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The problem with this is is that it accepts the twelve-tone equal temperament system as a sort of absolute frame of reference, rather than the compromise/approximation that it is.

Musical scales are not just check-box menu choices out of twelve-tone equal temperament.
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I've always toyed with the idea of going to Burning Man but I'm turned off by how popular (read: the big, comfy trailers and the stratification of attendees) it has become. Is there a retreat that still is all about art / society-in-a-box?
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It's still funny that Banks infer rooting, and maybe even weirder, using a custom ROM equals a security vulnerability when usually the reverse is true.
Because the public are not accredited/sophisticated investors. It's to prevent them from being swindled.

How much did professional investors lose on Theranos alone (answer: Somewhere between $600-$800 million)?
>There is no evidence that Chinese characters come from cave paintings.

Sarcasm.

>Also, katakana can be used to emphasize Japanese words (like WE DO in English) (e.g. キミ).

Cool, didn't know that.

>...they agree that the writing system makes sense and delivers a lot of meaning in a small space.

I've done translation work with Greek, Spanish, English and dealt with Japanese in college (helping translate/edit my Japanese room mate's papers), and why on paper, many things may look a certain way, on a computer screen it's an entirely different world.

All the Spanish and Greek stuff took up more space, Spanish especially. But with the Japanese, the keyboards took up more space and were slow to type with. So, the comparisons between space and efficiency and all kinds of other metrics are not universal.

>But some parts are harder, like distinguishing long consonants and vowels, politeness levels for verbs and nouns, dropping subjects and other information implied by context, and the postfix word order.

Sure, but this is all subjective to you. "Harder" by definition is subjective. So you can't claim your statement (is harder) is any more or less valid than mine (is easier).

>"...in fact if you don't do this, you sound noticeably non-native."

So? Not a single Japanese could pronounce "level" or "really" correctly that I ever met. The details that iron out an accent are irrelevant in the question "is this language hard to learn".

>"I think overall, Japanese is okay to learn at a casual/colloquial level."

I guess I should have put that in my post. But again, I have relatives and friends that speak fluently and they've never had an issue saying it was harder than other languages. And everyone polyglot I've met said English was very hard.

All subjective.
Max Q occurs at roughly 40,000 feet for ground launched rockets.

If you start at 40,000 feet, you can accelerate largely sideways and reduce gravity losses without running into the atmosphere too hard and needing a stronger structure.
it's possible yes.

Though sometimes the speed limit is very, very low and it gets annoying to have your eyes constantly on the speedometer.
Just keep your phone in a wire mesh pouch. Oh wait...
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> fine print.
Ordinary text can be confusing. That is not a reason for not publishing, and one of the purposes of a journal's editors is to keep the confused and confusing stuff at bay.
Pretty common for tech companies, same like amazon IPO back in 1997, if that's what you meant "recently".
We changed the references to say liberally licensed. I'll try and write a bigger blog post about the reasoning behind Commons Clause and Dgraph and other companies' adoption of it.
Sure, if you define "recently" as the past couple decades...
Plenty of people have oddball things going on with their senses that they aren't conscious of. I knew one guy who wasn't aware of his colorblindness until he owned some navy and some black socks that were otherwise identical, which occasionally had humorous results, and another guy who couldn't get into the AF academy because of a similar problem (much less funny).

Being unaware of a problem with hearing is similarly easy. If a problem doesn't cause physical pain, doesn't have any real-world consequences, and doesn't physically manifest full-strength all at once, the brain can do a lot to keep us from noticing the existence or the progression of the problem.
This doesn't make much sense... yes, you can have two fully operational launch sites in different geographical locations but the payload can't be in two places at once. If you have bad weather where the payload is then you won't launch until after is passed.
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If we take the Equifax breach as an example here, and every person affected sued for even a very modest amount (say $10) and everyone wins their cases then we come to something like $1.5bn in damages, plus legal costs. Sure, that will probably work in that $10 is a gross underestimate, Equifax's market cap is ~$15bn, and their legal costs defending that many cases would be significant.

However, consider that it is very likely a small minority of those ~150m affected people are actually in a position to spend the time, money, and effort in actually suing and you end up in exactly the position you are now: Equifax doing fine and suffering no penalty for their actions. Class action suits aren't really a better suggestion either because they are typically settled for pennies-on-the-dollar, with the lion's share going to the lawyers anyway.

