skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bandcamp's support is awesome as well.

In a previous era, I would stream my library from an old Mac to my laptop via iTunes Shared Libraries, with most of my collection being in Apple Lossless. However, ALAC files from Bandcamp wouldn't stream.

Core Audio described the tracks from Bandcamp as "not optimized". Apple closed the radar (http://openradar.appspot.com/radar?id=2014403) as a duplicate without any indication of what was wrong. Bandcamp took a look at the issue and changed their transcoding pipeline to ensure they generated "optimized" ALAC files.

I still buy albums from Bandcamp, but with iTunes compatibility no longer a concern, I now download the FLAC versions. To be different I then losslessly transcode to WavPack, but that's a discussion for another forum.
That's absolutely untrue. It does no such thing. All it means that as long as you're acting within the norms of our times you're morally neutral. Who has ever aspired to that? "Are you a moral person?" -> "Well, you know. At least I'm not immoral. I just barely pass the bar lowest bar for that". The future will look back at people who pushed beyond that, just like we do today, even if even those people will be (at best) morally neutral on many other issues.

Bartolomé de las Casas, Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi etc, all of these people are looked back upon with great respect because of their morality - but the truth is that none of them would seem like morally great people today. They stand out because they pushed further on certain issues compared to their contemporaries, not because their thoughts and actions would stand out compared to ours (other than that they would seem very backwards and immoral concerning a lot of things).
Abstractions-on-top-of-abstractions which promise to reduce complexity by adding more levels of indirection, when the UX of the underlying tools need to be better.

(Having wrote a multihypervisor disk-cloner in Ruby.)
Oracle should probably invest that money in doing actual R&D for itself. It hasn't been doing well of late in the ERP market. Have oracle's cloud moves failed?
What other deveops tools have you used/want to use?
"People who have done things that suggest they're interested in buying this" is a highly valuable segment. Even if half of those people have bought the thing, it's worth advertising to them if it means you get the other half's eyeballs. They don't know that you bought it - they just know that you do things like those who want to buy.

Like, I went to a coding bootcamp. Making that decision means browsing the web like someone who is interested in that bootcamp. I ended up seeing a ton of advertisements for the bootcamp I was currently enrolled in. If you do things that are similar to what a company's target market is, people will notice that and turn that into cash.
who decides what to publish and what to shut down?

hint: it's the people funding the research
Experiencing this with Instagram now. I used Instagram to follow lots of different accounts but basically didn't like anything apart of places I want to go to based on pictures posted by NatGeo and the likes to have a list of that at one point.
Now Instagram only shows me this stuff and I'd have to scroll very far to find posts by friends. Now I'm not using Instagram anymore.
There are way more than three, literally dozens and thousands more DIY.
"Put your foot on it" means the accelerator / gas pedal, that seems very much equivalent.
The reverse should work for simple HTML.

For complex HTML to plain text try https://www.google.com/search?q=lynx+convert+html+text .. most text browsers can do a reasonable job of it.
A simple test of "Can the intended end users access the system" would work.

Would also be a great motivation for developers to not test things in production, as it's cheaper to test them in the development/testing environment.
Wikipedia has stoke order animations for radicals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/口
Sorry to go off topic, but what's the purpose of the New York Times paywall if you can bypass it with the "Reader" button in Safari and read the whole article, even with a better layout for reading?
Sounds like architects applying for coding position ?
The "aesthetic" involved is purely a side effect of focus, on personal creativeness and learning. There's no aesthetic goal being pursued, as in the case of using fine dishes and caring about dress.

Many of us long to take a break from obligations and sink into a deep state of singular flow on our creative hobbies, whether it be software, building a ship in a bottle, working on that car rusting in the garage, etc. To be able to take a full day, ignore everything else, and spend it on exactly one passion project is a personal, internal joy; not one predicated on pretensing up to match externally presented standards.
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I'm not a mutt user, but I believe in the power of text. Look at your comment. It's a lot of text, and zero formatting. But still it's powerful at achieving what you want to achieve. I really don't see why you need that kind of html stuff or markdown, or inline attachments, etc.
Other reasons I haven't mentioned:

Using Mutt is the easiest way I've found to get and (more importantly) keep GPG configured. Yes, people use it; in my case, for interacting with some open source projects.

I've played with setting up various graphical clients with it, but I don't use GPG every day, and it somehow always manages to break in some annoying way. Configuring that with Mutt is loosely coupled enough that it just keeps working.

And second, once you're comfortable with your config, triaging huge amounts of mail is blazingly fast. You might not notice the delay that comes from the occasionally slow GUI reactions, intentionally slow animations, dialogs, the mouse, etc. But compared to the instant reaction to single character commands, there's no contest, and if you're catching up on an enormous amount of mail for some reason, it really makes a difference.

