skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The list of software synths using and expanding on this algorithm piles up pretty high and is still rising. Perhaps you don't hear the name a lot because most of these plugins don't explicitly say so in their descriptions and marketing (although many do). The more common term is physical modeling, which basically implies Karplus-Strong and more advanced delay lines, waveguides, etc. as underlying algorithms. For example, Applied Acoustics Systems has been researching and publishing this kind of software synth for maybe 20 years. Native Instruments has also made a bunch of stuff clearly using Karplus-Strong, including patches for their popular Reaktor synth. Heck, I've made plugins using this algorithm myself.

I find pure physical modeling has been stagnating though, hybrid approaching with sample-based synthesis seem more promising right now. This is what Sample Modeling has been doing and their results are impressive.
I guess they most be using something in front of the code [0] (which do document the double slash issue). Probably should have used PathUnescape[1] on line 185 though.

[0] https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder/blob/master/vendor/gi...
[1] https://golang.org/pkg/net/url/#PathUnescape

PS. It does seem like a pretty bad idea to put data in the path instead of the query.
Whenever you put a comment, chances are you should have encapsulated the block there into a reusable block of code.
There is Polite Language (丁寧語), Respectful Language (尊敬語), and humble Language (謙譲語).

Compare:

見る -> 見ます -> ご覧になる -> 拝見する

That is a lot different than just learning four different conjugations for 見る - it becomes an entirely different word!
Bay Area slips in startup rankings
Gave this a quick shot on my own monolithic app and it cut startup time almost in half. Impressive considering how easy it was to configure!

Startup time was one reason we started migrating away from Rails in a previous workplace, between frustrating startup time in development and test and occasional quirkiness of zeus and spring. Bootsnap would have been a godsend.
This is the dream. OpenStreetMap is another great example of such an idea. To take it a step further, I'd encourage setting the non-profit up as a worker's cooperative. Just imagine all of the big companies out there organized as open-source, co-operative non-profits. We could kill a lot of redundant work, retain people's privacy, and really empower the employees of these companies to ensure the company works on things they believe in.
>Buying an apartment in New York City is a marker of success for some residents

It's also a sign of folly for some. Many people hate-read the Sunday Real Estate section. There are often one-bedrooms listed for $700k – $1 million, with $1K+ per month maintenance fees. Add on to that $200 – 1K per month in taxes, and suddenly you will have to wait a VERY long time to make anything like the return you'd get from investing in a Vanguard Total Market Fund and renting for $3K per month.

Everyone in the real estate industry loves purchases because of the fees associated with purchase. But buying is often not a good idea (though it depends on when). If we get another real estate crash and prices drop by 10 – 20%, buying may start to make sense again. In 2011 buying was a great idea.

This same basic dynamic plays out in many cities. The NYT has a decent rent-vs-buy calculator: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal... that can help answer some questions. Notice the investment return expected, which is a vital part of these calculations.
The suitability of a language for a particular project doesn't just depend on language features.

Most new languages will fade away without ever getting enough traction to survive. It's a real risk that is mitigated by corporate backing.

Many people may have been aware of Kotlin's strengths but found themselves unable to justify its use for a mission critical task.
Am I the only one here who thinks Apple/Google should not be able to skim more than a token 1-3% fee off transactions? Both already make enough money off their customers and they effectively have a duopoly on mobile platforms. If there were dozens of app stores (more like repositories at that point) that you could easily search across, then the market would be self regulating. I don't think that's the case right now.
Next will Apple command a cut when I transfer money via my banking app or PayPal?!
The particularly frustrating thing, when I've started thinking about optimizing boot time at a VM level, is that it's near-impossible to "understand" what loading a file actually does, since it's all just evaluated in a single namespace.

It would be great if we somehow had a way to load a module-as-file without unknown side-effects, and without depending so deeply on the other contents of the global namespace.

But this is basically describing a complete overhaul of most of what makes ruby ruby, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
* China: 142 people/sq mile.

* Italy: 197 people/sq mile

* Spain: 210 people/sq mile

* Germany: 235 people/sq mile

* Belgium: 343 people/sq mile

* United Kingdom: 650 people/sq mile

Yeah, their density compared to Western countries is truly irresponsible.
I would think the main use case for React Native is multiple platform development. It solves a different problem to Kotlin.
>> 1. It is reportedly a better pain killer in some cases than opioids so it keeps people off of the prescription opioids

> No it isn't and no it won't. If you have serious pain issues, then cannabis will not help at all.

Anecdotal evidence from working at cannabis dispensaries (and possibly some studies I've seen, but I'm not going to look 'em up.) suggest while you won't get off opiates for serious chronic pain, if you consume (usually edible) cannabis and opiates your dosage of the opiates can come down significantly and lead to better quality of life.
I switched to freelancing so I could work remotely without questions asked. Worked quiet well.

