skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thinking about this even more, I feel like the composition could be represented as a series of transformations that go from simple to complex. So you start out with:

* Track in C#Maj, 124BPM, 4/4
* Chord progression I–V–vi–IV over 4 bars.
* OK but rhythm is that current chord repeats on every beat like a stab
* Timing should be early by half beat so it would be | I I I V| V V V vi| vi vi vi IV| IV IV IV I|
* another transformation to adjust the voicing, etc
* Then you can create a bass track from this that mirrors the lowest note but changes the rhythm, etc, etc etc,.

Any change along the way doesn't affect something else unless it should and then you're given a notice that you should check what was affected.
Why isn't the internet alive with the email subject line then? The email would be multi-lingual too?
I had a verbatim transcript already, and I used CMU Sphinx to do the alignment between that and the recording.

With raw audio only, I'd probably use a transcription service that provides timings, or software like Trint to do machine learning first, and then clean up by hand, like you did.

The software I wrote to handle the playback is here: https://github.com/vitorio/hyperaudio-lite
The ransom note in 28 languages can be very well taken from other ransomware pieces, just like the ransomware code itself.

It's not like someone will sue for copyright infringement.
Exactly.

Based on what I understand, those that test malware do it in a VM logging and redirecting all queries to external domains, in order to identify possible command and control hosts.

As a response, malware writers add checks for nonexistent domains. If, say, 5 domains known to be fake suddenly start replying, then the malware assumes that it's being executed inside a VM and stops doing anything, in order not to give researchers any clues. This malware just happened to check a single domain.
A "knock-off" like the dozen or so companies who have been selling weighted blankets for years? Forget six months, you could have one before this campaign ends.
Its a cool exploration for curiosity's sake. Seems weird to use it vs Fft though because while some have said PCA is supposed to be "more optimal" , we have prior knowledge that the music is actually constructed along the FFT dimensions. So I wouldnt expect PCA to be any better
I think electrification of 2 stroke motorcycles and auto rickshaws makes more sense in the near term, both from a cost perspective (smaller batteries), and because they are disproportionate contributors to local air pollution. They could also be well suited for battery swap as a recharging method.
Yet as far as I remember he leaked his identify long before anyone even knew Silk Road is even a thing. And someone behind this botnet certainly knew what scale it's going to have before they started it.
It has no server that runs independently and applications connect to, instead you integrate (embed) it into your program as a library.
They keep messing around with the UI and changing it so often while also breaking extensions.

If you remove those features why wouldn't I just use chrome? It's faster and has more consistent usability
I find the Pomodoro technique much too confusing and detailed.

Whenever I'm in an impossible procrastinating mood (and I feel that this is what is: a mood) I put e.ggtimer.com to the minimum amount of time I really think I can put together. Usually by the timer is gone I have to reset it and keep working. If I'm really getting into a good place, I increase the time, if it seems I'm going to be done soon, I decrease it.

Reasonable expectations.

> Using self-discipline techniques help in the short term, but in the long term I find them harmful.

This seems a case of Stockdale's Paradox: http://ndoherty.com/stockdale-paradox/
Cloud SQL doesn't support replication or high-availability or a number of other features yet. For them you need to setup your own cluster or use another managed PostgreSQL service, such as our Aiven PostgreSQL (https://aiven.io/postgresql) which is available in all GCP regions.
I'm not saying it's theoretically possible. I'm saying it's absolutely possible. I'd bet money on it. The technology exists right now. It just takes time to deploy it.

Right now researchers are demonstrating AIs that can learn to play video games vastly better than humans. There's not a huge leap between that and learning to control a robot. Hell I'm watching a video series right now where a random programmer builds a self driving car in GTA.
This looks like a price discussion between Intel/Samsung and Qualcomm for setting a "fair" price.
Nice catch :)

I thought the the amount of forks and stars warrants a short writeup.
Funeral home displays a Vietnam vet’s body without a coffin over payment dispute
Now let somebody run a QuickCheck on it, like they did with LevelDB: http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.github.com/strange...
A friend backed it.

It felt really scammy from the get go but it is an anxious and well off person so I haven't tried to knock down this idea (since worst case scenario the placebo does not work).

I have still shared this article, they will conclude whatever they want.
Oh right, I was under the impression it checked the domains as a kill switch, not as a VM check? I.e if this domain is up and responding don't do anything.

As I could easily run it in a VM and not redirect any traffic
You can do a lot in Logic's environment. And also many DAW's have support for MIDI FX plugins

Not saying compositional aids couldn't be easier or have different UX paradigms, but there are tools in today's DAW's.

