skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure about "best", but I got a lot out of Will Pirkle's two books on programming synthesizer / effect plugins (http://www.willpirkle.com/about/books/).

For a more generic guide I've heard a lot of good things about a free (in electronic form) book called DSPGuide (http://dspguide.com/). Haven't had a chance to dive into this one, though.
PureOS probably doesn't have a business plan dependent on selling millions of smartphones.
I used to work at JPMorgan. We had an official acronym for these tools... UDTs, or User Developed Tools.

They initially started when ops teams were told a custom report for a client would be too expensive/slow to build properly by tech, so they would DIY a report in excel.

These started to get out of hand, and after a few years they numbered in thousands and had evolved from excel sheets with macros into full fledged Access DBs with ODBC connections into our data warehouse. A specialist team was created in Ops to build and support ever more complex UDTs, they were called the UDT Team.

Problem was that these were poorly documented and often done without consultation with Tech, so we would unknowingly break loads of downstream stuff whenever we embarked on new projects of our own.

Fun times. Plenty of stories.
> If your argument for "it already exists" sounds like "it's like a mix of this and this but mixed with this and it also does this," then maybe it's actually an entirely new thing?

I don't understand your comment. Their argument for "it already exists" is "It's a bus." No mixing, no similarities.
> It has nothing to do with her as a person and everything to do with a bad PR incident.

Yes. The rejection is not about further punishing Ms. Jones. It is about protecting Harvard from bad press.

Is it unreasonable that Harvard admissions be based in part on protecting its image in the publuc eye?
Correct - they just went down the wrong optimization road, so the incremental development program for Falcon 9 landing is nothing they could have replicated.
> I have zero interest whatsoever building a whole other parallel set of friendships, alliances, etc. outside of my current life.

yes, some people call EVE their life, and their irl is just something to get money. It's certainly not for everyone.
A way to protect the atmosphere of Mars with a magnetic field has been suggested
https://phys.org/news/2017-03-nasa-magnetic-shield-mars-atmo...
Sort off. There are a lot of different ways people could cheat, but they all look "weird" one way or another. Weird in a way that a computer should be able to identify.
So? What does that have to do with Soylent? Their success could be a product of a better logo, better marketing team, pure dumb luck, or a million other things. To insinuate that they're only seen as revolutionary because a man invented it and prior products were made by or marketed toward women is ridiculous.
​Lyft and Uber travel the same open-source road
>The uniqueness of EVE _is_ the free-form, non-consensual PVP.

It's just another bit in a database and only one aspect of the game. Sure, there are 1,000 experiences in Eve you'll never get anywhere else - from spinning wormholes trying to find a dread enemy, to station spinning out of utter boredom because your station is bubbled to hell and back.

However it's simply not possible to see all the content on-offer in the game because PVP precludes it. I realize for some people the idea of EVE without PVP is inconceivable and that's fine, I'm just saying it's too bad because it would be fun to be able to see all of the game and enjoy other aspects of it that are suppressed by the ever present threat of PVP.
Which password manager are you using? 1Password doesn't support TouchID + PIN on iOS, but I wish they would.
Shameless plug: I've been working on a service (www.campfire.care) to build peer support groups for any focus. Groups of 5-10 people with the same issue meet regularly via video and stay connected via chat. The idea is that we are fundamentally social creatures, and struggling with a challenge alone is unhealthy.

Campfire is not therapy or a replacement for therapy. But peer support can be powerful + inexpensive. And being part of a true peer group can provide a kind of value that professional mental health can't. You can't be friends with you therapist, and their job is not to truly empathize with you.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium%E2%80%93air_battery

I'd love to see some napkin math on this.
Hawaii Says It's First State to Go Cashless for Pot Sales
rstudio-desktop

qownnotes (one of the best FOSS Evernote alternatives)
You misunderstand me. I objected to the minimization of the rape. The "what she calls" language.
As mbrock says, you can also use echo instead of ls for that. And "echo *" serves, in a pinch, as a rudimentary ls, when the ls command has been deleted and you are trying to do some recovery of a Unix system. Similarly dd can be used to cat a file if cat is deleted: dd < file

And in fact whenever you want to do some command like:

cmd some_flags_and_args_and_metacharacters ...

you can just replace cmd with echo first to see what that full command will expand to, before you actually run it, so you know you will get the result you want (or not). This works because the $foo and its many variants and other metacharacters are all expanded by the shell, not by the individual commands. However watch out for > file and >> file which will overwrite or append to the given file with the output of the echo command.
Why Hasn’t Evolution Made Another Platypus?
The Luddites were good and well-intentioned; owners of capital later redefined the term to mean people who are irrationally afraid of all technological progress, after shooting the Luddites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
They're not the same thing by a long shot. Slimfast is essentially a weight loss oriented protein shake, it's got almost no fats or sugars. Slimfast themselves don't even recommend using it for every meal, or using it long term.

