skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you're doing serious audio in Linux

Except I am not. And I guess it would be the same case for the vast majority of people who have Android devices.

It is only a "Solved Problem" if you are talking exclusively about sound systems that are designed to deal with latency. The problem I was stating is that you can not transparently run "serious audio" and common desktop applications that rely on alsa/pulseaudio.

I would consider it a "Solved Problem" when I can get to install Audacity, Skype, my web browser, the mentioned usb interface connected and I can run some effect software... and run them all concurrently without caring how to setup the sound system. People can do that in MacOS/iOS/Windows, and they can't do that in Linux (GNU or Android).
I always dress for an interview one step above the "norm" as a nod to the formality of the occasion.

So if everyone dresses in jeans and a t-shirt I might wear slacks and a polo or jeans and a button down shirt. If they wear business casual I'd probably wear a suit (though probably sans jacket).
> So, if you've had a failed startup, how did you know?

When I was getting serious about it, rather than just hacking in my free time, I made the decision as to how I would know I'd lost before I started the company. I said I'd pay myself as an employee, and that as an employee if the company couldn't/wasn't going to be able to pay my wages, or if my savings went as low as £25,000, that was it - I wouldn't work for my company any more.

I knew it had finished because I shot it in the head and called it finished.

> Did you run out of money and call it quits?

Sort of, I ran out of the money I was prepared to lose in the gamble.

It's easy to hang on to hope, comforted by the image of the gambler coming in for the big win after sticking to their guns. But, if you're going to do that, you'd best have a really good reason (not faith in the product or hard work or anything nebulous like that, something you can plug into Kelly Criterion) or it's no smarter than all those people losing money in Vegas. Of course, if you'd only ever spoken to the people who'd won big in Vegas, then you would think that was a smart thing to do.

What you're buying with money is time. More throws of the dice. Well, chances are if you didn't make it in the first £500,000, or £1,000,000 or whatever your initial kitty is, the time that some piddling amount (compared to the budget of a company) buys you isn't going to make an appreciable difference.

> I'm 25, I feel like I'm losing at life already. It was okay to be broke earlier, because it's expected. It's not anymore, when almost none of your peers are. Also, I'm not in a developed country, where being broke means living on ~$1k a month. I've been living on ~$200 a month.

Gamblers lose from time to time, it happens. But the nice dis-analogy with gambling is that in life, as long as you're breathing and not in jail or something like that, there's a chance to make something of yourself. You shouldn't spend those chances on foolish things, but they're there.

A start-up is not your life. Five years down the line you could be just as rich as the age-adjusted median wealth for your category would suggest.
Control freaks (aka DRM proponents) are commonly paranoid.
Solving the Cheryl's Birthday Problem with Prolog
> Wear a helmet. They not only save you from dangerous environmental situations, but they save you from yourself.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/do-bik...

http://www.californiahealthline.org/insight/2015/bicycle-hel...

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/19036/feds-will-sto...
Ah, so here's the trick. However I have my modifier keys set up for my external (non-Mac) keyboard means I can't really use them. I use my Caps Lock in Emacs for the C modifier, but in OS X my Alt key is the one that works in normal text inputs.
the first number is the chord number (which should have been notated as a roman numeral, and should have differentiated between major and minor with capital and lowercase). The rest of the arabic numberals indicate the inversion using figured bass http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figured_bass
The "t" text object should work in all modes, if it isn't working for you then there's something going wrong.
The footer alludes to that: "Peter Norvig (Copyright 2001—2014)"

I tracked the page on web archive, and it existed at least since 1998. Here is a funny edit over the years:

1998: Let's analyze what a title like Learn Pascal in Three Days could mean:
2009: Let's analyze what a title like Learn C++ in Three Days could mean:
2014: Let's analyze what a title like Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours could mean:

:)
Wouldn't that mean a loss of benefits with the rebel alliance?
evil-surround is not necessary for dat, that is present in core evil.
Canonical's packaging of the Nvidia drivers is risible.
It really is easier just to pull the driver and CUDA installers from the nv site and install manually.
Or use the Amazon Linux AMIs which just DTRT.
That's what stands out to me too. Which HR 101 class did they miss to make a statement like that to the interviewer?
That's a great question. I have assumed that Jedi justice would follow a vaguely American/European precedent based system but now I see that was strictly projection on my part.
Part of that valuation has to do with size and breadth.

Uber is currently available in 56 countries, how many is Addison Lee available in?

If there was no such thing as Uber, and no one else was allowed to write a taxi app other than Addison Lee, it would easily be worth $40 billion.
The only reason why I switched laptops was because I got a new one as part of my work. I'd still be using it otherwise.
Completely beside the point. Many here have a day job. Horrible try.
I'm pretty sure you can do the same thing with expand-region and smartparens combined and is more general than manipulating sexp.
I parsed it as saying
"in the original trilogy the only trained force-sensitive people we hear of are 3 human male and Yoda."

