skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you represent yourself pro se you are also an officer of the court.
If anyone wants to mess around with “drawable” notation (along the lines of the “avant-garde” section), I made an iPad app called Composer’s Sketchpad[1] that lets you do just that. You can use it to sketch out complicated solos or mess around with microtonal music in a way that ordinary notation does not permit. I really need to give it a nice 2.0 makeover with full MIDI in/out, but making money on esoteric App Store software is hard!

[1]: http://composerssketchpad.com

Bonus devblog: http://archagon.net/2016/02/05/composers-sketchpad/
I have relatives that served in Vietnam (drafted, most served in the enlisted ranks), and worked with several other Vietnam veterans (all retired officers, all were career military, and nearly all had been commissioned before the Vietnam War had started).

I, perhaps oddly, do not know how my relatives feel about the war or the Ken Burns documentary. Most flat out refuse to talk about those years. Perhaps that's not so odd, given the times and situations they faced both abroad and on coming home.

The folks I worked with, on the other hand, were pretty uniformly proud of the job they and their men did. They did not all agree with the politics surrounding the war, both in recent years as well as at the time, but being professionals, they did as they were ordered. Several of them, now professors of U.S. History, thought the Ken Burns' documentary was very well done, and reflected reality in a way that Hollywood never did or desired to. A couple of those professors include the Burns' documentary as part of their courses' curriculum.

I don't know if any of that helps with your curiosity.
It's an op-ed
I couldn't disagree more. The police are there to gather evidence. They're effectively tainting evidence if they mistreat people or ask leading questions or the like.

You'd better believe it matters when they come after you for (say) making false statements to the police, and it's their word against yours, and the court always sides with the cops.
> Why is "I'm going to kill s73ver_" not ok, but "I hope someone comes over and kills s73ver_" just fine?

> I think your definition is far too narrow, and makes distinctions without a difference. I don't believe it matters at all if the person legitimately intends to commit violence against me. It's going to have the same impact.

I think both are OK. Context matters. It seems you guys would send someone to prison for life for something like https://i.imgur.com/w8H43aQ.png

No, we do not live in a world of absolutes. Remember, if it is a criminal matter, the "victim" cannot choose to not press charges. I do not trust our legal system and neither should you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_Vance_Jr.
> Those things are what gets HN riled up, but none of those things are noticed or cared about by mass consumer sentiment.

People are always forgetting that tech people are the ones involved in decisions about tech stuff.

When a huge corporation is deciding which cloud provider to use, the decision falls to the IT department, not the transportation department.

When Uncle Bob isn't sure which phone to buy, he asks his nephew the programmer instead of his other nephew the geologist.

When a reporter writing a tech story is looking through their contacts for someone to call for background, they choose the professor of Computer Operating Systems over the professor of Russian History.

When the government is involved in tech litigation, the EFF is there, not the ASPCA.

When some tech issue is in Congress, Wikimedia and Mozilla can put it in front of millions of people, not some blogger with a hundred readers.

It is usually unwise to disregard the interests of the people with the strongest influence.
lol why would anyone want to transport their car into the middle of Manhattan?
That 7% return goes down to 4 when you factor in taxes so the actual safe withdrawl rate is less than 1%
> Isn’t too much to accredit one person?

How is that limit set?
The best startups without customers? Aren't those the worst startups?
OP's method [1] works better backwards. Assuming 250 miles (l) financed interest-free for 50 years, we find an implied ticket price (p) of the cost per mile (c) divided by the quantity 73 times daily ridership (c / 73 r). Generalised, we get (l c) / (18250 r) = p.

New York City and Washington, D.C. are 229 miles apart [2]. The Acela has ridership of 3.47 million per year [3], or about 951 on average per day. Acela tickets cost no less than $99 [4]. Plugging in we find the cost per mile can be no more than $7.5 million.

That is 30% the cost per mile of the cheapest tunnel, the Shanghai River Crossing, and 5% the cost per mile of the median tunnel in Figure 5 [5]. On the other hand, the Falcon 9's list price [6] per pound to low-earth orbit is about $1,230. That's approximately 70% to 85% cheaper than the competition [7].

Naturally, you'd charge less than $99 and hope for more than a thousand daily riders. The trick is finding routes for which the price elasticity of demand is high, i.e. where reducing the ticket price by 1/2 generates more than a 2x demand boost.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15519733

[2] https://www.travelmath.com/drive-distance/from/New+York,+NY/...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acela_Express

[4] http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Amtrak-Lowers-Acela-...

[5] https://tunneltalk.com/TunnelTECH-Apr2015-Arup-large-diamete...

