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Two-wheel drive bikes are actually a good idea. Some combustion-engine models actually exist. Mostly dirt bikes. US-based Christini make Honda CRF derivatives with a pretty cool front-wheel drive system. The difference might be hard to tell for people who haven't ridden dirt bikes, I'm not sure, but here's a video that shows a little bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si-bI84SZKA

Yamaha also made a two-wheel-drive racebike prototype. Don't remember the name.

It's pretty interesting to read the ride reports on two-wheel-drive bikes. The handling seems to make a lot of sense ...
This actually isn't a joke? I got to the point where it asks for a credit card number, seriously expecting (hoping maybe?) for a "Haha!" message, and yet...

It's like someone read the New York Magazine Article “Let’s, Like, Demolish Laundry” (http://nymag.com/news/features/laundry-apps-2014-5/) and completely missed the point.
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I don't understand why this is such a big problem.

1) Locate someone suffering from the hum.

2) Take expensive pressure and sound equipment to their location.

3) Record all observable frequencies.

4) a) If nothing shows up, it's a personal biological problem. Direct problem toward medical professionals b) If something shows up on the frequency graph, identify the direction the sound is coming from (again using equipment that, you know, has been designed for this kind of thing and has been around for ages).

5) Follow sound, locate source.

6) Voilà, problem solved.

Someone tell me why it's not that simple.
Seems to me that spooks are in the difficult position of wanting to delete their own information forever, but have nobody else's information ever deleted.
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Ok, can't argue with that.
Some people hate the idea of shifting everything to Web. Other people hate how unsuitable HTML5/CSS3 is for replicating native appearance.

But I think overall, it's a good middle ground. There will never be a perfect solution in the real world (where resources are limited, and companies are motivated to lock-in).

Web is not a perfect medium, it has it's disadvantages. Web apps were definitely not in mind when developing and designing Web. But on other hand, it works and it's proven, it's been here for a while. There are solid technologies supporting it (nginx, apache, programming languages with their frameworks). Some say why not native? For the reasons we shifted away from native. Could we improve current situation with native applications? Maybe. But it requires a major player to get involved (read: money and skill). Would they be motivated in pursuing something philosophically right and all, while current technologies generate a lot of money? Doubt so.

Yes, HTML and CSS were not meant to be used for mobile apps, mimicking native appearance. As an alternative, we can stick to vendor, and learn vendor specific stuff which doesn't share much in common, not even programming languages. Meanwhile HTML/CSS is something much more developers are familiar. It allows more developers to develop iOS/Android apps. Maybe we should just make it DRYier like we were doing with so many problems? At first, grid frameworks came for CSS layout, then Bootstrap. And in future bootstrap-which-gives-native-iOS/Android look will come? There must be something like that already. We could throw it all away and create some new API (some suggest JS + WebGL). But again. It requires major effort, major resources and current technologies are money machines. So why to stop?

Not everything can be perfect and correct in real world, with real constraints. Some people prove that wrong from time to time. Will someone do this time?
Respondly is now free for open source projects and YC startups
Nowadays when people smoke cannabis they don't actually combust the flowers instead what they do is heat them gently until the point where the water which is contained in the plant material turns into vapor so that the medicine can be inhaled. This way you don't get any of the trace toxins that are created when you burn carbon and you don't waste medicine by incinerating it.

Just ask anyone who lives in a medical cannabis state and they will attest that this is how it's done, the same applies for concentrates.
Hey! I agree with the feedback. I'll share a tip that might have saved you 2 minutes and 55 seconds. In the URL bar of your browser, you'll see something like blog.SITE.com/more-stuff/ Most of the time, you'll find what you're looking for at SITE.com.
Really? Go take a look at the two code snippets in "The Reentrant Kernel." I can't tell what the salient difference is supposed to be between them, much less how they are meant to illustrate the concept of reentrancy.

I mean, I appreciate the concept of what she's doing here, but that self-assessment sounds reasonable to me.
A few other comments have pointed it out already, but how does this comparison actually mean anything? For example, multiplication with the first hole-punch computers was no faster than multiplying by hand and paper (probably slower), but look where we are now!
It doesn't seem entirely implausible. Your body can act as an antenna, and nerves are sensitive to electrical currents, and the frequency range is right. It's a question of what the induced current would be and how sensitive the nerves are.
Super-cool game! I was doing well until Level 9 when they started swapping the left and right controls. I couldn't wrap my brain around that and lost all three points that round because of that.
Actually. In your defense I've clicked "listen now" and been happily jamming out for an hour now. You're doing great at finding great music for me. Just keep on doing that. :)
I'm getting my boss a new Bike for his birthday this year.
See also http://www.topiama.com/ which I think was done by a HN member here.
So understand I've got a bit of history here, back in the old days I was working on Java/HotJava and the whole applet thing. Netscape was doing their own thing with what would become known as Javascript. Our vision was "Gee everything that runs in Java can run anywhere, regardless of OS or device etc etc." its a great vision. In the nearly 20 years since since Java pushed out the door (March '95, best of times and worst of times :-) this has never worked. Not for Java, not for Javascript, not for C#, not anything. Certain browsers work, some don't, there are quirks everywhere.

