skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're welcome, and I appreciate the response. I forgot something btw., which is actually the biggest issue I had so far: We were affected by some variant of [1].

Regarding documentation, how about referencing 'gitlab.com' on the following top level selection? [2] You could add a new box linking to the EE documentation. That was the first place where I was looking and made me stumble.

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3150

[2] http://doc.gitlab.com
My first professional exposure to C++ was porting code across every Unix platform available in the late 90s, using a bunch of proprietary compilers. It was hell. Nothing was consistent. And of course, there were no unit test suites, and the programmers thought that if it compiled on HP-UX 9, it'd compile anywhere. So I have a real attitude about how the parsers work.

I have yet to see a reasonable explanation why C++ needs a type-aware compiler to accomplish its goals. I can't think of any other languages with this problem.
Well, the tale grew in the telling. Howard used to say that nobody else would take the project because the deadline was so short. He thought it was worth a try. Now the story is, he was hand-picked by Spielberg. Ok, Howard.
Apple _will_ be compelled. You either don't understand the US legal doctrine of stare decisis or are being intentionally obtuse.

Furthermore, the US legal system encourages elaboration on stare decisis, applying prior case law to novel cases rather than hashing out new decisions. This means that creative applications of this ruling ("give me an uncontrolled backdoor") are simply a question of time once the landmark case is made.
> Your ISBN is wrong. It should be 0670835684.

You are correct! And I even double-checked. I wish I could still edit my original comment.

> Available in Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/treasuryofencyc00fadi_vmk

Wow, that's great! How does it work? Can I just get a logon and read any book there online? Download a PDF or ebook?
So, why would you write systems requiring concurrency and fault tolerance in Swift? What happens when a request explodes? Can it do hot code loading?
Can you cite a case where encryption has obstructed justice or prevented a crime from being solved?
Interesting. I've never had an experience with Amazon customer service that hasn't been outstanding. I'm assuming you were able to contact them and they gave you a full refund on the shipping costs? I would be shocked if they did anything less.

Shitty experience yeah but I would expect them to fix it too.
My startup built basically the same thing, but if you had an eeg it would also learn your preferances and iterativly improve. We called it BrainBeats:

http://synaptitude.me/blog/brainbeats-your-new-music-player/

Startup: http://synaptitude.me
Ok. My only experience with SVMs was reading the wikipedia article a year ago. Our implementation evolved pretty organically and I only thought later that it was like a SVM. thanks for the info.
> > I'm not sure why you put "Google (which uses Apache code, but doesn’t contribute back)" and "VMware (which openly violates the GPL)" in the same sentence. One is legal, the other one isn't. You're not forced to contribute to anything, GPL or not.

> Simple: While legally there’s a difference between Apache and GPL, from a purely ethical standpoint, there isn’t really – you took something that belonged to the public, you contribute back to the public.

Which leads to the question "why not use the GPL for everything?". To be honest, I actually fall into the camp of "we should be pushing for the GPL for most non-trivial software".
What about Embarcadero C++ Builder (old Borland)? http://www.embarcadero.com/products/cbuilder

It has a very good IDE.

Easy to add external libraries.

You don't need to use the ugly STL because it comes with it's helper classes for almost everything (the VCL library).

Nobody using it?
Hey, this Adam from Brain.fm. I created the music "AI" thing.

Glad to have the praise of a musician! My family's very musical, so it took some convincing for them as well.

The thing is, it still takes creativity! It took me half a year to create it, and there's a little piece of my soul in this AI.

A horcrux, programmed in. :) It makes music how I would make music. Well, most of the time.

I had to create the thing because it was taking me a month to create a single session manually, and much of what I had to do was so precise that an algorithm could do it easier. Every note, every beat, has to be perfectly synchronized with the other filters we're applying to the music. So I built some algorithms, but they piled up, had to be constantly re-calibrated based on additions to the music as I kept composing. Keep in mind these are half hour to hour long pieces! And there's no shortcuts - I can't just throw a bunch of music in there, because even the smallest pop/overclip/dissonant moment, could wake someone up, or break their concentration... It just got to a point where something with more working memory than me had to take over.

