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I'm sorry, but I just don't see that. Just because jokes and 'net memes get downvoted does not mean that we don't have camaraderie and understanding here. It just means that what we consider a positive environment here is about something more than a skin-deep, superficial veneer of joviality and light-heartedness.

Look at some of the threads where people have posted "Woe is me, I need a job and my wife is sick and my dog is dying and my car just fell over" and look at the generous offers of help and posts of support those get. Look at the "Hey, I'm coming to SV and want to visit some people, who wants to get together?" posts and notice how many people chime in to say "Hey, come see us." Look at the threads about depression and related topics, and notice the people saying things like "If you need somebody to talk to, call me anytime."

I think HN actually has (mostly) a very positive vibe, and I'm glad that jokes and Internet memes and (most) "me too" posts are downvoted. There's a place for that stuff... that place just happens to not be HN.

Now I'm not saying HN is perfect, and I won't even argue that the level of discourse hasn't suffered a bit the last few years. But, by and large, this is one of the most civil and productive forums I'm part of, or ever have been part of.
Principle frequencies well above 20k as well as their sympathetic harmonics are pretty easily audible by me, try it.

24 bit is also extremely easy to hear. Arguably more important during the recording phase when headroom is valuable.

Its just as easy to qualify everything with "placebo effect", as it is to be dismissive
HN can be a very pessimistic and sad place

Hmm, I never had that impression.

It's the No Me Too Posts Policy taken to the extreme and it alienates people from one another

That's what keeps this from degrading like Reddit.

Personally, I feel connected to others on HN (and not alienated) via the serious intellectual discussion I find on here. That is the fabric of this community.
Thank you! done. Github should suggest this in the rename page.
http://code.google.com/apis/latitude/

I haven't looked at it super closely, but could the interested parties let me know what's missing? I'll forward your feedback to the right people.
This is a really important issue; Data Caps.

I have a MyTouch 4G on Tmobile that I am paying $100 a month for. It sits in the drawer and I NEVER use it.

I have an iPhone 4 which is my work and primary phone.

The reason the MyTouch doesnt get used: Data caps. I'll use my bandwidth limit on it in about 3 days. Then Tmobile caps the speed to useless (56K) e.g. they set the latest and greatest technology back to 1998 speeds after you hit your cap.

The iPad, I can imagine, would be capping out all the time.

As it is - my daughter was streaming netflix to the iPhone over 3G as we drove around this weekend. She was watching Judy Moody.

What an awesome time we live in where my 7 year old streams movies on demand to my phone while driving 70 mph on the freeway!

Every executive at every mobile carrier who thinks that data caps are a good thing, or a potential revenue target, should be shot!
FYI you can get the streaming url from their public API, you don't have to muck around with string interpolation. They know it's easy to get so they just put it right there in the API for you to use. Also if you used the api you could have your script preferentially download the original file if the artist made it available.

http://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/tracks

Ultimately though the stream is a 128 kbyte/s mp3, probably transcoded, and as such you should all feel slightly ashamed of yourselves :)
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Stripping frequencies above 20kHz negates the effect on the lower frequencies since those lower frequencies are not "modified" by the higher ones. The human hear can actually hear the very high harmonics when they're combined with a lower fundamental frequency.

For example, the human hear will hear a 30kHz frequency if it's fundamental is 10kHz. If it's played at 44.1kHz, the 30kHz frequency is gone and all you'll hear is 10kHz, not a "different sounding" 10kHz.
See http://numbersapi.com/1729:

> 1729 is the smallest number representable in two different ways as a sum of two positive cubes, as Ramanujan stated on the spot.
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Almost all states' bar associations have public profiles indicating the license statuses of their lawyers.

California, for example, requires a public email address -- verification can be accomplished by sending a Docracy verification email to the bar-published email address.
That data doesn't back your point at all. That data concerns what frequencies are present, not what frequencies can be heard.
For an article containing a lot of "well, if you knew signal processing..." there are two fairly major oversights:

1) Any well-designed system is going to have headroom. Period. Just because 48kHz can capture the frequencies the human hear theoretically, it's always good to have a little wiggle room. This comes into play even more with interactive situations: humans are particularly sensitive to jitter. Having an "overkill" sample rate lets you seamlessly sync things easier without anyone noticing.

