skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Open source software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs. http://tensorflow.org"

(hopefully this saves others asking the "what is it?" question some trouble...)
But none of my current living relatives are being pulled over for minor traffic violations and then beaten, choked, or shot.
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There should be a fair bit of variation - the music is composed note by note and chord by chord, which means there are loads of different possibilities. But increasing the variation is another thing we're working on!
Is the glitter bomb still thing still around?
I can't help but feel skeptical after theranos too.
What's your take on Perl6?

And do you plan to update the book to cover Perl6 some time in the future?
Why can't the bank robber say "sure, robbing a bank is immoral, but I want money, so I don't care enough to not do it"?

I think eating animals is immoral. I still eat animals. I like the taste more than I dislike the immorality.
> is more expensive than the north of England

[emphasis mine] The Isle of Man is off the north west coast of England, so he's comparing the prices there with the nearest mainland.
I was being a bit facetious, bro.
"Just sharing with friends" is still copyright infringement. The owner of the copyright--not you--gets to decide how the work is reproduced and distributed, unless you have a defense like fair use. (I'm not saying this is always a good thing; it's just how the law works.)
My Journey into Haskell
You should have named them "Old York" and "Old Hampshire". This way is confusing.

"Olde" would be acceptable, too.
It is great to see things like this. Reusing someone else's interface to build new services.

Sometime ago I did almost exactly the same thing with Trello[1], but the thing grew enough to motivate me to overcome the inevitable latency problems and other limitations that arised from the fact that I was fetching all needed data from Trello at each request, and so it became a more interesting product. The idea of never asking the user to leave the Trello interface remains, however, because Trello's interface is what has made it so great[3], the same applies to GitHub.

In fact, I feel a bit sad every time someone creates a new UI from ground-up just to do something a lot of other products already do with better UIs (from years of improvements and hard work)[2]. Perhaps there could be more DRY in these areas.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8946847

[2]: https://websitesfortrello.com

[3]: http://fiatjaf.alhur.es/programming/handling-support-emails-...
It's realistic. Nothing at all against Jukedeck, nice work and so on, but these automatic composition tools are also available to any other musicians out there, and (as you may have noticed) there's an oversupply of musicians who are demonstrably more passionate than any startup entrepreneur because most of them are willing to keep plugging away at their musical endeavor for its own sake rather than because they have any hope of becoming rich or even making an adequate living. Jukedeck is doomed for the same reason that a startup offering robotic table waiters to restaurants is doomed; there's an oversupply of humans willing to do a much better job for relatively little money.
One of the most perennially popular courses at my alma mater was entitled "Murder". It was an exploration of the moral justification behind state-sponsored violence, from capital punishment to war to genocide.

The realization that most violence is morally motivated comes with interesting quandaries when you consider what the response to such violence should be. Say that society successfully develops the norm that violence is never acceptable. What do you do with people who do not agree with this norm? Are you justified in using force against them? Does the state ever have a right to put people to death for what they believe, even if what they believe is that large classes of people deserve to die? What if it's just the threat that someone may wish to do another harm? Are police officers justified in shooting a suspect if it appears that he might have a gun and is reaching for it?

There are also interesting questions about whether you should respect moral norms that are part of your moral code but not part of anothers'. For example, many Native American tribes did not believe in property rights, instead believing that the land and everything grown from it was communal property for the benefit of all; European settlers took this to mean that it was all theirs for the taking. Several of Ayn Rand's books extoll the virtue of selfishness, holding that the only bounds to your conduct should be freely agreed-upon contracts with others: knowing that other people do not hold to this moral code, is it moral to behave selfishly to them until they explicitly defend their rights, or do you have an obligation to consider what's commonly held to be moral amongst people unlike yourself when dealing with them?

There are plenty of implications for startups too, many of whom would not exist without a different conception of social norms than mainstream society.
brilliant.

makes me wonder if snapchat uses mongo; i can't think of one more suited to snapchat's unique selling point.
> -bias is to instill or promote a common moral that "violence is not okay – ever".

I haven't read it, to be honest, but that's what Kant was saying in his "Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_Peace:_A_Philosophic...). I'd say that even though we're not there yet, we have been getting closer and closer to that ideal in the last 200 years, with the well-known hiccups along the way.
A day late, but I wanted to add: at New Relic (where I work) we ended up just deciding to store all the data points. We literally store every transaction and page view for our customers and then go back and read every data point when they are queried.
The Mac was good at creative tasks before the PC was, and despite the PC later catching up, that foothold largely remained.

This meant OS X (and later iOS) has a high-quality, low-latency audio API, for example, because it needed it for music creation.
I can see theft being excused as redistributing wealth and I don't necessarily think taxation is theft.

