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African Scream Contest - Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds from Benin & Togo 70s[0]. Not the best name I guess, but it is one of my favorite compilations of any genre. I found the 3rd song, 'It's a Vanity', from a snowboarding video that came out a couple years ago called "Glue"[1].

As others have mentioned, its released by Analog Africa.

[0]http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/mf4h/

[1]https://youtu.be/udf7DywE2Iw
How large is that industry in the grand scheme of things? How many job openings? How much investment in going into making Windows desktop apps in 2018?

You have to compete with the market as it exists. All of the focus of development and all of the money is going into web and mobile. Every platform vendor except Microsoft is giving away their development environment.

I’m a .Net fan but I can’t imagine living in the hell like landscape of doing WPF development knowing that the industry is passing me by.

If I were going to do desktop development in 2018, it’s going to be working in C/C++ writing really specialized, highly optimized software where I could command a huge premium.
Note also it says “reports”, not complaints.
I have no idea who this person is, nor do I have much to add about the Google+ thing (person uses Google services, get completely fucked over for literally no reason, is surprised, this is not a remotely new narrative, just standard Google user problems).

The new site has TLS (partially) configured, but doesn't upgrade users to it, making it effectively non-existent. I'm not sure if moving off of Google services to an insecure site for something like a blog is better or worse.

Probably better, as it provides a path forward for moving to a secure, de-Googled platform
This isn't your or his decision to make. We don't get to decide if a creature's preference is the cage. There is no way of knowing in the first place.
Wow, I was led totally astray by mention of "diversity quotas," which weren't even your words. Sorry.
Right. It's worse than it used to be too, because of the breadth of their services. Theoretically, one person on YouTube that flags you could cause you to have a useless (or almost useless...minus your data/config) phone, thermostat, Google Home device, etc. Or, you could lose access to, say, your Google Analytics or Adwords account.
First off, I think it's great that you're trying to address this key topic for non-marketers on HN and YC in general.

That being said, there's not much here that will move the needle for most people. I would highly recommend that people checkout either Moz's blog or Brian Dean's Backlinko to see what you need to win at SEO in terms of actionable steps.

"Create good content to get good backlinks" is pretty much the same as "build it and they will come".

A critical part of a link building campaign once you've created a piece of content is the outreach.

I was also surprised that none of the amazing tools used by marketers were mentioned. Just Google Search Console and Keyword Planner. There's BuzzSumo to find existing top content that you can improve on and reach out to people who linked to the original as a low hanging fruit. Ahrefs, SEMrush, the list goes on.
I like that idea too(and as people point out several companies are experimenting with this idea).

It would also be interesting to set up "remote drivers" for the last mile. The truck itself can still be unmanned and someone drives the truck remotely for the last mile (or when problems crop up). Since the infrastructure would already be there for autonomous driving, remote driving is a relatively straightforward exercise in engineering I think.
Depends on the company I guess. Less known companies may either not use algorithmic puzzles at all, or have a lower bar (either the puzzles are easier or you don't need to ace them), just because they don't get to be as selective as Google. I once aced the puzzle coding interview in a well known late stage startup without doing much preparation (I was 10 years out of CS school at that time, so none of the algo stuff was too fresh in my head). The problems just were not that hard - you could simply figure them out with common sense and some basic algorithmic techniques.
Utilities Helped Puerto Rico Fix Its Power Grid. Now They Face Hefty Tax Bills
Why do tires blow out? Do they have a predictable lifespan? If there is a huge cost savings associated with autonomous driving, could some of those $$$ be put toward more frequent tire changes that prevent blowouts from happening?

(edit) Personal injury lawyers assert that it is largely a preventative maintenance issue:

http://www.kennedyhodges.com/library/the-dangers-of-a-truck-...

https://braunslaw.com/library/why-catastrophic-truck-tire-bl...

http://www.attorneystevelee.com/library/the-dangers-and-caus...
Looking at the abstract (there are several links in the comments), I think it's accurate to say it's not a scientific study because it's not a study. That is, to me, a "study" implies some systematic examination of some observable thing. But this paper is more a formal hypothesis: the author is proposing that a particular phenomenon exists, with some anecdotal support.

That means that the story title is not accurate, as it declares the thing exists, when the entire point of the paper is that it may exist.
More importantly... is there a torrent of the last VR release?
> usenet was actually usable

When did it stop? comp.lang.* is still pretty active.
This has been on HN before, but looking at the project page it's much cleaner and more organized! Gives me high hopes this project will keep developing and become a default option for scalable (p2p?) Erlang clusters.

