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"...which means you can marshall resources to solve problems."

That's the critical condition. It's also the best job description I've ever seen for "Manager."
You're right, neuroscience does not work that way AT ALL. Although the point of the article is straight forward, you'd be surprised at how many people don't do them despite knowing the consequences; the article is written to re-address this very point using a metaphor ;)
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Is SuperCollider really that complicated? I've seen some incredible things built with it by musicians who have learnt to code specifically for it.
Thanks for explaining, that makes a lot of sense.

BTW: If your firewall works on Snow Leopard and allows me to disable the P2P part of Spotify, I will buy it.
This may be very nerdly, but.... Look up the addresses of 3 or 4 iconic firms (Google, Apple, Oracle, etc.) and just drive by. Pick big ones so they'll have visible buildings. I don't know why, but just seeing the buildings gives an impression of the importance of technology in the area. In any other city, those tall buildings would be banks or insurance companies.

Whatever you do, don't go to Alcatraz! :-)
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Stallman & Jobs are both giant figures in the tech world to anyone who knows their history. I would also imagine that anyone who has followed Richard Stallman over the years would be surprised if he hadn't made a statement like this.

He is an outspoken & tireless champion of an incredibly worthy cause he believes is greater than himself (and c'mon, the guys hacking skills are legendary).

Steve Jobs was a uniquely amazing entrepreneur & visionary leader. His impact on the way people everywhere use technology is both profound & undeniable.

Both men are worthy of the deepest respect IMHO, even if their goals were in conflict.
But I'm not sure I understand your point. It seems when large vehicles stop suddenly, unsecured cargo doesn't. Airplanes have them don't they?

I had heard something suggesting seat belts are not cost effective on trains and buses for the amount of lives saved. Perhaps that's what you're thinking of. Still, I would rather have them even if it cost an additional tenth of a cent per mile.
As trolls do not make any products they are immune to any other parties' patents, you can't keep them from enforcing their patents by holding other patents, and their patents doesn't become less valid by the existence of other patents. On the other hand, these kinds of patents can be useful to stifle uppity competitors like Android.
The conductor is invariably expected to invite the orchestra to stand and take a bow after taking his own, if I recall correctly.
More liek Google doesn't have a vision so they're trying to make G+ a catch all. Let's clone every service and hope it works.
Hmm... I wonder how hard a native CoffeeScript on pypy would be...
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The mention of python in this is somewhat foolish from a performance standpoint. It's not that python is slowing them down or speeding things up...they ultimately are hooking into a pile of C code to get "c-comparable" performance. If you're going to be using numpy or gmpy, don't bother comparing your python code to C, its meaningless...

That all said, that's mostly irrelevant! The algorithm is new, kinda neat, and efficient, which is what matters.
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Looks interesting. Since this is HN, I will allow myself to tell you what I think:

First thing, I had to go through two pages in order to discover that you were providing a 30-day free trial. Honestly, if that wasn't shown on HN, I would have closed the tab when I'd have seen the pricing page, because it implied that I would have to pay for something before I'm sure I like it, and most freemium businesses got me used not to do so. Therefore, I would suggest you to work on your front page. An idea would be to replace your "Start Today" CTA by something like "Try it, it's free!" or any copy that would let the user know he doesn't have to pay first.

Second thing, more subjective, your pricing seems a little expensive to me, have you considered a free tier ?

Anyways, congrats for launching and showing a functional product! Good luck to you!
> When I started out in the compiler business in the 80s many commercial compilers were originally written by one person. A very good person who dedicated himself (I have never heard of a woman doing this)

Grace Hopper?
Hey mcav, you should definitely head over to the Overtone mailing list on google groups: http://groups.google.com/group/overtone. We should be able to sort out your SC install <-> Overtone troubles easily :-)
Sounds (and looks) interesting.

BTW After watching it I've finally submitted my first Ask HN:

What are your music prototyping solutions?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3089259
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I practiced writing that code for about a day before I could write it flawlessly in one take. I guess, in a similar fashion to how a musician will practice using an instrument before going on stage.
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I'd be happy to get some code review feedback for the Overtone codebase: http://github.com/overtone/overtone

Pull requests would be even nicer...
Interesting answers here, but from their diversity it seems to me that we in fact still don't know much about cognitive representations and their physical anchoring in the brain. I once worked in a lab, studying how the brain sees through the eyes, it wasn't close to explain how we know what is what we see.
Thanks so much!

