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What is an instance of "democracy in general" that you think Arrow's theorem doesn't apply to? It will apply any time "society" (i.e. more than one person) makes a choice among more than two options.

It won't apply if you can assign cardinal numbers to the options, but I doubt that's what you have in mind.
My windows always fill the screen entirely, but I often use the trackpad gesture to reveal the desktop. It's where my downloads go, where I do all my drag-and-dropping, where I sort files into folder aliases that go somewhere on my file system.

But then I've bought a 21:9 display and my collection of National Geographics HD wallpapers stopped looking good (I assume Artful would be the same) - now I just stare at Apple's Aqua Blue background from 10.4 again.
I was wondering about this too - anything smaller than 16px base size is a bad idea in my opinion. Also, Raleway as a body font? Not an ideal choice, it's too thin for low DPI displays. Other than that, I like the fact that it's very lightweight and reduced to the basics.
More accurately seen from the perspective of the layout designer and the desires of the content editor, "the fold" is actually the point where the content itself is divided by a re-configuration of the container (newspaper/magazine/brochure) by the reader. In print, the reader modifies the form of the instrument by physical folding; in the case of online/digital the fold of content occurs more as a result of window size/zoom preferences of the user. Calling the point where your content is sliced -in half or otherwise- a "fold" works in that context; but it cannot be argued that there aren't more appropriate phrases for the term. Its just that this publishing business is an active one, and hasn't .. you know .. only been around in the last 5 or so years. Actually, 'the fold' is probably over a hundred years old as a term, incidentally, but I would have no idea how to prove it .. ("Above the fold", its Shakespeare, isn't it?)
> - Vagrant is a given, wonderful.

It's really useful, but on my MBP I've found using it abysmally slow (VirtualBox backend, website code shared using NFS, DB and everything else stored in VirtualBox VM and not shared folders) - page load times taking upwards of 20s (sometimes even a minute) when running direct on my MBP would be under 0.3s.

Never figured out the issue, in spite of extensive research and tweaking. Replace VirtualBox with VMWare Fusion? But without a trial available of the Vagrant addon, bit of an expensive gamble.
Goamz suffers from the same problem that all the libraries that try to hide the actual API do... that they can't keep up. Even boto has this problem as keeping up with the latest version isn't always easy.

IMO the best of the AWS libs is github.com/bmizerany/aws4. It only wraps the auth, the API and results are up to you. This requires more work but means you never have to worry about the lib keeping up with the API. With something that moves as fast as AWS this is great.
The article followed the lecture[1] almost exactly, I don't think there was much added value in it.

[1] http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec07/
Direct link: http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2011/08/07/the_insid...

EDIT: single page.
and more and more adblockers-blockers. The point is something is wrong with the web business model, or simply that it has one.
This is such an awesome video. I really hope there's a follow-up at some point, because as someone with a decent amount of experience with computer graphics, but only a fairly general understanding of sampling theorem, the stuff that would naturally come next is what most interests me, namely:

- What happens when you start combining waves together to create more complex signals? This is pretty important, since any real instrument produces hundreds of harmonics with complex attack and decay properties, so decomposition of the fundamental frequencies won't be as accurate as with toy examples.

- Following on from that: the effects of aliasing. It definitely exists and I have a very good understanding of aliasing with respect to computer graphics, but what effect does aliasing really have on an audio signal? In CG it's something that's talked about all the time and there are tons of papers about it, but it seems (from the outside at least) that audio guys only ever talk about aliasing in very hand-wavy terms.

- Although we can't hear sounds (much) above 20KHz, we can detect artefacts such as "beats" produced when harmonics are slightly mismatched. Is is possible to show that such information either isn't lost, or that what is lost is either below the noise floor or outside the audible frequency range? This particular one is a fairly common complaint made by audiophiles about 44KHz/Nyquist, so it would be nice to see it addressed head-on.

FWIW, I'm a bit of an audiophile myself, but not one of those people who thinks they can hear a difference between 192kbps MP3 and uncompressed, let alone 16/44 vs 24/192. Generally the noise floor in the original recording is too high to tell the difference, even if you could hear a difference in artificially constructed pathological cases. But I am interested in really understanding what information is lost, what isn't, and why that may or may not make any difference. In other words, what are those pathological cases? This video is a really good start and clears up a lot, but in some ways it only scratches the surface.
The louder you play, the less you can tell the difference. Bass is probably what you're refering to.

