skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on your goals. One saying is that "a good window is still a poor wall". A quality double glazed window still has about 10x the heatloss of a well built wall. Here's a summary with a link to more: http://www.energyvanguard.com/blog-building-science-HERS-BPI...

Shades can help with privacy, but what if you want the privacy at the same time you want to be capturing heat? And if requires active control --- well, that's by definition not passive. Interestingly, the new movement in high efficiency houses is frequently for low solar gain windows: well insulated windows with special coatings to admit less heat while still admitting light.

From another standpoint, gigantic expanses of windows are rarely the best way to build a pleasant room. As well as being a rare crossover between Computer Science and Building Architecture, Christopher Alexander's "A Pattern Language" has lots to say on this. Some excerpts here: http://kk.org/cooltools/a-pattern-language/

Which is to say that opaque heat-gathering walls serve a purpose that is separate than that served by windows. Both have their place, and they don't tend to replace each other directly.
What are people using for hosting? I've thought about using github pages, but css ended up being severely limited.
Octave is not arbitrary, inner ear hairs should resonate more to octaves above/below (forget which) their maximally resonate frequency right?
I don't understand people who call themselves clowns and calls everyone else clowns as well, then expects to be taken seriously.
The podcast thing is not true. You can create "stations" with different retention settings, and put the podcasts inside.

Archiving is redundant. You can have manual update and update the app as needed, you can have auto update and update all installed apps, or you can just remove the app from your device and install it again later when you need it. If you don't use an app, just remove it. You can redownload it later. Why keep things you admit you don't use?
US is 13th on the UN's World Happiness Report: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report

I don't know how many of these lists there are, but 108th would be a little hard to believe. The UN puts Palestine at 108.
I've been using wintersmith (http://wintersmith.io) to power my blog for years and am very happy with it. It's incredibly flexible, is hackable at just about every level, and has no problem if you just want to dump some html/css/js into a directory and serve it. So I'm able to "host" several of my projects right within my blog.
It's the purvue of the federal government.

However, you're 100% correct that picking "the optimal number of immigrants" by committee is a terrible idea:
http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-optimal-number...
I am also at Amazon currently. You are right, its not as frugal as in the past but it is still significantly more frugal than an environment like Google or similar startups/unicorns that go for that. I have interviewed people who are horrified to see soda machines with prices. Requesting a nicer desk (which requires some ergo hoops), no daily soda/food, and decent but not fully maxed out hardware is still pretty frugal comparatively for engineers, even if they have loosened things up in the last 3-4 years from before. While Amazon now provides you hardware that is actual functional for the job, places like Google are giving you free yoga and dry cleaning.
Does this ML model assume that popular code style = correct code style? (had a cursory look)
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> The reason is simply that a certain number of musicians have developed the skill of sight reading ...

It's moer than just that though. The inertia to overcome also includes pretty much all sheet music ever printed, all the schools that have adopted the current system, all the educational materials... etc. etc. the list goes on.

In addition to all of that, the new system needs to convey most of (if not all) the information that the current system has. I have seen a few attempts at improvement, but they all fell short of the current system, which let's face it has been in development for several hundred years.
what's going on in Syria is a function of too many of the wrong people taking life too seriously.

your shitty attitude stems from the same function.
iTunes is not necessary at this point. I have never agreed to the terms of service in iTunes desktop and thus have never used it. I don't know if there are any terms to agree to on the phone because it also never gets used there. iTunes for me lives in a folder called "other" that I never open. (Spotify is my music player)
S3 works really nicely. I'm building my Octopress-based site using snap-ci (free for public builds). It was fairly straightforward to configure for use with S3 and you can run just about anything you want on it.
Nope! For an interesting look at "what is a Christian", you might like reading about the question "are Mormons Christian?" Mormons say they are, but other Christian churches say they are not - here's an example argument http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bibleandculture/2012/08/27/why-...
Believe what you want about the meaning of life, but you're misrepresenting the messages of almost all religions. The one I'm most familiar with, Christianity, says this life is your one chance to prove your virtues before being judged forever, which is why they are expected to do some pretty serious things instead of whatever amuses them.
Are there any real differentiating factors or are there so many because they're so easy to do? I built a custom one for a client once for no real reason.
The speaker's previous presentation at a different year of the same conference, about using online records to fabricate your own death or the birth of a made-up baby, is also worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FdHq3WfJgs.
I like iTunes, but I hate how Apple try to get me to subscribe to Apple Music both on iOS and OSX.
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> But in fact very few of them are actually telling the truth, in that most of them are neither theists or atheists, but that's just how they self-identify for whatever reasons.

