skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Converting sounds to numbers is certainly nontrivial, but the "ML-for-music" projects I've seen were generally already working with MIDI.

I think the deeper problem is that musical structure that's obvious to the listener (chord progressions, modulations etc.) are realistically going to vary too much across the training data for any ML approach to figure out.
I diagnose Amazon itself, as a corporate person, with borderline personality disorder :)
Startups and regular jobs are really different experiences; some people enjoy the thrill of being weeks away from running out of cash, or crunching hours after hours to get the product out to the market and potentially making a ton of money in a short period of time. Others like to have a more regular schedule which for them is more productive. So people kinda naturally gravitate towards either kind of job when they really follow their instincts. But many people often don’t and the mismatch does create frustration.
Just Another Day on Aerosol Earth
What is BaaS?
Do they even work?
FT Article is paywalled. Try this link:

http://uk.businessinsider.com/volkswagen-hail-cannons-mexico...
Pity that it still doesn't provide a fully Delphi like development experience.
This is completely unrelated and orthogonal, but...

So far I have 18 b8 c4 23 86 1b 9c 60 f6 ec b0 (...11 octets...?), and I'm not sure what to do with them.
On the Value of Fundamentals in Software Development
I think parent was talking about the document definition (schema) instead. So not to rely on the document instance for the translation definition.
Irc is all but dead. I see less and less places where it is used. In the same way NNTP is dead as a doornail and completely irrelevant. Last time I saw that used for something else than filesharing was something like 10 years ago. The same place also used IRC.

Both failed to modernize or keep up with progress. The only places where this stuff is at all still used/tolerated is places where the average age is well above forty and where the audience is engineers only. Most millennials that I work with don't even know what this stuff is because they simply never encountered anything where this is still in use. The ones that do tend to be male and heavily involved with OSS. It's a somewhat elitist thing at this point.

People seem to like to hate slack and similar solutions. The OSS way to deal with stuff like this is to build something better and not get too nostalgic about decades old stuff that did not keep up with a changing world.

Here are the design goals for a modern team chat solution:
- It must be stupidly easy to create a private team. Think minutes. This is not something you put an engineer on either. That would be a waste of time/resources.
- There must be zero admin overhead. This is the first thing you do in a new project. SAAS is the way to go here for most places; sign up, click, click done. There's absolutely no excuse to waste any time setting up software, servers, and committing to managing that for the vast majority of teams.
- It has to be inclusive. Anywone should be able to jump in. Especially non technical people. Like your manager, designers, users, etc.
- It has to have mobile apps that are usable and fully featured.
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Thanks for using that few minutes to find this spot to reply, and sharing the insight you did.

Now I just need to learn how to find myself in the little things. I think that's what I need to do in order to sustain motivation and engagement. Not sure though, still working on it.
As an atomic physicist, it is great to see clever atomic physics experiments opening up new fields in high-energy physics. The team has been working incredibly hard for this: Jeff Hangst who leads the experiment was already working on this when he taught my undergrad electrodynamics course back in 1998!

An important piece of background info for non-atomic-physicists is that the Hydrogen 1S-2S transition frequency is probably the most accurately measured physical property in the world, thanks to the pioneering work by T. Hansch. Back in 2011 they reported an uncertainty of 4e-12, https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.3101.
Coming soon [...] Plotting using D3 from Python

Wouldn't Bokeh make more sense? I'd be very interested in a serverless Bokeh that didn't force me to ditch Python, for example.
No, I would be typing this on comp.hackernews on a tiny 300 KB native app instead.
It's the fact that they are unable to honestly consider it because of their dogma rather than the fact that they don't agree.
Cheap Logo or Custom Made Logo Design – Which Is Best for My StartUp
I wont't buy anything from Amazon. Period.

Grand Tour is my weak point though...
In a grow the pie worldview, let’s say the 20mm in supply chain costs means less WIP inventory and less shipping.

