skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm aware of synfire, I definitely took some inspiration from it but mine will have a faster workflow, will be cheaper (synfire pro is like a thousand usd), will look visually better etc.

It won't be Foss no
This is impressive, did you actually hand-prepare loops from 10k tracks? Even at 1 track per minute, which is pretty fast, that's 166 hours, a whole month of working full time!
> In this case the cost of mistake is cheap. Let them learn from their mistakes.

All well and good until they unwittingly become part of a botnet and start attacking the rest of us...
If it's not registerable it's not functional as a kill switch?
Agree with all of this. But there seems to be active distrust of coders working solo, both from managers and from other coders. There's a surprisingly strong perception the "a team" is the safe option.
Yes, this is a classic, and is ringing truer each year.
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Belated edit: I'm not agreeing with said company. I'm just pointing to its perspective and reasoning.
I'd be sad to lose him from YC, although he would probably do enough good for the state overall to make up for it.

If he were at all effective, I'd consider ending my California boycott. I'm concerned that unless the rest of state government is fixed, including Prop 13 and the voter initiative system in general, California is just too fucked to be fixed even by a great Governor, though.
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> At 32, I don't count a social networking startup and an incubator for much of a resume especially with respect to running the government of the 6th largest economy in the world.

At the rate things are currently going, I'd be happy with someone having that kind of résumé for president.
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It is typical in these situations to cast the establishment as a stuffy force for evil, a damp quilt blanket that muffles exciting possibilities.

And sometimes it is. Sometimes seniority beats sanity, sometimes self-interest beats public interest.

But, taking the view from the other side, the establishment sees an endless parade of bold, brilliant, I'm-the-exception types running up to knock it down. In such a position they might be forgiven, after the dozenth encounter with yet another visionary, for rolling their eyes.

And I imagine that the California establishment has seen one or two techno-utopians by now.
I've done fine without it. 3G with good coverage is not bad at all.
Oh of course. Wouldn't want to be associated with feminism. But hey, you can still be a feminist, just don't call it that, right? Becauase just like men's deodorant and shaving cream, we have to have our OWN version of feminism, free from all of those WOMEN. Wouldn't want to be associated with women or have to navigate a space that isn't ours. Nope.

(Hint: this is sarcasm and feminism isn't primarily about men.)
Thank you! I'll let Allen and Sarah know... and reach out.
You can also believe in a better world than the one we currently have, not call yourself a feminist and also not believe "equality" is the standard we should be caring about.

(In case it actually needs to be said again: I happen to be female.)
Hah, ghost-writing peer reviewed papers for yourself on the CIA payroll? Clever.
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The governor is not a proconsul. To be effective, they have to work with the state legislature.
It is, and honestly I don't even care..
It's not like I'm making any profit by sharing my library and I don't have any moral issues with torrenting. As I've said above if I do like something I buy it afterwards with the only intention of supporting the industry.
This is the best joke I've ever read on HN.
Isn't the patent from 2008?
That's because encryption is based on sound mathematical principles.

DRM is based on "physical access is not complete access", which is different.
In California you could probably have a popular governor who appealed directly to the people (abusing the initiative system), even with a mostly-dysfunctional legislature.
It's not a solution, it's a couple of proactive steps we can take in this discussion forum only. My suggestions will have zero impact on discussion forums all over the entire rest of the Internet, nor do I suggest that the same steps be taken all over the entire rest of the Internet. I am only and just talking about Hacker News - that's it. In other words, I am not arguing against having the normal discussion on reddit and elsewhere - just not here. Take it there and go wild. Flag it here. (Even if there is nothing wrong with the article.) When our industry -
programmers, startup entrepreneurs - reaches 60/40 (hell, 70/30) my suggested steps are voided.
There's no reason for them to assume it has anything to do with outsourcing housekeeping. Quite simply, an intact marriage and children are likely to provide men with the drive to produce for the sake of his family.
It would be cool to see AR mirrors at stores, but I can see the experience would have to be very thought out so people don't feel they are being watched or make them not feel great about themselves. I can definitely see mirrors for makeup and jewelry, but the concerns I mentioned would be more apparent at full clothes stores.

