skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a percussionist, yes, musical notation is used for drums. However, it ends up looking rather like a step sequencer with some standard notational effects (staccato/legato, rests or varying lengths instead of the absence of markings, etc.) This helped me out quite a bit later when I started getting into digital music.
Technically speaking, that story about crashing the system is BULLSHIT.
I think xkcd should do one about people using this link systematically so we could respond to them with a xkcd.
Hollywood has had so SO SO many chances over the years to have Netflix's business: streaming content to customers under reasonable terms.

If Hollywood took all past energy spent on DRM, lobbying, finding ways to limit user's rights, and suing customers, they might not be in the situation they're in now.
> Back in October 1944, Koenig had suggested a theoretical way of securing a telephone call by having the recipient of a call add noise to the signal and then subtract it afterward. Only Bob could subtract the noise, because only he knew what he had added in the first place. An eavesdropper, Eve, simply would not know how to modify the noise, because she wouldn’t have access to the noise that had been added to the phone conversation in the first place.

The scheme is called a one-time pad, and while it might be considered impractical, it was definitely used successfully. In fact Alan Turing apparently contributed to one such device: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGSALY
Right, I forgot: 20 years of experience with Angular.js.
I haven't heard any arguments that they should receive a pardon, or any news of them being prosecuted.

In the absence of that I'm just assuming that nothing will happen.
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I believe it gets extracted before you get your compensation paid.
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I'm pretty sure the X Axis is the year.. meaning to the right is historical data and to the left is the most recent. Its a little weird but it kind of makes sense.
This is a very broad accusation, but certainly most hedge funds I know are based in Mayfair, where almost all property is owned by the Duchy of Westminster. Of the top of my head I don't know any hedge funds who own their own office space in London (I'm sure they must exist).

Hedge funds as a group would almost certainly be able on average to lower their rent if there was more property development.
The practice of tithing comes from a tax that existed to support the church and clergy. Saving ten percent of your income and distributing it as you please isn't tithing in the traditional sense, only the portion given to the church is considered a tithe.
The comments on my technical blog were always so friendly and encouraging. People telling me how my tutorial helped them or answering each others questions.

Redirecting them to the HN pit of cynicism and leave-no-stone-left-unturnedism sounds awful. :)
...this is an intellectually lazy approach?
Yeah, but most would probably prefer to just buy a tablet and use that instead since they can use it for more then just an e-notebook, unless there was a way to make e-notebooks cost similar to traditional notebooks which I just can't see happening.
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we build exactly that, only no Flickr or instagram on it yet
Yes, it's puzzling.

70% of French criminals are of Arab origin. Maybe Arabs are better behaved in the Arab world than they are in France?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/1135...

Maybe it's because the French are really soft on prisoners. That Coulibaly guy was furious they confiscated his playstation. I doubt Morocco or Algeria would have ever allowed him one..
Absolutely; as much as the Matrix people claim they're not doing that by "interoperating with other protocols" they don't seem to understand that it's exactly what they're doing. The existing standards (XMPP) already interop in exactly the same way (gateways/transports), so making another protocol instead of improving the gateway / transport story on an existing one is just silly.
Interesting to see that "end-to-end crypto" is becoming a frontpage feature for messaging apps.
Interestingly, according to Wikipedia the SIGSALY was in production before Koenig "invented" the technique. And according to the one-time pad page, one-time pad was first theoretically invented in 1882 by Frank Miller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
iTunes is actually SoundJamMP under the hood. That app was (if memory serves) released 16 years ago and subsequently bought by Apple. AFAIK the core of iTunes is still unchanged from then and all Apple have done is simply bloat the UI and bolt on additional functionality (eg AAC playback, videos and iCloud etc) without ever re-examining the underlying engine.

SoundJam was great for me in 2001 playing mp3s and as most of the tone of this thread seems to confirm, everything else since then has simply given users extra grief to cope with when wishing to play a simple music file in a simple manner.

I've stuck at OSX 10.6.8 and iTunes 10.6.1 (which is still 239MB of bloat) rather than upgrade. That's where I'm staying as Apple only ever seem to make stuff worse these days.
Well, you didn't bother to give any reasoning....
Of course Wayland will have bugs. What it won't have (hopefully) is the same design decisions and flaws that X made, because people have learned from X in the intervening decades since its inception.
Nobody is going to argue that lives aren't being ruined, but you said the difference between being killed and being freed after a decade is marginal, which is almost too ridiculous to respond to.

It's one argument of many, but it's useful for people who think capital punishment is morally justified, but don't want innocent people killed.
"If I enjoy a topic, I write down and rearrange chunks from different sources."

