skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You end up with a fragmented and awkward experience.

Not only are you likely to pay double for some things, there just awkwardness...

I.e. if you use Google Play Music in chrome on a desktop, it defaults to the first account you signed in with... Likely the hosted one. So then you have to change it, which means a ui dance and multiple sign-ins before you can press play on what you last listened to.

If you sign in first with gmail, then other services default to the first account and you get the dance accessing other stuff.

Not to mention multiple invoices, your card in a few places.

Or that my android TV uses my hosted account and has subscriptions, TV and film rights... And I'd lose that stuff, or if I keep using the hosted on that I'd not have integrated access to play as that would be on a different account.

My photos are on my hosted account too... We have a family tablet device, what account should be used for that? I'm using sync permissions currently to restrict it to media and not email.

Basically, by not supporting products on Google Hosted domains, lots of very shitty user experiences emerge.

For those on Google Hosted, the best experience open to us is to stay fully in one world.
The more bits you use, the more you pay”: Comcast CEO justifies data caps
I wonder if it could be adapted for editing and publishing a Jekyll site?
Seems like Australia should own a lot more. They founded the company there, took advantage of the country, and then made an exit elsewhere.
Thanks so much @ianstormtaylor - really glad you like the experience and the music.

Totally agreed - it would be great to be able to tweak the generated sound. This is something we want to open up as a possibility asap.
Have you looked closely at the core of Zen?
I may be wrong but I have the feeling that KHTML case is a good exception. Apple traditional way of complying with OSS licenses is not that nice (tarball + patches and there you are).

See for example: http://www.opensource.apple.com/release/os-x-1011/
We will probably do that (and brief our legal team to escalate any case involving open-source projects to Docker management before taking action).
I have one serious site at WPEngine. I followed their instruction, but for me their information is not enough. Full disclosure please.
It does sometimes get a little repetitive - that's something we're working on improving. This is one of the reasons we've limited tracks to 5 minutes long for now.
The difference is that even if we had the entire world put all production efforts towards building a quantum computer, we don't know what to build. It's not a matter of cost or resources; it's a matter of not even knowing exactly what to construct.
> You can make a strong argument that under US law, works
> created by computers are not copyrightable.

I'm genuinely not sure what "works created by computers" means.

I don't know exactly how Jukedeck works, but it seems self evident that it is the product of a huge number of creative decisions - which sound samples to include or generate, which sounds can be combined in a pleasing way, which melodic patterns are appropriate for various genres, how melodic patterns are modulated over time, etc. etc.

It's not as if the Jukedeck team created a general purpose AI and said "go make some music". They designed a system that can generate a limited (though large) range of music based on their own sense of creativity, taste and style. I argue that the music generated by such a system is clearly creative expression and thus subject to copyright to the same degree as traditional creative expression.

I do not think "sweat of the brow" decisions are relevant here. The lack of "sweat of the brow" copyright means that simply performing labor without a creative element does not qualify the product of that labor for copyright protection. There must be a creative spark present in the generation or transformation of the work.

The fact that, with Jukedeck, the creative spark happens at the time of producing and editing the code rather than at the time of the code generating the music is not relevant in my opinion.
Zlib and most others use dictionaries; the dictionary is adjusted as compression (and decompression) proceeds. When the input data type changes drastically, continuing with the formerly well-adjusted dictionary can actually be worse than issuing a flush and starting from scratch.

I saw the same thing happen during the work on RFC 4978 (IMAP compression), which is why that RFC recommends issuing a flush before and after large attachments. A compression state based on typical IMAP chatter isn't good for compressing a random attachment, and one based on the attachment isn't good for compressing the IMAP chatter.
We'll have to think up a new tune for Kandler and Ebb's classic D6EE5383-2D68-4CC2-BCED-CDBB2B7661E0, D6EE5383-2D68-4CC2-BCED-CDBB2B7661E0
Could you go into more detail about how the main decoding circuit works? How does it turn an audio signal into UART?
Another interesting write-up about Canny on IEEE Spectrum:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/diy/canny-robot-...

Would love to hear thoughts from other engineers and designers oabout where you think a programming interface like this could lead.
Grover's algorithm is a quantum algorithm for searching an unsorted database with N entries in O(N^1/2) time and using O(log N) storage space
Thanks so much Schwolop - glad you like the tracks you made! Do you have a site for what you're doing? I'd love to get in touch about a potential collaboration.
Google Now also works offline in a very limited fashion.
On mobile, not addressing the offline case is a big issue, mobile networks are far too unreliable.
They did live mixing of the music in SSX Tricky. Here's a video with Mix Master Mike talking about it, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0RyEysTZwY
That video is about Gate Quantum Computers; DWave machines are NOT gate quantum computers; they call their machine quantum annealing machines. It is not known the complexity class of problems that can be solved efficiently by quantum annealing machines, or if that class is equivalent to classical machines.

