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> Different strokes I guess. I really enjoyed the Three Body Problem trilogy due its expansiveness both in time and in space, and its focus on ideas rather than (solely on) characters.

I don't know what ideas or expansiveness you're talking about?

> Then again one of my favorites hard SF authors is Greg Egan, and I've heard many times that people find his work dull (which blows my mind - Egan writes some of the most thought provoking, interesting SF by FAR).

I found the metaphysical stuff in e.g. Permutation City slow and boring - it felt like he'd had a clever idea but wasn't pushing it as hard or as fast as it could go. Had the same experience with a couple of others of his (Distress and Schild's Ladder are the ones I read). To the point where I stopped reading him for a while.

I found the Orthogonal trilogy a lot better; the physics of that is a lot more interesting than metaphysics. Though as a confounding factor I do think the characters in that were much better - still broad-strokes archetypes, but not total nonentities like in his earlier work.
It's been stable for me but I think it's probably too minimal, I will probably go back to SmartGit.
We are honing our marketing message. Kobble is much more than just a notes app. It's also a content sharing platform. That's why some of the names were chosen. I think 'track' is causing the most confusion. It's basically a tree or folder structure.
I'm no fan of Google, but I don't agree with the idea that Google is obligated to have them as employees. If anything, it just shows the BS of the whole AI narrative that a lot of startups (also non startups like MS/FB/Google) have been trying to push.
Sounds like those backend services needed better security too. It seems orthogonal to whether you have 3 different API surfaces (one for web, one for mobile app, one for backend servers), or the same for all. At Google, gRPC allowed us to move from the former to the latter.
How a Deep Neural Network Trained with End-To-End Learning Steers a Car
I would really like the equivalent of Unity in the DAW world. Let me script modulators/sound design while doing arrangement/mixing and stuff in UI.
Ejecting from a Fighter Jet (2017)
All tor relays can be throttled by the user. Sane defaults can easily address this concern.
Xiaomi founder’s Shunwei invests in Indian gaming startup amid smartphone boom
> John Carmack is significantly above average, but unlikely to be in the top 1,000 developers world wide.

"Don't you blaspheme in here. Don't you blaspheme in here!" /Aretha
REST isn't very widely used. Handwritten RPC protocols using HTTP/JSON is, though.
As someone who works in traditional employment, the idea of paying a weekly £2 premium for the privilege of time off when sick, grieving, etc feels weird and almost wrong to me. Although, the concept is intriguing, especially when viewed from a traditional business's perspective; I wonder how much it would reduce feigned sick leave?
Looks really cool to me! I love the beautiful UI -- what tools did you use to build it in C++? I am very interested in learning more about UI design in C++.
Adopting the Next-Gen Internet Protocol: Deploying IPv6 for Uber Engineering
This is Actually Good, and I'd love more stuff written that way!

No, seriously. Just look what this example does - it recursively provides a short description for each of the important concepts in the process of baking cakes. After reading this, I now feel I have a decent map of the topic - both what the things / processes involve and what they don't involve. I've also been introduced to domain terminology that will help me understand other sources.

--

As for original question, why definitions - I believe it's good to have precise definitions next to casual explanations of the same things, just so that the reader can quickly connect the casually discussed aspect with the precise definition, and answer some of their own questions (which authors can't predict) through thinking.
Perhaps this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14085454
"Most of the DAW interfaces often seem overcomplicated, and they only tend to get more and more bloated over time."

How much can you simplify the interface and still make it do everything producers want to do? Garageband simplified the interface quite a bit compared to Logic, but even that can get complicated and ultimately isn't as flexible as other DAWs.

I've been a fairly loyal user of Sonar and FL Studio for over a decade, largely out of habit because that's what I used when I first started and don't care to learn anything different. Especially with FL Studio, early versions of that were extremely simple. At it's core, it's still fairly simple, but allows you a lot of flexibility to do crazy things through automation.

