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The treatment of Wegener's theory of Continental Drift is a lesson for the scientific community.

If one is not allowed to mention or entertain an idea without career repercussions, it harms the scientific process. Similarity to the treatment of climate change "deniers" comes to mind.

The merit for the cause of climate change should be based on evidence, not by keeping opposing views off the table by threatening the careers of those who want to explore research other ideas.
I'm subscribed to their email digest. It manages to hook me just about every time with some delightful content. Go figure.
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What exactly is the innovation in question? It's impossible to even table this question as you phrased it. "The innovation and disruption caused by Uber" could easily in part be trivial and legal, and in part be non-trivial and more complex to think about (politically, legally, and socially).
exactly!!! this ^
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In the 1930's, my grandfather Ferdinand Bernauer, set up measuring stations in Iceland in an attempt to prove the theory of continental drift by showing that Iceland was spreading apart.

He was not able to take the confirming set of measurements because the war intervened and he was killed in 1945.

See page 6 of http://www.raunvis.hi.is/~leo/greinar/thysk_exp.pdf

and his papers on the topic:

Bernauer, F. (1937) Geschichtete Lava an isländischen Vulkanen. Zeitschrift der deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft 89, 88–97.

Bernauer, F. (1939a) Vulkanische und tektonische Spalten auf Island. Zeitschrift der deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft 91, 405–420.

Bernauer, F. (1939b) Island und die Frage der Kontinentalverschiebungen. Geologische Rundschau 30, 357–358.
Why would it be satire?

We are short of IT staff and the lab staff seem to have more free time. Why not involve them in the process? I communicate with them, get to understand what they need better, and save time on writing tests that would probably be obsolete a few months down the line, due to the rapidly changing nature of our business. "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools".

Coding to best standards is a nice ideal to have, but in almost every place I have worked getting something working quickly has been a far higher priority.
I hope they move to my town. Do you see a problem with SF taxing Uber, then spending Uber's tax money to protect Uber's competitors by suing Uber?
BTRFS has no built in dedup support as of yet but any snapshots made initially share all data which is very fast and lightweight
That's not a pirate bay domain in the sense that they own it. It's just a proxy and so as the main site is down, that is too.
> that is enough to record the difference between a jackhammer and a mosquito in the same room.

That is utterly laughable. Stated like someone who has never actually tried to record sounds with large dynamic range. But I suppose it's how you define "record". So if a mosquito is 40dBA, and a jackhammer is 130dBA, that's a difference of 90dB. Now I don't know of any preamp that has such a low noise floor, but assuming one existed, if we set the gain staging such that the jackhammer is 0dBFS, then the mosquito is peaking at -90dBFS. Thats 6dB above null, or ONE BIT. So your "recording" of the mosquito is one bit flipping on and off.

Quite the recording! Statements like these are what make recording engineers roll their eyes and think here we go again.

> 16bit gives you an effective dynamic range of 120dB

16 bit gives you 96dB of dynamic range. And less than that of usable dynamic range. You may say "effectively" as is, once dithered, but then you're accepting that the recording is done at a higher bit depth and then dithered down, thus refuting the original statement that 16 bits is enough dynamic range to record said sounds.
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Arrow's Impossibility Theorem only applies in cases where ranked preference is the only information in the vote.

The "people", not being an individual or an AI or whatever, has a more complex preference vector than a ranked list. The real world is more complex than that.

So can we now agree that Arrow's Impossibility Theorem doesn't apply to all of democracy, that these things are nuanced and there is a long and deep conversation about this kind of topic that has been going on in the human race for centuries, and that frankly, pointing to technical flaws in established, stable enough systems that were set up by people with a hell of a lot less information about anything than us hundreds of years go is not going to do anything to prevent that system from operating in the way that it does or to convince people who have vested interests in it remaining stable?
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It already does in America - using a private contractor. (Which is awful, surprise.)
Already on HN at the moment (6 hours older, more comments, also on the first page!): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8727245

Explanation:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8727898

"This was mostly done to test our IFTTT channel (https://ifttt.com/sunlightfoundation), so I think we were limited in terms of what actions we could trigger. We've talked about doing a non-IFTTT version that would extend the metaphor way further, but haven't (yet) actually made it happen."
What does it mean to like party A 10x more than party B? What I'm questioning here is the existence of cardinal preferences, which are necessary for a "will of the people" to be defined. The only way I can make sense of cardinal preferences is to treat them as dollars spent on private goods [1], but I doubt that's what the OP meant.

As it applies to this situation, it's moot - Portland did not express any cardinal preferences.

