skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ooh, that sounds like a fun book to read!

I spent a lot of time studying this myself because I was fascinated with the fact that these 12 notes in particular seemed ubiquitous in many music systems, and that there wasn't any immediately obvious reason as to why these notes sounded pleasing. Ultimately learned some music theory in the process (I've studied Indian and some Western music, so a lot of it was stuff I already knew, but not in concrete form), but never in a very structured fashion -- more along the lines of asking people and reading snippets.

Put this book on my list, sounds like a structured way to learn something I've been super interested in for years.
This is the particular podcast[0] that quickly goes through post-revolution Haiti. Highly recommended podcast and the Haitian revolution was in particular really interesting. The author is currently in the middle of the Simon Bolivar's revolution in Venezuela.

[0] - http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/2016/04/419-the-history-of...
The full name is "Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights". Doesn't cover the US or Australia unfortunately.
MongoDB cofounder explains what to do when a project has gone off track
>His code was the kind of code you'd expect an electrical engineering professional to write. Very clean and well documented and technically very good.

Boy have we worked with different electrical engineers!
Been a few years since I looked at WP, but isn't this essentially what the super cache etc. plugins used to do, i.e. generate static versions of pages?
Dragonwriter is correct about GPLv2.
You are correct about GPlv3.

FWIW: This does not actually make it true :)

I do not believe this is actually sufficient to override superseding written contracts with a complete integration clause.
I think those superseding written contracts just cause a license violation instead.

(IE the end result would be "you would be in breach of the written contract with the restriction", "they would be in breach of the GPL").

The GPL attempts to create privity through licensing through the original licensor, in order to try to make this work. It's not clear this will be successful in a court of law, however (I suspect this also varies by country). I believe the drafting committee that looked into this came to the same conclusion.
What part of the Judiciary is broken, or are you just being intellectually lazy?
FAT is out of patent protection, I believe FAT32 is now too... exFAT is newer, but imho undeserving of an extension patent. Not sure where NTFS is, but with larger external storage, that's my preferred format these days, even using the devices with mac/linux. The BS with the commercialization of ntfs drivers on osx is kind of weird as well... I usually use the macfuse/free/oss driver.
I don't consider startups typical of the commercial sector. While I'm sure a bunch of people on this site love them and work at them, in terms of the overall employment of tech workers, they're a tiny minority.
Actually bulk of what we call human intelligence is basically nothing more than a chain of facts we built up, each fact derived based on the truths we learned(or perceived) before.

Intelligence therefore is that process where you get from A to B, with steps in between that require consciously investigating the already available knowledge to us.

This is already happening with machines today. Someday a person will come up with a generic learning algorithm, which has a meta component to either search for answers in the space it already knows, or use external means to learn more about it.

Please also note without means to move around, use your hand/legs/eyes et al to test around and build your experiences, we will likely have the same primitive intelligence. Only difference now is instead of giving the machines these sensory organs, we are only working with an algorithm with inputs and outputs and then have it evolve.
The main context I was thinking of was learning a new piece, particularly the initial read-through of something I haven't heard - I sometimes try to think what it "should" sound like ahead of playing it.
>>Do you have any evidence that reality conforms to this theory?

Do you have any evidence that reality doesn't conform to this theory?

Not a counter-question just for the sake of counter-questioning; I am sincerely interested in knowing.
A case against using the Angular Upgrade Adapter
I know this is every Hacker News comment ever, but I genuinely don't have a good idea of what the app is like after using the site and watching the video. :/
I can on his behalf, because I understand where he's coming from (though I don't agree with the conclusion). I've actually heard this argument a number of times before. Obviously I'm not speaking for him, just my interpretation of where he's coming from.

Snowden revealed the things the NSA was doing that he believed to be illegal. The government agreed that what the NSA was doing was illegal, but no one really knew about it before Snowden revealed it. However in the aftermath, the government decided that while the NSA was doing something illegal, they were doing it because they believed it was necessary, and the government agreed. So they changed the laws to make legal what the NSA had previously been doing illegally. The net result is, everything Snowden warned us about is now legal and nothing has changed.

An unfortunate, unintended consequence, but I would strongly hesitate to blame it on Snowden. If he hadn't said anything, it would have continued, hidden away. If he did say something, it would be codified into law. Net result is, it was going to happen anyway. But at least everyone knows about it now, and I consider that to be a positive.
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Most geothermal systems have the air go thru a heat exchanger of some kind and energy transfer with the Earth happens via a much more conductive medium, like anti-freeze liquid. This isn't limited to the very rich either, its as common as installing solar panels.
The slave revolt in Haiti put great fear into the incumbent governments of the time (France and U.S. included), and that fear drove economic revenge and isolation for many decades after the revolt -- even centuries, as you point out.

