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> They re-coned speakers that had blown or torn. They replaced tweeter diaphragms as needed.

Explains why Garcia had no time to learn fingerings outside of the pentatonic box. :)
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Modern PA? Or 1970 PA?
Most people don't want anything they like to be diluted or changed. People on HN don't want people from Reddit. People from Reddit don't want people from Facebook. People from Facebook don't want their parents. People in a gated community don't want poor people moving into their neighborhood. People in the city don't want rich folks moving in and gentrifying their block.

People, in general, are xenophobic and like their culture to stay small and untainted. Eternal September happens everywhere. It doesn't mean that Google has to keep two separate mapping applications running. Waze didn't stop to think about their community when they sold the application to Google.
That's where opinion comes in. You can't just force your opinion on people with deeply held, millenia old beliefs and expect it to suddenly work smoothly. It's not even as 'easy' as gay marriage, because now you're actually interfering with how people raise their children.
And programmers in the City make >100k. Not all of them, of course, but many. And 80k is average.
>I can't imagine the judicial resources are best used continuing the case.

Are you kidding? Its Goldman Sachs we are talking about here, nothing is too good for our banker overlords.
The difference is that carpooling is legal. What Uber and Lyft are doing is not in most markets.
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Yes. Decentralized, mutable, singletons.
You almost never need the "singleton" part. Money, assets, titles are the exception.
I think very few programmers used memorization techniques to learn a new language. When learning your first language (or one very different from those you know), understanding the ideas is much harder than remembering the facts, and when learning similar languages you start by coding something you know using syntax cheat sheets and Google, and by the time it works you remember the basics.

If I had to switch between perl, python, ruby, php, lua, javascript all the time, I would consider Anki to keep the rosetta stone data in memory, but not otherwise.
>"if you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late"

I think there's a lot of truth in this. I've been working on a video game on and off for the last year and a half. For most of the development time, I would agonize over every little detail and take weeks to implement even minor features, because I'm an Artist (TM) and genius takes time damn it. Finally, two weeks ago I said "fuck it, I'm just going to focus on getting things working as fast as possible and I'll make them good later." And I've never created content or implemented features as fast as I have in these past two weeks; I actually have a working demo, instead of just notes and an empty engine. None of it is what I consider "good" right now, but I know that it'll be good eventually.
4.6 years was the average tenure of an employee in 2014. 2+ years straight is within the parameters of common.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/tenure.nr0.htm
>"Have you really never heard of the benefits of the placebo response?"

Do you have any evidence to support the benefits of a placebo effect in relation to religion and/or prayer?

>"plus there's the social benefits of people focusing on good things and potentially manifesting them, and the community benefit of coming together to pray, and psychological benefits are a possibility,"

What social benefits? What good things? What psychological benefits?

>"Although I don't think that's well-studied (or even measurable?) enough to start that debate."

Seems very convenient to me.

>"Prayer is like meat - it isn't for everyone, but if you're not getting it you have to be careful not to miss out on certain things."

What certain things?

Your comment seems awfully shallow in content to me, lacking in any specifics.
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Sadly, no. Anyone who's studied human emotion know that the dichotomy doesn't make sense (especially if studying the neural basis of emotions [1]). I hope this movie will help to shift some of that mindset.

[1] My PhD was the interaction between human emotion and decision-making but even defining 'emotion' was tricky.
Great job! Thanks :)
The PC gaming market certainly is there, and Intel graphics are very good these days. There are few games that cannot be played on Intel graphics now, compared to back in the GMA 900 days when almost nothing at all would run on an integrated chip.
I agree with him. False and useless.

There's zero evidence to show that, "Gmail not to be trusted with important email.", as the title suggests. None of it is factual. All of it is presented as-is with only what appears to be a very poor understanding of MTA configuration issues.

The answer has been here all along early in the thread. DKIM & SPF yet the complainant has simply shrugged it off with, "Well that would cause consistent issues." (which is also false.)

If he can not do basic troubleshooting or understand the importance of the SPF/DKIM settings in a modern MTA system, and as a basic starting point, he can not assert that Google can not be trusted with important emails.

So. False, and useless.
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Yes, that was accounted for. Pay and benefits for a mid-level US dev is probably in the $140-$150k range. $90-$100k in pay. $40-$50k in 401k/Retirement, Health, PTO, Bonus, etc.

1/10th of that is ~$15k
If you take the time to read the wall-of-text you'll find out that it's based on pub/sub and not RPC-esque like Meteor (which he also acknowledges in his wall-of-text). New? Probably not. Valuable? Not sure, pubsub is expensive but when you need it you really need it.
It's a sampling profiler; you shouldn't see a big performance hit.
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Maybe we'll see an Apple car. But i suspect in general ,that self-driving cars and especially taxis would push the car market to derive much less value from branding and marketing and much more value from hardcore technology with design being much less a differentiator than today - at least for the mass market.

