skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I like DIY stories a lot, I will mention that LA Woman has never once been mentioned as a recording of comparable quality to Dark Side of the Moon.

There have been some great records made in weird places, including some of my favorites. The Band recorded Songs From Big Pink in a big old pink house in Woodstock, NY. Springsteen's Nebraska was a super cheap home recording; effectively a demo. The Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street was recorded in a mansion in France. Radiohead recorded OK Computer in an old house (and that's a great sounding record, though not as good as The Bends that preceded it).

Many of my very favorite records are 80s punk rock records, and nearly all were recorded in extremely suboptimal conditions (nearly all engineered by a guy named "Spot").

All that said, it's clear when a recording is of the caliber of Dark Side of the Moon and it's extremely rare. It doesn't mean we can't love less amazing recordings. Just that there is an artistry and science to audio recording, on top of the artistry of the music being recorded. And, it's usually a major undertaking to achieve something like DSOTM. The pantheon of god tier records, where literally everything came together in a near-perfect work, is pretty small. I'd probably include some of the following (for reference): Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, The Beatles' Abbey Road, Peter Gabriel's So, Bjork Post, Michael Jackson's Thriller, The Flaming Lips' The Soft Bulletin, Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, Steely Dan's Aja, Outkast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. There's more, of course, and it's debatable what qualifies...the more live instruments and musicians on the record, the harder it is to make it perfect, but all of those are worth a listen for their production qualities alone, IMHO.

Most impressive may be artists that make amazing sounding records with very limited resources. Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago is perhaps the archetypal example of this. Recorded in a cabin by one dude with very limited equipment, but it sounds incredible and holds up very well to repeated listens.

I could ramble for days about production quality and my favorite records...
> the 'PhD Economist' credential is a signal that you might be the kind of person who can escape groupthink

I am open to this concept but I don't think I'm being cynical when I say that most people would surely think the opposite when they hear the expression PhD Economist.
Yeah, you are right. I think what they were trying to say is that the transformers are fed on the high side by one of three phases (as is typical), and that the residential step-down is a split phase 120/240.
Definitely not an indepth comparison, but for me the dealbreaker was when I "upgraded" to Windows 10 and it started giving me spammy notifications asking me to try out various Microsoft products. Apparently it's possible to turn all that crap off, but you have to mess with the settings of multiple applications and dig into the Windows registry. For me, it's easier to just avoid Windows when possible.
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The stakes are rather high on both sides of this. The same chemist was responsible for both leaded petrol and CFCs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.

Safety regulations can wipe out businesses. Not having (or following!) regulations can wipe out lives on an enourmous scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

The point is not to say "regulation good" or "regulation bad", but that these decisions are important and should be taken seriously with submissions from those involved as well as experts. The process has to be sound, and we need to de-partisanise it where possible.
The author talks about wanting to do VR/gaming development, which is probably better homed on Windows anyway

Also he mentions this in his post

> (I now use a 12" MacBook for on-the-go productivity)

Seems a bit strange to spend 10 paragraphs criticising Apple and then still buying their products anyway.
It's his property. As long as it's up to code and doesn't present a health or safety hazard, it's really nobody's business if he lives in it or not.
The Verge very often does, like in "The Worst Company In America"[1], there's a disclaimer. I listen to their podcast and whenever Comcast comes up (and always highly critical of the company) they recite the disclaimer before making fun of them for investing in them.

But, this article http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/2/14488212/comcast-protest-tr... from Feb 2 has a disclaimer down the bottom, but then this one Feb 8 doesn't http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/8/14554354/comcast-fastest-in...

[1]: http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/19/6004131/comcast-the-worst-...
Lyft has been quietly pitching investors on a new funding round
Many people who fight for social equality between the sexes also believe that all psychological differences between the sexes are cultural, not biological. The post above directly opposes that viewpoint, and thus got downvoted.

Personally, I don't agree with their belief. We can acknowledge differences between the sexes, yet maintain equal opportunity for those who want to oppose the norm.
I'm all for humorous comments, even if they're a bit flippant, but that comment just isn't funny. Though I've met some great people with a sense of humor that makes absolute no sense to me and that's just how it came off to me versus a maturity issue (but without my experience I could easily see having an identical opinion to yours).

The dedicated part though seems a little more ridiculous to me. Most people who may contributed may not necessary be "dedicated" or even like the project but just may want to help with someone. If I saw a project was looking for dedicated contributors I'd be less likely to contribute anything as I don't want to be married to someone else's project.
Don't worry, economics has multiple schools of groupthink.
Until you have to move a couch or something.
We've banned this account for this personal attack, for using HN primarily for political battle, and for posting mostly unsubstantive comments.

