skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a pretty good/brief Wikipedia article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_pitch (see specifically "Pitch Inflation"

In short, it was competition for the performance to seem more "bright" and exciting. It's arbitrary, but for performers to reach higher pitches was viewed as more challenging (and it is, for singers).

The wiki article is cited, so you can read up in as much depth as you like. But, it mostly boils down to, "That's just what people liked during important periods of musical development. And, then we stopped because technology advanced to the point where we could very accurately determine pitch and for the past 50+ years the majority of recorded and performed music has been A=440, or very close to it."
But that's exactly the point of my initial post. Downloading a video for myself on YouTube is technically copyright infringement. That's a completely ridiculous concept but it's the state of where the internet is today thanks to corporate lobbyists and politicians that are easy to buy off who don't understand how the technology works in the first place.
> a web browser has an interactive console.

A super limited one. You can't edit code there.
Why is it clickbait? Do you mean the title is exaggerated? But "impossible" is still in quotes. It's not clickbait.
Not quite. I believe the point is that it's not an edge case, since "master" isn't a particularly unusual name, not in the Unix tradition, nor, AFAIK, on any other OS.

You'll note that, for example, your "rm" didn't require a double-hyphen.

The OC's point (and maybe the GP's point [1]), ultimately, is about git command syntax ambiguity. With traditional Unix commands, there's not much ambiguity. At worst, there's merely no obvious way to pass an argument that's a filename starting with a hyphen. The question "what does 'ls -l' do?" would not plausibly have an answer of "output '-l' if a directory entry with that name exists" in addition to "output a long listing of all directory entries".

[1] Does git actually behave differently based on the existence of a directory entry named "master" or does it merely require extra effort to work with such an entry, which would actually be directly analagous to filenames beginning with a hyphen?
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WhatsApp isn't open source, and they don't have a client for that chip AFAIK, so getting WhatsApp working would require work from Facebook.

Apps like Signal that are open source will likely be available.
But it would take someone with this expertise, say a foreign government, like Russia, to pull off, so that's not so likely.

Oh wait.
I wonder how much Sebastian Thrun was involved during this time frame. Isn't he also a key player behind Google self-driving car project? I don't even remember whether he was on the witness stand during the trial between Google and Uber.
Thanks for digging that up :-)
>I do however like the idea of augmenting insturments to make them easier to play, I'm personally guitly of having many potential songs in my head but not having near enough the skill to execute them.

Yeah, we've been doing that for a while with music tech starting from basic sequencers, arpeggiators and looper pedals, down to programmable automatic accompaniment on keyboard workstations (you press a chord -- or even one or two keys -- and the virtual band is playing the backing track in the right key).

Anyway, for your problem of having songs in your head: hum them into a portable recorder (cell phone/whatever) whenever you have an idea. At home, try to pick up the melody on an instrument that you can play. With software, record the melody to a click track/metronome. If you can figure out the chords, layer them on top. There are plenty of drum loops lying around. Boom! You've transformed an idea into something others can listen.

IIRC that's how Michael Jackson composed. And if you can't play an instrument, you can hum to a friend who can play, and figure out things together. It really works!
It's closely related to language skills, which also have nothing to do with hunting, but have a lot to do with being an attractive mate and having leadership abilities. So...it is not a survival skill, rather it is a mating skill.
This is so true. The old adage is to under promise and over deliver... but really, if you do over promise and under deliver, things can still work out if you sell it well enough
It’s not even that. It’s that the flipside of decentralization or even federation is SPAM. How do you prevent getting SPAM from people you don’t know, while at the same time having others accept YOUR emails?

That’s why today ANTISPAM on the net has all but shut down the option of having email outside the big boys or edu.
It's all magic until you explain it. How is PRINT any different from console.log()?

On those historical platforms you're quickly going to have to explain what GOTO is and how it's different from GOSUB, and then that you'll need to plan out your program in advance so you have enough "lines" to write in what you want, and that if you mess stuff up, you can't easily renumber, so you'll just patch in a bunch of GOTO statements to work around that and...

JavaScript, ugly as it can be, is 100x simpler. You want to add a line of code? Add the line. Click run again. You want to write a function? Write a function. You want to do asynchronous programming? Promises aren't that mysterious now that there's await/async. It's all within reach.
> Waiters take home ~$20/hr.

The BLS stats have it at $10/hour or $20k per year:

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/food-preparation-and-serving/mobile/....

There are some people who are well paid but they’re generally in expensive areas and there aren’t very many of them. It’s like looking at Waymo engineers and making a general statement about software developer income country-wide.

