skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You heard it right, the second one was the equal temperament (i.e. the wobbly one). I had mixed them up by accident, but now they are labelled correctly.
Not necessarily. When I was growing up in Catholic Ireland we used to eat the communion wafer but only the priest drank the wine - more because it would have been impractical to serve to hundreds of people than any other reason, but also partly from hygiene considerations. I asked our priest about it once (I was an alter boy) and his response was that it was just too much hassle and they were glad to abandon the practice. Back then churches used to be packed 4 times a day on Sundays so I can see how it would be a headache. I used to get hand cramps from holding the little metal plate under people's chins to prevent the communion wafer falling on the floor.
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Doing native BGP would allow them to anycast, which would increase their reliability and allow them to sink traffic much more easily. DDOS traffic sink starts announcing your AS and anycast IP block close to the traffic source, sinking that traffic and allowing real traffic through.
Looks like a good start. Though in my experience the best PostgreSQL GUI is EMS SQL Manager (http://www.sqlmanager.net/en/products/postgresql/manager), bar none. As someone who's been using PostgreSQL for over 10 years now, nothing comes close. Honestly, every other GUI/manager feels pretty basic in comparison, even Navicat. If you're on a Mac, it's most definitely worth using it in VMWare Fusion, or Parallels.

An aside: I don't work for them, and yes, I do buy their licenses.
callbacks.forEach(Function.prototype.call.bind(Function.prototype.call));

It is just as long as the original and more convoluted, but much more fun.
My god no. Don't even waste your time with VPSs and BIND.

* Get accounts with AWS (Route 53), dnsmadeeasy, and cloudflare.

* Monitor resolution at all of their name servers

* Either proactively spread your authoritative nameservers across providers, or update your root NS records based on your monitoring.
I wasn't citing a source that conflicts with tokenadult's claims, I was just pointing out that if you actually track down his citations you find that none of them point to actual data supporting his broad claim. Rather, he takes a speculative statement based on a hypothetical scenario that is very unlikely to hold, and then presents it as fact.

That's all I should really need to do to convince a reader that they can't trust him to represent his sources fairly, but for completeness you can just read that the World Bank's life expectancy predictions for a child born today in the US is 79 and in the UK 82.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN

Indeeed, this news article

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10511865/Two-th...

explicitly describes where the funny business arises:

The most commonly quoted life expectancy figures for the UK say that the current
generation of baby girls will live on average until they are just 82.7 while boys
will survive just 79 years. But using the ONS’s alternative “cohort life
expectancy” method – which assumes that survival rates will continue to improve
at the current rate – today’s baby girls are already expected to live to 93.9
years while boys would reach 90.6 years, taking them well into the 22nd Century

The only way to get this ridiculous claim about people routinely living to 100 is by assuming that the historic rise in life expectancies will continue, but this is extremely unlikely to happen as confirmed by any official source or actuary table you care to consult.

> Semi-anonymous internet posters

I know what you mean, but I think I'm about as non-anonymous as you can get on the internet. My HN user page contains a link to my personal website, which has my legal name, photographs of me, my place of employment, email address, and mailing address. (And my personal webpage links back to my HN account.)
Yes, there's been a recommendation floating around for a long time that branch/call targets should be 16-byte aligned. However, my experience is that modern x86 is basically almost completely insensitive to alignment in general (there are some small exceptions, like avoiding crossing cacheline boundaries in a loop.) It wouldn't surprise me if the NOPs only helped on earlier models, had no effect or even a negative effect on more recent CPUs, and were just left in out of tradition.
It isn't true; different people assign different meanings to the same emoticon.
Only for five more years.
The data needed for searching (titles, abstracts, and other metadata), at least for biology-related articles, is already available in an XML dump from NIH. The public interface is called PubMed, so you can already search for Nature articles, just not within full text.

I have actually tried to do what you are suggesting before, so I could bulk-download PDFs (I have an institutional subscription). The problem is that the URLs are different for every journal, and some have Javascript that makes automated downloading hard. Since there are thousands of journals, it's very tedious to try to invent a generalized solution.
I'm referring to the SME term used in business scope. Where a SME is proven through some standardized way, that makes it impossible for someone not so vetted to have input. Amateur being someone who has interest and knowledge but doesn't meet the checklist to have an opinion.

