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> 1. Technologically the instrument ran its course. While the tech was still innovative in the 90s with the new digital effects, it hasn't changed much in 20 years.

This is... whilst not exactly incorrect, it's not the whole truth either. The article touched a little bit on this with the robotic tuner thing, but didn't fully explain why.

In my experience partaking in internet guitar forums over the decades, the vast majority of guitar players are really conservative. Extremely conservative. Especially people who mostly are into Fender/Gibson/PRS. They shun every new material (graphite/carbon fiber necks/fretboards), even if it has clear advantages (torsion/tensile/impact strength, weight, temperature/humidity insensitivity), often with unscientific emotional-based hand-waving like "it sounds too cold".

Headless guitars also stayed niche, even though they have clear advantages (lighter, shorter, more well-balanced, can't break your headstock off — a quite common way to damage your guitar).

It also took decades for 7-string guitars not to get scoffed at. The first 15+ years you had a lot of guitarists making fun of people with 7-string guitars. After they became somewhat accepted, 8-string guitars had an easier time, mind you.

People are very sceptical of True Temperament (http://www.truetemperament.com/) as well, believing that you can't perform string bending (you can, it doesn't really feel any different), and decided that to be the truth without even bothering to try.

There are still many areas on the guitar you can improve and innovate (and some stuff out there already that primarily Ned Steinberger showed us in the 80s could (and IMO should) be standard), but people want fragile, heavy and climate-sensitive "tonewood" in their guitars. They want soft brass bridges. They want maintenance-heavy soft "nickel/silver" (actually brass and nickel) frets. They want headstocks.

Maybe these old people in the article (I'm 37 so I'm one of them as well, I guess) are the problem, and when younger people that don't revere the word "vintage" so much can usher in the era of the truly modern guitar that Ned Steinberger has shown us glimpses of? One can only hope.
I was for a while there. Heisenban?
I spent 13 years writing software in Delphi professionally. It's really more like 22 years of buggy, bit-rotting in-house developed software left behind in the dust as Delphi has pivoted is way forward over dead bodies. Not to mention 22 years of well-intentioned but delusional architectural decisions and numb-witted implementations stacked on top of a sinking foundation to check features. Every year they come up with revolutionary, proprietary and over-engineered solutions to the currently most popular problems; while consistently pretending like the crap they sold yesterday never happened. Delphi makes it easy to whip up a quick Windows GUI, and that's about it; hardly worth the insane amounts they've always insisted on charging. With a less greedy and marketing-driven approach, Delphi could have been great. The same could be said of many lost technologies.
The terms of the loan we're really, really unfavorable. They essentially pledged every piece of IP they have to get the loan. It's not the kind of loan you take if your company is healthy and has easy access to financing.
This story reminds me of ION Storm [1], John Romero's cash rich baby that failed miserably with Daikatana. [2]

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikatana
You fall back on this notion that because genocide has not succeeded, there are therefore not voices pushing to target and marginalize large numbers of people. By your logic I should be able to say that because jihadists have not overthrown America there are therefore no terrorists with harmful plots.

The op mentioned the western voices that call for mass killing (via various mechanisms) of muslims and other perceived enemies -- those voices exist and their prevalence and political power definitely moves the goal post with regard to notions of acceptable collateral loss in pursuit of the perceived objectives of the counterterrorism movement. The western fundamentalist notion of the "Muslim holy enemy" bleeds into policy decisions that absolutely affect far more people who have nothing to do with terrorism than they do terrorism. The mistaken idea of holy war is the reasoning flaw that causes insane numbers of metric tons of bombs to be dropped on real life humans - everytime reproposing the assumption that _this time_ they are targeting the holy enemy.

Countries ravaged by war for decades yield innumerable stories of savagery -- not necessarily related to terrorism at all but easily confused into becoming part of the holy enemy story by opportunist politicians -- and thusly the expansion of the targeting mechanism grows and grows.

You want to pretend that you can trace the motivations, details, circumstances of all the western killings case by case -- and from this perspective of true information, inform a model that supports the morality of the objective of counterterrorism and its associated callous killing process which has been going on for decades. You can't -- you do not have those details. What we have are the we are the aggregate results of this movements pursuit of its objectives -- these soldiers have been killing for decades -- sometimes killing innocents by mistake, sometimes killing innocents with a deliberate calculus that does not value the lives of those innocents as they kill them. The sustained killing in this context is simply a decision -- the west keeps doing it knowing the outcome with a misguided belief about what their objectives are and how they can achieve them.

It's a kind of western blood lust that keeps this going. Counter-terrorism is a giant wheel rolling down hill with an evil momentum that creates the enemies with which to satisfy its own insanity.
Not surprised. The whole enterprise seemed fishy from the start. I contributed to the Kickstarter but basically gave up on it once they moved to their new campaign website and their business model became so complicated I didn't know what they were offering or I was buying anymore. Endless offers and perks with no have in sight didn't help.