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It's similar to the entirety of human history, minus the last little bit. The notion of most men finding female partners is a relatively recent development. Throughout most of our history, most men haven't procreated. There was a story posted here a while back that cited DNA analysis to show that humans have roughly twice as many female ancestors as male ancestors. Apparently, the historical averages are around 80% of females that reproduced and only around 40% of males that did. It sounds like we experienced a brief period of middle-class prosperity that made that phenomenon far less pronounced and we're now seeing a regression back to the norm.

I'm not making a value judgment or saying we should want this disparity, just pointing out that throughout our history, it's mostly been this way.
Why not just get a couple of bigger instances and run all your sites on them?
The interesting part in your comment is the triggering of the old aesthetic discussion about photography and beauty.

Beauty in Photography by Robert Adams might be an interesting starting point to expand your comment:

http://aransomephoto.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Robert-A...

Regarding the photography of Wouter Rietberg, there is probably a certain beauty which can touch and can be related to a specific cultural background (maybe an heritage from the Bauhaus design). Everyone is influenced and maybe your perspective of beauty is composed from your own cultural heritage.

On a personal level, I find the work of Wouter Rietberg very dense but towards this too perfect or describing too-polished structure of the world. I'm missing a bit the human imprint or decision to make the photography more natural. It doesn't mean it's ugly or not beautiful, it's just I don't feel my sense of beauty being touched by this photographic approach which looks a bit systematic to my eyes. I'm sure many photographer or viewer might be touched by this systematic approach.

Maybe we're just all blind due to our own perceptions.
Mecca has exactly the same problem, for the same reason. The government there encourages it, resulting in giant hotels and condo complexes which are only occupied during Hajj season. The two million people who actually live and work there are being forced out.[1] Mecca is being turned into a religious Disney World.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/sep/14/mecca-hajj-pi...
Programmers use similar techniques as memory palaces to navigate code? Nothing more than the claim, no examples or explanations? Just changing the subject to "flow", as if it were the same as a memory palace?

This is simply an author trying to fluff up a piece of banality with some serious-sounding concept in the hope that the reader hallucinates a deep connection between those.

Or in other words: intellectually dishonest and worthless.
It's armv6 and golang may be dropping support for it
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/17082
I've made this argument in a much better form elsewhere but I don't have much time.

To my mind the benefit of REST purism was that it killed SOAP. A similar thing has happened at other stages of tech development (e.g. CSS purism cured us of all those awful <table> excesses).

The purism was a mistake and the details were wrong but it was necessary to get everyone behind a common goal - getting rid of something worse.
I know that where I live, if the power factor is below .4, the meters can't accurately record the consumption. Kind of rare, but it does happen.
Python suuuucks.
Windows 8 didn't merge the mobile and desktop paradigms, it put the mobile paradigm over the top of the desktop.

The apps stuff (Windows Runtime) was actually quite well done for a first try, but it was unfamiliar to Win32 users and got in the way. (Only one click away, but people are impatient and resist change.)

Windows 10 does an excellent job of merging apps and traditional programs, though it's not strictly correct to equate apps and mobile. Windows 10 is a mobile operating system that runs apps from an app store, but you can resize apps and run them seamlessly alongside traditional Win32 programs.

You can still run Windows 10 in tablet (Windows 8/8.1) mode if you want to. I don't know anyone who does.
well that is much simpler than what I thought it was

I thought it was that you sort of go to your own world when listening to music
Try an index fund.
I'm in the US. Women have every incentive to get a STEM degree, given the fact that nearly every major tech company has an affirmative action hiring process. But guess what? Women are choosing to get other degrees. It's not sexist to have some differences between the sexes as long as there's an equal opportunity.
Is that to prevent people from gentrifying MTL next, or is that a serious comment? Having visited, I think the sentiment can easily swing either way.
No, this is 60% of the property tax, not the rental value. It's much less than rental value, and although quite interesting for the city of Paris (which should net about $30M / year) it is nowhere close 60% of the rental value of those flats.
Anyone remember the tricks to save a few bytes when you didn't have the 16KB extension pack?

A number (in source code) used a lot of memory, 6 bytes or so, while a command used only 2 bytes, so you would replace numbers by VAL("1") or ORD("A") or something along those lines, saving a full 3 bytes... :-)
RISC OS today runs natively on the Raspberry Pi, if you want to revisit your history.

https://www.riscosopen.org/content/downloads/raspberry-pi
I think a carbon tariff would be more realistic.
Are you suggesting there isn't a difference in reproductive strategy between men and women?
Edit: to those downvoting me, read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mating_strategies
Your comment broke the HN guidelines. The civility rule applies here regardless of what someone else assumed, so please take care to abide by it. Even if you don't feel you owe better to the other person, you owe it to the community.
Lots of good vendors offer free trials or guarantees without it harming their reputation. In fact most customers object to shouldering all the risk.
If using Stripe, Braintree, etc you should never ever be storing any financial data.
False. Israel has so far treated thousands in hospital and accepted several hundreds. Given the country's relationships and syrian population general attitude towards Israel and jews, it's more than anyone could reasonably expect.
> and it seemed to work fine

It worked well unless you were a woman with ambitions outside of the kitchen and bedroom. In that case, it was living hell and maybe you'd get luck with a world war.