Like http://www.opm.gov/FAQS/QA.aspx?fid=a6da6c2e-e1cb-4841-b72d-...
I actually meant dirty in the sense of "It is not clean and clear-cut" but that was interesting information.
Overtone singing itself isn't very common in barbershop music, but their harmonies certainly make use of overtones. Here's a performance of a song called Play That Barbershop Chord (a stable in the genre). It's not instructive, but it's got some great harmonies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5bYnRkwpco

Here's a fairly technical article about three different seventh chords, one (the harmonic seventh) being the so-called barbershop seventh chord. There are embedded YouTube videos with computer-generated audio samples. http://www.garygarrett.me/?p=1575
The typography and layout, colors all seem pretty generic or even slightly unlike google, but I agree.

It must just be the Open Sans. I didn't realize how much I had it associated with Google's usage.
Anybody can shed some light on the difference between "CNAME flattening" and ALIAS?
Shellshock wasn't because of a feature that no one used, just a feature that no one thought about. That feature is the mechanism for how functions are passed to subshells--something that happens automatically, out-of-view of the programmer, but is used frequently nonetheless.
There are some multi-track barbershop videos on Youtube which are good examples of over-the-top overtones. The fact that it's the same person (with the same timbre, "overtone profile") doing all the voices seems to amplify the effect. Here's one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpU_X6VKqvA
Loops can be implemented with JMPs, and it would be Very Bad if every iteration of a loop invalidated caches. (In fact, it would be Very Bad if just about anything common invalidated caches, given how important they are to modern CPU performance.)
Better headline: Nature will allow subscribers and media to decide who else can view articles for free
"Effective utilization of tax policy."

Frankly, I'd rather the money go into Elon's pocket than the government's.
Me as hypocrite
What is not in Plan 9
Those are innate dependencies, and almost all definitions of a dependence disorder include that the dependence must cause social, occupational, or recreational issues.

Check out the DSM4 criteria for substance dependence[1], but note that it has been phased out in the DSM5. They merged it with substance abuse to form "Substance Use Disorder."

[1] http://www.buppractice.com/node/454

[2] http://www.buppractice.com/node/4621
Paid editorial and peer review? Also, if a print-copy is being produced, someone has to type-set it, even if there's also a digital copy.
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Serious question, what are they burning $300 mil on? AND, if they are getting $300 mil from Google every year, why on earth is it asking me for donations on my Firefox start tab?

To help answer my own question, Googled it. Got this:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2012/f...
Sure...as long as I don't care about security patches, bug fixes, performance improvements, or new features.
It wouldn't be too hard to give it some justification. The smaller tiles could have hills or forests that would naturally slow down movement. Or perhaps go back and redistribute the smaller tiles after terrain generation?
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you're correct about ALIAS (although practically, it doesn't matter: people are going to use the apex whether it's proper or not at this point). i'm more referring to other complex usually-proprietary capabilities of big dns providers, especially traffic routing features. routing semantics are generally not translatable across providers, and if you're using dns based routing (as most cdns, major web properties, etc are) then doing multi-network dns gets a lot harder. if you're amazon, you write and maintain a bunch of code to span providers. if you're not, the barrier to multi-network is high if you're doing more than static dns.
Any details about the setup? I live in a suburb of a mid-sized city, but I can be in pretty dark skies in an hour or so. This seems like something that would be really neat to get into.
It's a video chat client that doesn't require an account on a central server.
Nuclear and thermonuclear tests have left areas of land radioactive and uninhabitable. Trinity and the many later tests blew radioactive dust across the U.S., and there is no reason to believe that this did not have any health effect on the population [1]. The Bikini Atoll and nearby islands were evacuated with the promise that the population could return, and are still uninhabitable to this day [2]. There are probably other examples.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/articles/decades-after-nuclear-test-u-...

