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We don't have peasants in America! We're a capitalist workers' paradise...

I for one would hope that the CCP would paint a more balanced picture of the dynamics of class relations in the US! ;)
I notice that you rotate through images on the main page if I sit there long enough. Why not let me move back and forth through those manually?

The name of the free plan seems a bit odd to me, any reason why that was chosen over "Starter" or something? Also, you may want to highlight that this plan is indeed "Free" instead of "$0.00" - just a thought.

The plan selection seems a little bit disconnected with regards to where it is located and where the plans are listed. Maybe you could use a radio button or something on the plan list for selection.

I'll echo others on so much info for signup. At the very least show me how my twitter credentials will be used.

Overall though, I think it looks like a very promising tool. Something which I'll certainly consider in the future.
I felt the same way. Quick antidote here: http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/6278166_YCdn5
That command will take several hours to complete and write lock the table.
> Restore deleted items to original folders: If you put an item in the Trash, then change your mind, you can restore it to its original location. Just select the item in the Trash folder and choose Put Back from the File menu.

Well lookitthat! They finally got around to making OS X's finder behave like MacOS's finder, bringing it into the 1990s. I think I used this feature twenty years ago.

Apple claim they don't copy Microsoft. Why should they, they are busy copying themselves!
In an economy that is as abstracted from items of real value as ours is, it's "over" when enough people think that it is over, which makes the title all the more ironic.
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> Isn't Europe helping out the US in Afghanistan?

Yes, but that doesn't tell us which way the net benefits are going, it just says that Europe isn't completely dead-weight.

> Can you cite a source stating that US is defending Europe ?

Defending Europe is NATO's reason for existence.
What Drives Consumer Adoption Of New Technologies?
Rather a silly strongly political post - I've flagged it as not relevant to HN.
I was rather underwhelmed by this book, which has somewhat blunt policy prescriptions (eg. stop accepting foreign aid, take chinese money, issue bonds, etc) for what probably deserves a more nuanced and considered approach.

I think Shanta Devarajan's assessment of the book is spot on (this guy is the chief economist at the African world bank) - http://africacan.worldbank.org/a-partial-defense-of-dambisa-...
I think that you ha ve a good point of view. But I think that it is normal for bands to sell their own stuff on the concerts, etc. http://mashable.com/2009/02/20/josh-freese-album-promotion took it step further and he is selling package for USD 75K. Do you see it too greedy? I think that fans are ok with it, but there is a problem, that similar package can be bought just by few guys.
I've been waiting with baited breath for the BBC to offer it's content on the web internationally too. (They are in talks with google about this supposedly). It's a MAJOR bummer that we can't access Channel 4 or the BBC on the web here in the states. It's actually really really frustrating.
"Oh, and I would rather stab myself with a fork than play punk." good for you, but music should be emotive and a 20-minute Neil Pert drum solo is hardly emotive. If you equate technical mastery of an (needlessly expensive) instrument as the sole determining factor of musical enjoyment, I feel sorry for you. I cannot see the appeal of some technical wizard like Yngwie Malsteen. It's really, boring music at its core. Instrumental competence does not mean good song writing.
Now you got me nervous, I am gonna check on my entire posting history daily, to make sure you didn't reply to me.
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I've played Irish Traditional music on the tinwhistle for over 20 years. I've taught it in schools that are part of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann and qualified to compete in the All-Ireland. (And never stood a chance. I'm agog at how much musical talent there is in Ireland.)
Tenor and Soprano Sax, Electric and Acoustic Guitar, Flute, plus lots of synths, sampling, electronic production. Style is mostly rock in a broad interpretation of the meaning of the word. This is a before work in the morning, after kids go to sleep at night activity, though. If I could just give up on that sleeping part in between....
Guitar, bass, keys/electronics (laptop, Tenori-On), and I sort of sing a bit. Used to play violin.
I sing in a couple opera companies in New York City.
He's a damn TUTOR! Most people get by knowing little math, but if you paid me money to teach it to your child, you would be foolish to overlook evidence that I didn't know it myself.
Furthermore, the tutoring business is very tough. I bet the problem solves itself within 24 months.
I play guitar. I'm always in a band or two. Mostly synth-rock bands. Lately, I've been trying to put together a cuddlecore-twee-grindcore thing with a lot of moog. We'll see how that goes.
> The motives were not at all the same, and they had very different results.

Yes, the results of colonialism were significantly better for the colonized.

However, to be fair to the folks who think that intent matters even when the result is a horrorshow time and time again, the colonial-era missionary work was significantly more effective than post-colonial non-religious aid. Then again, the post-colonial missionary work has been more effective than post-colonial non-religious aid.