Personally, I dream of a pure Elixir cluster management solution starting with IoT devices but movable to an on-site auto-configurable server cluster. There really seems to be no "goto" option for on-prem small business clustered setups for servers. Sandstorm does some work in this area, but seems more cloud oriented. I'm thinking a "distributed email, ldap services, accounting, vpn (ala zerotier), etc" which could run on a pack of 3 Pi's (or equivalent SBC's). Plug and play for small businesses! Ah, dreams.
I should have been more specific. Yes, the --strictNullChecks switch almost gets you there.. I forget there's also the 'never' type, and '{}', which are very similar to null (I've seen someone use the string null in production).
The reason I bring this up is that if you remove null, it removes the need for both of '==' & '===' (could possibly be removed with something like strictEqualityChecks).

Exception handling and null checks are both conditional, so there is the potential to replace checking for null with exceptions. Plus, removing the null checks (is an object still an object when most of its properties are null?) could be fixed with better use of inheritance. And the '?' suffix.

This is not the first language Anders has been involved in developing, I'm sure remember him talking about his dislike for null somewhere (I could be wrong). Typescript is both an abstraction and adds features to Javascript. So TypeScript has the opportunity to remove such idioms. Scala and Java are very different languages despite running the same underneath.

The question at the end of the post was more hypothetical. Could this be done or is the concept of null is so ingrained that it can't be removed? (When Functional programming manages null.) I'm just interested, especially when null is known as the "Billion Dollar Mistake" - that's ignoring inflation.
Exactly, though unfortunately a lot of people don't manage to get unstuck. I used to be one of those people stuck in the past, pissed off at the people who are ruining a fixture of my life, giving way too much of a shit about things that aren't real. Then I realized that it's actually very boring for my interests and for the media to always be the same thing. Does there need to be more of the Star Trek that I used to enjoy? No, not really. It's been played out. If people want to completely change it to their liking, they can have at it.

That being said, I still find companies like CBS, Viacom, Nintendo, 343i, and Sony to be quite off-putting. If people enjoy their stuff, I don't think there's anything wrong with that, but I don't want to give support to companies that don't appreciate their customers.

At least Lucasfilm understood that the enthusiasm of Star Wars fans, their ability to make goofy and even elaborate fan films, was a big contributor to the continuing success of Star Wars.
Do you routinely ignore advice from those more experienced in other aspects of your life as well? Based on just what you wrote alone, and having never operated a drone in my life, I side with lecturers. Because they're licensed operators with (I assume) experience, whereas your counter-argument is...nothing, and you're the one telling the story.
Support for embedded is indeed getting into focus. I hope to release an article soon how the '--gc:regions' switch works (which is misnamed, it's a way to do memory management, not a GC...) and in the longer run the destructor-based runtime will ensure that memory is freed sooner than a GC would for memory constrained devices.

Having said that, "embedded" is a wide field and sometimes one cannot even afford a heap, no matter if garbage collected or managed manually. But even then Nim can be used, you still get array bounds checking, Ada-inspired strong type checking plus the meta programming goodies.
They did spin out a lot of the real estate into Seritage, which Lampert owns a large chunk of.
I thought the site was broken on Mobile because i couldn't see any details of the machine. Guess it's not broken, just generally useless :)
Hoop Dreams (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoop_Dreams) - 1994.

This is a long basketball documentary following two youngsters from the housing projects of Chicago. I was lucky enough to visit Chicago for a week with work just a couple of months after seeing this; it led me to learning so much more about the struggles of people living in the housing projects of Cabrini Green, Robert Taylor Homes etc. Whether you're a fan of basketball or not, this is an eye opener into much wider issues.
I am not saying it's accurate or reasonable.

But 130% would be absurd in that it can't happen, but 7% is within the realm of possibility. So, unacceptably optimistic or unlikely etc sure but the bar for absurd is higher than just unusual.
Human space flight - what a waste of resources. Send robots for the next 100 years.
For websites where having a unique design is not a requirement or a priority, Bootstrap and similar frameworks are very helpful.
Thought this interview was interested.

For startups specifically trying to get off the ground, I highly recommend the Atrium article SEO Playbook for Seed Stage Startups: https://www.atrium.co/blog/seo-seed-stage-startups/

Animalz blog Content Marketing Strategy is pretty good too https://www.animalz.co/blog/
Everyone knows this, but as far as PR is concerned you want to limit the amount of information you're trying to get across. People, generally, are really stupid.

Example: FB events for my shows have, in the description of the event, the location/date/time/cover charge/ticket link. All of that information is present well above that, but people will STILL post on the event wall asking where/when/how much if I don't do that. shrug
Their lifetime warranty used to cover their poor quality. Buying duplicates was cheaper than snap-on and better suited to field work, where losing tools is a fact of life. My dad would buy duplicates and bulk-return the broken ones a few times a year. Apparently he deduced out the engineered working life of most of their tools.
What is your cell phone bill? The person I know who does house cleaning charges $25/hr, takes 5 hours on the average house, and goes to most of their houses at least twice a month.
I read a fan theory that Kylo Ren embodies all the fans who can't deal with the franchise changing for new audiences. He's the archetypal curmudgeon, like his dad.
The article is talking about the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4/te...

