skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot more details here: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/10/google...
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Looks great! One question:

"This is known as an Octave and is not considered a new note. An Octave is the same note with a higher pitch."

Why is this so? I guess I'm totally tone deaf since I get no understanding of the sameness of notes separated by one octave by listening to them. In the same vain the good sound/bad sound example that opens the harmony section sound both good to me.
Can you do metre? This is about as clear an example of 3/4 time (dactyls, in poetry) as you can get, I think:

RAINdrops on | ROSes and | WHISkers on | KITtens [beat] | BRIGHT copper | KETtles and | WARM woolen | MITtens [beat]

Fast syncopated 4/4 (trochees) is Johnny B. Goode:

(deep) | DOWN in LOUsi|ANa CLOSE to|NEW or [BEAT beat] |LEANS [beat BEAT] way | BACK up IN the | WOODS aMONG the | EVer [BEAT beat] | GREENS [beat BEAT] there | STOOD...

Okay, maybe not the best example. Other common times are just variations on those two.
> Feminism and feminists aren't the same thing...Capitalists on the other hand are generally viewed as greedy.

That is a false equivalence. Anyone who supports feminism, that is equal rights for women, are feminists, the noun. Capitalists, the noun, are not just people who support capitalism, they are in fact wealthy people who take advantage of capitalism.

Finally, the idea that MRA & feminism have equal historical provenance is laughable. MRA is largely attributable to the last 5 years & is plainly a recent reactionary movement.
Some thoughts from someone who knows music at a pretty high level and can play multiple instruments well. Hopefully these will help you avoid the very common scenario of buying an instrument, picking up a beginners book, playing for a month and then becoming bored of it and never touching it again:

1) Think about the music you enjoy listening to the most and what instruments are most prominent in it. That's the instrument you should choose. Like getting good at anything else, practicing music is hard and can be chore at times. You won't always have the inspiration to play. The best way to consistently practice and improve is to be learning song that you really want to be able to play.

2) Playing with others is absolutely essential. You will improve more jamming with others for an hour than you will in ten hours of practice on your own. You do need some amount of skill to do this, but not an awful lot. Once you have a little bit of confidence built up, look for others at a similar skill level to meet once a week or so and play together. You don't need to form a band or anything, but you just might find that you want to.

3) Music theory is nice to know, but not essential at first. It is very useful when writing music of your own and improvising with others, but there's a bunch to nail down first before not knowing it will hurt you at all. Learn basic notes and chords, then focus on picking songs you want to know and learn to play them well. While learning songs, think about what music theory you have learned and how it works within the song.

4) The truth is that becoming "good" will take a decade of dedicated work. But if it is something you truly enjoy then after a year or so you will be able to get to the point where it is both fun and very rewarding. So really do focus on your enjoyment of it. You don't have a parent requiring you to practice for an hour a day anymore, and you won't find immediate benefit from it at the start. Anything you can do to make it an enjoyable routine is very very important. I won't recommend specific books or methods because you fall into the same problem as telling someone how to learn programming. There are so many different options, but what's important is to find what you like the best.
If you're upset about the expected operation of a service based on open-source software (github.com/letsencrypt/boulder), then I'd strongly recommend reading the code before use. Additionally:

"I also expect that our Enigma Bridge Cloud HSM service (check our PKI product with hardware key security) can securely control storage and use of the account key to prevent thefts of the keys and their subsequent misuse."

Using this as a way to promote your product and not reading the code first is a serious failure of tradecraft on your part.
Japanese expats are also pretty surly but I think in their case it's because the reality eventually sinks in that Japanese people are always going to treat you like a tourist no matter how long you're there or how well you speak the language.
On the other hand, how do you deal with the for the for proving who the currency belongs to, for example in the case of death (and the person never shared their passwords/keys)?
It's very interesting that you say the biggest hurdle was regulatory capture, that is certainly depressing.

