skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case this article didn't make it clear, the purpose of the funnel is to divide up your customer flow into measurable areas. It's okay to make a funnel with two or seven stages so long as you can measure each distinctly, and it is useful to troubleshoot your marketing. (Although using industry standard terminology is helpful).
>I'm curious why you torrent music still when streaming is so widely available and free/cheap?

To provide you with another answer, most of the artists I listen to aren't on any of the music streaming services. Because local underground bands whom only have CD's handed out at their shows rarely exist outside of the pirating scene - which has a knack for distributing local underground bands with limited release/number of CDs. A small percentage of the bands/artists are on Spotify or Bandcamp but most aren't.

I buy what I can because I enjoy having the album arts but most of my music cannot be purchased or streamed.

There's also no guarantee that the streaming services will still exist in 10, 20, 30+ years - but there is an almost 100% chance that the hardware and software necessary to listen to or convert .flac will exist for me to continue to listen to my music.
I finished high school not that long time ago...
I'm gonna say... Think Lean (startup lean) go to the high school and ask the kids what they want to know and what could make the presentation better for them and their friends.

As a kid, I really disliked listening to presentations from some random folks, because they were just talking and talking and talking about their job, lol. Make them interested in the field, show them why it's so cool. A million words are not gonna convince them, but if you show them something cool and show them the path to do it at home, some will get interested :)
The Constitutional Society wrote an 86-page paper in 2012 attempting to show that any such powers are extinct, and that primary legislation is necessary to restore them: https://www.consoc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Select-...

But late last year, a select committee exercised these powers anyway: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/24/mps-seize...
This is a pretty good video describing Bell's Inequality - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_0o2fJhtSc
How is it a waste if it's one person spending their money on something they enjoy? You're not compelled to also do that.
Ideally you can trim a modern helicopter out much like you would an airplane however it's still a dynamically (?) unstable platform. I'm far removed from aero and nobody really thinks about the details of that stuff when they're flying. Here's a good summary:

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/35764/are-helic...
Loosely yes. Refusing to answer can lead to you being in contempt of parliament. Once upon a time there was even a prison cell in parliament for use in such cases.

Unfortunately our oversight committees depend on some fairly ancient ways and powers. Hence the cute story a few months ago of the parliamentary bailiff, which is normally a purely ceremonial role, arresting that Six Three guy passing through the UK.

Perhaps those ancient laws need modernising, as there's certainly a few relics among them. Then again it is only fairly recently they have been started to be treated with contempt.
Just to be a Devil's advocate (just a little)...

Sure, 24/192 doesn't physically improve the sound you are able perceive when listening to it.

But listening to music is a highly subjective emotional experience.

If a listener cares about getting the best possible quality listening experience and feels downloading 24/192 music will achieve that, then the listener will actually enjoy music more knowing it is playing from a 24/192 source.

Listening to music is all about the feels.

Of course, I get how this can be abused. Next thing you know someone will be selling 32/320 for twice as much, then 64/480 for three times as much, etc.

Not that this kind of article isn't still really important. It is. It provides a lot of reassurance to audiophiles that they can enjoy their music to the maximum without buying into the 24/192 hype.

And that's what it's really all about: the best enjoyment of the music.
I feel like we're going in circles. I said the same thing and was corrected (these are rentals.) I then agree, and you come in saying they're not rentals. Which is it?

Here's my stance:

Getting into a mortgage with roommates = bad.

Getting into a lease with roommates = no problem.
If insurance companies will pay for esketamine anyway, wouldn't they be more inclined then to also just pay for ketamine if it's cheaper?
If you are legally required to disclose X and you don’t disclose X, a committee would not need to get a subpoena to force you to do so. The difference is that you’re required to share this information from the beginning, not being asked to do so later.
When a 12 Year Old Plays Violin Better Than You [video]
A mechanism to build apartment buildings cooperatively with friends, with ownership still subdivided among the tenants, in the style of the German baugruppe, is much more sustainable than multiple families sharing a single house:
https://grist.org/cities/i-want-to-live-in-a-baugruppe/
In terms of actual costs, newer construction practices are actually cheaper. However, new construction teens to have loan and expensive land attached to it.
Plus it is "new" so sellers are obliged to scalp you.
This seems like a crazy idea. Does it actually work?
Also ITT: "I have no problems with this, so if you do it's obviously your fault."
The unfortunate explanation for the phenomena that you're observing is that most people simply don't care about their privacy -- at least not nearly as much as you do.
How useful is explicitly learning about the difference in use of hiragana and katakana, really? As far as I’m aware the research on language learning is pretty clear on teaching grammar; teaching it explicitly is no more effective than teaching implicitly. This example is right, that one isn’t is how we learn to speak our native tongues and we faultlessly follow rules we can’t teach all the time, e.g. adjective order in English is opinion, size, physical quality, shape, age, colour, origin, material, type, purpose.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/abo...
Maybe a more concise model of the universe and physics can be bred via a genetic algorithm and other AI techniques. A couple of decades ago one researcher would bred algorithms written in lisp: trial and error programming. Lisp is good for that because you can slice and dice it and still get a runnable program (if the interpreter ignores/forgives missing parentheses).

