skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time I read an article about Shazam, I'm deeply skeptical of the claims.

Example: http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2014/08/20/shazam-hit...

Article makes it seem like Shazam has metrics like a social network, but my experience, and everyone I've ever seen is that it's rarely used -- and simply to quickly identify a song.

This latest one in The Atlantic implies people use it far more frequently then I think they do, and I'm again, very skeptical. And even if they do, they don't shazam hits they know, or songs about to be hits, but they shazam that random song they can't identify -- not sure that's an indicator of hit'ness.

From user numbers, to capital raised, to stories like this, each time I read about Shazam, I say to myself "Gosh, I really love the app, but can it really be this big and lucrative?" I feel like I'm missing something.

I hope I'm wrong.
Beautiful. Lots of fascinating details and photos… especially the status panel GIF. 😍
You do know what a shadowban is dont you?
At least back when I used to visit it, Slashdot moderators decided what to post. I wouldn't call that "do not censor anything."
Yes i know what a rakevet building(long building with say more than 5 entrances) is.They might not be that beautiful but functionality wise they are pretty decent. And many would prefer to have the option of living in such building than the current mess that is Israel housing today.
Seriously, I wish ever content heavy site would have a version like this. Works so well on the phone.
When I visit the site with my tablet (Nexus 7, Chrome) there is a zoom in and zoom out animation while the cart is moving from left the right.
But for more than a decade, it was a bug that moving across devices screwed up ownership. So then you still have to to be aware of whether you are moving across devices, but now if you are but don't realize it, it automatically screws up your data.
Thermodynamics doesn't say that "everything is bound to break down, and that we won't be able to predict all of the ways it can happen".

I guess you're referring to the second law of thermodynamics. It says that the entropy of the universe tends to increase. This is predictable and the lack of "negentropy" won't be an issue for a long time. The heat death of the universe is supposed to be on the order 10^100 years from now, so is not very relevant when talking about curing aging.
There's the firehose, you can see everything that gets submitted.
Why so few links per page? How is this better than Voat.co? How is this decentralized?
There's a link at the bottom of the article which is a differential analysis of burnout vs. major depression. The biggest difference seems to be that depression affects all facets of one's life, but people suffering from burnout at work can still experience happiness outside of work (e.g., if they take a vacation).
Was that meant as a rhetorical question?
Step one: Buy a gun.
Very uncompact. I can only see the top 2 submissions on the front page, which is absolutely silly.
That says more about the reporter than the news organization.

edit: downvote. All news organizations should have journalists as principled. All news orgs demand the same things.
Wow. This is my current situation. While I knew things were bad and I need to move on to better things, I never fully understood the reasons. This article explains it concisely.
So we could watch from the outside looking in on an industrial revolution? Or did that already happen in Africa?
We're now learning how to "reset" the immune system.

1. Collect immune system "seed' cells.

2. Wipe out the existing immune system with chemo therapy drugs and other violence.

3. Inject the collected cells and let them build a new fresh immune system.

You now have lost all your immunities and will need to be revaccinated for everything. But any autoimmune disease like MS you had is probably also gone.

http://www.nih.gov/researchmatters/january2015/01122015reset...
Yeah, isn't that amazing? I really think this "type" idea is a good one. I wonder if other languages have thought about following Python's lead and adding a type system.
A long time ago I was having lunch near Joshua Tree with a climber I really respected. A little note fell out of his wallet when he went to pay:

Work hard.
Be strong.
Don't complain.

He said his grandfather told him those three things when he was young, and that advice always stayed with him.
> 70% of that increase in prices is empirically passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices

This depends entirely on the price elasticity of demand.
I got TCP/IP working over ultrasound, through Gnuradio - https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/ultrasound-networking...
> teaching a child that factor (3) is the only one of import does him a great disservice.

I've seen a lot in my life with this, and it's wildly untrue. I know many families with multiple children, and over time some of those became millionaires and others did not. None I know started with inheritances. I know a lot of self-made millionaires. All of them share a common attitude that their future is in their own hands, and it's clear from the arc of their financial lives that that is true. Their choices produced their outcomes.

The ones who did not become millionaires also share a common attitude that nothing they could have done differently would have changed anything.

The fatalistic outlook you have will be self-fulfilling. But you can choose to change it. It really is up to you. The choices you make matter. If you want to know more, I can't recommend a better book than "The Millionaire Next Door" about how ordinary people doing ordinary things become wealthy.
If you give workers higher wages using the minimum wage most of the extra money they get comes from the place they work raising prices. Places that pay minimum wage, like Walmart, disproportionately have customers that aren't very well off themselves. Giving money from a household that earns $40k per year to one that earns $20k per year does make the country more equal but we can do better.

The money that goes into the EITC comes from income taxes and the top 10% of household pay more than half of the US income tax.

