skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the most anti-MIDI articles I've read since MIDI was first released. It's pretty much a rag-tag collection of all the cheap shots and whining that have become oh, so familiar in that time.

MIDI has survived for 30 years in an intense, worldwide marketplace without any serious competition. Name any other communication protocols in widespread use that can say that, and you've named another massive success. Most of MIDI's supposed shortcomings (to the extent that they're not operator-related) can be dealt with by extending the default hardware and doing a little programming.
I think socialization under the umbrella of a facebook type environment will eventually create predictable and malleable identities which are inherently the consequence of a mix of various societal pressures which are in turn constricted through the lens of the facebook environment.

Combine that with facebook's transparent use of corporate cohabitation with people's relationships, and I think you quickly have a society which is much more determined and artificial.
Your tab for autocomplete isn't working. Amusing though.
This second quote is part of what is now called design thinking and the "ideation" process. Take all input - no criticism allowed at this point - put everything on the table, and discuss as a group. It's very effective, generates more diverse ideas and prevents people from clinging to their own (I plead guilty).
Those "online footprint" type of websites already exist, and they're very popular with due diligence firms.
Peter Thiel & Reid Hoffman-Backed 100Plus Unveils Its First iPhone App
how could you express a solid sweep from C1 to C8? ... it isn't something MIDI can handle.

The 14-bit pitchbend command can handle portamento of any range since day one. Assuming you can find a synth that isn't aliasing by the time you get to C8 (good luck), it works just fine.
After reading his biography by Walter Isaacson. I lost all respect I had for Steve Jobs.

At the end of the book it felt like he rode on the successes of other geniuses like Steve Wozniak, Jonathan Ive and many others. His biggest advantage seems to have be, that he was with Steve Wozniak when Apple 1 and 2 were made.

After that it was riding on others success and building cult of personality around him.

Walter Isaacson sort of ruined it.
I hope you never have any students, because it sounds like the abused will become the abuser.
Unanswered questions about Steve Jobs:

- How did he hire? What traits was he looking for? How did he evaluate technical ability? He seemed able to hire technical people able to stretch through the conventionally accepted boundaries.
- How did he manage technical people? He seemed able to identify those boundaries that could be pushed through, and motivate people through them.
- How did he envision the plausible technical possibilities outside the conventional wisdom?
- How did he envision product possibilities enabled by the combination of those various possibilities?

I get the love of design and focus on user experience. It's the ability to find to that at the edge of technical possibility that seems unique to me.
Not sure what would happen in the long term, but at least in the short term, I can see a lot of people start removing their personal data from Facebook when this gets released...
Never mind that one account used for shopping for a family is a fairly common use case...
Do any of your family members under 12 have facebook? Imagine the aggregate of all their experiences in a decade or more.
Not enough information on their page for me to ID it. If you try it and it contains an XML interfacing option with completely insane, unheard-of levels of verbosity around fraud rules, that's the one.
> It's a bogus example.

Is it, though? The search mentions a user who liked the Falun Gong branch in [a European city - they could probably anonymise this one a bit more]. I'm guessing there are a fairly large number of people who leave China to study or work, join Facebook while abroad, then return to the PRC at some point.
To paraphrase: "I'm taking SSRIs right now, and they work for me."

That's the medical equivalent of saying, "it works on my machine." That doesn't mean it works for everyone. It doesn't mean that it works for most people, or that there isn't a significant risk of harm to many people. Hell, your perception that it works for you doesn't even mean that it actually works for you (there could be confounding factors for all we know), and it certainly doesn't mean that it's likely to work better than the next-best alternative.

Think about it: If somebody says SSRIs are incorrectly believed to be effective due to publication bias, that pretty much presupposes that there's at least one study that showed that they work. That means that somebody, somewhere had a similar experience as you've had. That doesn't make your experience a sufficient basis for prescribing these drugs on a routine basis.

Clinical trials are like beta tests. The drug might work for some people (or some people might feel that it works), but that's not the only thing worth considering before you ship it to large numbers of people who need treatment.
Programmer distillation
I'm very interested in Firefox OS as we skipped the native app route and just created a web app.

Though I am concerned about it's performance. Firefox has always been prone to crashing. Thus I wonder is this a brand new piece of software not built on the Mozilla (Firefox) engine?
Yeah, I tried the stand desk thing for a little bit, and it did increase my productivity, but i found it killed my output quality. At a stand desk, everything feels like panic mode. Sometimes you just need to sit down and think about something. If you're doing data entry or answering emails or something like that where you're looking forward to the job being over it's probably okay, but for actually solving problems and building things I really didn't like it.
> aaaand basically the whole world is going to be one big chat room where people don't really hide things any more.

Does this include Corporations and Governments? Or just the users of pathetic chat rooms like Facebook?
> And lots of people have embarrassing and/or contradictory and/or naive views and tastes.