Orly? What's the truth?
I rsync the files to a server where nginx serves them. The smallest server option at your VPS of choice will be plenty, particularly if your site is reasonably lean or less than mega-popular.
Probably because any gain we're getting from productivity is being equally erased by inflation. Imagine if gas cost $.35, like it did in the mid 60s. You'd only need to work a few days to have enough gas for the entire year.
> Now, if that awareness created or creates the physical world (as the Bhagavad Gita seems to state) that would be pretty amazing [...]

Where else would it come from? If we break a conventionally physical object into smaller and smaller bits we find that: 1) There's mostly nothing there - a whole lotta nothing inside of most "stuff", and 2) What is there seems to simply be a (very fast) movement, and doesn't follow the behavior of conventional objects. Whatever it is probably can't even properly be described as noun-stuff doing verb-stuff.

So, there appears to be something out there, but if in fact there is, it clearly isn't made out of conventional objects. That "objectivization" and the languageing of the objects of awareness is created in awareness. Who is the master who makes the grass green and all that...
I filter out HTML emails too, and a lot of mailing lists do as a standard practice. For some reason I find a large amount of sites which specify precise expectations for email are either German or somewhere in that region. Here's two examples:

https://www.gaertner.de/~neitzel/mail-policy.html

https://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/email.var

The prevailing attitude seems to be "If you can't configure your email client to send plaintext or follow the other rules I've listed on my site, I'm not interested in communicating with you."
oh I get your position. I felt that was true for years. The real question is, is a human death tragic? Even your own? And the answer has to be no. It's not. It's a goof this life. Dying is not the worse thing that can happen. Not living is. How do I think terrible things like torture and kids dying in Syria is silly? Because each human is NOT really a seperate thing that has to survive at all costs. Think of humans like pids or threads. They come and go. When a linux process dies is that tragic?
I thought the staunchest defenders of the free market are of the opinion that America needs to be made great again.
If you want to use sell hosted, use nginx on Joyent - you can get a 128M container for $2.16/m

Then if your site becomes famous - drop cloud flare in front.

https://www.joyent.com/pricing
here is a better "article"

https://staticsitegenerators.net/
How does it help?
Can I use Time Machine to backup my iPod to AirPort Time Capsule?
Yea gonna agree with u:bobfunk here that it's really about local development where it matters. And yes it is very fast in my experience, although I don't push it as much as others do.

It's also amazing to just have a single binary (or go get -u command) to get going unlike jekyll or the gems to run github's jekyll environment locally. I can't tell you how many times I'd just not blog in a while and need to setup this whole crazy setup for local jekyll and I'd just never write the post because of it. Hugo makes things simple, fast, and extensible.

edit: also I usually do the build locally and commit that to a specific repo which has the final rendered version for easy deployment to github and other places. I've made a `Makefile` just to do this easily as `make publish` to get any changes I have build, commited to the rendered repo, and commited to the source repo.
>The nationalist slur at the end of your comment was totally unnecessary though.

Is highlighting the fact that the US is the largest economy considered a slur?
Should add to the California state constitution that whenever there is a budget shortfall directly related to a thing they voted for, they or their estate including portions already inherited has to pay for it, up to the entire value of the estate.

Because the problem is these politicians know that a problem 20 years out is not their problem and they will never be called to account for their short sighted decisions.

Unions are equally culpable. Their negotiators and leadership should be under the same penalties as the politicians. They ask for concessions that can never be financially stable, essentially guaranteeing that the entire future budget will have to go to pay for the current union's retirement, screwing their future members.
Mayor Burt's not pro-housing. He's just the least anti-housing of the anti-housing majority on the city council.
If your friend prays, obviously they believe there's a reason to do so. The same as if they took vitamin supplements.

> Who the fuck is any one of us to tell them they believe something they don't?

Who the fuck is any of us to kick down their door and yell it at them? Nobody here is doing that though. In fact, that's something religious people do to areligious people.

But who are we to use the correct terminology to ourselves? Thinking beings. What's it to you?
Convolutional layers have been around longer than that and don't have much to do with the vanishing gradient problem, which was never that big a problem to begin with. ReLUs are helpful, but they do not lead to THAT big of a speedup. Convolutional layers have definitely had a big impact for accuracy in image problems and sound problems. I think #2 is very important; they speed up both training and evaluation by a factor of 100 compared to a modern CPU.

