skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's good that MusicBrainz exists as open data project and continues to stand up against Sony America & Sony DADC defacto monopoly on audio+video metadata and digital supply for the media industry.

MusicBrainz is the third project of it's kind. Two previous older projects got bought by the media industry (Sony and Magix). Such a database gets useless if it doesn't receive updates.

First there was CDDB, short for Compact Disc Database, is a database for software applications to look up audio CD (compact disc) information over the Internet. This is performed by a client which calculates a (nearly) unique disc ID and then queries the database. As a result, the client is able to display the artist name, CD title, track list and some additional information. CDDB was invented by Ti Kan around late 1993 as a local database that was delivered with his popular xmcd music player application. CDDB is a licensed trademark of Gracenote. In March 2001, CDDB, now owned by Gracenote, banned all unlicensed applications from accessing their database. As of June 2, 2008, Sony Corp. of America completed acquisition (full ownership) of Gracenote. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDB

Then there was freedb. freedb is a database of compact disc track listings, where all the content is under the GNU General Public License. To look up CD information over the Internet, a client program calculates a hash function from the CD table of contents and uses it as a disc ID to query the database. If the disc is in the database, the client is able to retrieve and display the artist, album title, track list and some additional information. It was originally based on the now-proprietary CDDB (Compact Disc DataBase). On October 4, 2006, freedb owner Michael Kaiser announced that Magix had acquired freedb. On June 25, 2007, MusicBrainz – a project with similar goals – officially released their freedb gateway. The latter allows users to harvest information from the MusicBrainz database rather than freedb. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedb
> on our landline the phone lights up and shows the caller ID a second or so before it rings

Not sure about the US, but in Australia this is a phone specific feature. The Caller ID comes between the first and second ring, so if you want a call blocking feature that is completely silent, you need to silence the first ring of every call. Some phones will do this automatically, others (like my Panasonic landline) make it an option you can turn on & off. The Panasonic FAQ has some info:

http://eng.faq.panasonic.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/26547/~...
Quite amusingly, about four or five days ago a similar program (Tad, ”a tabular data viewer”) was presented on HackerNews, and if I remember correctly the top-ranking comment was a complaint about it being an Electron app. Ironically it seems nigh impossible to satisfy both camps.
You imply that emotional intelligence and reasoning ability are a tradeoff. They aren't.
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Well, the compilers don't do a good enough job, end of story (at least using C; not sure about OpenCL). To achieve top performance it is necessary to make sure everything in the computation is organized in the right way. And try out multiple strategies on the high level of the program, to see what achieves best performance at the low level. At that point, trying to obfuscate your SIMD logic in regular C so that the C compiler maybe figure out what you meant is just frustrating anyway.

What you are saying is basically "you don't need top performance, just deal with what the compiler gives you".

But sometimes you work on stuff where the whole point is to be best in class in performance (libsharp in my case).

If you think that what you are suggesting is possible, feel free to improve the compilers so that normal C code beats OpenBLAS. You will be famous. I will wait....
I confess that I am really not fan of this person and I find his videos off putting and really difficult to get through.

Has anyone come across any other source making similar claims?
It's quite remarkable how isolated from the world the people named in that document seem to be. It is as if they had never travelled anywhere outside the US before starting the project. Or if they had they had been stunningly unobservant.
> I forget to eat, I don't get tired.

Sound like dopamine at play!
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Because the words wouldn't start at the same height. The point was that, if every title starts at the same height it's easier to skim, because you don't have to move your eyes much when looking at the first few letters.
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You are thinking of a structured editor.

But as to the single feature you mentioned, see for example Code Bubbles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsPX0nElJ0k
With this new revision this great benchmark got less useful.

Why can't I compare:

Lua vs LuaGIT

PHP5 vs PHP7 vs HHVM vs Hack

Perl5 vs Perl6

GNU GCC vs Intel C vs CLANG

This new rule "one implementation per language" is so stupid!!!

@debian: change it back
The Master Switch : This really puts a lot of things into context, especially if you're in tech industry. It's basically a history of the entire Information Technology, and it's fascinating how same things happen over and over again, pendulums swing back and forth over and over again, and people keep making same mistakes over and over again

OK, you sold me. Just ordered a copy. Thanks for the recommendation!
In France that would be illegal-- cash can't be used for transactions over €1000 because they're afraid of terrorism apparently.
If there are enough short duration calls, the phone company will ask for more money. The every four years political calls, for example, often have to pay a little bit more due to their short call duration.
That's also for tax dodging. Banks don't own money only lends it at risk, maker don't earn money keeping margin low, win win
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This looks like people fumbling cryptocoin purchases (or getting them lost for some reason or another) and people answering with "ah you should have known better and done the right way"
Woops, that was unintentional.