I actually removed the free trial today but missed that bit of text. Offering a free trial is difficult because my costs with Twilio would get hard to absorb. Same reasoning applies to a free tier. Phone calls aren't free! :)

Thanks again, though. I really do appreciate any feedback.
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Sadly it's just post-processign FX. However, a terminal that looked like that would be totally badass.
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I wrote this post as a result of this question (well, 8th grade) from a friend: http://softwaremaven.innerbrane.com/2009/03/advice-to-13-yea...
I actually asked him some time ago and he said (much to my disappointment) that he did it in post-processing.
Is there a linux alternative to that? I want it incredibly badly.
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Microsoft may have flamed the GPL, but Apple set an app store policy that (among other oppressive problems) bans all GPL'd code. I think the people in charge held a grudge from when they ran NeXT and had to be threatened with legal action before they'd release the objc frontend for gcc.
I understood what you meant, I just found it ironic in the extreme that you chose to complain about poor communication by genuinely using poor communication, especially given the context of the thread.

You've been commenting that Stallman should have deported himself better, and yet you break out with a comment like that yourself.
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I can never focus on something long enough that this would become important.
I too found that side-note a bit unnecessary. "Himself" works just fine as a gender-neutral pronoun.
I can't believe there are people who think it was ok for Stallman to call Jobs evil. It was a tasteless attack without merit even in better times.
this looks useful, so i had a look for the linux equivalent. turns out there's a command line utility called nethogs that does something similar (it shows bandwidth per process, but not addresses). for opensuse you can get it here - http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=nethogs&baseprojec...

another command, iftop, shows connections, but not processes (that's in the standard opensuse repos).
Digital trackers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracker_(music_software)

I have yet to find a faster way from idea to music. It's clunky to get into until you spend some time to learn the idea and build up a collection of music and wrap your brain around the entire concept, but it's a few decades old a very mature concept with tens of thousands of works created with this method.

Here's a site that streams tracked music 24-7 http://www.scenemusic.net/demovibes/

Some of it is quite good (thought the quality obviously ranges quite a bit though both talent and technology).

If you want to see the music with a visual production try http://demoscene.tv/

I've been working with a piece of software called MadTracker 2 for a while, but I'm about to transition to Renoise (MadTracker 2 is long since a dead project) which is available for Windows, OS X and Linux and is about as professional as a piece of software has any right being.

http://www.renoise.com/

In a rush I can crank a reasonable tune out in a few hours. I've heard of at least one major artist cranking out an entire album (vocals and all) in less than a week.

http://hunz.com.au/

Most of the modern trackers will let you render individual tracks to file for final downmixing.

Note: These are most definitely not intended for live performance, though a few folks have used them for that purpose.
My argument doesn’t require me to lead by example. I’m some random commenter.

And since you understood me perfectly well there doesn’t seem to be a problem in this specific case.
I second the recommendation of Seung's TED talk. A great watch.
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The author is generally right. But it's not unique to compilers. Many things were often written by just one person in the early days, but rarely so now. PC and console games, for example, were often written by one person. Now of course there are huge studios that do it (although mobile games can now be written by one person).

Programs have seen an explosion in feature set. For compilers this feature set includes optimzation, and additionally things like AutoComplete/IntelliSense, debug information, precompiled headers, etc...

With that said optimization probably dominates, in terms of headcount, what most compiler devs work on.
That only holds for some kinds of playing. How is your experience with improvisation? Can you manage quick changes? Or does it always tend to be a slow buildup of rythms harmonics and melodies?
Sounds like some good tough love for CEOs (and everyone else really) who care too much. That's probably most of them, and a whole lot of employees, investors, and even customers too.

IMO the why matters, but only for a moment, and then the "what are you going to do next?" has to become the focus. That way caring so deeply doesn't become unproductive -- you grieve the pain of mistakes and unfortunate outcomes for no more than a minute or two ("and this too will pass") and then keep moving. Startups are like sharks, if we stop moving we die.
Your article is a joke with numerous assumptions and factual errors.
Penny Arcade TV is a good model to look at for this.
Tools can't reliably fetch sandwiches:

'My usual.' or 'ham salad, easy on the mayo.'

