skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [...] not least in contrapunctal complexity and fugal techniques, but also in the incredible fluidity he could achieve with a seemingly arbitrary number of voices.

Just to give a striking example of one of Bach's novel fugal techniques:

Bach's St. Matthew Passion starts out with an instrumental fugue with three voices. The first voice does introduces a little fugue subject, then the second voice imitates a fifth above, and finally the third voices enters above that one. Then there's a short episode where the voices trade licks and end on a half cadence. So far a fairly typical beginning for a three-voice fugue.

Then something strange happens-- the baseline moves up a fifth from where it started, and Bach repeats almost everything I just described up a fifth. In other words he takes all three entrances of the fugal subject together, treats them as if they were a single fugal subject, and builds an outer fugue out of that. So we've got a kind of fugue within a fugue. Sure enough, after this second outer entrance finishes the choir enters with the third outer subject. And to the casual listener this all just sounds like a Baroque-era instrumental beginning to a choral piece.

But it's important to point out that the complexity of the counterpoint doesn't truly match the structural complexity. There isn't an additional set of instruments playing the outer fugue-- it's just that Bach organized the music in such a way that we can hear these relationships.
I might choose to use Signal. I might prefer not to have that choice broadcast to all my contacts (well, all those who use Signal).

Yes, discoverability...

I'd rather have that explicitly opt-in, not a default behavior.

I view my use of Signal as information I'd prefer not to share with some -- even if they are in my contact db and even if they use Signal.

P.S. Yeah, I see some discrepancy between this and the way Signal is designed and the goal to minimize metadata.

Ok. Still, it was a creepy moment for me, seeing this person's name pop up in a Signal alert.
Because it's the first gen of a cross-pollinated variety.

They take two "pure" lines of species that are produced by self-pollinating the same variety for many generations and then cross-pollinate. This creates a hybrid. It tastes and looks great, but it yields seeds that are a result of _self_pollination, so some original traits get suppressed and some dormant traits activate.

I didn't know that either, but apparently it's basic botany. Google up "F1 F2 seeds".
You mean this Blu?:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2016/11/chinese-company-ins...
Personally, when I know that a certain topic is of high value to advertisers, I don't even bother googling anymore, and try to find someone qualified instead. For example, I recently was trying to look up theory behind working out, how differenr muscles work, how nutrition works and all that - but there're so many people who're trying to sell their courses, apps, books and stuff, that I have no idea how to go around looking for unbiased and at least semi-scientific source of information.

Edit: I would be thankful for pointers as to why this comment was downvoted, so I can increase quality of my content in the future.
> This might be a dumb question, but let's say that for whatever reason on a specific problem it's much easier to train a neural network that generalizes well than a decision tree. Why not train the network, then build an equivalent decision tree that just tries to reproduce the network's output? When building the tree from the network, overfitting would not be a concern. In fact, you'd want it to overfit.

You haven't fixed anything here. You've just encoded your training data in a neural net and then presented the same problem to the decision tree learner. Unless you're planning to transform your training data somehow?
If the government is overthrown the Alawites will probably vanish from the middle-east. There's a saying "Christians to Beirut, the Alawites to the grave" [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectarianism_and_minorities_...
Let's just say that testing out the platform by pushing a 1 page test app a few times and then being burned by a $200 bill has put me off the platform for a while.

It may be my fault for not adequately reading all their caveats, but it seems to me that the default experience shouldn't be like that.

I love Google, but their Cloud Platform is still incomprehensible to me.
I would love something similar for Google Spreadsheet.
> the network just needs to have the explanation as an output

And how would you evaluate whether the explanation was correct or not?
I got that lesson and that school is what you make of it.
A NSFW tag would be nice (contains images of genitalia, and black and whites of naked underage children).
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> How much of that is that we (1) socialize women to be that way; and (2) impose disproportionate parenting obligations on them to begin with, which causes them to seek more flexibility?

I cannot speak to (2), but cross-cultural studies suggests that differences in the way women are raised across different cultures don't influence women in the way you suggest. In fact, in more prosperous societies, there are greater sex differences, not less: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3JuaIg99X0
More generally, anything by Sumit Gulwani's group at MSR should be of interest.
> [Kotlin Native] features automatic reference counting with a cycle collector on top, but what the final memory management solution(s) will look like is unknown at this point.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/04/kotlinnative-tech-...
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It's called IBM Notes now, and people do indeed still run it.
I looked it up, and Kotlin is an island (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotlin_Island) 1,000km north of Ukraine. Is it a case like Alcatraz, where the location has become idiomatically synonymous with the facilities?
Probably because there are practical reasons for many people to prefer carrying around one laptop instead of two.
Oh yes, I've used Beautiful Soup, too. If I remember correctly I had great luck with html, but issues with xml. It also is only a reader, not a writer.
So, a configured abstract reward system can make psychopaths look like regular narcissists. And then?

