skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More interesting to me is the fact that many people with absolute pitch start to lose it in their 40s and 50s. This has happened to me too. What happens is that your pitch assessment often starts going sharp, so what you thought was a C was actually a B, say. For me the pitch assessment accuracy differs depending on the harmonic content of the sound: guitars and harmonicas are awful, but pianos and flutes etc. seem to do better.

It's a very frustrating and difficult to explain phenomenon. I hate to use the oft-used but inaccurate color analogy, but it might be valid in this context. Imagine that everyone around you is fully color-blind, but not yourself. People are amazed that you can tell something is blue just by looking at it. You've had this ability your whole life. But then one day you look at something and report that it's blue, and someone uses their color-analyzer and tells you that it's not blue, it's in fact yellow. And they're right! But it still looks BLUE to you. Something has broken, and you can't explain it to others easily because they can only see gray.
I am ideologically opposed to providing free college for everybody, but it may actually be a cheaper option than the student loan bailout that I believe will inevitably happen.
It might be deliberate. Taxpayers would see how things like badly managed and/or lavish pensions eat up large parts of the budget.
When we're building Repl.it we think about this a lot and we think we're building "power on to basic" for the cloud era.

Where the microcomputer in the mainframe era made computing more accessible, we think Repl.it is the microcomputer to the mainframe's cloud.

In fact most of our users that use it as a platform, and not just a repl, are kids.

Check out our hackernews-like forum where mostly teenager are sharing what they're building: https://repl.it/talk?order=votes
Where should we do this? Do we do it at McDonald's too? At the gas station? When buying computers?
I take your point and think it is a worthy one. However, your particular example would be illegal, no? Not just a mere social custom.
A lot of states are paid less if it's a job with tips:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage
Perhaps you misunderstand. I am not opposed to taxes that support the common good. Simply pointing out why it is hard to distinguish between reasonable taxation and excessive taxation made necessary by irresponsible use of revenue.
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I'm not arguing semantics. I'm arguing that they weren't lying. They never stated that they weren't lowering the clock speed when the batteries started to degrade. This may be poor communication on their part but it's not like they ever denied that they were actively doing something to prevent phones from shutting off when they couldn't maintain the power levels needed. Nearly every other manufacturer also does this and those that don't suffer from batteries that shut off randomly or catch fire. It's an issue that's just a physical limitation of battery technology right now.

The word "lying" to me (whether by omission or not) insinuates that the intent was malicious and used to cover up or misstate something with the purpose of misleading consumers. That's not what happened here. The intent wasn't malicious but, rather, to extend the lifetime of batteries that, because of the laws of thermodynamics and physics, were getting to the point where they couldn't sustain performance. They absolutely should have communicated somehow that this was the reason they were doing this but they never denied that this is what was happening because it was assumed that this was common knowledge for LiPo batteries.
Every place has their customs. The Japanese may not tip, but they have different customs and you have to follow them. Nobody is going to take kindly to you if you say "hey, I'm a sovereign citizen, I won't use the appropriate honorifics and I'll keep my shoes on thank you very much!"
Only the "worst crimes imaginable" are worthy of prosecution? That doesn't sound right.
This is why it is 18+ and 21+ to buy it legally. Children should not take any mind altering substances. Nobody is arguing that it is harmless for kids.
This is strange and not at all how I think about tipping. I tip if the service can be a differentiator (servers, bartenders, baristas at smaller coffee shops). If the person is just giving me change and handing me some food/drink and barely interacting with me, a tip really isn't warranted IMO.
>We should really be pushing

But when pushing, it's worth it to be mindful of where you exert your force. The causal flow (from not tipping to wages being raised to the point where tipping is not necessary) is indirect enough that it is uncertain to effect the desired change. Might there be other paths to achieving this goal?
Up to 9.5M net neutrality comments were made with stolen identities
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There is a wonderful documentary "Flint Town" (currently on NetFlix) that follows the police department of Flint, MI, a town that is struggling. At one point, officers end up campaigning for a local ballot issue to renew a tax that supposedly supports them, but in reality doesn't. There is a vague promise that they will see the money if the measure is renewed.

After passage, the scene where the Flint city council ultimately screws over the chief of police is appalling. Municipal politics can be brutal too.
If you want to claim to be principled about this then you should inform the waitstaff at the start of the interaction that you don't intend to tip. The price they ask has expectation of tip built in implicitly - failing to disclose that you won't tip is therefore a lie of omission. I hope you're not that sort of person.
Well for now, Google has no China presence.

