skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- De-reverberation is being intensely (in some niches at least) studied with these tools, and adding the reverb back (if you can learn and remove it from mixed records) means you have probably modeled it well enough to do whatever you want to. But de-reverberation is very hard especially with single source (1 mic) recordings, maybe looking at better reverb generation is easier with the right data. It would be nice to do something that didn't require the physical setup of impulse response recording.

- I haven't heard the term transposition for samples - is this the name for moving samples in pitch and compensating in time so that it sounds undistorted?

- On pure sound synthesis, see NSynth [0]. It's a beginning step toward this with abstract sounds.

- Sample morphing and changing the words with voices is pretty tough (overlaps neural TTS heavily, which is pretty recently starting to work well), but if you can synthesize a single voice decently the rest seems doable with manual intervention. Check Neural Parametric Singing Synthesizer [1], or try the online demo [2]

- Every few months there is a new convnet which improves the baselines for transcription, hopefully it is only a matter of time. The current best is quite a bit better than only a few years ago.

There is still a huge gap between "what is possible in research" and "what is easily usable in a practical editing/creation workflow" on a typical DAW, but hopefully that gap will diminish over time.

There are also a lot of tools from statistical signal processing that were doing these tasks to some degree, digging them back up and "neuralizing" the probability parts with neural nets is a promising way to get quality improvements, and would mirror what has been successful in neural TTS so far.

[0] https://experiments.withgoogle.com/ai/sound-maker

[1] http://www.dtic.upf.edu/~mblaauw/NPSS/

[2] https://www.voiceful.io/demos.html
Right, the only question here is whether or not the FCC can preempt state regulation under existing statutory authority, and existing precedent suggests that maybe it can't. Pretty much everyone agrees that, given additional statutory authority, this kind of regulation would be constitutionally kosher.
>The article also cites CA's car emission standards, which appears to be good precedent

It sets a precedent. It may not be a good one. CA's regulations force anyone who makes anything with an engine to build a CA specific version. The CA's emissions laws for commercial trucks (which are subject to federal regulation) have a huge effect on businesses that have anything to do with moving goods in or out of CA. While I don't like how the commerce clause expanded over the 20th century I CA's emissions laws are begging to be struck down using it.
Do these patterns and transitions get more intense with music, like a mid-2000s music visualization, or is that just me?
> which you have just agreed is fundamentally unmeasurable?

Where did I do that?
> Could other major cloud providers boast this?

Not sure. AWS sent out alerts in early December than many instances needed a reboot, and would be force rebooted on 1/8 iirc. I'm guessing it was to handle patches that were put in place for these issues.
Option #4: Voice your concerns, document, if you can't stop them quit as soon as a lawyer agrees something bad was done, and then sue them. Now you let the world know and maybe you can sue for your equity since you were forced to leave by not wanting to commit fraud.
Or maybe words are imprecise and fluid and the majority of people understand the intended message even if it's "technically incorrect".

>You might be hang up on the additional narrative attached to the word “minority”.

You can't separate words from their "additional narratives" and expect all people to understand what you're attempting to convey. The context and connotation around words is absolutely necessary for communication, and to eschew it leads to poorer communication.
Your conclusion isn't supported by your own data.

The "flip" doesn't occur around 1980, it occurs in the 1970's (feel free to download the excel sheet and examine it yourself, as I did) and it's a trend that follows ALL races, yet the crack era was largely an African-American epidemic.

There was, however, a major social movement in the 60's that encouraged free love, sexual liberation, women's rights, and an explosion of contraceptives. I think this is a stronger explanatory argument, one also made by the Brookings Institution:

https://www.brookings.edu/research/an-analysis-of-out-of-wed...
Are there future plans to add smart contracts (with a "Turing-complete" virtual machine) to Stellar? I think that the Stellar consensus protocol with its speed would be perfect for overcoming the current limitations of Ethereum.
If you don't believe in the technology that you're developing; run. A company should never develop technology against the better judgement of its CTO.

That being said: Using things like blockchain to represent stock ownership; and using crowdfunding, are great ideas. They just don't replace the fact that your company needs a viable business plan, paying customers, and actual investment.

Things like an ICO are like the old story from the 1990s about a lumber company changing its name to "lumbar.com" because there were plenty of fools trying to invest in anything related to the internet.

So, even though this is new technology, how is it relevant for your business? Crowdfunding is great for funding artists, and great for swindling unsavy suckers. Blockchain technology is still too primitive to represent ownership for a run-of-the-mill company; even for a run-of-the-mill "tech" company. Why? Because the tech of blockchain will be too much of a distraction from building your real business.

Anyway, when I read your details, I see a startup that's not going anywhere, and is considering an ICO out of desperation. It's probably time to assess if your company is viable or not.