But even if Apple sells cars to 5% of the population , it could be a big business for them.
> Maybe you should take a closer look at what pprof does and not draw conclusions only from Python's line_profiler. Go's profiler doesn't have flamegraphs, but it has directed graphs.

Python profilers have directed graph representations, they are little better than the normal textual output.

> As you can see, it is very easy to see the bottlenecks.

With trivial programs, the most terrible representations are no issue. Cycles in callstacks (partial mutual recursion) or "hot nodes" (dispatcher code) completely break directed graph output, but not flamegraphs.
She can dress however she wants, of course. But consider a couple of things not about her, but about us:

1) What if she was not a 'hot', young woman and did the same thing? Overweight? Middle-aged? A guy? Would this project be on the front page of HN and otherwise getting so much attention?

2) Imagine your 14-year-old daughter or little sister, who is interested in tech, sees this. What will she think her success depends on? What will she think society (and her future peers at HN) values in her, her legs or her mind? What prospects will she see to be a hacker and escape being pigeon-holed as a sex object in a community and in offices full of young men?

3) What's the top-rated comment on this HN thread discussing, her project or her appearance? (As of this moment, the latter.)
The premise behind uber's valuation is that they could own the marketplace for transportation. But what if the market is not monopolizable? If users (drivers and riders) can costlessly participate in multiple transportation markets, then it's impossible to form a monopoly. Users will just frictionlessly move to the cheapest market. I operate in multiple of these markets (check all of the apps before committing to a ride) and I know that many drivers do too (lyft on this phone, uber on that phone, etc). So shouldn't this monopoly unravel to the point that all of the transportation markets aren't able to capture any value from the transaction?
real girls actually wear clothes in public. especially chinese. she's being over the top blatant.
I think the question for many will be, 'how to fix it'?

As people who run businesses, we can work on policies and culture. As events organisers, we can spread the word and raise awareness. As writers, we can write about this.

In answer to point 4, in terms of legal, you can always sue people for harassment. That's also a way of bringing attention and raising awareness. That might not be what the victims of trolls want, however, and you have to balance any needs for revenge against other people's needs to get on with their lives.

I know we have a zero tolerance approach to this stuff. But we are not a police force - the web is the perfect for helping people to be anonymous.
Those Fraser guidelines seem very sensible, IMO - I had not seem them before. My concern is motivated by the fact that in my experience with sex-ed programs in both Colorado and New Zealand, I witnessed the role of parents being actively undermined (a practice which those guidelines would seem to discourage). Sure, some people are shitty parents, and if my daughter is seeking such advice behind my back, maybe it's just because she should be able to, maybe it's because I'm already failing in parental responsibilities. But when I've heard the phrase "don't tell your parents about this" from multiple school officials as a student, I as a parent start being very concerned about whether or not government employees who are in a position to council students are generally going to follow the procedure, and actually encourage children to keep their parents in the loop when making serious decisions.
Inany cases the value of a good depends on other people not having it. Why this is hard to understand is beyond me.
Those Fraser guidelines seem very sensible, IMO - I had not seem them before. My concern is motivated by the fact that in my experience with sex-ed programs in both Colorado and New Zealand, I witnessed the role of parents being actively undermined (a practice which those guidelines would seem to discourage). Sure, some people are shitty parents, and if my daughter is seeking such advice behind my back, maybe it's just because she should be able to, maybe it's because I'm already failing in parental responsibilities. But when I've heard the phrase "don't tell your parents about this" from multiple school officials as a student, I as a parent start being very concerned about whether or not government employees who are in a position to council students are generally going to follow official, reviewed procedure or go off on their own agenda. +1 to those guidelines.
Forgive if I am misunderstanding, but Google Ventures invested in Uber, not Google itself. Wouldn't this statement from the article be half incorrect: "This puts Google squarely in competition with Uber, which is both an investment and customer of its Google Maps product."

1. https://www.gv.com/about
2. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/uber/funding-rounds
> pprof is a sampling profiler.

Good to know.
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> I honestly don't understand the necessity or want for something like this.

Here's what I wrote elsewhere:

"Imagine you're a programmer. For us coding geeks, sites like Stack Overflow are a lifeline to getting work done. In fact, we're reasonably convinced that when Stack Overflow goes down, all programming around the world just stops. (Well, at least that's the excuse we use.) Yet, when we read an answer from someone who has fixed that (Javascript) problem we've spent hours debugging, we want to kiss that person's feet with the appropriate Wayne's World salute. It's times like those when a thank you and a (worthless) upvote just don't seem enough. That person saved us from hours of wasted effort and aggravation. That geek deserves more."

tl/dr: I want it because I don't expect something for nothing. If someone provides me value, I want to exchange something in return.
Actually, I apply to rule to all house guests. You're not married, you sleep in separate rooms.

