skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simple: I like music, was interested
in the OP, had never heard of AudioKit,
and have never used Unix, Linux, or
any Apple products.

I understand computing, violin,
tuning in music, Fourier series,
Nyquist sampling in digital signal
processing, saw some music performance
software decades ago, am interested
in software for composing and performing
music, needed an overview of AudioKit,
and thought that the OP would have been
helped by an overview.

For too much of the audio voice, I
couldn't make out the words -- the
speaker just needed to speak up,
speak clearly, and not drop his
voice.

For me to read the
screen, I needed another 400%
of magnification.

I wanted
explanations of terminology
such as playground -- sounds
good, but in what sense do we
have a metaphor of a real playground?

So, I suggested such revisions.
My suggestions should have been
constructive.

As it was, I gave up on the OP --
I'm really interested in the
subject (on violin, I actually made it
through a lot of the
Bach Chaconne, especially
the D major section -- no way
to do that without being really
interested in music) yet gave up
on the OP as something with
text I couldn't read and
audio I couldn't understand.
So, maybe the OP has some problems?

But then I got voted down and
criticized. Then I defended myself.

It's all very simple.

So, some people on HN just assume
that of course anyone on HN is
a LInux/Apple user -- of course.
Maybe they are also a Windows
user, but necessarily they are
a Linux/Apple user. Of course.
Impossible to understand otherwise.

Well, that assumption is wrong
and absurd. It's also "arrogant",
intolerant, and, really, uninformed
and ignorant. I just defended myself.

Linux/Apple are not the only good
paths into computing now. There
is also Windows. It happens that
I'm a Windows user. Gee, if I'm
wrong, then get PG or Sam to
change HN to Linux/Apple/Android
HN.

Right: With some of the audience
at HN, I don't fit in. For that audience,
I'm not
sure I or anyone should want to fit in.
> I'm glad (and actually somewhat surprised) that Apple updated the line, rather than axing it. iPod Touch sales must be minuscule compared to iPhones.

It's possible they're in part a way to use surplus parts from the older iPhone lines. They usually lag a generation behind in their look and specs.
>> It's much faster to reply with a "This is not your Smith"-mail

Right, and I've sent literally hundreds of those emails. They almost never do any good, because while one person may fix your address in their contacts list, the original person who gave out the faulty address is still out there, unaware that they're giving out bad info. I always ask if the email sender can tell the intended recipient about this when they figure out the right address, but that rarely works. Anyway, I know this is a very specific problem that only affects a small fraction of people, but it's extremely annoying.

I dont really see how allowing other domains would help.. that just shifts the issue to the domain string instead of the user string. I guess it gives people more options. But one of the main benefits of gmail addresses is that it's so common. Everybody knows it, so nobody ever misspells the 'gmail' part at least.
It's not just to have launchd. They really want to leverage the low-level userspace that OS X uses for dynamic systems and event handling.
Thank you, precious remarks.

Should I assume that C projects are generally more hierarchical in nature, with one leader who orchestrates the entire production and where it would be rather difficult for team members to "freely" commit a module or a function here and there like you would with adding some sub-class in OO, because then it could ruin some other parts of the code?

Could this be also understood as a reason why Linus doesn't like C++, because it promotes higher flexibility and less carefully designed architecture, that in turn leads to security/performance issues?
I bought two iPod touches for my kids. I don't want my kids having an old iPhone. For starters, a new device comes with a warranty and reasonable assurance it hasn't been beat to hell internally. I also don't want my kids inadvertently dialing 911 - they don't need a cell connection (even without a plan) as first graders.
Why CDs May Sound Better Than Vinyl
I've never understood why people equate management to leadership. For me leadership is that you're so awed by the excellence and ideas of your manager that you follow him. But whereever I see a manager act, I see authority and no leadership. What did I miss?

