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Here's an open source music composition and notation program :)

http://musescore.org/
I'm not sure what protectionism has to do with Google manufacturing a phone in Texas. Could you elaborate?

Protectionism: The theory or practice of shielding a country's domestic industries from foreign competition by taxing imports.
That's the thing. I always have multiple docs open - tasks lists, TDS, specifications (I deal with a lot of specifications). As of this typing I have 22 open windows among 3 monitors. Virtual machines, specs, time clock, web browsers, visual studio, skype, SSMS, iTunes, etc.

Call me crazy but I cannot imagine having to do all of that on one machine and still be productive.
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Having the same mental problem myself, even with a decade or more of both esdf and hjkl, and I'm now wondering if I should or could switch i and h -- switch input mode to h.
You should title this, casper js in your browser. But this is really cool. How did you build it?
If you're wanting to get better at reading sheet music you really should not have notes being shown. It will be harder to read but that just means you need to start simpler and build up over time. If you get used to reading notes it will always be a crutch you have to work with, and instead of sight-reading the notes themselves you'll be more accustomed to sight-reading the letters.
Oh boy, michaelochurch. His experience was extremely atypical. He had a legitimately awful time at Google. I don't know what happened between him and his manager and team so I can't say who or what was to blame. But I think he was put on a performance improvement plan (whether fairly or unfairly). And I think it would make sense to most people that an employee on a performance improvement plan would be strongly discouraged from expanding into a 20% project until their performance improves.

FYI, when it comes to reading any Michael Church claim, especially one about working at Google, I'd put more weight on the "outspoken" than the "ex-Googler." He admitted himself on HN that he engaged in what he called "white hat trolling" while at Google, a pattern he seems to have repeated throughout his life.

He's very articulate, but he has an EXTREMELY strong belief in the quality and accuracy of his own ideas. For illustration, he wrote a few months ago, "societies live or die based on what proportion of the few thousand people like me per generation get their ideas into implementation." When presented with such self-confidence beyond all reasonable proportion and corroborating evidence, I think an appropriate response is skepticism.
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As much as one can hope for a better system, it isn't likely to come. We're well beyond the point of no return.

Well, in so far as the people (and our government) who are already in debt, I can't disagree. We're in bad shape.

However, I do have hope. The online instruction revolution is still in its infancy, and I have much hope that quality education will be spread far and wide (at low cost). And that anyone with a reasonable amount of motivation can learn and grow and become more productive and wealthy as a result.
I think the question is should any service that stores your personal information allow you to delete your account if you choose to - Yes. And is a service purposely making it difficult for you to, while continuing to claim - we give you the right to delete. There's reason to believe that's what's going on here, logging in confirms your identity so a delete button on the site solves the problem. The one that did it for me - what MONTH did you open the account.. I can't remember by password much less when I opened accts..
That makes a lot of sense. Were the majority of your systems using this "durability chain" so to speak -- memcached -> Cassandra -> Postgres? Additionally, in retrospect do you find this type of chain to work well, and would you use it again (perhaps you already are over at Netflix)?
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Portability is important to me too. Our business continuity plan accounts for disaster scenarios. My development machine is a laptop (17") with 24" monitor and another machine with 24" monitor all using one keyboard.

Maybe it's the type of work that I'm doing is very technical but there's no way I could actually do this much work on a small screen.
Nah, we make a point not to do that. Plus it would all come from the same IP and it wouldn't count as an upvote.
West Wing - Why we are changing maps?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8zBC2dvERM
ICANN kills plan for dotless top level "search" domain name
It basically is 50 lines of code that implement some stuff from gevent... So yes, it's more of a joke I guess.
Not (necessarily) true, though a little unsettled.

Ever since Bridgeman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_...) most museums have accepted that no matter how much effort goes into the imaging, some imaging simply does not qualify as novel enough to warrant new copyright. This ruling is, as I understand it, not actually binding in other districts, but it's generally accepted.

Because imaging of flat art, without a frame, is inherently intended to add as little interpretation as possible, it's generally accepted that reproduction imaging of 2D art is not copyrightable. This is the Getty's own position (I worked there until a few months ago, from the same department that brought this project out).

Any other questions I can answer about this project I will.
>The Peters Projection World Map is one of the most stimulating, and controversial, images of the world. When this map was first introduced by historian and cartographer Dr. Arno Peters at a Press Conference in Germany in 1974 it generated a firestorm of debate.

I'm not sure any of this is really accurate. Go read the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall%E2%80%93Peters_projection#...

tl;dr:

-Peters wasn't novel. An identical projection was created a century earlier (that's why it's called Gall-Peters).

-Peters made completely BS claims about his projection.

-Cartographers had already been using plenty of projections beyond Mercator for a long time and they knew very well that it had problems.