My house, my rules. You're welcome to stay at the hotel down the street if you can't handle sleeping apart from each other and we'll cheerfully roll out the red carpet and provide chauffeur service for you.
You're talking about a "local maximum" sustained over half a billion years and trillions of organisms. It's much more likely that this is just optimal for plants.
'Professional' hackers soliciting clients via a gmail address eh?
We've read our 20th Century history, we know the potential end games for us and our families

My favourite trolling suggestion for getting popular support for gun control would be to find a couple of extremely brave people to restart the Black Muslim Gun Owners organisation. It would reprint all the gun advocacy material that talks about defending against state violence but with "black" or "muslim" inserted at key points. It would require extremely brave organisers because the chances of getting jailed as terrorism suspects or having your HQ burnt down by racists would be extremely high.
I didn't exactly get it either, because if they didn't absorb the photons with the extra chlorophyll, it's not like it would go to the other plants anyway...

I just assumed there is a more complicated reason involving competition that the article didn't bother going into.
I'm a vast gaping maw of ignorance here, but I thought we had solved nitrogen fixation with the fritz-Haber process at the cost of using fossil fuels. Am I wrong, or are we just trying to keep farmers from having to buy ammonium nitrate?
The economics of firearms look a lot more like ham radio where a lifetime of "trading up" and selling for about the cost of purchase result in some interesting statistics, for older people anyway. Very few 20 year old kids have a $10K gadget, however, 60 year olds are another story.

Also there are occasional rashes of criminals with phone # to address database access surveying people for firearm and jewelry ownership. Even "innocent" corporate or written/mailed survey data can be assumed to be entered in a computer and that means it is only a matter of when, not if, it'll be stolen/hacked. So if someone has no need to know whats in my safe (aka, absolutely everyone other than immediate family members) then the only intelligent answer about the contents of my safe is no, I own no guns, no collectible coins, no jewelry, and I keep no cash on hand other than $20 in my wallet, and I have no idea why I'd ever tell anyone any other response.
It is an interesting parallel but the People's bank can literally print new money, the Wall street banks of the 30's were limited in the amount of capital they could throw at the problem.

That said, watching the collapse which looks exactly like any 'speculators all run for the exits' sort of deflation of a bubble, is instructive.
I am 5.8, 135 lbs. I'm convinced I can be lose another 10lbs if I cut down slightly, and keep running twice a week. Down to my college or high-school weight if I drop another 10 lbs.

It would reduce my cardiovascular risk, improve my running (easier on knees).

Am not a Muslim, but this month of Ramzan (or Ramadan) does inspire me to try some light fasting.

Nothing severe, no extremes for me. Happy with incremental, over a period of time, changes.
It's the fact the prosecutors office is political that's the problem, not one individual.
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Looks like they are actively distributing child pornography. They should be charged.
Yeah what dcoder said. You only need to create a promise at the source of an async event like IO. Internal logic will be downstream of IO and therefore will be just be sequencing promises generated elsewhere. You do not (and should not) need to create intermediate promises to do that.
Really awesome tool - I'm not sure how (or if) it handles multiple locations, but the listing for TrueCar gets plotted at "Santa Monica Way, SF" rather than Santa Monica and SF.
You are, of course, correct, but is that a distinction that matters?
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There are no dumb questions, but if you were a pilot, this would certainly be a dumb thing to try.

1. in light planes, "the weight of the plane" is a little more complicated, since fuel can increase the weight of your plane by, like, 40% or so. We're talking, like, 500 pounds of fuel on a 1600 pound plane.

2. a helicopter has a very complex mechanism to give it control based on propellor movement. an airplane trying to hover without these mechanisms would be essentially uncontrolled. it would almost certainly spin like a top.

3. this specific electric boost engine claims to add 40 horsepower. a cessna 172 has 180 horsepower. So, not a shocking improvement.
No. The most interesting part is that this is an example of a vindictive employer ruining someone's life.

I used to work at Goldman's and can tell you that they are paranoid about this kind of thing. They are trying to make an example out of Sergey. We used to get daily updates (on the corporate intranet) about the progress of the case. There is no telling how much money Goldman's has spent going after this guy. Both directly and indirectly through lobbying. You have to ask why, after a year in jail with no conviction, the government still trying to prosecute him? Could it be because Goldman has a very powerful lobbying arm which is particularly strong in New York?

