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Well there are some things that a lot of computer software VSTs cannot do unless they are specifically programmed to do so (due to how frequency modulation works digitally). There are no oscillators in digital synthesis and modulating parameters in audible frequencies isn't as simple as just plugging an audio source into a CV port.

The beauty of modular is being able to modulate any unit parameter with any signal source at whatever speed you like.
Don't know about pH but very interesting read on history primarily from a civil engineering perspective - http://web.mst.edu/~rogersda/hoover_dam/Civil_Eng-Nov-2010-H...
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Seems like he did at least one thing right: not mention indigo, unlike newton who used this not-even-tertiary color as a 7th color rather than e.g. put cyan between green and blue (ROYGCBV would have made more sense than ROYGBIV, color-wise)
My jaw dropped at KCL's response to being asked for the data. How to trash your research reputation.
Yeah, I sort of skipped over that detail, thanks for pointing it out, ill include it in the post.
I ask because there's been a cottage industry of rumours around this stuff, including the (not supported) claim that Kildall was "busy flying his plane" instead of meeting with IBM, etc.
You just need to comment the line in the Gemfile and you are done, no more dependencies. What is the big deal really.
Just learned something new.
For those who wanted the answer to the title in these comments, paraphrased it was: with proper maintenance, indefinitely. The "with proper maintenance" phrase should be pointed out to management next time they think something we build should last forever; even these remarkable structures that appear formidably unchanging undergo continuous, hands-on, expert maintenance.

There is a tangentially-related Straight Dope thread [1] asking "Is the Hoover Dam concrete still curing?", because if you take the tour (highly recommended for hackers with an affinity for industrial- and megastructure-scale engineering), you will be told "the concrete is still curing!" by the guides.

This is apparently not technically precise; someone from the concrete industry please correct me if I'm wrong here. I gathered from a civil engineering page that Hoover Dam's concrete is considered cured, but it is still undergoing the hydration process as long as water is present in the concrete. [2] I think the Hoover Dam guides can be cut some slack for colloquially using the terminology "curing" in light of this technical distinction that most laypeople won't understand.

[1] http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=258217

[2] http://www.engr.psu.edu/ce/courses/ce584/concrete/library/co...
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I often do a word count of languages and technologies in the monthly "Who's hiring" posts here. Elixir/Phoenix gets less mentions than Erlang - often there would be at least one position that says they use Elixir, sometimes none.
The company is already 12 years old.
Will never happen
True, but I believe the stats only look at the working population? If Germany has a much higher number of part-time workers compared to Greece it's easy to explain why they work less hours per person on average
Until the person in front of you isn't speeding and you rear end them.
Everyone's recommending their favourite alternative. Mine is simp_le[1], a very simple ACME python client. It only supports the http challenge. You can run it without root (I have a dedicated user generally), without stopping your webserver. You only need to allow write access to domain/.well-known/acme-challenge.

Write a simple wrapper script and run it from cron. You get precisely the certificates needed for Apache or nginx. All that's left is to symlink them to the right spot.

Let's Encrypt follows all redirects and ignores expired certificates so if you have multiple domains redirecting to one, you can get a certificate for all of them in one go even if your certificate expired. You can create a SAN certificate or multiple certificates in whatever constellation you like.

SSL bliss.

[1] https://github.com/kuba/simp_le
A closed container of organic material would be as hot as an oven.
And this is my point. While I didn't particularly enjoy the movie (I was in middle school at the time, it got old fast when all the girls wouldn't stop talking about it), it keeps you engaged and so the moment that that happens can still come as a surprise or jolt. You've been engaged by the rest of the story. Knowing the last few minutes of that movie does not change the drama of the relationships between the characters, and that drama is the point of the movie, not the way it ends, but the way it carries out.

Spoiler alert: Everybody will die eventually. That doesn't mean the journey from birth to death is pointless now that you know the outcome. Everything that happens in between is the part that matters. The same is true for good stories.
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It is not a concern at all for me, because I can run that command from a user that does not have privileges to mess anything up. Those options make it not even attempt to read or write any web server configuration. All it does is create the certificate.
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From reading k/q code (or even C code written like the J Incunabulum http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Incunabulum), I generally find that it may take me 10x as long to fully understand it due to density and my lack of proficiency, but that still makes me an order of magnitude more efficient than reading (and scrolling!) through the 100x longer mainstream code, often spread out over multiple files and directories. Better yet, referring back to a piece of code I have already read is even faster - I am not hunting or scrolling for anything.