The result shows that the DWave machine is asymptotically faster than the Simulated Annealing algorithm (yay!), which suggests that it is executing the Quantum Annealing algorithm. However, the the paper also explicitly states that this does not mean that the Dwave machine is exhibiting a 'quantum speedup'. To do this, they would need to show it to outperform the best known classical algorithm, which as the paper acknowledges, it does not.

What the paper does seem to be showing is that the machine in question is actually fundamentally quantum in nature; it's just not clear yet that that the type of quantum computer it is is an improvement over classical ones.
Thanks @Dwolb - great idea, and this is actually one of the things we're thinking about. We'll be announcing new products as and when they're released on our mailing list!
Ha - we're a way off that!
I couldn't have said it better mahouse! I'm giving Twitter, one tweet a week now and have now moved the Ello app to my dock. I'm getting prepared to stop tweeting completely.
They want the money. Why would the UK impose huge taxes on money from, say, the US? They would just lose it to Zurich or Monaco.
Every time I read one of these articles I feel like the author doesn't have a very good grasp of exactly how these work. The car doesn't have to "choose". Nobody at Google is programming these things to calculate the life value of humans, the percent chance of injury to occupants, or the benefits of sacrificing pedestrians.

They're programming them to try and avoid accidents in general. There will be times when the computer fails to do that, but that doesn't mean it decided to kill someone by making a moral choice about human life priority. Maybe in the future this will be a relevant argument but the sort of algorithms mentioned that decide which crash scenario is 'best' simply don't exist.

The best way to deal with these moral issues is to just... not program that behaviour.
Thanks @colmvp. If you do make any videos using the music you make, send them our way! And if you're interested in creating long songs, how long would you like them to be?
Serial/UART is just a simple way of organizing how 1s and 0s are sent (start bit, data bits, optional parity, and stop bit, all at an agreed upon baud rate).

To send data to the robot, the transmitter (computer + headphones) encodes 1s as tone (9876Hz) and 0s at another frequency (12345Hz).

So for the decoding circuit all you really need are 3 stages: a microphone, an amplifier (opamp chip), and something that can very tightly look to see if the 0s frequency (12345Hz) is present since UART rests high when idle. A phase locked loop (PLL) is excellent for frequency locking, but can be a little hairy to use. The LM567 tone decoder chip however has a PLL inside but is a simple chip to work with.

A little variable resistor next to the tone decoder is used to precisely dial in the frequency.
Lots of other resistors and capacitors in there to hook everything together, but that's essentially it. Does that make sense? Happy to answer more questions if you have any :)

Circuit schematic for reference here: http://research.kumpf.cc/2015-ProgrammingWithHeadphones/imgs...
Tilings are a neat way to simulate Turing machines, so it's not super surprising that they show up in an undecidability proof:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_tile
100% absolutely noise, even if from Real Satoshi. The bitcoin-dev mailing list is for development chatter regarding the Bitcoin consensus protocol and associated technology. However, moderation policy is uh... well, the best way to describe it would be "confused" at the moment. If maaku thought it was on-topic, while Luke-Jr thought it should have been rejected, that's an excellent sign that the policy is insufficiently clear.

I probably have rejected the email and asked 'em to send to bitcoin-discuss instead.

But really the only way to get any hard evidence is a signed message from what everyone believes to be the actual Real Satoshi key... or possibly an early coinbase output, I guess.
“It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture..encryption products” (1997)
Really interesting ideas @qq66 - thanks!
It's convinced me that they either lack a UX team with any real power or simply don't get it at all.
Thanks a lot @dkroy - glad you like it!
Spotify does not have family plan ? Such a bullshit - http://i.imgur.com/BGhi6uk.png. This is what I call paid article. Good job, TechMunch.
> How about the car isn't designed with utilitarian ethics in mind and it instead automatically values anyone in it more than other people?

I don't consider that an unpopular opinion, at all, thank you very much.

In reality, these questions don't take into account the fact that humans don't actually even make decisions in these situations. People don't choose whether to kill that child or swerve into oncoming traffic--they don't even react in time for there to be an option or the reflexively jerk away without thought. Truckers don't get time to consider whether they're going to kill other people on the road with a jackknife or roll when they have to do a sudden avoidance maneuver.

Autonomous cars are going to be so much better at avoiding situations preemptively that you will have to be pathologically stupid to be able to put an autonomous car into such a situation. And, if you are that stupid, YOU deserve to die.
I'm worried about more mundane situations. What happens at a 4-way stop if they all get there at the same time? Will the cars drive so passive/defensive that none of them have the "balls" to break symmetry?
Mass shootings in Australia were rare before the gun laws were strengthened.

