skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
for 70's/80's rock its fairly melodic and the spectrogram for music is pretty distinct from commercials. But when I get some time I think I'll hook it up to some RNN code and 'train' it using a button.
You should read further. It goes on to say the rest:

It was a regime she took up as a young woman, after the doctor diagnosed her with anaemia shortly after World War One.
She had cut down to just two eggs a day, and a few biscuits recently.
Her doctor of 27 years, Carlo Bava, had told AFP news agency that she rarely ate vegetables or fruit.
"When I met her, she ate three eggs per day, two raw in the morning and then an omelette at noon, and chicken at dinner."

I did misquote the number of eggs, but not the fact that she had cut down on the amount she was eating.
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This is awesome! I am definitely going to read some Leibniz after this. Would you recommend his Monadology?

To say "only God can understand the future" is an unnecessary personification of our incompleteness.
I think the future of declarative functions is pretty clear.
Today foo(x) = 2x, tomorrow foo(x) = 2x. Anything we can't say is simply a dearth of information. How useful is it to say we've a dearth of "future information"?

Anyway, we give names to sets of propositions, and that's a neat trick.
I've had this conversation before (not with you, but re: this argument) and I think you're right, it's hard to make certain areas of biotech work without having the ability to recoup costs (today handled with a temporary monopoly on the product, keeping gross margins very high).

One answer is "if you abolish patents a lot of science research will have to come from privately or publicly funded research" but this is pretty extreme and would be a tectonic shift in the biotech industry.

I'm not advocating an extreme solution like abolishing patents. But I think the pendulum needs to shift very hard in the other direction re: patents in general. Like, how about not having one court in Texas decide it all? Or "you have to sell the product to keep the patent and you can't just pretend to sell it". Or you can't patent software unless there's a really really good reason (like recouping huge development losses)
>Kind of like how I may have a LEGO star destroyer, but I need to assemble it first.

Or more kind of like how when I push the button on my camera, I have an exposed negative, but I need to develop it first to get a picture.

Except, the act of pushing the camera button is called "taking a picture". So maybe the title is not as misleading as we're making it out to be.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14125260 and marked it off-topic.
I prefer using twitter instead of a mailing list. People opt in if they want, and opt out when they want. Everybody's happy.
Did you consider using Docker for the provisioning of Kafka?

A couple of days ago I remember reading how difficult was to deploy Oracle on Linux and how Docker made this a breeze. I wonder if Kafka would also fall onto the same premise.
If it's a US federal grant from SBIR for example, even when retaining title to the patent, the researcher must grant a nontransferable license to practice the invention to the federal government.
If the demand is "you should rewrite in X" from some random user I think it's a perfectly fine way to say "go away."

If there's some indication that the request is from someone qualified and willing to help, maybe you give it more consideration.
Interesting to use Slack chats for that. I have the feeling that in Europe WhatsApp groups are way more popular (and easier to use because the chance is high they already use WhatsApp).
How up to date is minix3?

http://wiki.minix3.org/doku.php?id=www:documentation:start
Yes, that's exactly what it is, and that's exactly the problem. This model teaches people to just "trust" that Chrome is right and it teaches people not to optimise.
A nice example of rewrite in X is the rewrite of 0install in OCaml from Python [0]. A very systematic approach, replacing code gradually. There are multiple posts on this and they were discussed here a few times.

[0] http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2014/06/06/python-to-ocaml-ret...
Had to laugh at the image. Yeah it's a market but probably not the juicy part of the market.
And BitTorrent.
Not really true, 1Gib/s link is able to saturate HDD speed (if we are still talking local) and as you probably want to make a clone either way you might as well do it over network.

4x1Gib/s or 10Gib/s are more and more popular and in general local network latency is lower than HDD latency (surprising, isn't it).

Sending over 1Gib/s network will be for sure faster than copying it on flash drive. Even if flash drive is able to do 128MiB/s speed, you have to first write it, swap machine, read it. Via network you do the write and read at the same time.
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Oh yes, please make my logins traceable for all eternity....
BTW looked at the performance of that SHE index being advertised[1]. 3.17% over the year - abysmal compared to SPY which it should be beating (11.9%) as both are large cap stock indexes. Looks like advertising the heck of of it the only hope here. (OK I know I year is not really a long term for a stock fund, but 1/4 of SPY performance is a fail IMHO)

[1] http://finance.yahoo.com/chart/SHE
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> Flattr, Brave, Webpass, the rebooted Medium

I can't imagine Facebook going up against those household names.
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The networks take away FANG's bite with live sports, which are about the only thing I care to watch anymore.
You can at least disable the DRM and still watch videos without it.
> "Do the simplest thing"

You have to do the simplest thing that could actually, possibly work!
That, and the bottom of the ocean!
Sounds like a BBS.
No, we don't have 'our biases' you're just plain wrong.

