skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>As a DJ constantly looking for tracks to add to the collection. I listen to streaming music pretty constantly. For individual tracks with all of the metadata, the artist/track name info is provided. For listening to other DJ mixes, you just get the DJ name and mix name. Shazam tells me the specific track.

So a pretty narrow demographic for the feature though...
How to migrate monolith to the scary new version of Rails
Their original white paper [1] is one of my favorite math-meets-software reads. Readable, elegant, and real world.

https://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/papers/Wang03-shazam.pdf
Why are you using GKE for static sites?
Also, I don't think we will get very far by trying to attach gravity to QM on the level of probabilities. You will want to connect them on a field level obviously.

The probabilities are jusy a crutch that link the quantum world to our perceptions.
Did you consider Signal when you moved to Telegram, if so any particular reason(s)?
And Federal Reserve officials laugh when people suggest their policies and currency debasement causes declining birth rates. Their inflationary policies and increasing cost to live absolutely affect the ability and willingness of people to have children.
But a business owner can’t fire everyone because they are starting a union, which by your logic they should have the right to do if this is a market. The whole point of a union is to limit what managers can do and tie their hands.

So even if the business wants to fire unionized labor and find new and better labor, they can’t. They must now work through a tangle of rules to make changes to their business.
Mark Zuckerberg didn’t show up
The "threading" functionality in Python is a significant downside to the language. I don't know why they went with the idea that people don't need real threads like they can get in C/C++, Java, C#.
Link to full opinion is here: http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2018/09/25/14...

Three-judge panel, 9th Circuit.

- Richard R. Clifton, authored opinion (app. GW Bush, Repub.)

- Richard C. Tallman (app. Bill Clinton, Repub- see wikipedia)

- Sandra S. Ikuta (app. GW Bush, Repub, Fed Soc member)
Why was the WSJ title edited and the “U.S.” qualifier added? Does Google have any other CEOs beside Sundar?
Interesting write-up, though it leaves me terrified how a relatively small, more or less single purpose application like the Dropbox client has over 1 million lines of code in Python alone.
Not sure if it's really millennials.

There was an article in the New York Times in 2014 stating that the divorce rate peaked in the 1980's and was at a near record low.

That was well before any Millennials were born.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/upshot/the-divorce-surge-...
I think it's true. Even a lot of tech companies won't cover you 100% if you have a family. For a family of 4, you're looking at $2,000 a month. Often the employer will pay half of that.
>This "feature not a product" belief only makes sense if you pretend that the product doesn't provide the answer sought by its primary user

It also makes sense if the scope of the product is not enough for it to make anyone pay for it (except as part of a larger product).
I use name.com for all my personal domains because it's cheap and supports a lot of unusual TLDs. But I would never trust a $100M company to it. Who cares about saving ~ $100/year.
Facebook sent their COO. Twitter sent their CEO. Kent Walker[0] is Google's CLO (legal officer) and SVP of Global Affairs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Walker
At my employer, I happened to get one of the first machines they built with SSDs (in 2014) and one of the last machines they issued as desktop instead of laptop.

A year later they stopped issuing SSDs and I have to do the whole "managerial approval" thing to get any variation from the "standard" machine, so I am more than a year overdue for a replacement.
I wanted to put an Ubuntu partition on my work PC for Python deep learning work, as I'm significantly faster and happier on it. When I mentioned it to the sysadmin, he said "I'm not allowing that. Linux is like Wikipedia, any idiot can contribute to it. Windows is made by professionals so it has to be better."
For those wondering why a seemingly normal acquisition took a year to close, it's because the EU was investigating it as a potential anti-competitive move.
>> "Congratz! Motorcycling is awesome; welcome to the club. Do you have a helmet?"

>> "No, they offer loaners at the class. I just need a pair of gloves."

>> "Oh, those are sweaty and smell bad. I like to start a new rider from the top down. Your helmet is the first and most important piece of equipment you're going to bond with. It's like the living room for your face."

