skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Nintendo DS homebrew port is a port of the Amiga version from what I can tell, with perfectly translated touch controls and the same soundtrack (as in sounds the same, uses the same MOD files)
Well think about who taught you that life was serious. What was their agenda? Well they want to rule the world of course. What's the best way to rule over someone. Tell him to fear death and that their only choice is to do what you say and they will avoid a horrible fate. How can you be "saved"? just stop caring about your fate. Bring it on whatever is is. Torture, hard work situation, any adversity in your life. Laugh at it and you can't be ruled. That makes people very dangerous of course.
Service discovery, configuration management with Consul
So tell me how am I supposed to find a route between x and y from my phone without being on x or y first?

It is doable, but how is it supposed to be done?

(For context: IIRC there used to be a shortcut to navigation for that feature. And yes I think ux designers mindlessly copying each others or Apple are at least partially to blame.(
Hmm... this is an interesting idea. I could see it as a valuable service for my newly launched, HN approved, and shamelessly plugged website https://oldgeekjobs.com/

Thing is, I'm trying to target a certain type of Old Geek. My theory is if someone is 45 years old with solid ReactJS skills, it signals them being an autodidact with experience--the best type of programmer, all other things equal.

If I could build a reputation for interviewing and evaluating such professionals, I could see a fun and profitable business in that.
iTunes is terrible on OS X too. Apple needs to throw it all out and write modular replacement apps for various functionality from the ground up.
Another study found that a large number of homeless people have suffered a traumatic brain injury at some point in their lives:

"Researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto surveyed 111 homeless men and found that 45 percent of them had suffered at least one traumatic brain injury (or TBI) in their life, and 87 percent of those injuries occurred before they were homeless. Among the general population, TBI rates are estimated to be 12 percent, according to a 2013 meta-analysis of studies from developed countries."

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5227637
Is there a good use case for physical calculators in this day and age? An app on your phone can replace one entirely.
I don't think so. In last couple of weeks I've discovered Org Mode, I really enjoy using it. Plus I like working in Emacs Lisp more than VimScript - something I never bothered to learn.
Twitter Sued by Investor for Failing to Deliver on User Growth
Do you still have to use iTunes to transfer music to iPhones? Can't you just copy files over and use some other playback app on the iPhone? The author sounds makes it sound like they are "forced" to use iTunes.

(disclaimer: the newest Apple product I own was manufactured in 1983)
Conforming to ritual is a method of ego/identity-destruction on the path of mysticism. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haqiqa
With a big enough increase in bike paths, this calculation may differ: going slow enough to be allowed on a bike path, while still being able to split lanes when needed, could be a huge advantage. Additionally, if you live somewhere that is space constrained (like a small apartment without parking) an electric bike is significantly easier to find space for.

It basically boils down to: do you have the storage space for a small car, and just want faster highway and street commutes? A scooter makes sense. Do you have to bring it up an elevator or want to use rail trails? E-bike all the way.
It most certainly is not serverless.
> You can't debate nutters.

But you sure can make snide remarks!
As far as I know, yes.
If there's another way, they don't make it obvious.
Github Pages can serve any static files, so I don't understand what you mean by "css being severely limited"?

If you meant the Jekyll support build into GitHub, you could use a free CI service to run any other SSG, and push it to GitHub pages or any of the other suggested solutions. If you want everything from one service, GitLab uses their CI service for GitLab Pages and have prepared templates for many SSGs already.
The opposite of DRY is WET (Write Everything Twice) ;)
I just looked up the laws around speed in California bike lanes and it looks like as long as you wear a helmet you can go 28MPH in Class II bike lines (the kind that are marked on the street, not a "bike path," which is class 1). I would have guessed much slower. 28MPH is pretty fast between train stations if you have none of the congestion associated with automobile traffic. It's really not a bad idea.

As a regular old cyclist I could imagine thinking e-bikers were assholes for using my class II bike lines if there were many more of them on the road, though. I guess if ebikes ever catch on, there will be some growing pains.
I've known and have paid attention to Red for a while. I don't know my opening to get into it as a user, though, so I'm still very "wait and see." The progress looks good, though.
I don't understand. Potential to increase wealth. Currently the reality is redistribution from the lowest skilled workers to the business owners resulting in a theoretical wash (barely affected total wealth). Yeah, that's one of the points of the article.
Not sure at this point. If you need more than the default 500 submissions per month, shoot me an email (andrew@ the Formingo domain) and I can hook you up ;) (same goes for anyone else reading).

I'm working on expanding the service a bit before I get into paid plans or anything. The drag and drop form builder is coming soon, which will also work with static sites (using JS to embed the form, and eventually have a couple other options such as just generating the HTML for you so JS isn't required for your visitors)
> Minor third is not a simple fraction - is that the reason to exclude it from the scale?

The minor third is a 6:5 ratio. Does that change your mind?

