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I'm using only Ghostery, and I did not see any ads. Perhaps it stops such code from running?
> Say you listen to Blue Lines by Massive Attack. Chances are, the recommendation engine will recommend you Portishead or Morcheeba.

Last.fm [1] recommends more Massive Attack, or "Aftermath" by Tricky, followed by Portishead. Which is fine, as you said "chances are" that's what's wanted. If you wanted UK rap, you at least used to be able to search for the tags "uk" and "rap", but I can't see that on the new website...

This service[2] uses the Last.fm API to make a Spotify playlist based on a track.

[1] http://www.last.fm/music/Massive+Attack/_/Blue+Lines

[2] http://www.spotalike.com/#playlist/97600
This is an interesting article since he cites a pub quiz and sports - something I participate in.

I've been playing for about 4 years in a pub quiz. We've won once and are considered a strong team. However, the difference between the a strong team, and the better team in a night, is the fact that our team fosters a "no suggestion is a dumb suggestion" policy. No matter how stupid you think your answer is, you are encouraged to say it. In fact, if we see body language from a person hesitating we're quick to jump in and say "Spit it out! Just say it!"

We essentially create a safe zone for our team members to not worry about the consequences of a wrong answer. There were so many times where a completely wrong suggestion makes another teammate say, "Hey! Wait, I think I remember!"

We also have a policy of if a person has a different answer than the rest, then he/she has to "fight for it". That is, you have to convince the rest of the team. By having a "fight for it" rule, we put controlled confrontation on the centre of the table and let people hash it out. There is no regret, or fear, or worrying about feelings. It's just a normal part of our evening that is done with humour and friendliness. Firm, but friendly!

By doing the above, we instil confidence in every team member. Those that are more confident by their nature, can still be challenged by anyone and keeps them in check, and the weaker confident ones feel safer to step forward when they need to. It balances out and our team has absolutely great chemistry because of it.

I've also played team sports for most of my life and some of the best teams I've played for had former professional athletes. Since they were stronger than the rest and more confident, they always raised their hand and took the blame for any mistake! It was quite funny because we knew my screw up was not their fault, but they would make an excuse about how they should've done 'X' and I wouldn't have screwed up.

Needless to say, that allowed players like me that weren't former pros, to be at ease and to be more confident and give my best, knowing that the strongest player on the team wasn't going to look down on me for every mistake.

It was a very interesting dynamic where the more confident person ensured that the less confident person is playing their best and it raised their confidence. Again, it is a kind of delicate balance that can change on any given night.
Not a recommendation engine, but for music discovery, I loved Twitter Music (ex: WeAreHunter) and it's down now.

As a replacement, I subscribed to popular blogs (popjustice, stereogum...) playlists on Spotify.
I think he picked Star Citizen since you can spend close to thousands of real dollars (US) on items that don't physically exist. It's really no different than running an unregulated lottery since you can't be sure if Star Citizen will ever reach published state (It's been alpha close to two years IIRC). So, I think his comparison is close enough to question the validity of at least Kickerstarting projects like this.
Link's broken. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34797017
It says "less than 1% of UwS downloads were due to AdWords.", not "less than 1% of AdWords shown where UwS". What they're saying is: <1% of those who download UwS get there by clicking on an AdWords ad.
Showtime and Starz just recently partnered with Amazon Prime. You can do an add on subscription for Showtime to your Amazon Prime account for $9/month. Not sure about Cinemax though.
The Food Waste Fiasco: You Have to See It to Believe It
does the same apply if you're a woman ceo with a husband? Please answer.

Also what does having to be a ceo have to do with this advice?

and are you suggesting if I give my spouse a very expensive gift every Christmas our relationship will be better automatically? I don't need to listen to her? Take her to dates? Be kind to her?
Terrible article, but raises some good issues. Would like to see a better discussion of those issues.

One problem that I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere is that in my experience a large proportion of people in the games industry are essentially game addicts.

They've forgone other opportunities, higher pay, IRL social interactions, family duties, etc. due to their passion for games.

It's hard to have a serious conversation about games and addiction without examining this further.
Yeah, I suppose if you wanted to do the extra bass mod right so that your volume level is mostly the same when going "hot", you'd also need to tweak the series resistor value as well to get the gain of the snubber to match up. Guessing you'd probably also want to drop down that parallel 470k as well.
I started with Lotus Notes baby!
Its what happens when you bring any kind of improvement individual immediate circumstances without strong social safety nets, because family, especially immediate family, is the social safety net.
The benefits outweigh the risks as long as the users are remotely competent.