Slavery worked fine too, unless you were a slave.
I'm from New Zealand and we are having the exact same problem in our largest city, Auckland.

The thing is it's happening everywhere in NZ. The provinces are getting worse as well. For reference, a median multiple of 3 is considered affordable.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&o...

Not a single region in NZ is affordable - and this is from 2012. It's only gotten worse.
So when you try out one of these hosts do you worry about bandwidth overages? Or are the options to manage or cut off the instance if it goes over.

I guess I'm interested in what other costs beyond the monthly keep-it-alive fee can come up with this tier of hosting
Airplaneheads often gripe that mass-media stories always glorify airframes and ignore powerplants. This story deserves that gripe. The story is actually about Cessna and Lycoming.

The Skyhawk airframe makes the machine easy to fly and land.

The Lycoming engine makes unplanned landings very rare.

Both are very important!

It really is an amazing airplane. In really cold weather in a 40 knot headwind I've gotten negative groundspeed in stable flight.

It takes real work to stall the airframe, and it recovers immediately if you let go of the controls.
If any developer says code review is too "corporate", I would suggest that they need to try a different profession.

Code review is an industry practice these days, and that is a good thing. I would say even for POC / MVP development, CR is a must.
"What we really miss for all of those providers is some kind of transit map per location, where we can see what transit providers are connected in each location."

For OVH
http://weathermap.ovh.net
Thanks for your suggestion! :-)
They've been trying to sell the company earlier without any success: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/20/technology/lyft-is-said-t...
"Need to be allowed"? I'm genuinly curious as to how one can even theoretically come to such a phrasing, regardless particular countries and their politics.
> because some incredible portion of the humans believes that birth control is wrong.

That... may be an oversimplification.
I assume you've come across Debug.Trace. That let's you do "printf-style" debugging in Haskell without much fuss.

trace ("calling f with x = " ++ show x) (f x)
Can't edit my comment, but here:

https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
I remember implementing the Mandelbrot set ("Apfelmännchen"), and it would plot one of those "pixels" every few seconds, so the whole thing only took a few hours :-)
If it is then it's poor marketing: there's far too little in the way of real personal context to draw one in. As I read it he leaps from vaguely defined personal issues to self medicating in about three sentences.
> some incredible portion of the humans believes that birth control is wrong.

Hardly incredible.

Do you believe ending human live is wrong? What about not starting human life? What's the difference in terms of economic utility?

See, now we're getting into a moral issue that has gut feelings and beliefs and upbringings.
Its a misalignment where you're talking about private citizens having an incredible demand for something that's only sold in a marketplace flooded with financial speculators. One group wants a place to live that's permanently affordable at their income, the other group bought what boils down to a financial option contract on the hopes a greater fool will pay twice as much for the commodity next year. Those groups can't coexist in the same neighborhood or marketplace.

The city I live in only builds 1%er apartments for investors, and construction is absolutely booming for them, which is very nice for those investors. Those are some very nice empty condo towers. The market for the lower 99% percentile income is totally separate and different, and frankly empty. There is no crossover.

Perhaps its like gold, in that its a commodity for investment but once price exceeds practical use levels for connector plating and tooth capping, its no longer relevant to the practical use fields at all, and its price can completely decouple and head to the moon. At some point the concept of owning a box full of air downtown will completely decouple from the concept of a place where humans live. At that point investment prices can and will go infinite with no effect on human housing, solely dependent on national fed rates and international currency exchange rates.
The FBI / iPhone controversy shows that US government access to those devices is clearly limited to certain agencies.

This is increasingly important as it's now really obvious that the different agencies have different politics and may end up investigating each other to see who's been compromised to the Russians.

(also, you have to pick something: telling a journalist not to use a phone is a total non-starter)
Your comment was unsubstantive and unduly personal, so it's not surprising it led to misunderstandings and a flamewar. Please don't do that here, least of all on divisive topics.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13796440 and marked it off-topic.
Every time I read a minesweeper article I let my browser autocomplete "mines" to go to your program. Thanks for making it!
Hi everyone,
this is a quick project I wanted to share.
Made it for myself but then tweaked it a bit so other could use it too.

