skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, every track has a different matching point, you're quite right and that's the attribute of bpm most difficult for computers: which peaks to count?

Manually pre-setting tracks has to be very consistent too -- if you pick claps on one track and go for snare on another, claps might bias the upbeat and snare the downbeat and when Ableton matches the tracks the kick will sound off.

That's the problem as you identify: any two tracks may have a sound that matches best for that particular mix point, so it might need to be adjusted live.

But if you are adjusting tracks live by a few ms... It sounds like you have learned beatmatching and are using it!

To your other point: analog turntables, especially 1200s in good shape, do not drift. A proper beatmatch can and should ride the whole track. Multiple manufacturers make turntables of this quality. The error you saw was either poorly maintained equipment or an inexperienced DJ.
It seems I’m only half behind on my knowledge then.
I seem to recall the USB bus on the RPi3 is limited to 480Mb/s, the fastest SD cards in the market are around 150MB/s, and the SDcard port on the RPi3 is below 25Mb/s.
Leave no trace in a wretched and empty monument to man's cruelty to man?

Odd sentiment.
Good, then he can take it. Great writers write terrible things and it is valuable to them, and to everyone else when people call them on it.

- Read Ian McEwan before and after he became a national treasure and people stopped editing him.

- W. Sommerset Maughm's "Of Human Bondage," was an indulgent landfill of discarded ideas compared to his edited work.

I could go on, but writing in the service of others vs. the onanism of intellectually retired artists are very different things.
Don't be sorry for the rant: the current state of things seems dire, and your opinion is shared by some.

I have a friend that hopes there will be war, since we cannot sustain so many humans on the planet.. While I don't want this outcome for moral and idealist reasons, it does seem like a it will be a viable solution in the long run for the species.

I keep thinking about the paper on deep adaptation agenda from a researcher in sustainable development [1], saying climate change is already haywire, and that we will see a societal collapse. As a citizen, I don't even know where to begin with this information. I bet I'm not alone. Based on the premises the author makes, on the current situation on climate change and the lack of action to assess them, it seems the stress will be immense on our society, hence the collapse. I just hope we make it.

[1] www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf
I don't think your examples really count as freedoms. I agree with your point, but I don't think you need to stretch the definition of a word to make it.
Good for you that you get more value out of them. I won't pay more though, because I personally have less rights and convenience with ebooks.

There's also an element of being taken for a ride here. I can afford the $8 snickers bar from the minibar in the hotel, but I won't buy it because I feel like someone is taking the piss. Attempting to use their position to extort me.

Same for ebooks. When your costs are lower, but you're charging more, I'm not going to buy the book because though I can afford the book I feel like I'm being somehow extorted.
In their example voting form there is a list of candidate names with a bubble next to each.

How can someone “fill in more bubbles for (their) candidate”?
Our diets are influenced by what was fed to us when we're infants. Studies show that infant formulas that contain corn syrup and sugar can cause childhood obesity, which explains why nearly 1 in 5 children in the US is obese.
I've always wanted to make an arm based cluster for kicks and giggles. Just can't find a fun project to warrant it.
Domain names can be taken away too, especially ccTLDs. It is harder to seize a domain, but as we have seen time and time again with TPB, Sci-Hub, Wikileaks, etc. you can lose your domain if entities with enough power and influence want it seized.
It's not as much about your "experience". IIRC there was scarring in heart tissue after running a marathon distance in a large majority of runners independent of training. This could plausibly impede blood flow if the heart's fitness dropped back to "normal" (i.e. in old age). That said, I still do distance running.
No, it doesn't make them shitty. If they don't have any suggestions other than extinction, they were shitty already.
> The signal that I want to send to Amazon... is that the prices are just too high. They could dramatically increase revenue simply by lowering the prices.

They might be too high for you, on the specific books you want to read. But cutting book prices to maximize book revenues is Amazon's first and oldest game, and I have a hard time believing that they suddenly became clueless about how to play it when they entered (created, really) the ebook market.

Offhand, I can think of two explanations for the price of Amazon ebooks that seem much more likely. I'm not sure if either are true, but I wouldn't be surprised both are:

First, it could be that they have agreements with publishers, who have an interest in keeping the price of Amazon (and Nook) ebooks relatively high in order help keep non-Amazon booksellers in business. They've seen what Wal-Mart does to suppliers, and naturally would want to guard against ending up in that situation.

