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> Yeah, this is often true. Some of Green Day's (a band I've never previously been into) albums were released in 24/192 or 24/96 a few years back and they actually sounded really great, with real dynamic range.

Back in the day you'd occasionally see remastered "gold" discs released. The advertising made a big deal about the disc material. Those probably sounded different too (they managed to sell them at a great premium) but with those, they sounded better because of the newer remastering, not the disc technology.

It's certainly possible this is the case with some of those releases remastered for SACD as well. The label probably didn't give Green Day a huge amount of money for production when they made Dookie, for example, but it eventually sold 20 million copies and additional production made sense. If it sounds better to the listener it's a real benefit, too, but it is quite likely not down to the playback technology.

Two oddball things I've noticed about remasters in the last couple of years: there's some agreement out there that the newest remaster of Hendrix's records is not the best. And King Crimson, who has an audiophile following and decorates their catalog with remasters with alarming regularity, removed a little dynamic range (an oversimplification) from the newest remaster of Larks Tongues in Aspic when remastering the CD and mastering for DVD/A because people very understandably complained about the (technically very good) previous version being too quiet. Audiophiles say they want dynamic range, but...
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Don't time it but do value it. Given the low expected returns from the current levels you might look for something else with better ones. Thought I'm not sure what exactly.
Haha, at least classical IS usually recorded well, being an audiophile metal-head these days is depressing. If I use my normal setup almost everything clips badly.
From major news outlets? No, not strange.

Luckily the AAAS, NASA, NOAA aren't nearly as political.
I've got a 4x8 CNC router with a small 4W laser diode that I can add on for light engraving work. Discussions of safety, protective eyewear, interlocks, shielding are all very valid. the stray reflections cutting wood in open air mean that there is significant scatter. The other day I attempted to engrave cork and found the scatter to be terrible.

BUT, all of that can be managed with shielding, eye protection, and walls. When the laser is on, I've rigged mach 3 (CNC control) to turn on some lights at the top of my staircase so that nobody comes into the garage without protective eyewear. It is absolutely possible to be safe without also limiting all your freedoms. In general, safety standards and workshop use-cases are well aligned, and if safety is too much work then a lack of safety is not about freedom, it's about laziness.

AvE has also taken a crack at Cubiio, and I think it is worth repeating some of his points, and my own observations here.

1. Diode lasers for engraving are VERY sensitive to focal length changes. If my surface that I am engraving changes more than 1-2mm in height, I try to compensate for that in the engraving tool path. My minimum line width is .01" with the laser/lens combo I have, and if I am out of focus even .125" (3mm), the line width will probably double.

2. many materials reflect terribly while cutting. Especially pre-finished light colored woods like maple. There is practically no way to avoid this. If I cut those I'll often end up with uncut areas in the piece because 100% of the beam ended up scattered, and didn't manage to burn the piece at all.

3. the idea is very tempting. It would be very nice to have this functionality, but, for the average maker, I think you would be pretty unhappy with the power this can make. I frequently want a LOT more than 4W, this appears to be about 1/4 of that. Most commercial systems from Epilog start at 20-40w. The Cubiio would probably produce shallow, uneven cuts at very slow feed rates with really long run times to produce anything useably deep. If you ran it at faster feed rates it would probably produce a laser engraving so shallow that it would rub off.

4. I want their app. The ability to turn scanned art into vectors for G code is something I would pay for. AFAIK there is NO good commercial solution for this. I have tons of line art that I would love to laser engrave but have no way to produce simple paths from it.

Edit: this is the laser I have - https://jtechphotonics.com/?product=3-8w-laser-and-2-5amp-sa... - I can vouch that it is well made and the vendor is great to work with - he assembles these himself and takes safety seriously.
Even for setjmp() it is better to organize your code such that you don't need to declare anything to be volatile.
LoL, this "Think Tank" is literally a propaganda office; but since NYT largely shares their political biases, they're not willing to admit that it was a dishonest venture before it was directly influenced by Eric Schmidt.
Please define "serious", as the US has definitely had multiple storms in the past 10 years.
Incorrect. Nyquist-Shannon theorem does not guarantee phase! It only guarantees frequency reproduction. This paper illustrates the issue succinctly: http://www.wescottdesign.com/articles/Sampling/sampling.pdf
I distinctly remember that for quite some time doing buisness in israel put you on a black list on many arab countrys in the middle east.

So finding out who bribed to do buisness with both sides- was as easy as clicking on the "subsidiary" map on many companys sides.

