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And the QL didn't have a real business quality keyboard. It was just cheap and hard plastic keys.

It was too expensive for a home computer and too much of a toy for a business: between two chairs.
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I've wondered the same thing about some of the tiny shops in the center of town here. They sell cheap phone covers and whatnots that I can't imagine bring much profit.

Could it be that these places have existed for a long time and rent protection keeps the rent down?

The only other explanation I can think of when it comes to some of these shops/food joints is that they're used for money laundering or something like that.
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The key libraries part has kept me wondering. How much would it cost for AMD to assign a handful heavy duty engineers to this task (writing AMD optimised kernels for convolution etc)?

Their management has been fast asleep for at least 2 years
Would you mind unpacking that further? I love living in London and would be keen to hear your grievances.
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Jesus, no kidding. You'd think that at least a phone call to verify. Presumably, with that much money involved, it's worth a few minutes on the phone for each one.
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> What I want is, for example, to press 'Transfer all pictures/music/whatever to Time Capsule' and just wait until it is done (via WiFi).

It's not an Apple product, but "Plex" can transfer your photos to your own harddrive/library if you buy the pro version. You can for example run the Plex server on your Mac or on a Raspberry Pie, and then let Plex synchronize your photos to your Capsule over wifi or 3G.
The bike path I'm using to commute every day is shared with scooters. I'd rather take car exhaust, to be honest (although I'm not suicidal enough to take up with cars going 100 km/h on the road next to it). Every time I'm overtaken by a scooter I'm coughing the next minute or so while having to slow down to about 10 km/h.

On the other hand, people are probably much more likely to switch from a scooter to an e-bike than from a car, simply because the convenience factor is very similar. And winter is coming right now, which luckily takes scooters away too, for some reason :)
> I think we also need way better digital instruments... That make it easier to stay on scale (or to modulate, etc -- whatever the mood is), for instance, allowing people to just play away which is what actually matters.

I'm not sure what new stuff has come out in the last few years, but Ableton Push is exactly what you're describing. It's a grid where you can select a key, scale, and tone, and then you can apply effects in series / parallel. The notes in the scale light up. There's a bunch of other stuff you can do as well.

https://youtu.be/0CdMvkBOUgs?t=69
I think it only works on mobile devices, sorry it's the best I have.
You still need to enable right click from a menu for Apple-brand mice and trackpads. Otherwise ctrl+click is still the only way
> i don't understand how apple have a reputation for good ui...

They don't. Apple is the only tech company that markets their products like fashion accessories.

That's not a bad thing: in 2016 we're living squarely in the age of 'wearable computers'.

The "good UI" stuff is just rationalization, however.
Build us a machine which can navigate the environment as swiftly as a spider, THEN general spider AI is reached. ( not talking about the hardware, talking about the smooth integration of image recognition, motor control, general learning abilities and whatnot)
Those arbitration clauses mean nothing in the EU.
This is an excellent talk which introduces some very solid concepts and breaks down the problem in a very sophisticated way. I hope more people watch this.

In fact, I think this talk is superior to the linked article. You should consider submitting this talk directly to HN.
Why do you need a grammar if this is supposed to learn it itself from the code?
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It's about 13 months per halving. It seems to be consistent whether I start at 2000 or 1961.
> Nope, they exactly allow the notes to show scale degree relationships. 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.

Presumably, they have in mind to straightforwardly eliminate BOTH key signatures and accidental markers; e.g., a staff in which adjacent positions are always one semitone apart, and all pitches and intervals between them are thus always directly indicated without need for reference to a key signature for decoding.

There are pros and cons to this scheme (as it privileges indicating pitch relationships over, as you put it, "scale degree" relationships), but at any rate, it would not involve confusing accidentals, nor any significant difference between working in C major scale vs. any other (even less bias in favor of C major than the current system!).
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Of course they should be lauded for being a success, but that doesn't change the fact that having headquarters is good for a country/city.

Because that's where the corporation pays most of its taxes (usually), and that's where the most interesting jobs are going to be.
nnpack is excellent - but also very new. Noticed it just got NEON optimisations for Arm- do you know if it's possible to use it together with OpenCL on mobile for combined CPU/GPU inference?
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Thanks, I've never heard about Hugo, I've seen Sphinx mentioned by mixmastamyk. But... I wish I had enough spare time to do migration. My TODO list is getting longer and longer. :)
I'm working on a blog post now which I hope will answer that question (at least, in very general terms).
Thanks very much for this video. It is awesome!
Sure - I've flown these kinds of batteries into the ground from great heights doing dumb stuff with drones/quadcopters/modelaircraft - and abused them pretty badly while charging. I've occasionally had Galaxy Tab 7 style "incidents", and take suitable precautions given my experience with the risks.

