dammit.
Even by the most lax standard you couldn't call the app store open; and that's kind of what's being shuttered here. The technology wasn't ever particularly interesting (not a bad thing), but the distribution model was. And that's entirely closed - they're not about to give anyone else permission to run even parts of the app store to anyone else, and that's that.
Anybody care to explain why "costs of reprinting/copying was far lower compared to other forms of phonetic systems"? I know nothing about printing technology but I'm a Chinese.
The vouching option doesn't appear because of too many flaggings?
It's difficult
May be due to Mutt's more Vi-like user interface. Vimmers use Mutt and Emacs guys use emacs-based mail user agents. There aren't too many people preferring terminal mail apps left for Alpine.
Yes, 食 is a verb in Cantonese and Hakka! Both of them are more close to archaic Chinese than Mandarin.
I'm not sure. It might even have been an idea I had years ago and am misremembering as an actual thing. Either way, I'd buy those kinds of books, so someone please start writing them. :)
Have you taken a look at what http://www.highcharts.com does? I haven't read their license but the model seems similar to what your looking for.
Ask HN: Azure with Cloudflare, good SEO choice?
I want to use Cloudflare for SSL and optimizations on my ASP.NET Core/Angular2 website. Is this a good choice? Of course I want good performance and good search engine rankings.
I experience the same issue with Apple's Storage mechanism on the iPhone. I have 0 photos, but my Storage/Usage says that I'm using ~100+ MB...
Have you looked at Zimbra? https://www.zimbra.com/
> only applies to new CPUs/APUs

i.e. Zen
P55w0rd5 – Blessing or curse?
Most importantly: compose your email in $EDITOR.

Secondly, the availability. Having a mosh/ssh connection to your shell service works over the crappiest internet connection you might come across.

And finally, it doesn't change. Every time gmail changes their UI, I hear lots of complaints from people using it. This new mutt release will work with your existing config files and have the same look and feel you're used to.
Dang explains it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11844960

> The system used to say [flagged] only when the story was both heavily flagged and dead (closed to new comments). Now it says [flagged] if the story is heavily flagged, dead or not. Flagged-but-not-dead was the case here. That's why you didn't see a 'vouch' link, btw; there's no need to vouch for posts that aren't dead, since the purpose of vouching is to unkill them.
I believe the parent comment meant coral wonders what did it wrong to not count as a species doing ecological engineering :)

So far i haven't seen any real argument against eradicating mosquito, and other species killing humans (ticks, tsetse kissing bugs)
Even if Amazon knows and organizes the fact that you've bought the thing, that isn't what the ad space is selling. They're selling space that targets a particular kind of person, and whether or not you've bought the thing doesn't matter. Like, the company buying the advertisement slot wants to target a particular sort of person, and this is measured in various ways. So the network selling the advertisement slot wants to group visitors into different buckets based on these measurements, and sell to whoever happens to pay the most for a bucket that view happens to land on.

Basically, it's the end result of a process that confuses a measure with what it's measuring. You want to optimize for "interested in buying X". What you can actually look at is "things that people interested in buying X do more often than people who aren't interested". People buying advertising optimize for that, since it's actually possible to do so. And then since buyers actually care about the measurable proxies, that's what ad-space sellers give.
roast your hazelnuts a bit! tthen you can roll them a bit and the skins fall off, and the whole nut gets more flavourful, too!
Disappointing that a sexist comment which offers no justification is still this visible.
Great... more subsidized loans means more profit for me. Can't speak to the whole "benefit to society" piece, but thanks Uncle Sam. Sorry for the people who will be making these payments, whether it's the taxpayer or the debtors. Business is business.
I am lucky. I finally have an office with a lockable door. At lunch time I take a power nap of 12 to 20 minutes. Afternoons flow better and if I am coding it goes much faster with better problem solving.
> Cute write up though. In Norway, they call this "koselig".

That word sounds half-way between the English "cozy" and the German "kuschelig". A missing link. Interesting. :)
Both Cantonese and Hakka use "食" as verb since ancient times, no doubt about it.
Your limited, proprietary, paid tool? Yea...
Curious how it differs from numeric.
> You might be surprised to learn that "HD audio" often has worse sound quality than "CD quality".

That only applies if you have a perfect master.

If you want to listen to a song mastered for CD, unless it’s 24/192, it’ll likely clip at several points.

Which is about 90% of songs today.

And if you want to remix the song, or use an equalizer, or other effects, you’ll also want 24/192.

And nowadays the ultrasonic effects he describes don’t even affect mobile phones anymore, and storage is plenty – making the disadvantages he describes moot.
Android 6.0.1 (CM13) on Microsoft Lumia 525
The common solution is to split your mbox regularly. You can use mairix to search across many mboxes, it creates a new mbox with a certain name that contains the matching mail that you can open with mutt.
I think the character does double service in that it has meanings which are very much mouth-related - 薄口 (thin-mouthed - like weak taste) 後口 (after-mouth - after taste); but it also has a ton of meanings which are like opening / spout / hole / crater.

http://compling.hss.ntu.edu.sg/omw/cgi-bin/wn-gridx.cgi?usrn...

It's not that a land's-mouth is a crater, more like, mouth and opening are more synonymous in feeling in Japanese.