This leads me to another question that maybe you or someone else can answer, although I understand if you can't for various reasons. There seems to be a ton of very smart people working at Google and I can't imagine that they would go about trying to set up their own ISP without taking into account the huge pushback they would get from existing telcos, so I would imagine they had plans to deal with all of this. Did Google underestimate the amount of pushback they would receive, did they feel they could effectively lobby for changes which turned out to be unsuccessful? Or has something else changed in the proceeding years since Fiber originally rolled out that makes Google think it is no longer worth the fight?
Congratulations! :) What is the idea you are working on?
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So when will Google Fibre fix the embarrassing Starbucks WiFi at:

247 reviews$$$$
3605 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95051

It's slower than communicating with smoke-signals in a hurricane, or boxing up each bit and sending via the post.

Alphabet/Google needs to work on finishing an actual business that they start and scaling faster. Search, email, maps are mobile are pretty good, but the million other areas lack business drive, passion, hustle and focus, competing in areas with much deeper pockets (ATT+DirecTV+Time Warner+..., Verizon+AOL+Yahoo+XO+..., Level3, ...)
But phone operating systems are not.
On comfort, it's not going to be a robotic BMW that is used for autonomous traffic, it's going to be a robotic subcompact with fiberglass seats and can't be ruined by vomit. Think: carnival ride with a better seatbelts and airbags.
> If you refuse to come back and fix your mistakes, the customer might never hire you again.

That might be true as an independent consultant but not as an employee of a consulting firm. They'll be charging to fix their mistakes though.

There is also an often abused trap here where consultants or consulting companies can intentionally require regular maintenance to charge clients more.

>Isn't it quite common for a company to bring in consultants to clean up the mess made by their own employees or by the previous consultants?

Yes, but my experience has been that this makes things worse. Again, this might be different for a consultant that had a specialized niche than it is for a generic consulting firm.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12788683
Of note: async/await has shipped! This potentially huge for the Node ecosystem once it makes its way down to Node. No more callback hell, no more Babel, and this was the main blocker for frameworks like Koa 2 that make heavy use of promises.
Show HN: An Elastic Net Algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem
Leave it to PR department to take 50 words of bad news and obfuscate it into 450 positive-sounding words that barely deliver the real message.
CGAL is pretty cool.

It was tricky to get set up. I was trying to use it as part of a mostly Python utility, and there are SWIG bindings for it that should theoretically have worked, but they were a huge pain and half the core functionality wasn't implemented at all even in the basic 2D kernel. After trying in vain to add the functionality I needed to the SWIG bindings, eventually I just wrote the core algorithm entirely in C++ (despite having no real C++ experience) and called into it from Cython. The API uses enough templated code that it would be hard to get going if you don't have a solid background in C++ or a language with an advanced type system (Haskell in my case).

I didn't find it particularly difficult to get working with Homebrew. Given my scant knowledge of C++ build systems, I would have thought it would be a lot harder. If you are actually a C++ programmer I imagine it would be pretty straightforward.

I agree that the licensing limits its uses quite a bit. The truth is that almost anything you build is probably going to use the GPL'd components. The only things that are LGPL are basic math and the geometry kernels.
> If you want to build something that needs to be rock solid, lightning fast, and 100% accurate in all cases, use this library.

Ehhhh depends what bits of CGAL you are using. Their mesh booleans kind of suck.
I would almost always use Elixir these days, the advantages are just that good. I don't see anything python or ruby can give me in a server context that Elixir doesn't bring. If I need to go for speed or write a CLI tool, then I'd probably pick Go.

For frontend work, clojurescript. So Elixir+CLJS for almost all web-based apps (or, you know, react native).
It appears to be a "MacWrite II document" according to http://mark0.net/onlinetrid.aspx
Probably true, and I bet some third party will make a key outline adhesive strip so you can get at least a little physical feel if you want it.