But I also say I can see a situation where redistributing wealth is not theft and in some cases I can think that taxation is, in fact, theft.

It all depends on context.
The visual designer as a whole needs some kudos.
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Thanks - really interesting idea. We can already make the exact duration and number of beats work, so it would be a question of lining that up with various points in the video.
> The fact that some races/ethnicities perform worse on SAT or other explicitly race-neutral metrics does not mean they are not meritocratic.

That's true, and even the fact that taken together the main objective admission criteria aren't (even considered together) strong predictors of performance taken together with that doesn't mean that the systems using them aren't meritocratic, its just strongly suggestive of that.

However, there is plenty of reason to believe that a system that doesn't account for demographics -- including race and income and possibly other factors -- can't be effectively meritocratic or (perhaps surprisingly) race-blind. For instance, studies have shown that the relationship between expected performance (in terms of college grades) -- both in terms of predictive power and expected results -- of SAT scores, college grades, advanced coursework, etc. is not consistent across different racial and income-based demographic groups. [0]

So a system which ignores those differences and just applies the measures by a one-size fits all formula is not adopting a race (etc.)-blind measure of merit.

[0] e.g., this analysis http://ftp.iza.org/dp8733.pdf which itself also references a study identifying that what predictive power SAT scores have is mostly as an indirect measure of the high school the student attended, and that within-school variations in SAT scores have almost no predictive power.
That when you commit a "wrong" act, your conscience is screaming "no!" but loses the battle for the drivers' seat to some other element of your consciousness, such as anger ("crime of passion" murder of a cheating spouse) or desperation to meet physical needs (stealing to feed a meth habit).

The idea of sometimes-opposing parts of your consciousness vying for control is an ancient and quite popular idea. It is, for example, the basis of justice in the Republic (that the balance of power among the parts of your soul is correct).

>Would the bank robber have to say, "well I know this is wrong, but..."

Yes! The end of that sentence is "I needed the money" and that kind of thing happens all the time.

The thesis of the article is that this kind of violence is in fact very small-scale compared to violence committed with complete faith in its own justice. Which is pretty plausible: state military action, non-state terrorism, the criminal justice system, "legitimate" administrators of corporeal punishment, etc. operate on a much larger scale than wives killing their husbands for the life insurance money. The latter is the primary focus of the enormously popular television genre of police procedurals and obviously pretty far forward in people's minds, where international relations and the ethics of spanking may not be.
I have no plans to use P6. It's probably years away from having the ecosystem sufficient to support what I personally want.

I have no plans to update the book to cover P6; I think it does what it needs to do as it is now.
Not really, no. Without someone willing to risk money creating the factory those people would be poking the ground with sharp sticks.
Totally agree - this would be awesome. We'll see what we can do.
2 years. The iTunes Store opened in 2003.

Initial models didn't even have USB or Windows support, remember. Incidentally, that came around the same time.

The iPod didn't sell all that well until 2004. It's no coincidence that was after Windows support and the iTunes Store.
"Conclusions

Adherence to healthy lifestyle behaviors could reduce the risk for death from all causes."

Really?
Will look forward to drilling down into your samples, once the site stops getting slammed. In the meantime, you may want to replace the live auto-generation demo with a genuinely random (i.e. non-upvoted, or otherwise curated) pre-generated samples (that is to say: fairly representative of your automatic generative process, even though they happen to be pre-recorded).

Being as every second is precious, to a first-time user of your site. And as we know, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo."
Another really interesting idea - thanks!
Does this version support the latest CUDA/CUDNN? I spent hours with the initial release trying to get GPU acceleration working before giving up in frustration (and being a seasoned Arch linux user, I'm not easily discouraged) - I can't remember what ultimately caused me to throw my hands up in defeat but it had to do with the old CUDA version requirement.
Yeah, but you're probably not willing to pay enough to make it profitable if your videos are for personal entertainment only rather than aiming at any kind of significant audience.
If you make it in a pot, wait for it to draw fully and then pour it slowly you will get very few leaves in the cup anyway. Also tea is relatively cheap so don't be afraid to spend a little on quality.
> With some static site generators you don't have to redeploy the entire site. Just the changed files.

My static site does this. I use make.
I'm rather mediocre (1700ish on Lichess), but I feel one can't really improve without playing long games. Blitz is addictive and doesn't require cutting a committing chunk of time out of the schedule - but it remains a game of chance, I believe it even develops some bad habits such as guessing, or gambling moves (bet he won't notice that...). What do you think?
Thank you for your work on putting Keras on top!

To answer your questions:

- We don't (yet) have a tensor contraction op -- just a matter of getting some dev time to call the existing Eigen contraction code in an op. Hopefully in the next release!