I reckon there is leadership when a boss is driving a corporate all-hands. But when you're in a 1-on-1 with your team lead, and he tells you that your performance is too low, there is no leadership involved. It's only driving and authority. No convincing, no leadership. The TL is here to review the tasks, the sprint backlog, remove hurdles for you, potentially check everyone's preferences or career advancement.

Can someone point me to a situation where a team lead isn't acting using authority but using leadership? Is there any time I could choose that he's wrong and do something else than he says?
If you look at the driving causes of domestication in animals, it's typically the fact that surviving is no challenge — e.g. food and shelter are easy to come by, danger is rare, and there's little need to fight with other animals or those of the same species.

Following this, I'd think that the same conditions would domesticate humans. There's no reason it wouldn't; there's little value for aggressive behavior in a world where aggressiveness simply isn't necessary (and possibly even looked down upon).
Driving instructors: Control freaks need not apply – The VeloBusDriver
If you are reducing the number of shares outstanding from 32,000,000 to 400,000, it is 80:1 not 8:1 reverse split.

In your example, employee would have 100 not 1000 shares post split, and still would gain $6K.
You're wrong :) the best one was the nano iPod with the clickwheel https://www.apple.com/support/assets/images/products/iPodnan...

No weird wideescreen design and you could control it through your clothes.
FiiO X1. It plays FLAC as well as the standard MP3 and .wav files. $100.
> any business wants to acquire an "asset" at the lowest possible cost.

In the short term potentially. If the price at which you acquired the asset has knock on effects, on e.g. the effectiveness of that asset, employee turn over, whether you can sleep at night, whether the economy as a whole has enough people earning enough to buy your product, whether you are considered to be fair minded and honourable in contracts and disputes, then you might well want to think about it in a little more depth.

There are many reasons why blindly acquiring an asset at the lowest possible short term cost might not be in your interests.
"Imagine if we found evidence of past life on Mars or Europa."

In the past, one could imagine. But there are Mars orbiters returning Google Earth quality images of the entire planet. Here's the Curiosity rover seen from Mars orbit.[1] If there was anything living on Mars as big as a patch of lichen, it would have been found by now.

[1] http://mars.nasa.gov/mro/multimedia/images/?ImageID=7131
Don't know about other countries. But in the USA, the six people who make the team are selected among high schoolers after rounds of competition. It does reflect very much a country's math education. But math education is just part of a much larger equation.
Thanks! Is it the make program itself which tries to run /bin/sh, or does it try to run a file from a project which has a #!/bin/sh start?

If it's GNU make itself which tries to call /bin/sh directly, that could be patched from my side. But if it is a script from a file, you have to make the shebang replacement #!/bin/sh -> #!${PREFIX}/bin/sh yourself on all script files to be executed - there is a simple termux-fix-shebang script installed by default for that!
> My point is that bad statistics is worse than nothing in this context.

Actually, even this point is wrong, IMHO. I can easily imagine situations where you get just one data point and correctly infer from it that you're underpaid.

One example is that someone who obviously less competent than you will reveal to you higher salary than you have.

Another example is that someone has access to information will tell you that your salary is low, and you have good reason to trust that person.

I understand that you as an employer naturally don't think that you are or ever will be biased in this way. But it still may happen in the wild.

In any case, I think it was already said, if you still think that bad statistics is worse than none, you should make the information publicly available. It's the similar thing as with rumors.
Some of us aren't in the environment where we'd know who EMC are :-)
Funny. I just finished re-watching "Julie and Julia" before I sat here and saw this.
The video says they're recyclable, and have low rolling resistance for better fuel efficiency.
Can you steal from a state that doesn't even exist at the time?
Correct answer, AFAIK. The 7-11 demographic, so to speak ...

And, yes, an iPad mini is the next step. Also, the elephant totally absent from the room because it starved to death due to having its breakfast, lunch and dinner eaten - pocket consoles.
I was thinking similar thoughts from the other direction - that they have turned to money wringing desperation might mean there is no money to get the thing back up. If the situation turns out to be "it's dead Jim, we need to spend several million on a replacement EMC filer or shut down forever", it might be gone along with all the valuable projects hosted there.

