skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really interesting in that it suggests there may be a tradeoff between being good at two advantageous but somewhat mutually exclusive capabilities. On the one hand "perfect" pitch allows people to recognize sounds precisely, but relative pitchers are better pattern recognizers.

This ties in to my anecdotal observation that a lot of these early and seriously instrument-playing kids seemed really bad at judging general musical aesthetics and improvisation, but at the same time really perfect at straight reproduction. By the same token, musically creative people seemed to experiment a lot, often doing a bunch of really interesting improvisations without giving it much thought.

One of my music teachers was this way, it really was something else listening to him just idly talking and playing around on the piano for entire lesson. On the other hand, he was really bad at identifying individual notes but he could re-play a melody that he heard just once without any problems, immediately going off on several tangents and experimenting on it in different keys.

On a personal note, that was the point where I recognized that I was in neither of these categories. I switched my art class to painting after a while and stayed there ;)
Cool, i didn't know that! I always thought how much i would like to use rst instead of md, nice :)
Not only is this extremely annoying, but it's usually trivial for bots to crack these new "improved" types of captchas.

reCAPTCHA is the only solution that's so far proven itself invulnerable to OCR.
How would those web services attract users without placing ads on other sites?
Coldplay Christmas Song (a parody)
A joke version of the song 'Christmas Lights' by Coldplay.
Anyone reccomend some equipment to do this?
It is quite true that you can live happily in small places. However, it doesn't mean it is preferable to do so.

Having lived with my wife in a 490 sq foot jr. one bedroom for one year - and now in a 2 bedroom, ~800 sq foot place, I can say I really don't get the whole minimal housing thing. Our new place is objectively better; aside from price and the most marginal savings in cleaning time, there was no advantage to living in the smaller place.

Improvements:

* It was impossible in old place to fit bikes, TV, and 2 computer stations in living area. So 1 computer station went into bedroom. Causes conflicts if one person is sleeping and other is awake -- moving computer + associated papers/books is an annoyance.

* Dedicated sleeping room. No need to disturb other sleeping person while getting clothes, etc.

* Place to retreat: In a small place, if you just want to be alone, you really can't be. We have lower stress levels with 2 bedrooms.

* Space to move around: We feel healthier having more space to move around.

* Can now actually invite more than just 3 people over at a time.

That said there are limits; we'd gain little from more space. But there's a lot to be said for having at least one bedroom per person.
I know that the question was about OS architecture but I really feel like the UX is not as good as it could be. One thing I've been thinking about recently is that it could be interesting if there was some GUI system that would follow the Unix principle of having many small, task specific applications that could be easily composed together. It happens to me a lot that there are 3 applications each of which does something better than the other 2 but in the end of the day none of them is ideal. If I could pick the best of the 3 and put it together myself, that would be great.

Later, I realized that Mac OS' Automator/Applescript might have been an attempt to do something like this but it feels somewhat half-assed. Given something like this is probably impossible to bolt on later so you'd have to design the OS from the beginning to allow for this.
Yeah, and growing up in a foster home on an Indian reservation beats crippled mechanic dad (by the way when my family came to the US, going to McD for birthday was a big deal - the dentist dad was purely hypothetical :). I'm sure there are infinitely many scenarios of having suboptimal family circumstances. My point is that the baseline (two parent middle class family) is called normal.
Both countries would still remain allies, and South Korea would still be under the US nuclear umbrella.

Yeah,the US would totally be willing to launch nuclear weapons on behalf of the remains of South Korea.

I fail to see why you place such trust in the good intentions of the US if one of its protectorates tells it to fuck off.
Lets combine two really annoying things to make sure nobody uses our service.
I like the idea of efficient space and less to keep clean. But I want a well-stocked lab at home: toolboxes, musical instruments, books, hardware projects, cooking equipment. Piles of junk are hard to clean around. I've been thinking that a 'compactus' unit like this might serve all needs:
http://www.officecentre.com.au/prod1129.htm
You could probably get it installed to house servers in the end-units.
Everything you say is true. Luckily, none of it applies because no one goes to CodeGolf for homework questions.

