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It's not just the ads. The shows are louder too. This is in large part due to the poor quality of speakers in many modern TVs. Same reason for the loudness war in music. The audio is mastered to sound good on bad speakers. It's more dramatic / noticeable in ads because you're watching a bunch of spots run back-to-back in a a relatively short period of time. The content of the ads are produced to be more attention grabbing and clearly define the start/end of each spot. IMO trying to regulate something like this is pointless. They'll just find new ways to be irritating until that model stops working for them.
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I routinely rode my bike around the neighborhood at that age. On Saturday, I'd make my own bowl of cereal for breakfast, then ride around until I found my friends grouped on their bikes and we'd hang out as long as we wanted or until supper at 5:00 PM sharp (don't be late!). Ten years old is not an infant, and can responsibly navigate their own neighborhood if trained and allowed to learn.
Note that the 9ms performance claim in this article is mistaken. The author has issued a correction: http://rob.conery.io/2015/04/17/rethinkdb-2-0-is-amazing/
Introducing (artificial) constraints can produce a different form of art.
I am working on timeblock.com it's a new way of working, like agile but more humane.

It started as a change I made to how my consultancy worked, when I told others about the benefits like sleeping better and being more happy, others started to work using the same method.

Now I am creating a SaaS app and book to help others get the same benefits.
Scanning is a huge pain in the ass. Even scanning 35mm is a pain, and I own a dedicated film scanner.

Flatbeds for large format are just crazy hard. Newton rings are almost impossible to get rid of. Not to mention all the film processing.

I'm actually thinking of making a scanning back from a scanner. You basically remove the light, and put it on the back of the large format camera.
The hardest thing with shorting Bitcoin is expecting the exchanges to actually cough up when it comes due ... because exchanges have been failing left, right and centre this year, if not just taking everyone's money. Statistically, trusting Bitcoin exchanges is a terrible idea.
Chinese Government to Put 3D Printers in All 400,000 Elementary Schools
I've been thinking about this article since the first time it came up and now I think I finally get it. These guys are angling for a reality show.
It would be fine as long as you attached your resume as well. (And, of course, given that they were looking for experts in siege warfare).
I'f that comment was sarcastic, I may have missed it... Does there have to be a better way? It's not a complex transaction and it seems like it's pretty much solved. Now they store your information for easier access.
That wasn't an appeal to tradition, I don't know where you got that.

And besides, it is more than that. We are human beings, our brains are designed to interact with physical objects, and when you move all of the physical objects like CDs, photos, DVDs, etc into an existence of pure information, what you end up missing is that satisfaction of holding a physical object in your hand and experiencing it with all your senses, like we did with jewels or tools centuries ago.
$100 says we'll see this on Kickstarter within the month.
On my setup, Atom isn't "very" slow. It's actually not slow at all, other than start up (which takes a couple seconds).

It does use more memory, but that hasn't been an issue for me, either. The 4GB of Ram in my Macbook Air seem to be able to handle running Atom and anything else I need at the same time.
This guy is a bit much between the hair, the kneeling chair, and the custom keyboard. And yet the world is undoubtedly better off for having people like him around, tinkering.

Hooray!
Honestly, Citadel is getting exactly what they deserve: Ben Bernanke missed the biggest economic event in three generations, despite having all the resources of the Federal Reserve. If they think they're tapping into his rolodex, do they think that everyone at the SEC or Fed has somehow missed this point?

And the funny part is that he's probably being paid handsomely for that talent.
The one skill / the letting go book by Leo Babauta. Traction
by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares.
Almost the same here. Bottom 3% -> top 3%.
Making a wordpress plugin that got 120k downloads. Someone deploying it as a software service offering. Felt good.
Swam upstream so a few kids had a connection from their Pacific island-nation. Two would be in this 100 — http://www.articulab.justinecassell.com/projects/jrsummit/in....
The photography I went gave me the copyright to the photos with an exception that they can show them as sample to future clients and that only they are allowed to enter them into contests. It seemed more than fair to me.
Making it simple: I'm a Sublime user but as soon as Atom gets as fast as Sublime, I will be very happy to switch.

