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Yes - I think to expand upon my post above and your excellent reply, it all boils down to "context matters".

I think learning theory and concepts (in both guitar playing and programming) is far more interesting to me when applied to 'real world' situations.

Basically, instead of learning and memorising the various keywords of, say, SQL, if you gave a student a dataset with several tables and thousands of rows of data and said - "Now extract X for me from these tables", then they will see that there are several ways of doing so, with different benefits and downsides.

Similarly, if you gave a guitarist an unusual chord progression with, say a diminished or minor chord in the mix and said "Work out a solo that sounds good over that", then there will be some interesting learning in there without having to memorise every single scale that they could use. Many ways of coming up with a solution to the problem.

Another anecdote that relates to my favoured method of learning - When I was in high school, I disliked trigonometry, and never really got to grips with soulless diagrams and charts on the page. But when I graduated and went to flying school, and had to learn spherical trigonometry (several fiendish levels harder than standard trig) in the context of learning navigation on a globe, I absolutely fell in love with it, and indeed I think the first time I ever got 100% in a maths test was in one of my first spherical trig classes at flight school.
I've worked in government in a variety of capacities. The stereotypical waste that is typically cooked up in a drop in the bucket.

Waste that you get from the privatization efforts are an order of magnitude more expensive. Unfortunately, the people in policy positions today are clueless... voting no doesn't fix anything.
Because it often drives the drive to the bottom
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I'm a self taught programmer, but a formally trained musician.

My observation is that you can learn practically anything on your own, but some skills are so rare among the self taught, that one might as well assume they won't happen.

For instance, most self-taught musicians can't read sheet music at a useful level of fluency. That includes the vast majority of guitarists. Now there are plenty of playing opportunities that don't involve reading, and you'll generally do just fine, but if someone calls you for a gig that involves a lot of reading, you'll have to turn it down. Every town has a small cadre of musicians who enjoy this kind of work, and everybody knows who to call.

Also, some instruments lend themselves to self-teaching. The one that I play -- double bass -- is physically dangerous if you don't follow a "correct" approach, and most people who try to learn it on their own, give up in frustration. Guitar is a great instrument for the self taught. You won't kill yourself trying, and it pretty much makes a pleasant sound right off the bat.

As for programming, I use it in my job, but I'm not employed as a programmer per se. Programming is my secret weapon. I've never applied for a programming job. I work in a big enough shop, that if I have a theory question, or a problem that would really benefit from the opinion of someone who is steeped in theory, I just have to ask.
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>Win 10 is vulnerable without the patch that came out in march

Microsoft clearly disputes this in their own posts on the subject.

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/05/12/customer...

"Customers running Windows 10 were not targeted by the attack today."

What's your source?
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New York City cabs seem to stay in service about 6 years, with 400,000+ miles on them at that point.
FRAND stands for "fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory", and "reasonable" refers mainly to pricing[1]. So, yes, the agreements do include pricing - but the actual contract terms are incredibly vague, basically just restatements of the acronym with no details. To quote the FTC's original complaint:

> For instance, the ETSI intellectual property rights (“IPR”) policy requires standard-setting participants to commit to provide “irrevocable licenses on fair, reasonable and non discriminatory (‘FRAND’) terms and conditions.” The TIA policy requires any SEP holder that wishes to monetize its essential patents to commit to license SEPs “to all applicants under terms and conditions that are reasonable and non-discriminatory . . . to the extent necessary for the practice of . . . the Standard.” The ATIS policy requires SEP holders to license SEPs “under reasonable terms and conditions that are demonstrably free of any unfair discrimination” to “applicants desiring to utilize the license for the purpose of implementing the standard.” [2]

What counts as a "reasonable" price is therefore a question for the courts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discriminat...

[2] https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/170117qualc...
I use 2 pis as cable boxes (running kodi). For me the pi as a media server is appealing because it's size basically makes it part feel like it's built into the TV. There's no fan whirling or power adapter hanging around anywhere. It has never had any stuttering issues with HD content.

It's powerful enough for what I want to use it for and it's tiny enough as to be basically invisible. Could I get more bang for the buck? Sure. But there's something to be said for the qualitative aspects of hardware preferences.
Cue the Apple and Linux astroturfers who say that _their_ OS is secure!
I think taxes are good. I don't mind paying taxes at all.

I want to support community services and public works and social equality.

The only context in which I really really hate paying tax is where I feel that the politicians are looting the public money to enrich themselves and give themselves generous employment benefits well beyond that of ordinary citizens.
I live a block away from a public library. It's so close that I can see it right outside my window!

