skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there's no defect, there's no reason for the EFF to call them out!

As it is, I'll probably cancel my EFF membership over this (my renewal is due in a fortnight). I'd rather they support manufacturers who share their values and provide buyers guides to help customers decide.
When Restaurants Ditch the Dining Room
Well, Ardour has MIDI now, although I never got into it. I'm a producer, so I work with motifs and loops and themes and concepts. Doing this on a timeline, with a complicated interface, really takes it out of me. So I haven't Ardour it much, other than for mixing. In Logic, I used take folders for this, but never figured out a smooth workflow for composing in Ardour.

If you are making linear, arranged music, Ardour definitely has all the features to produce it. Although I can't speak for usability or stability, cause I never really invested the time to learn it.

I think of Ardour as akin to Pro Tools (which I can't stand BTW!). It's linear and clunky. It's got powerful busing features, a timeline with all kinds of markers and annotations. The stuff I did on Ardour always came out sounding real clean.

It's funny, I did most of my work on QTractor. It has a dead simple interface, easily modifyable shortcuts, and is surprisingly powerful. The only thing is that it's missing an obvious bounce feature that works for MIDI instrument plugins. So I'd have to route my master track to a "bounce" track, then record to that.

Linux is missing a quality, simple, open source non-linear sequencer (audio/MIDI). Something like Seq24 crossed with SooperLooper. Something like Ableton or Bitwig, but just the cliplauncher part.

That's why I caved in and went to Bitwig. I was going through some stuff and just needed to make some music. There's also something to be said about having lots of presets and samples ready to go. On Linux, you gotta bring your own settings.
I know it was a throwaway, but be careful about the "untested code never works" comment. It plays into the fallacy that if it works, it's adequately tested.

You talk a lot about testing for specified requirements, but not so much about looking for undesired behavior outside the requirements. That's where the fallacy bites you. It's especially pernicious when you start to firm up a working prototype or are inheriting a legacy production release with a history of good behavior, but which is about to change execution context in some way. Changing the context means hitting unexplored territory and there be dragons.

Of course, you're a professional tester (as am I), and I know this is obvious for you. But for the average PHB or engineer-driven organization trying to prioritize, it's important to be pretty clear about this:

Untested code works great in the 95% case--this is one of the big reasons QA has a credibility problem sometimes, because they're spending $$$ to confirm it already works. It's the 5% case you need to worry about. It can kill your product or, in your case, the patient.
Are you saying experience counts for nothing? Besides for the muscle memory of being able to knock out a script quickly, there's also the advantage of having seen weird one-off problems before.

To give a simple advantage, not really a one-off problem, but a dev was wondering why a function in his cron script wasn't working when the same function was working fine elsewhere in the application. I told him to check that cron was using the same config file as the webserver, but I only knew that because I'd seen the same thing before. No amounts of energy will give you that 'seen this before' experience. I remember the first time a server ran out of disk space really confused me - non of the logging/error messages seemed to make sense and the behaviour of the application seemed weird. It takes experience to pick up these patterns. Age isn't the best heuristic here, because a 25 year old might have 15 years experience, and a 40 year old might have picked up programming only 5 years ago, but experience counts.

> I have 5 side projects gathering dust at home because after work, commute and kids, I'm exhausted. It's easy to keep up when your only commitments are work and relationship.

That's just you. I've known young people with the same commitments of relationships and kids, and old people who could fully commit themselves to work so I don't think your point about time constraints hold.

And outside of Silicon Valley, I don't see this same enthusiasm for young people. Maybe it's the bias of the field I'm in (business software) but with age also comes industry experience independent of programming knowledge (I used to naively think automating all processes was the end goal - there are some processes that shouldn't be automated for good customer relationships). Bear in mind most successful startups are started between the ages 35-45 - source here - http://www.forbes.com/sites/krisztinaholly/2014/01/15/why-gr... - and the people who did the study attributed it to industry experience.

