skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was camping under a clear sky with friends and asked, "has anyone seen another planet with their own eyes?" and explained I meant seen any detail through a telescope. Nobody had. I resolved start some amature astronomy then.

Any suggestions on how to start?
Let me guess, you haven't done much work in public relations? Much worse for a company than doing some evil reprehensible shit, is doing such shit in a fashion that's an easy, emotional "narrative hook" for the media. A grieving mother clutching a tear-stained auto repair bill itemized with "child's-head-sized dent, one" is the easiest hook imaginable.
The problem is that in many books music theory means 18th century classical theory.

This is fine as far as it goes, but music has moved on a lot since then and no one - not even film composers - write in that style any more.

So you have the idea of a music theory - which is the set of elements that defines a style - and then you have one particular music theory, which isn't used any more, although some of the ideas are still creatively useful.

Not many people understand that hip hop, dubstep, deep house, death metal, jazz, and shoegaze all have unique theories of their own.

They're defined by elements - some of which are simple cliches, and some of which are more creative - that make the style recognisable.

If you know the elements and how to put them together, you know the style. Simple as.

Classical book theory gives you a small start towards understanding how this works, if you want to take it. But you have to do the rest yourself.

A lot of producers don't bother. They learn one style intuitively, and that's all they know. Other producers want more. Neither has a monopoly on great music.

Does axiomising music help? It may give you a few hints about harmony. But that's all.

It's not even close to being a complete description of classical theory, and it completely fails to say anything useful about the theories of more modern pop styles.

The math part is simply irrelevant to most musicians. Musicians use chords and lines as expressive tools, not as theorems. Knowing where frequency ratios come from is kind of interesting, but there's a lot more going on in music. Trying to mathify it won't get you closer to that.
Genuinely curious, how does Electron access your camera different than Chrome?
Closing up shop as a marketing strategy is interesting as a high-risk/high-reward last ditch effort.

If under a particular set of circumstances, the most viable path to attracting eyeballs is to go under, it could be really effective to give potential users a "last chance" and then pivot to a new name.
That and for those of us seeing the notification that their server is backed up, I can't even see it in action right now. Seems like this should have been cached
> Google's business model is based on selling user-generated data to advertisers, unlike telcos who sell network data to you.

Really? Where?

I have worked on some large marketing projects. We'd love to be able to buy user data from Google.

This facile argument is really getting old. When you get a free newspaper, does that mean you're getting "sold?"
Truly free speech exists in concept only. Every country draws its own line including USA.

There are plenty of things in USA you can say on social media which will at best add you to a watch list, at worst place you in jail.
I can't tell whether you're in favour of this or just stating what you believe someone else's position to be here, but I'd like to remind HN that accusing the Jews of running a cabal is literally what led to the Holocaust. That is why Germany takes a stricter line against the far right than most countries.
>I really do hope that by now, everyone knows not to do anything they wouldn't want the public to know about on public WiFi

What's your definition of "everyone"? Those of us in the tech bubble? Sure. Your everyday smartphone user? The internet's just the internet to them, and where it comes from is not a concern.
> Secular materialism relies on circular arguments as much as Christianity

No, that's not true. See:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2015/03/why-some-assumptions-are-...
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absolutely not, in the abstract. you are probably using harmonic and motivic ideas a metric of complexity. but whos to say you couldn't use timbral and dynamic qualities as the primary yardstick? in that case simon and garfunkel would "reasonably" be more complex.
As can the German constitution, and the European convention on human rights (which has its own free speech article).
I don't understand. These are real bugs from actual software. Not sure if the test is randomized; I got stuff like a != a and multiplications by (y - y). Also C++-specific stuff like improper use of sizeof and references. How are these not the kind of logical bugs that plague most software?
Do you have links that support the assertion that Toyota was "solely relying on junior folks for the bread-and-butter coding"?
An explanation of what it actually does would be nice...
You are being a bit too pedantic here.

Take this python program:

print "Hello, world!"

Do you know what it will do without running it? You have no chance of knowing that about a program created by machine learning.
>It's always better to use non-illegal activities when constructing examples. After all, why is it a bad thing that police are more efficient at catching criminals

Because the police's job is not to "catch criminals", it is to "catch criminals within the boundaries of the law/constitution".
Presumably installing free wifi kiosks actually costs money.
And in terms of abuse (i.e. LOVEINT), which strategy do you think has proven to be more sound? Hiring only good people, as verified by a thorough background check? Or hiring probably good people, and then using robust checks and balances anyway?
This issue has been long studied by the airlines and airplane manufactures, and they've still not found a solution

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/disaster-on-autopilo...
Uber is also illegal in Norway, but somehow Uber keeps on doing the illegal business continuing to break the law.
"The suspect was acting suspicious, and the vehicle smelled like marijuana."

