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I don't know if Amazon even uses DRM but if they do, how is that an Apple issue? Apple doesn't even use DRM for it's purchased content anymore.

While I'm sure a small portion of the population has more than computer, I don't see why you'd need to sync your music on more than one. All the other data can be sync'd through iCloud (contacts, etc).

Do you also see why that restriction might be in place? They don't want to let people plug it into anyone's computer and "share" all that music.

I suppose with iCloud Drive now part of OSX you can just sync keep your music or iTunes folder in there and sync that.
The DMCA has no exemption for "fair use". Fair use is a specific term, the meaning of which does not include being able to play any audio on hardware with copy-protection.
Location: Vancouver, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: HTML(5), CSS(3), Javascript (jQuery, Backbone.js, Angular.js), LESS/SASS, Git, PHP (CakePHP, CodeIgniter, SlimPHP), Java, RESTful APIs, MongoDB, MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, HANA

Focus on web development technologies, with experience on both the front and back-end. More recently focusing on front-end work.

Most recent project (July ~ Sept) has been architecting and leading the development of a major SaaS crowdfunding platform with a front-end built in AngularJS.

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9fto5ypl4x9ryyw/Jay%20Huang%20-%20...

Email: See resume
What about all the people working in oil & gas?

There are actually fewer people with jobs in oil & gas compared to other industries.

http://credbc.ca/role-energy-sector-bcs-economy/
This is a terrible thought, but my honest first thought when I read the title was, ”Yikes. Someone arranged a ’Most Dangerous Game‘-style scenario over TaskRabbit?“
Arguably, most systems are distributed systems today. Even if you're just connecting a Rails app with a MySQL DB.

If we had a fabric (which is called Mesos ;) which allowed you to write elastic, distributed systems without the need for worrying about interconnecting hosts and segmenting hosts into static partitions, etc. wouldn't that be a big win?

Spark is also a great example for an app that was built directly on top of Mesos - the authors could focus on implementing the actual logic rather than worrying about interconnection. Same is true by the way for systems like Chronos and Marathon - all of which run on top of Mesos.
I got started on "real" math with Spivak's Calculus. Some people start with Topology by Munkres, which is not a difficult book but is very abstract and rigorous so makes a good introduction. If you feel like you have ok calculus chops, maybe Real Mathematical Analysis by Charles Pugh. Other good books are Linear Algebra Done Right by Axler, or the linear algebra book by Friedberg, Insel, and Spence. Maybe even learn linear algebra first. It's so useful.

Do plenty of exercises in every chapter, and read carefully. Count on about an hour per page (no joke). Plenty of math courses have their problem sets published, so you can google a course which uses your chosen book and just do the exercises they were assigned.

If you don't feel comfortable with basic algebra and other high school math, there's Khan Academy, and some books sold to homeschoolers called Saxon Math.

If you haven't had a course in calculus before, maybe you should skim a more intuitive book before or alongside reading Spivak. I don't know of any firsthand, but I heard Calculus for the Practical Man is good. Scans are freely available online (actually, of all these books) and Feynman famously learned calculus from it when he was 12.
Fully agree that Apple needs to do more to support users who work across multiple countries. I still have apps purchased with different accounts and need to enter a range of passwords everytime I do a restore.

Have you tried speaking with iTunes Support. They are very helpful and can sort out your missing purchases.

> It's not completely Apple's fault

It's not even remotely Apple's fault. Content licenses have always and likely will always be done country by country. And seriously 1 currency ?
DNSimple says it was not a direct attack on them but rather domains being brought over by new customers. Does anyone know the actual target?
Because they don't make any money, because only the sorts of shitty practises people often complain about are what enables making money providing free services.

If enough people were actually willing to pay to use a search engine you could have an awesome search engine with none of that.
the comment you made was "Glad I paid 930 dollars for a device I can only use with music from their store from one computer".

