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I recommed Steve Reich - Music for 18 musicians :-)
Composing in the DAW is the best way to make someone else's music. Create your own creative process, then you are on the way to your own sound.
Bubble collapse
It's always nice to see when people take even less than a complete sentence and pretend that this is what the author said and that this was all.
If the JCP isn't allowed to disagree, it was never much of a Community Process, and we were in Oracle-runs-the-show all along.

I wonder what Oracle will do; burning the JCP is not something that will go unpunished.
Whilst an easy start is nice, any language that you can pick up with no effort just means you're learning the same language + paradigm that you already know with a few differing features (in go's case CSP). Nothing wrong with that, CSP is awesome etc

I'm not a rust dev (definitely interested in picking it up though), but heavily into clojure and learning haskell slowly on the side. I hear this complaint a lot from people who think that because they learnt C#, Go, Java and Swift in a weekend that all languages will be just as quick to stick in their heads.
This is an incredible redesign, utilizing widely known gestures (swipes, double taps, etc). Apple should embrace these further, IMO, and a casual-use app like Music makes the most sense. I'm a longtime Spotify Premium user and I tried v1 of Music but it was jus too painful. This would have made me stay. Great job.
One of the benefits of Clojure is that it's Just Another JAR. If you want the to use a new version of the Java language, you have to convince your devops people to deploy a new version of the Java runtime, which may take time. If you want to use the latest version of Clojure, all you have to do is change a dependency in your build, and you can use the latest version of Clojure with Java 6 if need be.

Maybe eventually compatibility with Java 6 will be abandoned, maybe eventually they'll require 8, but the Clojure devs really don't want to do that lightly.
Cheaper than the $99 Intro license?
I wonder if there is anyone who is working remote has outsourced themselves? Get a remote job that pays quite a bit more than you need to live comfortably in your area, then hire a remote worker from India to do the work for you.
Not really, history shows us lots of complicated things that give lie to most statements as simple as yours. However, even if it were that simple, the mechanism by which the consumer benefits is the one that I describe, not the production of the efficiencies. Which is why it is important. "Briefly", after all, can be most of your lifetime.
Some post-processing but not all. Most TVs are ill suited for Gaming which is ironic since the gaming industry thrives in front of the TV.
Ask HN: What Phone(s) should I get for testing a bootstrap 4.0 project
I personally do not use a smartphone. Yeah you better believe that, I have a old android 3 phone that collects dust.

I work on a big Bootstrap 4.0 project and I actually sell software that is branded "responsive" without actually testing it on mobiles myself (evil customer abuser). And I need to test it on mobiles.

Personally I prefer Android but if I were into Smartphones I would probably like to dive into alternative roms and OSes, but that not matters much here. I like cutting edge tech but at the same time when it comes to testing I should probably get a android 4/5 phone on purpose rather then a android 7 right? Can I install/test multiple web rendering engines on them?

I like the Fairphone 2 for the ethical and the repair parts, but the hardware is darted but that could also be a good thing for testing right?

Also I guess I need a Iphone as well.

I looked into web based testing, seems many of this services provide testing on real devices now. Can something like this replace a real device? My guess is not because having it on your hand is something else. This services seem very expensive too.
When I'm driving my car I try to use Siri to play certain artists, but even that experience is awful.

I'll say to shuffle some music from a band containing "Theory" in its name. Siri gets everything right except replaces "Theory" with "Siri" and then starts playing something completely different!

Shouldn't Siri + Apple Music look at my own library first to find close matches to a spoken query before going off and playing something I've never listened to before that isn't even in the genres I listen to most?

It's pretty horrific UX, to me at least.
The Mongols built an empire with one technological breakthrough
> it would force Apple to manufacture in the US.

But wouldn't a decision to support the ITC injunction just bring Apple back to the negotiating table? Seems hard to believe that Qualcomm would go scorched earth on a customer like that. Especially one from whom it's getting big royalties from.
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Flash crash? Especially if it involves a lot of limit orders triggering, which is quite likely in the case of bitcoin.
Geary hasn't been very reliable for me and I have been keeping up to date with the latest versions. I mostly just use it for retrieving attachments and stick to mutt and k9mail the rest of the time. I think it is sad than an android mail program works more reliably and faster than most established desktop mail clients.
LTC spiked because Coinbase added them to their trading service - I'm surprised that making something simple and easy to use would bolster activity like that.

Is it safe to say "Coinbase is the iPod of Bitcoin"? That's what it feels like.
But are "upper-middle" class really the problem here? Again, look at the distribution of mortgages, at most someone is writing off like $40k worth of interest, which will net them $20k a year. Does that really make the whole housing market that much more expensive?

