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Shotgun mics have a pinched sound quality - the whole point of using U87s is the way they sound.

They can switch to SM7s or RE20s and achieve much better S/N with respect to air handling systems, but they want the "U87 sound" (they can keep it, too, IMO - it's painfully neutral) and that just entails a much higher "room noise to signal" ratio.
I've found it more straightforward to transition to Angular over from a more server-side setup gradually. The template language is at least in the same general area as template languages for Django, Rails, etc.

The general tooling process is pretty simple, no need to convince people of the merits of JSX.

Architecturally speaking many people still like separating presentation from business logic.

Angular has a lot of mature tooling and wrappings around current libraries. Angular also offers a lot more tooling on the side, React is much smaller.

On an architectural side, while React keeps states in components, the state update mechanism is a bit obtuse compared to Angular's "scopes are just objects" philosophy.

It's dependent on how you view things, but if you're working on things where strict component decomposition is hard, and you "like global state in your views", then Angular's state mechanism (controllers) could work better for you.

Some would also declare that the non-turing-complete-ness of the template language in Angular is a feature, not a bug.
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Within every realm of human sense, there are a small number of people who have a much higher degree of sensitivity than the average person. Average people can already detect 10 nanometer irregularities on hard surfaces, so it's not surprising that an expert can detect 1-5 nanometers. The physics, chemistry, and biology of the fingers and brain are consistent with this observation.

How this arises is intriguing- I'd guess (and only a guess) that it's a combination of inherent sensitivity and experience.
Are you sure you will be able to come up with a new "nugget" every single day for even 700 consecutive days?
How is the latency with something like this? I would assume it's pretty much real time when dealing with the raw data, encoding could add some latency. Am I correct?
I'm actually expecting a future government to turn round and refuse to replace the funding that used to come via the EU - as the economy will be in a bad state and we don't have the money anymore and, the main reason, which is pure ideology.
How on earth does taking capital derisk your startup? It's like throwing gasoline on a bonfire, yes it burns a lot faster, but also shorter. Early money is the most expensive money you'll ever take, and if you're reliant on it you're dead when it dries up.

Find a viable business with a skeleton crew, grow with your profits, and then pour on the gas if you want when a repeatable pattern is found. It's not as glamorous, but you're more likely to create a solid business instead of crashing and burning like most SV startups.
Would be as interesting to see the absolute numbers of exits per city.
Source? And why is the column labeled standard deviation? Looks a bit weird that Waltham, MA is 4x Cambridge, MA.
as far as I can tell they arn't doing much from an automation side other than contracting with a kitchen and using an app with UberRush. Also, there charging $20 for a pizza with a very small deliveyr area.
This isn't as cut and dry as you might think. Should the US govt. pay full development cost for all software it contracts out? Contractors often take less NRE than makes sense if they can make a business case for said software elsewhere. If all contracts mean the work will be open source, then NREs will go up dramatically.
My guess, based on the changes to comment deletion, is that the |delete| link disappeared once a comment was attached to the thread. Anyway, it's easy to miss a story on the river when it receives moderate traction. When it never makes the front page it's not unreasonable to act as though it hadn't been submitted.

To me, the solution to whatever problems repeat submissions might create isn't everyone searching for previous submissions before posting a story. It's better duplicate detection and classification. The amount of friction for users created by duplicates is much less than that created by manual data validation.
Great story! And congrats to Twilio on the IPO, 90% first day of trading pop, and creating a great (and essential) service ;)
The github repo: https://github.com/Strilanc/Quirk

The blog post introducing it, with a bit more context: http://algorithmicassertions.com/2016/05/22/quirk.html
Rob is a beast. Love that guy!
Restaurants do use the ugly food, there's many grades to choose from when you're a wholesale buyer purchasing from specialty suppliers.
Immigration will be a fact of life, and long may it continue. Net immigration on the scale we've seen lately OTOH, not so much.

Other countries may well demand a get-out, if they perceive it's to their advantage. And if it is, I'm not sure why the EU should seek to stop them either.

I guess we'll see one way or another.
People use SM7s and RE20s as kick drum mics all the time, they're really, really durable compared to a U87.
One of the main issues i had with it was that getting the IAM policies correct on the cluster was an extremely slow process. Each change requires a rolling cluster update, replacing the underlying EC2 instances with the correct roles.

Secondly access control sucks. You can only whitelist by external IP, and you cant access elasticsearch from your VPCs directly, as they sit outside your VPC.

I abandoned it, wrote some chef and terraform and had a much more stable and flexible setup. However at an increased management overhead.
If it works for you thats cool, but there are caveats, so beware.
"Surprisingly, the puzzle-makers revealed that “One post has been decrypted. Nobody noticed but us.” A woman in the U.K. had apparently succeeded where so many had failed, only to later delete her account; the creators would say no more."

