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I started playing violin when I was pretty young (maybe 4)? I quit at about age 12, couldn't stand it anymore. It was actually a bit of a showdown with my parents, and I definitely had to just deal with the storm of disapproval.

I came to love music again later in life, and I do play now, fiddle as well as a few other instruments.

Here are some of my absolute favorite "violinists" (probably should call them fiddle players). By and large, they came to violin later in life, though with great interest in music. They are very different musicians from classical players, no doubt, but they're the type of musicians I probably should have been. I honestly think I was harmed as a musician by classical teachers who were constantly in my business, messing around with how I held the bow.

There are so many kids nowadays who can play a nearly flawless etude. Some show the the grimaces and gestures of someone who plays with passion, but I still wonder if it is an affectation, a teacher, noticing it has gotten a little mechanical, says "but with more passion… good, good" (as student playing etude flawlessly after a gazillion practices now affects the swaying and grimaces that seem to properly convey requested passion)

Personally, I'd much rather be Boyd Tinsley or Ketch Secor than a top classical musician, but that's probably because I'd much rather listen to their music.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyd_Tinsley

"He was not an avid music lover or player. He learned violin by accidentally signing up for a middle school orchestra class, under the impression that guitar would be taught. The idea of learning the violin, however, was interesting enough for him that he stuck with it."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posey_Rorer

"He suffered from severely clubbed feet for the first 30 years of his life. At the age of 10 he learned to play the banjo but soon switched to the fiddle. In 1917, he moved to West Virginia but due to the flu epidemic of 1919, he had to return to Virginia."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassar_Clements

He taught himself to play the fiddle at age 7 and the first song he learned was "There's an Old Spinning Wheel in the Parlor". Soon, Clements formed a local string band with two first cousins, Red and Gerald. Gerald was the fiddle player and when he got married and left, Clements had to pick up the fiddle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luderin_Darbone
He was born in Evangeline and raised in Orangefield, Texas. His parents gave him his first fiddle at the age of 12 and he learned to play through a correspondence course.

I'm also a big fan of Ketch decor from Old Crow Medicine Show (who also learned late in life).

http://www.charlottemagazine.com/Blogs/Revue/November-2010/Q...

"The act of fiddle playing is a lifetime relationship. You have good spells and bad turns, and while you celebrate all your time together, it doesn’t mean it’s all rosy. I’ve been playing since I was 18, and learning to play in Rockingham County, NC, but it’s taken me this long—14 years—to figure out not to fall over on the dance floor and step all over her feet."
The Rise and Fall and Rise of Virtual Reality
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Join up with us and help us build a new one. We're not in web design.
I'm Matt (officially). And webkike is not me (also officially).
But if it's an investment, it shouldn't be a point to be bragged about to employee candidates -- it's being done to make money, not because it's so great for me. Don't brag to me about that just like you shouldn't brag about how the CFO has done some sweet accounting jiujitsu or whatever.
Does anyone know if there's a device like this that DOES NOT require uploading all collected data to "the cloud" in order to analyze what I've collected?

It's pretty obvious that this could be done on client side without needing an internet connection. Or do all of these companies sacrifice usability and privacy in order to make more money?
Buddytruk Mobile App, looking for feedback
The WAD format was reverse engineered and published some time back in the 90s when the first third party level editors and mods were produced.
Hey! My name is Brian and I am the founder of the Buddytruk mobile app. Buddytruk is a peer-to-peer moving and large item delivery platform. Think Uber/Lyft functionality, except you're getting connecting with a buddy and a truck to help move a couch, instead of a friend with a car for a ride.

We just went live, and looking to improve the service. Let me know what you think, we're open to all feedback!
>On the last round, I did well enough to score a 3/4.

Is this your own assessment, or did the interviewer tell you your score?
you are right, well almost. I am using not an IR thermometer, but medical grade IR sensor. But you can reuse an IR thermometer too (with a bit lower grade results).
Downloaded it, love the idea and UI. My only niggle about the app now is that it could use better support for hidpi (the text is a bit jumbled). Other than that, great work!
Anyone who thinks that Amazon won't have to implement similar anti-copyright protection is delusional.
While Amazon may not have a YouTube competitor, they certainly have a consumer video product in Amazon Prime Video.
I use Little Snitch on my Mac. I found myself just "allow"ing everything all the time anyway. I think most users just get used to pressing "OK" and stop even paying attention to what they are agreeing to. I know I get lazy and do that myself. Instead I wanted to briefly alert the user and let them make their own decision, then we also added in some malicious host monitoring and other features to help. Users can use our "network time machine" feature to go back and time and see exactly what happened in the past. I haven't seen another product that does that.
Yeah, and this is true of webapps (and many other kinds of programs) as well. Writing a webapp is (or at least can be) easy, but writing a production qualiy webapp isn't.
Watching Notch hacking on the Ludum Dare competition is such a comforting experience - to me he is the Bob Ross of game development. He also seems to end up developing the same thing over and over again with different shades of green on the leaves.