I recently experimented with writing a web application in q while limiting myself to a single screenful of code - the efficiency is amazing! I am still trying to figure out what factors contribute, but it reminds of solving math problems. Write down what you know and stare at it - no distractions.
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Currently, the Kariba dam is the one most likely to fail:

http://citizen.co.za/820414/kariba-dam-a-ticking-time-bomb/
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I can't fathom the point of this comment. Someone asked for opinions. I gave mine. You think I don't know I'm just one person and what I think doesn't count for much here?
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Why is that that much better than navigating the fixed relative URLs of a non-REST a client has been programmed to try?
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Can I ask you what book? I have a professional interest in these things.
That page covers a number of upgrade scenarios, the section for upgrading from 4.2 to 5.0 only has three entries[1], one of which is optional.

[1] http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.ht...
I honestly have no idea. I did a quick search and I couldn't find any notable further works on neurosis in the field of psychoanalysis (perhaps E.Fromm, Adler? But this is the same generation). Surely other branches of psychology keep studying the subject.

To me personally, Horney's observations felt enough accurate and complete, so I wasn't really looking for other books on the subject.
"Videos are an enriching way to connect with the world around you"

Er... thanks FB for the insight into why videos are good.

Interesting that it doesn't sound like they got page loading time
faster than with Flash, only to a point they were happy with.

Don't care. Haven't signed up to FB. Not until I can create feeds of my content to non-Facebook users, as simple as RSS. Unlisted content, similar to youtube unlisted videos. The URL discovery completely at my discretion and risk. You know, like more open, more choice and more in line with the web. Unshackled from branded ecosystem lock-in. That's all I want.
"How long is software like Windows NT expected to last"
1MW for take-off? Lol?
It sounds like an idea everyone would love in place however the major issue I see is the funding section. I don't think it's fair to expect the dui offender to drop a deposit and be expected to pay for all gas and expenses. Do you know how expensive getting a dui is already?
Remediation is always more expensive and less effective when treating across a diffuse area (which happens when moving the toxic sediment downstream) than in a single contained area.

As a civilization we're gradually getting better over time at remediation of large-scale "waste" like this, but still primitive considering our state of the art capabilities; we still don't recognize at a systemic, industrial design level that waste is materiel that we don't understand an economic use for yet, or understand how to transform into materiel we want at a thermodynamically desirable cost.
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Unless this information gets before the judge and/or jury; it is useless. A defense attorney bringing up any one of the studies mentioned here would be sanctioned by the judge. Even if the studies show that 75% of the time, eyewitness identification is wrong; you might be dealing with the 25% of the time when the identification is correct. That is for the trier of fact. It is unfortunate--no, tragic--because eyewitness misidentification is commonplace.
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Woah, I was not expecting that. Not only is it in Python but it's nice Python, not the bastardized "I can write C, let's try Python" style you often see from big companies.
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I agree, but it's a beta. Constraints happen.
I'm confused, are they powered by batteries or what?
I can claim anything is a falsehood, and I can claim anything is hate speech. The ability to deny ideas is the ability to deny all speech. (There are some things we can clearly distinguish as truly wrong speech - 'kill that man', 'there is a fire' when there is no fire, etc..., but ideas and history? That needs to be free game).
The article's thesis was pretty weak IMHO. Eight paragraphs about why it is useful to speak Chinese and only one that addresses the claim in the title that it is easier.

The claim that Zuckerberg was fluent in 4 years is pretty tepid. With a similar study regimen, a native English speaker would likely be fluent in French or Spanish in half the time or less.
Safeguards are known:

- Instrument rated pilots

- special, expensive, instruments (radars, etc...)

- extra pair of skilled eyes (2 pilots)

- n + 1 engines / APU

- bigger planes that have less restrictions (more power which means you can bring more weight (more luggage), take off safely from higher altitude, manoeuvre in higher cross winds etc....)

Those companies that fly those airplanes with those pilots already exists, there are known as air taxi and small air charters.
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Correct, HSTS is a header that is passed by nginx/Apache/whatever combined with a hard coded list shipped with your browser. You need SSL for HSTS to work, but the SSL vendor you choose doesn't have any bearing on being able to implement HSTS.
1) JavaScript is dying. Long live transpiling (typescript/babel/etc).