I've seen the Amazon animation you mentioned, it makes me think that would people be interested in having clothes and jewlwery augmented on them from ecommerce sites rather than retail stores.
> A good amount of these problems could be mitigated

And a good amount of the advantages would be mitigated too.
That brought back memories for me, I worked there from 1978 - 1984. It was special and I agree with a lot of what the author said, but I would also highlight the people that ran the place. My boss was amazing, too long to list all the reasons but never forgot him. It takes a special type of person to manage highly skilled technical people effectively. I think there are some places like that today (maybe Google, I don't know first hand only from friends that work there). But in my view, that is the key, creating an environment that those types special people are able to thrive in. Bell Labs did that, maybe it was because they were a monopoly that they had that luxury, but I think there was more to it than that.
I understand that it serves to defeat analysis, but... it sounds like it could be trivially circumvented. Why bother in the first place?
That's correct, and the reason is QC patents.
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Ask HN: What tools/apps do you use in your team to manage feedback?
The cycle of continuous Feedback is oft broken in the chaos of a high speed tech organisation. What are your goto effective tools for actionable and trackable feedback within team members?

What tools provide one to one and team level feedback isolation? What tips and tricks help you?
Why did biological inspiration for object-oriented programming stop at cell-to-cell communication? What about levels below (organelles) and above (tissues, organs)?
There's been a few studies where identical resumes have been sent out with "white-sounding" and "non-white-sounding" names, with the white names getting more follow-up.

> They won't even give us a solid definition that we could apply a scientific method. Therefore, any knowledge of the subject is moot.

Geez, don't ever ask about a bus route in a new town. The person isn't going to be able to do a blind trial with a null hypothesis in order to tell you that the route 5 goes downtown, so you can't trust them.

Seriously though, you're talking nonsense. Cultural privilege has been shown time and time again. Hell, the whole 'colonialism' episode in global history revolved around the idea.
At that point, I think you give that one for free.
LOLd at the 'Windows XP was a strong and stable operating system that was more than adequate for the vast majority of the world’s business (and NHS) needs.' bit.

Windows XP may have been acceptable at the end, but the first few iterations were a nightmare for security and really should not have been on the web without serious locking down, including a third-party firewall.

Even Windows Vista was a major leap for security, over a decade ago. 7, 8, and 10 all introduced major new security features.
After a 22 year trial period, we married for insurance purposes.
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That's nothing, head over to /r/DataHoarder to see some real champs.
This is all at the moment! I'll add a changelog to that page.
Yep, the only time I've ever managed to install malware was trying to put a very ordinary Minecraft mod on for my kid. How to feel stupid in one easy move.
No, FRAND means that the licensing terms are fixed, equal and open to all and cannot be used to gain a competitive advantage.
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Being able to visit the emergency room and having to pay whatever they want isn't remotely the same as "provide healthcare for its citizens".
If you are working on the client premises ask them to buy a license for you to use. If you are working from your home ... use the Community edition and that's it.
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I personally can't stand anything below 720p, the majority of my content is 1080p, x265, 6CH, 10bit wherever I can get my hands on it.
Legal battles are competition of a sort, but competition usually means competing products in the marketplace. Lawsuits don't have the same effect on prices or quality of goods sold.

You can argue that there are good reasons for patents, but the whole point of them is to create a legally protected monopoly, which prevents competition at least to some extent.
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Obviously no, I don't. And I don't suggest silencing them, I suggest making them discuss it elsewhere (not here on HN).

Also I suggest that all of this can be discussed, just in a couple of years -- once our industry (programmers, startup entrpreneurs) reaches 60/40 or, hell, at least 70/30.

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EDIT: in reply to the reply to this. same way as it happened in every other industry that got closer to parity. (example: medical industry, legal industry, MBA's, etc.)
That works for me, but then leads to me telling a friend/relative to get the software and them managing to screw up their machines by doing what they think I told them to do.
If you struggle to find hosting (and even if not), archive.org would be a great place to put it for longevity.
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The breakup of AT&T likely made the world we live in today possible, but it also killed the innovation engine that came up with much of the underlying technology that the world we live in today was built on.
It's not supposed to be a kill switch. (Even though it works as one.)

The domain check is there to detect whether the infection is running in a sandbox environment. If the domain check succeeds, it assumes it's being analyzed and aborts.

Or at least that's the prevailing theory.
> [Flag everything] .... I don't wanna work with a bunch of men for the rest of my life. Do you?

I don't really want to flag proactive, mature efforts at discussion of people's problems, just so you can leer at more women at work.

(something something 'misconstrued')
Encoding speed of x265 (if you haven't got a very recent graphics cards) is really bad, but files are around 40-60% smaller than x264.
Ask HN: How does the evercookie on iphone/ipad work?
Some sites are placing evercookies on Safari on iphone and ipad that are not removed with normal steps. Respawning instantly somehow.

Sites include Western Union, BioLite, NewEgg ... how are they doing this?

Google cookies don't show, but search history persists, even if you change IP. Eventually after repeating the delete a few times and killing the Safari app, the Google search history will stop showing.

