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What do you listen to when you´re not programming?
What do you listen to when you´re not programming?

There are some threads about what you listen to when you´re programming, so I thought that it might be fun to find out what
you like when your not programming, or when your programming. :-)

I love all kind of music but lately Ive been really into German music.

My favorite band at the moment is Tetragon
http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/tetragon
The record Nature is awesome, and the first track Fugue is epic.

Hendrik Schaper (mainly organ and piano) and Rolf Rettberg(bass) where in a band together before Tetragon named Trikolon that released a live session from 1969 named Cluster where they play an early version of Fugue without guitar. Also good stuff.

Other German music I also like is Kraftwerk.
If you really listen to the music and think about what year the old stuff was recorded in, its pretty cool.
Don't forget Tone Float from when they were named Organisation. Florian Schneider plays some cool flute. :-)

Some other good German stuff

Can: http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/trikolon#/search?searchterm=Can&searchtype=a

Ton Steine Scherben: http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/ton_steine_scherben

I have begun looking into Jazz lately and mainly from 59 :-)
From that year i like;

Charles Mingus - Ah Um : http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/charles_mingus/mingus_ah_um/

Ornette Coleman - A Shape Of Jazz To Come : http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/ornette_coleman/the_shape_of_jazz_to_come/

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out : http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/dave_brubeck_quartet/time_out/

Basically just look at top albums for 1959 and you get some real cool stuff.
http://rateyourmusic.com/customchart?page=1&chart_type=top&type=album&year=1959&genre_include=1&genres=&include=both&origin_countries=&limit=none&countries=

I'm looking for more, how should i put it, esoteric jazz, so if you know some please share!

"Crazy"-Genre music I would recommend is

Venetian Snares (Winter in the Belly of a Snake and Hospitality are really nice!) : http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/venetian_snares

Hans Appelqvist (Swedish guy who makes, hmm, avante garde pop): http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/hans_appelqvist

Mit Nye Band: http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/mit_nye_band

Wyo Stars: http://www.myspace.com/badband69 (if you talk to the record store Rundgång, dennis@rundgong.se, I bet they can send you a copy of their record, its really good :-D)

Oh I could go on all night, haha.
Because graphics designers usually are not the target audience. Usability testing outside of a clique isn't always a bad idea.
Ask HN: Do you want your credit card purchases in a daily email digest?
I'm considering creating an app which lets you get your credit card transactions in an RSS feed or daily email digest. What do you think?
Tons of people are getting things done everyday around the world. Zed happens to be part of the subset who are promoting themselves agressively on the web. Not that I think that self-promotion is bad. But it's important to recognize the distinction between promotion and productivity.
Photo Gallery: San Francisco's new Earthquake-Resistant Bridge
"Ironworkers repairing the bridge in 1989 secretly welded a troll onto the bridge as a good luck charm"
you can use HTTP Basic Auth over HTTPS. In any case, HTTPS will be a must, if you are worried about security.

What is wrong with using a username, and a password over HTTPS?
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1561273
Re-suggest.el - a simple regexp-based command suggestion minor mode for emacs
Yes, the conflation of skepticism about UFOs with the general art of figuring out what's true and achieving your goals is part of the problem I'd like to address here.
FWIW, I didn't go into how my system works but it's just a nanoc powered site rendering to plain HTML from Markdown files. No serious structure.
It's 100% about the culture (for lack of a less buzzy term) of the organization you're going into.

If you'll be working on exciting projects and the people there love what they do, it will be wonderful. That is how my first 'talent acquisition' went.

If, however, they are working on boring projects and are acquiring you to 'inject some life' into their organization, run away.
> The goal of the event is to get a commitment from Investors within 30 minutes after the startup pitches.

