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> There are no problems here

Speaking as a longtime user of both physical audio gear and audio software (not to mention one of the "music people"), I think there is a big problem: knobs.

Knobs don't translate well to the screen. It's hard to do a twisting motion with the mouse or a finger on a touch screen. So a lot of programs just make them a kind of compact slider/fader -- you move the mouse up and down, and the knob turns. This is an interaction that can have some problematic interactions with scrolling and/or screen real-estate availability even after you've figured out how this works. And it's not exactly intuitive.

And there's often just better ways to do things. For example, I'd be happy if I never saw another EQ knob again in software -- being able to visualize/tweak a spectrum envelope is a clear winner over having to twiddle knobs. Or heck, I'd rather have MAX or pd's box-value compact faders that I can enter values into (along with sliding the mouse up and down) than knobs.

I know the familiar is often fun and feels accessible, I even know there are sometimes where the compact-fader thing is helpful. I just think knobs are way over used in software and it is a problem.
4 year olds from India are not the target audience of the New York Times. It's a good thing when something known to one culture is shared with another.
What you're talking about sounds like Max Weber's theory about the state being defined as any entity with the monopoly of the legitimate use of violence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence

I think a valid question would be: can a government even exist without the possibility of exercising violence as a means of control? And if that's the case, is there any other means of organizing human beings which would enable this?
They actually invented something? I thought all they did was sue people.
GitHub - of all places - still needs support for Contributor License Agreements (CLAs) and a bot to support it, though. But it's a good step in the right direction.
What is Programmer Anarchy and does it have a future?
You missed how much it costs... perhaps $500 for pro grade audio per channel. So he's talking about $3K so far.

Now you'll argue that a bottom of the barrel high end amateur grade mic might be only $50. But you'll still need cables, probably a preamp, some kind of (expensive) interface box to input 6 audio channels in phase (can't just plug in 3 stereo usb sound adapters... well, usually...). A decent stand or boom is probably $75 for a hunk of metal. Suddenly paying $50 for a cheap mic is false economy if the support infrastructure is setting you back $300... may as well buy a decent $200 class mic... to go with your $200 software.

Unless you're solely a vocal group you'll probably need to mic and input instruments.

My sister used to play the viola (more or less a big violin). A pro grade mic costs $400. Not a viola with a mic installed. Not a package deal of mic and cable and preamp and all that. No, just the custom designed weirdly mounted mic. Before permanent professional installation of course. This is probably an extreme, obviously its hard to mic a stringed instrument without screwing up the resonance sounds while the musicians face is inches away from the mic. I bet you could mic a brass instrument for a quarter the cost.
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A fork of the original Console 2, called Console : https://github.com/cbucher/console/
If he's anything like a guy I used to work for (and his job post sounds almost verbatim like something he'd write), subtle and not-so-subtle sexist and racist remarks are made under the guise of joking. Most of the time women and minorities (and, well, everyone else) just thought he was an asshole.
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One mild criticism. A book such as this is really going to depend on the author's reputation. You buried the info about yourself way below the fold.

I'm also not certain about the price. I would pay that price from a big name. For anybody else, I wouldn't go above $10.
Gayle Laakman has a good post about self-publishing, and a lot of the hidden downsides, and why going the traditional route is often better (and more profitable).

http://www.technologywoman.com/2012/07/09/the-dirty-truth-ab...
I didn't made any argument about public vs private healthcare FINANCING. I simple said they need more money.

And i said india is good at low cost healthcare DELIVERY.

Financing and delivery are seperate parts and shouldn't be mixed thogheter in such dicsuossions.
Personally, for a Django project, Sentry is probably the best integrated solution.

We use the self hosted solution. Works great!
I actually think all this ambivalence is Ubuntus bigest problem. Now it has become apparent that all along they wanted to go down the path of only using the kernel, and then build a whole new software-stack on top of it, just like Android.

But they have not communicated this to the community, all the community has seen is half-hearted attempts to contribute (to projects that they where going to get rid of anyways) and sporadic design changes that went to far away from the vanilla experience of gnome (making it feel fragmented), and then ultimately replacing fully functional software (with software that's full of bugs and obviously not stable yet).

Now, in the normal Linux community world, everything above seems like total madness, unless as stated in the first paragraph your endgame was all along to replace everything to make a unified product. If they only communicated this, I think they would have gotten alot of support and understandig instead of alienating them selves.
Okay, there's NSA code in android. Is it defacto a backdoor? my understanding was that SE-Linux was simply a configuration, not a special program. Could someone explain?
Yep, that's the one! Hmm, I might give it a shot.
Don't you love problem reports with absolutely no details whatsoever?

I tested your site with Chrome 28.0.1500.72 m. The back button worked fine.

