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I've noticed this online, and I actually find it quite bizarre.

Maybe it's my age or culture (24, brought up in regional Australia then moved to the city), but I actually find it really disjointing when people use gendered pronounce when talking generics, regardless of whether it's 'he' or 'she'.

My default, myself and everyone I interactive with just default to gender neutral pronouns - not out of any sense of 'political correctness', but it just makes for easier conversation.
I've never understood why so many Americans believe that Snowden fled to Russia. It is simply not true and it never has been.

Are we already witnessing the rewriting of this part of history?
Vote with you feet. I don't support Organizations or communities that imposes speech or behaviour codes. Or tries to cram identity politics, feminism or any other unrelated virtue signalling nonsense into there content.

Its a hard at the moment but more and more people are starting to realize there is a corrosive agenda behind a lot of these movements and personalities. And you can have all the inclusion you want without opening the door to social justice activist to destroy your community and derail the focus into endless navel gazing and radical social activism.
Can you speak a bit more how this would evaluate with generators? I mean they're more or less lazily created to begin with what do we gain from using async? I guess I'm curious how it works behind the scenes
C/C++/Rust and other low-level languages should be able to perform faster than a Node implementation... Although a less-simple example would mitigate a lot of those differences, as many interfaces would need to interact with other systems, and with any kind of redundancy (multiple servers) coordination becomes an issue as well.

In the end, if you're within 10% is probably moot, and at 39% on a single instance for node, that's very impressive and once you add multiple system, multiple instances per system aren't any harder and node would probably make up most of the difference.
At the cost of the most complex implementation.
> The home page could be split down the middle, showing new stories to the right

I'd like to give that try. I'd like a random sort of the stories from the last 24 hours to reduce the connection to posting time and give some variety on each refresh.

I often search HN when I find a new product/blog just to see what the reaction is. I am quite surprised when I might see 20 decent submission from a source or about a product that barely have an upvote between them. It makes me wonder whether the blog/product pages that do hit the front-page are really that organic at all.
The positioning of the sign doesn't help - so high up. Who looks up that high when driving?

The truck driver doesn't realize the sign is only on when he is there, he never sees it when it's off, he has no idea it's illuminated specially for him.

This is government saying "We did something", while doing nothing.
Having recently moved to LA from the east coast, and hoping to stay put for awhile, I've really appreciated the interest in finding new ways of dealing with transportation in the city. It may be a generational issue, as some have said, but that doesn't need to be the case. Perhaps the current enthusiasm can find its way into housing and zoning policy and make a lasting change in a city that seems to have reached the limits of what sort of population and density can actually be sustained in an everybody-owns-a-car scenario.
I do FPGAs and hardware design. The FPGA part of my work is more like software I guess; bug fixes, feature enhancements, maintenance, etc. Hardware design comes in waves depending on how complex the design is and how the requirements change. When it's "design season" I spend most of my time in schematic and PCB layout, then wait for hardware to come back, then do bringup. I also get to dabble a bit in RF/microwave and DSP.

But as others have said, EE jobs run the gamut. Depending on where you go to school and what emphasis you choose, you could be doing digital IC design (which contains multitudes within itself, e.g. high-level architecture, clock trees, verification, integration), analog IC design, RFIC design, board-level RF, chip package design, embedded systems, power electronics, antennas, FPGA, HDL/IP cores, test engineering, digital signal processing, control theory, communications systems -- the list goes on and on.
http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/...

The pendulum ever swings, don't let it hit you on its way back.
Well, you can "stream" FLAC from services like Tidal (which I'm guessing makes audiophiles barf), but they're not doing so well.
That article is almost entirely about how it's useless to encode audio at excessive sample rates and bit rates beyond the human ear's capacities—not about lossy compression. It does claim that modern lossy compressors are good enough, but admits that there can be reason to prefer lossless distribution since there is then no need to trust the distributor to use a good encoder with correct settings.
It all depends on how sensitive you are to these things, I've done such blind tests, and to my ears the fall in quality was significant, even painful.
I don't see how the "mercenary sector" was created by Bush administration. For instance, Blackwater got its first government contract after the USS Cole bombing, from the Clinton administration.
> That falls into some speculation area, unless actually substantiated with serious studies.

I made that quite clear, and I asked for the latter in the prominently placed last sentence. It's the main point of my post, as I think I made clear. I really don't know what more I could/should have done apart from dropping the question entirely, which I don't think is fair - or useful?
There are a lot of car haters voicing their hate but if you already hate cars, don't drive. That's not why people in LA are getting rid of their cars (if they are).

There is an introvert/extrovert angle here also. A car is completely private. You can go anywhere in your pajamas in total asocial mode with a car, and I wonder if that's why so many people are in their Pajamas at Ralphs. A car service requires contact with strangers.

