skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I absolutely hate the instrumental nonsense that a bunch of music school graduates are producing this day, but I love jazz. Play Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Satchmo, Anita O'Day, Peyroux, even Diana Krall. This is what Jazz was initially defined as - jumping up and down the scale on a trumpet and wearing old Egyptian costumes is not Jazz for me.
Couple of weeks ago I found a WP related hack on MT, had the same dilemma. I still wonder what the proper protocol is.
Man, you must be the life of a party.

You just managed to offend a guy gratuitously. Plenty of people are able to be rational and yet hold religious beliefs. And all you do is to dismiss everything as superstition.

I, for one, can't say for sure that I "know that gods and goddesses don't exist". And you are trying to shove down your disbelief down my throat. Fundamentalist atheism is still fundamentalism. Please stop.
But Java can do that
I don't usually smoke pot; but when I do I usually end up with Coltrane, and he makes me want to cry.
As an Englishman, I'd say 8 fingers. Then again, I'm also quite pedantic, I figure some people would definitely say 10, but I wonder if it's a transatlantic thing.
You're cherry picking. Sun Ra, Herby Hancock (he's jazz, no?) and there's plenty of "boring"/non-striking artists across most genre's.
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I confirm that that was pretty much my point in the last paragraph. (No offense meant or taken in this post, just confirming.)
Any Lisp is allowed. See: http://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/bfgdt/announcing_the_2...
I started giving this a try, but backed out on the third permission page (which was getting boring quickly ;) where it asked to share my email address with you guys.

Why do you need my email address for this? It's instantly stopped me from trying out what looks like a fun app! :)
For most people, music is entertainment, just like literature, art, television, etc. It seems like you (and the author of this article) take it much more seriously than that. That's fine for you, but I think what many of us are expressing is that it's silly to claim that you're superior because of it. Musical skill is certainly to be admired, but condescension isn't.
If it's not a secret, can you tell us more about your startup?
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I have been thinking of learning Python for long time after I read pg's essay about Great Hackers. This will be a good start. Thanks for the link.
People can invite you to activities and RSVP from the app and we need to notify you about that. We promise to never share it with anyone. But thanks for the advice. We'll think about removing this requirement.
I've noticed this as well.

In general it seems women listen to lyrics more while men pay attention to the instruments more.
I recently wrote a program to do Threefish encryption which I deliberately wrote to look as much like the mathematical notation in the spec as possible. That made things so much easier that it was almost ridiculous, even if it made the resulting program very peculiar-looking.
Some software needs more of this sort of assistance than others.
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Worth noting: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/06/logos.html

About thirty years ago, three companies dreamed up logos that have become so powerful, I don't even have to show you the images to get them to pop up in your head. A sneaker company paid a few hundred dollars for an abstract, upside down wave, a coffee company picked a half-naked mermaid (is there any other kind) that cost them nothing, and a computer company picked [hired a PR firm that picked] a piece of fruit with a bite out of it.

What the images had in common: nothing. They range from abstract to woodcut to groovy. The art of picking a logo, even one for the Olympics, has almost nothing to do with taste or back story. A great logo doesn't mean anything until the brand makes it worth something.

Likewise, great aesthetics/graphics mean nothing until the brand makes it worth something.
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If I was onetimetoken, and I went to all this hassle to create a properly anonymous account and even laid down a challenge to you to find me out... why would I help you to find me out by giving you proof?
When t-shirts and sweat pants roaming around town everywhere, who still cares about jazz?

a jazz party in 1957: http://www.ivy-style.com/shoulda-been-there-dizzys-jam-sessi...
Incompetence has nothing to do with it. It's just all too common that we overlook something in our code. All software inherently has bugs as no developer is perfect. There's alot to be said about having millions of prying eyes nitpicking your source code. I'd much assume millions of people critiqued my code as opposed to none at all.
It's a similar situation for designers, as you can see with some of the recent discussions regarding 99designs. There's good pay at the high end (with a somewhat pronounced falloff), lots of "artsy" kids go into college for it because it's the one art program that promises to actually make them a living, and there's certainly a lot of misunderstanding of the process at the management level.
I think they understand their market just fine. You're just not in that market, so you don't notice.

