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Richard Stallman, free software and voluntaryism: thoughts after dinner
PushStart decelerates seed funding
That was exactly my point. If you pay $500 per channel, and maybe $1k for monitors, $1k for the computer, $1k for a MIDI controller, that's already $6k. Another $4k could easily get eaten up by room treatments, misc hardware like mic stands and cables, control interfaces, patch bays, etc. So $10k is reasonable, and if that's reasonable, then the difference between $200 Logic and $60 is not all that great.

Never mind the fact that if you actually earn a living doing this, the Reaper license is $225 anyway.

P.S. I think the $50 for a cheap mic is too low, and $100 is the lowest you should pay (probably for an SM57).

P.P.S. There are lots of ways to mic a Viola, no need to get a special Viola mic.
Or just install it on a Linux VM!
You can use it for all kinds of things. I use it for automating repetitive UI tasks. Say, taking a high-hat track, finding a high-hat transient, splitting all the drum tracks on that point, grouping those drums takes into a group for editing and moving onto the next transient. That's a bit derived, but anywhere where you find yourself manually repeating UI actions over and over again, you can save yourself hours by scripting it. You can save your scripts as actions and then even bind them to a key.
Inre #6 ("Spend your money on experiences, not stuff"): personally I have really bad memory... so I'd rather spend my money on stuff so that I remember it. Experiences I enjoy, and then as the years pass I remember them less and less.
That sounds right. But, to get the numbers in the www page, you can't just measure where it is. You have to about predict where it will be, which requires forward integration of a motion model for all the mass in the solar system. The paper I referenced cites Mars range measurements, and related measurements, as a check on this forward integration.

Planetary radar is another option for a ground truth check even if you don't have a radio source (like Viking) on or near the planet in question.
In Perl wouldn't the /e modifier live outside the replacement string, as part of the literal regexp, and therefore out of harms way? The issue here is the "/e" modifier in PHP can be injected in to a context where the programmer didn't expect it. The preg_replace function should take the eval modifier as a flag parameter.

Perl does have a ?{} eval expression, but it has to be enabled with an extra 'use' directive. The documentation also suggests enabling taint checking or "constrained evaluation within a Safe compartment".

Contrast this to PHP, where /e appears to be on by default and there's no mention of it whatsoever in the documentation, except in the change log to say it's deprecated in 5.5.

Also PCRE, which PHP uses, is a C library... so I doubt it has any eval functionality. PHP implements this on top of PCRE to mimic Perl.

No I'm afraid it's another shoddy PHP design decision to blame here.
Motorola Tells Seattle Judge Microsoft Sucker Punched Them
You seem to be spinning it the same way the participating companies were.
In your case, would you like to wear a brainwave sensor, so to manipulate your laptop directly ?
How Scientology changed the internet
It could certainly be messy, and the distraction of threatened, pending, or active lawsuits are not anything you want to deal with while starting a company.

Also, your reputation may be at stake as well, along with your relationship with the company managers/founders. Without knowing specifics (which you probably shouldn't share), this doesn't sound like a great idea.

That said, it's not the end of the world, just a very big potential thorn in your side.
Yes, it's funny how badly perspectives have been skewed. The USSR was a much more serious threat. Either they could've participated in a nuclear war leading to billions of deaths, or precipitated a land war in Europe that would have led to mere tens of millions of deaths the old-fashioned way.

Terrorists simply don't have that kind of destructive capacity. It requires a modern industrial state; they don't have that. And once a modern industrial state is acquired, governing elites are curiously reluctant to sacrifice it on the altar of pure ideology.

So why more money is spent on terrorists than communists is a bit of a mystery to me.
Stallman is good with code but he should stay away from politics and social issues if he's unwilling to evolve from the Law of the Jungle.

