skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I come from a community of farmers in rural Ontario, and I don't know of, or have even heard of a single suicide.
>Lack of consistent samples

MIDI has nothing to do with samples itself.

>and even in games these days, nobody uses it, sadly.

Most recorded music, soundtracks, and almost 100% of game music is been done with MIDI.

MIDI doesn't amount to the .mid files that people used to download / play on some player on their PC and which sound tinny.

It's a professional specification that's used in every single studio, and is the basis of every professional digital workstation for recording music and sequencing electronic instruments.

What you're describing is like confusing the JVM with Java applets, as if that's its only use.
So did (and does) its counterparty.
I haven't listened in on the data but it seems likely that MIDI Maze only uses the electrical standards, i.e. a proprietary protocol over MIDI ports
Lisp in 15 Minutes
I haven't encountered a single mini-USB port that I couldn't use with any mini-USB cable (however, these are mostly devices that I don't use as often as a phone, so my view may be biased).

Micro-USB ports, on the other hand, just stop holding connectors, even after I cleaned the port.
Ask HN: Anyone can help me create a RSS feed for indiehackers.com?
Not really: it's been used at least once on a satellite launch vehicle that made it to orbit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Arrow
Netflix is already using HEVC since a while.
Where do they ask you for a copy of your ID? I've never had that happen to me at a hotel.
I have never seen any case of a developer holding the project to ransom in order to fix a bug, as alluded to in the article.

That said the key point that those who are always firefighting and ‘saving the day’ do often get the recognition as opposed to the people who squat the bugs early, follow sane processes and test their own stuff well is true.

But the question is about tech companies (not outsourcing shops like in the top response I saw). And I think the answer is a simple no.
Not OP, but I personally use QPDF.

> QPDF is capable of creating linearized (also known as web-optimized) files and encrypted files. It is also capable of converting PDF files with object streams (also known as compressed objects) to files with no compressed objects or to generate object streams from files that don't have them (or even those that already do). QPDF also supports a special mode designed to allow you to edit the content of PDF files in a text editor. For more details, please see the documentation links below.

$ qpdf --stream-data=uncompress input.pdf output.pdf

http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/
Filenames and Pathnames in Shell (bash, dash, ash,): How to do it Correctly
That people Should does not mean they Will. Supposing for the sake of argument that ruining their lives and only their lives is acceptable, then yes, legalise and let people suffer the consequences of their decisions; they are adults.

But there's often an inevitable spillover from that individual to others, say spouses and children, and bystanders (like pedestrians cos someone got pissed and knew they were safe to drive home - and alcohol is a drug, and very legal). Even non-drugs like food is blatantly abused - ever seen a morbidly fat person?

If we legalise drugs then I am coming to the conclusion that we need to take a society-wide approach, which means at the very least banning all advertising and probably banning production by privately owned companies because their job is to make money which precisely leads to their wanting to increase the number of users and their amount used - look at alcohol advertising.

I don't disagree or agree any more, I've simply lost my certainty. HTH.

FYI this is short and incredibly informative: <https://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/05/the-case-for-prescriptio...
Lack of consistent samples is not an issue with professional use of MIDI.

Professionals (musicians, engineers, etc) don't use MIDI as a general-purpose playback method, they use it to control their samplers, synths, external effects units etc.

They don't need "consistent samples" because they provide their own samples, different for every song (plus pure synth sounds, etc).
HEVC in practice is 3x the encoding complexity for 40% to 50% bitrate reduction.
Navajo Code Talker John Pinto Dies, Age 94
A brief summary of Ipython Shell – Based on data science handbook
In 30 years of software development, I've never seen a dev fired because of a buggy release. You get fired for 3 reasons: long, ongoing performance problems; violating company practices like stealing or sexual harassment; or when the company needs to cut salary and staff to meet numbers.