It also showed me that I have a problem with employment in general. People telling me when to work where and on what. It agitates me.
Top considerations when planning Docker-based microservices
Similarly to London, is it possible to get 6-figure salary? (in a finance sector of course)
Why? I have exactly the same question on my mind as OP, and I'm definitely not thinking about yet another bullshit mobile app that'll save the world.
To be fair, he was interviewed by the police in Stockholm, whereupon the investigation was terminated and he was told he could go home.

After a while, a senior prosecutor reopened the case for unexplained reasons, and asked him to fly back to Sweden on his own expenses so he could be interviewed a second time. When he offered to meat in London, but rejected coming to Sweden, she issued an European arrest warrant. I believe he was then interviewed by the British police and was held under custody, until he made the not so brilliant decision to seek asylum in the Embassy.

I've read the police investigation and while I don't want to diminish the alleged victims, I can understand why the (female) police told him to go home in the first place.

Simply put, and I'm basing this not on Assange's statement which was anyway consistent with everyone else's stories - behaving like a total wanker is not a crime, even if you happen to do that towards a politically active left wing feminist.

Everything else than the ass-hat bit in this story is a failure of the legal system in Sweden and it's a consequence of the government's self-image as infallible and that it's relatively unprotected from civil servants with personal agendas.
upvote != endorsement
Yes, that's exactly what I meant. You can tell because I didn't present any examples. And because one issue invalidates everything else. And I didn't express my opinion on this issue up thread.
Zomato got off lightly after a hacker grabbed 6.6M user passwords
His point still stands though
Can it not be argued running billion dollar freeways through urban neighborhoods, flattening their commercial districts with "free" (subsidized) parking lots and choking them on pollution is enslaving people at the expense of how you want to live? You still haven't addressed the issue that driving fundementally pushes large costs on others and society in general.

There are plenty of ways to have a accesible city designed for multimodal transportation. Look to many European cities to show how this used to be done. It doesn't take much imagination to find out it doesn't have to be "shitty".

I don't think you really understand what life is like without a car in America. Like it or not, people are being excluded. A third of households in my city don't have a car (likely not out of choice). Transit is sparse. How are they supposed to access job centers, , shopping education opportunities built in the auto dominated sprawl? Hint: you can't build your life around asking other people for rides.

You don't seem open to the idea of a different lifestyle. I get that. At the very least I ask that you consider the real impact your choice of driving has on other people, and how it's subsidized by society.
Anthony Levandowski seems to have become the poster-child of the greedy, anything-goes, bro-developer in this age of the Millennial (stop me if I've gone too far).

Let him also be its poster-child as he is crucified/thrown-under-the-bus.
I have no issue adblocking Twitter since they use deceptive ads.

It used to be ads had to be clearly labelled as not to confuse with regular content. Twitter buries their "promoted" label at the bottom in light grey text, so you only know it's an ad after you've read it and asked "WTF? Why is this in here?"
Buying is almost always a good idea except in the hottest of real estate markets.

If done properly (buy, then rent out when you move, managed by prop management company), you'll come out far ahead versus just renting. You should of corse still be investing in equities for diversification.
Biggest missing part of the article is the "Music" promised in the title.

In other words: I was hoping to hear a musical composition or performance using samples generated by WaveNet.

I think a better, more realistic title for the article would be more like "Generating Experimental Sounds Using WaveNets" or similar. Even the authors inclusion of animal sounds in the generation made this more of a novelty and not really useful for actual musical sound generation.

Would be interesting to compare this approach with other "Less neural-net-y" approaches, like combining samples in the frequency domain and mixing samples over time.
Yes I do but I am actually scared to tell them. Because my last therapist said in his practice he has to report it which means I have to go back to hospital. Last time I went (well back in Feb) I was admitted under voluntary terms and while the place isn't bad it did feel like a jail because I would miss being out there hearing people on the street. I probably should write a blog post when I recover...
I ate a lot of UK ration packs in the UK and while I certainly had favourites, they were remarkably good
Data Middleware: A Response to the Explosion of SaaS Apps
If we start counting government contracts as "support", there's a whole bunch of companies that need to be viewed in a different light. Every defense contractor for one. Every company that sells to the public school system for another.

It's not like these companies are getting something for nothing, they still have to provide a good or service.
Looks like a lot of the top-voted suggestions are only applicable to a single country. If your suggestion has a major restriction like that, then would you please declare it upfront?
Honestly, it works well for us. DHH may have been a little rosier than necessary: there are some downsides, to be sure, but we can mitigate them to a large extent (e.g.: TFA), and we get a lot of benefit out of the architecture.

