skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may sound "better", but I find it lacks the warmth and depth that vinyl provides.

Edit: /s. Sigh.
Hey- you found what works for you. That is what is most important.

My comment was a bit of a knee-jerk reaction, I just wanted to present another option- especially for those that don't have the luxury of living alone like me!
I can't think of any tech company, other than Google that has a "secret sauce" (like a search engine algorithm) that they can hand down generation after generation.
Start coding with ES6 for the browser right away without any build process/setup
Lack of storage.
The Muse (YC W12) is hiring
the DSN (deep space network) is a shared resource under high contention---it is effectively used by every deep space mission from Voyager to MSL(via MRO relay). missions generally have a dsn rep that negotiates dsn tracks based on need. high priority events like MSL's EDL or spacecraft safing events generally take priority. i haven't looked into the specifics but it is unlikely that new horizons gets 24hr coverage for 12 months straight.
Thanks, I didn't realize that! I've updated my comment to make that point clear.
If it's any consolation, "real programming" doesn't have any prestige either.
Indeed the problem is solved. The mobile stylesheet wasn't loaded on production. Sorry for the inconvenience. But glad you noticed and warned us ;)
'the only serious opensource contender around', have you heard of Apache CloudStack? It has seen some serious usage: http://cloudstack.apache.org/users.html
Yet I think this article is interesting because it provides us with several explanations of why people perceive analog recording as better.

Here are a few quoting from the article:

- "few people who would tell you that recording classical music to analog tape has any benefit at all," Metcalfe says. But for some artists, he says — particularly in rock — those layers of distortion are preferable.

- [...] recording to analog tape isn't any purer than recording music digitally. But the distortion and pitch variation that analog tape adds to the recording are preferred by some artists and audiences.

- "Because vinyl is a reflection and any digital is a reconstitution; it's not the same thing."

- [...]the distortion and pitch variation that analog tape adds to the recording are preferred by some artists and audiences.

- However, for a less skilled mixing engineer, mixing to analog tape can "'glue' the music together in the most wonderful way,"
We will come back with some more details, but at the moment we are having an internal discussion of how many details can be published. So expect it somewhere next week.
12" singles were about extended play time, not about bass.
Good article. Web development is not the same as embedded development of course but it is also not just 'generating' CRUD applications with some js/css to make it nice.

Hope to see him succeed in his reinvention of his career :)
That doesn't really morally justify the lies though...

"Hey, FREE SEX!! Nah, just kidding, but buy our stuff".
Sooner or later there will be laws against anything but the most basic drone flying because of jerks like this.
Lately i have been reading an article about the Dutch government thinking about quite expensives licences for commercial drone flyers and height and distance restrictions for private flights (which are already in place in many places). In germany you are generally limited to 50 meters of height in most places for example.
In re: the vast number of available programming languages... not really a new problem. I've always been amused by the "Tower of Babel" illustration on the cover of Jean Sammet's 1969 book, Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jYiKlauWL._SX330_BO1...
As a vinyl enthusiast, I find claims of vinyl's superior "sound qualitY" (whatever that means) to be laughable. A CD can clearly outreproduce a vinyl even the first time you play the vinyl record -- by the fifth time you're playing the vinyl record it's clearly inferior from a technical perspective.

The thing that's fun about vinyl is that it feels more like a physical artifact -- each one sounds different, the album art is bigger, it's been around for a few decades, etc... that's why I like it.
Those things are bad too, but my opposition to advertising is primarily the things he was talking about. On TV, at least, it's aggressively manipulative.
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"Just do stuff."

Along the years I have come to admire more and more those who take what they do know and put the effort into just that: building something.

The idea of purpose is key here.

Once you have a purpose, a goal, finding the right tool for the job is no longer that difficult and you will suddenly realise that a lot the languages/frameworks people have been evangelising to you may make no sense at all.

"If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there." - Lewis Carroll
I've always been a fan of collecting money for solving problems and letting others worry about whether what I'm doing qualifies as "real" programming. Knowing how to listen to potential clients has gotten me a lot further than worrying whether PHP is a real programming language.
I've seen Kotlin - few issues :

* it isn't 1.0 yet (guaranteed to have breaking changes)

* I don't see it as a dynamic/prototyping language - I see it more as a C# than as Python, frankly for the front end code that I want to write the python style of development is much faster and Groovy seems to have an answer if the performance of dynamic typing ends up being an issue. Most of the complex datastractures are in C++ anyway and will have a simple/clean interface to the front end

* it's an extra language to learn - not only me but by my coworkers as well. We already took on Groovy with Grails and we have a decent amount of build automation in it (and will have more)

