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I've listened to Genelecs through a Beringer mixer followed by an Allen and Heath mixer. The former produced a weak and disappointing sound. The latter was full, detailed, and sonically impressive. The conclusion was that the Beringer mixer was a weak link. I was also disappointed by a second Beringer mixer as well as a DI box by Beringer around the same time. I wouldn't consider them high quality by any stretch of the term. They are probably acceptable when entering the market, but don't belong with components in the $100k - $1m range that this article is addressing.
Many (not all, of course) of them do require significantly more up-front investment, though. Not disagreeing with you, but there are complicating factors.
The problem is a lack of funds. It was concieved for nerds by nerds and never got enough funding for UX.

A common state in the FOSS universe.
And there is a link to the site:
http://www.megaprocessor.com/index.html
Is the Linux kernel compatible with multiboot specification yet?

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot/multiboot....
So why don't they do something like: deprioritize traffic in proportion to how much you that user uses at peak times. (Shouldn't be hard to turn it into a more rigorous formula.)

So the pipe is normally shared equally between requests, but a heavy user might get only half a normal share. That way, they optimize against the real scarcity (in peak time usage, not total downloaded) but no one has to worry about overage charges, and any throttling is to the benefit of other users.
Scroll up - we are discussing why people are unhealthy. I claimed lack of free time is not the reason poor people don't cook healthy meals, eat a healthy number of calories, and get some exercise. All the cited numbers support this point.
Good point - size-wise, that's subpar for the number of people. My grandparents received a 95 sq.m. apartment for them and my aunt (teenager at the time) across from a beautiful park in Moscow, now that was considered super lucky.
>Working minimum wage jobs is often repetitive, soul-crushing, and/or physically demanding. By the time you leave work, you might want to buy finished products (e.g. fast food) instead of spending time shopping for and cooking healthy food.

This. People just can't seem to understand how much cognitive stress that puts on a person. Its so easy to be diligent when you're not under so much cognitive stress.
> ... daycare workers cannot have a middle class income. Also, if they had, lots of people couldn't afford child care.

I know this will sound terrible, but if you cannot afford to pay child care, maybe the economy is telling you that your marginal job is not worth be done or held. The reality in US and many countries following it's economic model is that unemployment is a chronic, ignored problem. Marginally useful jobs can exist because there is always a big pool of desperate people ready to take poverty wages. You will do yourself and everyone a favor by not competing in that race to the bottom.

As long as the child is being raised by a family with at least 2 adults, a stay at home mom or dad is perfectly capable of providing care while at the same time engage in all types of frugality and household economy activities that will extend the salary of the sole breadwinner beyond what is normally possible for a couple of overstressed careerists. They can also engage in education and creative activities that will allow them to pick up a career later, when the kids are old enough to attend school (which is a sort of mandatory daycare, anyways).

Also, it is important to recognize that a single parent raising children is a extraordinary and unsustainable situation (though sadly common through history). Subsidies, charity and informal help from extended family, friends and neighbors should be directed to this cases, instead of being spread out trying to benefit as many people as possible.
have an upvote, it's missing its goal of communication with its confusion of "it's" and "its".
> Looking at dietary benefits is very complex. For example, there is one study that suggests there are no known benefits to yogurt.

Well, apart from its being food, protein and fat. :)

I once spent part of an evening reading the labels of all yogurts in my local chain supermarket, looking for the smallest counts of "ingredients that aren't yogurt" and carbs (I'm type 2 diabetic, hence my interest in carb count over the day). For my supermarket, that turned out to be Fage greek yogurt. I eat their full-fat product almost every morning, and I can state without a doubt that it is food. :)
Avoid NULL
It is now, it wasn't always so: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2398714/The-incredib...

(see yesterday's discussion about rubbish buildings)
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<<The question is why do we have the most talented people in a certain industry having to live in confined spaces while paying through the roof for it.>>

I think you making a pretty broad leap here... This is entirely his choice, and nobody is "making" them live in a confined space - most of my friends that are starting a family leave San Francisco and move to the suburbs to get more space at a lower cost (e.g., San Mateo) and take BART to get to their job in San Francisco.
$1 per gigabyte is an exorbitant price even if everyone on the planet was using the network at the same time.
Unless it's about agriculture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_libel_laws (civil burden of proof, and reversed in some places).
The Man Behind ‘Solarized,’ the Most Important Color Scheme in Computer History
What about having users "pay" by thinning their pipes (in favor of other users) in proportion to their peak hour usage?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10525574
I'd like to just say thanks to Paul for doing this, it was probably hugely meaningful to the kid. Ages ago I interviewed Neil deGrasse Tyson for an 8th grade assignment - it is still one of the best moments of my life, and one of the major reasons I am a scientist now.