I then tested your site with Internet Explorer 9.0.18 and the back button worked fine.

I then tested your site with Firefox 22 and the back button worked fine.
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James from Bugsnag here, we're constantly rolling out tons of new features to speed up the find/fix/deploy bug hunting cycle. I'm surprised so many people are still using emails for error monitoring, using a hosted service like Bugsnag/airbrake/rollbar will massively help with productivity and actionability.
For many people, a DAWs are used on real "workstations" in music studios. In that environment, the software and hardware are all bought once at the start, and don't get upgraded until the computer is obsolete. (It's mission critical... you wouldn't update AutoCAD or even MS Office if there was a risk something would change. You also have to retrain everyone in your studio.)
Ask HN: Do you think it's possible to live without Internet at home?
I'm not the author of UltraHook, I just found it interesting because I once built something very similar for a customer to allow access to a DB behind a firewall.

Also, I'm literally implementing Azure ServiceBus Queues right now! My startup has been on Azure since the beta days and I'm migrating a lot of things that used the TS Queues to the SB Queues. We were actually invited to Redmond a few years ago to talk to various Azure teams and got a sneak peek intro to the new ServiceBus features. Of course we were all under NDA so we couldn't really share our excitement at the time. It seems that you've moved on to a few new adventures since your time at Microsoft. Good luck with everthing :)
And Audition? ::)
I certainly hope it doesn't reflect at all on the Ruby community.

How can it? It's the actions of single person, or that of a single company.

When did they become the stand-in for the thousands of people who use Ruby?

The idea that because some number of people all use a particular programming language that there is then some sort of cohesive and coordinated collective to which one can assign blame or praise is lazy and wrong.
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Exactly that. Once the beans are spilled, anybody can pick them up.
It's a pain I've dealt with over and over again for a long time. I'm glad others find it useful too :)
https://gist.github.com/bobvawter/5986508
Only GigE autodetects, and the NIC in his system is unknown.
Custom transitions for UINavigationController
I've emailed three times, and have called leaving numerous voicemails asking to license this technology. Not once have I ever been called or emailed back.

#PatentTrolls
I hope so as well given it wasn't made by a developer.

But so what if it was? Even in that case it would reflect poorly on that developer. Not on everyone who coincidentally also uses Ruby.
The guy doesn't seem to understand what open source means. Also, blog spam.
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I would base my decision on whether getting an 'all electric' car would still allow to fulfill my transportation needs. For example: I live in the SF bay area and most of my drives are within +/- 100 miles so having a 200 mile radius on a vehicle would probably cover my daily needs. However, a few times a year I drive my car on longer trips (Portland, Reno, LA) so I would probably need wait for Tesla's supercharger/battery replacement network to expand before I can get rid of my gas guzzler.

Also keep in mind that Teslas in their current state are still 'early adopter' vehicles, which means it will take some more time before all the shortcomings are smoothen out.

However, if you are OK with limited range and open to embrace new technology despite its possible setbacks, the Tesla is probably the best choice out there since their focus has been on electric cars from the beginning and it's safe to say that they have most experience building electric cars so far.
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MAKE did an article on this as well: http://makezine.com/2010/08/30/make-23-how-to-shoot-mosquito...
Is Snowden really that valuable to the US? Prosecuting him isn't going to be a PR coup in the way killing Osama Bin Laden or prosecuting war criminals is (quite the opposite in fact; it can only be damaging to the US govt image inone way or another), he doesn't know anything the US doesn't already know, and the "don't give away our secrets unless you want to rot in Russia" message is well and truly sent.
Apologies, yes it was an attempt at humor. I was hoping for more of a discussion on the two approaches though if your still game.
Overtime makes sense from an employer's point of view. That's why the problem will persist for employees.
Linux has proper 3D acceleration.
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Not right now as the server component is currently closed source (I'm the author)
It's code that was written in the open, that everyone knew about. It wasn't written in secret, and meant as a backdoor (you know, like with Skype, Outlook and Skydrive).
Here's the full text of the original post: http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org/2013-July/0090...

You're right about it being a literal question; it looks like he was hoping people would respond with the ones that appealed to them the most (i.e. "I'd be most interested in 1, 3, and 10").

"Ruby developers have quality banter and like to squish themselves in to tiny pubs, drink lots of beer and chat projects and code. More of point 3 required.

So in the art of snaring a ruby developer in the next 6 weeks, what temps these rare creatures out of their natural habit to venture to pastures new...

Let me know which of the following would tempt you from you desk...

[...]

I'm looking for your best number or a combination of up to 3..."

So I guess it's all hypothetical; it seems like he was fishing around to figure out what would attract attention or interest.
Being blunt and talking hard over email does not a shouting tyrant make.
I wonder if it would have the same issues as the "open source" collaborative cookie:

http://log.scifihifi.com/post/344372246/it-may-have-been-a-f...