The other problem is that where you say “can’t” is often “shouldn’t but do anyway”. It’s not hard to find people complaining about owners illegally taking some portion tip income, shifting expenses to workers, or otherwise lowering the effective income for what is already not an easy job.
GP didn’t ask “hardware keystore” and either way, it’s a false assumption you made. The Titan M is the first comparable chip, based on marketing speak, to Apple’s equivalent. Give it time to see if the marketing speak lives up to technical reality, but my guess at this point is that they’ll be roughly comparable now.
I grew up in the intermediate period between widespread desktops and finally getting a smartphone.

I just wrote down Google Maps directions and the general description of places I needed to turn on a piece of paper.
Simple? They aren't editable outside of the GUI editor. It's a mess.
While I don't mind tipping a waiter for great service I don't see delivery drivers and car wash employees are included. A tip is just that, "great job, here is a little something extra for yourself" it should not be expected. I give a gratuity to my door man at Christmas because he goes the extra mile and is awesome. I don't necessarily give the same to the others. Tips/gratuities are for going above and beyond, not just providing the service they are paid to do.
"It's a shame because their forecast graph is quite possibly the best weather visualization ever"

I use WU because of the "10 day" tab that nicely shows me the temp/press/wind for the next ten days on a time graph ...

I would love to use weather.gov but I cannot find an equivalent (10 day) representation - does it exist ?
Code review, trusted build environments and code signing could entirely prevent a single engineer from modifying the code running on the car.
How else would you get a $20 million valuation for a porn startup?

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/spankchain/

Obvious caveat: an ICO valuation is orders of magnitude more sketchy than a VC round valuation.
Show HN: Rikibo – The world’s simplest RoboAgency
I'm not familiar w/ the FCC process but I was involved in acquiring frequency in a non-US country w/ a non-US company.

The process is elaborate game theory. The rules are simple, e.g.: 3 Rounds, must bid twice, can't collude; 5 spectrums up for bid, 4 bidders; can win 2 only, on success must pay and hit milestones A, B, C by date X, Y, Z.

Often the system is passively rigged - no actual collusion but everyone knows through deductive reasoning what the others will do; and it goes down as expected.
FWIW, yes.

The camera is awful, and it is a dense brick to carry around.

I am using a PH-1 as my phone, a clearance sale item promoted by Amazon this past summer. I believe Amazon is a major investor in Essential. Looks like another fail for them, in terms of Amazon becoming a smartphone creator with a viable mass-market product.
The link you posted (weather.gov) is a 48 hour timeline - is it possible to create a 10 day timeline at weather.gov ?
Which has already happened once in recent history. People seem to have short memories. When gas hit $4 per gallon back during the Bush era, it had a very real effect both on the types of cars people were buying as well as the amount they were willing to travel
Robert B. Laughlin (Nobel physicist mentioned in the article) has really unique viewpoint towards emergence vs reductionism.
His book "A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down" is layman explanation of his ideas.

Here is one of his recent papers: Emergent Relativity https://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/0302028.pdf
It took me second to realize that you're talking about actual real-life strings, not the strings from string theory which are precisely 1-dimensional. :)
How is that relevant? If anything, that actually goes to show the point being made, which is that Google had this available everywhere before GDPR even existed. Most other companies, including Apple, are only doing this because they have to in Europe, whereas Google did it arguably for better reasons.
I really hoped it would be doing that.

And there's plenty of data available - Project Midomi[1], for example, has accumulated enough data to recognize popular music by (often out-of-tune) humming.

The next step would be doing it in real time, latching onto your humming and providing a backing track!

[1]https://www.midomi.com/
Set Up Automated C# to C++ Code or Project Porting
"all entities permitted to operate on the chain"

Who does the permitting?
Suggestion to YC regarding side projects
Context : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13921433 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13142327

Working on side projects that could turn into a business (includes potentially applying for YC) while still employed is a grey area. I think YC should take the natural next step of having all their portfolio companies adopt something like the Github IP agreement and that will instantly make YC companies way more attractive to work for.

Keep it simple : allow employees to work on their side projects on their own time using their own resources and as long as it's not directly competing, it's all good. This seems to be the implicit understanding already, but make it formal. Work at a Startup team at YC, what do you think?
I was going to mention this as I worked a couple of summers picking cherries and every morning you'd be plowing through spider lines about head height between the trees. There were lots of theories that got worse after a few beers at the end of the work day, but it had puzzled me for a couple of decades. Then learnt about spiders using the electromagnetic energy fields to 'fly'.

Nature is amazing.
I think the issue is learning by tactile experience.
I worked on a team pair programming for about 3 years. I really enjoyed it. Now that I've moved on to a different company and am working solo again, I really miss pairing.

