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Take that as a proof that Stradivari really was VERY good. Compared to the very best that can be produced centuries later, with much better technology available, his instruments hold their own.

Contrast with, say, athletes. The very best runners from a century ago wouldn't qualify for the olympics today.

It does say that the extra value in a Stradivarius is in the history or mystique (or more cynically, the branding) as opposed to the sound.

But the sound is there as well, just it can be matched by a modern top quality instrument.
Is the 1/100 actually accurate for you? I occasionally test if DuckDuckGo is even nearly competent for my daily usage and it always falls incredibly short.

For example, sometimes I want to revisit a HN article I read days or hour ago, and often it's just faster to type it into Google than it is to search from the history. Typing in "hn google skews" into (incognito mode) Google brings up this thread and the actual news post as the first two, while DDG just brings up pages and pages of irrelevant stuff.
What if the law is unjust?
What if the government is corrupt?
What if the people are corrupt and stupid?

Why is it that so many need the above explained?
"You are a good friend, but I need people who can follow my lead, and I'd never say you are a follower."
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It's not that simple.

Most people never made a conscious choice to use Google they ended up using it for a number of reasons hell most people think that google is the internet.
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This page loads CPU 100% all the time it opened, even with adblocker (that causes the site to show nag screen). I hope one day Google Safe Browsing will treat such newsshit sites as malicious.
> It is true, I may well be homeless if it isn't for them.

It sounds like you may not be truly financially independent from your family? If they're giving you resources like money, food or shelter then you need to double down on convincing them this is the right path, because they're not totally in the wrong of asking demands in such a case.

Is there no way for you to do some kind of consulting work while doing this? If you can find a client that's not picky about when you work exactly it should gel well with your sporadic schedule. Assuming your family is still giving you resources your second goal should be to become independent enough so you can make your own decisions and not be tethered to their opinions as much.
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I'd prefer your title. It seems more honest, and there's no reason to say that's not the case.

But I think pointing out that musicians can't distinguish between these instruments is essential to debunking this notion that Strads are somehow uniquely better than anything else.

Turns out, Strads are high end violins that sound great after two hundred years. If you're a professional violinist, don't waste your money to "further your career."
This study used oenology undergraduates at the University of Bordeaux. I guess I would consider them wine experts (relative to me) but the industry would not.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.227...

"A white wine artificially colored red with an odorless dye was olfactory described as a red wine by a panel of 54 tasters."
I don't think all laws should be followed either[0]. But I try to follow them to the best of my abilities regardless.

[0] - Since you bring up Napster; yes, I'm guilty of piracy just like everyone else and I'm in general opposed to the very concept of "intellectual property". I applaud initiatives like SciHub too, but don't encourage - or consider virtuous - breaking laws for personal profit at expense of society at large. So while it may seem so, it's not hypocritical. I think of SciHub as a Good Thing, while I consider my own past history with downloading video games as a small but bad thing. The stuff Uber, AirBnB and tax evasion in general does lands squarely on the bad side of this - ignoring laws for personal profit, local markets and society in general be damned.
>the ability to compose it, to extend it and …. reflection

In our experience those are precisely the things that can turn codebases into a mess. It’s great that you can manage the complexity from inheritance and reflection, but in our experience most people had problems with these patterns (me included). On the other hand, we found that React composition model is enough to express everything we needed in the apps, and we didn’t miss inheritance or reflection.
At it's most basic, the Lightning network is just a way of implementing pre payment cards for Bitcoin.

Its over engineered and over complex. Which is demonstrated by the comments here trying to explain how it works.

No one has yet been able to explain how they will prevent one central hub from developing which by economies of scale will offer the lowest cost path through the network as it will have channels setup with everyone.

Ask yourself who will operate this hub and you'll understand why people want to implement this.
"If you know of any addicts, go ahead and kill them yourself as getting their parents to do it, would be too painful,".