Last time I looked for speakers in the 400$ (each) range , I could still say that some combo was more clear in the mid range or the highs. It's all about what music you use to test it, some recording (great voices mostly) have very very clear mids which you can tell the difference between a set, the best really open up. Others have detail in the highs that are a lot harder to hear on speakers that are weak there. I don't know past what point you cannot tell the difference, but I do know it's not 150$.
Can anybody explain what's the fuzz regarding pirate bay? I mean, there are tons of good torrent sites and search engines everybody use every day... I don't even remember when I last time used TPB...
It is?

The problem is that the authoritative source sits inside the Firefox tree. Mozilla makes a standalone version (that doesn't require that tree) available on GitHub, but you're not going to have much luck contributing back if your contributions break the Firefox build.

The solution proposed would be to make the GitHub the authoritative source, and patch the Firefox version. But that shifts the maintenance burden in the way that's opposite to the main developers' interests. I can see why there's no enthusiasm.

I've contributed to libcubeb and had no problems with the above. But my contributions were not of the "lol I don't like automake so let me replace your entire buildsystem" kind. Honestly if that's the kind of thing you're trying to do, I think almost any open source project will push back.
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How would a scss or less version work? What would the difference be?
I agree - audio technology, music production tools and of course music itself have always been topics of interest for me. However there's a whole jungle of misconceptions half-knowledge to browse through before you find good content.

For audio production tools and other related niche topics, I can recommend createdigitalmusic.com
What I'm surprised about is how much press Uber gets these days. I jump on Quora, I've easily seen 10 questions in about a week? Went to a startup event that was hosted by Uber. Have been given Uber discount cards. Likewise, goes for Twitter too. I've seen bad and good press about Uber. And, of course, I'm seeing Uber on HN.

I'm really keen to see if their growth startegy works and if they're able to dominate the industry; or become one of those companies that rises too fast and falls quickly.

Met a young kid recently, claimed he had the idea for
Uber too.. Told him, it's all about the execution.

I'd expect the lawsuit against Uber will not be the last. They have really got to keep on top of their legal department to protect stakeholders.
The author seems to be confusing the US government's use of agent orange in Vietnamese jungles, with their use of paraquat on marijuana farms in Mexico in the 70s.
I thinks he was talking about authorities' attention. Look around the Russian side of Internet -- it's full of illegal stuff and local authorities there turn the blind eye on most online crimes, but crack down heavily on any activity that opposes official Kremlin's politics. Just a few examples:

1. http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/7/5690410/putin-signs-law-for...
2. http://www.rferl.org/content/journalists-in-trouble-jailed-r...
3. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/11/opinion/the-kremlins-socia...
Is there any existing project or PoC for a blockchain based torrent index ?
Anna Troberg stepped down? I can't find documentation of this.

edit: found it.

http://piratetimes.net/leading-swedish-pirates-step-down/
If you live in the western part of San Francisco, your Congressperson is Rep. Jackie Speier. She flew to Jonestown as an aide to Congressman Leo Ryan, who was shot and killed. Speier took 5 bullets but managed to hang on until rescuers arrived.
I'm more surprised that people still visit Quora, let alone browse it.
URLs to alternatives?
16bit gives you an effective dynamic range of 120dB - noone, and I challenge to to prove me wrong, can detect differences beyond that. To quote from the last articel, that is enough to record the difference between a jackhammer and a mosquito in the same room.
Code has nothing to do with gender, colour or creed. This is a non issue.
I still remember when audio output meant writing your own interrupt handler and directly poking IO ports, so at least we've come a little way since then.
At the height of my paranoia I installed and used an md5 checker for Windows 7, yes.
Uber here is your chance to stand up to a tyrant. Move that shiny headquarters and your tax domicile to a business friendly jurisdiction, and leave San Francisco to stew in its nest.
I don't know why some people keep calling them "media issues", as if it's the media that started an irrational war against Uber, as opposed to them being Uber issues, due to leadership's attitudes and the seemingly already ingrained crappy company culture.
But a torrent was already just a link to the actual content.
They mean completely different things.
It's sad that I have to beat that tired old drum again, but in law, intent matters (yes I have a law degree but I think it's fair to say that one doesn't need one to know that). After 15 years I should have been desensitized by farcically naive 'reasoning' (or I should say, farcically naive sophistry, because let's face it, that's what it is) like 'they don't post torrents, the users do' and 'how can a small string be illegal' but it still annoys me.

At the risk of going down the shitty analogy path, let's consider 'How can putting just a tiny bit of lead into somebody's head be illegal? It's only 115 grain! I mean, of course, putting 500 grain into somebody would be illegal, but if I put only 115 grain of lead into somebody, can legal action be taken against me?' Really?
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The Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem and Condorcet's paradox still apply.
That's true, especially in US, with that insane and completely irrational "golden medallion" law.

However, I have no sympathy left for Uber. They're on their own as far as I'm concerned.
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Swedes were early internet adopters, and at that time there were no other [online] means to get music and movies.