I've learned a lot of languages so far (C++, Python, C#, Java, Clojure, JavaScript and I've played with Rust, F#, TypeScript, Objective C) - frankly the value of having as few languages as possible to share the actual code/tools/knowledge between different areas is huge and in order to introduce a new language to the mix it better have a significant benefit over the ones already used.
My government has. It's why I'm clean, have been for 3 years after 6 years of heroin addiction. I agree, and I can't believe the costs involved in bupe treatment in the U.S.
Also, if you're really that concerned about audio quality, you should be campaigning against earbuds. For many, many people it doesn't matter what quality the recording is, because the limiting factor for fidelity is going to be the hardware it's playing through.
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Maybe you just haven't found the right angle/perspective on the subject in question yet. If other things interest you more, either change your take on the subject, approach it from a different angle that's relevant to you or don't waste your time and learn something else. I don't think forcing yourself to learn something you have no genuine interest in works on the long run.
I am in no way justifying it. Oh. In fact, I hate it to the very last shred. I hate it so much that if I somehow end up looking at such a billboard, I avert my eyes before my gaze end up where they want it to end up which is their (brand name/ caption). So fuck you ad!
Naltrexone implants are worse than bupe. Sure, you can't use, but your addiction is still there. None of the current solutions are perfect, but the implants are by far one of the worst in my opinion. Bupe worked extremely well for me, it allowed me to stop using heroin and get my professional life back in order, without the spectre of where my next fix (and the $300 for it) was coming from. Tapering bupe was easy for me, and jumping off at 0.4mg was easy enough that I merely took two weeks off work.
You're misunderstanding the magnitude of difference that exogenous opioids have to endorphins. They're on a completely different level, and comparing them is futile other than in the abstract.
There are few things in life more important than choosing one's peer group well. The Internet gives you many more options than we had available prior to the existence of it. Choose wisely and re-evaluate that choice periodically to see whether your peer group continues to represent your goals and values.

Why? Your peer group literally gets arbitrary code execution on your brain. (It's a flaw in MonkeyBrainOS 1.01 which we haven't patched yet.) You'll tend to find yourself valuing what they value. You will tend to find yourself achieving outcomes strikingly similar to their outcomes.

Given this, picking a peer group whose values are not your values and whose outcomes are terrible is a poor choice.

There is some cognizable peer group of "the most misanthropic 10% of commenters on Internet threads about programming languages." The majority are not professional programmers. Most are not very happy people. You can generally tell a lot about what a person values by what they spend their time doing; someone who professes to value the great intellectual challenge that is Real Programming but actually ships comments which make other people feel bad probably, to a first approximation, values making other people feel bad.

If you do not also want to grow into a values system where making other people feel bad is the highlight of your day, consider choosing a better peer group, where e.g. feeding one's family through honest labor is valued and having very loud opinions about NodeJS not so much.
Cocaine is semi-routinely used for dental and sinus surgery in Australia. My mother had cocaine used in her sinus surgery only 8 years ago.
Can we have an equivalent of Godwin's Law for the NSA please?
It is common for executables to have these permissions:

rwxr-xr-x

maybe this is better:

--x--x--x

what that means is that you can run the program but you cannot read it as a regular file.

To delete or create a file you must have write permission to the directory it is or will be found in.

Yes it's a PITA to take away your own permissions but your server is not the box you take with you when you hang out at Starbucks.
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That was indeed the parents point, I believe. Armstrong was still an outlier, and the drugs allowed him to take that further. Even without them he would've been one of the best (assuming all things being equal and no one else has access either).
Perhaps because it smells fishy
Just a quick correction, Play music uses OGG Vorbis, not MP3
The answer: What do you want to build?
Interesting. I got around this by just recreating the users file for pgbouncer and issuing a reload every 15 minutes or so. This was only needed for one setup as the rest were just static, or the user was very low volume so I asked them to connect directly. pgbouncer handled reloads very well (on-par with nginx) so it worked for me. Thanks for the great insight with your answer.
So it's like a command line version of http://explainshell.com/ ...

And it seems like your site / API backend is not open source. Do you plan to make an offline version?
Alright, so the reasons I've heard over the years that vinyl sounds better are:

a) the high-frequency roll-off starts at 15 kHz; b) the needle vibrates which smooths out the sound and provides warmth; c) the needle melts the vinyl at the molecular level which also smooths out the sound and provides warmth; d) the needle picks up feedback from the room; e) not all vinyl is created equal, you get a lot more quality out of a 5-minute 12" 45 rpm than a 30-minute 12" 33 1/3 rpm; f) clicks and pops and burns are part of the charm; g) the runout groove nagging you to get up is part of what vinyl sounds like; h) vinyl is physical and cool and sometimes extremely rare and barring an ABX test your perception of how good something is will be affected by these supposedly irrelevant meta qualities; i) some things are only available on vinyl, so of course it sounds better; j) depending on the type of music, the mastering won't be targeting mp3 players with earbuds but instead big club systems, so if you have good speakers, it might be easier to find the mastering you want on vinyl.