At the end of the day, the best filters/heuristics aren't visibly external ones like age (or race) but practical ones like discussions on theory, conversations about commitment - actual data about the subject matter.

> No one hires 60 year old coal miners either when there are 20 year olds available.

I'd definitely prefer a 60 year old doctor (I don't mean a surgeon, but a consultant), lawyer or accountant. Do you think coal mining is more similar to those or to coal mining?
You can argue against the WEF who created the study. But the newspaper itself is not declaring anything more than the study presents.

"Switzerland achieved its highest score of 5.8 out of 7 in the WEF Global Competitiveness Report 2016/2017"
> While US states share a common fate

Can you elaborate on what you mean by this?

Individual US states are pretty close to sovereign. Other than ability to tax and a few other things, the US federal government doesn't have much power.
Ask HN: Is there a real possibility of global realestate market crash?
What is your daily carb limit?

Why sweet potatoes, they have more carbs than regular potatoes.

How do you achieve an adequate fiber intake?
An All-In Financial Guide for Expats in Singapore
He mentions it in the article. And it is really only an abstraction over the browser native SpeechRecognition API, it doesn't work in browsers that don't have it.
Google Allo a Success or a Failure: Analysis of Data by Region
I was making this point a few weeks ago and after looking into it more, I still think it's a valuable point to raise, but the truth is more nuanced than I expected.

States in the US vary in nominal GSP per capita by only 2x — from Mississippi at $35K to Delaware at $70K. In the EU, it ranges from Bulgaria at €6K to Ireland at €55K. (This excludes DC and Luxembourg, which are outliers in many ways.)

In fact, even Mississippi, the poorest US state, is wealthier than the EU average (€28K, about $31K)! Only the wealthiest EU countries are wealthier than Mississippi: Luxembourg, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Austria, Finland, German, Belgium, France. And of those, only Luxembourg and Ireland have a higher GDP per capita than the US average.

So the EU member states vary economically far more than the states in the US do, and the US is more easily characterized as a uniformly "high income" region than the EU is.

Mississippi's GDP per capita being similar to that of France, Italy or Spain is really hard to reconcile with the fact that many of us would love to live in the latter countries and couldn't be paid to move to Mississippi.
Sadly there are two definitions of server floating around these days.

There is the classical "box in the corner sending and receiving data over the network".

And then there is the new "bunch of software in a container in the cloud somewhere".

And with the latter definition, stable and reliable seems to be of lesser importance in the eyes of the faithful. This because they can just fire off a new instance of the container if the existing one falls over (Uptime by machinegun as i like to think of it).

http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2015/07/08/true-story-fixing-a...
To my knowledge, UPS is unionized but Fedex is not.
I'd have to agree with you.

I've had 2 bad experiences with Amazon orders, and USPS was to blame for both. They put the envelope/package in the wrong mailbox in the apartment complex I live in and marked it as delivered. I've received other people's mail in the past too...

Amazon's customer service has been exceptional, they send an overnight replacement with UPS and required a signature.

Recently, Amazon opened a pickup location near where I live, and I've been shipping more expensive items there. The pickup process takes less than 15 seconds. Literally, walk in, scan barcode, locker opens up, and I pickup my package.

Can't wait for Amazon to own the entire vertical and optimize the living shit out of it.
That's pretty smart, i guess someone got tired of getting played all the time.
Just a minor mention for the novel use of a ? in the URL, amused me at least.

http://www.spacex.com/Mars?
If you want to go down that rabbit hole, see:

https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/biography-of-a-cy...
Kept me laughing all the way though. Another fun read from Lowe's "TIWWW" series.
Slack is an acronym
Major banks demonstrate how blockchain tech can improve syndicated loan market
Relevant (source: http://catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html):

A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.

Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.”

Knight turned the machine off and on.