The WIP inventory reduction might come as a decrease in raw materials. Let whoever sold it to me sell to someone else.

The people transporting goods can transport for others. (Or they were overcharging)
> But yes, having read the article it just reinforces the impression I have of USA - that it's the "land of the free but only if you have money"

There is a difference between freedom and prosperity, but largely Americans have both. Almost everyone has money, in the way that most living people have food or have clothing: people tend to try to ensure this one way or another.
> Incredibly it's still not generally banned in the USA

Surprisingly (to me) the restrictions on asbestos use were relaxed on 1 June 2018:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90208948/under-trumps-epa-asbest...
Hackers Stole Personal Data of 2M T-Mobile Customers
It's true that IRC is not free of tension and caustic groups. That said, like reddit, you can find very nice places to chat. #electronics #emacs both are very light on issues and very openminded (maybe too open minded some would say).
Internet is bigger than Web browsers and Hypermedia systems are even older.

There is plently of room for inovation.

Emabrace network protocols and native apps.
The abstract says 4e-15, not 4-12?
I live in Vermont, running an open source Patreon project that isn't designed to maximize capital. I know lots and LOTS of minimum wage or near-minimum-age people, and a good selection of much wealthier people. Right now I'm substantially below minimum wage as a sole proprietor, but managing it. Obviously I cannot hire in these conditions, so I don't.

I see NO correlation between that and intelligence, verbal proficiency, articulateness: indeed, if you're smart enough to recognize the obvious purpose of the exercise you'll self-edit until you sound even more like a PR agency, lest you have to return to picking boxes full-time rather than getting to compose tweets for part of your time.

One caveat: if you're poor and desperate, your bandwidth will be taxed (see 'Scarcity: a talk for people too busy to attend talks'). That doesn't compromise people so badly that they appear unintelligent and uneducated, though, and if it's your job to seem glib and intelligent you'll work at it.

tl:dr; do you seriously assert that poor people are too stupid to write and speak well? I sure hope not.
My wishlist for this includes some RSA GPG usage but it'll probably remain on my wishlist. The Yubikey tokens are still rather expensive at 50$ and soldering my own and maybe selling extra copies (thanks MOQ) to friends.

Otherwise, this looks great, I'll definitely sign up for the newsletter later on...
Doc Martens don't actually exist anymore, however. It is just a brand that was outsourced to China and Vietnam, so unless you have an authentic vintage pair, you don't actually have a pair at all.

Doc Martens used to be made by a factory in the UK, and the company dropped them. Solovair still operates the old UK factory, using the same employees and the same machines and the same techniques (such as the Goodyear welt stitching technique), since it was theirs to begin with.

Literally, those classic Doc Martens were just a Solovair sole combined with a Greggs upper (the company that owned the Doc Marten brand), stitched together at the Solovair factory.

What Greggs really provided was patents owned by an actual guy named Doctor Marten, who tried to make more ergonomic boots; all of those patents involved the soles, of which the technology was licensed to Solovair and is now part of their product line as the patents have long since expired; even though it was a Greggs upper, there wasn't anything magic about the upper in a Doc Marten, it was all in the sole.

It isn't often HN and /r/BuyItForLife/ intersect.
I prefer sandmboxes, stores and containers than having to go through a pile of floppies with anti-virus and still be unsure of how safe they were.
> would be nice to have a tool that could translate xml schema to json schema and back.

I once worked with a customer that bolted a JSON frontend onto an existing XML backend. However the translation definition was not predefined but determined at runtime. Some XML node could have 1+ children but because of this translation the result would either be an object (1), or an array of objects (2+). Needless to say the implementation in the consumer became rather messy, having to deal with this dynamic structure.
Remember that, no matter how commonly used it is, alcohol is still a neurotoxic solvent whose purpose is to diminish or impair cognitive function to various ends.
I saw some, people can be tense, angry, mean, sometimes even so while wrong. I remember a dude going down on me because he misread quicksort in my question and started to unleash unjustified ad-hominem insulting comments until he/she realized.