If you're going to leave, don't try to be too diplomatic. Be frank with your board, "I am leaving because I do not believe that our company is viable. An ICO is a distraction from finding a viable business model and savvy investors. Blockchain / ICO will be a useful technology in the future, but at this time it's too immature and will be a distraction from building our business and product. I recommend that you concentrate on the shortcomings of the business and its product."
It does in certain regions. In others, not so much.
... and then you have to make, for example, scheduling of threads based on "fake time".

rr does just this! I think it uses the "instructions retired" performance counter as its "fake time"; that turns out to be deterministic enough for its purposes. Whether it's deterministic enough in a security context, I don't know for sure.

But this approach, though it can run threaded software, will not let untrusted software (which should really mean all software!) use more than one real core or hardware thread.
It'd be nice if you could link to the studies so we can check them out. I've seen a decent amount of criticism on this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit-association_test#Crit...
> Technically Congress can empower Executive agencies to perform responsibilities granted to it under the Constitution.

Yes, but NN opponents on the right continuously argue against FCC pro-NN regulations based on the premise that Congress has not done so with regard to the FCC and the regulation of internet service, so it's odd to see right-wing NN proponents arguing that the states cannot regulate net neutrality because not only is the FCC empowered to do so, but its power is exclusive.
Jokingly, I saw this and thought to myself - ok, who's the backroom Chinese hacker planting the HN post. :) Then I realized your karma .. I don't disagree with you, but I'm always weary of glowing compliments to software platforms.
Well, we don't really know how hyperdrive works. Maybe there's a reason only starships are capable of hyperdrive. Maybe an asteroid would just break up immediately. Maybe there's a discontinuity between hyperspace and realspace so that they're not always 1:1. In other words, maybe it's extremely easy to miss or otherwise be unable to hit. The scene in TLJ is presented as a go-for-broke situation, after all. Maybe it's something that only works over extremely short ranges because deflector screens will bounce the attacking or defending ships out of the way.
Because women's lives revolve around maximizing their value to husbands.

Yup, sounds completely reasonable.

Hey, how come so many more women become doctors now? High stress job, takes a long time, I don't think it's any more "attractive" then being a nurse.

I'm gonna go ahead and say that this line of thinking is sexist. I'm not trying to attack you I just think it needs to be said because I think it's actively harmful. It ignores any other reasons behind the gap, and it's a terrible line of thinking for anyone who manages women. "I don't know if I should give her this role, women aren't really suited for leadership".
- There is a memorial by Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/aaronsw, but that doesn't seem to include much code. A lot of his other work is preserved here though.

- His site/writing archives https://github.com/tlevine/aaron-swartz

- Some of his code is on GitHub: https://github.com/aaronsw?tab=repositories. Archived at https://archive.org/details/aaronswGHarchive

- Archive.org also has a list of his top HN posts: https://archive.org/details/NewsYcFrontpagePlusArticlesThrea...
> bitcoin can just add it

Bitcoin is pretty much impossible to change now. It's just too big for that.

Example: Segwit voting was available in October 2016 but didn't manage to get significant miner support, finally got activated in August 2017 after a lot of controversy, and is still not seeing convincing adoption[1]. It seems to be stuck around 10%. If a soft fork is that difficult, then more drastic changes must be impossible.

[1] http://segwit.party/charts/#
Traditionally, the US have routinely awared stipends and scholarships to foreign students who had a potential to be somebody 10-20 years down the road (influencing politician, diplomat, journalist, scholar etc.). The idea was that these people would be immersed in the American view of the world and would then propagate it in their home country.
It’s not these researchers specifically, it’s basically every psychology study ever done. We don’t much about human psychology, but we know plenty about the psychology of Ivy League undergrads.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...
> You seem to be suggesting that it's expected and maybe even okay to be mean to people in social situations face to face, based on one's dogmatic beliefs.

Expected? Absolutely. These people are not exactly secret about their hangups. If you hit their button they're going to squawk at you.

Is this a productive way of convincing people to join his views? Interesting question, but probably not.

Am I ok or right with this?

Prior to the election of Trump, I would have said "No, it is not right to zap people like this."

Now? I'm more of the opinion "Your affiliation reflects who you really are and if you present that affiliation in public you should bear consequences in public for those choices."

If you wave something I consider distasteful in front of me, I'm gonna zap you. In fact, I would go further in that it's actually IMPERATIVE for me to zap you so that the people around don't assume that I condone what you represent.
>Getting a US VISA is hard and painful when you come from a populous country like China or India

Which is funny in the specific context of Chinese people, since you essentially have to get an internal visa to move to the city from the countryside, and it's difficult to get.
Long before Heartbleed or Cloudbleed researchers (and presumably attackers) were using remote timing attacks to extract secret keys:

https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/papers/ssl-timing.pdf

And most big data breaches where information assets are actually stolen involve services written using "safe" languages, like Java or SQL.

