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> have you ever walked by a bunch of musical sound coming out of a room and thought to yourself, "wow, those live musicians sound great" only to discover it was just a stereo playing?

Yes, I have. With the right combination of speaker setups and hi fi recordings, it is possible to fool yourself into believing there are musicians there.
My take on this, drawing from his "Humans gonna human" is: "Engineers gonna engineer" - a mistake that's cost me dearly in the past.
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Learn the language (javascript) not the latest framework. That way whatever the latest framework is when you next get a job you can pick it up easily. That said though, don't use a framework 'just because', use the right tool for the right job, and 99% of the time the client doesn't know or care what you use, unless they're insisting on the latest buzz word.
That's the whole point - worry about that when you actually have a million simultaneous users, which is a huge number. There are plenty of options like reading from replicas, using a caching layer, or moving specific data to another datastore - all work that's better done when you actually have success and the resources to understand your data access patterns and implement a smart solution when it's needed.

Basic replication has been part of every major relational database for decades. Where is it expensive or painful? Do you really need 100% uptime? There's a vast ecosystem for relational databases that can help with all of this and now you have CitusDB, MemSQL and CockroachDB if you need built-in next-gen scaling and availability.
About 300 years of rock phosphate left at current rates of comsumption. We need to start farming phophates in the sea, where all our water soluble nutrients eventually end up.
A lot of you on here from previous comments know that I spent 20+ years as a fertilizer agronomist before changing careers.

Drift is the scariest thing out there to a commercial applicator. We had well trained drivers, took them out of the field when the winds came up. But there's pressure to spray all the fields in a 4-5 week window and you'd always lose days to rain. We didn't have drift cases every year but it was impossible to avoid.

I got burned early with Dicamba and refused to spray it under any conditions when soybeans or other susceptible crops were out of the ground nearby.

Heard about its new formulation and talked with a buddy about it. He said that they'd licked the problems with drift. I said have you seen it demonstrated in fields in your area? He said no, I said have you ever had a chemical rep stretch the truth about the capabilities of a new formulation? We had a good mutual laugh about that one.

This was a preventable tragedy.
I know, but is really pretty expensive if you live in a third world country e don't earn a wage in dollars.

Nice tip about ebooks.com. I also was an Ora non DRM orphan.
Possibly. Most FCPA enforcement actions involve third parties. The FCPA expressly prohibits corrupt payments made through third parties or intermediaries. The fact that a bribe is paid by a third party does not eliminate the potential for criminal or civil FCPA liability. The FCPA expressly states that a company or individual may be held directly liable for bribes paid by a third party if the principal has knowledge of the third party's misconduct. It is unlawful to make a payment to a third party, while “knowing” that all or a portion of the payment will go directly or indirectly to a foreign official. The term “knowing” includes “conscious disregard” and “deliberate ignorance”. Intermediaries may include joint venture partners or agents. Third parties and intermediaries themselves are also liable for FCPA violations.*

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I read Harry Potter to my kids, on Periscope, and it turned out to be wonderful. Their English skills developed tremendously, we spent a lot of time together doing it, and they understood that the internet needs constant input from normal users to remain such a fantastic resource.
Looks familiar... Lets hope for Ubers sake none of the code came from anywhere outside of Uber
SiFive announced that at Hot Chips 2017 (last week): their quad+1 core is coming out early next year.

In addition to that, I expect to see some interesting announcements at the RISC-V workshop in Nov.

Patience, patience. It's likely that RISC-V adoption will happen bottom up, first deeply embedded space (like NVIDIA, who is using it internally in the GPU for managements). Next, bigger cores will also happen especially where there's no (perceived) advantage to using ARM. A standalone chip will probably come late and will likely come from China from someone looking for a way to stand out from the myriad of ARM vendors out there.

Just the idle musings of an ARM-chair analyst.
When you're prototyping, you can be equally as sloppy with a relational database and make the same productivity gains. However, the sort of thing you describe doesn't even sound like a real prototype but rather something fairly trivial:

> by default will happily accept whatever document you want to store in it without any care in the world, and this can be a desirable property for iterating as quickly as possible

I fail to see how a database full of mismatched documents is valuable in prototyping. My own experience with prototyping in an RDBMS is just a constant evolution of the existing sample (sometimes real) data. Adding new columns is trivial, breaking up a single column to a one-to-many is a simple insert..select into a new table as one example. Similar transformation with a document-store involves writing a lot of throw away code.