Pretty simple goal:
amazon price is checked regularly and you receive an email when it is below whatever you set the trigger.

Obviously there are many additions I have in mind but will only put more time if people want me to. Works fine as-is for me.

Let me know what you think or if you break it! :)
That would be a valid argument except that it implied one port less since you have to use one of the already scarce ports to charge. People like me were waiting for an extra port and got one less
Ahh, great, now that I see it I think Online.net has something similar.
We're fast approaching a time when Linux based systems will be serious alternatives for everyday usage (with things close enough to Word, Powerpoint, iMovie, etc.)
Yes, and it had the "FAST" mode, where the CPU would not do video, screen would go black, and it would race through your program 4x faster :-)
Do people really expect corporations to be ethical and not make the most money possible given the circumstances? It sounds like many people expect to leave corporations to their own whims while at the same time expecting them to be fair, self-correcting, and a benefit to society. Sounds pretty delusional to me. That's like sitting each day staring at the computer for years on end and expecting a finished program to emerge while having done nothing. Maybe that's why this business model is exactly the same as that of supermarkets that offer delivery direct to consumers (in the US), down the opaque pricing.
GNUstep / Windowmaker.
Giant Neuron Found Wrapped Around the Entire Circumference of the Brain
Good resources for learning how to hack
Or of course the 64 KB of the C64 later... (though that was cheaper :-)
Yep, usually also looking for

* IPv6

* floating/elastic IPs

* API, wrapper libraries, CLI tools
Leftist ideology is not mutually inclusive of liberalism (in the philosophical sense) but that's true of most ideologies. Heck, mix nationalism (extreme patriotism) with socialism (illiberal leftist ideology) and you can get national socialism (far-right Nazism).
It's strange that you think that's what's happening here; if anything, the comment that the grandparent was objecting to was saying not to use a race car if you don't know how to.
If our field had settled on miminal syntaxes - such as the styles used by Forth, Lisp or even Smalltalk - it would be trivial to make programming languages for an audience that can't read or write English.

Can't rename "if" or "foreach" in C#, however.
Improve SSL exchanges security made by your web server
> My point was that all models and predictions are statistical/probabilistic, but not all have even the same order of magnitude of error.

Definitely not. The models used in undergraduate physics classes, or even to high school physics are not statistical. A good example is ohm's law. When building circuits this is necessary to use. Works just great. Now this is different from any attempts at GUT, but that's a different ball game. And those are different models.

> For shorthand, we pretend that models with very low variance/error are "exact" solutions

Maybe the public, but not the actual scientists. For shorthand we generally say "is" instead of "to an error we can't measure" because it is easier to say. But if you read the research papers errors are always included. But that's just language. Doing otherwise would be pedantic. Yes, the public gets confused, but for all they are concerned with these predictions might as well be "exact". When the public starts venturing out of their realm without learning they get confused with other more important ideas like "observer" and "information". Don't get me started on how many people believe stupid quantum stuff.

> they are just solutions that have a negligible error rate for the purpose at hand.

This demonstrates that you understand my point too. Or that you don't understand what negligible is. But I think you understand. At a certain point we stop worrying. Why would you care if you could predict the location of a planet down to the 10^-40m? I get doing it just for fun and because you want to, but there is no practical purpose. Anything this accurate might as well be exact.
Same boat here. I'm really scared of a stock market crash.
I vouched for GP because they seem to have removed the name-calling.
Video of the process:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViqzfPW6TFo
Did teach you to save frequently though, on cassette tape, which only took a few minutes! :-)
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Yeah, I probably could have been more precise and said "there really isn't any ventilation" rather than "there isn't really vent". The vent is there, it's just completely ineffective.
We have a lot of respect for the different backgrounds people come from when posting to HN, and yours sounds extraordinary. Still, you've gone way off-topic and way into incivility here, and the site guidelines don't allow that.

Mutual misunderstanding seems to have gotten in the way, and when that happens both sides need to take a step back and consider how to get clearer—and be more respectful, not less. Please do that when commenting here.
It's quite bad in London too. Take a walk down Bishop's Avenue in Hampstead. It's one of the richest roads in the country yet there are 10m+ value mansions literally disintegrating. Some have thick Moss growing on the driveway and many have piles of garbage in the yard.
There are many Java apps for Mac and Apple used to provide its own implementation of the JRE.
Digital ocean bandwidth actually free?
On the digital ocean pricing page they say they charge for bandwidth exceeding that allocated in the price tier. However for several years it has been stated by staff that this is never actually counted or enforced.

For example a link from 2016:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/extra-bandwidth-what-will-happen

My question is, is this still the case? Does digital ocean actually not charge? Has anyone gone over the cap without issue? Thanks!
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