Suing might make sense where there's a small number of affected people, or where the damages per person are much higher, but when we're talking less than $1,000 damages per person it's really just not worth each individual's time or money to do so. This is _exactly_ the kind of thing regulation is good at protecting against.
The Xeon + FPGA that was actually underway before the acquisition and based on pre-acquisition technology (Arria 10).
It has potential, but when I want to unwind and fire up a game, the last thing I want to do is deal with the rigmarole of alpha software
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Thanks for the correction. I lost motivation to keep following up F# tools being also ran for C# and VB.NET.
Can the bots learn from the previously played international matches?
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The press can just give intel a "Don't buy" rating with a comment that intel has something to hide, we don't know what but you would be a fool to even consider them when you can't know if they are any good. Technically I can't even show the latest intel is faster than a old i386 that I'm finally ready to replace, while I can show the AMD is better.
I didn't have the concept of the eschaton until today, looks like an interesting rabbit hole to explore.
dedicated circuitry != FPGAs.

GPU's avoid the overhead of FPGAs while still retaining a lot of flexibility.
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Because that's not investing and it's also not "slightly-risky," it's straight-up risky.
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Of course a 50-hour employee is productive, but would you say consistently over a longer number of weeks he's 12.5% more productive than a 40-hour employee?

To give myself as an example: I work out 3-4 times a week, spend my time effectively reading books, playing the piano regularly and spend some quality time with my wife. These activities I would not be able to do would I work consistently 60+ hours a week. Nonetheless, it has had and continues to have a profound positive impact on my energy levels, motivation, communication and creative reasoning.
Yes but there are no whales that can go 4000 meters deep. This is a fact. The article says they are going 4000+. So what is going on here? The fact that fish might be able to do this, which are in a different animal kingdom, isn't being disputed -- that's all great and wonderful but the article is talking about whales. Whales not fish.
>Wikileaks is a Russian propaganda machine.

>They are only interested in Anti-America leaks, not all leaks.

Any evidence to prove this? If you go to Wikileaks there are leaks from all around the world. I personally am very glad Wikileaks exists, doing the work they do, and still has never been proven incorrect or fraudulent.

By the way, Anti-American leaks are also Pro-American leaks, even if they may not be favorable to your own political beliefs.
I don’t have any problems with the commons clause in principle but I think they (the commons coalition or whatever they are) should just create a new license. Like commons-apache2.0 or something. Saying you’re Apache licensed is kind of dishonest because it’s not really.
Prosperity is shockingly hard to measure for something so quantifiable - nothing quantifiable alone works as a standard. If everyone has their weight in gold but are near starving that isn't prosperous. Similarly if food becomes cheap enough it utterly fails to be a meaningful indicator because everyone has enough. Even currency can fail - if Star Trek replicators and free energy were available it would certainly qualify as prosperous even if economic value chains break for many things due to sheer lack of things to trade for.

Thus we have weird and shapeable metrics of varying use even without pushing an agenda. What do you call a tiny supercomputer that were previously unavailable to even governments more expensive healthcare and housing? Using 1940s terms a homeless person with a cellphone would be the richest man in the world as it would be priceless given the ungodly expense and time to catch up to it.

Utility is technically the true way to measure but good luck unambiguously quantifying it, much less in a way everyone could agree with.
Your comment is incredibly unhelpful and does not contribute to the discussion. HN is not the kind of platform to shitpost on.
It's best to think of it as a real limited thread you can shunt off some of the work to.

Effectively, a shader is no different than any other bit of code you have. Anything you can do in a shader you can do on the main program thread (and vice versa). Now, things you typically want to do with a shader are better done by the GPU for various reasons. Better floating point math processor, pipelines more suited for the task, etc.

And you can make the shaders generic enough to reuse for multiple applications. Basically the shader says "Hey, here's where the light source is, here's the luminosity, here's the color, here's what it is shining on, here's how the color changes."

And being essentially dedicated number crunchers, people realized that not everything sent to a graphics card needed to actually render. You could make a shader to do something crazy, like solve complex equations more quickly than a generic CPU could. So if this was 8 years ago, you might decide to write a shader that could effectively mine bitcoins. Which is what people did and why good graphics cards have become crazy expensive.
> Men are harmed more by divorce, but also simultaneously better off when they are single in their 50ties?

Not simultaneously, men paying for a divorce are at an obvious disadvantage, and I was saying that men in their 40s are better off, not men in their 50s (though that's generally true [at least fiscally, at the cost of health and potential] as well).

> This is completely irrelevant. Men who live alone also die faster and suffer more.

Middle aged unattached men (who have not sabotaged themselves) have an easier time not being alone, generally (even if a significant number choose not to take the initiative).

> The post you was responding to was about marriage 1868

I am responding to a contemporary continuance of this belief, I don't think I can comment well at all on the historic balance of benefits and drawbacks for the parties of a marriage in 1868. If this is the main bone being picked, I'm sorry for causing confusion.
Dr. Oke's site about the 22 tone (“shruti”) music system
When I say simplified stack I mean fewer tools that must be learned and managed by people. Jenkins simplifies in that way.
Pray tell, what is that lifestyle? What has changed?