The music in Brain.fm is very structured and obeys strict rules. There are some genres I can't get right yet - rock, folk, and so on. Although I'm always happy when people like it, and I like to think I did a good job giving the AI decent taste, I definitely don't have any illusions about this replacing humans :)

Did you take a listen to the Focus categories? Most of those are 120bpm. (skip around till you hit the classical one - I fed the AI harpsichord concertos I grew up with. Cool example of how maybe this could help some composers!)

Got a link to your stuff? Love to hear it.

- Adam

(oh and also there is definitely more than ambient music even in the relaxation sessions. Give it another listen if you have a moment. Skip around. There's indian music, mongolian chants, and the nature sounds are also all AI-generated. Every gust of wind, every raindrop :)
You make very good points.

For comparison, the lease amount of Target's Canadian (failed) expansion was for $1.3B USD for 220 stores.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_Canada

[Edit]

Target USA stores as of May 2015: 1795
http://www.forbes.com/sites/walterloeb/2015/05/22/what-is-th...

Amazon's $5B shipping loss now almost looks quaint, if one factors in absence of retail stores and presence of handful number of Warehouses.
Googling takes me to

"Guerrilla warfare Written by: T.E. Lawrence"

on Britannica's site, followed by

"To continue reading activate your free trail"
In the early nineties I found myself faced with spending a year learning to program in C++ with Microsoft foundation classes or giving up on Windows programming. After ten years started sh*tcoding in C#. I feel like I missed out on a lot of pointless suffering.
That was useless. There was almost no useful information for why I would want to use one of them over the built-in Mail.app. What makes one app "dead simple" and another "simple and powerful" and a third "fantastically simple"?

If Thunderbird is more customizable than the others, and N1 is customizeable enough for anyone's needs, then what advantage is there to the additional Thunderbird customizeability?
I was so incredibly sad when I found out that he wasn't around to make more. I haven't found another artist that appeals to me like him. Rest in peace Jun Seba.
If Huawei provides Linux support or it happens to come out of the box with zero driver issues on a mainline kernel, I can see many reasons why I would buy it. Battery life of course would be a factor.
How to set up cron job for PrestaShop Page Cache?
I am from a different school. I got married because I had to. The myriad questions of "incompatibility" were never given accommodation in both of our minds. Period.

Moral: I am not so special so as not to be able to accommodate another person !
I'm against the FBI's actions here, but your argument against it doesn't make sense.

Did the shooter take the phone with him when meeting with accomplices? If so, perhaps there's GPS info on the phone.

What are the gaps in standard behavior (i.e. phone turned off...). Are these times where the FBI should dig deeper to discover the actions of the shooter?

The idea that bulk collection of metadata is objectionable is something we're seeing in civilized technical circles. Individual collection of the same is even worse.
Samsung Oculus Gear app is pre-installed. I have a S6 Edge+ and the Gear VR. It's awesome.

The Gear VR app has it's own built in app store. It's kind of like a mini OS.

You still have to installed Facebook & Messenger App through the Play Store.
TAKE+BACK+THE+ECOMMERCE+–+NashBlog
We already have a great example. Look at all the money car companies are now pouring into self-driving cars. In reality, it's all marketing hype. Google's Self-Driving Cars are a decade from practicality, they're far more dangerous than human drivers if left to their own devices. We're actually not that much far further in automated driving than we were five years ago. But now that it's a topic of hype, everyone's dumping tens of millions into it.

Sure, we'll make some progress, but we might also be looking that this generation's version of the flying car. The magical leap forward in technology we keep believing is just around the corner.
And using npm scripts instead of gulp?
Funny, just recently I had to explain this to my Taiwanese friend. I didn't know what the heck he was talking about when he said his colleague was working on A.P.P. thought it was an agency or something.
If a computer struggles to parse unambiguously, it doesn't bode well for mortals.
Solution:

Content providers register a (yet-to-be-written) Google News API account, get an API key, with which Google indexes the site and the site recognizes as legit.
A manifesto for small teams doing important work
As someone who is intensely interested in how regional differences in people's education affect their political outlook, I sincerely want to ask you where you went to high school.