That they should be keeping off the Internet.
Removing? To my knowledge it was never there. Are you sure Monome is not sending MIDI, or going through some intermediary app (MAX for Live or something similar) or an add-on?
His criticism isn't about the OP's lack of time at University, it's about his lack of life experience. I mean, the guy's a sophomore at college, after all. It's not outrageous to suggest that he's a bit naive and/or idealistic.

He doesn't need to provide a "backing for the idea" - Holloway's point did that adequately. And for me, personally, reading the counterpoint just convinced me of the validity of Holloway's argument further.
"I had purchased a couple dozen of those, some of which I did not have backed up and so have lost."

The biggest argument against trusting everything to the cloud. I want my digital copy naked, unencumbered, and outside the reach of the entity that provided to me.
1. 500px ditched from Apple store

2. "Nice, more people will go away from Apple store"

3. "Developpers go where user go (and pay)" (ie iOS)

4. me: "user go Android".

5. you: "How is this at all relevant? do both"

Well, sure you can do both, but I was replying to the "user go Apple" claim above, so it is relevant, or?

There is a reality mismatch with Apple: they do nice tools, but the fact we hear about them a lot and almost all movies, screenshot, etc. seem to show only Apple products, do not mean that most users actually use Apple systems or products (except if "most users" means "most startup entrepreneurs and wealthy folks in SV")

The reality is, to be clear, that all but a tiny not representative fraction of laptops and desktops are running a version of Windows, and almost all but a small fraction of smartphones run a variant of Android.

I avoid Windows and I am not particularly found of Android, but I think not going Android is suicidal for devs, except if they do special elite or niche apps. I did not invent this myself, Fred Wilson said the same many time.
Chi flat iron
What UI are you talking about? pacman is a relatively simple to use cli tool. -S to install something, -Ss to search for something -y to update the package list, and -Su to upgrade packages; that's basically four flags to memorize. Or do it all at once with -Syu.
SENS Foundation (regenerative medicine) has a new website
To give your misery some company, even without drugs it is common enough that people come upon "broken" mental states chronic recurring severe anxiety that are triggered by otherwise mundane reminders (such as a creepy icon of a video game).

These conditions can be initiated by using books or movies to reach dark ideas, or even aimless or subconscious thinking (too much thinking time or idleness).
And "Girls who are single and nearby and like getting drunk"... What noble redeeming value do you find in that search?
I know you are joking, but if you really wanted to do that a Faraday cage wouldn't work.

Faraday cages only work for high frequency fields, the frequency in those storms is too low for Faraday cages to work.

Instead you need Mu-Metal - and lots of it, several layers probably.
For me, junior high was so much worse than high school. By high school, I'd pretty much figured out how to get along with people, and had made as many friends as I needed. But high school still seems a huge waste of time for most people. Maybe it would be better to go back to some kind of apprenticeship system.
The video was fairly long and I wish there was a way for specific sections in the video to be indexed so one can just to sections that are of interest. Then again the text transcript is below so I guess that's an easy way to look up what is needed. I am particularly interested in all the different ways developers set up their settings files. I use a solution which works but I always feel could be a bit more elegant as it requires passing a DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE variable when activating a virtualenv (different settings file is activated depending on whether it's a development, staging or production environment)... I think I copied this method from Zachary Voase's blog. Maybe the method you use is better for Heroku, I'm not sure.
Well, the consumers wanted it, right?

Props to giving the people what they want!

(also for having such wonderful inventory management!)
> Difference of opinion does not an asshole make.

On this we agree. That's not what makes the asshole.

> I think you just lack reading comprehension

> coddle them

If you think advocating mentorship over hostility is me wanting to "coddle" people, you've got a lot of nerve throwing around phrases like "reading comprehension."
Thanks.

The interesting math is the intersection of "what app" and "what platform". Popularity of platform is played off with discoverability of the app on said platform.
"When you're on a mobile device, you don't have time to go search the web for an app that does a certain function that you happen to require. You want a central place that will list all of the apps that are compatible with your phone"

It seems we really need a curated site for mobile apps like the Yahoo of old for websites. Essentially, a more functional app store than the app store. Thoughtful reviews on par with those you see on Amazon. Algorithms equivalent to PageRank don't seem to apply to this space, so perhaps human experts like those seen on about.com might work.
You can see similar patterns in dense urban environments built up in the US prior to the rise of zoning, too. New York, as an obvious example. But I bet without zoning, much of the rest of the US would probably look like New England, which had already substantially "suburbanized" well before the fashion for land-use planning took hold on this continent.

I think zoning has a lot more deleterious effects than just creating alienating urban spaces, too. It influences everything from transportation infrastructure to energy consumption to individuals' emotional states to macroeconomic patterns. Out of all the utopian policy innovations that have backfired over the past century, zoning is probably the worst.
The expected value is the probability of the event times the value of the event. If the probability is zero, it doesn't matter what the value is, the expected value is still zero.