It is niche music, there is no doubt about it. The jazz festival circuit seems to be doing just fine, albeit, most of the popular festivals are outside of the US. Heck, most of the really good older jazz musicians moved to Europe 30 years ago, anyways.
I think we have here the seed for a geek version of The Impossible Cool. (http://theimpossiblecool.tumblr.com/)

Finding photo #2 could be a little taxing, though.
I'd much rather see logos on a map than generic placeholder graphics. Which are you going to recognize faster: Some tiny text, or the golden arches? I think it's fair to call this a win for Google Maps users as well as a nice revenue stream for Google.
I would say most companies who depend on software but don't see software products or services as their main thing tend to be this way.
I'm not sure I agree with the "common" use case Probert is talking about. Sure, most people have multiple programs running at once, but a lot of the time the background processes are more or less running at idle or minimal CPU usage. So, I'm not sure that assigning a dedicated CPU per process would speed up things all that much...
Remember when the internet was slow? If Google had loaded down their design with huge amounts of images and clutter, they wouldn't have been nearly as attractive in a world of "portal" search engines.
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In the real world, this probably doesn't matter. Literals always go in as parameters, so the query text itself stays the same.

(usually it's simply "exec User_GetBySandalCount @sandalCount", 4)
I just bought a Kingston 64GB SSD for about $149 at Fry's. I put it in my Sony Vaio as the only drive and did a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.
It is really super fast now. Open Office spreadsheet opens in under 2 seconds. It boots in about 15 seconds. The install of the OS was considerably faster etc.
I have only had 1 actual session on the new setup but it seemed to speed everything up the whole time. Loading web pages in google chrome seemed almost unreal.
Right, but all that functionality could be implemented via Facebook. It supports messaging - between several people at once - and you could have it create events/activites etc automatically and in a really sexy way don't you think? All these will generate notices from Facebook, so you'd just be duplicating the messages ;)
"Imagine" is a song by John Lennon, during his solo career, not a Beatles song.
That's really quite the generalization. Some forms of jazz are very much like that, yes; however, there are many forms of jazz, particularly focusing on those from 1910-1950, which are very structured in form and don't really lend themselves to being "self-indulgent".

It'd be like me saying that all rock is talentless because it's all just a "fuck the man" wall of distortion. Yes, there's some rock music that's like that, but rock is an expansive genre and claiming that all or even the majority of rock is like that would be very naïve.
While these lectures are not for total programming newbies, they are very gentle if you know some other languages. He'll often contrast Python with Java, C++ and Javascript to highlight the differences.
I never thought I would see Lady Gaga and sophisticated in the same sentence.
Chrome shouldn't be any faster with a faster hard disk, AFAIK. Maybe some weird I/O flushes in the program were slowing it down...
Although I understand their reasons on why Acid3 isn't a priority, it doesn't change the fact that they are late in everything that defines a modern browser ... CSS support, JS performance, HTML5, SVG, browser plugins, you name it.

So to get over my disappointment with them, personally I'm looking for more than a half-assed attempt ... like they did with IE7 and IE8 (although the interface changes were interesting, but that's not what people craved for).

This article seems like it's a PR piece.
I have a hard time understanding how people can reject the notion that design is a data problem. I know I might be wrong about this. Random thoughts:

If your design doesn't accomplish a business objective, it may be better, but it is irrelevant to the business.

If data indicates your aesthetic doesn't increase a metric, then ultimately the only rational decision to make is to minimize the cost of your aesthetic. All things being equal, you take the equivalently successful design that imposes the least costs.

If the data indicates that your design decreases a metric, then ultimately the only rational decision is to kill the design.

There are also probably non-obvious cost factors. A much better Google SERP design may be more aesthetically strong, and may not hurt metrics --- it may even marginally improve metrics --- however, if the end result of that aesthetic is that every other page at Google needs to cost more to cohere with the SERP, then, again, it may be irrational to improve the design.

Companies spend a lot of money on design. Companies tell themselves a lot of things about design. Somebody's whole career is predicated on the idea that the lobby of a class A office building in the Chicago Loop needs to be just-so. In the building I'm in now, somebody spent several million dollars to improve the aesthetics. I think that probably has more to do with vanity than it does with business.

Corporate annual reports are a marquee design project. Companies spend serious dollars on them. Berkshire Hathaway does theirs in Word, set in Times New Roman. They seem to be doing OK.

Sell me on aesthetics more? I don't see it.
I have to concentrate really hard to listen to lyrics, but I find it easy to hear things like musical quotes and samples (e.g. the first time I heard a piece by Steve Reich, I knew immediately that I had already heard it, because I listened to The Orb years before). I always get a kick out of those moments of musical recognition - probably if I could force myself to pay more attention to lyrics, I would see more depth there too.
If you like classical, try Miles Davis's "Sketches of Spain" as a stepping point. There's very little improv in it and to me it sounds more classical than jazz. If you enjoy it, (which I almost guarantee you will) you'll probably be able to appreciate other Miles Davis CDs better.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketches_of_Spain
It read fine to me. It wasn't specifically about Acid3 so much as Microsofts approach to testing their standard compliance.

