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The definitive reference book is "Modern Recording Techniques" by Huber and Runstein, which covers all areas of recording, editing and mixing in a rigorous manner. Plausible alternatives would include Paul White's "The Producer's Manual", or if you have no interest in recording techniques, Mike Senior's "Mixing Secrets for the Small Studio".

You should also take a look at the archives of Sound on Sound magazine, which are freely available via their website. SoS is a superb resource and they have serialised some really substantial tutorial pieces, most notably "Synth Secrets" by Gordon Reid, which is by far the best introduction to synthesis.

You'll want to abandon Audacity ASAP, because it's basically awful. The Digital Audio Workstation software du jour is Cockos Reaper, which costs just $60 and has a completely unrestricted trial version available. Comparable alternatives to Reaper are available, some of which are better suited to specific use-cases, but they're all vastly more expensive. I highly recommend reading the user guide of whichever software you choose, as all modern DAW software is extremely complex.
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You're right that close proximity to VC and tech scene is important for many people. I wonder if this will change going forward?

If a VC wants to a fund my company is the physical proximity of my office and their office really a deal maker/breaker? One of us can just fly to meet the other if the meeting has to be in person. I've actually never dealt first-hand with VCs so perhaps they require frequent in-person interaction.

Minor note: are there really that many bars in the US with Pliny the Elder and Blind Pig on tap? If so where are they. I'd like to live close-by.
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Hemp is a variety of cannabis that is grown for the fiber and seeds. The fiber and seeds is incredible valuable and is why hemp is often called a cash crop.
Did you notice the enormous performance improvement in Facebook's app when they moved away from that type of solution to a native one?
That's an issue with the survey, it's not clear what people in your situation chose.
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No. Apple has always been popular with intelligent people (whether they are technical or not) and it has always been the best choice for certain uses.

But things are changing. First they started selling mp3 players. Then phones. Now Etch-A-Sketches. And now we have CS PhD's getting defensive about their choice to use Apple computers. New types of users. New focus.

Xcode makes for "the best coding machines"?

You mean that's better than a machine that comes with a compiler already installed and ready to go?

With no certificates? And No hoop-jumping?

How is it better?
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Indeed. I was disappointed that the two prior submissions by other folks (the other was of the direct repository page) both had 0 comments. Figured I would resubmit it anyway during a more active time, given that it's genuinely worthy of discussion.
I don't understand. You used the P-Zombie as a reference for believing that there's something "magical" about consciousness. The magic of consciousness is quickly giving way to the research of neuroscience. So, why are you injecting an unfalsifiable philosophy -- which, by the way, is indistinguishable from religion -- into a scientific discussion?

To respond directly to your hypothetical apple, there are so many myriad ways of testing the existence or not-existence of a thing that hand-waving science away as agreement-by-consensus is premature (and wrong). Your hypothetical crazy dude could try immersing his apple in water and see if there is displacement; he could try burning it, measuring the light of the flame using a spectrometer, ask others to burn apples in the same way, and compare the output; he could attempt to infect it with insect larvae; he could attempt to power a small device with it; and so on. Science is not merely a matter of consensus, it is a matter of ever-rigorous testing.

Or, to put it another way: the closest thing that scientists have found so far to a "consensus" reality is relativity, and they found a way to test and verify it. If scientists can come up with a way to test whether or not time itself actually speeds up or slows down according to frame of reference, don't you think they could come up with a way to test for the existence of a magic invisible apple?

To get back to the article, I have to defer to Descartes: I think, therefore I am. And, I have thought about such things as MRI machines that verify the consciousness of the beings around me; their brains, the existence of their consciousnesses, is no longer a magical thing to me. I suppose it is possible that I am an element of some kind of incredible extra-dimensional simulation, but that's a very boring thing to imagine, because it doesn't in any way affect who I am or what I will do, or have done.

And besides, I think that one day scientists will be able to test that, too.

edit: here, I read the WP article you linked more thoroughly, so I'll just reference it back: I believe I would fall into the reductive physicalist camp, where p-zombies are impossible by definition. Furthermore, I think that the relatively recent work done in neuroscience -- work more recent than the idea of p-zombies, I would point out -- provides strong support for reductive physicalism.
> Copy to install is only for GUI apps.

That's the problem - you have two completely different installation methods, neither one of which is particularly UNIX-y, and neither of which is capable of talking to the other in a reliable manner.

> IMO is better than the usual package manager in a linux distro

It's incapable of handling binary installations, which is remarkable considering the hardware variation is far less than there is for Linux, it installs to /usr/local, it doesn't integrate well with language-specific package management tools, and it can't update system files.