An operating system is everything needed to run a machine, a kernel is the foundation on top of which all that user space code runs.

So from a unix perspective everything in /usr/bin /bin /usr/local /etc, /boot and whatever other directories are there after you install makes up the operating system. Whatever you install after you get the base system up and running are applications, the programs we run on top of operating systems.

Now, the line can get a little blurry: is 'X' part of the operating system or not? Is your window manager, are the various built ins? Probably yes, but not always.

Is a text editor part of your OS? Probably not, but there is a good case to be made for the fact that without a text editor of any kind an operating system is fairly useless. But that doesn't make 'libreoffice' or 'sublime' part of your OS, those are applications.

For myself, I draw the line where a minimum base install stops, so everything up to and including window manager for a desktop machine (for a headless machine or server much less than that).

From a very technical perspective you could have an operating system that consists of just a kernel and one user space program, in that case the kernel really would be the entirety of the operating system. But that's a pretty rare case (though it can be done).

This is all written from a UNIX/Linux perspectie, for OS you might draw the lines a little different and for MS/Windows different still. But those basic principles apply.
I wonder how many people have also thought "You missed out Laplink cable.". (-:
The study referenced in this article hypothesizes gender pay gap exists because companies are willing to pay more to people who are willing to spend more hours at the office. (They looked at more careers than programming.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/upshot/the-pay-gap-is-bec...

On the one hand this seems fair, on the other hand, the escalating arms race to spend all your time at the office doesn't seem like a great way to live for the ordinary employee without some ownership stake. The careers with the most gender parity were the ones without excessive time in the office associated with success.

If the time spent in office theory is true, it also makes that theory about gathering all the employees of a certain class to start a company not relevant.
The alternative is to not use Facebook.
> For one (again in some views) it dilutes the power of art as a statement in itself.

Aestheticism has been used for nearly two centuries now to hustle artists out of their just rewards. However, like any "moral" framework, it works both ways and plenty of artists have used it to hustle wealthy patrons with dulcet dreams sculpted from lofty ideals.

It was all so much easier in the days of Michelangelo when artists expected to be paid like craftsmen. Reading his collected letters is a delight I can highly recommend.
> As if people from other countries are not equally strong and powerful

This argument is like saying loving your wife (or husband) is bad because it's as if other women (or men) are not equally beautiful and smart and attractive. I think this is just fishing for offense.
Related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14125090.
Sadly it's not working for me, seems to be off by half. The emulated mouse is always at x/2 y/2 compared to the real mouse pointer.
The donation link, to save everyone a search: https://archive.org/donate/
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>>I created this site because I bought the domain and I felt stupid about buying it and not using it. The site is kind of stupid but I hope something can come of it. Really. Join the conversation. If you dare :)
This is going to be the next Reddit
It's very interesting that you bought this domain. Too bad too spammy massages aren't shown.
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If god was all powerful, he could create a rock he himself could not lift.

If god was all knowing, he could create a cryptosystem he himself could not break.

God is a bad measure of physical properties. Some things are just unknown.
And what about a microkernel environment where device drivers, filesystems, etc. are in user space?
In most of the category theory posts on HN I've seen, there's at least one person asking ahead this stuff is useful for. This comment is about why I find it useful.

Why I learn this stuff: to more effectively change things about myself.

Category Theory is an abstract math of relationships. I use it to better understand how my mind and body work. How parts of me are related in the moment and/or across time. Understanding how things in me are related is essential to me dealing with PTSD & recovering from addiction, both of which can color every aspect of a person. Untangling them is insanely hard and has gotten much easier through CT.

I apply my programming intuition to my brain & body through CT. There exists a path from neuroanatomy to theoretical computer science that passes through category theory. I've been experimenting on myself for 6 months with the goal of changing my mind and body. I've been doing it by developing an intuition for category theory, developing an intuition for how neutral networks learn, adapting machine learning models with concepts from neuroscience and psychology, and mixing it all with my intuition for programming.

So far, I've:

• changed how I walk through a handful of sessions lasting a few minutes and no longer experience back pain I'd been seeing a chiropractor (saw him weekly for 3-4 months with little improvement, ending about 10 months people changing my gait)

• began learning how to identify and stop believing anxious thoughts

• accidentally started developing the ability to focus and direct my attention (way beyond anything I've ever experienced on my ADHD meds)

• accidentally stumbled on the Buddhist practice of deity visualization, which created a second conscious voice in my head. She helps me learn how to embody more than one new personality trait at a time easier than if I simply focused on being those things. It's weird/complicated, and I'm willing to go into more detail if people have questions.

