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> Please correct me if I'm wrong, smarter people, by replying.

You are not an idiot, maybe not an expert but definitely not an idiot. Your description is quite easy to understand for someone without knowledge in the field. I would add only that RNN are called recurrent because their have recurrent connection with other neurons, and that is why they are hard to parallelize. You need the output the one neuron to compute the output of other neuron in the same layer, so you cannot parallelize that layer. This doesn't happen in CNN.
I'm not aware of any Linux desktop with this degree of insecurity. I know they tend to be a bit naïve with the assumption that root access is the only goal for malware, but that's about it.
The first step to IT security is physical security.
Conversely, I've found Apple Music really wants to autoplay in my car, even though I haven't launched the app in years--only Spotify--and I have to stop it and sometimes relaunch Spotify to get back on track.

No joke, Apple Music also insists on playing me a mix of Tegan and Sara, Eminem, Nine Inch Nails, Tori Amos, and the comedy of David Cross, and nothing else.
Anyone else from Toronto watching this and feel a sharp pain in your back? I sure am.
Go is a language that you can absolutely learn like that, and it's pretty amazing. (Python, too)

Rust ... isn't. I love Rust, but you do need to put some dedicated time into learning it. We're hoping to improve this!
> But 'getting started making music' is like you only need their product, trigger some samples and you can be an artist too.

I mean, is that wrong? Unless you stick to some elitist definition of artist, why is someone who plays with these samples to create something not being an artist?
I'm assuming you meant this but wanted to put it out there - it is not the possibility of death that is the appeal, it is the possibility of cheating death. Small but essential difference.
I switched to Cesium after experiencing Music randomly enabling repeat or shuffle with no intuitive way to disable. Turns out you need to swipe up "from the bottom" where "bottom" is somewhere 1/3 of the way up to see those options.
That is supposed to be what WebRTC is for. But major companies with their own motives are running the the major video chat solutions.
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Not only does it autoplay, it will partially download songs from many years ago on the first connect, so your car gets stuck repeating the same 20 seconds of that one song you liked a decade ago. It's infuriating.
Show HN: Preducs
That would have definitely improved the state of things for the likes of BluRay software playback... Not to mention most electronics where software is a huge part of interaction.

I'm hoping we see some serious reduction in patents in the next few years, including compulsory licensing models for several sectors (namely medical/pharma).
Entrepreneur here not a lawyer, but as a startup you want to keep costs low. Legal fees can be $10k+ just to issue new shares.

Unless you are profitable, I'd try delay doing this until a funding event and do what the the other commenter Siegel mentioned. Just get the commitment in writing or in a contract and don't go through the messy process of issuing new shares unless your business has product/market fit and is stable. Because before product/market fit you should worry only about getting to product/market fit. You shouldn't worry about sharing % of nothing. NOTE: revenue =/= product/market fit.

But make sure you do it before, or at the same time you raise money.

If you can afford it, ask a lawyer if you can issue more shares to keep the %'s the same 50% shares outstanding and 50% common. Then adjust the amount owned by you and your co-founder. ie. issue another 10m shares, 2m go to your co-founder and 3m to you, then you have 20m outstanding, 10m common with 5m/5m. Get a price quote upfront for the work.

Again, I'm not a lawyer so this is NOT legal advice. I don't know if this is the most economical or easiest way to do it, but it's one way you might do it.
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Build it anyway
This is beyond impressive. Kudos to the workers and planners.
how am I being racist?
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Microsoft hasn't gone away. Both companies are huge successes. They've just got failures like everybody else. Unlike most, they're still owners of markets.
That doesn't mean testing isn't an afterthought in Ruby, the language. It means the culture built up a defense against writing buggy code.
You will probably get some good advice here but just wanted to recommend getting a lawyer and accountant involved to make sure you minimize any tax liabilities and do it the right way for your state/country.

Congrats on a successful company.
> I don't take the 25th seriously

You said that; the 25th is part of the Constitution which implies quite directly that you don't take the Constitution seriously, I didn't interpret anything, words have meaning and you said directly that you don't take part of the Constitution seriously.

> Considering he'd still be in office, and any later attempt to impeach would likely fall on its face due to the embarrassing failure, no, charges aren't all that matters.

Nixon resigned on the threat of being impeached, so please lets not pretend the threat alone isn't enough to cause action. Trump could very well resign to avoid the embarrassment of even having charges brought. His ego is quite easily injured. Just because you think they need a solid indefensible case to even attempt charges doesn't mean that's what everyone thinks and quite simply isn't how the world works. You live in a country where plea deals are taken every single day to avoid the risk of even going to court; quite often in cases where the DA knows they don't even have a good case.

