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> Old cities in Europe and Japan were designed around people walking around, basically because there was not anything else when those cities were created.

This is romanticism. Old cities weren't just filled with pedestrian traffic. There were lots of carts and animals pulling them. Those lovely cobblestone streets in Europe were created for vehicle traffic. Pedestrian traffic doesn't need that kind of durable surface.

The old-world streets were (and are) smaller, but not because only pedestrians were using them.
Picking the proper names for software constructs is also part of that category. I'm always impressed at how choosing a slightly wrong-one can have a huge impact down the line. Somehow the brain doesn't map the name exactly to the current context and gets things wrongs, prevents clear thinking.

A good example is the RAILS_ENV environment variable. It's a mechanism to select a running mode of rails applications. Now unlike most applications debug mode is the default. It's called "development" and the normal mode is called "production".

Because of these naming decisions developers always confuse the RAILS_ENV to be related to the deployment target. They add a "staging" running mode and they start bundling configuration secrets into the code. And invariably these secrets get leaked on github when they decide to make the repo public.

For a long time I felt something wasn't right and couldn't point the finger at it and it took conscious effort to disambiguate that. And that's just for a single variable. Mind your naming :)
I have to agree with Domenic_S, it's probably the solid core doors (I'm guess the jambs and sill are well-sealed also) that's providing most of the benefit moreso than the rockwool.

Staggered studs are an option, resilient channel also works well, provided that it's installed correctly.
The poster said "and work every day", while you're saying "of course I did little else", so I don't think it's rubbish.
OneTab Chrome extension: Spares your RAM, but still lets you maintain all your Tab-anxiety!
Hey rokhayakebe, could you describe what you mean a little more? Thank you.
The article specifically said she was looking to have more of her production automated. You're not going to do that better anywhere than Silicon Valley.
Well, if you go to your local store and buy the album, you can listen to it as many times as you want and not keep paying the artist.
Uber is approaching household name at this point. If Uber shut down today I would definitely hear about it outside of HN.
The downloads themselves are the communications I was referring to. The existence of encryption implies freedom of speech, especially between two private parties, is a fundamental right. Child pornography sure makes for a nice disgusting bogeyman, but at least it's rare and isolated. Unlike totalitarian policing of private interactions.
Relating to background noise, in case anyone else finds these useful, my pair of Etymotic earphones [1] have been doing an excellent job of cutting out basically everything. The kids version is pretty cheap (for a mid-range earphone), and apparently differs only in that it's slightly smaller and has a higher impedance (so you may require an amplifier).

[1]: http://www.etymotic.com/consumer/earphones.html
SamsungPay Expanding to Mid-range and low-end phones
When you pay the contractor (or, to the other reply to my parent comment, to Fender), presumably it's very clear what you're paying for. You're exchanging dollars for a very specific good/service.

When you "buy" a CD/MP3/what-have-you, you're buying a license to that song, not "the song", which would be much, much more expensive. In fact, it's difficult to figure out how much the song is worth up-front, which is why there are generally licensing deals. That way the artist gets compensated according to how well the song does: if a lot of people like it, they make a lot of money. If nobody likes it, they make no money. Seems fair to me.

I guess a more accurate analogy would be if you designed a specific type of product and paid a carpenter to make it. Then you see him open a store that sells that item to a million people for 10x what you paid him, even though he directly ripped off your designs. He's profiting off of your work & ideas, with no compensation to you. Obviously this assumes that it's a novel idea, etc, but I think it's a bit more accurate.
The keys are stored in your individual OneDrive not a centralized database.
OneDrive key integration isn't on by default even if you link a windows live account to your windows ID.

Also it's important to note that Microsoft doesn't have your key it has a key recovery element they still need the TPM and your physical drive to recover the full key this is a very very important part as they 1) still need physical access to your machine and 2) cannot arbitrarily encrypt data on your behalf.

FDE isn't there to stop government surveillance it's to stop your life from being ruined because you forgot your laptop at a coffee shop or because the guy who you gave your laptop for repairs is a watcher.

FDE's biggest problem is that it can fail very easily and very miserably especially when anti-tampering is enabled with external hardware. This solution solves all the usability issues as long as you can get online your laptop will not turn into a paper weight, I can't count the number of times that BitLocker especially 1.0 failed on me when the anti tampering was triggered due to power failure, BIOS update, boot loader reconfiguration and just because it can.
With this you get to keep all the anti tampering while still keeping your key relatively secure, OneDrive is probably more secure than pretty much any location you would normal keep the key recovery element yourself (Mine was both my wallet and a scrambled version under the battery when i still have laptops with removable battery).

