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If interfaces like reason's and ultrabeat's were the best UI possible for music software, then the interface for Final Cut Pro would be a rack of virtual VCRs and assorted machines, maybe even a bench for cutting and taping virtual pieces of film together.

When all you're doing is copying the physical device experience, it's the laziest UI design you can possibly make, completely ignoring the medium you're working with. Sure it works, just as well as the physical machines with a hundred buttons and knobs do, but it doesn't make use of all the possibilities a computer can offer. The best and the worst of the physical experience has been ported.

To me this is the same as emulating a rotary dial as a mobile phone's only means of dialing a number. It only sounds ridiculous because we all know the more efficient alternative. I think a lot of music software has yet to find the UI breakthrough it needs. Whenever that happens and a new standard of music software UI makes better use of the computer as medium, people will look back at UIs like reason's and find it very misguided.

That doesn't mean the answer to all UI issues is to go minimalistic like the article suggests, but I think real-life device mimicking is generally a sign of lack of UI/usability hard work. It's always the easier solution to copy the existing rather than think hard on a better solution nobody's done before.
Not only is there some utility in skeuomorphs (to borrow another poster's reference), but they also excite the imagination. I've heard the opposite critique of iOS widgets, that their flaw is mimicking machine-panels rather than something else, more fantastic. That is part of the appeal of Windows Phone 7: that it looks like the panel of some device a bit further in the future.

As a friend says, "realism is the last refuge of a dwindling imagination".
If you say so. Enron was almost 10 years ago. Discounts were happening last year. The Big 4 make their money from audit and financial work, not IT consulting.
Well, most of the USA will be using coal powered energy as well, as most USA energy is coal powered. Same goes for Australia, which is even higher percentage coal power.

As for free land - many large plants have been setup in the USA with essentially free land, and essentially free capital. Not all, mind you, and not all in China would be the same. But then business in China has high costs in other areas, such as bribery and corruption.

In the end, it mostly comes down to labour costs (and availability) when you're doing a labour intensive manufacturing process. The other thing that is being lost is even the ability to compete based on knowledge. Running factories takes time, expertise and experience. New factories aren't opening, people aren't learning how to run them. It's the trend that worries me, over the raw numbers.
One problem you might face is that there are already more than a few wikis for this. For the last few experiments I've run, I used sites like these.

That said, you could easily distinguish yourselves. A website that could recalculate concentrations, etc. based on your setup would be neat. To make it even more accessible to newcomers, you should try to one day host a collection of "open" review articles.

If I weren't so bogged down I'd love to work on something like this. Good luck!
Yeah this is really obvious now. When I wrote that, I didn't make the mental comparison to PGP or similar; obviously that provides actual cryptography with essentially the same information-exchange workflow.

Nothing educates like brainstorming in public and being shot down by experts, thanks :)
(We are, for the record, not one of those kinds of firms.)
I m also interested in the same kind of career (spent the past 3 years in S.E Asia doing startup) so let me know when you make enough money&have nothing stopping you:)
Seems like a false comparison:

1973->2011 = 38years

1900->1973 = 73years

Although it does make me aware of an interesting question. Obviously I'd rather be rich last year over middle class this year. How about five years ago? Ten? A hundred?

As fun as questions like this are, we don't get to make that choice. Might as well just focus on getting rich now :-/
The same iPad 2 may work with both GSM and CDMA networks
> which is why the West prospers and other cultures do not

I think you're forgetting Korea, Japan, Taiwan and several middle East countries. Even China isn't doing too bad, recently. And isn't western-style democracy much closer to economic Darwinism than eg. socialism?
The codepath for right-click and control-click is the same unless you go pretty far out of your way to discriminate — that's why both methods of opening the contextual menu work.
Minimal.js: HTML+JSON template engine
The headline makes it sound like he had an illegitimate child!
Ask HN: How are taxes/deductions in the Valley?
I'm going to be moving to the Palo Alto/Mountain View area in May to start an internship. I'll be making close to $15/hour and I'm wondering how much of that will be deducted for taxes or other reasons? Also, in Canada (I'm from Toronto) there are TD1 tax forms that students who are still in school and paying tuition can fill out to lessen their tax deductions. Is there anything similar in California?

Any help is appreciated! I've never been to California and I can't wait to move out there. Also, does anyone have advice on finding a cheap place to live for one person in the Palo Alto/Mountain View area?
> Anonymous, despite it's origins, is a political movement centered around the cause of internet freedom. That's not a matter of fun and games, and I support Anonymous because of that.

