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I've never heard of this, but it might work on an acoustic guitar. Solid body electric guitars are sonically pretty much dead (maybe if you put the paper on top of the amp or a flat surface near the amp).

I just tested, and the results were inconclusive. Maybe I was doing it wrong, but there was nowhere I could put the paper that would result in movement when out of tune but not in tune. If I put the paper on the sound board with the guitar laying flat on its back, the paper didn't move much in either case; just a little bit of vibration/rattle. If I put it across the strings, it would fall off whether in tune or out (as I would expect, but I figured I'd try all the obvious options).

Perhaps I just don't know the proper chordal incantation, but I assume some combination of fourths and/or fifths or octaves, since those are the ones that will be very consonant/smooth/non-beaty when in tune and will beat very clearly when out of tune even a little bit.
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Nothing says pathos like incorrect use of question marks?
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HN didn't allow me to spell it out in the title, i meant to say that i updates the meetup tables with the next meetups through API calls to meetup.com
I don't see "owning a gun" there, which just makes this just your interpretation, nothing more.

Are you defensively viable without a gun, against someone with a gun, and are you likely to run into that situation? That's a question that you should be free to decide. Furthermore, I don't see why that's a decision you can morally impose upon another person. If a society can say that the life-and-death decisions around abortion should be the domain of individual choice, then how can this be different for the the life-and-death decisions around personal defense? Both are fundamentally about the right of self-determination with regards to the integrity of one's own life and one's own body.
A lot of people in Connecticut honestly believe Lyme disease was a direct result of Three Mile Island. I find the conspiracy hilarious but others take it as fact
Actually not having windows phone makes things easier. Developers only need to care about desktop.
Amazon has failed at a lot of things.

Amazon search, A9, was originally meant to take on Google back in 2003 as a comprehensive search solution. It failed spectacularly at that.

The Amazon phone, a shot at Apple's massive profits. A total failure.

Amazon attempted to take on eBay in auctions, they failed.

Amazon attempted to take on Craigslist in classified ads, another failure.

Amazon has been attempting to figure out a way to dominate the music category for 15+ years, they've repeatedly failed. They're very far behind Apple and Spotify when it comes to stand-alone music services.

Amazon's local daily deals service, Amazon Local, failed (shut-down in 2015). They also burned $175m on LivingSocial during the Groupon mania years as part of that overall sector effort.

They attempted a competing mapping service to Google Maps, that ended up being a mediocre product (with a few technical innovations) that nobody used. They quickly discovered how difficult and expensive it is to build a competing product to Google Maps.

Amazon failed with travel, attempting to go after Priceline's profits, they shut down Amazon Destinations in 2015.

They failed with Local Register, which was some kind of mediocre shot at Square's market.

Amazon essentially takes shots at anything that pops up and demonstrates an ability to make money. They fail overwhelmingly, and then very rarely they get a homerun like AWS which pays for it all many times over.
#1 is certainly a big factor, no disagreement. However, I've seen very little if anything that would imply Japanese women have a problem with this. If they do prefer being a homemaker (as I would based on the insane Japanese work culture), there's not really any conflict.
I think that's a little different. Even with the fun variable names, the Python docs are pretty damn professional.

They haven't always been that way. The Python docs back around 2000 were not that great. A lot of work has been put in by people in the community to get them to the state they're in.
The police aren't the problem. They're just the enforcers. The problem is that nobody wants to deal with homelessness. They just want the homeless to go somewhere else. And one mechanism is harassment by the courts.
It probably was a two bedroom. When I moved to SF in 1994, I was sharing a four-bedroom on South Van Ness that cost $1200 total.

The next big rent spike came around '98 or so, as the dot com boom was in full swing. Rents didn't only shoot up, it got so that there was no housing left to be had. You could show up to an open rental with stellar credit and references, only to have someone else offer the landlord 25% above the asking rent, and pay the entire first year in advance.
> that's not really the point.

That's exactly the point though. If you put amount of people you are likely to reach above technical problems, then going solely to a service where the "high" follower count is 1/100th of the high follower counts on another is completely stupid.

> But my other point remains - there is no need to be exclusively on one or the other. It's comparatively trivial to put everything on both media.

Oh, I agree.
Sure, but first, who are all of these Austrian economists who think Ron Paul, the most famous proponent of their brand of economics, is full of shit and when did they call him out on it?
Having free money after a lifetime of working that you feel you contributed to seems different from having it available before you've worked before.
Out of curiosity, did you mean you have eight kids, or your kid is eight years old?

Because if it's the former, I'm impressed you have even one second to be on HN!
Again, as mentioned above, read up on East Germany. All your questions about "why is this bad?" have already been lived by tens of thousands of hapless people.
No. It might have violated their contracts with retailers, but any recourse from that would have been civil, not criminal.