Maybe you want to reword that to "Glad I paid 930 dollars for a device that can only sync music from one of my computers but sync all the rest of my data across as many devices as I want".
I'm not sure there is a compelling reason to distribute final music pieces in 192kHz.

I can only speak from my own experiences, and I record and mix in 24/96 but for reasons that don't really relate to music distribution. When doing further processing, some plugins sound better with their algorithms taking 96k instead of 44k. Every plugin has been written with compromises. And I find I can push hires audio further in the digital domain before unpleasant artefacts arise.

It's very much like image processing. If you take a picture with a cheap basic 1 mega pixel camera and then play with the curves and sharpness, at a certain point smooth graduated colour becomes "posterised". If you take the shot with a DSLR (with 12 bits of each primary colour) then you can push the image a lot further before the posterisation occurs.

I have found the same occurs for audio. I can manipulate the sound with less artefacts when its hires. The plugins sound more transparent and smoother. I tend not to go above 96kHz because this effect is achieved at 96, and 192 (to my ears) sounds no better and I'd just have bigger files and more CPU load from the plugins processing the extra data.

The bandwidth of 96kHz is just short of 50kHz, so if as an added benefit I satisfy the one in a million Geoff Emerick's, then all the better.

But then once the final mix is rendered and no more processing needs to be done, ie for distribution, then this hires advantage seems moot. Maybe there is still some advantage for people or devices that may post process the sound digitally in some way, like a digital equaliser in your playback device, or something like that. But then again, that device could always upsample before processing.

I tend to use 88kHz if the final destination is intended to be CD, and 96kHz otherwise (so there is less aliasing when sample rate converting to 44kHz).

The reason I harp on about the bit depth is because in my experience that is where we are falling short. If I take my hires sources and convert to 44 or 48 with a high quality SRC I hear no difference at all. But when I change to 16 bit the difference is enormous. There is always a degredation. And it's never a good thing. It seems silly to just be throwing away that bit depth because of a 1982 format that people aren't even listening on anymore.

Also on the topic of SRCs, this site has some interesting comparison. For the record I do my SRC conversion with iZotope RX 64 bit SRC. http://src.infinitewave.ca/

So in conclusion, I want 24 bit tracks. If they're given to me as 44, 96, 192... whatever. As long as they're 24 bit. Enough with the 16 bit! :D
Twitter recently stated they had roughly 1 SRE / 10K nodes.
I'd like to second this, and by that, I mean scream it from a rooftop.

As /u/GuiA says, "I feel like Tesla might be worth it in the long term." Tesla isn't going to be Apple in my opinion though, they're going to be Google for mobility and energy storage. If you're an automaker who isn't stupid enough to go after fuel-cells, you're going to need automotive cells, and Tesla will be waiting to sell those cells to everyone.

Renewables continue to deploy at an increasing rate, but base load is still a problem. Would you rather install new nuclear or combined cycle natural gas plants? Or lithium (ion, polymer, whatever) cells stacked in cargo containers at critical power grid locations to smooth out supply and demand? Tesla will be there to sell you those too, as well as the battery packs for your home (made from repurposed Tesla vehicle packs that are no longer feasible for mobility, but are just fine for stationary applications).
By that logic, someone in Arizona has no claim to a job in California.

In fact, someone in Sacramento has no claim on a job in San Francisco.
"SCM" can stand for different words, depending who's uttering it, but where fossil stands is this: it fills the same role as git or mercurial. Its a DSCM (which I read as "distributed source control management"). Fill out the acronym as you see fit.

Edit: typo, grammar
It's true that moderation comments break the guidelines by being off-topic locally, but they help the site conform better to the guidelines globally.

I post those links so readers know why a story is being treated as a dupe, and so submitters see examples of how to search for this before posting.

This case is particularly clear: the project (which I don't doubt is excellent work, by the way) has had major attention twice recently, including as late as last week. Normally we look for just one major post in the last year. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
I don't know. I haven't seen a good breakdown of labor requirements for solar over time.