If we want to give money to working Americans we have to pay for it somehow. We can either do that explicitly and in a progressive fashion or we can hide the price from voters and let the burden fall repressively.
Thanks for your interest... but that's odd; I can see 9.
I read 'tested' as a few minutes, for fun, experimental purposes rather than profit.
“A Poet's Advice” by E.E. Cummings
Yep, I just subscribed to her not too long ago. Mostly, it seems to focus on alternative and minimal housing solutions. It's wonderfully refreshing to see the unusual and simple ways in which people decide to live, in a world so often focused on financial success and extravagance.
How is this surprising? Shazam tracks searches and location. If a lot of people search a specific song in a specific location, that means they 1) liked the song, but it's new to them 2) the song is nevertheless played quite often. Both of these are good predictors for a viral hit. Because nobody uses Shazam on well-known songs, this filters out a lot of noise.
A little bit. But then I notice that almost everyone announcing anything interesting has been working hard at that project for years.

So I put my head down and get back to work, so that I too may make an interesting announcement in the not-too-distant future.
>We disagree with Reddit and other social democratic communities insofar that the view of a "safe platform" can be forced upon one another without resulting in a system that betrays the very meaning of the word "democratic". Rather, as illustrated by Frizbee, a successful establishment of a "safe platform" as we define it is a direct result of a culture built by the mutual trust users feel in their freedom.

I think I get it. The site redefines the phrase “safe platform” to mean what they want it to mean, instead of coining a new phrase, like “extreme freedom.”

> a culture built by the mutual trust users feel in their freedom.

If this catches on, I think what we will see is a rapid culling of anyone who does not feel “safe” in this Brave New Online World, leading to a situation where those who remain do in fact trust the system to keep them safe from moderation.
If all the racist, mysoginist shitheels left reddit for this site then reddit would be infinitely better.

Lookin at you /r/coontown
50% of All Medical Literature Is False
I only see two submissions, too, unless I scroll down. In contrast, I see 19 submissions on Hacker News and 7 submissions on Reddit.
Yes but I don't think we have any reason to expect major changes in that. And if that were to change then I'd expect us to see minimum wage hikes to start causing unemployment.
imho the landlords shouldn't shoulder the blame either. Regional wealth in general seems to lead to a surplus of culture consumers and a deficit of culture creators, for a variety of structural reasons.

it's funny, because we conflate two sides of gentrification that are actually separate: 1) the harsh reality we impose on oppressed communities of people living in poverty, and 2) the loss of artistic culture-creators from a neighborhood that they are living in because society doesn't know how to reward those who create culture.

Both the marginalized and creative artistic class share a problem, and so have reason for solidarity, but they're not necessarily tightly coupled in all possible societies.
Except it isn't quite accurate. It is certainly possible to experience major depression as a result of burnout. I know because I have experienced it myself. Also, a lot of the things in that differential diagnosis chart aren't correct (e.g. major depression has been shown to affect the immune system and the HPA axis).
You buy a mainframe for the I/O it can do, not the computation (for which you'd want a supercomputer).
> So now two popular dynamic languages have type hinting of a kind: Python (unenforced annotations) and PHP (declarations). Great!

Don't forget Javascript, via Typescript (which predates both Python and PHP's typechecking): http://www.typescriptlang.org/

Typescript is a strict superset of Javascript that compiles very transparently to the equivalent Javascript, so I think it's close enough to what Python3 does to be included here.

The annotations are stripped out before runtime, but they are checked at compile-time for any errors that are possible to detect statically.
My experience on the site:

1) I click on "write a post". Hmm.. no list that matches what i want to post.
2) So I click on "Full List". Nothing happens.
3) I want to go back with the back button. The back button does not work.

That is it.

Dudes.. I appreciate your fancy animations and that you do a decentralized whatever. But what I would like even more: if stuff works!
It takes a bit of "free your mind" and sometimes a lot of water.

Source: IBMer who has had a good bit of Chef Watson food. Favorite: Austrian Chocolate Burrito.
Incorrect, because the bum can only spend so much at one time, practically.

You don't want a handful of random bums (your phrasing) either slowly living off the suitcase for a couple of years or quickly burning through on high-ticket items--you want a whole lot of poor people who can buy 2 more things at the checkout this week.
Republicans like Means Testing because they know many people won't fill out the paperwork to get benefits and Congressional Democrats like it too because they are almost all lawyers and paperwork is the center of their universe.