Summary: We don't believe Acid3 and Sunspider actually test the things browsers get used for in the real world so we are developing our test suite instead.

Cynical view: We want our own test suites so that we can pass them and show how everyone else sucks compared to us

Non Cynical view: Maybe they are right and a better suite of tests is needed to truly drive standardization for HTML5

Whichever camp you fall in the article didn't seem all that disconnected to me.

[edit]: added missing words. sometimes I type faster than I think.
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I heard the MIT OCW 6.00 python class on iTunesU is great too.
Thank you, beat me to posting it.

Never "filter out the badness", always "filter for only the goodness" then use the good value. Exhaustively enumerating the goodness is easier than exhaustively enumerating the badness.

(I'd combine this with a check for length, too.)
You are the one making the claim to be onetimetoken. I'm just asking that you back that up.
Specific to WordPress.com.

Not a general bug in WordPress or WordPress MU.
For the love of god, talk to a real lawyer, not HN! You might be able to get the advice free at the citizen's advice bureau. Or try direct.gov.uk, maybe.

Out of interest, is it as crazy as you make out or does he have some way of presenting these events so as to make it seem like he might not be totally insane? For the court, I mean.
Cool idea. But why limit it to Google (or any single company)?

Take every topic taught in formal education -- from K-12 through undergrad and graduate school. Break it up into small 2-day to 2-week modules. Categorize each module in terms of its prerequisities and teaching style (creating a giant graph through which students can travel). Provide pre- and post-tests (or simply let students self-declare their mastery of earlier subjects). Put it all online.

Others are thinking this way, too. See David Gelernter's 'Tracks and Clusters' concept from the 2009 Edge essays:

http://edge.org/q2009/q09_9.html#gelernter

(He adds to the online component real-life 'cluster rooms', where students working on similar materials gather for additional mutual in-person instruction.)
Yeah, the MS stack is surprisingly fast out of the box, so long as you avoid using pretty much everything that comes with ASP.NET in the "Rich Controls" department.

We accidentally launched Twiddla and survived our first two Redditings while serving the site from a desktop behind a Business DSL line. Surprisingly, it never batted an eye handling the load.

Probably shouldn't admit it, but up until we finally moved to a real box at a datacenter, the production server doubled as a gaming machine. Even with FarCry running, we never had an issue keeping up with load!
Most likely the fresh install had something to do with that. AFAIK the browser lives in memory and only touches the hard disk for saving files/history.
Real quines can contain comments, too.
The only thing I miss when using json are the css selectors when trying to find data in a nested structure.

With json I have to resort to imperative means and care about the middle layers. That means refactorings are more likely to break software.

Fundamentally there is no reason why json cannot have it's own selector which traverses the tree. There just isn't one that I know of though.
Awesome slides on node.js
I don't think it really has anything to do with music in particular, but just our attentions spans in general. I mean, right now I'm on HN, texting, IMing, listening to music, watching anime, and coding.

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The modes of listening to music are always in flux.

Singles are very popular right now. Not a lot of people are listening or even making 70s-style albums that are meant to be listened to in their entirety.

I'm an anomaly. I only listen to music while doing nothing else. I'll add that I don't have a car, and did listen to music while driving. BTW, I feel like you're not really doing much of anything when you're driving, so your ability to actually listen to music is retained.

Unlike coding. I can't listen to music while working, I want to pay too much attention to analyzing the chord progressions, lyrics, etc. :)
Is that tumblelog started by a cigarette company?
I wonder how they deal with corner cases. I imagine, say, Dylan can be seen as more Lispy than newLisp.

But--they won't have to optimize for that. They can deal with the common cases.
Ask HN: Do you participate in distributed computing (BOINC, FAH, etc)?
I'm just curious to know which projects the people here are donating their idle cycles to, and why.

I currently have about 12 cores running Rosetta@home (http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/), a computational protein prediction/design project based at the University of Washington.
Ha! Funny as always.

Too bad there is no way of verifying you are really lloyd.

Seems like we could come up with something - even if it only works for techies.
There are many ways to judge jazz music, but in my opinion, a really good jazz solo works as a standalone melody. As (I think) George Harrison said, the best guitar solos are the ones you can hum along with.

