skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're kind of thinking of the "source code" for electronic music.

To simplify things: You start with a sequence of notes stored as MIDI, which are played through synthesizers and sampled instruments, which generate the sounds. Then you layer effects on top of that, such as reverb, filters, and compression.

Distributing this "source code" probably wouldn't make music files any smaller, since you would also need to distribute all of the sample packs and effects plugins. A single reverb or compression plugin will take up tens of megabytes. Acoustic instruments are usually sampled at very high quality. A grand piano library can be gigabytes of samples, which includes all kinds of variations for velocity, acoustic response, etc.

In addition to that, anything you record with a microphone can't be compressed in this way, such as vocals, or any acoustic instruments. So if you have vocals throughout the whole song, then the entire length of this audio track will have to compressed at the original bitrate anyway. So if you have a 3 minute song that uses lots of samples, but also has 3 minutes of vocals, then the vocals are your bottleneck. Whatever you do to split up your track into samples, your minimum filesize will be 3 minutes of compressed audio.

So as soon as you have anything that can't be reduced into repeating samples + filters, you won't be able to do better than MP3 or FLAC (for lossless compression).

If your song contains very little recorded audio, and is purely MIDI + synthesizers, then this technique could save a lot of space.
"Then they released the Android app. More users signed up. It started to take on a high school feeling"

when you mention the injection of android users, aren't you really talking about inner city high school kids using the app on boostmobile and metropcs phones?
What does that solve? They can MITM to modify the clear text and the signature.
It's a great paper, and a great application of machine learning!

Though, the FBUs had worse readability than NBUs. I think you're misinterpreting the readability index - higher is worse, not better. From the paper:

"Users who get banned in the future (FBUs) (a) write less similarly to other users in the same thread, (b) write posts that are harder to read (i.e., have a higher readability index), and (c) express less positive emotion."
I enjoyed this part in particular:

Conley made the most colorful remarks of the day, including saying that he didn’t believe technical experts who said building backdoors is impossible.

“Did John Kennedy say we couldn’t go to the moon?” Conley asked. “He said no, we’re going to go because it’s the hard thing to do.”

“I’m a proud and patriotic American, too,” Farenthold responded. “But maybe the proper analogy would be if Kennedy said ‘We’re going to go the moon and no one else is ever going to go. Ever.’”
Jeez, these guys are still around? I ordered an original Pandora somewhere around... October 2008? They never shipped it. $300, plus an additional $100 later at some point, and I never got anything. Kinda kills any interest in further developments.

People are used to this kind of thing by now, but this was pre-Kickstarter... And a lot worse considering other people in the same batch as me did get what they paid for.
Hey, dev here, can you please elaborate on your issue?
I didn't describe it well. I think Twitter is like an echo chamber for SJW's and it seems to spawn digital riots, swattings, doxxing, etc. That's the problem I was trying to describe, the nefarious use of Twitter.
The 1341-horsepower electric supercar
If customer support requirements are high at sign up but low for customer lifetime then it shouldn't matter as long as their retention is good and lifetime is long. I don't know, it's not my business plan. I'm just pointing out they're unlikely to have a signup process that lets people with high levels of income in.
Learning 'the cloud'
My extent of remote computing is using putty to ssh into a server. I am under the impression that the cloud is much more. Words like ' dynamic scaling', 'spinning up another machine' mean little to me.

What is the fastest, easiest tutorial for learning cloud technologies? I realize that is a vague question but that is only because I know so little I do not know how to ask a defined question about this. For example, there is cloudacademy that focusses on AWS certification. If we use that as the benchmark - learn and achieving AWS certification - then what tutorials are recommended? I realize there are other clouds out there - Microsoft Azure, Google cloud, and others. Would AWS certification include all the knowledge needed to 'operate' in those clouds? Or is it like the old Microsoft, Sun, IBM propietary systems where the languages were so different and interoperability was not even defined?
Given it's a "shipping" product, that seems unlikely.
Only for Chrome users. It loads fine for me in IE and Firefox.

