skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an equilibrium process here. People don't like jazz because it violates their expectations. It violates their expectations because jazz musicians aren't pandering to the tastes of the listening public. Jazz musicians don't pander to the listening public because, since everyone knows that people don't like jazz, no one becomes a jazz musician because they want to become ridiculously rich or famous -- the people who are willing to change their musical style in order to become popular (as versus to satisfy some purely internal intellectual or aesthetic desire) all go to rock, hip-hop or pop.

The flip side of this is that people who listen to especially unpopular subgenres of jazz (particular -bop) seem to enjoy thinking of themselves as "higher educated" or having more sophisticated tastes than others, or just listening to music that isn't* like everything else and isn't driven by short term fads. And jazz musicians seem largely happy to facilitate this, and in turn get to indulge in a creative process that's solely centered around their own creative interests.

Bottom line, jazz won't "go back to the people", because the people don't want it, because the musicians don't want it ... except the ones that do. I think in recent years a whole lot of people have listened to Michael Buble, or Nouvelle Vague.
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I read a book on Duke Ellington in which he expressed concern for the emerging BeBop style's destruction of Jazz. It seems like he foresaw the move from structured, dance-able music to explorative music as isolating the music from the larger population. It's interesting that I didn't understand his opinion until just now. I'm still not sure I agree with it, but I can see how making music less dance-able could turn off people.
A brief article on someone who I think exemplifies this approach, but most of you have never heard of: http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles/Danaher-a-Behind-the-Sc...

John Danaher is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt under Renzo Gracie who trains and teaches in NYC at Renzo's school. Everyone who rolls with him - including other black belts, some world champions - are amazed with his abilities. I've had the privilege of attending a class taught by him, and it was immediately obvious that this man knows BJJ like few others.

A quote from the article:

Danaher remains [Renzo Gracie's] most prolific instructor and regularly spends upwards of 12 to 14 hours per day at his Manhattan academy teaching classes and private sessions. Gracie hinted at Danaher’s unquenchable thirst.

“When Johnny first came in here, he was like 250 [pounds]; he was a real monster. He was lifting weights every day, you know, like a bodybuilder,” Gracie says. “Now, he does jiu-jitsu every day; we can’t get him out of here. I think he would come in on Christmas if we would let him.”
He's referring to the consumer tech market place. When's the last time a German company launched a piece of consumer hardware that had worldwide market share?
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Phil·is·tine (fĭl'ĭ-stēn', fĭ-lĭs'tĭn, -tēn')
n.

1.

A member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century B.C.

2.

a. A smug, ignorant, especially middle-class person who is regarded as being indifferent or antagonistic to artistic and cultural values.

b. One who lacks knowledge in a specific area.

Dude, there is a WORLD of a difference between a computer application that is made for the purpose of doing business and a work of art...

Art is about communication. Art is a conversation.

Do you expect, when having a conversation with someone, that it is going to be a one-sided affair, where the other person is completely responsible for the outcome of the interaction, and you, yourself, have no bearing nor responsibility on the course of events?

Is someone "failing" at conversation because they are speaking to you in Korean and you don't understand it? Is that their fault? Or is it yours? Is one person failing and the other person triumphantly succeeding in this situation?
What if it was in your face?
"These facts are undisputed. The statements by Google regarding Viacom activities are merely red herrings and have no relevance on the legal facts of this case."

Non-sequitur...
I went out to see Roy Haynes/Roy Hargrove the other night, and he basically said the same thing on stage. Looking out into an audience of mainly dead silent white people, he said something to the extent of:

'I remember when I was playing in Spain some years back with Joe Henderson and Chick Corea, and man the audience gave us no love back. But at the end of the concert a couple thousand of them all put up their lighters or candles in the air, and that was how they showed their appreciation. I don't care for that, put those lighters away. Back in the day people would get up and shout when they felt the music. You guys need to give it to us on stage so we can give it back to you, it goes two ways."

I think one of the main reasons "jazz" has fallen off is the price of it and the audience it therefore attracts. $35 for 45 minutes of music and a drink minimum at some crammed club like the Village Vanguard or Blue Note only attracts tourists and people with disposable income.

I remember going to see Jack Dejohnette with Danilo Perez at the Blue Note, and most people I heard talking had no idea who they were -- they were all NYC tourists. The Blue Note is like the Disney Land of Jazz, complete with a gift shop upstairs so you can buy keychains.

It is nice, though, to see young guys like Chris Dave, Marcus Strickland, or Robert Glasper going out on tour with Mos Def or Erykah Badu, and then in turn drawing young people that normally would be listening to only hip-hop back out to their gigs. There is still some hope yet that people won't be priced out of the music and young people will start being introduced to it again.
MIT OpenCourseWare seems a nice start... There is some solid EE content on there!