I recently read Judd Apatow's book "Sick in the Head", wherein he interviews comedians, beginning in high school. Looking back, I wish I'd contacted more of my heroes. There's very real meaning that comes from it, even just to humanize people a teenager looks up to. I'd love to see more of this.
I'm certainly ignorant on this, but why are we stuck with JavaScript? Seems like such a huge crutch, something people have been working to fix, or avoid, yet here we are still with it. Doesn't it make more sense to adopt the ffi model to gain access to things like sockets, files, canvas that the browser or even OS provides access to; similar to how you would program for mobile native apps. I don't understand the hold up of why we are stuck in this situation.
Reinstalling a Steam library could do it, restoring system backups, having a large household of frequent Netflix users, etc.
I made a game to play at the doctor's office. Friends convinced me to release it
I'm a lurker of hacker news.

About a year ago I started needing to go to the doctor's office on a regular basis. The doctor's office makes me pretty nervous and I needed something to take my mind off of the whole thing. I created a very simple/fun game that I didn't feel guilty putting down when my name was called.

It's called Two Birds One Stone.

It started as a crap-sprite, no menu, no objective mobile game. Friends and family saw me playing it and asked how they could get it. I shared the apk with them (Android) so they could sideload it. Some of them couldn't put it down and told me I should release it to the public. Several months of slow development later, I was confident enough to release it.

I want to share it with you.

Gameplay video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzRqYFug-W8
Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.MutuGames.TwoBirdsOneStoneFree
Of course UBI doesn't remove the need for certain social programs. In most of the developed world except the US, homelessness is almost exclusively a health (psychiatry) issue. UBI helps reducing the number of people in precarious situations due to economic reasons, which in the States are a lot. But you still have to help the people that are in precarious situations due to health issues.
Yes, it is definitely a consequence of suburbanization of America.
And transit!
I'd think they would plan to manufacture in China though.
While the average size of housing in the UK went down considerably the average 3 bed room flat is still 950sqft, land attached houses are on average 25% larger than flat with the same number of bedrooms not counting external land area like balconies and yards.

People need their space while it's true that there might be some "romantic" aspects to small housing the disadvantages are quite noticeable there are plenty of adverse physical and mental health effects when you live in smaller spaces, from asthma to mental stress and social friction that can increase the likelihood of divorces and breakups.

I live with my GF for 6 years and I would never ever live in an apartment with less than 2 bedrooms, people need their space, if you have a fight it's good to have a place to go and just cool down and not continuously get annoyed at the person, having a guest bedroom/office is also quite good for that time where you under allot of stress at work or just having a bad day and need to finish some things without being disturbed.

And while It's perfectly fine to say to your partner "look, I'm having a rough day and I need to be alone" it's just much better when you don't have too, when you know you can sit down some where and just relax.

Having larger space also gives people privacy which even in a relationship is very important if the 2nd bedroom door is closed my GF knows to knock, if our bedroom door is closed I know to knock. And before some one makes jokes about it no we don't expect to catch one of us with the mailperson in there but she might be having a private call with her parents or doctor, she might be planning a surprise and i can do the same.

And while you can do those things even without having an extra room by juggling your schedule the fact that you don't need too adds quite a bit of relief, I've seen other couples having issues while living in small apartments from having to lock yourself in the bathroom after a fight to having to make personal calls from it or worse have to say "hon, I need to make a call so I'm going out for a few" which is just uncomfortable for both people because even in a trusting relationship having a private call inside the house gives the added assurance that it's probably not that, while when you need to go out to make it there might be some fears gowning at your partner even if they are completely subconscious they are still there.

People need their space,calling it a luxury and that people in "Insert European, 2nd world, 3rd world country here" are living in small spaces is not true, because in many of them the overall living space tends to be much much bigger than what people would imagine, especially when you count in communal and open spaces.
The financiers are in control instead of the builders and engineers, and this paragraph sums it up nicely:

What America does have, however, is a very ripe population of vulnerable people that some shitbrains are thinking could help them turn a quick profit by forcing the government to liquidate anything not bolted down, creating an overnight reserve army of precarious labor who will have to do anything to make sure their children aren’t taken away by the police state.
Unlikely, unless the car rental company of the same name starts producing their own models.
Sure, charge me based on percentile billing, I'm more than happy to pay for it. But in return, they better offer higher speeds, uptime with more than 1 nine and an SLA for intra-network connections (All transit carriers guarantee no congestion within their network, can Comcast do the same?).

I already pay ~$1500/m/rack in bandwidth (5Gbps, 95th percentile, mixed transit product + interconnect fees for an exchange). I'll happily pay $100/m for 100mbit 95th percentile bw at home, with the same throughput guarantees. .
Ask HN: Why are we still using passwords?
It has been a while since I windows introduced login with fingertip. iPhone also uses fingertip for unlocking.

