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Hamilton. I'm not big into theater nor musicals, and I had heard so much about it by the time I watched it on Disney+, I wasn't expecting it to blow me away but it totally did. I'm a huge fan now, watched it several times, listened to the album hundreds of times, read the book, and recommend it every time I can :)
Lexus was first with the absurdly large grills with their "Spindle Grill" design around 2014. BMW was next with the 7-Series and X7, followed quickly by Mercedes.
> even just want to try it out for a year or two

If you're already thinking about trying it for a year or two, you're serious enough that a teacher will be far more helpful than an app, and a cheap, small, non-weighted midi keyboard will limit you a lot.

> But if you just want to make music in a modern way (on the computer)

Acoustic or digital, music is more than a series of button presses. All the things I mentioned apply even if the only thing you want to do is play 4-chord pop songs.
I recently bought a Boox Note 2 for this and it works very well. I had previously tried reading PDFs and technical documents on my Kindle but it was pointless since it was so small. The Note 2 is just a little smaller than regular letter size paper and it runs a full Android operating system so it's easy to get whatever document management system you want to use working on it (including the Kindle app).
The alternative is "never starting because of high barrier to entry," not "starting with better habits."
Yes, guitar primarily via the game Rocksmith 2014. Very rewarding overall and amazingly fun.
He says "el cheapo keyboard", but the search term would be "MIDI keyboard controller"
If any of you is fluent in Spanish and want to learn to play piano, I can't recommend Jaime altozano enough (he's on YouTube). He's the best music teacher and communicator I've seen in any language, I would compare him to what threeblueonebrown is for math.

He also has some paid courses available in https://www.musihacks.com/ but just the free content is already awesome to understand modes, scales, pregressions, etc
Tl;dr: There’s no particular bias to heads or tails, but a coin will land the same way it was when it was tossed 51% of the time.
seriously, try zoho.com before you spend any money with Google or Microsoft !!
Rogue 1 was also pretty good. It seems like the Star Wars jinx is that nobody can pull off extensions of the Skywalker story without getting hokey and weird. But the stories that explore other parts of the universe tend to be at least interesting and sometimes excellent.
Easy of use like the windows movie maker, basic cutting, and easy to apply LUTs.

The more magic you can do for the average user, the better (e.g. how Lightroom or Instagram work for pics)
--skip-networking
Tencent + Redis = Tendis. Heh.
this one is interesting because they basically invented the “pay what you want” box for selling digital media.

tons of people copy this now, it’s not even notable. but at the time, the idea that they would let you type in $0 was shocking.
lol privacy... it's more like a wild purge than privacy :Ð

*Imagine they keeps pedobears/junkies(from pletora of contexts :D) going through tor instead this, those ppl who aren't impacted by watching some porn (normal?) :D or even sending flowers through a chat... :D

I don't want to be assimilated to a terror... I don't feel the need to hide for such common things (watching porn or sending flowers to my friends)... :)

Good luck... it's paradoxal :)
The ratio that's important for those huge companies is the "true positive"/"false positive" one.

I guess if you make the test hard enough, always change it, and add some unhealthy dose of suspicion over the candidate's behavior, you can maximize that ratio. But I'm not confident FAANG even looks at it. It's much more likely that they just postulate that a hired employee is a competent one and go on with their day.

From the candidate point of view, of course, things are very different, and the negative results are much more important.
Why doesn't the EFF run their own TLD (or endorse a not-for-profit TLD) to show the world how it's done, rather than waste their efforts on this PR-centric crap?
Ask HN: Have you tried Shape Up / Six-week Cycles?
In 2019, Ryan Singer published "Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters", which details how Basecamp approaches their work. Among some of the topics are six week development cycles, shaping work before it's given to a development team to work on, and a betting table where projects for the next cycle are decided upon. This all sounds very compelling, and I've seen some of the same issues they detail as common struggles throughout my career: feeling like projects go on and on, with no end in sight; product managers can't find time to thing strategically about the product; leadership asking why features are getting out like they used to in the early days.

There have been some blog posts from other companies adopting this in 2017 when Basecamp was writing about six-week cycles, among them Intercom (https://www.intercom.com/blog/6-week-cycle-for-product-teams/) and Buffer (https://buffer.com/resources/6-week-cycles/). There have been other blog posts about the book since it was released, but I'm curious to hear from the HN community:

Have you implemented Shape Up at your company? How has that been going? What have been some of the benefits/downfalls?
Not for me. Too much quantum time travel hand-waving just magically solving problems.
No, there's hardware components involved, I guess to translate whatever comes out at PCI e to whatever usb c expects.
I haven't downvoted you, but if you want an honest answer, it's probably because people see this comment as low value. People generally upvote comments that contribute to the discussion. This comment doesn't address the article or really say anything beyond, "I didn't like this book."
I feel like my comment aged pretty well.