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
Personally, the reason is that there are often many security issues related with wordpress. I know that no software is perfect, but if I write the software I can be responsible for it, while if I rely on other people software I'm still responsible but for something I don't truly understand. I think wordpress is a fantastic blogging platform, but from a security perspective it's not.
Not stupid at all. A lot of people (myself included) think that education is eventually going to be free thanks to technology. The only missing item is going to be some $100k piece of paper that makes me/you > me/you.

The university of the people professes:
Tuition Free Online University
http://www.uopeople.org/

There are others like them out there too.
If you have the skills to execute who cares about that piece of paper?
There's a dispute over the cost - he's claiming to not have known my day rate even though I told him in person and over the phone. Even though he's paid me at that rate before, I suppose he could claim I never told him...
For one website I use rails. I made the platform in 2 days with full cache caching (http://www.freestylemind.com). For my technical blog (http://oscardelben.com) I now use nesta, but I was previously using jekyll. For my needs they works very well.
The article at the time I posted here said:

"new support for HTML5 elements such as <video>, <canvas>,..."

It has since been edited. Take that for what you will.
The badges are obvious stackoverflow knockoffs. You need to fix that.
The article was about e-mail addresses. Here's a link to an RFC-compliant regular expression for matching valid e-mail addresses: http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html

Despite that evil voice telling you "There is nothing Perl cannot do!" (http://www.bastichlabz.org/bastich/Strips/ba980225.gif), regular expressions alone are not sufficient for real parsing,
But Mr. Li cut that corner by using prices for credit default swaps as a proxy for the actual data.

This is basically equivalent to an actuary using the price of life insurance to guess your life expectancy. It works fine, until someone closes the loop.

If you read "The Greatest Trade Ever," one of the common themes is that the prices don't correlate the way they should--defaults don't affect CDS prices, for a while, then CDS prices overshoot, then defaults catch up.
This is certainly an interesting problem,but without having some access to the data I don't think I could really approach it.

Perhaps I am alone in saying this, but I think data mining is interesting while web crawling is boring. Could somebody make the data available so that we don't have to write a crawler? Or is this part of the challenge?

I think this is a classic example of unsupervised learning, for which I would generally use a system like Fuzzy ART. I think that might perform better than a naive Basyesian text classifier though I can't be sure until I try it out.
This submission looks like it is older than the one you are linking to. In that case, you are actually linking to the dupe.
I agree, the random notes are improvisation. But improvisation can also be done with non-random-sounding notes: Mozart's variations on "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" are very impressive. The difference being that with Mozart you can still hear a melody. You'd have to be really good to do this on the fly in a solo, though, which is probably why a lot of the great jazz bands practiced beforehand (it wasn't strictly improv)
what's the sentence? edit: ok, sentencing on april 26 - http://www.theobserver.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2499555
Have you read "The Art of Manipulation" its a hard to find book, but its great to understand sales, maybe in biblionik or other torrent place

thanks for the inspiration
If you were in a situation where you believed the police were acting improperly, wouldn't it be both more politically effective and safer to make an official complaint later than to try arguing with them at the time?
Sentencing is scheduled for April 26th. Dr. Watts could appeal before that. He might also take another look at Canada's extradition policies (and US prisons) before choosing to abide by the verdict.
KTH is the biggest technical university in Sweden, it's got a very good CS programme and all the other engineering programmes have at least some programming on their curriculums. It's definitely not a dinky little liberal arts college, there's no lack of technical knowledge overall. :-)

However, this job ad was posted only outside their little division, because.. well.. uh.. academics are narrow-minded?

If they had bothered to post it about four buildings away from their department, it would have been seen by about a thousand CS students instead, which would have increased their chances of getting someone good with quite a lot.
I wouldn't hold Google up as a platonic ideal of hiring. It's a big company and who you draw as an interviewer matters. It's quite possible that random chance sank the parent commenter and not anything he did. On average the quality of the Google hiring process may be high but it is far from consistent. They've hired some people I consider incompetent. My own interview process was horrible. A friend of mine (who is awesome) had a challenging interview process and they hired him anyway because they liked the way he thought (that's how it is supposed to work!).

They seem to hire good people on average. But they are not infallible.
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Hi there. I am involved with a startup that sells activities (whitewater rafting, cooking classes, etc) online and we'd like to expand into selling to the corporate market. We are interested in exploring hiring sales people to reach out to the corporate market, but don't really know where to find them. Can any body share some advice on the best place to find and recruit sales people?
Sure. It's a scrappy startup with a small team.

Company Name: B Labs

Company Founded: 2009

Age: 27

Product:
B Labs develops a hypervisor/virtualization platform for
high-end embedded systems.

Benefits:

- Multi-core processors of the future are utilized.