P.S.
This is like the 10000's time this has been posted every time some one else discovers this and goes for the clickbait.
WW3+MOSQUES+BEING+BURN'T+TO+GROUND+ALL+OVER+WORLD+-+YouTube
Never Make Counter-Offers (2011)
It's not mentioned in this guide, but Hadley Wickham's tidyr is a more streamlined version of the reshape2 package for fitting your data into a "tidy" format necessary for ideal faceting.
I have had really good luck with nuttcp . http://nuttcp.net/Welcome%20Page.html
I don't think anybody is arguing that you should have to pay continuously for ownership of a song you bought. But if we extend the Macbook metaphor to Spotify's case: a Spotify user didn't buy a Macbook, they're paying a subscription fee for the freedom to use a wide variety of computers, and the subscription service compensates the computer manufacturers based on how many users choose to use their model. This incentivizes creators to create good things, so that users pick their creation, so that they have income.
Protocol-Oriented MVVM in Swift 2.0
I like this definition I've heard from Sam Harris (paraphrasing): An entity is conscious if there is something that it's like to be that entity.
Friend of mine got interviewed by a well known company down in the Bellevue area of Washington, for a role managing storage stuff, shortly after moving to the area. They got him in 5 times over a month for interviews with various people, and eventually about 3-4 weeks after the final interview they offered him the job.

They seemed very surprised when he laughed and told them they were too late, he'd got work elsewhere, as if they somehow expected him to sit around on his arse waiting for the job.
python3 is supported:

https://github.com/nineties/py-videocore/commit/7b192779e844...
"when - not if" narratives are often pushed by enforcement groups as a scare tactic. The reality is that so many people are engaged in these activities that, even without any opsec, most will live out their careers unpunished.

The flip side to this problem is that anyone with any notion of security is practically immune. With so many easy targets out there, the hard targets go untouched year after year.
MIT License listed at the github site. Had some Smalltalk using friends who really liked it.
The destroyed Planet
Roughly, for people sentenced to over two years: you serve half the time in jail, you serve the rest "on licence" in the community. This means you can be taken back to jail to serve the rest of your sentence if you break any conditions.

http://www.offendersfamilieshelpline.org/index.php/sentence/

http://www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/Portals/0/Documents/PIB%...
The analogy with technical debt is poorly conceived. :) Technical debt (as with financial debt) should be a conscious trade-off; borrowing time now that will be paid back later. There's never any reason to choose a poorly modeled UI.
They did quite a lot of things that set expectations which they failed to meet. First, obviously, a $1500 price tag carries with it an implied level of service. But it's not just that. Early in Glass' life, they swapped all their users' hardware with a new hardware revision. But when their software increased the memory requirements beyond what their deployed hardware had in it, they didn't do a second swap. They didn't communicate the fact that they had made a closed fork of Android (which is Apache licensed); I didn't realize that until I downloaded the source packages they were offering, and discovered that it only contained the kernel (which is GPLv2) and nothing else. They set up an app store, but put restrictions in the SDK license that fell only a tiny bit short of banning app development. (Specifically, it's GPL-incompatible and also bans charging money and advertising). They offered a usable API to develop against, then broke giant pieces of it and never fixed them.
Starters and Maintainers
You are vested in Clojure/Script and biased toward it. Obviously you are biased due to the heavy investment you hve made. I see so many disadvantages in ClojureScript: Lisp is super small in terms of adoption. Lisp is like using an RPN calculator, for uber nerds not for everyone. Who will maintain my code? The few people I know who know ClojureScript? How hard is it to find a ClojureScript dev or anyone interested in working on it? Can my company hire hundreds of engineers who love it and are easy to replace if they leave. If you say yes then you are contradicting actual experience i have had and dismissing it due to shear bias, not based on objective facts and data-supported evidence. Clojurescript's biggest problem, however, is that it has people like yourself who want to shove Lisp Is The Truth down everyone else' throat which people like myself have no tolerance for :)
>Artists getting a 10-20% slice[1], the typical revenue-split, sounds like a rip-off to me.

SoundExchange normally pays something like 50% to the copyright holder, 45% to the 'featured artist' and 5% to session musicians and the like for performance royalties (which is what it pays out for). [1]

SoundExchange is the organization set up to distribute royalties when performance royalties were brought to the US. They only are paid, and thus pay out for, digital music streaming, including cable TV, streaming radio like Pandora (when using the statutory license), and satellite radio.

In the case of an indie group that also owned the copyright, at least 95% of the royalties would flow to the members of the group itself.

