skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read that before, and even have it bookmarked, but it was still worth it to read it again. It's a masterpiece.

...that's something scary to say about the tech industry, right there.
Golang is great, and I'd love to move my code over to it from C and C++. But one of my projects involves creating a Windows DLL, and I don't think Golang provides a way to for me to compile to that just yet. I don't think Go has a strong GUI story yet either (and even if it did, it will take a while for the tooling to match XCode or Delphi or Xojo).

Languages have different strengths, part of programming is deciding which languages & toolset are most productive for the project you're working on.
How feasible is it (maybe it's been done) to provide an objective musical analysis of this overwhelming (to me) array of musical styles? By this I mean - descriptive of the harmonic progressions and rhythmic patterns employed as one would analyze (for instance) a classical symphony?
>"Still, I think people use Snapchat to share more inconsequential parts of their lives than we ever did on facebook"

Actually, I think this can be chalked up to the age of you and your friends. Snapchat feels very "middle school", when a status update could have been something like "I just saw a cute dog!!" -- a very low bar. Now as a 20-something a status is something I would use to say "Flying back home for a week!" -- more major events.
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> but knowing that there isn't a person behind those words, feeling what I'm feeling, definitely detracts from the experience of the whole.

I recently had a discussion about this with a musician. I said that I didn't like when music was produced (and certainly lyrics written by) somebody else than the performer. I said it took away from the experience of 'getting to know' the person I was listening to.

She basically replied, that I was being extremely old fashioned, and that this 'idea' of music was very harmful for the business. She said it prevented people from working together and each contributing what they did best.

If she's right, I guess we just have to interpret the music on its own, and not see it as a mental state of some individual creator. Maybe this is related to, when authors are annoyed that people identify them with their main characters. In any case, non-individual art doesn't seem to be going away.
Although having coded for many years, this is my first open source project ever released!

I have been running my own IRC-bot on it, being stable for a few months.

Thanks for checking it out ^^
Re resonance in a cavity, I have some prototypes but they didn't make it into gameplay. Actually the end screen is an example. Several levels do exhibit resonance in a potential well: 7, 9, 11 and 12.

[Really? Wow, that's harsh. I haven't the foggiest how HN scores work, it's all rather secretive isn't it.]
Its perhaps surprising to those within the tech industry, to find out how fast progress has been -- as I recently read

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/17/findface-...

and the HN discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11712197
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Was it the relational layer that was bad ? a bad fit ? or the .net vm not fast enough at the time ?
Do you plan to release vivaldi opensource or not?
Great news extension.
XMPP died? There must be a bug in my Pidgin then, it claims to still be connected to my XMPP server. /s
Hm, looks interesting. I wonder if it would be possible to monkey-patch the defer itself in something like this. So that defer itself is handling it, but only if you do the the monkey-patching per file and not globally.

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I would argue that "purposeful" users like yourself are in the minority.
Let's not golang there.
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It isn't exactly the same what I had in mind. But anyway, good job.
A colleague noticed about 2 weeks ago that instead of 10 or so hosts in his list on the teamviewer website had suddenly grown to 600+ hosts - I witnessed this, and told him he should contact teamviewer. Shortly after this someone tried to take control of his brother's machine.

We use teamviewer host and haven't seen anyone trying to log in, but I'd rather not take the chance and have removed the software from all our machines. If we need to remote assist someone, they can run the software manually.

Having the ability to remote connect and repair problems is great, but when there is the remotest (pun intended) chance that it can be used nefariously then I'd rather limit the threat.
The average person listening to Taylor Swift is thinking about Taylor Swift, and not what they're listening to.

Pop is maybe 75% performance, sex, status, and charisma. The music isn't irrelevant, but it only really needs to be a committee-produced mashup of contemporary cliches to do its job.

The rest is posing and attitude.

>As it turns out, this kind of music is already pretty formulaic.

But it's less formulaic than it sounds. Discovering that it uses Standard Chord Sequence Number 7 (from the small standard pop set) won't get you close to an interesting song.

A lot of creative detail goes into the production, arrangement, and the vocal performance. Not the MIDI file.