What about Anonymous' attack on Gene Simmons, for expressing an opinion they did not agree with? Or is your notion of internet freedom that only people who have the right opinions get to speak?
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We would also love to know what other features you would like to see next!
Now, this kind of severe chromatosis is particularly widespread in music-making applications, perhaps hoping to assuage the gear-nostalgia of composers who once had actual knobs and buttons to play with but now are reduced to pretending to operate pretend knobs and buttons on a screen. That's the only reason I can think of for this, a kind of glorious reductio ad absurdum of rampant chromiology, in Reason:

Actually, I know the designers of Reason. That product was extremely successful because it presented users with an interface that they already found familiar (dangling patch cables plugged into input/output panels on audio gear) whereas most competitors were presenting and interface they did not find familiar (signal routing as electronic schematics).

There are far more powerful programs than Reason for making music. But apart from Ableton Live (more modern, but until recently with much less control over signal routing), they are considerably harder to use and have a much steeper learning curve. I have 20 or 30 software packages like this (I used to work in this industry) and while many of them allow open-ended schematics instead of imposing this 'chrome' metaphor on the user, the downside of this is that reading other people's schematics or learning to organize one's own is difficult. A Reason schematic is easy to read quickly because you know where everything is, a lot of the choices have been made for you and you can focus on what's distinctive about it instead of spending the first few minutes trying to parse the graph.

At music biz trade shows, the probability that a vendor will speak of Reason dismissively as a 'toy' is inversely related to the quality of the UI on their soft/hardware. In an extreme case the 'software UI' turned out to be an IDE in which you could write Motorola 56k assembler. A year after the firm went bust the lead designer still claimed to be perplexed about why the music-making public had failed to embrace the product.
Bad support is one huge issue for sure. Consumerist says they do not outsource tech support. Maybe they should.

Has anyone else noticed how much is going on within the frames? They've privatized almost every aspect of building a website. A single dropdown has enough links to comprise an entire site.

I can imagine this has implications on their support centers in that they can never train one agent to throughly understand the complexities of a single issue. Instead, they must teach them a little about everything.
Until you try to enlarge that JPEG later.
The cost of the conference is relative. There's a lot of international attendees and for them the price is more than the freebies.

What I have seen with higher price conference is that you get a lot of corporate attendees and more lower to middle management than developers. It may have been also because of the conference too (oracle, webmethods and Microsoft)
Markdown sounds right. I don't see open protocols being published in print though. Especially not if they're collaboratively edited in any way.
Yes, it's funny. But I really hope you were only being funny, because I hate when the people of the Internet tries to make me more cynical than I already am.
You could make almost any OS look like the obvious choice if you get to choose what shows up in the table of features.
Indeed - many of my friends, through coincedence and fate, turned out to be tradespeople. Without exception, every single one is what I would consider well positioned money wise given their education level.

The reasons I prefer IT is that I like working inside, and I prefer not having to use obscenities to get my job done. But I cannot say that I am better off in the salary stakes (or the ability to build a business) than those I knew who went into building trades. Some I know are now running multi-million dollar turnover businesses they have bootstrapped themselves. Compared to those who studied a less applied degree (such as 'business' or 'arts') are way behind those who did an apprenticeship and worked hard.
Your hunch isn't so far off.

Here's an article that contains more of a product summary: http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-cofounder-shows-what...
Really? Why is this even on HN? This isn't /b/ or /g/ people. The page itself is even under a category called /b/.
VC vs. Startup. The most nerdy way to settle terms.
Cyanogenmod (alternate ROM for Android) has a feature where you can silence an incoming call by turning the phone over.
Next up: Windows XP vs. a toaster!

Makes Bread? XP, NO. Toaster, YES!
"the West prospers and other cultures do not."

Ahh good old fashion sarcasm.
Sprint's Kyocera Echo dual-screen Android phone
Jewelers run similar type promotions all the time, Apple spam out emails every big holiday letting me know what I can get my loved ones this time round, it's a pretty common angle. The how much do you love is just a good metaphor for the price slider and fits the holiday they are promoting around.
I do that, but mostly to avoid "super-airplane mode", also known as a dead battery.
Learn ASP.NET MVC 3 with the MVC Music Store tutorial
hahaha this is hilarious. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed reading Malcolm Gladwell's books. He is a great story teller, got me to continue reading through a book, which is rare....
His website indicates it is still "coming soon":

http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/

http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/diy/index.ht...

Thank you for posting. Fascinating stuff.
I was interested in reaching out to you for a possible engagement, but I couldn't find anything in your profile or your product webpage that would help me contact you and learn more. sachin@blueleaf if you're available and interested.

(Please, freelancers: have something in your profile that helps people hire you. HN is teeming with VCs, founders, and other people who want to hire you but you make it so damn hard.)
Is that info easily grabbable somewhere publicly? I see those images with counts but haven't seen it written in text.
There is http://twittercounter.com/ for twitter.
In the long run to the natural language search is a far better solution for searching for flights.
Software designers use visual metaphors to make software easier to use. One of the reasons Apple has been so successful is their UI elements remind us of things in the real world. Like the now popular on-off switch from iOS. That could have easily been accomplished with a drop down or a checkbox, or radio buttons... but the useful video metaphor lets the brain think less to use it.

