skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This goes absolutely against the real-world experience of professional mixing and mastering engineers, people who make their livings on "accurate" reproduction of music. Speakers are not accurate, period. Anyone who has been both a musician and a mixing engineer (like me) will tell you this. The idea of "accurate" response from audio systems is magical thinking.

The mixing and mastering engineers aren't trying to make some perfect reproduction of natural sound. They're trying to make records that sound as good as possible on as many different kinds of reproduction systems as possible - not just "perfect" audiophile systems, but car speakers, iPods, etc. As such, rather than going for accurate speakers, mix engineers rely on speakers that they know very well, so they can predict results elsewhere more easily.

The most popular professional mixing speaker is the Yamaha NS-10. It's not "accurate". It doesn't even pretend to be accurate. In fact, it has a pronounced peak and significant harshness around 2khz, right in the most sensitive area for vocals and midrange melodic instruments. Why use it? Because if you can make it sound good on the NS-10, it'll sound good anywhere. Likewise, the second most popular speaker is the Auratone, a single driver with limited frequency range. The Auratone has two advantages. First, it reflects the limited construction of many real-world speakers. Second, because it lacks a crossover, there's no phase weirdness in the midrange, so it's actually very pure at the most musically critical points. Deep bass and sizzly highs aren't important. Midrange is important, and Auratones are brutally honest at that, more than speakers costing orders of magnitude more.
Calculus is complicated.

Most undergraduate students in the United States who major in mathematics take six courses in functions and limits (e.g. elementary calculus—(two courses), multivariable calculus, elementary analysis, complex analysis, and real analysis). Moreover, while the proofs in analysis are far more satisfying than the proofs encountered in elementary calculus, many students remain unsatisfied until their analysis courses in graduate school!
GNU Unifont 7.0.03
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The Linux Kernel Might Use FreeBSD's Capsicum Security Framework
Or the Org Mode of Emacs
For those who wonders the author. http://www.emmanuelespinasse.com
It looks like they've completely ripped off the Tesla Motors logo.
And all of the new construction tall buildings are luxury condos, which are barely "affordable" in Queens and start in the millions on Manhattan. I think something like 40% of them are actually even occupied year-round, instead they are used as investment/offshore holding/pied-a-terre for the absurdly wealthy.
> when I was supposed to be doing my job

No negotiating your way out of that. I know lots of people have done this type of thing at work, but I guarantee you he didn't have anything in his employment agreement that said "If I dick around instead of working and get paid for it like I was working, everything is fine, don't even worry about it."

That's a fire-able offense for any sane employer that doesn't have a 20% time deal or something similar. Hell, most employers specifically address this in the employment agreement.

I've got 15% time at my job, and I still wouldn't do this unless it was going to directly benefit my company, including other people that work here.
Doesn't detect my logged-in state at FB, thought it might be noscript but even enabling globally still doesn't allow the page to discover my FB login.

FF30 on Kubuntu.
Samsung gives up on the content business
All of that's about runtime performance, not programming time.
I've seen this type of analysis referred to as looking at the "shape of the code" and I personally like that metaphor. If you see any "clumps" or "spiky edges", that might be a sign to investigate further and see if the code is trying to tell you where the problems are. I find this technique useful when you are asked to review something but you don't have full context of the project/language/library - I could point out potential issues with e.g. a Go program, even though I've never written a single line of Go myself.
"some days we code, some days we crumple paper." perfect analogy, I now have something to tell upper management when I'm asked why I look like I'm dreaming into space...
the site is not loading what's new besides upgrades?
Code camp may unlock future for students
And about 1400 questions on Stack Overflow, dating back to 2008.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/d?page=1&sort=newe...

Completely unheard of! ;)
The TC post includes this quote from Xiki's author. "If this campaign succeeds, the money will let me dedicate the time needed to bring this next, drastically improved, version of Xiki to the world."

Apparently he's looking for about one year's worth of money to work full time on Xiki. Why he didn't do that before, I don't know and it doesn't matter much. But using Kickstarter he's able to be very specific about what one should expect to get as a reward. Example: 35 $ buy a t-shirt and 10 votes for vim or sublime support, no specific features. 2k $ buy a command for your company. He writes "See the Twilio command in the video for an example". So it's true that if you donate a lot you get more. If only companies from a specific domain fund Xiki it could turn out to be a very domain specific shell. However being strong on a vertical market could be a nice strategy. Unfortunately it's out of Xiki's control.
looking forward to trying systemd, hope it isn't too much of a learning curve.

Looking at: http://tecadmin.net/red-hat-enterprise-linux-7/# - will HAProxy come with centos 7?
> The team comprises CEO, CFO, COO, and VP-BizDev…no engineers, at least in the leadership.