Start with a simulation using the best known but complex formulas. Then use the genetic algorithm (mutation and cross breeding) to find the most compact formulas/algorithms that can mirror/predict the complex one. Who knows, the whole shebang may be reducible to something as simple as E = mc^2 or Newton's F=ma.
Only by making new hardware.
> dog post

This kind of abomination even has a name.
When I worked for a hedge fund we had to deal with this sort of thing (not classified obviously, but wanted exemptions from certain things), but it was actually pretty easy to deal with. They just charge you more to get custom terms.
Pattern-Matching (ish) in JavaScript
Afternoon.
WhatsApp having been bought out by Facebook is a big pain. It's the defacto messenger for cross iOS/Android communication (at least where I live), and it's harder and harder to say "no I don't Facebook".
Not only that, but the live-fire civil war was to do with the region at the heart of the current Brexit deal dispute: Northern Ireland, and its border with Ireland.
Feigning ignorance seems reasonable, but saying you'll try to help and then making it worse is an asshole move
It is, because there is an entire legal framework around marriage and asset ownership whereas there's no legal framework around BFFs. A married couple has the "benefit" of going through divorce proceedings where a judge divides up assets equitably and it's legally enforced with a divorce decree. If you're buying a house with a friend you're going to want to draft up an contract to avoid "no man's land."

Then there's the "mixing business and friendship" issue. Civil marriage is already a type of business partnership, whereas friendship is not, so you're adding a new business partnership. If your buying with friends you're risking your friendship.

I know someone who owns a house with her brother and it's a shit show.

You're also tripling your exposure (3 people rather than 1)
Ask HN: How can one speed up development on solo programming projects?
Having one or two pictures from a trip helps me to remember how I felt when I was on that trip, sort of a concrete reminder of a moment that I would otherwise forget.

Taking picture however, takes me forever as I'm a bit obsessive about framing the shot and would check 3 or 4 different angels before I do it.
> But why the F... would my bank want to notify FB that I am using their app?

Probably for ads: either measuring ad conversions, or building ad targeting/exclusion buckets. For example, your bank can exclude your devices from their FB ads because FB already knows you have their app and presumably a customer.
So this is just a monologue? Someone writes something and maybe someone else reads it, but conversations are not supposed to take place?
Spawning processes in Elixir, a gentle introduction to concurrency
They will also continue to exist because we have been conditioned that the whole internet will cease to exist without them and that ad blocking is "stealing" which is immoral and wrong.
How did they stop you from using the device? Does it connect to the internet? This seems like they preplanned this "feature".

Slightly offtopic, but I recently bought a kindle paperwhite and jailbroke it. The process was a bit challenging but definitely worth it and makes it impossible for Amazon to mess with it.
I really like that advice that you save those extra payments in a high yield savings account at around 2-2.5% instead.

You're still losing a little but you will be ready for emergency home fixes & getting sacked with random specials from your city which are usually at a higher interest rate.

Of course if you have tons of cash, then for sure throw it in some ETFs in the market.
> The whole point of fractional reserve banking is a $100K house being held represents a modest return during a housing bubble, but they could turn that $100K property into $1M of mortgages with a likely higher total return.

That is a significant misunderstanding of fractional reserve banking. Banks can only lend money they have, i.e. that customers have deposited. They can't just invent money to lend. So, a bank with $100,000 in cash can only make loans totaling $90,000 with it (assuming a 10% reserve requirement).
They dont necessarily need an overall strategy between some of these units. What is the chance a Talari and Aconex integration is useful? They act more like a holding company or vc, who owns a bunch of individual businesses. Nobody criticizes Berkshire Hathaway for not integrating its different businesses together.
just as a semi related matter of curiosity, what is the local's perception of skateboarders there? is it a source of annoyance to live in a skate-mecca or are people basically ok with it?
And if a politician makes specific political promises to specific populations which are contradictory? Or if an ad company sends you lies proportional to the amount of bullshit you are analytically predicted to receive? Or if a foreign government with clear malicious motives want to spew chaos by posing controversial chaos and inciting arguments between two populations?
One of the coolest things in Erlang and Elixir is their concurrency implementation based on Actor model. In this article I introduce concurrency and show how we can start making our code concurrent in Elixir, using processes.
So I actually worked at Whole Foods for a bit.

