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isn't itunes still needed in some "recovery" situations? Like fixing a bad update, backing up/restoring a phone, and (not quite along the same lines, but important to me) allowing install of in-dev applications.

I guess some of those could be handled by going into an apple store, but I'd still be a bit peeved if they removed the lifeline to my phone as a cost cutting measure.
It is good to design systems with the assumption that most users will use them as intended. There will always be misuse, but that can be adressed later if the system is successful. Compare airbnb, uber, dropbox. They all have very bad use cases. The systems were designed for the vast majority of users being lawful and for the most part it works.
My whole point is that ACID is not the only kind of consistency and it is not required to do "get accurate, up to date information at a human timescale". It is just a nice and convenient programming model, but it comes at a cost of availability, scalability, latency and throughput. You can design systems with no ACID data store and if you do it properly they can be just as accurate and up-to-date when everything works properly, but can also degrade nicely when some components fail.

http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/5/1/myth-eric-brewer-on...

http://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/docs/IEEE_Softw...
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Until a few years ago, the difference to windows was like night & day.

Whenever I had to use a Windows PC during the Windows XP - Windows 7 days, I'd wonder how Windows users ever got anything done.

Windows would almost constantly interrupt any sort of flow with notifications about updated virus definitions, really really urgent updates that need a reboot right now, the highly relevant information that I got a new DHCP IP etc. etc.

It's gotten better now I believe, and OS X usability has indeed suffered a bit while expanding in features.
Another article focusing on Dutch cycling as some kind of trend indicator, but not really applicable anywhere else. Holland is flat with mild weather. Bikes are already popular and a good infrastructure and legal system in place to support it before ebikes came along. Even with Ebikes, a cold climate and a hilly landscape will put a lot of people off.
You still have speed issues with certain areas.

I'm no expert of course but areas like the south in the United States are still stuck on DSL lines and even older technology.

I would think that this would be reasoning for not doing that yet.
As a geek and a formerly classically trained musician, I found it interesting to see how a geek discovers musical conventions.

I think his post raises interesting questions about western music's discoverability, something developers should be interested about.

And I believe, having spent a lot of time with many western classical musicians, that this poor discoverability is in part appreciated and encouraged by many professionals. When I read about the Sokal affair, about some humanities academic hiding their dubious competences and relevance behind some cryptic mumbo-jumbo, I first thought of my musical theory lectures.
One of the features I hate in iTunes is adding music to the library. When adding songs it should create a shortcut from the music folder that is being added from rather than creating a copy of the songs in its folder. When creating a copy into the iTunes folder the storage space on the macbook is lowered.
Maybe, but I think there's still some value to a controlled management application for either a large volume or to at least ensure that it's not a faulty wireless connection. It's a lot easier to move a few hundred gig over lightning than it is over wifi, and that first impression is probably going to be the biggest.

Then again, if they do go towards a totally wireless phone, I guess it would only be sensible to just ditch the lightning port entirely. and have a fully sealed case.

Still, I'd be pretty happy to have a stand-alone sync/management app; right now I use iTunes as an staging ground just to make sure that whatever goes on the phone looks right in iTunes first (correct tagging, correct album artwork). I don't mind it in this function, but if I could I would do away with it.
That would be absolutely awful. Imagine if every site did that. Would this be a site you would want to visit?

Maybe what you want to do is have a link that sends you to the HN submission page with the fields pre-populated. That wouldn't be so bad.
It's actually pretty easy to setup a multi-node setup, if you don't worry about YARN/Mesos and just use the plain Spark cluster thing. I think it's like 1 config entry per node.

It doesn't solve the data storage problem, so if you need that you need a way to map the same files to the same path on every node (eg, network drive, RSync).

If you are just doing streaming it might not matter though.
I disagree with the article author and at the end of the super long article, so does IDC. For the big workloads, x86 systems are going to be on top for the next years. Yes ARM is making strides, but it will take time before the move into data centers at any significant rate.

The trend lines from the IDC charts show continued growth, 5-6% growth is pretty decent as you remember manufacturing costs continue to drop.
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First, i think you mean unions, not socialism. Non-socialist countries also have had 5 day weeks. Also even though unions have increased worker rights in history, pure capitalism has also been doing that as well. Look at silicon valley, where empoyee perks, extra PTO and such have not been fought for but are provided.
How could he be risking political backlash if one man alone was uniquely threatening?
even crazier is how many millions of dollars people have made creating free software!
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Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/HP-F0V69A-B1H-Wireless-Printing/dp/B0...
That actually sounds like an interesting premise for a book. If you ever finish the book, or are looking for someone to read it and offer you feedback, my email is listed in my profile.
The problem is not the far-fetched possibility of mass expulsions: it's simply that, after Brexit, British citizens will likely need a work visa in order to work in the EU. And work visas for non-EU applicants are neither easy nor quick to get.