Would be pretty cool if Jacob Collier got together with a developer to write a compositional aid tool for harmonising.
The primary reason to defer updates is the risk that the updates will break existing functionality in a way that negatively impacts worker productivity. This could be bricking a laptop/server/computer, or causing software to stop working. The risk is particularly high for older software, which might be using deprecated or unofficial apis, or potentially may no longer be supported (when a vendor goes out of business there's nobody to call or pay). Many companies have customized existing software to the extent that they're incompatible with updates ie they've forked the software. In some cases, like the air traffic control software https://www.wired.com/2015/02/air-traffic-control/, to change over they need to do a full-rewrite, which is very risky and may be missing functionality or just be buggier than the mature software you're using.

For healthcare, banking and education there are some additional factors. These are all regulated industries, where all updates have to go through change management and testing in order to be compliant. In healthcare, updates are particularly uncommon as devices spend at 6+ months to years undergoing FDA certification. When a piece of software is updated, that update has to have gone through the FDA certification process before being applied.
Assuming this is the correct website, it appears to still be defaced:

http://www.capatrol.com/
AIUI they would have been better off if they'd used the latest of any operating system.
At least on adwords, you get a "quality score" for ads, which is essentially a clickthrough rate, which lowers your cost per impression. In this case, I assume those ads get a high clickthrough rate due to being terribly misleading, which leads the algorithm to believe these ads are the most appropriate for this ad slot (they are if the only metric you care about is money going into Google's pockets).
I find symmetries a very necessary concept. It's a complexity divider. A bit like self similarity or inductive reasoning, it turns chaos into cosmos.
Anyone got XP infections? It is being touted around as XP (for various reasons) but wcry 2.0 affects newer versions of Windows.
The problem is enforcement. Telling malware distributors "that's not allowed" obviously isn't going to do anything, and it's easy to have the ad go to one place when Google is investigating and another when a user clicks the ad in the wild.
It has been, for some time in the U.S., frowned upon, if not simply illegal, to partake in deceptive advertising practices. This "things are different now in the internet age" is getting a bit tiring. It should not fall upon the user to protect against this when we ALREADY have laws/rules in place to protect them.
The Totally Normal Town Where Everyone Worked on Weapons of Mass Destruction
How would you promote a web app that you just built?
What ways do you promote your web app quickly to a wide audience?

Ere

Http://faceclicker.com
Looks really nice
How do you control the AI? If it can do everything we can do, then it doesn't need us...
The thing is that grown up countries still focus on employment to distribute wealth, and to get that employment they need to grow.

So we are consuming useless things to keep useless jobs and maintain a growth that doesn't make us more happy.
Me buying books ensures books are going to be written. Even if I don't read them, I've still supported the art.
I observe that mathematicians in my country often have informed (and strong) opinions on mathematical education. As does the author of "A Mathematician's Lament".

Maybe I have a mistaken impression of how significant "new math" was, but I'd expect people to have thought about it. I mean they've all heard the Tom Lehrer song, right?
>I don't think of a reading TODO as "food" such that you should eat the old food before the new food. (The old food will expire so it makes sense to consume that first.)

Based on this explanation, maybe you should. News and information often decrease in usefulness and relevance the longer you wait to digest it.
Tagger News takes a subset of HN articles, analyzes using ML, and applies tags
I can't believe Google couldn't categoricatically add context to these type of ads if they really cared.

Google knows the ad link. Google can crawl the target page / file. If it's an installer, Google can run it in a VM and note what ends up being installed.

If you can't pull a clear "this is crapware" signal out of that, then their ML is a lot less advanced than it seems.

And if they can, then just automatically put a stronger visual border around it with something like "This is an advertisement" in bold. Then let advertisers sort it out. Google penalizes SEO they disagree with all the time, and people stop doing it because they don't want to take the hit.

And I'm pretty sure it is (image recognition) and they don't... so... advertising buys trump "don't be evil."
Conspiracy Theory: The AMT Vulnerability and the Ken Thomson Hack
The funny part is, today people take reckless risks with technology like telling Facebook & Google all about themselves, or carrying a tracking device in their pocket with them at all times. They also take risks by becoming dependent on technology. Who knows the answer to a question without Googling it? Who is capable of running a British hospital when all the computers are WannaCrypted?

Even so, risk-taking is underrated. A risk is a chance of something happening; it's not guaranteed to happen every time. Whereas a measure you take to mitigate a risk, you end up having to do that every time, or else rationally there's no point to it. You have to lock the front door 100% of the time, to feel like you've successfully guarded against an intrusion that realistically might have only a 0.1% or 0.01% probability. If the cost of the mitigation measure is small, you don't notice. You're just being rational. But over time you accumulate a cowardly attitude. Put on your bike helmet and knee & elbow pads, grab your first-aid kit, pepper spray, some cash, tracking devi-- errrr phone, backup battery for phone, towel, jacket, air pump & flat tire repair kit, evidence-gathering videocameras, backup batteries for evidence-gathering videocameras, and then lock the front door, hide the key in your shoe along with the cash, and go for a bike ride, sticking to the bike lanes at all times, or off-street trails better yet (unless you're allergic in which case also bring an epi-pen and/or allergy pills, and since it might be rural better also bring a knife, a way to make fire, and a signaling device). Enjoy your freedom!
In my view that's even more damning. Continuing while knowing that you made basic mistakes in the beginning.
That's why general purpose robots will change everything. With recent progress in AI, we will soon have robots that can be trained to do a job just like humans.
Why would they keep releasing it, and release it in the first place, with such a simple kill-switch. Doesn't make much sense.

