skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My theory is that they have a few people manually curate a list with good songs for a while to train an AI, but when they finally turn control over to the AI it falls on its face and starts adding shitty cover band music to the list.

A curated playlist (not discover weekly or release radar for example) is editorially curated and driven by a human. Doesn't involve an AI for now.
Eh, that seems like a much cooler idea implemented with untethered VR/AR lenses rather than screens everywhere. I don't like being on camera so it personally gives me the creeps.
It would be interesting to see if this is related to Japan's slightly bizarre real estate market. As I understand it, Japan has a culture that heavily emphasizes purchasing a newly built residence to live in for life. As such, the resale market for homes is limited.

Lots of NIMBYism is inspired by some level of home value protectionism. It's possible that if you don't expect to resell your home, you don't have to worry so much about protecting its value.
I use do not disturb mode between 11pm and 9am. If you're in my contacts list it'll ring (silent), otherwise you're going straight to voicemail. The concept of being woken up by phone a phone call (other than being actively on call for some reason) is crazy.
It's not just that... we like to ensure that folks can drive them fast! https://www.citylab.com/design/2014/10/why-12-foot-traffic-l...
Throwaway for anonymity, but the quickly growing startup that I work for is opening a Toronto office because it will help us retain existing talent, and recruit talent on an ongoing basis, particularly if immigration to the US becomes more challenging.
Infrastructure projects can be a lot more expensive than even non monetized software projects.
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How will you deal with fair-use?
Then how do you explain Tokyo? :)
Sms in Hangouts, personally.
> On 23 April 2013, the founder of ATSC, Jim McCormick, was convicted of three counts of fraud,[6] and was subsequently sentenced to ten years' imprisonment.[7]

Good.
Debugging Elisp Part 1: Earn your independence (2014)
does this apply to jsonb as well?
>It seems like other cities in other states would compete for high tech jobs aggressively enough to make companies willing to move to cheaper areas where they could pay their employees less and the employees have a better cost of living.

There are towns doing this, but it takes time.

http://custom.forbes.com/2015/12/03/charleston-s-c/
I live in the Chicago suburbs and work in the city and I'm a big fan of the suburbs (not a big city fan) and would recommend them. The weather sucks (cold winters, humid summers) but there is a lot of stuff to do.

As for tech, I'm a .NET developer and haven't had any issues getting work in the city. Chicago is also a great place to live if you want C++ work because of the financial markets as you have prop trading firms, HFT firms, clearing firms and exchanges all using C++. That same sector also uses .NET as well.
IIRC, the more sensible ones (at least a few in Europe) reported that "Powell said he had proof" of WMDs in Iraq. So yes, they reported on it, and no, not everyone publication about WMDs in Iraq is automatically fake news.
I switched to Apple Music after Google Play, and Groove (Microsoft Music), and it's most frictionless library I used so far :-) I just don't give a damn about polishing my playlists into oblivion, I just want some selection of music, put it on my phone, shuffle. Curated playlists from Apple are the best I've seen lately.
It generalizes to national security as well.

https://xkcd.com/898/
great solution to the the problem not exist
> If people like it, why shouldn't they have it?

It may become the norm that even though it's still optional, society moves in a direction where people have it on by default, and you are met with confused/dissapointed faces when you explain it is uncomfortable. Or it simply becomes a cultural norm in the professional world
Google bought YouTube after it was already hugely successful. I don't think it makes the best example here.
By clicking through some links on the article I found this:
http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-10-31/cpi-flame-graphs...

Now I wonder how easy and manual work it would be to do these combined flamegraphs with CPI/IPC information? My cursory search didn't find nary a mention after 2015... Perhaps this is still hard and complicated.