Huh? The CEO has a PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace engineering from Princeton and was a Principle Propulsion Engineer at SpaceX, Senior Systems Engineer at Blue Origin, and the VP of Propulsion at Virgin Galactic. Put another way, he's been a key engineer at all the major private space companies...
Here's the thing about PowerShell: the community is not nearly as strong as bash/linux/unix. There's also been a substantial amount of churn between versions. These two things (combined with the insanity that is Technet) result in frequently less-than-helpful Google results when researching a particular problem. More often than not the first Stackoverflow result is either flat out wrong or non-idiomatic.

It doesn't help that (as you mentioned) you can do straight .NET stuff in Powershell also, so even if there is a cleaner, native cmdlet available half the Google results for a given problem will be some weird .NET mashup.

Also, Windows has it's own bizarre legacy command line tools ("net", "sc", etc.) which predate PS and further convolute any attempt to find the "right" solution to any given problem.

In general, if you're using Windows 2012+, 95% of systems administration and programming tasks now have native Powershell cmdlets. There is very little need to dive into .NET or WMI crap anymore, thank God.
Anyone can tell what was used to create all the animations? I noticed it's all HTML/CSS/JS.
Is explicitness important?
http://www.glassdoor.com/ is a good start.
That's the closest thing I found to using the Hacker News Enhancement Suite on my mobile and tablet.

In fact, I liked it so much that I wrote a little bookmarklet that changes hckrnews.com comment and article links to point to hn.premii.com.
We are back to cold war levels, even further than that. And it's a mistake, the USA guarantees our security right now, since the EU states reduced their military to a point that they are unable to deal with an aggressor. Nor is there the political will to deal with it.
C# Diff Library - Compare Text Files (PDF, DOC(X), XLS, TXT) in .NET
The author isn't a programmer, and as I read more it became clear the audience isn't practicing programmers. (In other words I don't think this is HN material.) I'm not sure who the audience is supposed to be, though. I'm left with the sense that it's the non-technical manager of the programming team, and the article provides a justification for them to force D on the next project.
There's http://ethercalc.net/ — the subject of the spreadsheet chapters in two previous volumes of Open Source Architecture series at http://aosabook.org/.

EtherCalc is mostly in maintenance mode at this moment, and the "99 lines" engine described here is an attempt to simplify its core logic both for educational and refactoring purposes.
Given that National Review was founded and run by William F. Buckley, Jr., I don't think that it took a lot of persuasion to get it to promote a certain world view. And Henry Luce had his world view pretty well set before Allen Dulles ever even dreamed of the CIA.
The correct URL: https://plus.google.com/+GooglePlay/posts/9FotaTDAw34
I mean, why do you have 30 tabs open at all times? You move on to something else, forget your tab was open, and go through at the end of the week and clean them all out.
Tutorial: Make your own Pong game with Unity in under 2 hours
> For the maiden flight, the rocket will be matched with an Orion space capsule, and launched past low-Earth orbit. Although this will test the capability of the SLS to send a human crew into space, the mission will be entirely automated. This is something that was not possible during the Apollo or Space Shuttle programs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apollo_missions#Unmann...

There were several - 4, I think - unmanned Apollo spacecraft flights in 60-s.
It's a technical term so the colloquial definition has little relevance to it's use in computing. You can read the definition in TAPL or PFPL.

> tractable syntactic method for proving the absence of certain program behaviors by classifying phrases according to the kinds of values they compute.
I definitely agree with you on this point. A lot of the "new stuff" is just a rehash of the old or a new implementation in a different language of something that's been around for forever.

I'd say the front-end MV* stuff is a great example of this. I started out with KnockoutJS a few years ago and that's all but dead by now. Was it a waste? No, not really. It was pretty easy to go from Knockout into Angular. Sure, some concepts are different, but the ideas are the same. Moving on from that, I picked up VueJS pretty quickly and after tinkering with its Component-based example, I saw that it's pretty much almost the same as Polymer. BAM! All of these frameworks wrapped up in a nice package.

And what's behind it all? An idea. The concepts behind all of these are the same. Same goes for working with PHP vs Ruby, same concepts, different syntax, slightly different ecosystem. NodeJS (as much as I love to say how amazing and different it is), is pretty much the same as Ruby and PHP and Python except for its damned callbacks.

And then there are things like underscore (which is pretty much an array manipulation library), and backbone (which is just a library that gives you the MVC of javascript) etc.

All of it old concepts, and all of the similar libraries work very similarly. There's no need to relearn everything from scratch once you get the patterns and concepts down.
AWS is a stupid simple GUI mate....
I agree with this. I'm concerned with having to move my mouse cursor a lot. When it comes to doing terminal stuff, mouse cursors slow me down.
I'm glad you pointed this out.

