skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've already gotten some great sources linked about the WTC in particular, and most of them are correct that it'd take months to years of experience with counterpoint (even assuming you've already composed here and there) to really begin appreciating how fluid Bach's counterpoint is. However, for completeness, I wanted to link some good basic introductions to species counterpoint[1][2][3].

I thought it should also be noted: species counterpoint was being formalized just around Bach's time by Johann Fux[4], and modern clarifications and extensions to Baroque formal species counterpoint are largely derived from reverse-inferring rules out of Bach's masterful use of counterpoint and his inventive ways of twisting the rules (often to make his own consistent contrapuntal language). In this sense, WTC is an absolute masterclass of the rules that formed the core of the defining era of European music, which is why it's so famous.

[1] http://tobyrush.com/theorypages/index.html

[2] http://www.ars-nova.com/CounterpointStudy/intro.html

[3] http://www.listeningarts.com/music/general_theory/species/me...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Joseph_Fux
Wow, that's huge! Thanks Sam.
Anecdotally, I was able to set my mother up with an old Thinkpad running Lubuntu and she took right to it. She is pretty much the definition of computer illiterate, so I think you have something there.
I would love to be a "free-range" parent, but I won't. Not because I think it is bad for my daughter, but because I'm afraid I'll end up in a an expensive legal battle against the state.
Am I the only one bothered by the sheer amount of killing this means?
You might have to feed poultry 2lb to get 1lb of food, but you kill only one living creature.
With insects, how many living creatures are you going to kill to get 1lb ? (even though that would only require 1lb of feeding).
Yes I know, they are not conscious at the same level, and are killed in a way so that they don't suffer, but still.
Do you disagree with Peter Thiel on competition?
Quote: "For the record email marketing is still the method that drive the most engagement."

Hands down that ^^^^ is correct.

I've spent the last year doing a lot of what the OP has done, sans the link spamming. I've built sites, did white/gray/black hat link building, promoted cpa offers with media and traffic buys, and even offers via kindle books.

What might not be clear to everyone here is that this is still going on and there is still a huge market for this thing and thusly, quite a few people making a lot of money.

I have spent a long time building software. All kinds of it - client, server, web, mobile, now watch. I'm good at this and it's second nature. I've also made a lot more money doing this vs. any type of IM or AM.

However, after getting into IM last year, part of me felt like I missed a whole part of the web 'growing up' because I was focused on spending huge amounts of time building building the tools & platforms vs. using them. Part of this was my disdain for advertising and marketing in general. However, in the last year I have developed a new found respect for those aspects of business - they are required nowadays and you can't avoid them. The few get lucky sites or app builders are just that - lucky. For the rest of us, it's marketing hard work.

I actually didn't do that bad during my foray into this last year. I probably made back 75% of my spend, which was 'only' about $5k. The easiest was bing ads -> clickbank offers. I'm still amazed that tinnitus or diabetes are still big sellers...

I feel like we programmers tend to look down on this or feel it's beneath us. I used to but I don't anymore. I posted before on HN how I thought Pat Flynn was doing a great job and got comments that what I was talking about was spam, not sustainable, etc. But Path's now up to about $1m/yr by becoming his own brand. He engages with his audience and has figured out how to bring a lot of these different types of marketing and educational aspects together.

Another great one is Brian Dean - his posts on driving traffic and capturing audience are amazing. He's definitely a hacker seo guy and I like that.

So, to each his own, but this was a great read.
How many cities are doing something like this, and have this much data available? Is it the norm?
My apologies - "vocals" was used in reference to the verbal percussion going on - the "hey"s littered throughout as part of the background melody.
For 7th grade British History we had to know all the rulers, in order, from Charlemagne (or was it Charles Martel aka Charles the Hammer) to present day (1980s). Obviously I didn't learn it.

Funny now, I learned more after watching The Tudors, Wolf Hall, and The White Queen, than I did it that awful class. Wasn't all bad though. We got to make our own Medieval weapons (I made a Morning Star) and had a tour book of the London Dungeon (pretty gruesome) hanging on the classroom wall; won't find that these days.
Rosetta Is Tailing a Warming Comet
In need of a cofounder? Join the club. Or rather a club, where you will get to meet new people and, if you choose the right kind of club, get to see them in a high pressure situation.
True, but what you consider clean conditions is relative. City streets are dirty, but so is the bottom of the ocean! where sharks vacate and whales rot to bits and all kinds of sediment and detritus gathers: there's your market price lobster's "clean conditions and properly fed". So would you knowingly eat a rat off the city streets? Well, I probably would too in fact, even if the thought truly disgusts me :}
But if they are able to find it, they are probably earning enough month-to-month on various bug bounties. Heck, most of them would probably already running or hired by some of the top security research groups.
Monetize Your Ionic Framework Mobile Application with Google Admob
Or on a completely separate machine: Exploits have been found for visualization software. Of course, then you need to be concerned about the network and so on.

