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Avon Skin So Soft. The oil. Works so well that they turned it into bug spray. Never tried the bug spray, but I swear by the oil.
As someone that doesn't own any apple products, do you recommend any decent alternatives?

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Thanks for adding those, I was looking at them after I wrote my question. Its kind of hard to know which is a solid option from the reviews and what I'm seeing online.
Logic has been $200 for a while. Even though Logic uses Audio Unit plugins, I don't think there is really any substitute for physical hardware. You can get this to run a project on the cheap, but it's still going to cost you $1000+ for a good mic and +600+ hardware like compressors, limiters, equalizers, monitors, and mixing boards. Plus you have to get cabling, power conditioners and cases to hold and connect everything. My last "Home Studio" ran me nearly $10,000; Logic was the cheapest thing I had to buy and that's when it was around $700.
This seems to fall victim to the same "sin" as the original post - calling out the women in a way which could be easily misconstrued as a Playboy centerfold biography.
I completely agree. A recomputation of an experiment is not ensuring reproducibility of the scientific result. It's ensuring reproducibility of the individual experiment.

The analogy I have given is with cold fusion. If we could reproduce their exact lab setup then we could find out if the results were real - i.e. were not misread or anything, and assuming they were, have a chance of explaining the anomaly.

But no, it's not the same as reproducibility.
I've actually always wondered about this, and genuinely found the article interesting, especially for the 5 minutes it took me to read it. Now I'm more educated when talking to friends about Ramadan.
Snowden Submits Application for Asylum in Russia
Actually this particular story is just about Snowden, not the details revealed in what he leaked, and certainly not about your personal freedom from government tyranny.
Maybe CPython wouldn't have the GIL... maybe we would all ride unicorns to work!

(NOTE: this comment may have been written just to slam Python and the GIL... I hate it so much)
You cannot always be the first, especially when you aren't the one making hardware. I'd rather have Ubuntu doing what is currently is rather than thousands of Linux derivatives making slightly different variations of the same model on the same hardware it's been on since the beginning.
>> But this is exactly what I'm saying, the more taxes we pay, the more the government spends and create debt.

I'm not sure there's a causal relationship there.

>>The only way out of this vicious circle is _less_ spending, not more tax. We've been doing more taxes for 60 years and we have more debts than ever.

Lower taxes all round is a fine idea. Letting some multinationals off from their tax bill is not a step in the right direction to achieving it.

>> Ok, you're just not being honest right now just to win the argument. Or you're delusional.

I'm being totally honest, the effective tax breaks given to multinationals via their various international financial games are a market distortion that disadvantages smaller players and breaks competition.

>> I don't know in what world you live in, but here in France, the burden is already on the middle class. The rich are all domiciled outside of France where they pay much less (around 10 to 15%). A low flat tax around 10 to 15% would bring them back as they would have no interest in going abroad. Many countries have a flat tax

That list isn't a particularly prestigious club...

Many would say that they should stay abroad if they're not willing to pay to be part of the society we're creating in the west.

As a counterpoint, most people seem to agree that some small percentage of earners pay over half of income tax in most western countries anyway (the threat of rich flight is always used as an excuse not to raise taxes further). Any flat tax that brought in the same amount of money as the present system would relieve this burden from them. Any flat tax that didn't bring in the same amount of money is pointless to argue about because we could reduce the overall tax take in any of a huge number of ways.

Whether the absent rich would return in sufficient numbers to make any impact at all is really a matter of speculation.
Not sure if this surprises anyone but it surprised me when I found it - I use Google Analytics for iOS. Their library handles platform exceptions and I use it as a catch-all for ones I didn't see coming: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...

I also use Test Flight's reporting to do the same but I don't push that lib to production usually, where as the GA one is already handling analytics, so it ships.
nice to see some transparency
I'm not sure I'm satisfied with this answer, but I think it indicates where I am headed.