Although... now I think about it... when I'm anxious (I have reasonably mild but fairly broadly scoped anxiety), I can become more emotional/instinctive/reactive to things, and my ability to reason can be greatly impacted as well.

So I do think there is some indirect correlation, in practice.
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Hi,

I'm trying to learn Progressive web app by building a simple HN application. I'm wondering whether the firebase HN Api does support push notifications. If so, any such examples would be really great.

Thanks.
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Any about Nordic countries?
I think the parent with "satisfactory" meant "possible to achieve the maximum performance the hardware will support" (after all why settle for less?) You are answering another question.

Also, the point where you have reorganized your whole computation to be AVX-friendly it is just extra obfuscation to try to wrtie regular C and then check that the compiler outputs what you meant. Just using SIMD instructions is WYSIWYG; writing pure C is like competing in an obfuscated C contest.

Keep in mind it is not only SIMD, one might use shuffles and permutations in registers etc to communicate between the SIMD "threads".

I think the SSE/AVX intrinsics are nice to work with; they do what they say, but GCC will also turn them into something else if not supported, and perhaps apply some extra optimizations.
I like the story of the factory manager who sees some workers breaking the rules and smoking in in the factory.

He gives each of them an expensive cigar and says something like "I'd appreciate it if you guys smoked these outside."
this can then be easily fixed by the networks. Delay the second call request until the first call actually rings.
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Well, I guess there'll be another ICO then?
> Meanwhile, it doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of accomplishing anything.

That's only true if you believe that the only possible accomplishment is to become the #1 kernel in the world.

Meanwhile, it's a very interesting project and it's a clear proof of technical proficiency. There are not many people in the world who can claim that they've written a kernel, let alone one in a cutting-edge programming language like Rust. I would love to have something like that on CV. Meanwhile, criticizing other people's projects does nothing to advance your career.
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fun anecdote, it seems that minix3 is the ancestor of the OS running in Intel Management Engine http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/04/intel-me-way-of-static-an...
So, what's a token?
For many, even most, ICOs, actually raising the money is only part of the potential benefit. The other benefit is to bootstrap a network of users and promotors. In those terms maybe BAT failed. They could have won over 10s of thousands of users.
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Murakami never manages to keep my interest and halfway through I just want it to be over. I've always attributed it to losses in translation.
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Compilers should just be sufficiently smart.
Speed is not the problem. Amongst many other issues, php has a terrible security track record compared to other languages VMs/compilers.
They will have to still pay for it. If the RoI on these kind of campaigns become low enough, due to combination of higher cost and lower conversion, they will abandon it. You could develop a dialer app to autoroute, and perhaps even generate auto responses ( inverse robo call ?) to make it more frustrating
Here's a link to a related discussion on HN on the ongoing thread on Gentoo's forum regarding GCC's segfault while running massive compilation jobs in Ryzen-based systems.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14478736
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Probably the same as the author of curl. Something along the lines of "Yes, sure, our project is open source so fork it and go ahead".
My aunt lectures at a nursing and hospital-school. Many of her pupils are stuck in the "Car"-Deal. They all leased or lend a expensive car to show off, got into accidents or expensive repairs, could not pay off the accumulating debt, and now are basically indentured in debt-slavery to the car industry with half of their monthly paycheck.
You are not too old.
The top comment in this thread is very informative:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/1rhtv1/eli5...

The "pump & dump" dynamic is extremely important in cryptotrading.
Interesting. I had exactly the opposite experience with my first Murakami. I was at Barnes & Noble one Sunday evening, grabbed one of his titles (After Dark) off the shelf, intending to flip through a few pages; and next thing you know the store is about to close and I'm halfway through the book. I bought the copy, drove home and finished reading it that night. I was hooked pretty much from the get-go.
Of course, but there is a huge difference. Read the text and then continue - total time is less than 5 seconds. Often you don't even miss a beat doing what you are doing anyway.

Rather than having to stop what you are doing, check voice mail, and then continue. And in many situations you can't even do it (meeting, lecture, noisy environment etc.).
The real valueble piece would be probably something up the stack, maybe similar to the great offering of thingworx, but better.