That you've managed to convince yourself that p > 0 with cryonics is just evidence that snake oil production is a better investment.
+1.

I've spent lots and lots of time on this. I've used nearly every off-the-shelf system as well as some really well-done in-house systems (Zynga, in particular).

All have major shortfalls, and many startups have piecemeal data in multiple providers (AppAnnie! Flurry! MixPanel! Google Analytics! Internal Databases!) that only solve one little sliver of the problem and don't talk to each other. There's plenty of room for innovation and improvement.
Take a look at www.minggler.com, a service myself and two others started last year. We aim to automate who and when to reach out to someone. Haven't quite perfected the formula. Would love your feedback.
You spoke for me well enough. If you reduce the number of computer criminals by 90%, it won't perceptibly change the amount of work that anyone has to put into writing secure programs, because the 10% of remaining criminals will still exploit everyone's vulnerabilities. If those laws impose friction on the rest of us (e.g. laws mandating wiretapping and/or filtering capability), then we all suffer huge aggregate costs for basically no gain.
Exactly the wrong perspective; most crypto vulnerabilities stem from the "glue code".
I find it hard to imagine someone reading this document and coming away thinking that taking psychedelics are a good idea, if they have any sense of stability in their lives. (for someone with nothing to lose and little hope for better, I can imagine drug consequences not being worse)
Wow, I disagree with almost everything in the article. I finished up my Ph.D. Math at age 20 in slightly more than 3 years. It was a challenge and it did take focus to finish it, but by no means was it soul-destroying. And with the fellowship (on top of the tuition coverage) I received, I felt rich... Yes, you can end up with (choose) an advisor that is not a good match for you (or for getting finished in a reasonable time), but still... It's so much easier than doing a startup, for instance...
If they don't roll it back then this will simply encourage users to bump up their privacy, or even remove their details from their profiles.
There's no algorithm. We're learning things about the brain that, essentially, society isn't ready for.

What should give one pause is the experience of many people who were suicidal at one point, who later can hardly believe / articulate what they were thinking. I.e. it seemed to make perfect crystal-clear sense at the time, but now the reasoning sounds absolutely stupid.

I believe there's a parallel to over-constrained problems in engineering. One common pattern of depression and suicidal thinking is the feeling that there are no other options. People become trapped in seemingly unsatisfiable constraints, and the only option that appears to remain is to cease to live.

Remove one or two of those apparent constraints, and all of a sudden the problem becomes satisfiable, and life can continue.
This sounds very similar to what I've heard from people who have actually worked with Jobs, as well as the Steve Jobs described by Ken Segall in Insanely Simple http://www.amazon.com/Insanely-Simple-Obsession-Drives-Succe...

Segall’s description of Jobs includes an important additional component: obsession with keeping things simple (hence the book title). Segall provides numerous anecdotes of Jobs beating an idea with the “Simple Stick,” as he calls it, and compares it favorably against his relatively frustrating experiences working with other companies like Intel and Dell.
This is why you use OpenSUSE or CentOS for servers, not Ubuntu.

Also, if for some reason, you have a desire to contribute to Ubuntu, contribute to Debian instead. Your changes will probably end up in Ubuntu, and the Debian folks care about stuff like user privacy and free software.
On the contrary, if nobody plays the lottery, nobody will win. The lottery works by randomly redistributing the ticket fees.

I look forward to hearing precisely how you figure I'm going to lose 100% on an investment I'm not making. You're comparing the 100% likely outcome that I do not live forever having spent my money on non-snake oil with the 100% likely outcome that you do not live forever having spent your money on snake oil. The idea that something impossible is going to be more likely because you're spending money on it is just assuming the outcome you want. Unicorns continue not to exist despite every little girl wishing for them. I point out that spending money on unicorn research isn't going to generate them any faster.
Yeah they did some things wrong apparently. I don't even know enough to pass judgment.
It's a search for people who have family members in China. Not people in China.
I did my PhD in ECE specifically computer vision and had a decent time, but pretty much everyone I encountered during their PhD in biology had some horror story to tell.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. I guess that means you've won.
I think "socialisation under the umbrella of a facebook type environment" was inevitable one way or another. The advantages of an efficient system for socialising with a centralised online persona system are just too huge to forgo. I'd be interested to hear what you consider might have been alternatives, but personally, I think the economics lead inexorably to a free-to-play ad-supported system such as Facebook. Show me the day when you can convince a couple hundred million people to sign up for a paid social network product and I'll eat my hat. Show me the day that an open-source community can compete with a for-profit business in terms of attracting the best talent willing and able to slave away for hours to build great products, and I'll eat my hat.

