skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure what it's called in English, but there's perfect/absolute hearing, in which a person somehow knows the actual frequency of a note.

I know a couple musicians that have it, one of them lost it in an accident, both studied a lot, and most musicians I know, including some of the most successful ones, don't have this.

It's a good point, but empirically not verifiable, musicians train to identify intervals (Even the ones with perfect hearing), and in a similar discussion in class when I studied for a music degree, the only things the class disagreed were the impact of perfect hearing in the likelihood of becoming a musician, and that there may be some innate ability to maintain rhythm. On everything else we were unanimous in believing there is no such thing as talent.

Now you're free to believe differently, still, people that you think have "talent" will mostly be offended and feel that their hard work is not being recognized. Phelps isn't amazing BECAUSE of his body. His body is just a very small part of what makes him awesome, and though maybe a bit less awesome, he could still be awesome with a different body.
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I have been trying to get that service off the ground. I got the low cost 3d scanning and rendering down. Just don't have the space or funds to actually build up the library.
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Anecdotal counterpoint to that is a restaurant switching to no-tip policy but then seeing its formerly tippable workers flee for a tip environment http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/19/pf/no-tipping-reversed-bar-a...

Even though the former model offers stability and fair pricing, there are some outperformers in the tipping world which must take pride in their customer service skills. If no-tip and tip business coexist in the same industry, the adverse selection bias kicks in and the no-tip business gets stuck with average employees at best.
I once worked in a room full of graphic designers - which was pretty educational - and quite often their process for this was simply: (1) spend some time searching for images that evoke the feelings you're going for, and then (2) pick out a palette of colors from the images you've collected.
RGB and HSL are related, but I wouldn't say HSL is based on RGB.

From a design point-of-view RGB actually has some problems, as it is difficult to manipulate in a reliable manner. However, from a data point-of-view if is useful because it can scale up or down depending on how much room you have to store information. Also, it relates to the way TV and many video standards transmit information.

In HSL, you have saturation and brighness, which can scale nicely depending on how much information you have, but hue is a a position on a circle, which is a different type of measurement.

Also, how exactly is lab color useful in web programming? How do you support it in CSS or HTML?
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There's in app-tipping in lyft. The driver doesn't know whether you've tipped them or not when they rate their experience with you. Moreover, it's relatively difficult for the driver to disentangle who tipped them what from their daily report at the end of the day[0]. So you really can pay based on what your judgement of their service level is.

[0] I did once got into a very friendly chat with the "owner of the world's second tallest yacht" (checked it on wikipedia; totally legit) and was memorable enough that I was curious if he tipped. He didn't.
I agree with your sentiment, but it strikes me that there is safety and opportunity in behaving badly when the bulk of your peers are swept away in an orgy of debt fuelled spending.

Ten years ago I bought a small flat in London to live in. I paid a respectable deposit and didn't over-leverage. We were at the end of decade long property boom, there were huge concerns about the level of borrowing and ability to repay, predictions of mass repossessions if the BoE raised rates by even a quarter percent, the BoE would regularly "jaw-bone" the fact that the rate must rise[1].

The bank wanted to lend me 5x the amount I borrowed. I could have bought an entire 3 bedroom house rather than just a 1 bed flat situated in the same property. I borrowed within my bounds, priced the debt relative to an upward BoE rate, played it sensible.

What a missed opportunity! In retrospect I should have taken all the cash the bank wanted to throw at me and bought the whole house. I would have been able to manage the repayments fine, and financially I would be light-years ahead of where I am now.

All because the government will literally burn anyone to keep those vested in the housing market safe (particularly I reference the U.K/NZ/AU, I assume the U.S.A is similar).

Behave badly in droves and the government will never raise that BoE rate. They will burn savers, they will continue to inflate the housing bubble, they will set fire to the hopes of anyone under the age of 30 buying a house to live in. Literally anything to save the retirement nest-egg of a generation of baby-boomers, aided and abetted by a generation of baby-boomer politicians.

Only external factors will bring an end. In the U.K that may be Brexit (as external as that is), in AU that may be Chinese capital controls.

Until those external factors are applied you're fine misbehaving. For me, behaving respectably was a mistake.

[1] The rate today is 0.25%, an all-time historic low. The rate when I bought was 0.5%, at the time an all-time historic low.

Saving in the U.K the last decade? Sucks to be you: https://qz.com/750443/the-bank-of-england-just-cut-interest-...
Agreed; 15% here in Canada is considered normal/polite/nice, but I also believe our wages for service workers are higher. The USA "$2.13/hour for tipped worker" feels like both business AND government forcing you to pay employee wages...

Canada minimum wage:
https://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/es/pubs/guide/minwage.p...