At one end of human interface design, GNU Emacs. It is so flat as to allow [nearly] complete freedom of expression by the user. The price? The ability to deploy an ad hoc set of abstractions creates the possibility of multiple learning curves and requires a sophisticated mental model to be maintained by the user.

At the other end, maybe something like the sliding rheostat on my toaster. It controls one thing directly and proportionally. It persists across machine states [i.e. whenever I am using the toaster I have direct access] and is functional - a given setting produces the same output (in terms of energy, if not of toastiness.)

What isn't good flat design is Apple's new calculator - or rather it isn't good redesign despite being executed in a flat idiom. It removes functionality by eliminating mc m+ m- mr. The end result is that for aesthetic effect, Apple has made the calculator less useful. It has reduced the user's ability to express ideas.

They have used flat design as a cop out. I am sure that they have data which indicates that most iOS'ers don't even know what mr does, let alone uses it. But the real design question is, what would people use, and the answer is probably something like parenthesis and square root and maybe a doubling function and a halving function and something which multiplies by ten...and notice I've got five buttons that they need to stick in their four column design?

See, this is the problem with skeuomorphism. Apple still wants to make something that looks like a pocket calculator, instead of crating an interface to a general computing device.

What would a really useful phone calculator look like?

Javascript or scheme [but probably not Python because of its semantic reliance on whitespace]. It wouldn't be Babbage's calculating engine as implemented by IBM in the form of 1930's adding machine. It would look more like Emacs than my toaster.

I've been thinking that the real future is between, User Interface design and Human Interface design. Is the future of our interfaces going to allow expression or only interaction within a loop dictated by the machine? Keyboard Cat can be trained to flip switches, but cannot express a musical composition. I look at the Apple calculator and wonder, where is the Integral key?
Never going to happen. Power, once gained, will not be given up without a fight.
Oh, please?

I don't know what you mean by "fun and diverse." Is it a clumsy euphemism for "we employ women and non-Americans"? Because I'm not hearing it.
Since most of the skeumorphic audio units are trying to emulate real life instruments and effects, having a similar interface actually makes them easier to use. It's great that I can pull up a fender amp in amp designer and it has the same controls and behavior I'm used to.
Sentry. We pay for them to host it.
Mosquitoes in China must be different to mosquitoes in northern canada, because they certainly are attracted to light here.
Except there are plenty of places that expect 50+ hours/week and pay 20% less than market at least. Likewise, I'm sure there are jobs that pay market or better and get close to 40 hour weeks.

The market doesn't work as efficiently as you imagine it does, nor could it since companies do all they can to hide what salaries actually are (i.e. imagine trying to buy fruit when nothing had prices, no one would tell you what they paid, and you had to negotiate in private for what they cost you).
http://www.deerflypatches.com/

I haven't tried them.
I wonder how much attribution can be given to the thought that many people keep their minds more active now with various forms of entertainment like games, smartphones, books, puzzles, etc.
Lookup failed after 1 name servers timed out or responded non-authoritatively

f.gtld-servers.net 192.35.51.30 NON-AUTH 0 ms Timeout after 3 sec
"There is a higher level of humanity to aspire to than yelling at one another like cavemen OR Machiavellian passive-aggressive faux-politeness."

Faux-politeness is exactly what Linus is criticising here and he definitely doesn't engage in it. And there is no evidence of him yelling like a caveman at this person. Are you referring to some other example? I'd like to see that. The only time I've seen him yelling and fully throttling someone is when they appear to really need a kick in the ass (multiple horrific offenses).
The Vietnamese figured this out long ago. Here all the cafes and outdoor restaurants have fans. They help with the heat too, of course, but also cut down on the bites.
The Plan for RSpec 3
you do not lock your door at home because the police can open it?
I can't imagine a future or situation where the NSA would possibly want or need this information. I could imagine US immigration or US health insurance asking for this information if they decided to move to the US, but in both cases, they just ask for the information before allowing you to use their services.

This article is almost a parody.
I self-published a book and built a platform around the sourcing for it.