> it doesn't litter the disk with init scripts or config files

I've never once had this problem with Linux; the man pages for any Linux package manager should provide a straightforward way of figuring out which package own which files.

> you always know where things are being installed to.

Because they're not installed to the right place.

I can't count the number of times an OS X package has told me that I need to add such-and-such folder to my $PATH. Hint: if you're requiring me to change my $PATH so that your installed file works, you're not installing it properly.
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Thanks. What are your views about Ardour DAW?
What about things like Titanium or RubyMotion? They compile to native and allow you to have a "unified" code base.
yeah i see bands.io is available too - unfortunately at $65 a pop, can't afford to scoop too many up!
"That quote was the sketchiest part of the article for me, because the same math was used to justify the subprime mortgage bubble."

Except that YC doesn't do this. They aren't funding 10x more startups and pg says he avoids finding out how many get funded afterwards because it's the wrong thing to optimize for.

To put it another way, there are a lot of ways to bring down post-Demoday funding to 30% and most of them are not going to be helpful. The observation just points out that given their high VC funding rate YC is probably not optimizing for the homeruns as well as it should from a financial perspective.
No. If anything, it will probably just get even more fragmented before the situation gets better. As we understand the features and architectures of package management systems better it becomes even easier to write package managers. This is a good thing long-term because we can more thoroughly explore the solution space before settling on a few "winners". However, at the same time package repositories are fundamentally a network effects problem because packages depend upon other packages, so the repository with the most packages offers the most benefit for each additional package because new packages can build on everything that already exists instead of bundling that functionality themselves.

The reason why I am skeptical of new entrants into the javascript package management arena is that there is already a package manager with over 14k packages and a vibrant community that is producing packages at a very high rate: npm. npm might not be the best package manager as-is for browser development, but tools like browserify (disclaimer: I wrote browserify), ender, or many others can let your browser code use much of the value that has already been created for npm, even though npm is primarily about node.js packages. A surprising number of modules written for node will just work in tools like browserify.

Any upstart package systems would be wise to have a clear and simple path for unlocking the value created in the node community because there is too much value being created in npm to ignore. Whether that path involves adding fields to the package.json, tools to bridge the gap between package repositories, fancy in-browser trickery or compile steps remains an open question but it would be really pointless to require people to publish their modules that they've already put on npm to buy in to yet another package system, especially since there seems to be a new package manager every month lately.
> “I can tell you, growing up there, I never heard that,” he said. Mr. Hersh suggested that an enterprising broker had simply decided the area needed a better name than what he used to call it: “Next to the sewage plant.”

Ok, I don't know it this is real or not, but it sounds exactly like this: Dowisetrepla: Downwind of the sewage treatment plant. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowisetrepla)
I guess because they're user initiated and not automated?
The problem is that restores of these backups literally take forever.
Not what I was expecting from the title but nevertheless, this is something I've been trying to tell my wife for so long now... The advances that we make ever day on this planet are so immense, so life changing, that "life changing" has become... routine.

People love to look at today and say "Where are the flying cars? Where are the meal pills and the Mars colonies?", completely overlooking mobile phones, microwaves, GPS and fiber-optic worldwide communication.

It's a shame really, that the "masses" simply don't see this and keep on living their lives like there's nothing to it.
It's really the most bizarre thing. They built a site with affordances for discussion (although the mods might call them attractive nuisances). It looks every bit like a discussion site.

The users clearly want to have discussions, and not just factual Q&A.

And yet when you use these affordances to engage with like minded people, you get shut down. It's become a game with myself when I go to an SO page to guess whether it's been shut down, and the result is often a derisive mental "yup."

And for the record, I prefer a rich discussion to an inferior imitation of wikipedia.
You think? I'm pretty sure they already have sufficient motivation to shutdown Silk Road, which for laundering purposes is essentially a bank. By what mechanism do you propose they raid Silk Road's records, assuming such even exist?
Caffeine matters—coffee creation method of choice at your startup?
The basic tradeoff seems to be: Quantity + speed vs quality + effort

We still haven't found the right balance. Here's our results so far:

# Nespresso
Pros: stupid simple; good-quality espresso
Cons: pods are costly and wasteful; can't get quantity you always want

# French press
Pros: high quality coffee (when combined with our burr grinder and fresh beans)
Cons: takes too much time and effort (set up, operation, cleanup) for every cup

# Melitta / other single-cup drip
Pros: basically the same as the French Press
Cons: ditto

# Drip coffee pot
Pros: easy; mass quantities
Cons: haven't found one that makes coffee well enough; doesn't taste good

# Local coffee shop
Pros: great coffee
Cons: huge fucking waste of everyone's time

The current best alternative I can imagine:
->Create a big-ass french press (size of a small child) and get a massive vacuum-insulated thermos to keep all the coffee warm for quite awhile.