The only thing preventing Trump from being impeached is that it's his party in control; that's it. There's plenty to impeach him with that will hold up in court and you're simply incorrect to say otherwise.
Airplanes not being the best example, since they control the entirety of the supply chain, but if they were more like arena ticket sales, or sports-team ticket sales, then they actually would be helping people by maximizing their profits.

In the case of musicians, most of them undersupply and underprice their tickets, which means that there's a market for reselling. For a variety of reasons, they keep prices low so as to ensure a sold out venue as best they're capable, and when prices are lower than they ought to be, ensures a market for resellers. Resellers help offload the risk to the original sellers, but if the sellers were capable of maximizing profits in the first place, buyers would benefit by not having to deal with the perils associated with gray market sales. Also, the artists / venue / middlemen would make more money.

http://www.aei.org/publication/ticket-scalping-as-an-efficie...
This is not the first time those people have complained about Jigsaw by any stretch; it is the first time it has come to a vote and people felt it was worth to summarize the arguments. Oracle didn't even think Jigsaw was ready for a long time, which is why it didn't _even come to a vote previously_ and has delayed Java 9 by months. The release cycle was supposed to be 2 years, and Jigsaw is the only reason it isn't.

Jigsaw has been a project for... a decade? now. That isn't a consequence of easy consensus.

It is the first time people who aren't voting, Java programmers, could realistically try Jigsaw.
> If you were making really good money making youtube videos, why would you want to sign on with food network

because they'd pay you even better money!
Co-sign on Google Music. I've started adding all new music I find this way, from albums (one-click torrent download), to singles (youtube/soundcloud-to-mp3 sites).

The Google Music Manager can be set to monitor your download directories and uploads any new music to Google Music automatically (even if they are ZIPed).

The mobile app is pretty slick too: syncs automatically, and has a 'store music locally' option for when you don't have a good connection.
I wanted to bring up Hummingbird notation with a specific context in which I prefer it (handwriting) while still being clear that I prefer standard notation over Hummmingbird as a whole.
Someone had me use Hangouts for a press livestreaming thing a couple of weeks back. I was actually surprised at how the UI had improved since I last used it.

I agree that video conferencing is rather fragmented but I'm honestly not sure how much that has slowed adoption. People just don't want to use video in a lot of cases. Essentially all my internal calls are on a videoconferencing system and I doubt I turn on the webcam 25% of the time. (We do use screen sharing a fair bit though.)
> I'm an ESL

In that case, you're doing very well indeed. I wouldn't have quoted The Princess Bride (watch it!) if I'd known.
Tablature has a long history as well, it didn't start with guitar. Before guitar there was lute and cittern tablature -- which typically use letters and not numbers. I play both guitar and lute and I actually wish the letters convention had stuck, it's more fun. Wikipedia says that the first known tablature was for an organ. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablature#Origin

Yes, some other instruments have their own specific notations & tablatures as well. These aren't replacements for standard notation though, and never will be. They have a place, and they are useful, but they aren't in competition with standard notation. Tablature has its disadvantages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablature#Disadvantages) but also the single biggest reason for standard notation -- groups, band, ensemble & orchestral playing -- is something tablature can't help with at all.

Totally agreed that standard notation doesn't help with electronic sound reproduction, but I'd suggest that standard notation isn't for sound reproduction in the analog world either, that's not it's purpose. Standard notation is the sequencer, not the synthesizer. You can use standard notation to encode songs in the electronic music world, but it's definitely not super convenient, hardly anyone does that. The analog version of trading setups and circuit diagrams is carving your violin using plans and specifications of a Stradivarius violin.
Ability to create a new (creepy and likely illegal) feature is not the same thing as it being the Echo's "value prop"...
I think Sears really dropped the ball in not putting its' catalog(s) online in 1995-1996 or so. They, at the time, were one of the only companies around with most of the infrastructure to handle that scenario... I think the K-Mart merger was probably a bad decision as well.

Even if they'd put the catalog online, and established a "cart" where you had to call to place the order, they could have done it well before CC processing online was common.
These types of questions always gives you horrible answers.