By the way, I'm pretty sure the xkcd about projections has a punchline and hover text that is directly related to the information above.
Here are some other existing open source solutions for music that could use some love.

http://pianobooster.sourceforge.net/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/midisheetmusic/

I have been wanting to work on this idea for quite a while in my spare time, particularly to enable scrolling and keeping the signatures in place while the sheet scrolls.
Maybe I'm missing something but I can't see this being more than a small business. The only reason I can see to choose this over a local flower business is that it delivers in 90 minutes. A very limited number of bouquets is a big downside meaning you can't really deliver to the same person more than a few times. Also, is the 90 minute thing really a big selling point? How often is anyone going to need flowers delivered that quickly? Normally you send for an occasion which you know in advance and if you're sending them to thank someone for something that just happened next day would be fine.
Sounds less productive than already having documentation on the screen when needed.
MetaCosm made the point quite eloquently, but let me juxtapose "too many options that require understanding to choose and apply" with Go, which has exactly one option, which requires no special understanding to choose and apply, and gives one exactly what one wants in basically any situation.

I am not really a Go proponent. I'm a Haskell user, personally, and Haskell, like Python, has three or four options that require understanding to choose and apply. The difference there being that in Haskell, each one of them actually gets you real parallelism, no fine print necessary. I bring it up to point out that the situation with Python is not a good example of what you might call "intrinsic complexity" (as you seem to be implying) or the Go solution would not be so much simpler, nor is it really an example of there being many better higher-level abstractions, or more of them would resemble Haskell's many high-level options. It is simply a bad situation that produces many poor kludges, and the mentality that everything is fine is (in my opinion) feeding a substantial defection rate to Go.
Something else I'm interested in is if somebody has ever tried using Pierce's projection for texturing spheres or doing environment mapping. It seems like it would be perfect for the job - it's square so it would fit perfectly in a texture, it can be tiled and the formula for mapping a point on the sphere from spherical coordinates to uv coordinates on the texture seems simple enough.
I'm glad the big picture is getting more press. I felt this article laid out a lot of the issues (obscure loan terms, diploma mills, college salary bloat and "gilding," government policies and lack of transparency). These comments also added some interesting perspectives, from foreign comparisons to local initiatives (Oregon's pay-it-forward), student maturity (or lack thereof), and failure of the school system to actually prepare people for college, responsible borrowing, and a career. I've been seeing and feeling a lot of these individual topics before, so it's nice when they all come together to really shine light on the situation.

I've got 2 links related to this:

- Ken Ilgunas wrote a book "Walden on Wheels" about living in a van to avoid graduate school debt (after working hard to pay off his undergraduate debt). I haven't read the book, but from his blog, he's a good writer and adventurer.

http://www.amazon.com/Walden-Wheels-Open-Road-Freedom/dp/054...

http://www.kenilgunas.com/

- Mr Money Mustache gets mentioned every now and then on HN, and his advice is to live frugally, avoid or pay off debt, save 50-75% of your earnings and retire early. For those that don't have 6-figure jobs in tech, he just wrote a 2-part series on jobs that could earn 50K without a degree. While some of it is unrealistic, it's also a good reminder that tradespeople and small-business owners are out there making a decent living by being creative and self-starting, and that you don't need a degree to deal with people in the real world.

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/07/25/50-jobs-over-50000...
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/08/05/50-jobs-over-50000...
Where's the library? I see about 50 lines of code that don't go far beyond a hello world of Gevent and some strangely written nose tests.
To confirm or disprove your idea, you could look at the output of the battery charger rather than the input to it.

In general, AC-DC converters are pretty insensitive to the harmonic content of the AC input because their role is to remove any harmonic content they do find. They do this with huge low-pass filters with corner frequencies well under 1Hz, whether the charger is either linear (unlikely) or switching (much more likely).

When AC becomes distorted, you start seeing harmonics (i.e. contributions at higher frequencies). Low pass filters are progressively more effective at higher frequencies. This is to say, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the efficiency of the charger itself suffered, but the output voltage was unaffected, meaning the laptop was unaffected.
Our most popular feedback to date is to eliminate minimums and get rid of feature gating in plans. So, here you go.

As always, open to feedback.
Hold up, you get bank statements by email?
Which bank to you use so that I can avoid them completely.
Thanks for the idea. I added a preview image.
Site is down for me (Holland)? It was the same 20 minutes ago fwiw.
This is the fundamental rule of bikeshedding, which HN has discussed, decried and regurgitated since time immemorial.
What happens if your 20% project becomes a product at Google? Do you get rewarded with a share or promotion? In a sense, Google could be acting as a mini-VC for you, so even if you work 120% that is just equivalent you doing a side project hoping it turns into a start up. Except you'd be able to work on different kinds of projects.
Ask HN: If you could record your entire life from now going forward, would you?
If you had an easy way to make and store, say, a continuous audio recording at minimal cost, would you use it? Would it make a difference if you retained complete control over the recording? How would you react towards friends/family who use it?

