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Prince, even today, is still underrated. He carried mountains of music on his shoulders, while being an overwhelming rock star persona, and a live genius, and quite an ok human being (goofy and a bit precious at times but well).

After his passing I saw videos of rehearsal, where he would drive sound stage check calmly with people, dropping jazz classics from his pocket and being cool with the crew.

A lot of what he did was so brilliant, for so many years, in so many genre.

ps: he also managed to make rock guitarists drop their jaw at the george harrison celebration, all done unrehearsed (for better surprise effect).
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Boooo

/s Actually the solution could come from another EM company in the form of self-driving cars, as it would alleviate congestion just enough for it to stop being a problem anymore. The traffic issue really only focuses on certain chokepoints in and out of the city.

You know the deal: everybody stopped at a series of red lights. Light at the front goes green, first car moves, second car behind it has space to move, and so on. If all the cars were able to start and stop in unison based on the state of the traffic lights then the congestion problems in Ithaca would disappear overnight. We aren't big enough to need (or be able to afford) massive infrastructure projects, and as I alluded to earlier, it probably wouldn't be worth the unforeseen consequences. Not to mention the downtown retailers are still reeling from the Commons reconstruction, which put way too many of my favorite stores out of business.
"Drop IE9 support for v4 beta?"
"fuck it, why not"

https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/21387

This isn't how you should drop support, it might be a good choice but can we at least have some discussion, maybe even an RFC, not just declare it be so within the space of 3 hours and lock the issue...

Like this: https://github.com/emberjs/rfcs/pull/45
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I think trademarks are applicable for specific verticals, it is Ok for two separate companies to have Apple as trademark for consumer electronics and say travel agency (http://www.applevacations.com/).
Yep, and subsequent bust.

Many many companies getting not significant cash inflows in the run up to 2000 which made their balance sheets look great, until the end of the 2000 tax year in 2001 when they didn't look so great any more.
> "I don't need to" [lots of trivial things]

And this is why I and most of my hacker friends consider growing roses or working as fishermen instead.

I get the overall attitude - it makes things easier. But, IMHO, that attitude was adequate when I was 12. Then I started to grow up and accept that minor chores are part of life. "Download code" - how much do you charge for that? Is there a difference between you using the left or the right mouse button? Just curious, because I have not yet mastered the art of turning flies into elephants on my invoices...

I am sorry, but for somone posting on HN, this is by far the worst line of reasoning I've ever encountered :(
Not to mention the fact, back in the 80's/90's you go to walmart and every single aisle was open. Now pretty much any store I go to--there's maybe 3-4 open checkouts, and ALL self-checkouts are a go. Lines just are a lot longer, but it's not like people are going to stop shopping because of it. So they've cut a lot of jobs EVEN though there's a need for more workers at the registers
Try an automatic feeder. I have the one mentioned in the article and didn't need to do any extra hardening to protect it from our two cats.

Even though we kept a tight feeding schedule, our cats used to start meowing and pestering us an hour before dinner time. Now, they just sit quietly and stare at the automatic feeder until it dispenses their food.
Beatles had Lennon, McCartney writing, and George Martin composing, also the engineering of EMI.

Stevie did everything himself, writing & playing ALL instruments. Beatles had several session players.
True, and we did upgrade from v2 to v3 in that time.

Also using angular-ui to spin up some internal tools quickly.

https://angular-ui.github.io/bootstrap/

If it were just me, I'd go with skeleton and style the rest myself, but with a larger team, a custom boostrap theme seemed to work really well.
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You can't program what you don't know.

I actually chose biology over computer science because of problems like this[1]. Now, I don't think I have all the knowledge necessary to build an ultrasound myself, but at least I have the ability to read the literature and make sense of it, and I can understand the language radiologists and doctors use to describe an ultrasound.