The default defensive strategy is to pick one browser you know work and select that as the 'standard.'

Not complaining just noting the lock in is an emergent property.
I would not be surprised if they already have $1M seed funding. You can't just create quarters out of thin air, after all!
I see this assumption quite frequently -- That what is easy for a beginner is easy for an expert. I'm not sure that's the case.

FWIW, I'm in the anti-boilerplate camp.
How Hong Kong weather is?
One of the draws of TokuMX as a replacement for Mongo is that it has document-level locking rather than collection-level locking.
And in case anyone else wants such a function, it's available in the standard library as functools.partial: https://docs.python.org/2/library/functools.html
But now I'm looking at it on a mobile device. That's totally novel.
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Good point again!

Programming largely is creative, with some degree of standard and quite autopilot code. Creative work can't be produced by staring at a blinking cursor.

I agree with counter productivity, and I strongly agree with companies who approach this with 'just get it done, whenever you want'. Twitter certainly does so, Netflix I believe does.

>>> Or maybe I'm wrong and the "leave it for tomorrow" only works when you've reached a certain level of skill.

I think there is some skill involved, or more accurately, experience. The problems we are solving are often unique but still share something in common. After solving a bunch of them, you have a gut feeling when something's going right, and when you must to take a step back.

And it has to do with corporate people and managers, not everyone understands how programming works. Young developers are afraid to look lazy in front of their non-technical managers. It's often important just to appear working hard, e.g. reading HN in terminal ;)
Gfycat was promoted pretty agressively on reddit. I've never heard of MediaCrush before this thread.
Congrats guys! Glad that you're back and fired up.
Effin' AngelList. How Does It Work?
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Sweet game! Definitely has the ingredients to go viral: Simple, annoyingly difficult, and something new at every level.
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That is a very interesting idea.

As usually with interesting ideas someone beat you to it:

http://www.appcelerator.com/blog/2014/01/browser-based-emula...
Yeah, why not rewrite every filesystem?

Just write one new one. Or use ioMemory. I don't understand that one well enough to decide yet.
Thanks! You too!
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I live in Japan and take regular lessons, so yes.
That's all a matter of technical resources, and we are aiming to solve that problem now very soon. More news coming!
Shanley is a perpetual victim who lashes out at everyone and everything around her.
What if they introduced smoothness artifically? You can easily do that by averaging with a certain window function the decision value.

To accomplish that, for example, they could take perturbations of the input and then e.g. take a majority majority vote.
An electric motorcycle is the complete opposite of what Harley sells

I was quite surprised at the styling of the electric Harley. Admittedly, I am not remotely in the motorcycling world, but to me a Harley is a bike with a big fat end to go with its big fat sound. Something meaty. I would never have thought Harley if I saw this bike.
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I think I can summarize this in one word 'Respect'
StatusPage blog posts from time to time pop up on the front page, and I read all of them, from their very beginning. A great blog, well done guys, you documented the process of working on a startup amazingly well.

Also a great example of content marketing for the target audience (which I'm sure HN is). I guess those HN homepages contributed nicely to the growth? :)
Items 4b and 5 might be hard. The sound is non-directional.
The author cleared it up in that update which I missed. Appreciate the author's transparency but it seems like he inadvertently caused this big kerfuffle over a misunderstanding. Hardly the buzz machine's fault for reporting on the author's original post.
My experience:

Unless the internal combustion engine powered vehicle is accelerating or travelling at highway speeds I don't hear the engine. I actually hear the sound of the tires on the road and displaced air. Modern engine/exhaust systems are so quiet that for all practical purposes they are silent.

The only thing I miss with an electric/hybrid vehicle as a pedestrian/cyclist is the reving sound from the engine when a vehicle starts moving without any other warning (not that you can actually hear that in many urban environments). My current opinion is that all larger vehicles should make a noise when they start moving. That might have the nice side effect of making it possible to do away with those stupid backup alarms...
In fact, Comcast has a formal program to fund research grants and open source work. There is a lot more "real" technology in place here at Comcast than one may expect for a telecommunications and entertainment provider.

http://techfund.comcast.com/

The ideal project would be something used within Comcast that doesn't otherwise have a corporate sponsor.
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After reading this article I started to pay attention to all background noises and currently can not to sleep because of some strange rhythmic series of tone bursts.
So, you give it a credit card number and it gives you cash? What could go wrong there?

