skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think his point was less about the purchasing ecosystem for the music and more about the premium for the hardware/OS/brand/accessories/what-have-you required to play any music at all.

Though, seriously, if I can throw a little bit extra (shockingly not a lot, compared to similar modern Android offerings) at my phone and not have this kind of basic problem and, presumably, other basic problems of a similar nature then there is a tipping point of efficiency that isn’t terribly far away.
> Poor people shouldn't have to resort to selling their body.

This argument in particular applies in both cases.
So selling your hair is a problem too? Surrogate mothers? Do you even think that a poor person has the same quality of healthcare as a rich person has? All these bans just showcase bad manners and bad leftist ideology.
I have a bit less faith in real estate than you do. My impression is that, from a regulatory point of view, real estate is regarded as a safe investment because that results in cheap mortgages, and cheap mortgages are popular among voters.

It's not that real estate is safe per se.

Index funds usually recover to before-crisis levels in about 5 years, so they're not terribly risky in that sense.

The Bitcoin believers were always lunatics. That people will believe in stupid shit is nothing new.
Considering they sell heads and knees too, I'm not too sure how much is left once they're done.
I suffer from chronic pain that is not curable. The doctors won't prescribe me any pain killers out of fear I could get addicted. Only alternative is a CBT therapy which can keep you stay relatively sane in that insane situation. Every day is a battle between should I just end it now or should I keep on surviving? I find it extremely depressing that medication that could potentially be helpful is illegal here and people seem to have no empathy whilst idea of popping heroin in hospital is totally fine. You probably know where I am getting at... I have tried cannabis but I never could get consistent quality or the same strain so 9 out of 10 times it didn't work and also made me feel impaired. On top of that at least 5 times I got sold spice (hemp flower sprayed with synthetic cannabinoids) and one time I got robbed at a knife point by a "dealer". I cannot understand why person who suffers like me has to go through that? What keeps me alive is Kratom which is also illegal but I can source it from a country where it is legal so the quality is consistent and good. I am saving money to move to a country where I can live as pain free as I can get but every day apart from the struggle I fear I'll become a criminal just because I want to live today. The system is fucked up and nobody cares.
If it ain't broke...
fix it until it is...
I've co-founded four companies with seven distinct co-founders, raised angel and venture funding, and had two very successful exits. I've never had vesting for any founder at any stage, and never had cause to wish for it in hindsight.

There are advantages and disadvantages to founder vesting and they are situational. Recommending it as a default may very well be good zeroth order advice for beginners, but your position is way too strong.

A start on thinking about why it might not always be the best way to keep a team together is to look up the "israeli day care study".
One thing that was rather news to me is how the body falls back into default behaviors of questionable merit. When I was younger, I thought that, afflicted with some pain, I would learn to ignore it and soldier on. Hoo boy.

Turns out, chronic pain, when the prospects seem bad, drains your motivation away (even more so with functional neural problems, which simply make you feel like crap 100% of the time). Now, if you happen to be of procrastinating type before that, you're left with zero motivation. Your mind is kinda hazy in the mornings, so you have to rely on your habits to carry you through. Every movement requires effort now. For a lot of illnesses, physical therapy is the right answer—and meanwhile, the instinct says to stay in the chair with a big breakfast and marathon BoJack Horseman.* Maybe later the mind will clear up a bit or the pain will ease up, and you'll swing dumbbells around or go outside. Oh what do you know, it's evening already.

This regime made my physique problematic in the first place! Why don't I have an instinct that would tell me to move around and exercise?

And this is cumulative, of course—I should be making some better habits for tomorrow, but instead I'm dropping everything that seems of no immediate importance, which is like all that makes life healthy and interesting.

So, I once believed that conscious effort would carry me through life—but if you look into pretty basic psychology, the ape brain is way more firm at making day-to-day decisions. It's better to have habits that will work for you in hard times. The sentimental books about how you need to ‘overcome yourself’ were right, only they were distant and nonspecific.

* Note that marathoning BoJack Horseman is definitely recommended in different circumstances.
Tide is pretty expressly being built as a collection of smaller packages; I would expect it to have far more than Rocket.
You can't really replace android-media-player-service on your phone with your patched version without replacing the whole OS and losing (among other things) automated security updates and OEM stuff... so I can see how a hardware fix is easier. The system of <phone> -- <headphones> is more modular.
> The way VC is set up in the valley has warped peoples understanding of what a business even is.

Fred Wilson is based in NYC and not SV.
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Converting an electric signal into mechanical movement takes energy. Thus, current needs to flow from the audio amplifier in the CD player to the headphones. In electronic terms: the headphones have a low impedance (AC resistance).