Listen to a solo by Django Reinhardt, for example. His version of "I'll See You In My Dreams" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJxehJ0Tbi0) is absolutely beautiful melodically -- even though pretty much the whole song is improvised, aside from the first seven notes.
Games and trash talking in the workplace foster better team interaction
Aesthetic is a consequence of good design. A good design is almost a science. If you ask anybody to divide a page in two section, it isn't a coincidence if almost everyone will divided it using the Golden Ratio without even knowing what it is.
That's why you need to be on both sides of the spectrum - create AND sell. It's much easier for technical people to pick up selling skills than it is for salesmen to pick up engineering skills.
Apple iPad? How about a little German innovation instead
For core issues (WordPress.org), send an email with the details to:

security@wordpress.org

For WordPress.com specific issues, you can use the general support form:

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Have you looked at the code? When I started using WordPress on my personal site, people warned me not to look behind the curtains. It seems pretty notorious for being a mess.
That's a good idea. We'll do it. Thanks!
Yeah, the code is the product, it's a program to do physical simulations of a certain industrial process (actually more interesting than it sounds!)
I'm really not sure Actors are the silver bullet. I write telcom software, and its just as easy to get a deadlock (ok maybe a little harder) using Actors than traditional locking.
You're definitely not the only one. I really tried to understand the lyrics to the song linked by your parent post, and couldn't make out a word (also stopped listening after a minute because I couldn't get past the repetitive bass line).
There's real confusion in this post.

Rico's statement "Each execution builds the expression tree, and then builds the required SQL." is talking about turning a LINQ expression tree into a SQL string before SQL Server ever gets a chance to reach into its query cache.

Jeff's conclusion "The computational cost of pre-processing a given query is only paid the first time the database sees the new query....Not so in Linq to SQL." is just plain talking about the wrong thing.

SQL Server doesn't care what abstraction generated the SQL query that it's receiving, it'll still use the same old cache.

Rico is legitimately discussing the time taken for the web server to compile a query to SQL, not the time for a SQL Server to look up a cached or uncached query.
I think everyone misses the point of the design choice of Google, and many others. By tests I can confirm that a mathematical (analytical) approach to design, it's better (read processed better) than the majority of purely visual ones.

I can repeat this all the day: Google search, it's one of the most well designed web applications in the entire web.

GMail? Not so much. I have done some (NDA research) email UI/UX "design" at my company, and by tests (just the second revision), I reduced the lookup (finding items), for first-time computer users by 57% over gmail, by 41% over hotmail, and by more than 700% over ymail (2008). This because of a more cautionary choice of color of the controls. This was the goal.
blush I wasn't even born when it came out, that's my excuse, but it resonated with me when I finally "got" it.
That's a great way to put it.

It's not dancing per se, it's the idea of writing with the listener in mind.

When you write only for audiophiles, you write for a small audience.
Are you sure that was just put up today in response to the latest youtube counsel blog post? It does sound that way, but the statement isn't dated so I can't tell for sure if that is the "red herring" they are talking about or if this is an older statement.
Design can be a powerful weapon if done right - just look at Apple..

However, it's very difficult to achieve Apple's near perfect blend of aesthetics & function so I think most people give up and build anyway, making something perfectly functional i.e. Facebook or Gmail, but not awe-inspiring.
One of my favorite records :-) I also like Bolling's Suite for Chamber Orchestra and Jazz Piano Trio.
No - that's Gilad Bracha. ;)
A friend of mine wrote this some time ago in Apple Dylan for the Newton 2x00:

http://www.sealiecomputing.com/newtglider/

I don't think pre-written games would be allowed though :)
Note the blog author posts in the comments that this is NOT a leak about IE9 canvas support.
Apple's design is also more data-driven than it appears --- although it's clearly not as coldly rational as Google's.
And there is also a good amount of jazz music with lyrics. In fact, there is very little music out there in any genre that has the lyrical heft that Jon Hendricks or Kurt Elling have in their denser vocaleses.

But yeah, on your first point there, I remember a big double-bill concert around here about ten years ago. The first half was fairly traditional jazz, well-attended and apparently well-liked. The second performer's music could best be described as a quick, semi-recognizable head followed by minutes of endless sixteenth notes without any appreciable (to me, anyway) form or structure. There was obviously an incredible amount of skill on display, but I found it unimaginably boring. I wasn't alone: after about ten minutes of the second half, there was a steady stream of people getting up and leaving during the performance. So did I eventually.
I'm an economics and bio major, ha I like to joke that I got this job through everything I did in between and after classes. The startup never even asked my GPA.