In some ways the bundleware served like a SMART warning, causing people to back up and migrate their projects.
In my experience, the corporation's culture matters much less than the personalities of those you frequently interact with, whether those people are colleagues, customers, or vendors.
No its not, it punishes competent people and rewards incompetence. There is a reason no leading tech companies do this. A university can only get away with this because good professors can earn more money from grants and can get perks like tenure.

Also, if someone can't negotiate their own salary, that's their own problem. Not being able to convince a company you are worth money either means you don't understand what value you can provide or you actually aren't providing that much value. It's not up to the company to do that for you. Doing it is less fair to anyone that knows what they are doing.
Obama collecting personal data for a secret race database
Google uses it extensively. But really, it's the future of security because it's proactive not reactive.
I recently bought the nano 7g, I have a smartphone and a tablet.
It's great for swimming, running and commuting, but the main thing is that I sometimes want something smart and light with me that's not connected to the internet.
The nano fulfills these requirmenets; my steps and speed are monitored, I can do a workout with my Jabra sports, listen to ebooks, podcasts, music, watch boardgame or esperanto instruction video's, view pictures for meditation etc and even read little booklets on it as I convert text to pictures and errants, todo or 'scheduled' lists from org-mode. Theoretically I can use an external microphone with it to record notes or thoughts during the day. In essence it is potentially an ideal accessible and wrist wearable computing device, so I am experimenting with the usability of this in practice. It now is mounted on two 1cm wide velco straps on my left wrist, wirelessly connected with bluetooth headphones.
Internet is overrated anyway, less is more and small is beautiful.
According to the article, investment in 'Photo Sharing' is growing by 150%.

Leaving aside the ambiguity in that statement, is there a list of 'photo sharing' startups that have received investment recently?
The folks at Galois have a language called Cryptol that can be used for similar things with hardware.

https://galois.com/project/cryptol/
F95, forgiving a couple of faddish additions, is a pretty reasonable language. I did some fun things with it, and only hated the process part of the time. So unlike F77 in which one discovered new horrors and general unpleasantness almost continually.
We're doing much better documentation as we approach 1.0 ... possibly writing and publishing a book as well.

For now..

Google Groups: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/celluloid-ruby

IRC: #celluloid on Freenode

Or drop me a message with your question.
@digitalextremist on github
hmm. I read the title as "incremental pursuits..."

which made me wonder...
> Source?

1) Personal experience

2) The link I provided above (and all the other relevant Nanopass papers too)
yes, that one was nice! the 2nd also had one and was a bit better. It even did games, which are now nowhere to be found!
It's probably not unconnected. I heard an interview recently with a company that shares salary data with all employees, and he said it provided a downward pressure on the salaries for top jobs as the people making those decisions knew that any employee could ask them to justify themselves.
Why would they show secret military bases on civilian maps for non Russian solders? Sounds reasonable to me, they are secret for a reason, no? Am I missing something?
TCO isn't about fast performance, it's about stack depth.

I like Quasar, but I suspect you removed reduction scheduling because function-call-site reductions, as erlang does natively, is not great when implemented in-language, as it blows up a number of optimizations and muddies the register picture.

That said, I think MCRed is doing a slight disservice even he's got good intentions; erlang is amazing for what it does, quasar is pretty nifty and doubtless has many superior use cases; even go has a lot of utility in the concurrency space. Let a billion processes bloom.
IMO there is nothing wrong with advertising in the strict sense of the word. "Here is this product. That's how it works. That's how it's different from its competitors. Here is the price. Here is the total cost of ownership as compared to the competitor. Here is how this product can satisfy your needs in this specific case":

But what is being passed today as advertising is nothing like that, it is more like high school psychological and emotional blackmail. "Here is this product. If you don't have it you are not in the ingroup but in the outgroup. You are not beautiful enough without this product. People will look down on you without this product. This product will make you more attractive to the opposite sex and more likely to land a high paying high profile job".

