The translated book title is "Last Witnesses"? How much better is the original, "A Hundred Unchildlike Lullabies"? Haunting.

I felt so too, which is why we used that title above.

Hi - Co-Founder of Bindle here. First "Show HN".

Bindle is a web-based SaaS built in Rails to help small businesses manage the process of requesting and approving time off, calculating PTO balances, and seeing who's off and when. We've just gone live in the U.S.

I've been a software developer for 20 years. Happy to answer questions about anything.

Facebook acquired wit.ai in January 2015, and I wonder if this acquisition is Google's quite belated response to that?

Could be, if you think about it. "Api.ai" is very similar because it also has a three letter name and an ".ai" /s

True they both have API in the name, but api.ai is more of an API for AI tasks like intention inference and sentence parsing. Apigee is an API management platform.

Can anyone explain to me how the "partition function" 'Z' is calculated? That part is a little glossed over in the post and the description in the paper is a little beyond my immediate understanding. :)

Partition functions are usually hard to compute as they require a sum or integral over the entire parameter space. In this case, it's "Z is a normalizing constant, that is: it's the sum of the values of all possible assignments."

So perhaps sum_x { exp( sum_i { w[i] * g[i](x) } ) }

tel is 100% correct.

And you're right, it is a little glossed over, I'll try to be more explicit. Thanks for the comment!

Interesting. You still use this feature? I always thought YouTube and the like still included it on their sites as a throwback to an earlier time, or something. I always use the software on the playback device itself to control the speakers.

Volume controls are important! Some examples: you are on a VoIP call but want background music. You have to listen out for some notification and the front music can't be too loud. You work with other audio files e.g video editing but don't need to be listening actively. Any media-multi-tasking situation, really.

I almost always play several things at once. The standard is to have Twitch or Netflix/HBO on one monitor and a game on the other. Without specific volume controls it would be a disaster.

I was transfixed. Really, really good. The music really makes it for me. It is interesting to try and guess where the mystery locations really are. Sometimes this information is included in the hashtags. I got a few right! :)

Thank you so much for checking it out :)

Although splat and option hashes (double splat before double splat came along) are something I use everyday, I almost invariably end up thinking they increase (cyclomatic) complexity. Quite often, having a more strongly typed class as a method parameter instead of a hash is actually what I want. Double splat and the like sometimes make it easier to do the wrong thing. Worse still, they seem to promote it.

From an article Fowler wrote on March 25th 2014 - Microservices [http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html]

"Despite these positive experiences, however, we aren't arguing that we are certain that microservices are the future direction for software architectures. While our experiences so far are positive compared to monolithic applications, we're conscious of the fact that not enough time has passed for us to make a full judgement."

It is pretty clear the architect in question appears to have misinterpreted how proven Fowler believed microservices architectures were at the time.

Thank you.

I just checked this out thanks to your link. Awesome. ipfs solves a whole class of problems - distributed git repos being just one of them. Great stuff.