But that would mean competing with partners , so it has its own issues.

Maybe by focusing on something like authentication , and offering Google branded security , they could both achieve some lock-in in and not scare partners ?
You're lucky if this is common sense for you. Sadly, for me, coming from a family where bad mood and malice is daily fare, this book was an eye opener.
"Freedom at midnight" is a very well written book that describes the scenes a couple of years before and upto the freedom in 1947.

The way the french author duo paint the then lifestyle of the Britishers, the kings and the common man left me satisfied.

Currently I'm slow reading "India - A History" by John Keay. Another well written book.
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Even if they are orthogonal, they are less likely to occur in the same person than either apart.
Another notable difference is that the car companies take all the risk when it comes to the second hand value. If more and more new cars are sold with similar contract lengths (Which is true in Sweden at least) that will cause a decline in the second hand value. Sounds like a familiar situation but with cars instead of houses
We have developed neural net based solution for finding images which are nearly or even distantly similar. It can be trained to work on any type of image and works pretty accurately.

You can check demo at: https://www.turingiq.com/demo/image/similar
It doesn't help either that all the basic references are in the form of books. Finding the relevant bits of information can take a long time. Besides documentation, another of TeX's weaknesses is its lack of debugging capabilities, which makes it really hard to figure out what goes on behind the scenes.
At least in Sweden (and I imagine the UK is somewhat similar) leasing for private citizens have only just started taking off. It's been available for companies for some time but I imagine that the low interest rates has made it viable for individuals as well.
what about __wasm {} in JS !? you can sort of already do that.
Very good list. "Models" is an exceptional book (even if poorly written) about how to live a life that will maximize your opportunities to find a partner.
This book changed how I look at the world. I highly recommend it.
There are several frames in that embedded video that are usable, that's where I counted the transducers and their arrangement.

At 0:54
It appears to be an issue with Ryzen's new micro-op cache and "CMP/TEST conditional jump" instruction fusion.

See comment from inuwashidesu in this thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6f08mb/compili...
There's a big element of "fallacy of the excluded middle" here. There's something of a continuum between "work yourself to death" and "goof off and do nothing", with "kinda hard work" somewhere in there. That is to say, you can advocate working hard while still allowing for work life balance. You can also advocate both working "hard" and working "smart". They are not mutually exclusive.
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The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt.

You hear 'ancient wisdom' on how to lead the good life all the time. These ancient aphorisms came from a time before the scientific method and the idea of testing your hypotheses. Tradition has acted a sort of pre-conscious filter on the advice we get, so we can expect it to hold some value. But now, we can do better.

Haidt is a psychologist who read a large collection of the ancient texts of Western and Eastern religion and philosophy, highlighting all the 'psychological' statements. He organized a list of 'happiness hypotheses' from the ancients and then looked at the modern scientific literature to see if they hold water.

What he finds is they were often partially right, but that we know more. By the end of the book, you have some concrete suggestions on how to lead a happier life and you'll know to the studies that will convince you they work.

Haidt writes with that pop science long windedness that these books always have. Within that structure, he's an entertaining writer so I didn't mind.
> ...about the state of Africa.

It would help to think on a country-by-country basis. Generalizing over the entire continent of 54 countries is not useful, I have noticed people go with their feelings rather than facts when the topic is Africa - even on HN.

By way of example, I have been impressed by South Africa's checks and balances over the last few years. A dedicated public protector, independent judiciary, a free press and a robust opposition.

> I've spent a ton of time thinking about the state of Africa. And I don't see a way out short of a bloody revolution

I have done the same, and the conclusion I came to is that African countries need a strong middle class. Poverty encourages patronage-politics and keeps the populace worrying about bread-and-butter issues rather than the more abstract issues of policies.

If you (the reader, not parent) have the time to evaluate your biases, I would appreciate it if you would take a minute to make a Self Assessment: answer the following question in your head and do a google search to find the real answer.

1. How many active conflicts are in Africa? How many countries are affected (out of 54)

2. How many countries are afflicted by famine?
"My point is, if you're doing an early stage startup, don't try to "become a better leader". That's the worst and the most useless meta thing to try to do."

If your company has any employees, you'll need to be at least a competent leader, or your company will be at risk of failing (e.g., your key employees might get fed up with random, incompetent management and quit). Being a manager/leader is difficult, especially if all you've ever done before is being a programmer. There are lots of things to learn, and there are many things you don't know that you don't know. (I learned this the hard way by being promoted from a programmer to a mid-level manager a long time ago.) So if you're new to leadership, you may want to spend some time learning about leadership skills before it's too late.