> Well, Richard's statism shows. He's very honest about being a statist (he even said something very humorous: "I'm a statist. I have a pro-state gland."). Richard refused to talk about voluntary solutions to social problems. I even tried to ask him "What would it take for you to be persuaded to change your mind about the state?" and he cut me off.
Yep, we're working on this as well! :)
A very good friend of mine is into glass business, the other has a motorcycle business, one is a housewife, another worked as, well i am not sure what she does since she left the country, but I know she is into climbing and diving. I have other good friends doing something different from me and I have technical friends too. We all don't have much in common but WE ARE VERY GOOD FRIENDS!

Friendship is not based on having something in common or having meaningful conversation. It's much deeper than that. When my friends and I get together, we don't talked about our achievements or failures. We just talked about whatever there is to talked about. Most of it is nothing interesting. We just enjoy the company of each other with a couple of beers and pizza.

As we grow older out commitments change. We get married, start a business and so on. We have responsibilities. We don't get to hang out often but our friendship remains.
As always, you can see past presentations on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbxKJC9zZJ9C7YDYuZ3m59Q
Great post! I have much of the same motivations, which keeps me persevering towards my goals.
Anchorage is south.
To sue? Maybe, maybe not. There are companies who finance patent lawsuits.

To negotiate a settlement? Ahhhh, now we're talking. It's the flipside of patent trolling.
Clickable link to PDF:

https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/filenode/firstunitar...
The thing to remember about "big companies" is that they don't just spontaneously come into existence at that size; with x-thousand employees, y-percentage of market share, and z-millions of revenue. They are grown, over years or decades, because they've done something right.

Worth keeping in our minds when discussing such topics, before passing them off as competitive or cultural failures.
How to use Private Methods in JavaScript
How the Tesla Model S is Made -- Behind The Scenes -- The Window - Wired
Show HN: SMRZr – Summarize YouTube Videos
I would think that Linux financially scales better than Windows, which is why Windows Server + SQL is shrinking while Linux server is growing, and now Linux is the world's most popular system for servers, especially for highest-traffic sites.
Prescriber Checkup: The Doctors and Drugs in Medicare Part D
If you want a Portastudio feel with Logic, ditch the iPad and use a Frontier AlphaTrack: http://www.frontierdesign.com/Products/AlphaTrack
>In the end, it's no better than regular encryption, at the cost of being at least twice more inefficient.

He goes on to explain how to make it more efficient: If you need every "wheat" packet to reconstruct any part of the message, you can send a finite number of chaff packets (e.g. 1000) in random locations, which would make reconstructing a message of arbitrary length infeasible for an adversary that can't separate the wheat from the chaff other than by exhaustive search.
Can you though? What makes you think that you can cherry pick the intricacies of one's character and leave what remains intact? The passion that you see is likely intertwined so deeply in what makes him tick that it's the reason we even have Linux in the first place.

People are flawed, you can't expect to have the good without the bad. That's not an excuse to be a jerk, but one needs to step back and be objective about the package that the recipient of their personality critique is offering society. He's rather forthcoming about his value proposition as a person, and it can't be argued that it isn't a good one.

It's extremely selfish to intentionally create controversy and put your own personal feelings ahead of what he and his team are doing. On top of that, trying to turn it into a women's rights issue and getting the Ada Initiative involved is just shameful.
China's Food Scares
I reached these conclusions as a result of my own reporting:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57593538-38/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57588337-38/

I note you didn't actually allege I'm wrong. If you have evidence my representations are incorrect -- and this is HN, after all -- kindly say so directly.
A common excuse for not volunteering is "I can just donate money! My time's worth more than the minimum wage work I'd be doing, after all."

But this is so rarely true, especially when so many people are adopting the same mindset. The truth is, time you spend volunteering is generally not time you'd otherwise spend working, but time you'd otherwise spend on Reddit (or, you know, Hacker News) or something equally invaluable. Volunteering is also incredibly sensitive to word-of-mouth, in that if you get a few new volunteers and they come back, they usually bring their friends, colleagues, or at least some donations with them.

Besides, volunteering is like exercise to most people -- you invariably feel great after doing it.