Also, Australia still has guns including plenty of rifles and even handguns. You banned some types of guns, not all of them.
What is going on with SQL Server there? I moved from MySQL to SQL Server and there's been a handful of gotchas but for the most part it's been an incredibly simple transition -- SQL Server is as close to MySQL as Postgres is in terms of query language, I should think, certainly closer than Redshift or Vertica are -- but the pairwise comparison doesn't bear it out. The author also talks about SQL Server distinct from MySQL or Postgres, which he kinda lumps together. It's rather baffling to me.
basically a lot of developers who are using OS X automatically believe the whole world does too. I have the same issue with Sketch being OS X only.
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This scenario plays out all the time with the exception that it involves 2 or more people: conspiracy to commit a crime.
We want both non-musicians and musicians to be able to use Jukedeck, and this affects the kinds of controls we present to the user, which are quite different from in Noatikl. And we also offer use of the site, and a bunch of music, for free!
But spectral gaps do occur in nature. Does that mean that even though it is impossible to compute if a spectral gap will occur or not, we could just observe such a system in nature and that way we could build a computer which would compute uncomputable results?
How about a lower speed limit where jaywalking is permitted or where the risk of pedestrians running into the road is high? For example, you could almost drive at 65mph with certainty on a freeway, but you might have to drive at 25mph to give you enough time to react to pedestrians?
I think the author confused "Architecture" with "Big Desing Up Front" (BDUF), meaning the architecture is defined ahead of time in static (design...) documents that do not interact with the actual code.

This is somewhat excusable because that is pretty much how architecture works today. However, it shouldn't be, and Objective-Smalltalk[1] is an attempt to bring architecture into the fray of actual code, allowing it to participate in the feedback cycles of building real systems.

[1] http://objective.st/About/
>The autonomous vehicle rounds a corner and detects a crosswalk full of children. It brakes, but your lane is unexpectedly full of sand from a recent rock slide. It can't get traction.

Why did an autonomous car with a map that tells it there's a crosswalk around a blind corner round the blind corner so fast it couldn't stop if there was unexpected debris on the road?

What a stupid scenario, autonomous cars have infinite patience, and when the people inside them can watch netflix all the way to work they won't care much about a few extra seconds either.

The obvious solution is to program the car to never take any blind corner, mapped crosswalk or not, so fast it can't stop on a dime. These things are going to have to work in winter in Canada. Low traction is a regular problem they'll have to solve. That'll mean every auto that takes this corner will do it very slowly, but that's fine because it can report back to the citywide network that this corner is unsafe, meaning all other autos will avoid it if they can (so no congestion), and as a plus it can be registered for modification with the local council. Maybe a networkable sensor can be erected, allowing the cars to see around the corner.

Taking corners faster than you can stop if there's a problem is a very human thing to do. One of the key benefits of autos is they won't do that.
Since you seem to already familiar with integer factoring, isn't factoring large integers something that "solvable by QC, and unsolvable by classical computers"?
Why do you think the Australian government should be entitled to ownership of all startups founded there? By most counts, they just make it difficult and annoying for tech companies.

Atlassian has paid millions in taxes, why should they owe more?
Do you require users to purchase a certain number of credits up front after the trial? I see you offer refunds if you don't like the story. What prevents a person from just reading all they like and then asking for a refund? Is it possible to copy and paste text from the articles to share on social media? (I assume you have a share mechanism, but this is more specific). Once I pay for the article, does it stay in my account forever, or could it be pulled by the publisher?

The service looks very interesting, and I look forward to trying it.
Tweetbot rocks! However, I just moved it out of my dock and replaced it with the Ello app tonight. If Twitter fails to come to its UX senses, I will stop supporting it even from a 3rd party client - especially when Ello is building something that really respects users.
That's the low-hanging fruit; actually contributing to the language requires an 'in' with the development team, possibly knowledge of C++, and of course knowledge of building programming languages.

Although I've seen that a lot of the basic Swift types are written in Swift, so that would be an area to improve too - that is, if anyone can spot one.

Is there a task list for the project? I don't see an 'issues' page.
> Will the cars drive so passive/defensive that none of them have the "balls" to break symmetry?

Yes, that "behavior" had to be programmed in.

The autonomous vehicles had to learn to be "assertive" (ie. start rolling slowly into the intersection) in order to not confuse other drivers at the stop.

