skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sorry, but: caveat city.

I studied with Dr. Cope here:

http://arts.ucsc.edu/programs/WACM

Emmy is not the same as Emily Howell; the Emmy Vivaldi was composed by a simpler program called EMI.

In either case, iirc, the music's composed by probabilistically combining key-signature-normalized snippets of existing compositions. EMI mostly just took the works of one composer and created a new work in that composer's style by Frankenstein-remixing snippets of the composer's actual works. Emily Howell, iirc, does the same, but uses multiple composers and/or original snippets by Dr. Cope.

btw: feed EMI Beethoven, and "she" produces Mozart. i.e., when probabilistically combining several key-signature-normalized Beethoven snippets, some of the results were identical to larger snippets of Mozart (who was, as you may have guessed, a big Beethoven fan).

also btw: Beethoven wrote algorithmic compositions for people to perform as a parlor game, with dice.

also also btw: my own drum-and-bass Ruby project from years ago will generate an infinite amount of new jungle riddims all day for free:

https://github.com/gilesbowkett/archaeopteryx
sfackler is a volunteer, too.
That's like saying I can't copyright an image I made entirely within GIMP because it has no human artist. Cope's program may be more generative than a general-purpose graphics program, but the fact remains that Cope is still the creator.
I gave this a spin. The entire setup was pretty buggy for me with 500s frequently being thrown.

I do want something like this, though I would be hesitant to use something this buggy.I also don't really want to tell professionals to meet with me using a product with the word "ninja" in it.
LinkedIn, as used by the majority of resources ( not recruiters ), is free for what is needed.

Why is it assumed that it is "unfair" for a company providing a free service to hoard the data you give to them?

If you don't like LinkedIn, don't use it. If you don't like LinkedIn because they won't let you steal their data, then I'm sure they will be happy that you ignore them. Trying to convince people who don't care to stop using LinkedIn is pointless.
I hate what Google did to Chrome. Went from a browser to some sort of a franken-OS inside of your own OS. Seriously, a user switcher? You mean that one feature that _every single OS Chrome runs on_ has?

Also I hate how Google switched all of its apps to webapps, which work worse and use more resources than their native counterparts.
We had a Bay Area Rust meetup [0] all about cryptography back in December (here[1] is a video if you want to watch the event). One of the subjects of that talk was about a project tars[2] that tries to provide for a secure buffer for keys that is protected against it being leaked using a variety of techniques. It hasn't yet been analyzed, so of course you shouldn't actually trust it yet.

There's a lot of interest in our community to build out a solid foundation and verified foundation of cryptography primitives. If you're interested in helping out, hop in the #rust-crypto channel on irc.mozilla.org.

[0]: http://www.meetup.com/Rust-Bay-Area/events/210632582/

[1]: https://air.mozilla.org/bay-area-rust-meetup-december-2014/

[2]: https://github.com/seb-m/tars
Exactly. Depressed people commit suicide, unemployment can exacerbate depression, thus it correlates with suicide rates. Not exactly a new finding but one to remember. More of a "hey look <bad thing> is <really bad>." with some numbers to make it more real to the reader.
Thank you for the great and extensive feedback! We will make sure to fix as many of the things you mentioned as possible in the next minor update to the app. Most are actually usability problem. It is in fact possible to access followers and who's following and so on. It's just not immediately obvious how I guess. Downloads for offline listening is available if you long-press on a story in the feed and then tap "Download". Not very user friendly. We're working on a better solution.

We've actually reached out to Gimlet to get their thoughts on the app. But haven't heard back from them yet.
So...the claim is that chrome runs a lot more javascript than safari?
Ask HN: Do's and Don'ts while working long hours
I was working 15 hours daily for the past one week and woke up today morning with splitting pain in my neck and back. I take it as a warning to break my bad posture and habits.