If you are leaving your employer, don't upload any code. Sure. ...but that was over 6 years ago and the guy has already done time. Try getting a job with a prison record. I can tell you that in the banking industry it will not happen.

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if they keep coming after him. Poor guy.

One last point. There is no market for stolen code. If I stole Google's search algorithm, who would I sell it to? Microsoft wouldn't be interested and it is not like you can take out an ad on ebay. Who would have the brains to figure it out? If you had those brains, wouldn't it be easier to just write it yourself? What is true for Google's code is also true for any complex system such as trading software.
This was the page before it got taken down:

https://i.imgur.com/pLK6Lbj.jpg
I'm not sure why you were down voted to begin with, it's a valid question seeing how old many of GA engine designs are and how reliable modern internal combustion engines are. There's tons of advances in engine technology that isn't ported to GA aircraft for a lot of reasons, the biggest I would say is cost of FAA compliance and the insurance liability of failures. If your car engine fails on the highway you can still come to a safe stop. It's an extremely unlikely thing to happen on a modern car, but it's still possible (e.g. a cable is loose and disconnects the ECU). If your aircraft engine stops (which is also extremely unlikely, given the amount of routine maintenance it goes through to be considered airworthy) in the wrong phase of flight you're going to crash and possibly die.

Every plane you fly in commercially has at least 2 extremely reliable engines, and each one is certified to be able to handle flying the entire plane safely for an extended period of time to make it back to an airport in case of failure. The certification is called ETOPS [1], if a plane has 90 minute ETOPS certification it cannot fly more than a 90 minute flight from an airport.
This appears to be a low-cost method of having a couple of minutes of safe controlled flight in case of a failure, that difference can make the difference between life and death for a GA plane.

This reddit thread has some good responses as to why Honda (who probably produces more engines in a month than Lycoming has in decades) doesn't make GA engines:

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1lxlco/why_doesnt...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS
That sounds more in line with the unix philosophy!
An actual article on the product - http://venturebeat.com/2015/06/02/microsoft-wifi-will-offer-...
That's mainly a GPU problem though.
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The analogy is perfectly valid for the point he's making. You seem to be confused about what the author is saying. "Finish your stuff" does not mean "Never Improve". Security issues or additional features have nothing to do with finishing a project.
> Microsoft Wi-Fi is a paid service that operates much the same as Skype Wi-Fi did previously. Rather than paying a monthly fee, users buy access to the Wi-Fi hotspots by increments of time. When we previously caught a glimpse of this service on its website earlier this month, it wasn't quite clear how users would pay for the time. However, according to the app included in Windows 10 build 10158, it appears that users can pay for access using the same payment method they use for purchasing apps in the Windows Store.

Source/Screenshot: http://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-wi-fi-makes-appearan...
"People, in general, are xenophobic and like their culture to stay small and untainted."

The problem is that when anybody and everyone comes into the community and you don't have some sort of filter, it turns to shit.
Small aircraft can definitely thermal. It would require powerful and big thermals compared to what a glider needs, but such conditions do exist. A small Cessna probably has a minimum sink speed in the neighborhood of 700fpm, and thermals stronger than that do exist, and are pretty common in some places.

The problem, of course, is that it's just not reliable enough to count on.
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I assume this is just Microsoft rebranding Skype Wifi?

https://wifi.skype.com/
Uber's valuation is also based on the perception that Uber can outgun the competition technologically and in global expansion. Uber might face more or less frictionless competition from regional rivals, like Lyft, but will have some durable advantages.

Google is a different kind of competitor.
Stupid. That "fix" artificially kept the US in the doldrums until WWII was in full swing. They should let the bad credit/debt/investment/etc clear itself which should then allow for a healthy recovery. Subsidizing the conditions that caused the crash in the first place will just allow the problems to leach off the market.
I should also note that no email provider should be trusted for 'important email' as mentioned in the article title.

Two reasons.

1) Email is not built with security in mind. Don't suggest SSL as it only protects (somewhat) while in transit and not at rest. You can also bet that not every recipient you send to is using an SSL-enabled POP3/IMAP connection to check mail, so you can't control that end of the conversation.

2) It has no delivery assurance and wasn't built with that in mind. You can never be sure if it arrived, or will be read (by an actual person).

That said, if you need to transmit important documents, use FAX (if the destination has their own (not shared) FAX. Or simply drop it off.

If you need delivery assurance, pick up the phone and ask if they got it, or send if via courier with signature request on delivery.
There is also one instance where it got mapped just outside Shreveport, Louisiana: http://whoishiring.it/#!/search/Europe/32.45273455061945/-93...
Mechanical devices which never fail don't exist.
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