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One of the musical UI elements I always rant about (here we go...) is the global modular view, which is a way for a DAW to show you everything that's going on in your project. It should show the project's complete signal routing. This is particularly useful for electronic genres (as opposed to acoustic/instrumental genres, where the traditional rack-based paradigm is well adapted).

Here's an example:
http://www.lazytrap.com/img/cut_four_isolated.png

Every DAW has an internal graph of how everything is routed together: the waves you put on your timeline, every effect and synth, etc. I just want that graph to be exposed, visible, and freely modifiable.

The problem is that DAW makers and users seem very attached to interface elements that are somewhat incompatible with this paradigm: mostly the track mixer and "insert effects". This requires the DAW to manage the routing behind closed curtains and hide everything behind layers of abstraction that I consider unnecessary and often opaque.

There's a variety of weird tradeoffs that are made to get modularity while still having these traditional features, like per-track modular views (eg. presonus), modular views contained inside plugins (eg. bidule, reaktor). While these are nice in their own way, I find that nothing can replace a global, freely modular view. The bee's knees is when you can nest it arbitrarily like Reaktor does (as a plugin). If I want a mixer, I can place it myself in the modular view.

Does any DAW do this? So far I'm using Buzz, which pulls this off perfectly, but has its own limitations (no good pianoroll, no arbitrary timeline placement...). From my rather extended foray into the topic, I've found that Mulab seems to fit the bill, though I'm not sure. Some software like Max/MSP, PureData, and Usine are 100% centered on modularity, but they cheap out on the "timeline" aspect, which I find very important when I'm working with lots of samples and video.
Not to take away from your point (if anything, it underscores your position), but you do realize nobody needs to stick an RFID tag in most people's ears. Most people willingly carry a tracking device around. I'm using mine to write this comment.
> I don't have an analogy for Discover...

Maybe Blackberry or Windows Phone?

chuckle
I've been rocking the same combo (Amex Blue Cash Preferred + Chase Sapphire Reserve) for a while now and I still marvel at how they compliment one another for max rewards across Groceries/Gas + Travel/Dining. The only category I have left would be Amazon really but I still buy 500 dollar Amazon gift cards at supermarkets rather get the Amazon store card to get total rewards coverage for my needs.
Suppose that the system "learned" that marriage consisted of one man and one (or very rarely more) woman. Would that be "reality"? (In fact, I'd rather bet that it did, and I congratulate the authors on the wisdom of not advertising that fact.)

Various behavioral accidents can easily become embedded in culture, laws, and, yes, programs, at which point it stops mattering if they represent reality or "reality"; the real world will happily follow the cultural construction.
Amex also includes Delta, if you're on a Delta flight.
You may be interested in MDY Industries, LLC v. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.[1] (the WoW Glider case).

World of Warcraft's Terms of Use prohibited bots. The court found that users who used the Glider bot with WoW were violating the Terms of Use and therefore were not licensed to use WoW in that way. Because users running WoW must copy its content from their hard drives to RAM to run it, the court found that using Glider with WoW constituted copyright infringement.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDY_Industries,_LLC_v._Blizzar....
Might be an opportunity to make them into customers. A lot of these people are probably people they alienated with their last Mac Pro generation.
Or maybe it didn't?
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I love the idea of soundfx by aplay, this would be such a layering violation in any other fs, its delicious.
>Has Apple ever seen a single dime from the "Hackintosh community"?

My first three Mac systems as a poor student were Hackintoshes. Couldn't afford a real Macbook. The first one was a Dell Mini 9, which was a $200 netboook that could somehow run Snow Leopard flawlessly (with significant contributions from the community of course).

As a working professional, I have spent close to $10k on Apple hardware in the past two years. I've also helped them make quite a bit of money through their App Store cut.

I recently put together a dual-booting Windows 10/OSX system for usage at home, used for both gaming and development. I spent about $1200 on it, and I couldn't even get an equivalent desktop from Apple no matter how much I spent. My ceiling would have probably been around $3k.
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Also, cost of construction is very high, which makes driving up the price of an existing house much more desireable than building a new one.
> because I would have made much faster progress if something like stackoverflow had existed.

Kids these days have it easy! /s
submission title was already too long, Stanford University wouldn't fit, "Leland Stanford Junior University"[1] even less :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University
> How is that possible?

I paid just shy of $3k for tax prep last year. The package of information that I sent to the IRS was more than 50 pages of documentation. I joke with friends that you'd think I was an international oil baron but in my mind I'm a pretty regular person.

Judging from Patio11's writing I would guess that his situation is similar to mine (though he seems more confident in grocking IRS rules and doing his own accounting and taxation than me). Here are a few of the complicating factors that make me want to pay to make the problem go away instead of reading IRS documentation for literal weeks to learn how to do it properly:

* Income in two countries.

