skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can vouch for the OP-1, it's a super fun synth, expensive, but totally worth it. No other device makes it as fun and easy to just sit down and jam out a track.
How does this compare to Dropout based methods? http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/yarin.gal/website/blog_3d801aa...
Prices can't exist without people willing to pay them. It doesn't matter how high your taxes, fees, and labor costs are, if people aren't willing to pay, prices don't stay high.

Another way of interpreting "The median home price is California is $379,000" is "people are willing to pay, on average, $379,000 for a home in California."

The home prices are the data to support my hypothesis. If there wasn't demand for houses then prices would fall. Demand for houses means people want to move there. If there were a net migration out of the state, prices would be dropping.
Yeah and P Diddy changed his name again.
Visual programming, then called CASE (computer aided software engineering) was a big deal in the 90's but the consensus today seems to be that, once you're past toy problems, "visual" blocks made the task more difficult. The hard part of programming isn't writing the language text, it's figuring out the logic and deciding how to solve the problem. Visual tools don't make that easier and there's some evidence that they actually make it harder (because you have to conform to the way the tool works instead of just coding directly.)
I think that's just a smart aphorism. What if I love starting companies, but nothing is working out? It has to be a mix of both?
He did say professional hardship, it's not wildly unreasonable.
Use a water spray bottle - No one, including [children], like to be squirted with water, so you can try a quick spritz at your [child] if they are somewhere or doing something they shouldn't be.
This is not true. Apple, LG, both have/had audiophile grade dacs, and I suspect many others do as well.
Cloud for Africa
> Perhaps at 22 you don't have the full perspective of what life can be.

It's hard to believe that one has the full perspective at any age.
Some 10x engineers just say "No" to product owners. If you let a product owner to convince you that you need an .xls export rather than .csv for internal use (this is a real-life example!) you may add a week+ of work/maintenance versus the time it takes me to explain "no."
Thanks - glad you enjoyed it. If you have any review units, I'd be happy to have a play and blog my experiences. My contact details are in my profile
Where have you seen the reading hate trend?
I think you're playing the averages here, assuming he's a typical 22 year one. Which is reasonable. Just be careful about assuming too much - he may have had periods of his life that were more difficult than you and I will ever experience, you just don't know.
Note that this is just an excerpt from a whole book on this topic, "The Plutonium Files" by Eileen Welsome. It's a riveting and disturbing read.
How We Built a Self-Hosted REST API Explorer in LoopBack 4
More top College and HS students would rather work at Coke than Facebook
Libspng 0.4.0 – First stable release (libpng alternative)
Buying a mobile phone with a large notch at the top of the screen?
I kind of want to send these ‘environmentalists’ pieces of asphalt because that’s what their actions here are going to cause the entire planet to be covered in.
quantum computing, maybe?
Can you explain the main risks you see?

https://www.electricblanketfires.com/electric-blanket-fire-s... suggests that the primary issue is user error.

Are hot water bottles better? What other affordable means are there to easily warm a cold bed?
There's also so-called acidcore, which often has similar basslines but a faster tempo and the kicks like in hardcore. Quite popular around here in the squatting/underground scene. And for me, when the dj or live is the eact thing I like to hear (tracks which basically minute-long buildups into even harder and way more out-of-this-earth soundscapes), it blows me away more than any 'normal' acid track ever did. That stuff gets me in trance in no time.
Yeah, most of the blog posts for RescueTime are clickbait/ads for their product.

Their product is also mostly useless.
In the case with the camp, the retina scan is required to "access" the tokens but that's a specific operational requirement. There isn't much you can buy other than food there.
I tried to ask out that cute girl sitting next to me. Whooops!
I see it on here from time to time on here but have never heard a person in real life mention it, so... maybe?

