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Definition of sophistication from dictionary.com

(of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive: a sophisticated young socialite;
the sophisticated eye of an experienced journalist.
2.
pleasing or satisfactory to the tastes of sophisticates, or people who are educated, cultured, and worldly-wise:
sophisticated music.
3.
deceptive; misleading.
4.
complex or intricate, as a system, process, piece of machinery, or the like:
a sophisticated electronic control system.
5.
of, for, or reflecting educated taste, knowledgeable use, etc.:
Many Americans are drinking more sophisticated wines now.

By any of these 5 distinct definitions classical music is more sophisticated than pop music. I understand that you do not like the connotations, but you have to use a word to mean what it actually means...
Just yesterday, I received a straight to voicemail all from a company from whom I once purchased software in 2007. My guess is that I'm in their lead database for upgrades that is given to new hires in phone sales. It got me thinking about email collection -- it's one of my standard feedback items on "Show HN".

Anyway, I thought for a moment about the fact that there is no company that I love so much that I want to receive periodic emails from it. Not even Taco and few companies do engagement emails as beautifully designed as Trello.

There's a scale at which bulk email operations make sense. I don't think the "doing things that don't scale" is the right stage for optimizing. Usually, emails are another TODO item in the receiver's inbox. They're not solutions.

My advice, focus on solutions.

Good luck.
Again, I don't understand the argument. Actual software is full of "trivial" bugs. That they are trivial doesn't seem to stop programmers from writing them! I don't know about you, but in my experience I find plenty of inexperienced programmers (and oddly, even some supposedly experienced ones) who write poorly indented software with repetitive expressions. Sometimes the verbosity of the programming language -- or the lack of a good static checker -- even encourages this.

Saying "don't write code with trivial errors" is almost like saying "don't write bugs". We all know how well that works. We must deal with the fact trivial bugs occur, and that they occur often; anything else is like hiding your head in the sand.

This is an argument in favor of static code analyzers.
The part that has impressed me about Twitter/Vine/etc over the past few years is their content embeds in other sites/services. Their main apps are so riddled with junk that I hardly use them. The real estate in their feeds devotes more to ad space than micro-blogging, and everyone knows that followers (/follow-for-followers) are a marketing cesspool.

Twitter et al. should really become the blockquote service for the internet.
Then they'll run into the same problem anyone does doing that: migrating reasonably-sized block devices across a reasonable network takes an unreasonable length of time.

Been there, done that, don't want to sit staring at consoles waiting for live disc migrations ever again.
this is not necessary for your pitch and adds unnecessary load and cost... During the pitch, you need to explain your users how it works (like you did in your comments), not ACTUALLY start up the containers... You can show the explicit startup of the containers when users REALLY want to dive deeper in your product. You're just adding more cost and load on your website because of this
It's worth mentioning that the Skype for Linux Alpha FAQ[0] mentions that this build is (finally) 64-bit and 32-bit support may not come.

I for one welcome this. The last time I installed Skype on Arch Linux it installed 200MB+ of lib32 dependencies[1]. I'm sure this will be replaced with 100MB of web browser stuff, but perhaps a step forward and simplifies the lives of package maintainers.

[0] https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA34656/more-information-ab... see "How has Skype for Linux Alpha been tested?"

[1] https://twitter.com/2bluesc/status/738073923120594945
When Tesla stops building "someone may die" into their decision matrix, I'll consider buying a Tesla.
Entrepreneurs don't only exist in Silicon Valley or East London, the people in Bulambuli Valley need some help to start their own businesses like: Chicken™ (egg 3D printer) or Chair&Co (personal charging station).
start listing the yardsticks, i think you'll see it's not such an open and shut case.
"Active investigation" means a the pre-arrest phase of investigation. E.g., they send a cop by a suspected trap house but don't want to tip off the residents that they are under suspicion. Otherwise, a criminal organization would just request all the body cam footage each week to make sure they aren't being investigated (or change their tactics in response to the police movements).

If there's an actual arrest and trial, the Supreme Court case of Brady v. Maryland (1963) requires that the state hand over any exculpatory evidence [1]. The state has to go out of its way to hand over evidence -- even if the defendant doesn't know it exists.

[1] "Exculpatory" = "might show that you are innocent." There's a long line of cases that define how broad that definition is.

* I am not your lawyer. Go get a criminal defense lawyer.
Flip side - people (read non-technical execs) deciding to build stuff themselves - and hiring a ton of developers just because they've raised money & can.

One startup I consulted with - was able to replace a broken e-commerce platform ($M+ in 18 months) in one week with a shopify platform and some custom development.
The practice of parallel construction should be illegal, with severe penalties for its use, it makes a mockery of our entire system of government. The only reason it's allowed is because the entire bill of rights is today viewed as a "nice to have" rather than the foundation of our republic.
If it moves to digital audio, I can almost guarantee the calls for DRM'd audio output. This will result in a drastic loss of public choice in headphones. The copyright cartel has long hated any form of analog holes in a DRM scheme.
Or, their drivers needs to be licensed taxi drivers, and they are not.

