skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the discussion on the video link:

"There is a misconception that Bach supported equal temperament because of his famous 1722 collection, Das Wohltemperierte Klavier (The Well Tempered Clavier). Bach's clavichord was not equally tempered, but well tempered, like the title of the work says. The 48 pieces, two in each major and minor key, were written to show the character of each key in this temperament, the effect being completely lost in equal temperament. One can experience this by tuning a keyboard to well temperament, and then transposing Bach's Prelude and Fugue in C-major to C#-major, and vice-versa. The results will clearly show what the master was up to, and that the pieces were written for the nuances of each key with its particular coloring. Bach's theoretical framework was for pure intonation, and his music was written to be played in pure intonation, either by altering the tuning of the keyboard for each piece, or by using a flexible temperament that allowed pure tones in most popular keys."

"Equal temperament, a tuning which disfigures the natural intervals of the harmonic series, was invented as a necessity to the mechanical and engineering limitations of Middle Age instrument builders. But now we are in the 22nd Century and we can accurately measure the 1000th part of a millimeter. So why don't we use this technology to create in-tune musical instruments?"

I strongly recommend to read that discussion, it has both pros and cons of equal temperament and people are discussing the issue from both sides.
I also don't like how much they are pushing for me to install IOS 11 on my 5S. I know it's going to be unbearably slow but I intend to keep this phone for another year, so I want to stay on IOS 10
> language grammar has a propensity to decrease in complexity over time.

Please provide a citation, as this seems obviously wrong on its face (if it were true, given that language has been in use for tens of thousands of years, we would all be grunting one-syllable words with no grammar at all).

I suspect that your statement is very narrowly based on the fact that most of the commonly studied languages in just one language family (Indo-European) have lost just one "complicated" feature (noun declensions).

This Quora answer[0] puts it better than I could: "No language is "more simple" than other languages. Old English had just 2 tenses, present and past, now there are 16 of them, future and future-in-the-past forms developed over the time, the continuous aspect appeared, the perfect appeared, so the verbal system acquired much more forms than it used to have. On the other hand, the nouns lost the gender and cases. It is always like that, if something is lost, some new features appear to compensate the loss.

A good example of a language that gets more and more complicated over the course of time is Chinese. The Old Chinese had no parts of speech, no number, no tense, it was a monosyllabic isolating language. Now Chinese is developing in the direction of getting more complicated, its words are mostly two-syllable now, parts of speech appeared in it, tenses begin to appear, etc.

And some languages can become more simple during some period, and then again get more complicated. Hindi is like that, first it lost all the cases which were in Sanskrit, but later it developed a new system of cases."

[0]: https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/a/6399
No. Aside from the excellent link to Peter Van Roy's work someone else posted in this tree, take a look at http://wiki.c2.com/?ThereAreExactlyThreeParadigms.
The actual issue of the case is that healthcare providers have been consolidating for a number of years, so much so that in the northeast is very rare to find independent providers. Small doctor practices are now usually part of a larger provider instead of being independent. The small practice gets to hand of administration of billing issues and gets much better rates from insurers. Hospitals get more referrals. In some areas, you end up with 1 or 2 providers so insurance companies have no choice but to pay high prices and pass those on to consumers.
I didn't choose "to not have kids" so I could pay more for the kids of other people, if I wanted to pay for kids, I would have got some myself. :D
Hello, everyone, first time poster, long time reader. I got the idea for this post after reading HostileFork's excellent look into the printf function, and thought it'd be interesting to take a look at the .NET equivalent.

Please let me know if I got anything wrong!
"I obscenity in thy mother's milk," muttered the old man.
The fact that leadership is necessary (which I do not deny) does not imply that some particular share of the resulting surplus value should go to said leadership. The share of surplus value captured by capital is something we get to decide as a society, and the idea that "as much as capital can manage to capture" is a natural and just share is a pervasive and pernicious lie.
My interpretation of OP is not that taking away personal freedoms is a feature, but that personal freedom absolutism is a bug.

Giving up some freedom is always a consequence of society: your freedom to swim in a lake is at odds with my freedom to dump sewage there.
It is a shame to see Apple using the same tactics as iOS with macOS, which in my opinion a different beast when it comes to upgrades.

I really regret upgrading to High Sierra, because — thanks to a still unfixed graphics driver issue, my 2014 rMBP reboots/lags/breaks when using the GPU. Fortunately, I managed to remedy it with a beta Nvidia driver; without a pro-user mindset, I can only imagine how many people are frustrated by this issue alone, not to mention their apps breaking as a result of a 'forced' upgrade!

High Sierra has the same lack of 'internal polish' as iOS 11, and as a result, it's going to leave a lot of users scratching their heads in anger.

