skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(project author here) Ya, sorry, its not clear at all. About 6 months ago I got the system working sorta ok, but i found it a bit boring. So I thought maybe if the algorithm generates N interchangeable variations associated with an emotion I could maybe make the music interactive. So the icons are going to represent a different emotion that a user can switch to at any point. Obviously its not really work very well. This site is ultimately a tool for me to test switching between variations. The end goal is not a website but to expose a music generating api that could be integrated into say, VR/game or something that might want interactive music.
So the vineyard can truck its goods across state lines? seems bonkers to me
I had this discussion [0] with their CTO a while back and, suffice it to say, there's a profound lack of understanding of what early adopters like me had to do to lobby for the use of their products in enterprises.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13775732
The part about Biel makes it sound like the Indians were ignorant thirdworlders who didn't know any better.
> and don't forget that crap code == insecure code.

I don't think I believe that equality is nearly as neat you'd hope. Unless we're willing to call all code crap code, a lot of projects with well-respected code and development practices have had serious zero days, and we've also found that sandboxing software is highly effective. Insecure code in a secure, well-written sandbox can get you a secure deployment, and you probably want to have your "good" code in a well-written sandbox anyway.
Depends on your definition of "high-speed." I still think of that as meaning anything faster than dialup. The front page of wine.com is 4MB, which would take ten minutes to load over a 56k modem, so in that sense it doesn't seem wrong.
As a counter point, I've been running a service like this for 2 years. I had one person mildly complain in the early days and the thousands that have signed up after haven't said anything about it. Emails go through instantly every time and they rarely get logged out.

I get a lot of feedback weekly but it's never about the signup/login process.
Even if the monthly payment for a 30 yr fixed were to stay the same the buyer would be better off with a lower price. American mortgages have no prepayment penalty, so the buyer has the possibility of refinancing at a lower rate sometime over the payback period or even just making extra principal payments.
That's not the only way it has to be.
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-31709454

One millionaire got a $54,000 speeding fine commensurate with his income and another got approximately $200,000 fine based on memory of exchange rates.
How are the open source drivers for games? Can you render Civ 5/6 or Rocket League?
Aye here in the Netherlands because of the extremely high traffic density they have to do maintenance on highways every 7 years. When they planned the road network nobody imagined that there would be so many automobiles.

First world problems!
It's missing the supercapacitor.
I don't play golf or have any interest in it, but I was talking to my brother about him using golf carts on his farm as vehicles. I kept getting golf cart adverts in Facebook for the next month. Maybe it used location data to suggest we might be interested in the same thing, but it was a bit weird.
Desktop Ryzen still suffers with thermal/power efficiency issues compared to desktop Intel cores, so I wonder if they've managed to address that issue for these mobile cores. If not, I wonder how customers will feel about paying a battery life tax for better performance...

Incidentally, AMD GPUs have been at a disadvantage compared to NVIDIA's in the power management area for a while, as well. Which is unfortunate because they're very good cores with (arguably) a better feature set for compute/rasterization than NVIDIA's. Intel seems to have the market for low-power GPUs on PC sewn up as well. If AMD manages to make improvements here they could put out a very compelling product, if only because you wouldn't need GPU-switching in your laptop (with all the hassle that entails) and it'd be easier to substitute a laptop for your desktop when you do compute-heavy work.

For example, https://www.anandtech.com/show/11658/the-amd-ryzen-3-1300x-r... shows worse idle power draw and worse load power draw for Ryzen. In desktop cases this gap doesn't matter as long as you have a good heatsink+fan but it will map to worse battery life and worse noise/thermals in a laptop. (An extra thirty watts in total system draw under load can add up on your utility bill, though.)

Power draw on AMD's GPUs is not great either, unfortunately: https://www.anandtech.com/show/11717/the-amd-radeon-rx-vega-...
And past GPUs they've released also had issues with drawing more power over the PCIe slot than it was rated for (and exceeding their TDP in general, I believe).
What if you are building your own home?
The root of the problem seems to be that those causing the most damage to the roads aren't paying enough to maintain them. A semi causes 1,400x more wear on the same stretch of road than a car! [1].

[1] https://www.lrrb.org/pdf/201432.pdf
from the website, https://what3words.com/about/ :

> Street addresses worldwide are inaccurate, unreliable and don’t exist at all in many places. Poor addressing is expensive and frustrating, hampers economic growth and development, restricts social mobility and affects lives.

> Street addresses can usually identify a building, but aren’t accurate enough to help a courier or taxi driver find the correct entrance. This results in delayed or failed deliveries, and numerous ‘where are you’ phone calls.
And that's how it should be. Why subsidize the hillbillies?
How much more? Is it $300,000 versus $200,000? But now you still get an affordable house that you wanted.