[6] http://www.spacex.com/about/capabilities

[7] http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VyTCyizqrHs/S9IabKEr1nI/AAAAAAAAHb...
Exactly.

I work at a place in the centre of a large city in the UK. Security is hot on badges. I especially know this as I smoke, so going downstairs every couple of hours needed a signing in/out session. To be fair it reduced my habit quite a bit.

Now i've got a proper badge - I can flash anything I like, including my drivers license, or my debit card. The mere act of coyly moving something on a lanyard to them is sufficient, especially now i've explained that i've got noise cancelling headphones so I sometimes cannot hear.

The best bit? There are government departments in the building on a floor below us.

Even better - I used to work at a company that used to be part of the security services in the UK but were spun-out. They still work with the doughnut down the road.

In heightened security times they do random checks of cars - mirrors underneath, etc. All I had to do was say "you checked me yesterday" and they'd not bother.

Social norms trump process every time.
Verification better than signature rejected because REASONS.
> The only times I've heard of destroying hardware with software have been

I was trying to find some information to back up my story, but I can't find anything that does. So I'll describe what I experienced, and maybe someone will have an idea.

Around 1999, my father gave me the first computer that was "mine" (previous ones having been "family computers"). I was inexperienced and 15 years old, with access to filesharing platforms, and learned the hard way about *.jpg.exe files.

The hard drive started making rhythmic sounds as soon as the OS was booted. A couple days later, the OS wouldn't boot. A reinstall worked for a short time (but the drive still did its odd sound). We had some bootable disk scanning utilities from the drive vendor. They identified the drive as having 100% bad sectors.

I've always assumed that a virus was crashing or misaligning the read heads somehow. That was reinforced when the second drive that I got met the same fate. Although, I guess it's more likely that they were 2 drives from the same shipment that met early deaths due to manufacturing defects.
I'm a Seattle native, but I lived in other places between 1994 and 2009 before moving back (to the suburbs). The difference between Seattle today and the Seattle I knew growing up is stark. Not all bad, by any means. But wow is it different.
I think this is the safest assumption. (@_@)
Damn, that's terrible. I don't even get the police's implication here-- If you're trying to buy illegal drugs, you DESERVE to be carjacked, and furthermore they shouldn't try to press charges on the carjacker until it's proven that they weren't trying to sell you illegal drugs? The mind boggles.
Show HN: A graph of the 'related entries' on Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Robert Scoble has allegedly continued to sexually harass women after going sober
I have half a mind to write a FAQ for this… quick summary is that piano roll is based on chromatic scale, but most music uses diatonic scale, and doesn't notate phrasing well. There are some other factors but there are good reasons why composers overwhelmingly use traditional notation.
The hypervisor for the PS3 wasn't designed to be secure. It was reference hypervisor from IBM if I remember correctly and designed for scaling environments up and not security isolation. It was full of holes. At least FreeBSD starts out as battle tested verified OS of sorts unlike the PS3 Frenken-OS.
First regulated cryptocurrency derivative trades on a U.S. exchange
Pretty weak op-ed. I was expecting good meat, but the only thing they listed that took Seattle's soul was housing prices. I mean that's one hell of an increase (median of 700K!) but all that build up and no elaboration... I closed the tab feeling quite underwhelmed.
I think by "fully decentralized" he means "everyone has to run their own node"
EV1 ones stopped being made in 1999.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1
Everything that is wrong with sudo, and how I fixed it
I'm actually not sure what you're getting at -- the logic you just presented is "the primes and evens are the same set of numbers because both contain 2".

Assuming you mean the and not a, they're still not the same, as equivalent algorithms need not be identical. Example: 5-3 and 1+1 both compute the result 2, making them equivalent but non-identical algorithms.

There's a way to transform any subtractive recipe for a number into an additive recipe so they're equivalent classes, but addition and subtraction aren't identical as operations.
That's an interesting question, depends on the support you're expecting.

In this case the desktopCapture API was introduced in Chrome 34 but arrow functions only turned up in version 45 onwards.

You can set a minimum Chrome version in the extension manifest though, which would mean you can set a version that guarantees the JS support that you want.
This. I had a client where the security guard actually raised his voice at me (I was trying to break the rules).

I found out later they’re given total immunity from offending someone so they have no fear of doing their job.
I'm going to be following this post up with how to do the same in Firefox and how to put that all together for as much support as possible.
You're also probably going to need 2 tunnels these tubes are monodirectional.
Old Seattle was an interesting place, but also a much rougher place. The SLU was mostly warehouses, junkies and prostitutes. South Seattle was the real hood, not the semi-tamed version it is now. Wallingford was a hippy commune where someone might walk into your house and take a nap.

Blaming Amazon is a total cop out. The death of "cool Seattle" started before Amazon was even a thought in Bezo's head.