- Legacy applications ported over to multiple cpus.

- Security and separation of software components.

- Real-time and non real-time rich OS deployed on single platform.

http://www.b-labs.co.uk
From a linked article at http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Mac-OS-X-safer-bu...

> Update: Miller has clarified that he does not intend toreveal the details of the twenty vulnerabilities at

> CanSecWest, but will show only how he found them.
Yes! For years I thought I was the crazy one for telling our clients, "we don't really need to validate names. if they give you the wrong name, it's their problem; and it's more work for us; and we'll probably fuck it up and make someone mad". The answer was always "do it anyway, it's what we agreed on." The client feels like we are screwing them if we make the work easier, even though the end result is a higher-quality more usable website. Sigh.

The comment about developers making work for themselves is also spot on. I answer a lot of programming questions, and the questions are always asked because the programmer has reached the end of a twisty maze of his own creation. Turn around, walk, spin around, and try again. You'll find a better solution.

And oh yeah, I do this all the fucking time. Pick any random github project of mine, and you'll see 8 revisions of the API before I finally pick one that's not retarded. Even then. (Side note: I don't change the API after I release.)

Anyway, best rant ever.
Not a lot of chances it looks like.
Doesn't mention the need for shotgun shells, sandwiches, cooler and iced-down 12-pack and a lawn chair.
And it even builds on cygwin out of the box. All c + minimal dependency, is it the next big fad? (I sure hope so).
What you say is true. But how you say it reminds me of heroin junkies' syringe aesthetic. No insult intended; rather an observation of how people favor different paths to the common destination of a satisfying endorphin experience.
Where did you learn that? To me, art is about experiencing things, not "conversation". Art mostly just sits there to be seen or heard, and it will not care about my saying or thinking. Art may "talk" to me, but I can't talk to art.

To your language analogy: what if I invent a language of my own and try to use it anywhere, how much the failure of communication is divided between me and the receivers? Many times "art" seems to be exactly this. It's not "Korean", it's just some gibberish the artist came up with.
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I owned a VW Golf ... best car I ever had.

I don't care about what anybody says, german automobiles are the best (for a while I was thinking of switching to a Toyota, but after those incidents with the sudden acceleration, no thanks).

Now I'm stuck with a french piece of shit that nobody wants to buy :)
haha :) touche` pardon my crappy use of the english language. I will replace my lame use of "ultra high performance" with "Focused on high performance" as that is the end goal of course.

That being said of course it will never be as fast as C[++] or erlang that is just a given
Very interesting. Normally I don't read blog comments, because usually they're dumb, but these aren't too bad. I think you wrote a rant that everyone can agree with. We have all been burned by validation before, and we have all been forced to write it. It's boring and annoying for everyone. (Watching the clients test the website usually consists of them typing stuff to test the validation rules. They don't check the spelling, they don't check that it works as they specified, but they do check that they can't put 999999 as their zip code. Sigh!)

You also have the right readership -- the people that will disagree with your post don't even know what a "raganwald" is.

A perfect storm, if you will, for constructive blog comments :)
Sure, but try thinking rationally after getting punched in the face. And don't forget that Canadians and Americans have very different expectations of how to interact with law enforcement.
Redis was the same way. I very much like this style of packaging.
I will be adding some coffee-script examples soon. The source of coffee is very nasty though :S, and I am not a huge fan of source to source compilation for anything besides being a toy language
Jazz not being in the limelight anymore is not really a fault of the music, the listeners, or the players. It's not an unhealthy turn of events either. I think it's as simple as a new generation has come up who wants to "have their say": they want to express their own take on life in their own way. Another generation will come along in 20 years and supplant them. It's a never ending cycle.

Jazz isn't anywhere near death judging by the number of internet radio stations offering it. Jazz musicians are still exploring musical boundaries. Admittedly there are fewer venues but you can still find them.

Another consideration is the influence Jazz had on the mainstream. Groups like the Dave Matthews Band embody the Jazz spirit very much.

What I'd like to hear more of is people from other cultures mixing Jazz into their own native music.

Jazz is, to me, about exploration.

NOTE: Edited the first sentence due to a blatant abuse of negatives.
Pretty sure that if I use an OpenID, Hacker News still emails passwords in cleartext.
You know I never quite got that comma thing. For instance in python, the only reason it is necessary is because {"foo": "bar" "baz", 'k2':'v2'} is the same as {'foo':'barbaz', 'k2':'v2'}. Getting rid of auto-concatination allows for {'foo':'barbaz' 'k2':'v2'} which is pretty easy to parse base on tokens and ':'. It also eliminates a pretty common bug, in which there is kv pair per line, and the line ends with ',', except for the last line which does not have the ','. (The following line has a '}'). The common bug being adding a new kv pair and missing the ','.
Hit youtube and search for 'lady gaga acoustic'. You may be pleasantly surprised, as I was.
The funny thing about music theory is that the best musicians/composers always seem to break the rules. I've had some serious classes when I was younger and had more time, because I was genuinely interested. A lot of definitions were vague and/or rather complicated and were invariably followed (at some point) by a statement along the lines of "except that Mozart didn't really do it that way".