Google Takeout has been available everywhere for years. June 2011 according to this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Takeout
a great rule of thumb is if you paid cash where they don’t have these ipads to ask for a tip, is a tip ever expected?
Sigh. I'm not quite sure how to respond to this, it comes across as selfish and staying in your ideological bubble. Libraries exist to serve a community. Young children aren't junkies and your assertion seems specious. Libraries aren't crack houses or heroin dens and using that as a reason to not support them is, well, far fetched.

You can ask libraries to get books you are interested in. Further you can request the books you want via the ILL (Inter Library Loan) System from around the country or the world. You get the value out of the library that you put into it.
> I know it's just one form of brute force algorithm, maybe doesn't even count as one, and is not that elegant, but, it will always remain my favorite.

Backtracking is really a depth-first search over the search tree, so it's definitely an algorithm and I would say it's "elegant" in some sense (like simplicity).
The question is: why not build the cost of those activities into the price of the food itself, instead of leaving it to customers to figure out?
Rock, Scissors, Paper in a circular array.

All you have to do to test for win condition is check if the other player has the next item in the array.

Equality is a tie.

Base case is a loss.

It's also my favorite case of structuring data in a way that makes the algorithm self-evident.
Who are you angry at? My loans will be paid off in less than four years from now (7 total) and possibly as little as two more years (if I can figure out how to not eat out so much...). My college education was a fantastic investment.
> My point is, letting people discharge loans does not require a bailout.

In reality, changing the bankruptcy rules around student loans will have to be paired with a bailout of the people holding the loans. Lobbyists will make sure of that.
Like, lush greenery framed by Eiffel tower? Nah it's just plants in metal shelves under magenta grow lights.
>A math genius called Alan Turing joined the British military to crack the German “Enigma” code. He knew they would never get ahead if they keep doing the calculations by pen and paper. So after many months of hard work, they built a machine. Unfortunately, It took more than a day to decode a message! So, it was useless :((((

I could not read past this. Yet another distortion of what was done at Bletchley Park. Yes, I understand, keep your readers interested, but not by making up stuff and claiming it was real. I think the author should find a better example of an import use of algorithms than this one.
You like to think you are adding value to the world. Many times you will end up transferring it instead.
Unless you're in an exceptionally isolated part of the country, your county library is part of an inter library-loan system that can get those books for you. Requesting these books signals to librarians that they need to have those books on premise.

I'm surprised they didn't have any of Hobbes or Machiavelli's works, as they tend to be utilized by a lot of classes.

But for Evola or Carl Schmitt, I don't see that as anti-conservative in any sense as most conservatives/mainstream Republicans have largely embraced classic liberalism that Schmitt opposed. Evola is equally divorced from mainstream orthodoxy outside of the alt-right, which itself has little interest in its own philosophical underpinnings. His work is definitely worht a read if you want to understand the underpinnings of European neofascism but you're talking about pretty niche stuff here.
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I think the parent is referring to this [1] and other articles like it that have surfaced in recent years. I only recently read about it although I can't remember where at the moment. The linked article below is very similar though. It talks about a lot more than tipping in the US having roots tied to slavery but it's mentioned. This is just a snip out of the article, it's a long read but an interesting take on tipping in the US.

That's another wrinkle that many people don’t know about, right? Tipping in the United States actually dates back to slavery.

The origin of tipping is really the feudal system, it’s this idea of noblesse oblige. But when tipping came to the United States, it had a real racial tinge to it, because, originally, the workers who earned tips were almost exclusively black workers—they were newly freed slaves.

There was this massive anti-tipping movement to protest the practice, a resounding populist movement that actually got anti-tipping bills passed in six states across the country, including Washington state and many southern states. What’s interesting is that that movement, the anti-tipping populist one, ending up spreading to Europe and succeeding, because the labor movement picked it up and said ‘we are professionals, and we shouldn’t have to live on tips, because we should be paid by our employers.’ That’s why you see so little tipping in Europe. What we started here spread there and actually killed it at the origin in Europe.

We, on the other hand, went in the opposite direction in the states. The restaurant industry, which was hiring newly freed slaves as tipped workers, really wanted the right to hire these workers but pay them next to nothing. So they put forth this idea that they were valueless and really shouldn’t have to be paid by their employers. They essentially made the argument that newly freed slaves should get a zero dollar wage.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/18/i-dar...
Do you go to the gym at night before bed, or in the morning?
This doesn't necessarily mean you're not violating their ToS.
There is a decades-long study by Tashkin et al., not being able to find that smoking cannabis is significantly harmful. I am on my phone so don't have it at hand.
I'm an experienced developer and I have no trouble learning things. If anything I'm faster than an inexperienced developer because where they're learning a new concept (e.g., "closures") I'm just learning the local spelling of it and flavor.