And even if C is the weakest link, all that means is that you're totally screwed. No amount of Rust will save you when the Linux kernel, your relational database, and every router between you and the attacker are written using C or assembly.

At the end of the day, if you want strong security assurances you need to prove the correctness of all the semantics (of which memory bounds constraining is but one small aspect) of every piece of software in your stack, or at the very least all the most critical pieces. And the best tooling for that is for Ada and C.
So, how do we know that it's the right one?

Also, it's quite conceivable that a government considers surveilance "patriotic" or necessary to defend "freedom", but I don't feel the same about "Rapid DNA".
Ah, I see now how the terminology is applied. Thanks for the clarification.
EBITDA is a good un-levered metric because it approximates cash flow. For a ten-year old company going public, actual cash flow and net income are more important. If Dropbox are trying to price at a premium to Box and don't even have profits, they're going to look like Snap and Twitter more than anything respectable.
If by "a century ago" you also mean "less than 2 years ago", then sure.
As if that matters...time for a new "law", big brother is inevitable, just a matter of time and a matter of justification
Obama's FCC only employed title II to impose net neutrality because the previous statutory regime under which they imposed it was successfully crushed by Verizon in court. To say that opponents of title II would support some other regime is, frankly, bullshit; they're the reason we ended up here in the first place, and there's solid precedent that Verizon, Comcast, etc., would oppose any future regime that might be proposed. I think it's fair to call all of those possible regulatory schemes, collectively, "net neutrality."
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> That seems like pretty unreasonable tinfoil. There is no reason for Microsoft to want to give information to governments.

No? I don't think you are being fair.

First of all Microsoft is not one mind. There are lots of motivations bouncing around inside that entity, and not all of those motivations are 'reasonable' like you purport to be.

Second, secret court orders get issued to these big companies all the time. You don't know what kind of affordances Microsoft has provided for US and foreign government and intelligence services.

> I assume they don't pay ...

Oh let's not be pollyannaish, any contract work done for governments would be paid work. Cha-CHING! I see dolla signs. $$$

It's infinitely reasonable to distrust large internet companies that gather interesting user data. paule89 just came right out and says what a lot of us reasonable folk are thinking.

Maybe someone at Microsoft's decided it would be more profitable to salvage the Skype name and introduce some real end-to-end encryption just like the competition has. Or, maybe Microsoft is helping the Five Eyes to use Skype + Signal as a big real-world test bed for cracking or weakening Signal's encryption. I mean, it's just impossible to know what's really going on here.
Not only would I not fault them if they hadn't tried anything along the lines, but they've been doing a UBI pilot for ages.
You don't. You have to travel here to participate in events that take place in the bay area, but you don't have to move here. Founders with labs set up elsewhere have sometimes participated by traveling back and forth.
I've got several antique sealed glass carafes decanted from the Broad Street pump circa 1854... as an added bonus, I'll throw in the original lead stoppers.
I've experienced the opposite in general, but I've seen some huge outliers in both directions on both sides.
Just to add a single word -- I think it is very important that investments be well-targeted. And almost all of the time, this means listening to the scientists involved to get a realistic picture of where the domain experts think the field is going and how to best support efforts that are likely to be successful.

Sometimes, we have some promising leads on disease that we can begin to chase down. Most of the time, however, we have no idea where to begin, and so a shotgun basic science approach may ultimately be more fruitful. Every subfield is different and difficult to master, which is why it is so important to engage with the people who actually do the work.

I know the tone of this sounds like I'm beating a dead horse. I'm sorry.
Don't, you're mostly right. The model is broken. I think the US is in a giant bubble right now, in 100 years will be like most of Europe is today. That is...better.
> that the reading that the reading of the commerce clause to mean that regulating interstate commerce is exclusively the province of the federal government (which it doesn't explicitly say) is.

Again, that's not really a partisan position either. If anything, there's an argument to be made (as has been made elsewhere in the comments) that this would be more of an ideologically liberal position to take.

AEI is being very strategic here: they've found a legal position that is wholeheartedly aligned with mainstream liberal and left-wing ideology and which is supported by a century of case law, and they're using that position to advocate their favored outcome. The outcome notwithstanding, the legal position itself is emphatically not a partisan one, nor is it one that is particularly conservative ideologically.