Weird that Roberts didn't know better.
What makes you think you were?
I agree with this, at my work we fly regularly between London and Oslo, and some of the delays experienced have been incredible. On Friday I flew from Oslo to London, and the earlier flight was delayed for over 6 hours (they were still there at the gate when we took off). Our flight was an over an hour late and they had no food on board.

Colleagues have experienced cancelled flights and delays of over 12 hours a few times.

Despite that, there aren't many better alternatives. Ryanair are similarly unreliable and others are expensive.
Only until a fix is available, if it isn't already yet.
No. We see this play out time and time again - successful tech company, the technical founder retires or is replaced by some other means and an MBA takes over, then the wheels come off.
How does it compare to Pied Piper's leading compression technology? [0]

/s

[0] http://www.piedpiper.com/
Russia and China are giants, though, with substantial economic clout- and, further, it's not clear that measures like those would actually solve the capital flow problems the article describes. If you're a small country like Belgium or Finland, your realistic options will be even more limited.
Singing / playing requires a split brain. If you think the chord + bass on Neon requires a split brain, check out Charlie Hunter. I just picked one of the first videos that I found on youtube, but he always plays guitar & bass at the same time:

https://youtu.be/-B7btsk6ASE?t=1m
Source? Not all loans are bad, it wouldn't make sense to plan on never taking a loan.
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On the other hand, sin(x-y)sin(x+y) = sin(x)^2 - sin(y)^2.
I fly OAK-ARN regularly. Biggest tip is being near the door when arriving at OAK. Security time is the quickest in the US if first out the door, and the slowest (2+ hrs) if last out the door. Of course, coming back in ARN, you're through in 5 mins. I can't understand why the US can't fix this with a few dollars - it's destroying your reputation.
Huh? There are plenty of AMD employees in that thread who have acknowledged the problem. They're "looking into it", but just seem to have no progress to report yet, and suck at keeping people in the loop.
I miss the old days of Usenet.

well, except the trolls and spam...
Yes you can

Boss: I'm the leader!
Engineers: OK boss, which way are we going?
Boss: I don't know, I'm not technical! You figure it out!
I don't know if "obstruction of justice" is a thing in Norway but it wouldn't surprise me if shit like this were prosecutable.
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I have no doubt you're right that it's frequently a red flag, and that founders often go equal to avoid ranking themselves.

I've also watched and been part of lots of partnerships where the expectation before hand was equal contribution, and the reality after the fact was lopsided. I feel fairly lucky that my most recent experience truly was equal risk and equal effort; my even split experience has been truly reflective of what's happened, and truly fair for both of us.

The big mistake I have made is giving people besides my co-founder too much equity. Nobody else who's contributed to my company so far other than my co-founder have lived up to what they said they'd do, and we gave out too much equity in advance of them doing it.

Considering that, and considering both the issue you brought up and the reasons YCombinator gives for pushing toward equality rather than away from it, I think the main thing founders need to do is have a mechanism for not committing equity in advance of the effort. It's important for founders to be on a vesting schedule so that when one stops contributing or contributes less for a long period of time, you can shut it off. And it's important to communicate that things are going off the rails, and then actually take the action to shut it off.

That's really basic and somewhat stating the obvious, but if you are diligent about cutting off people who don't contribute, then there's no reason to shy away from equal split plans in advance. My experience has been that people I've partnered with for equity aren't avoiding contribution maliciously, they simply and honestly didn't realize in advance that they don't have the time & energy they thought they did.
Not hurtful at all, just banter. I live in England and you got a similar thing going with Wales or Scotland. All in good fun.
This seems like precisely the sort of thing that a competent manufacturer should rule out formally. Formal verification of individual FUs isn't exactly ambitious...

I think we're getting to levels of complexity where the process Intel uses, with lots of different QA and testing teams doing their best to look for bugs, just isn't going to cut it. We need formally verified models transformed step-by-verified-step all the way down to the silicon. It's already feasible, with free tools, to formally verify your high-level model (using e.g. LiquidHaskell) and then transform this to RTL (using e.g. Clash). With Intel's QA/testing budget, it's well within reach to A) verify the transformation steps and B) figure out how to close the performance gap between machine-generated (but maybe slower) and hand-rolled (faster, but evidently wrong) silicon.
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> It's like saying peace is trendy and we should not try to go weaponless

In physical warfare, the only way to increase your defensive (i.e. deterring) military advantage, relative to an adversary, is to add better materiel. (The other option is to reduce the adversary's material, i.e go to war, which itself requires a military advantage to make sense.)

In "cyber," that's not the case. A hoarded vulnerability may end up being used against your own country. Adding vulnerabilities to your stockpile increases your offensive capability while simultaneously forcing you to leave an opening in your defenses unrepaired. We don't have a good analogy for this in meatspace, which is why it's hard to debate at the political level.

