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For anyone that's interested in reading more about the history of acid house, Soul Jazz Records released a compilation titled "Acid: Can You Jack? (Chicago Acid And Experimental House 1985-95)" [1] which includes a booklet on the topic's history by Tim Lawrence.

The contents of the booklet are free to read on Lawrence's website [2].

[1] https://www.discogs.com/Various-Acid-Can-You-Jack-Chicago-Ac...

[2] http://www.timlawrence.info/articles2/2013/7/16/acid-and-exp...
I think you might have replied to the wrong comment ;)
I've seen some truly awful journalism from Reuters. Articles that were so agenda driven as to almost laughably gloss over facts in order to present the desired narrative. (Laughable if reputations and money weren't on the line.)

I've called some of the offending journalists out on social media, which I encourage everyone to do.
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3. Use of four or five characters to express a single sound with the rest mangled or silent. But one single character often represents two sounds, just because.
Blockchain is everywhere now, it's even built in to MS-Office with this service https://www.microsoft.com/developerblog/2017/04/10/stampery-... sowhy not something like a summarizer as well.I am just waiting for the office admin people to ask me to verify my documents with this.
No, that's not the plan. The plan is to replace the Emacs Lisp runtime with a Guile-based runtime.

See here: 'is a branch of GNU Emacs that replaces Emacs’s own EmacsLisp engine with the Elisp compiler of Guile.'

The word is 'ENGINE'. That's the underlying language runtime.

It's neither GNU Emacs right now, nor will Emacs Lisp be replaced.
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Challenge accepted ;-) Will benchmark them as well.
What this highlights strongly is that multiple choice (which I understand is still the mainstay of the US examination system) is a terrible way to assess competence in a subject. Its siren call is very strong however because of the convenience of automatic marking. Maybe with improvements in technology we will see moves away from it; eg my kids do all their Maths homework via a website that requires answers to be typed in, which although not ideal (it can't see the working-out process) is obviously better than multiple choice, and it seems to have some sensible leniency in its interpretation of input.
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Really? Citation please.
Same reason two button mice are standard, it's the balance point between simplicity and capability. An argument could be made for there being a lack of a standard but then I'd expect there to be more keyboards trying to satisfy a market need with extra nonstandard labeling. So the bottom line is a lack of demand.
It’s so that we, hackers, can see if it’s worth looking at the source. Personally I look at the source of Go or Rust projects because I’m not top proficient in the languages and it’s a way I can learn idioms.

In fact, since this is for a developer audience, I’d wonder why you wouldn’t say what language something is in.
>Trying to map natural language onto logic is a mug's game

Not really. Modern linguistic semantics has done a pretty good job. Check out the link to the overview article that I posted in the grandparent, or the von Fintel & Heim textbook here: http://web.mit.edu/fintel/fintel-heim-intensional.pdf (sections 4.3-5 in particular). It's possible to give precise logical analyses of natural language conditionals to a pretty significant extent. It's just the material implication analysis that doesn't work.

> because this critical information [about quantifier scope] is in fact missing from the original natural language sentence!

You're moving a bit too fast there. The information can't be recovered from the sequence of words, but that doesn't mean that it isn't present in the structures that underly interpretation. A precise logical analysis can be given for each of the possible interpretations of an ambiguous sentence. Semanticists treat quantifier scope ambiguities using such mechanisms as quantifiying in [1], quantifier raising [2], type shifting [3], or even continuations [4].

No-one is suggesting, by the way, that formal logical analyses of the meanings of English sentences are useful for the purposes of doing math or logic. But the "paradoxes" in the original article relate to the use of material implication to gloss the meaning of "if...then..." in English. This naturally raises the question of whether there might be better analyses available.

[1] http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/projects/milca/courses/comse...

[2] https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/16287

[3] http://lecomte.al.free.fr/ressources/PARIS8_LSL/Hendriks-TCS...

[4] http://www.nyu.edu/projects/barker/barker-continuations.pdf
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How can someone not know if they are lying?
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House originally started out with a faster tempo around 130 BMP which then slowed to 120 BPM over time. The acid sound has more to do with the squelched bass sound produced by the synths being discussed here. So your sample is acid house, just at a slower tempo which wasn't as common with the earlier samples.
Then take it to the quiet study rooms that my comment you are replying to suggests we fix! ;)
Why not have a paste text field for a quick demo on the landing page? Best pre-filled (some cherry picking is ok :) ).
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I can speak Spanish, and I find that Portuguese is really hard to understand. In written form I can usually figure out what the meaning is (as I can do with other, more distant languages such as French or Italian), but hearing it spoken, I can’t make sense of what is going on at all. It sounds like Spanish, but all wrong, and I find that I just can’t focus on trying to parse what the words mean.
CloudWatch has the worst UX of any log management tool I've used. We are using Logentries currently, and it is so easy and intuitive.

