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A lot of her work incorporates electronics. She uses her laptop to sample, loop, and layer her tracks while playing.

You may notice that some of her works sound like they feature multiple cellists. That's actually one cello, her own, being sampled and layered in real time.

Structurally, tonally, and rhythmically, the pieces tend to vary. But I would agree on some level with your observation; it's not like she's delving too deeply into Philip Glass territory or anything.
Urban Terror 4.2 is going to be released today ;)
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Ask HN: mixture of Google's pagerank and the elo rating system wanted
i'm looking for an ingenious algorithm. does anybody know if there is an implementation of such an algorithm?
the principle: 2 players play against each other - a 3rd one decides who wins. now the elo-system would be sufficient for the 2 players but i somehow want to include the 3rd person's rank (e.g. with a page-rank like algorithm)
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Same. I thought this was going to be along the lines of the betting ads we have in the UK, where the latest odds for sporting events (accurate to within a minute, I believe) are fed into TV adverts during or immediately before those event broadcasts.

A 24-hour turn-around only seems impressive relative to the amount of time it normally takes to produce such an ad, which most viewers won't appreciate.
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My advice is to go to a college that you can afford. I spent my first two years at a local community college and transferred 60 credit hours (about half of what's needed to graduate) to a large state university where I graduated Phi Beta Kappa with honors and I only had about 15K in student loan debt. I could have avoided the loans entirely if I had worked a few more part time jobs.

You don't have to go to a high-priced private university for four years to have a good career (that you enjoy) and live a nice life.
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I would believe that was the reason if they hadn't also banned competitors to all their other sponsors. French fries don't cause interference.

I used to love the Olympics. Stuff like this has made me hate it.
someone has to make a tape drive emulator for it, no fun in looking for workable games on a SD card :)
"Armadillo Aerospace has been officially granted a full commercial launch license by the FAA. Paying payloads launching next month. "

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/228858210327609344
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Rough average clickthrough ratio for FB ads (assuming we're including all the people who are Doing Advertising Wrong) is about .08%, so on average FB users are clicking one ad in every 1250 they see. 5 ads per page, ish, so that's one click per 250 pages viewed.

Meanwhile, CPC for Facebook ads is much higher than 2 cents - or I'd be spending a lot more money there. $.2 - $.4 is more common.

So assuming a FB user checks an average of 10 pages a day (which sounds about right, given, say, a few profile refreshes, a couple of message replies, a photo or two, maybe a game) that's 3000 page views approx over a year, which is 15000 ad views, giving us about 12 clicks at about $.3 each, for a customer value per year of closer to $4 or so.

Having said that, $5 per year still isn't very much to pay...
He went to RIT, so he might been in a coop program. Not sure how RIT's works, but if its similar to uwaterloo's (which I've been told is so), after 2 calender years, he may have had only 3 school terms and 3 work terms. That's ~65k for school minus whatever he managed to save from his work terms.
i agree - a user base count would be interesting
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It's to do with comments that get deeply nested quickly, presumably to prevent back and forth flame wars and the like. If you really want to reply to such a comment, click "link" and there is a reply link on the that page, or just wait.
Source Sans Pro is a dead ringer for Microsoft's beautiful Segoe UI. This is a great move by Adobe. The Open Source world now has an equivalent for Segoe UI. Web designers rejoice!
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If you have federal loans, you can use income-based repayment, where you pay a tolerable fraction of your pay and the loan is forgiven after 25 years. If you have private loans, you're pretty well screwed for life.
It is a legitimate point that there are lots of controversial commercial issues at the Olympics (e.g. petitmiam's fish and chips comment), but that should not detract from admiring the motivation and efforts of the elite athletes competing. They train their wholes live and push themselves through mental and physical barriers.
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Also, if you weren't the best student in high school, community college will give you a chance to establish a better track record.

I was an average student in HS (3.0 GPA), but I buckled down at CC and got my GPA up high enough to score an academic scholarship (full tuition) when I moved on to university through Phi Theta Kappa.
Once again there is no way to contact a human being.

Once again we hope that getting publicity on blogs will catch the attention of someone at Google who can do something about it.

This time, I'd like someone to tell me why it was impossible for the dev to remedy this through the normal channels and tell us what Google are going to do to stop this happening again.
dotfiles are not perfect, but to have this very negative vision on a feature that also helped is a bit a revisionist attempt IMHO.