I believe this is a very relevant question, because:

a) most people carry around a portable microphone with an internet connection in their pocket

b) storage costs are now at a point where it would be feasible to do this on a large scale
http://www.lilypond.org/
> I'm confused...I thought the Robinson Projection [1] has been the standard for quite some time.

If only. Mercator projection is still quite widespread. Try google image search of world map.
I added a sketch version :)
https://github.com/blakeperdue/ios7-wireframe-kit
Oops! I forgot to change the definition of the keyboard controls... it's actually meant to turn a whole page so I just need to change the definition.

(just moving by one measure is more easily done by clicking in the score...)

Thanks for correcting that :)

As for Beethoven's 5th, it should self-correct, but I have noticed that in some browsers it doesn't quite work... What browser and hardware are you using? I will look into this further.

I have heard from several others that the current way of moving the cursor isn't optimal. Your solution could work. I'm going to explore a few ways and probably offer some new choices to the user. Your suggested solution would be very easy to implement, so most likely I will add that.

Thanks again!
Distance isn't preserved except along the 45th parallels.
I saw an early screening of the movie. Here were my general thoughts:

1. Kutcher did a fantastic job as Steve Jobs. I was extremely pleasantly surprised by how well he portrayed the role and adopted Steve's mannerisms. You can even see his gait and speech evolve over the course of the movie.

2. My fundamental problem with the film was that it tried to cram so much into two hours that a lot of scenes felt fake and over-simplified to the point of being insulting. Extreme examples of this include the "I'm going to sue Bill Gates" scene and the Jony Ive scene.

3. The beginning is stupid and irrelevant. Also, Jobs's transition from idealistic hippy acid-dropper to steely-eyed businessman is portrayed in a manner of seconds and does not feel realistic whatsoever.

4. I still enjoyed the movie and would watch it again if it were on television. It certainly had emotionally moving scenes, and I wouldn't say it was a poor movie.
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IBR is just another way for colleges to more reliably price discriminate. If the average student gets a $500,000 NPV wage boost from going to college, the college can charge $499,000 and capture most of it.

With IBR they can do even better. Instead of charging everyone the average, they can charge each and every person his/her exact wage premium.

And it's all backed up by the IRS enforcing collection, too.

I can see why schools would freaking love this. Why would any one else?
Thank you for the interesting link.

>statistics tells us that 50 of them will do better than the market averages (and 50 will do worse)

This is a common misunderstanding, but actually 50% will do better than the median not the average. Averages can be dominated by extreme events, so more than 50% can do better (or worse) depending on the skew.
I'll debug it and preview again in Firefox. I built it fast and didn't properly test it before moving on to other work. When I do "real" work I do test in Firefox on all platforms.
No.

I prefer to not dwell on the past. I'm not sure I'd learn much from it either (via this means).

However - I would pay for a seamless device that would passively record the last 24 or 48 hours, deleting old footage as it adds more. To me, that is much more valuable.
Thanks! Pushing the fix.
It definitely makes following instructions a little more complex, but in most instances when a line doesn't work I've found that a quick switch over to bash to run that line and back proves to be sufficient.

Of course I'm also very new to bash/cli so I'm just happy if I can get things done and haven't yet gotten to the stage where I'm worrying about if it's the proper way to go about doing things.
If the NPV of the wage premium of becoming a botanist is $400K, colleges will charge $360K.

What, don't you want to become a botanist???
My point was that this possibility wasn't addressed. I don't make a claim either way[1], except that it's not so absurd a possibility that it deserves no attention.

[1] This would likely involve a lot of pinning down just what STEM curricula and just what alternative curricula you are considering, unless you're able to establish there is no overlap in the distributions - a premise which I doubt.
Aside from the cringeworthy meme thing, the pricing seems really, really nice :D.
You're right. Been there done that. During a period in my twenties, I had lost my job, had a negative bank balance, and two kids to feed. I was on foodstamps while I worked at the Olive Garden making very little while spending far too long in college subsidized by grants and student loans. I finally graduated, got another job, and was let go within a year.

I now had tons of debt and a degree that was almost worthless. So I joined the Army and left my kids for 16 weeks to attend bootcamp and AIT. Spent 5 years, including a stint in Afghanistan.

Needless to say, I recovered, taught myself how to program, and now run a software company.

Life sucks. For many, it sucks hard. But there are ways out. Most people just don't want to make the sacrifices necessary to do so.

Btw, I'm speaking of 1st world. 3rd world is obviously a different story.
Typing 1980 on youtube videos opens a game of Missle Command
Why bother when the NSA is doing it for you.
Thanks. Looks like the database is not keeping up with all the connections. Will look into that....
I did though, because there are other things, like it has to be a dangerous felony, or a normal felony committed in a dangerous way, and it has to be during the commission of the felony, and ....