Where do your tones and semitones come from? You've just rejected the explanation for why we have a 12-tone scale (it is a local optimum of tuning, closed under the operation of transposition, that satisfies lots of nice ratios), so what do you propose instead? Saying "no one can explain" is a cop-out.

To follow up: Major and minor scales are 7-tone subsets of the 12-tone scale that were discovered first. They allow for many of the same possibilities, but they're not closed under transposition, which is why we now have the 12-tone scale that includes all of them.
And I guess, Lektor and Pollen are still the only ones with a (dynamic) web interface for writing articles and then exporting them (statically)?

Besides Bricolage (ancient, abandoned?, never got it to work – even the VM image they provide as a demo) and Movable Type (expensive), of course.
Yep, mostly agreed. I think if you squint a little, it's possible to see how real non-deterministic "choice" can bootstrap itself out of QM. Do we have a theory describing how? No, but such a theory would inherently upend the foundations of science and western philosophy, so even if we don't have it in hand, it's worth pointing out there's a fair amount of ... circumstantial evidence(?) in that direction.
a) If you want to see notifications click the button in the top, right corner where it's always been.

b) Apple has not changed the behaviour of buttons on OSX. They still look like they always have.

c) Computing resources are not finite like oil. It's there to be used.

d) Which gestures are available has always been in the Trackpad system preference which has videos to show you how to use them.
If you're asking whether there's some other category they fall into, not necessarily.
In the farm industry, chicken processing industry, etc. In the 80s, there were buses dedicated to shipping in immigrants to do the manual labor.
> After calling class.enrol(student), I would expect the student to be enrolled, not just added to a list of students.

Why do they have to be different? That's really his point. In this situation, enrolling just requires adding their student id to the list of students in the class. But while doing 'class.students.append(student_id)' accomplishes that, it is not clear reading that line that it actually enrolls the student in the class, rather then just being one step of a larger process, or something else all-together.
Dentist in Holborn Amazing 5 Star Review by Robin H
That cheatsheet is really well done. Thanks for that.
> P.S. I could interview well with a mid-senior electronics role or a junior programmer role.

What do you mean by "electronics". Electrical engineer? Electrician?
I'm still not comfortable calling the thing that is booming "artificial intelligence". It is mostly pattern recognition and classification. Intelligence is something else.
I don't think it disables WebRTC, per se. I think uBlock prevents WebRTC applications from leaking your IP. Hangouts still works with WebRTC leaking disabled through uBlock, so that leads me to believe that's what's going on.
Nobodu mentioned Hakyll, Haskell static site generator motovated by Jekyll.

I've been used it for over 4 yrs and still surprising.
They added the feature that used to bug me the most: when I search, my saved locations now get preferential treatment.

And, yet, the maps themselves are worse: they changed the algorithm for which labels are displayed, making it impossible to cause some street names to appear.
console.log(today.getDay()) // prints 1

assuming there was a setDay, and you invoke:

today.setDay(3)

should today now be: 21/9/2016 or 14/9/2016 or 19/10/2016 or 19/9/2040 or ... ?

I think you can see that unlike the other setters, setDay would not have an "obvious" implementation.
Okay. I get annoyed by things in iTunes and think the whole application really is overdue for replacement -- I'd like to see things split up somewhat more like iOS, with a "Music" app, a "Video" app and (since this is the desktop) a device management app. But I confess that a lot of the lamentations about the UI design (not necessarily the UX design, which I'll circle back to in a moment) strike me as, well, highly overblown. I'm sorry the author couldn't figure out how to make songs repeat, for instance, but while the repeat icon has moved in newer versions of iTunes, it's literally the same icon as in the screenshot of iTunes 4 from a decade ago. (That's the earliest screenshot I could find.) And perhaps the Windows version of iTunes is uniquely horrible compared to the OS X, er, macOS version, but I can type the name of a song into search and have it instantly located; if I double-click a track name (or the big play arrow that shows up when I hover by it!) it just starts playing, but it certainly won't select a rating or a heart unless I click a star or a heart; so on and so forth.

I'd really argue the biggest problem with iTunes' UX stems from the way it's still, after all this time, inexplicably modal. I've never had a problem syncing an iOS device while it's playing music, as one commenter mentioned, but there are dialog boxes it brings up that are not only UI-blocking but process-blocking, which makes iTunes kind of a mess as a headless media server. (It still plays media, but won't be able to add any until the dialog box is dismissed.)

But I still cut iTunes a fair amount of slack. I've been using it for nearly as long as it's been available, I've subscribed to iTunes Match, I've subscribed to Apple Music, and I've ripped my own music library full of lossless tracks. Not only has Apple not, repeat, not, either deleted those or fiendishly replaced the files with AAC simulacra, it turns out to handle mixing my ripped tracks, purchased tracks, and "borrowed" tracks (i.e., ones that are only available in my library through the Apple Music subscription) pretty seamlessly. The introduction of Apple Music was a huge mess, admittedly, both in terms of UX and some teeth-grindingly poor song-matching algorithms (a distinct regression from iTunes Match on its own) -- but the server-side flubs seem to be straightened out now, and the current UI for Apple Music is pretty solid.

