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Author makes a potentially interesting point (Jobs was perhaps not 100% the post-60s hippie some people make him out to be) but buries it under a ton of ad hominem attacks on capital-L Liberals (yawn).

Funny to see every special interest group under the sun claim Steve Jobs as one of their own, hoping a bit of the magic rubs off on them now he's not around to denounce them.

Particularly hearty lols for "Steve Jobs the capital-C Conservative", along with "Steve Jobs the environmentalist", "Steve Jobs the philanthropist", etc.
You're missing my point regarding Samurai. It's main value prop is a gateway with developer friendly docs. This has nothing to do with risk.

Feefighters tells their customers to go with the absolute lowest priced merchant account provider because they are all the same otherwise. As this post points out, that's horrendously inaccurate.
Just like I do when I want a sandwich.
If you absolutely can't spend money on anything, I'd go with PxTone for bare-bones prototyping. It runs on Wine. It is point-and-click tracker.

http://buzinkai.net/PXTone/tutorial/

It's an incredibly lightweight tracker or whatever, and comes with preloaded instruments (basic chiptune-ish sounds). But when you're prototyping a song or trying to get an idea down really fast, you shouldn't worry too much about the instruments or anything. PxTone is strong in this regard, it's VERY FAST and intuitive to just jot down a melody.

I find PxTone is great if I think of some short melody and want it sort of stored so I can come back to it later and maybe work with it on something more involved than PxTone.

Of course it's mostly useful for the prototyping stage. Any sort of recording with real instruments, or effects more than just panning/volume/reverb/echo/overdrive/portamento, you'll want to look elsewhere.
Everything we do that duhumanizes war comes with good ethical concerns (less loss of human life) but this doesn't make war any better.

Drones - save our lives. Cruise missiles - save our lives. An A-bomb saved our lives.

Not getting into as many wars would save the most lives. (Note: Some wars - like WW II are I admit unavoidable, but very few fall under this heading)
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> I've heard horror stories about laptop power management on Linux, it could definitely do with some work.

It's not that bad, but it's highly driver-dependent. That's nothing new, though - driver issues are at the root of most complaints about Linux nowadays, I find.
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Perhaps for more clarity, this almost does the same thing as doing:

ssh -R22:localhost:9022 user@rhost -- ssh -A $USER@localhost -p 9022

In this case, for this to have feature-parity, another user on the remote system would have to access your socket and do an 'ssh-add' with one of their prive keys.

The differences here being that:

* rssh-agent daemonizes and gives the same output as 'ssh-agent'.

* a single SSH connection is established, not two.

It is again important to note that this allows you to use but private keys without filesystem access to those keys.
Jason: Take this down. You will almost certainly not get the job if your interviewers find this, for almost any tech company of scale. Especially:

"If I am selected for more interviews, I will definitely write about them."
Lord.

This is classic management by objectives incentivizing with checklist implementation. "Social is big, we'll be social!"

People say that big companies are aircraft carriers: to big to be nimble, too big to stop. It doesn't have to be that way, but things like this do little to assuage from the notion that it's endemic.
> in the US copyright infringement is a civil case, unless it's done for "commercial advantage or private financial gain"

Unfortunately, the NET Act, passed in the wake of David LaMacchia leaving a writable FTP directory on his server that was also world-readable and failing to be convicted of anything, has redefined "private financial gain" to include the expectation of receiving copies of data in return.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NET_Act
If you like this, check out nyquist.
Lisp for audio programming: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/nyquist/
The robot is currently able to go to the fridge to pick out specific beers. I don't see why a sandwich would present much more difficulty.

"it's worth pointing out that this robot can't yet actually fetch a sandwich from subway unassisted."

I think that sentences like this are actually being written these days is pretty damn impressive in itself.
The inherent problem with rythm-based security is that everybody already knows shave-and-a-haircut. :)
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Yes, sorry, you are right. You were talking about representable/modelled by - which I was conflating with Equivalent as Is. A subtle distinction I missed.
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The mission for a drone loaded up with missiles is to kill people, not to get into some chess match with your enemy's drones.
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I really don't understand why Jason should take this down. I'd never look down on a candidate for blogging about the interview process with my company.
Maybe he just doesn't care/has already something else lined up.

A friend of mine goes to interviews quite frequently without being the slightest interested in changing his job. His idea is to just follows some practice-makes-perfect motto - almost like dating. But it has of cause its downsides and especially the scheduling seems often to be the ticky issue.
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If you have an iPad, check out: http://symphonypro.net.

