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That's also why I spent more than half my budget on percussion in equipping my ex garage band.

And that's also why you can see Jack White playing a $50 guitar and no drummer without some serious dough investment in their equipment.
Do the test with Thelonius Monk.

I didn't think I was an audiophile, until I noticed a crispness missing from some of my jazz. I encode at 320kbps out of paranoia now, but what's an extra few megabytes per album?

FYI if anyone is using Google Music, turn on HTML5 audio (via labs). I swear there is a perceptible improvement.
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Even so, when I attend these events I go more for the people than the speakers etc, I would bet the people who went still enjoyed themselves.
> Also, having a wikipedia page that you wrote yourself, doesn't really say anything...

I didn't write the Wikipedia page. If you think otherwise, locate evidence to the contrary, like a responsible adult. And if you cannot locate evidence to the contrary, ask yourself whether you really want to go on record saying what you have just said about a named person.
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It might very well lead to saving the world... of warcraft.
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How many potential investors do you have attend these talks?

Has the type of investor changed over the past few years?
I would say that 192kbit (2 pass, VBR) is the minimum bitrate that one should encode music. I can pick lower than this without trying. I do struggle to hear more than 192kbit, except occasionally at the high end.
In reality, disk is so cheap that I encode in flac. I'd rather keep myself future proof. Let's just say that my entire cd collection is smaller than 2 bluray rips at 1080p.
Good old slashdot.
i'm trying to find a ticket, does anyone have an extra one to sell/giveaway/rent/etc.? -> d@wehack.it thx
Take it from someone who averages 140 WPM and peaks at 160-170 WPM. Don't skip errors and return to them later. Do delete whole words (alt-backspace) and re-type them from the beginning. When you get really fast, almost all typing errors are transposition errors. By the time they register you are already several characters, even words, ahead. Trying to correct them character by character will throw you off.
absolutely .. atmosphere there is nice though ..
Doesn't "shutdown" work like "login"?

"To shut down", "To log in" are verbs. "I will shut down my computer in 10 minutes", "Click on the key to log in".

"Shutdown" and "login" are action nouns. "The shutdown happened at midnight, two hours after the planned deadline", "A problem occurred during the login phase".

If that is the case, grand-parent would be right: the correct phrase should be "if HN shut down for one month" (cfr. "after HN shutdown").

PS: obviously I am not a native English speaker.
Its quite telling that I know almost no one that got his ticket through "regular" channels.
Looks awesome!

For some reason I can't type the ( symbol. I do have my ( and [ keys swapped but I tried both and neither has the desired effect.
As much as we'd all love to have a concept like API neutrality, in reality there is no such thing. Level playing fields are not good business because they destroy differentiation and defensibility of value. Personally, I think there are many business models that work on open, neutral systems but I'm in the minority.
This is meaningless.
Statistically meaningful tests are performed using ABX testing methods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABX_test) with high-quality equipment. And, yes, many people have trained ears (and brains?) that can easily distinguish the artifacts made by the MP3 compression even in 320kbps.
See this (http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/sebastian/mp3-128-1...) as an example of an ABX test.

As for me, with my current medium-quality headphones, I can't distinguish between the original and an 128kbps mp3.
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These companies are competitors. There was a time when it was worth the user/developer goodwill to let other networks build their graph off of Twitter's. At this stage (and it's been this way for a while), Tumblr almost feels like a migration path away from Twitter since it allows for longer content. If users can replace platforms but not graphs, what is stopping them? Twitter recognizes this and wants to stem that. It might not be what we expect from a web or (former) API company, but I don't think it's personal. They're just transitioning away from being an API company.

It seems like to get popular you have to be open and then to make money you have to be closed.
The entire exercise is predicated on the notion that if a person consciously listens to an audio recording for a while they will be able to provide a completely accurate estimation of the quality of the recording. To some degree that is true, but I dispute the idea that it is completely true.

Yes, there are crazy audiophiles who will tell you that special crystal bullshit gives them a better sound, nevertheless there is an element of truth in a degree of audio fidelity than is immediately and consciously apparent upon a single casual listen. Sometimes it can take listening to a given recording a few times before you start to appreciate all of the nuances. Maybe you don't notice the little things like the squeak of the bass drum pedal the first few times you hear it, or the richness of the intonation of the clarinet. Or maybe you don't immediately notice that the cymbal crashes are all fuzzed out to hell and back by compression artifacts because you weren't paying close enough attention the first time you listened, but on the 10th listen it starts to become a real annoyance and you start to think seriously about acquire a better recording or encoding.