(P.S. WP-SVBTLE looks bad. Not even talking about the philosophy behind stealing a design, the typography just looks sort of gross and this message might spread even further!)
Rule #1: all megacorps are, like Soylent Green, made out of people. If you want to sell something to Microsoft, you aren't selling it to Microsoft, you're selling it to one or a few identifiable people within Microsoft. The entity we think is Microsoft is the sum of the emergent behaviors of lots of little Microsoftite particles which are bouncing around in Brownian motion.

After you understand that, it's VASTLY easier to get Microsoft to give you money, and you might find that Microsoft (or whatever BigCo) you're dealing with considers More Money Than I've Ever Dreamed Of (TM) to be a fairly routine decision, in the same manner that you might decide to purchase a new keyboard.

In terms of communication style: learn to talk to business people. ROI and TCO over TDD and DRY, PowerPoint decks over README.md in your Github projects, wearing a suit when appropriate instead of making fun of people who own one, etc etc. It's really not hard to learn how to talk like someone if you listen attentively. You've done this your entire life in other contexts and other communities. Decisionmakers at BigCo are not intrinsically a more hostile audience than, e.g., your local freestyle rap club meetup thing, the rhymes are just different, yo. [1]

[1] I should stick to WoW metaphors, but you get the general idea.
Could cold showers be the solution?

http://www.artofmanliness.com/2010/01/18/the-james-bond-show...
You also have never created linux or anything on par with it, for free.

Neither have I, that's why my opinion of him doesn't count for anything.
Odd. It is almost word-for-word with a prior post on this topic but with no credit to the original author.
How about, "Turtles all the way down just like Emacs?"

I think you don't really have to come up with something revolutionary on top of the Emacs philosophy for it to be a very worthwhile pursuit. The things you mention plus the fact that it's as easy to get started as Sublime (or aims to) makes it a fantastic entry point for lots of new people into a tried, true and powerful way of working.

Sadly, it's not open source.
Can we discuss why mugshots.com is still the top result? Their main pitch is:

UNPUBLISHING SERVICE FROM

THE MUGSHOTS.COM DATABASE

HOURS OF OPERATION: 7AM -11PM EST

Which seems to be extortion. If they were a group of people deeply concerned about convicts in their midsts that would be a different issue, but they seem to be running a "pay us and we'll go away" business model, which it seems reasonable to beliebe the search engines should punish in the same way they do content farms.
Completely agree. I had the "donate money mindset" but I realized it was a weak excuse for my own laziness. Been helping out every Tuesday and it honestly does feel great.

Thanks for your feedback on WP-SVBTLE. Any suggestions for a good alternative?
The Win-Win Secret Formula
Interesting and cool, but burning cow crap is still lower-tech than an electric fan.
Back in the late 90s people used to walk around saying "GBQ": Get Big Quick.

Changing the name of the concept to "traction" doesn't change that cashflow matters.
Humans have been doing gene selection for millennia.
Although I did not quite agree with it completely: look out for #1 because that is what everyone else is doing. It explains a lot of behavior in a corporate environment.
Hi, I was developing for Android first and am now doing iOS. I do think that Android is a bigger challenge than iOS, primarily because you have to cater to many different screen sizes. Sure, you have the iPhone 5 which is taller than the other iPhones, but it's more about "clipping" the content for the smaller ones rather than "scaling" the UI up or down for a screen size and Android OS version. It's also heaven how you can have arrays and dictionaries (maps in Java) that contain different data types in Objective-C, even blocks of executable code!

I used to do just Java and knew no C or C++. Below are the references that best helped me to understand the programming philosophy of Objective-C (it's easy to learn the syntax, but why code is being written a certain way is different).

Programming in Objective-C (5th Edition) by Stephen Kochan
http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/032188728X

CS193P: Developing Apps for iPhone and iPad (Stanford, via iTunes U)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/coding-together-developin...
Important security update for iPhone/iPad users
While this is a great contribution, and more than I have done for open source, this is a far cry from "writing linux". Also, it's her job at Intel.
Eh, the clients anonymity is protected when they use a Tor exit node via a normal Tor session to ddg.com as well.
New Hires and Agile
You're right, connections to Tor hidden nodes are encrypted end-to-end ...but so are SSL sessions over Tor e.g. https://ddg.com
I think that's a misreading of the article.