Part of me misses the days when getting an OS X update was an event that required a trip to an Apple Store to pick up (read: pay) a DVD :)
Picshare Party, private wedding gallery built by wedding guests through text
Ok, I don't know all that a watch is expected to do because I don't own one. But AFAIK, messages, fitness tracking, and remote controls do not need anything above what some e-paper can get you.

Now (after some time to think) I do think it's mostly a design restriction. Nobody was able to make an e-paper watch look futuristic and expensive.
An issue that doesn't get addressed enough, IMO, is that when you do cut taxes, someone, somewhere, loses. If we cut the corporate tax rate to 15%, we will be incredibly competitive with other countries, but that doesn't mean corporations will bring that money back here. They have a fiduciary duty to increase profits, and reduce costs. Tax evasion is a crime, but tax avoidance is not.
maxwell's equations also reduce to a single equation using differential forms

i find the "geometric algebra" formulation rather dull, on the contrary
Because when you take someone's money they have the right to counsel you that "you will get your payout later so suck it up."

That said, most VCs I have read indicate you should pay yourself enough to take the money concerns off the table, but enough to cause the startup stress. Obviously there's a tension and no perfect answer.
It is element-wise sin, which is not entirely correct. You can take the sin of, or any analytic function of a matrix, however you'd have to compute the characteristic polynomial for the matrix and apply the function to that. It is a result of the Cayley-Hamilton Theorem. here is a tutorial: http://web.mit.edu/2.151/www/Handouts/CayleyHamilton.pdf
As a German who lived in Canada for 12 years, and moved back to Berlin for a while, I am not sure I could really live here. You constantly have struggles with a system that has rules which don't make sense. Neoliberalism seems to run deeper all the time, without people seeing it. Everybody seems to constantly try to screw you over, and overall societal trust is not very high. Politicians seem to be completely tone deaf, not understanding people's everyday struggles. Maybe it's a kind of complacency, because deep down Germans feel they're the best somehow, that they've got the best system.

I guess besides the 'system' and the people that form it, Germany is actually very nice.

(And the US is way worse in all these respects anyway)
Probably worth noting that Stories cannot be downvoted, only flagged. It used to be the case that scores were shown for all comments and that this was removed as an experiment to see how it affected behavior. The results were deemed positive, the experiment became permanent, and comment scores (except for the user's own comments) are no longer displayed. That's a round about explanation of why I think story scores are shown because they do not appear to cause a problem from the standpoint of HN's maintainers.

To me, there's nothing wrong with voting for a high ranked story (or not voting for it). That's what the arrow is for.
We were using a mix of tools throughout Microsoft: several teams were using Source Depot, which is an internally developed centralized version control system. It was built to handle large teams, like Windows and Office. It was the precursor to Team Foundation Version Control, which is the centralized version control system available in TFS and VSTS, which is also capable of scaling to large projects, and many organizations within the company were (and are) using that.

GVFS is part of our effort within the company to standardize on a single set of best-of-breed tools, and use the same tools inside Microsoft that we deliver to customers. So we're adopting one engineering system throughout the company and we're moving everybody to Visual Studio Team Services.
They aren't immigrants, they are refugees. They aren't in the same social care system as German citizens and haven't actually impacted the quality of social care for regular citizens at all. Contrary to popular belief it's actually not easy at all to gain citizenship status. Hosting a million refugees does cost a lot (~20B € annually), but it is constitutionally required to guarantee that everyone in Germany is treated with human dignity.
Let's be honest it is less Trump and more the US media, which nearly all the foreign media parrots.

And even more interesting US image was first place after ruining so many countries in very recent history. But then again, it is all about the media.
My point wasn't really the distinction between engineering and programming, but between everything IT-related (red-hot job market) and all-other-STEM related (not so hot job market): sciences (chem, bio, physics, math) and traditional engineering (civil, mechanical, chemical, electrical)
As an avid cyclist, I'm not sure I'd say that cycling is necessarily an "efficient" transportation option. I love to ride my bike to work. It makes my day much better. If I could, I would ride to work everyday. However, for me (and many others) it takes more time to ride than drive and dropping off if kids in the morning is really, really tough by bike.

My point is that biking is great, but it isn't necessarily time efficient.
Who is John draper?
I've been through a few startups and I always paid myself as little as possible. That is to say, I paid myself the minimum I needed to cover my own personal fixed costs. For me it was important to leave as much money as possible for others and growing the company. When the startup is successful, then I'll take a higher salary.
I thought that we would see a world where we would increasingly "mash-up" a solution using different services accessible through APIs. One where service and data providers would provide a programmable interface to their functionality (and data), perhaps in addition to their own user-interface.

It was conceivable for a time, however it didn't occur to me that doing so would mean no advertising dollars for them, unless they made their offering as "walled gardens".

