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relevant HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11512845
Working under the direction of a grant agency. I know, I worked at two such institutes that managed $10m/yr grant money for planetary and biological science. In this case (NASA) the selection was done based on recommendations from a peer committee, but under directions from civil servants who had the final say, and there was a definite culture of favoritism for the prestigious closed journals. It was good for the institute too -- Science and Nature publications and associated PR raised our image in the eyes of our managers at HQ in Washington.
That is true. I've been fooling around with Hy (hylang.org) for a fairly long time because it's nicer than Clojure for doing glue, and that has made me wonder how fast some things would go if Python had native immutable data types.
@philipplgh thanks for sharing! Really cool example
That's better than the jazz works (which is fine considering the jazz works were a hackathon). But I wouldn't call these masterpieces.

From my perspective, AI generated music at the present often falls really short on two areas. The first is instrumentation and dynamics. AI music often sounds "robotic". Probably better soundsets for some AI examples would help, but beyond that, I find a lot of AI music "overly quantized" sounding. Humans often don't play the music exactly as written(see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressive_timing); this "non-perfect timing" is a large part of many music works' expressive element.

The second problem to me is that AI music often falls short on overall coherent musical themes. A lot of AI pieces tend to sound "structureless" with no real direction, no thematic elements, nothing that could be called a motif or hook, etc. There are definitely some established "rules and patterns" for music, so it's not like some of this could be fed into the AI. The best composers however bend and play with convention a bit, though.
If I start a McDonalds francise, even if it's my first-ever business, it's DEFINITELY not a startup.
Car GPS trackers are expensive, hard to install, poorly designed and just plain bad.

It can't be hard to do it better. And if done right there's a massive market. You could get in with insurance companies to cover costs like NEST did with the energy companies. The Business model writes itself.
dupe, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11519421
Solution: the laptop sock [1]

[1] http://crunchwear.com/the-laptop-compubody-sock-lets-you-cru...
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Precisely. :)

Also, see above my comment on using Hy (hylang.org) for LISPy glue.
"Both are like, trivially easy."

Until you screw up memory allocation and have to debug.

There's a race condition in Python 3's CPickle that corrupts memory.[1] I can't reproduce it well enough to submit a bug report that won't be ignored.

[1] http://bugs.python.org/issue23655
By what measurement?

I think the only thing I could say would be that it would be safer? And possible terser and possibly easy to understand.
I couldn't have said it better. Will comply and aspire to inspire. and no ut omnes. I'm out of my league here, any direction on any level no advice refused Thank You in advance for you help and considerations. Reciprocation to ensue. quiet and listening
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If they search the entire population then there should be 1000s of matches.

I think they're smart enough not to incarcerate based on DNA alone.
He said something accurate very reasonably. You're just moaning about it. Do you have anything constructive to add ?
The above poster was saying there is a subculture of people who, in order to feel superior, conspicuously avoid posting on Instagram about a sunset. This is an absurd characterization. There is no place in the galaxy in which it is conspicuous to not post beautiful things to Instagram. I have no judgments for users of Instagram, but a pocket full of confusion for someone who assigns a motive and subculture to everyone who doesn't live their lives exactly the way they do. It's provincial and sad, ironically so, considering that in context, that these people are documenting the travels to a foreign land.
There's plenty of improvements that are made by TOCs, though often not the things that get big headlines: service frequency increases are often done by the TOC, wifi on-board became commonplace on intercity services without government funding, etc.

Certainly there's plenty of cases where the improvements are only made because they're a requirement of the franchise specification (with or without funding), but I think it's unfair to say that all improvements have happened because of government intervention.
Anybody who truly understands the technology and minutia behind modern browsers strikes me as almost more interesting and impressive than understanding Linux in this day and age.

This isn't belittling operations folks, this is more of a comment on how complicated, complex, and obfuscated modern browsers are.
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MetroMile, which charges for its insurance based on the mile, has this feature. You can even log into their app to find where your car is parked.
Ask HN: How were the YC interviews today?
Any curveballs?
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Does this system use the surrounding context of the conversation when doing its classification, or is each statement processed independently of what came before it?
I've thought of making a chrome extension or something that would edit your newsfeed like this. Only show posts that don't have external links. I have a feeling my feed would become pretty barren.
Equinix is really a top tier provider. I have some space down in San Jose SV5 and it's pretty awesome. If anyone is interested in a colo swap let me know. I have a few units free and would love to barter it for some space maybe a bit closer to SF.