It is very hard to legislate this are because of freedom of speech concerns but the British have a very good set of regulations concerning to advertisement [1] and an independent regulator responsible for this area [2].

[1] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2008/9780110811475/conte...

[2] https://www.asa.org.uk/About-ASA/Our-history.aspx
I worked in two different groups while I was at Netflix. I loved it. The engineers on their team are consistently good and there is low tolerance for under performers. They take their culture seriously and their leadership is very strong. I'd be happy to work for them again in the future.

Re: expectations about excess work. It's your own responsibility to set expectations about what you can get done and how quickly you can get it done. I was reasonably successful at this and took lots of time off the last year I was there, m wife had our first baby. Since I was able to set reasonable expectations I got a great raise that year, despite the time that I took off.
You are spot on. You can do what Erlang does in many ways. It's the combination of all this, built into a coherent architecture, that makes OTP unique.
Just out of interest, Did you ask about this in the interview, and if not, is there a reason you didn't? Did it feel "not very open"?
There many similar startups over the world:

http://sensalytics.net - Deutch project counting people, mobile tracking and cash register data.

http://i-counter.ru - Russian projects - uses IR counter with 3G transmission module, so data send directly to web analytics server without additional networking devices.
The biggest gain of the tracing JITs is elimination of dynamic dispatch. CL does not use it to an extend comparable to JavaScript, Python or Smalltalk.
Can you provide further details or examples of how these two projects did or do improve FreeBSD's Security? I know for example about ASLR in FBSD 11 coming from Shawn Webb et. al. from the HardenedBSD project..
Kid does ninja moves matrix style
Don't work there but friends in ops industry have them as a client. Cool story: to handle EC2 performance variance, they systematically spin up some multiple of required capacity, have all the instances run a benchmark, then terminate the slowest and least deterministic.
Depends on your system of morality. For example, you could have a system of morality that has the axiom: "advertising is inherently bad." In this case, it's hard to imagine it would be justifiable. An opposite system of morality also exists, of course, that says advertising is inherently good.

Since there is no objective standard of morality, and since "morality" is just a fancy word for "things that people consider good or bad," we probably just have to look out into the world and see whether advertising is against the morals of most. Given that we see little great outrage over the use of advertising, even among those who are aware of its risks, I have to conclude that advertising is morally justifiable.
It's certainly enormously expensive. But... most things are. Waste is an extremely relative thing, even when it seems obvious. Basic research discovers things that normal iterative research never does. And space tech discovers things through scale, overcoming myopic outlooks in the way an Access database doesn't illuminate how distributed multi-region databases scale.

For example, what do you do with all that captured coal dust and slag we get from power plants scrubbing their exhaust? We could throw it away, but it turns out there are industries that would love to pay to take that garbage away and use it as a filler their process. We could have stuck with the argument that scrubbing is too expensive to be worth the trouble, and that it would never be practical. Or we can just do the engineering and try it out, and maybe new markets open up. Or not; at least we got some cleaner air.

There's a lot of risk, like any venture. Possibly garbage is just garbage. Possibly there's no reasonable return on investment. Possibly entire industrial supply chains shift to a new technology for the marginal improvement. Possibly a new process for extracting carbon nanotubes is discovered. Or we simply find a cool new color of black for our sports cars.

Maybe the data collected from the moon tells us that it's really just some fairly boring rock not worth our time. Maybe we learn that crystals grown in space can have a perfect crystal structure useful in manufacturing stable q-bits. Maybe we find an asteroid made of platinum and all energy markets brace for a massive tech change, or parhaps it's made of iron and we move on. Or... not; at least we got some pictures for the philosophers and the next generation is inspired to try harder.

The wins from basic research come from the unknown unknowns, and as such can be disruptive like an outside-context-problem [0]. Or are trivial duds; you can't tell at the start, but you can hope. Transistors and lasers are pretty useful! They alone are likely worth all the money we've ever thrown (or ever will) at basic research. Likewise satellites also changed the world, allowing us to do things that likely make all the money we spend on space easily worth it.