[1] Non-private goods introduce other incentives that prevent spending from tracking desire.
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But S3 is not a file system, is an object storage :) The requirements are different.
The political bandwagon begun. Pretty remarkable turn of events. It seems unlikely the company can go public with this type of legal threat hanging out there to its business. But with private markets as flush as they are, its also not clear there are any losers here that the politcians really care about, either. Sort of fascinating.
The are so many names available, why choose this one?
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Today the state is (almost) as it always was:

1. Install and set up JACK. Enjoy your lack of latency. I haven't profiled it scientifically, but I've tried microphone monitoring with filters layered on and couldn't detect any latency between me speaking and my voice coming out the speakers.

2. Modern linux uses pulse. Pulse is kind of jingoist and slightly hostile to foreign presence. You'll need to edit its default.pa file to not load the udev-detect module and not try to just grab the soundcard for itself, but to load the jack-source and jack-sink modules. You'll also need to write a script to do the module loading because modern desktop linux doesn't have a race-free way to start daemons when a user logs in. Which you'll have to run manually once you log in. That script looks like this:

#!/usr/bin/sh
pacmd load-module module-jack-source channels=1
pacmd load-module module-jack-sink channels=2

Oh, and if it wasn't apparent, only one user can use the audio.
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Let's hope he keeps the nuclear launch codes out of his code and in environment variables.
Interesting

How did he intend to do that? Radio waves? Positioning related to the sun/starts?
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The site had 50m uniques a month. At least 2-3 ads on every page. Even at a terrible CPM rate or CPC conversion rate, they'd have to be ansolute morons not to be making oodles of cash from that setup.
I have worked with a company that bought HP's to their entire staff and very few of those have had issues. Much fewer HP's have been faulting than the previous Dell ones, i should not that Dell replaced the faulty machines while HP requested them to be sent to service without a meanwhile replacement.

The worst experience i've had is by far Asus Netbooks that - at the time - was used on the field.

And I'm sure other will have other experiences. Seems to me that quality on laptops is quite a gamble.

I liked what HP did with WebOS, so i hope they will do a similar work with "The Machine":
http://www.openwebosproject.org/
I'm looking forward to trying this out! Now that MirageOS OCaml code compiles to both JavaScript and Xen unikernels, the next step is to try and link in some applications as an iOS app...
That's a terrible analogy. Try: "Yes, making meth is illegal. Yes, selling meth-lab kits is illegal. Okay, maybe publishing instructions for building a meth lab is illegal. Wait, linking to someone else's instructions is illegal? And now you're telling me that sharing a short hash that validates someone else's link to someone else's instructions is also illegal?" (Is it even illegal in the meth lab scenario?)
I too dream of such a thing. Personally, I want the idea where you pay bitcoins to the entire network, the payment gets split by the percentage of storage.

Webmasters would pay the network (and have an API to generate download links, upload authorization for users to upload directly to the network), giving users the ability to use it for free or can pay directly to the network too, or even get a premium account on the website for convinence.

I don't care about the other ideas bit451 has suggested (playlists, hashtags, etc), I think the network should be for resilient file storage and for videos people can build an application on top of that network.

I'd love to switch to a network rather than rely on a single datacenter which can be raided over night. A 'Usenet for HTTP'.
Ouch ! I was curious about looking at the implementation, now I'm even more curious. Anybody has a mirror ?

Edit: got one, just using Github's research.

Edit2: had to patch the decompiler to have it run on python 2.7.8, so that it understands that long is an int.
It's also great in Switzerland. And got improved in Serbia. Great for Austria, Italy and Germany. Europe is not that bad. For me way better than Google maps (especially for car navigation)
Any chance of uploading 1:1 floppy images of those? Been looking for Windows Premiere Edition for a while, and now parts of its SDK (and a Win 1.0 beta's!) shows up, and from Ray Ozzie too!
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There is nothing wrong with government following the law in due course. Government has the ability by law to tax and spend money to enforce existing laws. If you don't like that, I suggest you lobby to change the law.
That would be impressive.
Measuring the gap between points set up on opposite sides over time (years). I presume using optical surveying equipment.
This is fantastic, but there are two things I would love more emphasis on:

1) The explicit license.