If you can't avoid long work hours, what are the do's and don'ts while working from home?
Thanks, enlightening. And is this because due to some implementation difficulties for sendfile when using shared file system between the box and the host machine?
Reverse Engineering “Looking for work” thread
>things went tragically wrong and the rat became the first causality of the Congolese Space Program.

Maybe they launched it on causal Friday?

http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3558
Yes, but it's irrelevant.

Hacker News policy is to not editorialize the title and submit the original title.
Anyone who lives near SF will be used to living in a $2000/month apartment with no A/C, or for that matter the whole nation of Japan.

Not sure exactly how much more efficient it is, but it sure builds character. It also helps that the winters are not too bad, and the summers are only kind of too bad.
Well, cracking 100 years from now will probably be much harder. For example, could CSS be as easily cracked if you didn't know it was for DVD video and didn't have access to a working reference implementation?

Either way, we're surely capable of leaving a better legacy than what we currently have.
In California, rains happen in the winter and crops (mostly) grow in the summer. The Sierra Nevada snowpack is the "bank" that stores this precipitation for 3-4 months until it is needed to grow food in the Central Valley. If temps are too warm for the snow to persist, that water is essentially lost unless it is stored in dams. So, climate change is a huge loss for us.
We produce several times more than we need with the current climate, water and energy inputs. If the climate shifts with long term trends, and water becomes scarce under those trends, and the fossil fuel energy inputs cause long term CO2 release exacerbating/locking in the climate shifts - then it is a risk that the surplus food we generate today will not be as readily available in the future.
Yes.

The FBI has technical specialists on staff that could very quickly say, "Yes, this complaint checks out." The problem here is that the agent apparently just took Goldman at their word, and didn't conduct an independent investigation of Goldman's claims, which is kind of their entire job. This is especially relevant because the value of stolen property can seriously affect charging and sentencing.

If you or I called the FBI and said "An employee stole proprietary code worth millions," there's no way the FBI would take that at face value, if you could even get their attention.

When the Federal government treats powerful corporations differently, to the point of effectively outsourcing its investigation, that severely undermines the principle of equality before the law.
I'm usually keeping 100-150 (!) tabs open, using "Tabman" to navigate between them
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabman-tabs-manage...
(disclosure: I made this extension)
and using also "The Great Suspender" for the performance.
This works great with so many tabs on my 2 year old laptop.
Vesting makes no sense in your case, since the work is already done.

I would recommend you get shares now, in writing, properly done. Not at some future time. While on paper, getting 1% after the VC round sounds better, because you won't be diluted, in practice, what will happen is that the VC will tell the founders: "as a condition for my investment, you need to clean your cap table and renege on your promise to that person".

Whereas if you already got your shares now, there isn't much the VC can do (except natural dilution).

Summary: get on the cap table now. It's now or never.
Yes, he is a different class. Different from all those mathematicians working at Harvard, Princeton, etc.

That adjunct job gave him sanity to solve the problem. In the case of Grigori Perelman, these universities (Princeton, Harvard) did not want to give tenure job after his proving Soul Conjecture; this was during his postdoc at Courant NYU.

Of course, these math guys wanna offer a tenure track position, which woulda prevented him from proving Poincare conjecture. He went back to Russia, spent time in isolation for 8 years or so. Proved it. Once he published the paper on arXiv, the shithead professors at Princeton, Columbia want him back, so that they can be co-authors of his paper on poincare conjecture or these universities can appear on the paper a la affliation: you see, these elite universities love to show "Mr X from Princeton solved poincare conjecture".

Another chinese professor at Harvard tried to steal the credit from Perelman for the same conjecture.

It is a big mess out there. Zhang somehow used his adjunct/tutor job to spend time in number theory. Perelman used his postdoc fellowship savings to solve his problem. IN Zhang's case, he got the tenureship after his proof; Perelman gave up math.
Our nginx configurations use:

sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay off;

With tcp_nodelay off. Is the author suggesting we turn it on?
Cool! Nice to know that I'm not the only person trying to implement K5 from scraps and speculation.
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I JUST ran into this issue this weekend! Glad to know I'm not going insane.