In Canada, some recent trials have dramatically increased the threshold for what constitutes reasonable grounds for a search [0], but from what I understand, the rules are different in the US (e.g. that a drug dog can sniff the exterior of a vehicle, and in many circumstances drugs have been trained to alert on command from the handler).

[0] http://blueline.ca/articles/reasonable_suspicion_requires_ob...
"The ability to scale with success is important, but designing products for high scalability from Day 1 is usually a mistake. ("Premature optimization is the root of all evil." -- Donald Knuth)"

He is using the quote wrong. A scalable product and an MVP are build entirely differently. Both scalable product and MVP can have technical debt, but I wouldn't say the scalable product is the optimized version of the MVP.
But must the standard for safety be higher than existing human drivers? We're already living the 'hindenburg' life - every day my freeway overhead sign shows me the fatality total this year for my state. Its almost exactly one per day. This is 'normal'.

What are the on-the-road stats for automatic driving? Aren't they better than human drivers already?

Its not a failing, just because they have different failure modes than humans. Because our human failings are so many and so frequent. There's so much low-hanging fruit. Auto-driving never gets tired, never argues with the passenger, never gets distracted by changing the playlist.

We're net ahead already with auto-driving.
Take a gander at (classical Indian) Raga. It's not harmonic-centered, but it's incredibly complex.
Because that 1% demonstrates a staggeringly wide range of intelligence, and there are enough to study without too many confounding factors.
William Sethares has already done some excellent work towards formalizing consonance and dissonance. See:

http://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/consemi.html

This new paper looks worse than Sethares' as it only considers timbres based around the harmonic series, ignoring important sounds such as tuned percussion, and ignoring the possibilities for genuine harmonic novelty with synthesisers. It cites Terhardt (1974) as "modern" while completely ignoring more recent work.
Compose.io outage
Privacy Shield will not survive legal challenge
Check out this:

http://justinfagnani.com/2015/12/21/real-mixins-with-javascr...

Might provide you with some functionality you're looking for. Since TypeScript is an es6 superset, I'm assuming this will work in that context.
I know zero people on discord and 100% of my contacts are on Skype.
I suffered a pretty horrible Smith's fracture on my dorsal radius two years ago, such that the resident at the ER called his attending, who called the ortho specialist and immediately got 30mg oxycodone's 4x daily just as a stop-gap until they could block in a surgeon skilled enough to work on the Smith's fracture. Even through the egregious pain, I could see a: how those without opiate dependencies can find it euphoric and b: how easily an average person could form a habit without noticing it by escalating consumption.
Asperger's was folded into the spectrum, and the actual condition was removed as a "standalone".
Some people prefer thinner and lighter devices. Do we need them? No, but product decisions are not made based on needs alone.
How are you measuring Rust's growth?
> So, we're roughly in the same line of business only the customer relationships are reversed (10% PE, 90% VC).

Cool, let's merge and take over everything then :)

> (2) If you're a VC, and especially an early stage one, then no, due diligence isn't necessary.

Sorry, I shouldn't have been so blanket with that statement (and you could probably tell, I'm a proponent of doing diligence regardless). If you're an angel investor and doing $10-25k deals then I would comfortably say it might be a waste of time, but if you're doing $1M seed deals, I definitely agree with your viewpoint.

> All that experience counts for something and even if the tech changes the lessons learned remain.

I don't disagree. My point here rather is that many people (i.e. entrepreneurs) see VCs as these more-than-mortal tech gods, which in reality, they are probably more fallible then you and I.
Phew, for a second there I thought we might have some transparency in our government. Glad to know that in the wake of historic video footage of public abuses, this is being taken away. Our leaders have listened and what they heard horrifies them! So now they don't have to listen, unless you come with a court order, that is.
I think this is a fundamental truth that is rarely acknowledged by the creators of "free" services. Delivering value to your users and increasing profit for the company are almost always in direct conflict. Large groups of users are drawn in by a free product which will ultimately be unsustainable. The companies which succeed after this initial period are the ones who are willing to degrade their original product, and manage to do so gradually enough that it doesn't draw too much backlash from their existing users.
Suppression of speech which does not explicitly advocate for violence is oppression

Then you're not arguing against the current raids then. From the source [1]:

Bedrohung, Nötigung, Erpressung, Verunglimpfung, extremistische Inhalte, die Androhung von Gewalttaten oder der öffentliche Aufruf zu Straftaten

Threats, coercion, oppression, slander, extremist content, inciting violence and calls to commit crime.

[1] http://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/7/3377153
I think the explanation that might be missing here is that every user that hits "Run" gets his or her own linux container in which they will be working.