I know its not much cash but still... brass balls to run that one.
I'm so terribly jealous of people able to read small fonts. Now that I can finally afford large screen monitors my eyes are so messed up that I need to set the font to 'huge' in order to be able to read (and that's with glasses, 2.5).

What a super way to promote beeminder.com, and a very nice idea for a project.
Question: how would this impact music piracy and the ability of every day people to rip audio off the web?
I have the opposite problem. When I was young, I could hear all sorts of hums and whines (including one which came from a nearby Ford factory). But headphones and loud rock shows seemed have killed my low-end hearing.
That's awesome! Reminds me of Cave Story[1], a platforming-shooter created by 1 man over 5 years, also originally released for free.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_Story
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This caused issues in locating the Windsor hum, as mentioned in the article. It seems like it should be extremely easy to put up a couple of mics and narrow it down, but it ended up being a significant technical challenge involving a number of seismic detectors. Low frequency noise is a bitch.
Shouldn't you always be able to triangulate, that hardly sounds like a difficult problem in 2014.
That post was just a link to the actual Supreme Court decision. This article explains what it's about in language that's easier for people who aren't legal scholars to understand, so I think it serves a useful purpose.
I'm looking into developing simplified MMOs. I don't care about SSD. I do care about latency and noisy neighbors. OnMetal sounds attractive, but it also sounds like it will be costly.

I think there's a market opportunity for simplifying the implementation of online multiplayer games, especially on the back end. Right now, there's a lot of painful barriers and some apparent pent up demand.
>"It completely drains energy, causing stress and loss of sleep," a sufferer told a British newspaper in 1992. "I have been on tranquilizers and have lost count of the number of nights I have spent holding my head in my hands, crying and crying."

Yeah, if it gets that bad, how about ...well, MOVING elsewhere?
don't forget US intelligence agencies don't need courts anymore.
Tanks are slow moving with a 0 degree turning radius. How would you imagine cars operating with joysticks?

You would shred your tires unless they shared control somehow.
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"SSD Drives" - Solid-State Drive Drives?
I like the sentiment but I think this ought to go back to the editor to keep the best 20% of quirkiness and get rid of the other 80%.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum#Tinnitus
"People who both suffer from tinnitus and hear the Hum describe them as qualitatively different, and many hum sufferers can find locations where they do not hear the hum at all. An investigation by a team of scientists in Taos dismissed the possibility that the Hum was tinnitus as highly unlikely."
Misleading title.

Newer technology has no inherrent responsibility to live by old forensic standards of past generations. A Solid State Drive (not, Solid State Drive Drive) does not "destroy" court evidence. Firstly, show me the court record where the data was first introduced. Secondly, lookup the legal terms for destroying court records/evidence then explain to me how this scenario applies.

Yes, I'm splitting hairs, but so does your title.
I think that to some degree the lack of certification for browsers (and ditto for Java runtimes back in the days) is what is causing this. Write-once-run-anywhere became Write-once-debug-everywhere.

Java seems to finally start to deliver on this promise though, the last few years have seen quite a bit of improvement. (Still far from perfect though, just the other day I was fighting some corporate website that insisted I install a certain version of Java in a certain browser in order to be allowed access, and it crashed in terrible ways when I finally did gain access).

Imagine that your browser simply wouldn't be allowed on the web until it conformed to a standard. Just like cars aren't allowed to go on the road if they do not conform.

This is unlikely to ever happen for various reasons and I don't think it would be a good thing but the number of broken implementations and hacks-that-became-standards is too large to even count by now.
Can you fix it by adding random gaussian noise to the input?
> You are also taking things that were previously limited in some way (a board is not elastic, etc), and assembling them into a new thing that is not so limited.

I think you have this part of it backwards. The fact that you can assemble a board and some metal into a mouse trap shows that the component parts weren't limited.

Computers are the opposite. They're extremely limited -- they can't physically do anything, they can only perform calculations. Software is capable of nothing but specifying what calculations to perform.

Here's a great example of the absurdity that occurs when you allow the narrow thing computers do to be the subject of a patent. Suppose that the text of a particular software patent consists of source code implementing the invention. If software can be patented then that patent would infringe itself. All you would need to constitute an embodiment of the "invention" would be a prior art general purpose computer and the patent's text. Imagine an infringement suit against the Patent Office (or Google Patents) for storing the patent's text on a computer capable of executing it.
The top end of the range they are quoting for the radio waves (30khz) is above the top of human hearing (20hz - 20khz), and besides the wavelength is far too long (10000m), for any of your nerves to be acting as antennae. A centimeter, or millimeter scale wave might do something to a nerve, but a 10,000 meter one seems unlikely to.
well the point is, no one cares. You're an adult that spent some money on something of dubious value, but you were expected to be able to value it.