Basically there are huge gaps between a MIDI cliche machine - buildable now, and not particularly difficult - to a full virtual artist who produces even moderately successful tracks without human help, to a musical AI genius who produces completely new musical styles that capture the human imagination for centuries.

You need a model of mind to do that last one, and we're at least 50 to 100 years away from that.
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I was a bit surprised to find musicmap here before I actually posted it. (I was going to post it today).
Just a few clarifications:

- the site is not optimal for smartphones, web responsiveness is great for ipad and beyond (preferably chrome/firefox)
- more updates will follow, like spotify playlists and hyperlinks in the text (+ small user friendly improvements)
- take note that this is a starting platform, and an approximation of the overwhelming reality of music genres.
Please read the first three (general) pages for more information.
All feedback is appreciated at info@musicmap.info

Thank you sincerely for posting this here before I did :-)

My regards,

Kwinten

musicmap.info
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There's a lot of informal analysis like this on the internet, but it usually looks as "how to write %genre_name%" guide. Of course, they aren't as good as real academic analysis, but they're usually good enough for most purposes and much easier to follow.
Others have given different reasons.

Mine, as explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11416488 , are that Windows 10 lacks the subsystem and toolsets that are a major part of my use of Windows 7. Microsoft removed them from the operating system.
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This is definitely a DNS issue.
This is the original article by Terrence Broad:

https://medium.com/@Terrybroad/autoencoding-blade-runner-889...

and its appearance on HN the other week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11766063
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Great site, but on iPhone 6's Safari it looks a little broken and works _quite_ slow.
>"... with the JVM is superbly seamless (it leaves Scala in the dust in this respect) ..."

Uh, what?
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> VW has had access to the US for decades. Them building electric cars in the US has nothing to do with access to the US market.

That’s literally wrong.

The US government continually blocked VW from the US market, including the EPA sometimes taking 3 years for a single emission test.

As soon as a VW plant in the south of the US was built, somehow all that stopped.

> The government itself will be cut out of the loop and that's really the problem here.

Yes, and that’s the entire issue.

We’re getting a world where companies (which are basically dictatorships of the rich) are getting more power over governments. That doesn’t help anyone but the already rich.
I believe the enabler to fast reading is to skip verbalization totally - i.e., not a "minds voice" that is speaking quickly, but going from seeing a sentence to getting the concept of that sentence without vocalizing, without ever having had a representation of how that sentence sounds, bypassing the hearing/speech centers of your brain, reading on an abstract purely visual level.

I feel a mental voice when reading e.g. poetry or when writing a draft for a presentation/speech, but all other content is purely visual. I tend to recall the visual location where a fact was written, e.g. that was on the right side of some page around the bottom part, but not how it sounded.
A month ago Vivaldi's CEO did a reddit AMA, with tons of questions and answers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4ebgom/iama_jon_von_t...
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It absolutely fits, as strange as it sounds.
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Every time a malicious program—say, a script on a website you visit—runs a certain, obscure command, that capacitor cell “steals” a tiny amount of electric charge and stores it in the cell’s wires without otherwise affecting the chip’s functions. With every repetition of that command, the capacitor gains a little more charge. Only after the “trigger” command is sent many thousands of times does that charge hit a threshold where the cell switches on a logical function in the processor to give a malicious program the full operating system access it wasn’t intended to have. “It takes an attacker doing these strange, infrequent events in high frequency for a duration of time,” says Austin. “And then finally the system shifts into a privileged state that lets the attacker do whatever they want.”
It's amazing how misguided this article is.

Twitter is a publishing platform. You go there for (links to) news, blog posts, commentary on particular subjects (some of them very niche), notifications of events or live reporting of something happening in public.

Why does every form of communication have to fit the mold of "keeping in touch with friends and family" and match the user numbers that these services inherently deliver?

I'm so fed up with the dominance of "keeping up with friends and family". I have better things to do than to "keep up" with pointless brain farts and daily routines of people I know.

And why is everything measured by what kids or teenagers do? So much so that people on here pride themselves of "getting" snapchat in spite of their advanced age (>30) as if that was difficult or any sort of achievement.

The salient feature of teenagers is that most of them haven't yet found anything that they are deeply interested in. Most of them don't have very complicated social relationships yet as they don't have a past with anyone. They are not held accountable for anything, and they don't have to make well informed or consequential decisions yet.