None of these developments really explain why AI has become so popular though. Neural nets don't actually perform very well for most problems (image and speech problems being the major exceptions) compared to tree-based methods. I think it has more to do with the development of easy-to-use machine learning libraries as well as distributed processing libraries and hardware.
jquery is a lot of overhead. you can do those things without it
I think one reason there is so many is there tends to be at least one for a given language. That way you can fire up npm, pip, cargo, whatever you're most comfortable with and have one installed.
Lack of quality control - the last two-ish months, the search feature on maps has been completely broken for me.

They rolled out a feature to limit search results to locations within your current zoom. Great! Problem is, they reloaded the entire page (not just the results partial) on every change.

The constant flickering made it very difficult to orient yourself around the map. Was infuriating to use and I'm very glad that they've now fixed it.
Yes, I did mean tonic.

Yes, it's easy to tell a fifth relative to the root of a chord. What I'm talking about is the chord relative to the tonic.
Yeah! I always love seeing when my ideas align with one of those I trust, and Fowler often gets my nod of approval. A month or so ago I was caught agreeing with Gil Tene, so I'm on a roll.
The Jesuit who invented hypertext
S3 + CloudFront, pushed via the s3_website gem. Free SSL (assuming you're okay with SNI), too.
The comment about taking siestas was saying the US is the largest economy because people in other countries were lazy. Did you really think that it was the other half of that sentence being objected to?
That's really interesting, first I have heard about automated tools to validate code.

Are there public tools out there you can use prior to commits for this purpose or are they generally done in-house?
Why do we do security?
Stars are old; hearts are new; stars are gone by default, but you can turn them back on in the settings.

Why there's no conversion factor [EG: heart = 5 stars], i don't know
If you assume that religion isn't just a club for ideologues, what you get is more of a research-program.

There's a technique, there's a mystery, you do the technique to address the mystery.

Techniques : meditation, fasting, hallucinogens.

Mysteries : God, Tao, Ultimate Reality.

Given the lack of technique in most of what we call religion these days, I think what we're looking at is a degenerate form of something that was pretty cool once upon a time. What we've got is basically fanfic.
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I don't know how up to date it is, but it looks like there is more about the technology at [1].

[1] http://blog.humphd.org/thimble-and-bramble/
Apparently they started working on Walker first, but then put it on hold.
Yes. They pick codebases that they think have good style to train the model on. Seems reasonable.
Here's the changelog for the post: https://github.com/scrollytelling/website/commit/21e9c8ba8f6...

I mean, with a sentence like this, it's hard not to jump to the conclusion that there's more than hotlinking and code copyright going on: "We know you love us Al-Jazeera, but stealing from us and then ignoring us is not the way to express it."

I wouldn't call them unethical, just incomplete. We have a case here where someone paid Scrollytellio to create a story in their content-management system. Their system is such that, to a layperson (which I assume the reporter is when it comes to webdev), the code and presentation is inextricable from the content.

The reporter was wrong, but that's just one level of confusion and ambiguity where it's possible to understand why AJ messed up. Even more confusing is that AJ itself uses the same open-source tech that ScrollyTelling does:

https://twitter.com/Hiddemhigh/status/777535017383845890

https://twitter.com/pageflow_io/status/777562569468964864

A web dev/producer at a media company not knowing the difference between the open-source code they've used in the past, and the modified version that a freelancer has given to them for this one package? Yeah, incompetent, but not malicious.

Again, it doesn't excuse AJ, their web producer, and the reporter, for not following up with more speed. But I can see why it's more likely that incompetency is the culprit and not malice.
Propagates, but 504.
Tithing isn't charity. If it was, you could give your tithe to a street person.

Try going to your temple/etc and telling them that you gave already. You'll quickly learn that it's an in-group fee, not charity.

And yes, many people get a lot from mindfulness. Why do you feel that it's only appropriate on one day of the week?

And how do you get there without faith?
Nevada is probably putting their homeless on a bus and sending them to Utah. Not being funny here, they got caught doing that in the past.
This seems a strange stance given how've already generalized it in day to day communication even in the tech world with its own religious wars.
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I've been thinking a lot about this lately, especially as I've been learning more about the difference between "nice" optimization problems with differentiable cost functions, and "messy" optimizations with less ideal cost functions.

Is there any reading material you can recommend on the recent history of ML/AI for someone like me, with a dilettante's understanding of these problems and an interest in optimization?
You're even dumber than I thought. No fool, it's not death that's tragic, it's human suffering. Torture for years before dying. Oh yeah, that's just a goof. Asswipe.
Turns out HN is a really effective DDoS (jk).
If it weren't for unions, we'd still have a competitive manufacturing industry that would be allowed to reward competence rather than seniority.