Atom has a lot of advantages over Sublime (from a front-end developer point of view): open-source and javascript (coffeescript) based.

But for now I prefer Sublime.
While this story is good feedstock for the Internet noise machine, I feel that if we discussed every stupid idea that came out of one half of a bicameral legislature in any country, we'd be buried in stupidity. An amendment to a draft bill in one house of parliament in a single small country does not amount to a movement.
How to Hack It as a Working Parent
Overall: Getting out of my hometown. Almost everyone is born there, lives there, and dies there. I wanted to get out from an early age, and I managed to do it at 17, after dropping out of school to take a job.

Personal: Managing to keep my bipolar in check (more or less) and be happy. I have a girlfriend who means the world to me; few things can match up to that.

Career: Discovering and disclosing the Onity hotel lock vulnerability. The remediation of that bug may have legitimately saved lives; it's certainly saved property.
I read it a few years ago, but IIRC it had many wrong predictions. For example it predicts massive overpopulation and food shortages, when in fact we have the most food per capita in human history.
It's not as bad as you think it is. First thing: Asyncio doesn't force the programmer to schedule anything. The event loop does that.

Also, this kind of message-passing concurrency is not meant for cpu-intensive work, but rather for situations where there's nothing to do in a particular task much of the time. Concurrent threads/tasks in frameworks like NodeJs, Tornado and Asyncio are very good at doing nothing.

For example in a web server, a traditionally threaded "worker" spends a lot of time waiting for a connection, waiting for database requests to finish, and so on. The operating system can use that time to execute other threads. But the memory of the thread sits idle during that time.

Scheduling in asyncio is not imposed by the operating system or the programmer, and only partly by the event loop, but largely because of external circumstances like network latency/bandwith, how long do the database queries take, and how fast the user is acting.
I'm not sure if this is related. But sometimes I have a slow home internet (60 kbps after I cross a threshold). At those times, I see websites loading really slow, specially HTTPS connections crawling - But YouTube streaming, Google search and Google webcache works really fast! In fact I've been waiting for a normal website to load for a few minutes on my PC, and the whole time YouTube was streaming in another mobile without any interruptions.

Does UDP mess up other traffic?
Something like the Magic app[1] that was on HN a few weeks ago is a promising suggestion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9087819
Botnet that enslaved 770,000 PCs worldwide comes crashing down
Very similar to guitarists who refuse to give up tube amplifiers. I'm one of them.
people still cook over an open fire. we call those people "campers".
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I repeat the same thing every time there's an Atom discussion because it's a a deal breaker: While Atom is slower, that's manageable. I have a MBP with a Thunderbolt display, and typically have 2 or more full-screen editing windows going at a time that I swipe between on the large screen. Atom often loses track of these, putting modals on the wrong one, but causing it to go away when you swipe to the instance where it is. As a result, the modal blocks, and often is something like a Save As. Forcing me to hard-kill and potentially lose work is unacceptable. I've been using it for about six months, upgrading often, because I really do want it to succeed, but at the end of the day, I'm a developer with work to get done.
I cannot locate my book, but the article therein listed about 14 similarities in the plot.
I'm not sure how much keeping your wrists straight helps with RSI. When people thought it carpel tunnel syndrome the idea was to keep your wrists straight. The real problem seems to be the cheap rubber dome or scissor switches that only activate when you bottom out the keys.
Consulting rates are something that gets talked a lot about on Hacker News, but this is one of the first times I've seen a detailed retainer agreement laid out. Thanks Patrick!