* Tax treaty between those two countries.

* RSUs from two companies.

* Options from one company.

* Difference between what stock events are taxable in the two countries.

* 401k and similar account in other country.

* Vanguard ETFs with some sells for loss harvesting purposes.

* Running a company into which I've put some personal cash.

I did my taxes myself using Turbo Tax for around $60/year for years. Until suddenly I didn't and started paying what seems like a lot of money. Once you leave W-2 land, things get complicated more quickly that seems reasonable.
Don't forget radioactive waste/byproducts. That will be around for a long time, and thinking about how future humans might interact with it is an interesting problem.

I wrote a little about it http://stochastication.com/2016/06/13/inverse-archaeology/
So they went to 'space' to play politics.

Do they even get the quote they are using?
Funny enough is that people were mocking the concept when it was being done in the 1960's by Hansen et al. Given what they produced, maybe the critics should've thought there might be some merit to the idea.

http://brinch-hansen.net/papers/

In "The invention of concurrent programming," Hansen writes: "...Alan Perlis noticed that Regnecentralen's compiler group discussed programming problems by writing Algol 60 statements on a blackboard. This was unusual at a time when systems programs were still being written in assembly language."

So, they thought it was weird they weren't just hammering out ASM instead of high-level code. Some call you "regressive" for using pen-and-paper instead of IDE's. The prior work improved the compiler group's effectiveness at getting code correct. If you're similarly benefiting, then keep it up. I'd only say change if it's hurting your productivity in a project or professional role where you want higher productivity. If it's just fun or not fast paced, have at it.
Then take away Forbes' safe harbor protection for hacking my computer with unauthorized exploits.
Most of the chase cards are branded visa and MasterCard credit cards
Another good resource for clearing technical whiteboarding tests.
"Thank you for purchasing Windows 11 Pro! We see that you visited BitTorrent recently. Unfortunately we will need to ask you to stop.

If you have any concerns, please speak with the Chicago Transit Police officers who are outside your home waiting to confiscate your machine."
As far as testing goes, there's no one correct answer. It depends on what your goals are (and they'll probably change over time). E.g. if you're rewriting all the code every other week unit tests won't help you much. And unit tests won't catch many bugs. On the other hand unit tests can be extremely useful if much of your code needs to be stable and consistent.

My current second-best explanation of how to choose testing based on goals is written up here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/03/26/why-how-test-softwar...

(My best explanation is currently a slide deck that will become the third version of that post.)
Whiteboard interviews. Just practice handwritten code on whiteboards on occasion, too, so muscle memory is there. :)
I agree with you. Apple does have the necessary skills to make a self-driving car. I did cringe at the 'build a vertical product' part because they have not been doing that lately.

I am looking forward to see what they come up with.
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I don't doubt it. They always treated me well on the phone, but when I needed them to actually fix a problem they fell on their face and thew up their hands like they were powerless. I ended up having to solve it myself which blew the whole point of using them. I may be an outlier.
That's exactly the mechanism of my error, although I seem to recall the amount in question was more like $125-150K of basis miscalculated. (I crisply recall that it was a $29K refund from the amendment.) That did represent multiple years of vested RSUs which I sold all in one year to make the downpayment on our house; some of them I had filed as short-term gains, others as long-term gains, all against a $0 basis.

(I wish I vested $300K of shares per year... ;) )
I'm hoping snapchat wins, its easy for FB with tons of money to just copy another company
Unfortunately this story is the start of the process for how patents get overturned...
The Amex platinum is metal now as well. Actually just ordered my replacement.
"...it is a universal truth that humans generally find plants pleasant..."

Ah, but those exceptions are really unpleasant.
Rules are for pussies.
They've gotten very clever about workarounds.

See: http://imgur.com/a/y4Lxz

Tried tar, gzip, even uuencode. Then taking "exe" out of the file name with the uuencoded version.

Edit: Shell archive works! apt-get install sharutils;shar file.exe > file.exe.shar
Facebook. From what I can tell, Google's negotiating strategy is to offer max(their initial offer, highest competing offer+10k). The only people I heard of them not doing that for were those getting absurd amounts of stock from Snap, pre-IPO (like $300k+ worth at estimated IPO price over four years).
Google doesn't seem to like stuff like this:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2017/01/05/adnauseam_expel...
Heres a question, I know a lot of companies are investing their time/money into working on self-driving cars.. but from what I see, a lot of the cars use the same sensor. LIDAR and cameras being the main sensors. Of course, we have already seen Tesla perform well with these sensors.