Also, I've never seen a developer who behaved like S did in the story.
Do fake profiles 'see' ads? They don't artificially browse around the site, to create impressions, or do they?
My Ivy League school wasn’t anything like this.
Hm. Looks like the PDF sample has some light (auto)hinting and a bit of linear alpha blending and gamma correction applied (compare diagonal stems, e.g. on the "A"), while the DVI sample doesn't. I suppose this is less about DVI vs. PDF and more about Adobe doing text rendering properly, while Evince is probably using Cairo, which doesn't.
> first class environments

Which are notorious for being unoptimizably slow

> It reminds me of pcostanza's work on Context Oriented Programming and ContextL

I'm not reminded at all. Can you expound?
The author "confirmed" its a scam because the hotel didn't have any open rooms, but many travel sites have a separate inventory of rooms they pay for (booked or not) and resell. Those rooms wouldn't be open for direct booking.
Wonder if this can be worked like normal wood and can be produced in the standard dimensions. One of the advantages of azek and other PVC sidings is that you can use your normal tools.
I think you are being terribly naive, sorry. From the study you just linked to:

> Posts containing links to external websites are cross-referenced against lists of fake news publishers built by journalists and academics

Have you seen opinion polls of these two professions? They are overwhelmingly, and I mean more than 90% left-voting. Conservative academics have published a long list of stories about how they have been made unwelcome or pushed out. There are virtually no conservatives in academic or journalist circles these days.

So all your study shows is that if you ask a bunch of Democrats to make a list of "fake news" sites, they list out a lot of pro-Trump conservative outlets. What a shock. Anyone could have told you that - this isn't science and doesn't deserve a paper, it's just bog standard political mud-flinging posing as science.

This is the exact sort of behaviour that's driving a wedge between people: biased academics use the vague aura and automatic defence to science that they've inherited from prior generations to make absurd claims. Journalists who came straight from college and who retain an automatic deference to professors repeat whatever they say as "findings", conservatives who double check discover scientific fraud and call it out, then liberals go in for the double smear of claiming their opponents are anti-intellectual!

Speaking now as a foreigner watching from abroad, over the last few years I've watched as what looked like the entire American left descended down a crazy conspiracy theory of Trump being a Russian spy or collaborator. We now know that isn't true. How many millions or billions of Facebook posts must have been shared about the whole Mueller investigation, about the idea that Trump and Russia are connected in some way? And yet it's all false, it was a fiction invented by the media to get clicks and ratings. Stories collapsed left and right, even left-leaning journalists like Greenwald and Taibbi have since come out flaming the journalistic establishment because so many of the stories turned out to be false, and yet the left seem to collectively fall for it in a huge way.

So I am very skeptical about your thesis that there's a big difference in people's susceptibility to fake news, or how intellectual they are. You should be especially self reflective give you just cited a supposedly scientific study that makes extraordinary claims about voter intelligence yet is transparently nonsense - it's literally "we asked a bunch of Democrats to pick websites they disagree with, labelled them as fake news, and discovered Trump supporters share lots of fake news". You should learn from the conservatives and trust academia a bit less!
good musicians can notice the difference between 10 and 20 milliseconds of latency pretty easily in my experience
Varnish passes requests through to the underlying site (in this case Wordpress), which doesn't make it any more secure.

If the cache were fully populated (e.g. by spidering the site) and never became stale, then it would be roughly equivalent. Still, I'd rather disconnect Wordpress after spidering, so there's no chance of requests leaking through.
Interesting, their names, "Navajo", "Pinto", "Padilla" suggest quite a lot of contact with Spanish conquerors before the English got there.
Rust is a relatively new programming language that features nearly all the good parts of C++ (e.g. struct, reference, RAII, move semantics, generics) and almost none of the bad parts (e.g. duplicate features, cryptic syntax, undefined behavior).