"If you're not the type to manage people and get bored doing that, just hire a good CEO."

You'll probably have quite a few employees (100 maybe?) before it makes sense to hire an outside CEO (they cost a lot of money). If you can't competently lead that size of startup, your company may not survive long enough to hire an outside CEO.
This isn't a realistic comment whatsoever. Compilers are nowhere near what you're describing
Keep in mind that this young man will most likely support his family in Ghana by giving money to his brothers and sisters and acting as mentor to his nieces and nephews.

Here's a hypothetical question: Suppose there is a charitable foundation that identifies 100 poor, smart, hard-working young people in Ghana. Of these 100, the foundation randomly chooses 50 to receive a scholarship to immigrate to a rich country like the US or Germany and receive a university education. Ten years after they graduate, the foundation asks an independent person to make an assessment of 'contribution to Ghanaian society' for (a) each family member of each graduate; (b) each individual who did not receive the scholarship and each of his/her family members. If the result is that the estimated total contribution by group (a) is bigger than group (b), would that change your mind about emigration being a loss to the community?
Yes, you have to think in a defensive manner. You should also get a court order compelling the grant people to tell you who saw your info and whether or not they have their vetters sign an NDA. A signed NDA may be a valuable factor in any signed litigation if they saw your data and made a patent application (disclosed info they agreed in writing not to disclose).
This isn't actually true for any meaningful speedup. You will at least need to use intrinsics to start to get as much as you can from the cpu
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Wouldn't you then just flag as spam any profiles with a high proportion of photos with no faces in them?
I suspect you could just use the content loss approach from the style transfer examples.

Take say the second last layer of a pre-trained convolutional neural network (e.g. VGG) and just use that to compute cosine similarities between images.

Would have to pick a cutoff with some manual testing but I suspect that'd work plus can be done in a matter of hours using pre-trained weights in keras.
This book is my favorite non-fiction book. It is hard to reduce it back to what it is about, but it is filled with very useful insight into how the mind works. The metaphor of the rider and the elephant finally let me explain differences between what I consciously decided and what I actually did.
Yes, insects are full of mimicry...
It clear Microsoft intends to replace VBA with JavaScript that will run both in desktop Office and Office Online - we have it already with "Office Apps", but Office Apps are sandboxed pretty bad and have zero access to COM and legacy Office components. Assuming Microsoft eventually brings JS-in-Office to feature-parity with VBA then they can kill off the old editor.
Rationality is good, but I found Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality to be a much more pleasant read about the same topics by the same author.

Both books suffer from the same problem, the lack of an editor. They could be half the size and it would make them a much more convincing and entertaining read.
Man's Search for Meaning (published under a different title in 1959: From Death-Camp to Existentialism) by Viktor Frankl who survived the concentration camps to go on to develop logotherapy and existential analysis (considered the third Viennese School of Psychotherapy). "lack of meaning is the paramount existential stress. To him, existential neurosis is synonymous with a crisis of meaninglessness", an interesting read, it does not focus on the horrors of the event, instead recognising the human capacity to overcome and rise above.
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I'm typesetting a series of novels with LaTeX and memoir and I share your pain. I didn't have much trouble with fonts (fontspec is pretty awesome compared to the old TeX way), but things like typesetting on a grid, that was difficult.

I'm now reading on ConTeXt and it seems to be a much more adequate TeX format. For one thing, it supports grid typesetting! LaTeX's philosophy is to separate style and content, leaving the style to "someone else". It seems that ConTeXt's philosophy is to separate style and content, but still make it easy for the user to choose the style. It's also more integrated: comprehensive core, few third-party packages, meaning less compatibility issues (but less choice too). I'll definitely try it for my next project.
There were other attempts to bridge safety and performance.

C++11 already gets​ pretty close to that, but Microsoft's M# was used to write a research OS and is probably the closest.
And Self's Morphic, which went even further ("static" objects would be defined via UI elements with only the method bodies being written in small editors)
Mini Habits - It gave me a new perspective of how to go about making changes in my life, that aren't so burdensome.

I have developed several habits:

a. Writing a Gratitude Journal

b. Going to Gym in the morning

c. Programming in the morning

d. Reading in the morning

I copied some of my highlights here:

http://www.chestergrant.com/26-highlights-from-mini-habits-b...