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Indeed, I've personally experienced it, purchasing instruments, notably violin family, for myself and for my kids. This can be a nerve wracking process because you're up against both the good and the bad, and you never know when you've reached good-enough.

Good: Reasonable price / performance ratio, at least until you get up into "virtuoso" instruments, where I will never go anyway. With violins, there is also relatively little brand recognition. Nobody will know what you paid unless you tell them.

Bad: Remarkable lack of good objective models to predict the quality of an instrument from details of its materials and construction
This is like saying that there's no correlation between displacement and vehicle price. Of course there isn't because that is, while an important criteria on an individual car, and it has SOME correlation to the cost to produce a vehicle, it doesn't tell the full story. Nor does it tell the full story of why someone might pay more for it.
I apply the "One man's trash is another man's treasure" to knowledge.
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Powerful for what exactly? Posting stupid selfies with a dog filter on top? Comparing Snapchat UX to the minimalist efficiency of a command line is weirdly triggering to me.
It is however unclear whether this improved consistency with a higher retail price is the result of better headphones or better repeatability of measurements with more expensive models.

Isn't consistency an important characteristic of a headphone? Perhaps even more important than some ideal frequency response. You want the same sound every time you listen to a song, you don't want it to vary.
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Do you fear being trapped (say trapped for 2 days, but you knew after that someone would let you out).

Or do you fear having nothing to do, being forced into no action, for that time?
The year that they switched from book count to page count, I burned through several of my multiple hundred page books in one summer.
29 years in solitary confinement? What did this guy do, infringe copyright?
There is a heat-treatment device that is successful in killing lice, but it's patented (earliest patent I could find expires 2029) and only provided to clinics that sign up with the owner (Larada), and they charge ~200 per person.
What's wrong with that? I feel like they've earned a measure of trust. Sure, they're not perfect but no one is.
> If you figure that little keyboards were a dead end, then about the only remaining option was to use a touch screen.

Actually, the Palm Pilot from the 2000's was an alternative to both - sort of a touch screen, but used a stylus and its own script for writing characters.
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What does "made up" mean?

Someone who launders money for a hitman or human trafficker is enabling the hitman/trafficker's business.

If you help bury a body, you're guilty of something. If you help clean a violent criminal's money, you're guilty of something.

The launderer's guilt is only "made up" in-so-far as murder or human trafficking are "made up".

(Re: Drugs, sure. The correct solution here is to legalize drugs.)
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The majority of cryptocurrencies value is derived from what the market thinks it is worth. The market can deem any coin's value to be worth 0 at any time. The value is extremely volatile and can lose and gain value quickly. There are some projects like Tether and Bitshares who have tried to create a stable digital asset. I don't know how successful they have been.

https://tether.to/
Really wish they would go to London Ont, cost of living is still relatively cheap and it would be good for the city.
Sadly, it seems like they're getting out of the resale business, and focusing back on their DACs and amps. Sigh.
I would love for some one to make something like this but with 286/386 CPUs. Would be great for the retro PC crowd.
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The most promising early warning tests I've seen in the past few years look at degraded DNA fragments floating in the blood that have been shed by cancers. This will probably be the winning technology for all cancer early diagnoses, though genetic biomarkers will probably fail to catch all cancers.
The "headphone quality" is usually resulting from the fact that there is no crosstalk. When listening to speakers in a somewhat reverberant room, the signal from both speakers reach both ears, directly and via room reflections. This substantially adds to the impression of the mix and usually mixes actively make use of these effects. (That's also why "mixed for headphones" is a real thing.)
One thing I've learned as I've grown older is that the penalties for these things are absolutely malleable and the law can say "no, there's no passing the buck, the bank is responsible." Or the consumer. Whatever the politics of the day say should happen.
Also this bit:

> An anonymous computerized market will even make possible abhorrent markets for assassinations and extortion. Various criminal and foreign elements will be active users of CryptoNet. But this will not halt the spread of crypto anarchy.

See Silk Road, Bitcoin, Monero
Did you ever write one?
Even x86's model of handling CPL (privilege level) isn't ideal.

Because each was retrofitted, each protection ring in x86, from -1 to 3, works differently. When IBM originally invented virtualization (IBM 360/67, late 1960s), they got it right; all the layers work the same, and you can run VM on VM on VM until you run out of memory. That's been continued into today's IBM mainframes.
It quotes interesting research and doesn't leave even a cursory link to it, expecting you to take them on their word.
This kind of goalpost-moving drives me nuts about Bitcoin defenders. Every time it fails at one of its stated goals, that goal is not only dropped, but evangelists insist it was never there to begin with.

