skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting. I've been trying to learn to read music so I gave it a shot with some of the example songs. I think I'm right in their target audience with where I'm at.

I liked the symbols as reminders (I still have to count All-cows-eat-grass or f-a-c-e sometimes), when I was unsure of a note it was quicker to think of the reminder, but still the position was primary, unlike other versions where the notes are labeled with their letter name (which makes it impossible for me to actually pay attention to the notes) it was just a hint.

But after I played through the song a few times, it felt a little "busy", it was more work to filter out the symbols. It also seemed a lot harder to count the rhythms with this notation (maybe this is just because I have more practice with traditional notation). Finally, I feel like this gives less of a sense of the overall flow of the song -- the ties and the phrasings.

As a sort-of-beginner, my reaction to this was that it didn't simplify things much, so I wouldn't want to invest the time in learning this and not being able to read the vast amount of preexisting music out there. On the other hand, I wish I had some of these cues when I was first starting.

I'd love to see this not as a replacement to traditional sheet music, but as a standard was to annotate traditional music for beginners. The symbols as hints in particular would have been great. I think this is a great idea but trying to do too much, just a small tweak to any language system is a huge undertaking (and can have huge results). But I'm glad someone is trying. Maybe it's because I'm older now, but learning to read music has felt much harder and more frustrating than learning to program computers.
I had a SEO person quote us $2K to get our ranking up and declined but know another person in our vertical that used them and is in the top 10 now on organic search.

One of the problems of creating good content is that we are still competing with SEO spammers even if its short term.
Right, the low end of the range should be much lower. Right now, my money is on a units error.
I don't know how many have read this piece, but here is a scoop: "North Korean dictator and nuclear warmonger Kim Jong Un currently sits in ninth place, and Beyoncé is 11th."

One heck of a poll.
For comparison, Facebook acquired their first 100M users at an average rate of 60k accounts per day.
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Facebook users generally don't intend to transact though.
At data rates, transmission lines are used in copper. This is why CAT-5e has higher requirements on the twisted pairs than CAT-3 (or plain old phone line).

66% turns out to be a surprisingly consistent approximation for both copper and fiber.
How can I get one of these "HN Verified" accounts? Are you the person in charge of verification I should be sending my credit card information to?
No, recruiters work for the commission. Talent dislikes them, and Hiring managers dislike them. Except the good ones. But those are rare.
1) They should put a captcha on their sign up form. Bitcoin has gotten significant press in the pass week, but not enough to bump registrations by 10x (60k in March alone to 20k per day)

2) "The number of trades executed triple in the last 24hrs." But how much has the volume changed? Is there a way of somehow filtering out what would be "panic" induced trading (perhaps by removing # trades that happen in a large swing) to see if trade frequency has changed?
I think it's Pinterest, but I haven't been able to figure that out yet.
Real Life Mario Brothers?
Didn't Kim Jong Un win the poll last year? http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/12/4chan-votes-kim...
I'm to young to know about linux in 1996, but linux in 2013 also seems to fit what you describe.
I suppose you could google the domain and see what kind of hits you get, if any.
Fluidic Self Assembly [1999]
Many people wouldn't read or remember that detail.
Mintchip: The Canadian Mint's answer to Bitcoin
If someone did a little bit of analysis on MtGox they might have concluded that setting up new accounts was the most effective way to do a DoS attack. Not that I'm saying that's what happened, just that it seems naive to say "we were down due to new account creation, and therefore we should rule out the possibility of a DoS attack!"
The last sentence of the article:

> Ride-sharing apps should be allowed to take over the market - until they too are disrupted by self-driving cars. And so it goes.

There are a large number of technical and political hurdles before driverless taxis will be possible. We will need autonomous vehicles on the road for many years for legislation to adapt and for people to become comfortable with the driverless concept from a safety and liability standpoint. Still, I'm with you that it is inevitable, and very exciting.
This wouldn't really work for anything not in a key. How would you notate Boulez?
I don't know how mixed mode decides to use row or query based for a given query; but if it chose query based, the queries would work, but you wouldn't be resynchronized.