While the possibility of using facebook/twitter/google/github login in multiple services decreased the need to create more logins/passwords we still have a huge number of logins.

Besides that, the password may easily be guessed/stolen. Even with 2 factor in some services (like github and google), recovery codes exist and can be stolen.

And about fingertip? Why is not being implemented? Why can't I login with my fingertip on email, facebook, HN, or whatever? And I don't remind of having read that some big IT player intends to implement it.

Is it due to security issues on saving a fingertip to a database? I find it hard to believe that it is impossible to implement some protocol to prevent that...
Have you ever seen an organization that secured valuable data effectively?

I don't mean one where they followed some standards or had the right policy, but where, as implemented by IT and as practiced by users and admins, the data was secured so well that attackers would not steal the data - where it was too difficult to be worthwhile. I mean an organization you know intimately, where you know how the sausage is made.

Generally, the reality I've seen is security through obscurity.
In my experience, the easiest method is to wrap a heated blanket around a pot.
Don't charge more, just provide less. Provide a proportional share of the bandwidth that is available.
uhhh Apple?
Do you have details/a link to what exactly goes into making skyr?
I really like the insight about density. I temporarily changed my living situation from a 4 bedroom house where my kids had moved out, to a 2 br apartment and I recognized the density issue but had not conceptualized it so clearly as the author did.
A lot of the push for strong mode comes from a project to create a "plain JavaScript" compiler for Dart: https://github.com/dart-lang/dev_compiler
Hackers claim $1M bounty after remotely jailbreaking iPhones
Oh I've seen plenty of JS stuff. That was the most incredible one I knew of. But a friggin text editor given all platforms have several good ones? And with less bugs & MB than a browser. I mean, come on...
A hyperlink is the same as a reference in a book. That means referencing a precise portion of a book (for instance, ISBN + page number, or just title + publisher + chapter number) would become a copyright violation too.

I'm not sure the EC is conscious of that, because it would have huge consequences. The cost of academic research papers, for instance, with their pages full of references, would become dramatically high to produce, or even impossible (what if I don't want you to talk about my works ?)
SMTP with TLS doesn't leak any metadata except the connecting IP address. And with DMARC you can mandate it.

Calls for whole new protocols for email are usually made by people who don't understand the email ecosystem as it currently stands.
This link is to a Yahoo News republication of a BGR rewrite of a Consumerist story that was a rewrite of a DSLReports scoop.

Here's the link to the original reporting: http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Leaked-Comcast-Talking-Po...
Most fingerprint readers are not that hard to beat. Also, you can't change your fingertip: If one service/device looses to much details about them or someone obtains your prints, everything is compromised. At least with a password, you can change it and be safe again.
Not sure I'm getting your question; yes it's up to you to decide the quantity of sugar you like.
I'd say most of this is due to the issue of adoption. You can come up with a standard for native code, but if you can only run it in one browser that's basically useless. Even if all browser suddenly implemented some new native standard, then all existing browser instances that can't/won't be updated can't access your new shiny website.

Another issue is that native code, assuming that it's secure, is still not portable across different architectures. So you still end up having to have some sort of VM anyway to ensure portability.

That's basically where asm.js comes in. It's a static subset of javascript that allows it to be compiled, it becomes a VM. But since it is javascript, it will work on all existing browsers, they don't need to support a new standard. It'll just be slower.
Almost certainly not. That used a VAX 11/780 since the earlier combination of PDP-11/05 and PDP-11/44 wasn't fast enough for the monkey experiments.

This NYC Resistor recovery involves a PDP-11/34 from storage the Bronx, so it wasn't fast enough and is in the wrong place. Also, you'll note that the image on flikr references the same aphorism.

More generally, a lot of people have digitized monkey brains in one sort or other. For example, I know someone in the early 1990s who worked on digitized slices of rhesus monkey brains, in order to re-register them to assemble a 3D model.
no different to 52 different state sales tax's
Nice little pissing contest they have going on haha. I wonder if the rewrite (a) resulted in eliminating inefficiencies in MS Office code to make up for JS overhead or (b) led them to advise old strategy of telling users to buy better hardware.

Which was it?
If you have to get Comcast, sign up for their business plans. The speed is precisely what they advertise for. The regular plans have a spike in speed when you start downloading something and slow down afterwards.

I'm using their base plan (15Mbps) and can stream HD movies with no problem
Don't forget frozen conflicts.

South Ossetia, Nagoro-Karabakh, Donetsk People's Republic, Luhansk People's Republic, Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, Abkhazia... these are just the post-Soviet ones.

Then there's the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, of course. Legitimate or not, it's very much a state.
At one time, not everyone automatically agreed that everyone should learn to type, or learn basic computer literacy. Or to look back even further in history, at one point not everyone could read and write.

