skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the final product of the sample taken produced a newly created track. at least for sake of brevity, created seems acceptable in this context.
it also probably is a good way of conceptualizing the legal issues involved (©) when an artist manipulates a sample enough to create a new derivative work so distinct that it ought be deemed a separate entity from the original. These legal limits are still being tested but after watching the video, i like the idea of looking at this manipulation as a form of creation rather than simply "taking". your legal millage may vary.
Bing has finally gotten to the point where I don't fallback to Google queries anymore (I used to end up doing that about once a day in the past). I just use Bing now, and only use Google when I hear about some interesting Google art on their homepage.
Probably my understanding of "intern" is limited. But I believe it is okay for anyone who is still in the collage/grad-school/high-school to do an internship, no matter how old she/he is. I know people who started his PhD study at UC Berkeley at his 50s. Nothing can stop him becoming an intern.
Every study I have ever seen that says there is a wage gap, compares people in different roles and industries which seems stupid. That's like complaining that a teacher doesn't earn as much as a CEO.
The money may be good, but the working conditions are often awful - long hours, continual crunches and emergencies, work-life balance basically a myth... Since women are socialised to care less about income and more about work-life balance than men, and both groups are under pressure from society to fit into those traditional gender roles, the fact the money's good is probably enough to cause much of the gender gap in itself.

Now, there's almost certainly nothing inherent about women and men that means they have to think that way, but no-one seems to really be interested in changing this; even groups pushing for more women in tech think this way.
http://www.markdownnotes.com/

would be perfect if it's packaged as an offline chrome app. and can sync with online server of users' choice (s3, dropbox, ... etc)
You have explained perfectly what I also believe. My experience supports this. I wish I could upvote you more.
I just don't buy this argument. As others said, it is 2014, not 1990. Women now outnumber men in colleges 3 to 2, and this is somehow not an issue of discrimination or inequality, on the contrary, it is now apparently more important than ever that we eradicate the few areas where men still unambiguously dominate the outcomes.

The only thing that has changed is society's view of computer geeks, which has evolved from pathetic neckbeards to entrepreneurial wizards. And big surprise, now all of a sudden feminists are concerned about all the sexism and rampant harassment that's supposedly unique to tech.

Every conference I've been to, I've seen men falling over themselves to placate and humor the few women that do show up. Sexism? The vast majority is of the benevolent kind, the kind the feminists themselves constantly advocate for. The kind that makes men watch what they say when a woman enters the room, for fear of triggering another Adria Richards. And the kind that pisses off any capable woman with self-respect.
...so getting women into tech would help reduce income inequality...

This is incorrect - assuming these women don't displace men, inequality will go up.

Say a woman (or man) moves from a $50k/year office job to a $120k/year tech job. Income inequality will go up. Gini will go up and the "size of the middle class" (typically defined as % of the population between 50% and 150% of the median) will shrink.

Simple example: consider a world of 10 people with income of 50k. Gini is zero. Now double the income of one of them. Gini has gone up to 0.08, and size of the middle class has gone from 100% to 90%.

So given that you have the stated goal of reducing income inequality, and your proposed policy would actually increase inequality, do you now oppose bringing women into computing?

http://www.cato-unbound.org/2011/09/07/eliezer-yudkowsky/tru...
I am sorry if this isnt clear but you are talking about professors at universities and people who are enrolling I dont see the link?
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The government doesn't want to make money transfer and settlement easier. Why do you think the highest denomination of currency is $100?

We literally ship jumbo-jets full of $100 bills abroad so that foreign banks can maintain adequate reserves. If we cared about this, we'd print $10,000 bills. The system as it stands funnels movement of large amounts of money, which eases tax collection and other enforcement measures.
Do men dominate homelessness, or do old women and single mothers with children? I'd be interested in any links you have.

also:

>Women are successful in the West

In what way?

>more of them get college degrees,

Oh, that actually is pretty good.

>they live longer,

Didn't they always? That's just biology, isn't it?

>no law forces them to register for the military (in the U.S. at least),

That's not a success of women, that's just a sexist (and common) law. Saudi women aren't drafted either.

>the law doesn't imprison them nearly as much,

Because they don't commit nearly as much crime? I don't understand this at all.

>the government has many programs to help them,

Yup. More would be even better.

>and so on.

So more than college, then?
> But from my experience, most people/recruiters/employers/interviewers would take my behaviour as a negative sign.

The negative sign is your stubborn conviction about the lack of value of rote memorization.

The stereotypical "rote learner" you describe in your before-last paragraph is just as one-sided as the opposite.