I don't think the programming would actually be that hard. It's basically sonar for people. There are tons of builds of devices that use time-of-flight to produce images. I think you could actually get something reasonable working pretty quickly if you had access to testing apparatus and a radiologist.

I don't have the skills to build the ultrasound machine myself, but I'm not an EE. I don't think the programming is a huge barrier though.

Quick edit: I would probably try emulating a system with physical lenses first. It seems like an easier problem. There was an article on Hackaday a while back about a guy who built a phased array radar in his garage, but it seems harder than the physical lens version:

http://hackaday.com/2015/04/07/build-a-phased-array-radar-in...

One quote from the article which I think is pretty relevant:

"If you are willing to trade acquisition time for cost you could implement a much less expensive near-field array using switching techniques"

And here's an article on a DIY Ultrasound development kit:

https://hackaday.com/2016/04/12/a-developers-kit-for-medical...

[1] I specifically wanted to do bioinformatics, but the field pays poorly, and also requires an advanced education.
Yeah. I'm definitely more loyal to AMD's GPU products than I am their CPU products. I am hoping to get a new zen cpu, but if it flops, I wont hesitate to go intel... I'll definitely avoid nvidia though.
I thought at least part of this was already known.

The story as I've heard it is that there was a rather dry period preceding Stadivari's violin making, which led to particularly dry and hard wood, both good things for a violin.
My plan if I were to ever build a robot I'd use a cat's brain as the AI template for the brain.

Move something 1mm the cat comes into the room and seems to be thinking "Hey who messed up the place? What's going on?"

Cats are little pattern recognition machines.
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170416-W...
I've repaired a few violins, none of them expensive or valuable. One of them I had gotten at Goodwill for $20 or so with a couple cracks in the top.

Popping the top off of the violin was a little nerve-wracking, but that cracking-hide-glue sound is also satisfying. It went back together nicely (I even used the opportunity to glue a piezo-film transducer to the inside of the soundboard).

Now I don't feel quite so much like the violin I'm holding is going to shatter into a million pieces if I twist too hard on a tuning peg.
As a maintainer, I understand that this must have been frustrating for you.

On the other hand: the maintainer will have to maintain the changes you've contributed ~forever. Effectively, the contribution you're making, something that you can just throw at the maintainers, will have impact on their maintenance of the project for a long, long time.

As such, I disagree that maintainers are "bad" for doing this; there's just a large disbalance between the time your one-off contribution takes and the time they might have to spend refining it and/or fixing bugs in it. Given that they might also be juggling a day job and working with a bunch of other contributors, getting there can take a lot of time.

(Of course, they should still strive to be respectful about it, and as transparent as possible -- unfortunately, it's often hard to say in advance how much time it might take.)
My wife is a professional violinist. (In Australia at least) if you've watched the news or a recent Australia movie, you would have heard her play.

She says you can ALWAYS tell the difference. But she also says, "better" depends on the music. If you are playing a song on X-Factor or Australian Idol or even Christmas carols, then you'll never notice. If you are playing a solo for a classical piece (wedding or other ceremony), then it certainly sounds "different".

Better is debatable, but different, yes
This may just be a reiteration of other commenters, but a for-profit enterprise would just buy liability insurance, and then bake the cost of that liability insurance in the sales price.
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You realize Amazon has an warehouse system run by robots, so there's a major flaw there..why do we need people to stock or work in a warehouse when that too can be automated? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quWFjS3Ci7A
searchblades.io domain is not occupied ;-)
I know the article mentions openning new tabs.

But When it comes to clicking on links and opening a new page, Browsers aren't slow. The software that runs on them is slow: all those applications loading too many libraries, widgets, videos, video ads, Angular and lots of code that's not needed.
Common HN comments: "I could build/setup/run this myself"

It's a SAAS tool and you could build it? Well hot damn, you must be a programmer!

I'm stunned by how many refuse to learn from Gmail (mailserver), Dropbox (intra-company sharing), Slack (IRC), AWS (servers), the list goes on.