I wonder if it'll have haptic feedback.
I know right? I left some lengthy comments in the more interesting stuff in earlier threads...upvotes but no responses. Thanks but I'd actually like to have this discussion.
Ask HN: What's the acceptance rate after YC interview?
We got an invite to an in-person interview with YC at mountain-view. do you know how many companies pass this stage usually?
25-30%
They probably mean the virtual one, which, if Apple is smart, will always be in the top left, so you'll know where it is in relation to tilde/backquote f.e.
Great list. I would add hooktheory:

6. https://www.hooktheory.com/hookpad (interactive composition tool)

7. https://www.hooktheory.com/theorytab (searchable database of chord progressions in popular songs, playable in abovementioned tool)

They also sell an interactive music theory primer, which I've not read, but everything else there is free (and amazing).
As far as I understand Kotlin is reliant on Java Standard Library and is dependent on Java infrastructure(maven, jvm, xml and friends), which makes no sense for me as an iOS developer and can only benefit Java developers as it was mentioned earlier.
thanks, any source?
Michael, the Ceo mentioned that in a youtube video i watched the other day. Sorry I can't remember which one it was.
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Yes. I just wish Dropbox had better plans for small orgs (like a family).
> More transistors were made in 2014 than in all the years prior to 2011.

That is an incredible bumper-sticker factoid.

Does that pace keep up, that in any given year N we're manufacturing as many transistors as year(0 .. N-4) combined?
Android App built with R Shiny
This is an Android app that uses the Webview function to serve an R Shiny app. The shiny app is hosted on shinyapps.io.
Here's more detail from my googling:

http://extensiblefuture.blogspot.com/2016/10/co2-in-atmosphe...
This is used by OpenSCAD for building meshes from boolean operations. It's awesome, but a bit slow if you do anything complex.
I love.love.love. this. I'll try this out for the entire month of November, I promise. I love trying out new productivity apps and software. I like how I can easily look back and see if I've been productive.

I really don't like some of the UI so I crafted my own Stylish css script to override yours, makes it look a bit more professional, currently it looks like it's for middle-schoolers. Sorry.

The following CSS code basically does this: Less kindergarten-buttons, more minimal out-of-the-way UI, smaller headers, more space for content, full width support now stretches and adjusts to browser width, removes rounded borders for non-clickable objects.

.Allocator__allocator___s0wBY .Allocator__heading___2pO2F .Allocator__pills___2v0H1 {border-radius:4px;}
.PlanBar__planBar___2ET1U {border-radius:0px;}
.PlanList__addButton___aSwx0 {border-radius:4px;}
.PlanBar__planBarSegment___2fD3q {padding-top:0px;}
.DayBar__bar___13rc2 {border-radius:0px;}
.MonthDay__addSubtract___2js9l{border-radius:4px;}
.Allocator__allocator___s0wBY .Allocator__heading___2pO2F .Allocator__pills___2v0H1 .Allocator__selected___3cu8c {background-color:yellowgreen}
.PlanList__addButton___aSwx0 {background-color:lightblue;}
.PlanList__planList___3U3vn .PlanList__bottom___1zgQS {height:auto;}
.PlanList__planList___3U3vn .PlanList__bottom___1zgQS {height:auto;}
.PlanList__addButton___aSwx0 {border-radius:0px;}
.PlanList__addButton___aSwx0 {padding:0; margin:0;}
.PlanEdit__button___2AMRT {border-radius:4px;}
.Allocator__allocator___s0wBY .Allocator__calendarContainer___3r2TT .Allocator__weekLabels___2OG5E .Allocator__weekdayLabel___uiapn {width:14.3%;}
.WeekDay__weekDay___90P4W {width:14.3%;}
.Allocator__weekdayLabel___uiapn {width:14.3%;}
.MonthDay__monthDay___156P4 {width:14.3%}
.Nav__nav___XdSZA {padding:0; padding-left:0;}
.Nav__nav___XdSZA .Nav__navItem___1iyJS {display:none;}
.Allocator__allocator___s0wBY .Allocator__heading___2pO2F {padding: 2px 5px;}
.Allocator__allocator___s0wBY .Allocator__calendarContainer___3r2TT .Allocator__weekLabels___2OG5E {width:100%;}
.Allocator__allocator___s0wBY .Allocator__calendarContainer___3r2TT .Allocator__calendar___-60yN {width:100%;}
.PlanList__planList___3U3vn .PlanList__header___S1Rpc {padding:3px 9px;}
.PlanList__planList___3U3vn ul {padding-top:43px;}
.PlanList__planItem___3d2Bx {padding-bottom:0; padding: 5px 10px 9px;}
.PlanList__planList___3U3vn .PlanList__header___S1Rpc {height:auto;}
.Allocator__allocator___s0wBY .Allocator__calendarContainer___3r2TT .Allocator__weekLabels___2OG5E { height: 35px;} .Allocator__weekdayLabel___uiapn {height: 36px; line-height: 36px;}
.MonthDay__monthDay___156P4 {height:17.6%;}

