skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it's that music matters and even instrumental music contains a similar level of content and meaning as speech.

The minute we realise music isn't the authentic voice of another human being we reject it.

Even my enjoyment of arguably mechanical music like some of the early minimalist stuff - where to a degree processes determine the structure and unfolding of the work - is mediated through my awareness of the authorial intent of the composer. (I'm talking more about Piano Phase than Pendulum Music here - the latter is slightly too devoid of human intervention to be 'real music' for me)

How would you feel about a novel generator? Why is that so different?
Right! So get in on the ground floor of this amazing opportunity! /s
I'm not in favor of this law at all.

But when groups use pressure tactics to try to get stores and organizations to boycott Israel, it goes to a whole new level.

And that level is virtually indistinguishable from anti-Semitism. And outlawing that, that I would support.
Show HN: Automatic captcha labeller with Apple's SimGAN
Yep the time will change for sure if we coun the detour to the kitchen for the espresso machine and after that to the "throne" room for a bit of self reflection and posting few articles to the HN...
Yes. And this is where it gets sociopathic. Large companies will hire "good" managers to make people feel they make a difference, that they are being heard, and that the company gives a shit. But of course, this is business as usual. Worker satisfaction is just a number on a spreadsheet that execs in a room move up and down with pirks, with corporate philosophy, with company events, and with dangling carrots.

This isn't to say it isn't important. It is, and that is why they will spend time and money on it. But if, say, the cash is low, these are things that go, and rightfully so if it's to stay in business.

And the kicker is, the guys that run the show, the guys that start businesses and come to work with a mission, the guys everyone seems to want to be -- they don't need anything. They're already as motivated as can be, take on all the responsibility, and even sign the checks to pay everyone AND pay for the things they believe they will make them happy.

And this truly is the paradox. There is nothing cushy about an executive job, especially at a tech company. And I'd say never at a startup. It's cut throat as fuck. If you can't deliver, you're out. You should be out. Everyone is watching you, and everyone will complain. But you have no one to complain to. Having someone to complain to, having excuses, these are all pirks.

But if you can deliver, then you have professional freedom and high reward, at least in a capitalist economy. Then you get to make life cushy for yourself if that is what you desire.
Yes, generally 25%, 15% for food stuff and 10% for cultural stuff.

Income is taxed with 25% up to 164K NOK (about 20K USD), maximum income tax is 39,25% for everyone earning more than about 950K NOK (about 119K USD). But there's lots of deductions, so it's not too bad.
Considering that boycott won't as it violates WTO rules and and the bilateral trade agreements between the US and Israel it can.

Canada's court just a few weeks ago had to strike out few BDS pushed resolutions because the boycott violated the existing trade agreements.

For the most part boycotting is already illegal this is just a political statement that won't change the reality on the ground.
Considering I usually end up wearing them beyond recognition and what anyone else would wear, I throw them in the fireplace. Conversion to heat energy!
Ah, good find of the github link! I imported it into glitch so I could see it run: https://honey-climb.glitch.me/
There is a good likelihood that any substantial software effort by an accredited individual touches on a multitude of software written by less accredited people most of which he has never reviewed some of which nobody even knows who wrote it.

The discretion you desire ought to be enforced by the people who are responsible for that 31 million dollars not a set of standards imposed from on high.

If they fail and lose other peoples money or even lives the court is in the best position to correct this on a case by case basis.

Any set of standards imposed from on high are likely to evolve slowly and work poorly as it is difficult to fully specify the problem without in each case fully using understanding the code, the problem space, and the risks.

Ex a standard codified a few years ago would probably specify safe ways to write c but forbid rust.

We can fully specify safe and proper ways to build bridges because we have been building bridges for thousands of years while software development is less understood and still in Flux.

I don't think we could effectively turn software development into engineering even if this was desirable.
Your logic is flawed associating social problems with eliminating church. There should be more socially accepted ways to congregate other than under the auspices of an ancient superstition.

And I won't even comment on your connection to health problems and natural foods (whatever those are). You mean like what prehistoric man ate? And lived to 25 years old?
I don't understand where you got the idea that I suggest enforcing any kind of artificial rules on anyone. I am in fact for nearly zero labor regulation. I just said it's a negative effect, which it is.

Ideally the proportion in which a skill affects your salary is exactly the same at the proportion in which it affects job performance. Anything else is a market inefficiency.

Whether we should try to regulate it away is a completely different story.
Still images I can handle; it's the animation which really distracts from being able to read the text.
>I'm not sure anybody is saying that bitcoin will be used to price all assets in the world. USD currently isn't, for example. It's just the dominant currency.

Most things are actually priced in dollars to some extent, perhaps with some conversions. Maybe euros in some other cases.