^I mean that only half tongue-in-cheek

Anyone figured out a better solution?
But is it really irrelevant?

The GPLv2 has made it clear something can be made freely available to the public, yet still have redistribution conditions. So, simply being "licensed to everyone" does not also grant distribution rights to everyone.
Well, RequireJS is pretty solid for client side package management. With solid config files you can build out large client side applications that grab dependencies asynchronously, and it DOES work with everything.
Sadly, Apple and/or Google have the power to retard the adoption of HTML5 as long as they like.

"But ender7," you say, "both Mobile Safari and Chrome have great support for HTML5."

Yes, they do. Sort of. Except for the crippling bugs in many of their implementations. Some of these bugs render the APIs in question essentially useless on mobile. Or just a giant pain in the ass to work around. Or have performance issues so large that they are impractical for non-toy purposes.

How quickly these bugs (and perfomance issues) get fixed will have a huge effect on HTML5 vs. native adoption. So far, this seems to be happening at a rate of "meh". For example, iOS 6 finally fixed the bugs in its HTML5 History API that prevented anyone from using it in a real product. But they did fix it. It only took...a few years.
I can't think of top as a decent process monitor, but I don't blame debian for that.
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Interesting. thanks.

I relate to "I have a limited shelf life in a big company" I mean, I'm literally 1/10th the size of slicehost when they were bought, but I have gotten a few companies courting me for a buyout... The thing is, at this point, they want the company for me, and it's pretty clear that I... well, I might stick around for a few years, but working for someone else just isn't what I want to do.

I mean, I can be bought, like anyone, but I imagine that because I know this about myself? I kinda think that my attitude would scare off anyone that might buy us. I mean, to save time, I've actually come up with a formula for how much money I'd want; some lump sum dependent on the size of my company, plus another large sum for every year they want me to work for them, plus another (smaller) sum for every year they want me to avoid competing with them.

I dono. This was mostly to save time; I was hit with two courtships within a relatively short period, and felt I was spending too much effort on it, but eh... I dono. I haven't gotten other nibbles for a while, so it's likely that it's rare enough that time spent on it isn't a huge deal.

I've always taken Linode as the model for where I want to take my company; of course, I've gone off in kindof a different direction; I want to own a network, and a datacenter, while Linode has preferred to have multiple locations. (I mean, it's one or the other.)
I don't see what's hilariously off about that? If you look at the average number of people that a given real person follows, 100 probably isn't that far off. I'm not saying those are actually read by a human, but associated with that many, sure.

My point was that the grandparent was probably an order of magnitude or more off counting 70 million new messages per day as 70 million transactions per day.

I'm not saying they're doing things well, but it's pretty naive to think that you could build Twitter's infrastructure with <50 AWS instances.

You think the API is a trivial matter of spinning up some front end machines? From that presentation linked to above, they were getting 6 Billion API calls per day, or 70k/sec.

Besides that, all of these numbers are 2 years old, and according to those slides, they were growing at about 10x per year. It has probably slowed, but those numbers may all be much bigger now.
The article concludes with: "I don’t think you can build sustaining business on top of addiction."

The big tobacco companies and drug cartels would probably disagree with this statement. I'm not saying it's ethical to make money off of people's addictions, but cigarettes and narcotics sure seem to have been very profitable over the long term, and have even survived massive government action against them.
I'm trying to start a startup to make spaced repetition easier to use, without logins or downloads. My prototype is http://mrflashcard.com/ . Would something like this be more useful to you?
Also, assuming the site isn't brain-dead and invalidating the address, you can use email+site@gmail.com with any gmail or google apps address.

That + is frequently a cause of contention though, so I use a . (which was done via config when I ran my own mail server days gone by) and also have a catchall on google apps.
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and it DOES work with everything

... so long as you wrap all the files in the particular variant of define() function that works with requirejs (but not with other competing AMD function signatures). And then you might want to use some modules written for commonjs or node with `exports`, so you'll need a tool to transform those files. And then you'll probably want to compile the application into a single javascript bundle in production for performance.

I'm not saying bower is any better in any of these respects, just that everything is terrible.
We're probably just having a semantic disagreement. I suppose I am referring more so to the act of experiencing something.

