skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Syntorial is pretty good. If you're looking for something free (and much more basic), I have a quick video series on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSwjp7Zt1GY&list=PLKzX4WhkkV...
I built it as part of my course I'm working on for Sagefy, so that would include some multiple choice practice questions too:
https://sagefy.org/subjects/CgDRJPfzJuTR916HdmosA3A8/landing
But there's nothing quite like just using the tools and getting experience directly, for sure.
Beware of Transparent Pixels
High portability might also benefit society. We hear a lot about families in the midwest who are locked into their employment markets which are declining.
Yes it happens, I work for a remote company and location has nothing to do with the offered salary. (USA based company).
The list of breaking changes is pretty long. Hope that things can get to the point where a 1.0 release is ready as it is suppose to happen in Qtr 2 or 3????
New Amazon Buy Button Program Draws Ire of Publishers, Authors
Because of the refund, 2X the carbon doesn't mean 2X the taxes. Someone who emits 120% of the average amount of carbon pays twice as much as someone who emits 110% of the average, but emits less than 10% more.
> I feel like rewriting this on top of SQL Server Express

Why choose a proprietary engine? Why not use PostgreSQL or even MySQL?
Absolutely spot on, good comment.
Quantum Up Close: What is a browser engine?
Most educational spending is state/local. In 2012 they spent ~1/3 of ~$2.6T = $826B, which corresponds to 21.5% of the federal budget.

http://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiatives...
I've also made a few iOS apps for the purpose of simplifying composition, though they're pretty limited in scope (on purpose). Although it seems most composers would prefer to use full DAWs from the start, I'm personally much more creative when I'm able to jot down and edit my fragmented musical ideas as quickly as possible, if only to make the initial draft. (If I were a better singer or musician, I'd just use a recorder or a looper — but my skills aren't quite there yet, and besides, it's hard to note-edit a recording.) Composer's Sketchpad[1] lets you paint notes directly onto a time/pitch canvas, bending and stretching them as they go along. (This works great for e.g. guitar solos.) MusicMessages![2] is a more basic piano roll that lets users quickly tap buttons across several layers to enter notes. (Musical bubble wrap! Works great for riffing on short drum sequences and chord progressions.)

There's another similar-sounding project called Helio that was posted a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14212054

I hope that in time, we get more Markdown-style composition tools vs. the full DAW suite. Good luck! I'm looking forward to seeing what you make.

P.S. AudioKit is pretty dope. :)

[1]: http://composerssketchpad.com

[2]: http://musicmessages.io -- working on turning it into a full iOS app, so will probably have to shut it down and fold it into the new app at some point
Have you applied to lots of remote jobs? What's been the biggest hurdle for you in getting one?
So you don't think your lifestyle as listed above has anything to do with your anxiety and mental health issues?
Do you recommend it for a noob on data analysis? I'd basically set up a MySQL or PostgreSQL somewhere else (like a vps) and load and download data from there.
As a long time contributor to OpenStreetMap, this is hugely appreciated. Getting direct support from Digital Globe is important and hopefully helps signal that OSM is worthy of people's time and contributions.
Amazon has been in the hardware game for awhile now with the various Kindle devices. They entered that market, deployed enough SKUs to satisfy nearly everyone out there, and started shifting outside the e-reader product to tablets, etc.

Apple is the juggernaut and is likely to overthink its product offerings and how it affects the ecosystem of existing devices. Just like the Kindle, Amazon is ready to flood the market with SKUs to see what sticks. They're building their brand in hardware very quickly and leading the market with the strongest connected home ecosystem.
Thanks for clarifying. What is the use case for 500000+200000 blocks/shards though? I can't imagine a real-world scenario that requires more than ~100 parity blocks. Even still, it would be a big deal if FastECC is 10x+ faster at something like 20+60 blocks.
Interesting to see NXP Semiconductors there. Being primarily a semiconductor manufacturer how do they use JVM based (Java etc) language ecosystem in their products? SDK to program their boards for development purposes?
the video seems like a parody
I don't think it's simple. I know people that took as much as a year to find a job they liked while remaining employed at a poor workplace. However it is important, so even if it takes time and effort you should try to look for better work rather than accept the current situation.
Why would you remove something to lower everyone? How about looking for tax incentives for renters? Maybe make rent increases tax deductible. I read this as a tale about "how the property owners are standing on the promise of the working class".
I feel most people don't realize Grammarly stores everything on a remote server. Not sounding like an illiterate in a company email is nice, but how many confidential emails have been written in there? Probably too many.
Increasing the physical health of all people would be the most productive things we could do as a society.

