skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with wave energy is not to make a device that makes energy from waves, but to make one that can withstand the storms that invariably are present wherever there is wave power resources, and at the same time remain efficient. Most wave power prototypes have ended up as wreckage during the pilot period.
I guess the implication is that people who watch football don't care or are simply to stupid to realize what's going on.

Which is an asinine, ignorant bit of comical sophistry. It's the sort of thing that people who are covering for some personal inadequacies project onto others (like the armchair critic who decries someone donating time at an animal shelter because...like...Africa or something. Anything to feel better about one's own inaction). It's especially humorous when we're talking about a site primarily used for sharing entertainment material.

On the other hand, it is well known that politicians pass unpopular legislation during major sport events — hoping that nobody will notice

Is this actually true? At all? Do you have any citation whatsoever to back this up? It sounds like manufactured nonsense.

Aside from all that, you lost all your moral high-ground in the last paragraph anyway.

Because I pointed out the reality about TPB? If you are offended by that, you need to land back on planet Earth, and engage in reality-based discussions.
i like how you can bookmark a specific point in the video, youtube don't have that function
They're still all over the place.

But these specific firearms are (artificially) worth so much you'll never see them.
If hitting the rails is not desired, then don't configure the effect to have so much gain.

The point still stands that you can get the distortion effect, at the desired amount, at various places in the signal chain.

The problem you're talking about is about using too weak a signal and then using make-up gain. That can also happen anywhere in the chain.

I can reproduce the problem without distortion at all, using a clean signal chain.

Repro 1: turn down the guitar volume to simulate an extremely weak pickup. Then turn up the input gain to compensate. Result: noticeable increase in noise.

Repro 2: turn down pre-amp volume, and crank up power amplifier volume to compensate. Result: noticeable increase in noise.

Gains/levels have to be evenly distributed in the chain.

Sure, you will lose headroom if your intent is to have some soft distortion from the back-end of the amplifier, but you put a heavier distortion earlier in the signal chain. The heavy distortion masks the later one; it evens out the level so the headroom from the back is not available. There is a fix for that: you can punch that distortion in and out with your foot as needed.
If by "authorized parties" you mean anyone who speaks Irish, then yes. This is security by obscurity.
Please note, the actual essay in question is here: https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
If you have problems getting out of bed it is because you don't sleep enough,
or if you are fat or old you can interrupt your sleep at night(sleep apnea)

Losing weight requires discipline. I know because I have none and I'm fat.
> Is that completely unreasonable?

Absolutely not! Once you click a magnet link, you're on your own. I was just talking about visiting the site, searching, really not doing anything.

> Can you explain to me how TPB's actions are illegal today?

Depends on the jurisdiction, I guess. I'm not sure TPB is actually illegal, but that question is quite complex. I really wouldn't know.

> The problem can't really be that it's a search engine rather than an unorganized list...can it?

Of course it is! That's how the ended up in court in the first place. On top of all their legal-ish infrastructure (the trackers, etc.) they provide a website that allows people to aggregate, filter, enrich, etc., content. I'm not sure that alone get's you in trouble (it might not!), but it certainly will once you add ads to finance the entire thing.
[IANAL]

I come from a field, AEC, which in the US uses a lot of standard contracts. The AIA contracts, though not the only option, are very common and have been developed over the course of 100 years.

The architecture series start with B. These are, in my opinion, a good model for a software consulting project because:

+ Neither party really knows the full scope of the work when the contract is let. As my mentor Ronn Ginn told me, two people sit down and sign onto something about which neither has much of a clue. This of course emphasizes that an agreement is really a matter of trust not which court to go to.

+ Client objectives change during the process. The contract reflects it.

+ Intellectual property rights are clear. The architect retains the copyright. The client is granted license to use it for the purpose of the project. The license is predicated on payment.

+ Terminating the contract for convenience is a distinct possibility. The contract acknowledges that.

+ One person is the technical expert. The other party hires them for their judgement. The contract acknowledges that.

+ Both parties are likely to contract with others during the course of the project [architect with consultants, owner with builders]. The contract acknowledges that and one of the reasons for using standard contracts is because they all fit together. But that's too much to hope for here. The idea of acknowledging the possibility of other contracts and taking them into account is what matters.

The short form agreement, AIA B105 currently, B155 previously, is a good place to start. Both use simple plain language and cover most projects.

Having written a lot of proposals and contracts over the years, I've learned that selecting clients matters more than what's in the contract. Red flags really are red flags.