The problematic portion for drone hobbyists is "S.2836 - Preventing Emerging Threats Act of 2018" that was attached to the FAA Reauthorization bill.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/283...

In it's current form, it has some really vague wording and definitions. For example, the bill frequently refers to "threat" without a solid definition. It basically says that "threat" will be defined by the Secretary or Attorney General at a later time.
It's always odd to see people choosing one of the most regulated products on the market for those kinds of arguments.
This works for cars because cars are too big to be easily concealable

Most of regulations you mention also do nothing to stop cars from being used as weapons, so they are completely irrelevant to your point.

The few regulations you mentioned that do provide some deterrent to being used as weapons weren't intended for that purpose, and are easily circumvented by determined attackers anyway.
Thing is i have completely different experiences in my. life with this sort of thing, i am not saying you should do it but that each person have different driver in life.
I've had a long career making a good living working for companies that never asked me to write a self-balancing binary search tree off the cuff.

No one should be asking you to write a self balancing binary search tree off the cuff. One of the simplest would be a Splay tree, and even that's way too much.

More relevant would be to ask for 3 or so things each of which are 1/10th the complexity, but then see if you can specify how to integrate those things together into a system in a way that shows you have experience with the pitfalls of actual coding and debugging.
Alpha Blondy you mean?
FOSTA Provides Another Tool for Silencing People You Dislike
What about shadowing a doctor in high school? You literally follow them around all day and get a taste of what they do.
Same bullshit happened to Toys R Us. Leveraged buyouts should be illegal.
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At least in the US, cars are very much treated as though they are dangerous enough to effectively be weapons. They must be titled, and are required to have an individual serial number (the VIN). Additionally, in order to operate one the operator must be certified by the state to be competent (driver's license). They are recognized as being dangerous enough to require special insurance, and many states require annual inspect to certify they are safe to operate. And speaking as someone who has registered a home-built car in Wyoming (which is both figuratively and literally the wild west for vehicle regulations) it isn't as easy as just rocking up to the DMV and paying for a set of plates. Before registering I was required to have the car inspected by law enforcement for both a VIN and presence of safety equipment. This is the bare minimum, some states require additional inspection for quality of construction and engineering.
As demonstrated in Amazon Fulfillment Centers.
>Maybe, it doesn't change the fact that it's not privacy by default

Why? If this change doesn't impact privacy, why is having it opt out not privacy by default? How is a no-op from a privacy perspective privacy-anything?
snippets here and there keep trucking, but I think it's fair to say Usenet in it's entirety is not what it used to be.
I believe this type of CSS works well in projects with no real concept or design - I call it wild-west front-end where you design as you go ending up with no patterns and real identity.

If it's popeprly designed functional CSS would be exaclty what it actually looks like - garbage.
You sent me down a rabbit hole looking for this (the Internet Archive has a bunch of issues of Byte digitized and OCR'd) and, while I didn't find it, I did find this very interesting post from 1995 re: the history of LOGO: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.logo/UqOvE...

If anybody else went down that particular rabbit hole they might find that link interesting too.
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FB is making sure you can't calculate the ROI of a campaign. Marketers are putting money in FB because they think this is where they can the most accurately target people.

https://adage.com/article/digital/p-g-decided-facebook-ad-ta...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2012/05/15/gm-says-...
THREAT DEFINED.—In defining the term ‘threat’ for purposes of carrying out paragraph (1), the Secretary or the Attorney General, as the case may be, shall take into account factors, including, but not limited to, the potential for bodily harm or loss of human life, the potential loss or compromise of sensitive national security information, or the potential severe economic damage resulting from use of an unauthorized unmanned aerial system in the vicinity of a covered facility or asset.

Well no, 'threat' is not being defined by the Sec/AG at a later time, it's right there. Where I will concede to your point is that in the context of unmanned aerial flight, actions by the pilot that satisfy the above are not well enumerated or defined-but I'm only partially through reading the text of the bill.
> Absent this approach, in web projects of nearly any size, the CSS inevitably grows and becomes increasingly difficult to maintain.

In web apps (as opposed to web pages), this problem is better solved by breaking up and grouping CSS with its associated components. Re-use the components, not the CSS classes.

Regarding how to keep CSS modular, just give each component a unique name and apply styles to child elements using nested selectors:

.exampleComponent .exampleItem {
border: 1px solid #aaa;

/* etc */
}

This becomes even easier in SASS:

.exampleComponent {
/* put all the component's styles in here */

.exampleItem {
border: 1px solid #aaa;
}
}
Would you enjoy picking somewhere nice to live, then it becomes crowded with a bunch of denser living structures, with all the extra noise, congestion, crime (simply by virtue of more people being present), etc. completely changing the character of the location?
More specifics:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/fancy-bear-lojax-campaign-reve...
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I mean, the comparison should be against the stock market, not high grade corporate bonds.