> It's possible that his family recognized him and just hasn't bothered to say anything publicly. Maybe he burned bridges in his previous life and folks would rather let it go than deal with interviews, etc.

From the article:

> His family has not responded to requests for comment

> “There’s a reason no one reported him missing,” said a former roommate in Baton Rouge

> an intelligent and troubled man who often struggled with personal relationships, particularly with his family
This seems more like a failing of education systems/parents encouragement (and recursively on that second one, I'm not just saying blame parents). Not everyone is going to be interested in STEM, but building intuition about the world is important. Seeing the pattern in odd/even, thinking about stuff orbiting in space instead of the simply the everyday world where the sun appears on one side and sets on the other. It reminds me of that US thing where a tweet said that $500M distributed amongst the entire US population would be over a million dollars per person, instead of over one per person. I think it got picked up by the news, without anyone noticing that $500M/328M != $1.xM.

It makes me think of people complaining about some of the high school maths. While, most of it isn't needed for the average person on most days, it happens in everyday life that you can save yourself some time and effort by using a little math.
Instead of making my own top level comment I'll just add onto this one: functional programming in general and Elm in particular. A lot of languages and frameworks promise to make programming fun, Elm is the only one that's held up for more than a few weeks. Months later I'm still doing substantial side projects in it and get a rush just from opening up a new .elm file and starting a new set of types and pure functions.

Funny you should mention type classes-- that's one of the biggest things that Elm, the little brother to Haskell in many ways, doesn't support (and doesn't intend to, for reasons of limiting the footguns available to devs and also keeping to the high standard it sets for itself for error messages IIRC...)
Laws only matter if there are police equivalents to enforce it.

Have a tiny military budget? Congratulations you behave by the laws of bigger budget military countries.

Don’t like it? You can ask the UN. They will promptly condemn Israel, then demand more bribes.
Let's not kid ourselves, the chances of any normal person learning by themselves without a teacher to any kind of mastery is zero. Most won't have to the drive to continue even after two weeks. "Starting" doesn't mean anything, anyone can "start". It's trivial to start.
Tiny Firm Makes Super-Fast RISC-V
Retina displays. Not sure they were hyped (depends on the definition of hype of course), but I could never set my eyes on regular low DPI displays (e.g. 1080p at 27’’) again, ever, after working with one for a few days.
You’re talking about the best selling book of all time (by far). Its more likely that you misunderstand it than all the readers misunderstand it.

Its just one of those things that is so popular that people find any way possible to criticize.
Some low price keyboards are so bad that they might not properly convey the fun of piano because of their limited function and make you think you don't like it. You've gotta make sure that what you buy gives you an accurate picture of what it is like to play a quality instrument because a crappy instrument is not fun.

For example I bought a $200 keyboard once because I thought it would lighten my load as a gigging pianist. Nice and light, 88 keys, built in speaker. Much better than lugging around my thousands of dollars of pro gear. But when I got it, it didn't have weighted keys, ok not fun but I can deal with that, but then it didn't have velocity sensitivity... Every note was just on/off. This was a deal breaker, it is strait up not fun to play a piano like that. I mean it's in the name Piano/Forte the instrument that can play loud and soft.
I think the ipad is meh, so better than that. iphone?
Serenity.
I wasn't part of the 'original run' of Firefly fan base, but when I read the story I get the filling that it lived and surpassed the hype by a wide margin.
> One factor rules out most space mining at the outset: gravity. On one hand, it guarantees that most of the solar system’s best mineral resources are to be found under our feet. Earth is the largest rocky planet orbiting the sun. As a result, the cornucopia of minerals the globe attracted as it coalesced is as rich as will be found this side of Alpha Centauri.

Can someone elaborate here? To me this seems like a hypothesis without evidence, and it doesn't seem clear to me at all why this would be true.
Over here Audi and Volvo drivers also know their way around the gas pedal.
To compete with apps like Uber and Lyft you have to continuously add features , scale and be reliable. While producing an app similar in function to Uber is quite possible , I think the biggest hurdle comes from adoption of the app and continuous iteration at the speed of Uber.
Pretty sure this is not the case in Scotland (still part of the UK) since some time in the 70s and definitely since 2000.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_Feudal_Tenure_e...
I'm gonna go back a short bit and say, for me? Ruby on Rails.