>Why do you feel it's immoral for Satoshi to own 5%? We don't even know if he's alive or still has access to the coins, but let's say for the sake of argument that he does.

I'm not making a morality argument. Just pointing out that it will be a hard pill to swallow that for the (in my view small) advantages of cryptocurrencies we as a society complete the most massive wealth transfer to a single individual ever attempted. For me it's an argument as to why it's implausible crypto currencies will take hold as they exist today. They require a huge wealth transfer to a few early adopters for very little gain. If the advantages were greater it seems more likely to me that a new chain would be bootstrapped but I'm not even convinced it's worthwhile enough that it will actually take hold on a massive scale.
You are assuming that a single app from a toolkit causes every possible qt library to be loaded in memory. This is a faulty assumption.
So it can be illegal for me to factor in social or political concerns into a buying decision?

Ludicrous.
I think that it is to ensure that US companies cannot fold under outside of US pressure. If lets say country X says - no business for you here if you trade simultaneously with Israel, you have to bite the bullet and stop dealing with X not Israel.

You are totally free to not deal with Israel if nobody is pressuring you.
This is a nice notion, but ignores the feedback cycles which have already been set in motion - at this point, reducing our emissions to zero may provide little benefit, as as the Arctic and Antarctic thaw, relict methane is being emitted at an alarming rate, wildfires are becoming far more frequent globally, and oceans are no longer functioning terribly well as carbon sinks, further pushing emissions.

I'm not saying we shouldn't try, but I fear we're already past the point of no return for catastrophic climate change.
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Discrimination on religious grounds is already illegal, which would include antisemitism.
A book thief in Brazil who stole 303 books, the 27 most expensive ones are worth between USD 120k and USD 160k.

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pt&tl=en&js=y&prev...
To go one step further, who says inventing a better currency shouldn't be worth 3x as much as creating e.g. walmart or microsoft? Sounds exactly like the sort of civilisational step forward that should be rewarded handily. Remember, we're talking about a world in which bitcoin has absorbed 50% of the world's assets, presumably because it's better in some real way than other currencies.
Not just wages -- IIUIC, CA doesn't distinguish wage vs other kinds of income.
Kernel density plots should be preferred to histograms in nearly all cases. Histograms can be seen as a kernel density plot with a uniform kernel that has been sampled. Since a kernel density plot with a uniform kernel has unbounded frequency content, this sampling introduces aliasing, which is why you get all of these strange effects when adjusting the bin width and offset. In fact, if the distribution of your data happens to be a sine wave, then the histogram will also be a sine wave, but, due to aliasing, it may have a different frequency and phase.

For a kernel density plot with a Gaussian kernel, the kernel size does effect the result, but the situation is much better than with histograms for two reasons:

1. The kernel density plot varies smoothly as the kernel size changes, and so there is greater confidence that you have seen the whole story by only looking at a few kernel sizes.

2. You can construct a kernel density plot with a larger kernel given only a kernel density plot with a smaller kernel. Since the convolutions of two Gaussians produces a new Gaussian with a variance equal to the sum of the input variances, you only have to convolve the small-kernel plot with another Gaussian to produce the large-kernel plot. This, again, means that you have more confidence that you've seen the whole story by looking at only a few kernel sizes.

As a side note, there is technically a 1:1 relationship between 1D datasets and kernel density plots with a Gaussian kernel, and so in theory you don't lose any information by constructing the kernel density plot. In practice, however, you do lose information due to limited precision.
What specific WTO rules apply to private citizens?
It's not true that tariffs apply to everyone. The only law that apply to everyone is is Arbeidsmiljøloven. Some tariffs are generalised and is a de-facto minimum wage in that sector.
Bongo and djembe drums, thumb pianos and medium bells from West Africa
That doesn't seem too complex. Just make sure the parole board doesn't have conflicts of interest.
I could tell you non-specific tips about jobs.

Differentiating yourself is important if you want to get the best pay in your field. Some jobs are quite repetitive and could be automated easily. And a lot of jobs in bioinformatics are re-inventing the wheel, sometimes awfully. It would pay IMO to think at a higher level, standardize the toolset and procedures, use the excellent tooling that the profession has already adopted.

Galaxy is a step in this direction, so it would not pay to be a good practitionner, but it would pay to be the guy that can automate bio-informatics jobs.

You can have also a niche competency, like knowing how to operate a specific hardware or software. I would not bet on that approach.

You can also try some professional certification, or knowing regulations in your field or be expert on some quality assurance procedures.

You can also try to be able to manage large bio-informatics projects from project design to operation and strategic steering.
Thank you. I never thought Perl 6 had macros. Plus, now I can see that "homoiconicity" is not required for macro systems.

> However, we need to stop pretending that code substitution is some magical, genius feature that can only exist in the Utopian environment of a common lisp system.