Here's a perfect example. Pink has a very popular song called Raise Your Glass, you can listen to it on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjVNlG5cZyQ. In that song there are many prominent and annoying high-pitched beeps (right in the middle of the chorus even), but I find that most people do not even know they are there, they do not consciously hear them, their brain just filters it out. But once you pick up on it, they become obvious, you can't help but hear them. And the same is true of things like encoding distortion. If you draw the bar at exactly the boundary where people will be able to consciously perceive a difference in quality based on a single listen then you will have placed the bar too low. People will have a slightly lower appreciation for the recordings due to factors they may not even consciously be aware of.
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I'm not sure, but this is what i think i get out of this. You really don't need an email, this could be a hash or whatever. i think of more apps or services use some protocol like this, there should be a unified why to "lookup" for an account or something.

For example, if you have a decentralized social network that is based on the same software, say "facespace", every of those software nodes would lookup for the same identifier. i guess...
I'm pretty fast typist - about 50 WPM in those crazy JavaScript regexp exercises. I used to think my typing speed is just a perk, but everything changed, when I became proficient in TDD and refactoring.

Previously I've thought a lot about architecture, code, algorithms, etc. And then typed that in ~1 hour per day. However when I started doing real TDD with running tests every few dozen seconds, everything changed. Now I actualy code almost all the day - play with ideas, throw them away, implement in a multiple ways, refactor a lot. And that is a blessing when you may implement your ideas as fast as you may, so that instead of analyzing the solution, you verify it.

Other reason is I've changed my approach to application architecture. Previously I've used the standard PHP/Ruby/JS frameworks and fit my code into predefined places, generated scaffolds, etc. However then I started applying DDD, PoEAA and similar ideas. All the advanced design principles require a lot of boilerplate code - a lot of mappers, DTO transformers, domain classes, view models, etc. So I actually need to type ~3 times more code than before.

And then I've started using VIM. You better not make typos when using VIM - crazy staff happens and it breaks the flow.
128kbit sounds so poor that I get a headache from listening to it. There is a tinnyness and high pitched squeal that is like a drill through my head. Maybe it's like using a 14" monitor - if you're so used to hearing low bitrate, it may be hard to notice better quality when you hear it occasionally.
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I believe you're messing up the units here.

- The sampling rate, measured in kHz, for CD tracks is 44.1 kHz (not kbps), which determines the frequency range. Nyquist-Shannon applies to this.

- The bit-depth, number of bits/sample, determines the SNR of the signal, but has no effect on the frequency range. A typical audio CD has a bit depth of 16.

- The bit-rate, measured in kbps, is (sampling_rate * bit_depth * channel_count). So for an audio CD, this would be 441000 * 16 * 2 = 1411200 bps = 1411.2 kbps.
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> OStatus [..] stopped short of actual decentralization.

How so ? It looks quite decentralized to me.
It's a classic Batman quote, made by the Jekyll&Hyde-ish Two Face.
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Thanks for that info,just signed up to flurry this morning. Currently reading up on events and their importance in iOS analytics. Is it worth integrating them at the beginning or should I wait to see what I should track before putting events in?It seems like flurry will give me all the data I need with or without events?
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(2) ... And of course it's a process that your existing host could easily frustrate, though that would be very ill-mannered. Not saying there are any perfect solutions here

This would be especially bad if the server you're using is hacked and they stop everyone from leaving :/
So if you end up listening to the music with your medium-quality headphones, it doesn't matter whether it's 128kbps or 320kbps.
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Sounds great, I am a big fan of google analytics. Will keep an eye out for the launch of the mobile specific one, but for now I guess I will go with flurry.
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9000mah battery? A base heavy enough to allow the device to not tip over when you touch the screen? To be able to offer it for £150?
Indeed who wrote that line?
I suppose if you use really crappy media and an even worse CD recorder you will have significant signal degradation because of all the bits missing so error correction is kicking in

But it's really a stretch
To verify, you realize that the person you are responding to, whom I believe you have called a "troll", seems to quite clearly understand this, right? The first quote is "what a lot of people are saying", and the second quote is "the obvious response to that".
So if that entity wants, they can boot you off and pretend to be you.

They could shut you down, but I don't think they could pretend to be you since they don't have your private key..
Or http://www.reddit.com/r/startups
Isn't the Amazon service only for Amazon shipments?
Great to see that Fowndr.com is being opened to public. Keep up the good work Stu!
It can't melt down, it has relatively save spent fuel, its plentiful, reactors can be turned on and off with a switch, a Thorium reactor can be constructed at any size efficiently. Seems like a lot of advantages.
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I would argue this song is terrible for this test. I usually can instantly tell the difference between 320 and 128 kbps, but I wasn't able to with this test.
I've so far been unable to replicate this problem.
I'm with you on this. But I think that in pop music the vocals have such a high prominence that you kinda miss the song if try to be aware of the "whole song". Especially if English is not you native language. So the brain keeps filtering while you sing along.