An interesting question is how long it’s material for. Clearly it’s material while it’s a meaningful portion of their total revenue or per-store sales. There’s an argument that buying your own product is material long after real revenue has grown, though, because it’s likely to have an impact if publicly discovered. Basically it becomes a skeleton in the closet, and as long as that skeleton is (a) known to the company and (b) newsworthy (and thus likely to impact the company’s perception and valuation), there’s an least an argument it still needs to be disclosed.
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Still we are talking about the underlining infrastructure here. While not versed in all the details of ICANN's policies I am actual surprised there no policy stopping a registrar from doing this.

I can understand hosting, but I think DNS records should held to higher standards. People don't like governments messing with the DNS system why should we give a private company a pass?
The problem with rent control is that it causes developers to build less.

This is certainly a problem that will happen in a purely competitive market.

But the SF housing market is NOT a competitive market. The bottleneck for developers to build more houses is the government that prevents them from doing so.

So i'd recommend focusing on getting rid of the other barriers to more housing before focusing on rent control.

Or in other words, rent control is indeed a bottleneck. But the thing with bottle necks is that only the smallest bottleneck matters.

Getting rid of the less bad bottleneck of rent control will do absolutely nothing unless the OTHER bottlenecks are addressed first.
Your epidemiologist pals wouldn’t laugh at the idea of freezing thousands upon thousands of ticks every warm season?

I tend to think they would.

Tick borne illnesses are unfortunate, but for people who live in rural areas like I (and apparently jjeaff) have lived, where we would keep jars of isopropyl alcohol around in which everyone could put the the few dozen ticks they’d pick off their clothes and bodies during a one hour meeting, holding on to an individual tick just seems ridiculous.

If you get a red rash, or lethargy, by all means, go to the doctor. But in areas with high tick counts but low tick borne illness prevalence, tracking individual ticks just sounds silly.
Exactly. I am a strict calorie counter and I am not overweight. (155# 5’10” 55 year old man). Sometimes I have hostess cupcakes for breakfast. (330 calories). Sometimes I have a Big Mac for lunch (550 calories). It’s hilarious when fat people talk about ‘whole foods’ and ‘mindful eating’. It’s calories.
Dude, I can see what you're saying, but as somebody who apparently does this professionally you need to work on how you get your point across.

I've lost over 15KG/35 pounds since the start of the year doing nothing but CICO - it's not incorrect to say that Calories is the king when it comes to how to lose the weight.

For everything else you are saying, it's not wrong either - anybody who starts CICO pretty quickly discovers that "Yes I can eat anything, but my god I will be hungry at 7pm if I used all my Calories on KFC and Donuts" - but don't keep saying simply that "Counting calories is not going to work".

Edit to add: and my wife and I have done this all with cooking home made meals at least 5-6 nights a week. It only takes a minute to enter a recipe in a calculator app.
Uber made the article and it’s not like they’re known for washing their hands in Ivory liquid.
I can't remember the specific name, but it was within the XPosed framework (which I don't know whether is still supported, I'm out of the loop).
(Spoiler alert: you got me, InfoSec typically does love this stuff. If it was just up to InfoSec, these types of things would be approved because they are so well organized and easy to understand. The alternative being, to deal with another vendor that has another completely different security model, which InfoSec actually has to do all the time.)

Fact is InfoSec is not at liberty to set priorities for new technology development. I have to either drag the whole group with me at an institutional pace, or get someone at a higher pay grade "who will stake their career on it," in order to help me meet my goals, which really may or may not be achievable simply by means of adopting this advancement. On the other hand, lots of people who are not InfoSec like to "help" with the ostensible jobs of InfoSec, ...

which is often seen as simply delaying progress until the problem can be fully understood and the solution agreed to by a quorum? Man I can't wait that long

I'm a bit salty can you tell
Rms was in the clear wrong. This is a professional setting,that joke wasn't professional.

If you wouldn't say it at a work meeting then it's probably not a good idea to say the same in a commit or a serious thread of a foss project.

Although I don't like the joke,it's not so much the content of the joke but rather where the joke was spoken that seemed inappropriate.