For example in Slovakia, the law states quite clearly, that if you provide road transportation for other people as a business, then if your car has more than 9 seats, you are operating a bus service, and if it has 9 or less, you are operating a taxi, and must follow all regulations applied to taxi drivers. But Uber says they are not a taxi, despite operating almost exactly like one. :-)

For example, we have other popular taxi service, which also has a smartphone app working very similarly to Uber, with the one exception, that they only accept professional taxi drivers as their drivers. So if they wanted, Uber could do the same and be perfectly legal, but they apparently don't want to.
Pedal tones aren't really the same as Western harmony

Nope, they're harmony, just not western harmony (as you said). You don't need a full tonic scale to get harmony.
Yeah, his discussion of the tritone was where any remaining sympathy or interest in his argument evaporated for me. His discussion of it is completely simplistic and not grounded in any way in the complex historical context of that interval.

Listen to the opening of Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvnRC7tSX50). Tritones everywhere: flute plays a melody that outlines a tritone (C# to G). In come the oboes and horns playing a tritone which is part of the A# 7th chord the harp outlines. Then a Bb dominant seventh, with horns and strings playing another tritone. Tritones abound until the music finally settles into the tonic nine bars later, and yet who would argue with the idea that this is one of the most beautiful openings in music?

It's ironic that he likens works based on the tritone to McDonalds (!?). When I hear someone savage a work of music they've never heard, and describe the sound of an augmented fourth as "awful" and call any piece based around the tritone as "[not] natural or good or beautiful or true" I would suggest that person's musical taste is limited and simplistic, sort of the musical equivalent of the McDonald's hamburger.
If you like electronic music and are interested in exploring the raga form, would recommend checking Charanjit Singh's 1982 album "Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat"
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB4RYBpwV0A)
yes, what I said is about uberPOP. after the ban I think uber was even paying the fines of the drivers that got caught.
Probably most of the time technical due diligence is not necessary but this is not my experience working with startups where the commercial success is strongly connected with a technical solution. Some examples:

i/ An startup wants to enter as an automatic security escrow in a Bitcoin multi-signature wallet (please forget for a moment this is about a sector with too much hype). If you do a basic analysis you will realize that multisig wallets are well supported but there is a missing link: there is no standard out-of-band way to setup these wallets and you should do many manual steps. These manual steps add a lot of friction for user onboarding and undermine the startup success.

ii/ A security startup wants to integrate their app inside Microsoft Outlook via an add-on. They are confident because they look at the API and it seems you can extend Outlook but they discover very late that a specific feature can't be achieved.

iii/ An startup wants to virtualize Windows applications (e.g. VMware ThinApp) using binary instrumentation and/or filtering drivers. They will find that some few but critical applications (e.g. legacy Java applets) require an ad-hoc solution for specific issues that significantly increases the development costs.
Interesting.

So in a high profile case, like the Tesla Autopilot fatality, if the behavior was traced back to a specific micro-controller, it might be just as hard to determine why the system behaved as it did, as with a complex neural network? Even with a company's reputation at stake, it's not possible to hire a consultant with a deep understanding of obscure micro controllers?

I only deal with the source code level, don't really have experience digging into the hardware level.
Its hard to discuss since the article goes into considerable detail in opposition to your position, and you provide no detail beyond something paraphrased to it would be too difficult to do what was actually done successfully in the article.

I read the article; or at least a deep skim. Its examples, data, and arguments are pretty convincing. Lots of interesting data and citations provided in support of the theory.

If its a wrong theory, at least its well documented and interesting to think about and leads down interesting paths. Insert fairly obvious analogy to string theory.
That is true. Some of the most evil people in history were rational/logical to a fault. I will not follow them or believe in their ideologies.

However, I mentioned them (Pascal, Newton) not to justify faith in God, but to dispel the false notion that theists are all irrational and/or theism cannot be rational.
(Orignally this was a reply to a reply of this comment that apparently got deleted.)

What if while arriving on scene to a burglary there is body camera footage from an officer that appears to show someone running off and away from the scene carrying [whatever was stolen] and from that footage one could possibly conclude that the personal doesn't look like the person the police decided to accuse and prosecute. This could be exculpatory evidence and help clear you of the charges. (Obviously the prosecutor is suppose to let the defendent and court know of any known exculpatory evidence, but what if the police choose to withhold it from the prosecutor/court or don't think anything of the footage? )
Sorry to break it to you, but Verizon certainly sells data. Check out their data membership with AOL (pretty sure it's them ) to help close the cross device tracking gap.