And there they where, in peacefull coexistance, overcoming stupid hatred and propaganda with pocket butter.
I agree. The Java memory model explicitly stated that final fields will be correctly initialized in any object reference visible from another thread, provided a reference to that object is only stored after the constructor completes.
The same thing can be done in a kinda portable way with the pre/post substitution/expansion operators (at the moment don't recall their correct name):

for a in **/*.jade; do echo mv "$a" "${a%jade}pug"; done

If I'm not wrong it should work in Bash and Ksh too (bar the double * expansion), this when I don't have an Emacs at hand.

In the first invocation I prefer to do a "dry run", if it looks good I proceed removing the echo.

P.S. Your example above should use double quote instead of single quote, otherwise the content is not expanded by Zsh

P.P.S. One recall the pre/post operator looking at the symbols on a US keyboard, the post follows the variable symbol...
Just try this for a week...

1. Remove Facebook/Instagram/Twitter from your phone. Using parental controls disable Safari. Remove your email too if you can.

2. Use SelfControl to block these websites for 24 hours at a time. So you only get to check these things once every day. After you've checked it, quickly block again. If 24 is too much, start with 8 or so. But always block again right after checking!

SelfControl: https://selfcontrolapp.com/

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Few more tips:

- Pomodoro technique is nice (I built FocusList - focuslist.co) but in my experience it doesn't help if you keep thinking about how many more minutes you have to stay focused. Instead you have to forget about all that and just think about your task.

- Keep a journal of sticking with this habit. I always print current month, put it up in my kitchen and I cross off days. I'm currently doing that for my diet, but it works for any habit you wanna build.

- If you can't motivate yourself, reading a book like "Deep Work" will give you an initial push.

- Use headphones. This is individual, but speaking for me, they just gave me this feeling of immersion and it just helps me get into the zone. Get a nice pair with noise cancelling, or with those foam tips (if it's comfy), it will make you feel like you entered a different world.
oh, the script just executes a buying strategy that avoids short term fluctuations. It's not a profit-making strategy.
Google was never good. They only ever did what they thought fit their strategy at the time, to allow them to grow and make more money.
Minor niggle: we can see ultraviolet just a little because it makes various bits of our eyes glow. Perceptually this shows up to us as a little bit of fuzziness near a UV source. But no, we can't see it with anything like the resolution we see visible light.
I have a little apprehension about the fact the information about these people is a little nebulous (the white paper actually has a little more info than their website but the seemingly most qualified person is the CTO, because the CEO has little experience and the CFO doesn't give much information about his past beyond tiny details), and the fact the white paper, in English, isn't written very well and has a lot of grammar mistakes. Beyond this my big question is, will this work well compared to a service like TransferWise and how will this service insulate itself from major crashes or appreciations in Bitcoin, should they happen? If Bitcoin or Etherium lost 10-20% of its value for some reason overnight, how would this service deal with that? I do apparently have to purchase in ETH for the presale but I'm sure that they would allow you to purchase in USD, etc., when the full product is available, right? Using that assumption, if I have 1000 TMN tokens, and I purchase them at the value of 100 USD, then it seems they are worth 100 USD? Or are they really worth X BTC or ETH? In other words, who is the person that deals with ramifications of value fluctuations within this crazy world of crypto currency, Transmission or the customer? This isn't addressed in the white paper from what I could tell, and also isn't addressed on the website, but this is an important factor in deciding to use this service, although I guess I could reasonably assume that it the company would be the insulating party.

Also, I really have a hard time trusting my money with a service that states that "this is not a bank and does not provide banking services" because I appreciate that, for all the issues that currently exist with them, banks are insured by something like FDIC (in the US, I'm sure they have government insurances in other countries as well). What's to prevent me from losing my money in the case of bankruptcy or if someone decides to just steal away into the night?
Ask HN: What are some good sources of climate data to analyze?
I've noticed that articles mentioning climate and climate change that make it to the front page end up being flagged.

I think this is probably fair, because discussions about such articles invariably end up being political and don't end up contributing very positively to HN.

I certainly have thoughts and opinions on this topic, but upon reflection I realize they're not especially well informed. They're mainly based on what I've read in popular media, and I'm hoping I can do better than that.

So I'd like to approach it from another direction. If I want to get some raw climate data for myself, and analyze it using R or Python, what would be a good starting point?

Are there specific data sets that I should focus on? Are there any well known papers that I should read?
As long as \epsilon != 0 one can make rational_of(\Pi, \epsilon) an arbitrarily close approximation of \Pi, without the need for infinity. In fact that is precisely what we use in practice, by that I mean computation.