Here are some of the few bits supporting my claims about neuroanatomy and category theory:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280219255_Conciliat...

One of the coauthors wrote the only book on the brain and category theory:

http://tierra.aslab.upm.es/documents/PhD/PhD-JGomez.pdf

If you understand a good bit of CT and would like to help me flesh out my framework, my contact info is in my profile.

I live in the Seattle area and would love to meet up with anyone interested.
"an unnecessary personification of our incompleteness."
Not unnecessary according to Leibniz. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monadology
The lesson of the BBC Domesday Project is that there's more to it than that with optical media.
(2014) should be in the title.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140719115200/http://mikeos.sou...

Maybe even (2011):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2100115
> Manually converting code from one format to another is the most boring, draining and soul-crushing work you can imagine.

It's not that bad. I've converted many programs from one language to another. For example, in the 1980s I converted the FutureNet DASH schematic editor from 16 bit x86 assembler to C (so it could be ported to other platforms). I converted my game Empire from BASIC to Fortran to PDP11 assembler to C. I've converted parts of Optlink from assembler to C. I've converted a lot of the DMD compiler from C++ to D.

The conversions I've done have all produced valuable results.

It's actually rather enjoyable work, but I like obsessive detail work.
> I say this as a Berkeley grad. University IP departments should be more like Stanford and less like Berkeley.

I disagree. And I think that anything funded with public grant money should be barred from being patented. If you want to patent it, you should have to fund it privately and take all the risk. If there is even a whiff of public money, you shouldn't get to patent it.

Look at how much patents retarded the 3D printing industry, for example. Those advances were very much funded by public money, and those patents basically made 3D printing economically infeasible until they expired. We could have had this revolution 30 years ago--that's a huge loss to us as a society.

The foundations of the computer industry rest upon the fact that many things escaped being patented because they came from Berkeley. While most people think of Unix, there was something possibly even more important--the circuit simulator SPICE.

The FORTRAN code for Spice2(g6?) became the foundation of the entire VLSI ecosystem that gave us the cheap chips that we all take for granted. It spawned an entire industry.

And Berkeley never wanted that to happen again. So they locked down the rewrite into C (Spice3(e2?)) and that code never went anywhere. And even 30 years on, it cost the NGSpice guys an enormous amount of duplicated work.
Sure, huge improvement here.

I suppose if they cut out the entire touchpad area to reduce the depth, and reshape the screen to size that would be the form-factor I'm looking for. Something between what they have done and the old PPC from HP: http://www.suddenlink.net/pages/curtismc/jornada.htm

Also I would very much prefer that there was no other software on the device. I have enough distractions as it is.

That said, I would probably still buy this if I could.
Link: http://stackoverflow.com/a/3692882
The changing audience isn't the biggest reason they're more popular. When people talk about 'stickiness' they're talking about using Dark Patterns of UI and/or using hyperbolic tone (formerly known as Yellow Journalism) to pander or incite, which makes you stick around long after you got the information you thought you came for.

Relatively wholesome sites like Wikipedia can't compete on numbers and hours of visitors because they limit themselves mostly to 'see also', and commentary is split onto another page so you have to choose to see it every time.
Is there a video or audio of this talk somewhere? Sounds fascinating.
I have to disagree. Rotary encoders and faders are the way to make smooth, gradual changes to various parameters by gut feel, which is more or less what a mixer is actually doing.

When money is no object, music is both mixed live and produced in the studio on enormous digital consoles which replicate their DSP parameters onto hundreds or thousands of tactile faders and rotary encoders.

The keyboard and mouse are a terrible way to mix. Fortunately small physical control surfaces can be had for not too much, though then you have the problem of matching your limited controls to the thousands of parameters in the DAW.
No.

Selling is what got us into this mess.
Imagine trying to keep the lights on, without those large-scale, price insensitive customers that pay 100x what the smaller customers pay, for approximately the same amount of hassle as any other individual customer.
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> The Bull isn't a public work of art.

By now it pretty much is, whatever the roots of it were. It has been accepted in the culture.

> I've seen art critics be pretty scathing about the Bull

I've seen art critics being scathing about everything. Literally. That's what they do. Name a work of art, and there are dozens of art critics being scathing about it. Too old, too new, too smart, too dump, to tacky, too conservative, too much meaning, too little meaning... take your pick.

> It's exactly the same context as the Girl

Well, now that we know the Girl is an ad for an (underperforming) index fund, I think the context is slightly different. But I agree that it's both deep and meaningful and reflects the zeitgeist.
I'm an older worker, and I say bring it on!
Yeah... we debated this a bit in some of our groups. But most of us already had Slack running for work at this point. Ultimately it's the same thing as ICQ / AIM / IRC / Skype / you name it... literally all the same functionality from our perspective. Came down to just "What can we use that we like and that doesn't require us to have to install / monitor another blinking light on our computers?"