To me it seems really useful to know why a function takes so long to work (waiting or calculating) and not "merely" how long it takes. Even if the information is not perfectly reliable nor can't be measured without effect on execution.
Thank you. I too hate that word. Needs are always backed by wants. A man who wants to commit suicide doesn't need to breathe. A man who wants to sing at the opera needs to practice. Needs derive from wants.
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Also things like qualitative user testing, a/b testing would go into every single pixel of his design. I am not particularly sure if the most important separation of the music listening population is into hoarders vs nomads. You'd evaluate that, make a decision. Things might get muddled there.
I use "Sleep as Android". Absolute shit ton of features. The obsessive customiser in me loves these kinds of software; it's a pity that being able to customise your software like this is getting more and more uncommon.

Anyway I'm pretty sure you can do that in Sleep as Android. If I had a smartband I would.
Linux and Firefox. How come you ask?
We've been using this for the office hours, quite easy to jump in a session and it's getting better day by day.
In general, buy last year's Thinkpad with Intel graphics and wifi chips and you'll do OK. The absolute latest model will sometimes have driver issues, plus the cost/value ratio is better for a year-old model.
I feel like the "Who is hiring" is a poor indicator of tech in a city as it is small sample of developers that use HN.
I know and use Maps.me a lot, but it lacks the survey character which I specifically find intriguing in this app.
Also, there's http://www.pushpinosm.org/, but it will probably cease to function in iOS 11...
Getting someone to give you a job, what kind of job, is not the important thing.

In both finance, tech as well and every other field, if you can make money for other people, you can make money for yourself. Traders who can make money consistently always have options, they dont need worry about who can give them a job.
For a conclusion, it's very inconclusive. :)

"Crucially, we find that the nonlinearity of the problem leads to multiple local optima, so that very different optimal portfolios can exist simultaneously, and the global optimum
switches instantaneously between them as parameters change. This means that inside a critical region of parameter space a small change in one of the parameters can lead to a very significant change in the optimal portfolio."
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zenAud.io is designed for live use, so it currently doesn't have a piano roll -- instead, you define record loops using editing tools in the arrangement view and record MIDI or audio into it. You can also drag and drop to import standard MIDI files into the arrangement if you want to use pre-written stuff.

I realize this is a big limitation, but we intend to add a piano roll in the next few months.
Plastic-to-diesel plant set for Nova Scotia -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14307390
Genetic Algorithms starter kit for Swift
Yeah I don't understand the down-vote but people are afraid of the unknown, which is sad because there is a lot of good unknown out there.

The best formula I've figured out so far is actually something I'm bending my life toward(!) and that is creating alternative environments to prisons.

As someone wisely pointed out, the first question is "Are prisons for punishment, or for healing?" If they are for punishment, our society will suffer that price when people mingle minds with prisoners who are under punishment, and then try and re-integrate. This is why recidivism (rate of falling back into the prison machine) is really high in the US comparatively.

Consider if the prison system were meant to heal and help people re-integrate! You know, I was reading about French philosophy and very early on, like in the 1600s the French realized that if you have a death penalty, the incentive for an inmate to reform is gone. Meaning: death penalty equates to "do not change because there is no point" but a prison sentence that is not terminal / whole-life actually does give incentive to reform.

Yes, the economic system is unjust, but even worse we have people who are starving and dying in the cold because they have no money, and if they have no money we assume that they are not worth-y in the US. Very tragic.

Anyway, I don't want to harp on too much about things I would change, I am actively in the process of creating a foundation for such things, and I'd rather do than say, and be than dream.

I like your idea about getting shares -- it would be great if that is how we operated. Then you'd actually experience some of the wealth of the company over time. You help build this grape vine? Here, have some grapes in 6 months when it starts fruiting. Sure, more people join and maybe you only get 10 grapes next year since you left, or just one grape ten seasons from now, but it all adds up.

Money is good for many things, but the fact that it is a requirement to have basic survival taken care of is just deplorable.

"Who will pay for basic survival then?"

Well, nobody! This place is so abundant with resource, we throw away enough food to feed the homeless. We already have empty houses where people could live, it's just our human concepts and discriminations that block us on the daily.