But from another perspective entirely, I find actually designing the schema to be the best place start when I prototype an application. If I have the database design correct then designing the corresponding UI or API is almost trivial. Now obviously that's just one style of development but it's a no less valid one. And I don't have to do anything more to move to production.
You are issuing a false equivalency here. The opioid epidemic is largely catalyzed by the fact that prescription rates are boosted because doctors are incentivized with money. Furthermore, opiates carry a physical dependency after long enough, creating a positive feedback loop. As a third point, the prescriptions are usually issued for those who are under intolerable pain and so the path to addiction is somewhat smoothed by the fact that they simply need to take that much of the drug to feel human again. Before you know it, you're hooked.

Psilocybin suffers none of these problems. It would be more intellectually honest to compare it to something like marijuana and its uptake in society.
The most common liquor in West Africa is palm wine, which is not distilled and so methanol does not form. However, West African countries fairly regularly see cases of drinkers going blind from homemade distilled beverages, I would be very cautious about the provenance of any strong liquor offered to me.
Recommendations are just that, advices that might be followed, or not.

It isn't the first time that Google does recommendations to OEMs.

They also did recommendations for security updates. An advice that OEMs only follow for the customers that paid the big bucks for the flagship devices.

So unless they actually provide requirements instead of recommendations, nothing will change for consumers.
It's an interesting idea but a lot of the research is pointing against things that are near the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Culture is an influence, but it isn't normally close to a majority influence.
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Why are businesses so afraid to name the Boogeyman that is deliberate ("friendly") fraud?

I'm almost certain that a lion's share of cam girl-related chargebacks are jerks who dispute the $200 they sent for personalized nudes and dirty talk during their refractory period.

And card fraud is still possible; the risk is removed from the models, and placed on the exchanges that people use for fiat-to-LiveStar token liquidity.

Also, ICOs see rampant price fluctuations: am I wrong to think that independent models and merchants don't want to see their earnings skyrocket and plummet during one of their sessions? It makes more sense to create a platform for models to accept ETH
The article is adapted from a speech given at Djangocon. The title includes "Django" to explain why Django developers would be interested in it. Out of context here on HN, any startup failure draws interest (no matter what technology), so the Django mention looks odd.
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They would only try to lift heavier than their competition, so there's an artificial limit on how heavy one would go.

But the real crux of the situation is this: For a given individual, on every possible lift and every possible weight, it is always safer to use anabolic steroids than not.
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I don't know. It could be very useful once cellphone makers find out how to blast audio directly into nerve impulses. New and innovative audio filters. Humans with custom DNA. Etc.
Under what circumstances would different such medium-to-large sharing companies have to do this?
>>a result of herbicide overuse. By spraying so much glyphosate, farmers inadvertently caused weeds to evolve resistant traits more quickly.

That is my main concern, personally.

Why fight nature? It's futile. You can't win in the long run.

What are farmers going to do when dicamba stops working? Or it's offspring?
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I have been involved in a few disaster recovery scenarios. Some of them have involved the Red Cross. The best efforts I have witnessed have been under the direction of locals. When the government or Red Cross or whoever showed up, they realized very quickly that they would create chaos if they tried to take over.

I have seen Red Cross meals brought in and stacked against the walls while people brought home-cooked meals in and fed disaster victims. When the Red Cross tried to stop it, they were informed they were not in control of the facility. Anyone who wanted a Red Cross meal could have one. Anyone who wanted casserole or spaghetti or pulled pork could have that. In the end, thousands of dollars of Red Cross aid went to the dumpster.

Disaster organizations in the western U.S. have come to understand that sometimes local citizens have their own organizations that work extremely well with local knowledge. It's better to work in support of them than to try to roll over the top of them.
Ok I'll bite:

- If something wasn't feasible to do until the moment Apple copied it from others, why didn't Apple do it first?

- Have there been innovations by companies that compete with Apple?

- Have they ever taken an idea from Apple and made it better?
How curious! I knew about rational trigonometry, and I was thinking the modern proponent of that idea would be so mad others are capitalizing on it without citing him...it so turns out he was a co-author, fancy that.
I did a quick Inspect in Chrome and noticed that instead of doing request/response, the server is sending a list of everything that has changed since the last request (or at least it appears so). Do you care to talk more about your client/server API design?
>Modern techniques grow more food, more cheaply, with lower economic footprint, less land used per output, less energy spent per calorie, etc...