2) 192kHz comes with an additional benefit besides higher frequencies: it also means more granular timing for the start and stop of transients. More accurate reverb would be the obvious example. I don't know if the human ear can discern the difference between 0.03ms and 0.005ms but it's something I don't see mentioned often.
overanalysis ultimately leads to negativity

That doesn't have to be true. And I haven't really observed it to be true on HN, either.

Critiquing things helps people make them better. It should not be about criticizing the person. Which of these two ways it is perceived, is largely in the eye of the beholder. Lord knows I've had to learn that lesson the hard way.
I agree, the article is centered at the Metro UI. But have you tried the Desktop app Win8 has ? It has completely removed all configuration from it.

I installed Wind8 in a VM. My network was not detected, I spent 2 hours trying to find the damn configuration. The only thing I could find was the Network Config, and it didn't let me do anything. If the windows tool can't find the device you are stuck.

Right now I can use a lot of other tools to make it work. Win8 just makes it too complex to do anything, because it is created to handle everything by itself. The problem is OSes are not smart enough to do that yet.
There will always be people with slightly wider sensory perception than others, but are you honestly saying that you can easily hear sounds "well above" 20kHz? Have you tested this in a double blind test? I know that sounds like a lot of effort, but it would be interesting. You would be somewhat unusual if you could hear, say, 22kHz.
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I'm no sound engineer, but as far as I can tell, the main point of that paper is that some instruments produce harmonics at frequencies greater than 20kHz, not that these frequencies matter to humans. However, section X references other papers that apparently make this claim.

Just because it is difficult to record a triangle does not necessarily mean it is impossible to accurately recreate the sound (to human ears) using 48kHz.
Such things exist -- they are called legal treatises.

For laymen, the equivalent would be books like the Nolo series.
Ha, good catch. http://numbersapi.com/1729 (the trivia version) gives the Ramanujan fact, while we have multiple math facts for 6 (refresh a few times to get "smallest perfect number").

We're still working to build our database of facts. Feel free to send suggestions to numbersapi at google mail, and we may add a feature for user-submitted facts.
The linked article was accurate. You are confused.

"I'm an ex-audio engineer"

Hard to believe.

"The distinct sound of the triangle constitutes of a high fundamental frequency, ballpark 10kHz"

That's a pretty high note - higher than the top key on the piano. But an "audio engineer" would know that.

"many very high-pitch harmonics"

Since the next harmonic after the fundamental would be at 20khz, which only young people can hear, and none of the others are audible to any human, I don't understand what you are talking about.

"Most of these harmonics are 20kHz."

OK, you don't either.

"it can hear the influence of the very high pitch harmonics on a lower frequency."

Sure....
Bluntly: wishing it were otherwise does not make it so.

There is an entirely valid economic method for valuing the investment of the developer. It's call the app store. The answer is $12 per device.

The 'sick joke' is that so many independent developers continue to pile into a saturated market in the expectation that they'll make a small fortune.
What if you want to sample the song later?

That's one thing I find concerning with the move to digital. With analog media, you can go back, re-record and get an improved result (provided the source is good) but District 9 (which was shot on Red One) will never have improved quality other than resampling because the source is set to a particular digital format with associated data quality.
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I completely disagree with the article having heard the difference many times myself. You can't record at 192kHz and hope to keep the same quality by distributing the final mix in 44.1kHz. It just doesn't work that way.
This came up in a prior localstorage discussion as well, with a participant linking to -

https://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2012/02/22/psa-dom-local-stor...

Big Mozilla fan, but they need to stop criticizing APIs for implementation details (whether WebSQL and now localstorage).
Yes.

You can also hire the expensive dev to mentor/train you - then use those new skills to better manage others.
First off, I would say that is some pretty awesome work by this guy to chase this down. Including his work with the manufacturer to help them reliably recreate the issue.