It's turtles all the way down.
Lewis and Clark ate plenty of dog, though I doubt they ate Huskies. I imagine they ate dog meat because it was generally available and more sanitary.

http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/read/?_xmlsrc=1806-05-0...
TL;DR Phase 1 trial with 166 patients shows promise (many promising phase 1 trials don't pan out in phase 2 or 3 trials).
I'm so tired of hearing that "Today’s ambitions include Randian projects like secession, seasteading or private “innovation zones” where government regulations wouldn’t apply.", as if Peter Thiel is the only person in Silicon Valley making political statements.
"Reddit is known as a democratic site run by its users where free speech is sacrosanct. The more votes a story gets, the more likely it will be posted on a front page."

It's an example of why direct Democracy doesn't work. Anything that is even slightly against the extreme-left majority is down voted and ignored.

The average Redditor probably loves this...until the same thing happens to them.
> models don't change

I wonder if the software running those models has finally been corrected[1] to use floating point properly. Giving different results from the same data+software when run on different hardware suggests rounding wasn't being handled properly[2].

As these models are already so sensitive to initial conditions that "ensemble prediction" are necessary to avoid chaotic results, mishandling floating point rounding could completely destroy the results.

[1] http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.ht...

[2] http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/07/28/137209/same-progr...
Thanks, I have only used Virtaal, and white it works, it feels too basic.
What making something people want looks like
"When you see free you don't mean free. Free means [this thing I just decided it means, which is quite obviously not the meaning you're using]. If [the definition I just introduced doesn't obtain] it isn't free by definition."
Beans are full of lysine and, for ovo-lacto vegetarians, so are eggs.

(I don't consider dha/epa and carnosine to be essential nutrients.)
"The drug, called aducanumab, appears to have met or exceeded Wall Street expectations in terms of how much the highest dose slowed cognitive decline. However, there was a high incidence of a particular side effect that might make it difficult to use the highest dose."

There is so much that scares me about this statement.
Depth-First Iterative Deepening (1985) [pdf]
I was in the same question asking boat as you after checking everything out and the only conclusion I can come to is that this app may have been created with people who don't want to attach everything to Google's Services.
This is what this account is for, after all, so:

I am a regular poster on r/theredpill(which was recently "honored" by winning the bigotry category---but with low toxicity---in a recent sentiment analysis of reddit comments). There is a lot of what someone might call "hate speech." Some of that doesn't really deserve the title and is just "truths that polite society omits;" some reflects genuine, generalized anger against women.

The subreddit has grown like a rocket. There are multiple backup plans for where to move the community in case the subreddit gets shut down. In short: there is something there that draws people, for better or for worse.

One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist, etc.
Is Bill Gates a zealot? I'm not sure what I would have thought 10 years ago, but today that doesn't ring true to me.

(Perhaps Steve Jobs is a better example?)
That is good to hear!

Your last point resonates with me. The YC classes create subnetworks with a strong sense of identity within the greater YC network. It reminds me of how interns/trainees bond into these clusters in various industries (Hollywood's talent agencies and Wall Street for example). The trust and sharing of experience helps participants function far more effectively.
Do you think that startup ideas, in their general concept, can be confidential?

Or do you think instead that a global idea, without hard details, and most importantly before the hard work of execution is never confidential?
I don't know if I count as a "successful" programmer (I'd like to think so), but here are things I've started doing in the last few years that have had a tangible increase in my productivity.

Know yourself. Know your body and your mind and your tics. If I don't get 8 hours of sleep, for example, I get irritable and have trouble focusing. I've had arguments with managers and executives about this before, and frankly I'll quit before I'll commit to working at not my best. Having my ass in the chair at 9 sharp, tired and bleary and cranky, does nobody any good--especially if waiting a mere hour would result in like 4x the productivity. If your bosses can't see this, and you can't show them numerically that you are producing, you need to leave your job. Speaking of showing progress...

Make todo lists. Whether in an issue tracker, post-its, notebook, or mad scrawlings on your cube wall, make notes of the next few things you need to get done. Annotate those things with the mid-to-low level deliverables or requirements. This is not just to keep track of where everything is, but also to help you get right back into context when you need to switch gears. Moreover, this also helps you audit what you've been doing the last few months.

Write sloppy solutions first. Don't lose steam fighting optimizations, unless that is the exact goal you're trying to accomplish. Welders use tack welds (teeny welds that are fast) to shape up a workpiece before going to do everything--similarly, use the obvious solutions (preferably functional ones if the language, like JS, affords them) and then go back and clean things up in a subsequent pass.