Good luck.
Many comments here are very informative. My takeaway here is that closing ourselves off from certain topics or ideas entirely will in turn, and to a certain extent, close us off from a certain subset of people. Just be open minded.
I'm a different person due to the supplements and food I eat. I'm obsessed about always improving my nutrition and supplement stack. It's paying off in terms of how much work I'm capable of doing. "Give your body the right food and it will do the right thing" is something I believe in.

That combined with the routine of going to a 9-5, then afterwards going to a coworking space for my startup, I'm really getting a lot of work done. Before I would stay at home and do the bare minimum of contract work, waste time on the internet, and dream about doing a startup. I'd say I'm about 3 times as productive as I was when I worked from home.
The RV owners that boondock a lot usually have 700+ watts of solar capacity, and some of them are starting to add LiFePO4 batteries instead of AGM lead-acid. So you'd want some portion of that area open to the sky for them.

But for those who don't have solar panels, this could be a good thing for them - they get shade, and the park has lower electricity costs (RVs typically have 30 or 50 amp electrical needs). Ideally you'd have some form of energy storage to supply power at night to them.

The RV owners wouldn't even have to extend their awnings, if you did it right.
I recognize the problem of distro hopping for years and the comforts of proprietary operating systems. Then I found Arch Linux. Once installed, there is less fiddeling than for any other system I have tried, for my usecase. I tried installing OpenBSD on my laptop about a month ago, and it failed miserably, as it could not recognize the wireless network driver. There was also talk about this ancient technology called CD-ROM, which was disturbing. Within less than an hour, Arch Linux was up and running with all my favorite applications installed and a fully working desktop / window manager.
Simple bit of math from much earlier in my career:

* Google salary is $180k

* Startup salary is $125k

Expected value of stock options must be >$55k per year to be economically equal. If we assume 5 years to exit, 20% odds of successful exit, and $50 million exit, that means I must own about 3% of the company at the time of exit, assuming I have no risk aversion (and more if I do). Assuming reasonable dilution over the 5 years, I need to get substantially more than 3% today.

In most cases, only founders get that level of equity. The equity offered to future employees is, quite frankly, a complete joke for most startups I've seen. The assumption is that there aren't enough developers who can't value options well that some sucker is gonna get fleeced.

That doesn't make startup the wrong option (I went with it), but the incentives have to be non-financial. Startups can be great or horrible places to learn, depending on how much exposure you have to business processes and similar. In Google, you're in a specialized box. In startups, you can see many more aspects of the operation. Getting into a position with that kind of visibility, however, can be difficult to properly negotiate early in the career.
Noise is anything that is still present when you take away the desired input signal, excluding deliberate time-based effects like reverbs and delays.

Frequency components that are not in the original signal, but are only present when the signal is there are usually distortion.

(Why "usually": radio-frequency interference is noise. In audio, you may not notice RF when there is no signal. But when signal is present, it may mix with RF in a nonlinear way, causing additional distortion products attributable to the RF. I.e. the RF noise is "descends" into the signal's frequency range via intermodulation.)
The prejudice of programmers is one of the biggest hindrances of technological advancement in computing AFAIC.

Think about it: currently, functional programming is, finally, getting some well deserved recognition in the wider programming world.

Yet almost everything it presents has been present in programming for as much as 45 years. The original paper on Hindley's type system was published in 1969. Milner's theory went to print in 1978. Scheme first appeared in 1975 and was already building off functional ideas that had been spawned by earlier Lisps. Guy Steele designed an actual Scheme CPU in hardware in 1979.

And yet even today, a non-trivial number of programmers react with absolute horror at the idea of a Lisp (usually based solely on ignorant trivialities like the parens-syntax), more or less exactly as your C programming classmates did in 1995, and while FP is starting to gain major inroads in some spheres, others dismiss the whole field as wank and Java and C remain kings that are unlikely to be unseated for another decade at a minimum, if ever.

We remain utterly bound to one model of hardware, one model of programming, and largely, only a couple models of operating system, after decades of development, because so many programmers react with horror at anything they're unfamiliar with or that deviates from the percieved norm, be it in features, syntax, or focus.

And God forbid you make anything that might actually be easy for non-programmers to learn. It will be more or less met with instant and persistent scorn, and its users derided and outcast, simply because they didn't use a 'Real Programming Language' like C. Go ask a BASIC coder what life has been like for the last 40 years, or a game dev who worked in AGS or GameMaker prior to the last half decade or so. Hell, I have a friend who still sneers at visual layout designers.

