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> There still are benefits to using 24-bit audio in the recording and processing stages.

An analogy of what you said:

It's similar to HDR for audio[1] (but not exactly like it). HDR can be used for photography that, once composed and edited, will present more realistic information to our eyes. For example, with HDR you wouldn't have an overexposed sky - however the HDR is only used in order to get to that final 16 bit image (and even with 16 bit your eyes have a hard time discerning different colors).

The same applies to audio. Listening to 24-bit is pointless, however, if you are editing something you want to retain as much information as possible until the final render so that you don't run into clamping issues as you described.

Therefore, sites that provide 192/24 downloads are valuable. If I'm a DJ getting music for my gig I do want those production quality files, as I cross-fade between two songs I don't want artefacts popping (excuse the pun) up.

On to my own opinion: 24-bit is still not good enough. DAWs should be working in floats. Audio needs to go true HDR, 24-bit is a cop-out. Why would you even used a 24-bit int when floats are there and ready to go? Imagery went floating point, what, 10 years ago? Why can't audio catch up? Being able to exceed the clip in my DAW in a channel, and then wrangle it back down in another would be awesome.

Unrelated: That Xiph video really amazes in terms of what nature does. We rarely care about it (we do in terms of e.g. intercontinental fibre cables), but nature does all of this when we send a signal to a speaker. Even normal sound does actually have a band limit and does behave (albeit, far higher dynamic range) exactly the same way automatically. Shoot a signal down a fibre cable that can't handle it, and you'll get Nyquist. Too high frequency for RTP air? Expect distortion (that we can't hear). You don't even have to include electronics to get nature to impose these limitations for you, you have to do no extra work. Completely amazing - a deeper level of logic that is mind boggling.

[1]: http://www.slideshare.net/DICEStudio/audio-for-multiplayer-b...
If I'm reading it correctly, the Create series does not have the vacuum components.

I used to be a big fan of iRobot, but after going through 4 of their robots, I have soured on them. Their batteries would die right after the warranty period ended. Plastic parts broke off from regular use. Each of them ended in the recycling bin after 1.5 - 2 years of use.
As with programmers, I think it's a matter of education and time pressures. If a cowboy coder hasn't been exposed to a strong version control culture, and works mostly alone, they won't have as strong a need for VC (or even know about it). When you're always under deadline pressures, you're focused on getting the product out above all else.

Basically, they don't know there's a better way. They're used to hacking through Word's track changes, and they always have a deadline to meet. That doesn't leave much time for improving your toolset.

Also, many writers have very idiosyncratic workflows. From what I gather their education and workplaces focus more on the craft of writing well, regardless of whether it's with a pencil or a keyboard. Whereas it's hard to contribute to a codebase without being exposed to version control.
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...gene associated with Liberal thought.

Many other interesting articles by Dr. Roy Ackerman.
That's pretty much it. It's a compliance-type regulation. The idea is that if you were, say, hiding a $3bn loss in an obscure book or something then it is more likely to be discovered if you were out of the office and someone else is trading/covering your books.

You can read an article about it in the WSJ here:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100008723963904449149045776154... or google for "Take Those Two Weeks Off —Or Else" and click the top link.
Hi there, can you reach out to me @ james@funnelthecake.com? I may have an opportunity for you.
"new Create is a Roomba with most of its guts ripped out"
Ship logs from servers to logstash using rsyslog
Your comment is an unsupported attack. Mine was just an observation based on many years of work in multicultural context.
It's like the difference between vacation and prison. In both case you are away from home.
All your concerns are valid but addressable via "reputation".

Consider this: Each completed transaction is rated by each participating party.

How much your rating affects your opponents reputation in determined by your own reputation. A higher reputation enables privileges such as more peers willing to trade with you, faster downloads, etc.

These reputation systems don't work in common P2P networks because everyone can just generate fake identities and boost their own reputation at will.

However, if you tie the reputation system to bitcoin so that the creation of an identity puts actual money on the line then this kind of cheating doesn't work anymore.
I may be wrong, but isn't it the purpose of the dht ?

There are some projects that try to search directly from it :

https://btdigg.org/
http://btindex.org/
https://github.com/laomayi/simDHT
I'd be curious to know how to make it more efficient. Either the descendants of a directory include the directory's name in their identifier, or they don't. If they do, then to implement rename() you need to do something such that all descendants of the directory can be queried by a different identifier than the one they were given upon creation (where the difference is exactly the name change of an ancestor directory). You can:

* rename all descendants on directory rename (expensive--takes O(n) time for n descendants).

* log each rename() and translate a key with a new directory name into a key with the original directory name (requires O(k) space for k renames and O(d) time in the worst case for translating a path of depth d whose directories have all been renamed; introduces the need to garbage-collect log records when all descendants of a renamed directory get deleted).