In other words, their demand for information and communication is hard to predict but can often be met by something totally inadequate for others. So it's not about "getting it", it's about finding it unfit for purpose.

There's a pattern in the demise of Google Reader and Twitter's current problems. It seems to be difficult for internet behemoths to justify investment into the significant but limited niche of people with advanced information needs.

I wish Twitter had the courage to try to increase usage, utility and depth instead of growing user numbers. And no, it's not an inherent problem with capitalism. There are many successful, publicly traded companies that do something useful, make a profit, and don't grow much.
That capacitor-based trigger design means it’s nearly impossible for anyone testing the chip’s security to stumble on the long, obscure series of commands to “open” the backdoor. And over time, the capacitor also leaks out its charge again, closing the backdoor so that it’s even harder for any auditor to find the vulnerability.
FYI, those are different projects with vastly different quality requirements... But they do shoot themselves in the foot when they put buggy software right in front of their customer.
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What? These ads are on served from the domain, why would they be blocked there?
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I don't think it's about the pose. It's about attention. To interact with a system we have to focus on it and that means we have to take our focus off of everything else. Computers are notoriously bad at understanding us if we aren't focused on them exclusively.

That's why so many people are trying to get voice interaction right. It's the most natural way to split our attention.

A lot of this IoT nonsense is trying to discover a few corner cases where computers can do sensible things without a human needing to specifically focus on them. Like automatically reordering cereal, or unlocking your phone when you get close, or adjusting the temperature when you leave the house.
Pithy answer: because you aren't going to be afraid of something when you understand that it's not something you need to fear.

When you have a simple world view, nuance is always going to escape you. An educated person can understand that the world isn't simple, which will lead to a more liberal view, as liberal views tend to be based on the assumption that angry, narrow world view responses aren't a good thing. Someone who sees things in black and white, ignoring the complexities of life, will respond with simple, ignorant answers.

Examples: climate change denial, anti-vax, religion... They're the intellectual equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting, rather than seeking to actually understand anything.

It's worth noting that all these things are driven by fear of things people don't understand. Someone who understands how vaccinations work, why we do them, why they're made the way they are can't be afraid of them, and thus won't be against them. But most people aren't in that camp, which opens the door for people to make bad choices.

It's hard getting people to be want to be informed and right, when it means they might have to disagree with their social group.
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How about "Amazon Alexa comes to countries outside the US"? That would be nice.
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A few concerns/issues i have:
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* Is it going to be open source ? (it would be great if it is planned to be open source)

Other than that, i am so far a very happy user. I love the dark theme and also it is very customizable.

I also like the address-bar with size of page loaded so far.
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The two parties have been getting more polarized, that much is clear. The problem with the GOP from an educated person's perspective is that many, if not most of its politicians get elected through anti-intellectual rhetoric. Trump is the most extreme example of this. He makes no actual arguments and just attacks his detractors.

An educated group taught to embrace science will certainly take issue with leaders who ignore it.

Additionally, the GOP is the party of creationists and climate deniers. That is just too extreme of an anti-intellectual slant to tolerate.
Yeah, the first thing to go in a good story is good security. Security is designed to make sure nothing interesting ever happens. At best it slows everything down and at worst it just outright forbids everything. That's poison to a narrative.
Not just any harm will do - it has to be GBH[1] and it has to be a "virtually certain" result of the action.[2]

IMHO your example of a punch would not pass this test.

[1] http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/h_to_k/homicide_murder_and_mansl...

[2] http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199798/ldjudgmt/j...
There is a curious (albeit incomplete) parallel here to Moldbug's theory of the five castes of the United States.
Autoencoders are a special type of deep neural network where there is a small middle layer, and the labels are the same as the input.

The idea is you train the network to reproduce the input, but it has to pass the information through the small middle layer which has relatively few neurons. Thus the network learns a good (hopefully) way to represent typical inputs with not much information. You have automatically generated an encoding (hence the name).