Surely this is a lead; there are independent archives of reddit aren't there?
> That list looks to me mostly like a list of things that are either scams

That's easy to say right? Oh it's a scam.

I can't use Stripe because my business falls into the "Scam" area. Am I a scammer? No because otherwise my business would have failed years ago.

I happily use another competitor. I haven't had any issues with them and since I am not a scammer, I don't foresee any either!

Remember. One mans ITS A SCAM, HE'S A SCAMMER is another mans very successful business which people don't have a problem with.
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I tried to find an example of the macro-like approach of Spry and couldn't. How is it expressed?
> React has been around for a while, but it is still only a library. Angular 1 and 2 are frameworks.

What does this even mean. Angular is also 'only a library'.

> As with Angular 1, Angular 2 aims to be opinionated, so it should be clearer how to do things than with React.

'Should' and 'is' are different things, angular 1 was a complete mess. React is quite clean and straightforward.

> Especially now with the move to components, Angular should be easier do more with, without as much confusion.

Why? You don't give a reason of why this would be easier than with React.

> And Angular 2 is much faster, if you do it right, which was one of the reasons Angular 1 was left for React.

We are comparing Angular 2 with React not sure how 'Angular 2 might be better than Angular 1' is an argument against React.

> React is fine for what it is. It's somewhat "matured" for a few years and is not a bad decision if you go with it.

It's a much better decision than Angular 1 or Angular 2.
The orbits of the planets are not apropriate yet for an Uranus/Neptune orbiter. That mission has been in the works for years, at a slow pace, but now slowly speeding up. During the 2020's the planing should go full speed for a late 2020 launch, and a mid 2030's arrival.

[Fix]: I was look for the links to post about the Neptune mission, and found this PDF where they had propsed a mission to launch january this year that would arrive late 2029. Obviously, it didn't get throught.

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/jun_05_meeting/presentations/NE...

Now I'm wondering where did I read those other dates... still, with current technology wer'e talking about some 12 to 15 years of transit, with gravitational assist on Jupiter (almost 20 without it).

[Further edit]: It was the Uranus orbiter that had those dates. Now it's being marketed as a New Horizons sibling (probably to jump on the public acceptance of NH? and it's technological merits too -- little weight, simpler design, etc).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus_orbiter_and_probe
> Is this not a blatant layer violation?

No, you want to apply cuts as early as possible in the signal chain if you're trying to prevent overloads later in the chain. The "EQs" that you see on mics are almost always bass cuts designed to reduce proximity effects. This gives you much better dynamic range at the preamp because bass frequencies are energy-intensive, so cutting them early allows the amplifier to not have to do all the work amplifying (and distorting) them, just to cut them later.
Which is already causing some angst.

Cornwall mostly voted Leave (higher the UK average) but have since asked for the EU funding for Cornwall to be protected.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/brexit-cornwa...
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the "unspecified" price is a lot. I think they reworked their pricing structure sometime around ElastiCon this year, but prior to that a subscription (which includes support, and all their products; only way they sold stuff then) was ~$5k /server/year.

I think it may be cheaper now though.
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When you're buying U87s by the dozen, mid-range MI gear won't cut it.
Many people don't

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/12/30/242429836/...

>"I encounter a lot of people who tell me that they never knew the word 'gypped' had anything to do with gypsies, or that it's offensive — especially when the word is heard not read," says University of Texas at Austin professor Ian Hancock, who was born in Britain to Romani parents. "My response to them is, That's okay. You didn't know but now you do. So stop using it. It may mean nothing to you, but when we hear it, it still hurts."
Oh I'm not going to claim there aren't racists and xenophobes around. I'm outraged that all leave leanings are characterised that way.

There are many good arguments and many bad ones that don't involve hatred of foreigners. "Take our country back" would, to me, meaning regaining full legislative control. Yes, this includes immigration, and yes I would limit that based on skills and an annual quota.

I don't believe for a second this is racist.
> Israel does it, but only for Arabic or Muslim tourists

Arabic is a language and speaking it is absolutely no guarantee that you are a muslim. Lots of non-muslims speak Arabic both inside and outside Israel, including a significant number of Israeli Jews who routinely engage in good mannered and friendly commerce and friendship with fellow Israeli citizens who are Muslim or Druze or Bedouin. Being bi-lingual Arabic & Hebrew is quite common in Israel. I visited a school in Tel Aviv where Muslim and Jewish children were taught together in Arabic and Hebrew; they were all fluently bi-lingual and completely integrated. They are part of a long term plan for the future Israel by removing barriers and segregation and building an integrated country together.

Having visited Israel multiple times, I know for a fact that speaking Arabic does not get you refused entry nor does it single you out for prejudiced treatment.