I don't know how many of these I agree with. Honestly the worst thing about vinyl is that it's heavy.
Hardly, all you have to do is listen to a slightly lower or higher frequency. To be exact: 58536 km/h (spacecraft) divided by 1079252848.8km/h(speed of light) -> So that's frequency shift of 0.0054%

(If I am wrong please correct me.)
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"Warmth" and "depth" seem imprecise to me. Do those words have quantifiable meaning to an audiophile?
Hmm, I thought Google Play (and possibly Spotify as well) used OGG. MP3 is a very old format at this point.
XKCD already has the solution https://xkcd.com/1523/
Probably the same people who slow down or stop driving safely to look at whatever is going on in a single lane or the side of the road (accident or some other distraction).
We are getting a blob of minified JS anyway.
That sounds like an interesting idea. Maybe I'll try this.
You would get 10-12 minutes of music on a side instead of 30 so the grooves are wider and thus higher fidelity.
there are plenty of autonomous systems that require no tx/rx link. They are usually for photography on fixed courses, after which they return to a home.

Destroy them mechanically if you want them out of the sky.
I was thinking of the async attribute in HTML5 for script tags[0]. I was hoping that the browser would just mark the script as non-blocking and continue the render, which works fine for us.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/HTML/Element/scrip...
Just recently I made a crude simulation to compare Radial and cross lacing for wheels. http://gfycat.com/ThreadbareEdibleCormorant.

I did it in response to this reddit post. https://www.reddit.com/r/bicycling/comments/3cxk4v/just_made...
I haven't, thanks for the tip.
They needed a much better explanation. I listen to most of my music on the subway with a lot of background noise; I never worry about low sound quality.
Branchless development
The important part isn't the alloy. I mean, yeah, it gives them a leg up - but there's nobody willing to put in the time and money to figure out what's in their cymbals, because it's just more worth it to make your own.

The Zildjian name is more valuable than any of their cymbals. If you don't buy Zildjian cymbals, it's because they're too expensive, or it's because you don't like the sound. It's a better idea for a company to go and make a cymbal that fills one of the other niches in the market than to try to replace Zildjian.

It's sort of like Coca-Cola's secret recipe. If you wanted to put the time and effort into it, you could figure out what's in it. But why bother? Coca-Cola's success is due to the brand, not to the taste.
Welcome to a completely volunteer run effort.
Thank you for this article, the data is great. Since you've speculated as to the causes of the declines in the markets with large declines could you speculate on the reasons for the fastest markets to be growing as quickly as they have? Or on markets which you would think should be growing more quickly but aren't?
Imo web development in the open source field is a lot more complex than say developing in a strictly Java or .NET environment.
Let's face it, most .NET or Java programmers are building some kind of CRUD app too.
Over 10 years ago i have started with PHP and Perl, going from horrible spaghetti code to full fledged Symfon2 apps that use abstraction layer upon abstraction layer. I have written NodeJS servers that analyze event streams of hundreds of servers and push realtime statistics to AngularJS frontend apps. These days i am building apps in React and am exited for the prospect of React Native. I have also worked in C# and Unity3D for game programming and built realtime multiplayer 3D action games. At heart, i consider myself a programmer who uses the right tool for the job and i work primarily on the web. I am still proud of it because it's one of the most vibrant fields of tech to be in and companies pay good money for my work.
Even though i did lots of PHP in my life, i never ever touched the code of Wordpress or Joomla or similar though.
Im getting tired reading all this drone whining. Drones are small and light, there is almost zero chance of a drone doing any harm to an aircraft, drone on the other hand will get obliterated. You dont see Firefighters complaining about big birds.
It's amazing what you can do if you actually use Google.
Is there any error correction in the data stream? I mean, if we loose e.g. 1 minute of data, will it just be sent after the full data had been sent, or how do we ensure that we grt valid data over such a huge distance?
What does invariants mean in this context?
Those are just artefacts that vinyl provides. As digital is a superior format, technically, it would be possible to record/produce/mix a song to sound identically (flawed) to vinyl.
"and one would expect it would involve months of transmission: storing things locally to transmit low power requires way more resources than a high gain antenna used for 1 week only."

You're contradicting yourself there.

Memory today is cheap (even if we're talking about the radiation-hardened stuff, for "space mission" levels of cheap)

Getting data for a long time takes a lot of resources (basically usage of Deep Space Network infrastructure)

So, yeah, if they could they would download all the data more quickly, but you're right that the power budget wouldn't allow it (not sure how powerful it would have to be to get the data at, let's say 32kbps)
You get longer playtime than a 7" single. 12" singles were only ever marketed for extended remixes - longer play time than a 7" single but cheaper than a 33 1/3 RPM album. Do you have any ads for 12" singles that talk about better sound quality?
DNS, Javascript, JSON, TLS and certificates, client side frameworks.