Incidentally, I'd pick map & navigation data as the one big Web thing that really ought to be handled by government. Up-to-date, freely (or very cheaply) available map data should be considered infrastructure, and government(s) ought to already be generating/collecting it. Let the private market get it to consumers, but governments ought to be providing good-enough data that there's no need for private collection of it, in the general case. Leave street view and business reviews and such to Google and friends, but enough data to build a pretty damn good navigation app should just exist for anyone to use. It's a huge waste of effort to have multiple organizations trying to put all that together and it's something governments should to already have the data to provide, given some coordination—great candidate for a government service, or at least one of those government-coordinated public-private shared-cost-shared-benefit projects, post-war Japan style.
This. Right here. Currently in my late 20's. I have nothing figured out, and I stopped trying to figure things out a while ago.
I used to be very much anti-Racket, until I grasped the reality that it is not a Scheme, but a Scheme-derived language that strives to combine power and rational design. I now use it daily for many pet projects, and it is great: highly effective, predictable, well-documented, and supplied with enough libraries that you can go a while in most projects before you need to implement anything outside what is core to your purpose. The ffi isn't as bad as the article suggests, either.
> Racket equals programming fun and really is a joy to use. Academic seems to not convey the feeling one gets when using Racket.

As an academic, it makes me very sad to hear these qualities, that I feel describe my work, used as the opposite of 'academic'.
Facebook has a problem with black people, former employee charges
I agree the title is a poor one, but I think there is some useful advice in the article, e.g. taking it easy when the week is hard.
GM Shutthing Down Factory Built on Land Seized in 1981 Poletown Taking
Spanner is not a non-relational database.

As for Firestore, it’s not clear whether it supports cross-collection transactions. Cloud Datastore does not support cross-namespace transactions AFAICT.
A while back LWN did a great comparison of terminal emulators, performance was one aspect they looked at: https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/
It really is. The only people arguing are contrarians, fanboys, and companies out to sell digital media (see closing the analog hole), or wireless devices.
Given certain relaxed constraints, one has less opportunity, like family, to choose one's coworkers, who obviously can vary in palatability. Nothing can fix that other than finding a different job.
>Coinbase is also able to operate their business without asking for permission

That’s not true in the slightest. Coinbase has all sorts of licenses (permissions to operate) without which they would be shut down for multiple violations of law from money transmitter business violations to Broker/dealer issues. Look at all the Coinbase customer dissatisfaction (accounts missing, funds never deposited, transaction didn’t go through) there would be plenty room for competitors except for the barrier to entry (permissions/licenses required). Not to mention Coinbase complies with KYC laws and as a result turns over said customer data to the IRS as part of its ongoing compliance to keep its permission (licenses in goodstanding) to operate.
Start feeling sad for the birds that eat them.
Effectively, yes. However, assuming they implemented something with (and I can't believe I'm using this term) checks-and-balances, and also didn't give reader-investors too much voting power, then maybe it works out alright? I have no clue.

The only real rebuttal to your point is that journalists have effectively always been censored, to a degree, as the market so demands. Assange is perhaps the least censored, if not totally censor-free, but I'm not sure his model of censorship-free journalism is particularly scalable.
Health issues, dying friends, sick family, and mid life have no correlation with age?

Being 22 is harder if you pass on opportunities to get perspective...
Amazon will be off all Oracle databases by end of 2019
Hmm, I recently picked up a pair of pxc 550s (crazy good black Friday deal), and I saw the thing about installing their android/iphone app to do NFC pairing, but I frankly have no idea why you would want that, or really much of anything else in the app. The reviews even mention that the eq controls don't even work for DRM'ed content.

OTOH, it seems if you pair the headphones with normal bluetooth its just using A2DP/SBC and the audio quality is _miserable_. Maybe its using a custom bluetooth profile/a2dp codec?

Basically, why exactly do they even need a full blown app?