Even though you may don't like his style, you have to admire his pragmatism, productivity and humbleness.
But then the programmer would come home empty handed, without even buying the milk.
After signing in to your google account from the gvoice app, google adds your phone's number and verifies it by sending a text; the message is the following:

"Google Voice will now verify your phone number by sending a text message from your phone to the Google Voice service. You will be charged your carrier's standard rate for text messages."

This happens the first time you log into the app, but it wouldn't surprise me that something similar happens from time to time to verify your phone number, a warning would be nice though.
A link for some background. I had no idea why this was an issue.

http://skift.com/2013/05/21/airbnb-is-not-illegal-in-new-yor...
So, this will change basically nothing about Twitch? I assume all of their infrastructure is already on Amazon, so probably more business as usual than having to move everything on to Google's infrastructure (which seems to usually derail product development for 3-6 months on most acquisitions).
Awesome thanks, I'll have to check this out tonight! Just a feature that I'm thinking of right now that would be nice is if it alerted you that your VPN dropped or was disconnected.
Please post a screenshot to our forum with details or email us and we'll fix it.
First: docker is not going to make VMs obsolete.

Docker has their use cases: lightweight! PaaS! incremental push! 12-factor apps!

VMs have their use cases: Strong isolation! online migration! completely portable! consolidation for traditional applications!

So no, Docker will probably live alongside, next to, holding hands with, traditional VM environments, in much the same way that J2EE apps coexist with Rails.

But, the other reason that VMware won't want to buy Docker is that over the long run, these technologies become increasingly commoditized. VMware's hypervisor was innovative when it first launched, and these days, you can argue that you can get much the same functionality from KVM or Hyper-V - or even in this case, LXC and Docker for a different set of use cases.

Instead, VMware needs to make money on their management tools. Ideally, those management tools will be managing VMware's hypervisor, but they can't be afford to be so choosy. So, instead, they want a "first among equals" relationship with various open source technologies so they can be in the mix in every environment, even those where they haven't sold their hypervisor.

That's why they won't buy Docker - they don't want to sell the platform, they want to manage everyone's platform.

(note: everything I said is my own opinion, not that of my employer. We are coop-etitors with VMware in some of our business, and hence, I've got a conflict of interest I feel obligated to disclose).
I believe the point is not being a firewall, but rather let the user know what's going on. Firewalls may cause all sort of problems for the common user by blocking by default, and still don't reveal privacy violations (e.g., whitelisted applications generating traffic at unexpected moments).
Most people assume that it's horrible up here but to give you a "sort of" average idea for the whole country, you are looking at a range between a hot month of 30C and a cold month of -30C if you're only going as north as Ottawa. Winter is three months like anywhere else but it tends to begin in November and end in March (get it? ha-ha)

There are local sub climates like anywhere else of course, so if you're living on the far east coast, or next to the west coast mountains, you'll get worse and better climate, respectively.
Isn't this similar to youtube? It seems that all services end of with draconian policies when they get big enough.
Large, portable, robust programs are hard to write. But that's not what I'm addressing. I'm trying to show how what is generally considered a complex problem is simple when you strip it down to its essence.
Nice! I didn't notice that setting. My code also removes more than just the header though so it's still useful for my purposes of making HabitRPG more SFW.
I've been an Amazon Prime customer for years, spend thousands of dollars a year at Amazon, but have never once used Amazon Prime for their video or audio content. Go figure.

Edit: If you use Amazon Prime for video/audio content, I'm curious!
Oddly enough I didn't get that memo. Could you explain it for me?
How would you share the survey result? It didn't ask for any email during the survey.
Their post talks about people "abusing" their platform. I'm taking that to imply that owning a property to list solely on AirBnB is "abuse".

Renting out an entire apartment can be selected to answer the second question on their signup process. https://www.airbnb.ca/rooms/new

Reading through the various hospitality pages, I don't see anything saying it's only to be used casually to rent out an apartment while you're away. The "Responsible Hosting" page (https://www.airbnb.ca/help/responsible-hosting) seems region specific, but still doesn't say anything along the lines of "renting on AirBnB full time is considered abuse".

For something they consider abusive, there doesn't seem to be any large warnings against doing it.
... and Comcast didn't care a whit. After all the customers paid them to protect the information, and they already had the money, and the customers have no where else to go anyway since its mostly a monopoly. Pay some small fine, move on, maybe you can upsell them on even more protection and make it up anyway. This sure makes me want to support Comcast becoming a national monopoly.
You are projecting. Please re-read my original post, and followup. To assume I'm biased without at least asking some questions first to clarify my intent is disingenuous, unfair, and unappreciated.