Go to a forum, or StackOverFlow, and see what people want that you could make a tool out of.
>from Reed-Solomon as it doesn't necessarily parallelize well.

i don't think so. RS erasure coding performs the same operation over all words in the block, that is perfectly vectorizable and parallelizable

SSDs goes from RS to LDPC probably because it's faster (and their controllers are already pretty hot!), in paricular LDPC allows faster soft decoders (i.e. ones that understand that 7 is more probably decoded as 8 rather than 2). Overall, classic RS encoder speed is O(1/N) where N is amount of parity blocks. Probably, modern media employs larger amount of parity blocks that slows down classic RS algorithms

OTOH, LDPC codecs afaik usually have fixed speed so with larger N they became faster than RS - sooner or later. So, as time goes and N increases, interest shifts from RS to LDPC algos. The same applies to other fast codes (fountain, raptor...) - they are also faster than classic RS for large enough N
Why can't you just tell us about the time you withdrew cash from this card at Walmart and got charged a fee? Is it because that doesn't happen?
another feature/side effect is that you can use any instrument to play any part of a written piece, as long as it's physically possible to play the notes as written. and if not - you can improvise easily by dropping superfluous or unnecessary components/notes without changing the overall sound of the music.
Ask HN: Thoughts on Mob Programming?
Mob programming: a software development approach where the whole team works on the same thing, at the same time, in the same space, and at the same computer.

We recently had a speaker at our school talk about how his team has utilized Mob Programming for increased productivity, code quality, and less bugs in production.

I was curious as to what your thoughts are. Can Mob Programming become a mainstream method of collaboration in the tech industry?
"I know that they could do so much better with this stuff, and that hurts". Pretty much what's wrong with all monopolistic power holders. Technology disrupts so many things but not factors leading to monopolistic industries.
"canonical masterwork"

Not a constant, there isn't even an ideal.

I had the worst stereotype of a 9th grade history teacher you can imagine with a curriculum of a dumbed down textbook written at about 80 IQ level to maximize sales and tests consisting mostly of matching names and dates. I almost failed that class...

We can't teach dead white male texts for political reasons anymore. Nothing motivates a white male teenager like telling him a book is forbidden. I'm reminded of a nearly illiterate friend who forced himself to read Huckleberry Finn solely because it was banned. So needless to say as a little rebel I grew up reading and enjoying Plutarch, Xenophon, Gibbon, Herodotus. In a different era under superior political leadership, those books would have been considered masterpieces. Today they are considered fuel for book burnings solely for racial reasons.

There's no constant to "canonical masterwork" but if there is any constant at all, its probably that your school textbook was not a "canonical masterwork", LOL.
Personally I'm both a nomad and a hoarder. About once a year I'll go on a week long spree finding new music and creating new playlists. The rest of the year I just listen to all those playlists plus my old ones. Neither Apple Music nor Spotify have a workflow specifically designed for this. Am I that unusual?
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"Right now, musical notation strives for a single notation that tries to encompass the entire work—and to also serve as a canonical, lossless transcription of the work, from which it can be recovered."

I don't believe this to be true. (Modern) Guitar Music is most often written in tab often without accompanying staff notation. Also staff notation is not loseless, musicians will interpret the music differently. For example, with violin, whilst some instruction is given on bowing it is almost never complete and the musicians will find different ways to fit the bowing to the rhythm, this can make a huge different to overall tone as (most simply) the up bow sounds distinctly different to the down bow.
It's regular expression syntax for, roughly, "substitute 'mary' for ' total'", which transforms "sum total" - " total" + "mary" --> "summary.
or your code could be riddled with thread contentions

I guess this is why he used the term likely

Interesting article though
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Great job on the redesign!

My biggest UX gripe with Apple Music is that the app doesn't open into the same state it was in last time I used it.

I'm not sure if this is an intentional decision meant to generate algorithmic feed impressions (or some other reason), or an oversight.
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Eh, sort of. How long are you supposed to only utilize half of your income, or half of your half? When is it no longer "lifestyle inflation" and instead "lifestyle baseline"? In theory, everyone would live at the average market salary (better yet, average individual income, on the bet that you'll always be of at least average commercial value) and save everything else to maximize their mobility, but almost no one actually does. The arbitrage between theory and practice is where most political tricks occur.

Those resources have an expected value and a present value. At some point it is reasonable to decide to open it up a little bit more. Most people aren't going to max out their income overnight, but give them a couple years and they'll have moved to a nicer neighborhood, etc. Why? Because they could, and once you've filled some basic savings obligations, it can definitely be worth more to live somewhere better than to watch as a number you never intend to touch increments.

That said, sure, most people lack the discipline to live at a market salary instead of the salary they get paid. That's why this is a great way to trap employees. You keep clean hands and all the blame can be shifted to the employee, even though it's understood that it's very unlikely that the employee will actually account for the fact that any other position will entail a 40% pay cut.
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Sheer volume is meaningless unless we know how many times it's been successfully summitted. Mont Blanc is dangerous because it's easily accessible to lay people and despite being advertised as a 'long walk' can turn deadly very quickly.

