daturkel

It's in photoshop too!

To your first issue, there are three ways I can think of that music recommendations are usually built: - collaborative filtering: i.e. People who listened to x tend to listen to y, so if you like x we will recommend y - metadata: x and y share multiple genre tags, or have contributed to releases in common, or release music in the same time period, etc - audio data: x and y have similar tempo, prominent instrument timbres, absence or presence of vocals, time signature, major or minor-ness, key

However, I've never heard of lyrics being used as data or metadata for determining similarity of tracks.

For one thing, it's not necessarily a common use case. I did college radio and we would do themed shows where all the songs are about food, for example, but 99% of the time of I listen to a song that happens to mention ice cream, I don't want/need the next song to mention ice cream.

On top of that, it's not obvious what type of lyrical similarity is desired. Do you want to match lyrical sentiment? (Happy songs with happy songs, whether they're about girls or cars or cooking) Or theme (relationship songs, positive or negative) or words in common or phrases in common.

It's definitely an interesting idea that I'd love to see toyed with, but I'm not surprised that its not, given how much effort it might be for an unclear and possibly uncommonly desires result. Not to mention that Spotify usually doesn't have a canonical source for lyrics of a given track anyway.

This is how the payment structure was explained to me when i started taking the drug. Ultimately i pay $5/mo, my insurance pays some amount, and Abbvie i guess pays the difference. I'm not sure what set of circumstances leads to people paying higher prices, given the info the commenter above linked to.

But slack also has no inherently established paradigm of real time vs asynchronous communication.

There is such a thing already. Google Chrome for businesses: https://enterprise.google.com/chrome/chrome-browser/

I've never (to my knowledge) had any issues re: legal requests about my site, but I can say that I've been a happy customer of Dreamhost for many years now. Support is quick, friendly, and knowledgeable, and the pricepoint for the product (shared server, web-hosting and domain renewal, unlimited bandwidth and storage) is a no-brainer for me. I'm not surprised to see that the host advocates for its users when it can.

This is incredible. Thanks for sharing

This really confused me. Even if you power it from your monitor you've got to plug it in. No shame in having one or two cords, so why fake the product shots?

As an owner of Schalansky's Atlas of Remote Islands (I actually have the "pocket atlas" version), I have to say it's a really beautiful little book with poetic and well-written stories for each entry. I'd definitely recommend it for anyone who enjoys Atlas Obscura-type stories of strange tales from across the world.

Particularly problematic with this is that a human cannot necessarily determine with 100% confidence where the error is. If you have a CSV where every row has 5 entries, and you come upon this row:

> 100,1,200,300,10,100

You suspect that an in-field comma is causing a split where there shouldn't be, but who's to say which number got split up? 1200 into 1,200, or was it 200300 to 200,300, or 10100 to 10,100?

What types of empirical evidence have been previously used to justify theories of philosophy or cultural criticism? Some fields don't admit themselves to the scientific method because what's being studied is inherently subjective. That being said, it's a common reductive meme that art or literature can be interpreted to mean "anything"—I've never taken a course in literature or art criticism that allowed for interpretations of a work not backed explicitly by the source material.

Not to mention the fact that non-autonomous cars will continue to exist en-masse. People value the experience of driving a car (especially sports cars or classic cars, but even just the every day sedan) and I don't think that the advent of autonomous cars will eliminate that for a very, very long time.

I'm still wringing my hands over no matte-screen, though honestly I don't miss my 17in mbp. It was way too big.

Oh wow, you were 5 minutes ahead of my comment with the exact same sentiment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12807528

I think in a few years, we're going to be looking back at this as a half-assed hack before we were ready for a macbook with a full touch screen. Touch typists (which I'd imagine are an increasing proportion of computer users) don't look at the keyboard. Touch cues (ridges on the F and J keys, placement and size of keys) guide typing and control without the need to look.

Even if you just used the touchbar to allow for context-sensitive buttons, I'd lose the real tactical feedback of a keyboard and need to build new muscle memory for each application.

Worse is when you start putting GUIs on the touch bar—now I'm really expected to look down and scroll through a library of photos or find my favorite website on this tiny strip which isn't on my screen? Why?

Seems totally unnecessary, considering he could just be handed someone else's laptop, right? I'd imagine it would have to be the entire embassy, or else the network that he has access to in his space.

That's a great curriculum, thanks for sharing!

This looks fantastic. I could see this speeding up a lot of build processes for all sorts of devs. (Just realized, auto-compiling modified latex docs is another great use-case).

The training set is almost certainly composed of copyrighted material.

In the USA:

Provisions against simulated child pornography were found to be unconstitutional in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition [0] in 2002.

From wiki [1]:

> Referring to [New York v. Ferber, 1982: child pornography is not protected speech], the court stated that "the CPPA prohibits speech that records no crime and creates no victims by its production. Virtual child pornography is not 'intrinsically related' to the sexual abuse of children".

IANAL, but following that logic alone, the degree of realism doesn't seem to be relevant to the legal precedent insofar as photorealistic imagery would still "record no crime" nor "create victims by its production." As to whether it's dangerous for such material to exist because it would create plausible deniability for the production of actual photography while claiming it's simulated...I guess that would be a different matter.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcroft_v._Free_Speech_Coalit...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_pornography_laws_in_the_...

There was a cool article on identifying clickbait headlines with machine learning just last month. (There was probably an HN discussion but I can't find it on my phone.) the main difference is that it operated only on the headline, not comparing it to the actual article.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/identifying-clickbaits-using-...

The signatures are from the members of the house intelligence committee, the names of which are listed in the top left corner of the first page of the pdf

Some great anecdotes in the comments for Paul Ford's article The Sixth Stage of Grief is Retrocomputing

discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8565459

article: https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933...

A +1 for the MIT Press bookstore. Great store with lots of fantastic stuff, from CS to philosophy to artsy magazines.

I may be in the minority here, but I don't mind Facebook ads particularly because they track me so much that the ads are very well-tailored. There's nothing annoying to me about relevant advertisements and I've found decent stuff before. The ads for crappy pay-to-win flash games in the sidebar, on the other hand...

What about the reverse? I saw BSS but feel like I don't really know the world it refers to.

Here's the note, if you didn't see it: [0]

The "continue" button starts grayed out and becomes clickable after a five second countdown (with the number of seconds left shown next to the word "continue").

FWIW: I clicked OP's link with uBlock Origin active and still saw the message. I also noticed it yesterday when reading a Bloomberg story.

[0]: http://i.imgur.com/A14cTsy.png

Came to post the same. Rosetta Code is actually a great resource for understanding the varying capabilities of different languages—the way some tasks are trivial in some languages due to powerful built-ins, while in others they have to be built up from scratch.

Strangely, he's replaced the homepage and every subpage/file with an HTML version of the note, rather than the image. I'm not sure why.

BBC has now written Wright's "backing out" of providing proof:

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36213580