Telcos are very aggressive about monetizing their data.
I remember the story my composition teacher told…

He was at a raga concert, and admitted to feeling totally lost. As the piece progressed, about 30 minutes into the performance, everybody in the audience sighed a breath of satisfaction, and nodded and smiled to each other when the cycles had reached conclusion.

At that moment he realised that there was so much more to music than he realised, and that the audience was much more capable of concentration, too.
If it is dishonest to scramble for customers when you're worried about whether you'll make it, I suspect there are about 3 "honest" businesses in existence. :)
I don't think there's gonna be another referendum soon. The EU referendum was already on the table during the Scottish referendum. The people of Scotland knew the risk. Everyone was loudly saying that these were once-in-a-generation votes.

Now of course, if support for Scottish independence consistently polls at over 60% for years, that's a different story. But I think that pro-independence forces are likely to weaken as Brexit proves to have been a good move.

Or not, in which case England loses 5 million people (England is 53 million btw) and some oil. On the plus side, they'd shake off a chunk of the electorate that seems to be set on economic suicide by socialism.
Ex-Google engineer launches blockchain-based system for banks
Snapchat is far more than a selfie-app. As the quote in your excerpt says, it's a "messaging" app. I don't use Snapchat myself, but the fact that it has enamored both the kids and whatever the hell pre-millennials who are too young to be Gen-X are called, even to the point of replacing Facebook as their goto way of communicating and sharing life experiences, makes me think that it's worth something to society.
Of course you do. You've presented a trivial Python program; an equivalent in neural networks would be a single scalar input multiplied by a single weight to produce a single output. That's just about as easy to understand without having to run it.
What's important to one style of music, and "sophisticated" or "complex" may be irrelevant in another. It's hard to compare.

Take a Bach Fugue, where the notes and harmonies are very important, and 'complex' with lots of rules, patterns, intertwining melodies. The specific instruments used doesn't always matter, most pieces could interchangeably be played on piano or harpsichord or organ and sound as beautiful.

Then let's look at something like Scary Monsters by Skrillex, where the entire drop is pretty much just a G with a small melody coming in every 4 measures. There's not much melodic complexity going on there. But the sound production, synthesis and processing is insane. After that song came out everyone was trying to figure out how to make a talking bass that sounded like that. And even years later, barely anyone has figured it out, I've only heard really famous synthesists like Rob Swire get a close sound.

Is a Skrillex drop as complex as a Bach Fugue? If you're just comparing the arrangement, or the melodies, not at all. But the Skrillex song isn't about the melody as much as the texture and dynamics. Bach didn't specify precisely what harmonics should exist in the instruments playing his music. Skrillex probably could not write a Fugue to the standards of Bach's best. But I bet if you sat Bach down in front of a laptop with an FM synthesizer, he couldn't create a "sick drop" either.

It gets entirely too subjective at this point. A lot of people will disagree with me that the production and synthesis techniques should be considered part of music theory or composition. But I think they're concepts that you couldn't replicate certain music without. In my opinion the palindromic structure of a Boards of Canada album is on par with something like Bach's Crab Canon. They just get there in totally different ways.
Name a single way that municipal police in the U.S. are not civilians. Is there any any legal or technical basis for referring to police as anything other than civilians?

If not, then of course the word is being misused. Dictionaries simply update their definitions to reflect common usage, however wrong.
It provides your location and meta phone data.
That's because it is. Different acid concentrations, cell walls strengths, etc lead to some apples being better suited for some things than others. Kind of like fillet vs strip, it's all the same meat, but very different, and cooks differently too.
I don't know if I should be impressed or scared. Everything google^1 does in the last few years feels like they really know what they are doing, autonomous cars, everything they do about machine learning, now they are integrating that with fiber. It feels like Microsoft, if they would have nailed the browser and activeX in 95.

^1 I will use alphabet and google interchangeably, since I am not trying to do math here. If you are looking for a mathematical theory of world domination, just ask google's famously responsive customer service.
IIRC that is not something that VirtualBox can fix; I read somewhere that Hyper-V requires exclusive use of the virtualisation features of the hardware.

Note that this only applies to 64-bit virtualisation, you can still run Hyper-V and 32-bit VirtualBox virtual machines simultaneously.
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To sum up, the target audience was EFI developers who would prefer to write Python than write assembly, C or Lua.

No problem. I get it.
I've never liked using /sarcasm tags, but I have to concede they are sometimes necessary. Unbelievable as I find it, some people really do think that way.
Companies paying "influencers" to promote their product without disclosure that they are being compensated is all over social media.

I have friends in the fashion world and they often get solicitations from beauty bloggers that ask for free product samples and some monetary compensation to post images and reviews of the product to their large follower base on Instagram or Snapchat. One food blogger I've talked with gets upwards of $2k for an Instagram post of their meal from restaurants that are attempting to attract customers.

