skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no "copying files over" with iDevices. For a long time there was "gtkpod" / "libgpod" which reverse-engineered iPod protocol and database format to load songs on an iPod. But on later iPods it involved an extracted Apple signing key, and Apple issued (successful) DMCA takedowns on websites which provided these keys.

Most pages on the gtkpod website currently appear to be defunct, probably because it's been impractical to make it work with iPhones.
baseball also has the most games per season (for American sports). Football ends up being arbitrary, and half the teams will play 15 games a year with a specialized roster. Hockey/Basketball have fewer players, but 80ish games. Baseball doubles that with a mix between specialized and general players. It's just slotting in people and measuring stats for defense, and hit percentage on offense. It's made to be dumped into a spreadsheet and graphed.
Answer to question 1 is simple: good resolution is a semitone up, but scale step down (normally, whole tone). No symmetry here. If you play backwards, you won't get resolutions - it will sound as nonsense.
Ha ha that is also a great indicator of overheating. It's like people think a great product will be available in a few years and we don't even have the barely tolerable version yet. There will have to be the Treo version of the autonomous car before there is the iPhone version.
OS-X GUI is heavily being worked on. You can watch its progress here: https://github.com/qtxie/red/commits/GUI

Also - the corresponding Trello board is here: https://trello.com/c/UgsrhiHf/143-macosx-gui-backend
Good point, not sure where I got that from then. Record updated.
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That one's 2 years old now (just over), and the power system is now onto it's second cheapo mountain bike (that one had the chain slip off the rear sprockets when the gears were badly adjusted, which damaged the spokes, which later broke. It ended up being less hassle buying a new bike than repairing the wheel). I do a 16km round trip on it 3 times a week or so (less during winter, it's fun to ride, but _way_ less fun in the rain).

I guess I should mention you'll also need a charger capable of charging your chosen battery (I already had two, so I don't factor in the cost of that - you'd be looking at ~$50 or so at the bottom end there...)
Some how machine learning got rebranded and now it's important... and major products are putting prediction into the ui more.
Made me realize I need to get a farm and a couple of solar panels.
> religion is about shattering the idea that one is separate from the rest of reality.

Wait. My main issue with religion is that it forces the belief that one is separate from source/God/universe and creates a life long relationship of separation thus perverting humanity's relationship with ourselves and with our own "sacredness" or "divinity" in order to become a middleman to and sell something that was never separate from us. It's really insidious from that standpoint.

unless we speak of Daoism or Advaita, both nondualistic practices, both nonreligious.
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And secure bike storage that is secure and doesn't suck.

The building housing a former sf employer required bikers to use the (slow, smelly, frequently occupied with very slow users) service elevator and store their bikes in a crappy room in the corner of the basement. In what was obviously a hastily converted area. A coworker was locked in the bike storage for 4+ hours. He left at around 2am after putting out some fire, the door to the bike room in the basement was set to lock behind him (yes, this is almost certainly wildly out of code), and the building was solid enough that his cell didn't work from the basement. There were frantic calls to police by his wife. He was found when the basement was opened the next morning.

In lieu of suing everyone in sight we got permission to ride the normal elevators with bikes and to keep them in our office.
You are masterfully missing the point.
Notifications have a dedicated button at the far right of the menu bar, a prime Fitt's Law location. The help and the trash are still where they've been for years.
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No they take a percentage from the company.

Generally a tech company won't offer a 17% signing bonus for coming direct.

On the other hand, a company not using recruiters wont pay 17% more just because they are saving money.

PS: I wonder why my GP comment is heavily downvoted? Maybe it sounds to pro-recruiter.
> what emotions are evoked by certain keys

Yes, choice of key is one of the tropes that is useful when composing a song's "plot".

> Music is not something that is reducible to mere quanta and waves and frequency.

That's my point; interesting aspects of a song are not derived from specific sounds (and their frequency/etc). Those are the atoms that can be used to create the larger plot.

While it is possible to reduce music to the frequency and timing of its atomic structure, it's similar to analyzing the phonetics of speech or the glyphs of text in isolation. A low level perspective may be useful, but misses the larger structure we call a "song" or "essay".
Sounds like sphinx.
I paid significantly more for e.g. a stem so it's 15 grams lighter :)
This never occurs to me as a problem on my motorcycles...
> How can you make something sound good is the interesting part of music theory for me and I still haven't found a good intro to it!