(on a further side note, I've gotten to the point where I don't really even notice AC and computer fan noise so much so that while a couple of coworkers complained about it, it wasn't until I tried the PXC 550's at work that I realized our AC blowers are really _LOUD_. With the 550's the constant low frequency rumble is just gone. I guess my earplugs just wern't blocking that much low frequency.).
It seems a bit strange that they encourage laptop usage at Starbucks then if they don't want people to use it as an office. The have laptop plug in ports at special bars and tables all over the place.
Uhm, from reading your post I don't think you fully understand how any of it works..
One important thing the author failed to mention (probably due to the publication date) is that Guile also has compiler front ends for ECMAScript and Emacs lisp (and there's a lua front end in the works). So far, Guile is my go-to scheme.

https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
Probably because writing a blog post about how everything was really easy and straightforward and now you're earning millions with no meaningful competition would make people hate you and then try to copy your business model. Writing that everything was really hard discourages competitors.
I'm afraid Kurt Gödel did not receive this note.
Somebody needs to give this guy a fridge magnet about humility to add to his collection
In fact, the post seems to have been edited to this effect by now.
All depends on what you are buying. A lot things I could care less about, usually knock-offs are decent enough quality. But when you go out of your way to buy the genuine product and you get a fake that's a problem.

I buy photography components off Amazon, buying a B&W UV filter has become impossible on Amazon. The fakes are actually a lot better than bottom-end UV lenses which is fine, but I didn't spend $45 for a knock-off. I spent that money for the real thing. If I could get the fake at a knock-off price I'd even consider it, but the fakes are being sold as the real thing at full price.

After I found out how how to spot the fakes I found that half of the UV lenses I already had were fake. The real ones are made of brass and have better glass coatings. The fakes are made of aluminum and the threads are not as good which is important for lens filters, you don't want one getting jammed on a $1200 lens. They are painted black so the main way to tell them apart is to weigh them.

The amazon review comments for B&W filters have extensive coverage of how to spot the fakes:
https://www.amazon.com/77mm-XS-Pro-Clear-Multi-Resistant-Coa...
Google Fi is one of the best services that Google offers. I am trying to cut down on my Google dependence, but I don't see myself leaving Fi any time soon.
Seems unreasonable to me, who's to say which neighborhood deserves more or less noise pollution? Oh right, economic status and ability to file massive lawsuits. If that takeoff method was all around better they would just do it everywhere, Congress outlawed other airports from doing the same in 1990

"In 1990, Congress, fearing that many localities could eventually hamstring the growth of aviation by implementing their own patchwork of noise restrictions, passed the Airport Noise and Capacity Act which outlawed curfews at airports. John Wayne was grandfathered in, however, due to the original lawsuit being filed in 1985."

https://www.avgeekery.com/whats-rollercoaster-takeoffs-orang...
Open offices get (some deserved) flack, but I truly believe there is a happy medium between cubicles and a warehouse space of tables - my current setup is a room with a team of eight people spread out at L shaped desks. The people there are honestly one of the best parts there, and it's nice for them or me to lean around the monitors and shoot the shit a few times a day - socialization doesn't need to be a ton of work; sometimes that's all it takes. Sometimes walking to coffee with someone who has a mutual hobby is also all it takes.

(Hell, I'm an introvert and I consider my dayjob to be my main socialization outlet otherwise I'm utterly drained.)
They even use planes in more rural areas - like the little planes that pull banners and whatnot.
Yep, happens in Brazil as well, where it’s called a “fumacê” [1] (roughly “smoke galore”), especially when Dengue fever cases are high.

Probably happens in other tropical, poor countries as well.

[1] http://g1.globo.com/sp/vale-do-paraiba-regiao/noticia/2013/0...
Are you ok with airplanes flying over your house?
Bringing Google Fi to More People on Android and iOS
I could believe it. It was definitely a product of its time, riding a wave of people that simply don't exist in the same amounts anymore. Outside the bubble, a lot of society has moved on to other obsessions and talking points.
I'm not clear which scenario you are alluding to. It the expectation figuring out only how to sparsely sample the same area or how to quickly sample the larger area so that a detailed scan can be taken after that?
This is hardly an unbiased post... which is fine, people can write what they want to write, but it makes it easy to dismiss the entire article as simply being the work of an “svn fanboy”.

