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I think VLC also does recording, but I'm certainly in no position to comment on it. I'm not familiar with their codebase and I don't want to lie :).

I don't know what PulseAudio considers "very low latency" and there aren't any numbers on that page to indicate it, but in my experience, PA's best latency possibilities are about an order of magnitude away from being useful for any kind of hardcore real-time processing. This isn't a problem as far as PA is concerned since it's not what it was conceived for, but it won't cut it for applications which need that kind of capability.

PA also doesn't really provide latency guarantees, either. In fact, it's mentioned on that page:

> So in summary: tell PA what latency you want, but program defensively so that you can deal with getting both lower or higher measured latencies.

I don't know if that has improved though. The last time I had to poke PulseAudio was a few months before that page's "Last Edited" timestamp.

Edit: For what it's worth: I never managed to get PA to consistently keep latency below 25-30 ms, which is at least 10-15 ms away from being adequate for real-time audio processing. I guess it is a cornercase though, and probably outside the Gnome project's interests. Reading the other comments in this thread, I assume VLC's problems with PA aren't related to latency.
I still don't see why meaning is null in the case that the universe isn't a conscious agent. Meanings are aspects of us, not of the Universal Consciousness or whatever.
This is roughly 2.5 times cheaper than the marine battery I found first, definitely not orders of magnitude.

This is $5k for 2 kW * 24 hours. So 3 of these at $15k total would roughly replace my $700 generator + $10 worth of gasoline for emergency situations.

To truly run my house where it would be adequate at 20 kW or 24 hours or so, I'd need 10 of these at $50k. To run my house of for a week (where I live, the last major power outage lasted three weeks), I'd need $350k. For that amount of money, I can just buy a very nice house in Florida and go down there when the power goes out.

Now, if I go top of the line, I can get a 22kW generator (http://www.homedepot.com/p/Generac-22-000-Watt-Air-Cooled-Au...) for $4,700 + gasoline at $2.30/gallon where I live. This will not even require me to go out and start the thing as it kicks on automatically, much like a battery backup does.

Battery powered houses just don't make sense cost-wise, and at this price disparity it's not a question of spending a little more: $350,000 vs $4,700. That's two orders of magnitude. It's not the clean option, but given that it's standby power, I'd rather see us invest in more efficient power plants (nuclear and wind) than home batteries.
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It won't kill it, but it will make it extremely unprofitable. It takes time for the law to catch up with this, but I'm certain this will this be ruled as an employer-employee relationship. The government looks very poorly on companies that try to exploit workers. It's why you can't work for a restaurant for no pay but all tips, the government won't allow it because they have to provide a minimum level of protection for workers from being exploited by employers.
Nothing can be infinitely recursive, every chain of reference must bottom out somewhere. So why not in us?
By default, yes. The kern.maxfiles sysctl value can go to the upwards of hundreds of thousands, if I recall correctly.
Hello, author here. I should clarify that I don't think Windows itself is doomed--it isn't, not by a long shot.

I think Windows 10 will do well in mature markets where it's an established leader (desktop) and nascent markets where leaders have yet to be defined (hybrids, IoT, holograms).

Where Windows 10 will not do well is in mature markets where they're not an established leader (phones).
Baxter goes to Oregon, to help bring robots to frontlines of Ebola outbreak
Who cares about downvoted answers, really? I see it only as a warning. ("This may be incomplete or misleading")
That's really depressing. Makes me question my participation in the site a little bit (never joined the chat or wanted to).

Do you have any actual examples?
Ask HN: I've made a PHP templating engine, check it out?
Hey, I have made a templating engine aimed at teams of front and back end developers. It's main aims are to be quick and easy to use. I noticed the need for a tool like this when working on a project with some front end developers who weren't completely comfortable with PHP and so this was born. It is only in very early stages but I'd appreciate it if you checked it out!! Thanks, the GitHub repo - https://github.com/DrRoach/templator
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So how do I know if I could use this with my carrier? Kind of an important question when it comes to reservation?
You're mistaken about Windows 10.

When I heard that announcement I thought the same thing, Microsoft's language was very ambiguous.

However they have since clarified, and Windows 10 won't require a subscription fee as far as they have said.

The year thing is similar to the $10 Windows 8 promotion (upgrade from 7 to 8 for $10 for the first year). Except this time it is completely free from 7 or 8/8.1 to 10, but if you don't do it in the first year then you'll have to buy an upgrade kit at whatever the retail price is.