It is definitely a net positive for us. YMMV, of course.
How Do Drones Fly? Physics, of Course
What makes them stupid and wrong? Can you with 100% certainty say WhatsApp isn't backdoored?
THERO – Device to (physically) manage online privacy
I've enjoyed both Brogue and Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
what if instead of using ad blockers we use ad amplifiers that downloaded 10 or 100 copies of video ads to make sure we got the data correct?

Serving video is pretty expensive. How big are the ad networks' margins? Let's see who blinks first.
Agreed, I'd love to use this in my editor. I use Fantasque Sans Mono[1] now, and it's italics have a little of the same feel.

[1]https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/fantasque-sans-mono
It's an even better idea in hot markets. That is, unless you get in at the end of a cycle and need liquidity now.
> Japanese is classified among the most difficult languages for English speakers by Foreign Service Institute

I briefly took Japanese lessons from someone who teaches full time at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in Monterey, CA. She confirmed Japanese language's status as "most difficult for English speakers". She also said that DLI groups foreign languages into 4 levels based on how difficult they are to learn for English speakers:

Level 1 (Easiest): Spanish

Level 2: German

Level 3: Russian, Hebrew

Level 4: Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic

A more comprehensive listing is here: http://aboutworldlanguages.com/language-difficulty

A hidden gem of a resource that I uncovered at that time: audio + textbook lessons produced by NHK World Radio Japan as part of their 50th anniversary celebrations. These lessons are in 17 languages, so they help those who are not native speakers of English too. http://www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/
A windows application can't steal the focus unless it is the the top window already.

This is behavior built deep into the system that cannot be overridden. It is very effective against numerous stupid apps.
I think Healpix is included in the tool at the bottom. Also check out the last few in the list which are similar to Dymaxion.
Why India allows instant divorce
Stockfighter.io ran into similar issues. The candidate that finished the competition we're far above average, but hiring companies still used the same filters and long timing on those candidates as for sketchy unsolicited resumes.

I think the core issue is that hiring a bad programmer is so costly, and there are so many bad programmers in the hiring pool that companies tune their filters to avoid the worst, while thinking they are aiming for the best.
A virus' multipronged attack on bacteria shows new ways to fight infection
Specifically - the Ivy League is an athletic conference and it's members are are Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale.
> I put together a list of security tips: [...]

and 63 contributors. ;p
A second anecdata point. I got laid-off from a job in embedded firmware in January. I just started a new gig this week as a web developer. Prior to that, almost every single position I interviewed for turned me down. I asked for feedback. They invariably said, "Not enough experience with our area." When this was web-dev, where I have little to no experience, this was understandable -- it was also 90% of the available jobs. When this was embedded firmware, it just boggled me.

Almost two years' experience in embedded firmware is not enough qualification to write embedded firmware? Because I wrote bare-metal firmware, and you want someone who's used your dev-board or your embedded Linux before? Come on.

Employers are currently very exacting.
This is awesome, and I'd love to use it for the command-line dev tools that I write. Unfortunately this gem requires Ruby 2.3+, but macOS built-in Ruby, which is the Ruby we target, is only 2.0.0.

Does anyone know of a good solution for prebuilt, relocatable Rubies on macOS that I could easily bundle with my tool? I'm reluctant to use Homebrew or another package manager like rbenv, where I'd have to implement a non-trivial bootstrap process. Phusion's travelling-ruby project would be perfect, but it's unmaintained.

I just want my CLI to boot in 0.05s without needing to change languages. Love Ruby, but getting decent perf takes a bit of effort.
Sure, I know they're saving money, but unless you _have_ to use something (Spotify, Skype), many people will choose a competitor instead of your app.

One such case is Atom—which from what I know is what Electron was created for: many people use Sublime Text instead. Not because of functionality, but just because Atom is super-slow in comparison, and it won't open or let you work productively with files bigger than 2-5MB.

I would argue that the money they save by not going native, they lose from people using better software.
Finally, a possible solution to mouse infertility! I dream of a day when we can apply similar technology to humans and restore our dwindling population.
That's my thought here as well. This seems eerily close to just demanding a cut of every transaction on their platform.
I recently stumbled on a youtube channel of a guy who goes through and samples food from various ancient ration packs. Even 50 years down the road, many of them are still edible and very tasty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2FOcFiqLeE

This is such a weird, niche thing but it's actually fascinating to me. The internet is a weird, weird place.

edit: Hah, someone else posted a link to another of his reviews of a UAE ration, and another reviewer who does the same thing with MREs. Turns out the internet is a smaller world than I imagined.
Great comment. I would speculate that it's cognitive style that predicts that.

If you take the neurotypical to autistic spectrum, someone on the NT side will find that work that takes advantages of the NT cognitive style adds to their quality of life, and work that doesn't detracts from it. The same goes for people further on the aspie/autistic side.