The app allows you to create and edit sheet music. There's a built in keyboard and a real-time recording feature. If you have a Core MIDI compatible device, you connect it to your iPad and input notes in real time from that as well.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the developers
I disagree. Nuclear bombs are a "drop and forget" kind of munition. Killing people with drones is similar in that your side doesn't face much danger. But, once you show a picture of a city completely destroyed and skin melting off of the bodies of your enemies, the general public will determine that war is terrible.
Several, unfortunately. I'd rather not talk about my personal experiences here, though.

Here's some social networking examples:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/322857/The_new_employ...

A lot of these projects are hardly used and hated by employees. Typical tactics involve making it mandatory for all employees to upload a picture and start a profile so they can boast huge adoption numbers.
>The problem is that lives will still be lost, just not by our side.

I have no problem with this part. When you're in a war, having the other side doing all the dying is what you're striving for. The decision to go to war is a weighty thing, but once made you don't hold back.
People like the GRASP[1] guys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvRTALJp8DM are probably somewhere pretty high on that list.

They still need to solve the location sensing issues though - having high-precision calibrated wall mounted sensors aren't really practical for ad-hoc use.

I don't doubt that someone will solve this problem in the not-too-distant future though, and heavily autonomous quadrotor aerostats will be in heavy use.

[1] https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/
What is the danger? That some untrusted application will use the agent and mess up your servers? That is bad, I admit, but it could be worse. 'ssh -A' is much worse.

The alternative? With 'ssh -A', a single compromised system will allow every user's key to be used. Not just potentially exposing all of the organization's servers, but all of the servers which all of the users may independently have access to! Those systems may also have users connecting with 'ssh -A', exposing even more systems, etc.

This might not be so bad if you only access your employee's servers and you have a few machines. It is really serious if you are a contractor, or have contractors.

If, say, you are a freelancer and you use 'ssh -A' to a client and the client's server is compromised, all of your other client's servers may easily become compromised.

A hack as described here, preferably using a sockets-only approach, can allow your organization to essentially pre-authorize users. They must login to a host with valid credentials, receive access to an agent (but not the key), and can then authorize to other hosts.
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Professional art critics might be a little more detailed than "hate the colors". Do you have enough graphic design experience to properly critique a logo contest, or were ya just out a-trollin'?
But that's not "realtime" like SuperCollider right?
There was a Star Trek TV episode where two cities fought each other using computers. No spoilers on how it ended.
> It is not legitimate for the mass of HN to be "in grief" because of Steve Jobs's death. You may be sad, but certainly no grieving period should be necessary for strangers.

You seem to have missed a critical piece of the message.
I wonder how long it will be until the pilots and support staff of these drones start getting car-bombs or some nasty surprises in the mail.

The argument that they're engaging a legitimate military target and not responding indiscriminately makes it pretty hard to call it 'terrorism', although I'm sure they'll be 'unlawful combatants' as long as it benefits those fighting them.

By moving actual soldiers off the front line and having them control proxy weaponry, the force asymmetry is being increased even further. Anyone fighting against it will have no real choice but to strike at those doing the controlling.
From what I can tell ChucK is no longer supported and has stopped working in OSX Lion.
While I certainly don't care for PayPal's practices, I'm also not a fan of pre-orders. Specifically, I don't think anyone should ever be charged for something, even a partial payment, before it's delivered/shipped. In fact, I think there are regulations that payment not be captured until merchandise is shipped. If you're just authorizing the cost of the merchandise, and then waiting to capture after shipping, I think that's fine, but does PayPal allow you to do that?
Was up for me first time I saw this submission, but a few minutes later it went down, saying "Streaming is temporarily unavailable."
What if the robot really enjoys fetching sandwiches? Sure, that may be because we programmed it to enjoy (experience a high fitness value for) obeying orders, but once we've created such a being, do we not have an ethical obligation to order it around, so that it can feel enjoyment?

Why should we go out of our way to build robots with similar ideas of what is pleasurable to us?
Compare the upside of writing about his experience with the potential downside.

I don't think many companies are going to say "hey that's great that he did that" and it will help him land the job. But it is entirely likely that any number of companies that he might interview with would be turned off by it and it could cost him the job.
why is IE still used so much? do these people know what they're missing?
I draw, paint, do graphics web design and sometimes I do design logos.
It's theoretically possible (although definitely implausible) that drone/remote warfare will play out on the economic battlefield, rather than the human one.

In the same way that the space race was an economic proxy of the Cold War, and fairly successfully bankrupted and toppled the USSR.

If you play drone vs drone, eventually someone is going to run out of drones, and the means and funds to build more - they are the de-facto losers.

It'll be nigh-impossible to keep this contained though, when the enemy realises that for a modest loss of their drones, they can take out your C&C bases or level your munition factories.