Why not attack the bigger problems, like off the top of my head...

how housing has become a commodity and large equity firms and snatching up real estate...

the amount of foreigners buying homes...

the fact that we've barely built ANY housing in major cities in the past 30 years...

how our population has grown significantly, but our housing stock hasn't...

how people are living longer and staying in their homes longer for lack of better options...
We believe that that the Java specification for a new module system does need to have an interoperability story with the package management system that Gradle/Maven provides. In particular, the module system needs to be able to bridge/utilise the packages provided by Maven Central (>1 Million IIRC) and allow the Java ecosystem to transition over time. A hard 'break' from the Maven Central world would have meant two separate Java's (a bit like Python 2/3), which for us meant a No vote. These issues are being ironed out, but they weren't at the time of the voting period, so we erred on the side of caution

There were concerns raised by the Eclipse JDT team (ecj authors) - starting here: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2017-May/0...

We think those issues will be resolved, but we'd prefer to see them resolved before voting yes. In particular:

The grammar for the module-info.java with its "restricted keywords" is highly problematic, since the language it defines is not processable by established compiler technology. Hacks are possible, but they are costly and prevent established error recovery techniques from working.

The JCP's mandate is to ensure that competing implementations can be built and at time of spec submission this was very unclear (better now).
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The gestures demonstrated are easily discoverable and are so widely used now, I'd argue the majority of iOS/Android users are familiar. Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, Spotify, etc. all follow these similar UI/UX features. Software should work well for everyone, but it's evolving and users adapt.
Apple uses it[0] and lets you opt out of sharing your data as well[1].

[0]: https://www.wired.com/2016/06/apples-differential-privacy-co...
[1]: https://www.howtogeek.com/290298/what-is-differential-privac...
Well, I drive a 2007 Scion and Apple should have considered that a lot of people drive similar cars. Until then I'm happy to pay Spotify.
The New York Times saved itself with subscriptions not ads
Nice find : spotify:album:1YCdKn5y7C99mM2sb3QTlo
Right, it's just a coincidence that disposable income correlates nearly perfectly with health expenditures at a national level in the long run (and quite well at a subnational level) and that when disposable income falls NHE tracks it and so on and so forth.

P.S., I wrote the blog post.
Apple Music is by far the least polished Apple product I use on a regular basis (I'm on a family plan). There are so my UX problems with it I don't know where to start.

Biggest issues:

- Discoverability is awful. Playlists are ok, but heavily recommending entire albums is bizarre. Its like trying new foods by going to Costco. It would make more sense to select top picks from an artist.

- Extremely ungraceful handling of spotty cell coverage. Playback will abruptly stop to buffer, but the UI gives absolutely no feedback. The play/pause button just behaves as if I told it to stop, and is unresponsive to my input. This is especially terrible while driving, where playback can stop for other reasons (Like a bluetooth disconnect).

- Radio stations inexplicably play at lower volumes than the rest of the service. The radio tab is pretty much a giant banner for whatever Apple wants to push, instead of basing it around the user.

- Really buggy. It will arbitrarily skip to the next song in the middle of playback. Sometimes it will refuse to play a song in my library, and will move on to the next. No error, no feedback, nothing.

I could go on and on.

I really wish this was its own app on the App Store, so we could have some semblance of feedback. As well as regular bug fixes without waiting for the next iOS release.
MID pays for my property tax (bay area).

Without a property tax payment, my mortgage payments are very close to what rent should be.

In fact, a couple of years on, it's already less than rent for a comparable place.
I have the same issue. I'm great at meeting deadlines if someone else is setting them. On my own, I often don't stay focused. This is an area where it seems like a traditional publisher like Apress/Manning/O'Reilly would be good.

Were there other benefits to publishing through Apress? It seems like O'Reilly helps to promote their authors through conferences and the like as well.
Only if iPods constantly broke and when you bought songs on iTunes they weren't delivered on time.

I'd advise anyone thinking of purchasing Bitcoin through Coinbase to take a look at /r/coinbase. Their support is pretty much non-existent.

Edit: Not only is support non-existent, people are having problems accessing their funds, getting charged different amounts than what they agree to when buying... It's feeling like MtGOX all over again.
Damn, some early adopters are certainly sitting on a ton of gold now
I have Adult Education by Hall and Oates. It's just terrible.
Sure, working two part-time jobs whose shifts don't overlap.
This isn't really correct. Short codes are hardcoded routing rules specific to each operator, not just syntactic sugar. They don't map to regular phone numbers (MSISDN) and are generally not available from other networks or overseas, unless the service provider (not the operator) makes an effort to replicate the code across operators and provide it internationally. Some countries have regulatory coordination to prevent the same number from routing to different services across different operators, but that's about it.

Source: used to work with SMS gateways for a living.

That said, short codes are rapidly becoming obsolete since data has become ubiquitous and everything is online now. The only one I ever use is voicemail.
I'd be all for it as long as it doesn't start sending my audio and video until I give an OK. I'd love to be able to talk to my family around the country instantly.