I recently had the opportunity to pitch a retainer agreement to a client after a successful project, I'd be curious to hear what you think of it:

"I also offer a retainer service --- pay 2/3 of my rate upfront to prebook a certain number of hours per week/month, thereby guaranteeing my availability over that period. For each hour actually redeemed, the remaining 1/3 is then paid." - From a 'Next Steps Email' to the Client

Spoiler --- the client opted to turn down this retainer agreement and instead sign an additional contract for more ongoing work.

As an aspiring consultant, one disconnect I've noticed between the advice patio11, tptacek gives and my reality is that they are charging 8K per week for specialized conversion optimization/security work while I am only charging 100 per hour* for garden variety Rails development. At the rate I am charging, clients can afford to hire me long-term vs. the short, specialized agreements that the advice-givers previously took on in their consulting days...

* In the process of moving to a daily rate! I have heeded the advice. As a bonus, here are some of my favorite comments from these two about consulting:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek (Note Cliff Note #2)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3420303

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3420203 (Main Thread)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4101355 (Top comment)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6103350 (Top comment)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6073015 (Top comment)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8704303 (Ctfl-F for tptacek or daily)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3914611 (Top Comment)
I've noticed TV ads also becoming visually "louder." Not just in the number and quickness of cuts, but in the deliberate "strobing" of their visual effects.

Cuts switch between dark and light scenes. Within cuts, there are often effects that "flash" the screen repeatedly. They are effects that are ostensibly part of the scene -- not just inserted white frames or the like. But they are composited to create this very attention-grabbing "strobing".

I started noticing this because I would have the TV on in the background, e.g. with the mid-day news on while I was at the computer. It was in my peripheral vision, and I noticed it increasingly grabbing my attention when I was not interested in the content. Even when muted.

Even when muted.

This, I think, is a key point.

People are, when not fast forwarding through, at least muting the commercials. So... no longer to they "shout" at us; they flash and flicker in attempts to make sure that we are still -- willingly or not -- paying attention to the screen.

I've moved on largely to streamed content. Nonetheless, a "mute" feature I would like would be one that also sets the screen brightness, intensity, and/or dynamicism to e.g. 50% or somesuch of normal. Enough to see what is on screen, but to make this "strobing" much less intrusive.

Of course, business models will suppress this ever happening, in the mainstream commercial sphere. But from a technical perspective, it would be a nice, simple addition to the product features.

P.S. Once you are aware it is occurring, have a look for this visual gaming. It then quite stands out.
We hope so! :)
I get annoyed with this sort of unawareness too ("don't these people ever hang out with their families??"), but you're reading uncharitably. I see it as an unawareness of "how the other half lives", which can be overcome through self-awareness and active observation, rather than feigned ignorance to sound elite.
I'm no copyright lawyer, but it looks like to me that you are wrong in the U.S.:

http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap2.html

> 201. (b) Works Made for Hire. — In the case of a work made for hire, the employer or other person for whom the work was prepared is considered the author for purposes of this title, and, unless the parties have expressly agreed otherwise in a written instrument signed by them, owns all of the rights comprised in the copyright.

> 203. (a) Conditions for Termination. — In the	case of	any work other than a work made for hire, the exclusive or nonexclusive grant of a transfer or license of copyright or of any right under a copyright, executed by the author on or after January 1, 1978, otherwise than by will, is subject to termination under the following conditions:
They should show minified versions of their code to the senate under closed doors.
Let them make sense of it.
I'd put money on there being a fax machine involved in this somewhere.
Indeed, a very good one, but a cover letter. This is the definition of resume: "a brief account of a person’s education, qualifications, and previous experience, typically sent with a job application". So, writing a resume without listing past achievements is simply impossible.

The author seems to be annoyed by people sending him resumes instead of cover letters. Maybe he should learn what a resume is before complaining about the ones he receives.
Honest question. I just read a bit about the Onity lock vulnerability, and it states that the hack was released to the public before Onity had a chance to fix it. If true, wouldn't that put people and property at risk?
two almost identical processes to produce the same end result

Not true - wet printing with silver paper is fundamentally unlike digital output.