First the selling point was that "the USD can never be a reliable store of value because it's evil fiat currency controlled by a central bank, use Bitcoin instead!". This has quietly faded as the volatility of Bitcoin continues to exceed that of the US dollar by orders of magnitude.

Then it was about "decentralization", another argument that went away when people realized that Chinese mining pools control the whole thing.

Then it was all about the low transaction fees and freeing you from the tyranny of payment processors, until the fees went higher than PayPal, and now /r/Bitcoin will call you stupid for complaining about fees.

I don't even know what the current arguments in Bitcoin's favor are anymore, but I'm sure they'll be different next year.

And of course, in all of these cases, there's never any acknowledgement that the shift happened - "We're at war with Eurasia; we've always been at war with Eurasia"
Another question: if it comes down to a choice of making something sound worse on consumer hardware, vs. sounding worse on studio hardware, you'll favor the consumer listening experience at the expense of the monitor output, right?

So, does this mean that it's a bad idea to use studio-grade equipment for personal listening of commercially-released (and so, presumably, mastered for consumer equipment) tracks?

And, if so, are alternate mixes of the same tracks that are sometimes released any better? A "club mix", for example (assuming you don't care about the changes to the track itself)?

And, one more question—given that mastering somewhat distorts the pre-master for a particular listening profile... is there any way for someone who wants to sample a track in their own production, to get access to the pre-master copy of the track they want to sample from, so they don't "accumulate mastering artifacts" the way that JPEG-recompression accumulates compression artifacts? I've seen, every once in a while, a band that has a "remix competition" release e.g. a Garage-band project with all the raw tracks embedded. Is it common to make a deal with a producer to get access to something like this on a one-off basis? Is it even technically feasible, or is pre-master track data lost/discarded after completion of mastering often enough that such requests don't make sense?

(Sorry, I never realized there were so many of these questions on my mind. Is there a sound-engineer Quora?)
There isn't even any need to weaken the homebrew encryption, good luck using it. I don't even have the option on the Linux desktop client at least. The "secret chat" feature isn't available.
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In what scenario would it be in anyone's interest to raise the maximum total of coins to be created?
Every law is a made-up thing. There's no inherent laws of man that govern the world divined by God himself.

What the parent is trying to argue is that the entire idea of money laundering should be forgotten and there should be no negative public perception of money laundering. What I'm arguing is sure, maybe people shouldn't go to jail for money laundering by itself, but there are zero legitimate reasons to launder money. The very fact that someone has gone to any length to hide the source of their income means they've committed a crime. Not the crime of money laundering, but the crime of whatever they did to earn the money. Because if they didn't commit a crime to earn it, they wouldn't go through the trouble of hiding it. Money laundering is probable cause for further investigation.

His argument sounds to me like people who argue that since the Constitution doesn't say the government can collect taxes, that means taxation is theft and we shouldn't pay them. It's the libertarian ideal that money is private property, humans are inherently good (unless they've won an election), and laws don't apply to you if you just believe it hard enough. Unfortunately that's not the way the world works. In reality, where there is smoke there is fire, and where there is money laundering there is someone concealing a crime.
What format do you use? I was searching for scientific​ notebook templates and examples but didn't find any so I just made my own: pandoc tags on the top and the rest is GitHub Markdown. Python cells when data need to be processed.
Do you remember how Apple Macs moved from Motorola 680x0 to PowerPC? And then to Intel?

They had fat binaries and slow emulation as a stopgap solution. But these become mostly unused pretty soon.

That is, there is a possibility to move to a new ISA if most of the software will be recompiled with minor changes, and there's plenty of will to upgrade. This could work for server software.

Not so with Windows desktop software, of course.

On the server side, one can use quite good Power8 servers right now, or ARM-based servers, depending on the workload. An Intel CPU with a non-x64 architecture might have a good chance against them. But the transition would be hard if Itanium or Transmeta are any indication.
Ironically, Slack is explicitly prohibited for internal use at Amazon.
Packaging quality?

I dunno. I think headphones track price-to-quality pretty well in the $20-250 range. Above that, it starts turning into luxury/status symbol stuff. This is my completely subjective opinion. What isn't opinion is that increases in quality are usually a matter of diminishing returns. It becomes increasingly expensive to get increasingly small incremental improvements.

Additionally, I think "sound quality" in headphones is very subjective. There are fine quality headphones that I really, really dislike (Grados, for example). I find a lot of expensive hi-fi headphones overly bright, too.