The only subscription they've talked about with Windows 10 is Software Assurance, but that isn't remotely new, and has existed for enterprise customers since at least 2000. It doesn't apply to consumers.

Office 365 is subscription though, and it remains to be seen if they'll continue to do boxed software indefinitely. They already tried to alter the box software licensing terms so you could never upgrade your computer without re-buying it until there was a massive public outcry.
The USA has 5 tonnes of weapons grade nuclear material missing or unaccounted for. Enough to produce at least 1000 nukes, apparently. http://npolicy.org/books/2014muf/Nuclear%20Weapons%20Materia...
What is good (and often overlooked) about package updates over HTTPS is that you don't leak metadata about which packages you are updating or installing. Not a big issue with an office suite but still it's an option I would prefer.
15+ years experience with Node.js and Go a big +++
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^^^ FTW
H1B isn't like normal immigration in its effects on wages. They do come over here, but they are at the mercy of their employer to stay. This makes it so the employee can be far more abused (paid lower, working far more hours in worse conditions, ect.). A legal immigrant may be willing to work for a bit less, but since they are able to seek another job without being kicked out, they would have little effect if any on wages. An H1B can't fight and either has to take it or leave and be replaced by someone who is willing to be exploited. Thus they have a far great impact on lowering wages.

There are protections under the law that are susposed to prevent this but they are wildly ineffective.
"Instead, it [Handy] relies on an army of independent contractors to complete jobs, taking a 15% to 20% commission of every hour worked"

This is where it doesn't feel like an employer. Employers take more like 50%. So yeah, you don't get protections, and you get higher take-home pay. It sounds like a pain in the ass when you have to buy your own supplies, handle customers, etc., but all that is not uncommon even for employees. The result of leaving the workers responsible for all these details (and risks) is increased potential: the ability to optimize your work, and very directly benefit from that.
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congress.gov, every bill and roll call vote is accessible in XML format.
24 is the highest number: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkP_OGDCLY0
Seems like just yesterday [1] I was saying they could do this if they wanted to. :-)

The first challenge is to make the operational cost of a solar + battery system less than the cost of buying your power straight from the grid. The second is to include capital costs in that calculation and still come out at break even or ahead.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9055177
That won't work though, only the person who posses the private key can produce a valid GPG signature.
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#1 on my StackOverflow wishlist is a way to make collaboration easier on answers.

I see many questions and answers where the top answer mostly works, yet buried below there's a much better answer. I see this happening in areas where technology is in flux, such as languages with evolving syntax, or when toolchains are moving to new tools.

Collaboration can improve this by enabling subsequent people to add additional information. Some examples: "This older answer is for version 1, and this newer answer is for version 2", or "This older answer is specifically for bash, and this newer answer is specifically for zsh".
Wow, this is cool. Should I get Mathematica? Is it fundamentally ahead of open source systems like SAGE for example?
I’m happy to say that I downvoted you specifically for that! It’s what I always do whenever there’s a rude remark, regardless of question content. Glad to see you’re getting so many votes now, though.
Btw: Our JavaScript SDK, which already was on HN, is now out of Beta and stable.
Online privacy is now a luxury item
Thanks for this. I've always loved eyeballing the globe and figuring out what was at the opposite end of a hole dug directly down. Not sure why, but now it's even easier
There are quite a few long-term answers already to avoiding burnout, but the trick to getting past the next 3 days is to walk away for a brief break right now. Do something you really enjoy, ideally that lets your body get some exercise while you can completely ignore the work for a few hours. Let yourself forget for a few hours.

If it is too short of a break, it won't work. If it is too long of a break, you'll be too far disconnected and still feel burnt out when you try to start again. For me, 2-3 hours is about right.

And everyone else is correct. Once this is over, and you have recovered, find new routines to avoid this in future. Also, do some real analysis of how you got here in the first place - burnout due to hard deadlines is almost always a flaw in your project management process (or lack thereof). Treat this burnout like a performance problem in software - dig deep, find the root cause, and fix it.
Perhaps unhealthy was the wrong choice of word. But the point of the article was talking about the health issues of eating Chipotle. If one of those issues is weight gain then I would most definitely be concerned about the amount of carbohydrates in that food.

I am not nutritionist. I do know that after struggling for a decade of limiting calories and fat, I gave that up, limited myself too 100g carbs / 15g sugar a day, and lost 60 pounds within a year.