Reminds me of the Archer episode where Cyril plants the computer virus and was going to be the hero by "fixing" it.
I hope I answered your original question, with regards to the parallel to feudalism.

In a different legal climate it might not play out that way; but in the current one it does.
That word would be Nahrungsmittelunverträglichkeit again. I just tested it and LaTeX (with `\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}`) does the same mistake as pyphen in the article (it hyphenates the word as Nah-rung-smit-telun-ver-träg-lichkeit).

To be fair, in day-to-day use problems like these will be corner cases as to my knowledge LaTeX tries to avoid hyphenation and even if it has to split a word, it has a good chance of getting it right. Also, to me this project's focus was more on learning about neural networks than creating a better hyphenator.
Good point, although randomly generated domain names can exist.
I started after seeing a dance movie, and wanted to learn to dance like that. I actually like it, and I often get compliments. And yes, dancing in clubs makes it so easy to meet women, as I discovered later. It then slowly became a strategy.
Actually, it doesn't appear to be illegal (but IANAL).

The UK act applies mostly to trying to gain unathorized access to a computer system or network. If you put up your own wifi network and simply listen to your own interface's traffic, and other people access your network without your authorization, it's actually those devices connecting to your network that would be legally suspect - but intent matters, so the device accidentally connecting means they're not breaking the law.

In the US, sniffing the portion of a network which you do not own or operate is considered illegal wiretapping (or at least, it was at one time; I haven't looked into the most recent court cases). But if you own the network (your network interface in managed mode is basically your own AP), you can sniff it.

Your LICENSE should probably explicitly mention that this tool is for research purposes, that you provide no warranty whatsoever, and that anyone using it should follow all local, state, and federal laws at all times.
Here are more details from Korea's anti-trust case against Qualcomm:

http://www.essentialpatentblog.com/2017/01/korea-ftc-propose...

It's too bad the KFTC recently seems to have decided to remove all cases from its site from the past three years [1], because I got to skim through its recent anti-trust case against Qualcomm, and what Qualcomm seemed to be doing was horrific (significantly worse stuff than what Intel was being accused of about a decade ago, as I recall).

[1] http://www.ftc.go.kr/eng/bbs.do?command=getList&type_cd=54&p...
Code, you must – challenge your algorithmic thinking
A Revolution Called “Alternative Solutions”
OLED display dimming via Gnome extension
If you're talking about an MRI machine, the proper drivers may not exist for a current operating system. The absolute last thing you want is for an image to show up differently on the new system due to changes to OpenGL or something.
My guess is this is why we're seeing multiple bitcoin addresses:

The original authors first released it with their own bitcoin address. It then spreads p2p around the world wherever it can to front-facing PCs.

Then 3rd-party spearfishers are sending it to corporate networks with their own bitcoin address so they can get the credit for getting past/through firewalls.
I it, or at least should be. The problem is with our current socioeconomic structures it would mean that the majority of the population would have no purchasing power whatsoever, since their only valuable resource, their ability to work, would disappear. Mass starvation, rioting, etc. doesn't sound too nice. If we somehow make our way out of that into a Star Trek-esque post-scarcity utopia, then yes, it'd be amazing.
He should challenge Zuck and run for the holy grail.
We were warned this would happen but it's interesting to me that we have detected new variants that include the same type of naive kill switch. I'm not well versed in information security, so my question is whether this means attackers tried another wave by simply changing the kill switch domain or were there several variants used for the initial attack?
Robot technicians. We'll need a lot of them. It will be too complicated to be worth building robot mechanics or even robot repairable robots, so we'll need women and men to do this job.
Disagree: they will hang the idiots responsible for WCry high and publicly, just to make an example pour encourager les autres.

Seriously, this cat's already out of the ba. There's nothing to be gained by trying to bury it, and making the consequences clear might reduce the likelihood of a repeat.
In France the judge doesn't have any discretion on damages. The defendant is liable for all damages as a result of his action. Even if these amount to $1 billion.
Ask HN: Those with make 200k or more what do you do?
I work for a tech company and still can't believe that its extremely hard to buy a house,save for the retiremet, my future children and have a peaceful life. I define peaceful life as not having to worry about money every day and night.
I know from reading online a lot of men/women make 200k or more in comp.while working for top tech companies.