Try this link instead http://x.devport.co/login
Defying International Outcry, Indonesia Executes Eight Drug Convicts
I agree with adverse possession changes.

I don't really want to engage with the rest because I feel 'poverty' is too vague a word to use in this context.

Owning a home and having to be careful with what you eat and about whether you can turn the lights on is a very different state of existence compared to eating roughly whatever you want but worrying about making the rent. The latter makes you a serf to a lord, the former is a struggle. They are both difficult but their effect on the psyche is differebt.
Lambda Functions in C++ – The Definitive Guide
The brands mentioned seem like an implicit admission that this will be an expensive service. Is there actually demand for same day delivery of Tiffany's? Who buys stuff from Tiffany's but can't be bothered to go to the store and also needs it for tonight?
There are two sides of this coin.

0) As programs are expected to do more or run faster, they are required to use more computational power and memory. As examples, this is especially true of 3D Rendering or Video Editing software.

1) Because of the price and abundance of hardware - many programmers have stopped caring about nearly all optimization unless it brings their program to a halt. Requiring more computational power and memory to run many of these programs.

To many people $50-$60 for 8GB of 2x4GB DDR3 RAM isn't a lot of money. It's about as much as a date to the movies and cheaper than going out to dinner with the family.
So, I left a couple months before the final audit before going to public launch.

As far as I know, they were going to have to change a good bit of stuff focused around the taking out loans.

The sole investor cut his losses since we were already over time and budget. Also, we were having custom development done from the bank that hosted our accounts and the bank that provided us with credit limits. And we were going to have to have them go back and overhaul a lot of their system that had been changed for us, which was extremely expensive.
How is this different from weinre?
http://people.apache.org/~pmuellr/weinre/docs/latest/
Beyond the memories of his friends and family, he'll live forever through his great work. I would think that's what most of us strive for.
Uber's selection of businesses for delivery is strange. Hugo Boss? Louis Vuitton? Tiffany's? Those are all stores for which the shopping experience is paramount.
Apparently, yes. https://github.com/dvyukov/go-fuzz
The Haskell School of Expression is a beautiful book that I recommend to anyone that wants to learn Haskell, or to just appreciate functional programming.

Also, I motion for a black bar.
President Ford pardoned his predecessor Nixon, even though Nixon had not been prosecuted or convicted.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nixon+pardon+ford&ia=about
Do you planning optimize your app for ipad? I'm even can't see app icon, just white square.
I'm going to go with "possibly." End-of-final-term presidential pardons are not subject to quite the same calculus as decisions made during term, i.e. reelection is not a consideration. Obama's constitutional law idealism may have been severely corrupted by the pressures of his current role, but it's still there. I could see him feeling conflicted about Snowden's de facto exile, and thus being willing to issue a pardon in his last hour in office.

Not likely. But possible. P(Pardon) > 0.1 ?
Yes but your "free" time is valuable in a different way. I cheerfully cook for myself and my family on occasion, but having to do it all the time (for a family which has different conflicting dietary issues) is not much fun. (We don't eat out much for reasons of health as much as anything.) I just wouldn't make the cost argument -- it doesn't hold water.
I love this.. it says that I look 7 years younger! :D
How to Explain the Value of Replicated, Shared Ledgers from First Principles
5 Powerful Techniques I’ve Found to Achieve Work-Life Balance
I have to smile at the revelation of this problem. Nearly 30 years ago I discovered Usenet - and I was able to follow & read every post. That lasted for about 3 days. For "there's too much on Twitter!" to suddenly be a news item is ... funny.