2) Table of browser support (and fall-backs).
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Yes, Wegener died during his last Greenland expedition in 1930 trying to find additional proofs for continenal drift. The theory was very unpopular in the scientific community until decades later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wegener

Just a small number of scientist were very sure, namely Wegener's father in law and mentor Köppen and also Milutin Milankovitch, whose own climate work was also mostly recognized and rightly understood only after his death. Milankovitch wrote about the continental drift in his books that popularised science in the thirties.
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"The two officials claim that Uber makes misleading statements about the background checks it performs on drivers and falsely charged a $1 "Safe Rides Fee," among other accusations."
I second that. Every time Quora digest appears in my mailbox it manages to grab my attention for couple of minutes at least.
Use Qt, as a bonus it has a widget kit?
Sorry, I'm not saying Uber didn't do anything wrong, I mean the media make it a much bigger problem than it is really.
This is true for many subjects.
Digression. Speaking specifically to your warrant canary example, the EFF seems to believe that there is reasonable legal theory behind them: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/warrant-canary-faq

The First Amendment protects against compelled speech. While courts might gag you and prevent you from speaking, they almost never compel you to speak. Compelled speech is limited to truthful speech where the statements convey important truthful information to consumers (e.g., health warnings on cigarettes). There is no precedent for a court compelling a company or person to lie.

I agree that it will be quite interesting to see how a court reacts to the idea that a person has constructed a situation in which they must lie in order to avoid disclosing the warrant. I was also interested to learn that Apple publishes a warrant canary: https://ssl.apple.com/pr/pdf/131105reportongovinforequests3.... ("Apple has never received an order under Section 215 of the USA
Patriot Act. We would expect to challenge such an order if served on us.")

There must be a line, though. I suspect it would not succeed to publish many statements each like "We have received fewer than than 1,2,3,...,100 warrants of type X this year", or, "We have never received a warrant regarding an individual whose name begins with C", striking only those that are false as warrants are received. I would guess that this would cross a line, though it's difficult for me to articulate why. Ultimately there is no court precedent for warrant canaries, so the outcome is unknown.
Github user saeedmalekpour:

Mr. President, I have been in Evin Prison, Iran for 6 years because my open source code was found on a website the regime didn't like. In the spirit of freedom, democracy and the hour of code - please help me in any way you can (account administered and message sent with permission of Saeed's family) Proof: https://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/518460637916446720

More information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V57pfl6nkD0
One of Canada's past PMs is a good example with Hitler:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyon_Mackenzie_King#Ger...
"It's complicated", I think, and not clear cut one way or the other. Certainly one-sentence quips favoring one or the other side don't do the issue justice or hint at a reasonable resolution to the problems.
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Dithering give roughly 120dB dynamic range in 16bit audio, that is the mosquito 30dB above the noise floor. That isn't ideal, but I struggle find a situation where it matters. If the volume is low enough for the jackhammer to not damage your ears, you wouldn't be able to hear the mosquito anyway. One could argue that if we had the audio equipment it would be nice to represent the mosquito and the jackhammer without gain control, but with all the dynamic compression we have seen the last decade, I doubt it.
Come on. Nobody threatens opposing viewpoints to anthropogenic global warming. Competing hypotheses even get tested, things like CLOUD or BEST come to mind. They are just really weak explanations.

If you would read history, you would actually find that AGW had similar story as Wegener theory, if anything. Until Keeling and Plass came, nobody took the Arrhenius' and Chamberlin's idea seriously. And there was even experimental evidence from Calendar.

And the same goes for Milankovitch cycles, which are one of the most important pieces of evidence for AGW.
On a lot of consumer products there's a resettable thermal fuse built into the heating element. Burning down people's houses is bad for business :)
Maybe not html5, but teeworlds is a free clone with modern graphics and network play.
I'm confused at how people driving other people around in cars is innovation. I think we've had that for a while now.
You are correct, however remember that nice thing called the Ozone Layer Hole which affects the southern hemisphere

And actually, most "older people from a sunny place" you mention did not have their evolutionary roots there.

And yes, tougher and more wrinkled, but less incidence of malignant cancers (but might be because of that first item I mentioned)
He can finally say goodbye to the unproductive discussions in the government and chip in into the fruitful, level-headed debates about the merits of Vim vs Emacs.
Interesting idea. Do you have any evidence for that theory?
Come now, everyone knows you use asparagus staging for this kind of thing. What happens when you start jettisoning empty machine guns as you go?
If you flip that around, should paying taxes somehow insulate you from being sued?
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they're quite different though. One is just squeezing a 5 day week in to 4 days. The other is only working 4 days worth of hours.
What Colour are your bits? [1] This rather poular article really opened my eyes. Basically the same bits can be both, illegal and legal, at the same time, depending on the method you used to derive them. I still think it's stupid but it gave me a better understanding of the reasoning behind certain court decisions.

[1] http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
Please help https://tahoe-lafs.org/ then.
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Keurig is not an espresso machine.
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"The Calorie Man" (short story by Paulo Bacigalupi) is about licenced crops and agribusiness. It'd be neat to read something similar about domestic DRM. http://www.nightshadebooks.com/Downloads/WindupStories.pdf
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Oh dear I wish this project becomes a reality
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This is so stupid.