Unions stagnated decades ago and have achieved little more than strangling many of the industries they are involved in.
Single page app uses .js to load page inside index.html w/ push state.

I like this 'serverless' approach.
Okay, here is what I think this is

- It is a straight forward combination of two forms of encryption from pairing cryptography world. Identity Based Encryption and Threshold Encryption.

- In Identity based encryption, your public key and private key is generated by an identity provider based on an identity string provided to it. This allows encrypting messages to party that hasn't yet recieved the keys. This work has been around for ages.

- Milagro proposes to distribute the trusted third party by having multiple identity providers. The public key and private key are formed from a threshold encryption/ decryption procedure.
I said it would a couple of months ago and some interesting discussion was had. Sharing for the record:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12153802
>What the US desperately lacks is a federal workers' protection laws.

Please take the time to look up what 9/80 means before dropping a bunch of political conjecture.
TLDR from article which supplement's eli_gottlieb's comment:

"Much of today’s A.I. boom goes back to 2006, when Amazon started selling cheap computing over the internet. Those measures built the public clouds of Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft, among others. That same year, Google and Yahoo released statistical methods for dealing with the unruly data of human behavior. In 2007, Apple released the first iPhone, a device that began a boom in unruly-data collection everywhere."

The combination of smartphone + cloud created a virtuous (for AI, that is) cycle of unending data collection, which fed the improvements in theoretical research models which needed data at a larger scale to be validated.
Well to be fair the title might be: iTunes will never work well ON WINDOWS.

I was always wondering why I can read so much rants about a good product I've been using on a daily basis for years... Well it seams that the Windows version sucks, and what is described is really a world away from the native cocoa version on macOS.
A great but obscure port of lemmings is the Nintendo DS homebrew port. They made it work perfectly with touch controls, and it plays the Amiga version's soundtrack with a MOD music player, which you can put other MOD files in if you want. I'm also pretty sure it uses the Amiga version's level formats.
> 1. Why do we like pieces when played forward but not backward or inverted?

Would you like a movie played backward?

> 2. Why do certain sounds evoke certain emotions?

Large part of this boils down to if the waves representing the sounds meet at zeroes or not.

> 3. How could you write a program to pick out music that people find especially good (versus music that has surface similarities)?

I think that this is currently impossible. The music composition search space is actually extremely large, larger than say the search space of Go. You can restrict the search space quite a bit but it's still large.

> In other words, why does a particular sequence of sounds A, B, C lead to a mental state M that has particular internal qualities?

Think of it as design. It's the same sort of problem.
I think I explicitly answered your question in my comment - it involves taking more wealth for ourselves by refusing to work for bosses who take it all from us, or by becoming so valuable to those bosses that you command a high enough salary to take more time for yourself.

The median income is low because a small fraction of people take a large fraction of the wealth. But workers could leave wage jobs and become co-owners in a cooperative business, where wealth gains would be shared by all.

Does that make sense?
Couch and Pouch really got a lot of things correct back in the day. However, Firebase runs off of MongoDB internally and as a result the realtime sync of Firebase is quite distinct from Couch/Pouch. Firebase is ultimately the centralized authority, while with Couch you can have more of a Master-Master setup (which is a good thing).
Back online, had to cut off the directory listing for each one of them unfortunately, but as a bonus now it's much faster.
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Interesting topic. However, the contents of the article have nearly nothing to do with the title unfortunately. The article is about one dude who uses an e-bike on a bike path - which I agree should not be allowed if it exceeds some speed limit. The article should have been about replacing mopeds with e-bikes, or the title should have been "What is the correct speed limit for e-bikes on bike paths?"

Ideally, the law would set that speed limit to ~20mph since that is what a person pedaling can readily achieve.
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Try writing hummingbird notation by hand though!
This is another good point. Often times you want to make sure that "magic numbers" are replaced by well named constants or configurable values, even if they're only used once. Most importantly to make sure to differentiate them. It becomes less obvious what those numbers do when they're just numbers, and it becomes much less obvious that two things using the same number in close code proximity just have the same values by coincidence.

This can be true for logic as well. If you have a very specific conditional it can help to put it into a function so that it's purpose is clear, especially so if it's a piece of business logic that might change. Interestingly this can be "anti-DRY" as well because you might have the same logic duplicated in different places, but the fact that they are the same is a coincidence, and you want them to change depending on their own requirements.
If C was called A, that wouldn't be particularly arbitrary.

It would certainly make more sense for people learning music. The C major scale is universally agreed to be the simplest, most basic scale, so wouldn't it make more sense for it to be ABCDEFG, rather than CDEFGAB?