Do you have any links specifically discussing the issue?
If a solution would have been found more quickly had the developer engaged their colleagues for help or advice, they cost the organization by wasting time trying to be a "rock star" instead of a team player. They would receive coaching to discourage that sort of counterproductive behavior in the future.
I've got a bad habit with tabs that Chrome doesn't enable. The only solution I've found that works is to use Tab Mix Plus and set it to allow up to nine rows of tabs. Once I start getting past about three rows it starts to shut out the viewable screen space and I up saying F this and going on a deleting spree, or bookmarking all open tabs.

The second reason I don't use Chrome is with a logitech mouse on Mac, there are no good gesture extensions that I know of that will allow me to right-click / scroll wheel to zoom through open tabs. Actually, all gesture extensions seem crippled in some way or another.
You could have realised this was linkbait from the domain name - dang can we please lower the rank for gizmodo.com links?
Why? Is Haiku just an exercise in nostalgia or are there reasons why one might actually choose it over other OSs for practical use?
I encourage anyone interested in this subject to read Jan Gehl's Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space http://amzn.to/1Cpbe3u
The government got burned by a narrow interpretation of the law. Congress edited one of the laws to re-widen it after the ruling.

What he did is illegal now and everyone thought was illegal then.

He is also being charged under state law for it. It was also civil trade secret misappropriation and Goldman can sue him.

Like Rayiner said, he got off on a technicality.
I use Duckduckgo optimistically. First I use ddg then if the results aren't satisfactory I use google.
Except the code copied by Aleynikov wasn't anything like PageRank. It was like some Go library that fetches the pages, and one that was primarily open source code to begin with.
The "modern" way to do things is to use the splice syscall and related calls instead of sendfile, which can deal with copying between sockets and appending headers more directly.

Igor said in a talk I went to that Nginx 1.x was written for FreeBSD first, while 2.0 will be written for Linux first so perhaps some of these things may change (hence "nopush" in the config file, the freebsd term).
https://seaman-supko.bandcamp.com/releases

here's the bandcamp for the music the computer wrote. I wonder does the computer get the 7 dollars and copyright and so on.
Let me then rephrase my hypothesis (of course technically it can't be a theory): any sufficiently novel initial idea, whether good or bad in our perception at first glance, can be brought to success by amending and developing it.
Oh Heck NO! I love the in!
I, at least, do typically run with anywhere from 50-200 tabs (or more!) at any given time. Yeah, there's some slowdown if you're running on an 8GB machine (I'm typing this on a Macbook Air with a Firefox session with at least 100 tabs open at the moment (SEE EDIT)), but it's certainly way more than I used to get with Chrome before I switched back to Firefox a couple years back (Tree View Tabs being the motivating factor). Currently using 5.4GB of RAM (OSX is reporting a "Compressed Mem" of 2.96GB), and it's currently pegging one of the cores of the i7 on this thing. This is after about a week of nonstop (i.e. same Firefox process) use, and with Flash present in a lot of places (like the 20+ Github tabs I have open, thanks to Github using Flash for its silly "click here to copy a link to your clipboard" feature; I really need to get those wretched things blocked); a lot of things will clear out pretty well after restarting and restoring the opened tabs (though this is partly because they're not loaded into memory again until they're accessed again).

EDIT: After posting this comment, I closed all my tabs (something which causes one of my extensions - probably Tree Style Tab - to throw a confirmation dialog with the number of tabs). The number was 233, plus another ten or so in another window. I must say, that's pretty damn good, all things considered.