"No thank you. Please help me with gloves"

He wasnt even that good of a salesman, you just seem to be a mark.
Anyone else find dark mode stark? It was a bit shocking to see it and very jarring after almost 2 decades of looking at various shades of sliver/gray menubar and dock.

I now kind of miss the ability to have only dock, menubar, notifications side bar, spotlight and HUD for brightness, volume be black.

This mode offered a great balance between classic window chrome and the too much brightness you now get in "light" appearance mode.

I find I can't work in dark mode during daytime. Way too many reflections and reading mail and PDFs in preview are too jarring. Black, beside white makes each other stand out so much.

I think macOS is now least polished it has ever been.
Having a private meeting before that looks like they wanted to establish a secret deal first and do the PR later. I'm not saying that's what Google wants to do, just that it's bad PR imho.
But they don’t have to drive for ridesharing at all...
Wolkswagon is better.
They're also rare for anyone over 30 to care about (if not the situations themselves, what some random soundtrack to them is). Give it time...
Sounds like the "1000 true fans" concept - https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/ - i.e., you "just" need a 1000 people who are willing to pay a net 100$ / year for what you create.
I listened to a podcast yesterday by someone whose friend was let go from Telltale. The key points seem to be:

- Really bad (one sided) deals on IP.

- Taking on more than they can chew.

- A domino effect of failures.

- Failing to adapt.

It sounds like basically everyone saw the writing on the wall, but no one expected the end to be so inhumane.
Maybe it's not pythonic but I can assure you, after having passed 6 years working with it that it's extremely efficient and very well integrated with python. It just works, and a complaint about aesthetics won't change that :-)
The Keybase filesystem docs still contain the text:

"At the time of this document, there are very few people using this system. We're just getting started testing. Note that we could, hypothetically, lose your data at any time. Or push a bug that makes you throw away your private keys. Ugh, burn."

And considering that kbfs is one of the more mature parts of Keybase, it has never inspired confidence in me that any of it is really ready for serious use.
Apple is likely intending to use Shazam's tech for contextually-aware computing (via Airpods etc)
I don't go out much, but when I do, most music I've experienced seems to be tolerable at best and ear-assault at worst. I can only think of maybe 2 or 3 times in the past decade where I've heard music in a public location and was interested enough to want to know what song it was.
From https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2501480

"we find evidence that marriage duration is inversely associated with spending on the engagement ring and wedding ceremony"
The second one; marriage isn't free. Even at the courthouse.
There was never any evidence whatsoever that Google was doing anything to conservative sources. The only thing this is going to lead to is the same thing it lead to on Twitter: policing leftist sources that much harder so they can say, "See? We're not biased!"
In the US, we have rights and due process. Congress requested their presence, but it can't just force someone to show up for political theater out of nowhere. There's a process for subpoenas, and we have many laws protecting people (fifth amendment, sixth amendment, etc).

You can't be held in contempt of Congress for simply declining to show up to a hearing you were requested to attend. And, if they planned for a lawyer to come and at the last minute things changed, lack of preparedness is certainly a reason to excuse yourself.
"Say more conservative things or else we'll take regulatory action against your company" sounds to me like an extremely first amendment-violating abuse of government power.
The now-official bindings (Qt for Python as mentioned in the article) has a waaay more Pythonic API. I actually liked it. The advantage of PyQt5 is that you can look up the Qt documentation.
That is why a great pepper grinder is a very good investment in your kitchen. The classic Peugeot grinder is the one to get.
> "Even on small scales, deceit and conspiracy are rare."

"Even" is not the right word there. It's precisely as organizations grow in size that deceit and conspiracy start to become commonplace. For instance speaking of Apple and Google, they (along with Adobe and Intel) secretly conspired in an unlawful agreement to keep wages low by agreeing to never compete for each others' employees. In the end they ended up getting a firm slap on the wrist to the tune of $415 million. [1] Great ethics there.

