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> I don't believe in the eradication of advertizement, just that it has reached a level of permeation that subjecting my visitors to even more of it is something I do not believe in.

Most people can tune out things they're not interested in.

Just as you walk down a street, you are bombarded with shop signage, and you filter out the ones that interest you, and the ones that don't. You read a magazine, and when faced with an advert that's not relevant or interesting, you turn the page.

There are certainly people who do not have the ability to cope well with adverts on the internet, and for them, adblock exists.
That depends on what you're listening to. For all my progressive/power metal, 128 just sounds terrible and empty. I'm not very well versed in the terminology, so I don't know how better to describe it. On the contrary, 320 sounds full.

My two cents.
Well, the Scala developers are currently moving their build system to Scala. This means they can fully bootstrap their language/compiler, library and build system from one source language.

The .NET port has only added some minor changes to the compiler (which have actually uncovered a bug in the compiler implementation!) and most of the .NET backend works as a compiler plugin, just like the JVM backend or the LLVM backend.
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People make a lot of those kinds of qualitative statements about sound quality, but when they actually do a rigorous A/B test they usually can't tell the difference.

I've done quite a bit of A/B testing on metal at ~128 kbits and it's very difficult to spot differences on most tracks. Modern lossy audio encoders are very, very good.
> That's not even true.

Today I needed to determine if any resources were 404ing on a page. Yesterday I wanted to see the exact POST request my browser was sending. I did both on FF using the inbuilt developer tools. I'm sure they may not replace every piece of Firebug functionality, but I didn't say they did.

> People like you are the major regression to the interwebs. Very seriously.

I've flagged your post. Please read http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Is it just me or does this smack of security by obscurity - as long as the great firewall of China/Iran/Whomever does not recognise the packets are hiding the real destination in their headers, then they will let the packets pass and anonymous surfing can continue.

But somehow the telex station does, without initially decrypting every packet. So I guess the arms race will be a short one as whatever telex uses as a decrypt me signal will be replicated.

Unfortunately, and rather ironically, my client's proxy is blocking telex.cc so I cannot read any details on the steganography.
Perhaps not the central point but certainly relevant if people are up in arms about a non-feature.
Hey Daryl,

What does your project do? I might be interested. What I'm really looking for, is an easy way to give a small group of people (like people who respond in a hacker news comment) a full version of my app for evaluation purposes.
What your case shows is that the due process worked. If the professor had called you into the office and said, "Instead of handing this over to the honor court, I am going to deduct 30% from your score," that would have been far more unfair and built far more ill will.

To put it another way, a professor should focus on teaching and let those tasked with investigating cheating and listening to excuses sort it out.

And yes it can and should be as impersonal as a parking ticket. Cheating is a simple violation, and it behooves a teacher to forgo emotional investment in each case. Avoiding interrogations and Perry Masonesque cross-examinations would seem like a good way to avoid such an investment. When 1:5 students in a 100 person course is doing so, reporting cheating is a purely administrative matter of the same sort as turning in low grades for poor students - which hopefully is something the author still does not find to be too much bother.
What this, and indeed the whole monologue, emphasises for me is that the teachers should probably not be involved in the process of disciplining students. It's wasting their time and decreasing their effectiveness.

Create a position (or probably department) for quality control. Automatically send "you plagiarised, warning" letters to the student and the person who paid for the course if the submitted work receives a score above X threshold for plagiarism (this threshold to be chosen by an inter-university body and preferably standardised across universities).

Obviously a student would be able to appeal and have proper analysis done by a department member. A second warning without appeal would get a student a P grade for "admitted plagiarism".

This way the teacher just teaches, just marks the work submitted and the administrative duty of notifying students that their plagiarism has been spotted is separated and codified.
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I suppose to extend that analogy: the newspapers didn't believe they were biting the hand that was feeding. They saw it more as cutting off the other hand that pushed their heads towards the food.

Google is saying both hands are equivalent, but the newspapers are saying they want one hand to feed them, and the other to keep away.

I can buy that, actually. Sure, I don't agree with the initial ruling, but IMHO de-indexing the newspapers from the search engine was unnecessarily retaliatory. I can understand why Google did it, but having made their point, I think they should gracefully back down claiming ignorance. This is a clear misuse of their 'monopoly' on web search for benefit in other areas.

EDIT: Oh good, my Google fanboi-ness is not in vain. The court ruling actually ordered that links be removed from "Google Web [sic]" as well. Oh well, the joke's on the newspapers then, as it appears they asked for it! (see roel_v's comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2776384)
A red dwarf from 1000 au would only look like a moderately bright star, won't it?