The divide described in the article is very much culturally enforced as much as economically.
There is also the British R-class submarine from WW1. It was designed to be faster underwater than on the surface:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_R-class_submarine

That one made series production, ten being made. I wouldn't be surprised if the USS Albacore design team learned something from the British experience with hunter-killer submarines.
Helium balloon pilots land after historical 7,000-mile flight
Although some may be "turning" defensive against measles, there is a fairly large percentage that are aware of the risk of measles and simply consider the risk of vaccines higher.

Measles doesn't scare these people, for the most part, as they're confident they can fight the disease off.

The way vaccines are going, we can find a common cold vaccine, and any "outbreak" of the common cold will result in the same hysteria. The survival rate for measles is actually quite high. Schools are responding appropriately. People who know they're at risk are responding appropriately. This isn't going to turn into mass deaths.

I support the unpopular opinion that the growth of anti-vaxers is primarily caused by improvements in technology and a failure of modern medicine.

YouTube is filled with examples of "vaccine injuries" - ASPCA-style image slide shows of kids before and after receiving a vaccine. The effects are scary, and not proven uncorrelated to the vaccine itself. Antivax communities are more comfortable exposing their families to risk of measles than risk of the vaccine injury, despite the risk being much, much lower. This is irrational, but also understandable human behavior, since the prognosis is perceived to be worse in a vaccine injury case than in a measles case.

The recordkeeping of vaccine injuries are also horrible, so trying to make any rational, numbers-based argument is impossible.

Ultimately, the spread of vax-injury videos is no different than the spread of the Eric Garner video on facebook. That's something we never would have heard about 10 years ago, and would never have caused such a national uproar. People are acting irrationally despite the very low chance of being affected.

Bottom line - if you want to stop anti-vaxers, you need better prevention (pretty much elimination) of vaccine injuries. The anecdotal evidence against vaccines can't be on Youtube or people will continue to avoid them. Science is working on it, but we're not there yet. For now, I think we need to be realistic that measles and other "eradicated" diseases will have a growth in occurrences. Chances are we'll see very few deaths or long-term effects, though.
As Smalltalk allows to write really readable code, I often wonder how much subconscious fear coming from the IT community itself is triggered by something like Smalltalk?

How strong the self-defence mechanisms would be if this system succeeds at allowing anyone to be equally able to program anything on the system?

Wouldn't be way "safer" for the statu quo of the IT community to hide implementation power behind the walls raised by the C learning curve?

Interestingly, the divorce between technicians and users/consumers is steady reversing the trend.
HTTPie v0.9.0 (cURL replacement) adds client SSL certificate support, etc.
I don't know what these acronyms mean, but I'd hate NOT being assigned full intellectual property rights, as a client hiring a freelancer.

Is that really common in your field? What's your field's price tag between doing full IP assignment vs. a license-only?
The Pirates Bay Is Back Online
> I'm sure he sees absolutely nothing weird in that.

If this were a discussion of Japanese conviction rates based primarily on (coerced) confessions or something like that, then yes, a 99.6% conviction rate would be suspicious. But you have to remember two things here:

(1) 99.6% is not that much higher than the usual federal prosecution rates (I think they get a net of ~96% when I looked it up a few months for a different discussion),

(2) and when Baranoff says “We don’t build our cases on one piece of evidence. Our cases are built on evidence that is curated over many years. We take our time to build these cases­ to make sure we have them right.” (the part you didn't quote), he's not kidding. That's exactly what they do with cyber-crime cases. They spend years investigating an organization or figure, flipping people, running markets or forums, extracting records from ISPs and Amazon and Google, and so on and so forth. Look at the whole tangle of carding cases in the 2000s with cardingplanet/shadowcrew/etc. For that matter, look at the Ulbricht Silk Road case right now - the agencies involved spent years busting random vendors, looting people's emails (eg Ashley Barr's Gmail was searched on only the vaguest possible suspicion), flipping multiple employees... Read the trial transcripts if you have a few days to spare.

If anything, I'd say that a rate of 99.6% says bad things about them, but for an entirely different reason than you: because it implies that they're inefficiently overdoing their cases, goldplating them & gilding the lily.
I personally recommend George Grellas (grellas on HN), with whom I have worked on a professional basis and whose services I value greatly. He is someone whose advice I would pay for and trust. His firm's website is http://www.grellas.com/ . (I receive no compensation for making recommendations.)

I am not saying this is a case that he would want to take on (only he could say that, and without knowing more details, it sounds to me [a non-lawyer] as though the entrepreneurs are deceiving the investors while obeying the terms of your license).
No.

