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any usb dac should work on linux; they appear as standard audio devices (and this doesn't depend on the make much - there are bunch of standard chips that everyone uses as usb interfaces). certainly the musical fidelity v-dac does, but that doesn't include a headphone socket (they make a separate headphone amp). if you just want something simple, i'd suggest a nu-force icon. if you want something obscure and boutique, have a look at audio-gd... if you want the latest technology check whether it supports "asynchronous mode" (audio-gd don't, generally; music fidelity v-dac ii (just released) does; icon doesn't; you can also buy "digital interfaces" that do async-to-digital, like the mf v-link) - they are supposed to reduce jitter (timing errors).

i am not guaranteeing you will hear any difference between any of the above ;o) i own the v-dac (i), which i feel improved the sound of my logitech duet (less abrasive), but that is feeding an amp and speakers, not headphones.

also, on music while programming:

- i find that if i need to concentrate, the music just disappears into the background. it's not like i need to switch it off, it just becomes irrelevant.

- i wrote some code that uses last-fm data to construct playlists of related music. if you have a lot of mp3s and want to listen to "random but related" music, this works great. it's not packaged nicely, but if you're used to hacking python you should be able to get it working - http://code.google.com/p/uykfe/ (as well as generating standalone playlists it talks directly to logitech's squeezecenter to dynamically select music).

- i may be showing my age, but fleetwood mac's rumors or nirvana's nevermind are my go-to albums for difficult bugs.
It is terrible that your friends' privacy was violated, and I apologize for this comment being off topic, but I feel compelled to address the specific personal circumstances that Alex has uncovered.

Alex: as a gay man who came out as an adult, I urge you to reach out to your closeted friend. Let him know that Facebook violated his privacy and you accidentally and unexpectedly came across his secret. Reassure him that you care about him as a friend and that his sexuality makes no difference to you.

Unless he is in physical or serious financial risk from coming out, his life will be unimaginably better if he comes out. If he's going to lose his job or be disowned by his parents, at least having one friend to share his secret with may make a world of difference.

If he has a girlfriend or wife, for her sake, you need to reach out to him. It's an incredibly awkward situation, but think about what an enormous positive difference you can make in one or two people's lives.
Don't resist efficiency, just find a better way to distribute wealth so that people are less driven by fear, creating a more caring society without killing the incentive to innovate. I like the idea of a basic income for all paid for by resource usage fees.
Yes, well this is how Apple does things, constant iteration - http://www.macworld.com/article/151235/2010/05/apple_rolls.h...
I think this is one of those ideas that's gets progressively less attractive as you get into details.

It takes a lot of time and thought to write a good book review, and you don't get anything out of it (unlike spending time to post a well-worded Ask HN, or spending almost no time to post a link to something interesting).

Most folks in a HN-like community don't have that time. If they even have time to read more than a few books a year... so they aren't going to spend hours perusing book review (which aren't actually of value themselves.. they just point to other things that will be valuable to buy then read...).
Please stop commenting on this topic until you have the slightest damn idea of what you're talking about.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/09/so...
"... Given the silent nature of bans on HN, we have no choice but to move onto a new HN account and continue to submit legitimate posts using legitimate word of mouth dissemination. ... This has (and continues to) raise questions about the legitimacy of the content on HN as just a shill for YCombinator."

Charlie the above scenario should have triggered alarm bells. I always thought of HN as both an experiment for Arc & free publicity for YC. What's the controversy?
I need a widget of this for my website. Please.

He said, from Pasadena, CA at 26C in outdoor sex weather.
Huh? That's not my argument at all. Have you replied to the wrong comment by accident?
I'm not very familiar with the space yet, but despite a weak attempt to argue something along the lines of "nobody cares about your idea," this ultimately reads to me like "Don't ask for an NDA, because it would inconvenience me if I decided I wanted to build my own business based on your idea."
I've read Scout McCloud's series about comic books and I can understand why he did this - he's fascinated in how to challenge the status quo and existing norms in comics. Besides the obvious parallel to chess moves that is. He's kind of a in a position to do it too, given he's already accomplished a lot in the comic world.
Why do people need jobs?

They don't. They need water, food, shelter, security, health-care and something to believe in.

The problem is that we're at a stage where people need jobs to survive.

Since my jobs consist mostly of doing whatever I please, I'm perfectly content to let other people not work, as long as we can find a way to do it sustainably, and as long as they don't prevent me from doing what I want.
Collocations in Wikipedia - terms occurring frequently together
We are very satisfied with dedicated systems from http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr... and http://ovh.co.uk

That said we run kvm on every box and run all customer and own apps in different VM managed (all managed by chef). So we're kind of running our own inhouse VPS-hosting-service.

