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If you make enough enemies on the internet, they'll follow you around to your next endeavor and make sure people know what you did...
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Yeah, a little bit! What's interesting is that we're so used to equal temperament (i.e. a bit of error added to most intervals in exchange for greater flexibility) that pieces played in just intonation sound "off" to us, even though they're more mathematically correct.

Also, I believe instruments with arbitrary pitch (violin, voice) tend to naturally drift closer to just intonation.
Thanks, but that doesn't appear to be the problem with my file. I tried to extract the files, and then Windows tells me that the archive is invalid.
There is no indication that Twitpic is broke. They announced their shutdown after Twitter objected to their attempt to trademark their name (as any company might do, if another business applied for a trademark using a large chunk of their name in a similar context.)
Just curious. How did you manage to use both emacs and vim? I've seen that people accustomed to one editor are usually averse to using the other.
I have almost no experience with philosophy like this, but somehow have come to a very non-dualistic worldview of my own through a lot of thinking and writing in my personal journal. The whole "universe is a static 4D object" idea. I've never heard of anyone else talk about it before except myself.

Are there any books that you can recommend that delve into the philosophy behind this?
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> If you meant instead, as-of meaning "when the data was loaded", that's true... Not shown. I have the METAR ages turn red when they hit an hour (normally they are issued every hour) as a "clue" to the user to refresh. But certainly I could be more explicit.

Correct, that's what I'm talking about.
in addition, systemd can also execute timer units periodically. This is functionality that sysv init lacks.

You present this as if this makes sysvinit somehow lesser because of it lacks the ability to execute timer units. Sysvinit doesn't have that because that capability is completely unrelated to what sysvinit does. Although one could argue that the system as a whole provides that functionality through cron anyway, so there'd be no need to have sysvinit do it.
I haven't seen a talk as good as that since the original iphone was debuted. Thank you for this.
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Why a 6 inch Nexus makes sense
Which would work really well in some geography. In mine, not so much. I have airports 15nm away that are meteorologically less relevant than some that are 50nm away.
> The easiest way to solve that would be to use it as intended and run fetchmail -d rather than spending the extra overhead restarting fetchmail all of the time.

fetchmail is also intended to run as a system daemon as part of a full-fledged mail system. This isn't always the case.

Also, launchd not just initd, but crond per Apple's consolidation of system daemons. That is a use-case for crond. If Apple wants to replace crond, then they should make sure that the replacement works. I'm sure that I could find other programs that might exit in under 60 seconds that don't have a daemon mode[1].

[1] To be clear it wasn't the 'run every minute' that was causing issues, but the 'exits less than 60 seconds after it starts' that was tripping it up. I could run fetchmail every 10 minutes, but when it is able to connect/verify that there isn't new mail in under 60 seconds, then the whole process gets disabled. Oops!
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> Nil adds complexity because it creates a hidden failure condition in every possible value.

That's simply not true in Go. `nil` is not an inhabitant of all types. Integers, floats, strings, arrays and structs cannot be `nil`. Slices, maps, functions, channels, interfaces and pointers are nilable.

> Option types, on the other hand, are not a source of complexity, because they just use a more general language feature (ie variants).

Go does not have variant types, so if adding option types requires them, you get an increase in the size of the language. In Go's case, variant types would have a weird interaction with interfaces, which arguably increases complexity.
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That's just cherry picking the one down year. 2009 was the worst of the recession and AirBnB was tiny in 2009 relative to today. As AirBnB grew so did visitors.

Visitors (int'l & domestics)

2013: 54.3 million

2012: 52.7 million

2011: 50.9 million

2010: 48.8 million

2009: 45.8 million

2008: 47.1 million

More interesting is that visitor spending and hotel prices and occupancy also did well. I agree that while none of this is definitive proof on anything. However it is not consistent with AirBnB seriously harming either hotels or visitors. Appears to be a win-win.
What if the system process that you want to run periodically takes less than 60 seconds to run? Why should I have to wrap it in a shell script that ends with 'sleep 60' just to accommodate Apple?
> Or do you think that every government is legitimate, no matter what, so long as it is not overthrown?

There are levels between "do nothing" and "overthrow". I don't think legitimacy is a binary thing.

> I don't think there's any doubt that if a government suddenly didn't exist, or could no longer pay its bills that we'd see alternative institutions take up the slack in certain areas. But it isn't necessarily a state entity that would do so, and this is clearly a main point of disagreement here.