Elements that cannot be clicked should not have rounded corners. Buttons on the other hand should have slightly rounded corners.
My point is that it's subjective, and Doom simply happens to be the first monumental game of that sort so it is also the most popular one.
They exist. Cost me $15 at a local chemist (in Australia) to get an immunization for common stomach bugs in Southeast Asia/India). It also isn't impossible to buy antibiotics before you go and to take them with you.
CLI for Angular 2 applications based on the ember-cli project
Interesting, I was there Christmas time 2013 and all I saw was a happy street of people smoking water pipes:D

No prostitution found... but it's probably my radar was low or I wasn't their target customer.
TL;DR - humans are f'd*

*maybe, if not wise/able to constrain AI

Non-humans maybe (t/quad)rillionaires to eclipse us within our lifetimes because of the likelihood of runaway technological acceleration.

At the 1e9m systematic level, inorganic and hybrid sentient, self-replicating, self-improving systems seem an inevitable stage enabled by organic life.
“softWaves” will be the default theme for Debian 9
While I meant no "racism" my original comment, I did use the "rich white" adjectives. Race has nothing to do with it, my apologies, but classism still remains.

I remember when the last subway extension was completed in the late '80s (E/F extension into Queens). That truly did serve marginalized neighborhoods. Back then, the income disparity was far less.
Interesting. Would call where you grew sparely populated?

How about extremely sparsely populated.

>I don't know where you were

Massachusetts, South Florida, other places east of the Mississippi.
It certainly does sound like a riff on the "our incredible journey" format.
"patent pending algorithm" + "real-time military grade encryption" + misused "Zero knowledge" => smells like snake oil security.

Even more since it is not opensource.

If you need to quickly transfer files between hosts, maybe consider Piknik instead: https://github.com/jedisct1/piknik
Well…the Lexington line is at capacity, while there are a lot of outer borough feeder bus lines that lose money. (Maybe they should lose money since they feed main lines so the MTA might not lose money overall per passenger they service). If the center of the city isn't healthy the outer boroughs aren't going to be healthy either. You need to show the better investments elsewhere, instead of hand-waving about 'rich white neighborhoods.' (if I wanted to be hand-wavy I could say, 'where people pay taxes and don't trash the public investments in their neighborhoods')
>I often hear this sentiment that new languages and frameworks du jour pop up every week, and that past an age a fellow just wants to learn a single reliable stack and collect a weekly paycheck.

TFA clearly and repeatedly states the author learns new tools and frequently employs them for client work. The point of the article is that boring/mature stacks can offer a better ROI for in-house products.
Thanks for the link! I had tried running `file` on it, with no success ;)
I thought the weirdness of it added to the atmosphere.

The controls were clunky, though.
http://cdn.leanblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/IMG_0136-...
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Rejected: MedicareMTM.com

Customer: Walmart Health & Wellness

Founders: James Brown, M.D.; Andy Megna, RPh, PharmD; Will Brown, Esq.