This sounds like a typical time-share "information session" to me. Why the pressure?
Hmmm... that doesn't sound like tribalism, that sounds like Canonical has a strong product vision and strong internal engineering culture.
http://openappmkt.pbworks.com/
This free book is a good start:

http://building-iphone-apps.labs.oreilly.com/
The article refers to the original from Forbes, which was submitted here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1560072
While a respectable career, its not that remarkably long. A-10 for example was operational in late 70's and it's still in service. On the other hand Tomcats successor F/A-18 Hornet was already introduced in mid-80's. Compare that to F-15 Eagle, which was also introduced in late 70's and its successor, F-22 Raptor, introduced in 2005. And the Eagle is supposed to last to at least 2025, according to Wikipedia.

Throwing expensive toys away if they work is bit silly, that's why phasing operational stuff out takes so long. Especially if you account for the need to retrain all your people, not just the pilots, but service crew as well.
This was an interesting link in this article http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/31/business/31collect.html?_r.... You can buy $1,000,000 in debt for $18k for example. Sounds interesting.
You also should recognize that whether you like it or not tribalism is part of everyone. There always exists the temptation, especially when under pressure or in a crisis, to revert to a tribalist mode of thinking. Tribalism no doubt had adaptive advantages in our past in terms of group cohesion, but it can also be one of the most destructive forces.
Ask HN: Website Proofreading Service
Can anyone recommend a website proofreading service based on a personal experience?

I have a project in beta and I need someone to go through all pages on the website and check spelling and grammar. What I'd like to avoid is needing to scrape pages into a Word document and having it processed instead of the actual website (which appears to be a typical requirement).

Also, since there is a ton and half of services of this kind, a personal recommendation from someone who successfully used one of them would be of the greatest help.

Thanks
Let's face it - it's not the language that is the problem. It would help you, but it would help you only with some percentage of the problems out there.

For example - there does not exist a practical language (or design) where you can implement the LZ compression (ZLIB, others) in parallel, so that it gives the same results as the sequential "c" version.

It's just that certain algorithms, hence protocols, data structures, standards are not suited for parallel processing that well.

Okay, in the first case, maybe you can split the incoming data by 128kb and process each other individually ... but that's not the same - you can't reuse the LZ window.

Really the problem is the 13 dwarfs that university folks have identified - 13 stereotypical problems that relate to 99% of what's being done with a programming language - some of the dwarfs are just speedy parallel gnomes, some of them are old slow stubborn, like Gimli from LOTR.

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-18...
A polarizing article not meant to entertain or educate, but to gain traffic from those searching for 'smart and rich'. If the story were true, I’d feel sorry for him; creating an ideology based on the corner of a puzzle piece makes you horse-headed and ultimately miserable.

Fortunately, it’s not, and he has successfully brought attention to his personal site, which, because of the content, is pleasantly ironic. My left-handed compliments to the chef.
Here is the original article by Drew Conway:

http://www.drewconway.com/zia/?p=2226
What I really want to know is how they got those IP addresses and how did they identify the persons involved? Besides, couldn't you argue as your defense that even if that was your IP that you did not downloaded those movies and that somebody probably hacked your wireless modem. Since they are the ones suing the burden of proof is on them right?
Ask HN: I got my identity stolen
Yup and the worst part is that it wasn't by any nigerian but by a psyco family member. I know she at least started one account in my name, whats the best (preferably free) way to check what the heck else is going on with my credit?

Thanks!!

-d
love it! but i dont know how you would make money, maybe make a deal or sell it to visa? I wouldnt pay for it, but I like it as a feature.
I'm not convinced by your example, either ;-)

Let's take your example:

("some text")

"cib" will leave you with:

()

no matter where your cursor is (inside the parentheses), and no matter how many words are there. No visual feedback is needed, since you know what the command is going to do. Can your C-w do the same? I don't think so.

This is much ado about nothing, however. Plugins to get Vim-like commands in IDEs do exist. So what? The power of advanced text editors comes from this: they don't do too much, and talk to other tools, and you can compose them in a modular way. Talk about knowledge reuse. IDEs are monoliths, and refuse to talk to outside world... the opposite of modular design. Isn't that ironic? Where is your IDE when you need to edit a blog post? Or when you need to do a big text munging? Your editor will be with you wherever there is text.
Absolutely agreed - speculators make the market more efficient. But why is it that this is the only half of the equation included in the chapter? All the negative impacts of speculators are left out of chapter one, the rest of the book, and the next twenty more advanced texts?