The machine worked.
> I can almost imagine a future "WarEnron" selling the future profits indirectly caused by future wars

Pretty sure you just described every fund that's big into Honeywell, General Dynamics, Lockheed, etc. Many of these companies profits depend on the US insisting on maintaining the largest military in the world (by a lot) as a hedge against just these sorts of "profit wars" from being waged.
Hey there, we sent an email out first thing this morning to all our v1 preorder customers (thousands and thousands) before we publicly announced the preorder campaign for Mesh and the mail system we use for newsletters bungled it and didn't send it at all, except to 24 people and their dashboard didn't show this happened til hours later (so we assumed everything was fine). We are working to remedy it right now. You all were supposed to get the very first email. (Here is proof of me yelling at the company whose software is responsible for this on Twitter -- after they didn't reply to 4 attempts to reach them prior: https://twitter.com/danielaperdomo/status/781222497131827200

We are working in real-time to get this issue fixed, which was the opposite of our intention. I'm really sorry this happened.

Anyway, we like both products! Our award-winning v1 device gets great point to point range; this new one will do that plus offer the opportunity to relay messages via mesh in certain situations. And we can finally address demand internationally (Mesh can ship to 49 countries bc we're going through regulatory process in other regions).

And finally I guess I'd say that meshing is useful even among just 3 people who know each other. It has blue-sky possibilities that are really game-changing if adopted widely. I'm betting on both ;-)
> The difference is that most people don't have the personal willpower to stick to the fasting without a few calories to help them along.

You are ignoring an important factor: If you don't have enough calories the body will switch to starvation mode, you'll have low energy, be cold, etc.

The net result is that, unless you are actually starving (which is bad for you), you'll actually lose less weight that way!
Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partnership on AI
Google Analytics Adopts Privacy Shield
USB headsets are a technological abomination.

You are talking about a headset welded to a soundcard, that you then insert into a data bus each time you want to use it.
You mean expensive lawsuits? That is true. Everyone in America is filing expensive lawsuits all the time especially if you own a business the first hire you must make is a good lawyer.

I don't see how this is related to discrimination specifically?

If your problem is too many lawsuits why don't you mention hot coffee at McDonalds? Or the problem with drivers causing accidents and suing in China?

http://www.ibtimes.com/china-arrests-7-faking-car-crashes-cl...
Hi you asked this twice in the thread; just replied to your other comment but copy/pasting here to be thorough:

"Hey there, we sent an email out first thing this morning to all our v1 preorder customers (thousands and thousands) before we publicly announced the preorder campaign for Mesh and the mail system we use for newsletters bungled it and didn't send it at all, except to 24 people and their dashboard didn't show this happened til hours later (so we assumed everything was fine). We are working to remedy it right now. You all were supposed to get the very first email. (Here is proof of me yelling at the company whose software is responsible for this on Twitter -- after they didn't reply to 4 attempts to reach them prior: https://twitter.com/danielaperdomo/status/781222497131827200
We are working in real-time to get this issue fixed, which was the opposite of our intention. I'm really sorry this happened."
I liked upstart!
Yes, I argued in another comment that it would be a good idea to split systemd into two processes, where PID 1 does nothing other than reap children, send info to PID 2 actual systemd, and restart PID 2 if needed. But it seems to make sense for PID 2 to be as monolithic as systemd currently is (which is not very monolithic; udev, journald, D-Bus, etc. are separate daemons).
The naming was from a different media player. I also mixed up "Play Next" with a different media player unfortunately. I believe mpv requires you add the next items to the playlist. However if you intend to play the folder anyways, you should just call the subdirectory and mpv will treat it as a playlist.

But I found the relevant mpv config I was thinking of:

--idle=<no|yes|once>
Makes mpv wait idly instead of quitting when there is no file to play. Mostly useful in input
mode, where mpv can be controlled through input commands.
Congress rejects Obama veto, Saudi September 11 bill becomes law
He's not talking about small brick-and-mortar shops, he's talking about small web shops. There's tons of specialty web shops that have stuff you won't find on Amazon (or worse, as I found recently with the Litter-Robot litter box I was looking at, it's available on Amazon for 3x as much as it costs from the manufacturer, because the Amazon seller is a scammer that just buys the item and ships to your address and pockets the difference).
"How does the brain produce conscious experience? How can neurons firing give rise to experiences of colour, sound, taste, pain and so on? In principle, scientists could map my brain processes in complete detail but, it seems, they could never detect my experiences themselves – the way colours look, pain feels and so on: the phenomenal properties of the brain states involved. Somehow, it seems, brain processes acquire a subjective aspect, which is invisible to science. How can we possibly explain this?"