It also has some inaccuracies: git can be extended to support large repositories; Microsoft has OS tooling that enables them to keep the entire Windows codebase in a single git repo, using a “copy-on-access” model, which seems to be equivalent to SVN’s offering. And things like git-lfs help with large binaries. As for the “larger teams” argument, if all you’re looking for is consistency of single files, SVN’s model seems to be equivalent to pulling before a push... which is what you do anyways (Maybe I’m missing something here?).

As for the CLI, I consider that separate from the interesting discussion. There are good CLI wrappers for git (gitless, etc), and also GUI wrappers. I’m sure similar wrappers exist for SVN, but it’s besides the point.
Nonsense. These plans do exist for decades, and there already have been wide and successful field trials in Australia and Brazil.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3128286/ (2011 - Australia)

What Google is doing now is to try the same scheme in California, on a much smaller scale, but with the hopeful option to go wide. The target is South-East Asia and Africa.
Actually "Blacksmiths" don't forge swords or shoe horses - there is a whole hierarchy of smiting trades in the European tradition.

I bet Masamune (considered the best sword smith in japan) had an amazing wait list and you probably had to know some one to even get on that list.
theoretically there is a lot of BGP software.

None of gets used as a route server except BIRD, because nothing else can handle the full IPv4 BGP mesh.
I would have used it but I'm too attached to my "real" cell # and my GVoice # as separate numbers. I give them out to different people for different purposes.
? That doesn't really change anything.
If you have never tried Gin why suggest to use something else?
You’re not jaded, just pragmatic and well adjusted. Work is not for friends, it is where we go to earn an income to support ourselves financially.

Maximize your income at work (while minimizing time spent working) to maximize your happiness outside of work (hobbies, family, side project, working towards financial independence, whatever).

I am working on starting my own business to hire family and friends; for me, time spent with those people comes first, and the overall profitability of the business is less important (just need to break even).
Florida is not 'the world', even though Florida might be a tiny part of 'the world'.
On top, you'd hope the respective manager is matching the engineer's traits, if not exceeding them.
cough don't ask a Blacksmith to shoe a horse.
Sci-Hub, Scientific Journals, and the Argument Over Paywalls
Sometimes it comes all at once! A friend of mine was building a startup, having kids, dealing with a sick mother and being middle-aged all at the same time.
Such a great explanation. Really going to spend some time on rust this weekend.

I had no idea rust was that prevalent
This is compelling. I like the "pay as you go" model for data. I'm on an iPhone though and do enjoy visual voicemail - I wonder how much I would miss it? I also wonder what their beta status for iOS means and what their roadmap looks like.
support for iPhones, but they can't jump networks to whichever is strongest. still nice to have official support.
Yes he was, by about 3 years. The amazing thing is that nobody in the West or even in the Goa party scene of late 80s/early 90s seems to have heard this stuff until it was re-released a few years ago, at least to my knowledge.
https://www.discogs.com/Charanjit-Singh-Synthesizing-Ten-Rag...

I did hear about the tour and that exact response, clearly this stuff was in the distant past for him.

It makes wonder who else got their hands on a 303 in the early 80s elsewhere in the world. We keep digging out great African and Middle-eastern records, there may be more to the Acid story.
"Smart contracts" have nothing to do with normal contracts. "Distributed script" is a much better name. Basically deterministic scripts you run on multiple computers.
I'm a little lost on why the need a new root CA cert on a computer that already has a cert store.

Can't they safely communicate with whatever.sennheiser.com using the existing certs? Afaict, this isn't a stand-alone device trying to communicate, but your computer, running some app.

What am I missing?