Granted, this is a more nuanced than what I said before about rename() requiring O(n) time complexity when implemented on top of a key/value store, but the second option is still more costly than rename() with true directories. I'm not sure (but cannot prove at this time) that we can do better than the second option above, but would love to hear your thoughts.
Very sorry. Did not realise this. Will try to find the free source.
It's hidden right now but if you'd like to search for boxes use https://atlas.hashicorp.com/boxes/search
It's not really the "sharing economy". They are using the secondary wifi access points as a paid service to other subscribers.

In their defense, though, the routers are theirs, and they do allow users to turn off the secondary wifi access point. I don't have Comcast, but I'd be willing to put up with this if:
(1) I'm able to opt out
(2) I get some discount for physically hosting their access point,
(3) Needless to say, the secondary traffic must not affect my use of the internet connection: e.g. reducing my own bandwidth, or counting against my quotas.
This. Plus, sure, WWW was probably meant for sharing content, but HTML/JS is a front-end standard not necessarily tied with WWW.
I suppose it's making Keurig's lives better. Infinite possibilities through the means of technology includes digitally protected coffee.
A big ah hah moment for me was realizing that money is a representation of inefficiency. So for example, if everyone had a means of growing their own food, generating their own electricity, taking care of their own health, and had unlimited access to information, we wouldn't need to buy things or pay for services. A Mr. Fusion and a replicator would be all we needed.

That’s probably the real reason they don’t use money on Star Trek. Not so much because they eliminated scarcity (which they obviously did, with numerous planets to choose from) but because giving everyone the basic means to sustain themselves was such a small fraction of the economy that it became dehumanizing to force people to work so much when society could provide for all within the percentage of a rounding error.

This concept’s relevance for coffee makers: what’s a coffee maker without coffee? Anyone can brew coffee by pouring hot water through a sock (as it’s done in much of the developing world) and I can say from experience that it’s both more convenient and can even make a better cup. So the key is the coffee, not the machine. It’s not really surprising that Keurig wants to cement itself as a middleman, and since coffee is everywhere, it was probably inevitable that they’d turn to a DRM solution.

Hydroponics, fabless photovoltaics and big data medicine are going to be what take us into the future, not some kitchen gismo. In fact, the more I witness “progress” in my lifetime, the more I see that the really revolutionary stuff like the internet is generally free and shared by all. Otherwise it just makes some guy rich. I want to be rich too, but I’ve spent half my life chasing a goal that wouldn’t even be necessary if I was off the grid and could just get left the heck alone.
I have three phone numbers. And I avoid services that request phone numbers.
From original readme:

> It turned out this new ReCaptcha system is heavily obfuscated, as Google implemented a whole VM in JavaScript with a specific bytecode language.
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Contractors in the US generally get 0 days of paid vacation. You either work or you get paid nothing since the contracting agency only makes money if you work.
Yeah, 36KB minified and zipped. That includes material.min.css, material-wfont.min.css and ripples.min.css. Un-zipped it's 253KB.

But given that it fails dramatically on small-screen touch devices, the point is moot.
Is there any discussion around why you require all container images to be signed? I understand that you want to provide a means to identifying that user X signed (well key Y signed it -- hopefully that is user X) the container, but it's putting the cart before the horse.

Maybe I'm missing something, but this completely ignores that the biggest security issue is people and process. You can't require people to have good process. IMHO, requiring gpg signatures WEAKENS security, because the people that don't care or don't have strong security requirements are going to play fast and loose with their keys. If you don't require gpg signatures, you can let those people signal their lack of security by having "naked" images. (ie: a security audit will catch that really fast and then force a reasoned discussion about key trust)

Requiring gpg signatures gives the illusion that all of the images are somehow more secure.
Yeah, I'm seeing some certificate authorities which are serving their certificates in formats that I wasn't expecting. All the errors are being logged and I'm working on adding support for these formats.

Edit: These errors should now be fixed; thanks for your patience!
I'm familiar with the scoop functionality you mention, and my last job involved making APIs to deliver content to media CMS, so I have some general familiarity with the space. Obviously infotainment will always be a large portion of what the media produces, and this isn't really relevant to that. But once you get beyond that type of content, media organizations aren't actively trying to produce low quality articles, it's just that that's what they're incentivized to produce. If you can make it less expensive and more profitable to produce high quality content, then that's what will get produced.

Also there was never really any implementation that failed per se, I actually still think this would work. I'm just currently spending my time on other stuff that I think has more potential. For the last several years this has been kind of a hobby project that I work on here and there whenever I get burnt out on whatever I'm supposed to be doing.