It helps when you realize there's actually three classes of workers at Whole Foods. There's Part Time (Not supposed to be over twenty hours), Part Time 20(at least twenty hours), and Full Time (think north of 35 hours a week).

The latter two get health insurance, the first does not. The part time 20 worker has to pay a lot more for health insurance but it's a really good plan.

I suspect what they're doing here is bumping more people from part time 20 down to part time to reduce benefits.

Honestly this doesn't really surprise me. While I worked there they were hostile to giving people consistent hours. I suspect many jobs are like that though. Made it very hard to have a second part time job while you worked there.

There was also radical swings in my hours week to week. Some weeks I worked 12 hours, one week I worked 32 (I was a part time worker).
I don't think PC had anything to do with it. Git blame and annotate were added at the same time, have slightly different output, and different provenances[1,2]. The differing names are because the commands were inspired from prior VCSs that had different names for the commands.

Also, from the git annotate man page[3]: The only difference between this command and git-blame is that they use slightly different output formats, and this command exists only for backward compatibility to support existing scripts, and provide a more familiar command name for people coming from other SCM systems.

[1] https://github.com/git/git/commit/cbfb73d73f272f194bafa70d5b...

[2] https://github.com/git/git/commit/c65e898754ef68a5520b279189...

[3]https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-annotate
I think what you were meaning to say is that you won't never not uncheck said boxes.
There are so many little details to remember when you implement a Neural Network from "scratch". Or, I suppose, even if you do not.

You know what would be a great contribution? An extensive set of unit tests, or even just problems with solutions. That way people can write their own implementations and test them. And even if a person were to implement the net in Pytorch of Tensorflow, they could test the work.

So there would be a matrix of weights, and a vector of input nodes, and the "answer" would be the output vector. Then there would be another "answer" which is the output with a particular activation function, and so on.

This library would just be there so people who are doing their own implementation can test their work.

As I said, a unit test would work too but then it would have to be language specific. Just the matrix and answer would be language agnostic.

For people who think: can't you just make up an example yourself using a sheet of paper or in excel.

Yes, for most purposes this is fine, but if you forget one little implementation detail of a three layer network with a ReLu, you really want an external way to check that.
> Not sure what you are talking about. Linux does have such stable interfaces.

Not sure what you're talking about either. I've never had to write a Linux driver, but it is a frequent complaint that one has to recompile drivers for new kernel versions. If the ABI was stable, that wouldn't be necessary.
Listening to 16bit 44.1 kHz can also damage the cilia in your ears. Whether it actually does, in both cases, of course depends on the recorded material and the playback gain.
> This sentence compares the number of men identified as underpaid to the number of women identified as underpaid.

No, it is saying that the definition of "underpaid" is "making less money than women at the same level."

> This says nothing about the proportion of men or women who were found to be underpaid. It refers to the percentage of men who received more money. The justification for that is that there are more men in the company.

It says that men accounted for 69% of the work force, but received more than 69% of the money that went to equity raises.
> Have I 'caught-up'? Or does catching up mean negating long-term side-effects of sleep deprivation?

This is the issue, and it's why the person who titled this article ought to be ashamed.

We know sleep-deprived people sleep extra if you let them, in amounts predicted by their sleep deprivation. We know the recovery sleep produces better results on a bunch of metrics than getting ~8 hours without extra recovery time. We also know that they don't make up lost sleep hours one-to-one; they add a few hours over a few days then return to baseline, and the fraction recovered declines as the amount of deprivation rises. So.. what does all of that mean?

I know my athletic performance responds to recovery sleep; I've seen studies saying cognitive performance does too. Does insulin sensitivity recover fully? (The author's past work finds "sorta".) Does that recovery provide a better baseline when deprivation starts again, or does it just shift to a new target level regardless? (This implies it just moves to the lower level.) How about the same two questions for memory? For muscle and aerobic exercise? And then: does time with recovered functioning correct long-term damage, mitigate it, or just stop worsening it? Is the short-term "elevated amyloid plaque levels" result actually tied to Alzheimer's, or do they just share a mechanism?

Summarizing a one-weekend insulin sensitivity result as though it settles 50 different questions sharing a broad label is ridiculous.
This is a great write up! I'm in the process of writing a similar article, although I think for many non-programmers, neural networks can be useful through using algorithms that are already made to solve problems where people have the data but don't understand the math.

This article is good if you've been around some math and have a little coding experience, I think Neural Nets are even more accessible than the author is making them out to be however.

For example, using something like YOLO for object detection can be done even if you've never taken algebra or a programming class, and really just requires some configuration and training on a dataset you have.
> This is only true for healthy people who have had no reactions to vaccines, nor have their family members.

That's what I said. Allergy, reaction, same thing.
>Its definitely a strong possibility that his talent would have gone unrealized!

Mikhail Kalashnikov wanted to design agricultural equipment because he wanted to help prevent famine. Who knows if he would have been any good at it but that door closed on June 22 1941.