Also, good restaurants do use wood fired ovens for pizza.
As an aside/example, here is an entire fortress fortified by Vauban in 1692, a pillar of French royal power for centuries, practically a small village behind the walls, going for only 2.6m EUR: http://www.patrice-besse.com/chateaux-a-vendre/paca/chateau-...

Although my favorite is: http://www.patrice-besse.com/chateaux-a-vendre/bourgogne/ven... - for only 3m EUR you get a moat with lifting bridge, gargoyles, and some real towers to shoot your crossbows from. You never know when the peasants might revolt!
You get to stand in a darkroom for hours, intensely focused on one thing without any interruptions. There's is a huge amount of highly detailed knowledge needed get even passable results. It's a slow ritualistic process prone to being derailed by even the slightest mistake.

All these things when earned over years give you a deep respect for the medium.
Ha, totally didn't do that. I guess I'm self-selecting my bubble by preferring to read comments on the sites I frequent while ignoring actual article comments. Thanks for the pointer.

Edit: I went and read the comments on the article, and I'd say that they're about evenly divided. Lots of people saying similar stuff to what you see hear, but also those saying that you can't do this "in today's world".
wow, is the CPU perfect? I cannot beat it. I keep ending up in a situation where the AI can beat me on its next turn in 2 different ways so I can't block both.
Sounds more like a problem with technical debt than with py3k. If you have that much code and are completely unable to port it, then your engineering staff is thoroughly underpowered. And that will get in you in trouble soon, even if you stay with Python 2.
The fact that I have failed so many times, but thankfully live in the US, where opportunities are abundant.
I watched my brother while my parents were gone when I was 6 and he was 4. There's a huge difference between siblings and strangers.
A more expensive but less error prone and a better looking solution would be extending the link between this split keyboard http://www.amazon.com/Kinesis-Freestyle-Solo-Ergonomic-Keybo...
I am frustrated with mine that I can't place the halves wider and was considering something similar.
Well that's literally a hack.

On OS X though, https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/ will, among many other features, share the state of modifier keys between keyboards. That way you don't need to get out the hack saw.
From the "browser icons" page:

> Unfortunately, this only works on a Macintosh running Netscape
Bitcoin futures is the fastest growing segment of bitcoin trading at the moment. Mostly it's traders wanting the high (10x-50x) leverage that's available with the futures products that are out there now. And it's mostly on the Chinese exchanges, though it might well be westerners making most of the volume.

It's still a very immature segment of a relatively immature market, but the price for contracts generally stays within a dollar or two of the spot price (well, an index of several spot prices). There are several problems using it as a valid hedge at the moment, but the main one is liquidity. Anything over a couple hundred BTC (leveraged value) becomes a challenge to move in and out of the market. And that's for futures that are weekly in nature. The longer term products are even less liquid.

Still, it's a relatively young market, and it's already growing quickly. It'll probably get there.

As far as using cryptocurrency for international trade, there was (is?) a coin trying the interesting experiment of a hard peg in value. Urocoin was created by an international trade company to be pegged at 1 URO = 1 metric tonne of urea. In other words, they were guaranteeing that whatever the market price, they'd deliver 1 tonne for one coin.

They claimed a few deliveries and held a conference in Hong Kong explaining their plans for the future, but they seem to have faded out. There were a lot of claims they were a scam, but that seemed unlikely. A lot of work for a scam when you can do much much less and scam successfully with an altcoin. More than likely they just failed.

But the idea of pegging a coin to a commodity to reduce the overhead of international trade was an interesting one, and one that will likely see more experiments down the road.
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An interesting side effect is that most of the general populous in a larger city has very little contact with children in public. They've been removed from society at large - to the detriment of both the children and society.
"Producing an equal or superior product" does not necessarily give the ability to "compete in an open market". That's an idealistic view of capitalism which simply doesn't work. It's merely a factor, and a fairly small one at that.