The main problem with it is that it just takes an enormous amount of time to add new content. Any given fact can easily take an entire day to add... By the time you go through all the competing claims, find the the primary sources, read through the methodology for each one, etc., that's easily 8 - 10 hours per fact. Which is why there still isn't any code or UI even after multiple years of work.
I used to work for iRobot's research devision, which isn't on the same team as the Roomba folks.

I'm really excited to see this come back! I'm a bit surprised they haven't taken advantage of the smart phone revolution since 2007. There should be a dock for your phone. The basics would involve beaming back sensor data and sending movement comments. The phone would also come with a camera.

Basically I'm wondering why they didn't build a better Romo http://www.romotive.com/
I am having a hard time speaking to your business model because I don't quite get what you are doing. I believe somehow you would like to help my business to allow my customers to donate funds to charity through me somehow? As a business I would have a number of issues that would need to be addressed.

First, you name off quite a few statistics and have no sources cited for those statistics. You also post other big brand names in a quite large block under your youtube video player. Do these companies work with you? Are they onboard? I would guess they aren't, or you wouldn't be asking us to validate your startup; it would already be validated. Are these socially conscious companies? Maybe, but I don't get it.

Second, as a business, I have no idea what I am signing up to do. Must I pledge a certain amount of money to any random cause my customer wants to put the money towards? Is there a tax advantage? Is there a liability on me because my donated business money does not go to an actual charity due to an error or omission? Many "youth soccer teams" take donations but are not tax exempt and the filing becomes and interesting problem. What if, as an organization, we don't agree with every charity in the world and only want our donations to go to certain charities?

Third, what is your part and benefit in this? Are you a 501(c)(3) United States Federally exempt charitable organization yourself? I highly doubt this, as I have started 2 charitable organizations and they aren't easy to get set up. If you are a for profit (or even a non-profit 501(c)(3)) organization and you take my organizations money and use a portion of it yourself and then pass the rest on to charity, do I get a tax advantage? How do I explain that properly to my accountant? Am I really being charitable and socially conscious? What portion goes to you for development and what part goes to charity? You could say "a truly charitable and socially conscious organization wouldn't worry about details like tax filing and advantages." I wish we didn't have to think about these things, but the IRS is a cruel mistress and because of our fiduciary duty to our organizations we must all answer to IRS rules.

The list can keep on going, unfortunately.

As for the site itself, it loads very slowly. There are a lot of spinning gifs while your logo and your "big block of corporate logos" load. The wording is difficult to read. Other than the very nicely made video, I am afraid this looks like a corporate email fishing scheme. I don't mean to be rude, but I am involved with an organization with a very high charitable dollar count and I would have a hard time signing up on your site.
Just got this email from my friend

All in, it was just under £10k (for two people)

Trains London to St Petersburg

London to Brussels - £100 Eurostar
Brussels to Cologne - 58 Euro - Bahn.de (about £45)
Koln to Prague - 138 Euro - Bahn.de (about £109)
Prague to Krakow (three trains) - 488PLN - Polrail.com (about £92)
Krakow to Warsaw - 140PLN - Polrail.com (about £26)
Warsaw to Minsk - 698PLN - Polrail.com (about £132)
Minsk to St Petersburg - £284.72 - realrussia.com

Accommodation Krakow - £68.22 lastminute.com
Accommodation Warsaw - £38.76 lastminute.com

Other nights from London to St Petersburg were on trains

Tour - £5995
-all trains from St Petersburg to Hong Kong
-all accommodation from St Petersburg to Xi'an
-more than half the meals (apart from when on the train)
-transfers to and from all stations
-all guides and tours
-all visas

Accommodation Hong Kong - £304.96 - Not sure where booked

Spending money - £1640

Flight HK to Melbourne - $HK9076 (about £746)
Travel Insurance - $AUD324 (about £172)

Total: £9753

Polrail.com and realrussia.com are agencies and so added about 25-30% on top of the ticket prices, but the Polish and Russian rail websites aren't in English so didn't have much choice there.
The Polish accommodation was pretty swanky and right next to the stations, there were much cheaper options, but splashed out a bit.
Travel insurance was required for our visas; we had trouble finding anyone to insure us because we weren't finishing where we departed from.
Spending money was under what we budgeted.
The tour was obviously the big expense, doing it ourselves would have been a lot harder, but would have saved a lot of money, but then we'd have to have gone and lined up to get visas whereas they did that for us. Also having someone standing on the platform with a sign with our name on and then being driven to our hotel was pretty cool :)
IBM hasn't reported country-by-country employment data in several years, but it's widely assumed that India has the plurality of their workforce (about 1/3), with the U.S. having their second-biggest headcount. One big part of their business these days is large-scale IT consulting, and while they position themselves as a significantly "premium" provider compared to e.g. Accenture, they probably feel more constrained in just how much of a premium they can charge than they used to, so have been trying to get their cost structure to be not too far from that of their big IT-consulting-shop competitors.
Honestly that's on par for the course for anything visual/design related on HN.
Also, one might simply outperform him/herself in HTML/JS than in other languages. Can't blame that...
At some point in the last ten years, most browser vendors enabled a feature that will do automatic discovery of an intermediate certificate.