For such a clever & informed group, finance types like to quantify their positive contributions and qualitatively dismiss their negative contributions ("there are -some-inefficiencies when...")

We lose a lot of peak potential value when we depress high finance's ability to leverage and exploit markets, but we also shave off the deepest parts of the trough we inevitably fall into when the "markets" swing back the other way.

History suggests we shouldn't consider the boom-bust cycle as part of our inevitable march forward; sometimes, you bust big enough and you reach your day of reckoning. Why is it a given that this cycle needs to be so dramatic?
Emacs-fu: some handy key bindings
Fave (relevant) quote:

"The best way to do something ‘lean’ is to gather a tight group of people, give them very little money, and very little time."
Yep. That's true, but not because the exchanges are altruistic - but because the exchanges are trying to compete against each other for the greatest volume.

BATS is the latest new-comer to the game and it attracts volume to its exchange by attracting HFT firms who have the highest trade volume with rebates. In fact a lot of these firms don't even try to make money anymore, as long as you have a strategy that breaks even and you collect rebates and trade enough volume. You make a profit.

The definition of liquidity becomes pretty fuzzy here when you have HFT take away liquidity from one market center to offer it to the next depending on how various rebate structure will make them the most money; and exchanges themselves in collusion to pump up their trade volume.
The ‘Great Recession’ Earns Its Title
"Here, I made a layout for you." On the other hand, we don’t want you to do our work for us.

Too bad. Here's a layout. Make it work.

asking for a “ballpark figure” before giving details just makes you look like a beginner

Boo hoo. Now give me ballpark figure.

How much time do you need? It takes a lot of thought, back-and-forth, and revisions, all of which take time.

Yes, it's a common practice in Fantasyland to afford content creators all the time they desire to go off into the forest and think about fonts and palettes ... no, please take all the time you need, and tell me what it costs after you're done taking three weeks to decide what the exact border radius for my site should be to convey just the right sense of whimsical Gestalt but not too pretensious, and don't even bother giving me an estimate, and please tell me how to run my business while you're at it too.
Here's a photoset of us using a QB at work a few months ago: http://www.flickr.com/photos/elasticdog/sets/721576238573723...

I'd say the user interface needs some work, but the hardware is great and it was really fun to see people's reactions around the office! (the mustache was my idea)
As an entrepreneur in Toronto I can say that this is sorely needed. I do echo the question by someone else why there is pressure to make a decision so soon.

Wouldn't that be like speed-dating except you have to marry the person you just met?
This is a semantic argument that boils down to the question of whether Apple is happy to have a vibrant marketplace of HTML5 applications or whether it sees those applications as a threat to its tightly-controlled app store. If HTML apps are a threat, they are indeed "routing around" an obstacle set up by Apple.

But there's no evidence at all that Apple sees HTML applications as a threat; Jobs himself has repeatedly promoted them as a means of delivering cross-platform apps, or apps that aren't appropriate for his app store. Apple as a company promotes its adoption of HTML5 and showcases features in HTML that provide app-like experiences.

I just don't see a lot of controversy here.
I haven't used it, but I've heard that Windows Home Server is actually pretty good. Not particularly well publicized, though.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowsh...
I just got on the #reddit channel @ irc.freenode.net the other day and learnt quite a bit (about profits in the medical marijuana industry) by just hanging out there. I actually got on IRC to see if there really was anyone who still used IRC.
I suspect you're right, especially about the pollution. When landing in a plane into Brussels (in particular) the brown blanket is quite obvious. Not so much when you're on the ground, though you're right in that the sky never seems quite as blue (though I'm willing to accept a certain amount of home bias there).
When I use textmate I get spell checking even when I am coding.
And the Douglas DC-4 was introduced in the 1930s and there are still a few flying around!
We're working from the same definition of "technical": that of market microstructure. I'm questioning whether Krugman, who hasn't made that his specialty, is really someone you'd want to hear expound on it.

