skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're exaggerating. I've gone to or with multiple emerg visits in Quebec, none even the most critical issues, and have rarely had to wait for more than a few hours, including diagnosis and treatment. If you go to the wrong hospital at the wrong time, it can be worse, but not to the level you indicate, and sometimes it's faster.

There are sometimes long very wait times for non critical scheduled tests, which is a problem.

The real problem is people with chronic conditions who will have to dedicate much more of their life to their health, which is dangerously demoralizing and a career killer, but I am not sure that's much different in other parts of the world.
You can implement a function that migrates all of the contract's assets and data to the new version. Obviously, you need to be careful about who can call this function, maybe requiring the agreement of all (or at least a majority) of stakeholders. Also, there is a risk of hitting the gas limit, preventing you from executing a "heavy" migration.
I've been teaching others to play on and off for the past 40 years. Started off with just friends and other band members, then friends of friends etc. Nowadays mainly friends of my sons.

I do see a distinct different in the motivation between then and now. Back then, the kids usually had a particular player they wanted to emulate, or an album of songs they wanted to learn. Yes quite a few of them found that they couldn't play like their hero straight away and gave up, but their motivation seemed to be different.

Most kids I see today seem to want to do it because they just think it will be a 'cool' thing to do. Perhaps they think it is an easy way to pick up members of the opposite sex or something? A few of my son's friends see him play (my son is VERY good) and want to be like him, but when they realise how much work it takes (my son plays for 2 to 4 hours per day, every single day), they rapidly lose interest.
Software Quality Assurance vs. Quality Control: What’s the Difference?
> Haskell was and still is motivated by enabling software development gains

The same can be said about nearly every language. Haskell is first and foremost a research language motivated by answering a research questions, which is what it is like to program using a certain mathematical formalism that is aesthetically appealing to some. Its designers didn't set out to find the best abstractions etc., but to test the validity of a specific theoretical approach.

> but to that I would say don't knock it until you have tried it.

I'm not knocking it. I'm saying that given how expensive it is to try, perhaps some actual information rather than marketing would do a better job in persuading people to use it. Saying that I'm not persuaded by virtually zero information is no knocking anything, except perhaps the advocacy effort.
I wonder how well this scales to a larger domain of interest. So, e.g., if the neural net needs to know not only about cars and nature, but about more topics such as people, faces, computers, gastronomy, santa claus, halloween, etcetera, how does the neural net scale? And how should its topology be extended under such scaling?
Ignore all that, sit down with your guitar and start picking out simple melodies by ear, note by note. Begin with "Happy Birthday" or the alphabet song. That's hard and scary, but you'll make more progress in a week than you did in your whole life. Most importantly you'll defeat your fear of music.
Yeah, I think thats the case. I feel the walls closing in. I really like the 'all in' experience, so I hope some other company will take over.
I got rid of the smartphone and went back to feature phone.

I also have a 7" tablet so I can tether if I really need to.

Life is better.
The desktop's job is to enable me to create for the other smaller platforms.
Yes, I would create two different projects, one Ruby only and one JavaScript only.

I wonder if there is a well established pattern for server side rendering of some pages in this kind of applications. Obviously one can use Rails views for some important pages but how not to duplicate HTML in Rails and React?
Have you seen the 1920s Sears Catalogue houses?

http://www.searshomes.org/index.php/2011/07/03/oklahomas-fir...

That house would only cost $47k in 2016 dollars.

The TH movement is primarily about economics. I don't think it would exist if there were new quality houses available in that price range.

Pardon my french, but isn't it just fucking amazing how we've 'progressed' with automation in a century and many of us are still working for decades just to afford mere shelter? It's often not even to a high spec.

I sometimes look at that Primitive Technology guy and think "You know, that looks like a lot of work, but it only took him three days to construct that hut and he could rebuild it every year and it would still be way more cost effective per labour unit than anything we're doing right now!"
Really cool. Two remarks:

1) If lots of people start using this, spammers might learn to avoid wasting time with Mnesty's CEO. Having a few more fake companies would help.

2) The bot could probably be made a lot smarter with some natural language processing. But it seems to fill its purpose pretty well already. I think this just shows how desperate for leads spammers are.
CSS is not only selecting elements (like JS is not only "defining functions"). Creating complex CSS layout can be hard the same way complex JavaScript system is.
This is a good point. I've had jobs where I could work from anywhere, and I would rather work visiting relatives and friends rather than not visit them at all.
I still use Gmail/Inbox in the browser on my Mac, or their respective apps on iOS. I am playing with PolyMail at the moment on the desktop to see how I like it.