So, I have to disagree with the author. Im not against using relevant visual metaphors. Im against stupid ones (like the messy cables).
Up until the last year or two, you had to use a mouse to interact with music software. Touchscreens existed, but were prohibitively expensive - the iPad is beginning to change that. Indeed, it's only within the last 5 years that processing multichannel audio hasn't hit the CPU so hard that the UI starts to get choppy (preventing complex animations of what's going on in the signal).

You will see some interesting multitouch applications within the next few years, but the real breakthrough will require some sort of 3d holographic display. Truly interactive musical creation requires the same sort of open-ended conceptual space as sculpture does.
What about chain of evidence? Who's to say that the hacker didn't change details of the report between downloading it and publishing it? "This is a report from a security expert" sounds quite a bit better in court than "This is a report that another hacker claims is an unaltered copy he nicked from a security expert".
My first thought was, wow, what a show of respect for me and our time together.

It saddens me that not being a rude ass is somehow worthy of blog-post out of the ordinary praise these days.
The Brooklyn Free School is relatively diverse, no? (Well, as far as anarchist schooling goes, anyway)
likewise, you could prevent your users from creating such passwords.
I would very much appreciate the option to cancel a help request.
Agreed. The Twitter app is infuriating.
Anonymous begins to remind me of the rabbit from Vernor Vinge's "Rainbows End"...
My Windows 7 PC boots up in < 30 seconds, BIOS included.
I went to Google developer day and all IO. The trend is for less in depth presentation and I miss the candor of the first year, but it is still a fabulous occasion to talk directly with people from Google and other devs.
Really? Maybe the keynotes, but the (>10) sessions I've watched on youtube (I haven't been) have all either been on how to develop on their products or how they developed their products.

That is with the caveats that I've selected what to watch based on what seemed interesting (and technical), and that the sessions they call "201" seem to be more 101, but from what I've seen and the in-person Q&A/networking opportunities, it seems well worth the trip for developers.
PARENTING.

The root cause in all of these issues is parenting. If the parents don't bother to care about their kid's education, it's already lost. The education and school system is part of the problem, but you can trace the child's inability to learn back to the parents.

1) Parents dont care about the child's learning

2) The child realizes the parents dont care and so they mess around in class

3) Teacher and school has no authority to really enforce learning. Meaning, you can assign homework, you can punish them for not doing them, but beyond that, you can't force them to sit down to read and learn.

4) Student fails.

5) Parent is up set at the school system so they complain to the principle, and the school district

6) School district pressures principle, principle pressures teacher to water down the curriculum

7) FAILURE of the entire system
Finally, someone made a collaborative, web-based version of Things (fantastic, but solo-only GTD application for Mac).

I'm excited.
Or is your notion of internet freedom that only people who have the right opinions get to speak?

I'm not Anonymous, so I'm not sure why you're addressing that to me.

And more importantly, those who took down Gene Simmons' website may not even have been the same people who had anything to do with Mastercard, Visa, Paypal, Egypt, Tunisia, Iran, etc. That's the nature of a decentralized, amorphous non-entity like Anonymous.
Airplane mode is also good for keeping your sperm count up when it's in your pockets.
Company Profile and History for Process Systems Services.
Ladies and gentleman, the definition of pwnd.
Lawyer up if the app is valuable - eg has the potential to make you over 100K, if its worth less than that, send a nastygram and move on to better apps.
Is there an iOS equivalent of this info?
The Server Tipping Point

*Not actually a generator or randomized collection, but a list of prepared images cycled in order until the site fails under load from Hacker New and other visitors
Hi retube,

I tried to just present the facts in my article, and then give my take in the closing paragraph. I truly believe it's a great tool so perhaps that's what you're picking up. If you have any suggestions to improve my writing style I would be happy for you to share your thoughts with me.

All the best,
Paul
"If you take an honest poll of news readers that are using iPads and you will find that for most the sweet spot is a few hours old. That is, most iPad news consumers want the news they are reading to be up to date within the last few hours — they rarely want to know the news from yesterday."

just curious.... where does this data come from? You footnote it as if there are references, but there are not... at least I couldn't find any.
I believe that's the general gist of it, though I freely admit I don't know a lot about it. I'd be very happy to defer to someone who knows more about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Chapter_11_reorg...
For a general, slightly overestimated rule of them ... expect to bring home ~60% after taxes, health insurance, etc.
Sounds like at great idea, I already signed up. Thanks can't wait to start.
I fly frequently on a few different US airlines, all with the same basic announcement:

- All electronic devices must be powered completely off during the first and last 10 minutes of flight.