I guess the UK could propose to allow free movement of British workers to the EU, but the EU will demand in turn that European workers be allowed the same free movement to the UK (and stopping that was one of the main points of the Brexit vote, wasn't it?).
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There are ways to implement that kind of thing in a relatively straightforward manner. It does, however, require some kind of non-static element in the site if you want comments embedded in the site or page.

Most SSGs have some kind of plugin system (both Pelican and Lektor certainly do) that would allow you do something like what you want with the HN integration you're considering.

Alternatively, you could use something like Isso (https://github.com/posativ/isso), Kaiju (https://github.com/spf13/kaiju), or Hashover (https://github.com/jacobwb/hashover). I don't use any of these, so I can't really tell you how good they are, but they're options, and far from the only options.
I've actually just moved my entire iTunes library into my ownCloud directory and let it sync to my other systems. Windows is fine with it, just point your chosen media app at the folder and it should just ignore all of iTunes' files and grab the music.

Every once in awhile I get a sync error but it never seems to affect anything and sorts itself out, going on about 8 months now with no real problems.
And then, when your site sees a HN post for the article, have it replace the submission link by a link to the discussion.
There is quite a lot of slightly wrong bits here, or I just don't remember some parts.

It is however relieving to see how much progress has been done on the graphics stack since (open source drivers, DRI3) and the Wayland side (especially with libinput, which I think didn't exist at the time of this article).

Anyway, Wayland is almost there, guys!
@tomasandrle How do I add music?

When I toggle "ENABLE UPLOADS", "no network available" error pops out
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iTunes is actually the main reason I am considering switching to Android.
This caught my attention:

> I usually work with my headphones on because music helps me concentrate. I always listen to the same three things: Tristan und Isolde by Wagner, 666 Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden and Paranoid by Black Sabbath. The opera relaxes me, it helps me concentrate and prepare mentally. But once I put my uniform on and start cleaning, I want to listen to heavy metal.
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Not all NoSQLs are document schema-less databases like Mongo. Some NoSQL database systems have static schema. E.g. Apache Cassandra has tables with static column metadata just as RDBMS.
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Not if the barriers to entry are high. I worked (as a coder) in Ericsson in the late 90s, and very few of my peers were doing anything much at all. Similar in a web agency during the dotcom boom (which the agency survived, in fact it's still one of the dominant ones in my home market)
Because it's a functional language.
And other than noisy functional language fans, most people prefer imperative programming.
You need to be on WiFi. Open a desktop browser and point it to the URL that the app gives you in the Upload tab or get the Tiny Loader Mac app (http://www.catnapgames.com/tiny-loader/) to just drag & drop files and folders - it finds your phone automatically using Bonjour.

If you still have problems please msg me directly or tweet @catnapgames, thanks.
The original article is https://theconversation.com/get-out-of-my-face-were-more-ant.... Although they are the same content and it's better to use the original source, I prefer the Quartz title because it's less clickbait-like than The Conversation's, "Get out of my face! We’re more antisocial in a shared office space."

There is some other interesting work on The Conversation's site about this, such as [1] and [2] (see below).

1: https://theconversation.com/the-backlash-against-open-plan-o...

2: https://theconversation.com/office-design-should-focus-on-pe...
> I've long wanted a human-assisted decompiler for 16-bit DOS/Windows code, as a means of salvaging old games.

If you're lucky (like me with EarthSiege 2), your game might also have a 32bit version, which you can run through IDA/Hexrays just fine.
The title would be better as "Why the F# Isn't F# the King of .NET" ;)
My former comment was related to Boston,MA.
Can you give a little summary of why the article thinks it is peak x86 for those of us who are not very familiar with this field?
Thunks were used to execute 32 applications in 16 bit mode via Win32s, and were also the way you would prepare callbacks to be exposed to Windows APIs.
I think you sum it up pretty well. As a techie who has never understood music, and who is fascinated by watching my own kids learn and understand music theory (something I was never exposed to as a child), I found this an interesting article.