You're right it's not really 'reconstructing' the film in the way they imply. But it isn't just a distorted version of the original either. The really important question is how big the middle layer is (and hence how much it has learned / how good the compression is). Unless this is just done for artistic purposes, which seems to be the case.
Recently Vivaldi have started to hang after opening the lock screen in Fedora (23), you have to wait for the Force Quit Window to restart it.

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I don't understand why these giant social media behemoths are so bad at web design which should be one of their core competences. Another example is Instagram hijacking middle click, so I can't open images in new tabs.
Interesting that Polish wikipedia has more information about this than English. It says that military accident was not likely.
This question doesn't get enough attention. I thought this article was pretty shoddy, though.

> The growing number of women with advanced degrees is part of it, as well-educated women tend to be especially left-leaning.

"Why are the highly educated so liberal?"... "Because highly educated women are liberal, and there are more highly-educated women."

Well that explains everything. /s
> One of the things that makes Vivaldi unique is that it is built on modern web technologies.

If a company is making this stupid statement on the first page I can imagine the rest.
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51% of college graduates voted for Romney in 2012 while only 48% for Obama

Romney actually lost with highschool educated only and he lost significantly with postgraduate studies only getting 42% of the vote with Obama getting 55%.

So really the trend is that academics are liberal, not the highly educated.

(That 3% gap in college grads likely accounts for a larger percentage of the population than the massive 13% gap among grad degree holders)

http://ropercenter.cornell.edu/polls/us-elections/how-groups...

edit: another source that adds evidence to my argument

Professors in humanities that identify as Republican range from 6 to 11 percent.

Social Sciences 7 and 9 percent

2% of English professors are Republican.

Meanwhile 18% of social scientists are Marxists.

This evidence leads me to believe that Academics self select to be liberal and that people with a conservative mindset do not find academia appealing for whatever reason. The reason I rule it has little to do with intelligence of the groups is the prevalence of Marxism amongst academics. Intelligent people that use evidence to reason about their beliefs wouldn't be Marxist.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/opinion/sunday/a-confessio...
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From the AMA on reddit

> We have the C++ code as open source now. As far as making the rest of Vivaldi open source, we're still discussing the implications and want to make the best possible decision.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4ebgom/iama_jon_von_t...
Military misadventure happens all the time. When I was growing up near a military base in Norfolk, Virginia, a family who was friends with ours had a blast of machine gun fire rip through their car while traveling with the mother, father, and baby inside. Luckily nobody was injured.
Probably because the education system, in most western countries is largely subsidised by government. So the professors, and the teachers who are largely on public payroll, are bound to be less critical of government, than, say someone in the private sector. Which in turn will permeate those who they teach. It's in their best interest to then spread ideals which uphold their government funding.
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However it seems the majority of anti-vaxxers are liberals
The article defines highly educated as people with advanced degrees. They are not academics. I doubt anyone would classify the general population of all college graduates (i.e. from all colleges) in the US as highly educated.
I'm sure many intellectuals are driven away from the GOP because of these issues, however the studies mentioned in the article seemed to be about people's actual political beliefs, not just which party they end up voting for.
This is a great interview by Tim Ferriss with Jocko Willink, who probably can be considered a "Born Soldier" in a similar vein: http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/09/25/jocko-willink/

The huge difference in perception from what is "usual" that the author of the linked article describes, struck me most when listening to it.

Examples:

Dying in battle -> That's the plan
Battle of Ramadi -> Pinnacle of life

By the way I am not judging this attitude either way. It's just interesting how different some people look at life.
The fact that most highly educated are liberal doesn't imply that most liberals are highly educated. I would guess (and hope) that most anti-vaxers are not highly educated, liberal or not.
For perspective, what in the US is called "liberal" in the rest of the world is rather to the right of centre. The two parties are pulling apart from each other but to outsiders they remain very similar both in policy and ideology, at least at the national level. Neither is talking of actual reform, only incremental change.
Perhaps the real answer is closer to "it's easy to be tolerant and broad-minded if you don't feel threatened".

You're answer boils down to "because liberals are right and the others are wrong". But there isn't really such a thing as a wrong political opinion. People's political choices are based on their experience of the world. The whole premise of democracy is that if you take the mean of everybody's personal experience you will arrive -- more or less, and with some difficulty -- at the right answer.