Then the robot has to cross the street, queue at the sandwich store, discover that they're fresh out of mayo, or whatever, and has to decide what to do next. Should it contact you for new instructions, take the initiative and visit a different place, buy ingredients and prepare a snack personally, or any other of countless possibilities? Any of which may involve handling new, unanticipated phenomena.

Thus fetching a sandwich, reliably, is a creative task, and any entity capable of doing it has achieved human status.
Is there something like this for Windows ? (Especially with ip resolution feature )
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wonderfully buzzword filled description video -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=d...
To be fair, the author does state it's a 'straw that broke the camel's back' scenario; the punctuation at the end of a long line of disliked behaviour, not just one comment.
Interesting subject.
Time allows us to measure results. Not the other way around.

Our consciousness cannot experience time going backwards. Time travel to the experiencer, would happen in +ve time for him/her.

Also, even if those neutrino speed measurements stand true, travelling back in time should still be an impossibility.

What is it about the experiment, that bothers you?
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Hello HNers, I find myself sometimes not sleeping the whole night, going to work in the morning, and just after getting home, I sleep for 10 hours and I'm fully refreshed. I never made this a habit, but I will maybe start doing this frequently and record the data about my health and my day to day mood/energy/etc. Maybe I would be sleeping 3 nights a week. What do you think HN ? Will you be interested in hearing back from me ? Have you done something similar ? Please do share
Apple has also demonstrated (many times) that it is willing to use its patent portfolio aggressively, not just defensively.
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Agreed, but note that the original webpage actually states:
> So we have achieved our goal of calculating 100,000,000 million places of π in just under 10 minutes!

Thus it's not entirely the submitter's fault. But they should check what they're typing/copy-pasting! :)

Which is too bad, because I wanted to know how they were calculating 100 trillion digits in less than ten minutes . . .
It would also be tough to keep secrets about any deals, launches, etc
> He is extremely agressive and out of place, calling for a split on a major organization he didn't help in any meaningful way

He was a member, and while his member number (5030) isn't low enough to argue that he helped found the movement, he did explain that he has advocated on behalf of the FSF for quite some time. I too think his post was a step too far in the wrong direction, but saying that regular supporters of the FSF, long time contributors and everyday members don't "help in any meaningful way" to the FSF is a tad bit disingenuous.
Heroes are supposed to be philanthropists but America admires success. Problem is, most people would be shocked to find out the shady dealings that are necessary to build and run a successful business/government/etc. CEOs have to make decisions that would curl your hair if you saw it, but all anyone sees is the resulting success. Its' much easier to imagine the philanthropy than it is to find a successful philanthropist.
Interesting, doesn't seem to explicitly handle nested arrays/objects.

http://jsfiddle.net/uxAFb/

I imagine passing a flag to indicate the properties which are arrays of objects should also be packed could work too.
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Ok, you got me thinking and now I have to assume that someone must have already thought this up, because it would be so immensely useful! Imagine a USB key that behaves like a normal USB key, but if you invert it exactly 3 times in < 10s, then it activates a secondary storage partition. Put mundane family photos or music or such on the first portion, secret documents on the secondary. Sure, someone could disassemble the device to discover the hidden documents, but the point is that most people, after inserting the device and finding the photos and music, would just discard it as uninteresting...
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Coded by hand over the course of 6 months using Csound.
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I see HN as a more mature version of http://www.reddit.com/r/technology, but with a heavy slant towards discussions about startups. In fact I frequently see the same articles referenced in both places.
Work full-time or grad school before startup?
I just started grad school in Physics a month ago, but I have recently considered quitting since I have gained an interest in the entrepreneur/startup world.

I have read a few of Paul Graham's essays, and I think starting a startup would suit me well because I am willing to take the risks involved in it and work the long hours as opposed to working in a cubicle. The main problems at the moment are that I have poor programming skills (To give you an idea of my current skill level, the most recent concept I learned in C++ was Vectors a few months ago.) and that I have no friends that are interested in programming or in a startup. So finding a co-founder would be a problem. But I have been considering joining a club on campus with other grad students that are interested in forming a startup

I am thinking I may actually like the business aspect of running the startup as opposed to the hacking side, even though I'm rather introverted and wouldn't make a great salesman. I want to make the decisions and have the vision for the startup's future. When I was in high school/college, I was obsessed with this one hobby I had, and I really enjoyed the business aspect of it also. If it weren't a rather childish hobby, I would probably want to form a startup based on that.

