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The psychological component is a red herring. Even though I already have a system (bias), I don't care about the other systems. I went to the show for enjoyment, education, and appreciation. Some of the systems were unknown to me (no bias), and some were known and surprised me in some ways (again, some bias overridden). So bias can be important, but it's not relevant in this case. So bias doesn't invalidate my experience.

As for the double-blind and high frequencies, I believe I've already done the test. I have had my hearing tested several times. One of them, I recall the tester actually asked me to repeat some tests... it was funny. The testing was at very high frequencies. I believe she thought I was guessing the higher/lower frequencies... and getting lucky. So (I strongly suspect) she wanted to "prove" to herself what you want to prove --- that noone can hear above 20KHz. I disappointed her. I think she even threw in some placebo tests (no frequencies at all). It was funny. She never explained herself. I suspect she just thought I got lucky again.

How to really test this stuff? Get one of the audio designers to test... but they will laugh in the testers' faces. They do this stuff for a living... to build real products... for real live customers who can hear the differences. Dave Wilson was at the A/V show. Try listening to a pair of Wilson Audio speakers. I bet he can hear better than just about anyone... His speakers (when sourced and driven properly) are that good. But he wouldn't waste his time on such tests. He has customers to serve and a business to run.

I doubt lab experiments look to disprove their theories once and for all. That's a social prejudice built into the lab experiments. Fix that, and you'll end up with a better hypothesis.
WASD made me realize how long it's been since I've played any game with that kind of navigation — I'm left handed, but my right hand has totally taken all of my 'arrow key' muscle memory.
What bugs me more is that the numbers jump all over the place if you refresh the page. Even the number of comments seems out of sync.

That CAP gets so much in the way is irritating. Its like stackoverflow used to be a while ago.

You can make big sites that don't have such laggy BASE. I guess not with the reddit infrastructure perhaps.
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We use the fudge module, and I have a small context manager that lets me do this:

with autopatch(foo, bar, baz):
foo.patch.method = something
# first test here
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I've found that my tests usually require setting up a complex context, and then slightly varying the bit of context, so it's assuming Foo, Bar, Baz and X=1 we expect this, but if X=2 we expect that. YMMV.
batista, I think you have a penchant for arguing with me :-)

Hah, I didn't even notice the name, was just urged to argue!!! ;-)

Keep in mind that everyone is part of a minority sometimes, and everyone is part of a majority sometimes. Depends on the issue.

Yeah, that's what I commented just now above. You have to allow for protections to the minorities for this very reason, but not for all individual rights. As a farfetched, but real example, not for, say, NAMBLA rights.
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But there was no gradient of temperatures before, and there is now - it's possible to use this gradient to produce energy. So this energy had to come from somewhere. It didn't come from electricity, because LED already has >100% efficiency (so there's more energy in the photons, than in electricity we put into the system).

So it has to come from temperature differnce between the place we cooled, and the place we heat up by photons, I think. So this place had to be cooler than the LED before experiment, so gradient of temperatures was there from the start, and we are only decreasing it.
No. A property of a system that leads to compromises is a vulnerability. Let's not let give in to neo-essentialism. Just because the word "vulnerability" has been assigned some narrow meaning in the past is no reason to enforce that usage. This is a problem, and "vulnerability" is plainly as the sun shines the right word for it.
I'd really like to hear Richard Feynman's answer. I'm sure if an 11 year old had asked the question, instead of a journalist, it would be the perfect answer. (I'm referring to an interview series with him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1pIYI5JQLE)

Makes me sad to think I will never meet this man, nor ever be as awesome.
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The $0.10 price tag is for the transactor, which just ensures that writes are atomic (but doesn't do any writing itself). I guess we'll need to do some benchmarking, but I suspect that $0.10 per peer per hour won't be as expensive as it first seems.
This is largely the argument I made in The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/11/ict-brit...

Let's hope it comes true!
SQL injection is a problem with the way database libraries are designed. Just because some idiotic piece of design has persisted for years doesn't change what it is: a vulnerability.
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I don't believe there's such a thing as local writes in Datomic. All writes appear to go through the transactor to maintain atomicity.
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I do care, but I'm not the average user. Apple has always catered well for those in audio and video, up to professional levels. These are markets that retain Apple users, even when Steve Jobs was between Apples. It seems like Apple is only requesting masters to come in a higher resolution, not that consumers will generally end up with these. I think this is entirely fair since before you want to modify something (e.g. to remaster it for iTunes) you want to start off at a good quality high resolution.

That said, if Apple also allows high quality recordings to be sold, it will be useful. For example of their acapellas, instrumental tracks or samples, it would be convenient for others who want to want to remix it, and iTunes would be a platform for this trade.

Also for tracks DJs play. Most compression throw away a lot of the bass which people can't hear, but this is bass you can feel rumbling through your guts on a big sound system and is part of the experience.