I don't think it means the end of individuality as we know it. We've had ad-supported newspapers for hundreds of years now and people seemed to manage okay.
Exactly what I thought. Disappointed.
When something is conveniently enclosed in parenthesis, it means it is an extension or addition, right?

Anyway, yes I replied to the "where users go", and not to the "where users pay" thing, because I think it is two problems.

So apparently, by the numbers, users go Android, but iOS users are currently more willing to purchase apps, right? Maybe. But not sure. I don't think Android users would be that reluctant to pay a small amount of dollars for an app they really want, if it were convenient.

I paid happily for Minecraft, Machinarium, GTA and 4/5 utilities. The problem is probably that the main source of data, the Google play market, is currently not open to transactions in China and maybe other big countries. So, for me, to buy an app I need: a rooted device, the "fake US location" app (market enabler), a working VPN installed on the phone, and a credit card.

I would like to know the numbers for local Chinese markets, but given that they try very hard to attract user it should probably be juicy, or at least very promising.
Two new vulnerabilities found in Oracle's latest Java patch
Mocks: The lurking disaster in your codebase
Good defaults also let you give power users complex features while keeping the common case manageable.

For http://ratchet.io , we're currently working on overhauling our notification system. The new system is rule-based, extremely flexible, and can be as complex to configure as you want it to be. But we're providing sane defaults -- e.g. "email everyone on the project when a new error occurs in production", "if Pivotal Tracker is set up, create a story for each new error" -- so it will (hopefully!) work just fine for most people out of the box.
Unlikely, last time anyone tried to send him a check they were returned unopened. He appears to have, for whatever reason, decided to completely leave that life behind. No one would be happier than me to see him get money/credit, but I don't think he want's it.

http://web.archive.org/web/19990202052243/http://home.earthl...
The Glassdoor article is consistent with my experience (except I think the 20 days of vacation starts on year 3, not year 4). Yes, benefits are in theory negotiable, but Google very, very rarely negotiates benefits - being a large corporation with a standardized offer process and a lot of bargaining power, they can usually get an applicant to take what they offer.
I think by 'silliness' he's referring to "Girls who live nearby who are single and like Getting drunk!" Fair call in my opinion.

I made this point in another post: the take-away from this link shouldn't be how bad it was of Facebook to not realise that making available powerful search tools for already-public data might put some people in an unfortunate spotlight. The real take-away is that we shouldn't live in a world where people should be scared to be openly gay in Iran, or openly a Falun Gong member in China. Those are the things we should focus on and try and change. And we should appreciate, rather than chastise, the tools which make us realise that there are things we need to improve in the world.
Sorry, "pathetic chat rooms"? What are you trying to say? And why are you saying whatever it is so bitterly?
Chuck Templeton (OpenTable) selling office hours for charity
It's simple, but the switches are rather odd. I get the point of S, Y, U etc... and then the minor options of yu etc... but it's rather arbitrary in practice.

Note: -S isn't "install," it's for syncing which does all manner of things including installs, but not removals (oddly enough). It's little things like this that bother me about pacman.
Haven't heard that one before...
Key to Effective Workplaces is Focus, Not Collaboration
i m just backseat driving here, but the fact that paid apps sell less on android is damning evidence for devs to not migrate across (or target it as the primary platform).

A subscription based model is more demanding to maintain, vs a pay-once-app. You at least don't need a server to maintain subscriptions. Ditto with In app purchases (which also require you to maintain a server to keep track of who has paid for what).
Megafail
Please do not ship crypto software or, especially, crypto protocols (e.g. Alice does this, then Bob does that) that haven't been publicly audited. It's an unnecessary liability to your company, your customers, and the public when there are alternative solutions that do not have the flaws that a) you think that you don't have but do, or b) don't know that you have.

This is really not an area for hotshot lone developers to contribute to, the stakes are just too high.
Show HN: I built a place to stash your naughty links
Show HN: I built a place to stash your naughty links

My name is Andrew and I built this site on a whim I had while vacationing for the holidays. Ever find good porn but can't get to it right away? What about something you really enjoyed, where do you save it? If you're like me, you don't want naughty stuff in your browsing history and especially not in your bookmarks. So I built http://xstashed.com/hn/ (clickable in comments) - a place to stash your NSFW links.

While it's a minimal viable product, I do have a basic road map that can be viewed here http://xstashed.com/todo/. As you can see a homepage is on todo list. I'll be getting to that this weekend.

I just wanted to get this in the hands of potential users to get feedback early on.
On the tech side of things I've built this thing nimble so that I can quickly shape the site from your feedback. For those who are interested in the technical site of xstashed, it's a custom Django (Python) application continuously deployed with Chef. MySQL for database, Celery for background task, and Redis for cache and Celery broker.
Clickable (both links are sfw)

http://xstashed.com/hn/

http://xstashed.com/todo/