Nothing else would remotely come close.
That's pretty funny. I'm sure memorizing the differences between the Hausdorff, the completely Hausdorff, the regular Hausdorff, the normal Hausdorff, the completely normal Hausdorff, and the perfectly normal Hausdorff must be fun.
...except state monarchies with telecom monopolies banning Whatsapp, Skype, Facetime...
>And empirically, a home mortgage is perhaps the most successful mass-market forced-savings program in American society today, with much higher participation than tax-deferred retirement accounts[2].

You just made an argument for a forced-savings program, not for a home mortgage deduction.

Moreover, I think the issue with savings is a service problem, not an impulse control problem. Tax deferred accounts are complicated to figure out for a lot of people and it can be difficult to keep track of for people who don’t do regular, salaried work. I still have 2 or 3 401ks from previous jobs that I haven’t gotten around to rolling over just because coordinating with them and getting the form filled out is a bit of a hassle and it’s an easy thing to procrastinate on. And I have the advantage of actually knowing how this stuff works!

If it was as easy as just having a chunk of my salary taken out on a regular basis, and made opt-out rather than opt-in, you'd get a way higher participation rate.
> Using SRFI-69 would cut out some of the alist boilerplate, and help with unexpected cornercases.

I need the datastructure to be persistent, maybe I will use fash in the next iteration cf. http://wingolog.org/pub/fash.scm

> And seeing Biwa Scheme makes me nervous - its an interpreter, not a compiler.

Yes, I understand. Though I don't want to divert too much from scheme standard. The end goal is to run everything using GNU Guile.

Tx!
At the same time, richer younger people are paying to support poorer older people, many of whom are not capable of working. Even if we err on the side of helping too many of our elders, I can't see that as a weakness of our nation. Maybe you can stop people from becoming poor, but you can't stop people from getting old.
> Do you have a different level of expected privacy with Amazon's services than you do with Apple, Google, or Microsoft?

I was thinking about this today, and figured this is the epitome of a dystopian society. We've readily given up our freedoms and privacy in lieu of technology that is able to gather data on us and shared with entities we probably don't approve of, blinded by the "cool" things this technology can do.

Every time I see something like this I get nauseated because people are willing to hand over all their personal data for some shiny new technology that really doesn't do anything really amazing at all. I must be getting old, because it felt like not too long ago, technology was developed to help humans, not to gather data on them and subvert their privacy and treat them like dollar signs.
So, in effect, large, publicly traded corporations would then own the land, as you describe it? You think that's a good idea?
I hated them too.

Think of a meeting without clear hierarchy, with a random team (so no "usual roles") and the stress to handle people that are not entirely your first choice...

But even more I hated psycho-games. Some rules or some concept you have to follow without being told what it is good for in the end. ("Write down whay you think about XY, now exchange these with your neighbour. I will tell you what to do with it later")
I have played piano and guitar (piano for almost my entire life and guitar for several years) and have used both tabular sheet music and traditional sheet music.

Tabular sheet music is much easier to read initially as it provides a one to one mapping between the visual representation and the physical location of the notes - i.e. 5 frets along on this string. However, from my experience there is a cap on the 'bandwidth' at which you can sight read this. It is just too hard to mentally parse a bunch of numbers on lines and turn that into notes when playing at speed. (For non musicians, 'sight reading' means to read the notes and play fluently at the same time)

Traditional sheet music has a steeper learning curve, however, I've found that reading this music becomes much more subconscious with practice and the bandwidth at which you can parse the notes is much higher. Also, it is much easier to notice patterns in sheet music - i.e. a major 7th chord in the key of the song is visually obvious no matter what the key.
Nice article. Some good insights, as well as beginner how-to steps.

The embedded industry has proven to be very resistant to innovations and modern code-writing practices. Some platforms I coded for didn't even support/allow C99 standard. C++ is gaining some foothold (mbed, for example). Developers don't feel the urge to catch on with times, like in other industries. And yet, now they are expected to write secure IoT systems.

Hopefully Rust can demonstrate its worth and convert key industry specialists who would blog about it. Personally, I'm still waiting for perfect opportunity to apply it on medium-sized project before I fully commit (secretly I'm still rooting for Nim).
I'm surprised. I read through it and thought it wasn't very good. I've been writing Rust here and there for some time now. It seemed like there were a lot of errors in the post.
I don't know a whole lot about concert piano, but I don't think you could have picked two better videos to illustrate your point. That student is obviously very practiced and skilled but there's just no comparison.
>If anything, we are just training students that your terrible group work experiences are normal.

Oh, absolutely. That's what the whole school experience is about. Think about it. We sit all your desks in nice neat rows. You have to ask permission even to use the restroom. We demand conformity, maybe even put you in a uniform. Don't you dare ever question authority. Sit here quietly for hours on end doing mindless tasks for meaningless rewards.