CodeGolf will look at other SE sites, find homework questions, then take those questions back to codegolf.

Thus, CodeGolf gets an interesting new flavour of challenge (provide the worst solution to a problem) and the person who originally asked the question doesn't have to deal with the codegolfing. They do, however, have to deal with the rest of SE.

I guess downvotes are because you appear to think that codegolfers are answering in the threads where the questions are originally asked.
Because (sadly) compatibility with the existing software ecosystem and support for common hardware is king, at least if we're talking about a general purpose OS. Who cares about your project if it can't run the N million line behemoth the modern web browser is? With all its deps...

But I'd really love to have an OS that sweeps the pile of legacy cruft we've built up and replaces it with something simpler & smaller. In a sense Plan 9 is just that. But I'm sure one can go further down that road.
Cute little cabin and amazing what you can put into 20 m2. And it must be nice to know that you've built it yourself.

But I don't believe for a second that this is the architect's dream house. Come on. It's like saying that a static blog is a programmer's dream project.

She may have had a dream one night about living in a small house but I am sure that as soon as she can afford to, she will move into something bigger. Let's not kid ourselves :-)
Php errors everywhere!
There is a very interesting storage system designed for Apple's Newton OS that was buried when Steve Jobs killed the Newton: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton#Data_storage

In short, it's a modular object storage with a rich set of indexing and quering mechanisms, tailor-made for NewtonScript. It isn't some quirky experiment that never got out of CS academia's ivory tower - it had real-world applications and a noticeable installed base.

EDIT: changed the link
Steve Jobs Danced To My Song.He did. He really did.
The most appropriate compression algorithm to use is highly case-dependent (data structure, compression vs decompression cpu/wall-clock time, compression ratio, system memory,bandwidth, etc.). I'm sure people at kernel.org have their reasons to convert to xz.

The following link has some interesting (albeit non-exhaustive) benchmarks, comparing various compression algorithms (both serial and parallel implementations).
http://vbtechsupport.com/1614/
Ask reddit to upvote user freedom by serving no nonfree JavaScript
This is horrible, especially the quote "So why to waste these focussed eyeballs" – these focused eyeballs were being used to digitise the world's books, which to me is far more valuable than an attempt to replace something good in the world with advertising.
This is because of the FCC, not evil vendors.
23 inventions from 2013
I'm sure his book is awesome, but blanching and parboiling are such rudimentary cooking techniques that they are described in virtually every cooking book that's not just a recipe collection.
No that is not what is happening with Mickey Mouse. What is happening with Mickey Mouse is every time Steamboat Willie comes close to being released into public domain, the length of copyright is extended.
Steamboat Willie came out after 1923, and is currently set to expire in 2023. Unless of course the law is changed to extended it.
A friend of mine worked at an ad network that did a trial on "sponsored captchas" and they found that it created and overall negative brand experience.
> McDonald's french fries are great. At their best, they are everything a french fry should be: salty, crisp, light, and not greasy.

Funny. I tend to think of super thin fries as an American thing. Fries from McDonald's, in particular, taste like cardboard to me.

Then again, I'm Belgian.
I'm puzzled as to why you think I'm trolling. I have over 3000 karma on HN, while you have... a tenth of that?

I'm not interested in a flame war. http://i.imgur.com/H3py0lR.jpg Besides, it is true – until the customary iFixit teardown, I was highly anticipating the release of the rMBP.
Hacking meaning is complex. For me it means something ingenious, a way of creating or using a tool in a round about way. It's not even necessarily about computers. But it involves most of the time creative uses of technology. I mean, an passionate girl or boy can be a hacker, you don't even need a computer: electronic, craft, artists, vintage device, bicycles, motorbikes, food, biology, DNA, politics, sextoys, any activity field can be hacked.