People lived in homes both rented and owned, there were few big flats of apartments. They didn't have cars but used bikes and public transport.

They had comparable quality food if not better. Ate somewhat less meat. Slept better and longer. Worked similar or shorter hours. (with exceptions)

More worked physical jobs, but a sizable number ran office jobs.

They tended to be more locally sociable and active I suspect too.

Fewer went to get higher education.
Author of https://dgraph.io here. I'd say this is one of the best collaborations we've done. Due to Jepsen tests, we were able to proactively identify and fix issues in a complex real time distributed graph DB, that is Dgraph. Dgraph's graph sharding, replication and transaction implementation is unique and it took more work to make it all work correctly, while still achieving good performance, and without utilizing any third party system.

I'd like to thank Kyle for his work on Dgraph. We'll continue to expand Jepsen tests to try and identify more issues and fix the remaining ones.

I'm around if you have questions! Cheers, Manish
You can sell GPL'd software (on its own or as a service), you can't sell Commons Cause software as a service.
Having participated in a lot of countercultural gatherings, I was initially intrigued about Burning Man. But if you hear about an event from the mass media, instead of through word of mouth in your own small countercultural community, chances are that the event is already past its prime. After hearing lots of old-timers talk about how Burning Man was in the 1990s, and then hearing more recent attendees describe their experiences, I have long since got the feeling that BM is now as played out as, say, Goa was after 1972, or Nimbin after about 1980.
>Motherboard was able to verify that the researcher had access to Spyfone’s monitored devices’ data by creating a trial account, installing the spyware on a phone, and taking some pictures. Hours later, the researcher sent back one of those pictures.

I love that they told us exactly how they verified it. Too often in the news do we just get "was verified" or "an independent source verified," which, I get that you gotta protect sources, but still doesn't give any insight into their methodology. I could ask for example "how do you know you can trust your independent source?" because I have no idea their history together.

Tech news like this is a bit easier to actually show your work for, but even when that's the case so many security articles or people on Twitter don't show the money like this. As much as everyone likes shitting on bitfi, for example, it was quite a while before someone actually demonstrated a hack was done, with reproducible methodology, rather than just blow smoke about how it's insecure.
I think this only true for those that didn't have pre-iPhone smart phones.

The iPhone was a massive upgrade to anyone using a flip phone still, but an evolutionary upgrade to people that had been using Palm Pilots, Blackberry's, and other devices since the late 90's.
The conservation of developer's time (and company money) at the expense of the users' time and money is the epitome of an externality. It's clear that we'd all be a bit better off if user's time was valued more. But who's going to pay to make that happen?
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> Another question you could answer would be “if I start on a road trip at 6PM, what time would it be when I get to my destination 16 hours later?”. That would be 6 + 16 mod 12 which is 10.

So many things wrong here. Why would you represent 6PM as "6"? And then you mod 12, which will only give the correct response between 12AM and 11AM. If you'd said 18 hours later you'd think you were arriving at midnight. It's a bad example anyway; why would you care what hour you arrive but not which day?
vorite quote "You can often view glimpses of ingeniousness... not as inexplicable miracles, but as the residue of experience." Did he pen that one or borrow it from someone else?

Although I can't say it hasn't been said before, that's a common theme in his videos.
"Leaving no trace"

What is the carbon footprint of this festival?

They should rephrase that to "Leaving no visible trace"
Hyman Minsky argues that "hot messes of unprofitability" tend to be a common phenomenon after long periods of economic success. Stability breeds instability. Tech didn't introduce this behavior.

> In particular, over a protracted period of good times, capitalist economies tend to move from a financial structure dominated by hedge finance units to a structure in which there is large weight to units engaged in speculative and Ponzi finance. Furthermore, if an economy with a sizeable body of speculative
financial units is in an inflationary state, and the authorities attempt to exorcise inflation by monetary constraint, then speculative units will become Ponzi units and the net worth of previously Ponzi units will quickly evaporate. Consequently, units with cash flow shortfalls will be forced to try to make position by selling out position. This is likely to lead to a collapse of asset values.

"The Financial Instability Hypothesis", p. 8 [1]

[1] http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp74.pdf
I am one of those people who is very productive with side projects. I operate a YouTube channel and website and I design 3D printed robots which I am building all the time.

It does take a lot of energy. People often are surprised I can do it, and say “ah you must not have kids”. Which is true, I don’t have kids.

And I know that having kids means devoting a significant amount of your attention to them.