Annapurna on the other hand has been climbed less than two hundred times in history, all of those people were elite mountaineers and further third of them didn't make it back.
Spotify does support local files and can even synchronize them across multiple devices. I noticed today that some of my local songs were available on my work laptop.

The process of adding and synchronizing your local music is not the easiest and most intuitive, but it's possible.
> The pessimist in me was looking for the exceptions, which is actually not a bad trait when you are testing.

Agreed :) Good discussion.
I don't know, I went back to Mutt after 10 years of Thunderbird recently and couldn't be happier. But more pointedly, I don't see how I could live without an e-mail client.
More optimistically, it could be a step toward solving the problem if it adopted a Roku-like model where all those apps are installed and logged in at all times and you can pick one from a standardized menu. On Roku you can go to Netflix, Hulu, and single-channel apps like A&E.

Bonus points if there is a standard way to 'get a call' or 'search for a contact' that cuts across the video conf apps.
Same.

Beyond Discovery being objectively better on Spotify, curating new playlists from discovered music is a breeze. My discovery of new artists is a primary reason for my use of these services anyway, and I suppose it's possible that simply isn't something Apple prioritizes.
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I think it's more like an iPad with a better microphone (well, 7 or 8 actually). When Siri can hear you clearly, it's much better at most tasks in my experience. The problem is often that it can't hear you clearly...
Which is funny to me, because Wawa has a few, very effective means of ensuring customer loyalty.

Between state-minimum priced cigarettes (for smokers), fee-less ATMS, the awesome, cheap coffee bar, and pretty darn reasonable rates on their hot, prepared food items, I usually prioritize going to Wawa in every circumstance possible, even if gas prices aren't the absolute lowest.

I remember when I moved to the Maryland area, hearing everybody rave about what sounded like the dumbest named convenience store I'd ever heard of, and how convinced I was that I'd never fall into that cult of weirdness, but they proved to be too convenient in too many ways for me to ignore them, and now I'm a devoutly loyal Wawa customer.
I agree that discovery is way better with Spotify. I feel like Apple is still hoping people will continue to buy music.

Lately I've been using https://www.jqbx.fm . Which is a more a turntable.fm approach but hooks into your Spotify account so you can save things for later and DJ from your existing playlists. Definitely helped me discover a lot of new stuff I wouldn't have found otherwise.
why settle on GUI idioms when you can /

;)
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> Once you get past a cursory "eff this" reaction, you start to see how downright brilliant notation is.

In this it reminds me of vim.
No offense, but nobody in their right mind is going to use any of this in a production environment.

For instance, what will your hypersonic rocket do while garbage collection is running instead of it's real-time control loops?
As a rule, HTTP basic auth is inappropriate without SSL, even for intranet apps. An office could easily have an insecure Wifi point, and someone sitting outside running Wireshark.
When I was thinking of buying a home, some people said "it's great because you can deduct your mortgage interest and property taxes." I haven't seen it help more than the standard deduction yet, and even if I do it may only reduce my taxable income by a few grand.

The only thing I can come up with as to why people think the deduction is so great is that people can be really bad at math and think removing tax on perhaps a few grand of income is a huge deal.. for the few thousand that are returned, I'm sure at least that much will be spent in home maintenance/repairs/tools/etc... I may sell soon and go back to renting.

The only part that makes it work out is home value appreciation, which is somewhat speculative and overall seems worse/equal to other standard investments.
I love this.

I'd like to have offices in a ring around the globe, maybe one in every other time-zone, each with an open floor plan and two opposite walls set up as full video walls with cameras and two-way connections so that it supports the illusion of looking into the neighboring offices through windows. There would be sound if you're standing close enough, and several scanner/printers (FAX machines lol!) connected so that you could feed a hard-copy to someone on the "other side" of the "window".

It would be so cool to look "across" the distributed meta-office and SEE the day/night cycle all at once though the real windows in the offices.
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I have been waiting 35 years for this technology. In my previous career I worked with infrared sensing of farm crops from the early eighties.

The main problem in a state like Michigan is that it is super cloudy. Taking pictures with planes is expensive, but you can go below the clouds. Commercial satellite imagery didn't provide this cloud piercing technology. Farmers didn't want to pay for images when there was a cloud obscuring half their field. It was fairly common to go an entire summer and not get a completely clear view of a field.