For the rest, they were happy with low rate AAC files on the early iPods, they are happy with the sound coming from their crappy little iPod dock, for them it won't make a difference as long as it's a chart music track from a memorable and impressionable time of their life.
I'm just about to switch over from MovableType to GitHub Pages http://pages.github.com/ . They use Jekyll http://jekyllrb.com/ to publish text, HTML or Markdown. So far it's pretty awesome.

The benefits of this particular setup include:

* all articles are under version control

* just do a `push` to publish

* easily run a local Jekyll server to preview articles

* use a real programmer's text editor (not some web form)

* Markdown is the best for tech articles

* write, preview and commit while offline

* code syntax highlighting

* integration of snippets (gists)

* variable layouts for different page types

* pages are static so are served fast

* easy to add comments with Disqus et al

* easily port your content anywhere

* keep images and other binary content alongside text

Which reminds me - dear $DEITY, when is HN going to support Markdown?!
That is, assuming it hasn't been tried before. We don't really know.
Perhaps, but the banks are also big Big Data users. My old company, Causata, had lots of relationships with banks wanting to unlock the value in their data.

It's true that startups will always challenge big businesses (such as banks), but don't think the banks aren't data savvy. In fact, they have a tremendous history of using computer systems to process and analyze data.
If CD quality (44.1 KHz/16 bit) is that good, why hasn't the market for vinyl (analogue >> 192 KHz/24-bit) just withered away and died (instead of reviving)?
Yes - I read your work in January and it invaded my consciousness. Sorry if I have regurgitated anything but this message needs to be spread!
I share the authors desire for there to be more programmers and that software will eat the world.

However why do we need a Raspberry Pi? Can't you make software with any computer (except recent things from Apple)? Or is it a case that RP, being so popular will get people talking about creating and playing with stuff?
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My German isn't good enough to understand those articles, and I'm finding it a bit tricky to understand the Google translation. The jist I'm getting from those two pages is that the access provider isn't liable for what is transmitted if the transfer is initiated by another user.

I think the bit I'm referring to would be covered by § 15 paragraph (4), which Google translates to "To comply with existing legal, statutory or contractual retention periods, the service provider may block the data." I think "block" here means "store", in the sense that the user data which includes "Information on the beginning and end and the extent of each use" (paragraph 1) needs to be recorded (and retained) for a period of time required by a different statute.

I feel like I only understand about 30% of those documents, I might make more progress with a better translation!

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> In order to turn heat into any other kind of energy you MUST have a cold sink.

No, in small enough scales this is not necessary. This is not "heat moving from a hotter object to a colder object and doing work on the way", this is "heat being directly converted to photons". When you view a patch of hot gas as individual molecules bouncing about you can transform the heat of a molecule into momentum of your target at 100% efficiency (heat is kinetic energy!). In quantum environments, the second and third law do not work like they do in the macroscopic world. The second and third are still not broken in the large because to do this kind of trickery you need to have a lot of exact information, and that has a cost in entropy. (So you'd need a maxwell's demon to scale this up.)
No need to apologize at all! Let's hope it comes true (and let's hope I can get my hands on a Raspberry Pi one day :-)
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These tips are good practices, but they are micro-optimisations. The function strtr might be 4 times faster than str_replace, but the time saved by using strtr will represent a tiny tiny tiny portion of your script execution time.

Micro-optimisations are worth it when everything else is optimized in your application. You might get way better results by focusing on your database structure or the way you store, retrieve and cache your data.

What's listed here doesn't lead to "highly efficient code". More like "A tiny little bit more efficient code". Doesn't hurt doing it though.
I imagine the price being extremely low is a very useful factor when you are talking about giving every kid his own computer. With a Raspi, you can give your kid a decently powerful computer for around $100 (assuming you buy the keyboard, screen, mouse etc.).
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A webdeveloper blog that does not work in an up-to-date browser (Opera)...

I get it when it is WebGL, but not for static text.
Yesterday, I posted an article on HackerNews. Its received 62k views in total so far. HackerNews was the site that kicked off all of the view counts and it quickly jumped to the top spot #1.

After it reached the top spot, I thought I would also post it on Reddit. It didn't get a single upvote. It's the third time that a story of mine has made it to the front page of HackerNews and then not received a single visitor on Reddit. In the future I don't think it is worth bothering.

Ultimately, 100% of the traffic that I received, would not of happened if it weren't for the upvotes on HackerNews, because from these upvotes everyone started tweeting about it. It received 900 tweets in total.

Here was some of the highlights.

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.chrisacky.com/githu...

(The highest it went to was 800 concurrent users).

I'm guessing 60k for an article within 24 hours is a lot!
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This is fun!

Minor: The click and drag interface is nice but once you become a little more proficient at the game mechanics it would be nice to just be able to single or double click a command entity to append it to your command set.. ;)
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Thanks for enlightening me re: censorship of posts. The first version of my post included a paragraph raising the issue of censorship (since I could not find my comment with a page search). So I thought the -1 was hiding my comment Then I found the "More" button, and discovered my comment... at the very bottom. So I deleted that paragraph, so I wouldn't create a red herring of my own... and to be fair to HN.