Stick the money in the s&p 500 and it will easily get 7%. (The real number over the last 100 years is 9.7%). Having the number br 2.7% lower then that is a fair compromise to take into account risk.
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> For this detection channel, there isn't too much special about Antarctica

What about for the Askaryan channel?
Can’t speak to FANG specifically, but the number of well paid people that hang out and do nothing tends to increase exponentially with the size of a company. So yes you should expect to feel underutilized.
> does anyone have the name of the bill or the full text that I may go read for myself?

Frustratingly the story doesn't specify a bill number, which makes it harder than it should be to track down the actual text.

I found some discussion of it on the AMA's Government Relations blog (see https://amablog.modelaircraft.org/amagov/2018/09/26/faa-reau...) -- but confusingly, they cite the relevant bill as "H.R. 302," which if you look it up on Congress.gov is actually a bill titled the "Sports Medicine Licensure Clarity Act of 2017" (see https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/302/...) which has nothing at all to do with UAVs.

I then searched Congress.gov for the bill title they gave, the "FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018", and found H.R. 4, which appears to be the actual bill in question. The UAV-specific part of the bill is Title 2, Subtitle B ("Unmanned Aircraft Systems"), which can be jumped to directly here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4/te...
We had a Kmart go under in our town recently. It was a dead store walking for years before it finally happened. Made entirely of cinderblocks, totally unkept, frankly it was reminiscent of dirt floor cinderblock villages I'd been to in Central America.
I worry about a lot of things, including but not limited to the expression of all the instinctive behaviours that a fish would have in its natural habitat that living in a glass box prevents (no matter how enriching we try to make the captive environment). I could write a lot about this, but I've dwelled on it enough as it is. Suffice to say I have just decided on a personal level after keeping fish that I do not think they are a suitable species for "ethical" captivity in the home.
> Is TypeScript worth learning?

It's worth using. like flow it can validate plain js files and even supports a subset of JS doc (on that aspect I wish it didn't, I wish Microsoft established a more powerful format for type comments as an alternative to JS doc which is not well defined, but it does its job). So you don't even have to use ts files. In VSCode IDE, you can just had

// @ts-check

to benefit from typescript compiler.

At the end of the day, yes, JS today is a safe bet. You can develop native apps with react-native, desktop apps with electron even attempt to include 3rd party language libraries through WASM.

Is it faster than Python? I don't think so, but it's a trade-off. Javascript is ubiquitous now. I say it as someone who still kind of despise the language yet it's productive.
Ah, thanks. I did not seen sibling thread.
Plus, we still have part 103 ultralight aircraft. As long as it weighs < 254 lbs and is slow enough, you don't even need to register the darn thing.

Edit: to clarify, these are 'real' aircraft that humans can fly in.

https://www.eaa.org/en/eaa/aviation-communities-and-interest...
The workaround is called GDPR. A shadow account is illegal with that.
Neither is it proof of being an expert.
Husky seems to be aiming to fill that void, and by some reports they're doing a decent job.

I'm sure they don't measure up to Craftsman of fifty years ago, but neither does Craftsman.
Please read that definition more carefully.

Here's a paraphrase: In defining the term threat, The Secretary or the Attorney shall take into account factors such as potential for harm, loss of life, national security, and economic damage.

That is not a definition, that is a list of things that must be taken into account when making the definition.
Neither does buying an automatic weapon ... oh wait never-mind ...
Depends in location. Most builders want bigger jobs: it's better to build 5 big houses than 10 little ones. We were looking at building a smallish house and the builder thought we were crazy for wanting a 1300sqft cottage. Ended up being only slightly cheaper than a 2000sqft place. What builders in the us don't get that some in europe do is some people prefer quality over quantity.
Thanks! I will consider trying paid version.
I think a lot of folks underestimate just how much can be done with this approach.

"Steel" http://www.csszengarden.com/219/
Just attach a gun to it ... your good.
> Two managers are talking about training their employees. The first asks, "Yeah, but what if we train them, and they just leave?" The second responds, "What if we don't train them, and they stay?"
> I'm gonna invite you to a game called the Pepsi challenge, wherein you're obliged to imbibe a glass full of unknown chemical X and survive 24 hours before you spray it on food that other people eat and/or insert it directly into the foodchain. Wanna play?

We play that every day when we eat food and drink water. Literally everything we eat is made of chemicals. We simply know more about the man made ones so we can study and learn about any dangers.

Would you be concerned about drinking malic acid, quinic acid, shikimic acid, and fumaric acid? Did you know about any of those when you first drank apple juice?
Is the hedge fund his own money? If not the loss is on investors, say your pension funds, endowments, or whatever.