Also just for kicks I requested a quote for the SV5 center a few months back. They are roughly 3.2k / month for a full rack [1]:

[1] http://i.imgur.com/ZPDm3gi.png
... And so do individual women. In this thread, even. Are they all lying?
Right, and you can do the same with C, using libraries providing this functionality wrapped as well. There's plenty of std::string and std::vector like containers, which handle the magic for you. But even then, you can work with struct {len int; void* data;} to get your vector, and replace void* with char* to get a string. A simple vector and simple string is in no way difficult to implement, and many implementations exist.

I'm just trying to point out that the convenience of some C++ standard library features is not isolated to C++, and C++ is not a "memory safe" language by meaning of the word.
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>For example, it's not at all uncommon for me to comment to a male co-worker who comes in to work dressed up more than usual 'looking sharp, man!' or something along those lines. Would that be sexual harassment if I said that to a woman? Probably not on the face of it, but what if she has just (unbeknownst to me) endured harassment from another co-worker about her looks - then I could see my comment adding to the fire. Or what if I without thinking said something that implied that her dress would make her a more valuable employee or help her get that promotion or whatever. So, I just avoid it altogether.

I find the best policy is to not make any comments about other's appearance/weight. That topic is a minefield for all genders. There's exceptions to this policy - if you were a manager instructing a subordinate about appropriate dress for work for example. Or asking if there was a special occasion for them to get dressed up for but not commenting directly on their appearance.
The NSA went ahead and redacted the rest of the response for you.
You can give any number of asterisked replies about how every criminal is different and motivated differently... and you can attempt to take the following argument to its extremes to say that you can never really get rid of theft. Those may both be true, but focusing on the caveats is a diversion from a fundamental societal issue.

Because we've chosen to use technology for isolated personal enrichment instead of overall humanitarian benefit, we are advancing at a quickening pace toward wealth disparity. Additionally, we've created a religion out of dollars that holds selfishness as a virtue.

It should surprise no one that the selfish actors we've created (and culturally glorified) also behave selfishly when their backs are against the wall.
I thought a start-up needs to have a product/service that aims for ultra-high-growth.
Does the UK, or other countries, have a political movement similar to the U.S. that opposes government investment in things like transportation, education, etc?
> At least the 30% cut means Apple have to keep earning it.

I think this is exactly the point that gives me the bad feeling: If Apple really provided "the best service", people would buy their services from them and the price would be dictated by demand and competition (ironically, just like the price of apps in the App Store, which tends to go down over time).

But this is not how it works. People aren't free to choose which services they want to buy from Apple and whether they want to buy from Apple at all (if they want to be in the iOS playground). Apple forces their services on everybody. There is only a single package: Take it or leave it.

> Remember that as a developer you can walk away, and support other platforms instead.

Theoretically it's true, but ultimately, the customer decides. Although I put a lot of effort into a very nice mobile-first web design, which will hopefully render the app unnecessary in the long run. Together with the "always online" trend and increasingly better mobile internet connections, this might work out.

Thanks for your thoughts, I appreciate them. I don't want to sound as if I'm only arguing my position here. I'll think about the stuff you said.
this article triggered me and violated my safe space. dean plz resign. plz.
Something like that, yes.

Mobile development feels a bit clunky to me :\
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I'm sure women appreciate you acting paranoid and terrified of accidentally interacting with them in the workplace.
Herodotus was fantastic because he was the first historian, but he is seriously lacking as a historian if you judge him by modern standards. That doesn't detract from him as a great man and an intellectual pioneer, but it does mean we should be skeptical of his theories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus#Egypt
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I'm a ex Facebook & AOL designer. I recently quit my job to start a design studio of my own and I'm looking to build up my portfolio. I'm looking to work with amazing entrepreneurs to help them design even more amazing products.

-FAQs:
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-Do you take equity? No.
-Do you also design web apps? Sure. I'm open for all platforms: Web, android, iOS, etc. except VR/3D.
-How does it work? I will be booking on first-come, first-served basis. Contact is in my profile. Initial payment will be 50% up front and the rest upon finishing.
-Why $1k? It's a filter. I'm not looking to become rich doing this, but I'm looking to work with entrepreneurs that actually are looking to launch an app or already have one but need design help.
-What have you designed in the past? While at Facebook I worked on Messenger, Events and Platform (web + ios). At AOL, I worked on the AOL Mobile team.
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Both MongoDB and MySQL were started by people who had no background in writing databases. They were blazingly fast compared to existing RDBMS, but once they started adding features that actually provided things that people assumed a database should have (primarily in area of consistency) they no longer look that great.

What makes MySQL better than MongoDB is that is older and closer to what a database should do. They still have their warts and some of the warts might not be removed, since it would break compatibility.