Clearly history, culture, notation and reproduction technology have all conspired to produce a certain flawed, but accepted, jargon that you just have to bite the bullet and learn. If we could start again using colours, numbers, augmented reality, etc., then it seems obvious we could come up with a better system, but that would be tantamount to proscribing a new alphabet, or telling everyone to start using base-16.
A staff with a separate line or space for every semitone would probably be pretty unreadable, and the places corresponding to non-scale tones would go mostly unused in most music. Besides, the key signature at the start is very useful to any experienced musician as it immediately tells them how the piece is supposed to be played. You can think of it as a header that tells you how the rest of the notation should be interpreted.

I don't think it's a coincidence at all that the common Western staff has five lines and four spaces - it's a small enough number that subitizing [0] is possible. After all, the notation has evolved to be convenient to those who need to read or write sheet music, even though it might look weird to a layman.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subitizing
"Luckily", Amazon fixed the glitch by having the "star rating" consist of an "intelligent" summary of the reviews instead of the average, which means that there are products with 3.5+ stars despite having 50%+ 1-star reviews and very few 5-stars.

The top review they show is also a paid ("free product") review praising it with a lot of text, nicely pushing all the 1-star ones out of view.

It was a HP printer, too.
I like cities, but don't like London, so, after a bit of travelling in Europe, I settled in Budapest. It has everything I like about being in a big city with almost none of the crap you get in London: great arts scene, festivals of one sort or another almost constantly, friendly people, excellent public transport, and, for a person who works remotely for an American company, housing is extremely inexpensive.
Off-topic, but since you're here, let me ask: where can I track the progress on rustup support for musl-based distros where musl is the host (void linux, alpine linux) and FreeBSD? I got everything but Rust working nicely on void linux, and it's the only thing holding me back right now. Since Docker defaults to alpine linux, the reach of such support will be wider than one might initially think.
The disconnect between macOS and iOS is stark in this particular area. All of iTunes functions on the desktop are split into 4 or 5 apps on iOS (Music, Videos, App Store, etc.) and then on desktop you have the behemoth iTunes instead.

And yes, there's also: Backup Manager for iOS devices, and, somewhat unique to me as an iOS developer, iTunes also holds the keys for me to be able to build to my devices which is all kinds of fun let me tell you.

I hope at some point they revisit iTunes and re-do it completely but that seems like something Steve Jobs would have to push through. As much as I get annoyed with the deification of that man (frankly he as just a really good salesman, nothing more) I think a majority of long time Apple users would agree that their software has taken a hit in quality since his passing, the debacles with iOS 9 and 10 updates bricking various portions of the iPhone comes to mind.
Is that true? I thought most instruments (or at least most pianos) these days were tuned to be equal tempered, so each scale would sound the same (modulo a pitch scaling).
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Most of the stack is still the same as Wayland, so the question is how much extra work support will require.
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If a beginner can't immediately grasp mathematical notation, or a programming language - or a native language for that matter - is that evidence that it is, in fact, absurd? The musical notation has evolved (toward some local optimum) to be useful for practicing musicians and composers, at the expense of having a learning curve.
Maybe that's why UK gov insist on Adobe Reader for accounts submission ... so GCHQ have an easy back door?
>Why is this at the top of HN?

Because it was voted to the top after being deemed interesting by HN users. Social boormarking website et al.

>Without key signatures, music in any major scale other than C would be very confusing as the regular scale notes would be marked with accidentals.

That's assuming otherwise keeping the same notation, which is totally against the point of the author.
Just realized that... thanks

also if you could get the app to move all music from iTunes on the iPhone to TinyPlayer it would be great.

Can I create play lists?
>> Ideally, what I would like to do is to have an hackernews post automatically generated for each post, and to redirect people to the HN post if they want to comment, but I am not sure that HN allow this kind of use ?

I would say it wouldn't be allowed as you would end up submitting to HN just 'because' and without direct regard as to whether that post contributes the community. Not all posts are HN related.
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It would have been if C# stayed at v2.0.
The gist is correct, but it's worth noting that, for example, if you played do-re-mi in E it would do E-F#-G#, not E-F-G, to preserve tone/semitone order. That's where the key signature comes in.
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Only a lot of experience could just be cargo cult and busy work, as is in most fields.

I.e the music world's analogue to: "but of course you need to make XML configuration files for everything and FactoryFactorySingletons etc, that's how we do things in J2EE".
Most organizations I see tend to just wait...this sounds more like 1 off to me. You're at a unique employer if the data scientists have that much power..
DeepMind is mentioned in the section about SwiftKey.
This looks nice. Disqus placed ads on our sites for the second time recently, which was the last straw. I've already got a backlog task in place to find an alternative, and I'm adding Remarkbox to the list.
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Well, quite a few people in the first world are working 7 days a week or some other structure of 70+ hour weeks; and many of them earn a multiple of the median wage while doing so, so they definitely would be able to survive just fine in a different, lower paid job with less hours but they still choose to do what they do.
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Have you been to the Science Museum or Natural History museum recently? We took the youngest 2 yrs ago and were deeply disappointed. They're but a neglected shadow of their former selves.