I just don't get how AWS developers are able to accept the eyesore that is their UX. It's easy to miss things in any AWS service's UI. I keep discovering functionality even after years of use. Google Cloud UX is light years ahead. Also, Google's Stackdriver seems great, haven't used it yet though. Would be great if any Stackdriver users here share how it is better than CloudWatch or other log management tools.
>I thought the point of diversity was about giving equalty of opportunities to all folks indepndently of gender, race, ideas, etc, not about achieving some sort of colorful mastermind.

There can be more than one reason to do something. Yes, Diversity and Inclusion initiatives are often attempting to extend opportunities to groups that are currently denied that opportunity. But there is also an element of D&I that is motivated by the belief that people with different perspectives and backgrounds can bring new and different ideas to the table and that the more ideas you bring to the table the more likely you are to find the best ideas.

Empathy is absolutely a common human trait, but let's be honest, but this isn't about understanding other people's feelings, it's about being exposed to other people's feelings. You can have the most empathetic person in the world, but if they're living in a 99.99% white, gated community in the US and you ask them about race relations they're not going to have an informed view. Not because they lack empathy, they lack experience.

Facebook has lots of users, and of those users it's not difficult to imagine different people use facebook in different ways. If you don't have an organisation that atleast to some extent reflects those perspectives then they're not truly going to do a good job building products for them.

There's a good reason that when you look at successful start ups they're generally founded by people who have experience in the customer base that they're building their product for. It's because they have experience and true understanding for how their customers behave and think. I could say 'Well, surely anyone could use empathy to achieve the same thing' but we don't see that.
Uber's opinion might be distorted by the high importance of being first to autonomous drones / autonomous cars to keep their business model intect and justify their valuation.
Autarky in this is referring to using the blind hiring practices with the "intergenerational correction" policy of do nothing else.
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You don't need to open your source to get rude customers, endless demands, and gigantic requirements.

In my experience the less you charge the more of that stuff you get. There is something about the very bottom of the pricing scale that is toxic.
I don't understand the outrage about censorship particularly with respect to the Chinese government.

Google has agreed to remove plenty of stuff from the search engine that many Europeans see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google

Sounds like double standards to me.
Yeah, but having worked in tech for almost twenty years, and being completely forthright, I could probably count on one hand the number of people that ended up on the street making any gamble like that. The older I get, the more I think we really take a lot of things in our industry for granted. I mean the kind of salary people would scoff at is still two or three times what most Americans make.
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Ha ha. That's assuming the dev team wants to monitor apps. I've met many, many devs who have 0 desire to be woken up at night for crap they coded during the day. They just want to code.

It's incredibly common.

Not that I blame them, if you can work just 9-5, why wouldn't you?
Ex-lawyer, I've been coding since I was a teenager but then started freelancing after leaving law. Got picked up by one of my clients and have been working as a full-time dev ever since.

For the actual CS bits, I've been teaching myself. I recently got an article published in Hacker Noon on Big O which was a way for me to consolidate my learning. Algorithms and Data Structures are next!
If you are new to investing you can check out the r/investing, r/personalfinance, r/eupersonalfinance subreddits. The FAQ-s of those are a great place to start and learn the basics.
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Ask HN: Visual languages for ocasional programming
Are there any studies or articles about the usage of visual programming languages for ocasional programming?

Think: a buissiness person writing a form validation logic in a scratch-like language.
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>Could you give some examples of incorrect reporting by Reuters?

Of course not. Instead, they'll throw around baseless accusations - because it's hip to scream "fake news- without a shred of evidence or hint of irony.
Literally the opposite is true: https://cointelegraph.com/news/new-study-says-80-percent-of-...
Sure - but what indication is there that they made false promises?
The problem is moving money into war zones in a way that is immune to theft and abuse.

The vouchers are 100% digital and unique.
> Monasteries are a Western tradition

China and Japan had monastic traditions for more than 2000 years. Also Buddhist monasticism predates christian monasticism by centuries.
Exactly, and my point was that "government", in UK, means the current executive and means something different from "parliament".

It seems the facebook seizure was not ordered by Theresa May's government, but instead by parliament itself exerting its powers directly.

It's an unusual move and that is what makes this particularly interesting.