The most noteworthy exception to this is the builtin Android browser in the 2.x (and possibly later) series. As a result, failure to include the intermediate certificate on the server quite frequently goes unnoticed.
I'm currently testing out a MSI GS70 and I have the following observations (coming from a macbook pro 17"):

* The keyboard is fantastic. Feels very natural once you get used to the layout.

* The performance is incredible (3x SSD RAID 0 + 1TB spinner). This has made me much more productive working on a C++ codebase.

* The touchpad FUCKING SUCKS. I think it's a driver issue. I don't say "fucking sucks" lightly. I know how hard it is to hardware and software well but for a laptop as expensive as this one, this really shouldn't be the case. It just randomly decides not to work and it jiggles around a lot. I've had to attach another mouse, it's that bad.

* The sound seems to only come from the right speaker, so I think it's busted.

* The weight is just perfect.

* The drivers come in a CD, but this laptop doesn't have a CD drive...

* The speaker quality is just OK. Nothing amazing.

All in all, if the mouse and sound/speaker issues were not there, I would be incredibly happy with this laptop as a dev machine. As it is though, I will be returning the laptop this weekend.

I previously had an alienware m17x but its power gave out so I decided not to repeat the purchase. The sound on that one though, holy cow, it was amazing and it too was quite fast.

Look into gaming laptops, those are built for performance (if that is what you need).

HTH.
Uber is obviously something people want but it is letting
its customers become targets for criminals. That's
not sustainable.
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So it's OK to torture or otherwise deprive a "scumbag" of their rights?

Who decides what constitutes "scumbaggery"? You? Me? A random person off the street? A CIA lawyer? The President?

This sounds like a recipe for disaster, frankly. It sounds like a recipe for treating some minorities as non-humans, on a not very formal basis.
Would you consider graph to be a fourth type of database, after relational, key value, and document/hierarchical?
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> For the record, I voted for enum, like in rust-lang ;-)

Funny, because there's actually a long, long history of debate around whether Rust should refer to them as unions rather than enums (and change the keyword correspondingly). :) Here's the most recent one that I know of: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/27

Swift seems to have followed Rust's example with its terminology here, so this issue is hardly settled. It may shake out such that `enum` is used for tagged unions where the variants are declared as part of the type (`enum Foo { Bar, Baz}`) (and hence the variants can't be shared between types, at least not without wrapping in a newly-defined variant), whereas `union` is used for tagged unions where the type is composed from multiple existing types (`type Bar; type Baz; union Foo { Bar | Baz }`).
It's true for most of the world, actually.
I bought the original Create when it came out in 2007. It was an awesome piece of tech back then, very stable/rugged, reasonable low level API, extendable, and yes "hackable".

The only downsides was the interface felt old even for 2007, which was a serial port (you'd see a lot of Create projects driving around with a laptop sitting on top of it). And the "battery pack" was useless and ran on I think 12 AA batteries which lasted about 10 minutes.

I got the bluetooth upgrade, which was $50 and the rechargeable battery pack and charge station which was probably another $100.

It's awesome to see the Create 2 includes a rechargeable battery pack AND charge station.
It references Arduino and Raspberry Pi but there doesn't seem to be any special integration.

Can anyone find the exact sensors included? Same as the original Create?
Qt is great for this. It's used by lots of desktop applications, from small open source tools to large commercial content creation apps like Maya.

http://qt-project.org/

It does have a substantial learning curve. The traditional desktop stuff is all C++. The new mobile stuff is easier to develop, with a nice declarative UI system and JavaScript, but it's not applicable if you want native-feeling desktop widgets.
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>Use struts when you just need a data container. Use classes when you need to add behaviour. Simple rule,

> A struct is a C++ data type that offers the same set of features as a class, just with a public access as default.

these are lies. at this point it's a semantic argument, what you mean by "understand" is "use". what i mean by understand is its dictionary meaning.

to answer your questions, no you don't need to explain them or teach C to them because the syntax for struct in those languages is not identical to C. that is why. because they are not C structs. "C++ structs" are C structs with some syntatic sugar applied. C structs will not compile in those languages. C structs are not valid code in those languages.

I am aware of the long list of minor incompatibilities between C89 and C++, and how C++11 has removed some and added more

In short you know nothing about this I don't already know and you are quite happy to knowingly deceive your students. i object but there's no point in debating with you further.
Beautiful! This looks like a great algorithm to use in all sorts of generative art.