On the other hand, it would be close enough that if aliens inhabited, they could send a probe with present-day human level of technology. That is, the nearby star would serve as a stepping stone and an excuse to bridge the gap to interstellar space. Compare it to our Alpha Centauri, which lies just shy of 300K au, a relatively costly cosmic barrier to entry.

But for our neighbourhood, there is still the possibility of a brown dwarf or Jupiter-sized world lurking in the depths of our Oort cloud. Alternative destinations are 500-750au which would be good spots to place a telescope (exploiting the Sun as a gravitational lens) http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=10123 . You need intermediary objectives to make interstellar exploration a more realizable goal.
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If you can reliably A/B test properly encoded 160kbit mp3s you have exceptional hearing and you should lend your services to the lame tuning team ASAP. I'll warn you though, these kinds of claims very very rarely hold up to a rigorous test now.
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In light of recent years' events, I hope "Wall Street-Level Security" is taken to mean "Not very secure".
Putting software patents number as synonymous with innovation is not right.

Business-Software patents number are symptoms of protectionism and central planning in the process of innovation(you pay the state, they give you monopolies over ideas).

Business and software patents make the big guys the masters and the rest slaves, when everything is becoming patented, from windows to clicks adding "on web applications" or "in mobile" to the super old idea.

In any case, it will be the quality, not the quantity what matters.
There is no one-size-fit-all.

Hadoop/MR initially was addressing narrow niche for large-scale consumer Internet companies and now it's pitched as a silver bullet.
She has posted signs, she's put up orange & white barriers, and still people go around them and drive up her driveway.

Better link: http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2011/07/google_map_brin...
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Goog idea!
The reality is that .NET is a very probable patent trap for the FOSS community and Microsoft is trying hard to make us dependent on it.

Unlike .NET, Java has a free implementation (OpenJDK) and any code derived from OpenJDK is granted Java patents. Apache is a different story as they are developing a Java implementation under permissive license, which means that Apache code could be used in non-free software (including .NET), that would make Java vulnerable to the "Embrace, Extend and Extinguish" strategy. That is what Apache is paid for by Microsoft.

So my point is that supporting .NET is bad for the ideals of the free software community, yet it is good for pragmatic reasons as it could bring more users. And I have a strong impression that today pragmatism is favored over principle by the community, the decline of copyleft is also a sign of that.
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You're failing to think things through. Employers only base their hiring decisions on grades for recent graduates, but nearly all employers base their hiring decision on the student's degree and the institution it comes from. Good grades help with that. There is also the issue of graduate school which certainly does take grades into account.
Google != Linkedin??
You can sign-up using the invitation code "techcrunch", but there are only five hundred open spaces.

https://x.ruxum.com/users/sign_up
It's a chicken-and-egg problem, for sure.
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Harmonics probably get cut off early.

At 128Kbps (Even VBR) I have numerous songs which end up being simply distorted and blocky. 160kbps MP3 is a minimum for those. There's simply too much information to pack in certain areas.
>Vast Majority of people don't go there only to look at porn.

// So Playboy isn't a porn mag then?
next step: creating the design via google+ byebye 99designs.com ;)
As a counterexample, I moved to Southern California specifically to run a startup. There were many reasons, but talent acquisition was never one of them.

Interesting enough, though, we have been discussing the possibility of moving to Nevada for shipping logistics and taxation reasons. As before, talent acquisition is very low on the list of considerations.
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> Just passed a 47,000 point security check by an independent 3rd party. Our platform is also now PCI DSS compliant. Daily tests starting now

https://twitter.com/#!/ruxum/status/86827701381496833

In other words, https://secure.trust-guard.com/certificates/www.ruxum.com

Personally, I don't consider that to be "Wall Street-Level Security."
To give a little context: I listen to everything from classical music to noise and use good equipment.

You make it sound like classical music is the only kind of music where quality is important. This is not true. Quality is also important in modern music. Listen to Amon Tobin or Aphex Twin for example.

Besides Ogg is not the same as MP3. It's not a "kill all low and high" format. Listening test showed that Ogg is fine for strings. Short attack times are the problem areas when using a lower bitrate.
I'm seeing this a lot, lately. People that are hell-banned for no apparent reason.

I think this is very unfair...

When you get a message "you are banned, go away" by accident you can at least contact the admin and argue against it. Now you don't even know it happened.
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How does parallel processing in Scala "rock"? Can you point me to studies where Actors outperform, say OpenMP or Task Parallel Library? Does parallel processing on Scala compensate the overhead that Scala generally has over Java, C++, or in this case C#?