The 7 cell 5800mAHr batteries I use on the bike are the biggest and most dangerous ones I use - and I do treat them with respect. I charge them in the middle of the concrete floor of my garage, inside a besser block, at least 1.5m from anything valuable or flammable. I dispose of them if they go puffy (I've sent two off the the e-waste/battery-recycling in two years - one of them I knew I'd let run down way too far when using it elsewhere, down under 19V which the bike's controller wouldn't ever do (it cuts out at 22V) and it never managed a good charge again, the other I'd been quick charging occasionally (although not really fast enough to explain the shortened lifespan - I can only _just_ hit 2C charge rates with my charger, the battery _should_ be good up to 5C really...))

If you don't know (or want to learn) the risks, or if you're less risk averse (or less able to mitigate the risks due to not having suitable space to let a lipo fire burn itself out) LiFePO4 is a slightly heavier but much safer battery chemistry. I _almost_ got hold of a bunch of cells from a crashed Tesla's battery pack a while back - they'd make a nice ebike power supply. If I can get my hands of enough of them at a reasonable price, I'm planning on electrifying one of my motorcycles with 30+KW of electric power...
Making static websites for over a decade, now.

(Can make user-editable wikis as well.)
I've been

> scientific computing

for quite some time, and I've the value of a REPL steadily in decline: what's far more useful is a tested code snippet or function & a debugger, occasionally.

Also, if a scientific stack were available in Go, I'd jump on it, because deploying Go is so much simpler than Python. Python's deployment story for scientific software often starts with either )a) create the perfect storm of dependency versions or (b) use Anaconda. Even MATLAB is way better in this regard.
I just moved there 2 months ago and enjoy it a lot more than Austin.
I'd say most netbooks or tablets replaced it for all of those things now... But you're right that Psion were super innovative. More important than their series 5 hardware was the operating system. EPOC was a 32bit embedded OS long before anyone else was doing them. It was nice to program for and dealt with multiprogram which even the first iPhones didn't think about.
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RDBMS might be to good database for the wiki data model. I read they also use cassandra (for serving the API) and a graphdb (for wikidata)
The two things, that Relational Databases typically don't do well:
1. High availablity and no downtime, ever.
2. Unlimited scalability of all operations, including writes.

Honestly, many (most?) NoSQL databases also don't really do them well. If you need these two properties, the only valid choice is really a master-less, shared-nothing database system. E.g. Apache Cassandra.
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Acorn hardware used log encoded samples, while nearly everything else used linear. The simple mod players in games tended not to do any conversion and instead used preconverted mods (which were then a pig to pay in anything else). So it's possible that the Arc mods for Lemmings had been converted from a higher bit rate source, rather than just using copies of the Amiga ones.

Whether an 8-bit log samples sounds better than an 8-bit linear sample when it's not processed through YouTube, I have no idea...
> For example the relative greater openness and tolerance levels of the cities with larger immigrant populations might have become that way because of their arrival.

Looking at European cities with larger immigrant populations, "greater openness and tolerance" isn't exactly what comes to mind to describe the situation.
OSX GUI is almost ready: https://twitter.com/red_lang/status/771268451314696193
Try it out at Istanbul, Ankara or Izmir and see how it works. If it does, I suspect it is an issue with the data about Kayseri rather than the bot.
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Could you share the solution? I couldn't figure it out. Searching for "essentials" was the closest I got.
> One answer might just be norms.

Or, it might be the perceived norms - 70% workdays, 30% personal days.
> we say that a piece is in the key of C major when it resolves to the a C major chord at the end

Can you ELI5 that for me, please? I'm very interested to have a better understanding of that concept.
That is a part of the problem: they assigned people for the task, and produced open-source libraries for matrices, FFT, maybe even something for DNNs. But, those are not polished much, and you have to hunt them down and install them yourself. And, they do a really bad job at marketing.

On the other hand, finding and installing those libraries is nothing compared to actually developing GPU computing software, so, as I said, if you want to program GPUs, even such scattered state of AMD platform is not that worse than Nvidia. Because, in Nvidia, you install CUDA and you get everything set up. And then - what do you do? You still have to learn a not-so-easy black art of optimizing kernels for the actual hardware.
Why not OpenCL? With AVX2, it's quite a performer even on Xeons.
I disagree. The article is not of high quality, and I am compelled to point that out. It is one thing to admit not knowing anything about a subject, it is something else entirely to suggest that the way things are in that subject don't make any sense. That is arrogance hiding behind a pretence of ignorance.