I suspect many of the jobs are in sales and marketing as well, which may well get optimized out.
Mesos itself doesn't do scheduling - it merely does allocation and allows applications built on top of it to schedule to workload.
Seems ripe for a Craigslist-type model: keep the code and servers as simple and efficient as possible, cover costs by charging for one or two high-value services that make sense, and let everything else function as a free marketplace.
here I also found this website http://codingmath.com where they only teaches you math and how to apply it to program i found it very interesting. you should give it a try too.
Hm, I'm not sure this is directly connected to dependent types though? The example has

val securityRepresentation = R(numSecurities)
val pcaRepresentation = R(numSecurities)

and gives the error

[error] found : securityRepresentation.V
[error] required: pcaRepresentation.V

But securityRepresentation and pcaRepresentation are the same thing! If the Scala typechecker was more agressive, it could deduce that these types are equal. (And in a pure language like Coq and Agda, this would compile).

So I think this example is more about details of the Scala type system (nominal typing, coarseness of type equality) than about dependency as such.
There's Amazon Music. I just searched briefly and saw quite a few music apps too.
Amazon music isn't broken/DRMed, and hasn't ever been. It is just standard MP3s, and I play them in iTunes all the time.

It is (very marginally) more hassle to buy them from Amazon and then drag them into iTunes, but hey, it feels good to fight The Man. (Plus, albums are often $2 or $3 cheaper on Amazon than in the Apple music store.)

EDIT: history of the DRM-free Amazon Music store: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Music
This is a bit of a divergence, but a fun way to practice what you learn is Project Euler, which will link it to your programming. https://projecteuler.net/ It's more of an applied problem set of increasing difficulty than learning from first principles though.
I had the same problem with math. There are two books which changed my mindset forever:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_Mathematics%3F

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

The first one is the general book about math. It's a classical book.

The second one is Donald Knuth's book written specifically for computer science guys.
WebSharper 3 alpha now under Apache 2
List of artificial objects escaping from the Solar System
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7853786
Betterexplained.com has many very good intuitive explanations of mathematical concepts. Elements by the publishers of Dragonbox will give you reasonable intuition for geometry. If you just want to use calculus Silvanus P. Thom(p?)son's Calculus Made Easy is excellent. Linear Algebra Done Right and LAD Wrong are both good books. LADW is free, legally.

The Art of Problem Solving series of books are uniformly excellent.
How do i get in touch with you? I have honed my math / ML skills over many years in academic research - we should definitely talk!
> The most stable way to supply blood glucose is by eating fat.

I would like to see a citation for this. My metabolics text book says that generally fat cannot be made into glucose. Only the glycerol bit can, and that is only a small fraction of the calories in fats.

There may be just a germ of truth in what you say, in that for some people eating large amounts of carbohydrate leads to drastic fluctuations in serum glucose.
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We've got a lot of building out of solar capacity to do, though with rates of growth, it could be a majority (not "significant", but "majority") component of electrical generation in a decade or so. High growth rates from a low base tend not to be sustained though. Regardless, we'll be building out infrastructure for a while.

Once built, solar will need replacement at ~5% of installed base per year (based on a 20% lifespan).

Yes, large-installation construction should be less expensive than rooftop retrofitting. I also suspect we'll see increasing amounts of integrated solar construction.

As I note elsewhere, I haven't seen a good allocation of labor by phase of solar deployment (e.g., new rollouts, maintenance, ongoing replacement, support and administrative positions, recycling).

Oh, and at some point, recycling of decommissioned panels will also be a thing.
It's a ticketing system for restaurants. It looks like they'll be offering restaurants a $695 per month SaaS product that's an alternative to OpenTable or taking conventional reservations.
That's quite feasible if you're willing to have some single-use item that contains the necessary chemicals. There are hand-held blood analyzers that use little plastic discs for each test. Each disc has a pattern of small slots and channels preloaded with various chemicals needed for the test. A few drops of blood are put into a hole in the disc. The hand-held device then rotates the disc to cause mixing, then spins it at high speed for centrifuging, then looks at different parts of the disc with optical sensors.