You are right that it is malice, but i didn't explain that part.
>"Oh, you lived in Africa--did you know So-and-so?"

Wow. That question is annoying enough when the subject is a large university. I can't believe you were asked that.
Thank you for the suggestion - I've updated the title.

Actually it runs the script on a server and uses socket.io to push the results back to the browser in real time.
This is honestly the silliest thing i've ever heard in my life.
But speeding != intent to commit vehicular manslaughter. "I really liked speeding today" could mean a day at the drag strip. Admittedly far-fetched but not implausible.

Hence, unless you can establish beyond reasonable doubt that his tweets signaled his intent to hurt/maim/kill, it is hard to see how this should be allowed.

Different example: you are having a bad day today and someone overhears you muttering "I'm gonna knock someone out". Your coworker shows up shortly after sporting a black eye from when he slipped and fell earlier. Is it reasonable to assume you beat the crap out of him then?
Absolutely love docker, hope to see it mature even more :)

I am currently playing around with it and building a messaging platform playground. One "pain" so far is that docker's IPAddress assignment is not very flexible. Will it be possible to assign IP addresses to containers (e.g. from "docker run")? Or have a better control what IPAddresses are used (like giving a network range on docker -d)?

If i am not mistaken docker saves changes in containers through aufs and keeps those changes as separate images on disk, right? I'm currently working with containers which keep their state on the host OS (by mount bindings) and thus, i don't want to keep old images of not-running containers. Will there be some switch to disable that or clean up old ones? Maybe i am misinterpreting something, but i'm new to docker ;)

Anyway, keep up the great work, i am very impressed with docker, kudos!!
Barnes and Noble buy Microsoft? What?
Except that every incarnation of Agile that I've encountered is a rigid implementation of scrum plus sprint planning plus Jira. And this quickly becomes Waterfall with scrum. And it really sucks.

While I agree that this is against the agile manifesto, that's no excuse. This is how it ends up getting implemented in large corporate environments, a lot in fact, so methinks the agile fans ought to take some ownership of this recurring problem and either find a solution or stop shoving agile down everyone's throats.

Finally, I'd take a 30% pay cut to escape agile to do exactly the same work I'm doing right now minus scrum. I'd get more work done and I'd feel better about it because I would no longer feel like I have the engineering equivalent of an ankle monitor attached to me. That's more than worth the loss of compensation to me.
Here are pictures of the A-12 being driven by cargo truck from LA to Groom lake in the early 60's. Quite a hoot if you are familiar with the freeway system out here.

http://roadrunnersinternationale.com/transporting_the_a-12.h...
Immigrants aren't homogeneous. What is the distribution of countries-of-origin for these founders? Why does this imply that we should increase immigration for groups not disproportionately likely to found successful companies?
Thank you Wired Magazine for a 5 page google ad.
I switched to Illustrator and found I liked it better. But, I added an Omnigraffle version altho it's not perfect.
What is the market? A bunch of fund managers. So your critique about not beating the median like saying half of all hockey players are worse than the median and so hockey is just a game of chance. You have to fix your prior. Track performance for some period of time. Then track the winners. This will show whether it's a game of skill or chance.
"Need-based financial aid" is just price discrimination.

We hate it when the auto dealer tries to extract as much as we can afford from us, but for some reason people are happy to let the schools do it.
Sorry, I realized it was a typo.
I asked a coworker who was from Russia about what their experience was during the Cold War, and whether or not people were afraid of nuclear war. He said that everyone in Russia just laughed it off, and they knew that nothing would ever happen.

This is in stark contrast to everyone in the US that I knew. We were bombarded with propaganda about how nuclear war could occur at any second. Movies like "The Day After" (which I was too scared to watch), "Red Dawn", etc, just made things worse. It's funny when you look back how suckered in Americans were vs Russians. It was basically like the 1950s Red-Scare all over again, or as some would say, today's war against terrorism.
> For 100 stock fund managers buying and selling stocks, statistics tells us that 50 of them will do better than the market averages (and 50 will do worse).

50 will do better/worse than the MEDIAN of that GROUP OF 100 fund managers, not the market averages.
I think at this point, those with means should switch to holograms. After all, it's often those with means who can influence those without.
Certainly not and I'm not downplaying the importance of liberal arts degrees, it's just that right now their ROI is terrible. Unless you go to a private school, state schools should never cost $20k per year - ever. I can't believe my alma mater costs $9k + room/board per year, it's not worth it for even STEM.

The only solution is bringing costs down. Plain and simple. If a majority of students can't pay for in-state college alone or with help from family the system is not working as intended.

EDIT: butchered that last sentence by missing one word (now in italics)
Meta: QZ is utterly unreadable to me on both desktop and mobile. Fortunately there's Readability.