And you know what? I have not been to that library ever, and I've lived in this neighborhood for years.

Even if you happen to use your library every day now, you probably won't be doing that in twenty years, regardless of whether or not they continue to offer service in your town.

Taking a wide view, what else should we expect, now that we have computers in our pockets connected to a far larger and more comprehensive source of knowledge?

There are a lot of details and small objections to my point here, to be sure, but the technology that's driving this trend is NOT going away.
Yes, Microsoft is converting an operating system to a web page where they can track your usage. Have you tried with tweaking software like http://winaero.com ?
Then maybe "commodity" isn't the right word. Maybe "utility"? Or, in the future, "monopoly"?
I use my Raspberry Pi to play around with sensors (such as humidity, temperature, RFID, etc) through the GPIO pins. That's the main selling point, I think. It's an educational product more than anything.
I hope the author of Paint.NET will see this submission and removes the ads. I'm a big fan Paint.NET and made a donation. But this practice is just shady and makes no honor to the author of otherwise great application.
I am actually very interested in its application to musical patterns, ie the actual notes rather than the audio. I think there's already a tool that uses this to generate rich and musically-correct MIDI on the fly but I'm having trouble remembering the name/manufacturer now. Future Retro maybe.
In iOS development, all the time. I subclassed UI components like UITextView and other things so I could customize its appearance and add functionality.
I, for one, am shocked to hear this. Shocked I say
Is HN front page a large spike in traffic?
My local government is really transparent about the budget, where it's going. They've been running really lean since the great recession. It's really interesting to see how they spend money. There are couple programs I question, but for the most part they do an excellent job. I will say sometimes a few years after these programs are implemented I'm generally a fan.

I understand the drive to make government more efficient, run better, but I'm not sure if that's the goal of the current conservative movement. At least here in Michigan the state government under republican control has caused all sorts of issues, like the Flint water crisis.
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> Anyone who thinks that these bodies ever change their mind due to the public comment periods is gullible.

It happened less than 2 years ago, on the topic of Net Neutrality. Remember? Tom Wheeler who was a known opponent of Net Neutrality? And the amazing flood of comments CHANGED HIS MIND?

Quit spouting off about how it's hopeless to change anything, and instead GO START REACHING OUT TO YOUR GOVERNMENT. (Your suggestion of calling congresspeople is a good one.)
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This can actually require less overhead than Coolest Cooler, due to its particular usage of materials. The only big logistical issues will be shipping super heavy blankets and sourcing those materials. That said, adding more early bird backers is another sort of over-promising, and where you're gonna end up biting off more than you can chew.
The Asus Chromebox is a cheap x86 box. It is basically a cheap NUC.

As for odroid, I mentioned it because one of the points in referenced article was lackluster speed on the Rpi. If the Rpi is fast enough for what you're doing, none of this is needed.
The problem with cutting costs is that nobody agrees on what should get cut. Everyone has their district and it's pet projects.

The best way I've seen it done is to just slash everything by the same amount. Sadly this results in things like closing libraries.

Nobody agrees on what's waste and what isn't. If everyone agreed that X was a big waste of money it wouldn't exist, so we're stuck with a system where every dollar goes to a thing somebody cares about
On this topic I recommend the "learn X in 20 minutes a day" series of math books for folks trying to get started in subjects they've had difficulty with in the past. I always struggled with Calculus until that book. The math is taught almost entirely by visuals and intuition hints. I came away understanding Calc, not just how to perform the steps. It helped me divine the purpose of calculus, not just the process. I've used them for Geometry and stats to similar effect. Highly recommend for anyone who share the sentiments of the OP.
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As a Norweigan, you may not be in possession of certain facts about the US politics.

1. Almost all media in the US is severely biased.

2. This to me at least looks like something called the "national parks strategy." This is when the government funds its unpopular pet projects (frequently theft), and underfunds popular programs such as national parks, roads and the like then threatens the public with their closure if they do not pass tax increases. Frequently, if the tax is passed, they do a show project and misallocate the rest of the money. Over the time citizens have become wise and vote--entirely rationally-- for the safest option which is, no new taxes.