It's always worth remembering when reading an article pointing out the problems of Haiti, as if that island just happens to be one of the poorest places in the Western hemisphere, e.g. due to bad government in the Duvalier years.
How about acidification of the oceans?

How about greenhouse gases in the atmosphere?
Go 1 is already there:

probs := MustSigmoid(MustAdd(MustMul(x,w), b))
No, it's not full of engagement, I'm definitely not saying I have a nice life, at all. But I don't think about food, no. Very very uninteresting. And I can understand someone whose mentality is "you have to eat, might as well make it tasty". But some people it seems have nothing else in their life. And it's not just their food, it's also making sure that you know about their food. It can't be my imagination that people do this. You just need to look at instagram to see it's full of pictures that people take of their food. Ok, so maybe it's not specific to London, maybe it's just my bitterness.
> Now, what we usually call "introverts" are people who can't express their thoughts well, who sometimes can't even pronounce words cleanly, loudly and with confidence when ideas are needed.

I don't know what you usually call "introverts", but, no, that's not what either I call -- nor what anyone I've ever encountered seems to call -- "introverts". In fact, the people I've seen described as introverts are usually quite good at expressing their thoughts well. OTOH, they range from being emotionally drained by to being psychologically incapable of engaging in many of the extended low-information-content schmoozing activities that are common team-building, networking, or obligatory (by social expectation if not outright mandate) team/company social events.
Are you satiated, at work and after. When looking at burnout it's not just the hours at work. It's the time after as well. To perform you need to be happy, in all areas.

As noted a vacation is a good idea. You may not be able to take a big vacation, but just getting away. Going on a drive for the weekend, or stay somewhere else. The idea is to reset yourself. This is a short term fix, then you need to figure out how you got to this point. This weekend I went down to my parents and just helped around the house. It was a simple way to reset.

Back to being satiated. If your not satiated work will just seem like a drag. It's not just tech, sometimes you need to satisfy the creative side of your brain. Indulge in arts, try a new hobby, go to some new spots. Do something you never thought you would. If work isn't satisfying and you find it almost monotonous. Hence staring at the screen how can you rectify it.

Addressing and preventing burn out is a multi step process. First you need to recoop enough energy to make a long term goal. This sometimes sets you a bit back. But once you take a step back, regroup. You can objectively look at what started this process.

I've been through several bouts of burn out. It's tough but it gets better.
sigh

As parent said, XMPP covers all of these cases with plugins. The FAQ you link says, over and over again, "the base setup doesn't cover these features, but plugins do," and doesn't explain away writing improved plugins or XMPP spec extensions. All I see is "buttt it'ss haaaaarrdddd".

> Rather than fighting over which open interoperable communication standard works the best, we should just collaborate and bridge everything together.

Absolutely dripping with irony.
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And an article in U.S. constitution says it's enforceable because U.S. agreed to it.
I have some things that fall into the category of #4 though I have been getting more stressed and losing time and motivation for them which makes your #2 advice seem extremely attractive to me. And of course vacation, as I replied to tmaly, is in the back of my mind also.

I don't know why, but at first read counseling just put a negative thought into my head, but on further thinking it sounds like a really good idea and would compliment delegation of tasks to reduce stress or at least help me deal with it.

Thanks for the reply, this helps!
I find it very curious that expense is the first thing that comes to mind for a lot of people when they hear about trips like this. I understand it is expensive, but so are a lot of things that don't trigger this question. Is it just because it requires eliminating the safety of a regular income? Replacing my roof cost as much as a year of traveling, but nobody ever asked me how I could possibly afford to replace my roof.
I come to this discussion much like one would sit down at a bar and find their two friends are deep in a coding discussion they didn't hear the beginning of.

How do you end up with a system design that can generate logs so fast that you can't keep up? It seems to be that some fundamental element of capacity planning was missed long ago and we're trying to fix the symptoms and not the cause.

If I have a geographically distributed system, I'm going to have bandwidth and latency issues if I try this, sure. But why do I care? A request to the SF data center shouldn't involve the Munich data center. That is, if I care about response times, and if I don't care about that, then why do I care about instantaneous log availability?