I don't think economies of scale rule in house building. I can see how you would out-compete mass production because you a) care, b) pay attention.
I find the same attitude has now permiated American politics. You can say something as neutral as, "I'm very cautious of getting riled up by overblown narratives that lack factual evidence or are presented in an obviously inflammatory manner" and suddenly you're the anti-Christ.
oven.likes.zips is much easier to communicate and memorize than 40.7484° N, 73.9857° W (location of empire state building).
> Basically, the glory days of free-range hacking without government regulation appear limited

I think there is a difference between a small startup launching a new service, and a world-wide social telecommunications network with over 1B users.
http://archive.is/PRdIN
38 ideas for repairing our badly broken civic life
My belief is that radical changes are needed. Much smaller plots, truly mixed use areas, for starters. The tiny villages concept I have shown at http://tinyvillages.org takes it to an extreme, but even 2 or 3 uses for the old plot size would make a dramatic difference.

I think that this idea will be better in many cases than building condos everywhere.
Timothy Gowers on peer review
Backwards compatibility is a big reason. If the OS handles everything then you can only use an OS that has the latest drivers. Driver bugs could also brick your hardware in some cases.
Go to Jiuzhaigou
Of course the meaning of high-speed is always going to be relative. The author makes it sound like ordering wine over the internet wasn't possible until broadband become available. I don't know if such sites existed, but a wine retailer certainly could have setup a storefront on the internet back in 1995.
Seriously? Because I don't think that a bicycle is a car (I just checked a dictionary, I am pretty sure it's not), I am arrogant because I supposedly can afford it and supposedly think everyone should? If that is what counts as logic to you, I don't think there is much of a point to discussing with you any further.
I agree on the Ruby syntax part but every single Ruby method can be monkey-patched to oblivion, and many gems do just that. What you see is very often NOT what you get with Ruby.

I have looked quickly at Crystal and I liked it, really did. But it's too late for me now, I am in love with Elixir and already using it professionally, quite successfully too. Now that's a language with 90% WTF-free syntax (admittedly some of the pattern matching idioms and a few constructs can be confusing at times; very interested to see the builtin code formatter coming in version 1.6 though).
It's pretty crazy to think that in just a year or two 192 threads will likely be available on commodity dual-socket x86 server hardware...
Wow, and I thought I was the only one who remembers Linux vservers. Whenever I tell people I was using them 15 years ago, people look at me like I'm crazy. I was beginning to think I dreamed it all.

Now here's Docker getting mountains of press for seemingly reinventing the wheel. But, to be fair, cgroups didn't exist back in the days of Linux vservers, so there was no easy way to constrain per-vserver resource use as there is now, the isolation wasn't as complete as with Docker, and there was no use of layered filesystems so you couldn't build up a Linux vserver layer by layer as you can a Docker container.

It was still very useful back then, though. Way ahead of its time, and it's a shame most people never knew it even ever existed.
Maybe one of the issues is the expected sizes of homes in the US - 2500 sq ft is about 250 sq m - which is pretty darn big. The average home in the uk is about 85 sq m...
> Really, I don't see why Facebook wouldn't monitor audio like this for targeting ads.

Horrible battery life?
I agree the comparison could be a lot more fair. My goal was to show how adding in labels can give you better principle components, but I should've used an RBF kernel, or some kind of unsupervised kernel, instead of linear PCA.

I really should go and make the code available. I spent a lot of time writing the RF kernel in Cython to get it to be fast. But it is so fragile and incomplete, I'm not sure I am ready to release and maintain it. Maybe I'll just post the scripts.

Thanks for the links and insights about ANNs as combined kernel learners + classifiers. I'll check out the papers (I'm also surprised at what Deep Forest is. Not what I was expecting.)
Generative vision model trains with high efficiency and breaks text CAPTCHAs
And btw...fasting is free, safe when done properly, and something anyone can do today

I would much rather fast than ingest a drug pushed by big pharma...even if it did work and triggered the same response
I would add gravity storage [1].

"The fundamental principle is based on the hydraulic lifting of a large rock mass. [...] Water is pumped beneath a movable rock piston, thereby lifting the rock mass. [Later] the water which is under high pressure from the rock mass, is routed to a turbine [...] and generates electricity using a generator."

"[For certain pistons] the storage capacity increases with the fourth power of the radius, r^4. The construction costs however only increase with the square of the radius, r². [...] Strictly speaking, the price per kilowatt hour of storage capacity decreases with 1/r². This is the outstanding competitive advantage of this storage concept."

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[1] http://www.heindl-energy.com/gravity-storage/gravity-storage...
Another reminder that a proprietary system from a for-profit company should not be used as the basis for addressing in any country.

Here's some good reporting on the company: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/06/the-m...
I know that smart TVs and the now defunct Kinect have the ability to monitor conversations. Hell I remember when I first used Soundhound! I was flabbergasted, what will they think of next.