>[Y]ou’ll probably recognize the "Dream Team" of expert bakers convened by Gundrum as his "open source" group falling into the same sorts of traps (a lack of coherent vision, a reluctance to discount any idea, an obsession with novel and exotic techniques, a mounting frustration as individual contributors struggle to be heard). In the end, they turn in a passable but uninspiring product, while the traditional R&D team wins the competition by acting on a bit of clever insight from its leader.
http://www.evoke.io
I've been really disappointed by how little development has been put into Airbrake. It's hardly changed or improved in the all the years I've been using it. I'll look forward to checking out Rollbar.
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What Happens When We Actually Catch Edward Snowden?
Path.to is shutting down
Take Two 'Normal' People, Add Money To Just One Of Them...
When You Monetize Your Apps Matters as Much As How
I've published 11 books, and that's actually how I make my living these days. My older books are on entrepreneurship and related topics, while my later work is narrative nonfiction (travel-based tales from my lifestyle on the road) and, more recently, speculative science fiction.

I've played in the completely self-controlled arena and more mainstream platforms (Amazon, Kobo, etc), and am happy to answer any questions you might have :)

Broad advice: Think very carefully about what you hope to achieve with your book. If you want to build a brand/platform/business/audience long-term, put out some free work to start, and show people what you're capable of. If you're looking to make a living from this book, publish some smaller works (blogs or short ebooks) first, to give people that sample, and build up a small list.

Treat your readers with respect, but don't take all advice given (filter!). Don't over-advertise. Do your best to incentivize sharing of your message and work without straying into over-marketing territory.

Recognize that you'll make a lot more money publishing yourself (through something like Gumroad or e-junkie), but you can get more organic traffic through a platform like Amazon (and there are MANY pros and cons to both paths). Also recognize that you can play in both arenas: use Amazon to gain new readers, and have other work available outside their ecosystem.

Remember, too, that there are still things that Big Six publishers (and their smaller, traditional publishing counterparts) do really well, and ideally indie authors don't see the publishing world as 'us' and 'them' — just two sides of the same coin. You can build up a library of work that you indie publish, and then seek a traditional contract and have more control over the process (having an existing audience to leverage), and the negotiations (they provide prestige that can get you in places that are otherwise difficult to get your book, like airport bookstores, and PR materials that can help you get on talk shows and such — some people still won't consider you a pro author until you've got a Penguin or HarperCollins logo on the spine of something you've written).

(Also: Consider the phrase 'indie published' over 'self published,' as the latter tends to imply the equivalent of a garage band, while the former implies something more akin to indie films or indie music — personal preference, but something to note when you're telling people how your book is published).

Again, happy to expand on any of this if you want to reply here, or shoot me an email — colin at exilelifestyle dot com

Best of luck whichever path you end up taking!
I think Russia is the safest place for Snowden. Any western country is a no-go for obvious reasons. And South America is also questionable. Given how casually the Bolivian presidential plane was grounded and searched, the US may as well send a SEAL team to one of those "second class" countries for a recovery mission.
I was actually an IT intern at a billing service and we had several new servers come in. I was there early (by about 4 hours) before the other 3 IT people came in and simply set up a Linux server to try and show them that it worked great (instead of paying Microsoft for the server software).

Turns out after showing them they liked it and they are currently running the Linux servers. Windows machines are used throughout the company for the regular users, but Linux for their servers storing all the patient information files, user data, etc. After spending about 3 months as an intern I essentially taught the Microsoft certified staff enough to manage the servers well enough (it's really not all that hard) and they still have them running (roughly a year later).

Point is, you really don't need highly skilled technicians, none of them had used Linux before my internship, yet all of them still seem to run the servers fine. One REALLY nice thing is that their Linux servers go down far less, are quicker, and are actually more secure than their old Windows 2000 servers they were running.
The difference between the two salaries is less than the currency variance between EUR and USD in the last 18 months.
Would something like Keycard[1] work for locking the screen when you're not nearby?

I wonder if it could be set to lock at boot unless your phone (or BT headphones or whatever) is nearby.

I doubt this can be all that secure since it can be downloaded from the App Store, I'm pretty sure that means it can be force quit (it could not prevent this key combo since its restricted in the sandbox). It may be just enough.

[1] http://www.appuous.com/products/mac/keycard.html
Should you consider breaking into the Brazilian games industry?
It's worth noting that the US has been tasking its diplomats to collect biometric (including DNA) samples of foreign leaders:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/...