I am in LA and I tried getting a bike once, but it was impossible. Road conditions are horrible, and I had nowhere to park my new mango colored bike comfortably. People would yell "nice bike" from their cars, and it was uncomfortable. And everyone I knew who rode a bike had multiple accident stories. If some idiot is going to hit me or suddenly open their door, I want to be in a car.

For me, Tokyo is the perfect train city. Fukuoka is the perfect bicycle city. And LA is still the perfect car city. But if you hate to drive, now you have options. It used to be you had none!
To be fair, the hostility he uses there isn't the type of "Discourse and disagreement" that fosters "enlightening discussions for bystanders and conference attendees".

It's just being abrasive for the sake of being abrasive.

Not that I think that thread is grounds to kick out a speaker
Remember that all of the classified information on the server was either not classified at the time or was 1 of 3 incorrectly marked classified emails. Also remember the official state server at the time was also confirmed hacked.
I was fortunate enough to get to see an early screening of Snowden. I thought it was great-- following the facts, but telling a compelling and human story. Some of the people I saw it with

People that found themselves wondering why they should care about Snowden and the programs he disclosed will find their answer in this movie.

I expected to see a full on campaign against it, this NYT piece is mild. It spins up some conspiracy with russian involvement, yawn but even it can't to deny: The movie is good. It's riveting-- just as a movie-- and the subject matter is of importance to all of us. I can't see anyone being bored by it, and I think even the most hard core of the tech people will forgive the one or two "movie-computers" moments in it. :)

It's opening a couple days before its full release (the 16th?) at something like 800 theaters (on the 14th? I believe). I would recommend going to see it on the 14.
Train out of an aircraft…exit at 15000', and train down to 5000'. That would give plenty of time (and altitude) to recover from a stall, and safely deploy a parachute.
I'm not sure who's more strategic, but here we are talking about Socrates 2500 years after he drank hemlock ;)

> I'm also not sure I agree that living in a country means you morally take responsibility for all its ills.

You're attacking a strawman here, that's a very strong position. I just said it hurts his credibility and my analogy was that eating meat while preaching vegetarianism is suspect.
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In 2012, a large group of scientists recognized a number of animals as having consciousness comparable to humans'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_consciousness#Cambridge...

The declaration: http://fcmconference.org/img/CambridgeDeclarationOnConscious...
For example I've tried this one: http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/102555/automatically-.... Only question text saved into document.
As for the book from urls, there could be some options how deep to scan urls, only from current page or all subpage, etc.
move your head and upper body around too, especially when turning or merging or reversing. this gives you more information about depth and relative motion, especially through the mirrors. good drivers do this naturally.

we are not immobile racecar drivers strapped into harnesses and hans. we are looking out for pedestrians and vehicles going the opposite direction, something that doesn't (usually) exist on racetracks.

your entire body should be involved in driving. if it's not, you're not really driving, you're sort of just pointing the car in a direction and going for a ride to see what happens.
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I am aware of such distinctions but these legal classifications are defined to determine the appropriate punishment not to let someone off the hook. If you killed someone because you lost control of your car in the rain on bald tires you don't get a pass because you "didn't mean it". Comey made a recent speech and basically said the evidence shows that Clinton violated the laws regarding the handling of classified material but we aren't going to charge her. If it was due to incompetence or brain seizures or an honest mistake or selling out her country for financial gain, these are separate questions apart from the fact that a crime was committed and that she did it (or was complicit).
No one's rewriting history, Russia offered him asylum and he accepted; that's the salient point. Let's not be unnecessarily pedantic and dramatic.
Why can't they cover it to prevent evaporation?
Like who? I personally haven't seen any 'high profile' people crying wolf like this - usually they know better than this.
Search engines have never been about what websites want, so it doesn't matter.
The innate proportion-consistency of pixel art still fascinates me.
I'm of two minds here.

1) I personally don't like Douglas Crockford at all, I find him all together arrogant and overly concerned with presenting himself as an infallible single source of truth. I respect the work the man has done, but I personally think the conference is better off without him.

2) It seems that the conference organisers are all too concerned with coming out and proudly parading there actions without bothering to see if Crockford would be amenable to other courses of action like an apology or retraction of those comments.

To me, these kind of incidents feel more like the conference using the drama to boost their attendance numbers than acting in any kind of best interest of the attendee's. That's not to say that there haven't been serious incidents that need to be dealt with at conferences, but, an outright banning without any kind of negotiation where the speaker is offered to retract/apologise for their comments where the banning is done on a public forum seems designed more towards gaining attention rather than justice.
Luckily, defensive fire arms still work ok in the summertime.