P-zombie's are hypothetical people that lack a certain "property" (for lack of a better word) that other people have. This property is only testable on an individual basis. Since this property is not reproducible for agreement by consensus, you're right -- it isn't science. But it was never a purely scientific discussion to begin with anyway as we were debating the nature of consciousness/experience; no scientist does this as part of their job.

If you are referring to "consciousness" as a specific pattern of neural activity that occurs within the brain that can be studied, and from which additional correlations and predictions can be made, then yes, of course we are learning about that. We may even be able to simulate a brain in its entirety one day (heck, my research is in simulation so I can certainly see where it's headed [hundreds of years down the road I might add]). I don't think anyone on HN would dispute the improving science of neural analysis.
Some internet VC, I can't remember who, was answering some interview questions from a journalist recently and made a comment to the effect that, with respect to financing startups, capital is too concentrated. (Sort of like the returns from startups are so concentrated in only a few.) 100 million in one project instead of 10 million in 10 projects, something like that. If it were somehow possible to achieve, maybe the process of spreading out venture capital that he alluded to would involve some of it going to "unlikely recipients". Black swans. Non-technical founders with weak personalities. Or something even more unusual.

It might not yield any "big winners" (then again it might) but it would in either case produce evidence that we could use to try to disprove certain theories.

"highly profitable or highly entertaning to watch..."

or highly informative
An unopinionated approach like Bower is probably what the (client-side) JavaScript ecosystem needs, but all the same, what's lacking here is a philosophy.

What I mean: if I'm just using jQuery and two or three other JavaScript libraries, downloading those manually isn't a big ordeal, they're single files, already minified for my convenience, available on a public CDN if I want to use that in production, they usually have no dependencies themselves and I'm only inclined to update them to newer version if something doesn't work, which is hardly ever. All of these things make package management for the server a godsend but package management for the client sort of... meh.

Ender, on the other hand (and for all its flaws) does a good job of explaining how you can use it to approach libraries for the client more like you'd approach them on the server: tiny packages that do one thing well and that don't reinvent the wheel but where applicable build on existing libraries. Now that sounds like something I can get behind.

Similarly, if you read TJ Holowaychuk's ideas on package management in the browser (linked to by kreutz below, or at http://tjholowaychuk.com/post/27984551477/components) then you start to get an idea of, yeah, maybe it'd be cool to have these packages that are little bundles of HTML, CSS and JavaScript and together they make up a single interface element or something of the sort -- included in your project as-needed. Fascinating.

Bower, by comparison, sounds like "a thing that downloads things for me." It might just be the copy (rather than the idea) and maybe it's the tool we need to do what someone like TJ envisions, but it's not clicking for me right now.
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That's completely fine.

What I object to is the unqualified use of 'better'. You can't claim that vinyl is somehow 'better' when what you mean is that vinyl is perhaps more 'satisfying' on a personal level.

I personally disagree; vinyl's imperfections irritate me just as much as a low bitrate MP3 does.

To me vinyl's upsides are the large cover artwork, and the lack of an easy 'skip' button. Less exiting is the knowledge that every subsequent play will sound worse than the last, even if by a tiny bit.
Just to summarize, you're comparing against a point in the past where people consumed "deeper" information and view the world as being full of fluff and headlines, instead of deep content.

I would counter that people in the past had no choice but to read long form articles, because it was all the content that was available to them. It's not because they were more adept at digging deep into subjects.

All decisions humans make aren't rational, people are often running on autopilot and their interests are fleeting.

Frequently when people browse the web, they are looking to escape reality and relax. Comprehension and learning isn't the always the goal.

I believe people will always have deep interests in certain things and will seek out a greater understanding of it. It's a million times easier to do exactly that today as a result of technology - just as it has become easier to skim media for headlines, sound bites and tweets.

People have greater options of both.

I don't think the fact that people choose the easy option more often - now that its available - is surprising to any of us. Especially given the context of online consumption.

Improving the content doesn't necessarily mean it will change behavior.
Actually, the argument is that prostitution is illegal because it's immoral, and porn though effectively the same thing is also immoral but protected under the first amendment. Hiring a prostitute and recording it is legal so long as you intend to distribute it.
Let's take a step back and look at the goals of free software. It's not just to modify and tweak things I own, it's to allow me to modify, enhance and contribute that work back to the community.

By that yardstick, most textbooks and eyeglasses are not free.
I can't improve a textbook and put it online. I can't put my improved sunglasses on the market (even if it was non-profit).

So why are people revolted by a copywrited and patented (hence unfree) OS, but have no qualms using other non-free products?

Personally, I think free and proprietary products can co-exist. Both models produce innovations which ultimately benefit society.