I realize that response sounds condescending and I'm trying to think off a way to make it sound not condescending, but I am failing. Your statement so strongly contradicts what I learned growing up that blinked in surprise and had to take a step back and reconsider a belief that I didn't realize I'd never questioned.

I went to high school near Albany, New York and we were taught that the framers of the constitution started their design from the premise that humans are flawed and corruptible and that they needed to build a system to counter that. Hence, checks and balances. I guess all of the reading I've done since then on the founding of the country has agreed with this, but I suspect if there was some that disagreed with it, I would have missed that.
Spoiler alert! The password was "joshua". ;)
Yup. I found when I took on doing home automation for myself, it involved a lot more electrical work, and a lot more code than the consumer is up for, to make it do what I actually want. The one-off consumer devices inspire the dream but don't deliver on it.
I would love to see how Gnome 3 would work on a device like this.
She Created Netflix's Culture and It Ultimately Got Her Fired
I agree with you. The motives of those with access to this information is questionable and being forced to do things impedes personal liberty, but the people who wrote the constitution could have never imagined this type of situation. It quite literally requires an in-depth discussion by the people and those we trust in power to develop a solution, but the idea that no backdoor will ever exists is not realistic.

Look at history. The encryption the Nazis had created helped them commit terrible acts of war and it was the backdoor the Allies discovered that helped bring justice to them.

I'm being devils advocate here because I don't people should view this as "us vs them". Comey may seem like he is salivating to you, but he does raise the notion that at the other end is a corporation, who also has an agenda.
Yes, that's Dolores' point. Living in the easy bay, I pay 2/3 her rent, and <$4 for the BART one way. And I don't have a roommate. If I had a roommate, I'd pay 1/3 her rent.
What's worse is that modern day society expects physicians to be able to act with some certainty. And when outcomes don't turn out the way everybody wishes it would have, the target of scapegoating is the physician.

If you saw a person falling in front of a car, and you stopped to help him but in the process stepped on the man's glasses, would you believe it to be fair for the person who fell to blame you for the broken glasses?
Ask HN: Help Me Find an Article About Steve Jobs
It's a story where Jobs is met by a business school exec. And the exec brags about their school's accomplishements.

Steve Jobs then asks them how many billion dollar companies alumni of their school has started. And then Jobs remarks that they they have failed.

I've used all my searching tricks but can't find it.

Thanks
Thought the same, and when I saw the actual product, it just felt like a ripoff of MacBook. MacBook, MateBook.
I believe that the Argos-style staff-retrieving-everything is the way a high percentage of shops used to be, and there are still a few vestiges of it in some industries and areas. I'm not sure exactly where to find information on how the individual retail experience has changed over the decades, but I expect that direct consumer retrieval of items became the standard as larger stores and department stores became more widespread.

Notably in general retail, dedicated shoe stores in the USA are quite often like this though discount shoe stores now often tend to simply have stacks of boxes below a display shoe and it's up to the consumer to find which sizes/styles are in stock. It's also the standard for compact high-value goods such as jewelry. There are probably still also shops (even grocers) in high-crime areas that simply work everything this way.
I have to say, I tried this as something that has always piqued my interest - using sounds and music to make me a more efficient human. I was skeptical, I put it to the test while coding.

Within 10 minutes I felt a strange calm hum in my head and have now been using it for 2 hours with no sign of dropoff. Very cool, going to keep using.
If this continues like it did tonight, I could see this becoming part of my daily work routine.
If you don't go by the spec, what do you go by? Intuition? What if yours is different from someone else's?