Truly to me, it seems that "advertising, marketing and consumerism" are what makes the world go around.
Dva: Elm-style JavaScript framework
So what are those alternatives?
You're absolutely right. I just made that change in the article. Thanks for pointing it out!
Substitute the word balance for plateau and you'll begin to understand. Desire is suffering.
It isn’t virtuous to believe Kevin Spacey’s accuser. It’s backward
How is it possible to tell what category a piece of traffic is?
No, it shouldn't. If both senior and junior are starting the company at zero and working fulltime/equally pouring sweat equity in and assuming similar living expense profiles, then they should be compensated similarly. If you can't see your cofounder as equal, then partner with someone else. Or if the salary differential is that important to you, then remain on the corporate path.
I have a Macbook that still runs Mavericks and I'm quite happy with it. I know it sounds conspiratorial but I've never been able to shake the forced obsolescence tag when it comes to Apple. I have a laptop. It works very well. I don't feel the need to upgrade or update the software, because I don't want to lose functionality that works really well for me.
This really has nothing to do with Python per se. Python should do the exact same thing that C does, which is to say, what mbstowcs and wcstombs do. And those do "infer" encoding from locale.

I agree that the conflation of encodings and locales in Unix is rather unfortunate, but, again - nothing to do with Python. On Unix, Python should do what well-behaved Unix apps do, for the sake of consistency and interoperability.
Would you pay founders differently if they lived in different areas (SF vs Thailand)?

I think you can argue either way, but I will tell you as a founder with kids that if the startup can't pay me enough to take care of my family, I won't be part of that startup for long. You can't pay tuition with equity.

That said, this may be a valid filter for you. The most important thing is that the discussion about compensation happens aboveboard and that everyone feels the situation is fair.
I don't like the pattern Apple is using there. But comparing it with Microsoft?!?

Microsoft was a lot more aggressive and shady, and used a bunch of evil UI patterns, like installing it by clicking "Cancel" button. Or displaying a second start button that opens the shady installer instead of the start menu. macOS auto downloading is not right, but it is whole level below that.

If you look at OS charts like on Steam, 64% still on Win7, many reverted back, because Win10 (29%) is shit and full of dark patterns, and Win7 is the new XP. In the last few months the install base of Win7 increased whereas Win10 decreased (I was one of them). http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/?platform=pc and https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-7-user-base-on-steam-con...
That right there is an argument for laws resembling antitrust laws, but simply aimed at corporate power, rather than excessive market power.

The efficiencies gained by mega corporations aren't that big, we shouldn't let them use size complexity to obscure malfeasance.
Has this condition been named and explored further? Anyway, if you have this tendency become an architect at a large company.
Receiving a housing allowance sounds like more pay to me. Is there a requirement that states the service member must utilize all of the allowance on housing? Could they chose to live under their allowance? Doesn’t sound like the single service member has the same choice. What if two service members marry each other, do they both get a housing allowance?
And the 99.9% of time when the truck is running with all tires intact, that fiddly piece of plastic gives, say, extra 5% of fuel efficiency. Even if it requires a complete replacement every time a tire blows, it may be worth having.
Mulling Monetization
Since I updated to High Sierra, my Java plugins in Safari have stopped working. Now those are required for VPN connection. Apple support says to re-install macOS, but I am not convinced. Also there are some weird bugs popping up.

What really rocks is the copy/paste. It's blazing fast.
Has typos.

Says that 199^883467 is difficult to factorise. Well, all 883467 factors are shown already.
Controlling Software with (Cybernetic) Thought
How about the examples of Ket, from TFA?
There are consequences for putting one founder in a tighter spot than the others.

This can play out as one founder having to take off for dr appointments b/c things are stretched so thin their spouse can’t take off or they can’t afford a nanny, etc.

It also plays out that the founder in the tighter spot is going to be making decisions geared to a faster influx of minimal cash vs long-term value building. This is the same as VCs letting founders take some money off the table in later rounds b/c “the first million is worth more” and the investors want to swing for the fence.

Happiness doesn’t change much over $50k, but that number goes up with kids. BUT, that also means if you are going to take into account family situation, you should also take into account family money, if you have kids and a spouse with a big salary, you may not need more.
Your claim was that "there is no software without bugs". I'm pointing out that this is true only in the narrow philosophical sense. You cannot draw a perfect circle, either. But you can draw a circle that gets pretty damn close.

Software cannot be perfect but this doesn't mean that software needs to be shoddy. sqlite is a complex product and it has orders of magnitude fewer bugs than other projects of similar complexity.

It is factually, observably, possible to create software that is very close to perfect, it just takes a lot of hard work. Software has a reputation for being buggy not because it's impossible to write flawless software, but because most software is really poorly written.
Why not? There's no restriction on what kinds of characters can appear inside a Python Unicode string.