A good price/performance example is two headphones I keep around... my Beyerdynamic 880s, which I love, and the Sennheiser HD280. The 880s cost about twice as much, and fill the same role for me - closed-ear phones with very strong isolation, for performers tracking vocals or instruments. They can put a loud backing signal into the ear with only minimal leakage into the microphones, and easily block out other loud instruments in the same room. But the 880 sounds far better. It's flatter and more detailed. It's also much more comfortable for extended wear, better built, and more repairable. That's the $100 to $200 difference. But $200 to $400? Smaller change.
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> it signifies that you have spent enough time programming in a wide variety of platforms and with enough other peers to run in to the issue and understand that it exists

Or maybe it signifies youthful inexperience?

Of the programmers that I know, the longer they have been programming, and the more varied projects they have worked on, the less they care about tabs v. spaces. Whatever standard the project they're working on uses, that's how they set up their editor for that project, because it's one less thing to have to worry about.
It's a selfie app. There is absolutely zero reason for there to be a learning curve. It shouldn't be hard for a company with almost 2000 employees to develop an actually functioning and accessible UX.
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No kidding, sheesus.
Yeah, this is definitely false, as the other guy said -- its value in USD is whatever you're willing to pay for it in USD.

Maybe what you're thinking of is the fact that it's deflationary unlike fiat: there's a finite number of coins that will ever be created. In other words, if you own exactly one dollar, over time, the percentage of total dollars you own will decrease, whereas with bitcoin, one bitcoin represents a constant fraction of the total bitcoin that will be created. This says nothing about how many gallons of milk one dollar or one bitcoin will buy you though.
Funny enough, mayo worked for me when it seemed nothing else did. Not tea tree oil or the over the counter shampoos you can buy. I guess just keep trying everything until you find what works in your situation.
Agreed, but I have returned a pair of sennheiser phones because they butchered the sound too much ... think it was one of the first in the momentum line if I recall
> It's a made up thing that makes prosecutors lives easier when they're trying to catch somebody committing a real crime.

“Crime” is not a thing that exists aside from laws defining them; all crimes defined in law are equally “made up” (and, for the same reason, equally “real crimes”.)
If you are interested in a series of fantasy novels with a similar order/chaos mythology, I recommend the Saga of Recluce.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saga_of_Recluce
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True, I worry about that, too. And in case of the DAO, that issue hit home big time.

There are efforts under way to create contracts with formal verification, but I remain a bit skeptic. It is difficult to write complex software that way afaik.

On the other hand, a lot of contracts are maybe not very complex. I thought about a bank account recently (receive and send money). That could perhaps be done in 100 lines of code? (I don't know the programming language yet, but their basic token creation example seems to be short, and it is kind of like a bank account). That seems impressive compared to the effort banks probably spend on IT.
At this point, I only buy my sunglasses from the fishing aisle in the sporting goods section of Walmart. The Ugly Stik pair I got most recently is the best pair of sunglasses I've ever owned, and only cost about $10 (must have been on sale) - they are polarized and block glare great, are comfortable, and cover enough to work as safety glasses in a pinch.

http://www.uglystik.com/uglystik-apparel-eyewear/ugly-stik-s...
I wish more people would understand this.

The reason they are homophobic is because making a normal activity immoral gives them something they can use to defame people.

Similarly, the reason they are racist because having a frightening other makes it easier to control the populace. You need a bad part of town to keep prices up in the good part.

These underlying racist/classist/sexist/homophobic motives then reach around acausally and individuals think we are in a post-racist or post-sexist society, that black people commit crime, or that Jews run the world, or whatever. The system reinforces itself because it needs to in order to survive. Rational basis for both the -isms and the denial of their power forms out of nothing to serve the end goal of GDP growth and consolidation of wealth in the capital class.

It also provides a cultural grounding for policing "good whites" and "bad whites". You can't use merit, because then the rewards are too predictable and people won't get addicted to them. When you ground badness in a neighbor culture, it means people who are part way between cultures (i.e. all of us) never really know exactly when the rewards are going to come, so they become addictive. Only people at the extremes know when the rewards are coming: rich whites (always), poor blacks (never). Both groups use that freedom from political addiction to control culture. Whites architecturally, blacks artistically. Wall Street and Hip Hop.