Since then, I've followed the rise & fall of dozens of social media sites & sources, watching each follow the same pattern: within about 7 years, each site started, caught on, became the place to be, sagged under the weight & dreck of everyone wanting to be at the place to be, the signal-to-noise ratio collapsed as meaningful content found a slimmer medium, the self-important/trolls/spam/etc piled on, and the site (still existing) vanished from the public awareness. Oh, sure, Usenet continues, AOL continues, MySpace continues, ... but seem flotsam of the past. I've no doubt Twitter, Facebook, etc - whatever the current cultural imperatives are - will carry on for some time, but will likewise fade into oblivion as interesting content finds fresher ground and the S/N ratio collapses.
Competition IS GOOD.

If you think that even.me is exploiting their customer base, but is otherwise a good idea, then I sincerely recommend you try to create or help someone who will compete with them, offering similar service. Perhaps for $2.50 a week.

And no, they're clearly not going to "fix the system," but it sounds to me like their idea would be good for some people. Would actually help them.
> "Conley then proposed that a backdoor be implemented on personal devices but corporate networks be allowed to keep strong encryption with no 'golden keys.'"

Wow. This is deviously brilliant!

/cue establishment of tens of millions of new LLCs and corporations

States will love this, the revenues and tax implications are going to be massive! /s
I respectfully disagree. The SRI spec doesn't tell you how to implement it [1]. In fact it allows implementing everything you described. A browser could decide to completely disregard the src= element and load the resource based on the hash matching a file already present in cache (no matter what CDN it comes from). The end result is equivalent: the same content is interpreted. That means no more downtime when a CDN is down, no more cache fragmentation, and so on.

On a side note: there is no need to match the file name, only the hash matters.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/#conformance: "Conformance requirements [...] can be implemented in any manner, so long as the end result is equivalent"
maybe vorlon is usable
>Government has rightful authority justified by democratic process.

This is satire, right?

Non-democratic governments.
Tyranny of the majority.
Independent agencies with the ability to blackmail those in authority.

>not by decree from elites using technology such as encryption

We aren't forcing you to encrypt. You can post your credit card number in plain text on any forums you like. You can choose to only use websites that allow http and choose to always use http.
You've got to be kidding, have you ever logged into twitter?

It's littered with sponsored tweets and advertisements EVERYWHERE.

Twitter analyzes your words and interests, your network, your locations, and sells you as a demographic to various businesses for targeted advertising.
Neural Networks for identifying drunk persons using thermal infrared imagery
I'm at a family thing so just tried it on about 5 people in a row. My two daughters it got 100%. My mother in law was guessed to be 10 years younger than she is (she was happy). My father in law was spot on (early 60s). This is pretty impressive. (I should note that it was VERY bad with dark/poorly lit shots with the eyes hard to see so we moved to a naturally lit space.)
Obituary: Dolphin Emulator Contributor Rachel Bryk
New Possibilities with the Office Platform
Not to bad. Some margin of error is to be expected. Tried two pictures of me, taken when I was 31.

Guessed 27 for http://www.searchdaimon.com/div/Runar_Buvik_smal.jpg

Guessed 35 for http://www.searchdaimon.com/div/Runar_Buvik_Causal.jpg

Both pictures was taken the same week if I recall correctly.
links like a2.devport.co (i.e. *.devport.co) didn't work, the rest worked. Now, everything is down.
Sun's blistering heat: Strong evidence for coronal heating theory
Not necessarily. It may simply be underpriced but not yet at the point where the market has enough information to force a correction??
I remember using dosemu for some gamesabout 15 years ago on a slow computer. It was much faster than dosbox. Nowadays it doesn't seem to matter. It was also really easy to setup.
I've lived in the Dominican Republic for several years. Addresses in some communities here tend to be like, "Over by Carlos' house where Maria's grandma used to live."
We'll feed on you!!1
I remember reading that. At the time my absolute favorite novel. Its beautiful. He's a great great writer. The short stories. "A Certain Lucas"; "Around the day in 80 worlds" but nothing quite like Hopscotch.

Jumping to film - I always thought that a lecture/ essay on
Blowup
Blowout
and ) a bit of a stretch) The Conversation

all descended from Cortazar's short story would make a great study.
>Perhaps he should have said "Using SSL is like using antibiotics. If everyone is using it all the time, the attackers just find ways around it that are impossible to defend against and you're screwed."