If you use the penetration kit out of the box like you are supposed to do, I don't see any hacking here (even if it allows you to penetrate in a prestigious "open system").

In the opposite, if you hack a bit and can prove that you can open a car door with a computer and a network penetration tool, it start to be interesting.

Hacking is a huge field. Restrain it to computer networks rides is not fair, even if historically, it has been much more used by networks and telecoms people.

I think hackers are also people who create inestimable wealth. People who create a compiler, that will make possible for others to create languages, that will allow others to create tools, etc. are very strange. Why do they do that? Not because their boss ask them for.

A programming language is useless as far as you hadn't create something with it. Creation and hacking are very similar things.
Meh, these days it is cheaper to buy a new printer than ink for the damn thing (unless we are talking about laser printers)...
Im sorry to say, although I admire the song writer for his irrational exuberance, this is not the case.

The day he is referencing was one of the angriest days of Jobs late tenure at Apple.

Jobs was furious, indignant, and as angry as he could be that a flaw was found in his precious iPhone.

Jobs was baring his teeth during the entire event while countering with "we LOVE our customers". It was a really sad and poorly thought out affair.

Job was not dancing to this guys song. He was trying to pretend to contain his absolute rage. I was there. Watch the video. Jobs was incensed not happy and that video was a prop.

And I lived just a few miles from cupertino at the time, and believe me every call I made was dropped due to that spot on the antenna.
Why would someone, Indian or not, want to learn Sanskrit online?
iTerm2 with tmux using this send text at start command: "tmux attach -t Play || tmux new -s Play".

I prefer iTerm2 over the built-in Terminal because it supports 24bit colors for powerline [1].

[1] https://powerline.readthedocs.org/en/latest/overview.html#te...
You might be interested in tangible functional programming, which aims to bring useful composition to GUI programs.

http://conal.net/blog/posts/tangible-functional-programming-...
Couple of `git` points: why are you committing binaries to your master branch? Personally, I also won't be moving anything from a random git repo into /usr/local/bin...
We only buy Intel for staff because: their time is worth a lot, any interruption due to a flaky drive can be expensive (especially if traveling), and to reduce worry. The time for me to research whether another Brand is reliable costs more than just choosing Intel. A no brainer decision.

I.e. the savings on a cheaper drive are not worth the risks.

Backup, always, of course.
Found the reference. http://kparc.com/os.htm

Thanks - looks awesome. I particularly like his approach to HTML.
Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections
The Nexus 5 is pretty impressive. The iPhone still beats it pretty handedly in the camera department though.
Greenspun's tenth rule is result of "If you have a hammer, all around looks like a nail" applying value "Lisp" to "hammer" metavariable. Specifically Lisp is not good at writing a OS for existing hardware, though I agree that there should be more progress at system programming language level.
i like minimalism but to a point. i have a full workbench for example as i like to fix stuff on m own. not just computers, mind you. i also like creating physical stuff - i think most ppl on HN revolve around creating non-physical stuff most of the time.

i also cook my own food more often than not. both are more economical _and_ i enjoy it.
ive a 800sqft 1 bedroom in sf so its not that small either. workbench isnt in a garage so its pretty compact yet is a real, full featured bench. 2500sqft with unused rooms certainly is way too big tho.
Next to that, performers of early music of non-western music experience no advantage from pp. Tunings are relative to other central tones, or tuning does not happen in tempered system currently in use.
The idea that a creator has an absolute moral right to control of their characters is a fairly recent one, and it certainly isn't a widely respected one -- imagine how many movies, books, etc. would have never been written if people had considered Dracula, Don Quixote, Frankenstein's Monster, Othello, etc. to be inviolable property of their authors. I don't think it's a particularly strong argument for state protection of copyright.
They try to answer that question here:

http://www.learnsanskrit.org/introduction

"Its importance is plain: Sanskrit was once the most influential literary language in India, and texts written in the language could be understood by millions of people throughout the South Asian world. These texts contain profound meditations on every point on the spectrum of human concern: existence, reality, God, love, duty, marriage, war, sex, death, violence, laughter, beauty, perception, nature, anatomy, urbanity, ritual, desire, food, purpose, meaning, and language, among hundreds of others. Moreover, Sanskrit texts are the repository of non-modern modes of thought, and they present distinct conceptions of the world that are often at odds with the understanding we have today. By learning how people used to think, we better understand both ourselves and the world we have inherited.