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/authoritas.html

I answered a question on Quora about this general topic a while back.

http://www.quora.com/Self-Publishing/Are-there-any-self-publ...
I think DirectFB is a bad comparison, since AFAIK it was never used widely by any distro. I think people are right to worry that a new graphics engine will lead to loads of wasted work dealing with compatibility problems and other issues down the road. Based on the massive amounts of problems caused by the sound system zoo, I understand the concern.
1. I didn't find/read Sarah's up thread message. But the snippet implies somebody is (pick one of) sexist/racist/etc. Not necessarily Linus.

2. Accusing someone of sexism, racism, etc, is not "abuse". It is never an insult. If you get accused of it, consider being less sexist/racist/etc rather than taking offense.
Thanks for the link. I'm sure I've never seen it, but perhaps I am expressing the same zeitgeist.

The quote I was thinking of is:

"Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures."

-- Alan J. Perlis, Epigram 39*
Is No CM a specific choice? I've always used no-see-ums.
To be honest, I don't keep up with the internal politics or interactions between Linus and his crew.

What are examples of Linus not interacting "in a meaningful way with most of the people in it"?
I like the flexibility, but I would suggest you add a "generate GUID" button when choosing the group name in case the user does want a random URL, which seems quite likely.
What is it about Linux that people are afraid of when it comes to change? Change is the only constant anywhere.

You are welcome to be running an old distro on an old box because it's comfortable to you but please stop whining when stuff moves forward without you. There are plenty of people waiting down the road for more interesting things to occur and you simply don't get there by doing nothing but fixing bugs.
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San Diego Hacker News Meetup tomorrow (downtown near Comic-Con)
Broken_promise.js - A sad poem, written in Javascript
Exactly. And as evident by the US/Russian spy swap in 2010 [1] a transfer isn't out of the question. In the coming months, we may even see several undercover SVR operatives rounded up in the United States as bargaining chips.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegals_Program
This is a great!
~'A good CEO never forgets how to clean the dishes.'
F.U.D.

You said that Ubuntu is not "flexible" anymore, but now you are running OS X and Win8? Are you kidding me? It's like moving to North Korea because of NSA's spying.

The only slow part about Ubuntu is Unity, but if you try running OS X, Ubuntu and Windows on the same-priced hardware, Ubuntu will _still_ probably win. And you can easily replace it with "sudo apt-get install whatever-DE-you-want && sudo apt-get remove unity". After that, all of the bloat is gone.

For example, Ubuntu + XMonad runs _perfectly_ on a $200 Chromebook, which could not handle Unity.

Also, it may be a big surprise for you, but gasp Ubuntu is not the only Linux distro. You want fast boot time -- try Arch. Want a stable distro? install Debian. Need an easy-to-use distro similar to Ubuntu, but with a normal DE? consider Mint.

>Ubuntu's Unity had become synonymous to Microsoft pushing their Metro UI into my throat was a nail in the coffin.

I don't understand this. It seems like you dislike Win8 UI so much, mere associating of Unity with Metro caused you to stop using Ubuntu -- to switch to Win8?
I am working my way through the book "Running Lean" by Ash Maurya and his advice on setting up problem interviews and solution interviews is awesome (chapter 7 + 8). I combined the two templates into one interview because our product is already started. Still not selling, but learning focused.

I would definitely recommend "Running Lean", it could save someone a lot trial by fire.
Wow, really love that electronic mosquito bat! My girlfriend is a human version of a (mosquito-killing) HK-Aerial, and this seems like a good way to avoid some of the handprints-on-mirrors and bloodsplats-on-the-walls that can at times plague our pint-sized apartment.

