skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do cities offer a convenient API to access certain events like construction and so on?

As someone who worked a bit on the smartcity effort, let me answer : Bwahahaha! No. Not even close. Actually I wonder if you dressed up as city workers and started drilling holes in the pavement, how long it would take for anyone to figure you are not supposed to do that.

Yes, I wish cities had a budget to do GIS right and have an open API for finding things like map of pipes, of streets, of construction work schedule, etc...

The effort to make that happen is called Open Data. Recently commendable improvements have been made, but we are not there yet.
BTW, please read something like "Musimathics", it'll be better than trying to learn music theory from Wikipedia.
So, you're looking for relative chord names? Like IV V I? Can't you just write those above the staff?
Your comment reminded me of Edmond Lau's book - The Effective Engineer [1] - where he talks about putting in a good amount of effort into the onboarding process for new engineers.

His premise - having a senior engineer spend an hour a day for the first month helping the new employee with explaining the existing abstractions being used, the underlying design of various systems, etc. - would still be only about 20 hours, which is still only 1% of the number of hours that employee will spend in their first year - about 2000 hours.

As a result, I believe that armed with that knowledge, the new employee is likely to be much more productive, failing which, at least cause less damage to the code base.

I would say that the first example you mention - leaky abstractions et. al. - are just as much (or maybe more) due to poor onboarding as they are due to the frustration of mediocre programmers. There is a lot to be said for good process, which software engineering as a discipline falls short of quite consistently.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Engineer-Engineering-Dispro...
Hit the directions button. You see two text fields, with the first one already filled out as "Your location". Change that. Enter the destination next.

This was on Android. Is your UX any different?
im2col + sgemm on CPU as in Caffe for instance is really slow; you are heavily penalized for extra memory traffic and the sgemm tile sizes are probably not well tuned for the problem size at hand.

At the roofline of performance, the difference in both mem b/w and arithmetic throughput between CPU and GPU is only 5-10x (for fp32, Pascal fp16 is a different story of course), and proper implementations on the CPU will get you there.

https://github.com/Maratyszcza/NNPACK
I went back and read this again and the effect of these sort of changes compounded over time could actually save the world. It wasn't just a click bait headline. :-)
Love it. So we today have "A.I." and hopefully someday we may finally get A.A.I.

So what happened to Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence? Not sexy enough?
We don't marvel over the ATM reading a handwritten paper check correctly. That's a considerable achievement.
>The C major scale is universally agreed to be the simplest, most basic scale

No, it's not. There is no such thing as a "simplest, most basic scale." That depends entirely on your arbitrary choice of notation and conventions.
For my website I have a custom python script, and I use RestructuredText for markup. If I started now, I would replace the script with a set of Makefiles... or better use any existing generator.
Haha. I did this with kung fu styles, wrote a little script that chooses a name, theme, and logo description. It'd be funny to see one for static site generators.
Yeah, I feel the same. Also commutes get a lot longer due to the infrastructure not being there and bikes being second class citizens. I try to commute by bike, but it feels longer and scarier than it should.
We talk about cases where subject article has sense. In such cases you can't 'just give it a name', because read the article first please. Every instrument has its uses, I'm talking about that we miss it, not about what mess could be done by abusing it. Mess can be done in any language, in any editor/IDE.
First I ever heard of anyone alive at the same time as me being famous for being a wob!
Let's say there is a God, or a higher being running a simulation, it would then be completely rational at that point to then think that they could do highly improbable things (it's their simulation after all). Furthermore, with the story of Jesus turning water into wine as an example: Jesus claimed to be God, so its completely rational for us to believe that he could do something so trivial. If he couldn't do something like that, well then it would be obvious he was just a man.
Just that they're neither atheists or theists. I.e. you're not really a theist unless you believe in an anthropomorphic god, just believing in an abstract conception of god isn't enough. And similarly you're not really an atheist unless you wouldn't believe in god even if you saw him, a position which even Richard Dawkins admits is untenable.
What information people most fear being hacked
South-pointing chariot
> Counter-productive is an empirical question, but why is forcing treatment always unethical?

Ask most people who were diagnosed as mentally ill by east-german authorities before 1990.

Trust me, however nice they are today, you don't want an authority, a committee, or even "community standards" enforce any medical treatment on someone.

> ...for example. Do we need to wait for manslaughter charges before the government is responsible?

You need offenses to put charges forward. That's how justice works. You just don't jail people for things you suspect they will do.
I've restarted my music brain after 30+ years. Two resources I found valuable are:

http://andrewduncan.net/cmt/

http://oyc.yale.edu/music/musi-112
anarcho-capitalists are trump supporters?
What proposed Rule 41 changes mean for your privacy
Intelligence is the ability for and speed of processing new information, at least as it's measured by metrics like IQ.