Rody Duterte

History has shown us that when a leader kills huge segments of the population wether its hitler with the Jews or Duterte with the criminals and drug users, it's always a recipe for turmoil. Duterte's methods may work in the short term if u don't care about innocent people dying, But it'll get worse in the long term. U cannot fight darkness with darkness. This man is killing both drug dealer and drug user. This tyrant got on national tv and told the people to kill drug users essentially giving the people a license to kill. Addiction is a disease and it should be treated as such, not given the death penalty. Killing drug users is a crime against humanity, it's as heinous as killing sick people. Since duterte ok'd nationwide murder, dead bodies have been turning up with notes on their bodies saying "drug dealer " or "user"with a bag of drugs next to them. And since the cops assume the person was a dealer or user they don't even investigate. What's to stop people from killing those they hate and making the person look like a dealer or user with a bag of drugs next to them? The short answer, absolutely nothing!! Its pretty much the real life purge pinoy edition, except instead of having only one day a year to kill, it's everyday for the next 6 years(duterte term)that's fking terrifying. Violence only breeds more violence, Duterte is cultivating a generation of murderers that won't stop killing even after every drug dealer and user is killed. And like a psychologist friend of mine says, once some people get the taste of killing, they won't stop. If you think Duterte is for the people think again. He has figured out a way to get the poor to kill the poor. Does that sound like a person of the people to you? To my fellow Filipinos.......WAKE UP!!!! Duterte is EVIL!!! The people being killed have loved ones too. Do you think the thousands of loved ones of the murdered aren't going to want revenge? Revenge is a very powerful emotion, more so then love because its reinforced by love. History has shown us that when tyrants kill without abandon, resistance groups will form and fight back. Everyone always thinks they're the good guys and the killings always get worse and in the end EVERYONE loses. It's happened in the Philippines before and it's about to happen again but this time around its going to be much worse. To get rid of crime you have to alleviate the root cause, and in the Philippines and most places in the world, it's poverty. Alleviate poverty and most crime will go with it. U can't just kill everyone like the newly elected Mad King of the Philippines.. This guy is pure evil in the flesh and he's committing crimes against humanity on a scale I've never seen in the PI, and I hope the world intervenes before his death toll goes into Stalin and Hitler territory. God help the Philippines they are being lead down a dark path by this madman.

http://youtu.be/aHvYYopJupA
You could also just start an AWS server, upload an image containing useful tools such as an editor and a webserver, and teach them to use ssh. All could be done within an hour or so. I don't see the big advantage of Cloud9.
Planet money's coverage is great; I think a bunch of the posts below would be answered by listening to the podcast.

One of the main things I remember taking away from the podcast was that the soloists in the study were not the most famous "best" violinists in the world (they may not even have been professionals?). One of the violin makers they interviewed thought this was the biggest weakness of the study, and he was confident he could tell the difference (not that that means too much).
We don't use high tech manufacturing because people assume violins should be made to look and sound like Stradivarius. That and it's also a tiny market.
It is pretty close. Maybe I just use ddg as more of a bookmarks to major sites. I used to think it was worse, but when I changed the color scheme I realized the results weren't that worse, just the way they are presented.

Edit: I did the same search and for the default results Google showed the news (not hackernews specifically) and ddg didn't. But under the news tab in ddg you get similar results.
Speaking of pedants, recent interview one guy (their 'senior scientist') spent the whole hour tossing pedantic nits at me. What about RESTful interfaces? Are they an API or not? Ha! They're not 'procedural'! Guess what this tiny recursive algorithm's parameters are for? I don't know, whatever you use them for. I would never use a recursive algorithm in embedded work (suicide). Ha! Ha! Its the identity value over the virtual function! Ooookay. Good for you. I'd convert it to tail recursion, then a simple iteration, and never need that value.

Needless to say I didn't connect.
I don’t think there’s anyone writing Considered Harmful articles who hasn’t ready that essay but thanks! ;-)
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/brexit-anxiety-bring...
Do you have a background in Kenya or other family there?
Just out of curiosity, why is that harder than writing a static analysis that determines if a loop with condition will finish?
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Do you have any examples of this? I'm genuinely curious.
Similar but the big difference is the wrapping component does not extend the wrapped component. It uses React component model for composition.
> I am running a business based on [Windows]

That's the problem; you created a business that depends on a single point of failure that is entirely outs0ide your control. Without a second source[1] or a reliable alternative strategy, your business isn't really under you control.

This is why free[2] software is important. You need the right to maintain the things your business depends on.