This. How do you do this? As in do you write down chunks on post its and rearrange, you write them in a notebook and go back and forth, you use some kind of app?

I've felt this too, learning from multiple sources is a much more fulfilling experience
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> 2.) Amazon is internally use to being frugal, and so pricing wars are not going to hurt them. Oracle is use to charging a arm and a leg for their products.

They may be used to being frugal, but that is not at all reflected in AWS pricing, which is ridiculously high across the board.
what analog output is there? It is now removed.
> doesn't this make your site a second class citizen in regards to SEO

Not with any search engine that matters.
Isn't that what iTunes Match did (does?) for a fee?
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People create more tasks to do when the current tasks are done. Singing and dancing is communication. Your answer wasn't objective, and neither was mine.

If I understood you correctly, your answer to "what is the objective measure of silliness" is essentially to say our best model of nature is of particles in spacetime adhering to certain rules. My, and what I assume is the common definition of silly, is inconsequential incoherence. Perhaps your definition is different? Nature is not silly, since the consequences of its rules are both measurable and consistent. If you're saying its absurd to think of human society in terms of physics, well sure. Don't do that, its the wrong layer of abstraction.
First impressions:

- Hmm... sounds a lot like Apache (née Google) Wave

- Intro thingy has definite zombo.com vibe

(yes, I do realize that I'm getting old..)

On a more serious note, this could be really good concept if executed well. Time will tell, I hope for the best.
Which dialogs?

I don't seem to have the same issue with playback and syncing.
The BBC stands well ahead of the pack in terms of chasing tabloid-level inaccurate clickbait crap, especially in terms of oversimplified pop-science.
The USA backed a military coup that ousted the Haitian government in 1991. The US again backed a military coup that ousted the same president, Aristide, in 2004. The president in the 2004 coup was transferred from the US to Haiti to lead the country.

The US won't let Haiti run itself. So what do Americans do? Complain about how Haitians are taking advantage of their infinite amount of charity. Please.
Good news for a change. I will wait a decade and want to see these kind of tests repeated before I will really cheer.
I've been to Spain once, went to Barcelona, and was robbed. I'd still go back to Spain and Barcelona though!
If you are curious about tropospheric ducting this[1] site shows openings determined by looking at what packets are coming through APRS igateways. Some of the LoRa stuff runs on UHF so it could be subject to similar openings(like the huge one over the midwestern US right now.

[1] http://aprs.mountainlake.k12.mn.us/
In the past one might reasonably expect to meet your representative at the local pub, tea and coffee house. You'd say, "Hey Sally, we should really do something about patent reform" and she'd say "Bob, I agree. There are two bills that are being ..."

Right now, it is nothing like that. My representative lives in another town, and I have never even seen her face in person except at a rally.

This should be unconstitutional.
With Africa and I guess a number of other places around the world, being white helps. You can feel a difference of how they'll treat a white person. It can be the opposite too, being overcharged. I know I'll probably get bashed with comments.
I had an original iphone and I remember it a lot differently. Blackberry owned the world, if you had a business smartphone it was almost certainly a BB.

iPhone was a phenomenon. There was no app store because there were no apps. An unlimited-everything plan on AT&T (iphone's only carrier) was $120/month.

I remember phone calls working just fine - it was my main/only phone while I was doing a lot of remote consulting and I don't remember problems at all. "Slow" is relative - I came from a blackberry and never looked back.
2016 play list: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcGKfGEEONaDvuLDFFKRf...
I don't know, I kind of like the notion of offering someone an USB killer and if they put in into their machine, you never trust them again (cryptographically or otherwise). Jokes aside though, yes, I think NFC would be less likely to be dangerous to your computer, but maybe easier to eavesdrop on?
I noticed this as well when I started taking probiotics, eating unpasteurized cheeses, and having sauerkraut or kimchi every other day or so.

I'll get a sniffle for a day and then that'I'll be the end of it. I haven't been sick in a year.
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Agreed. I think what happened here is that the graph is really made by depth along an ice core (which starts at 0). In order to make the graph more interesting they converted depth to "years ago".
> arguing that a rational market is going to take care of this arrangement one way or the other

That's a silly argument. If the market would be rational and it would take care of this we wouldn't have landed in this situation in the first place.

The reality is more that we're more in a winner takes it all situation.
> There are international builds where you travel somewhere and work on building homes in areas where there isn't adequate low-income housing.

I highly advise against this. There is no shortage of unqualified labor in underdeveloped countries. Most of these projects are just 'feel good charity tourism'.