(In query based mode, I've done resynchs by iterating over each row, and setting a not super important column to a different value, and then back, including values for all the columns that need to be resynchronized. It's a lot more queries, but it's also easier to rate limit if your tables are big enough that doing it in two queries is going to back everything up)
Okay, not a DDoS. Let's go with that for a sec. Absurd load? Even when the data feeds are working, they show huge bursts of transactions going through. (A link downthread shows a screen full of tiny transactions being executed)

MtGox is synonymous with 'bitcoin' at this point. Everyone who knows what a bitcoin is knows what that site is.

Are all those 20k accounts legitimate?
Honest response: If you're coming from a Subversion background (like I did) then wrapping your head around the possibilities of git takes a long time. You almost have to unlearn everything you knew about version control.

If you're not frequently using local branches, your stash, `git add --patch`, git bisect or git rebase then you're really missing out.

Everyone's git workflow is different which makes it even harder to get up to speed since you read about 10 ways to accomplish the same task.

You might not use ALL the features of git but once you master a subset of them you'll find that your workflow is unlike anything you could have done with Subversion.
Where does it say you have to bring your own leads?
The thing with small BTC transactions is that it's more likely to be someone trying to prop up the market, not someone trying to DDOS it. Every time the price starts to go down you start to see a lot of very small buy transactions at a round number a fair amount above the current sell price start going in. The only reason for them appears to be just to keep the displayed "last sale" price on MtGox high.
Actually, I believe this is bitcoin washing. Its money laundering of sorts.
You'd also be foolish to assume a hooker that charms you is your girlfriend and will have sex with you for free.
"On the next 'Hacker Entourage', Philipe doesn't like the shade of blue on the BMW the agent offered as a signing bonus."
First place for positive votes is Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi (no, I didn’t recognize the name either)

Good grief. He should be embarrassed to call himself a journalist and be so ignorant of world affairs.
Modular JavaScript apps with Django, Knockout and RequireJS on Heroku
It may seem like pedantry, and it may not be directly applicable to the article, but it is a common security fallacy I wanted to call out.
Even if we implemented TCO, I doubt it would be idiomatic because destructors reduce the number of tail call positions so dramatically.
No problem. They do not do age/sex/etc... Without knowing who exactly the user is there is really no way to determine exact demographics of an individual user. However, using the IP to determine the city/state the person is coming from, you could combine that with other publicly available info to come up with a profile of individuals from that area, such as average income, is it a city or suburb, etc... Based on that information you can then tailor pricing or possible products towards a specific demographic. Not a 100% solution in all cases though.
Imagine linux back in an age before it was possible to search the web for answers to problems you run into. In an age when some of the most popular linux distros not only didn't have advanced install-on-demand internet based package management (e.g. debian) but may not have had any package management at all. Also in an age when plug-and-play was still more a theory than a reality and when hardware support in linux was a cruel joke.

Add to that a dizzying array of competing distros and hardware so slow it usually took hours to do a kernel compile. It was a frustrating time for computing in general and deciding to try using linux was a fairly daring venture certain to result in hours upon hours of frustration.
Also, he was talking about 90% of coders he interviews. Of course they'd be below average - if they were above average, someone would hire them and they'd leave the job poll quickly. Such is the pitfalls of sampling a non-random population...
See above, John is working on a re-design:
https://twitter.com/eggheadio/status/322062696583413761
Yes, I also used Chef. But I don't think that is enough reason to market a language as beeing a "FB" one. Because in that way you can market that 80% of the companies use ruby.
Yeah, we discussed the possibility of doing this. But we eventually decided that it wasn't worth it due to these issues:

* It's surprising behavior for destructors, which can have side effects. C++/D RAII and try/finally in other languages never behave like this.