Due to a poorly designed circuit in the CD player, noise is introduced when current flows. So the more current is flowing, the more noise. Driving a dynamic load is not hard, it has been solved for a long time. The vendor just chose a poor design, probably to shave a couple tenths of a cent from the material bill.

A proper designed amplifier requires very little current (ideally none) on the input. In electronic terms: the amplifier has a high impedance. Thus the amplifier causes very little noise when connected to the cheap CD player.

The OP build a better amplifier that causes less noise when current is drawn from it, so using that results in a better quality sound.
And less physical visits are required for daily life
You may have skipped the lecture on democracy and its advantages and drawbacks.
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>> First, the premise is false. Greeks and Romans were not at all "white" by modern standards. Not only was skin color not a social construct at the time, but most Mediterranean peoples had darker, bronzed tones.

More to the point, whatever colour the ancients were, their slaves were very often the same colour as them, having been taken from neighbouring cities during war operations, or even being citizens of the same city who had lost their freedom because of debt, etc.

Obviously, slaves were also often from other places and ethnicities, but my point is that slavery in the ancient world was not the same as slavery in say, American plantations before the civil war. You just can't project 20th and 21st century issues like race onto ancient peoples and hope to make sense of their world.

Er. I hope I don't have to add any disclaimers about abhoring and condemning slavery in every shape or form, and so on?
"That’s why I’m asking governments, companies and citizens across the globe to commit to a set of core principles for the web."

Who does this guy think he is?

"By Tim Berners-Lee"

Oh shit...
Google Voice has the distinction that you can call any US line for free, and that you have a real phone number (which you can transfer out) that you can receive calls with on pretty much any device.

It's what truly allowed the iPad to be a big iPhone.
It's a niche book, why not sell it for $60? That's 10% more for the buyer, and 380% more for the author.

The optimal price might even be higher than that if you're looking to maximize author profit.
> Due to a poorly designed circuit in the CD player, noise is introduced when current flows.

Thanks! This was the missing part.
I grew up in a church and this is basically the only thing I miss.

In fact it just makes me angry when I think back -- here we have a warm community in which that friendship and companionship are available only on the condition that you alter your cognition and beliefs to conform to a very precise code.

Some serious strings-attached.
You re right, but this is a NY guy, not a Silicon Valley guy.
Interesting point buried in here: since Android is open source, you could go in and fix the bug, but then because you're not running an official Android version you'd lose access to the Play Store and other services. Something's not really free if there's a penalty for doing it. Since freedom to run a modified version of software yourself is one of the four freedoms of free software, this highlights the difference between free software and open source.

I'm not saying open source is bad and everyone should prefer free software. It's just a good example of the difference between the two in practice rather than in some debate about licenses and the abstract principles behind them.
I'll be interested to read the book.

The "Paper Tigers" essay (subtitled "What happens to all the Asian-American overachievers when the test-taking ends?") was one of the best things I've read recently. It's been submitted to HN several times since being published in 2011, but hasn't gotten much discussion. Here's the one with the most: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7506651

The original essay is here: http://nymag.com/news/features/asian-americans-2011-5/

And here's clean PDF:
http://nyapm.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/PaperTigers.pdf
Buy a DAC
It makes buying solar panels cheaper, installing them cheaper, and the required batteries cheaper because the trucks that mine silicon use diesel and the people working at the dollar panel factory get there by petrol.
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Nowadays teenagers hanging out sit with their phones up their faces. Constantly texting/sending photos on Snapchat, instagram, fb, whatsapp and then picking up the phone every 2 minutes for any updates.

And we thought Generation Y was going to be difficult to manage...
If housing is overvalued, mean returns lower than inflation would be better, though admittedly not "normal".
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I created a public wiki style Jupyter notebook on Google's Colab platform where anyone with a Google account can edit and run:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18640656

Since it is a shared programmable (Turing complete) environment, I hope people in the community might find it interesting and would like to contribute and share their expertise and creative insights.
Sure those two things sound similar when you write them like this, but they're completely different things. Prostitution is just another form of labor, with above-average health & safety dangers, and where legalization helps reduce those dangers. Selling body parts involves huge health risks and (beyond blood & marrow), permanent body damage and/or death of the seller. This is not something you absolutely don't want people to feel pressured into. It scales up to serious abuse and suffering.
Is this book relevant in the current scenario of game development tools?

Just curious.
1. Make “getting all our documentation in one place” a project. This will probably involve more decision making effort than actual time, if you already have the docs. The actual consolidation will likely be mostly copy and paste.

2. Make “getting our docs up to date” a project. Time required will depend on how many docs you have and how far out of date they are.

3. Create an index for it and a “getting started” guide composed mostly of links to other docs. Should only take an hour or so to write.

