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Frank Zappa also was releasing recordings in the age prior to the Loudness War.

Digital is a superior format. But I still buy vinyl because a good half of vinyl recordings out there aren't completely fucked by applying a compressor that destroys the dynamic range.
I could not agree more

As a vinyl collector myself, another thing that interests me is the feeling of quality you get when you buy vinyl. I love looking through the lyric booklets in 10/12" format, beautifully printed and often a piece of art in its own right. I actually feel like I _want_ to sit there and listen through a whole album when you have all that to gaze through at the same time.
Looking at the domain name, is this somehow related to mailchimp.com?
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Hey I want to learn React for personal projects, can you guys pinpont me to any resources or free courses?
So now people are paying other people to browse FlyerTalk for them? At least if you're part of the forum you can contribute back to the community.
In the US, and North Carolina specifically (where Duke University is located) it's still the 30th. So you're probably good. At least for another 3 hours (it's 2pm there now).
"...using one medium over another somehow makes you more "serious" about the music"

I believe you missed the point. He says the ritual makes the listener more involved with the music. He doesn't say different media make one more or less serious about music. It's similar with food: you can be serious about your food whether cooking it yourself or ordering it at a restaurant (or eating at a buffet.) But you're more involved with the food if you select your own raw ingredients and cook it yourself.
While I get your point, I too understand what OP is saying.

As someone who considers himself a big music guy, at least once upon a time, I'm simply no longer as invested as I once was when listening to CD's or vinyl as I am now when listening to albums or singles on Spotify.

My take is that it's a matter of ritual. It's akin to the whole unboxing phenomenon on youtube. There is still something about physical tactile interaction with something before its enjoyment. The smell of CD's or vinyl and the collectability of things like limited edition covers and liner notes just make it that much more special. And then when you listen to an album on Vinyl, where it's practically impossible to skip forwards and backwards, you're de-facto an active participant in the whole endeavor. You enjoy the album as it's meant to be enjoyed, fully placing yourself at the mercy of the Artist who carefully constructed the order of songs.

I no longer hold new releases from artists I love as special as I once did when the album was released in stores for this simple fact. It used to be an event that could only happen after a few hours of anticipation.

Having all songs at your fingertips is incredible, but Stairway to Heaven is also much less special when you can skip directly to the guitar solo with minimal effort.
Even if you outsource everything to AWS you're still going to find yourself needing such a person.
This is truly a shit article, in almost every respect, but especially with the extremely facile analysis of frameworks, languages, server architecture (see Stack Overflow's setup).

The bias the author has as a javascript fanboy / prototyper is very obvious to me.
Do not leave your coins on an exchange. Use a hardware or paper wallet that is physically secured.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5656677 (4 years ago, 45 comments)
Facebook News Feed change demotes sketchy links overshared by spammers
CO2 produced in China for western companies is acocunted in China?

That distorts a lot because there is a lot of CO2 production outsourced to China
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Convincing part stops at cloud feedback for me.

The CAGW builds upon following argument: increased concentration of CO2 reduces the EM radiation's emission in frequencies that CO2 absorbs, ergo the surface temperature should rise in order to keep Earth's thermodynamic balance.

Increased temperature clearly affects the formation of clouds which have both positive and negative effects: they deflect incoming solar radiation, but also deflect surface radiation. The net effect is unclear, unfortunately.

I'm also quite puzzled by apparent lag between CO2 and temperatures in Vostok ice core data. Contrary to CAGW, temperature rises first, and CO2 follows.

My layman understanding is quite limited, of course, that's why eventually I go to the scientists for their expertise. I don't believe that all opponents of CAGW theory are shills; some of them are very respected people: Lindzen, Spencer, etc. My only conclusion is that science is not settled and CAGW is still an unconfirmed hypothesis.
The low-cost satellites that are collecting unusual data
June 30 5:00pm EST, so yes you have about 3 hours
I had the pleasure of meeting and working with many amazing USDS engineers. Lots of talents, many are truly dedicated to the higher purpose and truly believe in the mission of serving our country. It's a shame that because of the current administration, people are less and less interested in the government.
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Hate to piggyback but I noticed that whenever this service gets posted on Reddit there are dozens of accounts that reply addressing Scott by name and have little to say.

Upon checking their comment history, I saw that most users hadn't posted anything for months, or even ever. It was clear that there was some kind of voting manipulation going on, and as reddit goes, if something gains traction it's bound to get upvoted just because.

It's a bit like Candy Japan, who posts here once a month with very little to say, and nothing vaguely technical in his articles. These kinds of posts just seem like blatant advertising. What are the rules for self-promotion of services on HN? It just seems dirty when there is a half-hearted article advertising a service without being labeled as an ad.