Soylent is an actual meal replacement. You can consume nothing but Soylent for as long as you want to. It's not geared towards weight loss, just as an alternative to food. It provides complete nutrition.

Also I can't find anything on the site today, nor can I remember any advertising in the past that would lead me to believe it's a gendered product. SlimFast aggressively advertises towards women, sure, but I fail to see how Soylent is geared towards men.
I use, and have been very happy with, antergos. From install to a pleasantly configured GUI is very simple, and from there it's basically just another Arch machine with nice defaults.
BRAIN-MACHINE INTERFACE ISN'T SCI-FI ANYMORE
The only innovative thing? It also takes advantage of mobile phones to aggregate and coordinate passengers and drivers (much like regular Lyft), allowing smaller cars with more frequent service, and responding to demand. That's quite an innovation over a traditional bus.
Encrypted, Ephemeral and Completely Screenshot-Proof
They are talking about mining for water not precious metals, which there may not be enough of on Mars to sustain the colonies.

But I think you are right about what they colonies will look like. Subterranean for the most part with some farming glass domes on the surface.
Millions of Bank Confidential files on Google due to 13 Root servers breach
>background noise, which fluctuates randomly

From years of experience selling, supporting, and installing 900MHz ISM radios, I can tell you this is not the case in many, many places (it describes a greenfield application more or less correctly, though). 900MHz is heavily used in the US and describing the noise as "background" or "random" is disingenuous at best. I'd like to see someone install a LoRa hub on a tower with several other 900MHz radios (common) and see how well it works.
Inside India’s race to cool 1.3B people in a warming world – The Verge
As others have pointed out, there are lots of products that fit something like this description. The challenge with Access and other app builders is summed up in Dietzler’s Law for Access (from http://nealford.com/memeagora/2013/01/22/why_everyone_eventu...):

“Every Access project will eventually fail because, while 80% of what the user wants is fast and easy to create, and the next 10% is possible with difficulty, ultimately the last 10% is impossible because you can’t get far enough underneath the built-in abstractions, and users always want 100% of what they want.”

This is why the product I'm working on, Fieldbook (https://fieldbook.com), avoids the “app builder” approach and focuses on just being a spreadsheet-like information tool that supports querying and relational modeling.
Cyanogenmod is now just a defunct brand - the spirit of the thing lives on in the LineageOS fork (sans corporate backing).
Absolutely. One of their tenets for world management has always been "Any action that is allowed by in-game mechanics will be allowed to stand."

They don't do much handholding.
massive battles are what makes it to the press, but the real fun is in small skirmishes in unconquerable space (wormhole space). The game mechanics prevents massive swarms - so you'll be fighting highly elite, small groups (in the order of 5-10), in small to medium sized ships.

It takes skill, dedication, as well as some luck (since you can't tell who is in the "system" with you in wormhole space, unlike in regular space). You have to constantly do scan, and entrances and exists shift (so you _can_ get stuck with no way back).

But that's the fun of it!
As someone who tried to fund the Ubuntu Edge, I don't see this getting fully funded.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge#/

It probably wasn't 100% FOSS (blobs?, baseband?, ...), but that was a much more polished product soft+hardware, especially for touch based usage.

That is not to say that I don't want it to get funded, rather the barriers to entry are high.
Nestlé Targets High-End Coffee by Taking Majority Stake in Blue Bottle
If they do it will be like welders where union membership ties mostly to workplace and there's several professional associations that have certification systems and whether a particular cert is required is dependent on state regulations that pertain to the nature of the job.
I have no idea how well this works, but the Serval Project aims to let people communicate when the network is down:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serval_Project
It is a horrible language design, which was impressed upon me after implementing it for my shell Oil. Here are some pathological cases I pointed out:

${####}: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/10/28.html

Each # means a different thing.

${foo//z//}: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/10/29.html

There are three different meanings of / there.

"${a[@]}" -- http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/11/06.html

You need 8 punctuation chars in addition to the array name to correctly interpolate it. Every other way gives you word splitting issues.
One of the most successful treatments for alcohol addiction is the Sinclair method which uses naltrexone and opioid blocker.
I'm a huge fan of buses, and public transportation in general. I like riding buses and subways. I think it's semi-magical that you can get such a far distance on a fixed cost. But can they be improved? I would sure hope so.

I think you do have to be careful with excluding the poor from a new "invention" that is designed to make better the thing that a lot of poor people use. But I don't think poor people not using this initially is a good enough reason not to try.
Learning to Model Other Minds
This is my problem. I have hundreds of thousands of photos and takeout is quite a pain to deal with. Anyone know of an alternative to takeout that allows syncing perhaps?
What do you think most of their donors watch, practically exclusively? Gotta make sure Johnny's not going to one of those SJW / safe space / PC / ... colleges like Yale!