The Manchester Museum of science and Industry, part of the Science Museum group (though only since 2012), is a far more rewarding experience.
I'm not entirely sure why this is getting downvoted. I'm a moderately noisy FP fan myself, but this statement does seem, on the balance of evidence, to be true. I'm interested to know why.
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imperative programming works pretty well in F#.
Maybe I'm in the minority but I still use it to sync a bunch of stuff off my NAS to my devices. I wish there was a better way to do it, but the wifi sync at home is about as good as I can get given the restrictions.
Several reasons come to mind:

- F# replaced C++ on the black sheep role from Microsoft languages list, usually missing from their documentation when they list available languages (.NET Native and .NET Core are two examples)

- Lack of GUI tooling forcing any desktop developer to use a mix of C#, VB.NET, C++/CX for the UI + F#, or load XAML files by hand via type providers

- It is easier to gain adaptation at the enterprise level with multi-paradigm languages and existing ones are getting good enough support for FP algorithms, even if it is not clean approach. I rather have this than no FP at all.

- Many enterprise developers and their managers are still quite vocal against type inference and LINQ in C#, VB.NET, let alone allow something like F# on their codebases

- Since F# got type providers, many presentations try to sell the language to C# devs based just on this feature, which doesn't matter at all for the typical ETL and CRUD enterprise applications
> The only thing that's a plus for go is it's dead-easy concurrency.

Since you mention Haskell, I would like to say that Haskell's concurrency support is more diverse and at least as easy as Go's.
Ah, no real playlists, it's really just folders. You can swipe left on library items to "enqueue", that's about it. As for loading music you could try dragging the contents of ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music onto the Loader.. I've tested with quite large folders. Moving from the iPhone Music app is not supported, I might look into that later.
I agree that mastering board games requires intelligence. I also agree that good chess players are usually intelligent, even quite smart. But it's not like people's abilities in chess are directly proportional to their intelligence, is it?

I mean, you would probably have mediocre chess players that could beat Plato or Darwin or Einstein.

Why is it that computers' abilities to win chess or Go are seen as the proxy for how far AI has come? As if the pinnacle of civilisation is Go or if Magnus Carlsen is the greatest mind of all times. Go and chess are sports. It's rugby for nerds. A computer beating Kasparov is impressive in its own right, but it's a far cry from the computer having his intelligence.
I understand that you view qualia as structural properties, and can map trillions of physical brain-configurations to trillions of subjective brain-states. However there is still a massive discrepancy between our subjective experience of such states, and the physical configurations that are claimed to represent it - which is why it is not a satisfactory answer to the hard problem of consciousness for many people.

The 2 big discrepancies I see are this: 1. We have the subjective perception of free will: I can choose to write these sentences or not. Where does that intention originate? If our consciousness is just neuronal computation, then it is completely deterministic or probabilistic. That is entirely contradictory of most people's experience, because we can choose what we want to do, and do things that strongly contradict our "mood". Some people can even go further to consciously modify their brain states. If you claim that is also just a product of complex structural properties, you get into an infinitely regressing claim.

2. Despite being able to create incredibly complex connected structures, arguably even more complicated than a single person's brain, such as the Internet, we have no evidence of such an entity having a subjective feeling of consciousness. There is simply no parallel in our current knowledge for how subjective experience can arise from system configurations. You seem to be simply assuming that an experience is such a configuration, but we have no evidence of that. If such a configuration could be consciousness itself, then we have examples of other entities which are connected in similarly complex ways, yet we don't believe they are concious. This argument is explained here: http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/USAconsci...
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"It’s ironic that the people who are most likely to doubt or deny the existence of consciousness (on the ground that everything is physical, and that consciousness can’t possibly be physical)"

We don't doubt that consciousness exists, what we do call into question is the assertion that it is of a non-corporeal nature. Therefore it has to be physical in nature.

panpsychism: 'the doctrine or belief that everything material, however small, has an element of individual consciousness.'
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This is gratuitous (and annoying) patronizing. If you don't like the tone of a post just press the downvote button and move on.
People have been saying that for years (the dismantling of iTunes is near) yet Apple keep on shoving more shit into it.