In practice Hanlon's Razor is not very useful. Many large corporations, certainly including Google, do engage in malicious behavior. But they invariably ensure there is some form of plausible deniability to minimize the worst case outcomes. And that plausible deniability is often connected to some form of plausible ineptitude or behavior they were supposedly not complicit in, let alone directing. Because of this tendency Hanlon's Razor would end up being, "Never believe a large corporation would do anything malicious."

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
Glad to see macOS catch up with Linux after all these years :)
I think it's more like:

Apple: We sell you device/app for $X

Google: We sell you device/app for $X-Y, but we make our $Y back by selling you ad data

Huawei: Hold me beer.
Leaked database search with over 2.5 billion accounts
Keybase is shitty. They had the ambition to somehow build a new generation of keyservers, they built it using technology that could easily be a distributed protocol and then they made it a completely centralized and commercial bs crypto startup. So much waste since keyservers and distributed identity (and reputation, and naming system in general) is a field where everything is still to do. They could have overthrown DNS (machine names) and HTTPS (certified names; any CA-based ssl system) and google contact ("people" names). I'm very salty that they've diverted so much hype in that area for so few results.
>It's explicitly unreligious -- they have a notion of a higher power, but make the conscious effort to allow each member to have their own definition of this higher power.

Very magnanimous of them. But why would a rehabilitation program have a notion "of a higher power", and especially it's own notion of it?
Yes, mostly as a means of verifying identity across accounts.

I'd probably pay a few bucks a year (thinking 20) for the base identity service, if we're being frank. Even if the only separation between a free tier and a paid tier is e.g. more service integrations and an uptime SLA... sure, why not?
So censorship through legislation? Not sure what point you're trying to make here...
The fact that people COULD find new jobs isn't a counterargument for unions.

If collectively nobody works within each given business to improve workers conditions at that business where will all the disaffected workers turn for a better option.

Within an industry major players have no reason not to fix conditions at just crappy enough that people don't leave faster than we can hire new cogs.

Anyone who things the free market just magically fixes things ought to look at the labor market in the 20s.
I deleted my account after not using it for a long time for anything.
Me too. Are there any similar startup with functional prototypes or products? Something like Shazam, or Theranos if it were actually legitimate and had a working product.
Those two situations are completely and utterly different. Apples and lug wrenches, as it were.
Don't confuse meeting with Congressmen with the government as a whole or even a form of regulation. Google used to meet with other administrations all the time. The meeting stems a lot more from their dodging the Senate Committee hearings that Twitter and Facebook both showed up to, and their bending to the Chinese government than anything else, rtfa.

To reiterate, there's a reason this article is about Google and not Facebook and Twitter...because those two showed up to the Senate hearing...which was bipartisan.
Authoritarian regimes using courts against dissenters is not new, this is like saying yes he is a dissenter but the court process must be allowed to complete.

How is it that after the Snowden revelations not a single person is held responsible or accountable and its the whistle blowers who are facing the full force of the 'law'?

Assange is stranded, Snowden is in exile and Manning faced the full force of the law. What law is this?
isn't that supposed to be the magic of convnets though? they _figure out_ the right format. instead of doing feature engineering, like stfts and mel warping, you do stuff like build convolution layers into an ann and let it sort it out?
> reflection involving class names that aren't effectively constant at compile-time

Can you give an example?
Read my first sentence too.
That isn't what a free market means.
I've lived in the Denver metro (suburbs) for 7 years now and still love it. I moved here from a small city in the south.

- Large and growing tech community. Every year, I see job postings from new companies in the area. Google, FB, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft all have sattelite offices. Plenty of options to choose from if you're in development, IT, finance, etc. Lots of non-profit organizations as well. Good universities in Boulder, Denver, Golden, Fort Collins.