I am not offended. much like a coworker coming to work topless in shorts won't offend me;I'd just think that attire is best for outdoors or the beach instead of an office.
"Ego" is a European word so why would Buddha use it? Please try to stay on topic.
Agreed. While the tactics are great and undoubtedly effective it should be classified as a lesser used word these days - Marketing.
Is your assertion that k8s suffers from "second system syndrome" when compared to Borg?
Worse than awful! Back in 2002, I wrote about the problems with using databases to mine data for catching terrorists. The problem is that the number of terrorists is tiny and the natural error rate of the database hovers around 5%, so you're having a slew of false positives all the time. It's practically worthless unless you happen to be selling these types of systems. Digital snake oil.
RMS needs to be removed from his dictator position in GNU. This is just one of many times that he has hurt a GNU project. He has held many projects back because he is so behind the times and stubborn, not to mention holding the FSF back. This behavior isn't limited to mailing lists, either. He breaks LibrePlanet conference rules every year to interject and rant during talks he disagrees with. I appreciate him for founding the free software movement and writing so much great software in the early days, but it's no longer the RMS show.
> (and to be fair, free theorems are only interesting when polymorphism is involved which I definitely didn’t want to go into).

"there's a thing called polymorphism, and it means 'of many forms', what it means is that if you put the thing in, you're guaranteed to get a specific type of thing out, but it might be different depending on what you put in. So you put words into the machine, and letters come out, but if you put lists of numbers in, numbers come out."
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> Sure it protects removing things that are obscene, lewd, or excessively violent.

Or—and all these are in the view of the provider or a user—“otherwise objectionable”.

> But it absolutely does not protect against viewpoint or political discrimination.

Since political content could quite easily make either the provider or a user view content as objectionable, this claim does not seem to be grounded in the text. If you are prepared to cite case law or some other basis for accepting your claim that the definition of “otherwise objectionable” is limited in the way you suggest, I'd sure like to see that citation.

Furthermore, even if it was outside the scope of the Good Samaritan protection as you claim, the “shall not be considered the publisher” safe harbor is nowhere made contingent on not taking actions that are outside of Good Samaritan protection with regard to removing content.

> The whole idea that a company can just censor certain viewpoints is false. They will lose their legal immunity if they do that.

This is an interesting contention about the law, but while you keep repeating it, you haven't supported it.
I already told you what is safe: Your headlamps must illuminate a distance within which you can stop (including reaction time). With 50km/h this is ~40m. This is a distance that your low-beams will illuminate even in a dark night. If you want to drive faster you need high-beams or some other sources of light (street lamps).

If you don't overdrive your headlamps than objects will not just "suddenly" appear in front of you unless they are doing something genuinely stupid (e.g. jumping in front of the car). In this case the policy or a judge will decide whether you were driving prudent or safe.

We have collisions (during day and night) mainly because people don't pay attention or don't follow some basic rules (visibility, distance to car in front,...). This isn't rocket science. Don't blame fate or "general risk" if you cause a collision.
I wish I could make RMS, and you, and everyone who agrees with you, live in a sort of reverse-Kantian world, where whatever you advocate for as acceptable behavior when you do it becomes a universal law of conduct for other people to use when interacting with you.

No matter how much of a "thick skin" you may think you have, I'd lay money that in a world which truly worked this way, you'd last under an hour before abandoning your position and calling for stronger social norms against being an ass to people.
How much energy does it take to turn CO2 back into oil? Is there a viable synthesis pathway? Carbon neutral oil would be fabulous. I'm guessing you have to spend a significant amount of energy to turn it back into oil, but is it 1.01x? 1.5x? 10x? 200x? The lower range would be viable to work with other kinds of renewables.

Can't store solar at night? Turn atmospheric carbon into oil. It doesn't have to be cheaper than oil (it almost certainly can't be unless it gets too hard to drill), but we can subsidize it within some kind of range.

EDIT: Oh cool, some people are trying this.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/407748/making-gasoline-fr...

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/09/feature-there-s-too-...
>anti-intellectualism in America, where a gifted and intelligent man is persecuted by his idiot compatriots.

In what sense, please, is this a novelty?
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Alternatively, a bunch of us could get together and change the laws, so as to make the city better.

The more people who get screwed by housing, the more political power we will gain, until something eventually gives out, and we start winning the political game.
Paradoxically, in some places horns are used much more liberally and if you spend much time there that's the feeling you start getting from a honk. Like a "hey just wanted to let you know I'm behind you".
"While RMS has undoubtedly contributed much to the FOSS community"

RMS would vehemently disagree with you: he founded the Free Software community, and has nothing to do with Open Source Software.
I just finished reading The Dictators Handbook and it's crazy how these same principals seem to apply to OSS organizations.