Second, I would say that over the course of my 10 year career in managing developers, I've heard many, many times that the bug was in the kernel, or in the hardware, or in the complier, or in the other lower level thing the developer had no control over. This has been the correct diagnosis exactly once. If I had to guess, I would say about 5%.
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Hi, anyone read Steve Blank's new book yet? I'm a bit reticent, as I generally buy Kindle books these days, but this sounds like the kind of thing that may be worth an exception. I'd be curious to hear what those of you who have already received it think.
I don't believe this is a resistance to change. It is just that Win8 doesn't seem to be made to work on the computers we have today.

I'm sure tomorrow, maybe. I can't see how right now. I can't imagine myself coding in a virtual keyboard.

Now maybe in a few years, even coding will change, then maybe Win8 might be going in the right direction, but for me right now, and probably even next year, Win8 won't be able to fill my needs.
The problem with Woodys AMA was that it wasnt an 'Ask Me Anything'

It was 'Ask Me Anything About Rampart'
I strongly second Khoi's call for a re-imagining of the current broken multi-user/family/Apple ID iOS situation. The tablet computer is handed around, left lying around in the house, picked up by whoever gets their hands on it first in our house. It needs some kind of Apple-y multi-user settings.
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That's true. Did you get a chance to walk up to building 2, 5th floor and talk to some of the people there? That was where the Unix room (and his office) were.

Many of the people that used to be there have scattered, but the ones that remain would probably have some stories and pointers.
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(FWIW, both Apple and Intel's website use the term "technical collaboration" to describe the relationship between Apple and Intel with regards to Thunderbold, which certainly seems stronger than "was the first vendor to license".)
"Human hearing is limited to 20k because frequencies higher than that are perceived as painful? Dont agree with that one."

Yeah, that's a silly one. I disagree with it, too. It's a good thing it appears nowhere in the fine article. Are you actually confused about the difference between frequency and amplitude? Or did you misread the article?

"24 bit doesn't offer any advantages to sound quality? Sheesh."

As brazzy rightly points out, "Sheesh" isn't a reasoned statement. It's an ejaculation. And, it turns out, the author talked about why sound engineers record with 24 bits; It has to do with pragmatic reasons about leaving room for the highest and lowest frequencies in the audio being recorded without clipping, as well as with the author's discussion of Nyquist considerations in the distributed product.

Your post is wrong in so many ways that would have been easily fixed by reading the linked article with even 8th-grade reading skills that the reasonable reader has to wonder if you're being deliberately obtuse. Are you?
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I am struggling to find a link, but didn't Apple buy all the 1998 holiday shipping capacity from Asia to America so they could deliver all the iMacs on time?

They also bought all of Samsung flash production in 2009. So this story is pretty believable.
The only "good sounding" triangles you'll hear are those buried in a mix. Alone, it always sounds weird and "muted".

EDIT: Listen to the triangle at the beginning of Rush's YYZ. It's an old recording, but it sounds significantly worse than the analog version. It's been digitally mastered some time ago so if it was mastered today, it would probably sound better, but still not great. I heard a rumor that Rush is remastering all their albums "for iTunes" at the moment, so hopefully we'll be able to compare soon!
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Yep. I won't port a single bit of my existing code until 100% of the libraries I depend on are ported first. As much as I like Python 3, it just doesn't make any sense for me to deal with it right now.
I definitely agree. I've seen some very humanistic threads- feedback, offers, and connections happen here. I've also seen some roaring egos and ridiculous flame wars that rival the dregs of 4Chan and YouTube. Sure, the HN comments are more "intelligently informed," but silly arguments none the less. All in all, I suppose that duality is healthy for a community. However, I've been a member for 5 years and have only 639 karma points. I have no clue if something I share will be wildly upvoted, flagged or just simply ignored- thus I feel unsure if I am actually "welcome" here or not.
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Quick note: please change the of color the timestamps and the categories, they are unreadable to me. Hardly even noticed they were there.
I don't know how I missed this. Everything I was thinking seems to be included. The only potential feature that it lacks is access to information on users other than myself, such as would be available through the web interface. I can see numerous reasons, however, as to why Google would not expose this information through an API.
> Human hearing is limited to 20k because frequencies higher than that are perceived as painful? Dont agree with that one.