If there is a solution like Outlook's "focused" inbox for macOS I would love to hear about it...
> What if we don't use that operator anywhere in a program and don't even know it exists; how do we know the language is not functional?

;-)

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

If a program satisfies a property but the compiler cannot prove it, can we still rely on it?
Yeah, because terrorists need help knowing when JFK, LAX or LHR airports are busy.
It might work for the parent, but I'm not sure a 6 month old would understand what it's stopped to do for the placebo effect to work...
>The recoded E. coli could have all kinds of industrial uses.

What industrial uses are E. Coli a good fit?
This looks interesting!

I make music and VSTs for fun.[0] In the past I used a framework called SonicBirth[1], but recently I've moved to "IPlug"/"WDL-OL"[2], which seems very professional to me in terms of capabilities. Looking forward to doing more of this, plenty of ideas..

[0] https://github.com/Miserlou/Autopan
[1] http://sonicbirth.com/
[2] https://github.com/olilarkin/wdl-ol
> Financial companies and banks already trust each other

They most definitely do not, 2008 took care of that.

> It doesn't make sense for them to be held under public scrutiny

That's a matter of debate. The banks are held to, more or less, realtime scrutiny by the regulators on behalf of the public. Actually making transactions truly public would have tricky client confidentiality issues. That's why the focus has been on settlement and clearing as that's potentially more tractable.

> Therefore, blockchain is a solution without a problem for financial institutions

Possibly. The idea of a single version of the truth is very appealing to banks as a huge amount of time and effort is expended on reconciling trades, settlements etc. Whether a global transaction ordering has a use is debatable. Things like proof of work even less so.

Bear in mind, as others have said, you can take some of the features that have been applied to blockchains and use them separately. It's not a one size fits all. However, if you take away enough stuff then you often find that other technologies could be more appropriate.

> Their needs are already well met and there's little incentive to change

Not at all. No-one's really happy with the status quo. The regulators want to be sure that the banks are well risk managed. Even further, they want semi-continuous proof that it's so. The banks need to satisfy the regulators and still make money. The banks are a long way from that today.

> why uproot everything for a buzzword

They may well not but you underestimate the ability of senior folk in big organisations to get distracted by the shiny, shiny. Banks are no exception, they are just as susceptible to fads as anyone.

On the positive side, they are surprisingly good at accepting experimental technology. They've been early adopters of relational DBs, XML, Java, Smalltalk, Haskell, OCaml, object DBs, FPGAs etc etc. Of course, they're also one of the biggest users of COBOL so it's swings and roundabouts.
You're correct in that Apple is one of, if not the largest owner of CNC machines, and that those machines are responsible for a large portion of their total manufacturing work, but I believe they still use a tremendous amount of human labor for final assembly.
Serverless Framework v1.2 released with support for environment variables
No, some people want /usr as a separate partition.
I usually just pretend that i just killed someone to get the money they asked for.
One less death doesn't mean anything to you? Wouldn't you prevent a death if you could?
Wouldn't it be better to link to the Google blog post directly? https://blog.google/products/search/know-you-go-google/
This. Work work work.

Work is the process of mapping nature into products and (then) waste.

If nobody needs the 'fruits' of your work, there's always marketing and advertising which can make people want them.

This my friends is the reason our planet is fast becoming uninhabitable.

People doing too much work.

I think we've achieved a lot, now it's time to take a look around and take a look inside.

Is it possible to build a society which is not built around the concept of 'work'?

Are there any other human values which could replace it ?
Nice. I've never dived deep into Inbox and didn't realise you could do this. Thanks for the heads up.
I know how you feel. I studied piano as a child but I learned a bit of guitar by myself. I often find myself looking up tabs and then switch to learning by ear because not only they are wrong but also "stupid" (as in, use weird and difficult hand positions which don't make any sense). And yeah, pretty much all the main websites try to force you into paying for some service you don't want or need with popups and stuff that you would only see on a torrent search engine.
I think the main problem is that most people use tablets/phones to look up songs and so they most likely use Apps or learn from YouTube videos. I find the latter option quite time inefficient.

I have been thinking about implementing a github-style website for tabs but it seems that the interest for tab sites is slowly fading away.
> Technology should enhance quality of
> life of people. when it replaces people,
> chaos ensue !

This doesn't make much sense.

There's no 'should' with technology - it's merely a (set of) thing(s).

Replacing people, in the sense of doing away with Bullshit Jobs <tm> is entirely the goal of new technology - so that those people can do something else. Ideally that something else is something they want to do (and that may (but not necessarily does) improve the world).