It works, but the discs tend to have a high markup, like print cartridges.
"The in-person requirement is one the company is unlikely to let go of"

That's too bad, since this is a place that looks like it'd be very interesting to work at, but with no degree there's no chance in hell I'd be allowed to work in the US (at least so previous attempts have told me), and it looks like remote is a no-go.
More specifically, the DMCA (in the relevant provision) covers bypassing technology that prevents copying.

Copyright law covers copying itself.

So if you bypass some encryption to copy something, we have to look at two different areas of law, one for the bypassing, one for the copying.

Fair use provides some exemptions to the copying.

DMCA exemptions are promulgated by the Library of Congress, developed in consultation with the Copyright Office and after public notice and comment periods, and updated every three years. DMCA exemptions are not automatically renewed, so the exemptions can change radically every three years.

Public comments have frequently requested a catchall fair use exemption to the DMCA, ie, if the anti-circumvention tech was bypassed only in service of a fair use of a work, then there should be no violation of the DMCA.

Such an exemption has been rejected so far, but could be adopted at some point in the future.
Ratio changed as I grew up. As a fresh junior dev, you ask all the questions, as you get more and more senior, it inverts. I consider mentoring the junior folks and passing along whatever tribal knowledge that's not documented yet part of growing into a senior role and have no problem doing it. In fact, I'd rather someone ask me and break my concentration than not ask and go off re-implementing a linked list or something.
Her and her talk are both inspiring.
Yeah, my comment has nothing to do with data, it specifically says music.

Maybe I should reword my comment to be "Glad I paid 930 dollars for a device that can only do what Apple's Business Analysts think is acceptable."
http://www.skunkieacres.com/images/rabbit_box.jpg

A picture of a rabbit in a wooden box => "a cat looking into a bin full of apples"

Mistaking a rabbit for a cat is not too bad. A bin is like a box, I suppose. I'm not sure where the apples came from.
It doesn't matter how high scale google gets, hard drives still fail at the same rate.
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It's a company that makes and sells razors.

It's no more a "tech company" than, say, Gillette.
> It's more likely that this "feature" was a selling point for record companies, not consumers.

From parent:

> I know that if I remembered/knew which songs I bought, I could buy them again and it might not charge me a 2nd time

So if they don't charge you again, then what's the selling point for record companies?
So I've bought music from itunes and amazon. The amazon program, downloads the music, opens itunes and through some scripting magic (applescript) adds those songs to itunes which then auto sync to my ipod. Amazingly seamless.

Requiem was a drm stripper for itunes music and videos. It was a clear that apple figured out what was going on and made software updates to break it. Once apple beat it for good I stopped buying videos (and pretty much stopped watching tv).

Now music is DRM free. Video, saddly is not.
The top sentence is granted - not sure it was ever in question.

The bottom part you use personal anecdotes to support the claim that a broader 'we' do something. I'm not sure, as my personal experience differs. But it does get to exactly what I was saying in the above comment - what the discussion centers about is what counts as 'money' (as you say "referring to non-monetary costs").

I think the place we differ is whether non-fiat scarce resources count as money. I think they do. Historically they have. In economics literature and practice they do.

Or perhaps the reservation is that the scarce resources in this instance are 'soft' resources like attention, screen real estate and personal data? Much of what is traded by financial institutions (for example) today are very virtual - trades of risks, credits (promises), futures, bets. Even real estate is traded on the idea that it occupies space of human attention and investment - not necessarily because it can be used as a means to 'produce' something. I'm hesitant to draw firm lines between these soft assets - I'm not sure where I could sensibly draw them.