Thinking these are two different exploits being used to keep state.

Been in place for a while. Just getting around to asking here.

How is it being done? An exploit or a feature?
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Yes, but we've also seen more than our share of entertain-opians. Other than being able to open at the box office they brought no ability to a hard problem.
Please stop strawmanning, and try not to sound so bitter.
You make some good points and you're right, men can be victims and women can be perpetrators. And yes, women can be liars. But liars to the extent that it invalidates the CDC's preferred methods? I'd need to see some hard proof of that.
Yea, but don't fall into the Vanity Press Club.

Meaning, everyone thinks they have a great novel, or could write non-fiction.

Just watch out for the shady self-publication companies.

Very few books will ever make any money. There's companies that prey on ego.

I have an ex-girlfriend who runs the vanity press part of her company. I look back and remember she saw nothing wrong with cheating while in college, didn't have an original thought the entire time we were together, and her love letters were plagerized. She did like to make money though.
It's testing to see if its C&C servers are being MITM for analysis. It does this by checking a bunch of random domains and seeing if they all resolve to the same IP. A completely random domain, rather than a hard-coded random domain, would do just as well, but that's not what was coded in.
There are a bunch of people over on /r/DataHoarder who have hundreds of TB's encrypted on ACD, some even hit a PB. As long as you're not downloading too much they don't care how much or what you store there.
Shut up about the y-axis. It shouldn’t always start at zero (Vox, 2015)
Most vulnerabilities are limited to old releases or new releases, whereas "EternalBlue" affected all Windows versions across the board. The patches are less than two months old, so there was a chance to exploit old machines and newer ones that slow IT might have left vulnerable. This is why someone invested a bit in making the exploit wormable and unleashed it, the potential pool of victims was bigger than usual.
> While a weighty tome may literally feel like it's worth a hefty premium

If you asked me what about a big cookbook with glossy pictures would make it cost more than a regular book, I'd go with the glossy pictures, not the mass.
I've worked in offices with 15 men (including me) and 0 women. I've also worked in startups where the CEO (a male) told me (a male) he would never hire a woman.

The fact that these are outrageously skewed (approx. 50% of the population is male, so the chances of 15 hires in a row being all male drawn at random would be 1 in 2^15th or 0.003%. The chances that every hire forever will be male - per the CEO's policy - is 0%.)

I don't like these odds. Do you think they're appropriate?

There is something wrong with our industry and we have to fix it. Banishing men's rights discussions from (just) this forum, even if there is nothing wrong with that discussion, for just a few years is a good start.

There's nothing wrong with those discussions. They are nevertheless counter to my suggestion.

By the way, I believe you did not follow my advice of taking 1 minute to look at your comment for a moment and making sure it's on your "best behavior". If you had, you would not have thrown in that quip that the only reason I wouldn't like to work with all men is so that I could leer at some women. You would have self-censored that quip if you had taken a moment to read your own comment carefully. So it's actually a good example of what I'm talking about.

It's outrageous to suggest that the only problem with an office full of men with no women in it (or with, say, the mentioned CEO's policy of "never" hiring any woman) is that the men have no woman to "leer" at. You should have self-censored that suggestion. This is a clear example of what I am suggesting. I am suggesting you should have taken a minute, and then not made that comment.

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EDIT: HEY! On the other hand if instead of phrasing it as you had, you would have pointed out that it is important that the issue is that women do not have a chance to work in great offices, we would have moved ahead hugely. so even just this super-mini example is a great example :)

I hope after some reflection you actually end up on board with my suggestions!
> Letting a 7 year old walk themselves to school is no longer okay, for example.

This is the worst. Kids need to accrue independent skills early or you wind up with pathetically helpless college students. Self-sufficient kids is the whole point of parenting.
Just watch the cycles: http://www.livescience.com/8779-fertile-women-manly-men.html
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I'd rather see Paul Graham run for governor, and SamA stay at YCombinator.
There are no results.
This may sound odd: but haven't you ever felt overwhelmed when you take it out, to the point where you don't know where the threshold is, when you try to bring it back?

Where some kind of inner-voice says: "How do you even dare to think of that, you have no ideia how to do it...", like if only some are entitled to dream.

I'm afraid that may be the byproduct of the lack of knowledge to try to break the problem even to the smallest achievable parts, with current or near-future technology developments.

How can one tackle this? Is there a process? Should we just try to blindly find what matters/systems are involved, study them, and connect them? Because we should take responsibility for our vision.

Should we just pack our vision, display it to the world and see if it resonates on people who have knowledge in such areas required to achieve it?