Except we are dealing with intelligent actors instead of unguided evolution. They will go after those tools as long as anyone could possibly use SSL.
Musk’s SpaceX Praised by Air Force Secretary as Launch Partner
The Amazing Normal Distribution Function
With all the Microsoft links on HN this week, I feel I'm being marketed to.
John Walker's history of Autodesk (1994)
Some people actually create such files by writing music with a tracker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker

What you describe may be called a conversion to a tracker format.
I think this comes from being unfamiliar with it.

Want to know what you can do with network adapters? Run Get-Help AD to see every cmdlet containing AD, and narrow your search from there.

Get-Help auto-updates itself. See a command, but want to know all of the ins and outs (syntax etc) of using it? Run Get-Help [command]. Use the optional -Examples flag to see several well-explained examples. You can even add -Online to get the technet article to launch in your default web browser.

I would think that nix users would feel at home with powershell. Microsoft has made a big push for getting developers to take a second look at Windows. They even set up aliases for common nix commands. Don't type 'dir', just type 'ls' - It works fine.
There are a few things that I thought we would (should) have in the mainstream based on science encyclopedias of long ago:

1. Spaceplane - this was a big thing a while back and is no longer talkeda bout. Military needs are what drove the technology for airliners, and there is no longer a need for aircraft crews. So they built missile-like X planes instead.

2. Ocean thermal energy conversion - Is a big tower that sits in the ocean and grabs energy from the differences in water temp. This was on the cover of one of those kid's future science books. It hasn't been built that I know of.

3. Robotic crop harvesting - I don't think these are here yet

4. Bipedal robots - I think we are almost there but again, there are more practical designs for military purposes.

5. Robotic surgery, tele-presence surgery - not sure if this is a thing yet.
Yes, eventually. So much to do. That's probably next.
Improving the GitHub Workflow for the Microsoft Community
EFF Argues Internet Surveillance Must Be Excluded from Criminal Trials
I believe that was me (http://brainfisheatfishbrain.com/2015/03/writing-a-game-with...) and yes the battery life, the portability and the complete Linux distro is why I have it always with me. And the Pyra after this. Haskell is working on it but without ghci last I know. It is an excellent device and really very different from the competing options. For instance you can run on full screen monitor/tv or, as I recently tried, use an iPad as monitor using TightVNC. The luxury of a full linux distro with so much battery life does it for me. Oh yes and the ability to use SD cards as well as USB sticks. Very much a niche this device but I will buy one first chance I get.

Edit: Once you get used to it for me it very suitable to do coding, debugging etc. The only thing I have bad experience is web browsers; besides Lynx it is just not fast and big enough for that kind of thing. Although looking up coding issues work fine, it's not for general reading the web. But then again; I do have my phone for that (and sometimes my iPad).
I had the fortune to work down the hall from Paul a couple of years ago. There was some confusion as to whether he had died yet when I got an email about the link I posted a few days ago, so today I find myself mourning for a second time over the death of a truly bright light who touched many people's lives.
> Be better prepared, as a founder, to understand engineers.

Be careful, you may start to suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect[0]. You would only begin to understand what engineers are doing after a substantial experience with programming real world applications. However, your limited experience may make you over-confident in your abilities.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Which is a big problem. They want to own the address of most of the people in the world. They might get away with it, too; their word list can be copyrighted.
If highlights brought them all their most important fans tweets so that they only had to check their twitter feed once a day why woudln't they want to use it?

Granted they would still use it to promote their stuff. But they wouldn't have to check their feed which is the cause of stress and info overload
The Senate Gets Serious About Patent Reform with PATENT Act
Raspberry Pi 2 Gets Parallels Support, Can Run Windows VMs
GitHub Launches Visual Studio 2015 Integrations
So we go from 58% being non-homeless to 75% being non-homeless in return for spending a lot of money on them?