Especially in EDM, the DAW has essentially become another instrument for creativity, so limiting that will limit the audience to those with lesser needs. I do think there is a big hole for a cross-platform DAW that's at least halfway decent, so this is exciting to see!
I had this other idea that if you want to get somewhere(B) and you don't mind visiting other places if the flights are really cheap, you can get from A to B spending couple of days in C and maybe even in D so that A -> C -> D -> B. It is easy to pair these flights in Europe, so that every flight will be <2hours and will cost 10-25$. I think I even started coding this, but ended up having not enough time, and brute-forcing this problem is sort of hard. Maybe there already is a ready app for that.
However, I do think the general consensus is that stateless/shared-nothing app servers and following something like the 12 Factor App[1] pattern makes things much easier.

1. https://12factor.net
I guess! (CMake is still horrible, but well...)
For anyone curious, the key profit milestone is "any".

>Dropbox Inc.'s chief executive officer said the company is now generating a profit excluding interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.
This adorable device might be the world’s smallest 4G smartphone
Is This Tiny European Nation a Preview of Our Tech Future?
Given that cosmic radiation is one source of memory errors, shouldn't just better computer cases reduce memory errors?

Basically a tin-foil (or plumb-foil) hat over my computer?
You are right I probably generalized it a little more than I should have. Lying in order to beef up your paycheck or increase billables is very likely criminal fraud.
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In that case you may really like reaktor. I'm pretty sure it integrates with reason and you can do graphical or C programming for it.
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Wow i just crossed it this morning on my semi.
And still the military hired him for decades https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project#Ingo_Swann
In many ways, Mars is easier. Really the only way it's harder is that it's further away (so it takes more energy and travel time for stuff (both payload and communication signals) to get there).

The Moon, on the other hand, lacks an atmosphere, has very little gravity, and is extremely resource poor, and has bigger temperature extremes. It presents a lot of challenges that don't exist on Mars (or are substantially reduced).

If you want to build a base as a staging area for expeditions, there's no point in putting it on the surface of anything. Just stick it in the Earth-Moon L2 (rather than wasting a couple km/s getting down to the surface of the Moon and back).
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Then I hope to see soon a non-trivial (setting up a few dependecies) "Getting Started" for the layman !
Even stubborn people learn eventually if they get burned enough times.
How Facebook Live Scales
https://github.com/nascheme/ppython
JPMorgan no longer has the world's biggest money market fund. Alibaba does
Worse than little--it's getting pulled apart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC_yYLZac_s
Agree with most of your points, except for the fact that GSuite provides way more than file sharing. The true comparison would be between Google Drive and Dropbox, where Dropbox is difinitely better.
Here the value proposition is time for money and it depends on which is constraining the business. Reducing the training from 5 to 2.5 days might make a difference to the business. Or the time to market may be determined by the speed at which the marketing department can contract for a new campaign and that might be on the scale of months rather than a few days. It might also be the that going from 5 days to 2.5 days is not enough of a speedup to go from one iteration a week to two iterations a week due to setup and overhead and so business velocity remains the same.
Nice. I wonder if anyone tried doing the same in rust?
If Bugs Are Sentient, Should We Eat Them?
Who’ll Be the First to Meld with the Machines? Diabetics
Really? Because there seems to be no shortage of unemployed young, educated people in Europe.
I'm one of the devs on Kobble. There was debate about the names - it's not easy. 'channel' seems good, it's used by Slack also, and one of our channels is similar. 'track' however, is another story. It's really a tree or folder structure.
There's already a way to consume TypeScript through its API and inject a custom transform today, so a lot of the machinery is already in place.
>> You didn't publicize this kind of stuff because the effort of typing it and Xeroxing it for your zine wasn't worth the reward of a reader getting some sort of insight into the company culture.

At least for my cohort, that's not the reason why you didn't do it. You didn't do it because it was career limiting. There was value placed on a person who had a sense of discretion.