I'd seriously like to know. I know that actors are good in some situations (distributed computing where you would normally use message passing), but statements such as the above can often be heard, but seem far to broad.
It doesn't because it isn't ;-)

In real sword fights the defenders jobs is to deflect the attackers stroke (more or less). If you'd just try to stop it (physically reversing the attacker's impulse) that would either not work at all (because you don't have strong enough muscles) and the sword would still hit you. Or equally bad, the sword or your bones break due to mechanical overload.

Now according to the description the robot simply pulls back if it hits resistance, which results in the fake looking moves. Deflecting a stroke probably wouldn't work because of the robot's mechanical structure is much more rigid than a human's.

Slow-motion sword combat works/looks much better if the fighters are aware of how it actually works when not simulating the moves.

Amend: The "physically reversing the impulse" is a bit hand-wavy. You just have to put an equal momentum into your own sword directly opposing the momentum of you opponent's sword. Now if your attacker goes in for the long haul, he has about a meter of movement to put the momentum into his sword, whereas the defender usually has much less. This therefore requires much more force resulting in the above consequences.
Interesting idea. The approach assumes that the only way governments censor is by inspecting destination IP addresses (or DNS, etc.), which may be true for some countries, but not others. If the censoring government were to operate a huge TLS proxy, then I can imagine an ISP doing a Telex-stripping attack that downgrades the tagged-TLS connection to a normal one. I think this can be detected...
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Unnecessarily retalitory? I wouldn't be so sure. Don't forget that Google search results include selected content from indexed websites. The index itself actually contains all content, which Google may have believed to be a litigation risk given the vagueness of the removal request.
Yeah, I understand the frustration, but it's pretty clear that this customer service rep has nothing to do with the approval process of apps and is simply reflecting the current state of affairs.

It sounds like that approval process is pretty messed up at the moment, though. Two months without word seems to be slower than Apple at its worst, and the fact that this app's developers even tried to reach out to regular customer support instead of developer relations implies some serious disorganization.
>As for the topic of schools, I'm not bothered by it. Part of the learning in college comes from learning how to meet deadlines and get results.It's not so much about writing the paper on your own, but providing an end product to the end user. That type of skill will serve people well later in life.

I love when people are honest about their cynicism! Call me a hopeless romantic, but I think the other "part of the learning" is about learning skills and internalizing habits. On the one hand, becoming a good cheat may very well enrich you, but you won't actually learn how to write a freaking paragraph via that route.

Yet again, I am amazed by the decadence and worthlessness of so much of humanity... perhaps that is what happens when you turn 40 ....

EDIT: I don't find the poster I replied to worthless and decadent, just the customers of the ghost writer.
To my [untrained] ears, the difference between lossless and lossy compression on Ravel's Bolero is remarkably stark. The delta between 128/160 and 320 is not as clear as above, but still noticeable.

In sum, I suppose this would depend on the nature of the music being listened to.
Maybe it's a technology difference, but that's the general feel I have across most tracks I've listened to. I'm not A/B testing specifically, but I was complaining about 128 kbit tracks and asking why they sounded empty, even before I knew about bit rates. Systematic Chaos, on 320 for example, sounds amazing.

I'll do some specific testing before I say anything else. :)
Well I also can hear the artifacts of a 160kbps Mp3. But I can't when listening to a 190kbps MP3 or 160kbps Ogg.

I'm not sure Spotify changed it recently but to me it seems clear not all tracks are in 320kbps:

"To be precise, you can stream music at a higher bitrate of up to 320kbps on your computer (not all tracks are currently available in high bitrate)."
Very neat idea and nicely done. Small bug - http://www.placeguitar.com/800/600 works but http://placeguitar.com/800/600 just redirects to the site.
Anyone have a copy of the ruling? Might just be the judge(s) misinterpreting what the newspapers were asking for?
but given the pattern of treatment given to me and a handful of others, I was left to assume you were acting as usual

Perhaps much of the "pattern of treatment" that you observed could be equally explained? When we interact with someone in a bad mood, we tend to assume it's because of us, but it's often likely to be external factors. Having taught before, and held office hours, I can tell you how absolutely exhausting it can be. Maintaining a fair demeanor gets increasingly more difficult.

Also consider how a professor feels when meeting students outside of office hours, and the student has not made a prior appointment. How would you feel if the professor showed up at your home and said they had to hold lecture now? It's obviously not the same thing, but it may give you an indication of how it feels.
what about rdio? Does anyone know?
"Also moving to a city doesn't make someone liberal, don't confuse cause and effect!"

Nate Silver says it does in his TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/nate_silver_on_race_and_politics.ht...
I suspect that, a student who gets expelled for cheating has certainly gone through administrative due process well beyond the professor's office, and had ample opportunity to explain the 99% match to uncited sources.