In the case of Raise Your Glass, are you referring to the synth sound that "bleeds" through from the background during the chorus?
Thanks so much for your last phrase.
The powerups are rather ... ummm ... random and the method for choosing them is not conducive to making good choices. But other that a fun diversion.
Absolutely agree, this is a really awesome side-use of this project. Great work!
<rant>So the guys in the dojo could build their own airplane, go out in the desert, and fly it and kill themselves. The world is happy with them. They could learn to SCUBA dive. Heli-ski. Become a wild animal tamer. But they can't sit around in the evenings and create things that change the world in a particular building because it doesn't meet code and therefor might be dangerous.

Better than that, they could use the facilities even in a state of disrepair, and they did for a long time. It's only now that it has been inspected that suddenly it becomes dangerous.

I think the city has an obligation here to prevent people from getting hurt -- unknowingly. You shouldn't walk into an unsafe building without knowing it. But once you put a big red sign up on the door, as long as there is no danger to surrounding buildings or people, leave the guys alone.

To top it off, we have this quote: "We try to be as supportive as we can...Businesses spin out of there. We are not at all interested in them closing down"

Bullshit. This is the classic Nuremberg defense: we're only following the system. Politicians are voted into office to make decisions, and they could have a wavier created in an hour if the right strings were pulled. This is just a matter of hackers not having a strong local political voice. (I do not like the system being broken in a way such that squeaky activists get special treatment, but it is what it is) Hell, the city should be paying itself for the building to be brought up to code. There shouldn't even be a question about it being a problem for the coders to solve on their own. What the hell kind of priorities do they have out there? They have a place successfully spinning off startups and they're fucking around with it? Other cities would kill for something like that.

I just find it amazing that the parks and streets in the Bay Area are full of people living a catch-as-catch-can existence. There's rampant drug use, violent crimes, and so on. Perhaps if we were concentrating on public safety and helping the most number of people, instead of working in silos, we would be doing other, more important things?</rant>
Sort of. It does fall a little low in the progression

Edit: moved info in other comment.
Yes. For _me_, using _my headphones_, it doesn't matter. Everyone's experience is unique, as it depends on various factors.
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I guess it might make sense to do a lookup based on a hash of a json query like:

{ "facespace":"arethuza" }
Yeah, it's complete random based on level. Even the spread of the ammo, which confused me the most.

There should be pause when opening crate, imho.
It might be my bad quality headphones, but the song for me was so distorted on the 128kbps that I heard the difference in less than a second.
I honestly think everything is going to go information.

Also, I think that games, the little industry that could, is going to totally disrupt and destroy creative media production and consumption (movies/music/tv). Get ready to see an entire industry absolutely crush it.

Human needs - outside of survival - are largely experiences.

Having that great car, going on that ski trip, watching a movie, having a good family, spending time with people we like etc. I'm talking first world here (the vast majority of consumption). The rest of the world will catch up (I'm fully aware of their situation).

Experiences are information and information is cheap, scalable, plentiful and most importantly - limitless. Want a great house? Jack into your own personal VR and have whatever you like. Want to drive a lambo through Monte Carlo in the summer? GTA 15 has got that covered. Want to go out with a French supermodel? Done and done.

If all humans want are experiences then photoreal VR has, or will have, everything you could possibly need (outside of survival). You can create music. You can create movies. You can do that which you cannot do because of scarce resources (I'm ignoring the second law of thermodynamics).

Games are going to lead the charge, and you can already see the beginnings of it with the rise of the Machinima movement and, most importantly, with the recent release of photoreal game engines that support full scale movie production and development (Valve with Source Filmaker and Crytek's Real Time Cinema tech).

The price of making films is going to zero. The price of making novels is going to zero. Music - zero. Flying a jet - zero. Whatever it is that you want - VR can and will do it - and it will begin within this decade. Indeed - with the advent of fusion - energy is going to zero.

What could you achieve if everything was free? What happens when you can divide by zero?

We may very well see the death of physical consumption within this century (outside of fusion supplied energy).

Tell me I'm crazy.