That's also why you see black culture bifurcated with some moving "towards the bottom" and some "towards the top". There is a power source in both directions, in thug life and in assimilation. Of course this also provides free propaganda for racists... "look how they move towards badness"...
I'm not an expert - I was into car audio back in the late 90's so some things got remembered.. But one thing about sine-wave frequency sweeps was that you'd have standing waves from interaction with the car environment (the famous Honda Civic "buzzing trunk" scenario). So they're really only good for first-pass level setting, and you should quickly go onto real music.
This is very enlightening. Thank you! Especially "It's a Mach program." makes it very clear that you can't simply port it.
Feudalism. The King is King because he owns more property than you. Get back to work, serf!
An extremely large number of people do not understand this... Take for example people who want to buy a nintento switch for $299. But it's $415 and in stock on Amazon and sold out everywhere else that is listing it for $299. Well I guess it doesn't actually cost $299 then does it? It actually costs $415 or so based on what people are willing to pay.
As I mentioned in my more lengthy comment right here -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14563597 -- popularity is very loosely correlated to the quality of the popular thing. There's ease to pick up, there are pressing business needs fixed by a creative junior Python dev, there's the businessmen loving quick solutions (and future be damned of course), there's inertia, there's skepticism ("but our current system is working! why switch?"), there are tens of other such phenomena that can be attributed to the very buggy automatic brain processes.

So yeah, I hate the we-must-be-right-look-at-our-adoption-rate arguments as well. :)
I just meant to illustrate that money is actually quite complicated, even though we use it daily without giving it much thought.
Pretty much any text editor beyond Notepad can, for that matter.
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Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Sorry for the ignorance, I don't know enough about crypto to follow your statement.
Me neither of course. And an upvote is not an ironclad endorsement. But at least you look at what you upvote - or at least I hope you do.

You're not exactly disagreeing with me, are you?

The stupid thing is I actually happen to agree with "beat" that this study is basically bullshit. I just can't condone the attitude of the first replier. It worked this time but he or she has learned the wrong heuristic IMO. I guess I don't know how to express myself well but I think it's the wrong lesson to learn from criticism of the articles we see here - even if the criticism is (currently) right.
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Changing the terms of the contract without explicit approval from both sides is beyond sketchy. At minimum, it's an unapproved amendment and therefore doesn't apply. At worst, it's a new contact that at least one side didn't agree to and therefore doesn't apply. It looks like people agreed without understanding the details.

In this case, I'd wager by lowering the payments, less loans were "risky" and therefore their assets look better. That probably was for the benefit of repackaging those "assets" and/or better guarantees from the Fed.
Good catch. I'm guessing the author did (2999.97 - 2161) / 2161 instead.
Well, the price with respect to the difficulty the overall number of miners.
These cards are perfectly fine for deep learning.
> I've become increasingly risk-averse after realizing how devastating a 2^-1 decline really is. Independent of asset class, you will need a 2^1 gain to get back to where you were.
As the others are saying, there are a lot of features to life in Canada which aren't made up for by a $20,000 difference in salary. It isn't perfect but consider for example the 2017 world happiness report:

http://worldhappiness.report/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017...

Page 13 shows the world happiness ranking of Canada at #7 and USA at #14. After a certain point a bit of extra money isn't going to buy significantly more life-happiness.

Of course - I hate to argue against higher pay in Canada - but it is far from the only factor.
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That's true too, good points. And let's face it, this whole endeavor is about entertainment and artistry, so the subjectivist viewpoint is totally valid!
Hi HN!

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> If you stop using Facebook, why would you care if they collect data on you from friends?

I think it comes from growing up in the USSR, where the threat of the government showing up at your door because of something you said was very real. What no one in the US seems to appreciate is that even a stable country is only one or two major crises from being in the same situation. This is surprising because McCarthyism[1] happened a mere 70 years ago - a blink of an eye by historical standards.

Do you really think that under a Neo-McCarthy government any information Facebook has about you would be kept private? That Facebook's precious social graph or Google's archive of your search history wouldn't be used against you? I think that's naive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
I wish Grados were more comfortable. The ear cups are too small and either scrunch my ears up, or push on them with far too much pressure, causing me pain to try and wear them for more than 5 minutes. I highly recommend trying them on before spending money on them.

AKC's, Shure's, Sennheiser's, HiFiMan's, even IEMs are way more comfortable for me.
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I think a lot of art preferences can be quantified (kind of like how frequency response is actually an okay proxy for audio quality in headphones). My gripe is taking this common-sense case and trying to turn it into a universal theory of everything, dismissing actual human experience.

As an artist, I firmly believe we can at least quasi-objectively say "good art", or "bad art". However, this does not correlate well to personal preference. My love of White Castle sliders in no way suggests that they are actually good burgers. I can dislike a work of art and still know it's good.

Popularity can be a good proxy, too. Any hit song is a good song, even if you hate it.