But in the meantime, should I start getting better at hacking? Should I try working through O'Reilly's book? To learn the necessary programming and startup details, would I be better off staying the school at the moment (to try to network with others interested in a startup) or quitting asap to get a programming job at a non-startup with the intention to leave to form a startup?

Also, if I should just work at a startup first, before starting my own startup, what job can I possibly get? My programming skills aren't good enough for what they're looking for.

PG once said it should take 6-12 months to learn to hack well. Given my previous (but near minimal) experience with C++, would it still really only take 6 months?

PG also mentioned that those who try a startup, but fail, can easily get hired by another company. Do you guys think this is true?
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If you can't provide a free tier, you may work on your frontpage in another way, such as providing a slideshow, or even a short video explaining how it works. Having a visual or a functional clue about the product may give more trust to potential customers. The only thing the current image you put on the left lets us know is that the website looks good, which might not be enough for most people to pay. I have no data to prove it, but it seems pretty straightforward to me. More, you can still a/b test it if you want, and I'd be glad to hear about the results ;).
True. But don't they have a case going on in court right now? I would assume the new patent if granted would help Apple. I might be a little lenient on Apple but from what I see their only issue is with the implementation of multi-touch by their competitors (I could be wrong). I am not sure they care about Android's in-app purchases.
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How is it that I don't get it? I can own my own domain and still use Google+ to power my blog just fine. I can automatically backup and store my Google+ posts in case Google goes nuts. In the process of backing up those posts, I can also store the Google+ ID so I can ensure that I can always keep my back-links intact.

Whats the problem?
I was doing a homework for an algorithms class today. I wrote a quick implementation in Python with some quickcheck tests to make sure it worked correctly. Running 10,000 tests with CPython 2.7 took 136s on my laptop. For fun, I tried with the latest PyPy and it ran the 10,000 tests in 30s. This is very impressive and I am definitely going to start using PyPy more often.
Makes perfect sense. I'll take some more screenshots tomorrow and see if I can get a little animated thing going. I have some ideas but I've been focused on building out the product.
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It has not hurt the productivity - it's just now more productivity is expected.

The individual productivity is probably higher than before, but the need (or expectation) is even higher than that.
I have a hell of an upvote waiting for the person who ports this to the Audio Data API
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I'm sure Steve would appreciate people citing Christian theology on a page about him, seeing how he was a Buddhist
And in a similar fashion, after a musician/coder practices enough, improvisation will come naturally. Thanks again for putting this together.
If stuffed tigers and dream town didn't clue you in, there's also that it took you longer to quote and ask "Seriously?" (which added nothing to the discussion here, and you didn't bother to elaborate) than it would have taken to Google the name to see if it was a reference you hadn't gotten.

I figure either or both of these explain the down votes.
Yes, it is. But sometimes you need to adjust it depending on your needs. For example, highway signage needs extra tracking (space between letters) and you often need to adjust it manually.

Also, if you ever designed a typeface (not very likely) then this is a skill you absolutely need.
or.. put more succinctly

" Success has many fathers, failure none. "

The above has an interesting spin to it. Failure is often caused by not having enough people to care.

" Care " itself is strongly associated with being a father.
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When I'd started my first job (after an ad-driven web app that went nowhere), I quickly found I wouldn't have much time for side projects. So I'd outsourced my little project to a talented dude from the east. This first project was to be measured with a financial goal -- 30,000$ a month. (was pretty naive)

Hours per week: about 10. (learned a lot about documenting processes, instructions & ui flow's for an other dev.)

Skills/Profile: worked on a ton of platforms. wrote emulators in high school. game engine developer. designed graphics hardware devices. published research papers. failed web startups.

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Haven't hit any of my (almost) modest end-goals/exits yet. I've met a few of my 'on the road' milestones. They didn't make me feel any different. I love the process, and that keeps me going.

If you're serious about forcing yourself into making an impact, find a bunch of target customers with a pain to be solved, talk to them, and promise them something with a deadline attached. I've found a lot of folks need the brute-force kickstart approach early on.