- Cost of living was certainly higher than my hometown, but much more reasonable than many coastal cities. Not sure how it compares to Chicago specifically. Housing and rents have been rising rapidly over the past few years. I've seen two bedroom appartments listed for around $1600 - $2200, but that's still a fraction of what we would have been paying in the bay area.

- Purple state, if the local politics matter to you. Blue in Denver/Boulder, red in Colorado Springs, more or less purple in the suburbs. There's a pretty broad spectrum of people to connect with. There have been quite a few measures on our state ballot that passed that I've been happy with.

- Traffic on I-25 and I-70 sucks during rush hour. It's a high growth area, so it seems to get worse every year. It's no worse than any other major metro area that I've visited though. Population density is quite low, so you often end up driving longer distances but with less congestion than you would have in many cities.

- Lots of outdoor activities in the mountains (but weekend traffic on I-70 is attrocious because everyone does this)--skiing, hiking, camping, etc. Lots of music, art, cultural events, museums downtown. Lots of good concerts at Red Rocks.

- There are large (and growing) populations of homeless people in Denver and Boulder. I don't think it's necessarily as bad as SF or NYC, but it has definitely been getting worse, especially as housing prices have risen. If you rent, it's easy to get kicked out for a missed payment. Heroin and opiate addiction is a problem throughout parts of the area.

- There are major sporting events here (Broncos, Rockies), but I've never been interested in attending them. I hear tickets are hard to get. Shrug.

- Weather is pretty nice, but it's quite dry. Forest fires can be a problem during the summers (mostly in the mountains), but that's the only kind of natural disaster that I've been worried about since I moved here. We can get a lot of snow during the winter, but the roads are well taken care of, and we get a lot of sunshine when it's not snowing. Makes for some excellent powdery ski conditions.

- Major airport (DIA) with direct flights to most other major airports in the US, which is nice. It was built out of the way, northeast of Denver, but it's a large airport and traffic isn't bad on the express way (toll road).

- Misc: Food and services usually seem pretty reasonable to me. Uber and Lyft are all over the place.

No place is perfect, and it's all about tradeoffs... but life is good and I have no plans to leave Colorado any time soon.
Residents, interns and fellows are unionized in some states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_Interns_%26_Resid...
It seems like a copy-paste mistake. The wsj page has US just before the title. Someone should edit this title.
In contrast, I have seen Canadians marry Americans; for various perks.
To learn the basics about NFS, read chapter 14 of the Unix haters handbook” (http://simson.net/ref/ugh.pdf)

”By design, NFS is connectionless and stateless. In practice, it is neither. This conflict between design and implementation is at the root of most NFS problems.

File systems, by their very nature, have state. You can only delete a file once, and then it’s gone. That’s why, if you look inside the NFS code, you’ll see lots of hacks and kludges—all designed to impose state on a stateless protocol.”

It goes on to mention some issues that NFS wouldn’t handle if it were truly stateless and connectionless:

”NFS is stateless, but many programs designed for Unix systems require record locking in order to guarantee database consistency.

[…]

NFS is based on UDP; if a client request isn’t answered, the client resends the request until it gets an answer. If the server is doing something time-consuming for one client, all of the other clients who want file service will continue to hammer away at the server with duplicate and triplicate NFS requests, rather than patiently putting them into a queue and waiting for the reply.

[…]

If you delete a file in Unix that is still open, the file’s name is removed from its directory, but the disk blocks associated with the file are not deleted until the file is closed. This gross hack allows programs to create temporary files that can’t be accessed by other programs. (This is the second way that Unix uses to create temporary files; the other technique is to use the mktmp() function and create a temporary file in the /tmp directory that has the process ID in the filename. Deciding which method is the grosser of the two is an exercise left to the reader.) But this hack doesn’t work over NFS. The stateless protocol doesn't know that the file is “opened” — as soon as the file is deleted, it's gone.”
Feeling like a bit of a noob, but how did you install it?