IP: Patent pending business method to facilitate Medication Therapy Management in real-time. (e-scripts for MTM)
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I just figured it was worth a try. I didn't have to change the suffix, just selecting LibreOffice in my browser's "Open With" dialog seems to have worked fine.
I think his point is that there is a market for business collaboration tools since remote teams are becoming more common, but for all its technical merit, a large featureful interactive whiteboard doesn't really solve the problem -- and it's a very expensive way to not solve a problem.
I agree. Kind of. You get to choose the kind of problems you work on, and the way you break up your time. If you want to innovate on the infrastructure, if you find that interesting or if worth the gains for the kind of scenarios you work on then go for it. At the same time focusing on solving problems in the programming infrastructure, spinning cycles learning new techniques means you get less time actually solving problems in your actual problem domain. You don't need a $3000 carbon fiber road bike to get to your friends house down the street, no matter how many articles you read about how good that road bike is. I suppose the idea is use the most boring stack that can get the job done.
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Typescript is C# in spirit
At Infinite Food we sell food to regular people. Not one demographic of people mind you, people in general. We sometimes compete on convenience/availability, sometimes on choice, sometimes on sanitation, sometimes on novelty, sometimes on personalization, sometimes on familiarity. But the key thing we provide is hot, personalized meals: http://8-food.com/

I thought to myself "what is more addictive a product than big tobacco?". We all need food, and society is slowly changing with megatrends that make feeding yourself at home more of a hassle for quite a few of us (aging populations, people living solo or just with one partner, weird hours/urban living, commute fatigue, international travel, etc.). So ... why not try to automate a reasonable solution with fresh ingredients and mass-appeal? So far we haven't had problems getting people on board with the idea or menus, though some of our chef friends remain skeptical!
> "Here's a box, a wire, and a map of other customers' locations. Plug into their jack, and if you can convince others to plug into yours, we'll give you a discount on your monthly bill based on how many you sign up."

How would that break any laws? It's essentially doing a commercial mesh-net of sorts, like many are already doing in Europe and elsewhere.

If instead, they gave you a box and a map - and that box supported wifi - then a mesh network or something would be feasible. Wired could be done by running the wires along the fence or trenching inside the property line (neighbor to neighbor - if your neighbor is willing).

Otherwise, point-to-point mesh wifi (or maybe even free-space optical - like the Ronja system).

Not sure where any of that would be illegal as long as no other carrier's TOS was infringed or such...
Very interesting regarding CapEx and Google blindly writing checks. So it would appear that in addition to the regulatory hurdles Google also made some poor decisions in the rollout and signup process. Would Google have been better served targeting smaller cities that might have been more receptive to Fiber than the ones they ended up building in? Or is there not enough money to recoup costs in smaller cities?

Regarding utility pole access being handled at the Federal level, is there any lobbying campaign at the national level to rewrite the rules governing access to make the situation less skewed towards incumbent telcos? In my area here in LA county, it seems most utility poles are on public right-of-ways, I would think it would make a lot of sense to have those poles available for any company that wants to compete to offer services. Is there any meaningful reason this isn't done aside from cronyism on the part of the telcos?
To be fair, we're fucked if left to our own devices; maybe creating a new form of life wouldn't be the worst thing we could do on the way out.
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you are right, sentiment analysis algorithms look at a text as a bag of words (or n-grams where n is two or three), some of the tokens have been assigned some set score and the result score is a linear function based on the token counts;

Changes in usage would significantly alter the result over longer time periods.
> We live in the most peaceful time in human history.

While it might be true for you and me, it is not true for a large chunk of populace, There is constant war going on in various parts of the world. For example Africa and Middle East is experiencing constant war and loss of lives. Ignoring the civil conflicts, look at the list of countries invaded.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_invasions
And scala doesn't have {}, &&, || ?
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When we spend so much time resuming the details, it’s easy to forget them altogether.

"Resuming the details"? Should that be revising?
I use Twitter favorites a lot to save things that I want to read later (articles, posts, etc.) so I built this simple app to make this easier. Any feedback is appreciated! Thank you!
Of course if this makes flooring more compressible (how else would it work?) we're just stealing bits of energy from the people walking on it. Then again, many of us (myself included) eat too much and could use a little more energy expenditure!
Some things in Thailand never change.