We can achieve ultra-low-per costs per VM (as regular VPS providers would charce) but in the position to be the "root" customer of the box. We can decide which virtualization stack we want to use etc.
They are like squares on a chess board. They even match the colors correctly when moving diagonally or vertically/horizontally. I liked this little detail.

I also wouldn't be surprised if there's some hidden meaning to some of the movements.
Just another refrain of a trite startup buzz theory.

No, your ideas don't matter if they're not good ideas to begin with. A community for software developers isn't a good idea, and neither were any of the others mentioned.

Keeping your idea semi-secret makes sense when it has no/weak competitors, not when it's a Web 2.0 social search engine.
Rackspace's CDN (used for Rackspace Files) is Akamai.

This is orders of magnitude better than Singapore for AUS/NZ.

Actually, for some people in AUS, West Coast US will be better than Singapore because some ISPs (eg TGP) route via the US to save money. [1][2]

Edit: Of course, Amazon are supposed to be launching EC2 (or just a CDN node?) in Australia sometime soon.

[1] http://akb.id.au/2011/amazon-ec2-latency-australian-soil (look at the Melbourne latency to Singapore)

[2] https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=45867
>"It's still a democracy"

Hardly.

It's a republic with its own philosopher-king.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher_king]
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Wolfram Alpha tells me that $399 in 2001 is $498.06 today.
Shhh! When you say "Ponzi Scheme" people think you're saying "fraud" and get upset because they think you're taking way their free money!
Where did I say that I am being superficial? I am a bit hardened by life, but I do not at all see myself as superficial. I simply learned my lessons. I didn't use to be picky with whom I hang out, and then one day it came to me that my closest friend of six years is the most loathsome person I ever met, and, moreover, that he had been friends with me solely because he knew that I am not picky with people, thus he felt comfortable around me. So the "deep" strategy you are recommending (not judging books by their cover and taking tome to know people) hasn't exactly worked out.
Shameless plug:

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I love these posts by Matt - big data exploration and statistics for nothing more than the joy of it. Great stuff! In this one Matt explores terms that frequently occur together like "Darth Vader".
Augustine's Laws is always worth a reread as well.

[http://www.amazon.com/Augustines-Chairman-Lockheed-Corporati...]
Google also asks me repeatedly for my phone "so I can recover my account" and for security reasons.

I'd rather lose my google accounts altogether than link any of my main phones to my gmail account.
It required the (still) shitty iTunes software, locked you into proprietary hardware, and had limited audio playback features in comparison to its competitors (lack of on-the-fly play queues). A music player it was, but I could (and still can't) take advantage of its storage for whatever else I wanted not could I take it other people's homes and use it to share stuff.

None of those are trivial points.
Thanks for the breakdown. It looks like you've put some significant time into getting those numbers and I'm going to keep them for future reference.

Our approaches aren't all that different as I cook all my meals at home now, but because I've forced myself to do this, I allow myself to buy whatever I want at the store. This gets especially expensive at the specialty meat store.
> The problem is so many want luxuries brought to them on a silver platter.

Yeah, but it's not like they just want these luxuries for no reason. In a consumerist society, we indoctrinate them from birth to want things.

The "winners" in our society win in part because they are able to convince the "losers" to buy stuff that they don't really need.

It's pretty awful and dishonest to then have the "winners" criticize the losers for the very actions / traits that enriched the "winners".
It's actually base 10^7 :) The reason for that is that at the lowest level, the result of any operation on a single digit needs to fit in a JavaScript Number. Since you sometimes have to multiply two digits and 64-bit floats have about 15 digits of precision, the largest power of 10 that will never lose precision is 10^7 (because 10^7 * 10^7 = 10^14).

Of course, it would be more efficient to use a power of two, but using a power of 10 makes converting back and forth between strings (in decimal) quite a bit faster. In my original use case that was a large factor, so it's what I went with.
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Just sent the link to a friend who has a MakerBot and also knits. I said think of it as a MakerBot using yarn as its feedstock.
They also have another "feature" that works the exact same way when you sign-up with an e-mail address that someone had in their address book and used the "Import contacts from feature". You can try this with a fresh account. I'll be writing a blog post about it, as well, soon.
VoRDom.com, Free Your Boredom. Check it out, and let me know what you think?
"Sadly, I could have found out all of that by simply asking him before offering him the deal."

Wow. Really?
I'm surprised you named a product designed to be spoken by name something so unpronounceable.
Home Theater Speaker Placement
This will give you an idea on how to place your home theater speakers for better entertainment experience.
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Hacking the Brother KH-930e Knitting Machine
Another Markdown editor for Windows, that I've been using: DownMarker https://bitbucket.org/wcoenen/downmarker
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Sorry, no. I led AOL's mail team in the '90s, and we had the same philosophy. Many, many complaints about lost e-mail, but it was Necessary And Right to block spam, our #1 complaint. (In fact, we once got sued for trying to deliver the bounces back to the spammer.)