I just don't wanna get caught watching porn.
So true.

It's so painful to scrub the music playback since they make the controls so small and annoying.

I love old iPods with buttons since I don't have to look at the damn thing to change the song.

Now I hate that everything is a soulless touch screen that makes everything take so long.

Also, iTunes is so bloated. Wish Apple just had a stand alone music player that only has a single responsibility: play the damn music!!

As far as recommendation have you tried MacPaw's Listen app?

It tries to be what I recommended in terms of UX. The only caveat is that sometimes it occasionally crashes, but by and large, it works. However, I don't know if it can connect to Apple Music's streaming service. It works for music copied over to your iPhone / iPod.

https://macpaw.com/listen

I just wish I didn't to use a 3rd party app for something so basic, which Apple at one point had perfected, and then just muddied up over time.
the payment and data integration services of instadeq[1] are implemented in clojure (component, immutant, bidi, cheshire).

also the data integration backend (same stack as above), and it's frontend and an admin interface for users, groups and permissions for event fabric[2] (clojurescript, om.next, garden).

just to be clear, backend and frontend of both product aren't clojure/clojurescript.

[1] https://instadeq.com/
[2] https://event-fabric.com/
Where does the $52 billion market valuation come from? All BTC ever created or those traded recently?

Any evidence of the # of coins lost forever? I know I had one or two from the early days that got forgotten and lost with a hard drive wipe.

Also, do BTC disappearing from circulation affect the currency differently than a fiat currency?
That has also been a feature of Windows for quite some time, you have your IIRC .exe icon and various string resources packaged in the .exe itself. It's pretty useful on the whole.
No, there are still substantive issues on the table, we just expect that they'll be cleared up in the next 30 days. But since this is so deeply fundamental to the core platform we're only going to vote yes when we're really certain. If it was a library JSR (say a new Collections implementation) then we may have been more lenient.
That's interesting. My BRZ has a terrible audio system, but the one thing it does really well is get music to auto-play.

Say I start my car and open the BT connection. My iPhone auto-plays music from Apple Music. Then I switch to AM radio, the iPhone pauses. Then I switch back to Bluetooth, and my iPhone starts playing again from where it paused.

Apple Music definitely has problems, but I haven't had this one myself.
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Stop running and shaking out the weak hands ;)
Are you actually advocating making a complicated architecture, just to "attract smart people?"
In terms of voice/speech, we maybe talking on different points. I'm considering voice as an input mechanism, but the output mechanism certainly has to be dynamic and use the most sensible mechanism in the given context. Ex:

1. Alexa play song --> output on in-built speaker

2. "Alexa turn on Warriors game", "Alexa play latest episode of Game of Thrones" --> output onto nearest TV

3. Alexa get direction to San Francisco --> sends to my phone screen

4. Alexa show me top Sushi restaurants nearby --> send to nearest display ( TV or phone )

... and so on.

So yes, I definitely agree with you, voice as an output quickly becomes untenable. But again, that's what I mean by ubiquitous, you're no longer tied to a device for input/output. Your environment/context will define what your input/output mechanisms are. Outputs can be any displays, speakers, TVs, thermostats, lights, etc. And in most cases, voice is the simplest, most intuitive input mechanism for simple queries that a majority of our daily interactions with our surroundings will require.

Just as touch devices required UI developers to simplify their interface design to accommodate 'touch access' by removing layers of menus, pages, etc. Voice will also precipitate this type of simplification of the interface to where the core elements are accessible with simple queries, with strong, complex NLP and search behind it.

And again, it's more about accessibility than it is about expressiveness through voice input.
Most of us would have. I mean, 4->32 is great a return. A lot stories about people who didn't sell were those who had lost and then found their wallets. Pure luck.
I believe it's just going to keep going higher: more and more (legitimate, blue-chip) institutions see the value in Bitcoin for moving currency around due to its near-zero transaction fees, rapid clearing, and the impossibility of chargebacks - and given there's a cap of 21m BTC it means deflation is going to keep going on, if not accelerating further. I do expect to see BTC reach $10k or $20k within 5 years, even if it crashes this year.

I don't know if BTC will reach $100k or even $1m - it depends on how the rest of the financial industry treats it - or if there's a mass ditching of BTC for ETH or possibly even a bank-controlled blockchain.

BTC has one hurdle coming up: the darknets - the original populizers of BTC - are switching to Monero due to its increased privacy protections.
I see your 30M people and raise you 250M.

Indonesia is headed to Sharia next. Jakarta's governor just got 2 years in prison for blasphemy: arguing the Quran doesn't instruct muslims to not vote for non-muslims.