"By learning this language, you open the door to more than three thousand years of intellectual history, both in India and beyond."
How to Inspect the View Hierarchy of 3rd-party Apps
My experience - and one of the main reasons I switched from BSD to Linux is that the ports sytem is a broken pile of stuff. Yum on CentOS is a joy to work with in comparison.

I see the FreeBSD devs have finally started to see the light with the introduction of Pkgng.
> Has it ever gone well when the so-called good guys decide to go in shooting?

Yes, of course. What do you think is the point of a no-hostage policy?
"Now can someone PLEASE post the recipe for KFC batter."

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2009/jul...
While I agree this should be a "duh." But the question is, the copyright for what? Some of the Holmes stories are still under copyright, and that is what they are arguing... Fortunately they are wrong.
The pins in the socket are actually more complicated. Every pin is actually a kind of spring[1], so it stays in contact with the CPU when it is pushed on them. They are not very hard to bend if you drop the CPU on them by mistake - but instead of a (maybe) unusable CPU you can have an unusable motherboard. The odds of unusable equipment is actually low, as most of the pins are just for power.

[1] https://lh3.ggpht.com/-omZKyfVo6YE/T7IiJnDdwZI/AAAAAAAAAco/W...
I'm curious as to whether you perceive you are faster on the iPhone or whether, empirically, you are. I've seen some studies that have shown physical keyboards to be marginally faster than touchscreen keyboards, but not enough for most consumers to care.
I would be interested if you could expand on how you would alter the NN architecture for different sized lists
Interestingly I just got my wife a Galaxy S4 Mini for Xmas. We both are longtime iOS users.
It just feels like I bought a Windows computer at a chain store, complete with adware lots of strange applications, unfinished widgets and options. So many options. there are even separate apps that hold options for G+ for example. It also made about 5 software updates in the first two days, one which broke the browser. It worked again after the nect update. I value that Apple rolls their patches into one bundle and preinstalls it when possible.
I wanted to switch to a MotoG on price alone but with that ecperience I dont think I want to.
I would just mindlessly configure around and try to understand all the options ogf my phone or worse, root it and install stock android. Id rather work and earn sone money to pay for the difference.
From your link it is KiB with a capital K.
Just one small correction. The cost of a house like this is $11,000 + the money she never made because of her own time (18 months!) invested in construction. So the total, strictly speaking, is way way higher than $11k.
There is at least one serious disadvantage to her house, and that is: when she cooks, the ventilation will be poor, plus her clothes and "bedroom" are way too close.
As an addendum to my comment this event set a bad precedent. As the excuse to fire Scott Forstall was to come out with a similar (non) apology.

Which is really ironic, because had Jobs not chosen to make this ridiculous NON apology for the iPhone 4 antenna, Tim Cook would not have requested that Forstall do the same for Apple Maps, which is by all indication way better than android maps at this point. (YMMV)

And I switched to Android because iOS7 is a disaster because Forstall is gone and its now a horror show. You be the judge.
Yeah she has a bunch of interesting videos on this.
Washington City of North Bonneville explores pot tourism
iTerm2 also here
That looks interesting, I'll check it out, thanks.
Many Hindus chant in Sanskrit for religious/ceremonial purposes, e.g. Chapter 15 of the Bhagavad Gita is often chanted before eating a meal (http://www.asitis.com/15/). It's useful to understand what the Sanskrit words mean, although there are English translations for virtually all Sanskrit texts.
I noticed this myself and decided to write a glorious example in Objective C:

http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/16390/11612
The Autobiography of Malcolm X is indeed an excellent read. The three phases of his adult life were completely and radically different from one another. It's amazing how committed he was to holding himself up to the standards demanded by his current beliefs, even when it meant renouncing all that he had previously stood for; and he did so, twice. I think this is the great lesson from his life and something the public should be aware of, more so than his "By any means necessary" vs King's "I have a dream".
This isn't anything new, a company called Solve Media (http://solvemedia.com/) has been doing this for years.
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The conclusion "buy intel" makes no sense. He tested far too few drives to make that conclusion, and many potentially safe alternatives went untested. Not to mention the fact that not all intel drives apparently are safe.