I'm sure a lot of HR types Google their candidates. I'm wondering if any would drop a candidate for having posted these things.
From Burning Millions to Turning Profitable in 7 Months–How HotelTonight Did It
> 7. If you are given a choice, you believe you have acted freely.

Applicable to so many things unrelated to magic.
Interaction Based Authentication for Alexa Skills with Auth0
There's No Such Thing as a Good Dog
Can you cite that? I thought that the PATH ran on the local tracks of the IND 6th Avenue tubes for most of it's Manhattan haul.

I believe you are correct about the tracks through the cross river tubes, but less traffic makes it easier to incorporate in NYCTA, not harder.

They talked about running PATH trains up the rest of the 6th Ave trunk in the early Aughts, but it fell apart due to political dysfunction (shocking).
This a great blog post. He makes a lot of interesting points and he sounds like he is in a similar state of near-despair to myself.

That said if I was to vote Labour it means I have to vote for Angela Eagle as my local MP, who I absolutely cannot stand. She didn't just remain silent on the issues I mentioned, she actively supported them and represents the Blairite right-wing of Labour that disenfracnhised its traditional supporter base in the first place.
Protocol Buffers can even serialize down to JSON (as does Thrift, for example).

Client code for PB+JSON has been a part of Google’s Closure library in fact (open source), and they used it in production for Gmail’s RPC, but I’m not sure if it’s still supported/recommended for PB 3.

The reason to use JSON instead of compact binary representation has been because JSON.parse is fast and doesn’t require any additional code. But nowadays JS is fast enough in most cases (unlike you’re doing something like streaming with media exts), but you can also ship Web Assembly/NACL library and (soon) delegate parsing to Web Worker with shared memory which should altogether give best possible performance.
I gave that a try. It looked neat, but nothing really amazing enough to shell out money when all I really need is tig and the shell.
Remember that many of the areas we know think of as ocean, were at that time dry land (Sundaland, Doggerland, etc) or covered in a mile of glacier. Even today fishermen will haul up old tools and bones from the Dogger banks off in the north sea. We may have had agriculture in many areas and times, but have not yet found the evidence for it, or the evidence is submerged and too hard to get to, or we built on top of it. Xenophon wrote of very ancient cities way back in ~400BC whose origins are attributed to legends and gods, possibly those cities were already thousands of years old.

https://thenaturalhistorian.com/2014/02/04/fishing-for-fossi...

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:abo:tlg...
By the way, did you get the 2.0 update in the old 1.9 version? I didn't :/
I mostly built this for fun and to get more experience working with Stripe. But if anybody has experience with apps that sends SMS, I would like to know if there's anything else I need to do.
Some quick Googling suggests there are services to help with this, e.g. https://siftscience.com/products/payment-fraud (no opinion about this or any of them.)
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I wrote some pretty low-level stuff in VAX PASCAL, which had extensions to let you do just about anything. It was a nice language.
Enabling DNS split authority with OctoDNS
It seems to me a lot of these ex-BuzzFeed video producers just leave the company once they become super popular and want "more independence."

It seems like they're publicly biting the hand that fed them by making these videos: If BuzzFeed never hired them in the first place, they'd all just be no-name YouTubers.
Concrete's tensile strength is about 10% of its compressive strength. So, yes, unreinforced concrete is quite weak in tension.
IMO, since the trend today seems to be building static binaries, I'd like to see an opinionated tool that made that use case stupid simple.
> I think there are thousands of better examples but they might not be at the scale of Dropbox.

Of those thousands of examples, which are the closest to Dropbox's scale?
Thanks for your answer, I agree that with a website the iterating process is probably faster.
There's another planet with a huge amount of unused sub-surface, and on-surface living space - the Earth. We don't even need to leave the gravity well!