Sometimes AI/ML is directly modeled after human/animal thinking (decision trees, neural networks, reinforcement learning) and sometimes it's not (Bayes' theorem, regression, general stats). What constitutes intelligence still boils down to being able to correctly and quickly process new incoming information based on prior information. I believe it definitely qualifies.
As someone self-teaching themselves piano, this is really fantastic. I already play drums but have no notion of what notes are what on a staff and piano keys and have been slowly teaching myself. The MIDI keyboard support really makes this stand out.
I liked the media manipulation part.
Yes, "signs of intelligence" include creativity, pedagogy, ..., and of course, getting bitten by the bug of existential angst.

Accept no subsititute.
> obviously they believe there's a reason to do so

Habit is a reason. So is social conformity.

A lot of people don't think it's worth upsetting their closest loved ones and family just to make a strong point about their personal beliefs.

I personally have said grace when eating hosts who did, simply because I felt it was the polite thing to do. Doesn't make me religious though, and I don't think they would've been much bothered by the fact that I hadn't yet truly accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior.
Finding balance in developing your software
Syndicate: a language for interactive programs
There are many cloud-based (DO/AWS/GAE) small-ish servers available for $60/yr or less.

How do you manage the large price gradient jump from free to $1200/yr?
Most of what we call 'AI' today is just fancy regression methods. No need to be so grandiose.
There are literally tens of millions of people in Asia who commute on scooters every day who have no problem stopping at a red light and balancing their scooter.
Music theory can't explain why a piece is designed in some way; it explains what patterns can be found within an existing piece. Designing any aesthetic is primarily about how patterns are prioritized, associated to other parts of culture and turned into conventional tropes or motives. As we get new genres of music the pattern languages tend to change. (The idea of music as "universal language" is only true in a basic sense of what things our ears and brains can comprehend and how we would perceive them in an ungrounded state. In the details, cultural differences will definitely matter.)

So, music theory "catches up" to the pattern language by associating it to human natural language, but it doesn't say why. I concur with the "music appreciation" recommendation for learning the whys. When you get deep into analysis of a work, all sorts of angles can be found to correlate "the thing in the work" with "the reason and context of its creation". For one song, maybe it's the lyrical content that is important. For another, it's about rhythm, or dynamics. The artist's life at that moment, sociopolitical context, and newly available technology are often considered as factors. In a complete work, these elements blend such that it can't be reduced to a singular "this word or phrase is definitely all this thing is" - analysis highlights parts of an experience that can't be fully conveyed in a different form, rather than trying to "spoil" or "solve" its mysteries.
Gewilo: Game not in paddle.
Game in you.
You cannot change
what is past.

Feng: Less talkie-talkie, more ping-pong.

(Balls of Fury, 2007) :)
I'm reasonably certain you've mixed up stereotypes. The staunchest defenders of the free market are keeping busy retreating back to the Democratic Party because it serves their interests more than the Republican Party does. They did the reverse in the 80s (hence "neoconservative") for the same reasons.
Oh that's a good point, I had just autocapitalized "Free Market™" (and tacked on that ™ symbol) in my brain reading the comment. I forgot that the words have actual meaning too. Yeah probably those guys are mostly holding their nose and backing Gary Johnson. :)
I was surprised (and pleased) to see Apple add "rename" to the file menu in Finder for El Capitan. Coming from Windows, I found the "click on a file to rename it" very unintuitive. Evidently a lot of other people did, too.

Now if they'd make it so Finder always opens a window if you select Finder and a window isn't open ...
Output - the optimization of behavior. Though we're doing pretty well in that regard too...
Just stumbled upon a good video recap of the same story, which includes the prototype death animation test mentioned in the story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbxyqeIylHE&t=59s
It's illegal to use Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 on a plane, says FAA
Somewhere around 4.9 or 5.x is when I think it was best. They'd added library functionality for movies, TV, and audiobooks, which meant it was a one-stop shop for my media library on my Mac at the time. It was also still fairly lightweight, because it didn't have loads of stuff tacked on to it yet.

Really, the biggest thing I miss from iTunes, as a Google Play user, are the Smart Playlists. I loved being able to pull in every song I had from a set of artists and then shuffle through that. The "radio" features from Google just doesn't do it for me. I rarely want to listen to a bunch of music that's not in my library but which is similar to something I do have there. I'd much rather self-curate what I'm listening to. But I don't think the demand is there for that as much, now. I still wish they'd at least remove the 1000 song cap on playlists, so I could manually do this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
8,300 Euros for the model you linked to. Anything in the $500 range?
"Nationalist slur" Oh please, take a look at Spain's economy and tell me that their 2 hour siesta (it means nap in English btw) is doing anything to help their happiness or quality of life. My point is you work hard to maintain your happiness and it's not given to you freely by some government policy.
When you have CHP officers getting paid $110,000 a year, it's no wonder.

http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=highway+...
I agree with all three of your caveats. But I want to emphasise and re-phrase #1

Premature abstraction is as bad as premature optimisation.