STOP, now a related thought about why one of them is unlikely to reproduce due to the limited female characters in the movie.
"On top of that we have a brother and a sister."

But I can see how your reading of it would make sense, since it removes the potential count error I read it as having.
The public didn't need to know that this woman's mother was trying to find her a new job and, probably out of ignorance about the whole Sony vs World situation, contacted someone at Sony about it. But I guess WikiLeaks doesn't care, as long as it hits Sony directly. If only they could take a lesson from Snowden.
I'm reading that now! Sadly, after the first section where he derives the diatonic scale, I'm getting a bit lost. He stresses how important it is to play along with a musical instrument while reading, but I've been insistent on just reading in bed (which is how I do all my reading). But that first section is great.
Awesome! Hadn't seen that one before. I think Axis of Awesome almost ripped him off.
I can call myself a lion but that doesn't make it so.

Reality is objective. Get over it.

As for my actual point: "Doing X makes you Y" is about public perception, not self-perception. If you conflate the two, you do more damage to yourself than anything I could ever say.
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I can echo this post. I've been using Rethink for a few years now on side projects (as well as maintaining a driver, even if I skip a few server versions here and there...but these guys move fast).

The composable queries alone are enough to make any developer happy. You can pretty much treat your data as if it's in-memory because the drivers integrate so well with the language. The relational model works really well.

Things I have not tried yet are clustering and the real-time support (still need to build this into the lisp driver) but I'm trying to slot some time to do this. One of the projects I'm working on (https://turtl.it) is going through a nice upgrade to mobile right now, and this will include some server changes...I'm looking forward to implementing changefeeds to solidify the collaboration aspect.

Overall I've been really impressed with Rethink over the years, and can't express how excited I am they hit production ready. On top of the DB being great, the team is really nice to work with. They are incredibly responsive on github and were really helpful when I was first starting to build out my driver.

Great post, and congrats to the Rethink team!
A QUIC update on Google’s experimental transport
They're not even Grid K520s, they're K5000s. They've only got 4 gigs of RAM each, instead of the 5 gigs for teslas or 8 gigs for the K520s. This sounds a lot like they're trying to pull a little bit more value out of their current gpgpu rigs as they slide further and further into obsolescence.

Edit:

Looking again at the pricing and specs, it looks like they're just letting you have a full gpgpu box, instead of the multi-tenant box they previously offered where you share with three other people.
"Start" is nothing. I'm not sure why they even put it there. The first chord of the songs are represented by the second column.
Gotcha. Figured there was something similar for women. Always suit up.
Looking forward to see how it performs on Android. Even WebViews in Cordova runs smooth on iOS.
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men,
I will find something in them which will hang him."

Sony Pictures is the American subsidiary of a multinational corporation - merely by virtue of their size and power, they have to be guilty of something.
> If that's legitimately your opinion on that topic then I suggest you expand your knowledge.

So, If my knowledge were expanded I would think NoSQL is an equally valid option, and not a worse one? I hesitate to do any more expansion because of this panel held in 2014 [0] asking weather we are in a big data bubble, and probably answering "yes", but I wasn't there.

Simple query language is REALLY good too. It has a kind of general usefulness.

> Keep in mind that NoSQL doesn't mean schemaless. You can have a schema and be NoSQL

Can you also have SQL and be NoSQL?

[0] http://people.csail.mit.edu/tatbul/publications/sigmod14_pan...
Interview with Donal Holland from Soft Robotics Toolkit
You should build-in support for other Bootstrap form layouts, such as ".form-horizontal".

http://getbootstrap.com/css/#forms

Just a thought! Nice work.
The one thing I hate about emacs client (and I was bitching about it on #emacs the other day as well) is that in OS X, a windowed client will just "hang" when exited. It will still be visible in the cmd-tab list, and thus isn't truly exited. Hence, if I want to remove that annoying non-running client, I basically have to kill the daemon and restart. This is particularly annoying when I'm editing configuration.

And in many cases, using just the terminal isn't enough because there are quite a few quirks when using emacs in the terminal, the most recent one I found was that <shift><tab> is interpreted as M-[.

I wish there was some way to fix this. :(
I was with you until you introduced the need for voluntary "disposability" on the part of males as a requisite to earn a place in society. I don't see self immolation in any form as being respected or admired, in the USA anyway.

I think all adult males don't inherit a natural place in society simply because they are males, the way that females do as mothers. Fatherhood just doesn't fill the bill comparably, perhaps because it's seen as only a part-time vocation. Thus a man must seek other ways to demonstrate his value.

