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> But this is exactly the same if you put your mp3 file through Audacity and increase it and play with WMP, or if you put a DirectShow filter that amplifies the volume after your codec output.

Indeed, and doing that destroys audio equipment just as effectively. It's the reason apps like SoundForge, Audacity and others have clip warnings on their level monitors: so users don't create audio data that destroys listeners' equipment.

The problem is VLC gives consumers (who, like you, don't know better) an exceptionally easy way to create clipped audio. Depending on the characteristics of the source, the degree of clipping VLC can create can destroy even pro equipment. If I were an engineer at Dell, I'd recommend denying warranty claims too.
He announced the company would be giving less money to employees, and blamed it on some babies...

He announced the company would be giving the same money to employees but the distribution would change: more healthcare (as mandated by Obamacare), less 401k.
It does have a (too) steep learning curve. I second docker as an option.
That sounds about right, actually. Half the yard is clearly free, but they failed to mention that you can't even view the other half.

But wasn't the quote indicating that it was made clear somehow? Looking at the anses.fr site isn't particularly helpful, if that's even the site in question.
Your post was brilliant but you ruined it with this..

>>only to be puzzled when having a large number in their bank account fails to actually solve any of their problems.

I'm not sure what kind of utterly broken philosophy propagates this idea. Do people actually believe that some one starving, unable to afford any kind of medical care, who doesn't have a proper home, clothes or anything for that matter is far more happy than a millionaire?

What kind of a brainwashing does it take to help such absurd thoughts totally devoid of common sense to sink in?

Not one single person who is rich I know isn't happy. When rich people talk of money being unable to solve 'some problems' they are talking of stuff which I wouldn't even consider as problems. They are more like minor small time inconveniences.
Living in the suburbs doesn't mean you avoid the sardines feeling: https://maps.google.com/?ll=35.833819,-78.909173&spn=0.02637...

Cars aren't manifestly bad, but that kind of neighborhood is.
Reminds me of what happened to Andrew Aurenheimer, only iterated a bit more.
I for one find these kinds of success stories extremely demoralizing. They create unrealistic expectations. But certainly nothing could justify death threats and personal attacks…
"you’re in ninth grade and you’ve already taken nearly all the math classes your school offers"

I thought most high schools taught calculus. Both my and my wife's did. Why is this 15 year old going to a local community college or university for that?

http://www.maa.org/the-changing-face-of-calculus-first-semes... agrees, and points out that 3x more people take AP Calculus now than when I was in high school. Which is about the same time that the author went to school.

(FWIW, I do realize that my high school was unusual, in that it also offered linear algebra, differential equations, and modern algebra. There were enough of us who had taken calculus and were interested in additional classes. It was a community college course taught at the high school by a high school teacher.)

"I met nearly all of them through activities or employment that selected for thinkers. In school, these activities were (and still are in most schools) extracurricular programs, not curricular ones."

Nope, don't recognize that in my experience. The class with the most "thinkers" was probably AP European History. I can't think of an extracurricular which matched it. (AP American History, AP English, and AP Calculus were pretty close.)

How much of this essay is the author's hypothesis, and how much of it is based on actual research?
I don't see reason for negative comments, this is excellent, I love it. And is great way to immerse into several foreign languages.

I was thinking a lot about this recently, and no I can't make it myself, but it would be good to have a way to expose yourself to multitute of foreign languages. Like 7-9 of them. I think I could learn languages that way, or words. As for grammar, once I have some foundation, I can learn it. I very much like their approach.

I just saw that they have mixer mode where they show you words from any language, perfect !
Look at the last post he made before he was hell-banned.
Well the silicon valley is based over here so you would expect better.
I haven't, thanks for the rec! That's really cool.

Yes, I overlooked that, too (along with personal health). We probably won't move away from coal and crude oil economies soon enough (even as we adopt more nuclear) for earth to avoid a climate disaster in the next 30 years.
I wrote my first comment before reading the article, and later found that paragraph in which the article's author seemed to share my sentiments.

In my first comment I may have been speculating on the motivations of others, but I did so by drawing in part on my own experiences. Programming, computers, BBSes/online services/Internet, etc. gave me something I could do as a grade school child that didn't depend on other people's approval of my social identity. My point was and is that it would be just as tragic to drive off the social misfits as it would be tragic to exclude the socially adept.

Sadly, sometimes it seems the mainstream have seen how much money can be made by former and present misfits as hackers and want to take ownership of it for themselves.

Edited to add: After rereading the thread, it seems you may have been commenting specifically on the sentence that I quoted. I don't intend to justify the heuristic that leads some to assume non-social-outcasts are non-hackers, only to explain it, and perhaps find a way of bridging the gap between those who use that heuristic, and those who are harmed by it.
>The "win screen" is rather tasteless as well. It tells me I probably don't want to contact them after all.