I think sometimes we get so bored with the problems we have that we invent new things to get upset about. Or management does, which is always worse.
I'm a fan of the GPL, but this is just flamebait. People are entitled to having a different opinion on what "respecting users' freedom" means.
Nah, some people just think that the crimes Snowden committed, like violation of NDAs etc., outweigh his moral duty to publish the misdeeds of various NSA programs. I'm not one of them but that's still a logical and consistent point of view anyone can have. Some people also value honor higher than not lying, and vice versa, or keeping a promise given to a friend higher than life&death. Values are tricky and there are no easy solutions.
There isn't a good one, because iTunes sucked all the oxygen out of the room. I gave up. I use VLC to play single files (no library), and I have a separate Sonos system with its own speakers and amp for my library.
I'm a military physician, and I was a line officer before that. I have watched people die and brought one back to life. I have trained to kill and save. I have brought a ship alongside suspect vessels for boarding and sent men into flooded engineering spaces. In my mind, the most important of those is that I have sent my people into harm's way. I would argue, from a leadership perspective, the hallowed-vs-not argument is a red herring. The money is trivia. The indirect utility of deterrence is not measurable and therefore frankly doesn't matter.

But the toll on your own people has real consequences that you can prevent. Killing someone is the sort of thing that makes you question your own right to life. Don't do that to people unless you have to, and by "have to", I mean there is an imminent threat to life. You don't "have to" pay taxes. Someone's going to come after you, but they're not going to kill you over it. You don't have to kill prisoners.
So if there were convincing evidence, I would change my mind on whether or not anthropogenic climate change were happening or what our response to it should be. The right evidence would make me change my mind on whether motorcycle helmets are effective or whether separated bicycle lanes are good policy. Whether a welfare state furthers the public good.

There are reasonable arguments you can make about the death penalty, like uncertainty or cost or efficacy as a deterrent. They may even convince some people.

But a lot of people have an axiomatic view of the death penalty.

I personally hold the belief that killing is bad, and should be avoided, with some complicated feels towards self defense.

I may make all of the arguments above trying to convince people to oppose the death penalty. Hell, I may consider lying about the statistics. But they won't change my mind. If it's more expensive to not execute people or less effective at deterring crime, I'll still oppose the death penalty.

Uncertainty is no different. There is always uncertainty of varying degrees. There will be cases where the convicted is almost certainly guilty. Imagine a suspect commits his capital crime in full few of a large crowd of unbiased witnesses, many of who knew him personally and can clearly identify him. Moreover, he was taken into custody immediately after committing the crime, by police officers who also witnessed the crime. He gave an unforced confession, gave details not available to anyone else, and offers no remorse. He is mentally competent by any measure.

Add in any other caveats you'd like. If you are still opposed to the death penalty in this particular case, well, then you're not really concerned about the uncertainty, you're just opposed to the death penalty. If you aren't opposed to the death penalty in this case, then isn't it really just a matter of improving our definitions of "reasonable doubt" for capital cases?
Just released: GoPro Karma drone and handheld stabilizer
NaN is not equal to NaN by the IEEE 754 standard. JavaScript, and many other modern languages, implement floating point numbers by this standard. E.g. in C#:

> 0.0/0.0 == Double.NaN

false
So it's safe to say that Twitter needs more of an organizational shakeup and not a feature one? Because that's what's always annoyed me about Twitter since I've been using more regularly as of 2014 is how badly managed it is and how often they focus on putting in features no one cares about (who exactly uses moments?). And all the while their existing features and phone apps are just a mess. There's abuse reports often go unanswered for weeks, yet suspensions are doled out for the silliest thing like sharing a gif but if someone doxes nothing happens. It's a wonder anyone who I follow sticks around.
Agreed. Enforcement is a challenge however. Bikes don't have license plates.
> Monetizing was Apple's success, but in the early iPhones, I'd argue it was a lot of carry over from iTunes. Apple forced you to have an Apple ID, and associated with the Apple ID meant they could seamlessly sell you things and charge you for it.

I'm not clear what you mean with this. Apple made you create an Apple ID in order to use an iPhone. Whether you had an existing one because of iTunes didn't matter, because you absolutely had one if you were using an iPhone.

> Also: "none of the original competitors even survived"? Are you talking about tech like Sidekick here? Samsung/LG were big players in early Android, and they're obviously still around. There's a huge amount of discussion around BlackBerry, Nokia (Symbian), and Windows - but to say that none of the original competitors even survived feels hyperbolic.

Android didn't exist when the iPhone launched. Nokia is dead. Blackberry is basically dead. Windows Mobile died and was replaced with Windows Phone which is also nearly dead. There's no hyperbole here.
If you hook a heat pump up to that you can extract enough energy during the winter to offset some of your heating costs too.

The most recent "This Old House" series used a geothermal system. http://www.pbs.org/video/2365733023/
The GPL only respects the freedom of some users, who are not the entirety of the user group LLC intends to support.
I have to say, if I was ever launching a product, I'd never even put a link for my product here. Many people in this thread are acting like overgrown toddlers.