2) Internet of Things might finally realise it's full potential.

3) Open Data from Governments enabling companies and individuals to leverage value and deliver new services.

4) Surveillance, tracking, and behavioural prediction. Your phone, your car, your wallet, and your face all broadcast information. It just needs picking up, putting into a data lake and analysing. Expect better traffic management, intelligent congestion charging, and targeted arrests. All fed by advancements in IoT.
"Now, before you get too excited, the model they’ll be testing in US airspace is not only unmanned - it's a mere tenth of the size of their actual flying car prototype."

HN submissions should come color-coded according to link-baitness level.
With a small dam the water can sometimes be drained,
allowing repairs to be done safely. But imagine trying to
drain the Hoover Dam to repair cracks at the bottom--it
can't be done

I don't understand why they think it's a problem to drain the dam. It's done regularly to check and repair them. (Every 30/40 years, at least in France).

Recent video of this in France : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JflFg5un5zg

It is this dam, this is not a small one : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrage_de_Sarrans
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I recently switched to letsencrypt for some of my side projects. It works, but there are pitfalls.

The official client didn't work for me at all (crashed with an error message every time), and there is little documentation to help you out. However, the Ruby client works, so I'm using that. For some reason though the Ruby client was stuck in development mode leading to invalid certificates being generated without warning - I had to manually edit the gem file in order to circumvent that.

Once it's running though, it's very cool. I'm going to start using it for client projects in the future.
Then we fight it by continually showing them to be wrong. We can't ban Nazism without opening the flood gates - any government that comes into power can claim that whatever their rival party supports is 'incompatible with democracy'.
I like the conclusions the author draws, but the proposed solution falls short of being a better alternative. The example replacements don't feel like links to me, nor do they offer much more information that what I would have expected from "learn more" coupled with the context of the headline.

If the destination page doesn't jive with the previous context, then that's a problem with the two pieces of content and the very notion of linking them, not the link text itself.

It's probably also worth mentioning 3D Touch and how it can help the problem.
I've learned never to trust software implementations from third-party companies. They generally work well enough for pre-sales demonstrations, but you should always expect to do a bunch of post-sales bug fixing and feature implementation if you want to build a real product out of them. The same thing goes for BSPs from third parties.

Basically it's extremely rare to find third-party software that is completely trustworthy, even when you pay a bunch of money to ensure that this is the case. Hence why IEC62304 speaks directly to third-party software as enhancing risk. The best thing you can hope for is that the bugs are fairly benign or are easy to work around.
It would have been something that already existed in the string table for the binary, so you would have just been referencing an address and not inserting a string inline.
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When commenting on a comment in HN, it takes me back to the top of the comments, which means I now have to scroll all the way back to where I was. How difficult would it be to take me back to my comment or its parent?
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I'm fairly sure it means the entire page. I recently attended a talk given by Mike Magruder about (mobile) performance at Facebook, and a lot of it involved testing the impact of changes on the overall speed of the entire product, this uses the same language, ie referring to Facebook directly when talking about speed.

Just a wild stab in the dark on the cause, but maybe a contributing factor is devices that wouldn't load Flash at all take a speed hit from trying to load HTML5 video and the supporting scripts, or maybe the browser doing more heavy lifting rather than offloading it to a plugin?
I'm not an aeronautical engineer, but the fuselage/wing size ratio on that is way bigger than anything I've seen that actually flies.

Is something that looks like that even a little bit possible?
Empirical Bayes methods (in which the priors come from observed sample data) are a thing.
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Interesting that I can't watch the video on the default Apple browser.
Unless you're defining "pointless" incorrectly, you're wrong.

The start of the "inbox processing" step is to decide if something is worth doing. That filters the pointless things right at the start. Only then do you do it (if it's less than 2 minutes work), or add it into the rest of the GTD process: Delegate it, or defer it.
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"Flying Car" seems so cool, but really think about it.
Would you drive your car-airplane around on the ground all the time? An airplane already costs lots of money to maintain when it is only flying and sitting at the airport. Now you also have to pay even more for it for the wear of driving on the streets. I mean, this is really only an option to drive from your home to the airport from time to time (not for every flight). And in those cases, you might be able to find some kind of stowable airplane where you can remove the wings from, store them on a trailer and just get that thing home safe.