Your example in Rust would read like this:

// Definition
fn foo(a: u8, b: &u8, c: &mut u8) -> i32 {
a = 0; // Local change only
println!("{}", *b); // Read pointee
*c = 1; // Write pointee
return 2;
}

// Call site
let bar: u8 = 3;
let baz: u8 = 4;
let mut bajinga: u8 = 5;
foo(bar, &baz, &mut bajinga);
Also:

- perfectly synchronised

- zero latency

This may be hard to realise with lots of devices and wireless connections.
The MIDI pins on game ports were an add-on on sound cards to unused pins from the game port, though. The original game port spec doesn't have anything to do with MIDI or UARTs, and joysticks and the like did not use those extra pins.
You can have a static site and WYSIWYG editor. For example, you can use GatsbyJS (https://www.gatsbyjs.org/) as the static site generator and Contentful CMS (https://www.contentful.com/) as the editor.
I like to turn off all notifications (noise, vibration, and lock screen) other than audio calls. All other messaging is asynchronous and shouldn’t be important enough to disturb your focus. On iOS, I even move the apps that have the little red numeric notification circle to a different page than the first, so I don’t see it until I want to see it.
Unfortunately with high gold prices it becomes profitable to run small operations that don't meet the same standards. Currently it is believed that 1/3 of all mercury pollution comes from illegal gold mining [0].

[0]:https://www.amazonconservation.org/pdf/gold_mining_fact_shee...
My point is different.

We are and always will be uncertain who is spying. Further, we can not even say whether Huawei is a sincere market participant (although here the case is much clearer against it).

If you wait for certainty, you will lose. Its a political decision you can agree or disagree with.

But if it has been made, and for good reason in this case, then you will not fight ip theft and chinese protectionism and anti competitive behavior with small measures.

Op asked why ban Huawei instead of not buying from them. Because it is ineffective.
I don't list any such thing on my resume. I consider such listings junior or entry level attempting to gain attention of automated filters.

Instead I list the major public projects I have completed and describe contributions to group efforts.

In an introductory paragraph I explain the few language I prefer to work in and that I am not interested in spending time with frameworks or configuring tools. My reasoning for this is to intentionally make my resume less popular so that I capitalize on my skills and accomplishments opposed to jumping into the common mediocrity. As a senior developer with many years experience, a strong portfolio, and two employers I can afford the patience to look for work I would rather do instead of the paycheck I immediately need.
Please don’t theme our apps
Those stupid jokes are why we'll have to rename the planet in the future (according to Futurama). It'll be called Urectum. Also a great name for Memo and Task apps.
> I wish there's an app that could tag the photo automatically so I can search it and reference it again.

Google photos does exactly this.
>But yes, once you're in, you're 'set' and they do protect each other, it's similar to Oxbridge and Ivy League to some degree.

Just two weeks ago the headmaster of a prestigious private school in the UK claimed that the rise in Oxbridge admissions from students educated at state schools was a form of "social engineering" and likened it to anti-Semitism.

>Privately educated pupils in the UK are also being accused of dominating the top jobs and stifling social mobility

Huh, it's almost as if... they actually do.

"Meritocracy" for these people really means "quis paget entrat".

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/may/11/head-liken...
There's git-bug: https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug
Suicide takes more lives than war and violent crime combined and farmers regularly top the bill for the highest suicide rate of any profession, so you are uncommonly lucky.

edit - Apologies, the raised suicide rate reported for farmers in North America looks as though it may not be true in Canada - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10557200
Why they didn't just shut down old shop - i.e. forming a 'bad company' based on it's liabilities but without it's assets and let it bankrupt voiding it's responsibilities - and open a new one just using the old one's licenses? Sounds like a logical solution here.

If that wasn't possible, makes me only wonder what the buyers were thinking during privatization.
Indeed not, but I think maybe that's the point. There are lots of cases where you can disagree with the scientific consensus without being "anti-science", whatever that means.

Basically all scientific or logical analysis about power generation yields a pro-nuclear conclusion and thus anti-nuclear campaigners tend to make arguments about priorities rather than claim their opponents are anti-science; they argue the risks are underestimated, the costs of waste are too high etc.

As for GMO foods, again, the scientific consensus is there are no health problems with them, which is why the anti-GMO argument tends to be of the form "but what if they're just so super long term problems that we haven't seen them yet" (a.k.a. the EU's precautionary principle on blocking GMO foods from competing with EU farmers).