I have a feeling she'd have a blast with this weapon. Thanks!
While not exception tracking per se, we use New Relic and we also log exceptions to a special Graylog2 stream. It's working very well actually.
My grandfather supervised the construction of bridges. I cannot imagine him using such words, though he also would not have knowingly allowed faulty workmanship to be done.
>without extra compensation

That right there is the crux of the issue. You don't work for free. Period. If it is expected that you'll be working long hours during busy seasons, then the initial salary offered should reflect that. If two people are getting paid the same salary but only one is expected to take overtime constantly, one of them is getting screwed.
GIMP isn't bad.
(My team owns product management for the Amazon EC2 instance platform)

I wanted to clear up all the confusion on this topic and am cross-posting on other threads where this has come up recently.

All the hardware underlying Amazon EC2 uses ECC memory. In our experience ECC is a necessary requirement for server infrastructure. We will be updating our detail pages/FAQs with that information.
I found 95% concentrations of DEET effective during multiple trips paddling in northern Canada. The alternative was to come back with inflamed skin easy an inch thick.

Buy the 05% DEET in the USA as Canada no longer allows concentrations over 30%.
Atlas Revealed: Boston Dynamics' Darpa Robot
"It" was referring to being publicly berated from your reply. Berating is angry criticism so I think it's fairly specific.

Ultimately it depends on what you're trying to achieve when you're talking to someone. There might be occasions when being shamed in front of the team is the best thing for the person but I'd suggest that they're few and far between.

As a manager if I act angrily towards you then regardless of what you've done I'd suggest that I've both failed - yes you might have done something which has annoyed me but I've then responded by handling it badly. The best I can say at the end is that I didn't start it. The twice I've lost my temper publicly at a member of my team my overriding sense afterwards was that I should have handled the situation better. Certainly in neither case do I think what I did got the best from the person in question (one I think viewed the whole thing with complete indifference, the other was demotivated by it).

In terms of the specifics of the research, it's been a while since I looked at it (back in my days studying). I recall that public was generally a greater demotivator than private but I'm not aware of anything that's been done on different skill levels - would certainly be interested in that. My gut feel is that while there might be differences constructive engagement in private would still be the most productive way of handling it - I don't think programmers and other skilled workers are that different to the rest of the world. If anything I'd suggest they'd be more inclined to dislike anything involving anger directed at them - after all, they generally have the option to go elsewhere so why should they put up with it?

The comments you make about everything being out in the open are interesting. I can see if the manager or other berater is untrustworthy that this could be a thing, but if there are overall issues of trust of that type I think that how this sort of thing is handled is largely irrelevant in the face of that much larger problem.
What a disgusting post. "Pay your dues just like I did". Just because you chose to be exploited with the hope that you'll some day get compensated for it doesn't mean the model is right. And your quip about where the highest quality innovate work comes from is unproven and probably unprovable.
My friend never gets mosquito bites, ever. His secret? _Be incredibly hairy_
Free HTML version of the Startup Field Guide
Show HN: Fluokitten - category theory in idiomatic Clojure
I really have to disagree here. I have a 9 year old daughter who should be able to ride to school, but the roads are not 'safe' for kids to ride on.

The problem with that 'cult' is that it is driven from a fear that once you provide segregated cycling infrastructure then, you as a cyclist have no right to use roads (Germany has done this).

This is a fallacy that keeps the majority of the population in cars. You need to make the 'perception' that cycling is safe enough for 10 year olds to use to actually enable people to begin cycling.

This is so much more about the general health, well being and safety of the general public than whether you are able to tank it down a dual carriage way while being passed by cars doing 70mph.
Is there any evidence that that affects things either way? (Genuinely curious)
That's why I said "the whole story". This article about Snowden seeking asylum is written only because Snowden revealed some nasty stuff about his government and now this government is after him. And this stuff is "nasty" for some people only because they have no way to escape or debate it. It is unilaterally imposed on them without any discussion. And those who'd try to disobey would face big troubles from federal government. That's why Snowden is in trouble and that's why people are interested in what happens about him.
This person is deemed unfit for office based on her genetic profile and our secret genetic standards. Commence leaking of PRISM data exposing her usage of a racial epithet in a chat 5 years ago.
It asks for my email address before it offers me anything.
I know perfectly well that all postal-mail envelopes are recorded, yes. But I have doubts that they're intercepting all envelopes heading to Wikileaks. You can attempt to make the envelope tamper-evident, you can buy the SD card with cash at some no-name Chinatown vendor, you can drop it in the mail at any mailbox in town, and you can encrypt all the contents with the public key. This does not guarantee that your message makes it through to Wikileaks per se, but it does make it really hard to trace to you.