Of course, that doesn't mean that AEI is correct, either legally or morally. They could still lose on other grounds. (Or, they could still win, despite you and me agreeing that their position is morally wrong).
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I got a Vågsberg/Sporren: https://ikea.com/au/en/catalog/products/spr/29006662/

I definitely wouldn't recommend it to someone who hasn't tried it out first, though.
This is the best advice in the thread. Notably missing in the OP is: "What is the option for the company if you don't do the ICO?" Selling that, even if it's "Going out of business without having wasted other people's money is preferable to fraud," is a big part of how to actually have this discussion.
I just try not to take everything too personal. Companies rely on their process like gospel, when in reality it only emits a very noisy signal. It's a no until it's a yes, etc. It sucks, I agree. Our industry generally sucks, so it comes as no surprise.
That doesn't match my experience of running a mail sever for decades.
Most people who will be qualified will already have lab space wherever they are.
My uncle told me these cryptocurrencies are an even better investment!
The trending feed they have on their homepage is just bizarre -- it scrolls at 2x or 3x the speed of the main body. Half of me is not a fan, but the other half thinks it fits in with the design of the rest of the page (notwithstanding the question of whether /that/ is good).
There are plenty of options out there for file storage services with decent phone client and being able to easily share file with non-techie friends and family. There are also plenty of file storage services that have clients for the desktop and command line Linux. But Drop box is the only one I've found that works across both of those very well with first party clients.

After all that, I'm not a paying Dropbox customer though. Unfortunately their pricing left me behind when it went to $10 a month for 1TB and nothing between that and free. So instead of I deal with the wonkiness of Google Drive when I need to on Linux and it works well enough everywhere else and the $2 a moth for 100GB is plenty.
Ay, I forgot the word "detection". Is there a PoC for Spectre/Meltdown detection?
There's certainly more on DAB, though outside of London there's possibly less of a difference than you might expect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_in_the_...

My point wasn't really that FM is better per se though (it clearly isn't, as even high bitrate stereo streams would be a better use of the spectrum), rather that I don't see it as "clinging to obsolete technology" on the user side. It is just, IMO, the better user experience as it currently stands in the UK - I don't think you need to learn to hear the artifacts in 80-128Kbps MP2 streams, as they are often fairly obvious (note that adoption of DAB+ in the UK is virtually nil, and there are no plans to migrate from DAB to DAB+). I think it's somewhat telling that the industry describe it as a "sound quality upgrade for _AM_ stations" (my emphasis, per http://www.ukdigitalradio.com/advice/thebasics/).
Inflation is either good or bad, depending on the circumstances. Same with deflation.

A currency is important only because it is a medium of exchange. A currency is actually working well if it is slowly decreasing in value, because if it does not then people will hold onto it and not use it, thus making it a commodity. In the longer term, what happens is that people will switch to another method to transfer value, and your currency then becomes worthless as the reason for it storing value is removed.

This is one of the reasons why a deflationary by design cryptocurrency is so dangerous. It seems intuitive in our current thinking to increase value by design, but actually this can have dusasterous consequences. Japan, for instance, has had massive problems with deflation and eventually had to work to counter this for their economic health.

Obviously rampant inflation is dreadful, but that’s not what we are talking about here. Low underlying inflation is, somewhat ironically, an excellent indicator of a healthy economy.
I agree - we need to work on both.
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> especially when you consider that 95% of the professors in that field of study lean left.

But they do research that should be repeatable and thus it doesn't matter.

Unless you think they have implicit bias.
Seems that the sentiment analysis speedometer graphic can go "too positive" and the needle disappears.
The ads for China's "big brother" systems, some of which are corporate/government partnerships, are way ahead of the US.[1] These are from QQ.

In one public demo, jaywalkers in a city intersection had their personal details appear on a giant screen.[2]

[1] https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/947649480123285505
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShXKvo6xl6U
But maintenance is where people can have issues. GitLab is complex.
you're likely a dev, so a very special case of super performant user with strong ideas about computers, not very representative of the average consumer, who knows and likes the Office suite. Same goes for icloud and the iOS/Mac ecosystem, and Google drive, etc.
Yes, but in the context of upholding traditional Christian moral standards that's not an option that's on the table, and neither is using contraception. Celibacy, or to be more precise, abstinence, is the only option.
Author is YC '11 I think.
Julian Assange is made an Ecuadorian citizen in effort to resolve impasse
I recently heard of a utility token being scrutinized by the SEC. You need to make sure that the token's price is in line with the utility's economic value. If investors drive the price up to a point where it doesn't make economic sense to buy the token for its use value, the SEC's position is that the Howey test applies.

Not a lawyer, not legal advice, etc. Just heard this on the grapevine, could be false. (But I find it very plausible.)
Rules 1, 2, 3 and 4 are like the first 2 rules of Fight Club.
>Had to get that "oppressed conservatives" narrative in.

>I keep asking what views people are so intolerant of. Tend not to get real answers.

Because this is HN and people are less willing to let you derail the conversation with politics.