If that's not some reasonable analogy to what your job is like, then you are probably at least a standard deviation outside the norm in IQ or creativity.
Eh, people are spoiled by transistors. There were a time when you had to wait 15 minutes for the vacuum tubes to warmup before you could see anything on the screen :)
>For one, I remember the Great Recession.

How old are you?
if you put your money in something like crypto instead, you can come out ahead easily.
90 minutes is too long. I remember lots of rushing between classes. We didn't sit for a 90 minutes in one room. Much of this talk about getting the blood flowing during lectures would probably be addressed through shorter classes; Not dedicated exercise but the simple act of getting up and walking from one class to the other more often.
Geniuses Wanted: NASA Challenges Coders to Speed Up Its Supercomputer:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/science/nasa-supercompute...
> if you know one DAW well, you can usually learn another one fairly quickly

I couldn't disagree more, but I am talking about doing professional work. The concepts are all the same but getting where you are proficient in a DAW takes a very long time to find the quirks and strangeness that each one comes with to produce a quality piece.

Video Editors are hundred times harder to switch.
Glad to see this, not a fan of "requires / exports" keywords.

Java packages already use import. So, logically export should be associated with packages not modules.

Module being meta-package, should follow these.

"requires <package>"

"declares <package>"
They can do some capacity modulation through pricing, sure, but their historical DBs have a large enough 'n' (American Airlines SAABRE was the first big database application and drove database design) that they can predict pretty well. Which is why the bumped-due-to-overbooking is pretty low.

BTW I think it's appalling that overbooking is allowed in this age of nonrefundable tickets. You've paid for the seat; whether you sit in it is your business. In the old days of regulation most tickets were fully reusable, and overbooking harks back to that time.
>> As abused as they are, internet users need to build up some healthy "buyer beware" instincts around the tradeoffs.

This shouldn't be on the users. The disparity in knowledge between the people running the services and the people using them is huge. The reason a lot of laws (in general) exist is to protect the vulnerable from harm, including harm they don't have the capacity to understand. I think that's an important facet of this debate. It's not just 'free market/free choice' etc. The harm involved in giving up your privacy isn't fully understood by many people so it's up to the law to protect them.
I assume you want them to keep prices low until the more expensive gas actually works its way through the supply chain to them. Should they also keep prices high for that period after oil prices drop?
You can run Thunderbird on iOS/Android?
However, Julia isn't Python - although I don't know enough about the latter to comment on what deficiencies you are referring to, nor do I know if Julia addresses these.
Harry Styles and New Girlfriend Tess Ward Have Got Very Serious
And an individual - Ivar Grimstad. Most surprising one there for me.
So invest your 401K in a stock index fund.
> You could eat nothing but 1000 calories of pure sugar a day and still lose weight

Yes, if you were locked in a room and passed exactly 1000 calories of sugar cubes and water every single day. Most of us live in the real world with food all around us, easily available, and responsibilities to stay on top of. It's really easy to say "this diet is making me feel terrible, I'm just going to eat what I want so I won't be so cranky to my kids".
It's close enough. Technically, it works like this:

She claims to be raped. By doing so, she admits that sex occurred outside of marriage, and now she must prove that it was a rape. Sharia requires 4 male witnesses to prove this. Good luck with that.

Unless the rapist was dumb enough to attack while watched by 4 males who would be willing to testify, he can't be convicted. She confessed to the sex though, so she will be convicted.
To be honest Justin, 3 of us voted based on experience and opinion (we've sent millions of clicks to landing pages in our time).

More art than science here. :)

You make a good point about conversion rates but I dare say the page owners would release them, or even be honest about them!
Yes this is of course a regulatory burden and just a probably unrealistic solution. But the main problem remains, how can someone who is renting get at least some savings out of it?
That argument can be made about the usefulness of taxes on anything.
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Applying online for a role a while back, was not the best experience for me.
> But I consider Planescape: Torment to be a better work of art. It isn't in a standard poetic form, though.

Mmm. There's some of that, yes, but I think it'd fail for not being so entirely sublime as the best canonical works of prose and poetry (and art, generally). It avoids some of the drudgery of its genre, yes, but while much of the "waiting for the pathfinding to take The Nameless One from one side of this room I've already seen 10 times to the other" might be fine in a narrow sort of way, given enough of it (and there is enough of it), that probably takes it out of the running for any sort of grand cross-medium canonical great-art-of-all-time collection.

Unless you cleverly add constant wonder and discovery or some kind of emotional connection to the gamey-because-this-is-what-games-do bits (or cut them, somehow, without making it Not A Game) it's like a film with a great story and acting, but poorly-selected shot framing and uninspired editing constantly working against it.

Say it's in a genre you like a lot, though, and maybe you'd feel put-out that it's not being shown in film courses, because you don't notice the parts that aren't so good or could easily have been much better and better served the film's purpose, and besides most of the movies in the genre you like are that way, so what's the big deal? Certainly you like it much better than Kurosawa or Truffaut or whoever's in the curriculum.