- More casting between types I think is in this release.

- dynamic RNNs is not yet in this one, but also in our sights.

And with all of that, we still need to work on better performance, memory efficiency. Still lots to do!
Not OP but I second this request. For a composer generated music can be a fantastic starting place. I'd love to be contacted if/when such a feature was added.
I would take the most talented from Wall Street over the most talented from Silicon Valley any day of the week. Furthermore, while SV has its VCs, their AUM and returns are laughable compared with almost any other strategy. Cold hard truth is most Wall St types see SV as a backup, not something to aspire to.

I'd also like to point out that DE Shaw has essentially been using machine learning and advanced statistical analysis applied to markets for a long, long time. I wonder where Bezos got the idea :)
I'm not seeing why either of those is desirable, or a reason I should care about Bitcoin.
Thanks for this - just to check, which demo are you talking about? Do you mean when you create a track straight from the homepage? Because if so, that's not curated!
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That wasn't harsh, that was just pure, unadulterated envy :)
This is cool, but I can't help but pine for the day in 10 years time when someone can do this for photorealistic images.
Pretty cool app. I can definitely see it being useful.

On a side note, please minify your app.js file. It's 4mb and took forever to load. I almost left the site due to that.
Again, Slavic peoples are indigenous to Russia. Turks, Mongols, Tatars, Lithuanians, Swedes, Arabs, etc..., aren't.
These laser cut stainless steel strainers are great:

http://www.forlifedesign.com/shop/index.php?main_page=produc...

I've had one of the single cup strainers for a few years. They're durable, easy to clean, and sit perfectly in most mugs.
The study says "less sincere", not "terrible".

Period.

;)
s.b. https://www.tensorflow.org (You managed to include the '"' in the URL)
Their marketing copy puts it into a murky area, too. "You have control over your music, so you can create tracks that do exactly what you want." That certainly implies you're the creator, in the same way that an artist who uses tools in Photoshop to make a picture owns the copyright on the picture, rather than Adobe (or perhaps more pertinently, someone who uses Garageband loops to construct a song owns the copyright on the song, not Apple). So I agree - the 'pay this much and it assigns you the copyright' seems like a bit of a dubious claim...
I've read some people have been able to do hacks to get it to work, but I agree we need to make it easier. The full configurability for other cudnn versions didn't make 0.6.0 but might be in a patch update sometime soon. It's part of our work on improving GPU performance in general.
Focusing all the attention on the three billionaires of Paypal is an odd one, especially when you consider that the "early employees" bunch is closer to two dozen.[1]

This makes me think Forbes doesn't understand how an ecosystem works.

While they think the three billionaires are "at the top" of everything, there are more creators & technologists, marketers & promoters, lawyers & advisors, and a dozen more roles that the Paypal mafia fill for each other and others. And that's not even considering the network effect of so many people with long/old working histories together.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia
They just need to make some numbers (and as you pointed some customer development). The music industry is pretty big and has many niches. I'm 100% sure many companies would LOVE to add AI composing capabilities to their DAWs/VSTis/AUs... including Apple in Logic Pro. They could try to license the technology.
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To me the exciting thing about automatic music composition isn't royalty-free prerecorded music, but the potential for real-time composition. Imagine a video game where your actions instantly affect the music, not just by splicing together prerecorded clips but actually by having new music composed and performed in real time. Or, somewhat more fancifully, imagine a set of headphones that play a continuous soundtrack for your life based on what's happening around you.

Is Jukedeck looking into real-time composition?
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Can observables be implemented efficiency without VM support? I can't think of a good way to do it without constant deep comparisons -- effectively "busy waiting" on changes.
Which would require me to set up an account with them, which I may or may not be willing to do, due to the general shadiness surrounding bitcoin businesses.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10703303
I remember reading an earlier version of this, about 4/5 years ago (maybe the first edition?). It stuck in my mind as being fairly cleanly written, and also as being the tipping point at which I started to grok OOP in perl (and Moose).
> Each time I had a tooth "cured" (i.e. drilled), this "cure" weakened the structure of the tooth so much that it broke with a period of 6 to 24 months. And once the inside was removed with drilling and the outside has broken, what's left? Nothing: goodbye tooth, hello hole.

I went to a few different dentists a few years ago, and they all said I needed a crown. This was not in my budget, so I went to my grandparent's long-term dentist, who they'd been going to since the 1960's. He was 80+ years old, and was happy to use his tools to sand down my old prosthetic tooth.

He was a cheery old fellow, who still practiced dentistry to take care of his long-term patients who didn't want to go anywhere else. And he gave me the best advice for picking a dentist that I've ever heard:

1. Make sure your dentist's drill is water-cooled - that it sprays water on the tooth that's being drilled. Tooth nerves that get heated die, and then you need more dental work...