Dotfiles provided a poor, but at least simple way to store program-specific-user-specific configuration, since another standard was missing. After all it's a simple and decentralized system that worked very well with the concept of unix user and ACL: you write something inside your home directory, and this changes the behavior of your program.

Consider that this was invented many decades ago. Now it seems a lot better to have directories with sub directories. Maybe back then it was considered to be a waste of resources, inodes, and so forth.

We can improve it, create a new standard, and have something better than dot files, but dot files are better than many other over-engineered solutions that I can imagine coming out of some kind of design commission to substitute them.

Every time to passed your vim configuration to a friend you just copied a text file, sending it via email: you enjoyed one of the good points about dot files. Every time you did something like cat dotfile | grep option you enjoyed the positive effects of single-file plaintext configuration.

Also it's worth saying that dot files are not just the concept of an hidden file with config inside. A lot of dot files also have a common simple format of multiple lines "<option> <value>", that's better than some XML or other hard to type format (IMHO JSON itself is not good for humans).
I had the same immediate reaction. Low-cost debt is a very useful tool for long-lived institutions. I'm certain that a few institutions are using it naively or foolishly, but the existence of debt doesn't prove the existence of a problem.

The graphs they chose for the article are also absolutely uninformative. As an example, the top graph indicates that long-term debt grew substantially faster than instruction costs from 2002-2008, but that's exactly what I would expect given that instruction costs were relatively static, but interest rates plummeted.
Generally, and within reasonable limits, I would agree. With interest rates the way they are, debt financing is remarkably cheap right now, while saving is comparatively expensive.

That said, borrowing "as much as possible" can be problematic. Debt should be used to finance only what is necessary. Problems arise when institutions (or people) take on as much debt as they can, figuring they'll put it to use eventually.

You shouldn't stock more food in your pantry, so to speak, than you can eat in a reasonable timeframe. The stuff you don't get around to eating will start to spoil.
>>They think that the experience of their largely 20-something staff is anything short of revolutionary.

>>A bunch of kids running a digital media company with questionable morals and no connection to digital history.

I cannot comment on the morals but same thing applies to a lot of YCombinator companies - where the product is complete trash, gains traction just because they allow you to do something 'social', used by the cool kids because apparently they are developed in Lisp (or similar 'cool' languages) and is built to be sold. Most of them are bought by large companies where the decision makers are equally foolish.

I am huge fan of Quora, primarily because it allows opinions. In technology, often a best answer is an opinion, recommendation and comparison between things - something which Stackoverflow discourages. I have found a lot of value in reading answers in Quora and this just a small price to pay.
Just so you know, UrbanTerror isn't open-source, sadly - still very good fun though.

There's a pretty fun FOSS FPS called AssaultCube which I used to play a lot - it's simple but it's fun. That has quite a high number of players. Unsure about how active the other FPSs are but whenever I've tried them out I've always been able to get a game.
The presence of money is a matter of fact of US politics - it can't, on it's own, be used as an argument for or against any particular movement being legitimate or not.
Too legit to git!
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I suspect the wait time for changing names on facebook are there to give the illusion that a real human looks at it.

AFAIK if you try to change your name to something obviously fake, like "Superman", it will reject it immediately
Actually the debt of indentured servitude was generally not passed on to children. That varies though between different places and times, and is not a key to indentured servitude. Not necessarily that you cannot escape due to the interest (though that was common). They key is the first part, that you cannot leave your work until the debt is paid.
Why Valve? Or, what do we need corporations for..
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Rakuten CEO has stated in the comments that their business model is not like Amazon market place and they would focus on how to empower mid to small size merchants.
The problem with your analysis is that eventually the loan comes due, and there's no guarantee that interest rates will still be low at that time.
Is Google about to close Feedburner? It's looking likely
Given that the most common reason for sticking with MySQL is the maturity of InnoDB and the surrounding toolsets, and the ability to hire knowledge easily this sounds like an excellent development.
Good job, I love it!
A suggestion: add some network aware features, like GeoIP, IP/domain whois, etc.
They'd have to call some external API's, but they'd fit right in.
Another way to take it is that ES removes too much from OpenGL.