Second, it could be that Amazon has figured out that they really do maximize Kindle revenues when they don't discount their ebooks very cheaply. That would be the case if Kindle readers generally buy what they want when they want to read it, regardless of a few bucks' difference in the book price. (It's not beyond the pale to think that might be true of people who, almost by definition, are willing to spend $1-200 on an e-reader.) Or, alternatively, they've found that they can price discriminate more effectively through their subscription service.
I use don't need not in an existential sense but in a "you won't ever use it to it's capacity sense". For example a big car you drive alone within the speed limit in a city. A big house you only use 2 of the 10 rooms in regularly. An iMac Pro you use to browse Hackernews and read emails. You get the idea.
His followup, The Corner, is one of the most devastating books I have ever read. The show The Wire also pulls from it.
Why would my completely reasonable action be interpreted as something rude? There's no "you" featured in my decision.
One of the more famous examples was Mike Rowe's domain. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft
Yeah sorry, I meant on purpose.

Most shared hostings still use Apache for compatibility with .htaccess and rubbish like that.
> This is surprising to me... I've run almost 5000 miles and 6 marathons so far and this has not been my experience.

Do you track your resting heart rate on the days after running a marathon? It's been pretty consistent to me. If I sustain near max exertion for multiple hours, it takes at least a few days to feel normal again, and resting heart rate seems to be a very good indicator of the overall stress of the exertion. Obviously my RHR is dropping over time. These are temporary variations.
Those that felt like natural conversations, just flowing... These are usually the ones ran by very senior (and often non-technical) employees.
Decent iterations cannot be done without immediate management playing defense, period. As long as anyone is allowed to interrupt the iteration, then iterations are just going through the motions and won't solve any actual problems - because the problem is a lack of control.

The engineer's response to unplanned work should be "Go talk to my manager", and the manager's response must be "Wait til next iteration". If the team can't defend its own boundaries, it's hosed, period.
> When training for mountaineering, I sometimes climb 5000+ feet in a day. Days like that tend to elevate my resting heart rate for up to a week afterwords.

I'm curious, what is your living elevation? When you climb 5000+ feet in a day are you traveling to a higher elevation? And if so, after the movement are you staying at that higher elevation?

I am not a doctor. But I ascend a minimum of 20K feet per month via the steepest trails I can find. This usually includes a movement of up to 7500 feet of gain in a few hours. I've never seen my resting HR affected and do not recall having seeing that happen to anyone doing the same work unless they lived at lower elevation and were visiting.

If you're coming to an elevation much higher than your living elevation, doing a movement, and then staying at a higher elevation, then your elevated RHR is most likely due to the body's response to the reduced partial pressure of oxygen.

But if you're doing a move and returning to your "home" elevation and your RHR stays up...again I'm not a doctor in any way but I'd really encourage you to talk to one.
It is helpful that the author quantified some of the issues, however there are many factors involved:

* Does the authors CO2 estimates for battery production actually include "mining" or just "assembly"? From reading it, it seems to just include assembly of final components into a battery.

* Moving tons of rare-earth minerals from Point A to Point B for battery production requires yet more CO2 output.

* Wind + Solar still requires massive batteries somewhere, which still requires massive mining operations.

Further, with $40 shale oil now a reality, its getting harder to make the economic case.
And if you are driving all around NM for atomic turism anyway, you might as well hit the Nuclear Museum in Albuquerque and the Bradbury Science Museum in Los Alamos.
I think it's been very common for 15 years to use Apache's "suexec" to run each CGI process as the individual user rather than as a user related to Apache.

There's also suPHP which allows you to do the same thing for PHP processes.
Why would I not simply stop using them at the point where I no longer like them?
It would also make sense to include it only as a fallback font, downloaded only if a Unicode point is actually used in the page which the primary font didn't cover, which I think is how '@font-face' would act if he didn't specify Unifont as the primary font in 'font-family'.
You can check the full original study and conclusion here: https://news.nukleosome.com/t/left-ventricular-structure-and...
Do you know roughly how much power your server draws? Like you said, the cost/performance may be linear but I wonder what happens when you add in power to that equation. Idle speculation, to be sure, but it would be fascinating to see what amount of solar panels plus wind power plus batteries would be needed to power each system.
Would that actually mitigate this problem? It's not clear to me.
So who does a Secret Agent have a fiduciary responsibility to?
Typo in title: should be Prince not Price
I'm not sure that 'especially' applies to ccTLDs any more than gTLDs. Especially since most (all?) gTLDs are covered by the same jurisdiction as the .us ccTLD.
actually India mandates EVM - the elections in India are the biggest democratic event in the history of mankind. Its hard to to carry ballot papers over camel in the desert (that's a real thing).

Approval voting is far more suitable for straight scrolling screens.
If I can buy the same products as you (which I can) for 20-30% less (which they are here), then my life is largely better than yours.
Where does this rare earth trope comes from? Tesla batteries uses lithium, nickel and cobalt which aren't rare earth, and Tesla Motors don't use rare earth magnets either...
I wonder if we (as a society) in the not too distant future can make driving embarrassing?