It's also funny that many of the people complaining about this issue were first wave gentrifiers pushing out people before them in an effort to get to the hot neighborhoods. It's frustrating how many Seattleites refuse to admit their own hand in this process. Never mind the fact that your Ad Agency's contract with Amazon allowed you to buy that house.

Anyways, everyone in the region knows the "new Seattle" is Tacoma. So if you really want that "dive bar but might get stabbed" vibe you can move there?
So they can conveniently leave Manhattan and return or vice versa using their car without much hassle.

People might begin storing vehicles in buildings more often in places like Manhattan if any of this stuff works. You then leave Manhattan with your car by linking into the transport tunnels, driving wherever you please from there. It wouldn't be difficult to add floors to new buildings just for automated vehicle storage, with a tunnel linked right to a given building that has vehicle storage.

If I'm from Pennsylvania and I want to go to Manhattan for a weekend, I put my car on a sled, go into Manhattan via tunnel, park my sled/car in building storage linked to a tunnel, then do whatever in Manhattan. Then reverse the process for leaving. Dramatically more convenient than the way things are now.

Maybe it ends up making more sense to have the bulk of vehicle storage just outside of expensive real-estate zones, so the sleds into Manhattan are multi-person carriers instead. Then you take a multi-person carrier sled back to wherever you stored your vehicle. Either way.
Robert Scoble: “I apologize.”
Capacitor maker zapped with price-fixing charge
The author built a strawman by assuming people who use the metaphor of computation literally mean that the brain has a von Neumann architecture [0] or something similar.

His definition of information is not the information theoretic definition, but one that is narrowly confined to his strawman.

It's just an embarrassingly bad attempt at refutation. I can't imagine how someone of his stature could write something like this when he should be familiar with research like our understanding of how the visual and auditory systems work (literally processing information).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture
Not sure I agree with this fully. Certainly many actions used in a typical SC game are redundant, but there are reasons for it. Lag for one. If there's a possibility of lag or dropped packets, spamming a command will help nullify this problem.

The other is the entire reason for high APM, the stop/start problem. Pro players keep high APM so that when they actually need high EPM their muscle memory is already at full tilt. If you slow down your APM during lulls in the action it becomes harder to suddenly increase it when a fight happens.

Certainly that's an entirely human condition that a machine wouldn't need to worry about. But I'm not sure it means lack of skill.
Most people who don't have Javascript are using very old, antiquated browsers. The NYT cares enough about its lower-income and foreign readers to make it fail gracefully. I think that sending low-res photos makes infinitely more sense.
Living in a parliamentary democracy and not being an American citizen, “our President” is literally not my president. Are you referring to the American President, Mr. Donald Trump?

HN needs to become i18n compliant.
Those ISAs are much lower-level than wasm. If you want to keep things secure, you have to restrict things. For example, wasm is going to optimize a lot of things and isn't necessarily going to treat your pointers the way you expect. Good garbage collectors need pretty fine-grained control. LLVM has been the bane of GC creators for the same kinds of reasons.
Thank you, behance was exactly the type of thing I was looking for
This is not interesting.
Yes, you always can. You'd probably have to make a claim of some kind of injury and it would likely involve a significant time investment if not also money. To what end? It's too easy not to follow through on these things.
Yeah. I’ve heard amazon is really unpopular up there I’m surprised he couldn’t find more to say on the issues.
No, there was his judgement of the results as partisan, that is not evidence. Thinking you see bias is not the same thing as finding evidence of bias.
Yep, I've seen this happen before when an old boss let a formally dressed, very attractive pen tester through the front door. It became somewhat of a joke afterwards, but at the time, the auditors involved took it very seriously.
To me, the important potential of police body cameras is not in the middle of the Bell Curve. The important effects are in the tails. The routine traffic stop that is a routine traffic stop isn't where a camera matters as much as the routine traffic stop that turns non-routine.

The important cases are where it's some civilian's word against one or several officers. It is when the police make a mistake that future training might avoid. And it is when the optics of police behavior turn out to be worse than actual police behavior.
Why not? This is an adtech platform which is surely something HN readers would be interested in?
I've been of the notion that mathematical notation dates back to both Euclid and Aristotle... You don't have to know Greek to note the axioms and theorem-proof exposition style and symbolic notation of Euclid's Elements.

https://el.wikisource.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%B9%CF%8....
This will be an interesting experement and I wonder what wildlife it will bring back and any damage it will reverse
I feel like Amazon gets a lot of undue grief for changes in Seattle and for the housing unaffordability. As someone with a background in urban planning, I feel that Amazon did the RIGHT thing by doubling down on an urban campus. Another suburban campus like Microsoft or Apple’s new monstrosity would have been the wrong thing.