This is more about politics than anything else, and hopefully everyone involved will learn it shouldn't be.
Some of it is to thwart legit owners of things, but also a fair amount to deter casual vandalism or even saboteurs.
Annoyingly since they moved to the continuous publishing model I'm disincentivized to subscribe, as I haven't the discipline to defer reading until Thursdays, and so I can't continue enjoying LWN like I had for the previous decade -- half an hour or more of uninterrupted high quality reading guaranteed once a week

If I don't renew my subscription on the other hand, I get a week-old weekly edition just like I want. My subscription lapsed for a few months recently, and honestly the experience was better. It's infuriating!
I think you know perfectly well what I meant.
And especially don’t listen to anyone who is overweight. They are like crabs in a bucket and will try to pull you back in.
One thing that makes this easier is being rich. What I mean by that is for example, when my kid is asking me questions or wants to "do it myself!", the fact that I have a flexible schedule helps immensely, and that flexible schedule is possible because I can turn down work that doesn't give me that flexibility.

If I had a strict clock-in/clock-out job, and only had limited time to run errands, I'd have a lot less patience for waiting for my kid to do stuff or answering her questions.

I consider myself very lucky that I have that privilege and can pass that on to my kids.
There were an estimated 800+ Bitcoin ATMs in 2017 in the US, 75.71% of the total
What's the "big lie" of VC's not funding businesses that you literally can't finance with venture capital?

But that's not why I replied. I replied because you suggested that actually trying to build a business would make you less attractive to VCs. It will not. Even people who eventually hope to raise should still use common sense and basic good business planning to acquire customers.
> The gay couple's cake is a category of _people_ being refused service. The gun assembly video is a category of _topic_ being censored.

So should it be OK for a bakery to refuse to bake wedding cakes for gay couples, as long as it's willing to bake other kinds of products for gay people? In other words, it's refusing only to provide service to the specific topic of gay marriage, not gay people generally; gay people can still use the rest of the bakery's services, just not services involving gay weddings specifically.

E.g., a gay person can order a cake for another straight person's wedding, or can order any other product. As a thought experiment, this should suffice to categorize the bakery's action as a "topic" being refused service (gay marriage) rather than category of people.

I have to agree with the original comment that it does seem spurious that companies in some cases are allowed to choose their customers, and are not in others. I understand that laws have been passed to create these distinctions, but I don't see a solid ethical foundation underlying which distinctions should to be protected or not.

At some point it feels to me like the services offered by these companies will become so integral to the fabric of society that they'll become "public goods" of a sort. Would we tolerate it if the phone company refused service to gun's rights advocates, or if airlines or bus companies refused them transportation? In legal fact, perhaps they could, but in reality they do not - however, Internet firms like Google and Facebook ban large swaths of content off their platforms.

As the Internet becomes vital to our lives and interpersonal communication, it's beginning to feel unfair that private companies have such tremendous and capricious control over these pseudo-public spaces.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16975706
I don't know why you say the left in Latin America favors restrictions on abortion.

I am a Latin American and can say it's just not so - at least in the countries I know, the left is usually pushing for more sex ed, and more availability of abortion.

It'd be interesting to know _where_ in Latin America the left favors the restrictions on abortion - at least to document that perspective and share it around.
REQUEST: jq is great for json - but is there a "jq for xml"?

Some webservices are still only available in xml (e.g. uv levels). I currently use XMLStarlet for xml in the terminal. There are extra annoyances in xml that you can't avoid (like namespaces), but it could be a lot closer to jq.
Funny, I had the exact opposite experience when it comes to APIs. Doesn't AWS have a PM for every product with different API each time? Tried to build something like a terraform using boto only to give up after dealing with inconsistent APIs for about 2 weeks.
> What I'm waiting for, though, is for a big player to do a modern, clean "Kubernetes first" cloud offering.

As someone who is feeling burned over picking swarm over k8s, I'm not super into the idea of trusting a 3rd party to do k8s first.

Anything anyone implements well will be ported to gke in due time, no?
Quick update here: You can now use Nanoscope without flashing a device by launching the Nanoscope Emulator.

This feature was largely implemented as a result of on hackernews and reddit.
The entire thing that the ML fanboys need to figure out is the entire underlying logic of ML and statistical methods in general is that averages wash away quirks. In fact, that is their power and what people who traditionally deal with numbers know and use daily when we utilize averaging. So, ML and statistically derived math will work in the typical case but will not deal with exceptions well. This is why people (people whom I've found are NOT actual researchers) who are predicting we'll all be jobless by 2050 need to chill it out and realize the limits of current statistical methods.
I understand that the term "growth hack" isn't well defined but still - most of these are just old school marketing techniques used by tech cos. A few novel ideas worth learning from but that's about it.
Bitcoin is a meaningless fraction of global finance. Less than 0.1%. It's also a meaningless fraction of finance in the US and China. I fail to see how it's relevant at all to the discussion.
The early days of computing was very informal and full of jokes. Didn't stop people from creating some of the most long-lasting and technically successful tools.