People are people I guess.
The PowerPC 600 series, part 14: Code walkthrough
That's an unfortunate stance on Groovy. Groovy code is often far more brief than Java's, and it has some beautifully expressive capability for making DSLs, both through its world-view on closures and its ability for the developer to walk and modify the AST at compile time (see, for example, the @Canonical attribute for how this can be useful)

While I, too, wish it built on a statically typed base, Groovy offers amenities such as @CompileStatic that go a long way towards alleviating this.

I personally find Kotlin strikes a wonderful spot with the brevity and expressiveness of Groovy, while managing to be more type-safe than Java (reified generics, null safety in the type system). But there is no denying Groovy's heavy influence on Kotlin, either.

Groovy may not be perfect but I don't think the picture you paint is accurate, either.
I think part of the issue might be that there is no "real meaning", we all make it up individually in our heads.
Facebook Poaches New CMO Antonio Lucio from HP
I run a quassel server, and then use quasseldroid from my phone and quassel client from computers to access it.
I like your list of blacklisted words!
> I think simple math would show that no shoe actually lasts a long time.

I've always worn Vans skate shoes (yes, even before they were "cool", believe it or not) and a pair typically lasts 2-3 years. That's wearing them all day every day.
Literal translation cannot make any sense between languages that do not share similar roots anyway. Its not a very insightful observation to make in the first place.
For the 0.x% of people that breakout and exceed their demographics statistical expectations by orders of magnitude? Yeah, sure, that's true. What about for the rest of the population that doesn't? They're burnt out, disabled, addicted, ill, obese, unhappy, indebted, deluded, ignorant, and servile.
I have really flat feet and as you know the arch on birks is vey aggressive. so it just rubs on my foot super hard. If I know I'll be walking far I'll put athletic tape on my non-arch or else a blister will form. Now I have visible calluses build up, but I persist... :(
I don’t think total ‘power’ is a useful metric for comparing countries leadership. An incompetent farmer with 10x the land will likely grow more food than a competent one. That says little about who you should seek advice from.
I like following people on Twitter. But man, the moment you open the comments to their tweets, I want to nope out of there completely.

Twitter's community is incredibly toxic
The biggest issue on Android is side loading and lack of updates.

Since Android 7, apps cannot any longer access filesystem outside their APK installation directory. All accesses must be done via SAF APIs.
...Or click on "web" in the HN comments.
Announcing Distillery 2.0 (Elixir deployment tool)
>Shit, if I was an Amazon warehouse worker and had the chance to get paid the same except SOME of my workload was sitting down and shilling for Amazon on twitter, I would jump (well, sit) at the chance.

They probably wouldn't let you sit down, unless you were shilling on your lunch break. Amazon has a policy against their warehouse workers sitting down while on the job, not even HR is allowed to sit when they're staffing the front.

You can squat though, and I've tried to get around it by sitting seiza.
the reference is to text in the article, not comments from HN.

From the second paragraph:

> Many are suggesting the right way is to approach Google directly with security flaws like this instead of writing about it publicly.
I've been using Airbnb for maybe 7 years. The cost has been never a reason, and often might rent places on Airbnb that are more expensive.

My main reason is that with Airbnb, you can rent a fully functional apartment or a house, not a badly functioning/uninspiring room with no amenities, no places to chill, all the furniture is weird and everything looks fake. Then you need remind telling people to not to clean your room everyday at 8am, and hear people slamming doors from 6am to 10am. When I travel I like to have a little downtime at the house, shop local groceries and cook some meals at the house.

The second reason is that you find amazing and variety places in the world. Some of my favorite ones has been a modern loft on a hillside in overlooking the lake Atitlan and surrounding volcanoes in Guatemala, A-frame cottage in the forest of Mendocino Coast, and a penthouse loft with 360deg view, filled with vinyl records in Berlin.