In fact their effect on the code base is rather similar: complexity and obscurity in the name of some theory about a future benefit.
Please read the part of the article starting with "The twelfth root of two may be irrational, but it turns out to almost create several nice ratios". The author excludes minor third from the set of "nice ratios". I referred to this while calling it a voodoo.
I agree w/ you about moving up a gradient quickly w/ the "GPU manufacturing <-> deep learning research" feedback loop. I think it could last a while though. One really important area of research is figuring out how to take better advantage of greater capacity. Also, how to do more with fewer training samples (0 shot, 1 shot, etc learning). Then there's reducing the precision of the units you're using to increase capacity through software. Applying these algos to video, audio, media generation, and others will eat up all the resources you can throw at it; the algos today could take advantage of larger capacity when applied to time-series. There's so much going on that I don't see it slowing down for at least 3-5 years.

Also, I'd like to point out that we've seen some big breakthroughs in the past 10 years. But for the past 10 years, the whole field of deep learning has been looked at with skepticism and has been very niche. Over the past couple of years, a lot of money and resources have been put in place to pursue this area of research. More money doesn't necessarily mean more results, but there are many many more people working on these problems than ever before. A lot of them are legitimately brilliant researchers in the prime of their careers. I think there's still more to see.

I am concerned about an Nvidia monopoly around deep learning hardware. They give away tons of free cards to deep learning research groups, but at some point they'll want people to start buying. I assume they expect that will be the enterprise set, but if suddenly they manage to move all their capable deep learning cards to Teslas only (which have a huge markup), it will put the hobbyist deep learning developer at a big disadvantage. The only check and balance on that is the fact that Nvidia makes cards for gamers too, and gaming card competition is still somewhat robust, so any technology that gives enterprise a big boost will probably make its way to their flagship gaming cards quickly. Nvidia's only real competition, AMD, is so far behind that they might as well not be in the business. As someone who usually roots for the underdog, it pains me to see AMD fumble so badly in this whole area.

Quantum computing could be a new hill, but I think that's a ways out and I don't know enough about the topic to speak with any real confidence.
Not very. http://www.cknw.com/2016/08/17/quebec-immigrant-investor-pro...
> we'll have to invent a new word to describe the Abrahamic religions

Why not just use 'Abrahmic religions' then?

The fact that we apply the term religion to Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, etc. means that the conventional definition of the word does not coincide with those qualities of Abrahmic faiths that you described.
> how much easier it is to go from idea to prototype to production to profit in the US compared to just about every other country on the planet

Is that true? I honestly don't know, but my intuition is that it's true for a certain subset of projects and not others. Even if it is true, is the origin of that truth "working harder"? I sincerely doubt that. If I had to guess, the availability of capital is the leading cause. And that capital came from somewhere, but it wasn't all hard work.
1. Availability and accessibility of large amounts of training data. Without this training and validation is expensive if not impossible. Now if you don't have the data you can acquire it yourself. Leading to ...

2. Computational speed & storage upgrades. This applies largely to physical, time-critical things like automated driving. The self-driving car could have had all the data it needed in 1980 to do its thing, but required fast computers and lots of data storage to do it safely in real time in a feasible commercial product.

3. Advancement of algorithms. Fervor and excitement around AI/ML has been on a slow but perhaps exponential burn. This has led to the refinement of algorithms that largely sat dormant from the late 80s (and earlier) until fairly recently. This also means lots of open source libraries for people who wish to implement without caring about the underlying mechanisms behind the algorithms.

These things are leading more people to dabble recreationally and commercially.
...or even "kids who should know better".
Lektor is based on a flat file ORM so you can structure your data as you like.
Are the staff that are hired away from the restaurants better off in a substantial way to off set the damage done to the restaurant owners and non-tech industry people. Yes, I do think it is an ethnical issue even though the market's involved. :-)
In certain countries, society had the clarity to recognize that people who did not believe in the superiority of communism were mentally ill.
> want to eject a disk? drag it to the trash can...?

That was just something that was there forever, basically since 1984. It was part of the Macintosh vernacular. You could also right-click to eject.
That works, and would be an improvement, so long as your rhythms are based on constant integer subdivisions.

It's possible (and fun) to play music where the rhythmic structure changes smoothly and continuously. But it's bloody impossible to notate and very difficult to orally communicate, so music cultures that depend on notation or oral communication have left this territory largely unexplored.

The handful of classical composers that have attempted this (Steve Reich, Brian Current, etc) have either abandoned western notation (Reich) or hacked on their own bespoke glyphs with their own situation-specific explanations (Current).