In any case, I submit to the opinion of experts - my experiments with OpenGL have been simple and, when I attempted anything more complicated, they resulted in much more frustration than learning.
I don't know what you're talking about, but it's not indentured servitude as the term was used in America. Indentured servitude was generally for a fixed period of time. The first sentence of the wiki article: "Indentured servitude refers to the historical practice of contracting to work for a fixed period of time, typically three to seven years, in exchange for transportation, food, clothing, lodging and other necessities during the term of indenture."

You could probably find millions of people, including me, who would gladly trade their student loans for several years of indentured servitude.
The dealbreaker for me was when it was made abundantly clear that there was a near zero chance of transferring off my assigned gig, and given that I had plenty of other options besides Google, I quit and moved on to one of them.

Yes, that's horrible. It's harder to get a decent transfer than a promotion, but if you start out on a dud, you're not going to get either on a decent schedule.

Did they say why they were keeping you stuck there? Don't they realize that they're losing good people with these policies?

For most people (the 80% that will never get anything interesting, but that Google will happily use for grunt work) Google is culturally a halfway house for those who are afraid of adult life. You have foosball tables but no chance of getting on a good project. It's infantilizing.
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It was something the new socialist government was bound to do, the only question was when and how. Cutting budget seems like the smartest way to do this, given the economic context.

Now let's see if they try what they were preaching 3 years ago, that every citizen pays a monthly tax and then can legally download anything he wants for free.
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3D-Printed "Magic Arms" - The most inspiring use of 3D-Printing I've ever seen.
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MySQL development server, not meant for production use, in development for almost 2 years, release date unknown, now includes memcached, and a plugin that allows fast NoSQL-style access.

I hope they are taken seriously however; I'd like to see all the major RDMS tightly integrate memcache in front. It only makes sense, web developers have been doing it themselves since LiveJournal's hayday.
I was curious so I just had a look with my (fake name) account and the option called "Allow others to see what content I've viewed in feed" was set at "No". I don't recall ever playing with that setting so this may be a recent change on their part to avoid the backlash.
I thought I'd post this because it seems to me that 3D-Printing has massive disruptive potential. It's incredible to see the impact this has had on this girl's life, but where else do you think there could be heavy disruption in 3D printing, and what startups might we see over the coming decade in the 3D printed space?
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Could be the longest infographic ever. Take a road trip across the USA to learn how to make landing pages. #Epic
Google Play developer policies have been updated, we like where this is heading
i don't think anyone who used git daily for a month has problems with the original command names. i used git before svn and now i'm totally unhappy with the svn-command-names...
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Might as well plug myself too. I build primarily on Android as my apps are free and it has the larger user base (and I love Android)

I mainly do client work on iOS, though my next big self funded project will be on both platforms.

Contact form and more details about me are on my website - http://jamesjguthrie.com
Why is this nonsense being voted up?
In my opinion, it's not enough. It should not be enabled by default, and it should not exist at all. Services like Quora should not introduce changes that compromise the privacy of accounts that already exist. If I hadn't seen this submission on Hacker News, I wouldn't have known about the change.
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Further to techinsidr's link, here is El Reg's take. This is not the first time Indian authorities have claimed to have keys that arguably don't exist (did they mean THESE keys, did they mean THOSE keys, the debate rages in the comments :p ), and it won't be the last.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/02/rim_keys_india/
For the curious, the site mentioned in the article appears to be either Alanis Morissette or The Doors: https://www.google.com/search?q=Generic+synthroid+bad+you
Show HN: Notebooth, an async Omegle-type thing
Ehhh the public user base perhaps isn't really so important in foss fps games because these games are most often used as LAN games when not everyone owns the same collection of games. Before tf2, Warsow was pretty much the only good fps LAN parties could use legally.
> No, pixel art is not at all about "big blocky pixels" - that's some silly 8-bit retro movement.

At not point the article claims that pixel art should be all about big blocky pixels, only that understanding of pixel art is typically about (i.e what the layman knows about it), and even more typically in the context of video games. The only thing argued is that if any scaling is to be applied, it has to take place in the code, not in the image, which actually goes in your sense: the source image, although small, has to stay crisp.

So if you wish to really make a distinction, let's call it chip art then, or low-fi, or low-res, but there's no denying that this is pixel art, with the added constraint of resolution.

Calling this "retro", "8-bit", whatever movement "silly" is a bit disingenuous. From The Incident to The Last Rocket to Fez, the visuals are gorgeous. And not just the visuals, but from sound effects to music, the audio experience is fantastic. Disasterpeace [0] — the artist behind the Fez soundtrack — created rich electronic music, perfectly in line with my definition of quality (I enjoyed Rise of the Obsidian Interstellar way before Fez was known).