I feel that most of the problems my team has now would be easily solved by pairing. Things like shared standards (not just syntax but architectural approaches that are hard to automate), testing (you keep each other honest), and faster code review. Right now, if there's a bug in feature x, everyone goes to the feature x "guy" to have it fixed. If that person gets hit by a bus, feature x is hosed. People don't have a good idea what anyone else is working on (beyond the few that seem to do most of the code reviews). Swapping pairs every day or two easily solves these problems.

Things like on boarding new employees is just so much faster that it's a no brainer to pair, especially when they're starting out. Junior developers learn so much faster by working directly with a senior developer. Sure, it might slow the senior down (very little in my experience) but it makes the junior developer so much more productive in the long run.

Pairing is mentally exhausting at first and I can understand that it isn't for everyone. Most people hate it at first, especially if they have a bad setup. Most people I work with seem to think it means 2 people crowded around a single laptop. Setting up real pairing station with multiple BIG monitors and 2 keyboards and mice is crucial. After you get comfortable with it, the "always on" feeling goes away and it just becomes an enjoyable day working closely with your colleagues. If you really give it time, I feel it's the "right" way to develop software.

Switching a team to pairing might not be the right decision for everyone. Some people are just uncomfortable working with others. I'm not sure those people will be super strong members of most teams anyway, but they can certainly be successful in some organizations. If you build your team around pairing and select for it in your interview process, you can have really great results.
Random Multimodel Deep Learning (RMDL)
Do you know many developers who hang out with management? Most of the engineers I've worked with over my career have not transitioned into management and have no sway as far as the interview process goes.
A few years ago I would have agreed with you. Now I want robot drivers here ASAP. We need to get these human texters off the road.
HDLTex: Hierarchical Deep Learning for Text Classification
In Carrot, WU adds an extra $10 or so. I paid it, as there are 15% accuracy swings between the two depending on your locality.
Yep I keep watching reviews of it and getting infuriated that I can't get it as a regular unlocked phone. I was happy with the size of my Palm Pre/Pre2/Pre3. I'd pay decent money for a phone like that w/ upgraded specs and a good camera. Don't need a big screen.
"an app that plays a sound and asks to name it doesn't qualify"

I don't think any ear training app works that way. Any app that is based on good pedagogical practice would be training relative pitch recognition, not note naming. An app like that would only be usable by people who already have perfect pitch. Relative pitch, which is the skill most musicians cultivate, is based on recognizing the difference between pitches as well as the sound of combinations of pitches (i.e. recognizing major/minor chords), and only much later do note names come into play. Someone with a very refined sense of relative pitch can name notes, if they have a reference pitch in their head that they can compare to (and some people take that one step further by making the top or bottom of their vocal range their "reference note", or they "memorize" the first note of some piece of music they know well, so they can figure out other pitches based on where it is relative to a known note, but that can drift).

Anyway, I've tried a bunch of ear training apps and I really like Perfect Ear. It is, by far, the best ear training app I've found, and it covers tons of ground. (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.evilduck.m...)
Nope. It is so glaring it could only have been a mistake.
Is anybody naive enough to think that these companies would give up on creating self-driving cars if they were not able to patent some of their technology? I don't think you can really even make the argument that patents, in this case, encourage innovation (across the industry - they do incentivize grabbing potentially useful patents as fast as possible for individual companies), nor that they benefit consumers.
What makes you think we want your sympathy?
$3.5M mobilized capital per job, when is it more efficient to just give handouts to random people? :)

But I think it's extremely misleading to talk about jobs, we are all here to destroy jobs and concentrate wealth, and some of us are doing worse than others at Uber, Lyft and co, where the value coming from the destruction goes to the VCs, and if they crash the value taken goes nowhere.
I fired him.
Apparently there was an almost identical vulnerability in the Python SSH library Paramiko too: https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko/issues/1283
https://books.google.ca/books/about/Pair_Programming_Illumin... << Pair Programming illuminated shows all the different kinds of combinations that are possible between programmers of different abilities and experience
I assert that they aren't apples and oranges becauss YC has picked every single unicorn there is to pick up until very recently. Therefore, both the 2,000 number from A16Z and 19 number from YC can be directly compared.

Do you think it is significantly easier to pick unicorns than I am describing? Because it seems very, very hard.

So hard, in fact, that YC has to pick 150 or so per year and hope that one or two hit 1000x to make up for the others.
I think it's one thing to remove the religious symbol, and a complete other thing to burn it publicly before removing it.

The later seems to indicate that this symbol is "hated" by the people who are removing it (government in this case).

I can "kinda" understand that they don't want religious symbols in public.