Yeah, this'll go well.
Just because they've been written up and summarized for the vote doesn't mean they weren't aired before. Jigsaw has been delayed again and again and again, and that's not because it was an easy process.
Yeah, that's fair. I'd agree green-field product development is different from maintenance. It requires great UX thinking, really understanding the users, product-market fit, maybe some behavioral economics, etc.

I was thinking more about enterprise or line-of-business green-field development. That still benefits from all of the things we're talking about, but it's a different set of problems to focus on.
While I can appreciate your perspective, there are plenty of hard problems on the frontend. Many of them might fall outside the confines of the label frontend (into graphics programming or linear algebra), just like Google scale falls well outside what I'd call backend if we're sticking to a simple dichotomy.

Here are a few harder problems that I can think of:

- Draw a non-linear gradient along an arc with SVG

- Implement a constraint solver in JS

- Convert a CgBI image into a standard PNG with the browser File API

A good portion of the work I do on the frontend is transforming and composing data, and wrangling that data together from a multitude of different services. This honestly isn't that different from the work that I've done on the backend of the stack.

I'm not trying to discount how hard problems can be when they're distributed, just trying to point out that you can do interesting things in both domains.
GMail seems fine? The threading & quote collapse feature is a godsend compared to godawful attempts by offline clients.
We have been in close contact with the developers throughout - we're the Java User Group that runs the Adopt a JSR and Adopt OpenJDK programmes that test these things out as early as we're able. The blog post details one of our global hack days for example.
For a US consumer making choices and understanding the impact of what they eat that doesn't matter, what matters is what ends up on the plate. A ton of exports ends up as feed for animals, which can then be re-imported as well.
The key phrase here I would suggest picking out is the one where the contractors get to help influence/write the contracts that they bid on. It's not confined to this sector of the world industry. Would /love/ to see that made flamingly illegal.
My biggest frustration whenever an anti-web/anti-Electron comment is posted on Hacker News summarized.
In this work Convolution Neural Nets (spatial models that have a weakly ordered context, as opposed to Recurrent Neural Nets which are sequential models that have a strongly ordered context) are demonstrated here to achieve State of the Art results in Machine Translation.

It seems the combination of gated linear units / residual connections / attention was the key to bringing this architecture to State of the Art.

It's worth noting that previously the QRNN and ByteNet architectures have used Convolutional Neural Nets for machine translation also. IIRC, those models performed well on small tasks but were not able to best SotA performance on larger benchmark tasks.

I believe it is almost always more desirable to encode a sequence using a CNN if possible as many operations are embarrassingly parallel!

The bleu scores in this work were the following:

Task (previous baseline): new baseline

WMT’16 English-Romanian (28.1): 29.88
WMT’14 English-German (24.61): 25.16
WMT’14 English-French (39.92): 40.46
"- Your other mess of points are all movie-plot conspiracies that are already illegal in other ways. This doesn't convince me at all. I'm not seriously weighing the risk of some international political scandal being played out with me as the scapegoat as a result of Facebook knowing what movies I like. Neither will the vast majority of people. This does not make them irrational"

1. Don't you think the consumer should have the right to remove data(perment delete)? Whether that data is on FB, or Google, or any other site?

2. If you don't think people don't judge on what they find/see on the Internet; you're naive, or live a very quiet life.

3. Pesonally, I do judge people by what I see of them on Google. If a nobody, like myself, figured just how easy it is to get a rough idea, usually wrong, of a person's character; companies are definetly using that "not deletable due to that 20 page ULA you signed on a Friday night." information.

4. That what's wrong when companies don't do complete deletes. That's what wrong when companies sell our perceived identities to other companies.

5. People are naturally judgemental. They are filled with preconceived beliefs. People still run companies, and hire. People still look for mates, friends/something on the Internet. There's huge companies that make their money following/investigating us. I'd be o.k. with AI going over my data, but not the average nitwit. The world is filled with nitwits.

6. So--companies shouldn't be able to keep us on their servers forever. Oh yea, I haven't even touched on the financial entity, or webmaster that won't delete your bank information. Bank information just waiting to be hacked by some bored Russian?
There often is a run on the exchanges, with people desperately trying to withdraw cash or cryptos before the exchange collapses. Often that's what pushes the price to the very top. On one or two exchanges there is a liquidity crisis, so people will bid up Bitcoin because that can be the fastest way to get money off the exchange.
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My comment was from a user perspective. I don't mind the performance increase from HT (and that is why I still have it enabled).

But, it really bothers me that it gets much harder to assess both the total load and the load produced by a single process. I haven't found any useful info on how to deal with this in simple overview user-level tools such as top or the windows task manager.

What are the disadvantages?

CPU time accounting measurements (sys/usr/idle) as reported by
standard tools do not reflect the side-effects of resource
sharing between hardware threads

It is impossible to correctly measure idle and extrapolate
available computing resources

https://blogs.oracle.com/partnertech/cpu-utilization-of-mult...