If people did not have to fight for basic survival, could you imagine the number of Tupacs coming out of the ghetto? Could you imagine the number of Neil deGrasse Tysons coming to fruition? Most of the amazing minds we have are squandered to total frivolity, but will we ever show that on television? Will we ever have our propaganda machine look at its own shortcomings so we can make the nation we know possible?
Turn Your Ugly Unix Output into a Chart or Animation with Websocketd
Those language creators and their names, "C","C++", "Objective-C","HolyC", "C#". I almost thought "C." was a new language.
What sort of thing do you spend money on?
How to value your startup when raising Series Seed equity
Wow! What a thread.
both equally valid in this case
IIRC, 3 stories is about the max that US building codes allow for stick built structures. Beyond that you have to go to steel.

3-4 is also where you need to start thinking about adding an elevator. That adds to the cost and reduces the area available for units.
It's going to be very difficult to do any sort of proper risk management on an account size that is smaller than five figures (and five figures is already very difficult).

I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic, but saying "just open an Interactive Brokers account" is really closer to the sink side of Sink or Swim philosophy. And trading with less than $10,000 on GDAX sounds like a great way to blow out your account (I don't trade forex so I don't know personally, but I'd be concerned about the drawdown periods on that kind of capital...most of the forex traders I know who do it outside of a firm typically work with $150k+ in capital for this reason).

Is cryptocurrency market making/scalping something you personally do?
FMA dataset: 106k songs, 1TB, 343 days of audio
Surviving Eternal September: How an Online Community Managed Surge of Newcomers
There are a lot of issues with this article - Windows S is no more a 'new' OS than an environment running AppLocker is a new OS. The $49 'upgrade' from WinS to a 'full' Windows 10 is simply removing the restriction, it's the same OS through and through

UWP doesn't explicitly require XAML as part of the stack directx and win2d provide more direct access to graphics hardware

Edge is not a Native UWP application - whatever that means - it's possible to take existing applications and package them to run as a UWP applications, even ones that use COM and Win32. The rendering engine that Edge uses is actually part of the UWP stack - any HTML+JS UWP app uses EdgeHTML as the layout engine. The JavaScript engine, chakra, is a cross platform open source c/c++ library

What MS is doing with WinS is attempting to promote a walled garden and changing windows into a closed platform.

WinS is the first consumer facing foray to this approach. Somehow announcing this in the same breath as education makes it ok.

It might be a noble effort to try to sandbox windows apps, however there are some major detractors: 1) The MS store is a mess, it combines the worst parts of the android App Store and the walled approach of the iOS App Store. But nobody seems to be committed into cleaning it up. 2) not having a compelling mobile story makes existing devs look elsewhere - even Microsoft itself. 3) eliminating compatibility for a broad swath of applications is orthogonal to the approach that Windows has had for decades.

Windows S is the freemium strategy applied to Operating Systems
just fyi - got flagged as malware in my company network.
Browser for extraverts.
Yes, I post all my stuff to Soundcloud and Youtube, this way I can get constructive feedback and learn even more.

Here are the channels you can listen to more of my stuff, and by all means please help me get better by commenting and feedbacking me if you can. If you make music as well I will gladly return your energy and time by commenting and giving feedback. :)

Also, I usually participate on the listen thread/feedback rounds on reddit's /r/edmproduction, you'll find me there as well commenting on everyone's tracks ;)

https://soundcloud.com/flipbit03

https://www.youtube.com/user/cadumimi

cya o/
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Hey there

I'm looking for a ready-to-go solution to parse documents (such as pdf, docx, pptx and others). By 'parse' I mean text extraction, including OCR if needed.
I know about Tika and tried it already, but are there any more reliable alternatives, maybe based on Tika?
I'd like to interact with it via REST API.

Thnx
You? Maybe not, I don't know much about you. But I would think out of a few million US users, they're able to turn up some useful tidbits.