Throwaway of course, because I'd rather not get attacked by some bots.
Just by the way, you may want to check out this interview of Blinkist (a similar app)'s co-founder: https://mixergy.com/interviews/sebastian-klein-blinkist/
And if it wasn't printed that fine in the first place, then you have a different problem.
Pretty sure that's just the web-version of a newsletter sent via mailchimp - at least that's where I've seen that domain before.
Yeah, well. If all you're willing to accept is facts then this is the wrong area of inquiry for you. As if the NSA periodically releases a fact sheet of what they've been up to lately.
I thought that was weird, too. But it looks like this is just the "web view" of an email newsletter they (Center for Advanced Hindsight) sent out. Website is here: http://advanced-hindsight.com/
> Like a universal, self-granted credit/debt system?

Not being sarcastic, but how does that work?
Author here. Completely agreed. My jaws dropped when I saw the INITIAL_JIFFIES. The kernel developers really saved our butt.

I could not imagine debugging this problem if INITIAL_JIFFIES was randomized. It may takes days/weeks/months for this bug to appear.
This is quite possibly the first post I have ever read on the internet that mentioned the RIAA with a positive tone.

For others, here's a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_equalization
It's such a broad cross-disciplinary area, it's tough to define a good entry point that is reasonable for everyone. But I'd say actually start with getting a solid foundation on statistics (point estimation, and hypothesis testing).

If you're good with that, I'd learn a bit of DSP to get a feeling for how people in that world manipulate and clean digital signals. Some of that helps out later. FFT, DWT, PCA, ICA, Convolutional filtering, Kalman and PID filtering (if you're interested in online systems), things like that. They help especially in feature extraction for classification, but also for unsupervised methods.

Past that, the hierarchy of methods to be learned and in what order is funny, I'm not sure there is a current consensus on that.

The truth is that the best path kind of depends on your own goals. If you have a particular problem in your pocket that you want to solve, that actually helps a ton.
This is a great rationale and it makes sense. Listening to Bruce Springsteen talk about "the one rack of records" in the local store, and scarcity, and on and on, it's a special connection possible for sure.

As a musician I can't "un-hear" a different method of engagement even as a listener for enjoyment. It's a different subject, but also related to the active notion you described. After all these years, sampling things from across the world time and time again, it takes quite a bit of "Ooomph" for me to really feel the hairs on my arm bristle up.

What's great in modern times though, is that I can get a real buzz every time I shop on Beatport, listen through my studio Sennheisers, and at volumes that would be considered torture if inflicted involuntarily. RAM Records and HEAVY ARTILLERY are two that I really enjoy because it's music that will scare people who even love music. Ha!
Fair point on the distinction between satisfaction with Congress as a whole versus a person's own representative. However, one would expect satisfaction with Congress to have some kind of correlation with the popular vote. Why aren't Republican voters satisfied with Congress? After all, more than half of Americans voted for a Republican [1].

I agree with you that our electorate is dysfunctional. At the same time, we either believe everyone should have roughly equal say in our government, or we don't. I'm not saying that we should have an actual democracy, but that the mechanisms of our system should be fundamentally democratic. But if the problem is the electorate itself, that begs the question: what's the better answer? I'm earnestly all ears.

Why do we want the states to be represented as a first-class entity? The concept of "one person, one vote" makes plenty of sense for people, but why should states have equal representation when they have different numbers of people? To me, _people_, not states, are paramount.

I'm also unclear what you mean by a stable bully majority. Because I think that's what we have today. If you live in an uncompetitive district and you're in the political minority, you're essentially permanently disenfranchised. The best you can hope for is to be pandered to in a primary by some candidate trying to build a coalition.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016...
As a full time hacker  how do you manage your health
As a full time hacker nomad how do you manage your health, back, wrist and other pains that lead to burnout?
What diet do you follow?

Do you use acupuncture? Therapy, any tips appreciated to manage burnout
Agreed. Let people like what they like.

My deal is, that goes both ways. I've owned record players in the past, I've grown a sizeable vinyl collection, and I ended up selling it off because I'm living a much more mobile lifestyle now.

If the OP gets a more "active" experience (whatever that means to them) out of listening to a record instead of putting a CD in a cd player, great, but what bugs me is there's always an undercurrent of "it's better this way".

No, man, you just like it more. It's not "better" than listening to songs on an ipod or putting a CD on.

And all this talk about "it sounds better" or whatever, it all boils down to assigning objective measures to an experience that is, at its core, subjective. No, it's still just your preference. (Some people actually like the analogue tape sound. To them it's "better".)