So yeah; it's unfortunately bogus science - he's drawing invalid conclusions from a far too small sample.
> I'm playing devil's advocate a bit here, but couldn't the precedent have an effect on the creative output of people alive today, based on their desire for their descendants to inherit something valuable?

Fair enough, but Conan-Doyle's children are dead too. How many generations should get the benefit of something before the public at large does?
On mac it seemed to me like it was built on chromium. But I didn't do much analysis apart from looking at the process names, I could be very wrong...
There are many, many, many people producing children at well above replacement levels, and we are already well above the carrying capacity of our environment. I have no personal guilt at choosing not to have children.
Is this still just a thought or have you already started on it. I'd love to read something like this. Where will it be when you put it out?
This sounds suspiciously similar to Rust.
"A genre-specialized Netflix would have much of the fixed costs of a full-fledged Netflix, would be competing with Netflix and other full-spectrum streaming sites to acquire content, and would have an uphill battle getting the visibility to attract users."

This was my thinking, though I didn't know if it was correct or not. I made the post because all the big players, even together, don't have most of the great (foreign) films I've seen. This makes it so that my only option is to hope and wait until they do (though the problem is I've already seen them, so the new problem is that I'd want 'related films' for the ones I've already seen). To say 'this film is like that one, you should watch it', they'd need to know what I think is actually good.
I just use K, M, G, T to evade the whole ISO thing altogether.

Kibbles, mibbles, gibbles and tibbles just make me shake my head.
I am italian living in hungary and I never considered McD fries "amazing". I have never met anyone who didn't prefer home made ones/random shop one's either.

So, last time this article came up on HN I generously filed it under "maybe fries in fast food chains in the US are different than fries in US fast food chains everywhere else".
Your everyday Perl is much nicer:

perl -e 'my $vals = ".003, .002, .005"; my @sorted = sort { $a > $b } map { $_ =~ s/ +//g; $_ } split(",",$vals); print "$_ " foreach @sorted;'

You can alias the topic variable ($_) if you're not a fan.
I used to give some thought to OS design some time ago (I'm a hobbyist OSdev). I've come to a more conservative point of view: what problem do we try to solve with the new system design? Are our systems large and flabby enough to fall apart from within under their own weight? Are there profound hardware changes that require architectural re-thinking?

An OS kernel by definition is a small layer of hardware resources management/abstraction software. Has hardware changed? Yes and no. The most prominent changes are multi-core CPUs, ubiquitous networking, a lot of peripheral devices, support for OS virtualization, but generally hardware architecture is not that far from 70s when Unix was invented. From the software side: the beauty of programming is in its abstraction power and most of software progress is advancing at levels abstracted far from OS (html5/virtual machines/language environments/etc). So, I don't see a burning need for changing the underlying service layer. Microkernels are nice, language-based systems are nice also, but their time has not come yet, the inertia of existing code base is huge, so the incentive to depart from it must be also huge.

I agree that user-space level organization may be more consistent from modern point of view, but it's not clear where to head. Ideas are welcome, but power of organic evolution also should not to be underrated.
Shen (http://shenlanguage.org/ or http://www.lambdassociates.org/Book/contents.htm) has a haskell feel to it and has macros. Thought things like haskell typeclasses are not available by default in the language, they can be constucted using what is already available (http://programmingkungfuqi.blogspot.co.uk/2007/08/haskell-li...)