The process of provisioning a new container (especially under high load that we're seeing today) is what takes a few moments. We however do a fair amount of pre-allocation and other tricks to speed this process up.
I may be wrong, but atleast in android, isn't the camera chosen at the OS or Browser level?
I mean that you can keep browser access to your camera completely disabled instead of having to enable it and whitelist their site. Also, not everyone uses Chromium-based browsers.
Right. I've heard of cases where having taken control of the site, they might "moderate" it - new members are placed into holding, "new image upload" is "broken". And such, so the community can still exist, and be investigated.

But on a site where members had to steadily add new material, at least some of which would have been "original content" (and potentially for the sake of maintaining access), this is a very precarious tightrope to walk.
Think I've seen that before - I'll check and reach out. Always happy to chat - email hello at the website.

We're not just Scotland, we have a lot of events listed in Sheffield to.

It's an interesting one - looking at the site, we have more tech features in terms of working with events data. One of the big things we do that we haven't seen many others do is have a system where anyone with a user account can add and edit data directly. We think this is very important - if only one or a few ppl can work on events the burden on them to make sure it's kept up to date becomes very big. If this burden is spread over many editors, then "many hands make light work". (We also have several other tricks to make sure our data is kept up to date!)

That said tho, for a community site like this the community is more important! It's very interesting to see the variety of approaches that are taken. If people from an area want to talk about using Open Tech Calendar in their area or have feedback, do get in touch.
The sidebar of https://www.reddit.com/r/astronomy has a bunch of useful articles on getting started. Just be warned that it's one of those hobbies that can get really expensive if you lack impulse control - "I need a new eyepiece! And a few more inches of aperture! And a better mount!" starts to pile up if you really enjoy it. :-D
>Google's business model is based on selling user-generated data to advertisers

Important distinction: they use their massive user-data collection as a selling point for advertisers. They do not sell the data directly - they'd prefer to keep a monopoly on the data. Their business model is in selling advertisements. They sell advertisements because they have a massive user-data collection to target those ads towards.
Really cool list. I'm founder of RookieOven - https://rookieoven.com - a coworking space for tech startups in Glasgow based in a Victorian shipyard.

If anyone is ever in Glasgow and looking to meet the local community feel free to pay us a visit.
I wonder how quick this will be up on AUR.
JobFluent Merges with JobsBCN to Create a European Talent Hub
so far we have been lucky the accidents have only impacted the driver. is it going to take the first accident where an autopilot car kills another innocent driver before people see the problem?
The first iPhone wasn't too thick either, but it doesn't stop phone manufacturers from aiming for ever-slimmer phones.
The Jew of course is a red herring in this case. You'd be a fool to believe that globalists care about the common middle class Jew in the streets, while they are importing their latest wave of cheap labour from some of the most rabidly anti-semitic cultures* of the world.

If anything, this sort of superficial prejudice just plays into their hands. Divide and conquer.

(* which is not to say that all Muslims are necessarily bad people - It's Complicated.)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding was that references to "Aspergers" were removed, but the diagnosis was basically just rolled into the greater "Autism spectrum" diagnosis.
And a submarine car apparantly. Might keep some engineers on the premises even longer.
I meant global system-wide hotkeys that work even when the application is not focused, not JavaScript-event-based page hotkeys. In the stable (Qt-based) Skype for example I bind Ctrl+Alt+PgUp to answer a call, and Ctrl+Alt+PgDown to stop the call.
They already do this, they limit which streaming services have their content, and do time/exclusive releases for specific services.
Apple bought Beats for the app and the user base, it's not impossible to already do promotion like some headphones give you 20$ worth of iTunes credit, now it's even easier get Beats and get access to additional exclusive content, or like some one else suggested better quality content.
Seems like a good way of pushing people to pay 300$ for 30$ worth of hardware, or more precisely helping people to justify their purchase because their headphones can actually now sound better than even entry quality studio/recording headphones.

DRM can rarely be used as a protection against mass copying and pretty much never when you cannot control the analog output of the protected content, it's only real use it to restrict how lawfull consumers can access and use the content.
External DAC's have existed for Android devices for quite a while (BT/USB DAC's), and even for iOS (you could connect a DAC to an iPhone/iPad since they switched to the Lighting cable).
The streaming industry has almost hit a dead end with monetization, having a digital interface that can be controlled gives them a whole new avenue of value added services and while it's unlikely that they'll jump on it immediately I would bet my money on the likes of Spotify, Amazon Music, and Apple Music capitalizing on this within the next 2 years.
That's not my understanding of what happened in DSM-5. My understanding is that Asperger's was removed as a separate diagnoses, as it now falls under Autistic Spectrum Disorder. The Wikipedia article seems to match my prior understanding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_spectrum), "The DSM-5 redefined the autism spectrum to encompass the previous (DSM-IV-TR) diagnoses of autism, Asperger syndrome, pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS), and childhood disintegrative disorder."
Do you really think you have unlimited freedom of speech in the US?

