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Seriously are $250,000 signing bonuses and 60% pay increases common in the valley. What level employee is this for. Clearly I'm doing something wrong or need to move to SV asap because I've never heard of that kind of pay here on the east coast outside of maybe NYC
Yeah. I never much saw the value of that, myself -- PCs are relatively cheap these days. But it's the only feature that the Ubuntu phone was offering that made it stand out from Android/iOS/Windows Phone/Blackberry/FirefoxOS/Sailfish. It's launching far later than most of its competitors, with fewer features and a less developed ecosystem to support it -- without some kind of killer app (which this might have been) it's probably DOA.
I'm sorta curious why anyone is using in in flight systems in the first place. Doesn't nearly everyone own personal devices capable of playing hours of music or videos? Even with 32 GB of storage, total, I'm able to hold more video than I can watch in a day.
They reason they both have the "pile of spaghetti" look is that they're both FDM printers. The fact that even the most expensive FDM machines still give that crappy-looking result is because that's all the technology can handle. If he'd compared it with the results from even a consumer-grade SLA machine like the Form 1, let alone professional SLA, SLS or inkjet such as Objet then it would be completely different results.
They're very useful for infrequent (or first-time) travelers, but pointless for frequent travelers.
Well probably 90% of games are just brainless mass entertainment productions and it's quite pointless playing them anyways. But a few games are true works of arts and playing them, just like going through an insightful book/movie, gives you a lot. This might be the most convincing reason if I were to keep playing certain games.
Show HN: Destructive Commons : Voice / Instrumental automatic separation
What is Destructive Commons?
Demixing and sampling. You send the mix as mp3 file, we run a complicated algorithm, and you get separated background and lead tracks as mp3 files. With those, you can do sampling or automatic karaoke.

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Destructive Commons is a wonderful piece of signal processing technology which automatically unmixes an mp3 music file into its vocal and instrumental parts. You upload a mp3 file, you leave your email, and a few minutes later, you get a link for your separated tracks, which is up for a few hours.

Does it work?
Depends. Basically, the algorithm separates stuff that is repetitive from stuff that is not. Usually, you get vocals and instrumentals as separated tracks. You may end up with some guitar solo or such stuff. Indeed, those are not repetitive neither. Furthermore, separation is not perfect at all and you usually end up with sound artifacts. However, with sufficiently noisy covers or hardcore drums over them, that should be nice. Results depend of the original song, the weather and your cat.
Occam's (and Halon's) razor says that volume is set to an arbitrary default ("loud " == "audible") and no one cares to change it. It boggles that any other option is in consideration. In airline has done actual measurements of attention vs volume.
To respond more directly to your question:

Yes you can get better tables with IPy if you remember to load a lib and call a function. With Beaker it just works by default.

Ditto for sharing, Beaker has one-click sharing to the web built in, with IPy you have to load an extension.

On the Mac, Beaker comes packaged as a native app that you just drag to Applications and the Dock.
> Personally I think it is better to have tight laws that are sometimes broken than loose laws that authorize anything.

That's not an unreasonable position, but consider this counterpoint: in the long run, there is more danger in people thinking it's sometimes okay to break laws, than in allowing whatever conduct was going to inevitably happen.
First place is bs
We hope you enjoy it (we're terribly proud of the design....)
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not completely true, as there are more variables at play. 0.1mm vs 0.2mm is the layer height, but you are missing the extrusion width settings. For all you know, the $22,000 was running twice the extrusion width. In addition, just cause a printer was run at 0.2mm doesn't mean that's the smallest layer height it can do, I would expect the printrbot metal to do at least 0.1mm, if not better.
Right, people have been scamming each other face-to-face since history has been recorded (uh, slavery?). The claim that email makes scamming, on the level we've historically seen, easier is laughable. It's text on an LCD screen. Most spam doesn't even get to my eyes and on the rare occasion that it does, it goes straight to the trash bin.
Having been in professional services since before recorded time (in internet terms), that's true if the partners are adverse to screwing people over. But profits can be increased by convincing associates that 2% equity is a big deal and deducting an inflated cost of the equity from their salary and then giving a fraction back as bonus (maybe) at year's end.

The reason that's so common is that a consultancy never makes it's owner's Bill Gates and only rarely PG after selling ViaWeb wealthy.
He's right though - most of the arguments about what PHP is lacking are outdated and obsolete by the massive community undertaking.

Most of the modern day arguments are just bikeshedding arguments. (Function names are inconsistent, etc.) which is, yes, stupid that we've managed to maintain mistakes for decades - in the end it doesn't matter.