Did they find a cure or become mutual accomplices? They learned that if they maintain without showing emotion long enough that they can earn a form of respect by playing the patient's own game. Not surprisingly, the respect sustains when nourished with rewards. The doctors and patients are now comrads. The patient shows improvement during the state of success, diplomatic accomplishment, overcoming their peers, winning, etc. and while it is nice they can reproduce the system, they are still misunderstanding it.

By their logic, we would elect the patients into office, process their confidence as wellness, and maybe one day they can become so cured they will be president!

Maybe there is some valuable stuff being researched here but this essay doesn't confirm that. There is a comparison opportunity in the two origins discussed that might offer actual insight but I guess that was just a narrative decoration?
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I work on Google Search. Having one search engine per country doesn't seem like the correct approach to the problem.

> Every country has a mammoth collection of valid results for your query.

Having seen the corpus of content available from each language, this is categorically false. Consider Wikipedia, which is a fairly ubiquitous information source on the web that provides answers to tons of searches. English documents: 5.4M, Romanian documents: 376k.

Perhaps the solution to the OP's woes is more tools for filtering. This post conflates the ideas between language and country. Search typically returns to you results and search features that are in the query language. Today's solution where filtering is done through query refinement and query operators seems to cover a lot of use cases already.

Further, by having an integrated product, ML models can learn behaviors specific to certain locales where those behaviors differ from region to region, and balance with more universal behaviors that apply to more than one region.
Who cares about Ukraine? You won't be a country for much longer anyways.
Ironically, the name "Kiev" would be no less offensive becuase this spelling of the name implies that this is a Russian city, not a Ukrainian one. The official and correct spelling is "Kyiv", see http://kyiv.of-cour.se/ for explanations why.
> If I had a "small $1 million loan" right now

... then your fate would be similar to the fate of a typical big lottery winner: having all your money spent in a few years and your life derailed.

Children of wealthy people succeed not because of inherited money, but because of wealth management habits they learned from their parents.
The story as I heard/read somewhere I cannot at this moment recall (InfoQ, conference networking, Podcast, blog,...), goes like this.

Many of the important devs on the V8 team, like Gilad Bracha, were getting tired of working on the project and started to look elsewhere for a career change.

Allowing them to create their own vision what a JavaScript replacement might look like (aka Dart) motivated them to stay on the team and at Google.

When the Chrome team decided that they wouldn't be merging the Dart VM into Chrome at all and would rather focus on JavaScript, including their efforts for adding type annotations to JavaScript, the Dart team was going to be assigned new tasks.

However in the meantime the AdSense team had started using Dart and they enjoyed using it quite a lot, so a decision was made to move the Dart team away from Chrome into supporting the AdSense team as main role.

If this is not true, I would welcome any Googler that knows better, to correct me.
I'm a distant observer, so grain of salt: isn't the significance of Dilma's impeachment in the shift from quiet tolerance of corruption, to actually taking some action and demonstrating that not even the president is immune?

In other words, that there is a reasonable expectation (sure, let's see what actually happens now) that this incident will actually cost Temer his career, even if the scope of the incident is much smaller than what has previously been more or less silently tolerated?
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Excellent - could you give some examples of what you reuse?

I'm interested in whether this is a worthwhile abstraction in the general case, or whether for most people (like me and the post) it's an unhelpful complication.
The Gunstar Heroes boss reminds me of an old demo effect called vectorballs or "bobs" https://youtu.be/Itv3f7o7Zac?t=167 combined with a Doom-style pre-rendered set of rotated sprites.
When plenty of hereditary monarchies are given a hall pass, I cannot fathom why anyone thought cracking open this one might have been a good idea.

I've tried to mull over whatever calculus might have been at play, when a room full of people drew up quiet plans to rip this country apart, and I don't see the motivation.

A generation from now, nothing will be normal in these imploded countries, but kings and princes elsewhere will thrive with no elections at all, I'm sure.
It's named after an island, don't see why it's reasonable.
I know I'm slowly going off topic here. :)

But check out the Glenn Gould version, as well.

Also Jacques Loussier has some nice Bach interpretations.
Agree and, as I work for Seznam, especially agree on the ability to train models properly to satisfy local users. Not to mention that the user can choose what should be the language of the results.
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I'd prefer 0..count or 0..(count - 1) then.
How?

I've got three separate encrypted copies of my homedir spread across two different locations and a fourth snapshot taken once a week on a drive that's physically powered down when not in the middle of a backup - and I've regularly tested restoring from each of them.

