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This is certainly odd considering how far we've come in embracing semantic markup and styling.

[0]: http://www.basscss.com/docs/utility-typography/

Several other reads for those looking to learn more about the situation or hear commentary:

Also from CJR: "What was the single point of failure at Rolling Stone? The authors of Columbia's investigative report answer that and more" - http://article.cjr.org/q_and_a/columbia_journalism_school_in...

"Statement from writer of Rolling Stone rape article, Sabrina Erdely" (also includes statement from UVA President Teresa A. Sullivan) - http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/business/media/statement-f...

"The journalism community reacts to the review of 'A Rape On Campus' " -http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/332683/the-journalism-...

The licensing would be every bit as justified if the gear were cheap. This is how he makes his living, he's under no obligation to give it to anyone for free.

This was posted almost a year ago and enjoyed a decent conversation in the comments [0]

I'll repeat my comment from the time:

"For what it's worth, the presence of seemingly significant signal in the difference between the original and compressed tracks does not necessarily mean that significant sonic/perceptual loss has occurred. Operating correctly, the encoder is designed to cut not just sounds that the human ear cannot hear in general (e.g. sounds above 22kHZ) but also sounds which may not be perceptible in context (e.g. the quietest signals in a loud section). So if you find something beautiful about the ghost tracks (and I think there is something beautiful to find), don't immediately jump to concluding that mp3 is awful for cutting these sounds—they might be hardly perceptible when added to the mix.

Of course, at high-compression rates mp3 does begin to significantly degrade fidelity.

Edit: all of this is not to put down the project—I still think it's pretty cool as art and as a demonstration of the encoder, I just didn't want people to think that this was some sort of massive failing of mp3."

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7955917

Glass actually offloads most of the work to your phone, rather than fitting all that hardware inside the frame.

Edit: I missed this: "Plus, Echo is Bluetooth-enabled so you can stream your favorite music services like Spotify, iTunes, and Pandora from your phone or tablet," which obsoletes some of the below. The point on monophonic audio still stands.

Out of curiosity, are you already embedded in the amazon cloud music ecosystem? I'm one of those luddites who still has a library of mp3s—I don't want to have to figure out what I can or can't get on some compatible streaming service here. That would be a lovely feature—if it had an aux-in port or bluetooth compatibility so I could still use it as a dumb speaker. Smart TV's still have inputs, e.g.

Additionally, if I'm not mistaken, it's monophone? Dual-driver, but only one "360-degree" channel of some sort?

Certainly ties into the discussion about google making two of everything [0]. It's not clear how this product is meant to co-exist naturally with gmail.

[0]: http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/10/googles-product-stra...

I'm a fan of xiph but hadn't seen these two before, thanks for the heads up.

Hey, as I mentioned in my response to klodolph, I used 128 CBR because I knew it would likely not be transparent and wanted to demonstrate false positives, hits, misses, correct recognitions, etc. I wasn't trying to make some authoritative critique of MP3 just because it's low settings are indeed low quality.

Hey, thanks for the feedback! Some of your criticisms point out things which exist mainly because the piece was originally written for a class assignment. e.g. Digital audio was not covered in the course, so I added some information in order to better provide background for the detection theory stuff, which was in the class (and also to make the article more self-contained for the reader unfamiliar with that material). Naturally there is nothing groundbreaking in that summary, but I thought I did a decent job of helping the reader with the legwork of understanding the principles. Additionally, the references are in APA format which was required for the class but, as you point out, is not ideal for the web. I will likely tweak the web version when I have a chance so it's a little more easily navigable.

The fact that the residual spectrum is uninteresting I totally acknowledge; that was admittedly an afterthought. I'm going to check out your hydrogenaudio link for details on how to better that section/figure.

As far as the fact that I only used MP3—that was kind of the point. I wanted to pick a seemingly low-hanging fruit so that I would have some nontrivial results to work with (i.e., cases where I could hear the difference). If I'd used high bitrate AAC and it was entirely transparent for my ears 100% of the time, I wouldn't be able to do much talk about false positives and hits and misses—talk which was ultimately the meat of the assignment, and thus of the article. The goal was, as I say in the "nota bene" at the top, not to say "Hey, look how unreliable MP3 128 is at being transparent," but rather to use MP3 128 to demonstrate the concepts of transparency and compression perceptibility.

As far as converting MP3 back to a WAV for ABX playback, I hadn't heard of that but I have to think that it would have made little to no effect for my test. I have a solid state hard drive so had no disk noise, and I did not hear the cpu fan on for either type of playback. It is something I'll consider for the future.

Again, I appreciate your feedback and thanks for taking the time to comment!

I'm not the author, but it seems like you're certainly right. Here's an example from the wiki page about how a single-pixel camera utilized notions of compressed sensing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_sensing#Photography

I guess applying compressed sensing techniques would mean making assumptions about your image which allow you to fill in some of the blanks created by the incomplete angle and position coverage (i.e. the fact that the system is underdetermined). If you could somehow assume a certain redundancy, you could probably make guesses about what goes in the spots that didn't get well-covered.