2. Never go to a dentist who hasn't been out of school at least 10 years, because young dentists tend to have loans to pay off, and they have an incentive to sell you dental work that you might not really need.

My brother told me about how he got hit with a dental up-sell once. His new dentist told him that he had "micro-cavities" that needed to be filled. My brother was like, "huh? They don't bother me..." But he went along with what the professional recommended. Did he really need that extra work? He doesn't know... But now he has micro-fillings that will probably fall out some day.

I broke my tooth at the lake when I was 12, and have had a prosthetic tooth ever since. I broke the prosthetic tooth off one evening, had it glued back on by a dentist. With the layer of glue, it was just slightly too long, and it started to hit on my other teeth.

The nerves in your teeth shrink as you age. The difference between the nerve size of my root canal'd tooth and its neighbor is incredible. (Did I really need that root canal? My parents could afford it, it was what the professionals recommended, so it's what I got. A friend of mine had a very similar break in the same tooth, but her parents couldn't afford a root canal, she never got it, and still has a nerve on her capped' tooth.)
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3 million dollars is nothing. It took a million dollars to make a single very low-quality video game, circa 2008. Salaries are expensive.

The investment model is set up to let founders "burn through" money while they explore new approaches to old industries. The investors don't really care that the money is lost. To be an investor, you have to assume 9 out of 10 of your investments will be write-offs.

So if you're not defending the investors' money, and if the founders are happy doing this, then why are you intentionally being harsh? Let them do their thing. Yeah they might fail, but so what? It's the only path to success.

It's not really productive to try to save people or companies via internet comments. You're more likely to demoralize them than to change their minds. Unfortunately, demoralization is often someone's hidden motive.
Not necessarily better, but sort of equivalent: Windows Terminal Server since version 2008-or-so has had "RemoteApp" support, meaning that you can configure the (multiplatform) Microsoft Remote Desktop client to connect to a (single running app on a) Terminal Services server with a similar UX to Parallels' Coherence mode.

Azure offers what's effectively "Running-individual-apps-as-a-Service" by booting TS server VMs and serving RemoteApp sessions from them. They have a demo to see how it feels (https://www.remoteapp.windowsazure.com/en/tour.aspx). If you don't like Azure, you could do something equivalent using e.g. AWS WorkSpaces instances.

Or, disregarding the networking aspect, you could just run your Windows VM headless on your MBA (and therefore using any VM software you like, e.g. VirtualBox) and RDP into it with the same RemoteApp configuration. It may or may not be more responsive than Coherence, but I'd bet on it being less battery-intensive.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10695927
The City of London is a special area inside London, which is filled with financial companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London#Criticism
> We should just have companies that produce media content and license that content to services that provide access to it.

Yes. In music this is somewhat solved by compulsory licensing laws. The same should be applicable to movies and TV...
In Germany you can get sealant applied once a year or so as part of standard health care until 18 years of age. IIRC each application takes about 15 minutes at the dentist and one hour of no eating or drinking afterwards.

I had this done during youth, never had it reapplied since, and so far, now heading towards my mid-thirties, never had an issue with my teeth. And, of course, I regularly brush my teeth about once or twice a day.

My dentist checks once a year to see how far the sealant has worn off. I could get it reapplied if necessary but not for free this time. I'll strongly consider paying up though when faced with the choice since this treatment worked out very well for me.
IIUC self-defense does not extend to the defense of others, and it applies only when there's an imminent threat to your person. If somebody hurts you and then next week you go over to their house and shoot them dead, it's 1st-degree premeditated murder.

Beyond the legal issues, you can get into all sorts of moral issues once you consider uncertainty, culture, and history. Say your sister is in an abusive relationship, and has been beaten severely enough on multiple occasions that you fear for her life. She refuses to go to the police, as many domestic violence victims do. Are you justified in going over to their house and shooting her husband dead? What if you happen to be visiting, but arrive to find him with her hands on her throat, choking her to death? Both scenarios are highly illegal and will get you charged with murder, but morally, many people would have a lot of sympathy for someone in that situation.
I didn't know about proxy... that looks interesting. Looks like it might obviate the need for Object.observe so maybe I take that back.
Struggling with finding that perfect e-mail subject?
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My background is in music theory, and, as others have commented here, this is a question that there's no clear, agreed-upon answer to yet. Music theory can tell us what composers tend to do - which chords they choose should follow each other, which notes to use when - but it's not as good at telling us why those chords / notes sound good together.

In building Jukedeck, we're applying our own theories about what makes good music. And, like any musical composition, it's an experiment!