The vehicles also had to learn that a hipster standing on a fixie's pedals rocking back-and-forth was not an intersection hazard in spite of scoring high on the idiot detector.
Human drivers communicate in such a rare situation, e.g. by blinking lights to signal they won't go. Driverless cars should be able to do that as well.
Ah - understood. The generation process is actually exactly the same on the homepage as on the dashboard, so what you're hearing is a genuine, non-curated example of our music!
JIRA without spending the time to correctly set it up to match your workflow/approach/business is a complete waste -- for companies who do invest that effort upfront (and evolve it over time) then it usually works great.
Cognitive biases
Tied? How so? I consult for a large department of a certain Fortune 100 company (think 30k users) and their JIRA is tied to an Enterprise Github instance for example, not Bitbucket. Developers are on a self hosted IRC network (yes, really) as IRC is still unbeatable when you work in a heterogeneous, massively distributed environment.
I'm not sure I get the joke involving:

let bananaName = “Jimmy”.banana
I always wondered why cable networks couldn't have a Channel 1, even though it wasn't allowed on broadcast. After all, there's no other radio traffic in a coax cable to compete with.

I suppose it could have posed a problem if there was any RF leakage from the cable network.
I think you'd find the book valuable; it has a lot to say about the riots. Race relations were bad before them: For example, blacks moving into previously all-white neighborhoods could face angry mobs who threw things through their windows and burnt things on their front lawns.
How to Talk to Your Kids About Family Traditions
What Happened to the Breakout Startup?
I think not, since these systems are "infinite", ie. you would never know how big to build it before you got close enough to the correct result.
Ρολόι+timberland+13856jpgyb13
How to contribute to the Haskell ecosystem
lololomg replied to you about Grover's algorithm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover%27s_algorithm

For some reason, his comment was killed.
Its another one of their challenges. Time is an important factor, encoding high quality video is time consuming, multiply that by the many bitrates and codecs it could mean that they need to delay their content availability by days.
> Quantum computers promise to do things that classical computers will never be able to do. A 'proper' QC with on the order of a few thousand qubits can perform calculations that even a known-universe-sized classical computer will find intractable.

Your first statement is correct, but Shor's algorithm (the one I suspect you are referring to when you talk about a universe sized computer) is not an example of one. We do not know that there is not a classical factoring algorithm that is as good or better than Shor's, and we have no quantum algorithms as of yet that can give an exponential speedup over any possible (but possible yet unknown) classical algorithm (which is needed for the universe sized computer thing). We have some that give more modest speed ups that are known to be unbeatable by classical algorithms; Grover's search algorithm is such an example, but it is only quadratic. This means you have a quantum computer of size N, you only need a classical computer of size N^2 to match it.

> Optimisation quickly becomes irrelevant when you scale these problems just a little bit more.

The problem with quantum computers isn't optimization of algorithms, but it's still optimization of strategies for dealing with errors (which sometimes look a lot like algorithms). Building reasonably accurate logic gates was figured out with a lot less effort when we started even thinking of building such things, and their reliability didn't fall off with increasing size very quickly. Our technology for quantum computers, on the other hand, all have crippling flaws as of yet. The most common one (superconducting qubits and ion trap based designs both suffer from this) is that when we try to make the computer bigger, it needs an unscalable amount of error correction an eventually stops working altogether. Some other approaches (linear optical quantum computer for example) can scale up without getting worse per se, but the gates we can build are already so unreliable that we still need too much error correction to scale. So optimizing our error correction strategies is one possible avenue that is being explored.
The options, RSU, and NSO packages remain as-is. The only thing that changes is the tax situation. Excercising options after a stock is publicly traded is viewed and taxed exactly as income.
Searching for 'Bitcoin' I got this bizarre message from outer space:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado/web.py", line 1443, in _execute
result = method(self.path_args, self.path_kwargs)
File "application.py", line 314, in get
"query": gquery
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 127, in urlopen
return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 404, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 422, in _open
'_open', req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
result = func(args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1214, in http_open
return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1184, in do_open
raise URLError(err)
URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused>

As I understand it, an alien called Errno refused to connect. Seems like other members of his tribe were also involved. They have strange names like Urllib, Func and Kwargs.
During the previous round (see CrunchBase), Scott Farquhar said some employees will be able to buy a little home with the shares they have. I'm not sure employees who joined in the last years (when it became bigger than 500 people) should get equity at all, but I don't know how this opinion compares with the rest of the industry.
After bootcamp I went through a US Navy course that covered some basics of aviation related stuff. We were given the Bernoulli explanation - so somehow it made it into official Navy training materials. And I repeated that explanation, because I believed it to be true, until I read this article a few years ago. I have no idea if the training is still the same, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if it is. So that source alone would be producing thousands of people a year who are misinformed.