Minor correction: on Chrome you can still get to the page if the browser doesn't trust the CA, the option is just hidden.

That used to exist! And it was even called unbaby.me for a while, then it was called Rather, but now it's gone :(

https://twitter.com/GetRather

The Nobel Prize in Literature always has been and likely always will be a controversial category. No doubt any book-lover can name a handful of authors that ostensibly deserve the honor, but there are a lot of great authors and only one Nobel Prize per year! For what it's worth, Pynchon is notoriously reclusive and not the kind of person who's likely waiting for the spotlight that the Swedish Academy would be shining. As things stand, the film adaptation of Inherent Vice seems to bring promise of greater attention to his work that it has received in a while now.

We don't currently have ebooks available for our Modiano titles unfortunately, though reprints are already being scheduled so it's possible ebooks might be a part of that. I can't personally make any promises. Edit: The office is very much aware of the interest in an ebook edition!

A heads up that Honeymoon, Missing Person, and Catherine Certitude (a children's book) by Modiano are all available from David R. Godine, Publisher, for those looking for English translation. [0] To the best of my knowledge, English translations of Modiano are actually shamefully rare and these might be the only available editions at the moment.

Disclosure: I'm an intern at Godine.

[0]: http://www.godine.com/search.asp?search=modiano

Thought this came out pretty well:

http://maxbittker.github.io/Mojulo/#cip0aW1lKih0aW1lKnNpbih4...

Speeding it up (increase the first "time" to "time^9") you can see that it eventually "heats up" all the way to black, but it's a nice journey.

Edit: also this one has a nice strobe. You can strobe any pattern you make by replacing a time with some variant of B*sin(time/C) where B and C are appropriately chosen coefficients.

https://maxbittker.github.io/Mojulo/#MTAwKnNpbih0aW1lLzEwKSp...

The site is also mentioned in a good episode of the design podcast 99% Invisible.

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-23-you-are-lis...

Will do right now.

Is there support for alternate math fonts (not sure what the proper term is) like \mathbf, \mathcal, \mathbb? Couldn't get it working. Looks fantastic though.

Came here to post the same link. English adjective order is one of those things that we're never taught as speakers of English as a first language, but I'd imagine it's taught to those learning it as a second language.

See the recent redesign for USPS

http://grand-army.com/work/projects/project.php?project=usps...

Pinboard is one of a few services I happily pay for. Honestly, I'd probably pay a subscription price for it. I've got 1041 bookmarks, it's fast, searches and tags flawlessly, the unread functionality is super useful, and I've got some (unofficial?) android app that makes it a snap to use with my phone. Keep up the great work.

For what it's worth, the presence of seemingly significant signal in the difference between the original and compressed tracks does not necessarily mean that significant sonic/perceptual loss has occurred. Operating correctly, the encoder is designed to cut not just sounds that the human ear cannot hear in general (e.g. sounds above 22kHZ) but also sounds which may not be perceptible in context (e.g. the quietest signals in a loud section). So if you find something beautiful about the ghost tracks (and I think there is something beautiful to find), don't immediately jump to concluding that mp3 is awful for cutting these sounds—they might be hardly perceptible when added to the mix.

Of course, at high-compression rates mp3 does begin to significantly degrade fidelity.

Edit: all of this is not to put down the project—I still think it's pretty cool as art and as a demonstration of the encoder, I just didn't want people to think that this was some sort of massive failing of mp3.

First I'm ever seeing this. This looks awesome, thank you. I also love Texts: http://texts.io/

For those who don't know, Paul Lamere, the author, is a really cool guy that works over at The Echo Nest (recently acquired by Spotify). I had the pleasure of meeting him and chatting with him a few times last summer while I was interning there and he's basically a music+tech genius. Lots of the echo nests coolest api demos are all his doing. I'd link to stuff but I'm on my phone, but definitely browse through his blog. If this is your area of interest, Paul is the guy to read.

edit: on my comp now, so I can add this link to some cool EN API demos, many of which are Paul's if I recall correctly: http://static.echonest.com/labs/demo.html

I would contribute to this, both in terms of donating to see this happen but also to the content and/or the community. Silly as it sounds, my least favorite thing about HN is the startup content---i don't care about agile this or lean that or pivoting or whatever, I'm interested in people "hacking" on passion projects, making cool tools, and breaking stuff.

I made my own resume in LaTeX from scratch. I realized that no one else's template could fit my needs/wants just right.

http://danturkel.com/resume.pdf

So is the schema for these branded tlds supposed to change from our current name.tld/page/subpage.html to page.name/subpage.html? That strikes me as a huge waste of time setting up subdomains for what are effectively just pages.

Frank Howarth does awesome woodworking projects and makes incredible videos showing how he makes them. Usually the videos are narrated with an explanation of the process, but sometimes he does them in a stop-motion style where you never see him at all, so the projects just build themselves: https://www.youtube.com/user/urbanTrash