But I also know corporations are usually scrupulous about following laws so unless there is something in Facebook's ToS/EULA that mentions doing this I'm skeptical.
No, although I'm sure that rolling coal and "Prius Hunting" are separate terms in West Virginia.

The article conflates rolling coal with "Prius hunting", which probably isn't intentional. The Wikipedia article for rolling coal also does this. The main reason for my post was differntating these two ideas. Online this seems quite politicized. Perhaps it is exactly that, and my experiences are just different, that's the problem with anecdotes. But my experiences come from car shows where people from across the country travel to host events. A truck will "roll coal" while on a dynamometer with only other "truck guys" around who are not bothered by the fumes.

Although while I was searching for the videos I was using as examples in my previous comment, I saw many videos such as "rolling coal on protesters" and many "Prius hunting videos". I find actions such as these poor form and I'm not trying to defend them. Both are obnoxious and polluting, but only one is intentionally malicious in nature.
These are all great questions. The simplicity of the kernels produced might make them very amenable to analysis. I'm not sure I have the technical skills to do it though...
Yeah, because "350 5th Ave, NYC" is just so hard to communicate...
I'm not sure what the answer is but something should be done about Facebook's part in the problems in Myanmar. (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/29/business/facebook-misinfo...)
Yup agree completetly.
Ideally. I'm of course talking about whether it's hypothetically possible to do this. Once we understand the brain better, it may be possible to create a reasonably accurate computer model and do this for real.
Um... VW?
Define "be secure".

I have a vested interest in IoT devices beings secure, and the idea of the US government defining "be secure" is laughable at best, terrifying at worst.

You will pine for the bad, old days of "completely insecure" when you have a TSA-like entity defining your security.
I'll mention what someone told me what a CTO's job is NOT to me.
You can disagree

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CTO's should not be developing your app with your developers.

> He can be reviewing the code; or giving ideas to members and helping the organization by giving them direction

Lastly it maybe unhealthy sign for your CTO to be coding with your developers like he is another developer. He has other tasks that need done than just coding
How to Be a C.E.O., From a Decade’s Worth of Them
A typical service has many types of dependencies including filesystem layout, the presence of specific executables at specific versions, rpm/deb packages at specific versions. Different services make different assumptions and evolve at incompatible paces. Docker can isolate an assumption about FS layout as well as an assumption that a deb is at a specific version.

This article is confusing in its focus on docker. It really proposes a much more restricting way to build apps, in which all assumptions except linking-level dependencies should be portable. Its answer to filesystem isolation: don't rely on the filesystem being a certain way. Or, rely on it being a certain way and push the complexity into your deployment layer.
Our voices should be part of the conversation.

I completely understand the fear about government regulation with respect to how we compute. For example Section 1201 of the DMCA, the CFAA both scare me, as do periodical “nerd harder” debates about backdoored encryption.

But what is it that you’d like to do with people’s private data that you’re worried will be prevented?

There are loads of apps right now that exfiltrate your address book, for example, to gather what you know about private individuals, without their knowledge or consent, to be exploited in an unregulated marketplace of personal data.

Is that good? Do you think he EFF think it is, or the FSF?
Equating Facebook with "free-range hacking" is laughable. That's exactly what companies like Facebook and Google want us to do.
AVC: I Scam Yous
Facebook denies 'listening' to conversations
A CTO isn't necessarily a programmer at all. For example, if a company makes software for gene sequencing, their CTO could be a scientist.

And good managers try to hire people who are smarter than they are.
Graduate survey: A love–hurt relationship
Double speed 200% = 2.00

2000 mhz * 2 is 4000 mhz

Tripple would be 300%
It turns out people buy generally the most home they can afford, and this is in terms of monthly payment. As interest rates increase, demand falls for higher priced homes and the new equilibrium price ends up hitting just about the same monthly payment as you had before.

Low interest rates have the same effect in reverse. Prices adjust so that regardless of interest rate your monthly payment is about the same, but low rates do transfer huge wealth to existing homeowners.

As down payments have come down over time this is only more pronounced. From 50% down with a 5 year term in the early 1900s to peak-mortgage 5% down 50 year terms a few years ago.
Donald Trump breaks Twitter’s rules, so why not ban him?
One thing I've wondered was that Facebook began showing the recent photos you'd taken at the top of the app, and prompted you to share them. Are they sending every photo you take to their servers to feed it back to you at the top of your stream? I realize they could implement this feature by displaying local photos without sending them to their servers, but I've never seen confirmation that photos remain on your device only until you post. I uninstalled the app awhile back, so maybe they don't do this anymore, but anybody have any insights into how they handle your photos?
Anecdotally, Facebook battery performance is pretty poor, it's always the app that drains my battery the fastest. I don't think they care about power consumption.
I'm speculating the following will happen:

Some group of people will write an open-source library that will make it possible to interface with Facebook in an unofficial way, e.g. through a headless browser. Facebook will oppose this, but the creators of the library will constantly update the library, and add AI to circumvent captchas and things like that.