I think your prediction that people will be replaced by technology is a little naive.

The idea that the pointless activities of some people will be replaced by the vague category of 'technology' is entirely palatable to most people.
> Should developer who uses a template engine and design patterns instead of following the above be kicked out?

If it doesn't solve the problem they were brought into fix, yes. If it causes the project to miss an important deadline, yes. If it costs more to implement than it saves in the long term, yes.

It's not a simple black and white question.
If you don't move the steel, you have to move the iron ore, so I think there is not too much difference in cost unless you place the steel mill just between the iron mine and the use site.

(You also need a lot of coal, but you can produce it locally if you have enough room to plant a big forest nearby.)
Poor artists with no debt can choose to be starving artists if they want, but poor artists who go to college must sell to the elites because they have college debt to pay.
This just in, from the random-news department:

> The team behind Foo is joining Bar

But the main question is, of course, is if they had an incredible journey or was it a so-so one...
Docker Survey 2016
Checkout songsterr: http://songsterr.com there's others similar, but I prefer this one. Bonus points, if you open the web inspector and view a song, you can get the http request that downloads the .gp4/5 file and download the file for yourself.

And no, I'm not ashamed to do this; I was one of the lots of guys that submitted gp3 in early 2000's by manually transcribing them; later these community-generated tabs were takend down (DMCA I guess) but I was dumbfounded when I learned that some companies were selling access to the tabs.
Most kids I see today seem to want to do it because they think it will be a 'cool' thing to do. Perhaps they think it is an easy way to pick up members of the opposite sex or something?

I would be pretty certain that has been the case since the the 1960s.
You should host the unzip html pages of the example on your : no effort for user to see what it's look like
In my days we called this an autobaiter :)
>It's what happens with any rolling release distro given enough time.

Not really, the KISS nature of arch means that stuff that could be automated isn't because reasons, while systemd gets a special pass.
"There are two distinct marketplaces for guitars, and almost any musical instrument. There is the 'beginner' level, which is basically school aged children... Then there is the high end collector market, who spend the big bucks"

This is missing out the vast midrange of working musicians (or erstwhile working musicians who still play a lot privately).

In the Fender world, collectors might buy old or particularly prestigious models, but your standard MIA Strat is a working guitar that won't necessarily appreciate in value but isn't typically bought by beginners (or collectors, for that matter). Same with many other brands (such as those you'd see played by guitar bands); while Ibanez or Jackson might have a relatively cheap model aimed at beginners, they also make rock-solid working guitars that you see played in your local bar or club, or in studio, or on stadium stages, but not in a collector's vault.
GNU didn't originate from a unix mindset. You should know this.

I do and oh-how-right you are. What I have major difficulty with is comprehending why people like it, and why they tolerate Stallman's nonsense when there are alternatives. The "rip it all out because it's not ours and re-invent everything just because" attitude is so fundamentale broken.
There are two aspects to this imho:

1) The glorification of a lifestyle completely dominated by work.

2) Microsoft offering products that you can use from anywhere, at any time.

The article is mostly about 1). But I do think that 2) is to be applauded.
They gave him shitty work that nobody wanted to do, and you are surprised that guy had no motivation for do it?

> work that wasn't too complicated

"complicated" is subjective. There are many talents and somebody could be better in for example JavaScript (and not HTML/CSS).
I am not a big fan of klarna, somehow they manage to get the products I buy more expensive then if I did not use klarna.

/Unhappy-customer
One way is to lower the expense of hiring people in the US. An obvious one would be lowering payroll taxes for certain types of jobs. Another way is to simply lower the corporate tax rate, which would have the additional benefit of repatriating tons of money that is sitting offshore because of American tax rates.
I get your hyperbole but simply as a matter of course I'm gonna have to throw a flag: that's the fallacy of relative privation.
At some point he should realize the common denominator behind all these firings, instead of blaming everyone else.

Maybe it's even him doing bad client selection and he's truly flawless in programming, but still.
I haven't played for about 10 years as well, and I fondly remember the ascii tabs.

But maybe you never found the alternative, which was a program that was basically a midi player that display all chords and notes in timed bars and play the music, with all the instruments split up.

You always knew the quality was good, since you could have the computer play the track to check it out before practising.

I don't remember what program I used back then, but this looks like a spiritual descendant, though I am not recommending anything:

* https://www.guitar-pro.com/en/index.php
This seems like a noble endeavor which will be useful (albeit under different names over time, I assume) right up until the spammers start using bots to hold their ends of conversations, to make their own operations more efficient.
Ping rabbitmq cluster when load balanced by haproxy
1) Yeah, there's support for multiple domains, but I have no domains right now :) If anyone wants to donate one, please open an issue!