Among my friends, almost everyone use Spotify for music, and the paid-for streaming-services for movies/shows. File-sharing is too much hassle.

I still think people care about internet-freedoms though (surveillance, monitoring, etc).
The NSA doesn't police copyright issues. Their involvement would be arranging for FBI/police in Europe to get the info they desire to do that.
Yes, this should be edited. It is very misleading.

Rings of someone trying to get more people to click the link because instead of asking if it might be happening, it sounds like it definitely is going down forever.

It needs to be changed.
The argument for mainstream 24bit dynamic range shouldn't be for higher fidelity reproduction for audiophiles. It should be for enabling more sophistication in our playback devices. In the YouTube era not every recording is perfectly mastered by audio engineers to fill the available range. And I could be listening on high end home theater equipment or the tiny speaker in my smart phone.
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Then again, they might be the new Groupon. Consumers are fickle.
I think it used to be a bigger thing before Spotify and other streaming-services came along.

These days I don't know a single friend who download music (either illegally or legally), Spotify is so convenient.
As I said, Uber doesn't dominate yet. Which is why they need to spend their time fight the taxis and not the media.
> I'm more surprised that people still visit Quora [...]

Would you care to explain? (I'm genuinely curious)
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http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/feb/05/pirate-sites-ad...

Another citation: me, but not going to prove it. I am friends with an ad network TPB used. They made $10k daily from adware installers alone in 2013.
I'm not sure that's true of all the client libraries - I'm pretty sure that the Java library is used heavily internally within Amazon to leverage AWS services. Just look at the release history: https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java/releases

But you're right, maintaining even a blessed third-party library like boto is a massive undertaking: 437 contributors, 431 open issues, 192 open PRs. Competing against CloudFormation using anything other than the Java client library is crazy IMO.
Does anyone honestly believe that the innovation and disruption caused by Uber and its competitors would have happened without ignoring laws that supposedly protect the public?
I received an email from Google requesting the following:

> The code you reversed is used to protect many sites’ registration process including Google and many others. We are concerned that having your code and analysis publicly available will make it easier to build registration automation tools which will result in a surge of spam in all the services protected by this code and will affect negatively many Internet users.

> This is why we kindly ask you to temporarily remove it from GitHub so your work won’t be used for a malicious purpose which we believe was never your intended goal.

As I wasn't aware that the botguard was also used for this purpose (separately of ReCaptcha, in Gmail and other services) before publishing my code, I removed the GitHub repository for now. I'm sorry for honest security enthusiasts who didn't read the article, but I don't want to cause harm.

Google also proposed me to come visit them in their offices to discuss about my work.
Possibly, as soccer isn't exactly a premier sport in the US. If it was American football, baseball, or basketball (with which the average American male is more familiar) I think the authors point would be stronger.

I could make an argument that using a sport which has massive popularity outside Western European culture is a sign that the interviewer was thinking about diversity.

Sports are good candidates for these challenges as they have reasonably complex rule, so it isn't necessarily that the interviewer was just selecting something they liked.
It's a symbol of resistance. The actual site doesn't really matter, as long as it's up.
Perl is still faster than every other scripting language out there.

Wait, what? There are are specific use cases where this might still be true, but as a general rule, this hasn't been the case for some years now.
Extremely misleading title...
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That's so patently false it's ridiculous.

The taxi regulations are lengthy and serve multiple purposes. To classify it with a single sentence is just silly.

After all, requiring proper operating equipment and frequent inspections obviously doesn't benefit users... Is that what you're really forwarding? I hope not!
I do not agree that you increase the perceived dynamic range. You use it to change the noise to something more favorable. Instead of harmonic distortion, you get a much more uniform noise that doesn't distort the original signal. I really cannot see how that can be seen as anything other the better audio quality.
It was hyperbole. I obviously didn't believe that literally zero people browse Quora. I just mean that the site feels essentially dead to me. Ever since Google apparently killed their results, I haven't seen any links to a Quora post. I also don't hear any updates about the company, which used to be a regular occurrence around here a couple of years ago.
If you're not signed up and in it doesn't show the content. It's the old expertsexchange style bait and switch trick.
If that's the case, then when I do:

auto str = "something";

Why is "str" a "const char " rather than a std::string? Tested using "-std=c++14" with both gcc version 4.9.1, clang 3.5.0 and with both libstdc++ and libc++ ?

[edit] If you're the guy who does the MSDN videos on C++, thank you*. They've been incredibly useful to me.
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I read it. I think they're a long way from dominating much of anything in some ways, given how easy it is for regulators to shut them down.