...and you trust them to Do No Harm
Of course it's under Google's control. "If you don't remove that crapware we don't allow you to bundle the Play Store with that phone".
I kind of get where the company is trying to go with this, but to me it seems more like the beatings will continue until morale improves. I don't know if the companies involved in this already do this; maybe concentrating more on effective productivity, management by results, and an emphasis on work life balancing issues and company policies might be a more positive looking effort to resolve the actual problems rather than the symptoms.
Well, I'd argue that sentence one is incorrect. Things that fade out quickly are less diffuse, though more fully diffused when measured at the same distance.

Gravitational force is both much weaker and (for that of large bodies) diffused over a much greater area than electromagnetic force (of very small bodies). These are the circumstances of the example comparison.

"More diffuse" vs. "more greatly diffused" appears to be our disconnect here. Something which is "more diffuse" is expected to be less measurable at a single point, all other variables controlled. This is true of gravity but not for the reasons implied.

Nevertheless, if the total gravitational force of the relevant object from the example (earth) was concentrated into the same area as the total EM force of the magnet, we would have a black hole in our kitchen. Fortunately, that gravitational force is diffused over much a larger area.

Things which are more diffuse are necessarily diffused over a larger area. Not all things which are diffused over a larger area are necessarily more diffuse.

I see the hangup, and I appreciate your objection.

Edit: and thank you for the EM force inverse power law correction. I was using distant memories of the math for EM radiation, which is obviously different. But if those numbers are right, it supports the argument that gravitational force is less concentrated...and therefore more diffuse, does it not?
For the last month or so, every Monday I open up Spotify's Discover Weekly playlist. I generally listen to it in the background all week long, giving the songs time to grow on me. I usually find 3-4 songs that I want to add to my "real" playlists, which I consider to be a pretty good ratio.
Geofex was a huge inspiration for my first article on the TS808.

Have you seen Electrosmash's rundown? That's some next level guitar pedal analysis. http://www.electrosmash.com/tube-screamer-analysis
Make E-cards from GIFs and GIF selfies
just growth hacking a competition, right?
I don't use playlist, grouping by artist/album is pretty much what I need, so it works for me :)
Yeah, I fixed as soon as I posted it and saw it was broken. Nonetheless thank you for noticing.
Textbook Dijkstra doesn't work with negative edges. See for example

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6799172/negative-weights-...
What should a dev do to stay current, given this is happening? Say you have an interest in algorithms in general, what do you need to read / what can you read that connects to existing knowledge?
If you hire the right person and actually implement what they're showing as improvements.

It's why I left my current job. Hired me as IT Director. I fixed all the nonsense development (cowboy) and got everything going the right direction. The owner doesn't give a shit, he just overloaded all the IT processes I setup and we're back to where we were almost. Since I put in my notice, the developers have gone back to the old hacking shit together way.

So yes, a consultant (or anyone) given the ability to streamline workflow can fix something. Now will that work going forward, only time will tell due to all the external pressures/factors that go into both the scenario in the post and in any IT dept I've ever worked in.
I had to install winscp the other day and thought the same. Perhaps time to give up on winscp.
Tim Berners-Lee on the world wide web in 2016
Shear strength for rope is a totally different parameter than load-bearing capability. It looks from the account that the rope encountered something approaching a knife edge while traveling at high speed. It could have all the load bearing capacity in the world, if it isn't designed to deal with impact damage like that it will fail.

What surprises me about the whole affair is that a single rope breaking could lead to a death. This may be a function of the degrees of freedom required for the artists, so don't take this as a 'why don't they' entry, more of a what parameter caused them to choose this particular setup?
Well the cost of broadcast sports is super high because that's the price they can demand. They demand more, and the cable companies have to pay it because who wants to be the cable provider without ESPN or Fox Sports? And then if you want sports on your cable plan, you're paying an extra $100/mo because you have to subscribe to them all so the cable companies can make a profit.

And then you get into the question of the quality of pro sports. Lots of people are unhappy with the NBA and their heavy focus on superstars. Ticket sales are down, and fewer people are watching it on TV as well. The NFL seems to be getting into controversy after controversy that's turning people off. If the players aren't behaving distastefully and if the teams aren't cheating, then there's the whole concussion fiasco playing out right now.

Not to mention a lot of these sports teams lean on non-profit status and taxpayer-funded stadiums. What would have happened if Detroit hadn't funded a replacement for the Silverdome? Taxpayers are getting a bit more wary of where their public funds are going.

None of these things will kill pro sports, but they do lower the value. And it's possible someday a cable company will drop high-priced sports and not suffer any consequences. When that day comes... well the bottom will drop right out of that market.
We don't really build load bearing structures with brick anymore, it's too weak. Any brick you see is mostly done for moisture control or aesthetics (although in Canada you can reduce the wind load by 10% to your actual structure if you have brick as the outer wall).

Wood buildings are significantly cheaper to maintain. Significantly cheaper to build (at least in Canada).