[2] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing_at_Bikini_Ato...
Let's rename Squaw Valley! (http://squawalpine.com/) BTW, it hosted a Winter Olympic.

(just to make sure: this is a joke proposal)
Peer review is not paid. I assume costs are for the staff editors (PhDs), copy editors, type setters, print and distribution costs, etc.

Source: I have published in nature
Yeah, sure you could implement that in the memory controller, but it seems like a waste of silicon to do something that you really shouldn't be needing to do very often anyways. And even if it could, it would be saturating the bus bandwidth that the CPU would be waiting on otherwise. So you're most likely to just end up with an idle CPU anyways, so might as well use the silicon we have already.

Edit: Ohh, I forgot to mention that you will have to update/invalidate any resident cache lines on the CPU also, which requires communicating with the CPU.
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Good analysis. It actually uses the 64 x 16 text mode which has semigraphics yielding a 128 x 48 display. I only use 112 x 48 due to floppy disk bandwidth limits. I'm thinking of trying the 40 x 24 text mode. The 80 x 96 resolution would be a little nicer despite having two difference sizes of pixels. Or go the full 160 x 96 but that would require data compression of the video.

The hires adapter card has pretty serious write bandwidth limitations though there are possibilities if you're willing to put up with severe screen hashing.

It is pretty surprising how good 31250 Hz 1 bit audio can sound. As long as you set your expectations reasonably. "Was recognizable and didn't make my ears bleed too much" is about right.
Developers. Plain and simple Mozilla pays market wages and has lots of developers.
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The new search bar is in no way improved. I have to always keep in mind what my default search engine is now since they removed the icon, and I can no longer do multiple searches on a different search engine without having do a lot of extra clicking. Any way to fix it?
It wasn't quite hot swapping as only one floppy can be active at a time. Still, even with a whole 7.76 seconds I was worried I would crack under the pressure.
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> Sailors and scientists needed to know the range and lethality of underwater nuclear explosions. Would they harm the crews, ships and planes delivering the weapons?

This reminded me of the Mark 45 nuclear torpedo exhibit at the USS Bowfin mueseum at Pearl Harbor. The targeting procedure was for the torpedo to be "aimed in the general direction and to the far side of the target, in order to place as much distance as possible between the submarine and the nuclear explosion." Yikes. See http://svsm.org/gallery/mk45/IMGP6756
My main gripe is that intervals should be zero-indexed instead of one-indexed. A double octave is known as a fifteenth. Wouldn't it be nicer if the octave was called a seventh, and the fifteenth was called a fourteenth?

There's also a concept known as inverted intervals, which are formed by moving downwards instead of upwards. The inverse of a major third is a minor sixth, because that's the interval you get (modulo octaves) by moving down a major third from your root note. The inversion n is given by 9-n. With zero-indexing, inversions would be given by simple modulo seven arithmetic.
> ...and the actuarial community is in a state of what passes in their staid halls for great upheaval for some years now, issuing ever more politely alarmed statements about their growing inability to predict the future longevity upside.

I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean, but it sounds like you're admitting that essentially all actuarial tables, across many nations, industries, and governments, agree that this trend cannot continue.
Huge thanks to Mike for the favorable write-up. Please everyone give what you're able, and if you're a developer we're always happy for more help. If anyone has any questions I'm happy to field them here, or ask them on the discussion forums on Snowdrift.coop, or in the IRC channel on freenode.
For some reason I don't see "Hello" client in the Linux version.

And I don't like the new search bar - it's too cluttered and not really useful for those who rely on DDG search bangs which offer way more direct search options and don't require mouse clicks.

You can revert the search bar to classic style by setting this key in about:config

browser.search.showOneOffButtons = false

What could be good however if Firefox somehow could integrate DDG search bangs in the browser search bar itself. That would be awesome since it would save an extra trip to DDG. But that would require Mozilla to synchronize bangs list with DDG periodically.
>you might as well call us all air addicts.

This is a ridiculous dismissal of a serious issue, and frankly it reads like you and the parent commenters didn't bother to RTFA.