At this point MongoDB does not have anything going for them. Its key benefit was their speed, but as it turned out that was because data was stored mostly in RAM if Mongo crashed or there was a power loss then you most likely would lose significant (possibly all) of your data. Since then they fixed that and make it more reliable, it is worse in performance than a relational database [1] and it also doesn't scale well [2]

Essentially NoSQL databases were designed to be simple and without relational features in exchange for scalability and performance. Mongo you get neither. Mongo doesn't even try to benefit from the CAP theorem. It's neither always consistent nor always available [3].

You generally should always use a relational database, because in majority of cases you do have some schema and you expect data to be consistent.
NoSQL databases (especially ones that are AP in CAP) are generally good for specialized use cases, things that have no relations and are acceptable to be wrong or missing occasionally. For example storing logs, or user sessions etc.

Lastly, regarding question about performance. You need to understand your data and what you are doing. At my previous job there was a database called region. It was intended for a task such as looking up latitude/longitude -> ZIP code, and also IP -> ZIP code.

That database was (and probably still is) running on 3 beefy machines running Mongo and contained data was about 13GB. One time I wanted to see how it would work in a relational database. So I loaded the dataset to a Postgres database and installed PostGIS and ip4r extensions. And you know what? The same data took only 600MB there and all queries took sub millisecond on smallest VM.

How come? Mongo does not understand IP addresses, so what they did is they converted an IP into a number and stored it as a 64bit integer in Mongo. Postgres on the other hand was simply storing IP ranges, and with an GiST index.

Why I'm telling you this? I think it is important to know that RDBMS databases have been used for a long time, and many problems were already solved there if you're having some performance problem chances are someone else did have it as well before you (in this case someone wrote an extension providing a new data type)

[1] http://www.enterprisedb.com/postgres-plus-edb-blog/marc-lins...
[2] http://www.datastax.com/wp-content/themes/datastax-2014-08/f...
[3] https://aphyr.com/posts/322-call-me-maybe-mongodb-stale-read...
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I've always thought about it as a trait of the young, because I remember feeling this way myself. As I searched for identity one of the ways I found it was by not identifying as something. It's a totally understandable, if slightly immature attitude. I still find myself doing it, however, especially when talking about politics.

It can be a bit toxic, however, and it's probably the major reason I drifted away from "mainstream" reddit. It seemed dominated by young men complaining about tumblr, which was dominated by young women complaining about reddit.

Of course, just reading that sentence, I see I've fallen into the trap.
For external purposes - use stackoverflow
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This is the commenter's point. Because the current way of training the model is by comparing its own output to the Pat Metheny tune, it doesn't work once you add more than a single song.

Musicians do learn from each other, but then they learn how to play what they like, or what sounds good. To this model, "what it likes" is a 100% representation of 'And Then I Knew' . You could swap the target song for another, but not for multiple targets at the same time without reworking the logic.
Now you made me all weepy.

I'm fighting off a resistant infection that has decided to invade my lungs as well. My definition of fun is to get the doctor to turn up the oxygen one more notch. "5 litres per hour man? Are you crazy? Ye cannae handle it!"
Are our only choices: 1) Violence against women never occurs, and 2) Most men are barely contained threats?
Children, National Security/Terrorism and tough on crime - a politician's three standard reasons for passing any stupid law.
Does anyone know how large the codebase is?
Url changed from http://www.engadget.com/2016/04/18/uber-forced-to-suspend-su..., which points to this.
Why would be math online degree be neccessarly of low-quality instruction ?
How is the job markets for math phd these days btw ?
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curious, is there no glibc solution? Its just the libnss* that requires dynamic linking?
Good point. He would have known.
Why not write a Py->JS transpiler to solve the efficiency problem?
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I don't think surge pricing affects the number of drivers in the immediate moment. I think the effect of surge pricing is meaningful over the long term though. Drivers who could be pursuing other methods of making money will choose to drive for Uber instead of doing something else, like driving a normal taxi.

Surge pricing also has the affect of reducing the number of people calling Uber. This ensures the people who have the highest ability to pay continue to view your service as a fast, reliable and comfortable alternative to the ever-present taxi. In this sense, surge pricing effectively creates tiered service automatically.
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Resolved already. https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/122

Edit: A comment how easy it would be to theoretically have this functionality accidentally enabled --

Note that the odds of Grandma 'accidentally' enabling Bash on Windows is more or less none. You have to 1: Associate your Win10 account with a MSDN account. 2: Enable Developer Mode from the Update Settings. 3: Sign into MSDN and click through a few pages to enable Insider features. 4: Finally, Go back to the Update settings and enable Insider updates along with the "Fast" feature-set. 5: Reboot. 6: Enable the "Server" Service (most users are just running "Workstation" on 10; 'Server' isn't even offered on non-Pro,Enterprise. (At least, I think)).