I think what the BSDs do is great and they are fantastic for servers of varied types and sizes however running it on a laptop is backwards. The power management and hardware support just aren't there, even in Linux, to rival the kind of integration Apple has with it's hardware and OSX. You can get close with Linux or windows on a thinkpad, sure, but running BSD on X where X isn't a server is not the way forward for a non commercial desktop.

Yes Linux and OSX have their own problems today but they aren't the the ones discussed in this article. Sometimes you have to suffer through changes and progress for the end result.
Call me weird, but I like mybatis over jpa. You can create an xml file with your sql or use a java annotation to define it. Everything else is just pojo after that.
CIA and Mossad killed senior Hezbollah figure in car bombing
The ones I use are on the sidebar of my blog; which I posted in conjunction with an article I wrote ( Deconstructing the Consulting Contract ) for a print publication called Fusion Authority Quarterly Update (FAQU):

http://www.jeffryhouser.com/download.cfm/dir/software/file/c... . I do not know if the article is still available anywhere; it is from 2005. [Maybe I should update said documents; but primarily very little has changed]

Bigger clients will have their own contracts [and sometimes very little negotiation room]. I've drive some clients crazy w/ negotiations and about what rights I refuse to sign away.

Update: Here is the original article I wrote http://www.jeffryhouser.com/enclosures/DeconstructingConsult... [I guess it was 2007; not 2005]
“There is absolutely no reason to get the shot,”

A sociopathic statement, because herd immunity is a reason to get a MMR shot. You may decide the risk to your children is high enough that it's worth the risk to others, but to not even consider that....

And I'm really appalled by the parent who refused to give her child a tetanus toxoid vaccination after what sounded like a penetrating injury (note the shot merely protects against the toxin, not the bug itself, which will be safer than, say, the witches brew of cellular pertussis/whooping cough vaccine. A very effective brew, more so than the acellular that's common if not universal now, but that again is a trade-off).

Tetanus is just not something you should f*ck with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetanus
When the article says "wifi required a firmware update" the premise that openbsd "just worked" is false. This sort of tweaking and configuring is exactly the same as for any Linux distro. We've been doing this sort of Linux tweaking in my employer's systems group for 15 years, and no end in sight. For that matter, the same as downloading a new device driver for wifi on Windows, and of course we all have shared that experience too.

It seems to me that the only way you get a seamless experience with an OS install is if the hardware vendor has carefully tested and tuned the OS configuration for that specific piece of hardware. Apple does this, and even they aren't flawless.
Livestream from Hackcon, the hackathon organizers' conference
I like the name. Some eye catching content there too
This almost makes Metroid II seem as good as Link's Awakening: The story that asks the player to destroy a whole world despite almost every character in the game telling you how terrible that would be for them. And why? Simply because the game mechanics reward you for it. Kill everything in the name of adventure...
How to turn your smartphone into an authentication tool via the CEO of Encap
Dirty lens article
No problem! :) I had loads of fun typing in code from those magazines as well, but never attempted anything with external hardware stuff.
There are two options that are intuitively acceptable.

Discrete space, or continuous space and time. You can travel through infinite points in finite time iff time is infinitely divisible.
Note that your two points are contradictory:

- avoid noise early on in the change

- turn your guitar up halfway

If you want to avoid noise early in the gain chain, do not rob your guitar of signal by attenuating the output of the pickups with the guitar's volume. Now though that is done, by some players (and works for them), it isn't a way to get headroom or minimize noise.

You get the least amount of noise by keeping the volume of the guitar at maximum, and switching tones later in the chain. A clean pre-amp channel has much better noise characteristics than a dirty channel, and rolled down guitar volume control.
Wondering if this is disagreeable or just unpopular. I've been talking to people on both sides, working to hone my stance since the measles outbreak. It's unfortunate but I think this is where we stand.
What project have they stolen? and b) who are they? Give us web links, we may be able to help....
Global Forecast System source code
While to be pedantically correct they don't literally own the IP, the startup is correct in telling investors that they have the rights to build a business from what software they have. Your license is very permissive and grants them this.

If you don't want people to use your software to build a business, you should release it under a license that forbids it. (There isn't such a license but AGPL effectively accomplishes this.) If you want people to be required to mention you when they use your software, you should release it under a license that requires this. (For example, the unpopular 4-clause BSD license requires this.)

With all that said, it's still kind of a jerk move on the startup's part for them not to even contact you. But modern software is made up of many people's open source software and most of them never get any acknowledgement...
I appreciate this very, very much. You have my attention.
Yeah, it won't give you windows version unless you change user-agent. Here's list of all possible downloads:

https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/earth/qGeaQ3LQYEs/vfG...