We were wrong. It didn't really block much spam; from the very beginning, spammers had "quality control" bots checking delivery rates of their spam, and they'd adapt to new algorithms within hours, demonstrating just how well they could monitor their black hole rate.

Early this decade, the technology to do efficient blocking "at the edge" was finally implemented, and boom - no more lost mail.

Silent bans are really just a way to exert power. They achieve nothing.
maybe it used to be how apple did things, but it is most certainly not how apple does things now. look at their most recent new product line - the iPad. it was not a device that needed iterating on, as evidenced by the iPad2 being virtually the same thing.
I think it's great! Mou plays to the strengths of OSX, MarkdownPad plays to the strengths of windows: they both have UI's that 'fit in properly' with their native environment.
I've always found that ST feels slightly out of place in windows (maybe less so on osx).

Also, thanks a lot for releasing MarkdownPad. I've been looking for a markdown editor for windows that i could recommend for my markdown-driven presentation app that i'm working on at the moment, looks like this is it! Expect some inbound linkage :)

Oh, and once it gets out of beta, don't be shy to charge for it! (even if you open source it, too - i'd pay $5-10 to save the hassle of opening up VS).
I didn't realize users' stuff was hosted on subdomains. Ok, I'll unban nodejitsu.com.

We don't ban sites lightly. We only do it when people make repeated, deliberate efforts to bypass lighter weight protections. Human mods can't watch every upvote 24x7, so if a site seems really determined to hack their way onto the frontpage, the only thing we can do is ban the domain.

I'm happy to unban nodejitsu.com if you promise to stop trying to game HN. In your case I recommend the following standard for what counts as gaming HN: if you're not sure, don't.
Comments from a previous time this was posted (three years ago): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=263599

"How do you find a good salesperson?": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=264282
I guess "hack" can mean anything these days, including "suspend from a bridge".
umm, it's supposed to be doing something?
40k :(
John Wiley's presentation at UXWeek, which this article seems to be a summary of, is available here: http://uxweek.com/2011/videos/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bobby_fischer_against_the_wo...
Haven't seen it yet but plan too! Looks like a pretty good chess related film.
AOL is a big enough target that it's worthwhile for spammers to write custom code. HN isn't, fortunately, so the technique works well here.
My "extracurricular" coding is at home, surrounded by a family, and the potential distraction aspect of not getting into the "zone" is near and dear to me. While I'd like to have a perceived endless block of time, I've learned to live without that bit. But I've not learned to get into the zone with the threat of interruption. I can do "light" coding activity, but for something in-depth I usually have to bolt to the library or a cafe for an hour or two. Yes it is time bound, but I know that no one is going to step into the office for "just one thing"...

(These jaunts only happen about once a week though, so the output on my hobby projects is pretty weak.)
I guess I am interpreting things differently. On learning that the "+" button is now used as the camera shutter button and that a number of people where having trouble with it I decided to run a little experiment.

I gave the phone to about a dozen people and, after explaining that they could press "+" to take a shot, asked them to do so. I did not suggest an orientation and went out of my way to not telegraph how they had to hold the phone.

Every single person placed the "+" button on the upper-right. And, every single one of those shots would display upside-down if you emailed it to someone right from the phone (and if viewed through other means).

My thinking is that the device is intelligent enough to know the orientation. There is no reason whatsoever for the image to be stored upside-down. OK, there's one reason: That's what the user wants. That unusual case ought to be covered with a suitable option. Otherwise the phone should always use the available sensors to store the image using the correct orientation.

Furthermore, and perhaps more fundamental than anything else: Why don't they allow the user to define where "up" is for each orientation. There really is no reason whatsoever to have a "mothership" impose this upon all users. This holds particularly true if you believe in that EXIF will save the world. If we take that as the truth, then let me define "up" as I wish and life is good.

The reason this came to the surface is that we were studying the design of an accessory where it would be desirable to have "up" be landscape with the "+" button on the upper-right. The fact that images end-up upside-down is making things a little less than ideal.
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Two data points:

There is a robot manufacturing facility , i think by KUKA, that is totally run by robots.