> switching to Linux or Mac isn't an option

It's always an option, you simply see the cost of switching to be too high. That's for you to judge, but you might want to consider the long-term direction of MS's goal for Windows. Paying the cost of leaving now might be cheaper than paying it at some point in the future after MS does something else that disrupts your business.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_source

[2] Not "open source"; having the source code doesn't do you any good if you don[t have the freedom to use it.
Not sure what team you were on, but in my time at Amazon I never saw a company whose teams were more in-sync in terms of process, tools, frameworks, languages, etc. Say what you will about the work environment, but it's saying something that with the churn you mention (which is real), they are still able to deliver consistently. It's a well-oiled machine.
I have done bluesheet reporting code for another large bank and it is one of the most tedious things you can ever do in software. It's a report of all the trades that the bank does and the SEC can come back and ask for historical data at any point of time.
So there's a huge database with feeds coming in from multiple trading systems. Usually these feeds have to be enriched with the right account numbers and so on. This needs lookups to other reference data systems, which frequently are changing because of changing regulations, growing businesses etc. I am not surprised this bug remained undetected for more than 15 years. The guys who coded this initially are probably long gone and nobody did knowledge transition of the fact that some account ranges are not test accounts, even though they look like test accounts.
Most people would agree speech inciting violence should not be tolerated, whether it's against a protected group or not. "Violence" probably covers prejudicial action as well, and it certainly covers intimidation.

But no, I don't speech that simply disparages an individual or group of people (without inciting violence as defined above) should be a crime. There's a difference between disgusting speech and speech that should be outlawed and it's very dangerous to say simply that this speech or that speech is icky and therefore the person who said it should literally lose their freedom.
I'd have a lot more questions about the people in your anecdote and the circumstances. I guess they were lucky to escape with their lives. Probably they are on a kill list somewhere and eventually the Secret Racist Police Club will deal with them.

Actually, I think you understand perfectly. You gave a great example of how the way you looked and where you were and when you were there raised suspicions in people who have to be suspicious as part of their job. Why wouldn't it?! The cops were at that hotel, for a reason, and you looked out of place there. To me, it's totally reasonable. And why would you feel unsafe after that? They are trying to find the bad guys and get them off the street. You were in a bad area at a bad hotel. If someone would have tried something, they'd have been there to help you.

I was reading a Medium article by a black tech guy who was complaining about "every day I get on the metro and I'm the last one anyone wants to sit by, I'm always worried about what I'm wearing, I feel uncomfortable" -- yeah, welcome to my world, I'm white and neurotic and often I'm the last one anyone sits by too. I wonder why, is it the beard? Do I look grumpy? I'm always thinking people are looking at me, judging me. That I look weird in my clothes or something. This is totally normal. Everyone experiences these kinds of things and thoughts. I've been stopped by police too. The difference is that many black people are raised believing the police are their enemy and want to hurt them and that white people are racist. It's like Christians reading in the bible that people will mock them for their beliefs and when they're mocked they see that as proof that Christianity is true. It's confirmation bias. The way it seems to me, a police officer can't even speak to a black person these days without people assuming he's racist. So black people can assume about police, but police can't assume about black people. When I think about all the times I've been pulled over, stopped, talked to, I just think, wow, if I was black I could totally just say it was racism. I wasn't driving poorly -- he's racist!

Of course you'll encounter racism in America, no matter what color you are. Hard to believe, a lot of people hate whites! To imagine that all the police get together like mustache-twirling villains to plot ways to ruin the afternoons of normal black people walking somewhere is just preposterous. And if black people do get stopped more, then you have to wonder if it's because the cops are just totally racist or because of their experiences in the line of duty. But let's not wonder that. It's probably racism. Otherwise it would require black people and black communities having to change -- and that would be horrible and racist to even suggest.
For me, I'd frame NASA's approach to software quality as a core value of the organization. The problem is that determining where a mission critical level of attention to detail is not necessary requires a mission critical approach because failure there means failure to develop mission critical code to support a mission critical function.

So the process of determining what does and does not require mission critical rigor has to be handled with mission critical rigor. Adding such a process is just one more point of failure. It requires the same attention as just writing the code "right" but is more subject to political maneuvering and other unproductive mental overhead and subjectivity.
This is not quite what you're asking, but some guys are working on making SC/BW more accessible, modern (matchmaking, better chat support): https://www.shieldbattery.net/splash
Aww no Contra at launch. (They do have non Nintendo titles though like Megaman 2, so it's not just a first party issue)
a recording of that soloist can be made indistinguishable from the actual performance, i think we need to accept that there is some value to the soloist and the audience in being in a room with such a piece of history and craftsmanship.
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I'm actually really excited about this. I just wonder if my kids will be as addicted to the old school games as I was.
> are you really arguing that most extremism is non-violent, to the point where it's just "extremism is given a bad name by a few bad apples"?