And if you ever have to deal with automated mail systems that succumb to sudden-onset logorrhea in your direction, regular expressions for tagging mail for group operations are a godsend.
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Oh wow, this is looking really good! What mailboxes do you support?
The two things are not independent. One of the reasons things are zoned so agressively and changes to zoning fought so hard is prop 13's effects.
It's remarketing, and it's on the newer end of ad tech. Presumably it will get better...
Ah well, that's because people didn't pay enough attention to Wheeler.
Not if you want lossless tracks. Beatport's lossless surcharge is absolutely insane.

A good example is 'Ils - Bohemia (Remixes & Exclusives)'. [1] This album consists of 35 tracks which in MP3 format is £18.35 inc. VAT ($20 USD).

However, should you want it in WAV or AIFF format (they don't offer FLAC) and the album suddenly costs £41.54 ($54.32 USD) due to the ridiculous £26.25 surcharge. After adding VAT @ 20% the total comes to £49.85! It would be over 7 times cheaper to buy the physical CD from Amazon [2] and rip it yourself.

I don't understand how Beatport can justify charging these exorbitant prices for lossless tracks? Even their MP3 prices aren't great compared to the competition. [3]

[1] https://www.beatport.com/release/bohemia-remixes-and-exclusi...

[2] https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0007XTOB6

[3] http://www.junodownload.com/products/ils-bohemia-remixes-exc...
The worst for me is getting back from holidays and having to suffer several additional months of ads for hotels in Japan everywhere on the web, reminding you that you're not there anymore.

That's actually what made me install adblock on my new system even though I was resolved to try to withstand ads this time.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you worked for a technology company, let alone one in the valley. And, agreed, most of our mechanical or electrical engineers use Windows systems - but pretty much all of our software, firmware, design teams use Macs of one form or another.

I don't think there is anyone using Linux as a desktop, (outside of a virtual machine) though we are pretty much 100% linux on the server side (outside of IT) - where we have several hundred servers, and about 800 employees.
Totally agree with this. Even after collecting so much data, Google and Facebook fail at showing me ads which are useful for me.

However, even with their inferior targeting FB and Google are making billions. So it might be the case that there is no further incentive to improve in this area and they are focusing on making their core product better to get even more users.
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Go ahead and write Markdown. Every one of your recipients will understand, as Markdown is essentially taken from how people write plain text email (> for block quotes, * for bulleted lists, _ for emphasis etc.).

I've seen that some graphical clients seem to interpret these characters. It's common for block quotes to be colorized and foldable, for example. (But what do I know? I'm an old fart in email matters.)
Well, I have kids. One can dream though.
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I think it was the range of the missiles that were the surprise in Syria. 3000km I believe. It was quite big news in the UK at the time.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/09/world/middleeast/russia...
The number of times I show or talk about a side project with business people and they start talking about it as something I built to generate income rather than just for my own curiousity is quite amusing. I think for certain groups of people the idea of creating for purely intellectual purposes is completely alien. It is part of the reason many companies can't hold onto real technical talent. At a cerain point intellectual richness becomes the main priority in a hackers life and the only thing that will keep them around is challenging new problems to solve.
Never used Windows or FreeBSD guests, but what's wrong with Ansible provisioning?
Good catch!!! It's ironical that an article that talks about visual design localization shows incorrect examples as the chosen ones for a different audience. In this case it looks like they just took some UK images and manipulated those to add some German signboards.

Any localization effort needs a very deep attention to detail. Actually, that applies to any design effort. :)
Only Chrome apps work on Chrome OS and developing a Chrome app is way easier: Chrome takes care of the back-end and Google offers an app store.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12322791
Yeah, usually there are scripts that can update and import building outlines from open government data. Usually this is done with human guidance and by request. So if a mapper in a certain area notices missing or outdated building, he or she might request that someone in the community familiar with those import tools import the outlines for that area. Ideally the local mapper can then verify and enrich this data.

In a lot of developed countries almost any building barring small garden sheds is meticulously described in government parcel databases with decimetre precision. In the past few years these outlines have been imported in the Netherlands in OpenStreetMap; it really looks a lot better than just a bunch of rectangles.
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Amazon does this all the time with me. "You just buyed a headset, do you want another one?" ... really? How many people buy multiple headsets in rapid succession? Hopefully, their engine will learn with time to differentiate between categories where you often buy many in rapid succession and categories where you only buy every few years, so this gets better. At the moment, it is completely useless.
Your approach is what I do. The OP is what I would like to do.

There's nothing pretentious or high maintenance about either! :p
The TIGER import is about 10 years old and still not cleaned up.

> It's the developing parts of the world that need automated road creation the most. The opposition seems to emanate from rich, European nations.