California is in the midst of such a battle now: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/11/californians...
The thing is that a lot of the costs are fixed, up-front costs. Editorial, typesetting, proofreading, copyediting, other production costs (fees, permissions, etc. for art), sales and marketing costs (catalogs, advance copies, sales calls) are all incurred before copy 1 is printed. Marginal costs for a book that sells well is relatively small, though some expenses (retail coop payments, royalties) get a bigger budget when a book is a bestseller. A big-selling book is way more profitable than a midlist book, which might not even break even. Traditionally, backlist (where those fixed costs were amortized long ago) was also profitable for publishers, even at lower sales volumes, but it is not quite as good business these days. It's really true that bestsellers are like the hollywood summer 'tentpole' movies--they pay for everything else.
Yes: there are a huge number of developers stuck in crappy jobs.
There is no date on this post, but few details point this to be bit outdated.

Lot of mobile assets are now svg (Android), pdf (iOS) or programmatically created. Most of the time if you design in Sketch, you don't really need to worry about the pixels since all the assets are in vectors. You can just spec everything in pt and export the assets in svg or in the desired 2,3x, whatver-x as needed.
Have you ever tried an Atom processor for running Plex? I've always been curious how it would perform.

I had an older Atom device running Plex server for quite a while, but back then I almost never needed full transcoding for playback -- usually 'stream direct' which just shifts the MKV container to MP4 -- relatively easy work. And when I did have full transcode, it was either from h.264->h.264 with slightly different profile settings or MPEG-2 -> h.264. I had to configure it for the lowest quality transcoding settings in order to avoid interrupted playback, but it worked. I upgraded to fastest i5 that was offered about two years ago and it's handled everything quite well -- though h.265 transcoding takes substantially longer to start-up and seek than h.264 full transcodes.

I'm curious what modern Atom processors can handle. I know they've made some improvements to the chips, but is it enough, yet?
>Plenty of people starve in the US.

That statement is laughably ridiculous. Can you provide examples, aside from people with eating disorders?
All software has flaws. It's how we respond to them that matters.

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Two kinds of bad crowdfunding projects come to mind: One where the product is in the realm of possibility with today's engineering and can be reproduced in mass quantity, but the creator dropped the ball in terms of logistics and communication.

The other kind is the one where the product is very pie-in-the-sky, requires multiple breakthroughs in the process of making said product, and the creator shows a clear lack of expertise or reputation in the disciplines for making the product.

Often, the people that take the bait in the second group are an extreme case of wishful thinking of wanting their past vision of the future (which is today) to be full of wonderful tech products, and they see something remotely futuristic and throw their money at it.
Yep, speed is the biggest issue on the RPi, both the CPU itself (even the Pi 3) and the network/USB bandwidth. The Odroid is faster, but what's the point of having the fastest board in town if you can only run one or two broken distros on it?
> The idea that outperformance should be rewarded with wealth is fundamental to the idea of capitalism. It is well represented by the idea of r > g.

No, the idea that aggregate performance should redound principally to the benefit of capital holders is fundamental to the idea of capitalism, and, yes, that pretty much implied that r > g leads to greater inequality under capitalism.

> If you think it's actionable perhaps you could suggest an action?

If the problem is fundamental to capitalism, the action to correct it is to move away from capitalism.

> If you think no micro action is meaningful, does this mean you would be comfortable walking up to a homeless person and saying that you're not going to bother helping them with their problems because no matter what they do, r > g and they're screwed?

No, it means when I do something to momentarily alleviate the immediate problems of a homeless person, I know that unless I am also working to reform the fundamental politico-economic system to deal with the structural problem, I'm doing nothing more than putting a band-aid on a sucking chest wound.

r > g is not the problem, r > g is aggregate prosperity. Capitalism is the problem that turns aggregate prosperity into greater relative deprivation and narrow concentration of wealth.
Interesting, thanks for that information.
Could you share any links where I can find these books. I tried google but couldn't find them.
Google can leverage a lot of control using Play Services. If, as gp suggests, they also create an OEM layer so the OEM doesn't have to fork Android and instead just builds on top of safe APIs, allowing Google to take over updates entirely, then Google can force OEMs to use it.
What does a developers portfolio entail? I'm a motion graphic designer and when I apply for jobs I send a demo reel of my work. Which is a 1 minute video with snippets of my best stuff set to music. Is there something similar developers send along with resumes?
In the top answer one of the last paragraph sounds like the real answer:

> When I was a graduate student, we had a wonderful working seminar on Sunday mornings with bagels and cream cheese, where I learned a lot about differential geometry and Lie groups with my classmates.

At the end, the students needed context and enlightment. We cannot underestimate other dimensions of the learning experience.
Libraries are more than just books on shelves, they're also community centers. I find your your avowedly uninformed dismissiveness quite depressing.
To be honest 17 is very young. I'd employ neither, without something that blew me away. I don't know that making that comparison is really relevant.