That's not to say that missionary work has always been a great thing. On the other hand, beating the record of non-religious aid isn't all that hard.
piano/keyboards - have my eyes on one of these: http://www.clavia.se/main.asp?tm=Products&clpm=Nord_Stag...

by the way, 4 part series on music theory that's worth a watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnbOWi6f_IM
http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science
Customizable Services menu and Service authoring from Automator is just awesome... but it's a long time coming! Most people don't even realize the menu is there.
You may want to peruse your comment for spelling errors. I count six.
I'm told coordination efforts with, for example, inferior air forces, are often more costly than doing it alone. Compare it to coordination efforts between, say, Microsoft's marketting department and a local food blogger. They don't operate using the same methods.

Ohh, and US defending Europe, the best example: the cold war. It was decades of US military buildup largely to ensure they could invade or nuke eastern Europe if they invaded first. South Korea is another example of a military that is smaller because we keep a potential invader away.
It’s a safe bet you’re attending too many meetings
I'll be surprised if the DoJ tries anything much on Google.
I'm fine with complaining about the bill. I think military spending is ridiculously high in the US, even accounting for the benefits of helping others.

It's just that you can't look at spending and get a good picture of the militarization of the culture. That counts doubly true for smaller arms. The cost of a carrier group is roughly equal to giving every citizen a gun.
Agreed, I'm definitely looking forward to the updates to xcode. I'm even more excited about OpenCL...
Ask Hacker News: Online BS in Comp Sci?
Hey folks. I have a BA in a non-computer related field... and almost ten years experience messing with computers-- mostly coding database apps, doing tech support, and some sysadmin type duties. About 5 different hats at any given job.

I notice that most of the more interesting type jobs use the BS in CompSci to weed out people like me and I'm kinda sick of it.

I don't want to quit work to go back to school... flexible online type courses would be great... but... are there any that are any good? My impression is that these online diplomas are a joke.

I hardly know where to start in looking at this stuff. I'd like to have my coursework improve my GPA... and then later have the option to keep working towards a Master's if possible.
Japanese camera buff builds 130-megapixel scanner camera for next to nothing
Migrating from Microsoft office to openoffice.org
I am not a hacker by any means, but I do have a band.
If you want to check us out I would love to hear your thoughts: www.myspace.com/augustmoonis
or you can download our whole EP for free here: http://www.ifyoumakeit.com/album/august-moon/strategy-truck/

Unfortunately we never play shows (tonight is the first in 6 months) since I have moved off to Chicago from Louisville, KY where we originate. But it is always fun when we get a chance.
As an animator and graphic artist I'm dubious at best about the claim that this can "Convert 2D movies into 3D". Current technology simply can't do a good job of this. As for viewing 3D without the need for glasses, all current systems for this rely on a diffraction grating over the screen which delivers a different image at slightly different viewing angles (think those old '3d' baseball cards). This technology would actually work pretty well in a laptop application becasue the primary limitation is the very specific viewing angle needed, and with a laptop you are virtually assured that the viewer will have the ability to view the content from a dead-center angle. The downside is that the diffraction lens degrades the image for normal 2d applications.
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Technical wizardry may be boring to you but a lot of people really enjoy it. I agree that instrumental competence does not mean good song writing but the high of music is where those two skills intersect.

There is nothing boring about a Buddy Rich drum solo.
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NEVER send my password to me in plain text. Every site that does this, I immediately lose confidence in.
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Citations, please?

It seems I'm always seeing celebrities pontificating, news stories mentioning doctors donating time at African clinics, and media spectacles like USA for Africa. We see articles about programs aimed at reducing suffering from malaria, and at AIDS education.

It thus appears to me that much investment is being made. Can you quantitatively show otherwise?
I believe remembering reading in the arc.news code or somewhere else that comments close after 100 days for all posts. That would probably mean all comments then. I may be wrong though.
Hmm, didn't fix my iPhone client. Try again!
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You can get the public timeline from here: http://twitter.com/public_timeline

Note that one can delete a message, which could explain some gaps.
Don't the monthly plans differ in price as well? I could understand the $99 option if it was the only cost difference between a flip phone and an iPhone.
Organ, piano, bassoon;
used to play the first two at weddings/funerals/receptions and substitute-play at various churches. I'm not so good at the bassoon.

My favorite is chamber music, but I haven't even had time for jam sessions the past year or so...
Nit-pick-mode enabled:

The font in the "Lean. Clean. Agile Machine" are a little aliased. At first I was willing to overlook that, thinking you had embedded fonts, but seeing that it's an image, and a background-matching JPG at that, it could be easily fixed.

Otherwise I like the look of the site (though I haven't had much chance to use it yet.) The "Login" and "Password" areas look a bit off. I'd either shrink the text inputs or increase the font on the label. Also, the gold border on focus just sits wrong with me. These are of course, personal opinions, so please confer with others to see if I'm the oddball, but it strikes me as overlooked.