Maybe Robin Hanson (on the very technical side) or Robert Shiller (on the very academic side) might be better sources.

You can, by the way, get a pretty good intro to high-level market concepts (particularly, what concerns motivate them) by listening to the free lecture courseware from Shiller's markets class. And I have to chime in to every discussion about how markets work to promote "Trading & Exchanges" by Harris, which is just an awesome, awesome book, and which you can get on Kindle as well.
Hell yes. If you don't use IRC you're missing out.

I hang out wherever I'm learning stuff (#clojure atm), and keep logs of many channels so I can search them later.
You must be flamebaiting, as others have indicated. While it is undoubtedly true that Java, C++ and the like are favoured on a wide basis, you entered the lion's den by coming here to attack Clojure. HN is one of the rare spots where you are going to see devotees to more obscure languages like that.
The preceding sentence is:

"What ZeroMQ ends up being is ”sockets the way programmers think sockets work.” Programmers usually hear about TCP or UDP sockets and they think in a naive way that they work like this:
"

Which makes me think you're talking about TCP or UDP sockets outside of 0MQ.

There's also some tightening you could do in your opening paragraph about why Mongrel 2 is awesome. How about this for an intro:

Mongrel 2 is awesome for the following reasons:

* It can serve both traditional web apps and realtime push-style apps, where the server sends stuff to the clients when you need - great for making chat apps (there's one included in the sample code), stock sites that sends updated pricing to browsers, live blogging updates about news events as they happen or anything else you can think of.

* You can make Mongrel apps in your preferred language - PHP, Ruby, Python, C++ now, more soon. You can even configure it in that language.'

You say all these things now, but you're currently using too many words. Make it tighter.
I have one in Atlanta and another in Fremont, both working perfectly. Dashboard is fine too.
Good point. If I use HTTPS then things are easy.
Exactly. It has serious utility.
Facebook Privacy Has Published And How To Protect Your Privacy
The comments question the authors motives. Apparently the guy sells turmeric pills.
As a remote employee, this looks amazing. I can't count the number of times I've been involved in company meetings where the presenter has forgotten to pass around his presentation or start a web conference. I can't even count the number of times I've had to ask people to repeat themselves due to bad connectivity and lack of visual clues. Having my own QB to keep in the office would be great. I don't think I can get my boss to drop $15k on one, though.
Yes, a criticism of liberals, the media, and the NAACP, that hinges on doctoring a video to make an innocent woman look like a racist.

The dude she was allegedly being racist to, white farmer, actually went on a bunch of media shows to say how great she was and how she helped them in their time of need. Darn white-hating liberals.
Writing you a snarky reply about your misuse of "their" and "there" and erasing it was somewhat cathartic. But not enough, so I had to write this. Please make sure that you can use some of the most basic building blocks of your native language.
I usually drift between the Soma.fm offerings. Secret Agent and Groove Salad are my favorites, with some Covers and Lush thrown in. Also, when I can't find anything, I resort to David Byrne's radio - that always surprises me - or Luxuria Music (where there's always something weird)
Usability testing on anything that is just design and not done yes is always a bad idea.

Designers are trained for designing for other people. So unless you are only hiring shitty designers then I would say usability testing isn't bringing you any value what so ever.

You are welcome to prove me wrong, but you will be hard pressed to find any evidence.
Some footage of the last few seconds of the flight is on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY3tsYoLopQ
Freenode is excellent.
As far as channels, these are the ones that I particularly like:

##programming
##compsci (a bit quiet of a channel)
#emacs
#haskell
That is because you see it as semantic, when it is clearly more then semantic.

Apple owns the means of distribution, and get's to determine the rules.

Past just owning the means of distribution, they have an almost absolute lock on "mind share". This isn't all Apple's doing, clearly there are market forces at work.

HTML5 Apps, all by them selves, aren't what is so awesome about OpenAppMkt. It's that they are trying to circumnavigate the distribution channel.