I don't like the idea of picking certain people as being "needier" than others because it is a moving target. For instance, you might say that families need it more because they are raising kids, but one of the most troubled segments of the population are poor young men; if these guys get on their feet they are going to be in a position to raise a family and do it right.
The issue isn't that people are suffering direct financial loss or bodily harm due to surveillance. The issue is that it enables authoritarian and repressive governments. You lose your privacy. Anything you do is essentially public information and can be used against you. As shitty as it is, people should have the right to do something like cheat on their spouse without some government official waving the evidence in your face for compliance. Or maybe you're into weird porn, or you read/write embarrassing things on the internet, or you're having sex with your second cousin, or you're gay but also a Christian minister. People shouldn't have to live in fear of their legal actions being used against them.
The original article glossed over this, IMO. The linked Orlando Weekly article [32804] about Lake Shore Village explains that it's the sex offenders themselves who chase off the criminal element. The gist was that they consider themselves to be sufficiently hounded and they don't need their lives complicated by incidental criminal acts. In fact, there are so few places for sex offenders to live (given the 1,000 foot minimum distance requirements) that they are eager to protect those few areas they can call home.

[32804]: http://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/the-scarlet-letter/Cont...
Sorry there! I honestly didn't expect this post to get this much attention on Hacker News, and the product is still in development, but I'll get right to it!
I'm using Pencil right now to map out an upcoming project. It's one of the few useful GUI prototyping apps I've found that's free. Most of the competition is for-pay, and I just don't do enough of this stuff to justify paying for squares and arrows on a PNG (I use it for exporting UML and page flows ATM.)

If you don't want to build it, just use the original project's pre-built installation (RPM, Bundle, EXE here http://pencil.evolus.vn/Downloads.html). The difference between this reboot project and the original is likely minimal, so if you like the original, it's probably worth coming back and building the reboot project.
Living in a mobile home is actually pretty decent. It's generally going to be nicer, and much more private, than living in the type of apartments that would be within range of someone at that income level. And the article mentions this---there is a reference to children who prefer the mobile home park over apartments. I also know this because my aunt and cousin used to live in one. I wouldn't mind living in one myself, as long as the neighbors are decent (and that can very well be the case).

I get it. That's not good enough either---you want to force wealthy Americans to subsidize "really nice" housing for everyone. Unfortunately, that would significantly decrease net production, because you're diverting resources that would be used for producitve purposes to housing that is merely consumed. In the long run, everyone's standard of living would go down---most of all, the poor, who depend on cheap products and marginal jobs that have a low productivity level. You can't have your cake and eat it, too. You can't have more guns and have more butter. Resources are limited.

I get it. You've already heard this, but it's not how you want reality to be, and for some reason, you think you can put your wishes over the facts and get away with it. There's no way I can talk you out of that since persuasion presumes a mutual acceptance of reality.
I think it's because of the animated cars that are driving along the top. That seems to be the problem for me. Just replying in case the frizbee team sees this.
I think the headline here is misleading and focuses on the wrong vote. There were two votes here 1) to extend the Patriot Act by two months and 2) to pass the USA Freedom Act (which would supersede the Patriot Act).

The extension vote was opposed by Democrats and supported by most Republicans while the USA Freedom Act was supported by all democrats and opposed by most Republicans. While it is indeed good that the Patriot Act wasn't extended this is the consolation prize of the actual worse news that the USA Freedom Act didn't pass.

While the USA Freedom Act isn't perfect, and was weakened in the House [1], it is still far far better than the Patriot Act has meaningful reforms. It also still has the support of the EFF [1]. Overall, it's failure to pass is bad news and could lead to an even worse bill.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Freedom_Act#Reaction
I wonder what the guy's profit is on this.
Wow, sounds like my relationship with my ex. Glad that's over.
> Our devotion to this goal is further accentuated by our Public Legal License, which stipulates that all the content on Frizbee is in the public domain, making us as a governing entity irresponsible for its propagation.

Well, whatever it is, I guess being "decentralized" exempts you from copyright law.
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(Shrug) If you work for Fox News, you, too, are under orders to report things that are blatantly false. (Disagree? Then you need to explain why they felt it necessary to argue in court that they have the right to lie to their viewers and call it "News.")
Ahh, good point. That makes more sense.
> "Hi. Welcome to Frizbee. We don't censor or track you."

If you're so concerned about tracking, then why is Ghostery blocking "Facebook Connect" and "Facebook Custom Audience"?

Frizbee's "privacy policy" is:

> "Frizbee never collects or shares personal data. Even your email isn't asked for, and the only token we store for identification are the first 6 digits of your IP address. Furthermore, we recommend those under the age of 13 not to visit this website."

This is in violation of Facebook's terms, e.g.:

> "Obtain adequate consent from people before using any Facebook technology that allows us to collect and process data about them, including for example, our SDKs and browser pixels. When you use such technology, disclose to people in your privacy policy that you are enabling us to collect and process data about them."

(edit: What if my IP address is 4.5.6.7?)

(edit 2: In the 3 minutes since I posted this, the Facebook tracker has been removed.)