I think (in this arbitrary and unrealistic scenario) those "alternative institutions" would be or rapidly become very governmentlike; whether they would be institutions with a flag and a seat the united nations is not terribly important. Honestly I don't see much difference even today between governments, large NGOs, and large corporations; all have similar decisionmaking processes and act in similar ways (though as I said, I think accountability is better for governments - and probably even worse for large NGOs). Some people consider a "monopoly on violence" to be a qualitative difference between government and non-government large organizations, but these "alternative institutions" in your scenario would definitely have to be willing to back up their policies with force, so they'd be governmentlike in that respect too.
Stopping rollover ads is worth it alone. Does stopping ads in this way prevent ad revenue?
Perhaps if he had chosen to shutter his business in a more orderly fashion, and made arrangements to take care of the significant quantity of visual contemporary history of which that business was the defacto caretaker, it would be easier to forgive being "busy".

We're talking about 800 MILLION pictures here. Noah is apparently too busy to save them, but not so busy that he can't find the time to actively prevent others from saving them. That's pretty hard to support.
I'm sure I got downvoted by a carbhead.
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Old discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8471786
I proposed something like this a few weeks ago, but oddly it only gleaned down-votes <shrug>. If there are suggestions as to how this could work in a way that would be trusted and secure, I'd be interested in hearing them.
Sadly, I've come to the conclusion that it's no longer possible to build future-proof cipher suite configuration in a generic way. There are simply too many rules to follow, if you want to get everything right. I spent lots of time trying and in the end gave up.

Now I give my recommendations as an ordered list of suites. It's easy to set up, does exactly what you want and, as a bonus, everyone can look at the list and understand which suites exactly are configured.

That said, I'd like to see good default configurations in libraries and server programs, which can be updated via patches as needed. Then we wouldn't really need to bother with cipher suite configuration at all.
The problem is that without HKT you can't abstract over these things; you can't write useful functions like "sequence", and so code that uses these expressions becomes a kind of second-class citizen that can't be refactored the way you'd do with normal code.
Interestingly, that link shows a twitter card with the image in it for me. I assume it's cached on Twitter's side as the image URL is this: https://o.twimg.com/2/proxy.jpg?t=HBgoaHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0cGljLm...
I'd rather trust someone that has worked as a judge at the highest level in their own national court, rather than academics that are long on theory but have never tried a case.
> pulseaudio

To be fair, some of the ideas behind pulseaudio are good:

- Unify all of the different audio systems that existed: OSS, ALSA, esound daemon, etc...

- Network accessible sound. Years ago I was able to setup pulseaudio to stream audio from my HTPC to my laptop where I had headphones plugged in. The process to do this wasn't entirely user-friendly, but prior to pulseaudio, people would setup yet another audio subsytem that every app would then need to support on a case-by-case basis.
That's ridiculous. There are plenty of ways to lose a private key that doesn't involve or lead to compromise.

I generate and store my private keys in my secure CA environment and copy them to the server. If I ever need to redeploy them or generate a new CSR (SHA-2 anyone?), I can do it without ever logging into the server.
I've been trying to train myself to hear the JI resonances (Harmonic Experience has tons of exercises for this). I can hear the sharpness of the ET major third and the flatness of the ET minor third fairly easily.

Barbershop quartet music (and other a capella music) is a great place to hear just intonation. The consonant barbershop seventh chord was a relevation to me when I first learned of it. It's really close to the dissonant dominant 7th interval, but serves a very different purpose harmonically. The minor seventh is also a different interval. Thus there are actually 3 seventh intervals, all of which are approximated in ET by a single note. This blog post has a good summary:

http://www.garygarrett.me/?p=1575
'old discussion' says it was posted '5 hours ago' heh
Maybe plug-in execution ought to stop when the relevant page is in the background. At least on battery-powered devices. Some Flash content tends to run in the background, doing who knows what, probably something related to advertising, tracking, or general obnoxiousness. On phones, "Run in Background" is usually a privilege that's discouraged.
Well first of all, setting up TLS has not really changed in 15 years. The protocol has evolved over time, and as a result of wanting the most number of people to use it as possible, it's not configured by default to be the most secure; it's designed to be the most compatible. The best practice is to install it, and then tighten security to your use case.

Secondly, 'easy' is 100% subjective. To me it's incredibly easy to set up TLS. It wouldn't be easy to my grandma. But the same could be said for anything that takes technical expertise and a complex set of operations. TLS is not simple, and it will never be simple. People who understand how TLS works know this already.
James Tenney's thesis "META Meta / Hodos" is another great attempt at constructing a real music theory. https://www.scribd.com/doc/167561563/James-Tenney-Meta-Hodos
Running it on fiksu alone is sneaky enough. Also, if you want to install the app, it asks for way too much permissions which someone would easily grant to such a platform.
Do everything you did for the last ending, except wait until it's too late for your mom to pick you up. When uncle shows up, run to the kitchen even though you're not allowed to go there.
No. NPM is used all the time for front end specific dependencies. Even angular uses it now
I think that this post, with it's main point "No one really knows what you do anymore" completely removes value from previous post "3 Tips Product Managers Can Use To Do Great Work", and others too. Quite funny to see so much posts about productivity in that blog, while knowing final.