I would guess that the majority of the OSM community is from rich, European nations. If people need open road data then why not let/make them create it themselves?

Using tools to suggest changes is great but without local knowledge we get bad edits like for example some contributions by Facebook or Mapbox who seem to think their US offices know better than the locals...
The original they provided a copy from wasn't blurred/smudged and they claimed under oath that it was? Sounds pretty clear cut - are they going to claim they had a booger on their glasses or something?? The smudged bit being the vital information pertinent to the case, seems to be beyond reasonable doubt on that basis, would be interested to hear the story their lawyers concoct ... sure it would/will be equal to some of Disney's greatest works of fiction.
Yes, but the "solution" is that you can't convince the browser to talk anything but HTTP. So unless the device is HTTP it will probably ignore your "malformed" request.

It is awful that we can't rely on devices to do proper authentication but that is the state of security today.
You should try hyperterm, it's based on the chrome ssh NaCl version shell with support for plugins on top https://hyperterm.org/
A friend did a stint at oracle, before quitting in disgust. He'd been sold the position as working on innovation in their cloud division. It turned out to be more like industrial espionage, constantly changing tack to follow Google, never actually shipping anything, or pursuing any particular strategy other than "me too!". Under the hood their cloud is a broken pile of limping goshu that they barely understand themselves, as the guys who threw it together a few years back have also churned out. Their main cloud customer is.... Oracle!

Unless they start running their own race and stop looking at what the guy in the other lane is doing, they're going zombie.
> Vanguard runs etfs mostly

Is there a socially acceptable way to call a person an ignoramus on HN?
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ServiceWorkers allows installing apps on Chrome or on the desktop so hangouts and drive could use it. Not so sure about ssh and what's going to happen to NaCl.
Yeah yeah, this all makes sense until you see 品, which isn't "a three-mouthed monster" but "goods".

Languages are weird, man.
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No, they get to keep their portion.
Then I believe such a "team building" activity should count towards working hours total.
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> > Websites with hardware access?

> the alternative? [...] install a native app which aren't nearly as well sandboxed right now (Windows, Mac, Linux).

err, the sandboxing works because web APIs don't already expose things which are suggested to be exposed here. Exposing them will break that "sandbox", to a certain (major) degree, atleast.
Just because the ad didn't work, doesn't mean it's a bad ad. If the average person has a .001% chance of buying the Linux book and you have a .1% chance of buying it, the targeting improved the efficiency of the ad spend by 100x.
I love rust in principle, but its rather off-putting C++-esque syntax continues to keep me away from it. It's a shame, really.
> It isn't even automated.

Yes. No. Maybe. There's a massive push towards exchange trading the more liquid products: traders are expensive, and if you can get a robot to do basic inventory management and market making for you (even with a human in the loop), that's savings for a desk manager looking to cut costs in a highly straightened FI environment.

The highly distressed and/or exotic stuff that people are talking about in the Big Short are still slung by salespeople, with the connivance/approval of traders.
and the rest of us are even more confused
Why not invoice your UK customers from the US or New Zealand and save them from having to pay VAT too?
At a very high level, instead of comparing everything against a map, we try to figure out what it is. For example, the way Google detects traffic lights is using geometry to infer where a traffic light will be. Their maps are so good that they know where the car is, and where the traffic light is, and just use math to figure out where in the image there should be a traffic light. Then they just look at the pixels and figure out which color is lit - red, yellow, green. The way we did it is constantly scan for traffic lights (you can do lots of sanity checks, for instance using GPS are we near an intersection?), which means figuring out whether or not a traffic light is in the image, and then once we detect one figure out what color is the light.

Google's approach is simpler but is highly dependent on the maps. The other approach is easier to scale, but is obviously harder and likely takes more work to get the same results. Something I think a lot of people gloss over is that these maps take up huge amounts of data - not something you can stream over a cell network and probably not even high speed WiFi (maybe you'd download a map for your trip the night before). And also, as I understand it, the maps require regular maintenance.

The real question is how will this scale? And honestly I don't know. My theory is the tech is so hard and the rewards are so great that infrastructure will change to make it easier. By installing smart traffic lights, having cars talk to each other, and adding various road marks specifically for self-driving cars you can drastically reduce the complexity of the problem.
The worst ads are the ones that advertise the very thing I've recently browsed. Say I browse some shoes (not google them, browse the site selling the shoes), that's when I start seeing tons of ads for that very site. What's the point? I thought ads are supposed to tell me something I don't know?
Aye. It's nice when they start going to school, a few hours of quiet in the middle of the day. :)
In Japan, there are lifestyle magazines that are almost nothing but advertisements and are wildly popular, beautifully designed, and remarkably informative ("Popeye" is a good example). One can argue about the social merits of consumerism, but I think the quality of advertisements is directly proportional to how much their culture of origin values "taste" (again, debatably for good or ill).
Their target audience is DJs, and a lot of their catalogue is only available there or on limited-print vinyls. If you can buy an album elsewhere or on CD, don't buy it on beatport.
And America will be greeted as liberators too I'm sure?
"What they usually do is they figure out what I did in recent history or in general and present me more of that."