I don't think all vulnerabilities should be automatically extinguished. At the other end of the spectrum, the NSA hoarding bugs in the software that runs disproportionately American infrastructure systems is patently silly.
I second this. Looks like a less complete knex.

Also, in recent times, I like objection.js for a level up on knex.
I see this opinion a lot.

I don't quite understand it. Your DBMS isn't some ambivalent data store with simple universal semantics.

I'm not just talking about SQL features like complex subselects or CTEs, but index hints, lock order, transactional visibility, non-trivial column constraints, index locks...

These matter in appreciably sized public-facing (e.g. web) systems. Granted, with enough transactions and roundtrips to application logic, an ORM can mimic these.

Now, I do know YAGNI; you might never get to a scale where an ORM poses a limitation.

I just suppose I don't see large enough benefits of learning and using an ORM in the early stages, to outweigh the cost of switching to SQL in the (admittedly hypothetical) later stages.
I don't think he is nitpicking at all. The US has too many conflicts, incl wars. 26,000 bombs dropped last year. Extremist fighters funded by the US Gov't (Syria, Iran Contra, and who knows what else has yet to be proven). We have 7 cities with higher murder rates than any country in Africa or the Middle East, including Afghanistan. Largest prison population, a publicly known torture camp... I could go on. But I think a lot on HN are obviously absorbed in their comfortable occupations--they're challenging, interesting and demanding, and also rewarding. It's easy to get lost in this and forget what less fortunate are dealing with.
Always wondered why somebody who can't earn money working don't just go to land and start raising basic necessities.

I assume you can be quite productive today - even without money, using knowledge - and other schemes of cooperations could emerge.
Yeah. The hell with accessibility!
That app is called Evernote / OneNote / Google Keep - incrementally improving their process using off the shelf software is likely to be more practical than a custom app.

Where is your contractor friend based? I am looking for a contractor, or some contacts, for a job now.
I imagine it's not hard to lose 150 million if you give it to someone who has never managed 150 million, and make them unaccountable to anyone.
You have to admit, they made really good commercials for in-game content. They stayed in character, too. A few hand-picked favorites:

- Imagine: Star Citizen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJJ9TcGxhNY

- Star Citizen - MISC Freelancer Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO7RxsZpcKc

- Star Citizen: Consolidated Outland Mustang Commercial
: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR07oZC0QHU

- Introducing the 2944 Aurora: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvDs7RDKCag

Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVct2QDhDrB0QRjv9oN02...
The fact that any bank considered lending to a tiny company like this with no revenue stream is actually a positive sign. As for pledging all their "assets", that is completely standard. They have no assets to speak of - their "IP" is 100% worthless without future sales, which will never happen if the game doesn't get released. And further, because the money was raised from crowdfunding, the only equity holders that might suffer are the creators.

It's really important to understand finance if you want to understand the world and it's not that hard.

/thread
Guess we now need support for a "distress print" that locks the phone to pin only. Use your distress finger when in need.
It will be more alone less co-workers as more and more people lose jobs to automation.
Sure! Our benchmark against MySQL is here: https://github.com/Terark/mysql-on-terarkdb/wiki/YCSB-on-9.1...
We used YCSB on 9.1Gb of movie data.
This benchmark is comparing MySQL with our product "MySQL on Terark". "MySQL on Terark" is basically MySQL configured with TerarkDB instead of InnoDB -- that way you can migrate your MySQL applications to Terark with virtually no modification in your code.

We do not have any benchmark against PostgreSQL though. It is not in our plans to adapt our storage engine to PostgreSQL, so we're not comparing it against it, but the gains are just as significative.

I hope that answer your questions, and feel free to reach us at business@terark.com
Ahhh Star Citizen. The first crowdfunding campaign I ever backed, and I backed it to the tune of $120-150 (I don't even remember). I figured it was a gamble, but their demos were and continue to be extremely impressive, and what's life without a little risk? I doubt all the other backers will be so forgiving, however. Things are likely to get pretty ugly if the company folds.
Android (stock at least, but likely other flavours too) allows you to have multiple users on a device. Swipe down from the top a couple of times, then press the little blue User icon and set up a different user with a pass code for things you want to remain private. You could happily unlock your phone for the default user without giving up any private data.

It's not a method of securing anything as it's just obscurity, but very few people would know about it or bother to look. It's very useful for having 'work stuff' and 'personal stuff' on one device.
The latest intel-microcode package from Ubuntu 16.04 does not fix the problem. I installed the same package from Ubuntu 17.10 [0] which fixes the problem. You can check your system with the script linked in the mailing list thread [1].

[0] https://packages.ubuntu.com/en/artful/amd64/intel-microcode/...