Right now, that is true.

But what happens when Dicamba stops working?

What happens when the next Dicamba stops working?

We will be forced to return to the old ways of farming eventually whether we like it or not.

And by old ways I'm talking about polyculture and basically just growing what's right for your region.
Well, he is a very charismatic engineer...
Sounds like a lot of work
You're missing my point, I'm not talking about Uber vs owning a car. My point is that for people like you who might take public transit, walk, bike, or otherwise not take a taxi Uber lowers the total cost of a car trip, thereby increasing your demand for car trips. Also, while taking 2+ trips per day will eventually cost more, it's cheaper in the short run where people actually make decisions.

Furthermore, Ubers like cabs drive around waiting for fares so they create traffic while not providing rides. Similarly with recent cases of Uber driver brigading to drive up surge prices, they also create surges of traffic.

Gas taxes only pay for up to 40% of road maintenance and that's in states with the highest gas taxes. The rest of the cost is made up from general funds and transportation budgets. There was a high profile case recently in Maryland where the governor redirected light rail funds to highway maintenance and construction. In fact gas taxes have never fully covered road construction and maintenance costs anywhere in the US, ever.
Conway's game of life is at best school homework, it does not correlate to any programming done in a real job.
> Both your inputs (ADC) and outputs (DAC) are fixed-point. Why would you want to use a floating point in between?

The main reason is that it solves clipping in the pipeline.
Whenever I have talked to people choosing Mongodb, it always came down to two things:

1. Not knowing a about Postgres JSONB column type (which behaves pretty much like Mongodb)

2. Not knowing about Amazon RDS as a single click hosting option for Postgres.

Most people run their own Mongodb servers...Which is what gives the impression of "easy to get started".

And here's the other truth as well - People painfully move back to Postgres after losing data. Not because of "oh we can now afford to do SQL" or "oh our data model now needs Postgres". But plain and simple - they lost data that they can't admit to in public.
Think of the end application: internal tooling. Is it "good enough"?
From reading the comments on HN every time these MongoDB threads come up, I'm beginning to think -- and I really hope I'm wrong about this -- that a lot of people started using MongoDB who had basically no prior experience in using relational DBs. If true, that is just insane. I guess I take it for granted that programmers have at least some computer science background and are familiar with the relational algebra, ACID, etc. It kind of saddens me.
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Scaling up at any cost - that's what biz "leaders" and b-schools have brain washed a generation of managers to do. We are going to be paying the price collectively for a long time to come.
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the post communicates a high level of readability and humanity of an individual dealing with "authority" that is ostensibly worse than the nazis.

the government and the hospital both need to remove people from the planet. drugging people in psych hospitals was "obviously the right way to do it", so the decision was made a long time ago.

you're all idiots.
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> Another way to look at is that digital audio is not like digital imaging. There aren't pixels.

For the mathematically inclined, this would probably be a good time to repeat: pixels are not little squares[1].

[1] http://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf
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I'm not an ophthalmologist, so if you are concerned about your eye health talk to one. That being said I was referencing that the human eye (retina) is capable of seeing a wider spectrum than we typically see. The natural lens filters out part of the spectrum (UV) that the synthetic replacement lenses do not filter out.
Sure, doing your time in those sorts of places and then moving on is a good approach. That's more or less what I did. (I went to college for CS, but I'm oldish.) But those jobs can suck for reasons that don't really have anything to do with technology.

While you're unlikely to catch me extolling the virtues of cool-guy startups, they do tend to have the benefit that they "get" developers and bias towards facilitating the work rather than the endless bullshit you tend to get sucked into in the bigger places.
They do. If you go to the Red Cross site, you can select what you want your donation used for. This includes Disaster Relief, Where It is Needed Most, Your Local Red Cross, Home Fires and Harvey.
Right. I used to DJ throughout college and tried out a variety of formats. At high amplification, artifacts become apparent. VBR0 and 256kbit MP3s did not hold up, at all. Even smaller speakers and headphones didn't hide some of the compression artifacts for me.

320kbit CBR MP3s were... I'd say, generally OK if you did not plan on skewing their tempo much outside of a very small range (give or take 5% speed). Really bad artifacting becomes audible quickly beyond that range. Maybe it was placebo, but I also found differences between FLAC and 320kbit MP3 discernible when working on big, more powerful speakers.