4. Make “update the docs” an official step required for any process change.
Yes, please try that. That includes saying something new in your comments instead of simply lecturing others how to behave.
The whole point of questioning "millionaires and billionaires buy overpriced housing in London, Vancouver and other places" is that it's not about living there - overwhelmingly, they just buy housing. They don't live in these places, they don't intend to live in these places not even when visiting that city, they either get rented out but often simply stay empty. In the top end housing of e.g. London the prices get set by people for whom it's purely an investment, not about having a fancy home.
Sophie Germain was standing shoulder to shoulder with some of the greatest mathematicians of all time, Leonhard Euler ,Lagrange, Legendre, and Gauss.

If you go beyond the bare surface of a subject you will find iconic figures of both genders.
They say they're sponsoring an IRCd, which one it is ? InspIRCd ?
> How's AD different from simply calling the function with a slightly perturbed input and observing how much the output changes?

AD gives a more precise result, as AD calculates the value of the derivative at the point you want without any perturbed input. AD is also faster, as calculating the value of the derivative usually requires about the same number of elementary operations as calculating the value of the function. Whereas with finite difference you need to calculate the function twice.
That’s because it costs money to print (and maybe pulp) physical books. It doesn’t cost anything to “print” a digital book
I'm no EE, but dynamic headphones (i.e. 99.5% of them) have a generally high impedance (relative to earphones) and require a higher voltage to operate. Add to that the fact that they are a mostly inductive load, and you get the recipe for a hard to drive device, that requires a high voltage paired with an strong inductive kickback
There will always be some criminals who are sophisticated enough to evade surveillance (until they make a mistake) - but that doesn't mean it's useless as many violent and/or organised criminals do get caught. Many get caught even with old-fashioned phone taps.

Also, aren't there ways of implementing targeted surveillance without weakening privacy/security very much, if at all? For example, targeting a specific user/device and making sure all exfiltrated data is encrypted with a public key belonging to the police.
Let me know how that works out for you...
Used one of these back in the day. Excellent machines. Paper feed was so much more reliable and error-free compared to modern printers. And when things went wrong a reset and restart of the job was simple. Now I have to revere the psychology of the machine, and hope to god that its fragile plastic innards don't break.

I'd willingly return to needing special printer paper if it meant I didn't have issues with the feeding mechanism.
or smart and annoyed
A $100 amp and good headphones do the job just fine. The current generation of phones has very high quality DACs, beyond what was considered top of the line for premium audio players 5-10 years ago.
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I think you got lucky. That's great, and I'm happy for you. We could bicker about the odds. Maybe it's 60/40 in favor of you getting away without vesting? Maybe even 70/30? The first company I ever worked for, which also had a successful exit, didn't do vesting. It never occurred to any of us to be ruthless about it, and it happened that nobody left early anyways: they had gotten the team exactly right. Vesting wouldn't have made a difference. Maybe that's you, too?

Me, I've been working for small companies ("startups") since 1995. I've been on the founding teams of 5 of them. In all but 1 of them, key members of the team left at some point. In each of those situations, lack of vesting would have meant they left with a full share of the company, leaving everyone else on the team to work --- possibly for years --- for that person's equity. In one case, that's exactly what happened, only we didn't know it until the end.

That's a mistake I will never make again.

These are, I think, the very worst kinds of mistakes startup founders can make. The kind that don't really impact the company on a day-to-day basis and that you won't notice, until you're actually successful and finally at or near accounting for that success, and you realize you did something stupid that tolls the whole fucking enterprise. You might not be able to do anything to mitigate, you can't even bail from the company and do something different, you're never getting the time back, the damage is done. Vesting isn't the only mistake like this, and it's not the worst, but it's bad.

And for what? Does it somehow make you feel better not to vest? I don't get it.

(I don't pretend to understand Alex's logic about vesting as a solo founder but did not think hard about it either).
The Windows Phone OS is built on the same parts as the Windows desktop OS. They aren’t going to open source that.
Did you really just call apples products interoperable? maybe among their other crap, but sure as hell not among other devices. Which are all interoperable among themselves btw.
Switching off updates is very insecure.
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> At least the updates work.

Ehhh, I had a whale of a time upgrading a machine (standard Core i7 desktop) from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to 18.04. Read: I lost the entire machine and had to reinstall from scratch.