In 2007 I was plugging away at PHP with whatever frameworks were around at the time -- the vast majority of web dev that I saw then was pure procedural scripting down the page, maybe some `include` statements to pull in database functions. Especially in PHP, which encouraged mixing logic and HTML. The consultancy I was with had built custom stuff on top of Zend framework, and it helped a lot.

But around summer of 2007 is when I started hearing folks crow about Ruby on Rails, this hot new web framework written by a Dane in a Japanese programming language. It had been out for a few years and it was the hot topic in web dev circles, and so I decided to see what the fuss was about one weekend.

Instantly stuff I'd always had to do by hand was done for me. A decent data access layer with a few lines of code per db table, that automatically handled preparing and executing statements, and could handle keeping the database up to date with migrations. A REPL where I could load up the code I'd written for the app and use it for one-off debugging or maintenance tasks. A thriving plugin scene where many of the things I'd bashed together over the years were available, for free, just by cloning a repo.

That weekend I reimplemented the core functionality of one of the apps we'd been working on for a client. We'd taken about 10 weeks to get this thing into rough shape and I had its equivalent in two not-very-busy days. Authentication, authorization, CRUD, and fancy database queries I'd all had to hand-roll before just fell out of Rails.

I'm not overselling it when I say that for me, Rails was an absolute game-changer, and I myself and many folks I know owe their careers to the Ruby community and its (not always perfect) attitudes about software development. MINASWAN.

(I'm still active in Rails and the local Ruby community [Columbus Ruby Brigade!] but I'm running an Elixir/Phoenix shop now, which feels to me like the next step on the path Rails forged us.)
He exceeds Jordan in nearly all individual metrics:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-makes-lebron-james...
Would I bet on Jordan or Lebron in 7 game playoff series (both players having the same teams)? Jordan.
But overall I would draft Lebron as a franchise player.
is it though? come on. they’re changing one explanation on a webpage as the world around them changes. that IS how herd immunity is going to be reached. it’s unethical to continue to intentionally expose people to the virus when an efficacious vaccine (a less dangerous preventative) is available according to mainstream medical ethics. the WHO isn’t the arbiter of this or what herd immunity is.

this piece is motivated, inflammatory garbage.

> And now the “science” is actually deleting its own history, airbrushing over what it used to know and replacing it with something misleading at best and patently false at worst.

really? one webpage from an organization with little actual power? what authority DOES have WHO have? what did it have to you before?
I think that's just DIY. Does doing the dishes increase happiness? Unlikely. But fixing something or cooking a new dish is going to venture into learning and thinking and hopefully some level of increased awareness of how other parts of the world work.

With that said, there can be real value to walking mindlessly behind a lawn mower for a few hours.
> Getting into jazz early can be tough, like how will you understand an extremely basic 3-6-9 voicing and how it connects to a 7-3-5 voicing in a circle of fifths progression if you haven't studied your basic triads, basic 7th chords and the circle of fifths?

Do you really need to? Why can't you just play something that 'sounds jazzy' but is simple enough without understanding any theory behind how it was written? Just for early interest/motivation/joy of having made that sound oneself.
UK and EU agree Brexit trade deal
Funny as yesterday I was thinking that since Vue 3 release I had not heard much about it.

My theory was that not having the router and vuex ready on day one had hindered the hype. Maybe I've been wrong.
Could You please elaborate on how LBJ changed the game? I think, currently Curry did with his shooting skills, and somewhat Harden too - tho I hate the step-back threes due to it should be called travelling at least one out of three times. LBJ: great skill-set, great athlete but changing the game?
Or they are just seeing how well your pattern recognition and subsequent application of an efficient solution. The problem is our industry is full of people who put their whole self worth on intelligence and then pick learned skills to judge anyone too harshly that hasn't worked through algo and data structures. You miss alot of smart and great engineers who don't have that skill set. But for hiring, its about reducing false positives. So you might as well ignore those who dont atleast have that algo/ds toolkit.
A Statistical Estimation of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Milky Way [pdf]
FreeType Merges New “SDF” Renderer for High Quality Text Rendering in Games etc.
I want my trust in science back.
It’s been a while but Skyrim is definitely up there
Really? I find myself surrounded by self taught programmers, musicians, and visual artists all the time.

Yes. Nobody I know will play in the London philharmonic. But we figured out enough to play a cover band in highschool, and I'm figuring out enough to learn passable music production. On that note, from what I've learned from their interviews, many of the biggest producers have never taken a music lesson.