Imagine if we could expect a basic level of programming skill from everyone. Not the ability to write an operating system kernel from scratch; just the ability needed to put together a shell pipeline to get a job done, or a twenty-line script to automate some tedious task. Imagine how much that would change everyday life.

How would mass-market applications change if a tiny bit of scripting skill wasn't too much to ask? How would people's behavior change if their first reaction to any kind of tedious task was "I should automate this", and sometimes they actually could? How would public policy (especially on technology) change?

We're moving towards a future run heavily by computers; raising the baseline level of understanding seems critical to me, and it doesn't seem like too much to ask.
I don't know about the EU but in the US politicians to work with field experts, they are called lobbyists. This is why you have the automotive industry writing automotive law, etc.
What do you mean? You can already code in other languages besides JavaScript. With Emscripten specifically you can use the C++ extern keyword to call JavaScript functions.

Or are you wandering why you can't just run a high privileged system/machine specific binary directly from a web page?
Oil confirmed under Africa's oldest wildlife park
Can the TLS be enforced by the sender all the way through the chain to the destination mailbox?
GP means useful to the 'host' of the meme, that is, to you or me, while the survival and propagation refer to the meme itself. For example, a particular catchy tune might be very successful (very popular i.e. high survival and propagation) but it isn't necessarily useful (to me).
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Games that you make just for fun are always the best. Thanks for sharing. I'll check it out for sure!
Right, exactly. A basic income makes it much easier to tell who needs other kinds of help.
I've been moving around a lot and I set up a temporary budget home studio here recently, with JBL305s.

They're insanely good value - not perfect, but considering they cost as little as some PC speakers they're better than many of the entry/semi-pro near fields I've heard costing high three figures per pair.

I'm slightly biased against Genelecs. I think they're expensive for what they are, and I've always found the sound distractingly clinical rather than reassuringly objective. I wouldn't recommend them for home listening.

They do appear in studios, but maybe more often in university/research labs. They don't have a lock down among studio owners, who have a lot of other choices.

Room sound is totally a thing. High end studios can literally spend more on acoustic treatment consultancy than speakers. Low/mid studios won't spend that much, but anyone who's serious about monitoring will put up bass traps and absorbent panels to try to tame the more obvious resonances. You'll get objectively measurable benefits that will do more to improve the sound than magic oxygen-free mains cables and hand-knitted USB leads will.

That makes the mega-speaker audiophile thing kind of ridiculous. If you spend more than $10k on a system without treating your room at all, you're simply wasting your money.
That was a fascinating article.

There is a new biopic about Ramanujan. I wonder if anyone on HN knows when it will be released in the US. So far it seems it is only at film festivals.

http://tiff.net/festivals/festival15/galapresentations/the-m...
How to recover your Bitcoins even if you lose the private key
You can store it on disk protected by a passphrase but that's still not user friendly as way too few people would be willing to or capable of doing so which was my main point. My point is that secure encryption is by definition impractical, inconvenient and not user friendly which makes its adoption by mainstream users very unlikely at least in the foreseeable future.
I'll be that guy: affect != effect
In the era of GPS, Naval Academy revives celestial navigation
US Threatens to Suspend Part of South Africa Trade Deal
Does anyone here use StatsD? If so, how do you use it at your organization?
Drone Use in NYC Parks Can Place People in Anti-Terror Database
10 questions you must answer before implementing Blended Learning
What is shrinkwrapping?
Classic and common modus tollens. That you don't know of one does not mean they don't exist.

But to your question yes, I have seen one. It all hinged on people actually internalizing security measures such that it was part of how they lived their lives.
This. Plus, it has the virtue of teaching you logic and rational thinking, which is something useful in every field of life, not only programing.

Plus it makes computers less frightening and magical since you have a bit of understanding of how they work.
Yes, as well as PGP or S/MIME. It just depends or your relay configuration. We've implemented it switch able. We've customers that are bouncing non PGP encrypted E-Mails.
Microsoft responds to request to integrate Python and Excel
Would be fascinating if they could harvest healthy host progenitor cells, destroy the leukemic cells with another persons's engineered off-the-shelf graft which has a couple of chemically (e.g. tetracycline) inducible kill-switches, and wait until the graft destroys the cancer to turn on the kill switch and replant the patient's stored cells. This could prevent lifelong graft versus host disease, but the risk of death/complications from an additional retransplant or the reemergence of dormant cancer cells may be too great to make it worth the risk.
well, we have 10 fingers...
So we'll never abandon radio technology because everything can do it? That's not a very convincing reason.
"Only" in this context doesn't mean "few". If you take it out of the quoted sentence, then the portal could also be available to veterinarians, carnival barkers, and scuba instructors. But it's not supposed to be available to those people, only to the FBI and other law enforcement agencies.