Oh look! It's another north american "women are offended!" sort. How's that koolaid tasting?
I thought they warned about clipping because it sounds awful.

There is no excuse, none, nada, zip, zilch, in 2014 for allowing userland software to generate signals powerful enough to damage built-in hardware.
What should I learn for a good career? 
The title says it all. I am currently a Sophomore studying CS at middle of the line university. Sometimes I feel like I don't know anything compared to some of the upper class men, including the ones that are only a year more along than me. So my question is what do should I focus on to ensure I will be relevant to the work force before and after graduation?
Banksy.
My Baby and AOL’s Bottom Line
How has it affected your uptime? Any specifics?
Excluding the more privileged sometimes seems worse than the bias which excludes the less privileged?

That doesn't seem to make much sense to me.
One barrier is that there are collective action problems all over the friggin' place. If it's profitable to pollute, and Company A does while Company B does not, Company A will prevail.

Okay, well, this is what we have governments for. Polluting is outlawed, and both companies are prevented from defecting.

But there's more than one country in the world. And clean industry is expensive. So if country A pollutes, and country B doesn't...

My point is that it's not enough to just "decide" to tone it down, because societies that don't (although they carry the seeds of their own destruction) will dominate ones that do.
#flappyjam
It is always relative for public transport. You get people in New York and London whinging about having to wait 6 minutes for the next train, because they just missed one. Coming from an area where we would have buses every hour if you were lucky, this seemed ludicrous, but I started to feel the same way after 6 months.
Thanks for sharing the link. Very cool
If you channel them to be somewhat more linear, commuter rail can work okay for suburbs. Copenhagen took that approach, with a goal that even quite far out suburbs should be in reasonable biking or bus distance to an S-train station: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_Plan
The fact that it's being driven internally is a major difference.

Imagine if this was some crazy keyboard which could actually press keys automatically using a motor. Then imagine if the drivers and hardware allowed you to destroy the keyboard by pushing the motor too hard. This would be obviously crazy and the ability to write userland software that destroys built-in hardware should not result in a denied warranty.
Well, you say you can kick a ball around in the street, but signs prohibiting ball games are a common sight in the UK at least.
I always find it strange that articles on this topic go directly from wages to rent prices without acknowledging there is a human making the decision to raise rent in between.

There's also a confounding factor thrown in by the IRS: as I understand it, landlords are not allowed to claim losses on rental properties unless they charge above median rent for the area, without regard to property age or condition. Thus, there is a constant upward pressure on rent prices, especially for lower cost units.
This is the kind of story that reveals a lot more about the teller than the subject.
Doesn't fix the problem of references being used for politcal retaliation, rather than actual performance. Which what the large chunk of bad references are about. In-fact it increases it, because the employee can no longer sue for retaliation, so the manager can make up anything he wants. Managers using references to retaliate against employees is fairly common.

This is why people are scared to whistle-blow. And businesses who value integrity miss out on good employees.
I stopped reading at this point. Beside the fact that a U.S. Treasury bond is not a mortgage backed security, subprime mortgages have not been originated in several years. A discussion about central banking or U.S. monetary policy would be one thing, but this is factually incorrect.
The Valley sort of is a transit problem, more than SF. Although SF's lack of a crosstown subway doesn't help: the N-Judah streetcar plus the Geary bus, between them add up to a pretty poor crosstown transit situation. But the Valley explicitly opted out of BART and used the money to build county expressways instead (San Tomas, etc.), which is one of several reasons that it's a sprawling mess.

NIMBY-ism is also a problem in the few places of the Valley that do have decent transport, though I think it's the secondary problem. One place it's noticeable is Palo Alto: why isn't there high density housing near the Palo Alto Caltrain station (which is also conveniently near Stanford and a number of tech companies)? Because Palo Alto homeowners don't want anyone with less than a $1m house to live there. However afaik this is a minority situation in the Valley, and most of it just doesn't have decent transit that could attract high-density housing in the first place. San Jose has also been more development-friendly, although it's too bad there that the VTA light rail is so near-useless, or that area could plausibly have a more urban feel.
Apple: We’re the patent trolls’ top target, facing 92 lawsuits in 3 years
By choosing one at random, perhaps?
Ah, I see your point. Basically, fragment the power of the existing population as much as possible by increasing heterogeneity within it. Seems like the only solution against this is an eventual educated population that despite it's cultural and racial diversity, will come to a common consensus.
The coffee is only free if your time is worth nothing. Anyone waiting in line is doing so for social reasons.
1) make sure your services listen on ipv6 and configure them accordingly if they don't.
Watch out for things like virtual hosts and TLS configuration.

2) Add firewall rules to allow inbound traffic over ipv6 if they don't already exist.
If using ufw (default in ubuntu), check that `ufw status` lists entries for ipv6.