I'm not sure why so many people have replied to me trying to insist that government and parliament mean the same thing. They do not.
I'm assuming that you don't think risking making no money is enough to entitle a founder to their entire employees wage. How much does it entitle them to?
I personally can't consider Clojure as a lisp dialect. According to McCarthy, lisp is built on top of five fundamental primitives: CONS, CAR, CDR, EQ, and ATOM. Excepting for EQ, Clojure has none of these or define them differently than the other lisp dialects, breaking the inter-compatibility of the core language.
Ah shit, that's totally fair. Sorry for coming off as tone-deaf, I got stuck in my filter bubble for a moment.

While international development hopefully isn't a complete lost cause (on long enough timescales), I can definitely see how cryptocurrency could be seen as a viable shortcut around poor government in this respect.
It's also slightly wrong, and needs some proofreading.

Example:

> Get at.

That's not what he says at the 24 second mark. If you can't get the first 30 seconds of an hour-long transcript right, why should I read on?

(btw, I get that it was an automated transcript [http://temi.com], and has some OCR-like errors, which is apropos, considering the context of the speech)
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Isn't the title of the article totally misleading?

I learnt Italian, to learn it quickly find out what makes you excited about Italy, is it music, movies? And then just try to understand what they say. In my case it was opera.
Ok we have a problem here: The one study you mention from the "ICO advisory firm Statis Group" does not the truth make. Just because an article that matches your own bias...

There have been thousands of ICOs around the world and companies such as Statis use FUD and lies to scare customers away from competitors. I'm involved in the space as you can probably tell and I assure you this isn't even the most underhanded tactic I've seen so far.
Popcorn Linux is a thing, and it's a multi-kernel OS too: http://popcornlinux.org (I would know, I've been working on it for a few years).
I'm familiar with Spoons, the main problem is that they have TV's visible from anywhere you're sitting (at least in the ones near me) that are incredibly distracting.
> Calling military paid murderers is definitely a partisan thing.

Support your claim, unless you think that using objectively true statements marks one as a non-conservative, which is blatantly silly.
Sure. But the French police barely use their guns, whereas the US police famously kill lots and lots of people.

So for the purposes of the topic at hand, giving the US police military equipment is probably a bad idea. At least until there’s been an institutional culture shift, which will take decades at least.
I took five years of Spanish -- high school and university (I thought I'd since forgotten it, this was 30 years ago). A few years ago I found myself in Barcelona for a week. First day, I was completely lost. By the end of my stay I found it had come back to me, at least for rudimentary conversation. I even picked up a little Catalan. This reminds me of a conversation I had with a former boss. He asked if I spoke Italian. I said no. "But you speak some Spanish, right?" To wit I sheepishly said, "yeah but it's been a long time". Then he rattles off something in Italian and asks "What did I just ask?" .. "Something about wanting 4 glasses of Tignanello wine for the table" And he says: "See? You have enough to be in the conversation, or at least listen. Talking is overrated, anyway..."
Looks like Clinton was right saying that “it depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is.”
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It's one of those many tiny things that add up. There's good reasons why C++ gets so much hate and there's good reasons why it's used in so many applications. I see no good reason to not have multiple array indices.
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The journalists were promised massive gains in token value, repeatedly and specifically, from the article I read. They were told this would be achieved with a public sale, ICO-style, which didn't happen. The journos were relying on that to pay them.

When the public sale and hype didn't happen, they were out of pocket.

I presume yes, that you use the tokens to pay for articles, and also that there is a speculative market in the tokens, like with other cryptocurrencies - i.e. it's all a gamble.
Great powers historically have not usually been the largest countries population-wise. That would seem to indicate that there's no reason we should expect the inevitability of all else becoming equal.
I feel like this is a very negative way to view the situation. Libraries should totally be "fun". It should be "fun" to go and find a book that you enjoy or just spend time reading in an area dedicated to the love of books. It shouldn't be a place to just drop the kids off and leave, but it should be a place kids want to go. Reading can be fun and I almost feel like it is a "trendy thing" of my generation (Millennial) to hate it.
OK so just a tortured way of saying "a twentyfold increase".
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What I distrust about a race is there is often the willingness to cut corners to be a winner. In the case of an automobile, as long as it doesn’t spontaneously explode, flip over when turning a corner at “moderate” speed, or fail to stop when you break, the corner cutting results mostly in annoyance and costly repairs. In the case of a flying vehicle, the list of potential ways to have a very bad day goes up very quickly. The main reason we don’t have it yet is because it isn’t necessary yet. It would require new dimensions of traffic laws and safety precautions.
Libraries are supposed to be whatever the fuck we want them to be.
As an aside, these "debate team" shortcuts (no true scotsman, etc) might have worked really well in school but they're trite and extremely unpersuasive in real life.
Yes, the initialization is important, but it'll eventually converge (well, maybe not guaranteed with networks). If you initialize too high then it'll err on the side of exploration, and if too low then it'll err on the side of exploitation. These are called optimistic and pessimistic initialization.