How does any of that help when malware grabs my .git .aws .gnupg .keypassx, etc directories from my running system - and unknown 3rd parties start downloading (or worse, backdooring) my "private" stuff from github?
Automatic refactoring in dynamic languages are nowhere need to those in java. Just rename method - with static typing you know it was changed correctly everywhere, full stop. Implementation of refactoring code is easy. With javascript, you just don't know what can potentially come in as argument of function, so you don't know whether object function call can or can not be renamed.

Smalltalk authors seeing static typing as major potential problem when started years ago does not make it actual problem today.
I'd usually use ".." in the context of e.g. "2..3" to express a range but "<" to express a condition so I don't find it natural.
I strongly feel that if a domain language is not significantly more complex than the domain itself, then the person who is supposed to have domain knowledge should be able to learn the language without much difficulty. I've seen a lot of attempts to build 'simple' analytical systems without SQL, and it works well for simple queries -
but 'business people', when they're smart and motivated, soon start asking more and more specific and detailed questions, with additional conditions and joins - and it soon turns out that SQL is, in fact, an appropriate instrument for complexity that they need.

Your examples seem pretty simple. What about a question like this: how did our 5-week cohort (users that at the time of the event were registered between 4 and 5 weeks) ARPU vary over time and over character class they chose at registration? Is there a statistically significant corellation between participating in any of the 20 custom events we've done in the last half a year and user retention (which must be calculated relative to each users' cohort)?

Of course, a lot of business analysts are moving away from SQL to R, but I doubt that they're after simplicity.
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Agreed. I've built and maintained a moderate size Django app for 5 years now, and had similar issues.

GOOD app division: my "members" app which has classes for UserProfile, MemberType, and communicates with an upstream 3rd party membership API. It doesn't have any dependencies, but a bunch of other apps that depend on it.
Another one I've just started work on is a generic Questionnaire/Survey app. This one is a definite candidate for spinning out as an open-source third-party app later, it lets you attach Questions and Answers to any of your own model objects via generic relations.

BAD app division: I have separate "Entry" and "EntryHandling" models across two apps, the latter is a OneToOne with an Entry. Originally this was a separation of concerns, but it's become a mess. Like the parent, the generic app ends up depending on the specific app, and migrations have to be handled gently and sometimes manually edited.

If you treat your Django apps as points that would be logical for splitting as micro-services, you'd probably be just fine.
2G on a self-hosted GitLab instance is good enough, try it!
That's sick. Kotlin is an island. The fortress is named Kronstadt.
> I also thought Android programming was horrible at first, but have since come to see it as no worse on average than iOS programming

Those two statements are in no way mutually exclusive.

(That said, Swift is infinitely better than writing Android Java code, in my limited experience)
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The internet is quite independent of countries and regions. Sure, sites are localised and internationalised but the idea of an "[insert country here] internet" is meaningless. One of the major reasons that the internet is successful is that it is effectively borderless.
> Sooner or later the internet will have to be decentralized.

It sounds like a pipe dream. Centralisation exists for a reason: it's far easier to coordinate complex efforts within a single organisation, rather than a host of unreliable entities. Supposedly, we develop a protocol where we share the responsibility of crawling, indexing, and searching the whole web. Isn't is unrealistic to expect that millions of computers (an optimistic estimate considering number of Google servers dedicated to Search) would voluntarily want to participate in the effort? Who ensures redundancy, speed, and abuse handling?

If a single company commanding the whole power is untrustworthy, a million entities having no stake in the game is multifold more.
Can we leave the political bullshit to the media, this is simply stupid.
Ironically, the name "Kyiv" would also be no less offensive since it is written in Latin characters non native to Ukraine instead of the Ukrainian alphabet, which is a derivative of the Cyrillic alphabet. The official and correct spelling is "Київ"
I agree, thank you for peovoking this thought. It is raw and if so I apologize.

This is where hinting is important. Metadata. That sequence if I know it's a phone number, or a sequence of increasing digits, depends a lot on metadata.

Given some reasonable sample size, i believe machine learning could provide hints as to some of the common types of formats. Semi automated data hinting or structuring?

There is a bidirectional connection between interpreting your data and how your data is structured

Is it possible to use your data column to statistically hint at metadata characteristics by some sort of clustering, then use that to automatically clean input data?
Google works surprisingly well with languages other than English. I've been looking for Russian-language originals of some of Chekhov's short stories and plays, and pasting, e.g., "Чехов чайка"into the search bar finds the full text of The Seagull (on a .ru site) with no problem. I'm not sure how having a Russian-only search engine helps here.
Well, I was introduced to Pettis via Paul Krugman's blog at the NYTimes... but in practice, you just gotta wade in. Be comfortable with being lost the first few tens of thousands of words on his blog, and it will add up.