However, a track record of making anti-Israel statements - not the language you speak nor your religion - will get you questioned and may lead to refused entry. Most people refused entry this way are not Muslim, they are white westerners from left-leaning Christian or secular groups who are active in BDS. That's exactly the same as a track record of making anti-America statements will get you questioned at US borders and quite probably refused entry (see other comments in this thread for examples of that). Israel are doing nothing different from what America or Canada or the UK or Turkey or Saudi Arabia or any other country does.

I see what you did there. You're suggesting a moral high ground by insinuating you are against prejudice but are really being prejudiced against Israel for doing something that every country does. I just don't know if its through ignorance or if it's an intentional slur.
Define exit? because I'm sure most exits aren't necessarily good/great for founders and employees. A list of successful/profitable exits would be more appropriate
From a Machiavellian perspective, Google competes in hundreds of market niches with competitors constantly nipping at its heels. It certainly doesn't want more competition. Brin doesn't need a 5 man startup hurting Google, so he's politically motivated to give advice that benefits him best. That Kansas startup with zero dollars isn't a threat to Google, and makes for a cheap acquisition if they do develop something interesting or threatening. It certainly is a threat when its backed by SV money, can scale quickly, and isn't available to buy for peanuts.

I've always been skeptical of the whole "advice from billionaires" format. Brin isn't motivated to help startups the same way Warren Buffet isn't giving away hot stock tips or how Gates never gave the FOSS community an easy way to reverse-engineer the doc format. These people know how their bread gets buttered. Or simply have internalized protectionist attitudes and give away just enough to not be dangerous to themselves.

edit: I'm not necessarily projecting malice, but there are other reasons why "advice from billionares" is kinda a bullshit format. Brin may be out of touch or, if you read the source of the article, made an off-hand comment he probably doesn't worry about all night and is blown out of proportion by the 'give us the latest hot investing tip' crowd.
Exactly. Theft sucks and thieves should be punished, but give me a fucking break:

terrorism |ˈterəˌrizəm| (n)
the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.
No, the two are independent. The rules for parentheses:

1. Multi-word lines without leading parens are grouped with later indented lines.

2. Indentation is not sensitive inside parens.

More info, unpacking the implications: https://github.com/akkartik/wart/blob/47e3572a29/004optional...

Infix works by using a disjoint set of 'operator characters' that isn't available to prefix symbols. More info: https://github.com/akkartik/wart/blob/47e3572a29/006infix
> most music is done on something like $100 MDR-7506

Musicians wear headphones in studios when recording, but audio engineers pretty much never use headphones for mixing except as microscopes to listen in terrific detail for something in particular.

Mix engineers mix on speakers almost exclusively.
Glassblowers who make high end pieces for people to smoke marijuana out of work pretty exclusively in quartz and borosilicate, and will certainly have experience with lathes. See for instance http://waterworksglass.com/?cat=13 https://mothershipglass.com/collections/

That said, they would clearly have to do a lot of learning and training for the more specific scientific applications, and since many artists get thousands (or tens of thousands) of dollars per piece, I'm sure you'd have a hard time luring them away. On top of that, they probably couldn't be stoned all day and would go from making art to making whatever functional objects are needed.
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Can someone give me a list of which questions I might get at the border that are actually optional?
Interesting that Austin TX is not present. Neither is Los Angeles.

So ... I guess what you're putting here is the number of standard deviations from the mean for each city, but only for cities above the mean? And San Francisco is below the mean?
I have wondered this for a few years now. It seems to me the best way to start a company is to actually build your idea somewhere cheap and fly to where the investors are. I don't see how someone moving to San Fran to start a company is a good idea when a large amount of your angel investment is spent on rent.

I think a better idea would be to move to a college town. I think the guys at id did this when they first started though they moved to somewhere in the midwest, but cheap nonetheless.

My take would be to move to college town with a large student population and good science programs. Somewhere like pittsburgh or even state college, PA
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No, it wouldn't. The US has a long, deep tradition of not criminalizing dissenting views. Exceptions like the Alien & Sedition acts or the "Red Scare" are remarkable because they're so counter to that tradition.
You're probably confusing audio compression with data compression.

These days every note of music you listen to on every modern album has a compressor in it somewhere, even if you don't think you can hear it, it's there.
In machine learning "evaluating the gradient" means sweeping over the whole training set. For simple models, stochastic gradient descent will have found a good fit after one or two passes over the dataset. (For neural nets, tens to hundreds of passes over the dataset may be needed.) It's hard for batch L-BFGS to do much in the same number of gradient and function evaluations. No one uses batch steepest gradient descent, which would be the worst of all worlds.