Regarding the copy, "a web-based software" also strikes me as off... perhaps replace with "a web-based application?"

Also the footer doesn't match the page alignment of everything else. If it were my site, I'd bring the left and right margins in line with the rest of the site, as they're otherwise hard to find.

Aside from that, I'll parrot that it needs a "Try it now" type of button somewhere, and you should probably lean down what you're asking for at registration-time. I usually try to restrict registration questions to only the things I really need to make the software work, which is usually less than 5 total questions.

Altogether though, it looks solid, and I look forward to playing with it more.
Timely article, after I (a mechanically disinclined person) just replaced the thermostat on my '93 Camry -- a simple job for most, but hard for me. And a very interesting read.

>The fact of the matter is that most forms of real knowledge, including self-knowledge, come from the effort to struggle with and master the brute reality of material objects — loosening a bolt without stripping its threads, or backing a semi rig into a loading dock. All these activities, if done well, require knowledge both about the world as it is and about yourself, and your own limitations.

I think that most programmers can agree that mastering programming is much of the same -- struggling with and finally mastering the known - and unknown - limitations of the tools we are using. In that regard, we are doing exactly what the mechanic does.

You could rightly argue that the knowledge the mechanic gets can be applied in far more places -- bolts hold the world together, and understanding how to properly loosen one can come in handy. That tricky LDAP bug I solved yesterday doesn't apply to many other places.

The article goes on to discuss the process of rebuilding an engine -- an intricate, hands on task. But the description also points to the mental problem solving that takes place. The mechanic must have a mental model of an engine, so that seeing a small distortion or a slight bend raises an alarm of future problems. Programmers use those same mental models on a daily basis.

My father always says that you don't pay a mechanic to fix your car. You pay a mechanic for their knowledge - their ability to recognize odd operating conditions, their ability to know the internal processes and figure out where the system is failing. That's a good mechanic, and that sounds like a good programmer to me.

I'm not trying to claim that all programmers could be good mechanics, or that the opposite is true -- I almost needed a good mechanic to replace my thermostat, and that's about as simple as it gets! I just think that much more overlap exists between these fields than we might believe.
i don't take a marker to anything i find on HN, yet i still participate in the community and read the submissions in an effort to look for Knowledge(TM).

shrug.
Acoustic guitar, mostly gypsy-jazz style (Django Reinhardt) and a lot of fingerstyle.

I play with some gypsy-jazz bands in Chicago and post YouTube videos here: http://youtube.com/adrianholovaty -- more than 12,000 subscribers! :-)
Looking at the tutoring company's website (which is home to a surprisingly awful rendition of the logo in question), it appears that this guy has degrees in science; maybe he doesn't tutor English?
Not really, given the odds it would be worth less than the Amazon card.
So I want to link techdirt - http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090426/1837134647.shtml for their (short) commentary on a (short) 1897 music piracy article from the NYTimes. (Direct link: http://www.bestactever.com/2009/04/26/the-long-war-music-pir...)

http://www.newstatesman.com/music/2008/12/public-century-com... gives a better overview of how the problems of music today are the same problems as back then. This includes a deal of piracy and stealing of works, and also mentions the other problems copyright introduces, such as the dilution of quality. Dickens and Haydn could have created greater works if they weren't focused on public patronage for money.
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Things I wish could be fixed with 10.6

- Cut and paste a file (no you can't with the finder)

- Maximize the windows

- This annoying audio "pop" I can hear when my Macbook's line out is connected to a hifi system and no sound is playing.
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I think it'd make the test just as easy, but more stressful. Since the questions are not difficult, I would worry that my answers are being interpreted as a test of what I think rather than how I think. Maybe this is just semantics, but I think difficulty of an exam is irrelevant of what it will be used for.
I wrote a piece on them last year which also had some good discussions on it on they HN page:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=253569
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Does Rock Band count? I'm Expert on guitar and bass. ;)

More seriously, I do sing some and I took a few years of African drums.
I sing. I took voice lessons for many years, and was "president" of my high school choir for two consecutive years. I love jazz and adult contemporary. I sang two songs at the Green Mill Lounge in Chicago: "Come Fly with Me" and "Summer Wind." I can also play guitar; I took lessons when I was a teenager. I also taught myself the electric bass, including the slap-and-pop technique. And, I taught myself the piano, which I love but don't play as much as I would like.
"For Tiger users with an Intel-based Mac, the Mac Box Set includes Mac OS X Snow Leopard, iLife '09 and iWork '09 and will be available for a suggested price of $169 (US) and a Family Pack is available for a suggested price of $229 (US)."