If you'd like, you could also identify a separate, known Wikileaks sympathizer and mail the encrypted data to them, requesting that they forward it? They could be quite brazen about it, as they are at no risk of being identified. And there are many Wikileaks sympathizers in the world; the government may be scanning their envelopes but they're not inspecting and opening all of them.
Bush wasn't a weak leader. But he was a politician, and the people were demanding Something Be Done. I think he decided it doesn't matter that much whether or not yet another agency is created.
Just be who you are. If you are a no BS direct person then be that way. Conformity isn't a hacker trait. Guys like Theo and Linus would definitely be like this to your face too remember just because a few people here are scared of IRL confrontation doesnt mean everybody else is. Mathmaticians like
Grigori Perelman are the exact same way in person as they are when writing and calling out other peers to their faces.
You should definitely give Docker a try. Drop by the IRC channel and you'll find a great community ready to give you some advice.
I self-published a book on Regular Expressions...it's free, but people have donated a few hundred dollars to me:

https://leanpub.com/bastards-regexes

I used the Leanpub platform, which is more targeted toward technical writers, though it provides a great number of conveniences if you're writing something that is published in piecemeal.

I think the general advice is...get known. If you are self publishing, then you are on your own in terms of promotion. Put together a list of bloggers/sites who might be interested in reviewing your work and send it out. Create your own micro-site devoted to the book and publish excerpts that you think might stand on their own and generate interest.

Self-publishing is only easier in the sense that it is easy to put something out there. It doesn't make it any easier to get discovered or be successful
Don't know which is best but we used airbrake and getexceptional in the past and it had massive issues.
We now use BugSnag on 4 rails apps (ruby and js) + one node.js app and it just works.
Maybe instead of free online version you could try "pay what you want" approach? It takes the choice off the shoulders of your readers and increases the chance that the book will be actually read. Will it hurt the sales? I guess to the same extent that the online version (people can save the webpage as pdf anyway).
As used in Scotland for midges. I was wondering if it would work for mosquitoes too.
A Bill That Would Radically Improve U.S. Weather Prediction
No, they were merely stating that you can't easily test someone else's DNA using 23aM, despite the fact that we're shedding DNA everywhere.
Someday we'll have all that bacon for ourselves. Muahahahaha!
Apple sells Logic at cut rate prices to help sell their hardware. Other comparable packages cost much more. The music software business is pretty tough, but not as tough as this alone would suggest.
There's a theory in neuroscience which says that decisions are made unconsciously and only rationalized afterward.

The fact that you managed to describe "SHUT THE FUCK UP" as a slightly less polite version of "No." leads me to believe that this theory is quite plausible.
Yes!

Having HTML and CSS that doesn't validate is fine if you understand why it isn't validating and you understand the consequences.

In my opinion the robustness principle (be generous in what you accept) is harmful for the web; there's a lot of broken markup lying around.
I usually don’t swear, but rather ignore people quickly and/or make my disregard for them or what they say very clear in a ‘civilised’ tone; furthermore I tend to avoid getting emotional.

That, of course, doesn’t mean I want others not to swear, not everyone has to behave exactly like me for me to be happy :)
There are plenty of alternatives to Logic. Check out Cubase, Ableton Live, Studio One, Sonar, Reason, Reaper etc.
Who wouldn't enjoy working alongside a sexy French or Italian girl (or guy, no homo). Considering most engineers are men it makes sense to appeal to them in this fashion. Sex sells, duh.