The down side of wood is that it doesn't handle wetness well and it gets damaged more easily. For larger projects concrete starts getting financially competitive also partially due to the fact that it's more friendly to just leave exposed while you're building. You can't really do that with wood. Even the OP's original building was being built in sections.

Also, wood isn't as strong as steel + concrete. So if property prices are really high concrete and steel are going to win just so you can build higher and lose less space to structural members.
Tax on sales? Are you sure you're not confusing sales tax with other corporate taxes? Sales tax in the US is certainly not the highest in the world. No idea about other taxes.
Top institutions not reporting clinical trial results as required
I didn't attribute it to you, but your comment was analoguous to this common criticism of some popular artists today, and reminded me of them.

Similar ways of diminishing other people's work are used everywhere, but are typically a result of being more or less elitist. "Not a real X if you didn't do it in way Y or use tool Z."

For some, the process is more important than the outcome (or just as), but I think it's wrong to impose such opinions on everybody else. Just my opinion, of course.
Maybe you could include a bit on what it actually sounds like, that would make it a lot more informative. It's not as if people buy these as sources for parts, they buy them to give them a specific sound.
You employ them, you give them access to your internal network, you give them laptops, keys, even free unlimited drinks(!). You already trust them, I suppose.
Don't think so, it was a few years ago though :/ Might have been an incorrect content-type header?

I'm looking into https://github.com/audiocogs to add AAC/other codecs to browsers with no support -- that's the main feature I'm missing with all these web-players, depending on the browser, parts of my library may not play.
This is awesome! I'm gonna set up my R-Pi at home to run this and merge my brother's and my music libraries. Thanks for this!
Thanks for advise, agree with you about cost and sustainability of business.

If possibly could you tell then for what kind of service will you pay 10$/month?
With a slowing population in developed countries, I fear populist mass movements against the West.

It's a fact that Sub-Saharan Africans have the lowest IQ in the world. The worst atrocities in history have come out of desperate uneducated people.

No racism here.

EDIT: Ideologies do not change facts. Recognizing the difference doesn't imply it's based on genetics.

Blame lack of education or imperialism, the IQ difference still is there.

http://www.ttu.ee/public/m/mart-murdvee/EconPsy/2/Lynn_Meise...

http://mason.gmu.edu/~gjonesb/JonesADR
Do you have a citation for that? Those error rates seem extremely low for facial recognition. They look closer to MNIST than anything.
That's what I get for pushing these out at half past midnight. Even thought it made for a really nice meta statement, I updated the post to finish my thought.

Thanks for pointing it out. :)
Would be nice to see more serious study of this for a language like C++. It would take either TCO or Garbage Collection to make reliable, robust persistent data structures a possibility in C++, and more would prefer TCO of these two. That would open a big door into more powerful functional programming idioms for C++ than currently exist, even with the latest language standards.
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Yes, running on my S3 Android 4.3, which usually fails to run most of the HN posted WebGL demos, although it runs many games without issues.
Just confirmed, calling (loop) will cause a stackoverflow. You'd expect TCO for a Lisp and proper tail calls for a Haskell-derived langauge.

loop (fn []
(loop))
Shameless plug, but we are doing exactly that here at http://milq.com. We are attempting to organize the world's media into collaborative playlists, which you can then subscribe to for a feed of content uniquely tailored to your personal taste. Subscribing or dismissing a playlist helps us recommend better content to you. Give it a look! :)
It includes NFL Network Live which has all their specials and pre/post game shows.
That's the plan, once my noise-sensitive neighbor is gone for the weekend. :)

Here's an example of what the stock one sounds like if you're curious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqPaL0vfVwU
I don't mean no one else won't have or rent any, sure they will, there are a lot projects that will need it, we people won't have any.

If we look at the history of computing, then yes, one could be so pessimistic, but would it be really true?

If there will be a breakthrough in the QC, then there will be sudden economic motivation for people (companies) to use quantum computers.

This will generate the need for people who could work with such computers. This will again generate motivation for universities to train such people and the need to access quantum computers.

I think that this will happen much much faster than it happened with the classical computing.

Of course I also believe that there would be no personal QC any time soon if this is what you had in mind.

Edit: I also do not understand why you are down voted. I think that it is an important perspective.
I had one of these 2-3 years ago, it was pretty amazing to be honest. I hadn't gotten a virus in so long I was impressed at how much they'd stepped up their game.

Even fdisk /mbr from a windows bootdisk wouldn't get it. So I installed Linux and it STILL tried to f'ing load. Had to dd the whole mbr from a live linux disk. That worked. My next step would have been mounting it as a secondary drive on another computer.

So this isn't remotely "new" either. It's what I get for wanting to evaluate a video game before buying.
> Do they really advocate for frozen meats and mass-cooking techniques because "safer"?

No.