If you're concerned about civilization-ending climate/nuclear disasters, consider that even in that event, parts of the Earth will still be more hospitable for human life then the Moon or Mars.
We have rebase support :)
I own about 15% of those PR's at any given time... and you're right: our Jenkins instance looks at open GitHub PR's, so to run all the tests somewhere, and to verify performance, we open a PR. Many of mine are lower priority things (or exploratory enhancements) and so they'll stay open for even a quarter at a time before it really makes sense to land them.
Font Map – An AI Experiment by IDEO
This is the most 'New York' story ever. It has all the stereotypes. It's about bridges. There is an unpronounceable name of a long-dead local notary, one's pronunciation then betraying on exactly which of New York's many blocks one grew up. We are reminded of how New York is actually a bunch of cities that at many levels squabble like they were different countries. Even the text: "But wait, there's more!" was a bit in MyCousinVinny. The article then spawns debates amongst New Yorkers over which viaduct, bypass, turnpike or expressway best gets one from one side of the city to the other. They are all ROADS. Every city has them. Why each must be so classified escapes me. Yes, New York roads are more convoluted than the average. It is an old city. But it isn't London or Tokyo. All this article needs mow is a reference to a pizza or bagel place.

Of course I only recognize these tells because of New York's place in modern media, the setting of so much TV situational humour that street names are household words worldwide. More feet may be shot in Vancouver or LA, but everything is still set in NY.
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Thanks for the reply, much better. I still don't get why the filename has to be PITCHME.md, though :)
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I could tell what they were saying, but my inner grammar Nazi kicked in as well.
Used to pay for this before it was acquired by Atlassian. Never used it since. Thought I might try, given the major new version number, but...

You will be prompted for your Atlassian account details. You only have to login once to complete your registration.

No thanks.

Be warned, paying users upgrading from 2.x to current 2.3.x will be forced to sign up.
LOL. Wait until chunks of ice start dropping off those cables in the winter and coming through windows to see how "beautiful" that design is.
Having read through the information on your site now it's been updated, it's much clearer than it was before. I feel like it should have been closer to this before submitting to HN, but the changes ("Gists are not private, and are suitable for content that you want to share", "control" rather than "own") are definitely a step in the right direction.
Expansiveness in that Three Body Triology takes place over a large period of time (billions of years), and the fact that it takes place over such a large space (Earth, Trisolaris, outer planets, etc). The ideas were similarly expansive, especially the dark forest philosophy and its implications. That being said, there were several places where I found myself bored and waiting for something to happen. Even so it was an enjoyable read overall.

Permutation City is one of my favorites. When you say "slow and boring", I say "subtle build" to the final realization of what Paul has done and how his realization has proved the "dust" theory.

Really like Schild's Ladder too, and Distress is pretty good but not my favorite.

I agree with you on Orthogonal for the most part. Although I was very disappointed in the ending - it seemed too abrupt and predictable given the rest of the story.
Oh I meant the 365/Dropbox combo, probably should've been more clear.
Looks like they opted to go for the "user local" installation approach on Windows, rather than installing per-system in \Program Files. I've seen other tools do this too.
Source 1.9 has a fairly different autoupdate mechanism,
I reckon they'll push out a reinstall message or similar .

FWIW, the beta version did manage to update to final 2.0
Can wax worm be the nature’s solution for plastic pollution?
From reputation I had expected that Google's sync would be as perfect as Dropbox, but my experience has been that sometimes Google screws up your data while Dropbox is perfect.

Google Drive's features may be peerless, such as their built-in office suite, but the fear of damaged data or spending an afternoon getting your files right drives me back to Dropbox for basic multi-machine file storage and syncing.
Given that Calvin's stated and recorded views run precisely counter to those ideas, it would require some pretty significant mental contortions to characterize anyone with those views as "Calvinist".