Particularly as people use this to browse private repositories, corporate intranets, etc.
Nokia 3310 coming to UK this month
You don't have to, fair-use is a defence only applicable in court, the easiest way is to sue everyone and let their lawyers assert fair-use. AFAIK it's not unlawful, nor will you incur any fines, if you sue someone for using your copyrighted material if it ends up being declared fair-use. Additionally, I think youtube is even more lenient than that towards people asserting unlawful use of their copyrighted material. In short, fair-use does not exist outside of the courtroom and no amount of "I own no copyrights" or "No copyright intended" tags, or citing the copyright code on your videos can summon it.
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Prop13 values reset on a sale. So the geriatric couple living in a million dollar cracker box might have low property taxes, but the next owner is in for a surprise.
You could, I guess, compare maps for your own use (that's their purpose, after all); but what you must not do is transfer knowledge from Google's map into OSM (or vice versa).

Would "I looked at GMap/OSM comparison and then reused what I saw in OSM" be wrong in the context of law? Would that be considered copying from Google? IANAL, but it seems to me that Google's position would be stronger than yours - they do have a "no derivatives without written permission" clause in the ToS, and an automated check looks as a completely different intent than normal map use.
There are 1000's of underemployed CS Grads earning a pittance compared to their American counterparts. You get access to a large talent pool that makes less than what you would pay an H1B person.

ATM there is about a 37% difference in CAD-USD. So that is just a bonus.

It is also Canada's biggest city and business capital. The only real cons is the price of real estate and high taxes but Google has all kinds of money so that shouldn't be an obstacle. There is also the an issue of poor transportation infra but since this will be developed downtown that shouldn't be an issue either.

I am sure the Provincial/Federal Gov will throw in quite a few enticements since there is an election coming up and they are desperate for some kind of meaningful employment gains.

It's a nice city to visit but you have to be wealthy to live there. It's Canada's version of NYC (a much, much, much smaller version).
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SoftBank records $1.4B loss from India investments
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\o/ I found a Renoise user.

Yes a thousand times, dude, Renoise is that good. It's my main DAW and I feel really spoiled by it, specially by its incredible stability.

Everytime I read articles or forum posts about people talking about their DAWs I hear people complaining about ableton/fl studio etc being unstable, crashing on odd occasions etc. I have never experienced a crash on Renoise, not even using multiple VSTs etc, even some buggy ones that are prone to crashing or scrambling other DAW's internal state hehehe... I have composed tracks on Renoise for over 6 hours to only them realize I hadn't saved a single time.
I guess you forgot when Wheeler was pro-fast lanes, and when the government tried to pass SOPA and PIPA.

We absolutely have a say. Without our vote, these characters are out of a job. No job means no lobbying money.
The disconnect is with whoever decided that desert farms should receive water that could instead be used by cities. No one has a right to farm the desert. Quit subsidizing that, and agriculture will move back to areas that have plenty of water. Dairy, in particular, should be concentrated in the Midwest.
All addresses are pretty hard for computers to understand, so the people building the software to make them understand (geocoders) usually make them work for the most 'in-demand' address formats. Just like every other bit of software, finding the special cases and figuring out how to understand them is tricky.

http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/postal/ is a pretty good overview of most of the postal addressing systems around the world.
It's almost always some ass hole above the developers. We're not idiots and we know what does/doesn't work. But we don't always make the decisions.
Are we here talking about salary or including bonuses? In my opinion bonuses should be excluded from salary (especially when discussing your salary).
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Interesting in what way?
Everyone who has spent more than five minutes on youtube knows their bread and butter is copyright infringing videos. It's the unspoken dirty secret of online video.

Just search for 'full album' or 'full movie'.
My undergraduate degree was in Math and Economics with a minor in Applied Statistics. I used little to nothing of my Math degree. It all depends on the fund strategies.
Do you never worry about missing a family emergency call? Like an accident or death or similar?