Think, what if every day consumers could grasp the idea of two app stores. Then Apple would perk up, because the other App store could market its self on being more open.

I am not saying that this is how it will go down, or even if it's possible, but the only way to figure it out is to try, and OpenAppMkt is doing that.
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1890
It's only an undergraduate subject. Python is way off limits.

Thanks for all of the suggestions guys! This has really helped a lot.
Few people are able to blog and then _not_ worry about who's reading it and who isn't, why there aren't any comments or there are some hostile/stupid ones, etc. etc. This can become a major source of distraction, and for some, obsession.
Hi
I am the designer of this circuit ( http://www.hanssummers.com/qrsskit ) and can answer that question. I've just seen the thread on this.

There are various possible "modes" in QRSS and certainly plain on/off keying as you suggest, which is in fact just very slow morse code, is one of them.

The mode I am transmitting here can be known as FSK/CW. CW (Morse Code) in a Frequency Shift Keyed (FSK) way. As you say, the top level is the "key down" ordinary morse code.

The reason for this is NOT just an artefact of the circuit design! The circuit is designed this way for a reason! I could just have easily designed it such that it keyed the signal on and off, like real morse code but much slower.

There are several reasons why FSK/CW is more suitable than plain on/off keying. 1) and 2) below are the most important.

1) Readability: Many kinds of interfering signals on the band are just a plain carrier. It might be some mixing product coming out of your computer monitor, or a harmonic signal of some oscillator in your neighbour's TV, or plain carrier transmissions from great distances. A weak carrier, drifting in and out of visibility, can look VERY much like a weak on/off keyed CW signal in QRSS. Experience of QRSS experimenters has shown that it is much easier to read the "squarewave" FSK/CW style transmission. It appears to be more resilient to interference and weak signal propagation conditions.

2) Chirp. This is a temporary shift in frequency which occurs on key down, in an on/off keyed CW transmitter. That makes the end result much harder to read, less resilient to interference, and just plain ugly. See some examples at http://www.hanssummers.com/qrss/qrssqrv.html . This "chirp" can be very hard to get rid of in such simple circuits. It may only be a few Hz of frequency shift but it is very ugly and visible on QRSS transmissions. Having the transmission continuously ON and just shifting its frequency slightly, avoids the chirp problem.

3) Drift: as the oscillator components and crystal heat up, the frequency can drift a few 10's of Hz. On key down, components will be transmitting some hundred or so milliwatts of power and can slightly warm up, changing the frequency ever so slightly but visibly. Again, a problem that is not so easy to resolve in such a simple circuit. Keeping the transmission permanently ON solves that problem too as once the steady state thermal equilibrium is reached, everything stays there.

I hope this helps to explain it - you can read more about my QRSS experiments at my web page http://www.hanssummers.com and let me know if you have any more questions

Hans
http://www.hanssummers.com
But does it check the grammar and style, this wonder tool of yours? :)
How many pages? How many words? Shoot me an email ...
My main credit card offers daily balance summary emails (I use the weekly option). It's a good feature. Yes, if they gave me an option to look at my transactions through RSS I would be interested.

My concern about a third-party app is how the authentication would work and the usual security concerns.
I suggested having a "Compose" button instead of a link in 2004. I noticed no one, including myself, was looking for a link when they wanted to write a new email because the other active Gmail actions like "Search" and "Delete" all had buttons.
Ditto. If it's not huge I'll do it gratis. Oh and IAAL. (I am a Librarian).
Any gmail guys out there? Something I desperately, desperately want is this:

I use one gmail account with several email addresses. I want the ability to specify that certain people should be associated with certain addresses. I.e. rivet-dev@tcl.apache.org gets associated with my Apache address. Clients get associated with my @dedasys.com address. Family with @welton.it, and so on and so forth. I hate it when I accidentally send something from @gmail.com to clients.
Here's a few more phrases:

"Here's 50% up front."

"I'll pay upon delivery."

"Let's set up a retainer."

These phrases get ya top priority. Fast.