Seattle as a whole could have/ should have done a better job planning for that growth and taking advantage of the opportunities it presents.
I agree. Most other measurements are difficult to observe or conclude. But, I think amplification of existing communication phenomena is powerful and complex enough to account for these outcomes.
They do more harm than good, but the responses to them serve to show the importance of free speech.
It's required in every classroom in AZ.
There is something to be said for some of this. There is a certain complacency and unwillingness to engage self-critical awareness.

Don't believe me? Many Australian men are two inches away from overt racism on one side, and super-duper-liberal-moral-high-grounder on the other.

That said, Australians are generally very kind and fun. But hard work and struggle builds both character and moral fortitude, and the typical Australian male is without either: They're gfted a generous opportunity, chilling out on the doll, or pushing papers in some uncompetitive bureaucracy.
its got nothing to do with the company, just a random who committed a crime
Yeah, but the vast majority of Australia's economy (just like the US and all other developed countries) is services, not resources or manufacturing or farming. We just talk about resources because they're a distinguishing feature.

Mining is only 8.5% of Australia's GDP and 2% of its employment. Sure, it would suck for a few years if the whole sector vanished overnight, but it wouldn't cause long-term devastation.
The most expensive part of subway construction - both time and cost - is building the stations...which get significantly more expensive the lower they are underground.

Also modern subway tunnels are typically constructed with a larger diameter than what the Boring company supports.
Beautiful. In the XX century, many modern composers (like for example composers of serial music) invented diverse methods of music notation; it deserves to be explored in depth.

Here are some truly fascinating examples of them!

https://llllllll.co/t/experimental-music-notation-resources/...

And here

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/5-12-examples-of...

Warning: This will blow your mind.

EDIT: Also this link: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/5-12-examples-of...
You can reject it all you want. You're still wrong. Free speech isn't speech you like. That's limited speech.

This isn't complicated. You wish to limit speech. That means you don't support free speech. It's okay to hold that opinion, even though I don't agree with you. You'd probably be better served if you were honest with yourself and others.

Twitter is not obligated to provide a platform of free speech. Which is good, because they don't. They are the exact opposite of free speech. Somewhere like voat.co is actually interested in free speech and, truth be told, they are as terrible as you might imagine.

But, coming in and saying that you want to limit speech and be called a free speech advocate? Save that for someone else. It borders on insulting that you think I'm that naive.
And you have to compare that to established infrastructure projects, like high-speed rail.
cool so what do you suggest?
That's fair. Network effects are more powerful than just about any single feature.
As others have mentioned, it's kind of like drawing pixel by pixel. The key signature does a lot of leg work in allowing staff notation to easily depict the idioms of tonal music.
To be fair, losing the hard drive was a pretty big deal, regardless of the verbage using colloquially. To many it seemed like a maneuver to try and get unknowledgeable buyers (parents and grandparents)to get the better deal. Which they would then have to buy the peripherals later on down the line.
In this analogy, Twitter is the host, users are guests. If a racist asshole shows up at the party, everyone else can easily disengage, by just leaving. Should the host just leave the door open and sit in the back making sure the lights stay on, prioritizing absolute free speech over who is having a good time? Or should they kick out toxic guests, so the people they like will stay?
This is all such self serving whining. I grew up in Seattle and lived there until just a couple years ago and yes it has changed dramatically but it is pretty unfair to characterize it as having lost its soul. There is also a very merciless bile people are constantly aiming at these new Amazon employees that that really pisses me off. They are just people, like everyone else, who got some education, took a job when they were 23-24 or whatever and moved wherever that job took them. Characterizing them as asshole tech-bros just because they aren't cool hipsters like you is just mean.
What are the major effects of an urban vs suburban campus? I would expect a suburban campus would make people more likely to move out there, so it would help with city housing prices, but I don't know anything about how urban planning works.
In the book Programming Pearls, one of the sections is on "provenance". One of the tips shared was someone that put at the header of every generated file, the command that was used to generate it. I absolutely love the idea and have wanted to do it in places I generate files before. JSON completely kills this, though. I don't want to encode the bloody command, just put a little comment "this file generated on DATE by COMMAND". Grr...
But only recently - it was common advice in the 90s to try to get people to use photo ID
I recall a debate early on that one of the hurdles to Hyperloop viability was obtaining right-of-way within city limits. Getting to the outskirts was seen as probably doable since obtaining right of way involves relatively large parcels and a fair whack of government owned land (i.e. freeways). But in a city, there would be too many players to satisfy and the ends of the line would not be able to get close the the center of the cities, greatly reducing the value of the system.

Tunneling within city limits may resolve that.