Try this: go to a playground and say to a parent: "I want to beat up your child." Then stand there and wait until the cops arrive and claim it was just freedom of speech. Remember to exactly repeat it to the cops.

This is exactly what the laws in Germany are against. Hate speech that ultimately leads to violence.
And, assuming you don't like Hillary or Trump, the most positive thing you could do with your vote this cycle is help a 3rd party get federal funding and a national stage to promote their platform.
What I think is interesting is their direction towards streaming. For instance, they struck a deal to stream NFL games and they will being streaming the RNC and DNC conventions.

That may be a good direction for them to pair with their platform.
@frabbit exactly, but they did NOT yell "fire" but "open fire on the immigrants" (literally: in one instance the comment was posted beneath a picture of a immigrant child "you need a flamethrower to get rid of these bugs", with bugs might not be the best translation here) posted besides Nazi symbols.

At least for me, this makes a difference.

edit: I am going out on a limb here, but I thought exactly this was one of the purposes of RICO. Telling someone to commit a crime in a formed group is a crime and not free speech. I am a total amateur in US criminal code, is this understanding correct?
I tried it a couple of times. You only get prompted to sign up if the system is overloaded and it dumps you into the waiting queue. Otherwise, it goes right into the demo which creates a clickable preview to auto enter commands or you can type directly into the shell.

This looks promising. Nice work Dan and Stacktile team. Looking forward to seeing what the community does with it.
>In a more hypothetical scenario, if a dangerous serial killer was brought into court and there was only one compelling piece of evidence, but it was obtained in an extremely unlawful manner - what would a judge be expected to do?

There's a reason why all over the world, almost all legal systems, have terms and regulations restricting those kind of police overreach, EVEN if it's for "catching a serial killer" -- and it's not because lawmakers don't want to catch criminals.
The problem is integrity. None of these reviewers have it. In the past journalists either would not have accepted that kind of treatment from the companies they were reviewing or they would not let it sway their opinion. Unfortunately if these one man YouTube reviewers did give an honest review the company wouldn't work with them again and some other YouTube star enjoying their 15 mins of fame would do it instead.
No only my cultural experience with foreign engineers. Anybody over 25 still doing engineering/coding is considered a failure. Their career path includes management early. All the engineers I work with from Japan, Singapore, China are young and inexperienced.

And they are only allowed to report success up the chain. Management is fed a constant diet of sweet crap.
I don't get it either. Thinner means lower structural integrity (remember "bendgate"), smaller batteries, and in this case lower functionality.

Phones are thin enough. Plus people buy these thin phones then slap thick $5 rubber covers on them, what is even the point anymore? If people really want a thin phone then ditch the accessories, they're thin already.
> Cool, let's merge and take over everything then :)

Deal.

> My point here rather is that many people (i.e. entrepreneurs) see VCs as these more-than-mortal tech gods, which in reality, they are probably more fallible then you and I.

Oh, that I'll happily agree with. They are - as a rule - more banker or record label than tech gods and they're certainly not more than mortal. All human failings present and accounted for.
Yes, thanks for the reminder. I'm explaining why some nationalists are magnetized towards belief in a Jewish conspiracy.

Putting an embargo on any discussion pertaining to that only confirms what these people believe, and outright arresting them REALLY confirms and spreads the belief.

A similar situation played out during the Waco siege. You have a group of cultists who are convinced that the end of the world is coming, and that it will be marked by persecution leading up to an outright attack against them. It sort of becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy when an army of ATF agents show up at their door.
I don't think that's true. Twitter has stuck to the original 140 character format...true. Honestly I think they should stick to that. The reason why Twitter has took a turn over the years is because of their treatment of developers and their murdering of top apps instead of letting them flourish. Look at TweetDeck, it hasn't improved in years, and you could argue it has gotten much worse. They dropped the Windows client support for one.

Their services didn't change much, but their philosophy changed drastically.

Then you have them temp banning people for political speech (and I'm not talking about harassment here, which is different.)

As for Vine, that is one that they should have evolved. Vine could have easily been more like SnapChat is now, but instead Jack and company sat on their thumbs.

Twitter is a remarkable case of mismanagement. I think in about 5 years hopefully someone write a book about how Twitter has constantly shot itself in the foot.
I've been using ReactJS for a long time and thought this would be a good opportunity to try out React Native. I found that I was able to iterate and release on both platforms very quickly with RN. Also, since it's a social network at its core, we wanted to support both platforms from the start to allow for more adoption.

I've come to love React Native. It has been very easy to get started, increase app complexity while keeping code clean and simple, and building the occasional bindings in Obj-C and Java was very straight-forward. I definitely recommend giving RN a shot!