I am wondering how much experience do you have? Did you go to Ivy/MIT/Stanford?
Are you software engineer or in managerial/director role?

I have saved a few bucks for buying house. Do you think if I go to eMBA from MIT/Wharton or MBA from UCLA would help in getting a high paying job?

I have a decade of software dev. experience and now starting as a project manager. However, it seems to me that my manager does not support my career growth. I get a feeling that he is worried I might outsmart him. I could have left for another company but I might stay for personal reasons. He talks to me about career growth for everyone but never says a word about me. When I bring it up he makes excuses.

Thoughts?
I agree with you. But Intel would have to convince skeptical Hollywood executives of that, who are more inclined to just not let PCs have new content at all, since relatively few people consume TV and movies on PCs to begin with.

Personally, I think the right solution is to not have DRM for music, TV, and movies on PCs, purely for business reasons. What's happening today is that Intel is effectively shipping everyone who buys an x86 CPU a content decryption module, burning goodwill among free software advocates even though fewer than 1% of consumers will ever use the functionality (actually, does anyone use it?) It makes more business sense for consumers to just buy set-top boxes to consume content. It's not like anyone who buys a $450 Core i7 is going to balk at paying $35 for a Chromecast.
Here's some relevant data [1], sorting by the 'affordability index' should give you a few ideas. Milwaukee, WI is in the top 10. I have to travel there frequently for work. It's on both a river and a great lake, and the people there are quite possibly the most friendly people on the planet.

[1] https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/rankings.jsp
Winds and Air Pollution May Cause 'Poor East Ends'
> If a worm is based on the disclosure and hits two months after public disclosure of a hole, then it doesn't really matter if that disclosure happens in 2014, 2017, or 2020. Heck, in this case specifically it could be argued that the delay has been beneficial because we are now better equipped in general to manage such attacks.

First off I never said disclose publicly, I said disclose to software vendors.

Further you can not know if it disclosed soon after discovery, which I personally believe was discovered long before 2014, probably has been in the NSA inventory for a decade or more, it would have had a worse impact, or that a ransomware worm would have been developed 2 months later

Ransomware is reality new in this kind of attack, most likly if this would have been released in say 2007 it would have been a Spam Botnet or a DDOS Botnet if anything, not Ransomeware.

>>>If you can't deal with MS patch quality then don't frikkin use their software.

Ohh that is the dream. I use bullshit like this to advocate dropping MS like a bad habit, every year I get more traction in my crusade to rid my company of MS
I did get the impression when reading Reamde that it was written with a miniseries adaptation in mind.
>Again, that is pure BS. No one starves in the US. The number one health problem is obesity.

As someone who has been starving in the US and signed a suffocating work agreement to feed myself and keep my apartment, I don't think you know what you're talking about.

Plenty of people starve in the US.

I don't think I'm an edge case, either -- I have many friends in similar (or worse) situations. If you've never had to strategically overdraw money from your bank account or write a check you knew would bounce to get by, then I don't think you know how bad it can get for the "middle" class.
Not really. Food is already highly mechanized, but it's far from free. It still requires land and capital to produce it. The cost of housing hasn't been correlated with the cost of construction for a long time. Look at how houses keep getting more and more expensive, especially in cities. Even though we have tons more construction technology then we did 150 years ago.

But food and shelter aren't the only costs. Healthcare keeps getting more and more expensive, and that can't be automated. If for no other reason than liability concerns. Any industry that can't' be automated will become disproportionately more expensive relative to everything else.
The Jaff waves and the massive amount of threats make it really hard to identify. Wannacrytor may not be found directly attached in the mail, only a downloader for it (like office docs/pdfs/js) might be.
oh hey if your definition of capital included education (and the education and professions of one's family), luck, timing, and socioeconomic class then we're in complete agreement.

Let me state it for the record: in 2017 it's impossible to build great wealth without your updated definition of great capital. completely agreed.

as we're in agreement this conversation is over. nice chatting with you.
This issue is recognized by many professional mathematicians.

An example of a good effort to combat these tendencies is a course by Prof. Bhargava at Princeton, where he introduces good mathematics through card tricks and games:
https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/37/98S70/ind...
Another theory is that it's Law Enforcement. In order to get a conviction, their case is improved if they can show a trail of money just in case they can't get a witness that paid the ransom to testify with proper documentation.
I was actually coming back to delete the original comment as it wasn't very well thought through. I mean, sure, of course there was "content". There were chapter headers as so on and so forth. It would be better to criticise the absense of thought put into having a theory of instruction beyond "Experts do this, therefore if we teach this, we'll create experts"
Da Vinci Challenge – coding competition
It's still available if you drag it out of the configuration pane, it's just not in the default layout.
Crypto Tales Pt. 1: Odd Stories That Surface in Bitcoin-Land