The organization of a resume is almost as useful an introduction to a candidate as the terms on it. It's also useful to understand how much time was put into the resume.

> If they claim to be a physics researcher and the resume is written in Word, I'd toss it too.

Hm, that's going too far, though!
Russia has infiltrated our political class on multiple fronts. The most visible of course has been former chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who works for Gazprom. But there are quite a few people involved in that, both in the SPD but also in the CDU. Nevermind the corporations involved, like Wintershall and E.ON. Other vectors of attack have been The Left, through their old SED roots and connection with the KGB. now FSB. And of course the new right-populist AfD party, who are pushing Russia's agenda in Europe.
Youtube.com couldn't show my logged-in state from a google.com server then?
Many Linux distros ship with /bin/sh being dash, but they also come with /bin/bash. A lot of scripts obviously depend on bash, so distro maintainers have had to either fix them to depend only on POSIXy "sh" or just put #!/bin/bash at the top.

The reason to use dash instead of bash is speed and to a lesser extent memory usage. The goal isn't to stop needing bash, it's to speed up boot times etc. Or at least it was five years ago when this transition was happening.
Growing up with Medium
I agree with you. The first outbreak of Ebola was obviously handled incorrectly (5 needles per nurses) and may have been due to the unknown severity of the disease. Now each outbreak is handled by multiple agencies (WHO, Doctors without borders etc) and therefore the hospital is likely given access to proper infection control supplies. This is my conjecture, but likely a safe one.
Yes, my comment was somewhat in jest - it was more about serious kickstarter projects that fall victim to unexpected success. This one clearly started as a joke. I expect it will work out OK, and his investors won't really mind that it has to adapt to demand. Maybe something bigger will grow from this, even - it got another $3000 since it was posted 10 hours ago
Site seems down, but an aggregator has a mirror (see the second entry): http://planet.centos.org/

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copy/paste if that goes down too:

hi,

At this point we have a set of images that we consider release grade, pending final testing, we will move to release these unless a major blocker is reported.

folks with bandwidth to spare are encouraged to help seed these images via torrents, here are the urls to hit:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7.0-140...

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7.0-140...

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7.0-140...

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7.0-140...

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7.0-140...

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7.0-140...

- KB
The proof is in Orchard CMS.
This reminds me of the TempleOS HolyC shell.
> And Go's out there now, and it comes with most of the stuff you get from Play out of the box (and for the other stuff, getting it is easy enough).

Any link? That seems to be pretty much wrong.
Nice article but I think there's something missing. Some things are uniformly bad like multi-screen methods or methods with six levels of nested conditionals, but the shape of code isn't really uniform. You can't look at the class or method level and play the three bears game (this porridge is too hot, too cold, just right).

In codebases, the ratio of big to small matters. It's fine to have some of those classes that seem too small. They are a natural consequence of good structuring. As well, it's okay to have a few large classes also, ones that you know could be broken down but not convincingly.

The thing that's awful is that if you say this sort of thing people want to believe that it's license to allow classes and methods to grow without bound, but it isn't. If you aim for understandability, you'll have code with sizes that fall into a distribution, usually power-law-ish

https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/2292/1...
What legitimate use do those onerror / onload callbacks have... that seems like the kind of thing that should be restricted to same origin!
One thought that soothes me a bit when I think about my future as a (relatively young) web developer is to remember that there is currently plenty of demand for 'greybeards' in companies that use older technologies or companies (even some startups?) that understand the value of developers with a lot of experience, or a particular skill-set.

I fully expect that especially the latter will be realized by more and more (web) companies by the time I'm an old-timer.

That said, I do understand it might be a little bit harder to find the kind of work/location situation I want. But considering that right now I have ridiculous freedom of choice in that regard, I can accept the idea that this might not last forever.
Back in the day, I used to build Class A directly heated triode tube amps for hi-fi. These are poo-poo'd by the self-styled "scientific" hi-fi community for their high THD specs. But it's important to think about not only how much distortion is happening, but where the distortion is happening. In super-simple triode tube circuits with no negative feedback loops, THD is pretty much linear to the volume. For small signals - the detail in the mids and highs - distortion is effectively unmeasurable.

The mainstream A/B transistors + heavy negative feedback architecture has the benefit of low manufacturing cost (no need to match devices when you just feedback the differences out) and good specs. But where does the distortion happen? At the Class A/B crossover point, somewhere in the first watt. Until the amp hits maximum power and clips, the WORST distortion is in the first watt, where all the small signals live.

