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by haywirez 8y ago
For musicians and devs, it's a good hint that Markov chains are "good enough" for most interesting music applications, ML/AI doesn't typically yield better results. Happy to see this on the front page!
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by haywirez 8y ago
A good thread explaining the next steps: https://twitter.com/why0hy/status/1110514962366189568 TL;DR summary: The directive will have to be implemented in national legislations, a ~2 year long process. There are a
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European Parliament approves copyright reform(twitter.com)
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EU Copyright Directive (Article 13) Vote Livestream(europarl.europa.eu)
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by haywirez 8y ago
This is US-only, I presume?
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by haywirez 8y ago
Correct - this proposal is coming from the EPP, the largest party in the EU parliament. Predictably, most of their MEPs will just blindly vote for it along party lines. Language barriers are crucial in terms of their constituency universe (
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by haywirez 8y ago
I'm worried about influencing outcomes in the EU due to language barriers, especially on boring and "unsexy" issues like Internet regulation. It'd be important for the EU to be able to vote for representatives regardless
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by haywirez 8y ago
This debate has been going on in music biz circles for at least 5 years or more[0], with zero results. I've also heard the comical excuse of calculating the proceeds this way as being "too difficult" in terms of data processi
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by haywirez 8y ago
Increasingly, the opportunity to use an emoji is the only reason I bother to communicate online at all ‍️
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by haywirez 8y ago
Just want to say that Michael Benson's Space Odyssey[0], the oral history of making the movie, was the best book I've read this year. Kubrick somehow, through a lot of luck, determination, and frankly a hefty dose of delusional th
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by haywirez 8y ago
Nice to see this topic up here! Check out Acid Defender, a super fun 303 web audio game I came across a few days ago: http://cappel-nord.de/webaudio/acid-defender/
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by haywirez 8y ago
I tested it quickly with a draft text and found it useful, but only for changing a few single words. Hemingway[0] is a tool along the same line that checks readability levels, maybe combine the approaches to address things at sentence level
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by haywirez 8y ago
Is there an English primer on how to build WeChat apps? What's involved?
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by haywirez 8y ago
Anybody knows a good, worldwide weather "niceness" rating API with a free tier? The only scoring system I found was the Hugo Poppe method[0], but seems like I'd have to implement it myself. [0] http://www.meteovist
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by haywirez 8y ago
Similar experience. I did the blind tests as well, and surprisingly often chose 320 kbps mp3s that I thought were FLACs because they sounded "crisper" (I mostly listen to electronic club tunes). I did and also witnessed other DJs
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by haywirez 8y ago
Don't use bull, use NATS[1] - happy with it so far with the Node SDK. [1] https://nats.io
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by haywirez 8y ago
What did you end up using for queueing conversion jobs?
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by haywirez 8y ago
This is already solved by HLS - all you'd need is a .m3u8 file in the feed. Industry insistence on DRM issues is what's preventing it from taking off, but "indies" could do it.
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by haywirez 8y ago
Tangentially, this is also a great argument in music business discussions against the finality of Spotify, Youtube and other centralized streaming platforms. People are doing just fine consuming podcast RSS feeds using players when the UX i
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by haywirez 8y ago
Isn't nofollow largely ignored by ranking algorithms? Seems like those links were still giving some link juice even a decade ago.
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by haywirez 8y ago
Now only if audio.preservesPitch = false was implemented... ;)
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by haywirez 8y ago
No, the point is that the API couldn't be used for this. So it automates a browser.
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Hacking Soundcloud: Creating an Interactive Track (2017)(haywirez.com)
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Hacking Soundcloud: Creating an Interactive Track (2017)(haywirez.com)
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Hacking Soundcloud: Creating an Interactive Track (2017)(haywirez.com)
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by haywirez 8y ago
That's how most tracking scripts operate...
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Hacking Soundcloud: Creating an Interactive Track (2017)(haywirez.com)
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by haywirez 8y ago
I feel like there isn't enough focus on this point - mandating extra elements (filters) inside an otherwise direct line of communication is always a bad idea. The best case scenario you get is the telephone game...
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by haywirez 8y ago
Fantastic to see this on the front page! Thought about this yesterday (while skating), skateboarding is really THE best sport... You're competing with yourself while generating more fun, discovery and advancement for all. Total opposit
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by haywirez 8y ago
Yugoslavia massively propped itself up economically by allowing its citizens to work in Western countries and effectively siphoned wealth home. Some 700.000 worked in West Germany alone[0]. It would have collapsed much earlier without piggy

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