(sorry for the cheap joke, european here, I still can't relate to the american reality where people run around with fire arms killing each other and you somehow need to blame it on the weather)
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I absolutely agree. Being "PC compliant" is more about staying informed of what is considered, that moment, to be
proper language. As much as I would like to not offend
anyone, I find such extreme scrutiny of language to be
unnecessary and quite honestly, arbitrary. If one generally
does not encounter the "liberal elite" and say, one is not a
native speaker of a language, they can easily be misconstrued as being racist/sexist or as possessing any other undesirable traits.

Having grown up in a society where sexism/racism/casteism
is extremely blatant (in urban India), I sometimes find it hard to comprehend the utility of labelling people harshly
for what might be innocuous comments. I almost feel those energies must be spent in condemning the "real" racists/sexists, many of whom are still allowed to scream whatever offensive nonsense they please (I have seen many growing up). How do people
feel genuine outrage over harmless comments? Are we allowed
to ever call out on hypersensitivity?

Also, as a vegan, sometimes I do feel genuinely sad
when I see lots of meat being eaten and relished. I feel like giving my friends an explanation or at least attempt to convince them to cut down
on the meat-eating but I also realize it can be highly offensive and have never voiced my opinion.
> Oh really? So I never spent time simply pondering why this universe exists? Or why I like the color blue more than green?

Those are sensations coming from your body. The mind is a physical phenomenon, like breathing is a physical phenomenon.

edit:
What is measurably special about humans is our unprecedented ability to change our environment, which seems explainable soley with the combination of high dexterity, farming, and access to highly manipulable elements. Each of those characteristics aren't unique to humans, but as far as I'm aware the combination of all three is. The cumulative changes of environment to the point where the immediate survival of the organism is guaranteed means the organism uses its facilities for things that aren't directly related to survival. Recorded history started after agriculture. Cave paintings took a ridiculous leap in complexity and detail after agriculture.

edit2:
What I'm asserting is that high level behavior only happens in a high level, non-immediate survival based environment. The onset of human society was not deliberate and did not happen all at once.

Your cat prances up to you, swipes your face, and then runs away. Why does your cat do this?
Some people appear to feel that any code of conduct is evidence of toxic SJW takeover.
FYI, only single words worked: fu## and sh##. Didn't print out entire phrases, even when I simplified the swear words (stemmed them).
Hey what's with that 'path loss' equation? Looks sketchy to me.
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As an every day biking commuter I can't agree with the flashing led part. First of all it makes it very hard for others to estimate your speed, second they might actually not see the light if the eyes happen to sweep by quickly during an off-period of the light, third they blind oncoming trafficants because it's hard to adjust the eyes to something that is constantly blinking.

Bonus:If blinking lights would be a good idea wouldnt cars also have them?
For sure, it wouldn't be as short, but it wasn't a LoC benchmark so...
Fifteen years after the initial release of FLAC – have there been any significant developments in the lossless compression of audio since then?

I know there’s FLIF[1] for lossless image compression and Zstandard[2] for general purpose lossless compression that have recently hit the Hacker News front page. Are their adopted techniques not suitable for audio?

[1] http://flif.info/

[2] https://code.facebook.com/posts/1658392934479273/smaller-and...
You can buy music in FLAC format from Bandcamp, which is probably the number one music site for independent musicians.

https://bandcamp.com/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandcamp
Data size usually is the constraining factor in performance. Loading memory from your SSD, loading it through the internet. Processing it: the smaller the data the lower in the cache hierarchy it will sit, copying data is expensive, less data means less register pressure.

And performance still sucks for many things. They should be instantaneous (in under one frame, which is ~1.6ms). Loading and parsing SVG files from the internet is one such thing that takes way too long.
> The vast majority of human beings will never do anything intellectually intensive post-college

Not true of the people I know or the people who work for me.

Perhaps its true for some-- the idea makes me quite sad.

What a waste.
You said you saw some study, but can't find it now. I guess if it's a known issue, it will come up eventually.
Nope. You would be surprised, but it is indeed the same thing. See e.g. Sec. 29-2 in [1] (or any other undergraduate econ 101 textbook, for that matter).

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=K-jKAgAAQBAJ
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I don't want to comment on specifics. First off, there's not a lot here. Secondly, the general issue is more important.

As part of being in a secular society, you have an obligation to put up with public speakers that you might find offensive or irritating. You don't have to attend their events, and you're free to climb on the rooftops and call them an asshole -- but you have an obligation to put up with them.

If you run a conference with lots of people attending, and your speakers have any kind of interesting personality at all, you should be prepared for 1-3% of the attendees to be put-off by their history. That's good: it shows that you're doing a good job of bringing in interesting people to speak. Likewise, if you're a participant in a large conference, it shouldn't be surprising to you if the past history of somebody speaking is unpleasant to you in parts. You are, presumably, a grown-up. Get over it.