As someone who majored in music composition, I have a very simple answer. I'd have some sort of idea in my head of what I wanted the music to sound like (or the emotion to evoke). Then I'd fiddly around for quite some time, discarding the things that didn't meet my criteria.

That's sort of a glib answer, but the fact is that no one really knows exactly why certain things evoke certain emotions, even though most composers understand various building block ideas like "odd meters like 5/8 and 7/8 generally evoke intensity and tension" or "brass chorale in a major key sounds triumphant" or "gong crescendo roll is scary". And of course, even then, we could find counter-examples for every one of those things.

Also, all music theory will tell you is why something in some piece of historical music sounded the way people expected it to sound at the time. It will definitely not tell you how to write good original music (though it may be a good guide on how to imitate past composers if that's useful for what you're trying to do).
You're right, of course. My wording is was bit poor.

What I should have said that harmony is less ad hoc; it has less "degrees of freedom".

With regards to melody, there are tons of tuning systems that are quite close to the usual twelve-tone equal temperament. It would be hard to give a convincing argument that one of these sounds better than all others.

Contrast this to the system of harmony where the basic principle is that ratios of small integers sound good together. This is not the only possible system of harmony, but it does seem to represent some kind of local optimum. And this makes it more amenable to the kind of purely theoretical reasoning that the article is trying to do.
Although I'm a proud owner of a Winamp license, I've been using AIMP over the past year or so. It's blatantly, if not purposefully, a Winamp clone but has a few excellent innovations of its own and is frequently updated. I strongly recommend it for any Winamp fans.
Living in China, the electric bikes were always scary. They were fast, heavy, and silent. Still, there should be a way to make it work with more infrastructure. Maybe self driving electric bikes will be a thing?
I have a LinkedIn account, but messages usually are not good fits and clearly are spam strategies. I'm looking for a recruiter that would focus on finding me a job, rather than finding a candidate for a job they have on file.
I don't think the author was necessarily proclaiming that it's absurd, only that it seems absurd from his/her beginner perspective. He/she was very up front about not having much experience, so I think this is totally reasonable (and expected)
Okay, yeah. I bristled at your suggestion that I should go learn temperament from Wikipedia, when I was making an effort to not bring up temperament to keep my reply focused.

I thought you didn't understand harmony, you thought I didn't understand temperament, I was talking from a historical point of view, you were talking from a jazz point of view.

We might disagree on two kind of minor points:

* How this blog post should have been written

* I'm uncomfortable with describing fundamentals of music from a jazz point of view, because that seems to me to be putting the effect before the cause.
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GitHub (source) => TravisCI (deployment) => S3 (hosting).

I have a CloudFront distribution sitting in front of S3, secured with a free SSL certificate powered by Amazon ACM.

I like S3 for its flexibility. My site is in both English and Dutch and I want to serve English content on .io and the Dutch content on .nl. With S3 I just create two buckets, associate the bucket with a different domain and welcome page (index_en.html and index_nl.html) and publish the same site to each bucket.
"Every morning recycling bins are spilled with their contents spread out as if someone came during the night and rumaged through them."

This one I can explain. Oregon has a deposit/return program; several states have them. The basic premise is that every product in a can or bottle includes a deposit fee, which you only get back when you return the can or bottle for recycling. I think the deposit is .05 on most single serving sized bottles and cans. So, 20 cans collected is $1.00. 100 is enough to buy a pretty good meal. It's kind of a normal part of some homeless folks day to roam around collecting bottles and cans; it's not as profitable as flying a sign at a busy intersection or busking, or even just asking for money downtown, but it is maybe more comfortable for the folks who don't want to beg (I can understand that; I don't know if I could ask someone for money even if I were starving, with this damned American work ethic and foolish pride).

Since there is very little incentive to put the trash back in the bins after they've collected the items that are worth month, they just leave the trash on the ground. I guess there is even a disincentive to pick up the mess; that's time that could have been spent collecting more items worth money. It's annoying, but perfectly rational.

I've never asked any of the folks I know why they don't spend any time on campus; I've never been to the campus, myself, so it's not part of my Eugene experience, thus far. Downtown (and Whiteaker for bus and van dwellers) is clearly the preferred location in Eugene. Springfield's homeless are much more widely disbursed, not sure why, and seem to congregate in a few specific locations near the river. I haven't really made the acquaintance of any of them to ask, but I see them on my walk between the RV park where I'm staying and the co-working space I'm renting in Springfield. They tend to be older, and I suspect they want nothing to do with the kids in downtown Eugene, because of how much drama there is among that crowd.