Someone with an NT cognitive style might love working in finance or politics or sales but hate working in STEM. The opposite it true for those with an aspie/autistic style.

The last few decades of not the last century since the industrial revolution has seen the rise of well/paying in-demand jobs that appeal those with a cognitive style more on the aspie/autist end of the spectrum. I think a lot of those on the NT end of the spectrum who have typically been in a position of earning power for most of human history are starting to resent the fact that systems are being engineered that automate and devalue skills That those with an NT cognitive style excel at.

It also doesn't help that that the supply of thosewith an NT cognitive style greatly outnumber those with a more aspie/autistic style for reasons of millennia of sexual selection for NT traits.

I think it's quite natural to resent high earners doing a job that you either cannot do or would not enjoy doing.
"70 percent of people who come into sudden money are broke within a few years, according to the National Endowment for Financial Education."

Now do we get to argue over the source?

Does it somehow not fit your world view that managing wealth is real work?
In case you genuinely want to block Facebook via DNS, check this discussion nearly a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11791052
Flak towers: designed by Hitler, 3.5m thick walls, still around
There must be. There simply must.

Mind you, I'm not disparaging Eich and Berners Lee, only their products. Web technology is a mess. I was horrified when I saw my first html all those long years ago. I'm horrified still. And saddened to think what might have been.
well, "should vs can"

In the realm of "should", I'm afraid regulation is your only bet.

Otherwise obviously any company will take whatever % they think will get them the maximum long term profit
Thank you!

I don't have them for download, but this is the script I used to download and resize them all. It took about 24 hours for me:

https://github.com/zensible/art_slideshow/blob/shared/lib/ta...

Just go through the install steps in the README and run the above. It may take a smidge of hacking to get it working, this hasn't been polished for public consumption.
London City first in UK to get remote air traffic control
It seems to imply that people need more regimentation in their lives to make things work a certain way. I wfh and was thinking that it might be good to have a robot in the office that I could control that would be my avatar in the office. And also hilarious.
I'm kinda shocked that Ruby boot times can be up to 25 seconds for a monolithic app.

A Python project I work on has 279,124 lines of code and boots up in 2.5 seconds.

Without downloading it, all I can find is Discourse had 60,000 lines of code 3 years ago [1]. Assuming as an extreme estimate they tripled their code size in 3 years, we have 180,000 LOC taking 6 seconds to boot up according to the article.

Is this normal for Ruby? Is the author using a spinning disk drive rather than an SSD?

[1] https://github.com/bleonard/rails_stats
Wonder what'll happen if they demand Amazon pay some % of sales for their physical goods.
I mean a technical user capable of this solution is not very likely to get hit by this in the first place. The hacker probably doesn't care if x% of people defeat the encryption.. as long as x% pay the ransom.
I think the most basic and overlooked thing is food. Eating well, reducing waste, and sustainable production are areas with huge opportunities. Energy and food are fundamental for improving quality of life; and they're also the human activities with the largest negative externalities to nature.
We reverted the submitted title “Make music with WaveNets” to that of the article.
Ukraine bans its top social networks because they are Russian
Agree that he's done a ton of good with his charitable giving, but point is that he bettered humanity (probably even more than his charity) even before that with Windows (giving the masses an easier way to interact with computers, allowing individuals and companies to create other valuable things in turn), the whole software not hardware paradigm (led to rapid development in terms of the type of programs and functionality people had access to), and Microsoft Office (Excel and Word == a ton of social value). Obviously he wasn't personally responsible for all that, and also became a multi billionaire in the process (and is giving most of it away, kudos) but even if he kept it all, that's all benefiting humanity and creating social good.
> have a duopoly on mobile platforms

There ARE dozens of app stores. These two are very very strong ones. The thing is how long Apple and Google and continue to squeeze people until someone will come up with a clever trick to bypass their payment system.
A modern Robespierre might know that his Thermidor is coming, but if you push him far enough, he might grow to believe that price is a bargain.

Were I in the ownership class, I wouldn't exactly try to temper my avarice in absolute terms, but I would at least try to remain less conspicuously wealthy than my peers. As they say, you don't need to outrun the tiger, if you can outrun your friend.
Or companies would rather stick to the old methods even if they don't work. After all they can't blame you if you are just following HR's process.
That's exactly what this is and I'm confused as to why Apple thinks they can do that. A legal suit would cause them more problems, so why demand something so ridiculous?
Apple Pay is a move in that direction. The question is at what point developer and users will abandon their platform.
Great idea, probably somewhere in the bios. Thanks for the feedback!
The debate surrounding religious rules for slaughtering animals
Genuinely curious, been looking into it recently - what're the problem with unregulated public offering? Things i can think of are insider trading, misleading information, ponzi scheme, etc.