What matters is being able to get things done, and that's something PHP developers are fantastic at - even if some of them output the worst code imaginable.
The users are guinea pigs. That's how it's always been.
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To me it sounds like he is frankly a poor micro manager that expects his developers to have boundless enthusiasm for bugs.

Also note this is a double submission his first submission didn't go well so he reposted a week later. Sounds like those two developers are job hunting to me and I would too.
My comment from another thread on this subject:

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Earplugs! I bought a box of foam earplugs that has supplied me for years now. I cut them in half; half an earplug is the perfect length for unobtrusive everyday wear.

I have quantities of half-earplugs stashed in all my pants pockets, in my car, my work bag, and in a little container on my keychain. I wear them in the car, on planes, at the shooting range, when grinding coffee, and especially when putting away dishes. Fucking clanging-together dishes are the loudest things I encounter in my regular routine.

For my kids I bought silicone putty plugs. They work perfectly for little ears, and I keep them with the foam plugs. My kids know where the big orange jar of earplugs is, and they've acquired some of my discipline.
It's a big idea with a huge addressable market potential-- think every car make going back to the Model T.

Here's an interesting article from the recent Detriot autoshow> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/16/business/a-3-d-printed-car...
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Why would such a bar have any repeat customers? The music is loud at a bar because the people are loud because the bar is crowded.

If bars wanted to sell more drinks, they would have more bartenders to reduce the wait times.
Seriously are $250,000 signing bonuses and 60% pay increases common in the valley. What level employee is this for.

The kind that use proper spelling and punctuation, perhaps?
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Kibana dev here, also surprised by your experience. I have 1 million web log documents stored in elasticsearch right now, running on my macbook, and Kibana runs quite fast IMO. Would love to debug this further if you wouldn't mind filing an issue on Github.
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Is there any indication the safety announcements are effective? The fact they dedicate so much time to taking about smoking makes me doubt they are evidence based. United's 787s have a no smoking sign built in to every single seat, at eye level.

I suppose it's possible that they fly places that have such a strong smoking culture that this is an important and useful reminder, but that seems doubtful.

Which makes me call into question the rest of the announcements.

Though, I've found United's new safety video to be so well done, I watch it every time despite having seen it dozens of times already.
DRM?

I never tried watching movies in an airplane, and if I wanted to, I know I'd do it easily. But most people do not get video in a format that they know how to watch in an environment without an internet connection.
I can't remember the last time I heard an in-flight announcement that I actually needed to hear. They're far from "usually important." 99% of flights could happily go from start to finish without a single use of the PA, if it were legal to do so, and if the airline could exercise self-control.

The PA system should be reserved for actual important safety-related announcements. It's outrageous that the same system that would be used to tell you to brace for a crash is also used to repeatedly flog credit cards, duty-free sales, and other such nonsense, training everybody to ignore it.
Likewise, I'm sorry you've had a bad standup experience. A standup should absolutely not be an interrogation, and perhaps I dwelt too much on the "competitive pressure" aspect. That competitive pressure should come entirely from within a developer, just from the normal psychological desire to achieve and do a good job and to know that someone cares about what you're doing. The manager actively needs to counteract the competitive part, to ensure that it's okay in the standup to say "I'm stuck" or "I fucked up" or "I need help".
Development environments should be a team function.

It makes sense to use virtualization, but you should also have a standard build that uses tools like Vagrant.

If a developer has to spend more than an hour to set up a development your process is broken by modern standards.
That was actually the only thing i was really interested in. I guess if they would have done just that and added some text and data and image manipulation apps to the bunch that could downscale nicely to phone, it would have been a crowd magnet. I am not even expecting all features of apps to be present on mobile. Just preview would be often ok too.
If not sequenced, would we not know many of them by traditional identification methods (e.g. staining) ? I'm guessing their sequencing process prevents the concurrent use of these methods, so we can't match up DNA to known bacteria.

As for unculturability, the recent antibiotic discovery that made the news came from learning how to culture soil bacteria. No, we didn't learn what it needs. We just grew it in it's natural environment: dirt.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8852487

Revolutionary. (seriously).
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They are cramped because a lot of people want to be there. If people were uncomfortable they would stop going.
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Yeah, I'm a fan of first thing in the morning--if everyone gets to work at the same time--or after lunch, where it helps ease people back into work whilst digesting.
This is awesome.

Here is a link to the 3d web compass I built and submitted to Hacker News 3 years ago [1] (direct link to a demo @ [2]).