Making lots of money or attaining power are perhaps the chief means to earning respect. But becoming a Warrior is widely seen as a good way to demonstrate the requisite desiderata -- leadership, courage, self sacrifice, inner strength, outer strength, loyalty, stoicism, a sense of purpose, a sense of honor, and more. Having more of these makes you more of a constructive contributor to society. You're a man among men.

Very few jobs or social roles can serve even a few of these components of character. Historically, going to war has been an established and respected way to demonstrate you are indeed made of sterner stuff.

Of course, if your war has a dubious justification or muddied purpose, that will complicate its ability somewhat to define you favorably. Aside from WWII and perhaps WWI, American wars since 1865 largely have been Faustian bargains. The fact that young Amercian men continue to enlist in the service of what are too often Wars of Opportunity indicates that, in our culture, alternative ways of proving your mettle have proven elusive.
Every bully was at some point a victim. Many who suffer from sexual assault early on are in very real danger of being warped from victims into aggressors. It is important to remember that everyone becomes something through a process. Not a defense for bullies; i just think we should attack the root cause and not the symptom.
> Therefore, no more need to ask questions -- just switch to it!

Well, sure, if you want to twist my words then go ahead.

What I said rather clearly, but seems to have been lost on you, is that questions not asked in earnest but in flippant disregard for the developer's choices are not welcome.

And my statement on the hate Go gets is certainly defensible. I never questioned the criticisms, I'm not here to say Go is perfect, only to rail against the senseless vitriol that is guaranteed to fill the comments on every Go-related link posted to Hacker News.
Not if you want to power missions like New Horizons. That far away from the Sun, nuclear power is the only option.
Caret generator – useful for dropdowns, arrows, etc.
Rates of Exchange by Malcolm Bradbury, The Aeneid, on and off The Cultural History of Modernity by Egon Friedell, but clearly need to read up on modern Javascript.
Are they reclusive monks, or are they in hiding from genocidal tyrants?
I think that innovators and early adopters care. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_lifecycle
I've been at it for 4 years, and I feel like I'm almost ready to start trying to learn the difficult parts.
Join us if you are in SF,
http://www.meetup.com/SF-React-Native-Meetup/

We just had our first meetup last night and it was awesome!!!
I would say the sphere has a counterweight system and separate magnet system to link with the head (because the robot is able to move its head to the side without moving when it needs to). I'd imagine there's magnets in the sphere and head, and the head has powerered wheels/rollers as well. Its a very sophisticated trick.
You aren't try http://tarantool.org where you can do with data anything.
Learn to program in 10 days, learn to debug over 10 years.
It's always been that way if you want good healthcare (or have a union). Hopefully this will push things towards single payer. I'd rather pay out my taxes than pay out of my pre tax income.
"RethinkDB is interesting" - absolutely

"RethinkDB is amazing" - TBD

I don't even think Slava would call RethinkDB "amazing" yet. I have no idea how to make a database, but I know there's a lot of work - and even more trial and error - that goes into making one "amazing."

This is certainly a big step for RethinkDB. But I'd be careful to put Petabytes of data across 200 nodes sharded 500 ways each.
Hi Tim,

1. What about support for cron-like periodic events? Maybe something like cron.yaml in Elastic Beanstalk, but serverless.

2. Does Java support means, that it will be possible to write lambdas in any JVM hosted language, like for example Clojure?
> using a PH1 driver in a PH2 screw

I see that a lot. I think people are confused by the size of the bit; the one that fits is kind of large compared to the size of the screw.

As a side note... There's a lot of stuff out there that looks like Phillips but is actually JIS B 1012 ("crosshead.") Compared to Phillips heads, JIS heads are a little deeper, the cross is a little more square, and sometimes there's a dot in one corner of the cross. They're actually quite reliable and resistant to cam-out, provided you use the right tools.
He must update it from time to time. The oldest Internet Archive snapshot of the page is from 1998 and includes no mention of Go or Clojure:

http://web.archive.org/web/19980206223800/http://www.norvig....
I agree with Norvig that programming is a long-haul commitment...not much different than any other form of literacy, except in most schools, we're forced to go through 12+ years of English/math (and even then, a pretty high number of college students are still at a remedial level).

One thing he didn't address that I'd like to see more explored: how much of learning programming is learning the "mechanics"? By that, I mean everything from knowing how to Google effectively, to learning an IDE, to your OS keyboard shortcuts....I'd have to imagine that learning how to program 30 years ago can be fundamentally different than it is now, based on the _conveniences_ we have available to us.