Look at it the other way around - lots of climate change skeptics make deeply scientific arguments, typically pointing out errors or mistakes in papers, cases of previous predictions that turned out to be false and so on. That doesn't make them anti-science, it arguably makes them campaigners for better science.
Ugh, I wish Canada had anywhere near these prices. It's about $40+ for 4GB of data and unlimited text but that's with a more limited coverage area. For national carriers it's $10-$15 more per month.
Writing the code is very often not the difficult part. Often the difficult is taking the requirements and truly understanding them.
You should check out Gatsby Preview which is currently in some sort of limited public beta. https://www.gatsbyjs.org/blog/2018-07-17-announcing-gatsby-p...
The fonts weren't as good, even the best that Addison-Wesley could come up with.

“I didn’t know what to do. I had spent 15 years writing those books, but if they were going to look awful I didn’t want to write any more.” (Digital Typography, p. 5)

(An example of their better-but-still-not-good-enough fonts, though I suspect that by then, after seeing the earlier worse fonts, he had already decided to solve the problem himself: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/367058/wheres-an-exa...)

Knuth started his TeX-and-METAFONT typography project in order to specify the appearance of his books; he wrote TeX so that he could use METAFONT. The former turns out to be useful even without the latter.
It's a static site served by NGINX. I don't think there are any tricks.
As an amateur musician, I played with real time synthesis a lot. Latency, and especially jitter in latency is the biggest enemy. 100 ms is an eternity. 5-7 ms is still noticible and anything above 10 ms becomes a nuisance. Some artists, especially drummers, hear 2 ms differences.

And it’s quite logical really. A reasonably fast tempo is 180 bpm. Playing sixteenths notes would separate them by 80 millis. Then you have separation in swing style sixteenths, funk (which is often ahead of the pulse by a tiny fraction) and the real scale is around 20 ms. That’s comparable to 50 frames per second.

This is also the reason (among others) why orchestras need conductors. The right side would hear the left side 100 millis later due to the speed of sound.
It's plain wrong to claim that some angry manager 'caused' someone to kill themselves.

Also, it's questionable if there was in fact a 'rash of suicides':

France has a rate of suicide of 12.9 / 100K / year. [1]

France Telecom has 95 000 employees In France alone. [2]

Here's the title of the Telegraph article: "Why have 24 France Telecom workers killed themselves in the past 19 months?" [3]

Well, it would be expected that about 20.5 FT employees will commit suicide every 19 months or so, sadly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_S.A.

[3] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechno...
Emulator basics: a stack and register machine
How does this compare to Code Maps in Visual Studio? Can anyone who has used both comment?
By Heidi Messer.
Ms. Messer is a technology investor and entrepreneur.
Could Mianus be worked into this somehow?

- Hey boss, we all set for that meeting in Mianus?

- Sure thing, I’ve got the notes in Uranus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mianus,_Connecticut
Wall Street Isn’t Buying What Silicon Valley Is Selling
> It lives in a private NextCloud instance, so everything's available from my laptop or phone (although editing markdown on a phone is no fun).

Have you tried Markor? https://github.com/gsantner/markor#screenshots I have found that it's a pretty good Markdown editor for Android. It's available in F-Droid too.
I got a few mikrotiks at home and friends/family. They are quite nice as they offer about every networking option the Linux kernel has to offer. However they don't expose the Linux userland so they are not as hackable as openwrt. For example getting wireguard to run on one is not practically possible at the moment. That said they offer a really stable solution with a good (though steep learning curve) UI and terminal interface. And even the smallest cheapest models come with everything included (bgp, MPLS, IPsec, openvpn, advances firewalling and queueing, centralised AP management).

If you like to have a Linux router with every knob on a panel this is for you, if you want (and will have to) open the panel to tweak with the wires, not so much.
Why so mysterious?
https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/en/university/news/showcase/mag...
> HackerNews is the last place I’d expect

I know that HackerNews has a vegan/ vegetarian bias in the recent years if not all the way back to 2010[1], however fortunately that seems to be changing, as evidenced by the parent comment by QuantumAphid saying "Rice, lentils, beans, all are much less nutrient dense than most animal foods." still at the top of this thread.