I'm not anti-Uber or at least anti-disruption for the taxi industry. Here in Italy the taxi lobby is strong and very, very much against any kind of change or liberalization, and can use pretty nasty tactics themselves when they feel threatened.
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One repository with readme that clearly states: "A ticket for every new law of the United States, as of March 12, 2014."

And people yelling on issues "show me the code"

c'mon people! RTFM
At least he has provided scientific bases for all his "contraventions". I don't say I agree with him or that he's right, but all this politcorectness bullshit should not be brought to science and even such inconvenient topics (i.e. race influence on intellect or sex drive) should be open for research. Imagine the consequences if scientists were afraid to speak, because they might offend some group of people.
Thanks for sharing! I really enjoyed the video, though I didn't understand everything (english is not my mothertongue).
You are getting some text with a picture, that is not a working site.
Let's say I like party A 10 times more than I like party B. In a preferential voting system, there's no way to precisely express my preferences using the ticket. I'm forced to choose between "1. A" or "1. A, 2. B". Someone else who like part A 2 times more than party B will end up voting identically to me, despite the huge difference between our preferences. Any preferential voting system is necessarily flawed because how limited its input is.

That's basically what Arrow's impossibility theorem says. Due to its limited inputs, a preferential voting system will necessarily fail one of the three fairness criteria.

There are far better voting schemes out there, none of which are affected by Arrow's impossibility theorem.
I can point you to a follow-up on one of those: An example on Wikipedia [1] lets you hear the effect of aliasing on a sawtooth wave.

When audio is aliased, the high harmonics will wrap around the Nyquist frequency and come back as audible, inharmonic tones.
Aliased audio really sounds quite bad, in a way that would make any listener say "oh god make that horrible noise stop".

This is probably why it's easier to recognize the effects of aliasing in video than in audio -- you're not hearing much aliased audio. Aliased video is fairly common and seen as acceptable in some contexts, while anyone who produces aliased audio is going to fix their mistake before inflicting it on listeners.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliasing#Online_audio_example
Possibly helpful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8503439
There's some great stuff there, but that list could use an update. The most recent papers seem to be from 2011. Things move very fast in this field. This was back when pre-training was still strongly recommended and before Krizhevsky's ImageNet win (2012), which shifted the focus of the field away from unsupervised learning somewhat. The section on convolutional neural networks especially is a bit meager by today's standards :)
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How does that help your point. You still haven't provided any information that would back your claims.
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This article is slightly more helpful: http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-uber-lyf...

It appears the lawsuit is mostly for "false advertising" and (as stated in the LA Times article) the damages are perhaps in the low dozens of millions. The complaint perhaps focuses on the background check system.

I can't find a copy of the actual complaint, but looks like it's "business tort":
(via http://www.sfsuperiorcourt.org/online-services/verify?f=cnq )
Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco
Case Number: CGC 14 543120
Title: THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA VS. UBER TECHNOLOGIES INC A DELAWARE CORPORATION ET AL
Cause of Action: BUSINESS TORT

IMO the Mercury News article spins the magnitude of this lawsuit a bit too hard. Yes, Uber will probably pay (once again) for its hubris, but it's mostly gonna be dirt off its shoulders ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7HAYkB-gH0 ).
I won't mind if they leave town at all.
This might be a dumb question, but what are the pros and cons of choosing something like Foundation over Skeleton?

Is it a tradeoff of simplicity vs features - are there any features in particular that Skeleton misses out on? I've been using Foundation recently, but the thought of a simple, 400 line CSS framework is very appealing.
"It should be completed by the end of the year" seems unlikely.
I am not a lawyer, and have absolutely no meaningful opinion on the merits of this lawsuit. However, Uber has absolutely not helped their case by having executives act like frat bros.

As much as we'd like to think that the law and public opinion are separate, in reality, I think that if Uber had tried to be a better 'public citizen' they probably wouldn't be facing so much backlash.

That essay by Paul Graham about 'mean people' is looking downright prophetic right about now.
The same thing that happened to the low orbit server drones (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/03/pirate-bay-plans-...). They make such statements because they enjoy the media talking about them.
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That's actually exactly what I had in mind. Range voting[0], for example, doesn't suffer from Arrow's impossibility theorem, Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem, nor the Condorcet's paradox.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting
Sorry, don't get why I wouldn't just use a CDN like Akamai, or Fastly or another to do this - many of them have features that will 'speed up' APIs
Discussing "licensing" in a thread about coffee. Fuck.

This is not what the future was supposed to be about. The future was supposed to bring us infinite possibilities through the means of technology. It was meant to be awesome.

It was not meant to be artificially limited through the means of technology which could have been used to make our lives better instead.

Where did we go wrong?