By your logic, one could make the case that academic standards should never be upheld - 700 submissions is arbitrary and could just as easily be 7000 or 7,000,000 and the same rationale would apply.
I am waiting to have spray-foam insulation installed. If I use traditional fiberglass and a radiant heat barrier, I will then have to pay to have it removed and disposed of, prior to the spray foam insulation.

There is a soy-based spray foam insulation I plan on having installed.

http://soythane.mybigcommerce.com/

http://www.biobased.net/

A bit more expensive, but I believe it is worth it.
From telex.cc:

How does the client tag connections?

When establishing a normal HTTPS connection, the client sends a random number (called the ClientHello nonce). To create a Telex connection, the client replaces this number with what we call a tag — essentially, an encrypted value that looks random until it's decrypted. Decrypting Telex tags requires a private key contained in Telex stations. Since the censor doesn't have this key, it can't tell the difference between tags and the random numbers used in normal connections.

In addition to marking connections that are requests for anticensorship service, Telex tags convey information that allows Telex stations to decrypt the secure HTTPS connection that the client establishes with the non-blacklisted destination website. This lets the Telex station replace the contents of the connection with data from a blacklisted site.
Ah, this tired old chestnut.

If you actually ever used a Xerox desktop of the era you'll see that Mac OS was markedly simpler to use than Xerox's UI, and had all kinds of improvements over it (overlapping windows, drag and drop, a menubar than benefited from Fitt's Law).

Everyone steals ideas, but simply coping is pathetic.
That's probably the limitation for safety. It is frowned upon to have fast-moving robots around fragile humans. The foam sabre is harmless, but I wouldn't have my skull near the mechanic hand.
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Seems to be a fairly common (and ridiculous) occurrence: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20012899-504083.html
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The whole ides of it is that it looks indistinguishable from a normal https connection. You could perhaps detect it by requesting the same page yourself, and comparing the size of the data, but with things like sessions and dynamic content this too would fail.
Another centralized institution profiting from the decentralized-ness of Bitcoin. Perhaps it's the direction Bitcoin will have to grow in, in order to stay alive/popular.
Audio perception is highly subject to placeo effect. If you're curious the community at http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/ has worked very hard to make this a more rigorous scientific process.

It's pretty remarkable how good modern lossy encoders are really. I consider it one of the more impressive feats of software engineering of the last decade.
Is it just me or does this smack of security by obscurity - as long as the great firewall of China/Iran/Whomever does not recognise the packets are hiding the real destination...

No no, this isn't security by obscurity. By your definition, every encryption scheme provides security by obscurity of encryption keys (kept a secret) and data (that looks "random"). :-)

The details of this implementation are public so that anyone can review it. Does http://viewtext.org work behind your proxy? If not, have you tried Tor http://torproject.org?
C# now has one called NuGet.

Edit*
Just wanted to clarify it is not specifically for C# but the .NET platform in general.
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Spotify streams OGG. While MP3 160kpbs "sucks", OGG 160kps is pretty decent.
Most mp3 encoders do lowpass filter at those bitrates, but only at frequencies outside the hearing range of most people.
Most tracks is not enough. I don't want to lose time fiddling with optimal quality/size ratio per song. 256kbps AAC, clickety click, fits anything and makes a nice, small rip for zero overhead.
It's not like this is unique to Google's nav system, and at least a web nav system can be updated relatively simply compared to separate GPS systems.

I've got a Garmin Nuvi and, in general, it's pretty good. In general. Issues I have found though:

* Suggesting that the public driveway to a crematorium was via a motorway

* Mistaking a flyover for a junction and asking me to turn from one road to the other

* Search refusing to acknowledge a road existed until I was actually on it (and being reported as such)

* The same ignorance of barriers blocking roads that regularly gets reported for all devices

This is for a relatively light user of the device. I'm sure there's more, and that they exist for other devices as well.
MP3 (at last lame mp3) is actually very good at 160kbits.
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The video's backdrop is a real heartwarming story on how people have and can help people through the internet, and how we can be linked together in a positive way.

But the purpose of the video is something different and I guess it can be summed up with these words from the end of the video: "Each one of us is a creator, but together we are The Creator."

If that is the case, where were we "The Creator",
when the earth’s foundation was laid? (paraphrasing Job 38:4)
If you look at his post carefully, you'll notice he "collaborated" with another student. He knew he broke the rules, and he was terrified he would get caught. He did not.

Personally, I think students should be able to discuss such assignments with each other, but I don't think you've accurately characterized the situation.
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Have you done a proper A/B test or is that just your impression from listening? A lot of people go to http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/ claiming they can ABX mp3 at 160kbit. Usually they can't.