However, I do get pissy when I have to keep learning things, and never get to exploit them, always having to learn a new thing for every single project. Having started in the web arena since before "backend" and "frontend" were even necessarily separated, I've long since abandoned the frontend. More recently, I've personally been frustrated by the local conditions that have made it so that every system I deploy has required me to learn a new configuration management system. It's not so much an "oh, I'm too tired and old to learn this" but more of a professional eyeroll, "oh, geez, gotta learn some other ephemeral technology to do this job, then gotta learn some other technology that is almost all the same but for the spelling for the next project, etc."

But web frontend development really takes the cake, at least in the domains I'm familiar with.

I don't mind learning, I even enjoy it. But if you spend all your time learning and never get to exploit, you're operating at a greatly reduced efficiency. At some point you need to stop learning and actually advance some projects.
stiffing a few barristas

I'm old enough to remember a time that giving extra money to someone for handing you a cup of coffee would be thought absurd. Sit down eatery? No problem, there's prior art before I was born, disagree though I might. But this recent bullshit of "tip, because my employer doesn't pay me enough", whether its Starbucks, McDonalds, or your fave local coffee shop: yeah, fuck that. McDonalds doesn't need my subsidy.
[0] sounds like you're saying "my gut says its improbable that we can detect sea level rise 50 years ahead". Why does it seem that way? These scientists are using evidence for these estimates so they are not pulled out of the air.

[1] Are you going to remain skeptical without looking into it, seems more like you're dismissive rather than skeptical but maybe I am reading this wrong.? How could any researcher ever make the claim that something is a big issue and needs to be investigated further and fixed without triggering this skeptical reflex?
What kind of sales? What's the product? Is it Software? Hardware? B2B? B2C? Self serve or high touch? Have you found product market fit or are you still trying to figure it out?

A lot like tech there are tools for every problem and in sales there is a playbook for every kind of product.
Due to how US wage laws work for "service" employees, you _are_ somewhat of an "employer" while they're servicing you. You pay them a tip for their service. If you don't want to tip, you don't get served a sit-down meal. Stiffing is a serious asshole move, and it doesn't contribute anything positive.
Whenever I tip via iPad I never get a thank you in return, I’m not sure they even notice.
It is a problem because not tipping is seen as a massive faux pas in the US, and it is very possible to get publicly shamed for hitting the no tip button even if, like the article says, you are being handed a ready-to-go item.
It originated from the emancipation of slaves, where restaurant owners didn't want to suddenly pay slaves, and so the onus went onto the customers.

There are articles on the internet. Just type in "tipping slavery" in google. The Time magazine's article should come up on the first page.
Exactly in Korea too. Tipping is often considered as if a generous rich guy throws their money to a poor man with sympathy.

I think tipping is very rare in most of asian countries.
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> "That's simply not my problem"

That's an unfortunate attitude. I thought a lot like you, but when I realized the wage disparity here - I could afford to go eat at these fancy places, which my servers definitely could not - I chose to make it my problem.

Other people's problems are not yours, but if you can choose to help (for example, if you can afford to help), you should.
If you don't think there is anything worth tipping, don't tip. Simple.
This sh*t known for few thousands of years. Guess what happened to early users. Do you need one more experiment to prove that?
That's exactly what we built internally. Not only a capability to identify the original video, but which portions of it are being shared the most, what's the most popular video, etc.

Technical challenge is one thing, but getting people to choose some random search engine over Google is incredibly hard, as Google spends billions of dollars to divert all the traffic to themselves.
Because printing more dollars reduces the value of each one, so they've been paid back with dollars worth less than the ones they loaned out.
Semirelated question: how do you feel about tipping for Uber/Lyft?

A few informal polls awhile ago (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/venessawong/theres-stil...) couldn't come to a consensus.
The method to calculate there fact sheets (or environmental footprints) is called life cycle assessment, and has been trying to come up with labels for a long time. There have been large projects by Walmart and Tesco, for example, to label all their products. The problem is data availability.

This is an area where the Hacker News community can help. There is an initiative to replace the closed-source databases used to calculate such labels called BONSAI: https://bonsai.uno/; https://github.com/BONSAMURAIS/bonsai (I am one of the volunteers). We are doing the best we can, but could really benefit from people with expertise in

* Semantic web/RDF (to design and populate the larger database)
* Text processing (to use the web as a source of data on production and consumption)
* Machine learning/remote sensing (to understand the spatial pattern of industry)

There is also an active community focused on energy data and modelling: https://openmod-initiative.org/
That's awesome. Repl.it ceo here. Check out our forum, there's lots of material shared by kids like your son. Here is one tutorial on pixel art with Turtle https://repl.it/talk/challenge/How-to-draw-Pixel-Art-on-Pyth...
I can guarantee that you've never worked as a waiter/waitress. This is so fundamentally insulting that I can't believe anyone actually would hold this position. When you sit down at a restaurant you are paying the wait staff to serve you. If I ever saw you a second time, I would insist you pick up your own orders, drinks, and bus your own table you skinflint.
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Nah. Most of them don't understand the difference. If you did you wouldn't can it pedantry.