This isn't me arguing against lessons writ large, simply pushing back on the notion that they, and other barriers to entry, are not barriers at all. There are other paths.
The article is more interesting than just the finding, to those who want to delve deeper. It’s a short biography of Persi Diaconis, an accomplished mathematician with no high school diploma who didn’t start studying mathematics until he was 24.

Really, really fascinating life and experience.
The former. We don't need more boosters of things done casually, for fun and a short time; we have knitting, duolingo and sourdough bread for that. I want to promote and help people pursue big things that take time and tremendous effort but have huge pay-off. I focus on a handful of people over my life and others can work at the top of the funnel.
Have you checked out Handshake? It’s a decentralized DNS experiment that launched this year and already has adoption from domain registrars like 101domain.com and Encirca
Hype depends on who you interact with, but a few impressions:

I was really impressed with Jonathan Blow's The Witness. Exquisitely designed and thought out.

The animated series Primal by Genndy Tartakovsky. A pulpy cartoon without dialogue unlike anything else animated from the US.

The tv series Doom Patrol. Clever, revels in the absurd but still manages serious drama on what it means to not be completely human any more.

Philosophy in general. I've always seen it as academic wank, but i couldn't have been more wrong. It gives you the ability to step back in a way that pure science cannot. Excellent tool to learn about yourself too.

On a more controversial note, I was initially put off by critical race theory (talking explicitly about race in academia? Putting blame on the prosperous west?), but I must say it makes a lot of sense.
Are YOU A COWARD? This is not for you. We badly need a brave man
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>Half can't get off their knees praising them.

The other half see them as bandwagon music.

They are both right. OK Computer and Kid A deserve all their praise and more. They were like nothing else in popular music at the time. After those two records, they were rather bandwagonesque, although to their credit, they did create the bandwagon they have ridden on since then. Although the self-release they did for In Rainbows certainly changed the artist relationship with fans and media companies. How they released that album was far more the game changer than the content.
Who taught Bach?
Replace liner algebra with basic algebra and the analogy holds.
> Front wheel drive models,

Better for driving on snow, if you're at a place where that matters.
I think you just have to be honest for the sake of your pride. The world hardly punishes dishonest people itself.
+1. However, the experience of watching in theatre was a bit painful because of the background music. It could be because of that particular theatre but man, if there was no subtitle there's no way in hell I could've followed the movie. I've pre-ordered it on Apple TV to understand all the layers.
I want more people to enjoy music, which means being honest with what comes with each method. Piano apps will be easy and cheap, but they have their limitations. Marketing and comments like the parent make it seem like you can just substitute a teacher and practice by using these apps. I also imagine that people can get frustrated if they see that after tons of practice they still don't sound how they like and they don't have a lot of tools to improve by themselves, because you don't get those tools from apps.

And you're not really understanding me. I don't feel like these apps cheapen my effort. I just wish I knew the things I talk about in my comment earlier so that I could have taken the piano classes I had more seriously and I wouldn't have to suffer now the lack of technique, exercise and repertoire I have now.
I've only ever really used git as a locally hosted SVN.
I second this. With so many movies in the epic, they'll still be fun to watch 30 years from now.

Vision really disappointed in the penultimate. I think his character was hyped up a lot in Age of Ultron. Became disappointing seeing him go so easily.

Older Thanos was a really well-thought and played villain. One which many people got to identify with (based on his goals in the movie). Captain America delivered when he proved worthy. I think Captain Marvel was an arrogant addition that needed to fill in pieces to the story, like how Stark and Nebula get saved.

It's going to be a classic series in the decades to come. Marvel delivered.
Another whining post of someone toxic blaming everyone around.

Nope, I don't believe much of this story. Thankfully meritocracy is still a thing and if that person was "bullied" and fired they totally deserve that.
Nintendo Direct streams constitute a master class in building hype ;)
No free sample?
The Popeyes Chicken Sandwich.

It's honestly the best fast food item I've ever eaten.
ICANN has proven itself incapable of governing the root DNS namespace. As much as crypto gets a bad rap here I think it’d be better if authority over TLDs was decentralized such that anyone could own one. Handshake.org is one project trying to do this and interestingly there are additional benefits to decentralizing the root DNS such as getting rid of CAs as the root of trust for security.
For subscriptions they can just change the price at a whim, stop offering your the service whenever they want or change it in a way that you don't want to. When you own / own the license to the software / feature, they can't just pull a fast one as easily.
To be fair Frodo and Sam wandering alone was a low point of the LotR series for me as well. I do remember starting to skim when we got into the interminable sequence of "and they're still climbing the mountain". Like, I get it's a struggle but 800+ pages in and it's not going to get any realer for me sitting in a comfortable chair (or on an airplane as I was) then it already was.