Now your ownership of that is being seen by a kid, who assumes he's your peer. That kid never had a chance.
Have you considered that there is more than one way of one way of making true statements, especially those based on metaphor?

Truth an logic are only one dimension of communication. Why would you choose a more offensive way of saying something over a less offensive way?
Google does in fact make a non-web version of Gmail. Gmail.app for iOS and the Android port of gmail. Both of which are a MUCH better experience them the comparable mobile web apps.
That needa an anechoic chamber because it's so small, it would get drowned in normal noisy environment.

Plus, allegedly they've been able to record the Hum in some cases.
reverberate in certain acoustic configurations

This is a very important point. Low frequency noises can have a wavelength exactly the size of common rooms, yielding an unbearable amplification as the waves gang up with common peaks and troughs.

http://www.bobgolds.com/Mode/RoomModes.htm
I'll do your cloud configuration
Wow! Two thumbs up for his dedication, hard work and patience!
On the Mac, Subler can generate .srt files by OCR from both DVD and Blu-ray image subtitle tracks:

https://code.google.com/p/subler/

...although its OCR engine (Tesseract) can be a little sketchy.
Just carry a pitchfork with you. Or a mobile app that can make any pitch at will!
> Tanks are slow moving with a 0 degree turning radius. How would you imagine cars operating with joysticks?

I would assume "not like a tank". A steering wheel is 1 dimensional. Conceptually braking and acceleration can be mapped to a one-dimensional continuum, so you've got two axes that map well to a joystick. With nonlinear response, you could probably replace all three of those controls with one stick.
Such a beautifully crafted design.

I truly wish they made their design as open as their code (https://code.google.com/p/cubeslam/). Not judging their code, but I would benefit more from seeing how they make their art (3d renders specially).
>Follow sound, locate source.

You missed the part that it's a low frequency noise. Not very locatable those bastards.
I will caution people that downloaded subs are very often misaligned (timing) with your video, due to various cuts of videos, intro logos, disc versions, framerates, etc., etc. Leave your download page open and check one-by-one against the source video.
I live in bumfuck NM and both laundromats in my town use stored value cards. Are we far more progressive than I'd thought?
Finally the pendulum swings back toward reality.

Virtualization is interesting for many problem sets but it does add overhead and it has it’s costs. All of these technologies are cost -vs- reward and for too long we’ve been drinking the virtualization cool aide not realizing the real costs of those configurations.

Last year I did a super low-latency high qps project on a cloud box and I was lucky to get 37k qps out of the box. I had the same exact box reloaded as bare metal and was able to get to 165k qps. Mind you this is latency in the neighborhood of 10ms and really extreme qps loads. That said the virtualization layer is not free, it’s useful as are many technologies and it’s an awesome tool for the right problem set.

I’m happy to see Rackspace coming out with this, I asked them for something like this years ago and am excited to see they’ve figured out a way to do it..

Like many have said.. Let’s see the pricing. But before you compare make sure you are really comparing apples to apples.
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another company got here first: https://screen.yahoo.com/first-citywide-change-bank-2-000000...
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>The article was really hard for me to read, because the author just thinks so much differently from me. i.e. if an area is driving you mad, do you get instant relief if you leave the area? It could still be chemical / something in the air that makes you hallucinate, but not talking about such basic questions is just so different from how I think.

I asked that too, but some people like/love their cities, houses, relatives and friends and jobs. They don't just move on the first issue that happens.
Removing that has been attempted a few times and failed. I would love to see that shortcut removed myself too. :/
This could be a great evidence for code as expression and needing protection by First Amendment argument.
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I really liked Windows 7's per-app volume mixer [0] (Windows 7 is the last Windows I really used, not sure if they kept it or not in later versions).

I'm sad that the idea hasn't made it to other operating systems, with a system level API to allow for setting volumes independently on sound streams in different apps (an app could expose any arbitrary number of sound streams - most apps would likely have just 1, but browsers could have one per tab).

[0] http://i.imgur.com/y63Fl35.png
> http://localhost:4000/

Might want to fix that.
This is a new feature launched by one of the biggest web brands there is, so presumably theres no back catalogue.
Please, yes. They can spin up an instance of R2 and have it running a test site in less than a week. They can even have a completely open development model, a la Linux kernel, if they want.
Looks like browsersync is a Chrome only proprietary feature.