* You can do it yourself, by moving the values-to-be-destructed into the bit bucket with "let _ = ...";

* You still have the ABI issues in that you can't use cdecl and have to use Pascal/stdcall to get TCO.
This is awesome! Also confirms that just because I've been listening to hip-hop for the last 15 years, doesn't mean I can rap…
I'm no longer working on Octave
Personally I used Chrome dev tools - and it has a feature called 'CSS Selector Profiles' under the 'profile' tab.

You can 'record' yourself using a website - and Chrome records how many 'hits' each css rule gets.

This is better than Dust-me, and all the other CSS rule detectors - because it allows you to use your site in a 'dynamic' way - and test for all the edge CSS cases (like resizing your browser to small, or enabling an error message etc).

After using my SaaS for an hour - I found hundreds of rules that just never got used.

Also - it tells you how many times a rule got used. So I found a few number of rules that literally only got used once, and I could often re-write them into 1-2 bigger rules - further reducing my CSS overhead.
Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.rac...
Similarly downvoted him.

HN is a serious place for serious topics. We should be talking about bitcoin.
The post I replied to was, in part, a (poorly worded) justification of the need for "men's rights advocates," and that is the part I chose to reply to.

If you're angered by my disagreement, it's not because I'm being inflammatory. I have not engaged in the name-calling you have, nor have I tried to undermine your posts by pretending to be unable to understand them. I have simply stated my honest opinion.

Perhaps you really do have trouble understanding what I'm communicating; if so, my condolences.

But it's more likely that you're simply unprepared for direct challenges, so you avoid the topics at hand and try to score points via misdirection.
Yes, it was a ddos
It was not just mtgox. Every single exchange and major exchange rate outlet was down. #2 post on reddit was about how the economy was crashing in one of the most circle-jerky discussion boards in history, posted by a brand new account. volume was higher in that spot by more than double: http://www.bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg60zig6-hourzm1g10zm2g25zvzcv

my honest opinion is that there was a coordinated attack.. not on bitcoin, but on the holders.. not the early adopters for the most part, but those who bought in because it's the greatest investment since sliced bread.. those that are buying in highest and taking the most risk. it was an attack against those people.

i guess there will be more.

pre-edit aka inb4 "it was just a ddos": if you were trying to get current price information from one of the plethora of different places you generally get it, or, you have some other enlightened analysis, please prove me wrong say more.
I recently shut down my startup as well, and definitely feel I learned a lot from the experience.

My startup failed because we did not seek customer validation until our product was already built (after months of development). And at that point we realized we had built a product that nobody wanted. From now on I will not start building a product unless I already have customers who want/need it!
Isn't that poll a total joke dominated by mass multi-vote hacks?
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There must have been a rush right around that time - I joined Feb 17 and got #332.
Re: Suzy Lee Weiss ("And then there’s Suzy Lee Weiss who claims a 4.5 GPA, a 2120 SAT score, and spot as a US Senate Page.")

You don't need to blame affirmative action for that rejection. 2120 (~1410 on the older scale for people my age) was Duke/Cornell numbers back when I was applying to colleges a dozen years ago, and these days it's Berkely/Michigan/Virginia numbers. That's the nature of a system where populations grow but class sizes stay the same at top colleges. The other stuff is meaningless--you can easily inflate your way to a 4.0+ GPA these days now that schools have eagerly rushed to label everything AP, and being a Senate page just means you know a Senator (your parents being rich and living in D.C. is enough) .

I can't believe this kid got on T.V.
Yup. Just wondering what they'll make it spell this year.
Oh, it's an online poll. For a moment I thought this was something worth being posted on HN.
Haha, thanks for the heads up. I knew it was one of the P animals :)
those are actually pretty easy. The only issue with skrillex would be identifying an instrument to play the notes, but other than that he's low on the polyphony scale (pun intended).