One of the most recent Culture novels by Iain M Banks -- Surface Detail -- explores in part a similar issue, where two factions agree to settle their differences in a virtual-reality war simulation, but those losing decide to escalate it into the physical realm.
"Launches"? Heh. I'm actually the lead dev on this (entp). It's been around since at least 2007, when my git history starts. Nothing new about it, but it seems to be a good way for Oracle employees and customers to communicate about products.
You said what I meant to say, but much more concisely, or dare I say productively? :-)
That's actually the Oracle single sign-on server you're seeing there, not the Mix app itself.
Enough of this Jobs adulation!!! Anything that has a beginning has an end . Everyone dies at the right time ( who are we to say sooner or later).

Life goes on....
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We're all going to die. - Jobs
Any good wallpaper for this statement?
Except you wrote your own fitness function, it wasn't written for you.
> Ever heard of "blame the game, not the player"?

Yeah, it's ridiculous. The "player" makes the choices, they get the blame.

Every time I see someone talking about how they just do what they have to do to feed their kids someone else steps up to say that they feed their kids without hurting others.

> Steve Jobs wasn't the enemy of freedom RMS paints him as. That he personally wrote letters against DRM on media-stores and against the closed-platform called Flash asking everyone to favor HTML5

Sure, against some DRM. But the iPhone and iPad are locked down.

Really, he was just against the other guy's walled garden while trying to steal bricks from it for his own.

> Funny, reminds me that that FOSS advocates here on NH are okay with Android prolonging Flash's life [...]

I wasn't aware I had to complain against all problems in every post. The love-in for Steve prompted these complaints. If there was a love-in for Android you'd see the anti-Android opinions coming out.

> Seriously, I'm tired of Stallman's half-assed socialism. It's an offense to me.

I don't think you know what the word means. I believe you're pretty offended though.

> You don't destroy capitalism by destroying companies, or people. You destroy capitalism by destroying the core of it...

Oh, do tell, our fully-assed socialist leader.
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Not to mention Betty Snyder Holberton, Adele Mildred "Millie" Coss, and I think Jean Sammet. You can probably add Elizabeth Rather to the list; although she was the head of a company at the time, I'm sure there are commercial compilers from the company that she wrote singlehandedly. She also has the distinction of having done this during the 1980s, when the bar for a compiler was a lot higher.
I don't know about the others but I know you can actually go to Apple, there's an 'Apple store' there- you can't by apple hardware but it is the only place you can buy Apple swag.
Agreed with the -1 Alcatraz.
Ok, I will make a long story short, here.

My current business began as a side project many years ago. At first, I was building/managing the technical aspect of the business( website, integration, inventory systems, fulfillment systems, etc )remotely on an average basis of 20 hours per week. I say average because some weeks I did nothing, and other weeks I worked more than my "day job".

Growth was so strong that I ultimately made the decision to jump ship from my prior company and make my current company a fulltime endeavor. It was one of the most difficult decisions I've made in my life, as the cofounder of my prior company was very close.

During this time, we've grown from < $100k/y revenues to > $5mm ( making an effort to be vague here ), and still enjoying good growth. We are profitable and never took a dime of VC.

Hopefully this anecdote answers your question sufficiently.
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Note that even streaming these failsafe titles fails currently.
Do you have any audio examples?
The only examples I could see were actual code.
(I'm on my phone so I'll double-check later in case I missed an obvious link on the ChucK site).
Almost like... a synth.
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Jobs' politics are a bit of a conundrum, which I believe is how many politically minded people appreciated him.

Academia - conservative in that he didn't see enough value in his education to have his parent expend their savings. Perhaps conservative economic sense. Liberal in that his company's products were found throughout the academic world.

Environment/Human Rights - Apple caved into demands put on them by Greenpeace, and use minimal packaging in their products. They also depend on a very anti-green, anti-human-rights country to manufacture their products.

Corporate culture - Very laxed dress, Al Gore on his board, but ruthless pursuit of perfection and profit.

I don't know how one can come to any conclusion other than that Jobs' was apolitical. All he cared about publicly was delivering the best products to market. That's neither a conservative ideal nor a liberal one. It's the admirable and moral one.

Fuck politics. Be great! Humanity depends on it.
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Thank you for the caution.

I decided to contact the recruiter directly to discuss the matter honestly. If it is a problem for LinkedIn that the interview process is made known public, then the damage has been done already (I got over 1800 page views as of now). I should be responsible for my action and rightfully be exempt from further selection process.
Read Kiln People by David Brin. They make short lived clones of themself (including memory), then the clones fight a full war.

The winner of the war gets to do whatever it was they were fighting about, and no real people get killed.