How about using source control the proper way and upload each bill (house and senate version) as a text file. Then each amendment or change should be a commit by the person who made it.

What is the point of this? It doesn't add any transparence, I don't know who added what piece of pork,
True. What often seperates a good speaker from a mediocre one is how it behaves at high volumes. Most speakers made for home use regardless of the price lose composure when cranked high. The main culprit is usually the dome tweeters (a type of hi-frequency driver) that start to compress at high volumes. The solution is to use a compression driver (CD) with a waveguide but mostly for aesthetic reasons, there are virtually no commercial speakers on the market that use CDs.

The alternative is to use public announcement (PA) speakers. Virtually all of them are equipped with CDs, but they are relatively large, and unless you have a dedicated listening/home theater room, they won't really fit a home's decor well.
SC2 has one huge advantage over MOBAs I've seen - it's interesting to watch when you don't play it. I've played original sc campaign for a few weeks when it was published, then had no contact with the game for several years, recently I've discovered sc2 tourneys streamed by ZeddSC (great Polish sc2 commentator) - I was hooked immediately, despite knowing next to nothing about the game, meta, players etc. It's just fun to see players microing 100+ units at the same time.

I've tried to watch lol and dota2 tourneys, but it's soo boring. I don't know what any of the skills does, nobody is explaining them, everybody assume I must play the game to watch this, I don't even know who's wining except if the frag difference is big.

Even CS streams are better than MOBAs.

I sincerly hope sc2 wil have some revival, it's great game, I started to play multiplayer because of watching it. The design decisions that people cry over - I don't think they matter that much for average Joe, games in silver or gold league aren't decided by balance.
For a library like that, isn't it also a good idea to let me plug in my own backend? That is, let me specify the sample format I want and either provide a function I can call that will fill a buffer with samples, or ask me to give you a callback that you can call once you have samples ready. Preferably, let me choose which model fits my use better.
@billyhoffman is right, avoid UI pollution as much as you can.

I think you already reuse as much UI cell as you can (wild guess)?
By using this method: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/...

If nothing works, a bad solution but an efficient one could be to setup a "load more" or a "paging" UX.
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Yes, but it seems the whole team (or all teams in large enterprise projects) must know a lot. Otherwise you still and up with a lot of hard to read, unsafe code.
If you start with a very large codebase of old C/C++ you might have to rewrite large parts of it to reap the benefits and in that case you might want to look into other languages as alternatives.
I agree that for a green field project with very good developers C++ 14 looks nice.
Wouldn't that beat the system?
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I think Quora is awesome for finding content related to what I do - being startups. Most of the answers I read on there are of high quality, just like HN.

I've had startups PM me for advice, feedback, done Skype chats etc. I always try to help people when I can as I was once in their shoes. People have also helped me out too.

I dig anything related to tech, I enjoy using HN and Quora, and I feel - by only limiting yourself to one service, limits your knowledge. That's why I use both.

The sign in thing with Quora, did really bug me at the start, same goes for the dirty thing Facebook Messenger did - once, you can get over that, you might actually enjoy it.

Back on topic, Uber is everywhere in the news!
Welp, there was a few programs I've never heard about, but the "Keyboard Shortcuts" section was the most shocking for me. No one ever told me!
Very neat.

A bit OT, but it appears the 'class' attribute has now become the home for DSLs for styling. I wonder if there are better ways of doing this because after a while it becomes difficult to process mentally.

Maybe these projects should actually create their own markup language and release a transformer to HTML.
Besides its symbolic values, it usually has useful comments.
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If you're fastidious about code quality then working in a startup that doesn't have a huge runway of cash in the bank is the wrong place for you. Sometimes you have to compromise what you're making in order to keep your head above water - "Done is better than perfect" to use the appropriate startup adage. If the money isn't there then the quality of the code won't matter. You can always go back and improve quality when things are better.

As a developer rather than a founder you need to ask for as much transparency as possible. Your job is to spend the appropriate amount of time on a feature to make something that works and is "sufficiently high quality"; the founders job is to give you enough information necessary to make that decision (or to make that decision for you if they're technically capable).
Would be nice to have an option for different art pieces on different spaces as well. For example, I use 4 spaces on my primary display and 1 space on the external one and I'd be delighted if I had 5 different art pieces shown.
That's true unfortunately
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This is the color of my bits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Free-speech-flag.svg

Note: picture is illegal.
BT have been doing this for years in the UK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FON#BT_Fon_Community
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Why not simply use FMOD / FMODEx? AFAIR their cross-platform support is quite excellent, and their license is free for anything open source or <$100k budget