Honestly, I hope we one day have a solution for some Quadcopter-style of private transportation (best: electric). That would make completely new styles of cities possible as streets would be only used to walk around. Endless nature, no streets in it... just houses with Quadcopters on their roofs, ready to fly away... (still hope they have some kind of crash avoidance system, so flying to the next big time baseball match doesn't result in many deaths each time).
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There are a number of perverse incentives going on here:

- Rails needs something opinionated and "new" every so often to remain relevant.

- Workers, consultants, etc., benefit from being familiar with the latest rails, so many projects are upgraded that don't need to be.

- New versions break lots of gems and useful online tutorials, increasing the value of experience relative to aptitude.

So now, across the world, lots of teams will remove perfectly good code and divert lots of attention to upgrading to Rails 5 for no apparent reason or simply that a higher number is viewed as better.

Contrast this with the node ecosystem where libraries tend to be smaller and significant version bumps typically take an hour or so to accommodate at most.

The worst part is that if you engineered an alternative to action cable (for example) into your app, Rails 5 makes your approach seem outdated for no reason.
Disregarding everything else, the bar for moralistic isn't exiling instead of killing an entire group of people.
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In addition, AFAIK this affects both the ARM and x86 firmware, so a patched binary would imply two separate modifications. Though that would still leave open the possibility that the toolchain was exploited before compilation occurred.
Wow! It even works for live radio, which they say HTML5 doesn't! Why isn't this the default?
That sounds like a theorist dodging the issue.

The use of Bayesian statistical methods in papers is reasonably normal, although still the minority position.

The use of Bayesian falsification or confirmation theory as a philosophy of science is increasingly common.

The argument that we should switch to Bayesianism in situations where we cannot sample from the likelihood function (ie: perform an experiment which yields evidence distinguishing one hypothesis from another) is a special kind of bullshit where the attempt at "science" is being packed into prior formation to favor someone's pet theory.
Why would anyone realistically -- i.e., outside the realm of pure fantasy -- want a flying car? People can barely handle one-and-a-bit dimensions at 70mph (i.e., a road with discrete lanes), how well do you think the general population would cope with this? Maybe autonomous flying vehicles would be more practical, but that still leaves the other two main problems wide open:

1. The energy required to keep the vehicle in the air.

2. The boarding-and-alighting (i.e., landing) bottleneck.
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By last count (few years old), the number of dams was estimated at ~84,000 (not 76,000). Close, but that numerical discrepancy should point out one thing: it's an estimate. USACE maintains an authoritative database of dams in USA (and also 32 in Puerto Rico and 1 in Guam) and the numbers are always a moving target. Believe at this point they're working with pattern matching and satellite imagery to fine-tune the database. USACE is currently more concerned with inspections near urban populations than cataloging.

The write-up is a bit vague and misses one major point: not all of these dams in the U.S. are concrete. Not even close. Here's a construction type breakdown:

70,278 Earth
9,031 (Unknown)
1,446 RCC
1,215 Gravity
724 Concrete
455 Other
420 Rockfill
201 Masonry
136 Buttress
103 Arch
58 Stone
51 Timber Crib
16 Multi-Arch

Only 847 of those dams are tailings dams, used for industrial processing. More than 0, but less than 84,000. Of those, none are listed as concrete (730 Earth, 61 Unknown, 43 Other, 13 Rockfill).
It may take longer than a week, and I do think it's important to learn, but I think that a reasonably open minded person will be able to learn it over time and does not have to do the work for long to start to develop understanding.
Anecdotal story: This summer I was out at a Dam spillway installing some of my systems and got talking with the operator out there. He was commenting about the engineering of the facility and how impressive it was for the age it was built (50+ years ago) in comparison to the modern dam my government was currently building and all the lawsuits and issues its has even before opening. To him, at least, and I'd agree from his comments, business got too involved with engineering. They started running too many cost estimates and too many lowest-bidder contracts instead of building things for a century plus lifetime.

Shame to see that. I hope that our engineers continue to fight for proper surveys and designs rather than a race to the bottom.
Have a look at k5's full language spec: http://kparc.com/k.txt
FWIW none of these things are actual commercial flight regulations. In particular, it's quite possible (though I'm guessing uncommon) to get a commercial license without an IFR, and it's definitely very common to run single-engine, single-pilot operations with plain vanilla instruments (avionics).

I'm not familiar with air transport regulations, however, and some of these things may apply there.