FWIW the only real masterpiece of a game I can think of that I've played, in that kind of broad all-of-human-art sense, with a real understanding of its sources, its direction, art in a larger sense, the games that have come before it, and the way games work and how it can use that constantly to its advantage for more than just occupying the player's time, is Kentucky Route Zero. I've never seen the game-parts of games used in such a literary fashion before, with everything else also coming together nicely. Just beautiful. And I've played and enjoyed lots of games.

[EDIT] The Witness shows signs of qualifying, too, but I haven't played enough to be sure, and it's the kind of thing that needs good follow-through to fully work. Gotta get back to that one and finish it.
Solution: don't write checks? I use cashier's checks wherever possible, I get them for free and there's never a potential for overdraft nightmares since it comes out of my account right away - the only time I've written a check in recent memory is the registration fee for my daughter's preschool since my wife wanted to pay it on-the-spot if she liked the place.
I guess I should've said "a different kind of creativity" rather than "less creativity". When you're doing maintenance work - even the sorts of large scale rewrites that totally change the architecture - your requirements are known. You can write down the goal, ideally write automated tests for it, and then you're done when the system passes the tests. Figuring out the solution may require a lot of creativity and intuitive leaps, but at least both the starting and ending points are expressed in rational terms.

For green-field software products (contracting is different, and much more akin to product maintenance), your requirements are unknown. Your ultimate acceptance criteria is "does the user like it?", which is an emotional one, not a logical one. This requires that you connect the rational part of your brain, which speaks the language of the machine, with the emotional part, which speaks the language of the user. Being able to exercise both parts in tandem is a very rare skillset, which is why market rates for truly innovative programmers range into the millions. (This ability to fuse emotional & rational thinking together is also a skillset required of CEOs, executives, politicians, and pop entertainers, all of which are also professions with compensation reaching into the millions.)
What type of proof would be good for you?
That's precisely _why_ the list of breaking changes is long.
> The one that has jumped out at me first is called “Drop In” — which lets you make a call to someone without them even answering the phone first.

I wish that the product person who pushed this as an "innovative" idea lives a short, brutish, and painful life where he/she dies alone.

EDIT: That's too mean spirited.

If you want to peer in on your elderly parents, webcams are a better idea because you'll put them in a position that captures a wide angle or buy a 360 degree camera as opposed to this which only seems to pick up video in the direction it's facing.

What person would ever want this "feature"? We have webcams for people who don't mind exhibiting themselves. People overwhelmingly prefer to text others rather than talk over the phone or facetime when given the chance. Even when you visit someone in person, you don't drop in, unannounced like a peeping tom. You knock on the door to announce your appearance, exactly analogous to ringing the telephone before listening in and watching.

I don't like it because the world's largest retailer has the marketing and advertising muscle to normalize this behavior by preying upon our fears, our irrational behavior, and our cognitive biases. Look at the social stigma one faces if you don't have a facebook account and you're under 35. Not just that, but you will get harassed by border and customs agents if they ask for your social media account and you don't have one, setting off red flags.

In the near future, I can see this feature becoming a requirement for remote workers with insecure managers.

EDIT: This will definitely become a feature on sites like Upwork so that buyers can make sure developers are billing them the correct hours, even though the prices are dirt cheap already.
> 1.) If you truly are "rich," then you pay for your home in cash.

You might buy a house in cash if you're rich to get a better purchase price and have a quicker closing process. However, you would likely mortgage the house AFTER purchase and then invest that cash in a high dividend stock or some other security.

Only a rich fool would keep a house mortgage when interest rates are as low as 2.5% in some cases. (source: friend who has this interest rate)

For instance - there are some REITs that return dividends higher than 8%. What rich person would want to keep non-liquid capital tied up in home equity when there are plenty of high performing dividend stocks out there?
Thanks! When I learned this piece, I listened to that recording on repeat. Michaelangeli is simply amazing.
There are a lot of books on the subject, but the short answer is that it's just the most common standard at this point. Yes there are some things about it that don't make sense, but for whatever reason it seems to be the most coherent way for musicians to communicate using a common language.

It's popularity also has to do with what sounds pleasing to the ear (and brain) on a biological level.

A number of people have come up with alternative scales and notations systems over the years, but none of them have really stuck for one reason or another. Nonetheless, they are pretty fun to read about.

here's the whole history of notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_notation

Also, if you aren't familiar with John Cage, you should check him out. His music and writing deals with a lot of the stuff you just brought up, and it's also a really great jumping off point to find other interesting artists and musicians.

Indeterminacy, a work he did with David Tudor is a great starting point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lOMHUrgM_s