[0] http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/disasterpeace/id411023239
Its a small point, but I feel that MySQL administration via the console is easier to get into (for example, having SHOW CREATE TABLE to dump table creation SQL is operationally simpler than having to exit out of the console, then run pg_dump <db> --schema-only <tablename> and then start the console back up). MySQL does a lot of simplifications in that vein that I think will prevent displacement for some time to come.
I'm fasting and coding now - I really don't see a drop in code quality. Nor have I noticed it in others who have been fasting at the time.

We all seem to look for externalities to explain bad performances. Maybe the code wasn't very good, or the design not conducive to writing good quality code?
IIRC, https sites do not send referer, so that makes sense.
The single best line from the article.

"""Men should not feel emancipated because everyone believes they are only mildly competent as caregivers"""

I fully agree with this. I strive to do as much work in raising my one child as my wife does. Recently my wife had to cover two saturday shifts giving me two full days with my son ( breakfast to bedtime ). My wife approaced the days like they would be some great hardship for me. I approached them as wonderfull opertuinities to spend extra time with my two year old. Even though I try to do just as much as she does in terms of feeding and changing and general parenting, the fact that for most of the week I am only present for maybe an hour a day gives her the impression that I am incapable of handling the full load of responsability by myself. I see this as the issue. If men do have full time jobs and their wifes are stay at home moms then there will allways be this perception. People always assume that those who are _not_ doing what they do _can't_ do what they do
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Eating nothing for three weeks?! That's stupid and dangerous.

You're putting your life at risk from heart attack and kidney and liver failure (and other people's, judging from your comments in this thread).
Just what App Engine already offers, its memcache api[1] on its NoSQL datastore.

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The fact is that most apps already have been signed and the remaining few will be signed in a couple of months.

Let's assume Apple will only very rarely abuse their power (In fact I guess they won't abuse it at all, but for the sake of the argument let's assume they do.)Then running unsigned apps with a right-click is still possible, but the user will be much more aware as this is almost never required. He will therefore actually read what the dialog says and not be trained to ignore it.

In fact, that is what makes this approach different to UAC in Windows and likely to succeed: UAC came up too often and users learned to ignore it. It is already very clear to me that Gatekeeper is rapidly adopted by developers. (By the way I also think Apple has whitelisted many sufficiently outdated applications since I get the "Open" button for some of them even if they are unsigned. But maybe this is also just a bug.)
I can't tell whether your argument is that it should be that way or it is that way, but you're wrong on both counts:

Straight from the FCC:

> Today’s declaratory ruling reaffirms the Commission’s dedication to promoting the widespread deployment of unlicensed Wi-Fi devices. It clarifies that American consumers and businesses are free to install Wi-Fi antennas under our OTARD rules – meaning without seeking approval from their landlords – just as they are free to install antennas for video programming and other fixed wireless applications. - FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps [1]

As to whether it should be this way, consider a world in which individual landowners could actively jam police communications, or if every sliver of the spectrum chart [2] needed to negotiate with all the landowners in the United States. No radio communication would be possible. It is about as workable as letting landowners shoot down planes flying through "their" airspace.

[1] http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-06-157...
[2] http://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/spectrum_wal...
This is incredibly useful, thank you! There have been far too many times when I've found myself googling for online base64 encodes, timestamp conversions and basically everything else in this tool.

Fantastic work, thanks once more!
Infographics have pretty much jumped the shark. The metaphor in this one is unnecessary and the entire thing could have been written in a couple of easy to scan paragraphs.
The 9 comments have opened my eyes, I honestly didn't think there was this many open, multi platform FPS games available.

Downloading and I'll give it a go this afternoon.
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Software isn't a fire and forget transaction anymore

There's a lot of insight in that soundbite. I wish more of the "enterprise!" crowd (and in this case, Daddy Google) realized that.
Note that it _is_ common, not was.
Not really a new idea ... but to be honest, the naming of some of the commands are equally vague to new users as the default git commands. Harvest, sprout, graft?

I really think git could use a simpler and more understandable api for the entry level commands pull/checkout/rebase/... but this isn't really helping alot except for perhaps the switch and (un)publish commands.
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