But, with FLAC, it didn't matter if the sound was played at 10% tempo or extreme amplitude, audio was always crisp, clear, and free of compression artifacts (obviously).

On my laptop speakers or earbuds, no way would I be able to tell the difference between any of these today.
> I was going off of the bill that Arnold signed for Cannabis decriminalization that made it still an infraction to have it/use it/sell it but not lead up to a year in jail

That never happened. A decriminalization bill passed one Assembly committee when Schwarzenegger was governor, but it didn't leave it an infraction (it had a system of commercial license for growing and selling), and neither it nor any other made it out of the legislature to his desk.
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Yes, you can get a beat effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_(acoustics)) as the ultrasonic frequencies interfere with the audible ones. It's generally not considered desirable.
likely, my bet is that literally every company that does autonomy has a very similar platform that waymo does.
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I was surprised as well. But he is talking about Australian dollars, not American ones. which makes it around $17k US. That makes $6k/month a head, plus office cost (bank fees, ads, furniture etc).
Pople who are intentionally committing a genocide are out of scope for IRBs, since they are already refusing any kind of oversight because they know what they are doing is wrong.
So what's the alternative? not allow your operating system to run on low spec phones?

Stop selling low spec phones?

of course it isn't gonna run in a supported configuration on some dumb phone from 5 years ago. those people can't afford or don't care about VR.
If you have the patience, sure. In my desktop I keep everything on the big file source and listen to it that way. I also have dedicated DACs/AMPs that can decode all the way up to DSD. I know it probably doesn't make a difference but whatever, storage is cheap. For my phone I listen to spotify.
I was skeptical as well, but it turned out to be a good read. Not quite up to the standards of Anathem or Cryptonomicon, but still definitely worthwhile.
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C++ template meta programming isn't Turing complete in a way that is useful.

Turing Complete means that you can calculate any partial recursive function (given some suitable input encoding).

For instance, in pure Lambda Calculus that has only functional terms (no numbers), we an make integers out of function using "Church numerals" and then calculate functions over these numbers. No amount of such calculation will produce an integer object, though.

Similarly C++ template cannot calculate any C++ syntax whatsoever, in spite of Turing Completeness. You get template functions and template classes; that's it.
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1. Hardly fair, considering that Postgres JSONB is only 2.5 years old, and the marketing fanfare around Mongo had largely petered out at that point. I've been involved in three companies which use mongo, and all of them selected it before JSONB was in Postgres.
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Ed Felten's article on this from a couple of months ago provides an excellent analysis.

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"At this point, I need to put some of my cards on the table and admit that I know more about this topic, having worked on the FTC’s investigation which asked some of the same questions. But that investigation was confidential, for good reasons, and I will not violate that confidentiality. All I’ll say is that the FTC had the legal power to compel answers to factual questions about Google’s practices (and an obligation to keep the answers confidential) and, having conducted a thorough investigation, the FTC decided not to bring a case against Google."
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Using as FB as a "platform" to donate to a charity seems like a bad idea.

Someone mentioned "Red Cross" directly, is that worse than going through FB?

There are many charities and it will be hard to narrow down. Go with one friends recommend or do some research and recommend another. Look to local news/press around Houston for what is recommended.

FB, probably the least helpful option.
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More importantly than Turing complete, assembly language has complete access to the machine resources and data representations.

A language can be Turing Complete, yet do only pure calculation plus I/O strictly in Roman numerals on two predefined streams.

Good luck decoding a JPEG with that, right?
In the terms of an example:

If you put 400 people in a room, the odds that no two of them share a birthday have gone all the way down to zero percent.

No matter how many independent cities you measure flooding in, you can never achieve a perfect 0 or 1 probability of (whatever), because the cities are independent.

We don't define "interesting" flooding in one city by reference to what happened in another city, so this situation is not described by the birthday paradox.
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> I think because NoSQL is a way of saying the DB should not be magically answering random queries.

The reason this is wrong is something that Codd et al learned a while ago: the data is MORE IMPORTANT than the application. Applications change and/or become obsolete; the data doesn't. You will still need to query the same database 50 years from now, but you likely won't have the same application to do it with. That means that everything that is important to the data (schema, constraints and so on) needs to stay with the data.