What a severe waste of your potential. Someone else has built a better version than you will ever build because they are focused 100% on this one specific problem. Even better - the cost of building, serving, and maintaining it are amortized across a larger user base with a small profit tacked on top.

If you can't use a SAAS because of privacy/security concerns, totally get it, that's how it goes some times. If you refuse to use one because of not-built-here syndrome, you're wasting company resources and making yourself less valuable along the way. Companies pay for solutions, not this-was-built-here tools.
My cat is 18. She howls in the middle of the night to get us to play with her and bites at us when she feels too much time has elapsed since her last saucer of milk.

She is way too old to give a fuck anymore and there is nothing to indicate she will ever change at her age. Just like a human.
Is it ? According to [1] it should be available in 1.14, which is the current beta.

[1]: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/all-the-rust-features/4322
Author here.

It's widget that shows your GitHub profile directly on website.

I've rewritten it to TypeScript lately and made it really easy to use. My goal was to make it as simple as Facebook's Like Box.

I've prepared demo page with live configuration: http://github-profile.com/demo/

Documentation: http://github-profile.com/

Eager to see your thoughts.
Simple and somewhat cheap ultrasound machine do exist. I'm not an expert about this market, but you can probably source some from China.

R&D and will be notably inferior with less capabilities than on high end systems, and you can probably also keep cost done if you skip some certifications.
> The system would be much better if we actually enforced it.

Right. But ...

> Which you guys refuse to demand from officials, because you've bought in to the notion that what they're doing is legal.

No. Many of us demand that but nobody listens because they know they don't have to.

Realize that making the laws unenforceable is the intent. This is what I mean by patching vs replacing. Let's say we managed to get a few hundred bankers arrested for 2008. Then what? They change the rules slightly and next time we don't.

Instead we need to repeal all limited liability for any group. That way in the future it's not us vs them, it's us vs us, which is winnable.

And I agree that's it's already illegal. But it's constitutionally illegal, we don't grant government the right to create a privileged class and yet it did. And if our ancestors were dumb enough to sign off on this, we don't have to be.

We, the people, don't have to be bound to the muck that is our common law. The government is ours to charter as we wish and if huge swaths of it aren't working they can be thrown out wholesale. If we get bogged down in trying to navigate our(!) ruleset we've already lost the game.
These are all valid points but many organisations are not at the level of maturity where the inputs to the engineering team are of the high quality you're describing.

Additionally there's an element of negotiation or dialogue around requirements which can often lead to cheaper/quicker to market/better solutions with input from engineering.

Both of these are much easier to do in person.
>This story is the epitome of fake news

Is "fake news" going to be the new meme here? If you think this epitomizes "fake news", your detector needs recalibration.
If you're into funk, The Time is indeed another shocking output. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUl2Cd7IMms anybody with a taste for beats will go nuts on this.

Also, responsible for the background music in this cult movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOOwGhaFpVk [NSFW]

For the curious, Victor Wooten, sacred virtuoso bass player said in videos that Prince influenced him on the bass, saying Prince's stuff was unheard of. And Prince isn't even a bass fan, I believe he was more in love with guitar and keyboards.
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Don't most open source agreements ban taking code and re-using it in for-profit enterprises?
Thanks, might need it. :) I've got a couple others on standby, but I really hope the big G is cool about this.
One thing that is perhaps not obvious - while the rapid iteration of constituent parts has, for example, driven a lot of consumer gear prices incredibly low, one reason for it is that vendors can rapidly rework device internals to capture cost savings due to new part supply.

In medical devices this doesn't really work, and actually becomes more of a problem than a benefit, at least currently. You cannot change the constituent parts of your device without a lot of work, so a rapidly iterating supply can cause you trouble with getting a stable supply of parts for several years. This is (only) one of the reasons that medical grade monitors are so much more expensive than you might expect.
Essentially, with what I've done with Grid, my opinion is Flexbox makes the 1D case simpler than the equivalent thing with Grid. AFAICT, this is the prevailing view the reason for the above.
Well said.