They're trying to avoid being part of Fox's whole anti-University arc this season.
Low quality energy. Also, not sure how precious it really is. A car has a better entropy differential at the exhaust pipe.
You're probably right, but the grandparent wasn't entirely correct. Sweden has had colonies in both Africa and the Caribbean, and Ethiopia has been colonised, although both for only a fairly short period.

Colonisation obviously does play a role. It's ridiculous to claim that pillaging or oppressing another country doesn't hurt it, nor enrich the country that takes the profits. But it's not remotely the only factor at play. And the further in the past some events are, the more they get overshadowed by more recent history. I don't think Italy has much remaining benefit from the slaves the Roman Empire took from the Kelts they conquered.
The CPU they built is asynchronous.

"Our computer is also asynchronous, meaning that there is no global clock controlling the computer. Rather, the data is accompanied by a clock signal as it flows around the computer, which means we only need to focus on local but not global timings of the computer."

I'm not sure that it qualifies as clockless but according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_circuit#Asynchron... it does.

BTW, congratulations to the authors of all of this. It's a huge achievement.
The concept of credit scores has a reason to exist, it's just our implementation is broke a million times over. There's nothing wrong with a business loaning you money having the knowledge aforehand that you don't pay your obligations on time.
This doesn't look like a database dump.
Countries restrict their citizens from buying foreign products all the time? The US did it to Cuba as an entire economy
off-topic, but UTF-8 still isn't ready for prime time on this site obviously: "crême brûlée" became "crme brle" :)
I don't accept the paradigm. The problem of qualia is only an issue if you assume a Cartesian account of matter (CM) while dropping his immaterial account of the mind. Descartes assumes that things like color are not properties of material things but properties of minds. Materialism rejects the notion of an immaterial mind, but does so without rejecting CM, so you're left with a reality made of a kind of matter in which color cannot exist. Materialists are therefore condemned to looking for an impossible solution for as long as they fail to understand the futility of trying to find things like color in CM. Materialism is a halfway house between Cartesian dualism and eliminativism (where the latter denies the existence of things like color because, having accepted CM, it can't account for them -- Procrustean, to be sure).

The solution is not to embrace some version of dualism. Dualism has its own issues. The solution is to embrace a richer metaphysics. Aristotle provides such a metaphysics.
I really hope that's the outcome here. I also think this should pave the way for real legal consequences for moronic data security. Individuals are banned from using computers when prosecuted, what about "no internet for companies who've proven they can't use it responsibly"
Everything burns around liquid oxygen.
It also lacks multimethods, or pattern matching which mean you need classes for polymorphism. Which makes it not suitable for for imo
I guess it is hard to explain, but I don't mind not having those options - if in exchange I don't have to do what you suggest. It is an annoying chore and obstacle to me.

Virtual desktops were available in previous Winows if you care to install app. I don't think it is terribly important, I used them but most people did not cared even if they knew about it.

I know there are good friendly linux communities (and less good ones too).
Tech Is Public Enemy #1. So Now What?
Harvard's image isn't going to be compromised with an altruistic admission, they just don't want to stand up for rehabilitation.

Consider what that says about their integrity, their culture, and their goals as an institution.
Not one of those had free drivers on any consumer-available hardware, so you're limited to kernels compatible with your binary blobs, which then limits your userspace, which leaves you firmly stuck in the insecure, slowly bitrotting past. All of them except Tizen were using Android kernels and bionic libc, and Tizen is a fucking garbage fire (read some of their GPL dumps or try to navigate their bizarre code-dumps-in-branches repo structure sometime).

Desktop Linux is a success (as in, a viable option for those who want to avoid the downsides of proprietary OSes); the only reason there isn't such a viable non-user-hostile OS option on phones is driver support, and this effort says they'll ensure free-software drivers.

Plus, by avoiding the braindead "App Store" model, you instantly have access to a huge and growing base of software, all for free. Finding software for Android is a hellish experience marred by invasive ads, malware, loads upon loads of spam, crappy wrappers for actual free software, profit-grubbing clones on the app you actually wanted, etc. By removing the perverse incentive of "users = $$$" the user experience of finding software improves drastically.