If the author truly wanted to explore this subject, rather than suggest the key of A minor is superfluous and redundant, he would make an attempt to answer, not ask, that question. Western music theory has not existed for centuries without reason, and some of the attitude in this post suggests the author has superficial appreciation for how music works, as if the author could do it better. There are many more examples of this in the article.

I found the article questionable in its intent and content, and the general tone throughout is worthy of my response.
Something like Uber, but for stabbing annoying people who won't stop bugging you with lame startup ideas in the face!

;-)
There is no mathematical distinction between different "tasks". Playing Go requires thousands or even millions of different heuristics and pieces of knowledge. Each of those is a "task" in and of itself. The same technology which beat Go could also, in principle, be used to play a real time video game that requires hunting and stalking things.

Insects are indeed tiny. But they are highly specialized. They can't learn to do things differently than they are programmed. GPUs are extremely general purpose. Not only can neural nets running on them learn many tasks, but they can execute many algorithms which aren't neural networks at all.
Just move to Cambridge! You get the perks of a great tech environment with the charms of a small English town!
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> That's really putting it mildly. Being able to evaluate any valid elisp form anywhere, directly or from a buffer, and affect the running state of the application, is pretty damn powerful.

That's possible in vim too. You can manipulate variables (end redefine functions if you're sadistic) in ex commands. Similarly, every time I save a vimL file it parses and updates running scripts.
I find them useful in many scenarios:

- Bootstrap projects with open or changing requirements. A relational model is usually harder to maintain.

- Storing and querying objects with complex structures, such as those received from APIs.

- Having a single programming language across your entire application stack (ie MEAN). Sometimes comes up as a "should" or even a "must" requirement.

- Fast and simple object storage (ie sessions).
I don't think you can explain it to someone who can't play music, because it's a notation for music. You could teach someone to play an instrument the old-fashioned way, person-to-person without any sheets, and once they understood music (i.e. what patterns of notes sound good or don't) ask them to come up with a way to write it down, and they'd come up with something much like staff notation. But that's a very labour-intensive way to learn.

Hunt-and-peck is always going to be hard on an instrument that supports multiple modes, because each mode only uses some of the modes. At my school music classes were taught on the xylophone/glockenspiel, which you configure for your piece at the start (putting the correct bars on for the mode/key you're working in), which is probably easier for beginners, but it's not a popular instrument (and nor is the harp, which is the only other example I can think of of that approach).
I must admit that the term 'schema-less database' sends shivers up my spine. How do you manage that, especially in a large development team. My biggest fear is that someone will make a change to the structure in an ad-hoc fashion which may break something else I am working on.

End of the day, can't most things in the real universe be broken down into a schema? Be it DNA mapping, geological data, customer invoices, product listings etc.? Everything eventually can be contained in a discrete, defined schema?

I've dabbled on and off for several years but have yet to come across one situation where NoSQL would be a better solution than SQL. As others have pointed out - as soon as you start relating table together, NoSQL starts working against you.

I acknowledge that I have 30+ years with SQL, so obviously my viewpoint is biased by what I know. Could the hesitation to adopt SQL by most new developers point to the fact that they find it too intimidating and structured?
"The cost: transactions, relations. These are actually incredibly valuable things to have"

This is quite arguable. Before the Computer Era, all businesses, including the whole financial sector did just fine without ACID. Still, ACID is used only at a local scope. I can often see ACID requirement used rather as an excuse for poor data modeling than a real need.
Use a sandboxed PDF reader, like PDF.js.

Or use one that just doesn’t support all the retarded features, like KDE’s Okular.
Maybe the notation is optimized for efficiency for experts, at the cost of beginner-friendliness. Maybe it's representing something genuinely hard. Absurdity is possible but not the only possible reason.
32-bit EPOC became very popular (for a while) as Symbian, but the "nice to program for" aspect was definitely lost in Symbian's heavy-handed multi-vendor committee approach to software design.
This is only one aspect of music: there's timbre, dynamics, rhythm, groove, etc.
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Can't speak for the parent, but as far as I can recall, I did. Well, maybe not literally immediately, but to me, the syntax was generally the easiest part of learning a programming language. (It probably helps that they are often very similar to each other.)

The only things that were hard were forgetting to write semicolons after statements in C (I have previously mostly written Pascal), and C declarators — but even the latter were easy after I learned that "declaration reflects use".
> - Storing and querying objects with complex structures, such as those received from APIs.

> - Fast and simple object storage (ie sessions).

Those would also be fulfilled by using a jsonb column in Postgres, right?
Softbank is a cellular phone company not a competitor to ARM...
And Softbank said it will double head count and keep the offices in the UK.