>through a combination of excessive time spent online and that time interfering with necessary social and professional activities, Internet use would result in either mental distress or clinical impairment, akin to the type of inability to function associated with pathological gambling

Does that read like your typical book club member?
Hence why I suggested conducting the tests over the ocean, or perhaps under the ocean. Notwithstanding, the radioactive fallout and uninhabitable land do not seem to come close civilization dooming effects. They do not even necessarily suggest a propensity for us to do stupid things, as we may very reasonably choose to allocate a certain region for scientific testing of things that would leave a large region uninhabitable (be it nuclear/chemical/other).

Of course, this is all assuming that all species are like us in terms of the dangers of nuclear testing. I am fairly confident that we would be very simmilar in terms of the direct effects of the explosion, but I would expect the effect of the radioactive aftermath to vary between species from different planets. Assuming that other species have the same basic mechanisms as we do for radiation problems, they might come from planets where with higher radiation (or higher radiation events/regions) than Earth, and have evolved more aggressive defensive/reparative measures for it.
When you are feeling all touchy feely about this move, keep in mind the profit margins at academic publishers are higher than Apple. Yes, THAT Apple.

Source: https://alexholcombe.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/scholarly-publ...
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>Most people that use it have no problem, but I believe they developed their overall understanding almost independent of the terminology

Not really. At least in Europe, and at least for the last couple of centuries, musicians learned and developed their understanding of music through studying its formal theory and terminology.

The only exception was autodidacts, which through common in folk music traditions, was not common in urban environments in Europe for classical or contemporary popular music.
Yikes indeed. I have to wonder if the sailors aboard the victory ships closest to the blast in the linked article knew the level of danger they were in. Absolutely terrifying.
True!

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>Wouldn't it be nicer if the octave was called a seventh, and the fifteenth was called a fourteenth

How would that be better?

>The inversion n is given by 9-n. With zero-indexing, inversions would be given by simple modulo seven arithmetic.

Again, how module arithmetic is simpler than a simple deduction from 9?
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When people express these sentiments, I like to remind them that about 100 years ago Penicillin was discovered. About fifty or sixty years ago hip replacements became a thing.

Sure the problems we have to solve are getting progressively harder, but we are also getting progressively better at solving them with new platform technologies like genetic manipulation and finer control of immune biotechnology. I think medicine is going to be substantially better in 50 years seeing as nearly all of the development in medicine has occurred in the last two or three hundred years at an accelerating pace with most of the development occurring in the past 100.

In response to your PS, I'd like to note that stem cell therapies are just starting to be approved. That field has an incredible amount of promise for developing replacement parts. Sometimes all it takes is an injection of the stuff prepared in the right way rather than wholesale surgical replacement.
Sure, if they are hunting for the correct keys that is a bad sign. However I don't equate super fast typing with actual speed of progress. Very rarely am I coding as fast as I can type. In fact, that never happens.
>The jargon we use is not some perfectly designed DSL, it's a catalog of concepts accumulated over decades and centuries. It's not master planned, it's organic sprawl.

Organic is usually better than "master planned". Evolution et al...
Actually, despite increasing chronic conditions and obesity, people are living longer lives, with morbidity compressed into a shorter period of frailty and pain at the end. Boring incremental progress has made real gains.

And for dramatic, status quo changing efforts, we now have Google's Project Calico.
> How would that be better?

It would be better because a fifteenth is a double octave, but eight times two is not fifteenth.

> Again, how module arithmetic is simpler than a simple deduction from 9?

Because you'd be able to base both concepts on octaves (well, renamed to sevenths) being seven steps on the scale.
Hey I used to do the same thing! Yo-yo's were a fad when I was in primary school, so I'd buy the from the flea market and sell them at a mark-up at school. Also, bulk lollies -- absolutely brilliant for making change at school. When we had a "paper hornet" war, I sold prepackaged "ammo" kits!
Ahh, ok. I misread your post then, sorry.
Seeing this on a 4mhz machine with such low specs makes me wonder what sort of impractical demos might be possible on modern equipment that harbingers of things to come 20-30 years. Can anyone think of anything off the top of their heads?