Let people like what they like.
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That's been pretty well refuted as well.[1] Basically, the solar cycle can affect ocean temperature in the pacific to the degree that it can change circulation and some weather patterns, but has been shown to not be the cause of observed average temperature increases over the past 50 years.

[1]https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/0...
Strange that they specify EST... currently it's daylight savings time, so it should be EDT, shouldn't it?
Then perhaps you'd like to pay for the premium subscription.

https://scottscheapflights.groovehq.com/knowledge_base/topic...
It is a very common mistake to look at btc and other cryptocurrencies through the lense of what you know money is right now, in the context of the infrastructure that exists around it. The real possibilities lie in the infrastructures that can emerge around this new technologies. Consider the fact that crypto is inherently agnostic about who or what holds it. You can be a person, an institution, a script, or an object (think self-driving, self-owning, self repairing cars), or think trafficlights you can pay to turn green for you :).

then there is the possibility of true microtransactions. What are the fundamental parameters of internet commerce in our day and age. I would argue that there is roughly three kinds of dominant transaction. One of purchases of goods/services (Amazon etc), software as a service (Spotify), and then there is the vast space of businesses that basically live of the advertising they sell through brokers such as facebook and google. There is really no alternative for this lower limit of transactions. With bitcoin you can imagine a world where people offer content online (say music) and offer consumers the choice of a microtransaction/listen or to consume the same content with ads, without having to give up control over their content to third parties such as spotify. The possibilities are really quite endless.
Unless you are very mathematical I will advise going through Jeremy Howard's course.[1][2]

First part is available with videos and exercises. I have seen videos of second part being available on YouTube. I hope rest of the material will be available soon.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14640409
[2] http://course.fast.ai
I'm gonna make a service where you ask my service and it answers the 4 answers given :D
> (If ACC exists, the energy industry will fight because it ultimately harms their profits. If ACC doesn't exist, the academic lobby will fight for their prestige and grants)

Why climate scientists won't have grants if there is no climate change?

Climate doesn't need to be studied?

> Both sides are, ultimately, dirty, due to politicization if nothing else

Please, give me examples of climate scientists dirty by politization.

> For bonus points, do any of the answers to those questions not boil down to the genetic or appeal to authority fallacies?

Well, if you think that Theory of Evolution is appeal to authority, yes.

When the big majority of a field have consensus, you have to look at the motives and arguments of the minority dissenting, not saying that the majority appeals to authority
Chocolate vs Vanilla argument here

while(true){
if(dislikeAllCurrentFrameworks?()){
inventNewFramework()
}
}
Blood Music - Greg Bear

Accelerando - Charlie Stross

Psychohistorical Crisis - Donald Kingsbury (assuming you have already read Asimov's Foundation series)

A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge

Chung Kuo, the Middle Kingdom - David Wingrove

Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie

Neutron Star - Larry Niven

Existence - David Brin

The Dosadi Experiment - Frank Herbert

The Space Merchants - Pohl and Kornbluth

Sun of Suns - Karl Schroeder

All the Traps of Earth - Clifford Simak

Test of Fire - Ben Bova

The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
I'm a sample of one so take this with a giant, highly critical grain of thought, but for me, being raised within a religion gave me the freedom to see that all religions are fundamentally the same.

They have different names for things and in some cases, certain stories resonate better with me. But deep down, the Zen expression 'ten thousand forms, one suchness' absolutely applies.

My phone is about to die, so I'll cut it off, though I suspect that I'll revisit this throughout the day!
Yep, should be marked [2013].
Why they should move to another career?
I think a good model to imagine is that you don't have any computers on you and you're talking to an assistant over the phone who has access to Google and other online resources. The types of responses you'd expect from that at least modestly intelligent assistant are probably not all that different from what you'd like to hear from a digital assistant.

If I were to ask a question that had a long list of potential responses, I'd expect them to ask me to clarify or narrow down what I'm looking for or at least explicitly ask me if I really wanted them to read the whole list.
I also like their Release Radar playlist, you get new releases from the artists you follow.
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Using the database as a queue is an anti-pattern. There used to be an entire blog series about why this is the case. However, I can't find it at the moment.
Can you post some of these reddit links?

I'd imagine several small businesses these days would opt for the "vote manipulation" marketing since its easy. (The Silicon Valley TV show had a similar plot point).
I was under the impression H-bombs utilized hydrogen in the atmosphere to feed its fusion reaction. If you send it up to "outer space" it wouldn't have any fuel to fuse?
Can you tell me more about your process? How did you hunt this down?
Same for me. The physical act of handling the record is more satisfying -- maybe just because it's bigger? I felt the same way about 12" LPs vs. 7" singles. The click when you put the needle on the record, watching it spin, even the smell all contribute to the experience. CDs/streaming has none of that.
Dubai deploying robocops
Demo is a great idea! It's easy enough to record myself going through it. Like you said, it takes just a couple minutes to get going so it would help to highlight that :)
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I might be misunderstanding, but it seems like the landlord's income would include economic rent as well as profit by this definition.