For all you know, there's plenty of "equal or superior products" to [anything] out there. You've just never heard of them for reasons that have nothing to do with their quality.
Work made for hire is a legal term which implies an employer-employee relationship (see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_made_for_hire)

Commissioned work is usually not work made for hire in the US, and so your quote wouldn't apply, unless it has been very explicitly agreed:

"there must be a written agreement between the parties specifying that the work is a work made for hire by use of the phrase "work for hire" or "work made for hire.""

Note: Wikipedia suggests it is highly unfavourable to the creator to agree to this term, in comparison to a simpler copyright transfer.
I'm pretty curious about this line of thinking, because I share it to some degree. But it also seems to me that the statistics suggest the world is safer. It seems that we feel less safe despite living in a safer world.
I'm a dumb dumb, but it seems this is the SSL triple handshake with another dimension?
Also an obvious inspiration for the storm troopers, the Teutonic knights in Eisenstein's Alexander Nevski: https://youtu.be/mr3S6ItLMTo?t=21m9s
Varies from person to person.

In my case switching from a regular mechanical to a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000 at home and work completely relieved all the issues I was having with wrists and forearm pain.

Easily the best 100 quid I ever spent (for the pair).
The "clumping" the author refers to is within genres. In a perfect random number generator any of the possible output values is as likely to appear next in the sequence as any other. PRNGs are not perfect, but there is nothing either unfair or non-uniform about two blues tunes showing up next to each other, if they happen to be stored in flat list of songs and indexed by ordinal. I think you need to reread the piece.
Turn photos of hand drawings into 3D prints
Whois or Grep ?
Bitcoin is unregulated, rife with exchange fraud, unappreciated by most governments, and practically impossible to tax. Arguably this is the "LimeWire" of currency, it's not going to survive if it does not make compromises and become regulated, traceable, and taxable.
Ask HN: When should we expect a reply for a late YC S15 application?
We sent a late application a couple of weeks ago, I read that YC cannot say when they'll check and reply to late applications but they do it before the beginning of the program.

Is there any of you who applied with a late application in a previous batch that can share how long it took them to reply and when were the interviews?

We are scheduling many appointments with customers for the end of May and it'd be bad to tell YC to reschedule because we have already other appointments (of the same importance)
Who writes the 'yield from' or 'async' or @coroutine (yield points, aka context switching 'places', that u have to pick correctly)...? I thought that was the programmer ;-)

As a comparison to glyph http://techspot.zzzeek.org/2015/02/15/asynchronous-python-an... (the creator/author of sqlalchemy) is a pretty good read :-)
You really are good enough to make a living as a programmer.

Trust your own instincts when it comes to new technology.

No one ever had "I wished I'd worked harder" on their gravestone.
Amazing woman -

* Born in obscurity in Poland, she didn't have money for studies. Her sister and her made a pact where one worked as a governess so the other could study. She eventually made it to the University of Paris, at a time when Oxford and Cambridge were closed to women.

* She won TWO Nobel prizes!

* She poisoned herself by exposing herself to x-rays (unwittingly) in mobile x-ray units for the French Army in WW1

* Her affair with the married Langevin drove his jealous wife to steal their incriminating letters, which she then released to the press. It was an amazing scandal, which is what Einstien is referring to here. She was denounced as a Polish foreigner.

There was an amazing documentary on Nova (I believe) but can't seem to find it online.

[Edit] - found it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do41AJwIjZE
You are taking potshots at the way he looks? Congrats, you are a bullying asshole.
There are also photographers that refuse to abandon even older style cameras, like Hiroshi Sugimoto, which uses 8x10 large-format camera for many of his works.
Not only on the first startup, but on every use.
Would you mind opening an issue for this on atom/atom? There are a couple of open issues related to full-screen on OSX, but this sounds more serious than any of the existing issues.