Or should we simply drop it, and move on to the next one?
<tinfoil hat on>: Alternative:

It is not a ransomware operation but a counter-intel ooeration against security researchers.

This is starting to look dumb now, maybe researchers will let their guard down and blog even more about internal procedures?

Or maybe there is a hidden payload (Just a crazy idea based on the ovservation that there are multiple versions with corrupted payloads)
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The easiest thing is to say something is too hard to even try that you don't even want to try for other reasons, such as green paper.

And changing the images to evade the algorithm would also directly affect how likely they are to trick people, so it's win/win?
This is awesome ! Congrats..

https://github.com/HackerNews/API

The firebase API is excellent. I have been using that to keep http://searchhn.com up to date in real time.

Also big query is updated every day with all comments and posts.
https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/dataset/bigquery-public-da...

This is what I started with to update the Searchera (https://searchera.io) index which powers Searchhn
Schwarzenegger tried that.
The dopamine point reminds me of something I read a while ago. It said that when telling people about a new project you just started, or even just plans to start, your brain rewards you with dopamine as if you just achieved something. This can make you less likely to finish the project, since you already got rewarded for it. Not as much as if you had finished it, but for some it might be enough, so they start lacking motivation.

And that's one reason to not show your work off before it's finished.
>Chase, a father in his late 40s who is a partner at an international law firm in Chicago. “When I see a woman who has children and I know she and her husband are working like crazy, that concerns me for the sake of the kids,” he says. “But when I see stay-at-home dads, I don’t think very highly of them. Call it sexist, call it whatever you want, but I think it’s kind of wimpy to do that. It’s checking out, not being in the game, not fighting for success. Those are the traits I value.”

Wow, Chase sounds like a real turd, I feel bad for his kids.
> I think it can be summarised as: Inequality has a marketing problem.

Not as much as a marketing problem, but has populist political organizations that use it to advance their superficial socialist causes.
Why would this surprise you? In almost any conversation I've ever had with software developers about hiring, the person I'm talking to invariably says something that acknowledges tremendous mispricing of software developers based on how they're recruited and qualified.
This is the problem with any pricing scheme - there are always some users that are worse off.

I have no issue with their pricing scheme if that is what works for them best, but they should be more upfront about what they are actually charging.
>> but rather to unify the whole mind around single intention.
> If that's the road to samadhi, inherently it's long and maybe painful - because our intentions depend on our memories - and a single intention means something like clearing or integrating all of the other intentions/memories. Or is there possibly a different way to achieve that?

Wow, did you get this idea now, just by thinking about consequences of centering around one intention? Because it's not obvious and to some extent definitely true. Yes, there is a stage of integration where 'difficult stuff' comes up in the mind. In Culadasa's stages of concentration development it corresponds to stage 4 mostly (laid out in details in his Mind Illuminated book).

However:

- When you're doing it right, it's happening almost automatically, there's often pleasure of concentration that eases things significantly, and the relief that comes up... it's worth it. With time you almost yearn for such difficult things to come up from the depths, knowing the relief and completely new perspective that the integration will bring about.

- Saying that "I don't want to integrate the difficult parts" is a bit like "I don't want to be completely happy". Unifying the mind is like unifying the world - no conflict, completeness, content, everything you want and love is right there with you.

- Integrating the difficult parts is not just getting over them. Sometimes it results with ability to transform difficult relationships, to forgive, to reach deeper levels of communication with eg. difficult parents etc. What's mind changing is world changing.

With all that said there's so many examples of meditation gone wrong, of doing things that are counterproductive etc. - there definitely are less and more smart ways to do it. And hopefully the marriage of Buddhism and the Western thought will result in further advances.

I'm almost sure that neurofeedback will be of some help - we learn so much quicker if we have tight feedback loops, with immediate feedback it's almost like a game. Even in the paper you cite, the best results were achieved during the 'free play' phase, were one could play around interactively with the graph.

In the meantime I recommend Culadasa's method because it's very precise, driven by joy and the articulate, clear style expands to the whole community, which can be helpful when someone gets stuck.
As I understand it, Sam Altman is not involved in moderating HN. That is Dan Gackle's responsibility. So, I don't have any reason to believe that it would in any way impact moderation of HN.
I think it's hilarious how these "kill switches" are supposedly meant to detect sandboxes, to make it harder for security researchers to analyze the malware. While actually making it easy for security researchers to completely disable all installations around the entire world.

That's just what I heard, but it makes sense. There are far more sane ways to implement a kill switch without using unregistered domains. (For instance, using a registered domain.)
How do self-taught developers get jobs? (2016)
When in a company that runs windows with AD and lot's of strict GPO's in place, this is basically what you experience as an employee.
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