2) Exactly, they're so desperate for leads that they will spend lots of time chasing someone who doesn't appear to make lots of sense.
On that, we can certainly agree! :-D
Back in the late 80s or early 90s there was a group working on this a a backup for military planes. The thought was the "water" (they used some oil like fluid and machined metal blocks for the gates) wouldn't be susceptible to EM pulses and could keep a plane in the air if hit with a pulse weapon.

I believe it was abandoned because solid state ICs grew way too quickly and outpaced the ability of the liquid ICs to keep up.
Of course, the angriest neighbor of California might install an energy blockade rather than providing California with resources, Israel may not be instructive.
It feels that this should be handled by the notification layer. Do not push notifications for things I've already seen.
Of course I'd prevent it, and of course it means everything. I'm just saying that it's incredibly easy for terrorists to identify, without the help of Google at all, specific areas where humans congregate in greater numbers in order to increase the casualty count when their aim to to do so. Hence many terrorist atrocities that have already occurred have done so in places like airports, train stations, music/sports venues etc.

Moreover, these are venues with serious capacity and are unlikely to be the kind of places where users of Google's new service will look for. They're more likely to want to know, "Is my favourite downtown bar busy?" which might represent a few hundred people at most, whereas the average sports stadium is always busy when a game is on, and holds significantly larger numbers of people.
A friend of mine says that demonetization should boost startup community quite significantly, you have a nice way to wash your savings. We should see many funding rounds.
Hm, why would you need to render some pages in Rails? Why not just go React all the way and use Rails for API only.

If you absolutely do need them, I would just separate them by routes.
It would hyperbolic if it didn't represent a reality for many people and wasn't part of a definite trend in modern work.

I agree he uses the strategies you mention, but he does it in this case to attack something real. Asserting values is not intrinsically a negative. His rhetoric is profane and aggressive which would not be my style, but it does appear to be effective these days.
Might as well close down all bars, airports, concert venues and any public transportation. Just imagine how many deaths we could prevent.
Speaking of Germany... Here in Germany your employer can only cancel already approved vacations if a real emergency happens (e.g. the company will go bankrupt if you leave) and you haven't started your trip yet. And your employer also has to eat all costs you have because your delayed trip.
>"my primary career goal is no longer to earn more money. It is to never have to do another effing software-industry interview, ever again.:

I feel exactly the same way, even though the existence of those interviews is probably the main reason I was able to get into kinds of companies I did.
Can confirm on this, storage for a lot of stuff is in S3 and compute is GCP preemtpibles. Works if you have a small dataset which requires a large volume of compute.
So, you're building a pre-rendering system, but only Google gets the benefit?

Also, doesn't google penalize sites that serves different content to googlebot and other UAs?
And steel will be lighter than the corresponding weight of ore and coal.
Presumably in the sense of "can only play one note at a time".

At a guess, the whole business of spinning up a new instance of the sound generator for each new note that's played, (or running a fixed number of instances, and dynamically allocating new notes whichever instance will be least disruptive, aka "note stealing"), and the other business of doing modulation (such as vibrato) that needs to be applied consistently across all instances of the sound generator... remains to be implemented.

In other words, it looks to me like Faust's focus at the moment is on describing the processing in the audio signal path. Polysynths require a whole bunch of cross-cutting management functions, outside of (and between) the (multiple) audio signal paths.
In this context, I would like to recommend the excellent lecture series about the history of the guitar captured on video offered by Gresham College and Professor Christopher Page. They are very entertaining, with lots of historic background stories! It is mostly about England but the rest of the world is mentioned to give context.

"Men, Women and Guitars in Romantic England"

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/series/men-women-and-guitars-in-rom...

(I almost didn't find the video - it's at the top of each lecture page, I thought that's a static image.)

The lectures are also available on their Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/GreshamCollege/videos

> ...it has been almost universally forgotten that there was an intense guitar craze in England
> between about 1800 and 1835, spanning the lifetimes of Keats, Byron, Shelley and Coleridge, and a
> craze whose history has never been traced. Histories of English music and society in the
> nineteenth century continue to be written as if it never happened, and yet the instrument was
> cultivated from the royal family in the person of Princess Charlotte (d. 1817) down to the
> poorest laundress.

> This is much more than the story of an instrument and its music: the rise of romanticism, the
> creation of an urban poor hungry for self improvement, the proliferation of newspapers,
> serialised fiction and printed sheet music, the social position of women and other aspects of
> English society and culture in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars all have a place within it.