It's a full spectator sport in the book, and the combatants enjoy it too - they have special helpers (will full battlefield immunity by both sides) who collect the recently dead to upload their memory back into the host (i.e. real human).
Thia isn't overtone, but here's some very impressive livecoding in scheme/impromptu (http://impromptu.moso.com.au/), building up to a wonderful piano improvisation which has a very natural feel: http://vimeo.com/2433947
The only thing compelling about this was the ending title card.
So, what, you think "grief" is not a "feeling"? Being neither a psychologist nor your mother, I really have no idea how to begin to correct that problem, except to say that you are deeply mistaken.
If you want to truly experience the crossing of the rubicon try starting a business with your own money where success or failure is squarely on your shoulders. Where there are no do overs and the money lost is not other people's money. And you don't get a chance to pivot to something else with a pat on the back as a great learning experience. And back to living with your parents.
Not sure if I would really use it aside from a novelty, but I may need to buy this simply to support such a great/fun idea.
> What fun!

Indeed. I really miss those days...
Ask HN: Where/How do I learn about credit card payments and payment gateways
I hope this is not the wrong place to post this.

I have been trying to learn about credit card payment gateways and I am not finding the proper resources. Specifically -
* I read (on HN) sometime ago that there is a specific way the card numbers are issued by companies and that you could tell by the number which company issued it. Where do I get this information?
* What exactly do the different players do in the ecosystem? We have the providers (Visa, MC), issuers (Citibank), payment gateways, processors.
* When I swipe my card at Best Buy what happens after the card is read?

Could someone please point me in the right direction?
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"If China, for instance, sends killer drones into Kazakhstan to hunt minority Uighur Muslims it accuses of plotting terrorism, what will the United States say?"

What difference does it make if they used a drone or did it the traditional way?

An attack is an attack it makes no difference how you do it.
"The decision to go to war is a weighty thing"

Made weighty in large part by the risk to your soldiers' lives. Drones make the decision a less-weighty one, which is a problem, I think.
> That is the hole a "Steve Jobs of free software" could fill.

How? By writing drivers for undocumented hardware?

> it doesn't just need to be as easy to install and maintain as Windows

Have you tried to install Windows recently? Fat-finger one prompt and you need to return it to the store to get it back. Make one little mistake in your backup and you need to buy install disks, etc. Don't buy anti-virus software and kiss it goodbye.

It's only easy because nobody does it - they all just pay the $100 install tax and have the store do it for them.

If you actually had to install a system and run a non-trivial program Mac would win, followed by Ubuntu, and then the rest would trickle in at the unusable-by-the-masses level.
>“The problem is that we’re creating an international norm” — asserting the right to strike preemptively against those we suspect of planning attacks, argues Dennis M. Gormley, a senior research fellow at the University of Pittsburgh and author of “Missile Contagion,” who has called for tougher export controls on American drone technology. “The copycatting is what I worry about most.”

How about the fact that we're doing it, period?

http://www.ted.com/talks/sam_richards_a_radical_experiment_i...
Another vote for the Akai LPK25 -- it's superportable, so it's easy either to keep right by your computer, or even to throw into a laptop bag and have along with you.

Personally I like Sonar (the current generation Cakewalk) on Windows as a software solution. I can't speak to Linux solutions.

I also keep some composition apps on my Android phone. If you really want to capture musical ideas wherever you are, a phone is perfect. I like Caustic and ULoops for Android, and I've also tried NanoStudio on an iPod Touch and found it quite nice.
I'm not exactly disagreeing, just noting that I read the opposite recently:

"Even though home and wife are just a few minutes’ drive down the road from his battle station, the peculiar detachment of drone warfare does not necessarily insulate Martin from his actions. Predator attacks are extraordinarily precise, but the violence of war can never be fully tamed, and the most gripping scenes in the book document Martin’s emotions on the occasions when innocent civilians wander under his crosshairs in the seconds just before his Hellfire missile arrives on target. Allied bomber pilots in World War II killed millions of civilians but rarely had occasion to experience the results on the ground. Drone operators work with far greater accuracy, but the irony of the technology is that its operators can see their accidental victims—two little boys and their shattered bikes, in one especially heartrending case Martin describes—in excruciating detail. Small wonder that studies by the military have shown that UAV operators sometimes end up suffering the same degree of combat stress as other warfighters."

It's from this review:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/sep/29/predato...

of P.W. Singer's recent book.
These kind of bargain sale definitions of the great word "freedom" we are having in these discussions make me feel genuinely sad.

Is freedom really something that can be taken this light? Can we really compare freedom to "do what ever you like" to freedom(?) to "not have to spend hours to tinker with something to make it work?"
I took tip 1 and stopped reading
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