The discussion above was about making stochastic or mini-batch versions of algorithms like L-BFGS. It's possible, but not entirely straightforward, which is why "dumb" stochastic gradient descent is often used.
If you're itching to start a company out of a garage, then you shouldn't pick up and move to Silicon Valley, says Russian immigrant Sergey Brin, who cofounded Google at Stanford University, after immigrating to the United States with his family at the age of 6. With help from an advisor who put him in touch with Larry Page while they were studying at Stanford, they implemented a new algorithm, called Page Rank, on top of a data mining system Brin was already developing. With further help from the Stanford community's network, they soon received a check for US$100,000 from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, written to a company that did not yet exist. About a year later, they announced closing a $25 million round from Sequoia Capital, who suggested hiring an external CEO in the form of Eric Schmidt. Within 4 years Microsoft started making bids for the company, though Google eventually went public instead. Today Sergey Brin is one of three people listed as 11th richest in the world, with a net worth of US$39.2 billion.

Recently speaking at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, he said onstage, "It's easier to start a company outside the Valley than in it."

In a follow-up interview, he was asked to reflect on the $100,000 check he received from Andy Bechtolsheim of Sun Microsystems, before Google existed. Now that he himself was worth billions, would he write a similar check based on a pitch from someone living in Kansas, the interviewer asked. Sergey Brin laughed.

"That would sort of contradict what I've been saying here," he said with a laugh. "Maybe try kickstarter? But if you ever do move to Silicon Valley definitely reach out."

He then got very serious:"Seriously though. We live in a connected world. It doesn't matter where you live. It matters what you build."

He then apologized saying he had to run, and drove off in a pre-production Tesla Model 3 in fiery red, produced by South African immigrant Elon Musk, who made his fortune at PayPal, based in San José, and now runs Tesla Motors based in Palo Alto. An odd choice for Brin to be driving, as Google is said to be developing its own driverless vehicle.

That is, if a few startup kids in Detroit don't beat them to the punch. You can read about the extraordinary results of the Detroit startup company (find link) . One thing's for sure: just as Brin eloquently stated, there's nothing stopping them.
So yes, you are conflating these things.
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"Of course not all Leavers are racists. That would be a terrible thought. But all racists now think 52% of the population agree with them."

https://twitter.com/paullewismoney/status/747080385683660801
I like your design a lot, and that font is a great choice in terms of creating a certain feel for the site, but it's not a very readable font. It was hard for me to skim the page and see what content you have, and it made me feel like leaving the site immediately.

I think the issue is that the characters are fairly thin and tall, and some of the text has a low contrast (black on purple).
Here is a list of people in the chat by username. Info on what each of them does at Tor is at https://www.torproject.org/about/corepeople.html.en

asn: George Kadianakis

atagar: Damian Johnson

athena: Andrea Shepard

DaveC1: David Chasteen

gamambel: Moritz Bartl

helix: Erinn Clark

ioerror: Jacob Appelbaum

infinity0: Ximin Luo

isis: Isis Agora Lovecruft

Julius23: Julius Mittenzwei

Lunar^: Lunar

mikeperry: Mike Perry

mrphs: Nima Fatemi

puffin: Karen Reilly

Phoul: Colin Childs

qbi: Jens Kubieziel

Runa: Runa Sandvik

sekritarma: Roger Dingledine

sysrqb: Matt Finkel

weasel: Peter Palfrader

yawning: Yawning
It's hard to take this comment seriously if you're not using your main account and refuse to say what your business actually is.
>TransferGo’s new investor, Stockholm-based Vostok Emerging Finance, said they had been waiting patiently to make such an investment and hadn’t been put off by the current political and economic climate in Britain.

Finally somebody is being reasonable. A decent British leader will take as long as necessary to negotiate a good exit, and things will turn out just fine.
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What's the difference between Angular 2 and Reacts rendering? I was under the assumption that Angular 2 had implemented a shadow dom or something similar.

Not arguing that you are wrong, I just haven't kept up with any of Angular 2 and am genuinely curios.
Trying to set the terms used in a political debate is incredibly common. In the abortion debate, the two sides call themselves "Pro Life" and "Pro Choice", which both sound good on the surface. Who wants to be anti-choice or anti-life?

The PATRIOT Act was not called the Increase Spying on Citizens Act, but perhaps it should have been.

The unfortunate fact is that if your political adversaries have already chosen a favorable-sounding, possibly-dishonest name for something, it's very hard to persuade people of your position while using the other side's terms.
> The UK can now offer tax deals that other countries can't.

This isn't so simple. If the UK wants to keep access to the EEA, it effectively won't.
If you are a US citizen returning from abroad you are likely not going to be "grilled" at the border. You'll be asked a few routine questions about where you visited, the purpose of your travel, etc.