I said nothing of the sort and it takes some impressive mental gymnastics to reach that point.

Extremist speech, on its own and in isolation, is not necessarily violent and should not be a crime automatically. It obviously can espouse violence and is therefore already outlawed. It may even be the fact that 99.9% of extremist speech advocates violence in one form or another. But until it does, someone should be able to spew as much racist, hateful garbage as they want.
I cant speak for NASA, but in general if you are writing extremely safety critical code you simply don't use dynamically sized things. In addition to safety, the dynamically sized objects cause issues for the real-time constraints on these system as well.
#define MAX_NUM_OBJS 100

for(int i = 0; i < num_objs && i < MAX_NUM_OBJS; i++)

Combined with the no dynamic allocation rule, you can guarantee that the number of elements in the array must be less than some maximum since you have limited dedicated space for storing them.
I would never expect an algorithmic prediction of property prices to do well on a very unusual ("one of the most expensive sales of 2016") property.

Zillow's estimates in general may or may not be useful -- and personally, i'd be awfully interested in finding out more about their (presumably proprietary secret) algorithms. But "one of the most expensive sales of 2016" is not a good example to say anything about how the algorithm functions in general.
I'll already deleted all audios and images belong to Blizzard, now this game is not playable without these materials, I'just want to show those js codes
Here is the study I'm guessing is being referred to:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070928231853/http://www.academi...

I believe the subjects where students studying wine rather than industry experts and a common criticism of the study is that the subjects where afraid of saying something 'stupid' (like "this red wine tastes like white") in front their professor, and instead went for the safe answer.
What if the law feels unjust only because you're on a receiving end? What if government is corrupt in general, but not every legislation it produces is broken because of that? What if it's you who is stupid by failing to understand the greater impact of the law on society, only focusing on your own costs and benefits?

Those are questions that one has to ask oneself too when considering breaking a law. People don't speed or evade taxes because government is corrupt and people are stupid. They do so mostly because they're lazy and selfish. Dumping costs and risk on other parties is easy, but it's not a way to live in a civilized world.

Again, I'm not saying all laws are Words of God - just that there's a difference between breaking something out of necessity because it's unjust or totally broken, and breaking something to exploit it for personal profit / encouraging others to do so.
In our experience inheritance causes a lot of hard-to-find issues, and muddles boundaries between component concerns. Some of the same problems I described we had in mixins also apply to inheritance.

>and you lose the nice function-composition-like behaviour provided by `super.method`.

We found this to be an anti-pattern. It’s easy to get lost in virtual calls across hierarchy, and people are going to create virtual methods (and override them) if you allow it.

>Instead you get hacks like `hoist-non-react-statics` to copy them over manually.

An alternative is to just not put static methods on component. It’s not such a useful feature.
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In truth it would be rather embarrassing if a top of the line modern violin could not at least equal a Stradivarius. Besides the world economy being much stronger, the technological advancements and the sheer degree of knowledge transfer makes it almost inevitable.

Anyone can fire up youtube and immediately peer into the workshops of master luthiers. I bet you could take a couple million and build a top class violin workshop from scratch in just a few years.

Imagine how cool it would be if the big SV aristocracy instead of spending millions on building sailboats, they'd invest in developing musical instruments? As much faster the USA-17 is than any hundred year old yacht, as much more beautiful a violin could be than a stradivarius.. perhaps.
Your first sentence is not consistent with how supermarkets in the UK, Western Europe or the USA work. Their shelf space is a precious resource, which they monetise through products that sell fast, products that encourage customers to come back to the store, products that have good margins, and products whose distributors or manufacturers are willing to pay listing fees to get exposure on shelves.
Using the terms in a consistent manner can avoid confusion. I tell beginning programming students that a Parameter is like a "Placeholder," and the Argument is the "Actual" value that fills it in, emphasizing the first letters of each.
Pokémon Go cures autism, apparently.

Well, maybe the one caused by vaccines.
> Sadly you can't use your original NES carts with the console - something even the most basic "Famiclone" offers - and there doesn't seem to be any means of getting new games onto it.

Would it really have been that much extra effort to make the console backwards compatible?
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