A robotics company is talking about producing a factory robot for $5000. if it's possible, it doesn't even makes sense to invest too much time in fixing these robots.
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Node.JS isn't a language, python is just as compiled as java is, etc.
Wonderfully captures the obsession many of us chess players have shared with the game.
Is An Automated Webinar System really Worth It?
I agree that the name is not easy but the good news is that you can call it whatever you want since Siri just sends a text to the contact you're telling it to, and you can call the Ixoth contact something easier to pronounce.
Outovate just won Lean Startup Machine and wants to know: "What's your problem?"
Number one rule of hiring: take up references
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GEM/KMS has already been ported. The code in the BETAs has worked on my machines. It looks likely to be available in the next release. htop is written for Linux. It only works on FreeBSD due to Linux procfs emulation.
First of all, that article doesn't refute my point that Social Security is an "investment operation that pays returns to its investors from their own money or the money paid by subsequent investors."

Secondly, the points the article does try to make are wrong, and the very first comment on it explains most of it. The article also suggests that things are just fine since the government can just raise taxes or reduce benefits to eliminate the problem, but doing so fundamentally breaks the promises that have been made to enrollees. You can fix the finances of any government program by paying less or charging more taxes, so it's kind of a silly argument. Social Security will probably exist forever, but its financial structure requires promises to be broken when population growth rates change (that is, when the rate of new inductees into the scheme slows).

This is off topic; I'm done talking about it.
The book is now available in Apple's iBooks Store. (just downloaded it, reading it now.)
You missed Orthdoxy. Really? The true Christian Faith, kept untouched and not-updated by modernity since Christ. You need to document yourself a bit more before such a poll.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodoxy
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Main_Page

Regards.
It's a text field, you can type whatever you want.
I still was able to replicate, albeit with some effort. Used a bobmail.info address, "Jake Doe", and had to have them actually call to deliver the pin.

Results were not that unexpected save one, but it seems like a friend of a friend.
Also known as a Normal Number, it is thought that most numbers are of this type. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number)
as an iPad owner, and friend of an iPad 2 owner, i have to say, the iPad 2 is clearly better in a handful of ways. the differences are small, but over a few generations they add up to huge differences. (well, they did in other product lines anyway(

That said, the original iPad was a far sharper vision than the original iPod. it's slowly becoming a dynabook, i think.
Want to be a developer at Microsoft Research in Cambridge?
> maybe it used to be how apple did things, but it is most certainly not how apple does things now. look at their most recent new product line - the iPad. it was not a device that needed iterating on, as evidenced by the iPad2 being virtually the same thing.

What about the iPhone? Launched as a 2G/2.5G (EDGE) only device, no copy & paste in the OS, no native third party applications, etc. Every iteration since then has added 'core' features that would be hard to live without now that we are used to them.
That is only for sending the SMS of secret passcode for account security, right ?

(Yes if they scrap someone's else phone and your phone number happens to be there then ya there is some issue. Is there any precedent of google scraping phones through any means ?)
Everytime you give options you 'suggest' answers ;) Come on... everybody knows that. Atheist is 1st. IMHO, no programmer can be atheist.
I'm more curious about how they hacked the officials. None the less, I think hack is now more or less generalized to doing that wasn't meant to be.
I agree, this was a good comment and a nice followup to the article.

The use of the 'disagreeing with a commonly agreed concept' pattern, whilst useful, can be overused leading to discussions that get railroaded by blockers that gain credibility through the perception of being deep, simply for sake questioning.

Climate change discussions jump to mind here. 'Skeptics' ride on their ability to question fundamental and long-agree d concepts from the ocean and atmospheric sciences. They seem 'deep' in that they have questioned base concepts but in the end their argument is always flawed. Others who perhaps haven't the background or understanding don't see any flawed argument, just a 'deep' questioning of these concepts and thus gain some level of credibility. This can cloud discussions and create mis-information in my opinion.
Good idea. Though I don't have Siri so I have no use for it at the time…

It feels that it should work like http://ifttt.com with recipes and pre-defined actions rather than having to code and host each webhook manually.

The difficult thing is that you don't get to benefit from Siri's ability to understand the meaning rather than the specific phrase said. Which means you either have to have your own engine or have a fairly specific list of commands for each webhook.

edit: (granted I understand this is a very early version) the thing with having to write your own code is that right now you're just removing one step from me doing it myself. I could get my own Twilio number, and do the sorting by keyword myself before running the different scripts.

edit: also, see http://tyranotext.com/
Devaluation of the dollar shouldn't have been a problem for foreigners who want to buy wheat. They would have had more favorable exchange rates (their own currencies would have appreciated) that would have covered the higher USD-denominated wheat prices.
The problem with this is that the high-end of programming salaries is the low-end of, e.g. medical salaries. Yes, there is more to it than that, but on this axis alone, programming actually does not come out on top. Those inclined to seek "absurdly high salaries" are inclined to skip over programming.
Maybe because it's a pain in the butt to install it? Honestly, I tried FreeBSD 8 two weeks ago, and until there's an easier to way to install it, I can't imagine many people will be interested in it.
Very interesting, looking forward to analysis of the results.