What you refer to as 'conscious experience' is an emergent property of processes in the brain in communication with one another. The 'subjective aspect' is an internal recreation of the external world, continuously updated from data provided through the senses. Ergo, no need to go invoking some invisible undetectable subatomic substance, the phlogiston of the mind.
That's a pretty great point.

People started trading in their SUVs last time, this time they will be getting something that doesn't need gasoline at all.

I don't think OPEC realizes how dangerous of a game they are playing.
Anyone who did Blackberry development back in the day, before OS 10 and Android, knows why they're now in this state. It was an abysmal experience, and they either didn't care or didn't understand the importance of keeping developers onside once Apple and Google started taking market share. Code-signing servers that were down on a regular basis, sometimes for days, which meant you couldn't deploy your app to real hardware. Simulators that took 5-10 minutes to start up and had no hot-reloading. God knows how many different system configurations that you were expected to support, with different screen sizes, bit-depth, input devices, internet connectivity (they used to offer mobile data plans which would only connect to "approved" services), etc. No official developer support beyond the sparsely-populated community forums. It was just horrible.

Then when something finally did click it was far too late (by at least 5 years) to improve their own ecosystem, hence the jump to Android.

I have very little sympathy for them now. You reap what you sow.
I've put a comment on the github bug with an updated PoC. IT does work on 16.04, but you seem to have to do it over and over until it triggers. A working PoC seems to be:

while true; do NOTIFY_SOCKET=/run/systemd/notify systemd-notify ""; done
Probably they made a waterbag from the stomach and stored milk in it.
How Google Summer of Code landed me a full-time job
I have to wonder what was going through the mind of somebody who selected the username "douche".
Reading this thread of comments make me feel like an idiot.

I live in Stockholm and curiously enough – if I read the map correctly – I'm even very close to where the Vasa sank. My favorite means of transport into central Stockholm is via ferry. One of the stops is a very short walk from the Vasa museum. It takes me probably all of 30 minutes door-to-door to get there.

I love museums. I love history. I love anything maritime. One of my favorite museum visits when i lived in London was the national maritime museum in Greenwich.

Alas, I've never been to the Vasa museum.

Fortunately, it's an easy problem to solve – I'll go next week. Thanks for (unintentionally) kicking me into gear, much obliged!
I have said exactly that in the past. I was wrong! It turns out morning me doesn't have the willpower to truly stick to just coffee.
DC has a high cost of living. Way high.
Ask HN: Reccomendation, Hand Written Notes to Text File, Smart-Pen
I want to set something up where I can write on pen and paper and convert it to a text file. I do a daily org-mode journal file that I would like to append to with text data from a hand written source. I'm looking at "Smart Pens" like LiveScribe. There are a few models and not clear what the to-text support is on each. Hoping some one else has experience here.
>I for one commend Eich, for putting on his big boy pants and owning the consequences of his actions.

You might as well commend Soviet dissidents for "putting on their big boy pants and owning the consequences of their actions" when the KGB marched them off to the Gulag. The fact that someone bows to bullying pressure doesn't make the bullying pressure OK.
Research? Sort of. Experience? Yes.