I'm trying out Nightly right now to see if I can push that even further with the new e10s features.
Near Dillingham Alaska: The guy I was briefly working for would have to take his boat two miles up (down?) river to get his mail.
I just closed Chrome as a test and am viewing this thread in FFX. Chrome was using 3 GB of RAM :/
Netflix did this recently too, IIRC.
What exactly was the code that he copied? I see that he did copy a bunch of code out for the purpose of collecting open-source code... but if it was code he or others wrote at his previous company, taking it seems like a bad idea.
Since uBlock got support for Firefox, using Firefox is a no-brainer for me.
Realistically (loopholes aside) - all of the code not under GPL would be theft no? (Goldman replacing the copyrights on other open-source stuff with their own is probably illegal (as long as the license stipulates that the original copyright notice must remain), but their modifications are still proprietary.

He of course could have had proprietary source code in his repositories for work in the first place - but bundling and uploading everything does look highly suspicious - and he should have known better.

[Goldman] called the F.B.I. in haste, just two days before, and then put their agent through what amounted to a crash course on high-frequency trading and computer programming. McSwain later conceded that he didn’t seek out independent expert advice to study the code Serge Aleynikov had taken.

This is the very surprising part.
It would be cool to see more automakers invest in an infrastructure dedicated to electric vehicles (not necessarily limited to charging). EVs are not mainstream today, but they most likely will be in the near future. I see a vague connection with mobile ecosystems like iPhone and Android. Heavy investment in the mobile development infrastructure is paying off. It's giving device/app makers more leverage to turn ideas into products. A great infrastructure definitely helps drive adoption.
Yes, as far as I understood "tcp_nodelay on" is more reasonable for the modern web, the whole delay business of TCP was reasonable for terminals.

As the latter part of article describes "tcp_nodelay on" is at the odds with "tcp_nopush on" as they are mutually exclusive, but nginx has special behavior that if you have "sendfile on", it uses "tcp nopush" for everything but the last package and then turns nopush off and enables nodelay to avoid 0.2 sec delay.
Sorry but what is it about for people who know neither Spree or Spritz, what patent did Spree violate( ELI5,tried to read the paper but did understand nothing).
One area the U.S. could definitely focus on is reducing food waste. Restaurants throw away a lot of food that was perfectly good 4 days prior. The habits of people here regarding food waste is significant, too - I have a friend who will go to Taco John late at night, get six tacos, three potato things, 10 packets of sauce, eat two tacos and a potato thing and leave the rest to waste in his kitchen counter. He sees it as $5, but the costs to society may be more than that. Or my girlfriend's kids, who will fidget and fight about eating a burrito until we throw away half of it. Based on my vague observations, at least half the food produced gets tossed out for some reason (and not even composted!).

For instance, significant resources went into creating meat like this 30-40 lbs I saw wasted in a dumpster outside a restaurant in Denver : http://i.imgur.com/ns4TunE.jpg Beef is one of the most water intensive food products, too.
Smaller yards (and/or streets!) mean you're substantially closer to the park. And the pool. And the store. Everything, really.

Big yards and wide streets are murder for walkability.

[edit] second paragraph removed because I realized it was largely nonsensical.
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Yes, since it with it on the functionality remains off until the final (and only partially full) packet. Rather than being delayed by 200ms, tcp_nodelay sends it out instantly.
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To be perfectly honest that sounds like a surprisingly toxic work environment, and a sadly elitist attitude. What are teams for if not to act as a collaborative support system?

Should it be a crutch? No. But never asking for help as a matter of course is, in my opinion, counterproductive.
10-15 years ago? Absolute poppycock, Autechre, Amon Tobin you'll be saying Aphex Twin next.

Why no, American born electronic artist Brian Transeau "developed" the technique as recently as 2011.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stutter_edit
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Search DuckDuckGo for "Tree Style Tabs"; it should be the first result.