<insert some comment about Y Combinator startups maybe becoming billion dollar enterprises... but many fail.>

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excession#Outside_Context_Prob...
It's nice to have a dedicated music device for:

1. travel
2. commute
3. outdoors
4. running
5. gym

Any other use cases?
No problem, I also highly recommend the book 21st Century C, 2nd edition.
But organic agri necessarily uses _more_ pesticide and fertilizer. It's the only way their crop yields can match their GM analogues.
Source code: https://github.com/Maxdamantus/recplay

Another website using the tool: http://www.recsource.tv/
Ask for a raise. :-)
This is exactly why I love my Nano, and I was surprised to see him say he's never sold one to somebody under 50.

The nano is perfect for exercising as it's light and fits in the tiny little pockets on my exercise clothes. I'd much rather use that than put my phone in a big armband.

However, I will say that I wish it had streaming music.
There was a time when they had adverts on seemingly every page of every computing magazine. Although that may have been back when magazines were a thing and Sun were a hardware company.
Typical Sony. With a little help from the RIAA. They did it again with "memory stick". And UMD.
These have been around a long tme, especially for armored cars (I saw them on an Audi W12). I was told the ride is rougher than pneumatic tires but have the advantage that they can't be punctured by gunfire, or whatever.
They'd have good content upvoted on a news aggregator.
Don't treat HN like Quora.
I don't have any intimate knowledge of working at NetFlix, but holy crap they pay well: http://data.jobsintech.io/companies/netflix-inc/2015

PS - In almost every business I've ever encountered, people are a lot less godlike than you might perceive from an external view.
BRUCE ALAN FRANCIS IS MAX ARIA/ALANA TORI SIRI AND JENA HARRINGTON
HE DOING THE BUM THING IN LA MISSION. WAITING ON HIS BANK CARDS FROM BANK OF AMERICA, CITIBANK, PNC AND WELLS FARGO. HE PART OF RES7 and brother PRESIDENT OBAMA.. IM SCARED THAT OUR CITY SYNTAX AND HE OVER HERE BEING BY THIS SEX INTEL OR GET SO EXCITED OF THINGS INTEL THAT WE LISTEN TO IN LA OUR HEADS OR THAT COMOTION IN THE AIR.. VOICES FROM DISTANCE COMMITEE OVER CONSTANTLY TRYING TO SHUT OFF HIS BANK ACCOUNTS,WITH BO MILITARY OR BANKING SYSTEM OUT HERE IN LA. SOMEONE STOLE HIS PRESS KITS, CGI HIS PORNOS, AND LIED TO THE SAVAGES OF CA.
The Importance of Accountability in Startups
I am pretty happy with my run flat tires on my bmw, even after a blowout they remain normal and handling is near normal as well, plus you can drive like 100miles and 50mph to a nearest tire shop. The only downside is they are more expensive and sometimes if you cought nail close to a tire sidewall it means you I'll have to replace a tire since it's not fixable
I am aware of that, that's why I mention it (and I would add Perl and many Lisp-like languages to your list). I appreciate the path that Python took, though, because it keeps language small and orthogonal. There is lot of value in this approach, especially if you share code with someone outside of the project.

> There are 2 or 3 operator long things very much worth naming

I don't understand your example. But I am talking about functions that are part of the libraries (especially standard ones). How you refactor your code is a different matter.
Is this a really long running project? According to [1], GCD (libdispatch) has been there since 8.1. Or is there another implementation being rolled?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Dispatch
Less noise than Feedly. I wish it had comments. You should add that :D
Where on your body is your USB interface located?
So your business plan is posited on "some guy claims" and a back of the envelope calculation. I've started a company on flimsier, but I really, really hated what I had been doing and I had a pretty decent wad of cash in the bank.

Worst case, you're wrong and learn something. That's pretty cool anyway you look at it. Good luck.