You might imagine a residential lease where you agree to perform maintenance and upkeep and pay property taxes in return for a reduction in the lease cost. But this wouldn't reduce your lease cost to $0 - you're still paying for the privilege of being allowed to live there, so doesn't this fall under the traditional definition of "economic rent"?
Just to clarify, what do you mean by "Crypto"? Is it Cryptocurrencies?
Usability. It's hard to use and even harder to use well.
Hey, thanks.

So many times I've read a post on HN or Reddit that I thought was spot-on, and then looked up and saw that you wrote it. Nice to see that the agreement goes in the other direction - or did on this occasion, at least. :)
Using a distributed ledger like R3's Corda (https://www.corda.net) will do what you say: prevent "cooking the books" and make transactions public and audit-able.

What the blockchain does that Corda does not is: the ability for anyone to be a transaction validator. What this ability gives the network is censorship resistance. Basically because anyone can validate transactions, no central body can say what should and should not go in the ledger.
I was going to say something about a false dichotomy, but you beat me to it.

Discussions about music on vinyl is always interesting to observe.

Collecting artifacts is such a prevalent part of nerd and geek culture that it's no wonder many of us love to collect and play records.

At the same time, many of us are super focused on efficiency and specifications that listening to less than perfect reproductions where you have to physically manipulate the media makes no sense.

I had a lot of records when I was younger and was happy to move on to CDs and now mp3 and streaming. If I had more space to devote to yet another collection, I would in a heartbeat.
An eye for an eye and the whole world will go blind

-Gandhi
the most pressing argument for a military experiment was, "if we don't do it, the Russians will." And, indeed, the Russians did test atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs in space

Competition has a way of getting out of hand, no?
Because it doesn't have the local intelligence to understand your unique waveforms that are saying something along the lines of "set a timer for five minutes." Now I'm sure someone could design a specialized device that could act as a voice activated timer--I suspect such exists--but Alexa is a lot more general purpose.
Previously it would've been very difficult to convince complete strangers to hand over millions of dollars in a matter of minutes.
One thing I'd like to vent about is that Scott seems to be making a lot of money selling e-mail addresses.

I signed up for a couple different contests using unique e-mail addresses generated specifically for the contest (Yes, they were separate e-mails for separate contests; No, I did not double-dip my entrees). I was then signed up for 2-3 e-mail lists for 3rd party companies over the course of a couple weeks. These companies weren't even doing anything tangentially related to what Scott writes about(cheap flights). I wish it was more transparent that he was going to sign you up for these random companies.
It is widely adopted. HTTPS, whatsapp, password hashing, etc.

There's a lot more crypto that could also be widely adopted, e.g. pgp, encrypted dropbox-like-things, encrypted filesystems, etc. Generally I think it's a combination of poor user interface, crypto sometimes results in undesirable tradeoffs (e.g. worse data deduplication for dropbox), and not enough perceived benefit.
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I wonder what you would need to study to have a high satisfaction job in the future.
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Too obscure.
Since when does writing over the MBR brick the machine? Has the term "bricking" lost its original meaning?

If the device isn't only useful as a brick afterwards, it's not bricking. Requiring reformatting or replacing a hard drive is hardly enough to do that in most circumstances.
One minute you're moaning that features need to be removed from Go, the next you're mocking it for not having enough features. Yet you dont even code in the language you're clearly very opinionated and highly critical over.

We all have our personal preferences, I get that. But why can't people just live and let live instead of trying to make out their personal preferences are measurably better than those they dislike? After all, if all programming languages were identical then the IT industry would be worse off for it.

For what it's worth, I've been writing software for nearly 3 decades now and have writing applications in well over a dozen different languages. Go might lack some of the expressiveness I'm used to but it's still one of the most rapid languages I've used to create software. And one of the most painless to deploy too. In fact ironically some of the "worst languages" in terms of developer chin stroking have been some of the easiest to work with; Visual Basic (pre .NET) is another example. But if I had my way we would be back to writing DOS programs in Turbo Pascal. This is why I get so fed up with people moaning about their tools. Frankly put, mocking any particular tool for not behaving like another particular tool just shows ones own limitation as a developer.
I'm a huge fan of CDs for this reason. I know I'm getting perfect, uncompressed digital audio.

Ah, but you don't know! On Beck's Odelay Deluxe Edition release, for example, there are at least two tracks that came from a lossy source.

I don't think it's something that happens often. But through some combination of factors it has happened before, and probably happens more often than people might be aware.