Somehow that doesn't seem like a lot. I would have expected the original number to be much smaller.

It will be interesting to see how this works out in the long term, as well as a way to focus on the 17% who benefitted from the program.
I saw that later on, I was specifically referencing chart 1(b).
Microsoft’s Project Oxford Gives Access to Facial,Image,Speech-Recognition APIs
Ask HN: Do quotes form Napolean Dynamite still work?
An imprecise, centralized, English-centric system for labeling the planet. Why not just use GPS coordinates? It's much more universal, distributed and precise.
That's true for large chunks, but I'd imagine 3 meters is small enough to remain useful well past the 85 degrees latitude mark. Straight Dope informs me that the circumference up there is approximately 24k miles, which becomes 38,624,256 meters which means approximately 1 million divisions.

As long as the system works, what's the big deal?
I tried it with three people all age 24. The ages I received in response were: 41, 33, and 22. It seems like beards strongly influence the result.
>"But please excuse my low tolerance for packaging the profit motive of a company as helping the working class poor."

They're not mutually exclusive, to be honest. You can make a profit AND help the target group. Additionally I hope you're honest as well, and say that's okay instead of bashing them for "making a profit" while helping the needy.

On a curious side note... Where abouts exactly do you place "non-profits" in this whole thing? What about government?
Ask HN: Can anyone please spare an invite to ProductHunt?
>..will likewise fade into oblivion..

In contrast, the humble email, which was to have died a brutal death in 1999, 2005, 2010 and now 2015 at the hands of various Goliaths, merrily continues to fill the days of our lives.
I'm 36 and most people tells me I look 30, yet, the software said 47.
Just because you yell into a cave full of people doesn't mean you'll solicit a response.

Maybe you could easily have engaged conversation with other people on twitter?

On this point, twitter is not designed to facilitate conversations. Twitter is a wall of announcement megaphones sort of thing it seems.
This is interactive artistic illustration for story telling, not visualization.
How we use ElasticSearch at Bigcommerce
Moving from Node.js to Dart
Movie Studios Give 'Pirate' Sites a 24h Shutdown Ultimatum
Yeah, in fact the article said someone is more likely to take 17 payday loans in a year than just one.
All are functions of the information. Take away the information, and all those things go with it.
That is fascinating. Why is that the case?

Is it simply easier to build something disposable? Or are there fundamental restrictions like the inability to stop a solid rocket motor?
There's a lot to digest in this, but it all strikes me as a bit dystopian that these bills and laws are framed using "positive" language and terms. Seems like a healthy dose of wishful thinking to title this bill with the word "freedom," when its entire purpose wouldn't exist were the values of free expression upheld in the first place.
"Well, things are getting pretty serious right now. I mean, we chat online for, like, two hours every day so I guess you could say things are gettin' pretty serious."

-I say that this is still relevant!
"... it should be relatively easy to adapt the code to work correctly with your other GDB and LLDB targets from Visual Studio". Right now it targets the version of GDB that ships with Android NDK 17+ and the version of LLDB that Microsoft ships to support iOS debugging.

Also there is a link that shows how to remote debug a Linux process from Visual Studio - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2015/04/29/debug-c-co...
Tech startups are like selling magic wands to muggles
Tried two pictures. 47 and 31. I'm 24.
requiring one's brother to be one's keeper

I'm not religious, but given that the context of that quote, being your brother's keeper is not that bad a plan. Better than murdering them.

To be simultaneously jingoistic about the USA while wagging a finger at Europeans for nationalism and bigotry reminds me of another bible quote. First cast out the beam out of thine own eye.
This isn't an isolated test, and tells us almost nothing. Because you've clumped together IO as well as the bulk of the actual processing work.

Rather, when you do the test, only test the "mapping" part, and only test the "IO" part. That way you can clearly see the difference between the two.
No one seems to mention that they're all imitating Mathematica, which is still going strong since 1988 with an amazing notebook facility.