Sources:

Crytek CryEngine 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqNHJ-ekMR4

Source FilmMaker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zri1c_If6Ic

DICE FrostBite 2 for Battlefield 3 - "Is it real?": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtMaJf45mQ8

[E3 2012] Watch Dogs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU7WGAJPRRw

[E3 2012] The Last of Us: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbLOokeC3VU

Red vs. Blue epic fight scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke9wtbzGjCI

GTA4 "Like a G6" music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5tuUU5dKb8
> It seems to me that the US patent law is a system for transferring money from those who actually do stuff to those who don't.

This is not surprising from an economic point of view once you realize that the patent system is basically a system of government granted monopolies.
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> The sampling rate, measured in kHz, for CD tracks is 44.1 kHz (not kbps) ...

Yes, corrected, thank you. The original point stands -- the higher resampling rates are increasingly pointless.

> The bit-depth, number of bits/sample, determines the SNR of the signal ...

Yes, and is thought to be the source of the much-remarked, subtle difference between vinyl album music and CD music. But no one knows for sure.

> The bit-rate, measured in kbps, is (sampling_rate * bit_depth * channel_count). So for an audio CD, this would be 441000 * 16 * 2 = 1411200 bps = 1411.2 kbps.

True. Unfortunately, these numbers may motivate people to argue for higher and higher MP3 sampling rates, ignoring the fact that the original temporal sampling rate severely limits the usefulness of these efforts.
That's my point; it's why I prefer public/private keys as ids instead of network addresses.
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Agree. That is why Google has Vint Cerf working for them. It probably more than paid off.
Does a new networking website make any sense?
Hi to all,

my team and I are building a new networking website called Flowsee (http://flowsee.com)
We want to propose something new, where you could only find the best content (a bit like here but more general), graphically more attractive than reddit (because you also rate the content on flowsee) and where you do not connect with people (like on Twitter or Facebook) but you have access to all the content.

Do you think there is still place to start a new networking website?
And also, do you think people might be more interested in a better looking reddit, where the graphic organisation is closer to facebook?

Thanks for your answers,
Chris
What the heck does "pythonic" mean?
I have also same issue with Dell's USB keyboard for Japanese language.
For example, that site can't detect "=", "_", etc...
I got all of them right. I think the 3D ones are still identifiable easily. Though I've do admit I do a lot of 3D work in Blender3D, so I may just have an eye for when it looks to perfect.
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> If all humans want are experiences then photoreal VR has, or will have, everything you could possibly need (outside of survival)

But it's just not the same. Even if it looks, feels, tastes, smells and acts the same. It's not.

The real trick will be, can we convince people that they actually experienced that? The moment they know it was a simulation, they will feel like something's missing.

Same as even though chocolate produces the same chemical response as sex does ... it can't quite replace sex. (I'm not a biologist, this is data I picked up from Discovery Channel, but I do know chocolate doesn't replace sex)
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Or when they want to keep the threat of litigation credible in order to extort out-of-court settlements.
Indeed. This is a commercial event with too much security - quite the opposite from the usual hacker events in Germany. You need to give lots of info on registration including a passport style photo, your laptop serial number (because equipment is required to be tagged) and apparently bags are searched on entry and exit. It's ridiculous. That's why the usual hacker crowd in Germany totally ignores this event.
I certainly wouldn't miss people pedantically correcting grammar.
Great idea. But as a fast typist of both prose and code I found the interface nearly unusable. Please make it behave more like a normal edit box. I never had any idea of the location of my cursor. The lack of alt-backspace made it unbearably slow to correct errors. Auto-skipping whitespace makes it tougher to rely on my habits where the key strokes for indentation and line breaks are a natural part of the flow. And if you're not going to make me type the comments, just delete them from the text entirely so I can more easily scan ahead.

Here's a straight-up bug: I had to turn off a Chrome extension (Type Ahead Find) that I use for incremental search. It was intercepting key strokes that were supposed to go to typing.io. That hasn't happened with Ace and other canvas-based text editors. My friend also mentioned that it didn't work with his Danish keyboard.

Beyond these annoyances with the implementation, typing the C code from Redis reinforced how difficult (and frankly infuriating) it is to spontaneously conform to an unfamiliar coding convention. E.g. no spaces in "while(1)" throws me off completely because my brain is thinking "while 1" and my fingers translate that into my customary "while (1)". If you want this web app to be relevant to real-world programming, you need to let people upload their own code samples.

For even punctuation heavy, syntactically gnarly prose, I can average 140+ WPM without much effort. Typing.io put me at around 100 WPM for the first few sections of the C Redis lesson. I'd say I'm good for at least another 15-20 WPM if the environment wasn't so utterly alien.
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