Of course neither extremes really exist and you probably have rote-memorized more things than you realize. You don't work out everything from scratch every time you encounter a medium hard problem.

Unless you actually do, in which case someone reasonably clever who does not stubbornly refuse to learn a few formulas will beat you by speed. Which is a reason to hire them over you.

That's the the point. You may be very smart and capable doing it this way, but learning a few basics (such as Bayes, in the context of statistics) doesn't really cost you anything. Memorizing a few things isn't hard. You won't actually run into problems like "erroneous thinking" because you're smart enough and knowing the conditions under which something holds is easy enough when you understand the thing. Additionally you get the knowledge when a particular important theorem does not hold, which is higher level knowledge that you just can't get when you reason from scratch every time (positive vs negative knowledge).

Memorizing a few of the basic important theorems and formulas in your field is such low-hanging fruit to improve yourself that a potential employer might ask why you're not doing it, even if you're so very capable without doing it.

Finally, there's communication with your peers. Maybe you can figure that stuff out by yourself easily, but when your colleagues say "ah, so we just use Bayes and poof", you'll be lagging behind figuring that out, and in reverse when you do these things from scratch, I'm assuming you'll be doing them much quicker, speeding through your ad hoc methods, leaving your team mates confused and wondering "why don't he just use Bayes?" (which may or may not be what you are in fact doing, but you lack the knowledge to tell them as much).

I'm sure you do a very good job at what you're doing now, the way you're doing it. I'm just pointing out that there are various well-justified reasons why employers can be wary of your refusal to memorize some basic field-knowledge, even when you're perfectly capable figuring out that stuff when you need it.
It's certainly true that Google's search product has been getting worse and worse for years. You have to jump through hoops to get the real ("verbatim") search results, rather than "what we thought you might mean".
Yes they are less profitable, for a variety of reasons, like the one I already listed, women have less access to capital.

Read the full report if you'd like to learn more!
How eloquent and insightful
This is outlandish.

(1) The Federal Reserve has 12 member banks, none of which are private--they're really just branches of the central bank. Those member banks have shareholders consisting of local private banks. These 12 banks don't pick monetary policy. The Federal Reserve board does. Only 1 of the 7 members of the Federal Reserve Board can be picked from the leadership of the 12 member banks. Since the Federal Reserve Board is what actually decides monetary policy, its nonsensical to think of the Federal Reserve as a federation. Because its not. Its a central bank, and has very centralized power.

(2) While banks are part shareholders in the central bank's member banks, IT IS NOT ORGANIZED LIKE AN ACTUAL CORPORATION. They do not 'own' federal reserve banks. They cannot sell their shares, and make no money from them (well, they might earn meager interest). Its literally just a deposit that they make with the Fed that entitles them to send representatives to their regional bank. Even if each member bank was totally dominated by the will of their member banks (which there is no incentive for this to be the case), the sum of their influence on monetary policy is their single representative in the board of governors (who was confirmed by congress!)

(3) The federal government does not borrow directly from the Fed. It issues bonds to the general bond market through weekly auctions directly from the Treasury, and the Fed buys those in the aftermarket to manipulate interest rates. Doing this requires them to add or subtract cash from the money supply. Obama doesn't call Bernake, say "Hey Ben, we need some money for the kitchen we're remodeling", and get the response "Check your bank account, already wired the money! LOL!".

There is plenty of information on the the federal reserve's website describing exactly how its organized.

At the end of the day, if there is ANY chance of the US dollar being replaced by another currency as the dominant currency in the US economy, the central bank will get involved. Moreover, if bitcoin ever gets big enough to have an actual economy that isn't just people converting to US dollar (ie, rent, bills, and wages are paid with bitcoin), we'll have a grand opportunity to test whether having monetary policy is actually a good thing, or if its bad. Because if its bad, and we discover that having a central bank control the money supply is actually a Good Idea, then consumers WILL NOT choose bitcoin.

Hopefully by then there will be some implementation by some central bank somewhere that makes sense, so that we get all the benefits of a digital currency without all the inflexibility of bitcoin's built in monetary policy.
The scientific literature shows that PageRank is not as good as it is cracked up to be, particularly with the TREC style of evaluation.

The issue is that PageRank is a general factor which doesn't have much to do with the question of ("is page A relevant for topic B?") If PageRank causes a popular but irrelevant page to rank above an unpopular but relevant page it is part of the problem, not the solution.
Google is constantly improving the search results. If factors, such as a low bounce rate and high dwell time, show that a site is popular and useful, why not rank it higher?