I only found a targz download link, didn't understand the contents of it - it looks like the inside of a macOS application package. The installation instructions refer to it being for .dmg file, which it doesn't seem to be.
In a b2b context where actual negotiation happened, sure. In every other context...

> it dramatically reduces the cost of dispute resolution

... by being rigged in favor of the party setting it up.
Leakprobe Expands to 2.5B Searchable Leaked Database
Leakprobe, a leaked password information service that notifies users whether their information has been leaked onto the Internet and provides exactly what information has been compromised, has doubled the size of their searchable databases. Users can expect a better chance to find their information that is available, with the newest additions to the database being the Anti Public and Exploit.in leaks, which offer collections of 1.4 billion passwords for accounts.

The Leakprobe database, which boasted over 1 billion user accounts according to social media last week, offers an API to search the collection for free, and can be filtered by username or email address associated with accounts. Facilitating the addition and citing Leakprobe's mission to provide a larger amount of data to Internet users, CEO Ben Carr stated the advantages of doubling the size of the company's database.

"Even though the database size has doubled," states CEO Ben Carr, "we've updated our management tools so that the search time for queries is not affected. There's been no change in search time since adding the new accounts."

Leakprobe's new plans are to expand to the next billion number mark, with 3 billion or more user accounts for users to search. Their mission statement remains tobuild the largest leaked passwords database available to the general public, release analyses of user password choices, and provide quick access to cracking password hashes.

For more information or usage of the services, visit http://leakprobe.net.
It gives you ui for connecting signals and slots and configuring stuff as well, but few people use it. And qt singals and slots model is far superior to VB/Delphi style callbacks or c# delegates, but you have to program for a while to get why.

Also - layouts in VB/Delphi weren't responsive, layouts made in QtDesigner are.
yep, Qt (Pyside) is very mature and very stable. In a professional, long term context, it's totally decisive.
Sure, but that's a dishonest straw man argument you've just made.
Qt has tons of stuff, as far as I know everything you mention is covered pretty well (well, I don't know about speech, but widget text is very accessible).

QT is basically one of two toolkits that most Linux desktops are built on: it has to be wide-ranging enough to cover everything a desktop does, be accessible, and it has to interoperate with "the other" toolkit (GTK). It's absolutely nothing like Electron.
Google Now won't detect music for you outside the US (Shazam does)
"you must install in your ceiling is hardly a compelling solution." - why? we have "expensive" machinery to open our garage doors. Why specifically do you think it is not a compelling solution?

I personally think this is a great idea as ceilings are useless for the most part and that space can be used for something else - like storing the entire bed.
I would trade President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho for Trump any day. At least Mr Dwayne tried to appoint the smartest people available (the protagonist).

There is even a argument that Idiocracy is a utopia.
https://youtu.be/OmZOZjHjT5E
I know you’re kidding and this is funny, because corporations couldn’t even exist without the state passing statutes allowing incorporation.
... or your pinned against the wall and can't get out.
How to Analyze Your Negative Reviews
America, surprisingly, in a southern state no less, where heart disease and diabetes rates are higher. Our work has a grandfathered non-ACA plan (we got to keep our old insurance but means we miss out on "free" stuff like contraceptives and a breast pump, and other banal things, but in exchange, we get much better coverage, and a lower deductible)
> Google is the most powerful lobbyist in US history

Interesting claim. Can you back it up?

Off the top of my head I would posit that the most powerful lobbyist in US history was the United Fruit Company, who successfully lobbied the US government to overthrow the democratically elected government of Guatemala. From [1]:

> Several historians have maintained that the lobbying of the UFC, and the expropriation of its lands, were the chief motivation for the U.S., strengthened by the financial ties of individuals within the Eisenhower administration to the UFC.

I'm genuinely very interested in seeing evidence that Google has more influence than the UFC!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A...
You'd be extremely hard pressed to prove that it's an anti-right wing bias, though.