Also, why is that some poor girl or guy can't use HN to link to a product without ten million of these:

"This is neat, but have you heard of my best friends app that does this already!?? links to Github"
eli5 me please
The author is currently in the middle of the Simon Bolivar's revolution in Venezuela.

And which, I'd like to add, was helped by post-revolution Haiti, who helped Bolivar with ships, weapons and volunteers, in exchange for pushing for the abolishment of slavery.
I would say that would be the only feature I would enjoy on Twitter considering how many articles I've found myself reading from it.
> If justice requires a life for a life, you don't scrimp on that, either. You pay whatever monetary, emotional, and moral costs are necessary for justice to be done.

How exactly do you reach this conclusion, I mean what underlying principle is this based on?

I ask this because the question that immediately comes to my mind is that if this principle were true (which I dispute) then it wouldn't matter at all whether the monetary cost was $100 or $100 trillion dollars per execution.

This is obviously not true, therefore the cost a society is willing to pay must be based on something else.

In my opinion it is based on a combination of factors like how much available resources does a society have, how great is the need to deter others from committing the same crime (some countries have such high crime rates that they are actually destabilised by it) and what exactly is the value of a human life to a society.

> If killing is always wrong

That is only a question for persons that live in societies where violent crime doesn't exist (utopia) or for those who wouldn't use lethal force to protect their own lives in face of a life threatening attack.

For all others this cannot be a question. Killing is justified in many cases and being able to defend one self is a useful skill everyone should aspire have.
Shawn from Beep here. These use-cases sound really interesting. Send me an email? shawn at beepnetworks dot com
But iPhones aren't catching fire.
It's just for me-- only the ones I'm trying to memorize ; )
Well, I remember having to search for "OK Google" in Google Maps to save the current view for offline viewing...
In an ideal world, VPSes are a commodity. But, as someone who's currently trying to evaluate switching part of our backend from OpenStack and DigitalOcean to AWS, it's not anywhere near as simple as it could be. Everyone is still platform locked to a greater or lesser degree, and those platform-specific tweaks and quirks oftentimes don't come up til you actually start trying to run a transition.
The value of Uber is not in it's app, it's design or any of that. That's all bs cosmetics stuff. The value is in it's execution, infrastructure, and processes.

Tesla - Doesn't make nearly enough cars to even be considered in the same spectrum of any other of the players. Autonomous, great. Ride sharing/micro-logistics infrastructure? Not enough strength unfortunately.

GM/Ford/Toyota - Great, they've got cars, let's say those cars are autonomous. Now what about the logistics management that they've got zero experience in? Uber has serviced millions of rides and learned and learned from that. The tech is not enough, the experience/data is what counts imo.

Any company looking to just "jump in" because they've got money and a car, is going to get vaporized, unless they've got data and resources (Google being the only one that fits this mould imo).

Just how Facebook and Google got vaporized in the "daily deal" market. They had more access to the businesses, and more access to consumers than the daily deal sites ever could. Yet they struggled to find any kind of market share. Another example is Google Shopping.

Resources aren't the only thing needed, experience and processes. Which is why I say that Google is a threat, but if they're buying out Lyft. Otherwise, Google will potentially compete, but more than likely cater to a different segment than what Uber does.

Time will tell I suppose :) Definitely see what you're saying, but I just don't think you're focusing on the most valuable pieces of Ubers business.

Either way, we're very fortunate to even be in a position to discuss such cool stuff! Exciting for sure :)
Really not a property of Go. Any codebase can be hard to follow if the designer wants it to be. It just happened that the Perl community went off the deep end and decided that tiny unreadable code was better than big readable code.
I don't claim to be able to make an ideal criminal legal justice system. But I do think we can make improvements, this being one of them.

Why do you think the rest of the first world has outlawed capital punishment?
This is one of my last remaining nitpicks with Rust as a language. In Scala, sum types are a form of sub-type polymorphism, where each variant is its own distinct type and can be used as such. To get similar behavior in Rust, you end up having to wrap structs in the variant like this:

struct Foo_
enum Bar { Foo(Foo_) }

It works, but it is extremely annoying.
Shouldn't have to be far, just a few meters below ground is at the year round mean temperature iirc.
Interesting, I missed this discussion.

For people who don't want to scroll through the unrelated comments there: NAND mirroring has non-zero risk of being a destructive technique due to memory damage. This potentially disqualified it from use for the FBI's purposes, explaining the purchase of another tool.
Crysis Ransomware Employing RDP Brute-Force Attacks in New Campaign
In Fedora 23, the default session was Gnome on X, but you could choose Gnome on Wayland. In Fedora 24, the default session is Gnome on Wayland.