When I clicked this I was hoping for a notation that describes midi values against timbre (filters, distortion etc), and blends it with traditional notation, I think that is a missing link between old and new - but rewriting accepted notation for generations? That's like replacing a-Z with some sort of base 26 number and saying its easier to learn.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/11/21/165654268/as-...
No, that's basically what it is.
Right, because any destructor would break your ability to do TCO assuming that it runs before the tail call... So as soon as you use an object mechanism that will invoke a destructor at some point your ability to use TCO is gone.

Interesting, isn't there a possible transformation where you would be able to move the constructor/destructor pairs out of the generated loop construct without breaking the function?

After all a tail call is just a fancy go-to under the hood.
> It seems that technical people will prefer the better solution.

Delusional much?
Musicians are not composers. Who cares if they can run scales if they dont know how read/write music. That's like memorizing Numa numa and not speaking the language.
>You should never expect privacy over an unencrypted connection.

What does "should" have to do with it? A landline telephone isn't encrypted, people still expect their conversations to be private. And I don't see why email should be different -- if it came out that human Google employees have been reading your emails it would be a huge scandal.

> If they turn it over willingly that's caveat emptor

I don't know about that. Do you think it would also be reasonable without a court order for them to provide your private emails to a party other than the government, like a reporter or your company's customers or suppliers?
A terrible title for a reasonably good article.

It does underemphasize how much getting into a specific school is kind of a lottery even for the highly qualified. I knew plenty of people who applied to pretty much every top school, and got into some small number of them -- in some cases including their first choice. My sister applied to a bunch of highly ranked schools -- many rejected her, but she made it into Yale.

The somewhat arbitrary & capricious nature of admissions is part of what feeds into this whole complex the article discusses.
This is nuts, and a fantastic achievement, both. I have a state of the art push longboard (Dregs Uptown, probably the lowest deck you can buy except for a landYacht, 72mm wheels, very clean Red bearings) and I've injured my achilles a few times on 8-10 mile skate outings.

http://www.silverfishlongboarding.com/forum/general-longboar...

also, i did the drive from Sydney to Brisbane with a couple surfboards, highly recommended. Next time i'll do S to W (in a campervan)
Selling into the top 100 would be statistically meaningless but it would be extremely important to optimizely to show their adoption. If F500 companies rely on your service that is an excellent arrow in the quiver of your sales staff to pull smaller companies over the dotted line.

If the representation in the top 100 and top 1,000 would be percentage wise just as high as in the top 10,000 then I believe that would be an extremely powerful tool in optimizely's sales arsenal.

Selling to 'the establishment' serves as a very strong validation, especially because there may be a ceiling at which it is easier/better to roll your own A/B testing. If optimizely can prove that there is no such ceiling (that for instance, even Amazon would be better off to use optimizely than to roll their own) you can expect their value to skyrocket.
How Tunnels Are Bored
Won't you get destroyed in fees doing this?
I find this hard to believe... mtgox, bitcointalk, bitcoincharts were all just experiencing "too much traffic" today?

bitcointalk has a massive donations budget, and we all know mtgox has a lot of money and a huge interest in preventing something like this from happening.

I think it was a DDoS combined with a few opportune sells to create a panic on purpose to be quite honest.

Tinfoil hat replies welcome.
That's awesome, and I'm seriously impressed that you did it on that board and those wheels.

Something I loved, and still love, about the fixed gear crowd was how they'd do crazy rides with little or no prep. Just a child-like fearlessness. To head out, still in jeans, and to ride 200km just because.

The not taking it too seriously, and doing it because you can is great.
How to best represent dynamic game actions in a REST API?
Following Twitter Tirade, Creative Director Adam Orth No Longer With Microsoft
Wrapping your head around git takes a long time regardless of your background, because git's interface is incoherent and requires you to understand internal details of its implementation to a degree I haven't seen in a commonly used dev tool since the '80s.
> but why would anyone want to admit a student who comes off as entitled, smarmy, ignorant, and racist?