> That a community has solved a problem is no different than the problem being solved (unless of course you don't believe in the validity of trans people).

I don't believe this is true. If a community solves a problem of how the public at large should act, but the public does not accept or follow that solution, the problem is not solved. I was simply asking what type of adoption the solution I was presented had seen. If it's seeing widespread adoption, then this discussion has little meaning (beyond discussing technical merits of different approaches), because I don't think anything would change. I'm fine with that, besides thinking that history gets a bit more confusing.

> If you say you are feeling torn, then you are not wanting to respect this person at

No, I'm trying to weigh my respect for the individual and their desires against societies desires and needs, as well as what we may perceive as best for society (even if it's not something they value at the time).

> Chelsea Manning is a woman and should be referred to as such.

That's fine, I never stated she shouldn't be. I'm simply torn on what I think should be the best way to refer to her in the past tense, for the same reason I refer to my sic year old self as a boy, and not as a man. I'm a man now, I was a boy then. I am open to arguments to sway me though. I'm not pushing an agenda, just trying to discuss something that I encountered.

> Your discomfort with trans folks

This is the projection I was referring to. I thought I was pretty clear that I was uncomfortable with the historical record changing on someone's future decision. That this decision is common to transgender people is irrelevant to be points. If you want to argue that gender and name are important enough to warrant the changes, that's fine. If you can't make the argument without referring to transgender people, that may be a sign the argument needs refinement, or may have some baked in assumptions that don't hold. For example, I personally hold name and gender to be of equal importance. Maybe that's not the case for you, or any number of others. That may be a bad assumption on either of our parts.

> There is a difference between talking about past events and continuing to insist on misgendering someone in the present.

And where was I saying we should misgender them in the present? I don't think it's misgendering someone to refer to them as "he" when referring to them at some point when they referred to themselves with that pronoun, and as "she" in the present when that's how they refer to themselves. But maybe my thoughts in that are tied to some assumptions that need to be shaken. Like I said, I'm open to discussion, but please keep the attacks to yourself, at least until you've given me the benefit of a doubt.
Firstly, of course it's in the realm of all four disciplines. It would require a task so gargantuan as to be on par with J.L. Austin's dream of a formal dictionary, but doable. I just think the math and computer science students are often (as seen in this thread) not as well acquainted with natural language issues than their counterparts, but I'm still not really seeing your point.

Firstly, the indeterminacy of translation is a much, much deeper problem than the buffalo sentence and the time/fruit flies sentences.

The buffalo sentence is interesting in that it is grammatically perfect, and would be easy for anyone to understand following formal rules, but so bizarre that it's confusing at first.

The time/arrow sentence is also not an issue for humans as it's simply the result of two homonyms that happen to be verbs for one definition. They are clever, but not deeply ambiguous, and i seriously doubt they would pose a serious problem.

Second, natural language IS symbolic reasoning. I don't understand how you can justify a claim that it isn't. The term rhetorical reasoning presumes that symbolic reasoning is already happening.
Thanks Icbiazon, I wasn't aware of this!
In that case, I'm curious whether you use a smart phone (iOS/Android) and whether you've read all those documents too. That's typically a much higher-value product.

Also, recall that I said that a certain level of knowledge/understanding is required to even understand the basics.

> "I pretty much refuse to use device+service combos like the one here."

Could you elaborate why? Onerous T&Cs? No control of data? Don't care about such analytics?

My problem with how things are developing is that we end up in a world where either you resign yourself to the fact that you're constantly being data-mined or you become a digital hermit. There's very little that allows you to engage and retain control (without becoming a sysadmin).
People have to PAY to have an unlisted number? That seems like a very strange concept to me.
http://notch.net/games/

There's a pretty big variety there.
Regardless of who actually ends up buying Twitch, I'm happy to see that they are valued so highly. They are a great service and have helped make competitive gaming more mainstream due to exposure.
Amazon has a bit more leverage against game publishers than Google, I'd imagine. I don't think they're likely to use it in this manner, but it's there.
I don't like his method of measuring the curvature distance.

I think it will be very difficult to align a local to the local tangent of the earth's surface. Over a distance of 700m, the earth's surface deviates by about 4cm. This means we would have to align our laser to within 50 microradians in order to accurately measure the deviation of the earth's surface.

Further more, his two beam system is setup using two lasers spaced about 4m apart requires even greater accuracy. Let's imagine system 1 is aligned to the local tangent at one end of the terminal (x = 0m), system 2 is aligned to the local tangent 4 m away at x = 4m, and heights of the two beams are measured at the opposite end of the terminal (x = 700 m). The height difference between these two beams will be about 1 micron. If we assume that the beams are large enough that there is no spread in beam size, then each beam is about 3 cm in diameter. This means we need to measure the beam height to better 0.003% accuracy relative to the beam size. I think this will be a very difficult measurement.