But, yes, I'm sure iTunes will be rewritten. I'm also positive that when it is, there will be a veritable explosion of thinkpieces that will almost all be variants of, "Who asked for all these horrible changes? iTunes was just fine! Apple is always fixing things that weren't broken! This would never have happened if Steve Jobs were still alive!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieb1lmm9xHk

This video of Timothy Gallwey teaching a woman how to play tennis. In 5 minutes.

The book is one of the best I've ever read (go get it now), it's about mental focus, improvement by not trying and about not judging your results.

I was sitting in front of a really difficult problem earlier today but I kept persisting at it even though at points I got frustrated ("I'm not sure I'm smart enough to do this...") I managed to stop thinking for a bit and try again without understanding the code fully and it ended up working. I'm not saying being intuitive always works with programming but sometimes if you feel out of your depth it can really help push you through.
I agree very much with your post's thesis (you have to play AND think; thinking alone won't help. It's an experimental subject.) Just noticed one thing:

> For some reason no one can explain, Western music settled on a system of 12 tones with equal temperament

It doesn't seems surprising to me. If you start from a pitch and go upwards in both octaves and perfect fifths (2:1 and 3:2, the two most fundamental intervals), the perfect fifth sequence will land on 11 distinct tones before (nearly) meeting the octave sequence. Mathematically, (3/2)^12 ≈ 2^7.

So 12 semitones works out nicely because you can follow perfect fifths out in any direction as far as you want and never go outside the set of semitones. And most of the small-ratio'd intervals can be represented with pairs of notes inside this set.
> Maybe so. Do you know what that reason is?

I don't have to. But something motivated him to act, and if he's consistent he must believe it's important.

> Would you be willing to contradict my friend if he said otherwise?

Yeah. Of course. The same as if he said anything else obviously counterfactual. I don't care to, because your friend isn't my windmill, but...

> How is correctness determined? If we are discussing what other people believe, we are not in a position to define it for them.

We don't need to. The original goalposts are merely that your friend believes or not.

> But it is not up to us to assign belief systems to others,

"You, you'll be Muslim", "you, Hindu", etc. Funny, but that's not what we're doing. We're pointing to someone praying and saying there must be a reason.

Anything less would be denying your friend's humanity. I'm sure that he has what feels like a good reason for what he does...
No, because that's the A minor scale, which is the same notes as the C major scale but starting at A. A scale should logically always start with its root note.
If they are not different then you're half way to going full Active Record (which I'd consider an anti-pattern). There is likely much more to enrolling a student than adding them to a class, and most of that logic should not go in class.
> * Cross-platform native GUI system, with a UI DSL and drawing DSL.

Looks like the GUI system is Windows-only at this point. Compiling the GUI "Hello World" example on OS X just throws errors.
It's hard to imagine why anyone outside Palo Alto would care about the food scene in Palo Alto. As far as food goes, Palo Alto is a provincial backwater that just happens to have a few decent restaurants due to the unlikely concentration of rich people in the area. The continued cultural desertification of the peninsula and the south bay (there wasn't really ever much culture there to begin with) is yet another effect of the tech monoculture dominating the socioeconomic ecosystem.
See my comment above. What interpretation would you prefer? setDay changes the date into the future or past by changing the date, the month or the year. At a minimum there are 6 possible values. To me none of them are an obvious choice.
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That's a very interesting observation. I'd had to read an eye-opening book called "The Heathen in his Blindness" [1] to understand the cultural grounding I stand on.

As an Indian, whose own mother tongue has been neglected by the neo-colonial state, and thus whose own epistemological roots are muddied up with those from an over-bearing English imposition, it has become very difficult for me to see the difference between Abrahamic traditions and the contemporary Indian ones (in the city atleast). The latter simply don't make sense anymore (which is likely why a lot of people are irreligious).

On the other hand, more than half of the traditional schools in India don't believe in a creator, and it's not clear if any of them actually believe the "devas" (godlings?) exist. Buddhism for instance borrows heavily from the Indian pantheon of devas, but expressedly keeps mum about their existence; those on the "Astika" side like Mimansa, while attesting the grounding of the Vedas, don't believe in the existence or literal use of many of the categories in contemporary Hindu life. Other than these, there was also a school of determinism (slaughtered off by Ashoka), a (much maligned) materialist school, along with who knows how many others - many of them were atheistic (in the Abrahamic sense). I'm not even sure what the semantics of "creator" is in the Sanskrit literature; there is a lot it, but its study is seen with utter contempt (centers of Indic study are now in N.Y, Heidelberg and Kyoto). Likewise, Yoga, meditation... gained mass appeal in India, after they took off in the West.