Ultimately it comes down to a trade off. Which axiomatic system does one to work in ? Introducing infinity does have its fair share of warts (by warts I mean consequences that flies in the face of intuition).
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I'm not sure if this is the case for the JVM, but for .NET it is perfectly legal for the VM to store the object address somewhere after allocation but prior to the constructor running/becoming visible. All of the fields objects will be zeroed so this won't cause memory unsafety, but it's rarely what you expect to happen.

Forgetting this is a big source of bugs in double checked locking in .NET.
OT: I agree Google has become monster-ish. But when this talk comes up, I can't help but think Amazon is just as if not more of a monster.

Especially the employee horror stories and now slashing Whole Food prices. While its awesome for it's customers, I'm worried about long term effects.

/r
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If in fact climate change is man made. There is strong evidence that this is a natural cycle. Are humans contributing greenhouse gasses? Yes, but what effect are they having? We don't really know, contrary to those who say they do. We have an idea, but climate prediction is still difficult and imperfect. So NO! The science isn't final.
It's immutable, and immutable objects are thread safe. This is also true in C: you can safely pass references to structs between threads with no locks, as long as you never mutate them. Java just enforces that immutability if you write the class the right way.

...the bug is that it's not really immutable, insofar as it's using an unsafe mutation under the hood to implement its toString method. So it either needs to document the fact that it's not immutable despite the appearance otherwise (crazy), or fix the problem.
Wow - thanks for posting that: could come in handy on the project I'm currently working on!
Well, insurers will often cover you for water damage from burst pipes, but not from flooding. That's because the damage from burst pipes happens at a predictable trickle of people over the course of a year, but damage from flooding happens to tens of thousands of people on the same day. So the amount of money you have to set aside for the two cases is wildly different. Side note: This is also why your life insurance policy is useless in the case of nuclear war :)
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That would be consistent with my understanding of the JMM and unfortunately my prejudices against "community maintained" backends and ports of OpenJDK.

I would not be surprised if this surfaces on other places as well, AFAIK the JDK is full of such benign data races:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UykhZ36W04I&index=13&list=PL...
Well, as others have pointed out, it's not hard to read "think tank" as "pr firm".

You ought to love the amount of money the $POLITICAL_ALIGNMENT_YOU_HATE spends on "think tanks"; they consume vast piles of money and to a first approximation accomplish absolutely nothing. (A bit closer look and I wouldn't say they are completely achievement-free, but it's still a terrible way to spend money.)
BigDecimal claims to be an immutable class, with only non-mutating public methods. In C, the equivalent would be that every exposed function takes `const BigDecimal *`.

Even in C, it is fine for multiple threads to access the same data as long as they all read and don't write it.
The formula, as far as I could find, is:

1 / (2 * pi * bandwidth * 2 ^ bitdepth)

So for full scale 44/16 signal it is about 0.1 nanosecond.

More here [1]. There are also some sample files for ABX tests there.

[1] - https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,108987.msg896449.html...
I might be wrong, but I haven't found any reference on the Center for Disaster Philanthropy website of their non-profit status (e.g. 501(c)(3) organization). So my question is: are they a charity?
Google is undeniably important to people. And mainly because they've squeezed themselves into every part of our online lives. Facebook is less so, though it has become a platform that many businesses rely on.
Was just looking at this problem!
That doesn't happen to everyone. They are just a minor irritation for me, the bite itself is the worst part. Sometimes it'll itch for a couple days with a little pimple, but even that's rare.

I know people who bruise and break out horribly from them, though.
This reminds me, class D amplifiers are effectively using only 1-bit sampling (!!), the trick being it uses a high sample rate. And these are some of the best amplifiers around.
Black denim :)
PATA drives were still common enough ten years ago, maybe not in brand new machines but certainly in active ones and readily available as replacements/upgrades. Using a machine from ~10 years ago for document authoring isn't unusual. A good keyboard screen is more important than the rest of the machine for that sort of job - you don't need something new, fancy, & powerful, and many authors prefer an older machine because they can't run distractions well!
BigDecimal does not contain any mutable user visible state, so it should be usable by different threads without synchronisation of any kind (except the implicit synchronisation by means of "can I see pointer to that instance")

It is news because either there is bug in the BigDecimal or JVM in question that causes the above assumption to not hold.
Don't know about performance numbers, but one reason for headless browsers is so that you can run your tests on cheap small headless Linux servers.
I've seen it argued that multi-disc setups are where the loudness wars started.
When you can switch between CDs quickly, you start comparing how they sound. If the volume knob is left alone, the CD that is mastered louder is going to sound louder, and thus better.

Thus, people started mastering CDs for loudness.