Accept that you'll waste time. I know that some amount of random garbage (chats, twitter, HN, etc.) is useful for helping reset my brain. On bad days, it even gives me a place to vent while I'm waiting on solving problems and gives me a sense of community. Don't begrudge yourself this, and instead focus on learning to recognize when you've gotten that recharge and can go back at things.

Do the medium-detail design work up front, and write it down. Especially at hackathons or during stressful times or even when just spewing code because you're not on the ball, it's really easy to code yourself into corners. So, the design work is a guardrail to help nudge you onto the right path. This way you won't get into a situation where you have to throw away a lot of work.

EDIT:

One more thing.

The measure of a good engineer isn't how awesome they are when they're at their best--it's what and how consistently they can deliver when they're not.
Looks pretty interesting, especially storing mails locally.

For promoting privacy, the app unfortunately sends way too many requests to Heap Analytics (basically every touch you do within the app).

Even worse, the app sends the mail address you entered via plain HTTP to a Heroku app (for figuring out mailserver configuration).

This is what the request looks like:

>> GET http://slidemailstaging.herokuapp.com/validate_email/abc@exa...
<- 200 application/json 173B

Once you reduce analytics and send stuff like this via HTTPS (or even better ask me whether I want to send my mail address to your server), I'd be happy to try the app.
I don't know if I have a disadvantage or an advantage when it comes to learning. I can never memorize a mass of stuff. Instead, I have to find a pattern in it and use the pattern to reconstruct it. For example, I could never remember random formulas for e.g. solving the quadratic equation or taking a derivative, but once I figured out how they worked, I could use them right away. This is why I decided to study physics in college: physics has very few pieces of info you have to just memorize.

The downside, besides having a horrible time remembering some chemical formula, or the year of the French revolution, is that I also cannot use a formula correctly unless I know how it is derived. I must walk every step of the proof before I can use any part of the formula, otherwise my brain simply refuses to see it correctly.

Interestingly enough, I am blessed with very good memory for situations and associations. I can tell you exactly how many olives were in the martini I ordered in July 2008 (3), or quote lines from my favorite shows at every occasion. I just can't remember what my brain seems classify as "generally useless facts".
the tail is like, the whole shrimp :} haha, but I know what you mean. Maybe it's good, maybe it's the kind of baking goth teenagers carry on just to disgust their stiff parents!
How to respond to a personal improvement plan?
- First, some background:
- Prior job was as a data scientist at a small tech company in their engineering team.
- I'm now a data analyst in the online marketing world working within a business team (i suck at communicating with others)
- I works on building statistical models
- I code in R and Python, and use SQL.
- My skills aren't necessarily valued by my employer
- Have been frustrate for a while and mentioned some things on - Twitter/LinkedIn
- Had a great performance review last year (3.65/4)
- I've actively been looking for new jobs over the past few weeks.

So I recently got a Personal Improvement Plan because of disparaging comments I made about co-workers and my employer. Furthermore, I was apparently too hostile in my assessment of the employer in some of my emails.

So I've been asked to sign a PIP and improve in a set of completely unrelated areas, or leave my job? What would you do?

I was allready frustrated with the job and likely to leave in the next two or three months, so what benefit would I get from signing it?
A Very Small Sample of Selected (Celebrity/Public) British Men are harassed more than Selected (Celebrity/Public) British Women.

Watch #gamergate on twitter for just a minute and you'll get the opposite impression. By far.

*Edited to emphasize the celebrity/public status, as I think that might attract harassing a bit.
They're inflated due to the extremely high cost of living in the areas where these jobs are common: Austin, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver. If someone at Google in SF is making $250k, their peer in Ann Arbor, MI (a small city with a Google office) could have the same purchasing power with maybe $80k. If the companies weren't located in SF, the salaries could be a lot lower for the same work, and the employees wouldn't really be making any less even with a lower salary.
It's not coming across as a sob story to me, just more of a reflection and insight on experiences.

> very old and common mistakes

That's human nature and storytelling.
> Today I could probably identify almost all the states ...

I just tried this myself and (barely) got them all right. Had to guess between NH and VT, and was somewhat shaky around AK, MS, and AL.
And helped out with Dick Cheney's campaigns.
It can devalue the brand with or without having an effect on overall consumption, it will make their boxes look more similar to cheaper brands.
And while they're deleting those posts people are free to repost images of vulnerable users, with added sexualised language, and send pms telling those vulnerable people to kill themselves.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9233996
Thanks a lot for the link.

I wonder how the score would go if linux and bsd targets were present and if they allowed chrome and firefox on mac os x as well...
Great points. And for the record, I guess I'm young. I'm single with no dependents. :P
Yeah, I'm going to assume this was a joke.
This is the best gallery of photos I've seen. One close up views the comet from only 6 miles away.
Remember how we used electricity 100 years ago?  That's where the Internet is
Reddit is not an "extreme left" site. I'm a bit confused how anyone who's spent any time on Reddit could come to that conclusion.
I've been saying this for a long time. Women are not actually being singled out, they are now equal with men. But for some reason, they feel they should have special treatment. We need to find ways of combating all harassment..not just for women.