It should also be the first result if you search Mozilla's add-on marketplace thingamajig for "Tree Style Tabs". Here's the link for convenience: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
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I've created some similar projects of my own, studied with the leading professor in this field (see my other comment), wrote an ebook about this topic, and been keeping an eye on this field for years.

tldr: artificial intelligence is much more artificial than intelligent.

nearly every project of this nature illustrates how much easier it is to write narrow AI than general AI, even though any AI which produced complete musical works would be a very narrow example of general AI.

it is much, much easier to write very specifically-targeted stuff that can perform a few useful tricks than it is to write an actual "composer."

this particular example features a Max/MSP patch designed to turn a very specific database of samples into a very specific style of ambient music.

every time I see anything about this topic on HN, I kind of end up being a bit of a killjoy about it, because the reality is that it is very, very common for people to overhype their results in this context. I've probably been guilty of this myself, in the past.

it's definitely possible to write very satisfying and effective music-generating code, but there is almost never an incredibly deep lesson to learn about the nature of consciousness there. there ARE very, very often incredibly deep and specific lessons to learn about the inner workings of particular musical forms.

I wrote a drum-and-bass drum pattern generator which made me much, much better at writing drum patterns by hand afterwards. one of the professors I studied with (briefly) wrote an amazing fuzzy logic counterpoint generator which allowed him to, effectively, improvise entire concertos, and I'm reasonably confident he learned an enormous amount about classical counterpoint in the process.

(note that "improvise entire concertos" means "play a MIDI wind controller, improvise a tune, and have his software generate appropriate harmonic accompaniment." the overhyping tendency bit me even as I was warning you about it.)

likewise, I think the author of this nautil.us post learned an enormous amount about what makes ambient music work well. and probably got much better at working in Max/MSP.

but this is not Skynet shit. this is not proof of the rise of machine consciousness. this is intricately technical work which develops your skill in programming and musical composition.

that's really all there is to it.
If you use custom filters instead of subscribing to one of the popular filtersets, then you should check to see whether you're even using the kind of rules that ABP doesn't handle well. The memory and CPU usage only gets bad when you've got a lot of broad-spectrum CSS element hiding rules; regular URL-based blocking rules are plenty scalable.
Coming sooner now that you posted this comment on HN.
Historically the Great Plains have been very dry. Well, pre-historically, from a European colonization perspective. There is a history of mega-droughts. If Europeans had arrived in the midst of the thirty-year drought in the 1700's the settlement of the West would have been quite different.

So independently of the accuracy of climate models--and the hiatus is a real, non-cherry-picked feature of the Hadcrut data, which was everyone's gold standard until the hiatus showed up in it (http://www.tjradcliffe.com/?p=1460)--there is very good reason to be concerned about the Great Plains returning to what amounts to historical conditions.

This is the general case for policy responses to AGW: climate models don't have to be very accurate (which is good, because they aren't) to justify a modest investment in climate robustness, because our economic systems are finely tuned for the modern climate and we know it isn't going to last. The things that someone who wasn't insane would to to reduce GHG emissions--building nuclear power stations, regulating thermal coal into oblivion, shifting taxes from incomes to carbon emissions, investing in solar and storage--are all things that also either increase economic robustness against climate variations or have other economic benefits (you'd have to be some kind of wealth-hating socialist to want to tax incomes instead of carbon emissions, since incomes are good and carbon emissions are bad, and an externality besides.)
I'm moderately well-informed about the trade-offs I'm making when I sign in to Google services and I choose to do so.

I also do so with Amazon and Microsoft and would probably claim that I am offering informed consent.

I'm keen to have it explained to me where I might be in error on this matter.
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I found your statement very interesting, and would like to learn more. If you're allowed, would you please provide more details or links to resources that further explain the security issues that process-per-tab resolves?
Your personality can change based on your experiences. Nothing about you is set in stone.

Most of the time, change is effected through long effort and reflection, and by the end you don't see you've changed at all.
Ah sorry, my mistake. I think I had optimized builds confused with "ndebug" builds. But it sounds like only ndebug builds disable overflow checks, and Rust nightlies don't use ndebug.
Fragmentation of memory (look closely: a very broken page)
thestinger seems to have a kernel hacker or embedded systems attitude, which is probably lower than 1% of all use cases; that's not to say it's not important, but he's generated an unproportional amount of, let's say, loud signal.