# ufw status
Status: active

To Action From
-- ------ ----
OpenSSH ALLOW Anywhere
80/tcp ALLOW Anywhere
443/tcp ALLOW Anywhere
OpenSSH (v6) ALLOW Anywhere (v6)
80/tcp ALLOW Anywhere (v6)
443/tcp ALLOW Anywhere (v6)

Allowing inbound https connections over both ipv6 and ipv4 is as easy as typing

ufw allow 443/tcp

If you're managing your firewall rules by hand, do NOT block icmpv6 as it will break connectivity.

3) add a AAAA record pointing to your vps' ipv6 address to any domain name pointing at your vps.
To find that address, use a command like

ip -6 address | grep global

on your vps.

Make sure the TTL of your AAAA records matches that of your A records.

If you're hosting your own mail server, make sure your MX records point to host names returning ipv6 addresses.
If using SPF, you'll need to add ipv6 addresses to your records as well.

4) Check that your DNS records return both ipv6 and ipv4 addresses, i.e. host should return something like:

$ host www.rackspace.com
www.rackspace.com is an alias for www.wip.rackspace.com.
www.wip.rackspace.com has address 173.203.44.116
www.wip.rackspace.com has IPv6 address 2001:4801:1221:101:1c10:0:f5:116

Changes in DNS can take time to propagate (depending on the TTL of your records), so give it a couple of hours if records don't show up right away,

5) test that your services are reachable and working as expected over ipv6.
You can use ipvfox (firefox) or ipvfoo (chrome) to make sure that ipv6 was indeed used to reach your web server.
curl -6, ping6, telnet -6 are also good to test/debug.

To see what services are listening on ipv6, use nmap to run a portscan (from a different machine than the vps itself).

nmap -6 -P0 -T4 -p0-65535 <domain name or ipv6 address>

6) if you have any kind of monitoring set up to check on your ipv4 services, add monitoring checks for ipv6 as well.
Way too often people forget about this and are not notified when their ipv6 setup breaks.

7) run http/https checks with http://ipv6-test.com/validate.php to ensure that connectivity is OK.

Hope this helps :)
Thanks for your words of defense, etler. A lot of the criticism of my original post was valid, though, so I addressed it by rephrasing and stressing out that code quality still matters: https://github.com/mislav/mislav.github.com/commit/e07907966...

You were right, however, that the post was never about code quality or code comments. It was only about "history's great, yo; here's what you can do with it".
(A Better) Text Based Flappy Bird
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I'm surprised that I can't find any mention of the fact that this behavior is simply illegal, beyond the blatant technical stupidity. The Magnuson-Moss warranty act in the US prohibits voiding a warranty simply due to the use of third-party parts, unless those parts can actually be demonstrated to be the cause of the problem. The mere presence of a part is not enough. They'd have to show that your use of VLC actually caused this failure, and since I doubt they're keeping the sort of logs that can show that, they have no case.

Companies like to talk about "voiding the warranty" for all kinds of stupid stuff, and consumers don't know their rights so they often get away with it, but what the law allows is considerably more constrained.
I worked as a management consultant for four years-- I can say or type anything with a straight face. Give me a decent bill rate and enough hours and I'll explain why SF startups should have outing where they kill homeless people with flamethrowers (builds team closeness if you all know the other guy can drop dime on you).

I did crack up when I saw someone agree with me.

The sad part is that I can point you to sites that don't tell you what they do or how much they cost-- they post a YouTube video and a signup for a free trial that requries a credit card.
I think a lot of programmers and such have bought into a dress code that involves ratty old tshirts and jeans and that kind of thing, c.f. scorn at people who show up to technical interviews in a suit
Obviously not talking about servers here. Those RAID can take more than a few minutes to spin-up.
I was going to say Banksy also, but he is a lot more understated (and artistic). http://www.woostercollective.com/post/the-village-pet-store-...
You're welcome to live in whatever kind of place you want. I think what people object to is the massive subsidies slathered on the suburban lifestyle under american policies.
Thanks for being patronizing, however I grew up in the country outside of (coincidentally) Philadelphia and understand owning and driving automobiles is necessary e.g. when you live on a farm. I don't think anyone would ever be against that considering there are no other options. It was pretty clear that I was talking about cities, and why would you not want your environment to be beautiful and healthy?
Except that advertising takes positive effort on your part, whereas it takes positive effort to avoid being listed on Google.
NASA is now accepting applications from companies that want to mine the moon
> Political correctness is not noble. It's a form of cowardice

What the fuck? Shall I make a joke about your stupidity to soften the blow of the fact that you don't get it?

