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Not quite classical - "jazzical" perhaps? There is a freeform nature to the music that is more Free Jazz than classical, but the underlying classical style of the input is still readily apparent.
It might be interesting to feed it Jazz instead. Jazz in Jazz out.
The only pitfall we've run into was in connecting the manipulation of the rods with the manipulation of the more abstract numbers.
You could try clearly printing the numbers on the rods - connecting the abstract symbol to the physical unit of measure. No science behind this, just the gut feeling of a father of 3.
The ultrasonic transducer probably does a pretty good job of warding off animals. Nothing quite like disturbing the wildlife while counting how many people are disturbing the wildlife.
concur.com - mostly with the mobile app, but the web app is also very usable.
Ah yes, because that kind of thing never happens on HN...
Which presumably means it's covered with the same disgusting fake chocolate that the rest of Hershey products are made with, which means it's not really a KitKat...
Just like it says in the article. (You did read the article, right?)
Wonderful book, but if Norman is updating it, I really hope he drops the 'POET' backronym. It was contrived and awkward, and it's repeated inclusion felt seemed more like a slight to the publisher who changed the name from Psychology Of Everyday Things to its more approachable name.
Have to admit, I was more amused by the fake cinder-block wallpaper!
Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "drink to forget"!
'Fork you' ?
"I hooked up [two] my shock absorbing lanyards"
You really didn't read it, did you?
"six grueling hours of chemistry, physics, and math"
Otherwise known as three two-hour papers - hardly the stuff of legend! I'm not suggesting the papers are easy, just that by any measure, at this level the length is nothing remarkable.
The BBC did an edit of the first series of myth busters, they chopped it down to 25 minutes, just by getting rid of the stupid recaps.
Now there's a service I'd pay for! It wouldn't even have to sell the edited content, just an edit decision list that given the original video skips over all the dross on playback.
At one point Rails 4 was considering Test::Spec, and I for one was disappointed when that was dropped, as it was an opportunity to standardise on declarative style tests in a lightweight native library, and might have stood a chance of building enough momentum to build a groundswell of support.
As it is, while one can of course still use Test::Spec, you're likely to be in a small minority.
CarrierWave appears to support Rails 4; the rest are not doing anything special other than making jquery js acripts available in the asset pipline without manually installing them, so shouldn't cause any issues.
You'll have a bit of work to do to migrate to strong parameters, but you can always add the protected_attributes gem back to re-enable support for attr_accessible.
I'd suggest checking out the Rails 4 migration RailsCast.
Is it just me, or do quite a few of these look like they've been auto-converted from a bitmap, and picked up jaggies in the process (icon-windows for example)?
They'd allegedly get lucrative govenment contacts cancelled:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest#Refusal_for_NSA_spying
It has also been suggested that the insider trading charge were trumped up as retribution, in that the CEO was accused of purchasing shares with 'insider' knowledge of government contacts, but that he was prohibited by law from publicly disclosing those contracts.
Blog spam. No original research - just paraphrasing the Guardian article.
If you read the article you'll see they were convicted of the "puffed up charges". They await sentencing.
I couldn't help but be struck by the parallels between this case and that of Aaron Swartz, given the significant overreach by the prosection in continuing to add federal charges to the indictment as the case progresses. We have a glimse here as to how the Swartz might have ended; it will be revealing to see how the sentencing in this case pans out.
Not to be depended on as a substitute for backup, but 'dead' doesn't necessarily mean dead. Forensic recovery (either DIY or professional, depending on the nature of the failure) may still be an option.
Logic board failures are common, and replacements cheap (the cost of a new HD of the same model), data can be highly recoverable from soft failures. Mechanical failure is the worst case, but as long as the platter(s) is/are in tact, not insurmountable.
From his comments defending not visiting ER given a recent unrelated health issue: The hospital billed $11,000 for a cat scan; the insurance paid 6k.'
Seriously, if you need a an elective scan and it's going to cost you more than a couple of grand after insurance: take a vacation, fly first class, stay in a 5 star hotel, get seen privately in a first class facility, have a relaxing rejuvenating break, and come home with change. Cost of a full-body CT scan in Europe?: < $1000.[1]
[1] http://www.privatehealth.co.uk/private-healthcare-services/d... Other parts of Europe (and no doubt elsewhere outside the US) will be much cheaper still.
Call someone off this list and ask a professional what they think of these people selling Soylent: http://www.landfood.ubc.ca/directory/faculty/professors-and-....
Was it really necessary to post this, or a variation of it, five times?
You've got to hand it to her, the 'NSFW?' 'WFH!' image is near genius!
If a flamewar in the comments can be detected, why not demote the comment thread, rather than (or in addition to[1]) the article?
[1]In addition to because presumably the logic is that the article content is flame-bait.
Hardly insignificant.
Try travelling on a budget. A really really low budget. You'll have to bum lifts, work casual labour, sleep in less than luxurious places... If you aren't making meaningful human contact after a month on a starting budget of $100, then you probably never will.
"No one tried or needed to generate images with more than 256 colors since they could not be viewed on anything less than high priced graphics workstations."
Except that given this refers to the late 80's, Amigas had been displaying 4096 colors since the mid 80s. Not millions of colours until the early 90s but still a far cry from the 256 colours of the average PC.
(No, gif was not a native datatype, but the Amiga was remarkably ahead of its time with plug-able file formats.)
If we're waxing lyrical, there was a research paper out of Ireland from a small telecoms research outfit, circa 1996 describing pretty much this, but using teletext subtitles.
In addition to capturing and indexing the subtitles, it also captured the video, and so allowed the captions to be used as an index to the video.
I don't doubt someone can come up with an even earlier incarnation!