Using this library, other people will create applications to manage one's Facebook data. At that point, users will have more complete control over their own data. The applications will allow data to be exported to other, more open services (a competing service could ask: "would you like to import from Facebook?") And this will be the beginning of the end of Facebook.
Even if that weren't the case, it says:

[The Congress shall have Power] To
regulate Commerce with foreign Nations,
and among the several States, and with
the Indian Tribes;

I.e. not that the Federal government must regulate interstate commerce, merely that it has the power to do that, and even if it said that the commerce must be regulated it could still be regulated to the effect that you couldn't e.g. sell across state lines.

But yes, the reason the regulation is different for alcohol than for other goods is ostensibly the 21st.
Apologies I have edited my post to explain Intel have the same likely backdoored system too.
There are lots of issues with paved roads in well-populated and urban areas, too. Go drive on the Mass Pike if you don't believe me.

It's so bad that Massachusetts car insurance policies will cover a windshield replacement every year.
Not necessarily the case - my sister just had a home built on land in Dallas and the cost was not much more than new home cost ($129/living sq ft), before that my father built the home we grew up in nearby himself. There's a reason Dallas, Houston, and Austin are at the top of the new home construction numbers - low regulatory overhead make every scale of home building manageable, including self-starting new home construction. Meanwhile the benchmark for new construction starts in SF is 3-5 years just to navigate the intial regulatory approval for construction. Try navigating that as an individual just trying to get a home built for yourself. It's basically impossible.
Only if a state allows for direct shipments from in-state wineries. The effect of Granholm was to forbid states from using the 21st Amendment to discriminate against out-of-state producers.
Show HN: Infobesity
Just press a button and a song comes out -- can't be copyrighted.

I wonder: what would it take for a machine-generated work to be considered a work derived from a human-generated work? While the machine-generated work still wouldn't be copyrightable[0], would that prevent others from using the machine-generated work without an appropriate license?

(IANAL.)

[0] «To be copyrightable, a derivative work must incorporate some or all of a preexisting “work” and add new original copyrightable authorship to that work.» https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.pdf [PDF]
Yes and it's "200 percent more", the more being the key bit. More being 100% + (200%), i.e. 300%, i.e. triple.
Is 100% faster equal to 1.00x?
I'd first want to see a breakdown of the other costs. For asphalt roads, most of the mass is the aggregate, so a ton of asphalt should make a fair amount of road.

(apparently hot mix is between 3 and 7 percent asphalt)
The article was originally published in German in their print magazine about a week before the linked translation. http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/dieselskandal-drei-us-studente... (paywalled)
Life lessons from doing improv
I’m pretty sure Facebook would do a lot more to prevent third-party access than put up a couple captchas. I wouldn’t be surprised by a cease-and-desist.
Agreed on many of your points - a lock icon was a bad suggestion on my part, given its use for HTTPS/SSL indication.

I suppose what I'm really asking here is this:

When you ask someone to enter their credit card number on a checkout page, that number is so glaringly obvious that it doesn't necessitate explanation. Everyone seems to know that it is the 16-digit number on the front of your card. You don't need to explain to people via text and diagrams that it is such.

So why isn't the CVV also self-explanatory? How could we make it so? If things like the card number or expiration date don't require documentation, why are cards not designed to make the CVV easily understandable?
I doubt I'd be able to find anything to cite, but having lived in east Asia, I think part of the problem is that Americans take substantially longer to perform any kind of construction or repair. Things that would happen practically overnight take weeks or even months in the States.
There's a tool called "youtube-dl" that does something similar for YouTube, and it still exists.

It's not uploading to competing services though, but somebody could build it on top of it.
> Thats not possible in Docker

Believe this at your own peril.
Exactly. City it's usually obvious. With an address you need to memorize street and number, 2 things. With 3 random words, there's no hint to remind you of what it might be. With an address, at least you could say it's on Main St. if you don't remember the whole address.
I don't know the article's sources, but it says "America has five times the general population of Britain, but only twice the number of heroin addicts." You can research this as easily as I can.
Wouldn't it be easier to reverse engineer their app? It seems easy enough, at least one the Android side. You could use something like baksmali to convert all the dex code to smali, then grep that for calls to AudioRecord/MediaRecorder and figure out what triggers that code.

That's why I'm skeptical that Facebook would do this -- it seems like a terrible business decision given the high chance of getting caught, either by reverse engineering or a whistleblower.
There's an easy way to verify this: run tcpdump and record it happening. The fact that nobody has done this, instead only offering anecdotes, strongly suggests that these are coincidences or from other forms of targeting.