I also released a JavaScript library based on that research that may help others use web device orientation without needing to understand all the math involved [3]. That in turn is based on a primer I made for web developers @ [4].

I hope this helps others who want to use device orientation on the web to build web-based compasses, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality experiences!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4115768.

[2] https://richtr.github.io/Marine-Compass/

[3] https://github.com/richtr/Full-Tilt

[4] https://dev.opera.com/articles/w3c-device-orientation-usage/
Why do you think real estate is unaffordable is some parts of the Bay Area? Some people are getting sky high pay and bonuses.
Right, because no talented engineer has ever spoken anything less than perfect english.
Maybe try to find ways to increase your metacognition frequency? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacognition
Dude, I'm only 29 and I've flown in about 50 or 60 flights. I don't need to hear that I should put on my own oxygen mask before helping a toddler yet again. I get why they do it every flight, but I certainly don't need to pay attention.
I desperately want an all-in-one device like that which I can clip onto my belt, with my phone or desktop or tablet serving as a thin client. Makes me wonder if that could be the future of mobile gaming.
It's like Facebook. You never hear of the boring meals and activities. It's only at most 0.001% of a persons day, the crap they share.

That's how I feel about HN. Theres a large percentage of quality talent that comes here, as well as bullshitters. That combined gives you the illusion that you are stranded in the wrong hemisphere, when in reality 99% of us are here.

That situation is the 1%.
Increases relative to what?
> The kind that use proper spelling and punctuation, perhaps?

Don't you mean "the kind who use proper spelling"?

If you're going to correct someone, at least get it right.
Going a little further with the thought (and I am definitely not a physicist), what if that electron "loop" (or even the "single electron") is itself moving within the four-dimensional space. Could that explain the particle wave function? Meaning a particle's location is expressed as a probability because its location really is random-ish (i.e. the loop is moving around) until it's "locked in" within our subjective "arrow of time" frame of reference by a particle interacting with it.

P.S. I acknowledge that I have absolutely no real-world basis for this idea, just a thought.
That's a bummer. I used to run Debian with OpenBox so I'd often end up sifting through the old CrunchBang forum threads to fix stuff. Just an amazingly nice and supportive community.

Running Debian/OpenBox was pretty cool. I'd imagine if you keep your config files, especially rc.xml and the startup scripts, you could home-roll something quite similar to #!. Although running OpenBox by yourself can be a massive time-suck.
Not all seats come equipped with power sockets. Watching movies on long-haul (transatlantic) flights, after using your device while waiting to board, had a good chance of running the battery flat before the trip is complete.

Economy seats sometimes have a pitch so narrow that it's difficult to get a tablet sitting at a comfortable viewing angle.

Additionally, it's sometimes convenient to use the in-flight entertainment systems when travelling with someone else. My girlfriend and I can watch the same movie, at the same time, without awkwardly balancing a tablet between us and having to use a headphone splitter.
Learn the mathematics that's applicable to the area in which you are interested. That means it's recursive:

function learn x
if x.prerequisties.know()
then study x
else learn x.prerequisites

Not iterative. So start with AI if that's what you want to know.

That's not to say that building up iteratively from foundations is bad. But if it's not directed from the top level, then it may not lead there.
They may save your life.

But yeah, fligh companies do not think they are important enough to bother their customers over them. They do the bare minimum required, and if you don't want to pay attention, they don't care.
Back in the mid-90s I did tech work for a Chicago financial trading firm. I ended up with one of those colorful coats so I could go down to the trading floor and swear at our computers there. (Tech note: there is still no good swear-over-IP protocol; some things apparently you have to do in person.)

It was an amazing place, and I hope somebody collects all the colorful stories that result when you get so many adrenaline junkies together in one place. (E.g., the time somebody punched out a polar bear. Or the the trash bags full of money. Or the snow futures market.) But my guess is that the traders don't really mourn its loss as much as I will. When I was back in Chicago a couple years ago, the Merc had shut down their trading floor at 30 S. Wacker. I stopped in to ask the security guards if the traders missed it. "Those guys? Hah! No, they just left one day and never came back."
Keep a work diary; This will allow you to both list & justify what you have done, and to personally review whether you are doing the right thing as you go along.
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Yeah that's what I meant!
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The volume is not "turned up" on TV commercials. The perceived increase in volume is due to dynamic range compression: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression#Broad...
Hey - You might want to check the agent docs here which have a local configuration file: https://github.com/logentries/le#configuration

So the logs being followed are actually configured in a text file on the servers. This makes it super simple for deploying via chef/puppet in large scale environments.
Few thoughts:

> and opened the decibel meter on my iPhone

These are notoriously inaccurate. To get accurate decibel readings, the mic must be calibrated to absolute known levels (something your App can't do). The App's are basically just comparing relative sounds (this sound is more prominent than this other one, and therefore must be louder... after establishing some relative baseline). Real decibel measuring equipment is very expensive and requires re-calibration routinely. So, measuring 80db could easily be in a swing of +/- 10db's (or more).