Still, I feel like I will continue to crank out new projects even once I have kids. I’m sure my time spent on those projects would drop, but I doubt I’d stop entirely.

I have friends who have no kids who don’t work on projects like I do. I think some people are just wired to churn and others aren’t. I have a friend who struggles to get much done on weekends, while I am kind of non stop moving. I think it’s a personality thing.
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It’s not really Apache though. That’s the problem I see with it. If you tell me you’re Apache licensed I shouldn’t be surprised when I open your license file.
Well, at least they didn't make excuses or delay things, just said "don't worry I fixed it" basically. That's about the same thing I tell datacenters when they catch me seeding torrents.
I saw a tweet somewhere (IIRC in the anandtech sidebar, unfortunately I'm not finding it right now) where the poster speculated that it was the EULA for a beta version of the microcode which leaked into the final version.
Not really. My generally-reasonable local bank has a sign up asking people to remove hats and sunglasses (I don't). It's about pushing whatever they think helps their security, often at the expense of yours.

Google isn't going to use its control of your phone to directly transfer money out of your bank account - that would be illegal, so Google is not a threat to the bank.

You are under attack from Google, and taking back ownership of your phone is a necessary step to defending against this. It's just not the bank's concern.
I think getting rid of the history API is really the only way to do this since it lets pages escape the browser chrome. No code from a page should affect the behavior of the chrome elements. It's always ends up being used maliciously.
The definition of "open source" never changed. Apache and the GPL are both open source licenses. Appending the Commons Clause removes the zeroth freedom (FSF lingo) or the first clause (OSI lingo).

https://opensource.org/osd

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
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A proper apology is not just “sorry,” but includes an acknowledgment of what they did wrong and that they’ll avoid doing the same thing again. Showing that they realize the nature of the problem and will at least pretend to not do it again would be good.
Here's the update: https://01.org/mcu-path-license-2018

found via https://twitter.com/imadsousou/status/1032680311753072640
I mean ... it slopes down to vegetarianism. I like meat, but a world without meat doesn't sound like hell or anything.

Probably not what you meant, but I have kind of an aversion to the phrase "slippery slope", as I think people use it to imply that we shouldn't consider a point because we might not like all the ramifications.

If it turns out all the things I eat are writing ballads about how sad it is that they all get eaten, I'd rather know than not.
Interesting. Almost like a tragedy of the commons - each individual is so "laser focused" on their own impact that it eventually leads to them plundering the cumulative value for users.
I worked like this for a whole year (well, not five minutes walk, but ten), and it was golden. It was the best feeling, being able to eat fresh prepared food (I pre-prepared it in advance so I was able to make it ready to eat in < 20') and then take a power nap before going back to work!

No one is convincing me a commute is better than this.
As an early Eventbrite employee who saw the company grow from 10 to 200 people, this feels surreal.
Agreed, and I've seen this elsewhere too. There's always this implicit assumption that people who don't have kids will naturally spend that extra time at work.

Work/life balance is important for everyone.
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Mobile view includes only one picture; desktop view two. Pretty slim either way considering.
I think first impression is important but not a key indicator of long term success. The first iPhone unlocked the mobile web browsing use case, which is huge. People had always wanted to browse the web, just not on mobile. That alone makes the first iPhone a revolutionary product. Magic Leap One has to create new user behavior, which is much much harder.
I think it's disengenuous to say liberally licensed. Liberally licensed might apply to MIT or even Apache alone, but not when you include the Commons Clause. But it's a subjective measure, so you're not making factually incorrect statements even if you are being dishonest.

Your updated statement also says "Dgraph is available under an Apache v2.0 based liberal license", which I think is unfairly using the Apache 2.0 name without clarifying that your license in fact is not open source. The language is still dishonest.
Yes, I installed it that way.

CD-Roms were not on all computers until after the game Myst came out.
C'est la vie.

I mean, effectively anything you can do with a GPU shader, can be done by the CPU, so it seemed reasonable to me that you could make something functionally equivalent for the CPU and call it a shader.

It started feeling like the difference between "programming language" and "scripting language" in my head.
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Sometimes I wonder why Little Woman has been/is being adapted for film so many times, where as there hasn't been a proper adaptation of Huckleberry Finn.
That makes much more sense. If that's what happened, Intel should just come out and say it. Own your mistakes, or at least adopt this lie if it wasn't a mistake, simply because it's plausible and will help them save face from a PR perspective. (The Nobel Lie as it would be).
I think you're making a faulty assumption. 100 messages is not 100 people. It could be 5 short conversations; it could be a couple of long ones.

1 message != 1 person.
The definition has not changed, "Open Source" arose as a reaction against GPL/FSF/etc. so that code could truly be open for any and all.
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