> a “zero carb” pseudoscience follower

Laymen like you often use science and rhetoric to advance a dietary agenda. What's hilarious is that you are not actually interested in advancing scientific knowledge. Do you read studies in detail enough to critique them[2]? Find out its faults? Nope.

Nevermind that calling me a "pseudoscience follower" amounts to personal attack, and is prohibited in Hacker News - but you have no idea what lead me to this way of eating. And why don't you take out your anonymous mask?

> Your diet is accelerating your cancer risk.

This is nothing but fear mongering. If meat is so carcinogenic, why was cancer so uncommon until the last century or so? We are not eating any more meat now than we did a hundred years ago, yet cancer incidence is skyrocketing. So, why do we believe that meat causes cancer?

There have been numerous research studies claiming to tie red meat to cancer (particularly colon cancer), however, these were weak epidemiological studies, and are not representative of results in the field as a whole. The fact is that studies of meat and cancer yield very mixed results. Many studies show no connection at all between meat and cancer, and some studies even show a protective benefit. There is simply no solid scientific evidence to support the belief that red meat increases cancer risk.

This did not stop the World Health Organization (WHO) from proclaiming to the planet in October 2015 that red and processed meats cause cancer. Unfortunately, the WHO report is all smoke and mirrors[3].

> Please be aware of that.

I'm more than aware of people like with an anti-meat agenda arousing fear in public minds. It is no wonder that nutritional science is in the state that it currently is.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1932295

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/ScientificNutrition/comments/adfowt...

[3] http://www.diagnosisdiet.com/meat-and-cancer/
99% of digital recorded music only has 16 bit velocity for every sample. I think it'd be fine.
I think it is the same system as used when doing macro expansion. Macros use syntax objects with embedded metadata.

Both chez and guile usually produces proper error sites, so it is done in some fashion.
I've been a Ramnode customer with several $15ish/year VPSes for a few websites and small services since 2012, and can second checking them out.
Yes!

Also, my dream included vintage synths with just cv controls that would just connect to some dongle/wireless CV converter and boom, integrated. The dongle converted perfectly between all the various Yamaha, Roland and Moog standards.
That would be unfair, as the efficacy of most products depends on how they are configured, monitored and maintained.

For example, if I install an application whitelisting system, but whitelist too much, pay no attention to logs and alerts, or never patch it, then that's not really the vendor's fault.
In a perfect world people would use this as an opportunity to tell the government to shove it. But, sadly, it's not a perfect world.
Based on the title, I thought this was gonna be about how the entire UX design of smartphones is utter garbage, and hence they cant be used to do most kinds of work, and the stuff that is possible is much slower / error prone.

Imo they have been designed from the ground up to be merely shiny toys / gadgets.

The most fundamental flaw in the design is the touchscreen. Eg. Press a button which is just part of the screen and has 0 haptic feedback, so the only way to locate it is by looking at it, but your finger is obscuring it (as you are moving to press it with your finger) so you cant see it. It is a paradoxical situation.
"Better" is a matter of requirements. You can interpret a stream of bytes of MIDI with some tens of lines of C code and a couple of bytes of interpreter state. The physical interface is less than a handful of components. For OSC you need an IP stack.
Adam Neely has a great take on this:
A = 432Hz
https://youtu.be/EKTZ151yLnk

Another good one is Paul Davids:
The Ultimate 432Hz VS 440Hz | CONSPIRACY + Comparison
https://youtu.be/Rt3EAPDn-Ug
Yep. Txt on GitLab.

https://gitlab.com/drummyfish/my_text_data

Most people that aren't me would probably be interested in

https://gitlab.com/drummyfish/my_text_data/tree/master/cheat...

and

https://gitlab.com/drummyfish/my_text_data/blob/master/links...