People should use whatever they are most comfortable with.
Do you really think that Microsoft are unaware of the limburger that lurks within their codebase to allow subtee, image hijinx, and the rest? cpls and pifs were in windows 3.1!
plus the malware
I haven't used Facebook but I've seen the "Like" buttons all over the place? Is there no mechanism for negative feedback? If I post something ignorant and offensive is the only possible outcome positive feedback from Likes?
They're still part of the operating system.

What you are trying to get at is that everything in userspace is not part of the kernel and that is correct. But the kernel does not make a complete operating system.

This is also the reason why the whole GNU/Linux thing existed, without the userland that GNU provided the Linux kernel would have been pretty useless.
Most of those have relatively high value added from the conversion. Perl to Python is essentially meaningless as the languages have feature parity. Complaints like "remove all the global variables and add objects", given Perl actually has all the constructs necessary to remove those way less hours could be used just architecturally refactoring what's there for the same actual value. Something like homogenising dependencies project level are abstract wins its hard to both quantify and be motivated by. Going from assembly to C is hugely improving the situation of productivity.
Fantastic article (though not sure it belongs on Hacker News)! Makes me want to subscribe to The New Yorker. And wow, just look at the amazing descender on "Sayyid Qutb".
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I see. I'm coming from the other side. I do microcontroller and embedded development.

This post is basically Ancient Greek to me, as you put it.

I think I largely became curious since "these types of posts" tend to be highly ranked with relatively few comments, yet they still show up frequently.

I'm also surrounded by a large number of varying types of programmers and engineers, and I get to hear evangelizing and discussion of a wide array of technologies, but pure math type stuff like this never comes up. So combined that with the aforementioned observation and I become increasingly curious how these posts do well.
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>I'd argue that perl made TDD mainstream,

because wtf else are you going to do when you develop using lines like

next if (/^(#|$)/);

(totally 100% typical totally normal line - I found it by clicking the source for the very first CPAN module for a very common word - I knew I would find a typical line like that. I swear there was zero bias to this methodology).

I just use this example because it ends in what is line noise. I'm pretty sure it means "don't process this line (skip to the nexct one) if it's a line that either starts with a #, or is an empty line). But how do I really know what it does? By testing it, of course!

When good code is line noise, how else do you know that it works? Of course you're going to test it. :D

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EDIT: Downvoters aren't disagreeing with me. You can't downvote me just because you don't like the truth. Perl coders have a heavy culture of testing. It's the only way anyone writes Perl code - period. This is in contrast with C++ programmers, for example, who historically were more content to reason about their code. Historical fact - sorry.
But this can not be solved.

The only way to solve this is having a rich entity subsidize it.

And those can only be either companies trying to abuse your data for their own profit, corporate and noncorporate entities that try to do good (foundations, NGOs, etc), universities, or governments.

That's why I said what I said. The web can only work if we get rid of the corporations, or massively regulate them while subsidizing the independent projects.

That’s why the Prototype Fund exists https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12200777, why the German government has previously funded GPG, why the German government and the EU have funded work on KDE several times https://www.cnet.com/news/germany-funded-linux-software-arri..., why universities fund open source work often, etc.
3 months isn't that bad for something that is currently a meme since tastes move so rapidly it's likely the traffic will be home in a year. Ford most sites 1 year is around a good price but you're almost never going to get 3 traffic is just too unpredictable in most cases.
I believe every radio telescope has their own reference clock that lives at the site. The EHT team is not responsible for schlepping these clocks around. There are other reasons besides VLBI to have really good timing at the site—for example, pulsar timing.
I was expecting you to add: "Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it?"

https://youtu.be/JhhXCuUG2pw
Got it. Quora post is suspicious. That said windows is a lot of machine code. It is more than plausible. NSA is known to have an active relationship with Microsoft.

If 9/11 == inside job is say 2/10 plausible this Quora speculation like 7/10 plausible IMO.
I think you're making a bit of a weird comparison by comparing English to supposed languages that have mutually unintelligible dialects. Mutually unintelligible ways of speaking should be considered different languages, not dialects.

Of course, politics interferes with this. For example, saying that the many ways people speak in China are "dialects of Chinese" is the PRC government's view, but linguists say they're deluding themselves. Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Gan, Hokkien, and so on are different languages.

So here you should be comparing English to Mandarin Chinese, not to every language that gets called "Chinese". Mandarin has even less inflection and word variation than English. It's true that its writing system is a mess, though, and it's even messier that it's used to write other languages that don't have their own standardized written forms.