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/06/msg00309.html
There's a perl script on the debian mailing list that digs a bit deeper and tells you if you're affected in the first place, if you're affected but patched already, affected but have HT disabled, etc.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/06/msg01011.html
> I think Atom gave bad fame to the Electron
And GitHub “desktop” client, and Slack “desktop” “app”, and Git Kraken… The list goes on.
> the fact that the Democratic party (or rather its base) is not fully in line with its very progressive members, doesn't mean that there isn't a hard cultural push by said progressive members.

I was responding mostly to the "popular media" claim, but I take your point.

The question of a "cultural push" is interesting to me for two reasons:

1. It suggests that there's been a concerted effort among liberals to reshape culture as a whole, and,

2. It makes broadly agreeable political positions more partisan than they need to be.

I don't know of a way to prove or disprove (1), besides saying that I'm not on the mailing list. I think progressive views tend to be more fragmented and diverse than conservative onlookers realize, and that this contributes to a feeling that progressives are advancing a monolithic program to change America's culture.

On the other hand, I think (2) is pretty worrying. Are gay rights part of the cultural push? What about access to (reasonably priced) medicine, or environmental consciousness?

I think that, apart from the true-believing fundamentalists and hardliners, most people can recognize that many progressive positions are at their core very agreeable (civil liberties for all, no unavoidable deaths, modernize our economy both for our own health and for future generations). The problem arises when those positions become associated with progressives qua some conservative boogeyman, not qua their benefit to society.
I'd like to see a study of the correlation between people that believe Chiropractics is bullshit and people that believe climate change isn't real.

Seriously, if you've ever been to a chiropractor for back and neck related problems, you know that it's at the VERY LEAST not bullshit. Claiming it's all just quack science is completely ignorant.

I do know that chiropractors have long struggled to keep clientele, because people come when they're hurting, and stop coming when they feel better. So, some chiropractors have taken to questionable methods to keep people coming back. The ones on the up-and-up will, quite correctly, tell you that just cracking your back isn't going to fix your problem, and that you need to do strengthening exercises of the core muscles that keep your bones in the correct spots, and to fix your posture problems.
It may be far better than average software quality but far more also relies on it. The question is whether the quality is adequate in light of what is at stake.
The bag is sealed right away and doesn't become a heaping lab experiment of ick before it is collected.
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So it's okay for software to have bugs that get fixed (I think everybody here acknowledges that software will always have bugs), but Intel isn't allowed to have issues in their processors, even if they can fix them with a software (microcode) update?
Could totally relate to author's personal experience because this is what my biz partner and I are going through right now. Great article by the author.
Yes. Anything that does not benefit from either network effects or economies of scale should not scale.

Network effects - If I created the first telephone network, the first phone is basically a paperweight, but the more customers I convince to buy, the more useful each phone is to my other customers.

Economies of scale - Similarly, if I have a car company, the more I scale, the more efficient I can become (I can invest more in engineering and machinery).
I'm still in mourning :(
Badly designed plots. What does the bottom axis represent ? fraction of the population ? age ?
I ended up subscribing ($19/yr) to NoMoRobo and it's worked well so far. Hiya was moved to a secondary position. That and T-Mobile's Call Protect (free) and the number of junk phone calls has dropped to maybe 2 a week, where it was up to 5-7 a day.
What exactly does "shared partial interpretation" mean?
I like it too, but depending on where you work, it might have been the "fleet manager" that picked the car, and you're just driving it. Not much difference until the "fleet manager" changes their mind for the next project.
Even if you work with an ORM instead of writing raw SQL you should know when single row processing is OK and when bulk load / data set processing is a must.

My last employer lost 5M+ euros (not reveue but profit) every month because of excessive use of PL/SQL single row processing.
“There’s something going on”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/13/the-f...
They fly direct to Logan and JFK from Gatwick. It probably doesn't make financial sense to connect "real" airports to relatively minor ones like Edinburgh.
To quote a reddit comment :

I should point out that this is not necessarily a bad thing, nor is it clear what the loan is for. What this tells us is that money has been loaned and secured against assets owned by CIG - this is fairly common practice in the case of commercial loans.

To bank with Coutts you must have at least £1,000,000 in tangible assets and in any event they are selective about their clientele; which implies CIG is doing well.

To be honest as much as the terms are huge, they didn't go to a loan shark neither a shitty bank. It's the bank that manage the assets of the Queen. I don't think they give loan that easily hence the huge collaterals.
Start by having a strong understanding the various joins first: http://www.sql-join.com/sql-join-types/
Can anyone suggest a good approach to evaluate these libraries? How does this compare to Mithril etc?
Their flights have layovers, such as at Gatwick for the flight being discussed.
Naive question: Do these various electric guitar models (Gibson, Fender, etc) actually sound distinctive? Or is it all about brand cachet?