My favourite one is travels. They keep insisting that I travel to the place I just come back.

In the other hand, I see this as a good thing. We really don't want they target you perfectly, because that means that they know everything.

Advertisers with perfect information is, in my opinion, a scary proposition, but probably unavoidable in the long term.
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I manage a few accounts for different clients of mine. Now and then (not often) I get an email about some billing service being discontinued (or perhaps a free trial of something has ended).

When this happens, I have no idea which account it refers to as the emails provide no details. I just have to cross my fingers and hope nothing goes offline.

EDIT: Here's what they look like: http://i.imgur.com/XcatLQm.png
AFAIK the account id denoted there as XXX-XXXXX-XXX is some behind-the-scenes account identified that isn't displayed anywhere in the UI. To hunt it down, I would have to log into a google account, then click on the link. Then repeat over and over with a dozen google accounts until I log into the one actually tied to that billing account.

Ridiculous.
Yep. The analogy I use is, it's a bit like if someone walked up and asked you to draw the logo of this or that company. Even if you've seen the logo a million times, you might not be able to summon up a mental picture of it, or you might remember the rough shape but have no idea how many lines go where.
It confused me because I work from home. Every day for me is "a day at home".
"Jolt Cola"

I spent half the 90's drinking Jolt from the local Quiky-mart.
I don't think that is necessarily a valid conclusion to draw.

If anything the first use of nuclear weapons was a corner case.
I'm having the same miserable experience with Terraform. Lacking documentation, and really un-batted-tested product.

The concept is nice, and the concept of execution is nice too. The execution itself is a failure.

But, hey, they know how to make shiny websites.
Its worse if you click / visit stuff accidently. How many pages do we open just because we want to see what the issue is, but are finally not interested.
> What we need is not a "I know what you did and here is more of that" suggestion engine

I really agree on this. The Youtube homepage exemplifies it for me. It recommends only content the same as or very similar to what I've watched before, and only the most popular of that. I've watched a ton of conference talks, programming tutorials, etc. yet those never show up. It's mostly junk with clickbait titles from big channels.

I do like Youtube's recommendation algorithm for the side bar suggestions on a video page, though I get more sponsored-looking content now than in the past. It's been useful at least for finding music. And YT does have a page for improving homepage recommendations, which granted I haven't tried yet.
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Speaking for myself, I've put enough tooling around Packer to make it tolerable in my build pipeline and I haven't found a better tool that does what it does (suggestions welcome!). I would be using Vault, except it's just on the far edge of usable for me (particularly around the aws-ec2 provider) and I am repelled sufficiently by Go that I'm not driven to hack it to suit my needs until I exhaust my other alternatives, and I haven't yet.

Consul is...fine, I guess? It's not particularly useful for me, but that's because I have a Zookeeper background and am comfortable with its primitives. I'd use it if I had a need for it. OTOH, I've had extremely bad experiences with Terraform, both in terms of trying to build tooling around it and in having it hose states when resources fail to create correctly (I've mentioned previously around here that multiple clients independently invented the term "terrafucked" for the results of their Terraform state) and I don't feel like I can trust the tool with something as critical as my cloud infrastructural resources. I might bite the bullet and use it if I were working on Google Cloud or Azure, but in AWS, CloudFormation (with tooling on top) is sufficient.
Wow this is great, thanks so much again! I'll definitely look into these.
FWIW, their twitter account says this is just the first seven, and the rest will be posted soon.

https://twitter.com/gophercon?lang=en
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FWIW I've been using entr for years now and absolutely love it. It is incredibly simple to use and the author is incredibly receptive. My day to day life would be much more tedious without it.
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Only (local) Maildir and (slow) IMAP at the moment.

I want to improve the IMAP, but it's always a low-priority.
> Uh, fallout is only deadly for a few weeks or so even after thousands of nuclear weapons are used on a country.

From Command and Control by Eric Schlosser:

"Strontium-90 is a soft metal, much like lead, with a radioactive half-life of 29.1 years. It is usually present in the fallout released by thermonuclear explosions. When strontium-90 enters the soil, it's absorbed by plants grown in that soil--and by the animals that eat those plants. Once inside the human body, strontium-90 mimics calcium, accumulates in bone, and continues to emit radiation, often causing leukemia or bone cancer.... Along with cesium-137, a radioactive isotope with a half-life of 30 years, it may contaminate agricultural land for generations."

Is that incorrect?