In this case as well, acknowledging that signed integer overflow is undefined behavior allows for more consistent behavior in certain circumstances. For instance, the compiler knows that `x < x + c`, where `c > 0`, and optimize it to `true`. Even if you don't care about the optimization, is it not equally surprising that such a statement could ever be `false`?

No matter which way you go, some behavior is going to be surprising. And in these scenarios, the only plausible thing to do so is to follow the standard, so at least there's a consistent ideal that everyone's intuitions can converge to, which is crucially important. Each compiler implementing a different C-alike standard just leads to more confusion.
He's also a nice fellow and pretty good at pool.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1
- Available to consumers (for lease, and they were recalled)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge_%282005%...
- Competitions of self-driving cars for over a decade

We really haven't taken the magical leaps some people believe we have. We just learned to market them better. :)
Yes, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/12/opinion/apple-google-when-...

Also I believe even without the citation that the notion that criminals can use encryption to protect themselves is pretty obvious.
>I don't believe this is tied to the San Bernardino case. The topic of weakening encryption has been brewing for the past 6-12 months, and the FBI is using the SB case as a convenient hammer to put a nail in the coffin of encryption.

This is about much more than just weakening encryption. I think Congressman Lieu put it well

>This FBI court order, by compelling a private sector company to write new software, is essentially making that company an arm of law-enforcement. Private sector companies are not—and should not be—an arm of government or law enforcement.
We have been here for 4 mio years, right? So with their 10 mio years they are still quite ahead of us. Who knows if we can make it that long.
You mean avordfuereveryzhing
While this is a legitimate complaint, it also applies (though in fewer ways) to C. How do you parse this?

(x)(y);

Is that a call of function (or function pointer) `x` with argument `y`? Or is it a cast of `y` to type `x`? You need to have kept track of of all the typedefs in the code prior to that point to know.
..Priceless story.
https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-codegen#companiesproj... shows some companies using OpenAPI/Swagger and Swagger Codegen "for the win" - automatically generate API client and server stub given an OpenAPI/Swagger spec.

(We obtained permission from these companies to list them in the page)

Disclaimer: top contributor to Swagger Codegen
Keeping the mind still isn't the point, nor is it possible without effort. Effort isn't really what is being indicated when experienced meditators talk about "stillness". Meditation is fundamentally extremely simple: focus on the chosen object of meditation, notice when distraction has arisen, return the attention to the chosen object of meditation. There are many useful paths/methods/techniques that can grow from this soil, but these should not be understood as goals.
Hey all! cofounder of brain.fm here.

Wowza :O

We had zero clue that we would hit front page of hn (the spike! https://imgur.com/RpUvpiH.png). Thanks for the upvote love!

Here's some deets on brain.fm:

==

MOST COMMON USE CASE -

Background music while focussing (i.e. coding, working, studying, creative work)

==

SCIENCE -

We actively study the relationship between music and the brain via our lead neuroscientist at Northwestern University (2 pilot studies via EEGs on brain.fm, on focus: https://goo.gl/t2qPPb, on sleep: https://goo.gl/i324Zj).

We're also working the with the Team USA Olympic wresting team (via coach Matt Lindland). Hoping to have the research case study live soon :)

==

REVIEWS -

"It feels like your headphones are giving you a mild dose of Ritalin."

^ Hustle (https://goo.gl/Quzwsd)

"Brain.fm has had a radical effect on my focus and mental clarity."

^ AppSumo (check out 290+ reviews https://appsumo.com/brainfm)

"One of the cool things about Brain.fm is that you can try it for a few minutes and immediately reap the benefits."

^ Product hunt (see: https://producthunt.com/tech/brain-fm + https://goo.gl/6aYiDK)

"I press play, my brain switches into super focus mode. It genuinely feels like I’ve taken a double-dose of my ADHD meds at times."

^ Smart girls with ADHD (see: https://goo.gl/VQx3XT)

Reddit discussion thread
^ see: https://reddit.com/3s0sq1

==

SPECIAL OFFER :)

I'd like to share the hn community a '$25 for life' deal.
(usually it's $149 for lifetime, $7 for monthly and yearly for $48).
Link: https://brain.fm/hackernews

==

Happy to answer any questions!