If massive databases containing DNA information could be as easily accessed as facebook user data, why would the NSA not 'collect it all'?
Hey this site is biased. GPL doesn't restrict end-users or contributors. It only restricts distributors (middleman). While permissive licenses such as APL, MIT don't restrict the distributors, even if they remove the rights of end users.
When your code crashes, it (usually) generates a report telling you what went wrong. This is an exception report.

An exception tracking service provides an place that you can send, store, and index these reports. It'll usually allow you to view them, search them, group similar errors, and generally provide tools that are useful when trying to resolve the problems that are occurring.
I'd rather have my feelings hurt in exchange for an honest
opinion than to hear worthless words that sound nice.

False dichotomy.

And I'd always prefer a competent asshole boss to a friendly
guy that doesn't know how to do his job.

False dichotomy.
This seems pretty alarmist to me. The code was peer-reviewed, and the NSA does actually have an interest in improving general security - and there are a lot of smart people there.

I'd be a lot more concerned about the many instances of NSA contributing code we don't know about and can't inspect than I am about their contributing to open-source, which I consider a good thing.
Similar stuff:

Pagekite (https://pagekite.net/)

Localtunnel (http://progrium.com/localtunnel/)
New CompletableFuture monad in Java 8
Use "Adaptive" instead of "Subdivision" and it drills through just fine. You can even zoom inside the sphere and see how it made a nice little channel.
Identity, for one. Haskell is value-oriented. If two values have equal parts they are considered equal, even if they might be stored at different addresses. Barring the FFI (which is an unsafe extension), there is no way to distinguish otherwise equal values. Thus, Haskell has no concept of object identity which is necessary for a system to be object-oriented.
If you're not using whole disk encryption (or even partial encryption), then it doesn't really matter if you use a login password or not. The attacker can just clone the hard drive to gain access to your files.
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Does not appear to be a backdoor or anything like that - it's standard security stuff to get Android certified as Blackberry is. If there is a backdoor, it's one incredibly complicated and well hidden one.

Of course, there is not much doubt that anything you send through Google is going to be accessible to the NSA - eg, Google Play, Gmail, push notifications, etc. And if you're in the USA, anything you send through AT&T etc.
np, sorry I was too lazy to post any links but I think I gave enough info to find it on the internet.
What all technologies should a python developer know?
So I want to be good at python (web) development. What all technologies do I need to know?
Git. Linux. Django. webapp2. Heroku?

What else? How proficient should I be in each?

(x-post from the reddit thread)
One of the NSA's duties is enhancing US cybersecurity (to the point where only they can break into things, I'd imagine), so this is hardly surprising and not the "zomg conspiracy" crap this blog is pushing. Their "how to harden" guidelines (http://www.nsa.gov/ia/mitigation_guidance/security_configura...) have long been a trusted resource.
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Well, that's just it. Equanimity in the face of psychological pressure is a valuable skill to have. But it is a skill, it's not free, and the military spends a lot of effort on weeding people out who cannot develop that skill by the end of basic, intermediate, and advanced training schools.

And for those of us on the outside, we wouldn't tell a random developer that he should crank out 40 push-ups to prove his worth, like we might in the military. In the military there is what we'd call a bona-fide occupational qualification behind assessing the psychological durability of recruits.

Is there such as bona-fide requirement to develop software patches? Should there be?

I'll give Linus a pass on this much; his behavior here is well within the norms of the Linux kernel development community and his own previous behavior. He's the Captain of that particular ship and he's not doing anything illegal, nor does he intend personal injury, so at some point it's easier to concede that he will run that ship the way he wants and put on asbestos underwear, than to try to change both his behavior and the resultant mailing list culture.

But I think it's important to keep in mind that his kind of behavior must be very much the exception to the rule for software development, open or otherwise. If you breed a culture of aggressiveness then you must be ready to handle the people you draw in from that. It works for the military, it seems to work for the LKML, but I would be hesitant to hold it up as a general model.
Hi! I'm on the train with bad internet right now and so can't go looking but have you considered face recognition software using the laptops camera? There must be an app that takes a look at the webcam when a password challenge is presented.

Anyone know of anything?

Edit:

Found one!
https://www.keylemon.com/download-other-versions/
It's a terrible apology. See this response for an excellent explanation of why:

http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org/2013-July/0091...
The way I read the article, it sounds like the NSA commit code like any other contributer. If I had the time, I would look the the commit log and mailing lists to see exactly what they did.

If not for the fact that "NSA=big brother" is a trending story outside of highly techy circles, I would think this article was a piece of satire. Even its main point that it can quote them saying the NSA's code tries to be invisible to apps and users doesn't mean anything, because, that is the point, to transparrently offer increased security without inconveniencing everyone.

If the NSA wanted to slip a back door into the kernel, they would do something much more sneaky, such that it looks like an innocent mistake in some random part of the code.