My hope is that if someone sits alone in their big SUV stuck in traffic, pedestrians, cyclists and others will look at that person disparagingly. Like how people look at dog owners not picking up their dogs feces, cigarette smokers or how they look at obese people buying ice cream... Or how hypochondriacs who go to the doctor when they don't need to are shamed in countries with socialized health care.

Maybe it is not nice to use shame as a weapon, but it is a powerful one. We have about ten years to completely change how our societies work before it is to late. All options should be on the table.
Something other than a human evaluation of a student's entire resume, which is what we have now? No, it's not at all obvious to me that such a thing is possible. That's basically tantamount to fortune-telling.
Dj battling is such a foreign concept to me as a trance/techno dj. Like I'm not sure how you're supposed to compare two different djs that play 9 records an hour. Like woo, you really picked a subtle key change to lift up the energy slightly after building tension for 20 minutes by playing repetitive drum-heavy tracks!
So you're storing data in an external drive?
Open Source web app to define and enforce your compliance (KYC, AML, AFT)
I think the main point of the article isn't exactly "monads are feasible in Rust", but rather, "monads are a viable motivating case for these potential developments in Rust". The author is on the Rust compiler team and has several posts from similar angles.
I read an opinion piece[0] recently that suggested one of the (many) reasons that No Man's Sky was so poorly received at launch was due to the fact games have commonly been boiled down to constant action and "gotta beat the game" mentality, and that players don't know how to just explore and enjoy games as an open-ended single player experience.

As someone who plays almost exclusively single player games across a vast numbers of genres, I enjoyed No Man's Sky's "exploring and discovering the unknown" game play at launch and have ever since, as they add more and more content.

0: http://www.thegeeklygrind.com/opinion-no-mans-sky-doesnt-mul...
The same problem applies to forums. Everyone here is gushing about how great they were and yes i had fun too but so many forums were just one person running phpbb and if they got bored or whatnot the whole forum was shot, just like that. Or a mod or admin would power trip. It's not like the early internet was some freewheeling utopia, it was mostly shit. Just like now. Don't believe me? Go look at those old forums and usenet posts you remember so well
Police, fire departments, emergency services, public transportation, ..
If you tie the amount distributed to inflation like the Social Security does in the US then it would auto adjust.
Interesting article. I have two bits to offer.

Firstly, when I was young, my dad used to judge fox hunting. The trials he judged were almost never to the "death" though. He once told me that he only saw a hound actually catch a fox once when the fox ran though a culvert while the hound ran over it and got to the end first. There is a clear opportunity to separate the hunt from the kill.

The second is that I now live on a rather large piece of property. Some fields and some woodland. We allow a local group of "fox hunters" use our property as part of their hunt. While they show up with a dozen horses and twice as many hounds on a semi-regular basis, they don't actually hunt or chase fox. Prior to the hunt the hound master comes to our property and uses a scent rag of some kind to scent a trail for the hounds to follow.

In fact, there is a fox den within 50m of my home office and the hounds show no interest in the den. Fox tend to raise their kits "closer" to people as coyotes (the main local threat to fox) are reluctant to come as close to people as fox are. Not great news for my chickens as we loose one or two a month to the fox, but that is the price I pay for living where I do.

The gist of it is this. It is unfortunate that the various players can't typically reach a compromise. There seems to be ample opportunity to do so. I live in a world where the "fox" hunting tradition thrives and yet no fox are actually chased let alone killed.
> To do so in the shortest and least congested route,

Presumably if you didn't have to pay this fee, then the route would be a lot more congested...
As a NYC resident for 11 years now I see this as a necessary transition. The streets aren't getting any wider unless we do away with street parking. I don't hear anyone rushing to suggest that option, although it's easy to forget there was a time when the streets weren't lined with cars - but horse shit. So we trade one inconvenience for a slightly less inconvenient sight (I own and park my car on the street dealing with the inconvenience of alternate side parking twice weekly). The focus really needs to be on improving the efficiency of the MTA, reducing distance between trains with more efficient switching is big part of that. The inefficiencies of the trains and improved efficiencies of app based rideshare dispatch is what is pulling ridership from the trains the most.
In Sydney you're paying use-charges, rather than congestion pricing (unless you use the Sydney Harbour Bridge / tunnel, which does have congestion pricing, approximated by time-of-day pricing).

https://www.rms.nsw.gov.au/sydney-motorways/toll-charges/ind...