I should note that there are other organizations like SoundExchange worldwide. PPL [2] is the British equivalent. There are also other organizations that deal with different rights, e.g. rights to the sheet music. The laws regarding each will vary considerably.

[1] http://www.soundexchange.com/artist-copyright-owner/digital-...

[2] http://www.ppluk.com/
Probably so. Written makes it a lot more obvious.
I can't stand the noise situation in my office building. It's full of glass walls and granite floors, so if there is a slight squeak in your shoe, the sound bounces around and amplifies to a comical degree. For some godawful reason the bathrooms are the quietest place in the whole building, the one place where you really really want background noise.
This resonates (!?) with me. For 10 years or so noise from above was perhaps the single most annoying thing in my life. You can adapt to a continuous noise, but intermittent stomping ... oy vey. If I ever go back to apartment living, somehow ensuring this is not a problem (if you are just viewing it's hard to know whether pleasant quietness is temporary or permanent) is my number one priority.
Your comment is basically a tldr of the article. Not sure what your point is besides that you don't think it's interesting to educate Windows users about their encryption options.
Show me the code! Go ahead and let's see how pretty that is, and son't forgeg error handling and concurrency.
So don't use it
I am biased. Just as you are.
I've thought about this particular issue quite a bit as well, but I haven't been able to come up with a great solution, because RAILS_ENV/RACK_ENV is ubiquitous and auto-detected by tools. So you can have multiple deployment targets running the same mode, but then you can't differentiate them by default in tools like New Relic, Slack, Honeybadger, etc. You can put a lot of effort into building custom solutions to this, but since there is no standard it's easy to run into brick walls. In the end I've found it to be more work than just adding a new RAILS_ENV setting across all the config files. Ugly but pragmatic.
I'm not an architect, or familiar with construction practices, etc.

My theory is however that because the demand for high end, luxury rental apartments, or even just apartments in general, is so high in some places right now that contractors/investors know that despite short-cuts and things like sound insulation, they know they can still fill the complex and meet/beat their ROI goals.

The problem with that, I believe, is the demand will come and go and these buildings 10-20 years from now might have a hard time keeping the needed occupancy rate. So many things can affect that, i.e., young couples/families actually may not mind living in urban apartments, however; If a large number of complexes are terrible with noise pollution, they may opt to move to a stand alone house in the suburbs. And many other societal trends, etc.

I think we are cutting corners on many new buildings right now that may create low occupancy areas later on. All the growth and development of today will be for nothing. It's the mentality of, "I don't care about this neighborhood or what it will be like in 10 years+, I can make my money now and move on, who cares".

How do we make the large capital investment world care and stay interested long-term (10+ years).
The killer of early stage startups
I guess you should just make sure the sound reduction standard is part of the specs.
The country where I live (Germany) uses a pretty simple rule to reduce the number of court cases for sound protection issues like this - a certain standard is considered "state of the art", and if a developer wants to deviate from it he needs to specify it explicitly in the contract. For residential multi-tenant buildings, state of the art is considered what is specified in class II in DIN norm 4109 appendix 2. that stated a minimum reduction of 55 DB for walls and ceilings under a certain measurement regime, and a maximum level of 25 DB for technical installments in the building, among other things.
I moved into such a building lately, and most of the times (like now) it is dead silent to the point you can listen to the clock ticking. If a baby cries at night in the floor above, it can be audible, but not to the point where one gets woken up. Overall it is a good compromise that is as good or better to the places I lived in previously.
That's an argument plot, not a genuine question. :)
I'm seriously curious why you don't want prime. Do you live in an area where it doesn't benefit you or something? If you are really ordering more than a few items a year for them, it makes total financial sense to get it for the shipping alone.

The movies, photo storage, tv shows, music etc. are just icing on the cake.
> Because what's most likely to happen is that the police choose to surveil an area for political reasons (like racial segregation), and are thus attacking a specific group.

That has nothing to do with police surveillance. That has everything to do with crooked cops. It's a problem that's worth talking about, but it's completely unrelated to a conversation about limiting the damage that can be done with tireless, incredibly cheap robot police officers.

> ...but mass-surveillance is still happening!

What I'm describing as the ideal situation isn't mass surveillance. If you declare all surveillance that gets fed back into a filing cabinet (computerized or otherwise) to be mass surveillance, you make it impossible to distinguish between a single guy on a stakeout and an organization that records and stores for the rest of eternity every single phone call in a nation, the exterior of every single piece of snail mail in a nation, and the movement of every single automobile in every major and most minor metropolitan areas in that nation.

Please don't do that.

> The Tor project doesn't protect against isolated attacks (surveillance), but would it not be nice if it could?