To my common sense and my ears, this explains how good-spec amps can sound very harsh and cold, while bad-spec amps can sound sweet and warm. It's not "euphonic distortion", as the pseudo-scientists claim. Rather, it's that the warm amp is actually distorting less where it actually matters.
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The page you linked to doesn't look very trustworthy because it displays third-party ads. (Just an observation.)
Well, looks spot on. Thank you very much.
Most of them are (if not all...I can't think of a single one who isn't) still developers. Few have made any great impact, and most have had the "people get hired in as my boss" experience a number of times.

But they're still in the industry, doing a job, getting paycheck, and supporting a living.

Our industry is rather unique in that way that it's a 24/7 job for some, even at the lowest tiers.
Anything that is in the standard release of RHEL7 will be in CentOS7. But for sanity sake I checked one of the 7 mirrors and there is an HAproxy (1.5) RPM:
http://mirrors.easynews.com/linux/centos/7/os/x86_64/Package...
Architectures like JEE that offer very good patterns for big,complex projects to manage performance,ease of development and maintenance.The day GO can all of that , may be then.....

There are reasons for most big financial firms to prefer java over other languages....
Yes, but this doesn't mean it isn't spread at home. If you have Ebola it will spread, full stop. It can be better controlled within a hospital than at your home.
> "The launch abort system (LAS) is a key reason that Orion is intended to become the safest spacecraft ever built. In an emergency it could activate to pull the crew module and the astronauts it will carry away from the launch pad and the rocket in milliseconds" NASA officials wrote on their Web site.

A very strange statement. Safety systems like that are used since Mercury flights. And what kind of milliseconds are we talking here? Thousands? Hundreds? Even with 20g acceleration - pretty harsh by today's standard even for abort systems - in 0.1 second you're only going to get 1 meter away - not quite too far.
12 Things Holding You Back from Achieving Success
Although this is more of a personal thing I would never judge people based on their musical preference (that's what headphones are for ;-)) and hobbies. Cultural is - for me - a combination of drive (yes, one of the other factors) and the ability to work with others without driving them to tears. That and a flexible sense of humour ;-)
No, it doesn't include MSDN, its just Visual Studio itself + cloud hosted TFS. "Visual Studio Online" seems to have replaced the non-MSDN tier of retail, one-time purchase Visual Studio licenses with a monthly licenses.
nice!
There is also https://github.com/assemble/assemble.io and https://github.com/gausby/ecoule - but indeed jekyll still offers the best out of the box experience. I am wondering if people from divshot are working on a static site generator with superstatic too
I want to ask for citations but I think I will skip. But no, you are wrong.
Only if they visit the page just before. Seems plausible they would read about it, set it up and then drop their documents at a later date as a default behavior.

I agree it would probably be a good idea to put a warning about such a problem though.
When you're using tmux or screen this isn't uncommon. I have a screen for each project, in a project I usually have around 5 to 10 tabs, and I have about 5 projects I'm currently working on.
Actually I've had to start over with this account. But...good catch. I'm trying to take some advice this time about the way that I respond to people.

I get your point about portability, its just not one that I agree with. I think that using the platform for what its good at is a totally viable thing to do.

I also take your point about the stack that you are using. Cheers.
The thing is that Russia and China are not heavily spying on Germany, despite the fact, that they don't even have such close relationships as US and Germany [before]
Building a mobile app: Understanding the problem space
Unfortunately thats more "recent research and anecdotes"

I'm looking for something with a summary like "archeologists, biologists, and orthopedic surgeons recently cooperated on a paper indicating that biologically identical humans spend the years 200K to 100K BC walking around 50% of the time, sitting about 25% of the time, and 25% of the time doing everything else, based on electron microscope analysis of microwear patterns on fossilized hip joints and computer simulation" With the obvious unstated conclusion that millenia of evolution has optimized the innards of biologically identical modern humans to sit no more than 25% of the time. Assuming evolution did successfully optimize innards, which is kind of an open question WRT spinal design and appendixes and things like that.
The degree of control, over the frequency and intensity of expression.
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I think the difference is not just that these are languages rather than frameworks, but also that each of these teach you different skills and approaches by their nature (that aren't 'new', so clearly have a stood the test of time).
As a Flex dev, it seems there are two problems. The first is that the community doesn't seem to want to change. That's normal and lord knows warranted in many cases, but regardless of what's happening, opposition is expected. Secondly, it seems the Flex/Java code may not be up to par. As someone who doesn't even know what the application is supposed to do, the specs of the machines people are running while saying it is still slow is unacceptable.
Because hours of effort, marketing, etc aren't accounted for in the price of your DIY.

The hi-fi speaker business is a highly competitive market. The invisible hand already drives prices to about where they can go.
Eclipse, PyCharm?