As the NYTimes article says, everyone ends up paying one way or another, whether in taxes, or use-charges, or congestion prices, or delay. The question is how the total cost should be shared.
Also because their core business is not a technology anyone who is not in finance is treated like a commodity. I suspect this is true of tech firms treating their finance folks also. Generally, the firms where you are directly attributed to their revenue is where you'll be treated the best.
It's also misleading because the simplicity of the appearance ballot paper disguises the complexity of the actual choice of how many boxes to tick in front of you.
(Am I better picking my favourite candidate only or both the candidates I don't find entirely unacceptable in a tight three way race?)
540M Facebook User Records Found on Unprotected Amazon Servers
Maybe it would be a good idea to prioritize those crops then instead of corn for HFCS, which we seem to have more than enough of
Something that makes the cgi process not a child of the Apache process wouldn't be subject to this. Like a fcgi process.
Exceptions are clearly inferior to an alternative strategy of handling errors as values rather than something exceptional to catch. Exceptions to me started off as a humble concept (if something truly exceptional happens, do x y or z, but in 99% of cases you will probably just want to abort or crash)

Instead exceptions have become every day errors. Like the article defines,

> The handling of exceptional cases; perhaps a service failed for an unexpected reason like a network failure

Really? A service failure or network failure is an exceptional case for you? This should be planned for, and built into the architecture! Plan for the network always failing! Recover gracefully! That is what retry strategies like exponential backoff are for, and circuit breakers, idempotent requests so you can simply cancel and try again, so on and so forth.

Instead of treating everything as exceptional, when you treat errors as values, they lend you down the path of actually handling them. As a side effect of this, you build more robust systems. Bubbling up an error to the top when errors are values are seen as an anti-pattern, only to be done in the most rare of circumstances.

Again, from the article,

> All other exceptions - Signifies my server has a bug

Then your server should crash! Take it out of the load balancer, stop the damage! If you truly can't classify it, it's truly unknown or exceptional, abort!
One of my biggest pet peeves is the pointlessness of standups. I have never worked anywhere where they did not immediately become a status update, which is (in theory) what the board is for.

Why is the board not up to date? Because we just talked about all of that an hour ago and doing all of that over again is infuriating. What is the status of ticket x? Either wait until the next day’s status report/standup or start writing down notes you can reference. While you’re at it, just go ahead and put those notes in the comments on the board... oh wait.
I have only really been buying books from Manning lately. When I do, I end up getting the physical copy + eBook combo. It costs a little more than if I were to just buy one of those items individually but what I have found is that I can offset the cost by selling the physical book if I don't like it or don't have a need for it anymore. The ability to do that helps offset the cost of both.
You are really not getting this distinction, I'm not sure how much clearer I can make it. You can evaluate `putStrLn "hello"` a billion times without anything "happening" at all, because it is just a function. Maybe it has to be made clear that purity is a property of languages and language constructs, and how you can reason about them, if you model a physical system mathematically of course you will have a pure formal description of it, but that's not the domain where this concept applies. Even then, it can only be said of your _model_ that it is pure, and the point of pure languages is to allow for this mode of reasoning.

When you call a C function, you cannot know whether equational reasoning holds, whereas you can be sure when you're using a pure language. Therefore, when you're working on a project that is 100% in say Idris, you are in fact making a totally pure program. You could make an Idris compiler that inserts random perturbations in various functions, or you could look at crashes etc., but that is not where the concept of purity applies, it's a category error to think it does.
The article says:

> Now railroads want to run more like commercial airlines, where departure times are set. Factories, farms, mines or mills need to be ready or miss their trips.

You're saying:
> In the US, there are huge bottlenecks around Chicago (where a crazy high percentage of all American rail freight passes through)

To me it sounds like they are already most of the way to the goal :D
Toll roads aren't really related to congestion pricing.

You're paying tolls because those roads were bought and paid for by an ASX traded company:
https://www.transurban.com/roads-and-projects/sydney
So division by zero should be handled the same way as network timeout? Because that math code is gonna be verbose.

Error codes and exceptions are both awful for control flow. Typed errors and checked exceptions work better for known errors but break down for IO because you can't handle all IO errors - new OS versions can add new ones. And all of these are awkward when propagating errors between threads.
Been experimenting with building tools to make fact checking more transparent and reusable for a few years now, this is the latest iteration of that project. Feedback appreciated!
So I guess you don't have any ownership over a URL path component on somebody else's server when you're not even paying for that hosting. Not particularly surprising...
People hate change.

A few of us have been sneaking approval voting in wherever it makes sense. Familiarize people with the process.

One example is we use approval voting for prioritorizing our motions during membership meetings. Previously, our endorsement process was a major food fight, was way too dependent on the order which motions (from the floor) were recognized (unfair, yielding results not representative of the membership) and took way too long.

Now, using approval voting to pre-rank the motions, everyone sees the process is open, fair, accountable.
While I agree that is the future for now that is very much the exception for most of the country.