The basic (non-deep) Q-Learning approach, is to have a big table of every state-action and it's expected reward. The formula you've seen (the Bellman equation) is for updating these.

Using big tables to store Q values sucks though, so instead of using a table, you use a neural network.
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I don't see where the comment above yours said anything about inviting screaming children into libraries. Screaming kids in most situations is frustrating and can be off-putting. Libraries should have similar social norms as anywhere else.
I don't know of this specific story, but one thing that House MD tried to drive home at some point, and which my acquaintances in med school confirmed, is that you don't want to do full-body scans without a very good reason, because a full-body scan on a typical adult will always find something. That something will most likely be harmless, but for various reasons, once you know it's there, you'll end up trying to do something about it, and the combined impact of stress and treatment on health may be much worse than if that thing was just left unseen. This thinking, I've heard, applies to many other ideas of running speculative imaging or blood tests. For some reason it does not apply to ultrasound - I hear many doctors are in favour of patients getting ultrasound twice a year or more often, but I don't know what's the rationale.
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yah I agree those were definitely good times ;)
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>I think most people in the UK would pretty quickly say the Göttsching and LCD Soundsystem tracks are techno

Göttsching is indeed techno.

>and the Phuture track in the article is straight up acid techno.

In those days the term used for that style was "acid house". It then turned into various sub-genres (rave, trance, etc). Acid techno is a later name for later genre.
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It’s not powerful enough to do a Cartesian join (yet?). Most you can do is scan once over a big dataset.
The common depiction is of a bunch of particles of two kinds, sorted into separate compartments by kind, which will mix if a divider is removed. In this picture, every part of one kind receiving a partner of the other kind, that can be called a state of order. If we take heat instead, every particle swinging differently is more chaotic--at least in my understanding--than all synching up so that their speeds relative to each other are zero ... 0 degree is just not higher order, because "high" is associated with high frequency (or energy or order).

In your shaky example, you transmit energy to the system by shaking, so if shaking a certain way, you'd well expect standing waves, if shaking a bit more you'd pulverize the marble and ultimately a hot plasma with density gradients. I wonder how hard you'd have to shake and swirl to eventually get a black hole, for which the notion of entropy doesn't even really make sense, if you aren't inside.
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This is a very cool project! Well done to all concerned.
>you really couldn't use these tools without producing this music

Well, you can use the TB-303 very consevatively, for it's original intended purpose, and it will just sound like a badly immitated regular bass guitar.
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I often hear these things touted by blockchain advocates: data ownership, supply chain, and "cutting out the middleman"

I want to debunk these statements once and for all.

Myth #1 Blockchain changes data ownership, giving power back to the consumer

Anyone who becomes privy to some data has some ownership of it. Blockchain doesn't change that. If you want to share something with only a few select people you need inherent trust or an NDA.

Myth #2 Blockchain can revolutionize supply chain

Its a datastore with some cryptographic identity checks and tamper proof guarantees. It can't prove that a package made it from A to B or that it stayed at some ambient temperature IRL. It only records that someone attested to that, not whether its true.
An ordinary database will do for an audit trail.

Myth #3 It cuts out the Middleman

You dont need blockchain to cut the middleman out of indusrty X. Any service trying to do this wants to be the new middleman with lower service fees cos' blockchain!

Here are some axioms which I think will drive future blockchain use cases

1. The transfer of value must occur on the chain

This is why digital currency is the #1 use case. We're already accustomed to digital value transfers when we use modern banking, the transfer of value is a few digits on our screens.

2. If you can't do 1) then it must be enforcable off-chain

Take for example buying a house. I sign some papers at the bank and some more with an agent and then we all agree I own a house and owe the bank some money.
We sign the papers because then its enforcable by law. Keyword "enforcable". If the legal system agrees a cryptographic signature on a digital record achieves this purpose then its as good as the paperwork.

We're a few years away from proper legal recognition of smart contracts. Ricardian contracts seem to be a step in the right direction.

Thanks for reading and hope it clears things up.
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If central government develops something then I would expect it's going to be specific to their requirements. Local government on the other hand could get huge benefits from sharing code.
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