I guess any sell out is termed "lost".
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saying that EU is bad because it stops UK from fishing certain types of fish in the north sea......yeah, of course it does, because we were overfishing massively and in a decade there would be none left

Errr, that's not true at all. What the EU said was that British fishermen can't fish British waters, but Spanish fisherman can overfish here as they please. Leaving the EU, whatever else it does good or bad, is a massive win for our marine ecosystem.
That doesn't make much sense to me. If the employer could hire someone for cheaper than the immigrant minimum wage, they wouldn't hire the immigrant in the first place. Or they would fire the immigrant, if he was already hired.
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I think they missed the most of important of all, DeepMind.
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eevee seems to be a relatively popular writer, however I became less enamored with the persona as I realized that a lot of the work on display is shoot-from-the-hip hot takes, a smattering of summarized research minus the essential components of appreciation, concrete experience, asking for directions, or admitting "I might be wrong". I expect this kind of thing from sophomore CS students, not a blogger who presumably has an earnest interest in learning a thing and presenting said learnings.
this is the most depressing thing I'v read in a long time.
"It's the button that adjusts the window size to the content size."

Which is just so, so wrong. Imagine how much mouse-mouse-mousing around (and time wasted) that kind of organization produces.

Things I wish Steve Jobs had said:

"If you're using the mouse, you're doing it wrong"
I live in Hungary where the taxis are pretty cheap but you have to call them, and there's not guarantee that you'll get someone who can speak English.

When I first got here, I used Uber all the time, but the government passed some anti-über laws and Uber withdrew from the market. Now I just use the public transport, which is pretty good, but less convenient than Uber. I felt bad for all the drivers that lost their jobs.
IIRC for trackpads at least it's been enabled by default for some time (though I believe the default gesture is a double-tap rather than a tap in the bottom-right corner).
> Inkjets are smaller than lasers.

Nope. My 55€ Canon inkjet is larger then laser printer from Samsung for 70€.

> Cheap inkjets are cheaper than cheap lasers.

Nope. Cheap lasers are in the same ballpark as cheap inkjets (50€$). The major difference is in toner/cartridge consumption and exchange interval. A laser toner can last significantly longer then inkjet cartridge and isn't prone to damages of no regular usage.

> Price per page doesn't really matter when pages per year is less than 100.

Absolutely correct and this also brings an answer why people choose those inkjets : "ah, I rarely print anything, so I'll have a device to print everything".

But it differs if you calculate the cost of inkjet cartridge drying out/printing problems with non regular usage. Technology on laser toners doesn't have such limitations.
Broadly speaking, major chords sound bright and happy. Minor chords sound dark and sad.

The C major scale consists of C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C. The A-minor scale consists of A-B-C-D-E-F-G-A. Those are the same notes, but if you play each of those patterns on a keyboard, the first one sounds happy, the second one sounds sad.

A C-major chord (technically, triad) is made up of C-E-G, the first, third, and fifth notes of the scale. Again, sounds happy. The A-minor triad is A-C-E ... sad.

But if you play a melody -- that is, one note at at a time -- it isn't always clear whether it's happy or sad. In most western music, though (including virtually all pre-1900 classical music and the vast majority of modern pop), the piece will end ("resolve") with a clearer "happy" or "sad" type of chord. That final chord is what determines the key.

(In a huge amount of classical and popular music, the final chord is the same as the opening chord, but not always. When they're different, the final chord tells you the key.)
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http://www.staticgen.com (hosted and maintained by Netlify, article's author) is similar although stats differ...
Having grown up in that area I can tell you it has none of the charms of a small English town and all of the expense of London.

Also a huge drug problem.
It makes little different for computer programmers, as evidenced by the abundance of American (i.e. non EU) apps and services used throughout the EU.

It would make more difference for other industries, but "move to Berlin from London as a js dev" doesn't make much sense to me. I suspect some Berlin-based recruiters are just desperate and trying out a new tack to see if a bit of fear works better vs just advertising Berlin itself (which is a lovely city, mind you, I've thought about moving there in the past).
As a computery person, what bothers me the most is the 1-based indexing of intervals. I get that music theory predates zero, but it makes it incredibly frustrating to work with (e.g. add a third to a fourth and you get a... sixth).
Yeah, I've had a similar experience: i only ever use iTunes for one thing, and that's as an Apple Music client. If you limit yourself to that, it's actually quite nice, much better than Spotify.

However, if I were trying to organize my mp3 library in it, I would lose my mind, I think .
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That doesn't seem like something which'd make sense at the local police level though, as chances are high it's international, or at the very least interstate. I would think (when the local cops don't just decide to ignore it) this kind of things gets escalated to the feds.