Also, Linux support for new hardware isn't amazing. So when I upgraded to a Ryzen APU, it basically wasn't possible to get Linux running on it without resorting to a beta kernel and lots of manual futzing around. WSL has been a godsend for me.
The conscious mind is weak and will power alone is a laughable force, because it is an illusion. You have to use both logic and emotion. Logic when emotion is weak and emotion when logic fails. For me, it is about tricking your mind into being completely convinced there is no stopping the coming suffering (exercise, pain, whatever). You can call that habits (it is) but how you form and think of the habit is different if you are a procrastinator. I have broken bones and dealt with suffering like Bunnies (not as acutely extreme). There is a peculiar thing analytical people do with suffering and pain and it can be counterproductive. The overanalysis of it and trying to logic it all out. To cope through total understanding. Some of the time it is just easier to use and manipulate your own emotion, this can have a profound effect on reprogramming the brain back to a more normal state compared to trying to reason it all out from a mental perspective on recovery.
Let me know how that works out for you... Cats do a fair amount of environmental damage to birds and the like, but they also contribute to the natural order as food - my neighbor takes in strays, but never has many cats, as the (too few) remaining coyotes in the canyons here in Austin yomp a couple of them every year.
> _It turns out that all music players on Android actually play music using the Android-media-player-service._

This is inaccurate. Neutron music player bypasses Android's Media Player APIs and talks directly to your DAC and plays music without resampling (if the DAC supports it). Never had any audio popping or explosions using Neutron, and I've tried it on 6 different devices so far without any issues (LG G3, Nexus 6P, Nextbit Robin, OnePlus 3, Note 8, OnePlus 6). My headphones are a Beyerdynamic DT880.
I think the ESC/P was the newer ones after the LQ series.
I spent many an hour on our FX-80 (the successor to the MX-80), mostly doing label printing code for my dad's pharmacy. With all the escape codes documented it was great. The FX had the trick of being able to do reverse feed (From memory Esc [ 2j I think - heck that was some time ago?)
Could’ve spent $199 on an iPod, have high quality audio, load your own music, no “apple tax”.

Coincidentally I was looking for something like an ipod shuffle this week and it’s become almost impossible to find, beyond some cheap thrift-store MP3 players.
Most modern laptops have more than decent audio output, but if more quality is needed one could buy a small external sound card for a lot less than €100.
This one for example would fit easily in a notebook bag.
https://www.thomann.de/gb/miditech_audiolink_light.htm

About the article circuit, I 'm not that sure the 5532 is a good part for headphone amps, unless the phones have a high impedance and resistance: they're intended as preamplifiers (and very good ones) so they hardly can supply the current to fully drive phones, though I guess they can still be ok for listening to soft jazz in a quiet room:)
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Slack for sure. All the employees are going to be pissed off for months and lose a lot of productivity while they learn the new UI.

Git only impacts developers, a smaller user base, who can figure out how to use a new website.

That being said. They are both easy switch. Just need to update the URL to the new tool.
> Checks to ensure the author is the legal owner of the copyright?

As far as I can tell, the check is basically a tick-box declaration that you have the rights to publish. Amazon also want tax and payment information.

Some self-publishers publish on Kobo, but they're a bit opaque on what their cut is.
Only via a linguistic trick. We could expand that argument to suggest that poor people shouldn’t ever have to work for a living - labour is, of course, selling your body.
Some people like to share knowledge more than they like (or need, seeing the numbers) to make money.
I hope lightbend will spend some marketing dollars when it reaches 1.0!
If it's digital it's going to be pirated regardless the DRM attempts .
Show HN: Notably – minimalist markdown notes app
Hi,
I just launched Notably: https://notably.cc

Notably is a free markdown based tool for creating and sharing beautiful content using markdown syntax.

You can use notably to create notes, text snippets and blog posts which can then be shared publicly

Notably is still in public beta, and is an MVP. We'll soon be adding the following functionality to it:

- A REST API, enabling integration with services such as IFTTT/Zapier

- The ability to create posts from public URLs

- Post streams - publicly-shared collections of posts, allowing users to create a Notably-based blog

Notably is completely free to use.

Thanks,

Chris
"Rescue"? It's a cat. Don't bother pointing out how great a person you are because you rescued a cat. Bragging about it makes you look insecure.
They're just stuck solving the remaining hard cognitive tasks where even humans struggle. They're just not good enough at predicting other cars' trajectory. And nobody really knows at what point they will be.

I'd say we will find the machines to refuse to drive like humans. And we'll have to adapt.
There is a lot of satisfaction in understanding and building your own electronics
When central banks print money it destroys the connection of money and wealth. It degrades the signal.

Personally I love Bitcoin bc it protects against this. Sure, it may be falling while the Fed tightens, but the Fed prints more often than it tightens.
Well, there it is. Even after you said that I had to spend some good time clicking through those weird internal "show hidden text" links to find it. I can't believe color costs so much more--clearly he should have just made it B&W. People buy such things for information more than pictures (I think).