My wife and I personally think it's borderline inhumane to keep a dog by itself all day, since they are extremely social.

While we usually don't keep solitary cats, I don't think it's that uncomfortable for cats to be alone, though per your DM interpretation, they will commonly get into things. Which they will do in groups too.
I think it's more useful to look at those polls of professionals who are unable to distinguish a Stradivarius from modern instruments.

It's not that modern instruments are "better" or "worse," but if they're indistinguishable, the question is irrelevant.
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My favorite places to look for remote tech work are

1. Remote job boards https://remoteok.io/ https://www.wfh.io/ https://weworkremotely.com/

2. Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com/jobs?allowsremote=true

3. Who Is Hiring? thread posted on Hacker News the first weekday of every month.
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
From my perspective on Maui I think the fate of this factory shows a problem for any business.

Had they modernized their equipment and methods years ago when profits were good, they very likely could have continued to operate at a profit and with the support of the community.

Instead, they kept the field burning, the impossibly ancient mill equipment, and didn't adapt to the dropping price of the sugar to focus on more secondary goods like rum, organic sugar, etc.

By the time they realized they'd either have to change or go out of business they were too ingrained to change and didn't have the profits to invest in changing anyways.

It's a bittersweet change for Maui. The real fear is that all of this ag land will increasingly be converted to inefficient subdivisions as has happened on O'ahu and is happening at Maui Lani and up in Kula.
>In America you can be a graduate in computer science without knowing calculus

I don't know how. Every CS program I've ever seen requires calculus.

>and in some other country they teach calculus/probability in high school

Practically every high school in America offers calculus. Not everyone is required to take it, but most of the students going on to study CS do.
This is excellent. If you want to see what real discussion of an AGI alignment issue looks like, please read this.
Must have been a bug, it landed in 1.13. I just tried it myself to triple check https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/11/10/Rust-1.13.html

(1.14 is tomorrow, so even if that was true, I'm off by a day.)
For easily digestible ideas about the future of popular/electronic music, I can recommend Adam Harper's book[0], blog[1] and his recently started podcast/show[2].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Music-Imagining-Millennium-M...

[1] https://rougesfoam.blogspot.com

[2] https://www.rbmaradio.com/shows/adam-harpers-bubblebath (might need non-US proxy)
It's a little tone deaf to offer "should've done it this way!" as advice to a person already in a bad way.

Unless OP is asking for better processes to avoid this in the future, I think it's not a good idea to offer preventative advice as a first response. YMMV, but this sort of comment is often unwelcome (especially if you phrase the questions in an interrogative way... example - "Why are you landing 400 commits in one go? Half of those were on files which then start causing merge conflicts for your team and wasted a huge amount of your time?" comes across like you kind of enjoyed typing it and doesn't really occur as a kind stranger leaning in to help)

If your post was directed more to the readers of the thread instead of at OP, I think it would've come across less admonishing. Of course, I'm not judging you for your comment to be clear, just providing feedback on why your comment might rub people the wrong way (apologies for length).
Thanks for your reply Steve. You're a stand up guy. I'll look into some of these over the holiday. I want to give the new rustup a whirl.
That liability chain is always going to lie with the manufacturer of record, and always going to depend on them doing their homework. Typically a 3rd party library vendor isn't going to indemnify you completely either.
How does text chat or video conference not fix that issue? Look at all these open source projects that manage to flourish across languages, time zones, etc.
>I see no evidence that there would be any economic benefit for any company opening the source of their very specialized, very expensive software here.

Hmm maybe if you can find a way to lock-in users so they have to always come to you for the hardware. So, one way to do that is on a project that sees a lot of source code churn, you can tightly couple it with your services/hardware. Any competition that's downstream will find it hard to keep up with your commits in addition to having to patch in support for different hardware/services.
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It was closed because of all the "me too" comments. The PR is here: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/21389
That's my personal position.