I couldn't agree more.
How is it racist to have reservations about a nation that's implementing a modern and even more violent version of apartheid?
Any company which won't clearly explain the last share price for you stock and your strike price is trying to pull a fast one. Without that information, it's worth $0.
I was asserting the opposite: if it adds less than X amount of value, nobody would buy it for X.

That it sells for X proves that it adds at least X amount of value.
I'm curious why you think having IPOed means you'll successfully sell to the enterprise market, which clearly is the "chasm" the author refers to? Without much knowledge about the details, the article seems like a fair representation of "I see this issue for them if they want to grab this large market (which would help them resolve some of their current risks), here is why".
We have a stand up bot (geekbot). Coupled with a jira bot that posts-back ticket information if tickets are mentioned in the stand up, it makes for a good experience.
How is having a company where the founders/banks own 70% of all the stock and deflation builtin any better?
Boycotting Israel is completely different from anti-semitism. Israel and Jews are separate things, and there are more of us outside of Israel than in it.
mainstream vs. special interest is probably better, I.e. content that appeals to lots of people but has low value to the average person vs. content that only appeals to a few people, but has a higher value to the people that enjoy it. Of course nobody goes out of their way to make unpopular content, but content that is less mainstream is less popular.

I basically agree with your point about providing a high quality alternative. That's what the charter says the BBC should do, however it is supposed to be a balance, in order to provide a service that people want to pay for.

> If a talk-show host wants a large six-figure sum they should go look in the commercial sector

Yeah, there needs to be a balance. The BBC should use its position to grow new talent, but equally it needs to be able to pay close to market rates in order to make high quality output.

> For things like F1 BBC should only be stepping in if no commercial station will take it as FTA

I agree that it must push up the price, but I'm not sure by how much. The BBC doesn't dominate sports coverage (there seems to be a change to what is shown every year), so I don't see why the market rate with/without the BBC would be that much different.

People like watching watching sports on the BBC, because the coverage is good and there are no adverts. I don't watch sports myself, but I find value in the BBC output in other ways, so it balances out.
Listening to users for ideas works well in plenty of scenarios, but there are also plenty of other scenarios where the users won't suggest something innovative because they don't have the same persective of opportunities as the developer. The best situation is where the developer is also a user of the product.

However in all three situations (idea by users/developer/user+developer) you can easily fail if nobody wants to pay for it. You can find millions of people who say they want a better messenger app and they have plenty of ideas of what features their dream app has. Will they pay for it though? Unlikely.
I think offshore assets have more to do with navigation taxes.
Nor does it make sense for a monitor. I can't remember ever wanting to arrange a bunch of windows as a square, a smaller square, a smaller square, etc.
I've not found an elegant way to express in Haskell what can be expressed trivially with modules and functors in SML/OCaml.
I have two of those on arms on my desk. Another great advantage of multiple monitors, I can just switch between devices (Thinkpad, MBP and my gaming rig).

The only thing I hate on U2515Hs: they could be more rebust. The plastic hull is not so great.
Incidentally, have you seen Scott Adams' girlfriend? He's definitely doing something right.
Your comment proves my point.

Israel is not apartheid at all, the only reason people say that is anti-Semitism.

So thank you for proving my point.
Java and C++ programmers seem to like generics (templates in C++'s). Both languages needed to make some compromises, like Java's run-time type erasure and the complexity of the C++ templates with the resulting compile times.

I'd like user defined collections to be easier in go, but that's only one reason I'd like generics in go. I'd also like to remove one of the biggest arguing points over the programming language go, a language I think hits lots of important requirements. Getting it adopted by more teams will be easier and the whole go ecosystem will expand more rapidly if there was less to argue over.

I believe the go team when they say they haven't solved all the problems with adding generics to go; however, worse is better and Java and C++ show that an approach to generics doesn't have to be perfect to be very beneficial.
Yup, this sums it up nicely.
The goyim know! Shut it down!
Get a gaming monitor with ULMB and you'll never have this complaint again. It takes a huge chunk out of the brightness.
I've only seen the video but I would guess it's using either Apple or Google's nav system. Also I know we live in a supposed culture of lawsuits but I doubt you're going to have any luck suing here. If you walk onto the road without looking you're an idiot. Especially when you can view the street through the device you're looking at.
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National Treasure? It is literally state media, you only had to watch the BBC during the Scottish Indy Ref to show how far it will go to tow the government line. I think it is a disgrace so no longer have a licence. When Trump branded it FakeNews, people in the UK were outraged but it is one of the few things I agree with.
It's true, beside entertainment data (movies, tv shows), other libraries were made by deeply passionate people, that had exhaustive collection of everything. Also, pirate networks have different and maybe better uptime than official ones [1]. Often I see PhD thanking scihub because some bug took down springer or nature.