It's hard to say what would have happened had history been different.
> Apparently 10% (I just made this number) of people working in tech industry are working to collect, store, and process personal data

It's probably closer to 100% than 10%; at any rate it's a lot more than 10%.

> It is shocking to see how few of these 10% speak up.

About...what? I mean, I pretty much am the overseer of changes to some specialized public sector medical billing systems that handle on the order of single-digit billions of dollars in annual claim volume and on the order of a million annual individuals. So connecting, storing, and processing personal information is a central part of what those systems do.

But what are you supposing I ought to be speaking up about just because I work on such a system?
> If CoD really was as boring as you described then nobody would play it.

Yeah, but 10,000 hours of COD? That's about 5 years of playing from 9-5 every weekday. That's not enjoyment; that's an illness.

I can't even imagine the ennui of playing 10k hours of the same FPS or even the same series. "Soul crushingly boring" wouldn't even begin to describe it.
Bigger question is - why would anyone use yelp?
Some anti-depressants do have the side effect of reduced libido and loss of interest in sex. But it is not known to be permanent as far as I am aware.
this is true. my bladder wakes me up before most everything else, and it won't let me go back to sleep until it's addressed. I'd love to sleep 8-9 hours a night, but my kidneys have other plans for me.

source: am old.
Seeing railings put up on previously pristine cliffs to protect idiots from killing themselves taking selfies is infuriating.
It's not doxxing. I found his name through his past HN posts prior to his threatening email. Anyone can figure out who he is with less than 10 min of searching.
A PDF Signature can embed a signature reference which specifies things about what changes to the document are allowed without invalidating the signature. It is possible to make a signature that doesn't allow any changes to the file, or allows changes to annotations, or doesn't allow signature fields to be modified.

To learn more google about "DocMDP" and "FieldMDP"
American politicians won't enact laws that impair the data broker industry which has been around for decades. Voters are kept largely in the dark by a press that doesn't want to expose how the sausage is made since they have a seat at the table.
As others have noted its written in 'rant form' so its bound to happen. The weird thing is that it doesn't seem to bash on Perl at all! The Appendix on Editors bashes Emacs a lot too. Its an OK book _if_ you enjoy reading rants, but if you want to Learn Lisp, Practical Common Lisp or Land of Lisp are way better.
A foreclosure is never a good thing for whomever holds the loan.
There's a lot of research lately indicating that the current school hours are harmful and should be adjusted.
An MP (Jo Cox) was murdered (I don't think it's too strong to say assassinated) during the Brexit campaign.
It does come from Smalltalk, which is in part why it looks so sloppy and strange in other languages (a Ruby example I saw even had an intermediary class for the visitor part, which doesn't really happen in Smalltalk).

The reason to use this pattern is to leverage real polymorphism. In Squeak/Pharo, the graphics system is called Morphic, which uses this pattern all the time to draw different kinds of objects to different kinds of Canvases. With a visitor pattern, each object can "know" how to draw itself to a given canvas.
Boeing Acquires ForeFlight
Why not have licenses as code / configuration? this would probably be safer for all parties. Unless, of course, companies like Oracle want the user make these tiny but espensive mistakes?
Your visualization experience sounds very interesting!

I actually believe it is possible to consciously 'do' what you describe to at least some degree. It would be nice to hear more about your experience in detail, may I ask you some questions?

Was it as vivid and sharp as daylight open eye view or was it rather blurry / fuzzy?

Where the colors saturated or rather gray?

Was every action instant or was there a time lag?

Did the shapes stay stable or did they deform or fade after a time [of no new inputs (from touch I guess)]?

What did it look like to touch a wall?

How would you describe the field of view you had in your visualization? Normal? All-Round-View onto the 3D map?

Did you have a feeling for the volume where the field of view of your body would be?

How did you visualize your body? Abstractly or more like you might look in daylight?

Could you move as observer in your visualization or was that out of your control?
Allegro NFS is an NFS server for windows written in CL:

https://nfsforwindows.com/home

(It's open source but uses features of a proprietary CL implementation: https://github.com/franzinc/nfs )
Yeah, I don't think it's a problem and I'm not convinced by the article at all. Also, if an app/website don't track user behavior and improve themselves based on data, they are most likely going to be defeated by their competitors soon enough.
Show HN: A Python-built Network, Visual link saving/sharing
Are they exercising?

You need activity/exercise for good sleep.
Interesting, didn't know the Bluetooth fact. I don't usually deal with AAC myself, since opus is so close in every quality/feature, and the AAC patent license is sometimes costly to use commercially ($0.98 per software sale).
Satellite images show buildings still standing at Indian bombing site
Latest version name is USB 3.2 Gen 2×2

You see, lines up perfectly