You misread the article. It's because there is so little response that being able to hear it would blow your eardrums (and even then, it might still be beyond your ability to hear it). There's no value in that.

> 24 bit doesn't offer any advantages to sound quality? Sheesh.

Not quite what TFA says. According to the article, 16 bits effectively covers the dynamic range of human hearing, so more than that is pointless for music consumed by human beings (hence all the stuff about 24bit being a good idea for mastering & production). If you're storing integers in the 0~16384 range, going from 16 bit integers to 32 bit ones is not going to give you "better ints", it's just going to waste 2 bytes per int. Same thing here.
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I've been a developer for over 30 years, from mainframes to micros, and a hardware problem has been responsible for a bug in my code exactly zero times.
> If this were true, corporations and rich individuals would own everything. They don't.

Uh, there is very little they don't own or control, to be honest. Even if they didn't, assuming the current trend of privatizing even the most essential services continues, it will be the case in just a couple of decades.

> Are you having trouble buying groceries because corporations and rich individuals have snapped them all up?

Am I having trouble buying some groceries, because rich people have pushed prices so high, or in some cases because corporations buy all of them in order to resell them in a different, more expensive form? Why, yes. But I digress.

> In a true free market, if there are no such customers--because what you're selling isn't worth enough to any of them to pay a price you are willing to accept--then you go out of business.

Do you seriously think a service like TSA is not useful to any corporation? Like franchise shops in airport lounges selling bottles of water at three times the market price...

Also, your reasoning completely ignores forces, like advertising, which are used to create artificial demand. They would still exist in a free market, probably even more so (because competition would be even harder).

> That principle would apply just as well to services like law enforcement, if they were provided in a true free market.

Rich people would enjoy premium protection at premium prices, and poor people would receive little or no protection because they cannot afford more. Wouldn't that be fun, eh? Reminds me of the US healthcare market, that other miracle of the Free Market.
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I'm with you. I find HN refreshing. I come here because it is the crux. I come here so I don't have to read all the pointless, time wasting BS.

On top of that, HN seems like a get-shit-done site. If you aren't contributing, get out of the way. If you don't have something nice - no scratch that - *useful to say, then don't say anything at all. And this is not to be mistaken with, no laughing allowed, no fun, and no hearts. It is more of an efficiency thing.
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You clearly have little to no musical background, and think that your basic math skills are a substitute. The overtones present in a cymbal or triangle are not straight multiples of the fundamental, they are chaotic, and are very important in determining the timbre. Anyone (and I mean that) can easily tell the difference between a cymbal with and without a low-pass filter with the threshold around 22kHz, because these "inaudible" frequencies are lost.
Your question is somewhat amusing. A standard CD player uses 1-bit DAC (it's either on or off) at a yet-higher frequency to achieve better linearity. Filtering is quite easy in the analog world.
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It hasn't been released according to amazon. It gets releases this month: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0984999302/ref=oh_o00_s00_i...

I did pre-order it, even thought I only buy Kindle books now. I think it is worth, I have read the other two and I liked them, so I am assuming that this one will be worth it.
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> I don't know if the human ear can discern the difference between 0.03ms and 0.005ms but it's something I don't see mentioned often

That's the time it takes sound to travel 8mm. Do you think you could tell if an instrument was positioned differently by 8mm?
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As he mentions, with 16-bit it's easy to significantly reduce the dynamic range or clip; you only get the full 120dB range of 16-bit with careful handling and calibration. You don't have to worry about all this with 24-bit - you'd almost have to deliberately screw up the signal to reduce the dynamic range below that of a human's.

Ideally audio engineers would take the effort to do good 16-bit conversion for distribution, but I realize that's too much to expect of them.
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0.03ms is 33kHz - you can't, no matter how much you want to, make a granular timing that is faster than at least one cycle of the frequency you are using. 0.005ms is 200kHz BTW.