I think there is a way you could very accurately measure the relative angle between two beams in a larger interferometer and two lasers, but I'll have to think about how it would look...

Regardless, it's always fun to think about this small corrections to our expectations. To be honest, I was a little surprised to think about it, 4cm of deviation over 700m is actually a bit larger than I expected.
I can sum up the whole article in four words: Google is too big. They have obviously become what they would have despised at the outset: a lumbering bureaucracy.

But I have no interest in being one fifty-thousandth of Google, and to anyone who's on the fence, I'd argue that you'll learn more and wield far more responsibility at a much smaller company.
>"I was hoping to hear some anecdotes about acclimation or something."

I am Venezuelan and before coming to Canada the coldest I had been was 12 Celsius. In my first winter, I was living in Sault Ste. Marie which have a twin city of the same name in Northern Michigan. That meant snow at my hip level everywhere and temperatures that reached -40 celsius.

I am living in Toronto area now, and the winter is very milder in comparison. Long story short, I do have funny stories but the main thing I have learned is that human body is able to adapt easily even if you have been in hot areas for a long time.

If I could do it surely you would too :)
Thanks! We will try to recreate this.
Non-paywall article on the same: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/08/amazon-not-google-repo...

None of the reporting outlets have any substantial details yet though.
It is a pay league, but it's a little tricky because the commish is one of my best friends/former roommates. Since it's fantasy football, I've taken to just talking a whole bunch of shit until action is taken. It's looking like we'll re-draft sometime this week I think, fingers crossed!
After my experience at Google I'd recommend that any company of sufficient size provide tasty convenient lunch for free. It's a huge productivity boost. At other companies, I've seen people waste an hour and a half every day assembling people to go out for lunch, order, wait, figure out how to split up the bill, drive back. Much easier to just take that off people's minds.

Dinner and breakfast aren't as useful to provide and I don't think comparatively many Googlers take advantage of them (though breakfast is nice if you have a very long commute.) I did when I was young and single, but no longer. However, I'm virtually certain that providing lunch is a very cost effective way of getting more work done and is a win/win for everyone.
What do you mean by "officially" in this sense? I'm a native English speaker and all, but I'm not sure what you're implying. How would you unofficially be Matt? Or unofficially not be webkike?
The article depicts the difference between "level" (consistent radius from Earth's center) vs "straight" (line tangent to surface).

A bowling ball rolled on a very long straight hall would (assuming nearly negligible resistance etc) actually accelerate toward the center, then slow down, reverse, and oscillate until it stopped in the middle (the lowest gravitational position) because relative to the curvature of the Earth a straight line is higher at the ends than at the center.

A bowling ball rolled on a very long level hall would keep going (until resistance or confused staff stopped it) because there would be no gravitational change.
This does not belong on HN.

While it is probably true that the site's demographic is primarily men, articles appealing exclusively to men are just that, exclusionary, and they don't belong on a site for all hackers regardless of gender.
> What are you working on, Jeff?

If you have an Amazon FireTV and been noticing all the game updates on it lately it seems they're pretty serious about being a cheap console for the living room.
It could very well be WPF using XAML
I just installed this on a Surface Pro 3. First off great app, but just wanted to give you a heads up: The icons in the taskbar and notification area are blurry due to a HDPI screen. A good portion of the interface is cut off or broken likely due to scaling issues.
They also have their own TV box, Amazon Fire TV.
Show HN: Tap 2048 – Solitaire meets 2048 meets Piano Tiles
Given how complicated any specification for a non-trivial language is, I wonder if there are any. But I think this is beside the point.

Not having a specification for a language pushes every language feature discussion down onto application and library developers 'in situ'. When a developer or library maintainer stumbles onto unexpected interpreter or compiler behavior in a language without a specification, it means that in the short term there's no guidance about how they should deal with it. Do I hack this for Visual C++ in a way that can be removed eventually or do I really have to assume going forward that variadic templates aren't going to be available?
Is twitch using Amazon for streaming video content? I wasn't aware that it was cost efficient to deliver "free" video streams using AWS.
It's not ALL in his head, he has the doom spec list to help him out when he needs it. But he's pretty skilled.
Schneier makes some good points with regards to why there aren't more terrorist attacks:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/05/why_arent_the...
Ask HN: Was Bayes Impact the only nonprofit in the S14 batch?
Lots of great press profiling the nonprofits in the W13 batch, but I haven't seen much on the S14 batch nonprofits outside of Bayes Impact. Were they the only one, or ???
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