If you want to make a difference you are much better of donating 20% of a US salary which will employ many more underqualified locals who actually need the job.
Hollywood is just getting it's comeuppance, just like cable and taxis, for trying to remain 20+ years in the past. Seems like they should be worried less about a monopoly and more about becoming bloated and obsolete. Cry me a river, Hollywood. You lagged behind in technology and overcharged people on mostly garbage content laced with lots of advertising. Bet you're real pissed that a few newcomers have better digital products, are cheaper, and produce far better content than you do.
Lifestyletic
So, do all of those people released from life imprisonment feel they'd be better off if they'd been killed?
My grandpa was visiting Barcelone about 3 years ago and he got mugged in broad daylight. He's 80 years old. One mugger put him in a chokehold while the other emptied his pockets.

My grandpa lost consciousness and had to be taken to a nearby hospital.

After he woke up, he said the people around the incident just ignored them, even though he called for help. He said he got the impression that it must be an everyday occurrence.
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About a miolion dollars of work productivity just shifted to playing that link. Ty :)
I like F# much (and hate any C-like language as the plague!) but let's not mislead ourselves. F# have inferior tooling, is worse for database development, type inference is crazy sometimes and is hard to build the same kind of generic solution as with C# or similar languages.

I use it only on osx and is even less good. Still stick with it because I see the potential and the time-savings in other aspects, but after years on OOP-Imperative have take a long time to get there...
Hiding a 12ga inside a car bodywork is easy peasy lemon squeezy and slugs from that reliably put down grizzly bears, which are I believe the toughest land predator currently in existence.
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"I cannot simply proceed if questions are unanswered."

I know this feeling. I do force myself to proceed but it feels like I'm cheating myself. Do you always hang around at that point until you clear up the question? What if it's something that would benefit if you allowed it to brew in the back of your mind? How do you keep track of such questions.

Sorry if i'm splitting hairs.
You're confusing the straw man fallacy with an ad hominem attack.
No. With respect you don't understand my position.

I argue that a life sentence is only marginally better than a death sentence. I further argue that if we oppose the death penalty on the grounds that it causes substantial irreversible damage, then we must also oppose perpetual incarceration because the difference in harm is not large enough (IMHO). I, and many others, are not willing to do away with perpetual incarceration so this is not a satisfactory line of argumentation.

From there, I reach my point: there are other, more compelling arguments against the death penalty.

I'll say the same thing to you as the other guy: you're making assumptions about my position relative to capital punishment.

If you're going to call people disgusting, at least make a good-faith effort to understand what they're saying.
Or speed of toddler. We have cascading rules in our house: anything that hits the floor is his within three seconds or else it defaults to daddy, who has the remaining two seconds before the dog makes his move.

Dinner-time incidents can turn violent quite quickly...
The legal process in this situation is broken to its core.
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I think there's a huge potential for developers on chat platforms due to the fact that the app is already installed, and the user is already "logged in", and the UI paradigm is more or less standardized across OSes.

I worry though that this opportunity will be squandered by the big social platforms by botching the bot discovery mechanisms, much like the app stores did.
>why is losing out to immigrants more of an issue than losing out to local competition?

The trouble is that the laws, in the US at least, are set up and (not) enforced in such a way as to advantage people coming from abroad. The H1-B is a good example. Employers want H1-Bs because they can lower wages (through job title manipulation and increasing the pool of available workers), while essentially handcuffing the employee to them. This isn't really fair competition. The local employee didn't lose because of being inadequate, they lost because of external forces making it extremely difficult to compete.

Personally, I'm all for making legal immigration and naturalization a much easier and faster process, but I also want some of these weird visas done away with. They want to move here, let them come, but don't game the system to the detriment of local workers, and to some extent the immigrant, though they'll likely be living better than where they came from, but not as well as they should be.
Ask HN: Does the film industry use stock options for compensation?
Maybe not stock options per se, but a payment structure where workers (actors, writers, artists, prop makers, editors, operators, ...) get a (risky) share of the profits of the venture?
Raw NTLM, and yeah, it's not terribly fast, but it's relatively simple to get up to gigahashes a second (I've got a box that churns out 21 GH/s on raw NTLM). Plus, it's not salted, so it's trivial to just grab every hash and crack them all at the same time. Just keep in mind that you are unlikely to get a raw NTLM unless you've pwned a machine. Network sniffing and spoofing will get you a NetNTLMv1 or v2, and they are much slower, and salted.
Yes. Christians do not wish to be like Judas, Pilate, etc.
I've not looked at Rust, but I've been using Go in production now for years at this point with non-trivial code bases. In our cases, they are mostly SMTP and HTTP servers. Sometimes the boiler plate gets in the way (and I think Go should almost never be used for simple CRUD stuff, there are better options), but I find the readability fantastic. It really dawned on my how readable it can be when I had to fix a missed condition in clean up on shutdown. It was fixed in an hour. For the perl version that the Go one replaced, it would have been a day before I even understood what would have needed fixing.
According to several friends who travel or do charity work in Africa, being white makes you more of a target for robbery. It makes sense; they know you probably have note money than the locals, so they're going to approach you accordingly, whether that means being nicer to you or targeting you.
Mmm... I wouldn't quite call it silly. The protocol does support better stuff than XMPP. We're talking about single view notifications across multiple clients and other goodies sometimes implemented by XMPP plugins. And quite frankly from what I've heard the plugins are a pain. I do think a fresh break is what's needed.
Not in Congo though.

http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/50799-Democrat...