30 years and no work history implies some problem that has prevented them from working.

17 years implies a lack of life experience and likely a lack of soft skills. Once they hit their 20's however they're going to be less of a gamble, regardless of their work experience.

So yes at some point too much time will have passed for them to become more employable. But I was only thinking in a sub 5 year term. More as a means of encouraging someone in that situation, not as a hard and fast rule, that the older you are the more easily you're employed.
I go to the library almost daily. Plenty of people there. More so than before the internet. A big chunk of them go to use the computers there, study, read the newspaper, or just to socialize a bit. A lot of them are there for other activities: story time for children, yoga, computer classes, movie time. It seems to me that libraries are turning into community centers, which is great. Every community needs a library that doubles as a quasi community center.
If Lyft had a black car option, I'd use them constantly; I wonder what keeps them from rolling that out.
I've been using a $140 chromebox flashed with Ubuntu as an HTPC and seedbox. It works very well and has very nice IO (lots of USB 3, HDMI, gigabit, etc.).

The only minor problem I've run into is that the processor is just slow enough that it chokes on high-entropy 1080p video. 99.5% of the time it's fine, but if there's something on screen with lots of tiny objects moving in lots of different directions (a swarm of locusts, an explosion in space, etc.) the frame rate drops substantially. It makes perfect sense if you think about how video compression works. I just wish it had a tiny bit more oomph.
But why is it that when conservatives are in government they go for the easy targets instead of tackling the structural problems? There are lots of ideas in conservative philosophy that are superficially very attractive and that I'd like to agree with, but far fewer examples of conservative governance bringing down costs while maintaining or improving service levels.
You mean higher effort/reward? Otherwise, I'm confused.
Because they are written by mathematicians. In my case, when I have learned a mathematical topic, the intuition becomes obvious and the derivations/proofs seem to be much more important for gaining a complete understanding. I have gone up against texts with complete bewilderment, only to come back after gaining the intuition and found the extensions of the core premises and proofs provided by the text to be highly enlightening.

Great math teachers understand the need to teach intuition. He wasn't a math teacher, but I think Richard Feynman is the pinnacle of this. See [1] to see how he expresses intuition about physics, and his Red Books[2] for how he teaches mathematical physics with all the qualities I believe makes a great maths text for students.

Also, there's a linear algebra MOOC which also teaches great intuition before delving into proofs and heavy detail [3]. I mention these examples because they are exemplars of this idea of teaching intuition.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zZbX_9ru9U

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Feynman-Lectures-Physics-Vol-Mechanic...

[3]https://www.edx.org/course/linear-algebra-foundations-fronti...
And yet here we are facing the same problem again, merely two years later. During that two year timespan, they tried and tried to get legislation through that would kill net neutrality. They just kept pushing until our political will broke down. It should be fairly obvious that democracy has failed. The government does not represent the people, it represents the corporations and lobbyists.
Caching.

I used to be responsible for sites involved with the Olympics. For 100 weeks traffic was next to nothing. For the two weeks preceding and two weeks during the games there really was spike after spike after spike.

The site basically used nginx with SSI to serve up static content that was generated from Rails. Almost everything we could make static was. We rsync'd files every minute or so across the cluster and would lazy load for content at an individual node if needed.

For dynamic stuff we figured out tricks to use JS, APIs and memory cache dynamic partials. I wouldn't recommend any of that unless you really have the need though.
Why do you need black cars specifically? More professional?
Depends on what you're doing with it I suppose. Everything I've needed dev boards for has been headless, so I never had to deal with GPU driver issues. I recall rpi having issues in that area before as well though.

Odroid says it works with Ubuntu 16.04. that's the current LTS, isn't it?
With how much Google had previously invested in Uber, without the Waymo lawsuit it's safe to say this deal would have been struck with Uber instead. Has nottt been a good few months for Uber, and Lyft has really taken advantage.
I agree. Ultimately no one is going to be able to produce and maintain a car cheaper than a car manufacturing company so I feel like the eventual "winner" is going to be someone either partnered with, or is, a car manufacturer.

Tesla is positioning itself super well for this. GM seems to be on its way as well especially with their past interest in Lyft?
Pigs get fed, hogs get slaughtered.
He's talking about a fairly advanced math topic, abstract algebra.

At some point, you graduate from "being taught" to "teaching yourself." By the time you get PhD, you need to teach yourself, because you're studying things no one has ever studied before.
Not GP but I use them for clients.

For personal use I'd be fine with a rickshaw.