The vendors that are letting the supply in (SSPs and exchanges) should do more to verify the supply. This could verifying their supply id with provided domain (would get rid of a lot of crappy arbitrage). Additional verification on new suppliers who are generating more traffic. And longer net payment terms for new suppliers to allow for clawing some of it back.

The problem is that many vendors are unwilling to do that. In many cases because they still make money on fraudulent traffic / arbitrage that goes through their platform. Or because they tend to be more accepting of bad data, because adtech is so duct tapped together. People setup their tags/campaigns incorrectly, adservers re-wrap urls, other incorrect rewrapping (fraud/viewablity/attribution), bad javascript, bad publisher sites and hostile browser environments. So they default to be more accepting to not lose on that revenue.
I highly doubt they will be - just saying.
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If you're giving them an automated feeder, why not just let them eat (from it) at 4AM?
CDN hosting is not the reason why Bootstrap is more frequently used. You can easily do a web search for "cdn foundation".
Not really surprising considering the venue and the audience in front of which this talk was given, but still, a complete disregard for the greatest musical phenomenon of the 20th century _in classical music_, that is John Cage and the profound revolution he has brought to musical thinking is more than enough reason to reject this as nonsense.

It just goes to show how the so-called "avant garde" in classical music is disconnected, and frankly, quite old. It really has nothing to do with the future.
This doesn't appear to be accurate. Most of the cattle is sent to the mainland due to a lack of slaughterhouses, not due to any law restricting said slaughterhouses.

http://www.hawaiibusiness.com/hawaii-beef-comes-home/
Given what I've seen, I expect Rust 2.0 to be like C99, with Rust 1.0 being C89 (pre-1.0 is K&R C in this analogy). Even though there were a few non-backward compatible changes, it didn't fragment the C community.
I just did a quick test for Lenet-5, using Theano + CuDNN 5, Xeon E5-1620v2 3.7GHz, Maxwell Titan X GPU:

Two conv layers (6 and 12 feature maps, 5x5 filters), one fully connected layer (120 neurons), activation=Tanh, pooltype: average (excluding padding), cost=Negative Log Likelihood.

Learning rate=0.20, minibatch size=100, dropout = 0.0, L2 lambda=0.0, momentum=0.0, initialization: normal

Training for 10 epochs:

CPU: 172 sec, GPU: 14 sec.

When decreasing batch size to 20 images, the numbers are:
CPU: 318 sec, GPU: 38 sec.

So yeah, the CPU code your professors wrote was really crappy.
Took me 5 years to do this font
Yep, Linux is really abysmal, isn't it? ;)
Even with the latest BIOS on the XPS13, I can reliably type "asdf" and get "asdasfdf"
My front-end framework is simply HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Why complicate my life?

I do love flexbox, but I would rather simply code it by hand rather than have some tool/framework/precompiler do it for me.
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It's not about whether they like the trademark infringer or not, it's about the substantive infringement of their trademark and the fact that defense of the trademark is necessary for it to be legally viable.

What you've done is the equivalent of saying "DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THIS VIDEO" on a youtube video of a tv show. Just because you're saying you don't own it and your intentions (may be/are) good does not mean the holder of the trademark or copyright will just say 'oh he seems nice, let him keep it up'.
Don't know about the rest, but I switched from SVN to git before I even heard of Github for my personal project and also in the company I was CTO at the time.

Two things were decisive: being able to commit and browse the whole history while offline and the fact that my main dev machine was Linux so it worked faster than anything else.
Just completed it and it was a great quick little tutorial. Appreciate you linking it.
I think it totally depends on the lead/project. I've been invited to do so on a project, and I felt I didn't have the time (or deep enough knowledge) to do so.

I would say all help is welcome in successful projects -- it has to be, for longevity