Harsh reality.
VC backed with 60m... Can't believe it.
How do you expect them to fulfill this request?
While fixing spotlight is a good idea (especially if you're opening it a lot in public), please don't blindly execute code without reading it first. While this code isn't malicious, running misc. third party code without reading it first is a bad idea for everyone.
Ok, fair enough - I just saw that thread and thought it would make sense to argue facts rather than moral posturing :)
I wanna know what is this, but your link only takes me to the iTunes download page.
> A theory is something that explains an observed phenomenon.

That's true, but if you take the "observed phenomenon" to be "Western, common-practice tonal music (and notation)," then this certainly helps to explain it. It's certainly what gets taught in undergraduate music theory classes (much of it in "fundamentals" courses). Graduate work in music theory involves doing exactly what you say: explaining observed phenomena, in both "classical" music as well as about any other musics you might imagine. That's not to say that all music is Western, common-practice tonal music, but a great deal of music comes out of that lineage; an understanding of these basics are often necessary (or at the very least, useful) before branching out.

You see this sort of thing in all disciplines. I might find an "Introduction to computer science for normal people" that explains big-O notation, or teaches some basic Python, or what have you. Someone might well say "This isn't 'computer science,' but instead 'jargon and programming.'" This person might be right, of course, but for "non-computer scientists and normal people," the distinction is not so clear.
Ok, here's a better link: http://lu.gg/
Most will turn up their noses for buying a sofa this way, and yet most folks here will happily suffer just as shocking a cost in order to buy a house.
Meh. They may well have played with their own designs and then found this. Either way anyone saying this is fraudulent is being pedantic. They created a product that does what it says. End of story.
Why did this get reposted/ why was the previous hidden?
What is stopping an entrant going in at 50% APR rates, and competing with these guys on the weekly price?

Or is the cost of doing business where 9/10 people default (mostly because you charged them too much) just that high?
This is somewhat similar to how nearly all of the middle-class buy houses... by the time they finish paying off their mortgage they've spent twice as much as the original list price.
At least with homes, there is a chance for property to increase in value.
This is music theory, or at the very least, the bulk of the document is about the theory of harmony. The first few pages may give the impression of solely exposing jargon, but as you progress through the pages, the author moves on to the theory of harmony, or what has been referred to as such for the last century and a half (at least). I'm not saying the expression is semantically perfectly sound, but it's been in use for long enough to be considered correct. It's true that a better expression may have been "Harmonic Aspects of the Practice of Composition".

Schoenberg's classic 1910 Theory of Harmony is a shining example of this. It's pretty much a practical guide for composition, and follows a structure strikingly similar to that of this document.
I think it's just a tiny wrapper that oh-my-zsh has, but I have a `gi` bash function that calls out to gitignore.io/api/$@. Then I just redirect the response to .gitignore.

`gi vim,linux,node,grunt,bower > .gitignore`

Super handy.
I mean, there are many ways to be satisfying in music. I am very satisfied by the exploration of texture and improvisation in modern music, for instance, and I am very grateful that we live in such an exciting time for musical experimentation. But at the same time, in a way that's hard to describe, the moment where the theme returns in the third movement in Beethoven's 5th[1] just absolutely trumps any musical moment I've heard in popular music. I'm talking Schindler's List level goosebumps. There are plenty of long pieces in popular music, too — prog is big on that. But the techniques of Beethoven and ilk just aren't getting used, which I think is a great shame. I don't think it's "magic" or "genius". I really do think it's a matter of harnessing the medium to its full potential, which might require more education in music theory than (in my experience) many musicians feel comfortable with.

I don't think you need a long piece to develop motif. Look at something like "Vocalise"[2], or, heck, any of Bach's Well-Tempered Klavier.

One of my teachers used to stress the original meaning of the word "sublime". I think that's what's missing in modern music. A feeling of awe that leaves you speechless.

Zappa's been on my to-do list for a while, I'll have to give him a listen soon!

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdvsRJL4Mtw

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBVkYGLEUpg
I remember MGS 2 brought up this possibility, when they compared Raiden's VR training with normal live exercises. And how even in real drills there is a chance of someone dying, while VR training makes you think war is a game.
I dimly recall reading an article on a study that tried to compare the performance of monolingual and bilingual people. From what I remember the bilingual individuals tended to have an edge in the more complex tasks, but monolinguals were significantly faster at some basic operations like sorting lists of words or finding a word in an unsorted list.
That's a nice URL, but I still don't know what does it do. Is it really necessary to have an iPhone?
The economics of building a factory in Brooklyn to be near the cool kids
Wow, this is like a magical christmas present from above. I've never toyed around with Unity but have done some android 3d game development using java in the past. But, this will really get me motivated to start working on something. I'm not sure I'll make anything useful or very playable, but this should make for some great weekend hack projects.
We have much different ideas of almost-fun.
With a prepaid provider, I pay $50/month for unlimited internet, calling, and texting. There are no extra taxes or "recovery charges".