I don't accept general calls overnight, but I'd hate to miss the call.
No, it's all a farce.

If there's ever a global conflict where the scope and scale disrupts those global supply lines, it will go nuclear and not matter anymore.
Since there is no algorithmic way of defining fair use, it can only really be dealt with by lawyers in court.
Their choice to buy a house like that in such a market and have a kid on top of a huge mortgage with almost no free time. Consider an alternative: live together in a tiny $3k/mo apartment, save hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, move to a low-cost market, and retire at 35 with an amazing amount of money. THEN have children while the investment portfolio goes bananas over the next few decades ...
Other tricks I've seen:

* skip a 1-3 seconds every so often

* chop it into blocks and re-arrange them, so you watch out of order but still get the gist (1,2,3,4,5 becomes 1,3,2,5,4)
The thing is, you are signing hash of a hash of data instead of simply hash of data.
YouTube already does an absolutely horrible job with handling take-downs and fair use. I have zero interest in seeing any systems or algorithms built that would aid the sloppy, lazy, and greedy organizations shot gunning take downs, even on their own material and channels (always funny).
> sue everyone and let their lawyers assert fair-use

YouTube would turn into a tumbleweed landscape overnight!

I've often thought YT should just add "No copyright intended" et al as a ContentID trigger though.
Why is that significant? How many projects has GE or IBM discontinued? Google is at the peak of its profitability today, so whatever is being done to products seems to be working out.
Good news - The next Apple Watch will be thinner!

Oh, you didn't ask for it to be thinner?
Facebook is working on roads too:

https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=57942

They also had an earlier attempt that was pretty messy.

The identification of roads works pretty good. Separating roads out into main roads and secondary roads and access roads works less well.
Thanks for your questions.

Yes, you could log every message by calling request.accept() with no criteria and applying a weight of -100, for example.

By default, only one instance of a processor (transformer) id is permitted - unless you mount additional versions. In "godsend-examples", there's an example named "versioning-processors". Selection of processor versions is determined in the profile of the user sending the request. In that example, in "users.json", the user "sender" is configured with any processor versions which ought to be substituted for that user. If there are multiple versions of a processor and none of those is indicated by the user sending the message, the processor version marked as the default, when it was mounted, will be run.
Servers ain't free, mate.
Adventures in JIT compilation in Python
This is no doubt true, but I don't think this is compatible with capitalism. Just nationalize BAE and Northrop and General Dynamics, etc. Keep the engineers on the payroll and keep the R&D going without the farce of procurement and contracts. And maybe, just maybe, we could use some of their spare capacity in peacetime for peaceful projects that would have military applications if war arises. Improving communications, transportation, computing, water treatment, power generation, etc. all could benefit the military and civilian worlds. Of course not everything would fit into that rubric, but at lest some could. Didn't Ford convert car factories into tank factories during one of the world wars, why can't we have an electric car factory set up and running that could be configured to churn out tanks at a moments notice? Same with planes too I'd imagine.
Use http://gofccyourself.com to quickly leave a public comment regarding net neutrality.
If someone could argue disparate impact along with 'delegating powers to the unelected' I would bet they would get a 9-0 ruling.
> Now you can afford a mortgage that costs [more due to market distortions]

sounds like a great way to push up prices!
The difference between a compiler and an interpreter
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It's still beta (i.e., slightly buggy) I think.

I did their suggested Pepsi video search[1], then picked a lower ranked YouTube video titled "GiveMeNews"[2] where it claims that "61% of your video was found here".

But that video consists a single frozen frame from the Pepsi ad and someone talking for a couple minutes. One frame isn't 61% of the video.

[1] https://dashboard.spotter.tech/reports/1?platform=youtube

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKrDECFhosA
> What I really don't get is why isn't the free market working?

That is an excellent question that you could ask about many of our modern social dilemmas. The beginning to an answer might be found in Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century