> 150dB: Jet take-off at 25 meters (eardrum rupture)

That's not quite accurate. Long term exposure could lead to damage over time, but for comparison a shotgun is typically measured at 165db when it's up against your shoulder and face. Yes, you wear hearing protection (nick-named "ears" if you are a frequent shooter) but your eardrumps aren't rupturing immediately if you take them off.

> What shocked me was the volume of the PA system

Yes, it's loud -- by design. The PA system is not there just to provide something to listen to in case you are bored. In a best case scenario, it's there for the usual "buckle-up" talk and for the pilot to give a greeting. In the worst case scenario, it's there for emergency instructions (a time when panic and passenger noises are likely to get quite loud on their own).
>> Quit wasting your time on bad employees.

It isn't just time. It's money. When you work for a company with a lot of money, it's quite easy to lose sight how much money gets burned on bad employees.

Also, people who are working with what they perceive as bad employees who are basically making the same money as them get demotivated, so keeping them around is risky for morale.

Having said that, managers should make the effort to know if people are genuinely bad or an ill-fit culture-wise before firing.
This is the sole reason why I have turned down every management and team lead position I have been offered. I have no idea how I'd deal with or handle people who work slow, or output what I would deem as low quality. Management is tough.
The 10x people thing is mostly a myth, or applies to vanishing view superstars -- not engineering employees at a large company. 10x producers are people who work on well structured and balanced teams with good management.
Considering most labor protections in the US are written to create an "exempt" employee who is largely unprotected in labor matters, and that exemption is almost entirely for anyone working in the software industry... yeah, unionization and law change would be nice.

If software companies were forced to pay overtime instead of expecting it for no cost, I think work/life balance would look a lot different.
I think it'll be a useful feature to have. Say what you will about "the cloud" and all - syncing local storage and personal customizations is not well solved, so keeping "your pc" in your pocket at all times would be a useful thing to have.
Due to the rampant hostility towards unions, a professional association like what doctors and lawyers have, while serving the same purpose, would be an easier sell.

Implementation is hell though.
I believe the application is that you can make exactly one mug for only $2 and 7h. Then you can make exactly one tumbler. Then you can make exactly one plate. Then you can make exactly one coat hook. Then you can make exactly one collar clip that secures the armrest onto the driver's seat in your car. Then you can make a chess piece to replace the one the dog chewed up. And then you can make a bowling trophy.

Any specialized machine can absolutely annihilate the volume printer on the basis of cost, and for many things also on the basis of quality, but you have to produce thousands of units to pay for the machine.

You don't even need it to be a prototype. You just need to be making something that no one else needs--or not enough other people to warrant building a specialized machine to make that thing.

But then, if you do need that specialized machine, maybe there only needs to be one of those, and you have just the right sort of machine to make unique items....
I think associating yourself to a technology to the point of "end[ing] up in insular micro-communities" is the wrong approach. People shouldn't define themselves as developers based solely on one language (e.g. "I'm a php [only] developer"). I enjoy working with both low level and high level languages, with some more than with others, but they're merely tools. And no tool is the best tool for every problem.
First point in the header "Use photos from Instagram, Facebook, and your computer" what if I wanted to just use my computer photos?
I've made about as much of an effort as I'm willing elsewhere in the thread, sorry.
I'd be curious to look into this further. We use the ELK stack for SSH honeypots and have had traffic spikes of 10,000 login attempts in 10 minutes. All this is processed one a single server with a single cpu and 16GB of ram.

How big was the record for each of the customers? The only thing I can think of was that the records were much bigger than typical.
How can anyone say anything definitive from this little information? Some manager dislikes a few of his employees. Scatterbrained appearances can be indicative of so many things: a poor work environment, terrible communication, lack of culture, or no team gelling. There's also just people unqualified for their job, but a 50% miss rate in hiring? That sounds unlikely. Or like your biggest problem.
Just because it's the internet, doesn't mean I was being critical. I was just providing some mathematical context.

I used the racing analogy in the price comparison. It's cheap to make up a margin of minutes on the fastest car. It's really expensive to make up fractions of a second.