Or do you mean that the text in the log is UTF-8, but the log itself as a whole is not, because those control characters are mixed into it in (effectively) a different encoding? Then the log isn't a single string, and shouldn't be treated as such.
>We agree on women and blacks. But good arguments have been made (weasel words because I don't remember the source) that a democracy where EVERYONE can vote is very susceptible to populism and demagogy. Under this system, two idiots are worth more than a genius.

The idea behind democracy, at least real athenian democracy, is that it doesn't matter who is an idiot and who is a genius.

Not just because they are all people, but mainly because since they are all to be affected by the decisions of a vote, they should all have a say.

If anything, when one was "too much of a genius" or too distinct from others, it was viewed with suspicion, and they could see themselves ostracised (with "ostraca" being the ancient greek word for sea-shells, but also the shards of pottery using for voting, upon which athenians wrote the names of people to exile from the city) [1].

(And come to think of it, some of the most disastrous, self serving, society destructing, laws and ideas, come not from "idiots" but for very clever and well educated people).

So democracy is not about "finding what's best". It's about people participating in it, whether their thinking (or lack thereof), having equal say on what should be done in their community.

That's why ancient athenians besides mass popular vote, they also gave some high official positions by lottery -- so anybody, at random, can get a chance to get to them (for a term).

>People living under a rock, not knowing what's going on in the neighborhood, let alone the country, are worth just as much. How to deal with that ?

Accept it.

[1] Aristedes a.k.a. "Aristedes the just" was a renowned state-person, who everybody considered trustworthy and just (hence the nickname), and he had done much to prove himself so over the years. (...). Once, when there was a vote for ostacizing, (...) it is said that an illiterate voter who did not recognise Aristides approached the statesman and requested that he write the name of Aristides on his voting shard to ostracize him. The latter asked if Aristides had wronged him. "No," was the reply, "and I do not even know him, but it irritates me to hear him everywhere called 'the Just'." Aristides then wrote his own name on the ballot.
I have to say, I usually love Janz's writing, but I think this model is too simplistic and does not provide enough evidence.

As a technical founder with a successful track record, I could be working with any number of businesspeople or all sorts of opportunities, and I'm good at math. Why should I forgo a market rate salary to take a 1 in 100 chance at a lottery ticket, where my likelihood of success is largely determined by the people who also choose my salary? Major conflict of interest. The math does not add up.

I would think my team should be motivated to pay enough to keep each other from leaving for attractive opportunities in this lucrative market. It's one thing to voluntarily give up salary to help the company. It's another to force it by means of a questionably sustainable business model.

Evidence: try to hire yourself a technical co-founder from their job at FaceGoogAmaSoft (or pay equivalent) and find out that money talks.
You've just described India too. Perhaps different countries are actually more similar than we like to imagine, being made of the same species?

We need to solve our biggest issues at a global level because history shows that even if one country goes from strength to strength, sooner or later its surrounding nations can pull it down. Also usually the rise of one country is upon the ruins (or at least exploitation) of another, or others.
As I mentioned in other comments I think this would serve as a valid filter. You'll either not work with founders with kids, or only with founders who have enough money they can take the smaller salary.

And that may be fine for your startup. But you are limiting your talent pool, and should make sure that is worth the trade-off.
A Gentle Intro to Transfer Learning
A useful way of looking at this, orthogonal to the issue of forced savings, is that you need a roof over your head, so you are born short housing. Buying a modest home covers this short and so is typically a risk mitigating thing to do. Owning more house than you really need puts you long housing. Remaining short housing and investing in the stock market may have a positive expected return, but puts you at risk of being priced out of your local housing market if that happens to outperform stocks for a while.
Public transport broken in Berlin "all the time"? Where, how?

The appointment system for the Bürgerämter is a bit of a disaster, but you can go without an appointment, or get appointments further away, which you will have no problem getting to due to the great public transport system.

Have you lived outside of Germany at all?
4 years ago. It has been a pretty smooth ride, from originally getting a freelancer's Visa (pretty easily), to getting a Blue Card (even more easily).

The biggest surprise to me as an American was that I had this perception that health care is free over here, and it's not. You are mandated to pay your health insurance, which isn't as cheap as you might imagine, but it is of course pretty comprehensive with no co-pays for every service that I've ever had.

Btw, the health care system is a dream of efficiency compared to the US.
PROTESTERS MARCHING TOWARD THE RESIDENCE OF MUGABE?
Then don’t start a company with people who do have kids. That is fully within your control.
No, it’s the same really. Automatically downloading I’ve 5GB of data in the background without permission is some incredibly shady shit. There are people in Australia with data plans that this would literally still cost hundreds of dollars.
JPSS-1 Weather Satellite On-Orbit in Penultimate Delta II Launch
My mid 2013 MBA has gone through multiple upgrades and now running High Sierra. It has i3 Core and 4GB of ram. I was afraid with each upgrade that it would run like crap. I'm pleasantly surprised that it runs HS without any perceivable drop in performance
Getto for the elite?