That reminds me of the recent statement by the NYT's Dean Baquet that they don't "get religion" [http://www.npr.org/2016/12/08/504806512/new-york-times-execu...]. It's certainly true that many current ideas and worldviews have been influenced by religious thought, but if one wishes to speak credibly about such things, getting some basic facts correct should be among the prerequisites. Apart from that, one won't effectively address the issue and is likely to come across simply as an anti-religious bigot. For some, that may not be a concern, but given the current environment of "fake news" and "alternative facts", I'd suggest that it's a counterproductive approach.
Love the concept!
Would be great to have more built-in instruments to try, maybe some could be adapted from LMMS?
I also wonder which tools you used to build the UI. Good luck with the project!
I believe one very important thing was the courage to put fairly high(1) price tag for the service and compete on the quality of the user experience and not on price.

People tend to compare the Dropbox price to for example S3 storage price, but I think that is wrong. I'm for example using the Dropbox for certain project files and I'm sure that at least in my case the major cost is not the actual storage, but bandwidth and processing.

Edit: (1) Compared to other file storage services.
I mean, the way you put it makes it sound like you think it very obviously doesn't. But are you willing to grant that maybe there's some very complicated optimization function for life satisfaction/personal fulfillment/eudamonia/whatever the hell you want to call it? It doesn't have to be practically computable to be interesting, you merely have to be able to do your best to approximate it.

If you deny the existence of any such thing, isn't that tantamount to saying that given the choice between two courses of action, there's never a reason to pick one over the other?

I mean, I feel like as humans, we're trying to follow fuzzy approximations of that function all our lives, whenever we're earning money, or spending time with people we love, or whatever, we're doing it because we think it will bring us happiness or life satisfaction or something.
Or Bitwig Studio - it has controller scripting API.
How HotelTonight Turned Profitable in Seven Months
Highlights / tl;dr:

- ability to check .js files

- default type parameters (eg; `class Component<Props, State = object> {}`)

- generators/iterators (including async-generators, a stage 3 proposal).

- `--strict` flag to easily give you --strictNullChecks, --noImplicitAny, --noImplicitThis, and --alwaysStrict

- language server plugins are official (the Angular and Vue ones were promoted in particular)
Can LinkedIn’s new apprenticeship program help diversify its workforce?
Ask HN: GPS for Mars
Since inception, the GPS and similar GNSSes proved invaluable in orientation and advanced navigation here on Earth. It seems to me that in order to successfully send humans to Mars, you need to have reliable infrastructure.

A GNSS network that doubles as communication network based on an array of low-flying satellites seems an obvious step to me - people landing there would have access to unlimited-range comms, and precise navigation techniques. But nobody talks about this.

What would be the tech and economical problems in starting to build the digital infrastructure on Mars?
Doing what you suggest would require closing and re-opening the project (which can take a while when working with GBs of samples).

Moving through the version tree could be as fast and efficient as undo/redo operations, which are usually instantaneous. In fact, DAWs already implement version control! It's just ridiculously limited, since all you can do is undo/redo. Depending on how they manage it internally, adding better version control features might not be that difficult. History and snapshots (a la Photoshop) would already be a vast improvement over what's generally available in DAWs.
Ask HN: What was the last +$1b company to go through YC?
i.e. which batch were they in?
Machine Learning Streamlines Search for Efficient Chemical Reactions
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I don't believe I am expressing any kind of "sky is falling" hysteria. It's not as though the concept of monopoly, or the reasons why it's something to discourage, should be tremendously controversial in this day and age.
The only figure in the article that's related to SpaceX is

> On a smaller scale, SpaceX, Musk's rocket company, cut a deal for about $20 million in economic development subsidies from Texas to construct a launch facility there. (Separate from incentives, SpaceX has won more than $5.5 billion in government contracts from NASA and the U.S. Air Force.)

$20m is pocket change as subsidies go. And if you consider the contracts that NASA has with SpaceX as subsidies then you'd have to think that about Boeing and BAE and all the other defense contractors.

Cost-plus procurement being corporate welfare is a valid position, but it's a much bigger issue than SpaceX.
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I think you mean that A is an object of your category...