$750 + ($50 * 24) = $1950

Last I checked, AT&T was about $100/month. It also charges a $36 "upgrade fee".

$36 + $200 + ($100 * 24) = $2636

That also assumes you upgrade immediately after paying your 24th month of service. Otherwise, tack on $50 overpayment for every month you wait to upgrade.
The fact that the entire source code is displayed on the page for all to read seems to have escaped you. You make a valid point in general, but the site in question practically screams the same message. I don't get why you have a problem with this particular project.
While this particular example applies largely to the poor, you could write a similar article about the vast majority of Americans.

How about "Why engineers in the Bay Area pay 1 million for a 600k condo" or "Why smart people pay 400k for a 150k education."

Fundamentally, the high price of the couch is really a reflection of the risk made in the "loan." Americans are too leveraged and don't save enough across the board. If credit were harder to come by, and the majority of loans were made with the expectation that the borrow would actually pay off the loan, you wouldn't end up with 4k couches. Also, I would imagine the apparent need to keep up with the Joneses would be diminished because fewer people would be driving the proverbial rent-to-own Mercedes.
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Note: I never said the underside of a wing pushes air down end of story. Just that the top is are more complex.

Further, you will note they use F=MA on their correct page: http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/airplane/right2.html

The issue is modeling individual particles is several orders of magnitude beyond our best computers so even the most accurate models used by supper computers are still approximations. Further simply measuring pressure on various places on a wing. However, that is somewhat pedantic it might be true that's why they fly, but it's not a useful model for building an aircraft. People talk about flow, boundary separation layers, turbulence, and vertices but there all just analogy's that break down.

Anyway, wings don't have a fixed shape. Aileron's allow a plain to rotate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileron But, Flaps and slats are used to adjust angle of attack. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flap_(aeronautics).

While inverted the flaps are pushed down which changes the angle of attack. This of course ignores things like thrust vectoring etc. And most aircraft are much more efficient flying normally, with inverted flight basically just a brute force solution.

PS: So yes. F=MA (and enough processing power to handle 10^30th particles) is really all you need, but we just don't have enough processing power to physically model what's actually going on.
Being very familiar with this type of trading, I am very surprised that they were that stupid to trade in big size near the close.... I'm also surprised that this was a successful strategy on the Nasdaq... especially in 2009 as volatility was coming down quite a bit from the previous years.

What the SEC really should be investigating is the rampant use (or probably misuse) of d-quotes on the NYSE. These effectively allow you to put on-close orders after the on-close cutoff time of 1545. These orders get routed to specialists and god knows what theyre doing behind the scenes.... I havent run the numbers but I would wager that last-15 minute volatility in NYSE names is way higher than on NASDAQ. Get rid of the d-quotes and get rid of the specialists....
There's the chance that their next venture (if there is one) would have a lot of vocal criticism referencing how they handled this situation if there were similar risks with the new one.

This could impact a launch significantly, but of course there's no guarantee the masses would notice.
Which is particularly ironic when you consider that the cost of the house typically exceeds the cost of the furniture several times over.
I don't know on what planet "Kubernetes" is an answer to "Who runs all containers on a single host". Because that's sure not what Kubernetes or Mesos do.
I got there too, sadly, i found the same fate.
A better question would be "why the poor buy a $1500 sofa"?
Ask HN: What are you building in ClojureScript?
Being a Lisp-dialect and compiling to the now-everywhere-used Javascript, I'm pretty curious.
user@host:~$ apt-get install apache2

[...]

Please enter your credit card information to submit your SSL cert request.

A company could probably set up an API to allow people to submit/validate CSR requests via pre-validated profile, but at install time? Nah. There's a lot of configuration that needs to happen after you install a web server anyway.

And anyway, most websites don't need SSL. Anyone who tells you different is probably wearing an aluminum foil fashion accessory.
>Our first sensory impression as we float in our mother's womb is the rhythmic sound of her heart.

http://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/htmlRT/1%20intro.html

Umm..what?
Entitlement really doesn't seem to be the best way to think about it. They don't owe you or anyone any type of end result, and like most topics I see discussed here when I've been involved with a couple of them behind the scenes: there is a lot more going on than you think, and issues are not simply black or white.
This is true. The standard sim, when clipped, works in two of my smartphones....
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Not really, you need to know when to play games to get to play alone and find the smiling man, and THEN guess what answers are right in response to the following conversation.
Sync, auto-updating, DRM. PDFium used to be Chrome-only but was recently open-sourced.