Political correctness originated in the form of referring to people in the manner that the subjects wish to be referred to. Shall we refer to people by the color of their skin or their origin? Shall we refer to people by their physical abnormalities? Et cetera.
I would suggest making your logo evocative of the entomological meaning (e.g. a bee, ant, etc.), if you want to dispel that somewhat.
A good Rhetoric program teaches what you're asking for (and much more), but I don't know how many schools have one at this point. Of those that do, certainly it isn't a mandatory subject. Outlines of the material are instead punted to English 1A-type classes, where there's no time to tackle them with any degree of rigor. It's a shame.
where were you when they were designing the JSF??
The seats are better on NJ Transit, but I never had to take it as a commuting platform (only on the weekends into NYC or to EWR), but I found Caltrain to be so unreliable as to make driving 40 minutes up I280 to a BART station to be a better option.

Also their ticketing is messed up unless you're a regular with a clipper card, and even then it's easy to forget to sign on / off.
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If your side gate was open when the googlecar drove by and put it on streetview, does that mean that anyone else is entitled to wander in and take things should the gate be open as they pass by?
A $99 hackathon improves your odds of getting a job programming to roughly the same extent that a $99 pair of sneakers improves your odds of getting a job playing basketball.
You answer is "sin" taxes, and you see no way people would want to spend on a light rail project. But why would they vote themselves into a sin tax then? How is it different. Wouldn't building of a light rail in a town or region come with an increase in taxes anyway for a good number of years? Is that a "sin" tax?

> I honestly thing the best way to do it is build a better bus

A bus is a bus. Unless the wheels are falling off. The problem is not the bus, is how often does the bus come. If sell my car, and the bus only comes in the weekdays, ok, now I have to get taxi to grocery shop on the weekends. It would dictate when I have to leave from work because I might miss the last one.

The other problem is social. This is hard to say but in many cities, public transportation is often used by those that cannot drive, that unfortunately includes crazy people. You might not otherwise encounter them but you will on public transportation. In some cities it is a small nuisance. In some it happens often because almost everyone who is capable of driving is driving or getting rides. That bus could have gold plates handles and it could even be free, and a lot of people will still opt for driving.

> Firstly, because the pain is felt by everyone.

Yes. It can't be just artificially and locally manufactured pain -- sin taxes. Why would they ever vote for that? Why would a small quiet suburb of some major city just decide to vote to punish themselves for driving? But the pain has to already be there -- horrible traffic. If they start sitting in traffic for 2 hours every day, they might start thinking, hmm, we've tried HOV-3 lanes and even then it is not quite doing it? Maybe a light rail is better. Or more buses.
Refreshing to read a NYT article that doesn't go out of its way to find the cloud in the silver lining.
Agreed in principal, however all the ways that could prevent rogue userland software from playing damaging audio (eg. using a limiter of some sort) would either distort or introduce quite a bit of delay to otherwise perfectly safe audio played by responsible software.
what makes many boys persist in their uncool, embarrassing, low-ish status activity?

Perhaps the fact that, social outcast or not, such boys are nowhere near alone? They can be social pariahs together with many other boys that enjoy the same things.
That's right, folks: in the policy it states that the page cannot have the "primary purpose" of collecting information, but the way that's judged is whether or not you can get to all areas of the site without putting in an email address or filling out any other personal information.
Even though there were no other areas of the site (because it was just a single page with a form on it that had a single field), the email address was a required field and this was enough to violate the policy.

That's some top-quality thinking and engineering from the people responsible for Google's AdWords policy enforcement.
That all sounds interesting, I appreciate the resources!
I would bet $100 this is Nathan For You. That's my favorite show, and this has all the hallmarks of his style.
> Living in the suburbs doesn't mean you avoid the sardines feeling

You're not wrong, but I'm not sure it's really relevant to what I'm saying. So what, some suburbs aren't ideal to my particular way of life? Yeah? So?

> Cars aren't manifestly bad, but that kind of neighborhood is.

sigh...
"This suggests there are land owners who are growing rich on the backs of the prosperous tech community"

I wouldn't think this was at all in doubt?
I may not be the article's target audience, since I didn't really take calculus until I went to college at 18. (I say "really" because I tried some distance learning in calculus in high school, but I wasn't ready for that sort of self-driven environment and failed miserably.)

However, my personal experience was the exact opposite. Calculus classes, along with the accompanying physics-with-calculus classes, were what transformed my concept of math from a game you play with symbols into a powerful way to describe the way the world works. Once I realized that equations like d=1/2at^2 just fell out of applying calculus to the idea of change in position over time, everything suddenly made sense.
Yeah, the Win Screen is a little... ehhh. Something I would have expected from a business targeting the "adult businesses" market. Which it doesn't look like they do.
I'm fine with getting rid of subsidies.

Look at this thread. Most of what I see are people advocating "sin taxes" and the like. Or, increasing subsidies to shape a world more fitting of what they want.
I'm stopping my focus on clojure right away because go is trending!!!... lol

I've yet to see anything from go that makes it worth the investment for me in 2014..clojure solves all my needs and then some.. and there are oh so many needs..