Eugene is an interesting place, in terms of how visible the homeless population is. There seems to be somewhat less hostility in both directions (i.e. in a lot of places I've lived, homeless folks are treated very poorly, and they tend to be surly in response...that dynamic doesn't seem to play out here; there's maybe less fear in both directions). I dunno. I don't have solutions, really, but I do like to see people treated with basic human decency, no matter what their situation. I judge a city (and its inhabitants), to a significant degree, by how it treats those most at risk and most in need; and homeless folks are certainly among the most at risk and most in need.
Whoever takes down criminals like this wire transfer scammer is a hero. Fuck crackers, scammers, and other douche bags.
Thanks for your experience.
As a bicycle commuter, I would love to see more people doing anything that isn't cars and would glad share bicycle infrastructure with these guys. The more drivers see us, the more they look. Their speed differential is no more than what you or I have with a lot of casual cyclists, and the electric battery doesn't weigh more than a fully loaded backpack.

Is the real issue that they aren't 'real' cyclists and didn't earn it?
I found flights to Porto on flychecker at 65 €
Lot's of e-bikes in Japan. The only problem, from a powered-commute perspective is that they have a graded assist limit. I think between 12 and 20 kph, the assist gradually decreases. At 12 kph you have 100% assist and you don't have to pedal. It then declines until at 20 kph it's all you. (I don't really remember the actual numbers, but those are pretty close).

The problem is that 20 kph is really slow. Even into the steady headwinds we have on the coast here, I never travel below this speed, so an e-bike just means a heavy bike for me :-) However, they have revolutionised transportation for the elderly in the countryside. In my town, almost everybody has one. It's really great because it gets people outside and going to shops, etc.

There are now a few electric scooters (classed differently in Japan than bikes). These have a 30 kmh legal speed limit, but they are not physically limited (many, many people drive over the speed limit on these). You need a drivers license to drive these (there is also a special scooter license you can apply for which is easier to get than a general purpose drivers license).

The last category is motorcycle and I haven't seen any electric ones on the road yet, but I'm sure it's a matter of time. Honestly I'd love something like this for going places I wouldn't want to go on my bicycle.

As much as I find it annoying, the categorisation makes a lot of sense to me. Limit unlicensed transport to minor assist only. Put a speed limit on full assist and require a license. Require a full motorcycle license on general transportation that is intended to travel at highway speeds. It's a bit strange to legally be allowed to ride my bike at 40+ kph just because I'm able to do so, though... I just hope nobody changes that law ;-)
Can you please elaborate a little on "complex system collapse" concept? I couldn't get it.

The Mayan example given here by someguydave shown some kind of system collapse. Is a similar thing that terrifies you or what?
Why do you value the emotion of silliness to the exclusion of all the others?

edit: Maybe a better question is, what is the objective measure of silliness?
I will not accept any substitute. If there is no existential angst, I'll not accept referring to it as intelligence.
Thank you David, I'm in the SF Bay Area.
That's not really what the comment is saying. If we relabeled the notes CDEFGAB to ABCDEFG, then ABCDEFG would be the "A major" scale under our new system. The question is, "Wouldn't that make more sense?" My answer is, "It would make a tiny bit more sense to the most absolute beginner students, who would then have to learn other scales anyway."
Date	Approximate cost per GFLOPS inflation adjusted to 2013 US dollars
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1961	$8.3 trillion
1984	$42,780,000
1997	$42,000
April 2000	$1,300
May 2000	$836
August 2003	$100
August 2007	$52
March 2011	$1.80
August 2012	$0.73
June 2013	$0.22
November 2013	$0.16
December 2013	$0.12
January 2015	$0.06
> The specific case seems to stem from professors suggesting students read various sections of different texts and the copying service preparing collections of those reading assignments for various courses.

Actually, in Australia universities are permitted to do the same thing, as long as it's not the whole book (e.g. a chapter relevant to the week's lecture). So that seems more understandable than photocopying entire books.
Richard Stanton's games articles are consistently excellent and worth seeking out.

Also known for his book "A Brief History of Video Games".
You are looking for a "theory of music", as opposed to "music theory", ie an explanatory or scientific theory.