However, with your observation, I suspect my comment is censored, but I just can't tell. I don't care enough at this point to verify it. (My next comment will explain why.)
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Also, in the program section.. if I decide I need a loop after I have added a couple instructions to my program I can't seem to drag them into the loop. I have to pull them from the top and delete the ones I had already brought down.

(still having fun)
Elephant in corner of room: The City which he is so contemptuous of is the one industry in the UK that pays technical people fair wages.

I studied Mech Eng at college; no-one does that who doesn't want to be an engineer. When I graduated in the mid-90s there were no jobs, so I went into high-tech. But my CV is still floating around, and I occasionally get called by recruiters in engineering. Now I am no rock star, I am paid well (market rate) but not extravagantly so. But these engineering jobs pay a fraction of what I earn, for the equivalent years of experience. And they wonder why no-one wants to do it?

This comes back to the old class system which is still strong in the UK. No matter how educated, an engineer is not "one of us" to the management class, and will never be paid fairly in the old industries, never more than a paper-pushing middle management bureaucrat who went to the "right" school. Only high-tech (enlightened) and The City (where managers are so well paid that they don't feel threatened) pay technical people fairly.

Anyone smart enough to be an engineer - and there are plenty who want to be - is smart enough to not be exploited in that way. And that is why manufacturing died in the UK.
I'm also hoping that RPi will kick off something here in the UK. But is there evidence that access to a computer is the main hurdle for kids wanting to learn programming in the UK? Clearly, the US hasn't had a Raspberry Pi.
FYI, I'm very likely target audience --- at least, I've been on slashdot.org for years. Is that target audience enough?
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This is true but for a lot of parents there is one computer in the house and it's pretty precious, the kids can't 'fuck it up'.

Now, with a rp, when a kid says "I'm gonna strap my computer to this servo, and that servo to some junk in the garage and throw it all off of the roof AND IT WILL FLY!" a few less parent will freak out and there is more of a chance we can all benefit from what ever is in this kids head..... and latterly smashed on his lawn :)

There are a lot of ideas in kids heads that just don't see the light of day.
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I grew suspicious after my bug report comment was ignored in favour of one with less content, so I logged out and refreshed the page - there was no comment. A friend also viewed the page and again, no comment.

Another thing that HN does is slow down your page loads if you have negative karma. Pages can often take between 10-30 seconds to load.
Well, it certainly won't come from minor price reductions on Amazon. A dedicated server from here [1] costs €299/month for 45TB. The same on Amazon would cost ~€3400/month for storage alone. That isn't even factoring in the fact that the dedicated server also comes with CPU and traffic which you have to pay for separately on Amazon which would make it much more expensive still. Amazon's storage is also notoriously slow. Amazon would have to reduce their prices by more than a factor of 10 before they come even close.

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I remember the BBC Micro!

Oh for our kids to learn how and why of computers, and grow up to rule them instead of be ruled by them!
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Some people assume that there is no tampering with 'analog' votes. Entire boxes of votes disappear and get swapped by votes for the 'right' candidate.

It's a great initiative to do these public hackingattempts.

And imo there should be a very large sum of money attached for the ones who are able to break it. Voting is a basic human right in most countries and money should be spent in order for it to happen correctly.

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Good question. A combination of a few things:

+ Attach yourself to a story cluster if a relevant one is already there by linking to a source post

+ `tip @techmeme <url>` on twitter

+ Message the editors on twitter

+ Make sure your feed validates, can be autodiscovered etc.

+ Techmeme can discover stories based on retweet counts, so make sure the same canonical URL is being retweeted and favorited from the post, from twitter, disqus etc.

+ Post interesting things frequently enough that you become a source that is crawled by Techmeme
I just tried to do a headstand like that. Now I have a headache. Thanks, HoboCEO!

In all seriousness.. the Silicon Valley startup crowd is going to say some ugly things about 'Lifestyle Businesses' when they see things like this.

On the other hand, many entrepreneur's I know start companies because their goal is to be able to travel freely and chart their course wherever whim and wind takes them..
I have never submitted my own posts to DZone, but they have been submitted by others. It isn't in my top10 referrers. My impression is that most of the audience there is Java developers looking for technical posts

Being the first to submit it to delicious is also a good idea, with good tags. Whoever submits it first their title will be the prevailing title for the post with future re-posts, so it is a good idea to be the first to do it and set your own title before somebody bastardizes it (this is the reason why I submit my own posts to HN)

Submitting to Google+ is also a good idea since it is a very good way to get the Google crawler to visit the page and index it.

My own routine after I publish a post that I think may be interesting to others is HN, twitter, delicious and Google+.
Inspiring story. As others have said, entrepreneurs who use rejection as fuel have an infinitely better chance of succeeding than those who give up.

I do want to point out that while the website is very pretty, the viewer needs to scroll down a lot on the home page to see some important content. I don't have any specific suggestions for how to improve that, but that's something you might want to think about.
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