I never stayed in a hotel that I found have enjoyed that much, or been that impressed by it. They are all the same and so bland, even the most high end or expensive ones.

(Disclaimer, I currently work at Airbnb.)
When I worked for an international bank during the late 90s and early 2000s they had a global IRC network on their internal WAN.

It was heavily used by all staff, which was fairly unique compared to the other banks at the time.

Over time the bank developed their own dedicated client for it, and added extensions to the servers for audit logging and username/realname enforcement, and then eventually spun the department developing the tech off into it's own startup company that then sold the product to other banks and companies. That spin off company is still around selling online collaboration software.
> That doesn’t mean the overall working conditions are bad at the municipality. In fact we score 9/10 in employment satisfaction. This in itself is a bit of a problem though, because it’s higher than it should be, but that’s another story.

That's not another story at all, it completely undermines your point. "We can't be doing so bad because we score well on this metric (oh BTW this metric is obviously being gamed somehow)" does not convince me that you're actually doing okay at all.
The future is, where mobile is new TV, and you sbuscribe to your favorite content provider via Apple TV app. i.e. creator -> apple -> consumer.
> Users want a single place to

Imho, we've got to solve that "single place" problem, because it creates a winner-takes-all situation. Not just with apps, but also taxi-cabs, food-delivery, etc. Perhaps a government should step in and say that you can have a "single place" but only if you don't abuse your power.
Interesting.

I'm not perfectly fluent in the U2F/WA protocol but shouldn't it be possible to have two devices but one is programmed to only accept registration and not allow normal operation?

That way you could put the fully functional one into a bank deposit and use the other to register that key...
Surely by this logic even the "authentic vintage" Doc Martens weren't all that authentic either. If it's just a case of sticking a brand on someone else's shoe what does it matter where they're manufactured. ;)
I think the truth of the matter is, Amazon's network is big enough to allow a significant amount of variance in employee experience (despite Amazon itself being culturally adamant about reducing variance as much as possible.)

Some workers do wind up camping in their cars and peeing in bottles to make rate, most don't. What people wind up complaining about tend to be exceptions rather than the rule, but those exceptions do exist.
I think "never attribute to intelligence which can adequately be explained by stupidity" applies here.
>Going from F# to Ocaml tend to be harder since F# has a number of functionalities that are often used and do not exist in Ocaml (such as parallelism, sequences, active pattern, list comprehension, type providers, etc and a much bigger std)

The opposite is also true, F# does not have ppx, OCaml's object system, GADTs, polymorphic variants, functors, first class modules, extendable variants.
wow so if you lose your job because of that, bad luck I guess?
Current Russian government are pro at playing this "but there are no proof offered" game. Lithuania, where i live, is pretty close to armed conflict in Ukraine where Russian backed (no proofs here according to Russia) separatists are fighting (as in war) to declare independent republics from Ukraine.

Crimea (part of Ukraine) was "liberated" by "little green men"[0] and then coincidently decided to join Russian federation.

There is no secret that Russian government sponsors internet trolls to push it's agenda [1]

I agree that someone might abuse "Russian troll" card but keep in mind that Russian (government) is no saint here. Russians themselves are fine though. And please don't start with "but Americans also do this and that". Im saying here that Russian trolls are real. One use twitter, other use military uniforms without insignia. Depending on situation ;)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_green_men_(Ukrainian_cr...
[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/03/15/594062887/...
It has to be cruel and unusual. Fines may or may not be cruel but they're definitely not unusual.
Shoes are not quite Theseus ship. If you consider soles as parts that wear out (like tyres) and need to be replaced, and the shoe is constructed to allow proper replacement soles with, say, goodyear welting, there is no reason apart from poor maintenance why the rest can't last for decades.
I talk a lot in #emacs and I do treat it like a coffee klatch, but when people come with questions, I try to interrupt myself and at least address their questions.