An alternative idea of mine is simpler. Loud music is considered worse than quiet music (quiet music sounds worse, but loud music still does, and also bothers other people). So, when you need to pick a volume setting for your collection, you bias towards setting it lower, so the really loud ones don't become too loud. Thus, the quieter CDs are annoying because they always sound quiet, whilst the load CDs sound about right, because your volume is much more suitable for them.
There's an argument it inspired the internet or caused us to create it.
btw, Apple has far more than $15 billion in its cash pile. it's over $250 billion by some accounts

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/02/apples-cash-hoard-swells-to-...
I've never seen anything like the censoring by Google and Youtube over the last few weeks. Ron Paul of all people got all his videos demonetized for being "controversial". The most disgusting thing to me is that they don't delete the videos because they don't actually break any policies but they instead remove them from search and remove the ability to comment or share the videos, stifling any potential discussion.
Ruby, the gift that keeps on giving.
We expanded our team and are working on improvements to React Native SDK, which was initially a side project from one of our engineers. We’re excited to support the library and get it to feature parity with our native iOS, Android, and Qt SDKs.

Disclaimer: I work with the mobile team at Mapbox.
It all depends how you live. You can live frugally, also in Zurich.
So the error is... where? If you think I am beyond saving, at least point it out for the sake of any not-yet-lost souls reading.
I think one of the future innovations that will seem baffling to some of us will be mostly social and legal. In particular, I suspect the concept of income as a human right will become a reality. I won't debate the exact nature of why this will happen other than if you look at the rate of which wealth production has taken and how much of it is concentrated today it's inevitable that it won't stay that course much longer.
I like it! Thanks! I wish I had a product to sell :(
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Well, I agree here. However, it's pretty hard to include click tracking into plain text emails. So it may be complicating attributing revenue to those. The way out here would be utms or stuff like bit.ly
It's funny you bring that up, though. Farmer's markets have, on the other hand, seen a recent surge -- possibly even correlating with the decline of smaller produce, dairy, and other vendors. There's one at least once a week in every neighbourhood just about (still speaking Toronto).
Author here. It's slightly embarrassing that this turns out to be an old idea – it wasn't my intent to rip it off. I'm fairly sure I must have seen it a long time ago and then forgot about its origin. In retrospect I probably should have googled it.
But Google has much more global power. Amazon is in Europe and other places too, but nowhere strong as in the United States. Google, on the other hand, has most of the world under its arm, besides China and maybe Russia.
Good article, some of it's out of date already but still a really good piece of info if you want to build your own. I'd suggest just getting a ready-to-fly model first to practice on (husban x4 like). Then watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2Q2KdhtmFA Stu has some great ideas on how to get into the hobby for pretty cheap. Watch out on that x220 wizard, the FPV camera is crap and will be your first upgrade. :)
Does this offer any real benefit over Xvfb?
yep, especially when working on a large established code base, reading code written this way is an important skill set even if you don't write it.
This is my experience as well, although I am from rural Maryland rather than the Midwest.
Do you have any advice on how to get off of Karma with Angular 1 apps?
Adding to ^. You don't need to have the Xorg stuff running to run tests.
I'm torn between upvoting and downvoting this comment.
The plain text versions I was talking about are those well-formatted and structured ones. Where you get the minimalistic beauty of simple formatting. Markdown-style, maybe.
And who knows how many masterpieces have never been discovered, perhaps because their authors burnt them before anyone saw them? In some other timeline people are eternally grateful that XYZ's 1867 manuscript was found (just before s/he struck the match) and published and saved the world and founded a new religion of universal peace and happiness. Well, too bad we don't live in that timeline.

It's hard to miss what you never knew.
>I'm asking for actual evidence or even a supportive argument for what you're saying

It's hard to prove a negative, there's simply no evidence at all that anyone has ever used videogame money to launder the proceeds of unrelated crimes.

The idea also sounds fundamentally unlikely as videogame currency markets are pretty small¹ and actually getting the currency sold is a long and risky process.

>I've heard for many years that money laundering is common with online currencies

It is. But when people have purpose built solutions like Liberty Reserve and Perfect Money, nobody chooses to waste their time and money on messing with videogame currencies.

>Bitcoin mixing is also pretty expensive but people still do it, and prior to bitcoin or bitcoin mixing existing presumably people were using a more expensive alternative.

Bitcoin mixing has historically been very cheap, right now it still is below 1% cost if you're mixing more than a couple of coins at a time.

¹even for WoW, I used to sell gold
As long as you are comfortable with cigarette companies pointing to cancer-free smokers and saying "See! Smoking doesn't cause cancer!"
You are correct that this is allowed by the Java spec (1). Final fields are guaranteed to happen before reference assignment, and strings are explicitly mentioned. It appears to be an ARM JVM bug.

1. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-17.htm...