Owsley "The Bear" Stanley, the famous LSD manufacturer and Grateful Dead sound engineer, lived very healthily on an all-meat diet for over 50 years. (Note: he did have cancer, though likely due to HPV and years of secondhand cigarette smoke and firsthand marijuana smoke, and his diet probably helped him survive it, and he had a heart attack, but that was likely due to complications from his youth that became noticeable after putting on 30 pounds of muscle weightlifting in his 50s.) He posted all about it on a forum years ago. It's a very interesting read: http://activenocarber.myfreeforum.org/ftopic22-0-0-asc-.php

Traditional Inuit also eat an all-meat diet with lots of fat. See Weston Price's Nutrition and Physical Degeneration (http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#ch5), as well as the writings of Vilhjalmur Stefansson (http://highsteaks.com/carnivores-creed/vilhjalmur-stefansson... ).

The Plains Indians, as well. See "Guts and Grease: The Diet of the Native Americans" (http://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/guts-and-grease-th...) and this talk by Stephen Phinney, "The Aboriginal Argument" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayf4R-y_RYo). Phinney himself has been on a very low carb, ketogenic diet for, I believe, two decades.

Some argue the Inuit were not ketogenic (http://freetheanimal.com/2014/03/reiterate-elevated-ketone.h...), but they tend to overestimate how long glycogen remains in muscles after death, as well as mistaking a lack of elevated ketones as meaning they weren't ketogenic (it's actually because they just use ketone bodies more effectively, which is why urine tests for ketosis only work during keto-adaptation). Dr. Michael Eades had a good article on this: https://proteinpower.com/drmike/2014/04/18/beware-confirmati...

Anyway, there's a lot more out there, but that'll get you started. I tend to believe an all-meat, ketogenic diet is the natural human diet, and I've had great success on it for the past year.

Other sites of note:
http://www.ketotic.org/
http://www.empiri.ca/
https://zerocarbzen.com/ (There used to be an interview on this one with a family that has eaten nothing but ribeyes for the past 18 years. The whole family had tremendous health, and it even helped the mother overcome lyme disease. I thought it was fake the first time I read it. They unfortunately had to take it down because they were getting angry mail from angry vegans.)
I agree this is a great idea. I'm sure there are other folks in my city who frequent HN but no idea how I'd find them.
Things like car crashes for example leave evidence by definition. There are many ways discrimination can occur, not all of which leave evidence.
New York City Sets the First Citywide Energy Storage Target
USPS is good for last-mile delivery, especially outside cities, because they are legally mandated to serve every address.

But the USPS also contracts with UPS and Fedex for backhaul capacity. It's not unusual for a UPS truck to pull up to a Post Office and drop off a bunch of mail, which is then delivered to the address by the postal carrier.
No it's not. People here have a really exaggerated vision of how bad human drivers are. Even the most pessimistic views of how common accidents are suggest that there is one contact collision every 75k to 100k miles or so.

An autonomous driver which was twice as dangerous as a human, then, would still go 37k to 50k miles between collisions. A human who was trying to backstop that robot's fallibilities would be required to pay close attention for weeks between actions. Which is inhuman.
And blood pressure? Circulation issues? Cholesterol? Diabetes? Arthritis? Sleep apnea? Depression?

All of those cluster around obesity. The simplest, most direct and most effective cure is controlling weight.
Just Point Your Defects Already
Is Walmarts business "traditionally unionized"? You might have missed that crucial prior in GPs statement.

Additionally, Walmart actively discourages unionization via propaganda during training and outright threats. If Reddit is to be believed, closing an entire outlet is not too big a price to stave off the specter of unionization.
It's available to download on the website. I asked on Instagram and was assured that Wire doesn't require Google Play Services.
Talking about, its not an actual dichotomy because one doesn't preclude the other. At all.
Feels like how things might have been when home electricity was first becoming pervasive.

Lots of dubious devices and a laisez-faire approach to eg. electrocution risks and fire hazards.

After enough public outcry regulation is introduced, standards are developed and enforced and your television is no longer at risk of bursting into flames or frying the cat.

Or, in today's world, of being conscripted into a global botnet and DDOS'ing your neighbours.
Πάμε στοίχημα με τις μάχες του Europa league
Really looking forward to this...it's going to be great for little makers as well as some of us older less patient makers ;-)