But the fact that they shame and uses fear against the people is what shock me the most about this.
How to register Xbox Live account?
I'm a novice gamer, and currently I got a free xbox membership key from gvgmall.com and plan to play Super Mario with my girlfriend, and I just opened XBOX networking.. How do I register the Xbox Live account next step ? I need to be able to download online games and online combat functions.do i need to rechargeXbox Membership Key?
I'm curious where you are getting that data from? The article says nothing about the data contained, and most other people in this thread either don't have access at all, or are stuck behind a 7 day wait time. Have you managed to get yours?

Also, what is your metric here? A lot of "journalists" comparing the takeouts from Facebook or Google use horrible metrics such as byte size, which make zero sense because these takeouts contain videos from Photos and files you've uploaded to Drive. It's in no way an indicator of how much "data" these companies collect.
Every day I am more convinced we are 20+ years from viable self driving cars.
...that's made in China.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mb4zy3/transparen...
From the intro of the whitepaper:

https://spankchain.com/static/SpankChain%20Whitepaper%20(EN)...

The $100B adult entertainment industry has faced routine discrimination at the hands of banks, payment processors, and financial institutions. These service providers simply
refuse to service those in the adult industry. In 2014, JPMorgan Chase closed the bank accounts of several high profile porn stars and their families without justification . In 2015, Visa and Mastercard stopped processing payments for advertising on Backpage.com. Paypal is notorious for closing the accounts of performers and seizing their funds. This discrimination and censorship has persisted despite the FDIC declaring it unconstitutional and in violation of the First Amendment.

Making matters worse, middlemen in the adult entertainment industry have historically extracted exorbitant fees due to a lack of competition in the space. The popular adult-friendly payment processor CCBill takes a 10.8-14.5% cut of payments and charges a $1,000 'high-risk’ registration fee annually, pricing out many potential entrepreneurs. Most adult camsites take between a 30-50% cut of performer earnings, and adult content marketplaces such as ManyVids take a 40% cut or more.

Blockchains represent a viable alternative to the discrimination and inefficiencies of legacy financial institutions. Public blockchains are globally distributed systems of record that provide permissionless access to anyone with an internet connection. Anyone, regardless of their profession, can use a public blockchain to store their funds and transact without fear of having their accounts shut down. Blockchain transactions also have strong finality guarantees, so the fraudulent chargebacks used as justification for classifying adult entertainment businesses as ‘high-risk’ are effectively impossible. Further, blockchains such as Ethereum, which support smart contracts, can be used to decentralize the business processes of expensive middlemen and render them obsolete.
I mean, assuming we’re talking about a government trying to shut down or snoop on an email service –

They’re probably not going to go door to door confiscating millions of devices; the cost to do that would be astronomical. You’d still be at risk if they were targeting you personally, but not if they were targeting all Helm users en masse. That’s a big improvement. And even if you were targeted personally, you’d at least be in a position to defend against surreptitious snooping, assuming that took the form of agents physically entering your home to hijack the device.

Of course, there’s a lot of counterfactuals baked into that scenario. Helm does not currently have millions of users, for one. For another, the EC2-based proxy service run by Helm is a single point of failure that someone could take down, though supposedly Helm will release tools to replace it with your own server. And most problematically, the closed-source software could be silently subverted by Helm in an update, with no reasonable means for the user to detect this, even in theory.

Still, it’s a lot better on that front than most cloud email services.
Who decides what is real or not?

What is "misinformation" or not?

Disturbing af
They weren't covered up though. They weren't required to disclose them because there were no regulations. There is no proof that they have frequent crashes now that the technology mature and their no proof that thats not true.

Also, why would they be so heavily regulated for no reason? Would you also do that with the internet, phones, or new technology? You provide regulation based on a problem that occurs that's unfair and bad practice to just make rules to perceived problems.
Paper is also more-secure because tampering costs more in terms of time/money/energy/risk.

It's much easier to remotely and anonymously mass-rewrite electronic records than to physically move the atoms of paper and ink.
There's an emulator for it here, along with some docs: https://cis.unimelb.edu.au/about/csirac/emulator.html
>My library doesn't have many of those, however, it has a lot of books of ideologies that are hostile to the ones I'm sympathetic to.

I have a difficult time believing you, partly because libraries don't actually serve a leftist or feminist agenda, and therefore the situation you describe is dubious, and partly because in another comment you mention "all men are bad feminist literature" which is a straw version of feminism promulgated by redpillers, incels and trolls.

So please mention the county you live in so we can do our own searches and verify the feminist/liberal/anti-right wing agenda for ourselves.

>I'm just going to vote in a way that's contrary to continuing financial support for those libraries that don't accommodate myself or my interests.

Do what several commenters have suggested and ask them to get the material you want, or don't go there.

Why do you feel libraries which don't "accomodate" you, personally, also don't deserve to serve the rest of the community?