People tend to think in binary: A site is either spam or no spam. But spam is much more complex. A site can be 90% good and 10% bad. A site can turn spammy without their intention: comment spam, hacked sites. A site can pull out all the stops to hide their link buying. A site can be useful to have in index, regardless of some spammy behavior.
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The rule of thumb as I always heard it is that a window is "owned" by the thread that created it. You can send and post messages from a different thread, but do much else and you're asking for trouble. (And Send instead of Post is often problematic since it will block until the target thread processes it.)

Draining the message queue from a thread that doesn't own it makes absolutely no sense to me ... Does that actually work? Wouldn't you see the messages on the original thread's pump too? I thought the way it worked is each thread with ui objects has a queue, and SendMessage et al. will insert into the owning thread's queue. It took me a while to parse what you are saying, did you pass the hwnd into GetMessage from the other thread and that somehow convinced it to peek at another thread's queue?
>miserable pissant

Lost me there.
Because it's tedious semantic quibbling, and it's not even correct. One samples a record, by doing this one creates a sample in ones sampler. One then plays this sample in a record of ones own, just like you would any other instrument or sound. You will likely manipulate the sample, like in the video, and then you will have created a new sample.

This isn't very clear in the video, because the editing process in modern software is very non destructive, so you never actually "make" a new sample. In the more primitive hardware of the past, the process is much more explicit.

If you have some other point to make about creative/artistic legitimacy, you should just make it.
I think people are just sick of the debate where no actual evidence of sexism is being produced. But most probably this was down flagged because it doesn't fit the narrative of social just warriors on HN. The author is saying that women programs are bad.
Here's some official government sources to go along with this discussion.

Women earn the majority of bachelors, masters and doctorates:

http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=72

Women live longer than men:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr61/nvsr61_06.pdf

More women in the workforce have degrees than men:

http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/education/c...

And some non government research papers:

Women choose safer jobs than men (which may explain some income gap differences):

http://www.nber.org/papers/w8574

And a study that suggests that men and women are paid the same:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/30/payscale-study-wome...
Since it's open source, I doubt something like that would go unnoticed. You can check out the source here though: https://gitorious.org/yacy
Because those are low paid, low-status jobs?

Or to flip the question, if they were highly paid, what would stop men from taking them?
Aaaaaaaaand... GONE![1]. Took about, hmm, 37mins. Perhaps HN's and/or tech community isn't the open-minded, diversity-welcoming group we all think we are...

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7006583
Agreed, so the sample is taken/used to create something new. I'm not saying that sampling is not creative, and I've done it myself on plenty of tracks.

But a sample only becomes creative after it is taken. You can't 'create' a sample because it is just a snippet of audio.

As the article says, it's about "building songs from samples".

I'm not being pedantic by the way.. I just see the person who 'created' the sample as the original recording artist.
This is by far craziest I've seen: "Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords" [1]

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/kb/276304

Edit: typo
Heroin and cocaine is a fairly common combination, and diphenhydramine is sometimes used to potentiate opiates (such as heroin). I've also seen Xanax be 'recommended' to handle the comedown from cocaine.

It doesn't seem like a particularly unlikely mix of drugs TBH.
Those are all legitimate problems. But back to the actual topic: why do you think women aren't interested in computer science?
Is it so inherently wrong to prioritize a high-profile case of a popular site?
Merit is not a synonym for equality. From a user perspective that decision might surely have a lot of merit.
The software industry is kind of elitist. The pay can be great if you are at the top of your game. Below average programmers, however, do not seem to benefit from good pay or access to work.

Of course women can be just as good as men, but there is an inherit risk of not being good at the job even after putting in the effort (for both genders). Perhaps women are generally less willing to take that risk and opt for careers that are more welcoming to varying skill levels?
Truth is there are really two distinct types of developers. I've seen guys who needed music loud and almost the more distractions the better. You wonder how they get anything done at all yet they're amazingly productive.

I had one developer who worked for me who stated that he needed music to distract part of his brain so the other half could code.

I am the exact opposite, if there is any noise at all my productivity goes to hell. Companies either need to offer people a choice or recruit for their particular cultural fit.
This depends on the jurisdiction also. The concept of ‘Fair use’ does not exist in European copyright law, which makes any sampling without permission a potential copyright infringement.
How much Radiation are you exposed to by sleeping next to someone?
I pay for Evernote, but the lack of export worries me. I'd way rather use something with an open-source available client. Evernote's shoddy API makes it obvious that they want your notes to be locked in.
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>The beuatiful thing would be that this would give the Federal Reserve a real control over the economy.