Pettis doesn't really give a primer; he discusses lots of different issues through the same lens, and his target audience appears to be readers with at least an undergraduate understanding of economics and a passing familiarity with balance sheets (I had neither). Frankly, I picked it up via muscle memory (and lots of context-Googling; Wikipedia helps, and StackOverflow has a surprising amount of basic economics info).

I think the bottom line is this: if you're willing to devote a few hours (maybe low tens of hours) to slogging through his posts, occasionally re-reading them a few times and searching elsewhere for explanation of terms, you'll start to understand his balance-sheet theory of macro. And it doesn't require much context, to be honest: one of the beauties of his framework is it glosses over so much of the complexity of an economy by dealing with clear and clean abstractions at the national level. (It's only an okay source for understanding the internal dynamics of an economy; the blog really mostly focuses on international macro.)

I hope that helps... though acknowledge it might not! (My interest was driven by a burning desire to understand WTF just happened!?! circa 2008; that motivation is probably hard to conjure without context, to be honest.)
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BTW -Wall doesn't give you all warnings. It gives you a specific set, which will never change because of all the legacy codebases using -Wall that Clang doesn't want to cause problems with when introducing new diagnostics. The flag that really gets you all of the diagnostics is -Weverything.
I love organ music. And it's important to note that Organ recitals (that is, Organ performances not part of a religious service) are not a rare thing!

For example, there are two recitals at Stanford's Memorial Church scheduled next month:

• June 5, a recital by Ethan Williams, Stanford student.
https://events.stanford.edu/events/673/67311/

• June 16, the annual Commencement Organ recital of Dr. Morgan, Stanford University Organist.
https://events.stanford.edu/events/686/68615/

Both events are at 7:30 PM in Memorial Church (https://campus-map.stanford.edu/?id=01-500), and typically end around 9 PM.

You can also keep an eye on https://religiouslife.stanford.edu/programs-events/music and https://events.stanford.edu for future performances (there's already one scheduled for August).
algol based languages are all similar. It's like comparing scheme and closure.
Or the great Chaconne for solo violin.
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Oh god, not this again.

Much of this is anachronistic half-baked justification are prototypical examples of orientalism.

- Pick some modern thing you dislike, pick some ancient thing that is generally positive.

- Imply, "wink-wink", at the notion that one thing is a causal influence on the other.

- Mix up and destroy any interest in the heritage.

You see this when it comes to English writing with every freaking country in Asia. Frankly it gets really annoying. A prototypical example is by the way systems of exploitative labor exported after WWII from US/Europe/Russia to various Tiger economies suddenly become "Confucian" simply because the writer in his post-modern reverie believes she has stumbled upon gold. Calling it "feudal" would be just too boring apparently.

There is no mass understanding/respect for either Confucius or Indic religious in Asia today. Nor is there real state patronage for the growth either of these; often there is outright opposition from the state because these traditions stand in way of "modernization". In fact, it is the culture and arts of the West that hold undue influence over many nations (and K-pop reflects this very very distinctly).

Please do us all a favor and stop writing about societies you can't be bothered to understand.
That's a problem now only AI could solve. All other attempts at non-AI algorithms are futile. We need to be able to search through a curated internet that looks somewhat like a mix of Wikipedia and the old Yahoo directory and has to be tailored to each individual user search goals (I unlike you may be interested in commercial workout products). AI is the only "curator" capable of ranking and selecting results with such abstract filters.
Unless some other fund buys the same expensive data?
Wordpress is a CMS more comparable to something like django-cms (haven't used it). Django is more generic than Wordpress.

An example is worth 1000 words? Here's my app setup for the website I've been developing for 5 years.

# these are the "drop-in" apps we've been discussing
THIRD_PARTY_APPS = (
# django-allauth
'allauth',
'allauth.account',
'allauth.socialaccount',
#'allauth.socialaccount.providers.facebook', # to add later on
'django_hosts',

'bootstrap3',
'imagekit', # for thumbnails
'paypal.standard.ipn',
'template_debug',
'import_export', # CSV import and export
'jfu',
'extra_views',

'post_office',
'django_xworkflows',
'markdown_deux',

'django_mobile_app_distribution',
'hijack',
'compat',
)

# Ones I've written...
LOCAL_APPS = (
'membership',
'awards',
'reports',
'entryhandling',
'folio',
'judging_console',
'email_manager',
'printing',
'judges',
'logs',
'honours',
'api',
'questions',
)

INSTALLED_APPS = DJANGO_APPS + THIRD_PARTY_APPS + LOCAL_APPS
They succeed because of connections, plain and simple.
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I believe this is the implementation described in this paper published at POPL 2016:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/transfo...

Though it probably also uses more recent work from the same group:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/sumitg/
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