From the next paragraph: "And the fresh versus frozen dichotomy is nothing more than a snow-job. Freezing E. coli-contaminated food does not kill the pathogens; it preserves them."
Please read the article: "Following a rash of explosions and house fires connected to hoverboards".

PS: it is interesting that you have just created this HN account to ask this question.
Makes this post about Vulkan timely...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10728156
How intuitive a language or API is is somewhat subjective. I get the feeling there are diminishing productivity returns from the latest 're-organisation' of a language or API structure. Is this work simply pandering to peoples ever changing preferences?

Tickling aside, anything that removes humans from the process looks good to me.
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The UK is a leading member of the Church of Capitalism, so "soul" actually means "ability to profit from."

When you photograph a cultural object, profiting from it without the creator's permission is very, very sinful, and an outrageous attack on the concept of Eternal Profitability and Financial Immortality.
Russia gov report Snowden Greenwald are CIA frauds pt1
I have a playlist of a lot of songs I like (except I try to keep it to one or two songs per band).

The radio from that converges to endless Foo Fighters and The Prodigy -- over half the songs!

It's not that I dislike them, but I don't particularly love them either and there is just no diversity on that station.
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I suppose you could have people just walking around with go-pros on, capturing whatever falls in its field of 'vision'. That way, the corpus isn't the subjects that people find interesting, but something more like everyday things and background.
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I'm unclear on the quality of the source, but this tweet announcing it was retweeted by Glenn Greenwald: https://twitter.com/therealroseanne/status/67637437306689126...
Amazon full of sponsored reviews
As it turns out, Joyo and Mooer are produced by the same company as Donner.

I think the Joyo Tremolo is going to be my next subject for experimental surgery. https://www.geartree.com/p/joyo-jf-09-tremolo-effect-pedal-u...
Mapme lets you do a lot more than Google Maps
Bigger part. The games only have 3.5 minutes of action, so you have to have pre/post-game chatter.
Why else institute 300GB data caps when there is no problem with congestion, and make incremental charges for exceeding those data caps at $10 per GB? Why else roll-out their own streaming service that doesn't count against those caps, and allow other major players to pay them for that access? They're positioning themselves to continue to cash-in on those wishing to access television-like content.
YouTube Changes at a Rate of 33% a Year: Has a Serious Impact on Video Marketing
"x(n) + y(n) could never equal z(n) if “n” was greater than 2"

Wasn't it x^n + y^n != z^n for n greater than 2?
Good question! I haven't had the chance to really let rip with the modified circuit yet, as I have a very noise-sensitive neighbor. The bass mod worked out pretty well for me, however.

The stock version sounds like this, if you're curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqPaL0vfVwU
You could create a neutral version of the claim:

I have no idea what X truly believe and I don't even care too much. What I care about is the effects of Y ... Z is an organic outgrowth from it. And it's just one of many...

Your claim is that if you substitute in any X, Y and Z (where X, Y and Z are consistent with each other), the statement is equivalent. You want the original poster to reply to this idea. Dan's point, which I agree with, is that putting in emotionally charged X, Y and Z is not civil, promotes emotional responses and is effectively trolling.

(I also happen to agree with Dan that the particular X, Y and Z matter, and the sentences are not necessarily logically equivalent with any X, Y and Z. But it's still possible to make the above argument without the emotional baggage. I understand it's a rhetorical technique to shock the reader into seeing what you perceive as sloppy thinking, but I think it is more likely to inflame and prevent discussion on the original topic.)
I'd pay a dollar per month if you could track all my clients' social media in one place.

I help people on Twitter and instagram and YouTube.

Might be cool for following anyone you're a fan of on multiple platforms.
This simply isn't true. The Skyhook trial proved definitively that Google has the power to dictate what OEMs that ship the Google Apps suite include on their phones. Problem is, they've only ever used that ability to push their own products and services.
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Python Performance Matches Julia's
Yes! I remember when they introduced new client. I was less than impressed. I think the new one is built on chromium or at least uses it partially as base.
I knew google was controlling email and labeling which email servers are "safe" or not.. with a lot of false positives! Didn't knew they were already doing the same to websites.
Nasty google.
I always hated the Spotify UI. Now if someone could clone Rdio now that its on its way out. Then I'd be interested.
The turn on levels I measured were much smaller in discrepancy than that; the silicon diodes were clipping at 0.55 V, while the LEDs were only slightly higher, at about 0.8 V. Made me wonder if I was measuring them incorrectly.
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i was just looking for a power bar and noticed all these 5-star reviews were done by users who received it for free:

http://www.amazon.com/APC-C25B-Outlet-Saving-Filter/product-...

sketchy. its like back when google's ads looked just like search results
Which crypto currencies have any meaningful value compared to bitcoin's?
We have quantum safe encryption now, just not pki quantum safe, although that is possible. We also have quantum key distribution which could be a route to patch things if quantum pki is beaten out by quantum computing.