Liquor Servers Minimum Wage $9.90/hour
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I get this when returning to the Midwest from California...
In my limited experience with no tipping cultures (China), quality of service is actually better on average than in the US/Canada.
What contributed the most to kill their business is that now Google displays lyric results inline. Your are in great risk if Google can just replace your business by displaying it inline when people are searching.
am i the only one to read "beautiful react"
Tipping culture is actually one factor which makes it unattractive for me to travel in the US. Too much mental costs.
when cafe regulations get cut tesla cant even sell carbon credits lol
Have you tried smartgit?
No, but you could look at the Gov site

"OCC Issues Draft Licensing Manual Supplement for Evaluating Charter Applications From Financial Technology Companies, Will Accept Comments Through April 14"

https://www.occ.treas.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2017/...
They had a few things, but not a complete system like they did for lyrics:

An example: https://genius.com/Barack-obama-state-of-the-union-2016-anno...
One other possible difference is that, at least for a time, the subject matter itself was getting easier to learn. For instance the inventors of programming languages have tried to figure out what makes a language good for teaching. (I studied Pascal, which originated as a teaching language).

For electronic components, "easy to learn" meant things like designing op amps and logic chips that behaved more like their textbook symbolic representations without weird tricks and pitfalls.

In contrast, you can't change electromagnetics just because you want something that's easier to learn. Nature won't approve. Progress has been made towards explaining it better, for instance, today's notation is simpler than what Maxwell had to grapple with. But such progress comes slowly.
I view debt as gambling against future prosperity. It's a faustian deal you make with yourself to steal your own future earnings to use today. What a bittersweet deal (most of the time)
The only problem here is that this would limit the usefulness of the service. The most likely end game for this feature is that most downtown areas have a bunch of drivers fenced in, and nobody can find a ride to or from those areas. There are a ton of people in suburbs that would like to not drive into or out of the downtown in my area, and we use services like Uber/Lyft to avoid this. If the drivers in our area confined themselves to just near the downtown, we would have to drive there either way, and so the service becomes useless to us.

If the service instead allowed drivers to designate a "home zone" where the base price is payed, and then trips to successive neighboring zones have a multiplier applied, this would probably work better.
"completely unavailable from plants"

True but highly misleading. Even a vegan will have some amount of creatine because this molecule is produced by the liver and kidney.

Also the effects of creatine aren't that well studied:
http://www.webmd.com/men/creatine

I don't know why I joined this discussion. I am neither vegan nor an athlete.
Is this normal? I never tip for takeout..
I don't think "subsidizing profit" is an effect of the tipping system; what the restaurant gains in lower wages, it loses in higher effective food prices.

In fact, I think, ignoring the tax evasion effect, the tipping system reduces profitability, because it scares away business by that "compensate-for-unpredictability" tax, which takes from what could be restaurant revenue.
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I think the time is ripe for TESLA to launch into India, a manufacturing plant. Modi govt is keen to ratify the Paris accord and raise the clean energy initiatives. On another side, it would help TESLA brand if they first launch a high end car in India and later market the mass market car as a better luxury car, they'll earn an awfully large income on this.
yeah they had a bit of a problem with this when lyft's original surge pricing was billed as a 'mandatory tip'. But they corrected it by eliminating the word 'tip' from primetime when the started taking a cut from it. There was about a two week period when they were not in compliance with the laws on the matter despite that I emailed them in advance of change warning them this was going to be a problem.
> I con­cede that the thump­ing noise is bet­ter for you with a paper­back. But oth­er­wise, the web-based book is bet­ter for every­one.

The author's style seems to be very opinionated and blunt, and I appreciate that, but a web-based book is not better for me.

The reasons listed are great examples of the benefits of web-based books, but I do not find web-based books readable.

I read the FAQ, and I get it: he's not releasing a paper version. Ever. I may power through it on a screen, someday, if it is well-received.
Thanks! Love finding stuff like this on HN
Because then you look more expensive compared to the pre-tip prices of other restaurants. As long as businesses can get away with posting prices that are less than what people actually have to pay, this silliness will continue.
Then make it a part of the price!
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have you used toptal before?
"As general financial advice"

Bordain is being very specific. This is about personal debt and being risk adverse, "I am fanatical about not owing anybody any money. I hate it. I don’t want to carry a balance, ever." The whole article is explaining his prior life as working chef.

Notice he has a lone but tries to avoid risky debt?
> There is universal agreement about tipping at restaurants. Tips of 15% (or 20%?) are definitely customary, expected, priced-in. People who don't leave tips after experiencing decent service are definitely not paying their fair share.

Is this a joke? Not only is it not universal, it's not even customary. The agreement you have with the restaurant is this: you sit down, are served, eat food, and pay. Baseline service is free, that's what you're paying the restaurant for. If the person waiting on me has a problem with me not tipping, they're welcome to take their wage issue up with their employer. I can only say this as someone who supports fair wages for service industries though. I believe a lower minimum wage for restaurant/bar services is a problem. But absolutely under no circumstance will I provide a compulsory tip. It's not my job to pay the employees.