Either way, I'm glad we agree that Google costs something. I do think that the OP intended their use of free (in capitals and context) to mean "Google costs nothing."
>I'm a Type 1 diabetic

Me too.

>So please don't talk like you understand diabetic science

Please don't be a condescending prat when what I said is 100% accurate.

Diabetics are allowed to eat sugar, and research indicates that the source of carbs really doesn't matter: http://www.diabetes.org/food-and-fitness/food/what-can-i-eat...

Commonly used and recommended sources of sugar to treat hypoglycemia in diabetics include fruit, soda, juice, candy, sugar, honey and skim milk: http://www.diabetes.org/living-with-diabetes/treatment-and-c...
and sharing state between them? or ensuring that only one is doing things when only one should be doing things? (STONITH needs to be implemented somehow)

the performance penalties you enjoy if you go down the shared disk path (which is still going to be a fun failure when it does fail)
Things you learn at an agency:

1) How to work with clients and help them launch new ideas.

2) How to work quickly and efficiently to launch quickly, with no real responsibility for long term maintenance.

3) Lots of new technologies, based on what clients want and what helps you accomplish #2 quickly.

4) A healthy network of well rounded and skilled individuals in sales, design, and project management.

Now, here's what you won't learn at an agency:

1) How to scale fast growing systems efficiently.

2) Real systems engineering that makes things last.

3) Growth hacking techniques or anything else related to user acquisition.

4) How to hire and manage highly skilled individuals that can do all of the above.

In short, you'll learn different skills, some complimentary, some not. I think agency work is great for learning how to start a startup or a new venture, but it likely won't give you the skills you need to keep a company running and growing.
The second law isn't just "All thermodynamic systems increase in entropy." There's an important bit that follows "..due to the dissipation of energy." The systems you describe are all still limited by the second law - they just won't increase in entropy because they're not dissipating energy. They're all in equilibrium.
I toughed it out for six weeks and I was definitely in ketosis per ketostix testing. I felt as bad as I ever have. So it doesn't work for everyone.
People are talking about ACID, which comes with SQLite for certain, but here's the biggest thing: all that regular data, which has specific relationships to each other, is available in a well understood, battle tested high level language. Not Perl, not Python, not Tcl, but SQL. Some people criticize fossil as unsuitable for the task of managing all the subtle relationships and being able to deftly handle lots of data, because it's written in C. They're missing the forest for the trees. SQL does the heavy lifting here.
I didn't take any offense. As someone else upthread put it, the open-vs-cubicle-vs-office debate is full of opinion and personal preference. I was simply explaining mine, as was requested.
First principles? You're not going to beat:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naive_Set_Theory_(book)

It starts with defining what a set is, then builds up from there while being completely contained. No knowledge is assumed and could be enjoyed by someone with high school maths.
>Access to source is not an ideological imperative, it's a practical necessity.

I have access to the source of tons of stuff, and yet I can't fix it.

Not without spending months on understanding their codebase and going out of my actual projects and work.

(And even then, my fix might not be accepted upstream, so it could be invalidated with any major or even minor version update).

That other's have access too, so someone might fix it, also doesn't work that much. Tons of projects, even extremely popular ones like GTK have but a few commiters, and tons of open bugs.
'The Nature and Origins of Modern Mathematics: an Elementary Introduction' could be a nice complement to the suggestions already here. It's very much first principles, but in a comprehensive and interesting way. You can download it here:
http://cupid.economics.uq.edu.au/mclennan/NatureOrigins/natu...
None of your refs justify your claim that "fat absolutely is converted to sugar".
It's become fairly common in the startup world to have a few remote programmers, usually due to not being able to find local talent with a specialized skill at a good price.

Some big companies are getting into it, largely through acquiring startups or small companies that were already doing it. But these are much more rare. The majority of remote work will be for smaller companies and startups.
Do you suggest finding a closed solution for every problem?