[1] surely the resources and money goes in different directions in official operations so not comparing 100%
It can be separate, yes.

But in the real world it virtually never is.
That's not true. When the language is lazy, you can't give a different type to one expression that's lazy and one expression that's strict. You can write hacks into the language that tell the compiler to evaluate certain expressions strictly, but you can't capture this in the type system when the language is lazy by default. On the other hand, this is perfectly possible in a strict language.
Microsoft has decided the future is 3:2 if you're not averse to moving closer to a square ratio.
Lenovo shows off Folio concept flexible tablet/phone at Lenovo Tech World 2017
Thanks for the informative comment. I'm getting some downvotes, so I want to clarify that I agree with you, and if my comment suggested otherwise, it's a miscommunication.
Very interesting read and props for choosing opcode D, S.
My wife's credit card used to be tied to her PayPal account. It was stolen 4 times in 2 years and we had no idea why until our bank asked if she's been using it with PayPal and so she removed it and we haven't had a card theft event for about a year now...
>Remember, we're talking about a world in which bitcoin has absorbed 50% of the world's assets

Bitcoin proponents keep misunderstanding this. Most of the world's assets are not currencies, they are stocks, bonds, land, etc that we do use currencies to price but we are not holding currencies when we own them. The fact that central banks can inflate currencies doesn't change the value of assets just their pricing under those currencies. So creating a new way to price assets with something that has a guaranteed fixed supply is not a big innovation. If you want that just use gold. It has a much longer history, much less volatility, much less chance of being replaced by the next fad, and isn't mainly owned by a few recent early adopters.

>presumably because it's better in some real way than other currencies.

That's the point someone still needs to make. Modern financial systems are pretty efficient and featureful. Bitcoin is for people that believe in a narrow scenario where normal institutions have failed and yet the internet and the mining infrastructure is still working. To me that seems incredibly unlikely especially given how mining economics and evolution have made it highly centralized in a few players in China.
I think that is going to be the 2nd generation of cryptocurrencies.

Currently we are at the 0th generation which is just a proof of concept.

The 1st generation will be cryptocurrencies which have figured out the consensus problem entirely.

The 2nd generation will be cryptocurrencies with more advanced built in economics that actually give incentive to users to use them as a currency and put an end to rampant speculation and hoarding.
I remember that (haven't used it in years though). I remember when it launched it was a big deal. I think the big deal here is that any reasonably skilled iOS dev could write this in a few hours. Yelp certainly spent more time and money doing it. So the big deal is the tools have finally reached a point that doing useful AR work isn't difficult.
Awesome find and excellent writeup.

But I have to say that I find those flashy gifs and memes a little bit distracting.
Hopefully historians in the future will be sufficiently advanced that when they look back on us 16:10 ratio displays won't rate the top 500 things they are horrified by.
Or "privacy isn't hiding".
....Just to double-check, you're serious right?
tl;dr:

Meme-heavy read about someone finding a way into some internal ticketing system unrelated to Paypal's financial systems.
down vote cause of click bait title
There you have a great operating system – it lacks a good editor, though.
> Physical libraries purchase the books they own, own them legally, and can legally lend them out. The practical difference between the two couldn't be more stark - physical libraries operate within the law, pirates operate in spite of it.

The law is broken. There is no legal mechanism to lend out a digital file. That's the law's fault, not the lender's fault.

> libraries don't run printing presses in the back and only carry limited copies of a book

Now that is an important difference. But no one bothers trying to make a lend-only digital library because it's more difficult and no less illegal.
Do employers pay taxes on their labor as well?
That is more common among those that only did C -> C++ transition, without any experience in other languages with automatic memory management, though.

If you check Herb Sutter's talk about "deferred pointers", he goes to great lengths to only speak the forbidden word towards the end, to avoid loosing the audience.

He also presents a few examples where RC can lead to long pauses or even stack overflow, in the presence of deeply nested data structures.
It depends on what you would consider a lot. The swedish writers organisation has about 3000 members [1] and 1720 Swedish books of fiction was published 2016 [2].

[1] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveriges_F%C3%B6rfattarf%C3%B6...
[2] http://www.forlaggare.se/den-totala-bokutgivningen-i-sverige
Company stocks are not designed to be used as the basis for trade for whole economies. Fractional ownership of an operating business if very different from fractional ownership of a whole currency.
What do you think about the Larsen C ice shelf rifting off into a huge iceberg?
Ask HN: What is the best way to approach a potential co-founder for a startup?
Note: This potential co-founder happens to be one of my close friends. I'd like to know what issues we should talk about and how the negotiation between us should take place.

Also, the start-up is most likely going to be a platform business.