I personally don't find heuristics beautiful. That's why I commented.
“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.” —Heinlein

It seems to me that believing in democracy also requires in believing in democratic outcomes even when they are not your own personal preferences or opinions.

Not everyone wants to be forced to buy more things from the government.
If you look at the rhetoric of the "State of Jefferson" proponents it's clear that they believe simply clear-cutting the remaining forests will fund their society.
Back in college when I drove pizza delivery, I used to like being assigned to the upper class neighborhoods.. Nice and safe. That is until, in my experience, I saw how little they tipped, and how much they expected for it. Yet when I delivered in the neighborhoods full of gangs, working class folks, and migrant farmworkers, I'd receive generous tips for my delivery. It was quite striking. The poor know what a tip means to another poor person.
I don't think so. In this case not linking to the privacy page is likely just an oversight from Bloomberg.

Other publications that do this want to rank for the keywords they are linking to—those words are a vote for the internal article that is being linked. Just look up any Verge article about the Pixel 3. All the keywords link to other internal articles.

They should add links and use words like Original Source or Original Video—less valuable keywords, that would still be helpful to readers. They could even nofollow those.
journalists also like to maintain their status as gatekeepers of information
Good citizens could elect good representatives who spend wisely. Unfortunately, that takes more effort than voting straight ticket once every four years and complaining the rest of the time.
Why should you tip the hair stylists though. Isn't the service exactly what you pay for in the first place (same as taxi/uber)?

For food I can kind of understand of since they decouple serving and preparation + ingredients.

Note that I am not American and am new to tipping. Just curious
Maps was always a better product, though...
Tinfoil hat: as others have already noted, Google and FB have had this feature for awhile (e.g., Google Takeout) but the media likes to hype up Apple vs. GoogFace as GoogFace are direct competitors of traditional media and have been responsible for their decline.
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I personally like very much the solution, but I don't like having one more device on my table.

PS: For some reason, people are willing to pay more and see more value on "physical things" than virtual solutions. Anyone knows the psychology behind this behaviour?
Users don't actually realize the implications of "you will never login without this key" until they forget the key. That doesn't happen at the moment of enrollment, but only the day after.
> The idea has found no support in the astrophysical community

They put it pretty bluntly in the article.
No, I've just skimmed over some of its chapters to clarify some concepts. I've mostly learned by reading code and then trying to implement my own type systems. Algorithm W is really quite simple and basic.

Another good resource could be Programming Language Zoo http://plzoo.andrej.com/ that covers different evaluation techniques as well.

In general, I've been "involved" in PL design for quite some time, so I've no idea where I've gained all the knowledge I have... but in recent years, there have been quite a few modern resources, even a few on HN IIRC!

e.g.

http://craftinginterpreters.com/

http://createyourproglang.com/

(disclaimer: I haven't read them)
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I found the entire PDF on ResearchGate.

I've played the piano for 50 years (I'm 55), and I do a lot of ear-training practice with software (Ear Master, etc) to keep myself sharp.

I still don't have perfect pitch. Without hearing a reference note, I won't get it.

In some ways, it's good. I keep my Bosendorfer tuned to A=443 and occasionally someone comes over whose used to the American A=440 and it bothers them. It doesn't bother me.
... and now he wishes he hadn't.
I grew up too poor to have a computer, so we were still using a word processor well into the 90s. Using the Apple ][e at school was a treat, but as far as writing things, I think I still preferred the word processor.

Also, I believe they still make them. And they still cost just as much as they did back then. They're like graphing calculators.
Yelling at them got the BBC to fix this. Of course they (in the UK at least) are just providing a service, not trying to maximise advertising exposure.

They were even moderately effective at teaching journalists to write links in a natural style, ie not telling readers to "click here" or putting everything in numbered footnotes like it's still the 1980s
don't forget ebay.
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Wait what? You bought an island to make a cryptocurrency around spending time on it? I am so confused.
Do you think that was the case for everyone?
Show them how to access the Console in Chrome.

alert("Hello World!")

(Infinite looping it could be annoying, though. Would you have to quit Chrome to make it stop?)

I think the browser console for evaluating Javascript is under rated for a quick and dirty introduction to program with an immediate payoff.
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