Only then will you be able to even have the option of installing the Bash feature (which isn't an "oops" situation - you have to be a power user to even get access to it with an Admin user [See: (1,2) for what's visible on a stock install of Windows, even to administrators - none of which offer the Feature selection.]

It's intentionally obscured for power users, just like the Group Policy, MMC, etc functionality. You can even tell by [3] ("Features") and the other Features in there (Active Directory, Hyper V, etc) that this functionality is clearly targeted to power-users (in fact, there's a large overlap between WinServer 2012's Feature screen & this).

TL;DR - This isn't something which will accidentally get turned on, and if Grandma is rooted, you can hide the process from Process Manager easily anyways. Even from Sysinternals' Procexp, with some ease.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/EPgcrrR.png Standard settings page
[2] https://i.imgur.com/Lim8eFv.png Standard Control Panel
[3] https://i.imgur.com/xDyQzHd.png Features
"circuitry immune to hot-wiring" might have more to do with it than the alarms...
Every time I've been on it it's been busy and reasonably fast, an impression which is well backed up by the usage stats. Definitely speeds up a lot of journeys from Edinburgh park. My impression is that most of the criticism comes from people heading to the airport where the bus is still by far the best option, although even then trams successfully drag people onto public transport who have strong prejudices about buses.
As stated before, I'm happy to engage in a dialogue on the topic, though please be prepared to be both logical and able to present related facts; which to say, no, I'm not describing myself, nor do I see any reasoning presented to back this up.
I doubt it.

Seriously... this whole "you are a white man so you share blame for anything a white man ever did" is absolutely stupid.
Seems like it still needs a huge chunk of Android-SDK and VM and stuff. I was like "I'm doing React for a year now, lets try this on an afternoon", but then I had some issues that didn't even had something to do with React Native that prevented me from getting things running.

Well, maybe I'm too pampered from web-development, haha
The original NYC event (with lots of examples!) is here: http://www.stupidhackathon.com
pathetic and a sign of things to come.
The author's first anecdote reminded me of what happened when I went to see the Kinkaku-Ji temple in Kyoto. It's a very famous buddhist temple that is covered in gold and reflects over a beautiful pond.

The grounds were specatcular and for the most part I could walk around them without being in too much of a crowd. But at the one point where you could get the "famous" picture of the temple reflecting into water there were a few hundred people shoulder to shoulder trying to hold their phones above everyone else.

This was especially heartbreaking to me at a buddhist temple meant to inspire tranquility and a place where I had hoped people would be able to take in the serenity of the scene instead of fighting for the photo.
After some very brief googling it seems like there are many decent choices. Here's one: http://www.awaregps.com/
Kind of, some people think we should reduce the deficit by cutting government spending, others want to spend less on the NHS, but nobody takes it anyway near the level seen in the USA.
There's no good predictable event-driven polling library for networking because the whole runtime is a good predictable event-driven polling library for networking. You're not supposed to "event" Go I/O.

Virtually every Go program that anyone has deployed at scale has scaled I/O with goroutines (though not necessarily with "concurrent memory access").

With the exception of NTP, I can't see a single example of a service in the list I provided that is sensitive to "GC pauses" on the scale you'd end up with in an idiomatic Go program.
Working on closed source and building up a business was an utter waste of time. I spent a lot of time with my kids the last years and should have done that before.

Other than that, and about a thousand fuck ups that seem inevitable on the road of life, I regret nothing, and admit nothing.
The top comment on that article sums up just why we're doomed to ever increasing levels of surveillance:

"Are people begging for increased crime? If this technology helps solve crime, who cares?"
Even if it is a very limited model and the tracks get boring quickly like everyone is saying, this is still extremely cool. I really need to buy a new GPU that I can run Theano on.
Not every time a library changes, only every time one has a security bug.
Oh. It's Wall Street "scrutiny", rather than federal, state, or local government scrutiny.
This sort of thing happens a lot in California -- all beach land is public property, but the private land that controls access to said beach can impose arbitrary restrictions.
Wow, already down?! Someone get them a CloudFlare account!
Unfortunately this was particularly the case around 2011 :(
A scanning center attached to the main building and known as the reading room caught fire in November 2013.

https://blog.archive.org/2013/11/06/scanning-center-fire-ple...
The thief has to return some video, er, storage, tapes.
I think the newest version of RPython has better FFI; they've been blogging about lxml compatibility for a few months.