I still enjoyed Chipotle, but only the "bowl" variations of their food.
Sure stack overflow isn't perfect, but shit... Do you know how much productivity would be lost on a global scale if the site suddenly disappeared? I still use it in some capacity almost every day. Sure some of the rules might be nit picky and can be obnoxious sometimes, but nothing is perfect.
In theory this works. In practice, jobs are misclassified and the relationship is otherwise abused in the employer's favor.
And people karma-whoring on your question. Nobody has the answer, but your question has been edited 10 times.
This (the gym model) is what the Edmonton New Technology Society uses: http://ents.ca/index.php/Main_Page

It seems to be working out well for them, and they do more than electronics. They have equipment for woodworking, metalworking, and electronics: http://ents.ca/index.php/Equipment

I'm not a member, but I've visited and can see the appeal.
> The house is still much less ecologically destructive than the vast majority of dwellings worldwide, both in terms of ongoing damage and initial construction.

The isn't even close to being true. The majority of dwellings worldwide lack what you would call basic utilities and are constructed using local materials, many of which are recycled.

Perhaps you meant the West?

Even then, it's not true. Solar panels, batteries, modern insulation, etc ... these create a ton of pollution during manufacture. Not to mention drilling wells and installing septic tanks as opposed to hooking up to public utilities.
In a double-sided marketplace I'm tempted to think of the actual seller as being the one that determines the price.

In the case of Handy, Uber, etc... it is in fact Handy, Uber, etc.

In the case of Amazon, the price is determined by the contractor themselves.

Is there some major flaw in this thinking? Employees are not generally empowered to determine the price at which their work is sold, and yet contract suppliers are. I think this works fairly well to determine whether or not the person actually performing the work is really an employee or a contract supplier.
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I was burnt out once. It got bad, I got depressed, for lack of better way to putting it, i felt "disconnected" from myself. My relationship was suffering, and nothing made it better. It only got worse. I'd get in this loop, where i'd work long hours. Get nothing done, so work longer hours. It kept repeating, getting worse and worse.

I tried taking a vacation, that did little to help. What worked for me was changing jobs. Still, I didn't get better immediately, it took me a good year or so to feel "productive" again.

It was one of the worst periods of time in my life, and i'd recommend you get out as fast as possible.
True, but you want to be able to handle peak usage too. When 2 kW well pump kicks in, I don't want the lights to dim. AC is 3-5 kW and more to start, and so on.

Yeah, if your goal is to live off the grid to save the planet, that's a different story. Then the only question is how much will your Lithium based battery (mining, manufacturing, transport, recycling) affect the planet vs buying wind power from your local utility. If you want to do a little good and save a little money, putting batteries in your house is not the right thing to do. If you want to be independent of the grid in case of emergencies get a wood stove and a gas (or better diesel) generator. All around, I don't see where whole house battery backup fits into any scenario. I see data centers using these batteries, not residences.
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Wasn't there a similar debate over Quality vs Quantity with the Wikipedia community a few years back? It's been a while, but I remember seeing complaints about thousands of articles getting culled for being trivial (comic books, movies, anime, moderately famous people or places).

It's hard to find many articles about it anymore, but I did find this from 2007: http://grouplens.org/wikipedia-quality-over-quantity/
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"I totally agree that this guy did not actually reach expert status. You're correct in labeling him an enthusiast."

You are such a hypocrite. If you are 250 in England it does not give you a compelling argument to consider yourself an expert at this SPORT unless there are 250 players from England, who are ranked in ITTF.

I guarantee you that a person, who is in top 50 in England is not even close in skill to the one, who is 250. In any sport there are "experts", who can teach the skill very well. They might not even be really good at this sport. Tons of amazing football coaches haven't been that good at football.

Expert in playing (competing) in any sport is the one who can prove not with his ranking but through his match averages against top 50, top 100, top 200 players in a certain sport. As I already mentioned, ranking system is completely flawed, especially for the bottom tier players.

Seriously, you are talking about doctors? Doctors receive very similar in the US (standardized) training and they don't spent 1 year to be an "expert". How about 12 years for cardio surgery? And, yes, all doctors are experts at what they do.
> pretty much limited by the number of open file descriptors the OS allows to handle, if i don't remember wrong this number in FreeBSD is below 10000 by default

And on Linux inotify is bound by /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches. Six of one, half dozen the other. FreeBSD file descriptor limit is arbitrary and can be raised to INT_MAX (2 billion). That should be plenty.

> i must say that the kqueue implementation was by far the worst to work at.

I agree that the kqueue API is a pain to work with. I haven't tried to do a recursive file monitoring (dropbox-alike) application with it.