Electronic musicians can easily explore this space by writing their own software (Autechre, your humble author, etc). When your musicians are mechanical, you can explore all sorts of otherwise impractical permutations of theory.

Most delightful, though, are the non-western cultures that communicate musical ideas entirely without written notation or spoken language, and instead communicate musical ideas through play (Indonesian Gamelan, Australian Aborigines, etc). You get the ineffable human qualities that make music most beautiful, and the freedom to explore structural spaces that are difficult to capture with discrete/unitized/quantized notation and language.
Well, if you ever end up working with a company for which someone created a responsive email footer, I hope your missing their email is not a big deal.
cause if you have the date 19/09/2016 whats the point of setting the day of the week? so do you wanna set the date to be Thursday but still keep the 19/09/2016 that wouldnt make any sense, cause 19/09/2016 is Monday, and in all cases must be Monday.
I really love JSbin (thank you Remy), I'll need to give this one a try! :D
Once we get off printed paper, computerized notes should solve much of the inertia. problem

Displaying a song in whatever notation the musician/reader prefers should be as simple as setting a preference on your hyperPad.

That still leaves the difficult task of figuring out better notations, but it can be done incrementally. You don't need to convert the whole world or the entire notation at once.
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On c): recharge cycles are limited, as are Amper-hours. Idk though how much it takes, I just don't like blurs, it is like you're semi-blind or your screen is damaged, sort of. But flat interface would be too ugly without all that color blots. It is like a makeup to actually bad ui. Shame on Apple they lost it at iOS 7.
Many years ago when I was a pre-teen, I was up late reading when I heard someone walking on the roof of our house. I will never forget that moment, because I was just sitting at my desk, when suddenly I heard heavy footsteps across our roof. I quickly woke up my dad, who called the police. To make a long story short, the intruder was not found - but I buried deep into my subconscious that it was due to my actions (namely, being awake) that saved us all. Thus began my never-ending trial with insomnia. I started staying up late, because I feared another intruder. Watching movies like “When A Stranger Calls” (the original version with Carol Kane) did not help.

Later, when I entered college I discovered that I was a serial procrastinator. Nothing really seemed that urgent unless it was the night before the due date. Combined with the advent of the web, my circadian rhythm was forever altered. If I was not burning through the midnight oil for a deadline, I was browsing around in some forum or downloading songs through Napster.

Next came the long-awaited moment of getting my first apartment. This was pure heaven. I could stay up as late as I wanted, without disturbing anyone.

Now, I am in my mid-thirties, and I am unable to go to sleep without 10mg of Ambien. If I could tolerate the taste of alcohol, I would probably be an alcoholic. I truly envy those who can fall asleep within 10 minutes.
Did you reach out to Nvidia? It seems like they should be willing to help with putting out tested/documented bindings for more languagues.

Also, where in the repo is your wrapper? (I don't have enough knowledge to debug s.t. like that, just curious how they work)
I think you can take the code and train it on whatever corpus you like.
An impartial jury would be bound to rule him guilty, because he did break a law.

It doesn't mean that he's not a hero, though, because many people didn't even know it was the law until he did. And that it is a bad law.

But no, he doesn't have an obligation to suffer to prove that he had a point.
> unlike PO boxes, which are invalid for use in circumstances that require a street address

If you, heaven forbid, ever become homeless:

If anybody ever insists that you provide a 'real address', lie. List your PO address as "123 Street Name, Apt #PONUMBER".

Nobody will ever be assed enough to check that it's not a real apartment. Nobody.
This seems way more extreme than the general problem. I live in a city that does not have any problem supporting a variety of great restaurants from low to high end. It sounds to me like possibly the people who are being hired away from the tech companies are benefiting. I think it's still an ethical issue as this situation is obviously hurting restaurant owners and people who don't have the money for the super high end. That's a shame.
The license is not a problem (in the Netherlands)if you already have your drivers license for a car. You simply already have it for the moped type vehicles.
Who's "dismounting" their bike when they stop...it's leg down or just trackstand.
You're probably outside the 95th percentile on that one, though, and good design targets the rest of the user base. I think most people probably just got annoyed by accidentally hitting those, or by them taking up real-estate or cluttering the view.
Hugo supports rst, for what it's worth. There's still time to make the jump :)
Dude, if you can't hear it, it doesn't matter. You'll never listen to Coletrane's "Night Train" and have your head explode when you realize he's jumping from Dorian to Mixolodian to whatever the fuck was that!?
Ready access to high-quality usecases and training data, along with shared knowledge of the methods that work well on these helps: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions?sortBy=numberOfTeams&gro...

(disclaimer: I work at Kaggle)
Music theory describes music.

Your questions are very interesting, but theories answering them would describe humans.