If you could get it for free, it would be nice. It's a hard problem that requires some very serious tradeoffs. There is no way around those tradeoffs.

Tor -as is- is very useful. If it protected against a passive adversary that controlled most of the nodes in the network, nearly noone would use it because it would be too slow.

> ...what are valid reasons from your viewpoint in which a human officer should select an area to surveil?

I mean, the obvious stuff?

* As part of a routine crime-prevention patrol. (E.g. an officer walking a regular beat.)

* As part of an ongoing investigation into one or more people who are -at a minimum- suspected of being involved in illegal activity.

Let's skip the conversation about what should or shouldn't be illegal. While that's a useful conversation to have, it's not in-scope for a conversation about limiting the damage done by robot policing.
So what about people who start out with very little and become "privileged" later on? If I am a self made millionaire (no inheritance, no college, etc) can I then have an opinion about poor people? I think I know your answer, though, and it's that nobody actually becomes successful on their own; that we all owe everything we earn to other people, and therefore can never truly take full credit for anything we accomplish. I think people in this world can be very neatly divided into those who share this opinion and those who do not. It might even be the quintessential disagreement between liberals and conservatives (or socialists and capitalists, for that matter).

The truth, as always, is that it's a very nuanced issue, and we both have valid points. You're right about people who inherit all their wealth. They often lack basic empathy for their fellow citizens and lack the understanding that they didn't truly earn what they have. And I'm right that there are people out there who truly do, against all odds, become successful without much help from anyone else. I think it's extremely important to recognize both of those truths and call them both what they are rather than yelling past each other to push our own political or ideological agendas.

I struggle with this on a daily basis, especially as a former liberal.
First, airliners have complex systems that need to be understood in detail since you can't just pull over at the side of the road like in a car.

Second, newer families of airliners by Airbus and Boeing do have similar systems and often a type rating covers 2 or 3 models now.

Third, each operator has their own standards and practices.
In fact, airline operator standards are considered to be more pertinent than general FAA or mfg. requirements.
If you are ready to pay more, why not to soundproof your room? It's not expensive.
Technically yes, but they also gave an example of a serious, non-fatal, non-injurious way of being criminal in policing ("terrorizing innocents at gunpoint") and classified that outside of the 1 in 10 000 frequency.
Abstraction not only has a play on science but also on the social part of our lives.

Take money for instance. When you see a great amount of cash you're immediately amazed, or when you see someone purposely burning money you get confused.

In physical reality it's all just paper. You see such paper as value (and not as valuable) without even thinking about it (we don't "process" the abstraction).
Well, they DID take $1500 of cash to join the explorer program. At least they could make it easier for someone to use the hardware if they were going to abandon it.
Thanks for the good write-up! I was surprised to find out how many of these practices were actually baked into https://dockbit.com design (I am the founder). We've even open-sourced Hacher https://github.com/Dockbit/hacher, which we use internally to detect the changes to dependency files and cache them for faster builds. Can't wait to read about deployment patterns you're having ;)
For the amount of time I spend on here, it's a shame I can't remember any "life enhancing" threads that would be worth mentioning.
From what I've seen, traditionally Star Trek is considered science fiction and Star Wars is considered science fantasy (or more precisely a space opera, that is, a soap opera that happens to be in space -- Lucas himself refers to it in this way).
twitter account taken down:

tweets still in cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:le7oSCj...
Thats not really the point as i see it though, its more one of fairness ... why should the richest of the rich get to basically make their own law and play by a different set of rules than the rest of us ?
Good artists certainly do need PR help. Truly horrible "artists" top the charts every day. Turning music into money and fame has little to do with being a good artist.

Studios know how to handle images. They know when and where to push something. They can tell musicians what will sell in 6/12/18 months. For instance, a good song today will still fail if it's theme/tempo/key doesn't mesh with the times or has too many similar competitors on the charts. Many artists have no grasp of such external factors. Studios may be evil, but they specialize in turning the good into the marketable.
JetBrains' DataGrip (or any of their IDE's if you have them) is really nice, I've been using it in tandem with PgAdmin (for general maintenance tasks since it has a GUI for some common stuff like permissions).
This is beautiful for all the wrong reasons.
This is important. It isn't the same as them possessing the key. They still require physical access and of course with physical access, all bets are off.
Debian creator beaten by police, mentionned suicide before deleting Twitter
Does anyone know anything? I hope he's safe.

Links: http://i.imgur.com/xm5bpv9.jpg

reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3yktcg/ian_murdock_d...
My dad is an architect, he once challenged me to find some area of study that architect's don't potentially need to know something about. I still haven't come up with one.
U.S. Spy Net on Israel Snares Congress