In my mind, the only thing that should matter, assuming the speaker isn't a terrorist or criminal on the run from authorities, is whether or not the information they present is worth it to you as an attendee. That's what the conference is about. It's not about making every member feel safe and secure. Screw that. Even looking past the fact that it's an impossible goal, nobody wants to go to a conference that's dumbed down to only cool kids who think correctly. Nobody in their right mind would want to live in a world like that. "Don't hang around jerks" is a fine goal for your family, your team, or your personal social circle. It's a clusterfuck to try to implement at any scale beyond that.

This bothers me because I could see at the extremes, there might be a case for excluding speakers, assuming there was something terrible in their past. Adolph Hitler, had he survived WWII, would have made a bad keynote speaker. People could never look beyond his history. But without a detailed argument over what the situation is here, both conference attendees and future speakers are getting screwed over, operating in the blind.

And that's the final result: everybody affected here doesn't really know what's going on, how to prevent this from happening again in the future, or what they might have missed. This is not about Crockford. This is about nibbling away at the value of a group of people gathering together trying to learn by promoting impenetrable and unclear illiberal values. I'll never go to a Node conference. But I'll remember how this thing played out.
No comparison, Altium is much better than Eagle, especially for professional work. I haven't used Orcad in a long time, but back then, Orcad was much better than Altium. Nowadays, Orcad is priced beyond mortals, Altium is relatively affordable, and Eagle is cheap. Kicad is free and considered equivalent to Eagle.
Why are you using "quotes" around women? It also sounds like you are unfamiliar with the job of developer evangelist (which Richards held) - it is actually a pretty common position in the programming industry, perhaps not so much around electrical engineering. Here's an explanation - https://sendgrid.com/blog/explained-developer-evangelism-par...
Objective-C would be a bad idea now, it seems to be replaced by Swift at an impressive rate.
Yes. The point is not about that distributor can fail to use a good encoder (anything can happen), but that they can use a good one if they want to, and audible result will be the same as lossless.

When I buy music, I always try to buy it in lossless FLACs anyway. And then I encode it to Opus for playback. But for listening to something on-line, Opus would do just fine to begin with.
We still need to account for the carbon emissions of such an explosion. A complete carbon study would include how much GHG we save thanks to the satellite we pace, how much we encourage emitting more GHG by making rockets ten times cheaper and encouraging satellite, how much energy we require to generate that weight of H2, how emissions of a normal launch at high altitude compare to ground-level emissions (hint: GHG from rockets are around 9x more harmful than the same weight of a Boeing 747's kerosen), and how frequently we have explosions that lead to no satellite launched and pollution. Whether SpaceX is actually advancing humanity is the real question here.

But it seems the aircraft industry is much worse (3-5% of global warming). https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/4c9ts4/what_are_the...

The best way to know would be to introduce a tax on GHG and let the markets decide which activities lose their affordability, instead of each of us trying to make a GHG calculation of our own activities.
KVM is a much smaller code base, which probably helps.
Perhaps. In a vacuum I could see reading "I am sorry I hurt your feelings" as pretty condescending. That's not apologizing for what you said; it's more like pitying the person for their irrational reaction to it. (Or that's how it could feel to that person.)

(I'm not saying that's how it was intended or anything. I have no idea. Just saying this could just as easily be evidence for abrasiveness as against it. I'll also just note that I don't think someone should be removed from a conference for mild abrasiveness regardless.)
I guess that's where we diverge. I don't see working against, in this example, imperialism while living in an imperialistic state to be akin to preaching vegetarianism while eating meat. You don't have the same choice you do with meat, to simultaneously (1) live in a free society (2) work against imperialism.

Eating meat, in my "strawman" is acceptance, or rationalization, of the evil once one is aware.
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Addiction is a complicated problem and labeling the addict as 'bad' is an antipattern. Modern society should be able to approach everyone from a position of dignity and humanity - dehumanizations erodes both parties in an interaction. 'You deserve to die because of your past history' is a brutal, ethically untenable stance.
For other browsers, you can use flac.js: http://github.com/audiocogs/flac.js.
I made some updates to my post regarding classification.

Being marked as classified was not something I would expect, instead you should operate as if all information is sensitive. Act as if information must be white-listed for public release. Much how the FBI is handling the data, each piece of information must be reviewed before release.

The excuse of "not marked as classified" is akin to a thief using "not marked as don't steal" to justify theft.
"Programming in Haskell", which is the book linked to here, is only 320 pages long, so I think you are confusing it with "Haskell Programming from First Principles", which is over 1200 pages long.