It seems easy to implement inotify as a thin wrapper around kqueue. Maybe something to do for the FreeBSD linuxulator layer...
Great link! I can't help but think this could be the root of the problem:

This 20-point checklist is only a guideline; it does not guarantee that a person is correctly classified. Most agencies and courts typically look to the totality of the circumstances and balance the factors to determine whether a worker is an employee.
A couple of my architect friends -- and they are good competent architects who spend the proper portion of their fees to hire competent consulting engineers -- designed an emergency services center a few years ago. The hurricane came - the project was in Florida - the utility cut grid power per protocol and the automatic transfer switch didn't flip to onsite power. Neither did the backup automatic switch.

The person trained to operate the manual switch was on a scheduled vacation (hurricane season in the US is six months it ain't reasonable to prohibit vacations). It took over an hour to get the system back online. Now keep in mind that all of this was with emergency services grade equipment trained professional staff and regular inspections and testing. And everybody wasn't away on vacation by policy.

Proper wiring is a necessary, but not sufficient condition. Power grid failures are many sigma events.
Thanks osxrand! I am glad you liked it :)
A history of the personal computer: the people and the technology
This. I looked up this exact bug to post it in this thread, but you beat me to it :). Such as shame that this bug was reported way back in 2012 and never fixed.
well, the article is exclusively about the US. If you are up for talking about other countries, let's discuss France's coal power
He seems to think in his comparison Debian comes on top.

However, the points which he thinks are where Debian is stronger illustrate precisely where Linux has lost its way. Laptop support is lacking -- assuming you care about laptops, and care about suspend working out of the box. Guess what, suspend didn't work out of the box under Debian, either.

Storage, he's forgetting that zfs is both a filesystem, and a volume manager.

Support of alien file systems, really? Irrelevant for servers, for everything else mount it via NFS.

Virtualization -- between jails and Virtual Box (on desktops) what is the use case for a different product here?

Nothing like Dropbox -- that's not a bug, it's a feature.

Desktop environments need configuration -- why I am migrating from Linux, you think? If I already have to use alternative window managers and desktops on Linux, where is the big difference?

Package managers, now that is a good point. XML config, that too. Nigh everything else is missing the point.
You should switch to io.js. It's more performant. :trollface:
> …browser developers refused to cooperate and develop something better. Microsoft and Apple…

Javascript was the language for nearly a decade before Apple shipped Safari.

Netscape shipped Javascript, but no one was necessarily locked in. When Microsoft shipped IE, they included an only somewhat compatible version of "JScript"/"DHTML" in it, with proprietary extensions added in. There wasn't even cooperation of Javascript per se, much less a "better" language to replace it.
Except one of those mature markets is represented by incumbent installations such as governmental departments and big companies. They're pretty reluctant to hand over hosting responsibility of their email and productivity tools to organizations whose business models are based on harvesting the enclosed data for advertising. Given that these institutions buy in considerable bulk there's the potential for the lure of a convenient, secure and harmonized platform to result in a phone market share above that magic 10% figure at which point it starts advertising itself and reaching sustainability/growth.
And yet, all the variety within the given categories will only cover a bunch of web developers. I cannot relate to any of the categories in the article, but yet I think I'm a software engineer.
In my understanding you can just (read-only) bind-mount the necessary libraries into the sandbox, ship your own, or do a combination of the former two.
Really nice software. Would prefer something I could host myself in PHP, but if I was a more active writer $30/yr for that looks like a really great deal.
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Suddenly, the order for the Guardian to destroy everything with a microcontroller makes sense. It's funny because to mere mortals, that is a ridiculous thing to do, but to people in the spying world, it's routine.
I wish Writer could import keyboard reassignments and toolbars from my MSWord normal.dot. The manual migration process can be hugely time consuming.

The best non MSOffice Outlook equivalent that I've found is Outlook web access IF you need Exchange connectivity.
VLC
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/162615/
Because there are now God knows how many millions of applications built on top of it that would break if you made backwards-incompatible changes. But I don't think you're really unaware of that.
I'm going nuclear over this page!
And a differentiator. Otherwise all of the functionality described is already provided by GMail (and possibly others that I don't use frequently).
For some people the sense of fellowship is more important than self-being. If you are one of those, well, it's going to be tough for you. Anyhow I would recommend:

1. Take little walks during work.
2. You also need a sound board, a colleague whom you can trust to validate your work and thoughts, because the one thing you can't afford is to redo things. Just trust this random stranger from the internet on this one.
3. Try to get a fix on the date when you can take a time off.Knowing that takes of the edge off a bit.
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