Though such a system would certainly give the FED more control over the economy, I don't know how beautiful that would be.
Thank you for saying something this time. I agree this "impressionability is a character flaw" business is bull. As if reacting badly to other people behaving negatively toward you and excluding you is something only worthless people do. As if humans don't have profound effects on other humans through their words and actions. As if the author is somehow above being in anyway influenced by other humans. I'm sure he's not, but he wants you to think so.
I just don't understand why this post and discussion is being censored? Any one know why it just went from #3 to off the front page in under 5 minutes?
Well, the Norwegian government has decided that a phone should be expected to last for three years, a sofa for five etc. So a phone breaking down after two years from normal usage and no faults by the user is per definition a faulty device. This actually creates incentives to make more sturdy products and not speculate in planned obsolescence.

> isn't it great for you as a consumer that you can take money from the manufacturer?

That's not my point, and a gross misrepresentation of socialism. I know that in the end the consumers pay for it. But everyone chips in for those less fortunate to get a proper functioning device.
I use https://evernote.com and the we clipper add-on for chrome is perfect...
I've always been a fan of codeigniter's 'safe_mailto' function.

See here: https://github.com/EllisLab/CodeIgniter/blob/develop/system/...
!i does the same thing as !image for me.
So by your description, if it was really about how Daft Punk 'created' that sample, the article would just be a description of how they plugged a record player into a sampler and pressed the record button.

Which it clearly isn't.

Hence my first comment.
>1. I can just as easily claim that most of those companies are owned by old people.

Yes, you can. I would argue that being older means that you have had the time to accumulate skills, experience, and connections. What does being a man give you? Upper body strength?

>2. Same reasoning as above.

I missed that reasoning. Most companies are owned by old people (something that I'm not even sure is true), therefore there's no sexism?
> How are rules against paid linking scams or procedure generated content farms considered arbitrary? It's clearly trying to game the system, and the rules are explicitly laid out to tell you NOT to do it.

The whole case with the delisting/penalization and subsequent(and extremely speedy) re-listing of RapGenius is a great example of Google's current arbitrary practices. I covered this is some details on another thread[0] in a couple of replies[1][2][3][4].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7010997

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7011063

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7011111

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7011356

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7011597
Well, many college students don't settle on a degree for the first year or two and it's pretty normal to switch majors. If you get through a few courses and there are no women role models in the department, I would guess that more women than men would switch to something else.
Stop bringing rational and critical thinking to this debate, you obviously haven't checked your privilege or heard of the patriarchy.
Second mouse gets the cheese on this one. I think we all realize that using screens and looking at pads all the time limit what we can really do and how we interact with people, but the current execution just won't get us there.
The ironic thing is that the lack of a good export is the one reason I'm thinking of moving away from Evernote. My notes are too valuable for vendor lock-in.
"More Spell On You" was actually produced by Daniel Vangarde (a.k.a Thomas Bangalter's father). It might be the reason why Daft Punk were able to avoid legal complications.
My question would be:

How should we be able to trust them ever again?

I mean, it's been shown that people like Obama an Clapper openly lie. Nobody seems to care about that.

I'm still not sure that it's a good idea to accept the weak bone they'll throw us to make us forget about the real issue (Obama hinted at some limitations he might enforce).
I actually avoid using them because the design is hard on the eyes and I find the way they present annotations to be annoying. I don't think there's anything special about them at all, especially when you consider that the idea is completely unoriginal.
Perfectly valid expectation with near impossible odds of coming true.

Google has gotten so rich, entrenched and popular that IMHO no competitor can dislodge it. I say this as a thoroughly-disappointed user who's tried nearly all the alternatives to Google in the various segments that it operates in. I've managed to stop using nearly all Google services except Android (running CM) and Search.

As others have pointed out in the thread, DDG is nowhere near as good, especially if you're not in the US (I'm in India). After having forced myself to use DDG for a month, I've now resigned myself to Google searches with a couple of extra steps:
- all searches performed while logged out of all Google services
- browser plugins to rewrite all Google tracking URLs from search results

So sure, we need viable search engine competition. But don't wait up for it either.
Even as a young white male, I don't see much benefit from it either :) I like your idea though!
Because they aren't considered to be as desirable of jobs? Same reason women aren't generally complaining that they're not as well represented in coal mining, oil rigs, construction, etc.

With the exception of teaching in your examples, nobody really cares that there exist jobs that tend to attract one gender over another. What matters is if the better jobs only attract one gender.
It doesnt fit with the social justice warrior narrative.
There isn't a fixed amount of tech work to be done. Adding more capable people (of any gender or background) increases the size of the pie.