When teaching beginners, I've been trying to stress the importance of good mechanics/practice...I've seen students spend literally 4-5 hours on some typo-caused bug (such as `rm`ing something accidentally) because they didn't take the few minutes to get use to tab-autocomplete. Or use a proper text editor with syntax highlighting. Learning anything is a race against time and energy...the all-night debugging sessions add up, and people who are intellectually capable end up dropping out simply because they've run out of time (or believe they have, which is a sensation that grows as you get older).
This is a cool post. There's also a bunch of really interesting related analysis on the excellent hookyheory blog http://www.hooktheory.com/blog/
I think the real point of challenging Uber is this: they can either set the rates or they can push the cost of materials on to drivers, but they can't do both.

That is, they must either embrace the full employee or full contractor package, and not just take the parts they like of each with none of the liabilities.
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> So now they have a whole reservoir of views and habits
> and comments that are no longer appropriate.

It's worth noting that pg considers[0] "inappropriate" to be one of the central nodes of a graph of lazy labels. The main problem with a lazy label is that it is used by the listener to suppress ideas rather than deal with them directly[1].

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/labels.html

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

I think this attitude is evident in your following statement:

> Many surely feel uncomfortable enough that they just shut up in public.
> ...
> And I think that's fine. Their views and habits
> and comments were part of the social structure
> that oppressed gay people.

You can't be oppressed by an idea, viewpoint, or comment. That's not oppression, that's disagreement in a free society.

The article makes the point that the solution to hate is not hate in the opposite direction. Yet that's exactly what it seems like you advocate when you say that the Internet has drastically increased the ability of people with minority viewpoints to be heard, and then turn around and say you're glad that people who hold "old opinions" are not comfortable enough to share their viewpoints in public. Which is it, a more open or more closed marketplace of ideas?

> they should [work through their opinions] privately

The privatization of belief and the search for truth does nothing to help a secular, pluralistic society come together and live in harmony. Rather the opposite, when the only truth we agree on societally is the hivemind in search of the "arc of history", we'll end up with no basis on which to reject the totalitarian, authoritarian ideas which inevitably come in to fill the void.

At the risk of offending Godwin, I'd just like to point out that Hitler did not take over Germany with "old opinions" held by the establishment[2], but by some of the most highly educated moral philosophers of his day. Smart, progressive, socially-minded people who are asking good questions can still come to drastically wrong answers.

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nazi_ideologues
Just because you don't know what you're looking for doesn't mean there isn't anything to find.
I fail to see how this is good? These batteries are being sent into space to explore our solar system. Without them powering some of these spacecraft becomes extremely difficult or impossible.
Mastering something and merely learning competence in it are two different things though. I don't think the "Teach yourself X in Y" type books are claiming to be turning people into masters, similarly I'm sure many of the learning piano/sculpting/art type books aren't claiming to be making master artists out of their readers.

I think, with the right resources (people, material), if someone dedicated themselves to learning programming/software development actively for 2 years they could become extremely proficient in it. Not masters across a number of different languages and paradigms, of course, but just very proficient in a few of them to the point where they could churn out good work/projects/ideas with it.
What great timing, I was just looking up screw drivers this morning! I now know what to curse camout when I try and remove a over tightened screw. Looking for a good tool though makes me realize why my dad would get so angry when one was misplaced they aren't cheap. http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item.asp?item_ID=645237&group... I'll probably end up getting a ratcheting driver and the interchangeable bits.
We may have to reconsider some aspects of non-proliferation for the sake of space exploration. Not just for nuclear batteries, but also for things like Project Orion which tried nuclear propulsion.
Maybe nasa can ask Iran for help.
The money that would have gone to such missions would be much better spent on solving problems closer to home, like reducing the effects of climate change.
Why not just load https://status.github.com/?
Books could be written to answer this.

A contractor could be viewed as a business relationship -- here is the contract, do what it says or don't get paid/the money back from you. Certainly there is value for having work done on a contract. The contractor should be able to do it themselves or subcontract it out.

An employee could be seen as a single individual who shows up on time and is paid for doing so. It is the employer's job to make sure the individual is doing something productive whatever those tasks may be.

That is a very simple separation and not really correct, but certainly there are good reasons for there to be legal separations. Also consider there are so many legal expectations for the two depending on where one is located. A big challenge for startups riding the line.

Personally I am more concerned about basic labor rights & employer abuse rather than guarantees of benefits and minimum wages. One only has to look at migrant labor abroad to get a good idea of just how bad it gets -- slavery alive and well.
That Amazing New Star Wars Droid 'BB-8' [video]
OP probably didn't intend to leave the anchor on this link.
Of course they are just work emails, the content of those emails might not be, but at the bottom all these emails come from the corporate system that workers to this corporation were assigned, so once again -- these are only work emails.