Edit: okay, I see below that they are using a local web server, and (thanks to browser decisions about localhost) it requires https.
Yeah, it's slow, I'll give you that. But for now we can live with that. We are a 4 member shop, it's a problem for another day :).
I have lobbied for years that downvotes should only be enabled if A. You respond B. You upvote a response to the comment. This would bring all the nasty bias to the surface, which I feel is why its not implemented.
Duolingo paid story.
I do care about privacy in all rooms, so is it 100% open source? Couldn't tell from the website.
Agreed. My Google Voice number is my default for handing out, and I reserve my real # for important things. I just wish you could block numbers using Google Voice.
Looks like just themselves -- a team of developers I guess. Or horseshoes?
> In practice, at least from the data I've gathered, it drives people away

It would really depend on the venue, but I managed and worked in a few bars and clubs in the mid 2000s and the daytime crowd preferred more quiet, but then in the evening, if the music was soft, there was a perception that the bar was “dead” or had fewer people tha. It actually did. A loud bar with few people gets more interest from the potential patrons because it’s perceived as more lively and crowded than it may actually be. Then it creates a self-fulfilling prophecy and actually becomes more lively and crowded. When your business is based on customer volume, quiet and contemplative is a fast way to go out of business. Exceptions are high end, romantic martini bars selling $18 drinks or scotch bars selling high end spirits to a discerning clientele. For your average brew-pub or standard “bar,” silence equals death. You can see this anywhere there is a strip of bars and clubs, the quiet places are the ones not selling as much. Most people go to bars at night for the purpose of socializing and having fun. Most bar patrons don’t associate “fun” with quiet. Anyone that has worked in the bar business knows that you make more money with loud than you do with quiet — with some exceptions of course.

Restaurants on the other hand, in my experience, quiet does better for the restaurants that have been around awhile, while loud and lively tends to prop up the newer places because the “energy” reinforces the “hype” around perceived popularity.
Tunneling does have deleterious effects. After all, the biggest targets of the environmental movement are those companies who make gigantic interconnected tunnels that most people know by the name of mines. (Granted, it's the ore processing that does develop the most ire, but the handling of spoil has been implicated in several disasters such as the Aberfan disaster).

The first major issue of tunnels is that you have to put all of the stuff that you dug up somewhere, and the usual methods of dumping (such as the nearest coastline) aren't very environmentally-friendly. There are also some other issues you can find going underground--radon emissions come to mind.

The other key thing to analyze is the effect of the entire project. The Boring Company isn't selling better tunneling technology, they're selling a form of transit. (And it's pretty clear that Musk is personally interested in speeding up single-occupant vehicle as opposed to improving mass transit). The standard environmental impact analysis compares different approaches to see which one would minimize negative impacts. Quite frankly, the proposed Loop transit system is a very space-intensive, low-throughput system, which makes it a pretty poor option for the environment in comparison to standard subways.
So we was just sitting there for thirty, forty minutes, just turning knobs, going “I like that, I like that!

There is indeed something about turning an actual hardware knob (even if it's only to midi-control a software instrument) which can do that. Much less for dragging buttons with a mouse, it seems. The day I got my first synth I spent an entire evening and night like that. Get some sound going, play some notes until satisfied with the melody, then repeat endlessly while lossing yourself in truning each knob available.
> "Sigh" just indicates you couldn't care less about a contradicting opinion.

Sign, that is not true at all. Especially when followed with "I'm actually very interested in hearing..."

Furthermore, your comment doesn't contribute to the conversation at all, which is why it was downvoted.
Google Fi now supports many more phones (in beta)
Hate is a bit strong; it annoys me too, probably more than is reasonable.

I assumed it was to cut costs for people who complain at the end to try and get free food.
What about the AP? They seem to be rooted in factual reporting.
I'm still not sure what you mean in terms of contrasting this with DynamoDB's new features. You could implement the entire DynamoDB API, with even stronger semantics than the new features listed in the article, on top of FoundationDB. Additionally, the latency would be theoretically lower as they describe needing to do a read, write, and another read per key to verify isolation, whereas FoundationDB uses an optimistic concurrency control scheme to verify at commit time that transactions do not conflict. In the common case (where transactions don't conflict) this is faster.