Multiple times, the travellers found spots where locals would make traps for cars and then ask for money to get the cars unstuck.

The only people who were invariably helpful were priests.
TLDR; Haiti is pretty bad for growing coffee, for a number of reasons spanning politics to poor farming practices. So the coffee trees tend to be really tall because if they actually manage to grow one which produces beans, they are hesitant to cut it down.
There have been a lot of smartphones sold since 2011.
It's odd, the article has this to say early on,

"In Haiti, you can often make as much or more through temporary aid funding than you can from productive endeavors. Which means that, even as the market for unique coffee with an interesting backstory booms, cultivating it in the country has become as much about chasing charity as it is about trying to run a viable enterprise that produces excellent coffee year after year."

Then it spends the better part of a page and a half detailing all of the issues of political instability and so on which actually are the major factors and have nothing to do with "chasing charity".
s/Acidity/CO2/g

If only we could save the world with Perl
Which also makes it more viable for government contracts.

This is like looking at any other marketshare debate. Amazon/Google may win the majority of users, but MS and Oracle are going to get the ones with deep pockets. They don't need me and my piddly weekend project, or most startups. They'll make a mint off a handful of lucrative government contracts, and contracts with the defense contractors that go Oracle because the gov't has pushed it.
So an auditory branch of government [0]? It’s not that uncommon outside the Anglosphere.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers#Typical_b...
That is a very big problem!! but https://ipfs.pics/ to some solves this by using "Votes"
I'm always aware about Dijkstra's comment on visualization of math. His concern was that math concepts can't be visualized; take for instance the concept of a triangle. The moment you visualize it you're seeing a specific instance and you forgot about the general model.

Maybe animations can help. You could animate a triangle morphing into a myriad of instances, even bizarre ones.
Operating infrastructure costs what it costs. Amazon are paying the same per Watt of electricity as anyone else. They are paying the same per sq foot of DC. They are famous for lowballing salaries but they do need to remain in in the ballpark at least. I don't mean this as a criticism necessarily but it is what it is and folks need to understand it.
Right now the standard way is to have a server that you proxy writes (the same setup you would have with Postges or Mongo) to, so I would refer you to things like Passport and stuff.

We plan on adding our own system, however it will be based on a fully P2P setup. Where every user has public/private keys and the server does not have access to that private key. We have a couple prototypes but we aren't security experts so we want to be careful and get some auditing before we publish it as a tool.

Finally, if you just want to control request/response, then there is a generic callback for that that gives you the ability to reject requests. See https://github.com/amark/gun/blob/master/examples/express-au... as an example, note that we may be changing this in the future though.
If you read the article, you'll see that the markup on food is nowhere close to alcohol. He claims a < 3% profit.
Obviously it's just low-hanging fruit

/s
> AWS isn't merely about the compute.

Sure, but having a compelling story about compute and having a massive advantage in knowledge of how to sell to the exact kinds of enterprises that haven't already made their big transition to the cloud yet isn't a bad combination to have if you want to establish a nice firm place in cloud. from which you can expand and develop what you need to bite off other parts of the market.

They aren't going to follow the same path as AWS, both because they aren't, as a corporation, oriented toward that path and because the low-hanging fruit you can pick up along that path has already been picked up by AWS.
This quote from Joshua Kauffman is a little odd:

“Any time a human needs a relationship and a person isn’t there is an opportunity for a chatbot to fill itself in. I think that when humans are on this planet in some years time, with a lot more technology, we’re going to find that our ultimate purpose is to be having conversations with each other, in addition to creativity and other things. So there’s a lot of conversation that can happen with chatbots and intelligent assistants.”

So humans figure out their ultimate purpose is to talk a lot more with each other? But there isn't going to be enough supply of man hours of conversation - so they just opt for the next best choice - which is talking with chatbots?

Can someone locate the actual video of this event, if it is online? Many of the quotes from this article are all really far-out.
Well, you're making a claim for which contrary evidence exists in the form of the very article you're commenting on. Do you have any evidence to back what you're saying?