There is a secondary agreement you have with the waiting staff: if you go above and beyond your job description to provide excellent service, you may be rewarded as recognition. Even then, many countries believe that excellence to be part of the job, so tips are not accepted.

Tip if you're provided with above standard service, don't if you're not. What's hard about that?
Dumb question, but why not sell the asset to a newly formed corporation without the liability issues, then sell that corporation?
Out of hundreds of rides in SF I've never had a driver ask for a tip.
Its not directly the answer of the question but relevant. I believe unaddressed/overlooked problems are the greatest origin of a potential startups but not what we think an legitimate idea, actually is. For the 1st time every idea seems awesome, take time revisit after a few days, you will wonder that most of the sparks are gone by now. If it still looks promising start doing your research. This is another eliminator of an unique idea. Though it doesn't have to be unique. But you should bring your own flavor into it.
Yeah, this is the problem when an establishment bucks the local trend and becomes a "no-tip restaurant" exception.

Go to a country where hospitality staff are paid a 'fair' amount and customers aren't expected to tip and this problem goes away.
> Nobody likes paying high taxes, but I don’t mind.

How refreshing.

I agree with him.

Paying my taxes is a point of pride for me. It's a repayment for all those years I was poor and the government paid for me to live and go to school.
what kind of problems are you facing with hiring?
Going into debt to vacation in the Caribbean (which is what he did) is not the same as using it to say start a business or get an education.
My language is a bit loose, of course the BoE is independent and controls the rate.

But the government sets the BoE remit to use the rate to keep inflation within acceptable bounds, and Gordon Brown decided to move from RPI (which includes some measure of mortgage payments) to CPI (which doesn't).

It does seem madness that we would control monetary supply without consideration of inflation in the largest asset group that lose monetary policy impacts (actual house prices, not just mortgage payments), but then I'm no economist so what do I know.
As a member of the Polymer team, I consider myself very familiar with Web Components. As a body of specs, they are not perfect, and are certainly worthy of critique. I firmly believe that an educated critique of Web Components by the community will result in a better platform for everyone.

What saddens me about the earlier "broken promise" article is that it falls into the same pit that similar, prominent critiques have fallen in to: the author does not fully understand the specs and has probably never made an earnest attempt to exercise the primitives so that he or she might better understand their true limitations. Rob's article demonstrates how much of the argument is at best misinformed and at worst disingenuous.

There are serious problems to be overcome. I wish critics would depart from their dogma and rally behind the web platform. However flawed it may be, the best way to improve it is for the community to come together and talk from an educated and positively motivated place about how to make it better.
One caveat to this kind of thinking is that money is fungible.

One can easily pay for a vacation or years of eating at nice restaurants every day all in cash, and also go into debt for an education.

Also, one individual taking out an auto loan and a loan from Sallie Mae isn't 1 good loan and 1 bad loan. You could've foregone the high-interest loan on the big depreciating asset and used the savings to fund the education instead of the loan from Sallie Mae. In that scenario both loans were probably a bad idea, regardless of the return the education nets you.

I think another key metric beyond interest rate and rate of return, is degree of necessity. That's harder to measure though.
It really isn't that hard, pretty much you always just tip a standard amount (average tip is 15-20%).
"Does it make the farmers' market unfree when it declares a rule that vendors may not purchase their wares (but must grow the produce/animals on a farm)?"

At my local farmer's market vendors are neither contractors nor employees. Vendors rent space and enter into a normal commercial contract, the rules for which are very different.

"it's a bit silly to hold the position that Uber can't regulate the service in any way"

I'm sorry I'm having trouble seeing your argument here through the huge straw man.
I had the exact same ideas for DropBox the last time this came up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11906573

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I wonder what features Dropbox can offer that won't inevitably be surpassed by Google Drive, iCloud Drive, and OneDrive.

To me, their main strength seems to be that they have the best cross-platform UI/UX right now, but even that may not be the case for long.

Maybe they could evolve/branch into a general-purpose file hosting service, where people can use it to publicly share images (like imgur) and music (like Soundcloud) with the appropriate UI for each case (or spinoff site, e.g. Imagebox and Musicbox) except people would just need one account to comment/vote on everything. Who knows, maybe they can even become an alternative to YouTube..

Let independent developers publish their games and apps from there, bypassing Steam and the other app stores, optionally charging a fee per user, with Dropbox taking a cut.

Maybe even offer a chatroom/messaging system, to compete with Slack/Skype etc.
I don't know. It looks non-functional and ugly to me.

https://i.imgur.com/DmPKqhM.png

This is in contrast to something like nytimes.com which is really well designed.
Yeah, you're probably right.