He believe that the power of the state sound be used to solve problems. Almost the opposite of the Law of the Jungle.

Specifically, it sounds like he thinks that it should basically be impossible, as a matter of law, for people to charge for software. "He does not believe in voluntary solutions to social problems."

My problem with the statist position is that anyone who can hijack the state can create a form of tyranny. I'm much more of a bill of rights kind of guy myself.
Neptune Gets 14th Moon
If you get a chance, I highly recommend checking out the HN Kansai group. A really great collection of people working on some diverse stuff, in a wonderful area. Wish I could attend more often!
I'm one of them. I started with Logic 5 (from Emagic), and keep throwing money at upgrades every time a new version comes out. Where's the reward for my loyalty? Oh, and thanks for dropping 32-bit plug-in support.
Only female mosquitos drink blood.
Fan doesn't work everywhere. In my hikes, I've found the most effective "safe" (aka DEET free) repellent is Repel Lemon Eucalyptus Pump-Spray.
Did Lucas ever license the rights to anyone for the futuristic chess game on the millennium falcon? Seems like an obvious application of this tech, particularly now that Disney owns the franchise.
How do I do a Show HN? Just make a post?
So, he asks for asylum in the country where they just convicted their own whistle-blower after he's been dead for 4 years. And why is he dead? Well, he died in jail under very suspicious circumstances. This makes Snowden a naive utter moron.
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Word. I believe people should do what makes them happy as long as it doesn't hurt others.

I can see how it sounds like a guilt trip/sales, but my intention was to provide a next step for people who are interested in giving some time. Anyway, thanks for reading and for taking the time to post your own feedback. -Noah
Care to elaborate? Your comments are quite negative without a lot of backing/substance. Though you may have done a fair amount of research, it doesn't appear here -- I'm not sure this is the kind of critique hn should be about.
We use Vuforia and Unity. Adrian Clark did his PhD thesis on tracking and we based our app on his ideas and work. We don't use SIFT as it is patented but we have better research in the pipeline.
A Modern-Day Stasi State
> doing open calls

I like gittip and your philosophy. I think you've convinced me to sign up.
The Demanding Off-Hour Escapes of China’s High-Tech Workers
I read through it and I like the idea. I was into agile in the early 2000's but it quickly grew into a massive process in and of itself. The process geeks just replaced waterfall processes with Agile processes, still lots of formalized ... processes. I don't think the name will sell, anarchy, but Agile needs to be more agile.
Our 3D modeller Shun spends about a week per page carefully designing and animating the models. You are correct, they are per page and completely pre-defined. The fun part is colouring in the pages and seeing the results :D

Even me, 28 year old male, can have a lot of fun with this app.
For what it's worth I deleted my comment because I thought it was unnecessarily antagonistic.
Are These The Most Ridiculous/Awesome Startup Perks Ever?
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Some studies show that the medications efficiency is variable, but in college I did a long term study with elder people with dementia, and guess what was the conclusion? The ones that did not take meds had bigger cognitive losses, and the ones that did take meds on early dementia stages had a smaller loss.
Given the long term (non-)success of prohibition, I don't think it's a good model to follow.

More broadly speaking "doing whatever" to get something done is never a good idea.

In some ways this approach is exactly why we now have the NSA sitting in our living rooms.
It's by Emagic, not Apple. It used to be available as a separate product: http://www.zzounds.com/item--EMAESC
My personal favorite is the travel perk (#4)... though I wouldn't say no to having a company boat!
Chad always hacking away for the benefit of us all, cool project man keep up the good work!
Apple in talks to acquire company behind Microsoft's Kinect
Your chances would probably be the same either way -- which is to say very tiny.