Edit: Updated for clarity.
When I reviewed a bunch of SSGs looking for the one for me, the differentiators were:

* What language it's in (assuming you want to be able to hack around issues if you need to)

* What intermediary formats it uses (EJS/jade/stylus/LESS/SASS, etc. - assuming you don't want to publish a site that looks like the SSG's demo page)

* How opinionated it is about its output pipeline. Some SSGs have fully-formed plugin systems, so you can choose your favorite minifier, add a transpiler, etc., which is powerful but more work. Others just do what they know how to do and if you want to add steps you'll have to post-process the output.

That said, running through the "publish a hello-world page with default theme" was pretty much the same for every SSG I tried. You have to really start futzing with things to see the differences.
Is this actually sketchy though? As everyone knows, hiring is difficult. It is time-expensive and the outcome of a bad hire can be catastrophic. So here we have a recruiter who is making it his business to make your life easier by making the process less time expensive and less risky, and we brand this sketchy?

In forming a good relationship between their hiring partner and interviewees - they know who is likely to be a "fit" and who will not be. This is no different to HR screening CVs based on fit, the only difference is that recruiters of take a personal vested interest in the success. Every hire nets them commission. Every good hire strengthens their network, every bad hire weakens their network. If they are truly a network-based recruiter, they want every hire to be amazing.

Yes, there will be weaknesses in this system. Yes, it leads a reduced hiring pool (if you opt-in to this style of hiring) and black-box hiring. The upshot is that as an interviewer and interviewee you save yourself time and find yourself a job that makes you happy, you only need find yourself the right recruiter.
You could also wait until it stops snowing and then throw a large piece of black fabric (think black woven nylon like a trampoline) over the snow.

Automating the black fabric deploy would be an interesting project :)
The Maya are an example of a civilization that collapsed in a complex way:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-did-the-may...
No, it's not the same. Current music notation is a result of long evolution, unlike QWERTY. Try to invent usable alternative - then you will appreciate the convenience of current notation.
To add some perspective though, because the US is the largest economy, the notion of working harder to achieve similar results to the US is quite the aspiration for the developing countries. Not to mention geeks like me (and probably others here) who are endlessly fascinated by how much easier it is to go from idea to prototype to production to profit in the US compared to just about every other country on the planet.

The commenter could have just said that the 25% extra hours worked each week compounded into a much larger economy and omitted 'siesta'.
An aesthetic just seems like a unconscious favorable reaction to stimuli based on genetics and culture. Why our genes and culture have favored certain forms, I suspect there isn't a way to reduce it to something satisfactory.

I used to wonder why I felt good when looking at sunsets, landscapes and clouds. But I figured that our aesthetics probably evolved in response to what was around us. Happier people probably survive better.

The way we hear music seems like such an aesthetic, as it might've occurred within ancient cultures as a form of play and release. I suspect that our random genetic hunger towards different aesthetics might have created an incredible developmental feedback loop. I'm not sure where I'm going with this incredibly complicated topic, but I have a lot of very unrefined thoughts about them, that are probably overly-reductive and wrong.
Sorry, I meant commented on their experiences with it.
iTunes is the worst piece of software I've come across in a long time. I banned it from my computer until I upgraded to my iPhone 7. Now, the only computer with enough disk space to accommodate my backups of 256GB is my personal desktop, so I was forced to install iTunes. It's infuriating and in the 4 years that I haven't used iTunes, it hasn't gotten any better.

I would love to blacklist whoever is responsible for iTunes from ever finding work again, because it's obvious they give an ounce of care about UI design or keeping their customers happy. They really don't deserve to be working in software. If they had any honor they would be thoroughly embarrassed for producing such a horrible piece of software.
Probably not until you get back.
Interesting idea indeed. I need to think about it.

Edit after thinking: still, it doesn't explain the number 12 IMO. It could be 17 or something else. Probably, it's a long chain of coincidences at play: Western music settled on 7-note scales long time ago (long before equal temperament was invented), and we should start looking for explanations from here.

Another edit: one of the important coincidences is that number 12 makes possible the existence of diminished scale, which serves as a "universal glue" due to 2 tritones. (There's not enough space here to elaborate, but you probably know what I mean). And maybe tritone itself is one of factors leading to number 12.
I think what you describe would nowadays better be described as "spirituality". The term "religion" has mostly been hijacked by organizations that give you a book and claim they are the only ones to have the authority to interpret it or worse claim it has to be taken literally and interpretation is a sin. It's all very sad.
To reveal my biases (if they aren't already clear) I most enjoy Baroque and Renaissance music; and Jazz, its Cuban and Brazilian equivalents, and their direct descendants (e.g. R&B).