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/06/08/apples_mac_os_...
That's actually eye-opening! I had no idea OS X lacked such basic features (and had such a "pop" bug).
>> // We at anti-sec, hope you never heal :]

I hope I'm not the only one who thinks that this is taking things too far. Compromising his server is one thing, compromising his health and delving into his personal life and exposing the details of others who have no relation to this little vendetta is another. Personally, I hope whoever is responsible gets caught.
They can’t be learned simply by following rules, as a computer does; they require intuitive knowledge that comes from long experience and repeated encounters with difficulty and failure.

It's hard to try to refute this without sounding like I'm just defending my tribe, but I have to call bullshit on this one. The person who thinks that working with computers doesn't require intuition derived from repeated failures has had very limited experience with computers.
I think a lot of people might skirt or ignore 'the letter of the law' kinds of regulations, but ignoring the spirit of the law is more likely to be a dubious way to start a business, and often a good way to get in real trouble, rather than just harassed by bureaucrats.
I play the computer, using my own programs to make-create music. Playing a standard instrument bores me(too much repetition).
This is a very interesting article. I've seen a few families I know push kids into college who were clearly better suited for blue collar work. That just frustrates the kids and the parents who don't understand why their kid just doesn't fit into the college mold. I'm hoping to encourage my children to take whatever path makes sense for them and not force them to be anything that doesn't work for them. I hope that the US starts producing things again and thus blue collar labor is valued more so that kids who aren't really meant for college always have a respected, valued place in society.
Co-creator of Django here, everyone. "Mad props" to you, Mr. Holovaty, for Django. Oh, and your guitar playing is great.
Nothing the fail whale can't fix ;-)
Piano (classical/jazz). A little djembe too.
Have a solo band: http://werenotthecoolkids.com

Kind of pop/noise/experimental; to put it another way: a noise band playing pretty melodies.
Yeah I was coming to post the same thing. I "kind of" feel bad for this guy. Granted he might not be the most ethical of people, this might be going a little over the line. I wish I knew some back story as to why they are going after him other than just the fact that they run a crappy site (astalavista.com).
I play on harmonica, blues mostly
I play drums, trumpet, accordion, guitar, bass, keyboard, banjo, and whatever else I get my hands on.

Putting together a complex song with audio software -- wiring together effects and virtual instruments and tweaking MIDI programs and settings -- feels remarkably similar to working through a medium-sized software project.
I've been playing guitar for quite some time now. How did you go about learning gypsy-jazz? Do you recommend learning "simpler" forms of jazz first? I could use a challenge.
Whoever controls currency, has the power. This fact alone assures that governments will never allow wholesale the wholesale success of any company that seeks to usurp state-governed currency models as the de-facto means of transactional debt payment. If it wasn't illegal in the first place and he had become successful, it would have been outlawed at some point.
I agree, but this is a harder problem than it sounds. What's satisfying to the musician and what's satisfying to the listener are often different. Many musicians are interested in things that are hard or unusual to play. But most great music is simple or at least has an emotionally accessible, simple core. To have both an intellectual/technical engagement with the instrument and an emotional engagement with the listener is not always easy. The intellectual side is seductive, especially for the hacker type of musician.

The greatness of punk rock was that it swept aside (or more precisely pissed all over) bombastic competence in favor of immediate vitality, which is much closer to what music is all about. But something like that inevitably becomes a formula and then you have the worst of both worlds: stupid and boring.
What I get out of this review is that the author has come to an understanding that it feels good to work with your hands. And I agree. I like working with my hands too. I've renovated my house, built a chicken coop and shed. I've built a stone patio and change the oil in my car. These things can be difficult and time consuming but very rewarding, and you certainly develop a respect for the skills it takes to do these things professionally.

However, I would never choose to do these things as a full-time career. I like being a "knowledge worker" and manager and all of the challenges that it entails. I also enjoy the freedom it gives me to choose to do manual labor when I want to. I'm friends with a house painter, general contractor and two fisherman. The painter and fishermen have VERY demanding jobs and worry (now that they are in their 40's) about how long they can continue.

These types of articles and books surface from time to time and they always seem to romanticize blue collar work. In my opinion blue collar work makes a great hobby but in real life it is hard and physically demanding work. I'll happily keep my desk-jockey status.
I get the sense that the "correct" answer is correct because it's state-sponsored.
With all the 64-bit happiness: does anyone know whether the first Intel Core Duo (Yonah)-based MacBooks are still supported?
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I don't think the author was specifically targeting computer scientists, engineers and programmers. Rather I assume he was referring to the millions of jobs that rely on the computer for their every day tasks (e.g. lawyers, bankers, etc.). I hope this doesn't come across as argumentative because I agree 100% with your assessment with regards to developers.
I figure many twitter apps are written with SQLite as their database (in AIR, etc) so the Integer, Primary Key, can get up to 9223372036854775807

http://www.sqlite.org/faq.html

What is the point of creating a website like this?