I wonder how much value the bean counters at Nvidia attributed to "having a useful software ecosystem" when weighed up against "shortsighted moneygrab for licensing dollars".

I'm guessing not much.
“HSL” is a trivial transformation of RGB. It’s what you get when you prop an RGB cube up on one corner, squish 6 of the other corners into the same plane, and then inflate it until it fills a cylinder shape. (Note that none of these steps make any reference to human perception.) Here’s my 2010 diagram showing that visually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hsl-and-hsv.svg

> Also, how exactly is lab color useful in web programming? How do you support it in CSS or HTML?

Implementing CIELAB in Javascript is straightforward. https://github.com/jrus/chromatist/blob/master/src/cielab.co...

You could alternately use a model like CIECAM02, but that gets a whole lot more complicated. https://github.com/jrus/chromatist/blob/master/src/ciecam.co...
An Internet with no net neutrality regulation means no one has a final say. An Internet with net neutrality regulation means the same people who enjoy slaughtering brown people will be in charge of the entire Internet.
The post above that one (the actual Uber driver) says that their hourly rate is about $8, not $0.

Nobody wakes up in the morning and says "today I'm going to drive for Uber literally for free." Of course not. Let's use a little common sense here.

Uber drivers expect, plan, hope to make money. The point is, they don't make much, and sometimes it's very little (like on a long fare).

So the question is, then why do they keep doing it? And I'm just suggesting that maybe a lot of them don't have a higher-paying alternative that they are dumbly choosing against.
http://rclone.org/ + amazon cloud drive?
I actually have an HTML version of the course, it comes with the purchase. This is because Gitbook can automatically output an HTML version. It's not the best, but it works.

I didn't do a free version because it's a premium product - if you want the "free version" of my stuff, you read my blog.

I did not consider physical printing.
Ask HN: Should I install Hadoop/Spark/IPython in Docker?
I have several machines that I want to quickly setup to have Spark and Jupyter Notebook. Is it a good practice to install everything with Docker or is there an alternative?
Where are you located? 15% for average service is definitely customary at sit-down restaurants in the United States.
RollCircle is too complicated. I already learned Wheel.js two years ago, and don't want to relearn the wheel.
And you probably run circles around a lot of people. If anybody said you were gifted it would be a lie, it's the result of dedication. I've never seen anyone say "I have talent", and I've been to music and computer science colleges. I've seen a lot of people saying that other people have talent though.

But my point is not that everyone faces the same hardships, is just that those hardships or lack thereof are not genetic but acquired, probably mostly during early childhood but I'm not a psychologist so I don't know.

I just think we shouldn't dismiss achievements as a result of just talent (or luck). Luck actually plays a role, as well as many other things (As I said, economic and social situations and a lot more).

We just need to be sceptical of linking stuff to genes, humans are not so simple. There are many other factors at play, and even if we can't change ourselves, we may be able to raise our kids better by considering these subtleties and their possible impact.

Plus those "geniuses" love when people acknowledge their hard work, try talking to them about it. I find the amount of effort some people put into their craft to be staggering.
What was everyone in Cambodia eating before the food with the pesticides on it?
As I understand this only works for E3/E4 variants. Not homozygous E4/E4.
There's a niche of people who want to know the backstory of the lyrics.

Especially for more symbol-liberal artists like Bowie.

And rap like Norf Norf.
This was just a quick hack and so I'm keeping everything in a redis instance rather than using a real DB. A consequence of this is there's no good way to keep keys consistent if I were to ever need to rebuild the index. I've honed the script pretty well that renders the quotations pretty well though and at this point, I don't think the data will change.

I should really change the wording (or remove this disclaimer) to indicate this is a pretty remote possibility. It's just in case I need to go rebuild the index or something, but you're right, I think it will dissuade people from using this.
Frequent Uber user on East Bay. No tip pressure felt on any of my rides.

I had a guy who implied that he'd like a positive rating. Only one out of many.

I realize that EB and SF drivers probably stick to their preferred areas. I'm not disputing your experience, only adding my own.
Indeed this problem goes away. A new one pops up though: mediocre service, such as having to ask many times for refilling the tap water bottle or get condiments, and struggling to get the waiter's attention in general.
Because not all jobs are remote, so local jobs make up for a considerable amount of the job pool. For this reason, it's easier to get another job at your current location, so that's the competition the employer is faced with. If you live in an expensive area they're not paying you more to help you, they're paying you more to be more competitive with other companies in your area.
Not sure if you're living in the US, but I do and I have the exact opposite viewpoint. The amount of waste, corruption and poor planning by the gov't makes me feel like I'm throwing money away. I'd rather give it a charity since then I'd know a majority of it had an impact.

I think if the gov't was a bit more efficient and could be shown to be good stewards of money I'd probably hate paying taxes a lot less.