However, my question: Is/Was this industry only held back by sensing?

edit: Restructure paragraph

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if you develop for browsers, title can be: how to lose 60% of your user base to avoid one simple line.

if you are a node developer, title can be: something very banal you've been using for ages.
Oh wow. This is happening in Australia, but with no capital gains tax it must be worse in NZ.

I'm so sick of it. Houses should be for living in, goddamn it. Not for storing your cash out of reach of a corrupt government, as necessary a thing as that is.
Some guesses:

1) Cost of doing business

2) Relatively small market compared to other EU/Americas/Asia

3) Complex regulation

4) German data centers are good enough in terms of latency and regulation

5) Cost of local labor (French employment laws are costly to business and good for workers haha)
That was my thought while reading through it, but its basically just an algorithms textbook, which makes technical interviews seem even more daunting.
What twisted mind thought of this?!
I agree. Take a quick look at the value chain, and think about who is going to capture the bulk of the margin. Is it the company building thousands of pounds of commodity pig iron? Or is it the company providing the machine learning secret sauce? Or is it the company making must-have sensors. My bet is on the software and the sensors.

PC's of a couple of decades ago provide a parallel. Microsoft getting 10's of dollars of margin off every PC, Intel getting 10's or maybe 100+ dollars of margin off every PC, and motherboard makers with a gross margin of $3 per board. Much less the case makers....

The old line auto manufactures are building cases for the computers and software that are tomorrow's self-driving cars.
Surely their vehicle would be electric. Likely some occasional maintenance but you wouldn't be getting your oil changed.
Yet if it was subscription supported you can guarantee there would be people complaining about posting paywalled links. We need to get news somehow.

Leave it to the reader to judge any bias or otherwise - but a media source is less likely to have a firm stance either way than one of the parties to the lawsuit.
Yeah man, if only upvoting something could be measured against something other than raw count.
I am waiting to see what iMacs Apple announces. I'd rather pay a premium and buy a legitimate Mac, but, if they don't announce anything for a few more months, or if the specs disappoint, I might build a Hackintosh.
Sounds like they want to put them next to each other and simultaneously interact with both of them via multiple presses. Which, given the way desktop OSs often want to only have one app focused, is a valid question.

I just tested this on my Win10 tablet; I could indeed poke at the control panel app on one side of the split screen while manipulating Chrome on the other. I can't vouch for any other apps, or for running Win10 in 'desktop mode'.
Good thing California requires license plates on the front of vehicles. That way, if the bicyclist was hurt/killed, the video recorded by the self driving car would show your friend was the one liable.
Ha. I'd thought of those, but Discover is actually successful, even if they're niche. :)
If you end up in Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch you could be just in another big city anywhere in the world,

Calling Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch "big cities" - I could tell you were a kiwi before I even read the name!
I think you might be looking at it from the wrong angle. Some of the most morally bankrupt people I've ever met are crazy intelligent. You seem to equate being a sociopath with being a moron and that is more often than not a poor assumption.

The other aspect that I think you're overlooking is that people who are wired like this are often incredibly driven people. Sure, someone on /r/entrepreneur might be willing to give up everything to pursue their dream but a sociopath is willing to lie, cheat, and steal to get what they want.
Yeah. Forth was a lot more productive -- one floppy, single-pass compile-and-load, a REPL. Turbo C too a little later.
>Minimalism is about maximizing the value out of things you own while minimizing their impact on your life. This accomplishes neither.

That's largely a matter of personal taste.

>However, subscribing to an overpriced service that sends you clothing on a schedule is extremely wasteful.

High price doesn't necessarily imply wastefulness, unless you mean that you are wasting money? But that's a function of your earning potential, not only the item price.

It's only wasteful if you end up with too many pieces. If you know your t-shirts last 2 years on average, and you need 12 of them, they getting a new one every 2 months is no more wasteful than any other purchasing pattern that keeps you stocked.
It is. What they spend most of their time operating are the doors, though.
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Just FYI, this has already been done with emscripten a while ago, and it does work. See: http://pypyjs.org/
I'm pretty sure Paul Lutus, the author of Apple Writer ($$$), used to handwrite code from his cottage in Oregon and mail it to Apple to be implemented

If it worked for him then surely it could work for you ^.^
I don't think "being able to afford a comfortable house" should be considered some kind of luxury.
In the US, debit cards are ATM cards tied to a bank account that can also be used at a merchant; when the merchant charges the card, money is deducted directly from the bank account. Debit cards usually have no rewards or bonuses associated with them.

Credit cards, on the other hand, are connected to a revolving line of credit. When a merchant charges the card, the issuer is essentially loaning the amount of the charge to the cardholder. (With most credit cards, interest only starts accruing a month after the charge; so people who pay their credit card bills in full are not paying interest.)