The author might find the reason for her non-admission to Brown there.

The piece has some good ideas, but the racism is dialed up a bit high in there.
Referring to 'lord' here is actual lords, like the Lord of Westminster. When I lived there, I paid something like 55 pounds a year into the lords pocket for use of the land.

Landlord in your usage is a different terminology. In the UK a lord with lands either doesn't have the ability, or in practice, does not raise the land rents arbitrarily. Perhaps someone knowledgeable in UK properly law could weigh in.

As other have said, in theory it is different. In practice it isn't. A single property owner has about as much chance of swaying the central government as they have of swaying the earl of whatever.
Someone else mentioned panic and that I suspect is right and part of the source for bitcoin that differs from traditional exchanges is that it is a much more risky currency at this point. It is very susceptible to panics, and rightly so. I don't think anyone could seriously invest in bitcoins; it would be the dumbest thing you could do with your money. You'd be better off eating your money and get the caloric value. I'm just being honest about it; maybe it will change one day.
Unfortunately no, Kippt data structure is pretty different from Evernote's (links+plain text vs html+attachements) and building an importer for that would be pretty complicated.
I think it's a play on Suzy's op-ed "To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me".
April 10, 2008, but Jeremy has me beat (as do several others, I'm sure)
I've had issues with Nagios in the past and am not its biggest fan. Centralized monitoring is nice, but infrastructure-critical software shouldn't require people to add on monitoring applications IMO.
No, because the commonly held belief of many investors is that entrepreneurs need to be savvy to succeed and an example of that would be figuring out how to reach them either, "directly, or through our friends and associates," with the latter usually being the preferred.

I could see how that might be much more difficult for startups based outside of the United States but since they are currently looking to invest domestically this is a pretty good method of filtering.
Assange is an entirely different case... while the US have proven in the Dotcom case that they're willing to step way over the boundaries of law (and force others to do so), Assanges cred took a huge dive as he fled to Great Britain, of all countries.

That the Swedish government is a f..kbuddy of the USA is widely known since the TPB raid, but the GB gov't even went into war together with the Americans, just for the sake of it. So why did Assange choose a country with even CLOSER ties to the US to flee there?!
Because that is totally hard to manipulate and he's totally not the kind of person who'd do that.

Right.
290k twitter followers aren't exactly a multi-vote hack
If you care about what other people say about your or read and imagine about you (an anonymous person) on a random social app, your life might be juvenile and/or completely devoid of meaning. Adults meeting face to face sum each other up in a matter of moments. Nothing promised or promoted or warned changes that. Someone should tell this guy to grow up.
Ok, point to something specifically racist.
Android is still far from open,and that mostly seems to be because of hardware vendors. My experience says Qualcomm is actually one of the worst here.

I'm looking forward to seeing how this evolves, and if it truly becomes open. Seems unlikely because hardware has really long release cycles.

Did Mozilla get any promises from vendors on that front?
You don't even necessarily need to take APs to get that kind of GPA. "Honors" classes are also on a 5.0 scale in certain schools (and there's no 3 hour test in the spring).

Completely agreed on the SAT score. I had a similar score (albeit a decade ago on the old system) and had the lowest SAT score out of all my friends at one of the supposed "elite" colleges.

I'm an alumni interviewer for my alma mater, and have seen candidates far more impressive than Ms. Weiss denied admission this year. I honestly don't think I'd get into my school today.

edit: I remember reading the article by Suzy Weiss and thinking that she was just being facetious. Was she actually serious about that article? Wow. Or I guess the more likely situation is that while the article is satire, her feelings and outrage are genuine.
Aussie's invent Weight Watchers for the Digital Generation 
Great work from these Gold Coast guys!
To me this is unreasonable when there is no progress on a bought version.
Awesome. Hope you didn't do any serious damage to your ankles.