I always find it amazing that people recommend web programming to beginners. The amount of stuff you have to learn all at once as a programming beginner is really overwhelming when you are just writing a simple local program, never mind adding all the complexity of networking and deployment and server config and the half dozen web techs.

I think a lot of people forget just how overwhelming it is to first learn programming, either because it was so long ago for them, or because they learned it gradually as a kid. They take it for granted that everybody already understands DNS and CSS and server configuration and conclude that getting started on the web is easy because all you need to do is learn a bit of python/ruby/php/etc.
I can appreciate you getting tired of the whining when you're completely misinformed.

1. There are many drones that are anything but small and light.

2. We are talking about helicopters here. One drone flying into the tail or even overhoard rotors could easily take it down.

3. Birds are a natural occurrence and do not view large helicopters as a threat i.e. they aren't going to consistently and repeatedly fly towards it. The issue with these drones is that are constantly hovering and constantly attacking the helicopters.
Like I said, if you especially like that sound then simply record it on a CD.

Reflection and reconstitution? Those words have no meaning in this context.

And the thing about less skilled magically improving because of analog is just hocus.
Be Brave in the Experience You Build
Yeah, it’s a basic dynamic role/coeffect system, which goes a long way toward enforcing correctness and safety, much as types do (whether static or dynamic).
Send+Bulk+Emails+Using+Multi-Threading+in+.Net
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I don't plan to make a version that gets its data from local man pages, but it would be great if such a tool existed.

Parsing the data out of man pages is messy, and my process currently involves a lot of steps. I actually only started collecting the data for this as a side-effect of trying to make man pages render nicely in browsers.

I would like to open source more of the backend, but I've started with a tool I wrote to extract man pages from project repos: https://github.com/jacksonp/manlib
I don't know much about SWE pay or SR, fellow, etc.. levels. There are positions that are like that, but not in any orgs im familiar with.

That said, Google pays very well and has excellent benefits. Its rare we lose a candidate due to pay.
Ha, awesome! Personally, if I happen to see the name of the brand I'll avoid buying their products (if reasonably possible).
Why round wheels may be better than square ones.
For those who downvoted, when do you remember you on "One Sunday, some former coworkers & I were bored, talking about salaries ..."
No. Google doesn't really work like that. I as a manager can interview candidates and screen for a certain level, but the req does not assume a level. Level gets decided by committee when the interview packet (feedback, resume, etc..) is reviewed at the end of the process. I can recommend a level, but they don't have to accept it. I've had candidates get bumped up and down. If I want a specific level and the candidate doesn't make it, I won't extend an offer.
I just tested Google Play Music, and it's streaming in MP3 for me (Chrome on Mac). Maybe it streams using different formats for different platforms, though?
One reason for this is also that there are not many intermediate books on web dev. There are beginner books and then there are advanced books. Once you know the basics its a bit difficult to advance on the path without proper guidance. So you turn to other places and that is where you see the crazy linux hacking and you think OMG! this is real programming.
Google Play Music seems to be streaming with MP3 for me, at least in Chrome on Mac (maybe the native apps are different?). I don't use Spotify so I am unable to test it (I updated my post to note OGG anyhow).
I was very curious as to how they would attempt to mitigate that, but your link doesn't actually provide any information about it.

I think I would somewhat cautiously state that it isn't something that is possible to mitigate. There are simply two cohorts: people who are willing to take online polls and people who are not. It is inherently impossible to gather this kind of data on the latter.
I agree with everything else you say, but please, for gods sake, do not put Php in the same basket as ruby or java.

Just don't start with PHP.

EDIT: I am being downvoted. But I will say this again. I do not care about what you use for programming in school. but,
Do NOT, under any circumstances, start your programming career with P. H. P. Never. Never...ever.
This family has apparently been doing a lot of things right from a business and operations management perspective. But their alloys are not "secret". It's actually never been a secret :) Production of cymbals is one of the lesser-known deep-rooted traditions in Istanbul.

http://www.aa.com.tr/en/culture-and-art/468267--holy-metal-i...

FWIW "Zildjian" is a mix of Turkish and Armenian. "Zilciyan" would be the Turkish spelling where "Zil" is cymbal or bell in Turkish, the -ci suffix adds a "seller-of" or "manufacturer-of" meaning and -yan == -ian, "descendant-of" in Armenian.
Sorry, you're right, Spotify is the one streaming with OGG Vorbis, Play Music uses 320kbps MP3 :)
Damn. The thing is, web programming is real programming. I work with low level system security components, and before that worked on medical software, i.e. what the author considers "real programming". However, during the IE 6.0 era I also did multiple corporate internal web UIs with PHP, ASP and JS, and projects on those platforms can be just as demanding as high performance low level C projects.