I have no problem with this arrangement as long as their is disclosure that the "influencers" are being paid for reviews and posts.
Hollywood Accused of Conspiracy to Rid Market of “VOD” Filtering Services
On phones, not so much. Running it on my phone in Firefox I get 66k browsers with an identical fingerprint. In Chrome, 133k exact matches.

That said, if you're using public wifi you should be using a VPN anyways, so MAC would be identifiable, but nothing else would.
I infer from this you're saying "crap in one hand, wish in the other and see which fills up first"?
Unfortunately, the "why" here comes down to "I smoke weed" and "I knew I wanted to be a part of [the industry]". Minus a few stats on demographics, the rest is standard platitudes about being bored in a corporate job and the highs/lows of entrepreneurship. ("I wanted to venture out on my own, but didn’t know how!")

This is still an enthusiast-driven market, as illustrated by the photo in the article of the co-founders lighting up in the office. C'mon.

The industry needs to--already has, and will continue to--evolve away from pure enthusiasts and towards businesspeople who see the massive business opportunity. The legal market is estimated to top $7B in 2016, and $40B in the next 5-10 years. No incumbents, little regulation: this is the wild west. We're talking the very real possibility of 100%+ annual market growth, which is insane.
Unity raises $181M round at a reported $1.5B valuation
Show HN: Star.js: auto-correct typos in messages based on the next message*
Technical due dil doesn't just need to look for poorly architected systems and bad code. It should also look for code that's prematurely optimised and over-engineered.

If an early stage team is building a massively complex microservices based product, using a new type of database and deploying it via kubernetes — where a Rails CRUD app on Heroku would easily satisfy requirements for years. Then someone seriously needs to ask the question as to whether using bleeding edge tech is necessary, and whether it will impact the ability to iterate and hire.
> a foot from a disabled driver could have caused the vehicle to continue under power

I imagine NHTSA, NTSB, or Tesla will report on that when ready.
> If you believe the rights enumerated in our founding documents are truly inalienable human rights that exist simply by virtue of us being human, then yes you should also believe that they should be codified in every other country's laws as well.

OTOH, if you believe that they are one, almost certainly imperfect, attempt to protect actual inalienable human rights rather than a flawless articulation of the exact bounds of actual inalienable human rights, you can easily accept that there may be alternative mechanisms attempted to protect the actual underlying rights that are no farther from the ideal than those in our founding documents.

Treating the results of the political compromises that went into creating our founding documents as if they were carved on stone tablets by God's own hand and handed down to Moses as eternal law is, well, about as sensible as doing that with the output of any randomly-chosen more recent political compromise by our governing bodies.
> A targeted ad is selling data about users.

That's a lazy and incorrect causal link.

Google goes to great lengths not to sell user data. It's far more valuable if they can hold on to it and use it to continue selling advertising.

It's important to understand the difference. This isn't a great metaphor, but imagine a top university. The professors at said university have accumulated many Nobel prizes. The university uses those Nobel prizes to sell classes to students. Does that mean the university is selling Nobel prizes? Obviously not.

Google uses data to target advertising. That doesn't mean Google's business is selling data.
The "wrapper" is native and has access to your system libraries. It uses the Gnome keyring, for example, and will have a system tray icon.
The millions being spent on police cameras only serve as a gift to Tazer and the other paramilitary industrial complex companies. True reform will only come from the continued release of uncensored citizen video. The right to record must be protected at all cost.
So basically, cops can search whenever they please.
Great read, even though it's mostly a plug for the product.

I actually love the case design and idea. Bookmarked and considering pulling the trigger soon. That grinder card is awesome.

I didn't delve to far into the site other than the product page and checking out kits, how does it actually neutralize the smell? Just by materials and a zipper?

Thanks and good luck on your entrepreneurship!
Not even de facto, if they genuinely broke the law, they are de jure criminals!
Why not just host it publicly but encrypted (Effectively doing what's being done now). Then release the key when a request is made.

Have the keys be a subkey of a DA, Judge or other high ranking individual. Then when the police 'lose' the key, the video can still be recovered.
Congrats Keith :D

I've met Keith a few weeks ago at the NodeJS NYC meetup. Great dude, who genuinely wants to make development better. Polybit seems particularly cool for front-end / designers, mobile devs, and anyone else who'd rather build an app than fret over the high availability, scalability, or etc.

What I'm saying is: cool idea + Keith's very approachable if ya wanna pick his brain about the design :)

Hope this goes well for ya dude!
You only have two upcoming events in Manchester, so it's probably worth pointing out this http://technw.uk/calendar for the north west.
There are pending investigations by the NHTSA and NTSB. We'll know more when they are ready.
Or the Self-Aware Colony Secret Project video from SMAC.