Not that I'm trying to say that analyzing music is useless -- far from it, it's always good to analyze and recognize patterns -- but it does put things in their perspective.
I'm not really understanding this tool. What does it find exactly?
Design Goals: ~10^6 to 10^7 machines, ~10^13 directories, ~10^18 bytes of storage (that's 888 petabytes), spread at 100s to 100s of location around the world, ~10^9 client machines.

Simply staggering. I guess now we also have a formal definition of "Google Scale" which the Google PR people always go on about.
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I was looking for that picture of Peter Griffin walking around with a cardboard TV cutout strapped to his head but I couldn't find it. So this is all you get.
If Adobe isn't interested at this point then they have reserved their own special circle of hell.
On the third failed attempt the clever system had detected a certain interest in our flights, and socked up the price by $200!

Or the inventory you were trying to buy was no longer available. Seats are not all the same price; they are divided into "fare buckets" that are usually lettered. There are very few cheap fares on each flight, more medium fares, and even more full-fares. You should check the code as you are booking; if the fare code changed, they ran out of inventory. If the fare code stayed the same, then they raised the price of that inventory.

Just saying -- it wasn't some conspiracy. Someone just bought them out from under you. Most airlines let you hold a reservation for a few hours, so if this ever hits you again, just hold the reservation, call the web services desk (not the general reservations desk), ask web services to fix your name, and then continue the ticketing process online.

(This is the procedure for AA, anyway. Dunno about other airlines, as I've never used them.)

Personally, I always hold, triple-check my plans, and then buy. So I have never had inventory disappear out from under me, and I have never needed to change a non-changeable fare :)
For those of us who kind of know C but want to learn it really in depth, I like it as well. It makes compiling open source programs really easily.

I took a cursory glance of the code and it seems good, but is it good code to learn from?
Programmers are a commodity.
Lawyers are a commodity.
Managers are a commodity.
Dentists are a commodity.

Experts are not.

In any given field, probably 80% of the practitioners can do an adequate job and at least complete the tasks required by their position. In my experience, that number narrows to about 40% if the requirement is that the job is performed on time, on budget, and performed correctly the first time.

The question for the employer is simply whether the task at hand requires a “cog” or an expert. Most businesses require both.
"In short the problem is that the basic Linq construction (we don’t really have to reach for a complex query to illustrate) results in repeated evaluations of the query if you ran the query more than once."

It sounds to me like Rico is advocating the prepare/execute model. With ODBC, it's possible to generate a query plan on the client side. What Rico is saying is that it generates a query and then sends the raw query to the database. This would have been a valid point before SQL Server 2005, but according to Microsoft "the prepare/execute model has no significant performance advantage over direct execution, because of the way SQL Server reuses execution plans."

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175528.aspx
Oh common: http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/9891/picture4z.png

This thread had 0 comment when I posted the dupe, while the other one had 5.

The other one actually points to the google code page and not the wiki page.
I'd read it on anything without a backlight, it doesn't necessarily have to be e-ink. (Mirasol or Pixel Qi come to mind.)
"It turns out that..."
Clearly the country is "European Union" and the state is "France".
I was excited too until I saw the battery life.

To me, a tablet needs to have the stamina to last at least a whole day without being charged. Six hours isn't quite there.
- The problem with jazz is the people who listen to it.

Yes

- Music isn't art, or at least it's wrong to appreciate it as such.

Music is entertainment and emotions.

- Jazz ought to be revivalist, not innovative.

Things like free-jazz is not innovative. It is shitty musicians thinking that if they play "out" enough, they might get to the point that people feel they are geniuses.

Music is meant to be good to the ears.
To which the guru would say "the magic manifests itself in the physical realm as X poison".
You aim it at a URL.

It asynchronously launches thousands of requests based on a very large wordlist.

It scrapes the responses and spiders them.

As it identifies actual pages, it fuzzes them with strings that tickle web app flaws. It analyzes the responses. For instance, it tries to inject "skipfish://whatever" URLs into fields, parameters, and links; then it looks to see whethe those URLs appear in "hot" places in the response, like headers or link tags.

It's looking for --- primarily --- :

* Cross-site scripting and content injection

* Best practices problems (like failing to declare charsets properly)

* Forms without XSRF tokens

* SQL injection

It's better than anything that I've written but I will hazard a guess that it finds things well in that order. It's bound to get better over time.