(edit 3: Any site that claims "we put a big focus on privacy" should be HTTPS-only.)
Would you like to reconsider your tone?
Ah, well RIM didn't really sell Blackberry phones to end users, they sold Blackberry phones to carriers. Carriers were the customers. This makes a conflict where making carriers happy is more important than end users. The fact that Apple changed the game and could sell directly to carriers and provide updates without carrier permission was a game changer (and still is, just look at the majority of android devices that will never get an update). This is briefly touched on in the article, but not really highlighted and I am guessing is talked about more elsewhere in the book.
Surely, if we believe in the bigger fool theory, then the person left holding the most expensive property is that unicorn - the biggest fool!
The cart animations zoom the page in and out on my iPad, really annoying. When zoomed out I can only see the first story, zoomed in its all just white below the animations.

Viewing landscape and nothing but letting the page load. Mobile safari.
Absolutely even George Osborn the UK Conservative chancellor realises that subsidizing Mc Jobs is not a good use of tax payer money.

I have no problem with say subsidizing training for Nurses and doctors but subsidize Liddle and Tesco' shelf stackers not so much.

Maybe employers should pay an additional tax on turnover equal to say 90% of the subsidy
Sometimes I feel we should cure living. I would prefer to live only 70 years but fully, having built good human relationships, knowing how to learn, rather than 100 unfulfilled ones.
hjkl is QWERTY-centric, and would be totally nonsensical to a user of a different keyboard layout, like Dvorak.

C-f, C-b are English-centric, and would be totally nonsensical to a user of a different language.

Intuitive is hard.
He has 90% of a very valid point, which he then dilutes with 10% irrelevant kookery.

The Federal government has, indeed, used their (read: our) vast resources to maintain extensive files on many, if not all, of the people he mentioned. In some cases, like MLK's, they went well beyond simply "maintaining files."

Oddly, nobody who defends NSA spying ever seems to get around to defending these specific examples of the surveillance state gone berserk.
An older but still interesting book, just in case: http://www.amazon.com/Writing-GNU-Emacs-Extensions-Glickstei...
I recall one ageing specialist asking why husbands die before their wives? The answer? Because they want to.
You left out murder and war.

I doubt it will be awkward. It will be viewed that aging is a disease, that we have the cure now, so there's one less way to die. Getting rid of polio didn't make the other ways of dieing more awkward.
So I've clicked on a title that looked interesting and get taken to another list of titles. How do I actually read the article?
How does decentralization work in the site? Where are the contents stored if not a centralized server?
I thought this would be a p2p news aggregator.

It is not.
"It’s going to become much harder for haskell to avoid success"

I have 100% faith in the Haskell community's ability to keep doing what they've been doing for years. ;)
> The trick, he discovered, was to turn a song into a piece of data.

I cringe and then laugh inside whenever I see tech writing like this.
Sales Function in a Startup
lolbertarians
How is this decentralized?
Test of Frizbee's functionality? You wrote it!

Test of Hacker News' functionality? Why submit something that's not really working at all?

I look forward to returning when it works.
When I see the combination of "reddit alternative" and "no censorship", I see yet another attempt at creating a free haven for any kind of racist, sexist and generally bigoted abuse.

Which will always fail because a) that free haven already exists and called "the internet" and b) the target audience only thrive in places like Reddit, where they can troll, provoke, hurt and yet portray themselves as the oppressed victims whenever someone tells them to fuck off.
Seems to me that keeping your employee or lover happy might be easier than any of these strategies.
Thanks for the link. I developed the annotation+decorator-based type checker in https://github.com/kislyuk/ensure before I saw typecheck-decorator (which looks like it has some cool features). One thing I'm proud of with ensure's @ensure_annotations decorator is that we actually went through a few rounds of optimization and are fairly confident in the decorator's runtime performance.

Optional type checking as a first-class citizen is a great tool to have, and it's good to see the syntax standardized.

But as alluded to in the Reddit thread, there are serious issues with this PEP. The use of comments and the lack of runtime type checking from the start not only limits the potential of this particular PEP, but undermines future efforts to bring that functionality in.

IMO it would have been better to put in the work and properly integrate type checking decorations into the interpreter and the grammar. The tack-on comments at the end of the line are especially un-Pythonic and jarring.

Edit: Just saw the string literal based forward references. Ugh. Another problem in the making.
Exactly. If you want to be a privacy-focused competitor to reddit you can't count on users flocking to the service because of your ethics (unfortunately). Instead you have to focus on being the best experience for the user, and in addition be privacy-focused.

If it's harder to user your service or if it's a less satisfying experience, I'm not going to use your service.
So absolutely true. But I think the best programmers strive to minimize the portion of the program that resides in their heads, and maximize the ease with which it can be recreated in someone else's.
I dont think that 70k threshold is actually necessarily true. At least according to:https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=bMxgVaux...