No co-founder. Not doing it full time already. No prototype. No market validation. All strikes against you before you even get to IP issues. I guess if it was a Facebook class idea then maybe.

I think YC behaves like most accelerators and looks that the team pretty seriously except that they have an abundance of applicants. This question is kind of like me asking if I could get funding from A16Z. Hell, I probably couldn't even get a meeting with their receptionist.

But if you want to do it cleanly, quit. work on it in private for six months. then apply.
Tumblr updates iOS app with security fix, asks users to change passwords
Company boat? Would be a better perk if everyone got a boat
Does anyone else think we need a new open-source widget toolkit? Qt, GTK, and what else is there? Those guys are old. I've done both, and WPF, and WPF is just so much better. I wish there was an open-source toolkit that didn't just suck.
It's a part of an Apple product. Apple does not make their laptops either yet you consider elements of the computer design to be from Apple.
Homeaway acquires Airbnb-rival Travelmob to expand to Asia Pacific
#5 is awesome! team build anywhere tropical :)
Yes.
Click submit up above and then provide a title and a url.
Stallman shut down the conversation on the man when it came to the State. The State is force, not cooperation. The author was trying to present a case for voluntary associations and contracts as opposed to the force of the State, but Stallman wants none of it. IOW, Stallman refuses to consider evolving on his position when an equal or better alternative is presented.

> My problem with the statist position is that anyone who can hijack the state can create a form of tyranny.

I share your problem with the statist position. 150%.
Just curious, how many points does your comment have right now even though it's completely wrong? I'm not insulting you for making a tiny mistake, I'm wondering why a 7 hour old post with multiple 6 hour old corrections attached to it still has a positive score.
Cool I had no idea, I'm about as musical as... umm, yeah i've got no analogue.

Does it get scaled in specific patterns or is random ok?
Yes, but if you prefix the title with 'Show HN:' it's considered better form when its your own work.
Thanks for the reply. How often do you talk to these friends? (whether online or in real life)

I only talk to my close friends once every couple of months now, and that makes the friendships feel much less close. I don't know much about what's happening in their lives anymore (and vice versa).
Pong Creator Takes to Kickstarter to Fund Trivia Card Game App
@jstreebin FYI most footer links on blog.easypost.com go nowhere

e.g. http://blog.easypost.com/pricing
This looks pretty similar to Jeri Ellsworth's CastAR project, except not head-mounted.

http://makezine.com/2013/05/19/jeri-ellsworth-unveils-augmen...
For startups, it can be challenging to compete with Facebook and Google when it comes to perks. Startup money needs to be invested wisely, at the same time, we need to attract the best talent possible.

I'd be interested to hear what reasonable/not-out-of-this-world-crazy perks motivate you to work for a startup.
The 20% carry FundersClub charges seems really disproportionate to the value they add.

A 20% carry for a VC makes some sense — the carry applies across the entire fund, not just for one specific company. So a VC fund can wind up net negative, and therefore charge no carry.

It's ridiculous for FundersClub to charge the same carry as a VC, but on each specific company. They're not taking any risks, or even providing much of a service. They're basically taking advantage of smaller investors with no other options, who already have the deck stacked against them.

Now with this referral scheme, angels have an incentive thats at odds with their fellow (smaller) investors, which is just an irrelevant distraction to the company being funded.
Re: The Rap Genius Question:

"""A random selection algorithm is used for HTTP request load balancing across web dynos""

bit more....

"""and this routing handles both HTTP and HTTPS traffic. It also supports multiple simultaneous connections, as well as timeout handling."""
I think the ability to break SSL would be a major trump card that wouldn't be shown that easily - can you cite any sources?
I like the article but it reminds me of the quote:

"A politician is someone who gets in front of a mob calls it a parade."

I don't mean that as a slight. I just think that the article makes him out as the figurehead of a movement that comes from a different place.

I think startup communities are a nature consequence of geeks getting money and deciding it is more interesting to build companies that buy fancy cars. It is somehow an echo of the original .Com boom combined with Moore's law changing the balance of power in the business world.