I offer my own efforts in this direction at http://whatismusic.info/.
It's easy: there are many systems that are more complicated than what we usually can imagine. For example, the detailed structure of a material, or the internal structure of a language. We don't usually imagine coherent systems of such complexity.

If there ever was a man trying to imagine something hugely complex, then he was surely Tolkien with LOTR. He imagined languages, countries and peoples in an amazing detail. But that shows how hard it would be to try to imagine something as complex as the real world.

Our minds don't have such generative powers, thus the world doesn't come from our imagination.
> We sure are going up this gradient quickly. But I don't think it's going to get us to a global maximum.

Yes, however, this process has the nice side effect of spurring a huge interest in fundamental AI research, which will lead to alternative algorithms that ultimately perform better.
Tech Talent: How the UK lost six potential titans
In London they have built some amazing cycle super highways which are great to cycle on, however you can go incredibly fast and some people do - I've seen three ambulances in a week along there (Embankment) recently scraping up people off the road. It's safer than being with cars and lorries but pedestrians seem to not look and walk into the cycle lane because bikes are pretty silent... anyway I do agree with cycle lanes but maybe we need to think through pedestrians and speed as well...
You had t press a modifier key to right click, but 2 button mouses have been sold with macs since 10.2 at least, and 10.2 was available in 2001/2.
It's also difficult to compare US states -- which can't print money, with the U.S. debt level (relatively acceptable in the developed world). Perhaps a better comparison is Illinois and California (the highest poverty rate in the nation, when taking into account cost of living) with eurozone countries like Italy and Greece, which cannot devalue their currency to remain competitive. Yet, unlike the Eurozone, there will be more significant federal distributions to these states which racked up debt and receiving more federal aid including Medicaid / ACA grants, educational assistance, and food stamps. But we will continue to experience what is happening in parts of Michigan and Illinois, where states and cities have to make material sacrifices to pay down the debt.
FWIW, my "cheater bike" tops out at right on 25kmh under power - it'll go faster than that if you pedal hard, but the electrics aren't helping any more.

It still makes it really easy to go fast tho, even in jeans and a tshirt, with a backpack full of laptop (and 20+kg too much paunch) - it's pretty easy to out-accelerate most lycra-clad commuters if they don't notice you coming. It's pretty easy to out pace lots of fit looking bicycle riders on long up hill inclines - but if they care, they'll mostly blow past me again doing 40kmh on the downslope on the other side while I'm just rolling along at not much over 25kmh where my assist tops out.

(Safety-wise, my battery weights 850g. The motor and controller add up to maybe 1kg. I'm pretty sure I've seen lycra-louts with more weight in their bidons than my electric assist adds!)
Not an article, but I think this talk hits a lot of interesting points:

http://www.ted.com/talks/benjamin_zander_on_music_and_passio...
I'm Australian and I've picked up on a similar American Stereotype.

I think the "people are poor because they are lazy" stereotype comes from American television. Any show from the US featuring ostensibly 'working class' Americans will at some point in its life bring up the 'American dream'. This idea that if an American works hard enough they can become rich. From there the negative corollary is obvious - "if you are poor you just aren't working hard enough".

The American approach to things like education and health care seems to exemplify this stereotype. American society in general does not seem very egalitarian. It's easy to form the opinion that American's don't care about poor people.
Believe me, it's not much better on Mac from a UX perspective.
The state is obligated to cease withholding prosecution of those who are 100% in their jurisdiction to prosecute right now.

You'd love it if the powerful were brought to justice for breaking the law but you're largely unfussed by it brazenly being stifled. This has no influence on your belief of the necessity of going after the one who exposed them? This will result in it being less likely that we're going to find out about criminality by these people abusing their power. This gives the optics of the prosecutor's office being in support of the rampant, flagrant, totally illegal abuse of power.

There is this idea about the rule of law and equality before it. Baying for the prosecution of the whistle blower while not tying it to the prosecution of all those utter crooks he exposed. It's straight up support of corruption. It's the same prosecutors' office deciding whether to prosecute both of these things it found out about simultaneously from the same source, isn't it?

The rule of law and equality before it is a thing. Some find it worthwhile and have fought, died and killed for it. Supporting it in both theory and practice seems admirable to me. I have trouble in seeing a similarly admirable quality in what you've written here.