In the US, credit cards were introduced as a convenient alternative to checks or cash before debit cards existed. Because of cultural momentum, rewards, and fraud protection, they are as widely used as debit cards, if not more so.
The trick is to not try to infer anything that is not there. The instructions are dumbed down to the point they actually are hard to understand. Just do literally what they say and don't think about whether it makes any sense.
You may have noticed that the biggest freakout was from Google.

The freakout wasn't due to the incident itself (although obviously everyone was unimpressed the leak happened), it was the fallout: the leaked data was archived in various caches. Google's indexes of the web are the biggest.
> I doubt Apple will ever launch its own car.

It's a large consumer market that's changing rapidly and ripe for disruption. Why would you doubt that Apple will enter it?
Wow that makes sense now. Vermont seems so like stepping back in time
Another interesting one is/was AudioGL (not AR but 3D):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-RCzeJQazA

https://www.audiogl.com/en/audiogl
Leland Stanford Junior University is the longform name of the Stanford in Palo Alto we all know.
Pure genius.
Reminds me of a cross between Zork Shell (not zsh):
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.folklore.compute...

And a game called "Virus!" on the Amiga in the early 1990's, which I haven't been able to track down.
The dongle is taking something that requires physical access and exposing it on a network, in this case with weak 8 digit pins. That implies a responsibility to be smart about it. I assume there's a microcontroller in front of the serial comms. That would be a good place to filter packets. These are fairly simple filters that probably only need to look at the first byte or two of a request to limit to OBD-II only, and only certain requests. That's not a crazy firewall, just simple microcontroller code.

But sure, car manufacturers should do something as well. OBD-II port is a misnomer. It's like calling an ethernet port a "WWW Port". It doesn't need to expose everything that it does. The manufacturers know these are being used by consumers. They can put a more open port somewhere else for mechanics.
Renoise has this kind of view, bigwig is working on this as well.
This book is being used for an optional undergrad algorithms course at University of Helsinki. We have programming competition style assignments: pass/fail tests on a server with time and memory limits. Really fun challenges (and hard!!). Nice to see the author getting some recognition at HN :)

You can find the course material and assignments from https://cses.fi/alon/ - however, it's all in Finnish.
I guess you never know with Apple but it just seems like a really crowded space for them to come into, especially if they insist on controlling the whole ecosystem like they do with their other products.

First of all, it's a high price tag for them to get top talent in the area. Waymo, Uber, Tesla, Ford (and a dozen other car companies), and who knows how many start ups are all vying for the same pool of engineers. Even if they get top talent, it's another story holding onto it. If you look at the LinkedIns (Anthony Levandowski, Jur van den Berg, Chris Thrun, all the founders of Otto and Argo AI), they change jobs every two years.

Their success I feel depends on how much control they are willing to give up in partnerships and how good they are at choosing winners in the race to autonomous vehicles. They already have $1B invested in Didi last year--it will be interesting to see where they go from here.
I unfortunately agree with you 100%. Theres too much money tied up in advertising for it to ever go away.

Google is the greatest conglomeration of Nobel worthy scientists and engineers in the last century. And their entire organization is built on advertising. After creating the best search engine and email system, they created the best web browser and most popular operating system in the world. All of this for the sole purpose of controlling the advertising platform, their raw intelligence is unquestionable.

Google's open source contributions are unmatched and this is just a small sample of the tech they keep hidden away. As much as I find myself in awe of google, I'm absolutely terrified of the ad laden future they're leading us towards with open arms. Ad blocking has one single insurmountable problem, Google, the smartest and most powerful company in the world.
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Well, looking at that one is about 'the Keating scandle' from the 1980s where 'Mccain was cleared' and the others were his anti-corruption statements.
Delta will pay you up to $10,000 to give up your seat
I used to live in a place where my rent -- for a nice apartment -- was about $1k/month. That's 12,000 points a year from putting rent on the card, and there are airlines where that's right around the lower bound of redeeming a flight.

If your rent is higher than that, of course, it becomes a better deal.
Ask HN: Book recommendations about how Erlang and OTP were developed?
I'm working through a book on functional web development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix (search that string and you'll find it) and I started thinking about how this language and "platform" had come about. I'd like to know more. Any recommendations?
you mean, like any fortune 500 company in the US?
Usually, you don't update and wait to see what people say and wait until things are supported and tested. That said, missing out on OS X updates isn't a big deal. In fact, a lot of people prefer staying in older versions until forced to.
A massive national park, the size of California, with only 5 million people

I'm sorry but that's an incredibly ignorant thing to say. NZ is not a massive national park. Take a brief glance at it on google maps. Most of it is light green - farmland.

We have about the same forest area % as Idaho. Or is that a massive national park as well?