- Laptops and phones can be on during the rest of the flight if all radios are off (including WiFi and Bluetooth).

- The growing exception to the above is on planes with WiFi, where you can turn WiFi on during cruise. No other kinds of radios are allowed, even receive-only radios.
I wonder what the figures for iOS would be if you included non-phone devices such as the iPod touch and iPad.

Come to think of it, maybe these should start to be classed as smartphones. After all, if a smartphone is a phone that can act as a mobile computer then a mobile computer that can act as a phone should qualify too.
It's this particular pattern of saying "I assume you realize that [thing I actually assume you don't realize], right?"

Well, no. Obviously they don't realize that, or else they disagree on some more fundamental point, or they wouldn't have said whatever they said in the first place— which I assume you actually do realize.

So it's a very disingenuous way of communicating. All it really says is "I think I know more about this than you, but I decided not to be nice about informing you," which isn't a very productive way to start a conversation.
We'd love to be there. The app we'd like to present called QuoteRoller (SAAS, automates proposals creation). It is in closed beta.
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I should clarify that the prices listed are for life. Sign up now & that's your price for life. As we start gaining traction, our signup price will be going up, but already existing customers will never see their prices go up as we grow.
Depending on your stautus the tax could be worse. If you're coming over as a student then it's going to be rough because you're basically going to be getting zero deductions or ways pay less tax. If you're coming over on q TN1 or a H1B. Then you could file as a resident after 183 days and take the same tax deductions and savoys as a majority of all the other Americans.

Hope this helps
True but then if you are a legitimate Android Developer and you were invited to bring your development laptop to a development workshop, you should probably already have the SDK installed
64bit only is a significant disadvantage for lower memory VPS's. I'm not sure what problem you're trying to solve wrt including a kernel or whatever, but running 32bit gives you substantially more memory for applications.
AT&T one-ups Verizon with Full Caller ID.
Well, I'm sure we can argue all day about whether there's a net positive gain, but the gain is clear: By committing to make security issues public, you're giving manufacturers a reason to continue support for products that they sell, so that they may be less likely to engage in the irresponsible behavior that we're discussing right here.
Well, not with money, anyway.
Probation/parole/bail jumpers

House arrest

Prison education is pretty common

Granted, not everyone can leave jail. But take a boarding school and a minimum security prison and you're getting pretty close to the same thing.
It wasn't just the popup for me it was the stock photos that turned me off (you have a bunch of suited guys and gals on the about page but scroll down to what looks like comments of all guys names and descriptions.

Linode and prgmr give you pretty much full access unless you are somehow offering something else?

Some tips for your homepage, get rid of that popup it is the bane of many internet users. Maybe show some pictures of your admin if it looks alright, and stay away from stock photos. State where the hell your servers are located.
Reminiscent of the 2001 SlugBot: "A prototype robot capable of hunting down over 100 slugs an hour and using their rotting bodies to generate electricity"

http://www.ias.uwe.ac.uk/Robots/slugbot.htm

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2001/10/4715...
Don't these guys have something more productive to do with their time? Seriously, don't tell me 4chan is a freakin' political movement. If it really is, why don't they start by cleaning up the child porn that gets posted on their board daily?[1]

The "noble cause" they are supposedly defending is nothing but a pretext to go on their power trips.

[1] (NSFW) http://boards.4chan.org/b/
Warren Bennis and Tony Hsieh, "Leadership For the 21st Century"
FYI, I find the conversation fruitful! The criticism is much appreciated, and readers will do well to hear your counter arguments.

I very much agree with your points, especially that "billable hours" is not the point, that expediency or rarity of talent can easily be more important.

A fuller, more accurate treatment of the concept has to include that. Perhaps it's still useful for folks to (sometimes!) think about optimizing the person/hour, since that is of course an important part of the equation, and optimizing it does help.
What is the justification for believing this? What should we understand? I don't think anyone can really understand fads, its like why is one song so catchy and others not, quantifying that is very difficult. Why should facebook win out currently over the other social networks is an interesting study point,m but I fail to see why we should study facebook if that was your point.
I use my iPhone, HTC Incredible and 3G iPad (in airplanes modes) all the time on US flights. It's never been an issue.

I think that if an inadvertently left-on cell phone could truly disrupt an airplane we'd see MUCH stricter enforcement. Otherwise you're implying a band of terrorists playing Angry Birds in all-radios-on mode stands a significant chance of downing an airliner...
isn't malcolm gladwell the guy that sings "what what in the butt?"
For anyone who is excited about Treesaver and wants to start working with it full-time, Nomad Editions (Treesaver client) are looking for a developer proficient in JS/CSS/HTML.

More info here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2168659 or feel free to contact me