The GUI of most free software isn't well-suited to a phone, but I would far rather wait for UI revamps while using software that does everything I want, as opposed to having to just shrug and give up on finding a web browser with a web inspector--what I ended up doing under Android and iOS.
Forget the Driverless Future. Get Ready to Physically Merge with a Car
You can still use OpenRC. No support, but it might work.
I have a question, is it really possible to get out of Gmail? I may switch to Fastmail or other alternatives, but all the people I know only use Gmail, so my all my emails will still be present on Google's Servers. Or am I missing something?
Anyone who has to work with the clowns in the credit reporting biz knows that this data is probably sitting on some COBOL-backed shimmed-out VAX talking to drum memory storage.
I had a very similar experience running Arch on a desktop. After borking my system twice in a six month period during updates (which was admittedly my fault for not following pre-upgrade instructions to the letter) I decided that I'll stick to distros that take care of those details for me.
What is a PEQ?
That was ghastly. I spent a full minute closing and re-opening the tab and refreshing. Why anyone would thing onScrollDown is a nice event to capture for a zoom-in on a portrait like that is beyond me. It almost felt like an extremely annoying troll.
It's a Good product. Can be a good tool for business data aggregation.
On top of this, iOS 11 introduced an emergency mode that is enabled by tapping the standby button five times rapidly. It is easy to do discretely in your pocket, and it locks your phone by requiring your passcode to be entered again.
So does that mean AMD is about to lose their number one customers? China has almost a monopoly on mining due to access to low to no cost electricity. The miners preferred AMD Graphic cards and make AMD cards hundreds of dollars more valuable on EBay.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3199257/components-graphics/...
No, adding "gapps" is an optional (unsupported) step after imaging the device.
Creating Algorithms for a Robot That Helps Runners – IEEE Transmitter
The legal industry is ripe for innovation. Just look at the amount of value Clerky has managed to provide with just incorporation and formation.
At what point will she simply be referred to as Michelle Jones as opposed to "this child murderer"? It's just not right to blatantly disregard all her twenty years of transformation
The article is called How to Live Without Google. If that is your goal, does an iPhone help with that or not? That doesn't mean it is the only way. Of course you can go without a phone, use a dumbphone, or use Android without Google if you manage to get it to work.

As to why one would want to live without Google, there are many reasons. For one thing you actually pay Apple with real money, not in eyeballs like you do with Google and Facebook as a consumer.
The power of modern logic is that we can make predictions like this!

I wasn't sure whether the Löwenheim–Skolem alien was just translating things into our set theory for our sake, but I think your proposal is more likely.
"But the American studies professors said in their memo to administrators that “honest and full narration is an essential part of our enterprise,” and questioned whether Jones had met that standard in framing her past. In the personal statement, which was not required, she did not detail her involvement in the crime, but wrote that as a teenager she left Brandon at home alone, that he died, and that she has grieved for him deeply and daily since.

"[John] Stauffer emphasized in interviews that he and his departmental colleague, Dan Carpenter, were simply trying to ensure that Harvard did its due diligence about the candidacy."

The objections serm to be

1. She would have a hard time fitting into Harvard. Which is horseshit.

2. She would potentially embarrass Harvard. Which is to be expected of administrators, but seems out of place for faculty. I wonder what the spineless wankers think of the idea of tenure.

3. She was not penitent enough.

So, yeah. Good job Harvard.
Because it allows more frequent service by taking advantage smaller cars with more frequent service, as well as scaling almost perfectly to demand. This is made economically possible by using mobile phones to aggregate passengers, and by allowing freelance drivers to work and be paid for trips they make.
Presumably first person to email gets the private address to buy, so if you're slow you'll have wasted 0.2BTC
Speculators speculate. Of course they have to use all bad news to make money on shorts, and good news to make money on longs.
This feels like a more significant result than it appears to get. I'm guessing the problem then comes down solely to defining a distance metric that you can easily/quickly evaluate? Or is this merely the upper bound and many folks do markedly better nowdays?
Poisonous science: the dark side of the lab – THE Features
Mine in China, sell the BTC in Europe.
That's sort of my theory. But I wonder how much of people's ability to distinguish identical twins is based on physical differences vs more subtle things like how they carry themselves/interact with the world.
Show HN: Petition to regulate account authentication in Finance, Healthcare, etc.
I've used Arch since at least 2011 and I know exactly what you're talking about. When I first started using it, it had the stupid blue install script (pacstrap was it?).

Around that time, I had to reinstall arch ~4 times for some reason or another. It was not a great experience. It made me learn a lot of Linux stuff just to keep it up and hitting `pacman -Syyu` was always a scary thing to do. You could never hit yes to prompts without first going to archlinux.org first to make sure that there was no arcane ceremony to conduct before you upgraded your system (I probably know enough now that it would no longer be arcane, but, hey, we all have to start from nothing).

My experience since around 2014 has been drastically different. Things have been incredibly stable and I've never had to reinstall arch in the past 3 years. I don't really know what caused the change - maybe it was just maturity - but I do welcome it and working on arch has been amazing. I'm saying this not to convince you to go back, but to allay others' fears that Arch is unapproachable or impossible to deal with. At this point, it's still a hard Linux to work with, but it's no harder than any Linux in which you have to work on the command line.
Librem 5 funding page, for those looking for it: https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/