I like #emacs. It's like a gathering of friends who happen to use Emacs.
nice try, financial times subscription department
"In response, VW said it would install netting above the cars to protect them from hailstorms in the future."

It seems a comparatively much more reasonable and non-invasive low-tech solution...
IRC may be elitist but that can be an advantage. For me it is the place where I feel most confortable to have a social chat with strangers.

(Note: there is IRCv3 and irc cloud both of which bring quite a lot of Slack features into IRC)
Awesome! Hopefully it helps the next person then :P
OVH is dirty cheap, because it is a fully automated service, and if you are using it for anything serious, you need to order a VIP support package[1]. People complain about their terrible support without realizing, that they only paid for the infrastructure, which costs 10x less than AWS.

[1] https://www.ovh.co.uk/support/
As an example why it might drop (or rise) with high volume: firms could be "derisking" before earnings.
If you look at XIX century sources, you'll see there were groups whose idea of fostering human progress was to terrorize the ruling class, mostly by piecemeal killing of its members with guns and bombs.
Some thoughts on documentation:

1. Don't do things in your examples which you consider anti-patterns. A few years back I remember some Angular 1.x docs which showcased certain examples which the authors considered anti-patterns. Why are you surprised that users are doing things the wrong way if you're the one that taught them? If you must provide an anti-pattern examples for the sake of brevity at least note it near the code sample and explain what the correct usage should be.

2. Give examples of what certain features or options could be used for. I sometimes encounter libraries which provide weird options or methods for which I never understand their purpose. If you added the option it means you must've thought of some use-case for it, right? It's pretty useful when you're not familiarized with a domain and you want to build up the knowledge of its use-cases in case you have to deal with related problems later on.

3. If something is deprecated or its usage is discouraged be sure to point users to the proper solution. I've encountered warning blocks on MDN which suggest using a certain API, but when you click through it turns out that it's deprecated and they tell you that you shouldn't use it. Contradictory information is incredibly frustrating.
blend.io seem to be on the right track towards giving people a reason to upload their music.
Good instincts on the suggestions feature idea. My startup builds internal documentation software. We built that exact feature and our customers really like it. The problem with most documentation is that it goes out of date. Wrong docs are often more detrimental than no document at all. Allowing readers to flag information that might be wrong, or even suggest an update to merge, helps to harness a team’s collective knowledge to keep documents updated.
What an incredibly well written comment. Thank you!
> The ones who are at the most risk in regard to asbestos are workers in construction or demolition. And in most countries how they should work with asbestos is now clearly regulated (safety gear and procedures).

Yes but this is something that is commonly badly understood: the problem with asbestos is not that we can't manage it, it's that it WILL be badly managed at some point.

If you handle arsenic, you won't put it in schools and offices. You will manipulate it in very specifically environment that accommodate specific activities and is filled with specific people.

With asbestos, you have it in unmarked exposed building parts. Some accident may damage them. Somebody may drill a hole to fix something. Some contractor may rebuilt part of something without noticing. And then a small but continuous dose of asbestos will invisibly goes into the occupant lungs for years.

It's like lead in water pipe. It's insidious.
Europe to ban Halogen Lightbulbs
I think that's a poor reason to choose a concrete syntax, and if it really bothers you it's easy enough to have your machine display them however you want.

For example, I use https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DimParentheses to make parentheses unobtrusive. I sometimes want to see them if they're at my cursor position, so I use https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ShowParenMode to highlight that one and its corresponding opener/closer. I use https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ParEdit to automatically keep parens/quotes/etc. balanced, move around whole subexpressions, etc. I'm sure there are similar tools for different editors (e.g. there's an incomplete list at https://github.com/shaunlebron/history-of-lisp-parens/blob/m... )

There's a screenshot of this setup at http://chriswarbo.net/blog/2017-08-29-s_expressions.html
Text-only link (no ads, no tracking): https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=348975479