Junaid
I tried William Hill's VR horse racing app. It uses computer game style horses linked to live position detectors on the real ones. It was quite good. Wouldn't use it myself but I could see it working. They hope to make money from the betting in the usual manner.

http://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/future-tech/virtual-reality-...
Yeah, non-automated tools really just doesn't work for time tracking. If you're looking for something fully automated that actually works - check out WakaTime.
Is that what you do at work, load up your poker face and try and hide all your emotions? I don't think that's what most coworkers would want to do so I don't see that being a problem. People will know if you're not hooked up for real, no bot will fool a human unless there's real AI behind it. You can tell when you're up against another person vs any bot.
An(other) Millenial Open Letter to My CEO
Depends. Have computers do what computers do well, have humans do what humans do well. Humans are intuitive. They can make correct decisions from incomplete, ambiguous, or even incorrect data. What humans suck at is precise, repeatable thinking - like parsing. Meanwhile, computers are great at generating repeatable results from consistent data very quickly, but absolutely cannot make decisions. Even conditional statements aren't actually "decisions".

So a language can be hard to parse unambiguously for machines, but it can be pretty straightforward for humans - like pretty much any natural spoken language.
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Don't use the greater than sign in programming
And while fun to read, the cheap trick above doesn't have the right lightwaves to make you feel the same.
The early design goal of being easy to teach also caused python to have a culture that places a high value on doing the work to make the developer experience better for beginners. You can see this in things like the Django tutorial, but it is more powerfully felt as an undercurrent in conversations at python conferences (based on PyTennessee, PyConUK, DjangoCon, and PyCaribbean)
How is this a ripoff of a MacBook, of all things? It's far closer to a Surface Pro in its target audience and basic functionality (tablet, most notably).
Lee Valley Tools[1] operates in a similar manner North America. But they specialize in woodworking and gardening tools.

[1] https://www.leevalley.com/
Huawei has a very popular sub-brand for smart phones named 'Mate' (http://consumer.huawei.com/minisite/worldwide/mate8/). I guess that's why they are using Matebook for new laptops.
:( no mention of JM Jarre. Here are some oldies but goodies

Oxygene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE9jShG9sD0

Magnetic fields
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyzXZ_NFVrg
I kind of feel sad for this company. They had very strong model. Build something that scales to millions of users and offer it for free along with ads. As long as the cost of scaling is less than ad revenue you run a profit.

Clearly marketing and engineering both were strengths here but I strongly feel they lost the control of engineering side. They probably did not invest in tech leadership that was required. This is a sinking ship and can not be turned around.
Looks cool - typo on the front page though: "What is swithboard.chat?" instead of "What is switchboard.chat?"
That's an incredible price for a Cree. Is it a special sale?
By old I think they are mostly referencing those who are 40 and 50 years old who were young when Yahoo was first introduced.
The paranoid engineer in me thinks this "box shuffling" is a feature flagged behavior and you ended up in an unlucky bucket.
Even more obvious is the notion that innocent civilians use encryption to protect themselves from mass survelence and needless data collection.

Is the end goal no longer total information awareness? [0]

Side note: that was a rather scathing and slanted article you cited. It would have been nice to see the simple facts of the case presented in a neutral light.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness
But this isn't some random abuse with "take it or leave it". It's something they knew about all along and went into with open eyes. What doesn't make sense is this dogmatic insistence that no right should be waivable under any circumstance. In what sense is it actually misconduct. As I said initially (and which I didn't see a response to), if you legitimately believe a case of lawbreaking is harmful and the kind of thing we should care about, that should translate into "here is a public goods problem whose solution that disrupts". So how does this lawbreaking do that? And why not just spell that out the first time around?

The opposite position is like saying, "you are the rightful owner of that apple, therefore you can't trade it for something better even if you want to, because that would be abusive of your rights".