About 10 years ago, I had a programming blog that talked about topics such as Mysql VS Postgres and other topics I was interested in discussing. I got death threats, harassed, and emails telling me some of the worst things in the world (including the rape of me and my family members). I never really took it seriously, but it still happened on a constant basis.
I'm not trying to put forth a framework, I'm trying to explain the side you're not on without straw-manning them.

- If you prefer 100000000000000000000000000000000000000 specks to 1 torture

- and you follow the axiom that A > B implies x% A > x% B, and value people equally

- then you prefer 1 speck to a 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000001% chance of torture

- and you will want to throw a speck in someone's eyes whenever it decreases the odds of torture by 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000001%

- any given person has a more than 0.000000000000000000000000000000000001% of going nuts and trying to torture someone in the next day

- and you can decrease those odds non-negligibly by continuously throwing specks into their eyes... so do that

I will grant you that no person would take that last step. It's too stupid, too not-common-sense. But code... code does whatever you tell it to. And if you tell it to prefer 100000000000000000000000000000000000000 specks to 1 torture, and to follow decision theory axioms, don't be surprised when the solutions it spits out uses specks of dust to prevent people from seeing for absurdly small chances of preventing torture.
According to various news and a citation on Wiki, "she" is actually a male.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Lady_of_Paviland
A million years isn't that long and if you could give everyone on earth an extra million QALY's that would be wonderful, but it still wouldn't circumvent mortality.
Would someone willing to sell exploits on the black market really be concerned with "violating the rules of the competition"?
Can you give me an example of a company and position that pays $500K for this type of work?
I was referring more specifically to the division lines you contrived between Europe/North America on one hand and Central and South America on the other hand even both more or less share the same values and ideals.

So it can't be cultural, so it could be ethnocentric and therefore was my question for you.
Show HN: Ugly Email – Gmail Extension to Check If Email Is Being Tracked
Absolutely not. If that were true, the 4chan guy would have been in jail for possession of illegal material posted there.

In the US, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and Stored Communications Act provide protections here... In the event of a civil or criminal litigation, a subpoena delivered to Microsoft will be redirected to the customer or customer's counsel to respond to or quash. If the customer is non-responsive, Microsoft may be compelled to produce data.

There are situations where a criminal investigation will result in a search warrant directed at an individual or organization. Search warrants are a different ballgame... The standards are higher and the cops show up and take everything. Keep in mind in that situation, the cloud has no impact in terms of data privacy -- the police will literally knock down your door or pry the colo cage open to seize what they after.

If the nature of your business requires additional layers of secrecy or offshore servers in Iceland, you should not be using email.
I've noticed this living in Costa Rica, I hardly ever see or walk past someone smoking anymore. When I first came here in 2006 it was everywhere including allowed in bars etc.
> And not a single modern website will run either.

I find that the vast majority of websites run perfectly fine with NoScript. What exactly qualifies as a modern website?

Even if they do "require" JS, you can enable one or two of the scripts that are actually necessary and keep the 22 ad/tracking/various-other-third-party scripts disabled to minimize the attack surface.
hacker news is predominantly pre-CSS style code, e.g. the only CSS seems to be basic fonts and the upvote arrow, both of which the site would barely be different if run without CSS. Here's their only stylesheet: https://news.ycombinator.com/news.css?vaRvmIYYFOCsNxY80y43
The table actually scrolls and includes many countries, on OS X I had to click on it before it would.

Australia is down -41%, although it may be an outlier because we have been a leader in making it hard to sell/market cigarettes, and they're very heavily taxed.
Show HN: Audiohand, automatically aligns and mixes multiple recordings
You left off the following bullet point:

* NetBSD technically did it first

* But OpenBSD is the one who engaged with the rest of the software community to fix bugs that were uncovered

Now it doesn't seem so backhanded.
What type of products do you create?
> The entire piece is based on moving between chords by changing a single note

This statement ceases to be correct for very first chord change of the piece, which goes from C to Dm7. In fact, it's an incorrect description of the piece in general.
> We need more browser features so we can write less code, only write it once, and

throw it all away and rewrite it all again in two years when even newer features get added to the browsers!
Probably more geopolitically than ethnocentric. I think due to lingering effects of the Cold War, the term "The West" has colloquially been associated with the original definition of "First World" and means any developed, democratic, capitalist countries (or more specifically those allied with NATO). In that sense, Australia is more western than most of Latin America.

It is just like when we say "The South" in the US we are usually referring to the historical and political south (i.e. the Confederate States or more generally the Southeast). You will rarely if ever hear someone refer to somewhere west of Texas as The South.