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>I hate softsynths on OS X because it's not stable enough.

Not sure what you mean here. People have been using OS X to make music professionaly, including in huge $10.000/day studios, for a decade, with Pro Tools, Logic and Cubase. They also use it live, in 90% of electronic music lives you'll see one or more Mac laptops.

Now, while a few plugins or some hosts might crash (they're software after all, and quality varies) now and then, with something like Reason that you mention there are hardly ANY crashes ever.

And, since I've also used Windows for music for a long time (Cubase mostly) and my brother still uses it full-time as a pro, it's not like things are any more stable there. But still, stable enough to get thousands of professionals using Windows/PT/Cubase/etc too.

And don't get me started on the BS idea that Linux based DAWs are "more stable" because of "Linux = rock solid" etc stuff. Linux DAWs are few, with few commiters, lacking in UI refinements, and more importantly lacking in basic functionality. They are also a pain to setup (unless you want to work with just simple audio and some of their native plugins, and no MIDI, VST etc), and crash all the time. Been there, done that.

Now, of course a M1 or a modern synth will be "always there" and more stable that an computer plugin, but stuff like:

>* I'm not risking my ability to make music on the incredibly widespread incompetence of programmers, even at the best companies on earth*

puzzles me. It's not like the potential for instability of this "widespread incompetence of programmers" prevented all professional artists currently employed to produce records with DAWs and plugins.
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I don't feel they are necessary, even for less advanced users. Apple do a reasonably good job of keeping things safe and up-to-date.

The number of users may also reflect their pushy "you need this!" marketing. I installed MacKeeper a few days after switching from Windows to Mac, as I had no idea what I was doing. Ended up uninstalling it, then reinstalling OS X from scratch just in case.
“Technology is always meant to be a silent butler.”
That's wrong.

I was clearly replying to "Although entire languages get it wrong - in German [...]".

The poster I was replying to was claiming that other languages are wrong.

And I resent your accusations.
I actually think this is related to feminism - as I said, patriarchy is the common enemy here. And I may have mentioned feminism first. So? Is "feminism" a curse word now?
Thanks for taking the time to answer.
I found the article great in that it articulates thoughts I have had over the years.
I agree. To me it also has echos of colonialism, as there's an overtone of "We just can't get the residents in Lesotho to stop contracting HIV so we, the (European) rich non-natives, are going to bribe the poor natives into taking care of themselves. Aren't we just so benevolent!" It reminds me of the picture of the Turkish officials with bread in the Armenian genocide.[1]

[1]http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/turkish-official-teasing-sta...
Ams-IX (one of the larger IX-s) had a large outage, causing an effect on almost all internet traffic in the country. More: https://ams-ix.net/
So, if I've got this right, sexually transmitted diseases are transmitted mostly by people with a high tolerance for risk (people who tend to engage in risky behavior). Also, people with a high tolerance for risk tend to overvalue lotteries. So they targeted that population by incorporating a lottery into their social program.

Clever.
If we can execute Javascript on GoogleBot, could it possibly be hacked/broken somehow? Surely there must be security vulnerabilities in its Javascript engine.
I don't see what's the big deal there - a bailout is a bailout, it's not an ideal situation for anyone, but it's far better than the alternatives of just letting all promising companies fail. If they can't defend that, how can they defend the banking bailouts of 2008/2009?
You've left out the most important piece of information: Did you negotiate the position as a 1099?

If so, then why are you doing this to them? They held up their end of the bargain, and seemingly more by "treating you as a full time employee". Trying to squeeze benefits out of them after the fact seems like a bad plan. Stick to the terms you agreed to.

If not, then why did you stay more than one pay period? As soon as it was evident that they were not withholding taxes, this would have needed to come to a head before you worked even one more day for them. The fact that it didn't implies that it was in fact that other scenario and now you're just trying to wring extra money out of a company that you had agreed to contract for.
Why would you have such limitations? You can install Linux on anything. This allows you to leverage better processors or get better deals.
Yup that is the one.
I just wish I could hear more about Audible.com!
The Sony Z3 Compact is a VERY powerful device, and also pretty expensive (U$ 400 or so). On slightly older or less powerful devices, Lollipop is INCREDIBLY bad.

It's so bad I'm recommending a switch to Windows for users that haven't bought into the ecosystem too much - basically U$ 100 Windows/Nokia phones outperform U$ 100 Android phones by a huge margin, so are a better buy for casual users, plus Microsoft is subsidizing phones over here.

My Google Nexus 7 tablet was unusable with the Lollipop update. My LG G3 Mini also performs extremely badly. OTOH my iPad 1st generation is still going strong (though I've seen iPhones go bricky with iOS updates).

Edit: note that I had badmouthed Windows phones previously after an incredibly frustrating experience with older Nokia phones.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8698802
You have: 2^128 seconds
You want: yottayears
* 10783128

The universe is less than 14 gigayears old. I don't know of any estimates of how long it will last, but by the Copernican principle we can expect it to be on the order of gigayears.
That is so Q1. This quarter it's shoot the guy in the back then put your tazer in his hand and tell the press you felt threatened.
There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (1959)
Interestingly the toolkit shown is the Ikea toolkit "Fixa" - I wonder if there's not IP restrictions on their use of such an image.

Edit: I saw this quote on the Mackeeper website you linked (it is good design) "MacKeeper was noticed at Macworld by a journalist from Cult of Mac". So I chased that phrase and all I found was algorithmic page generators like this http://drgogek.com/is/is-mackeeper-really-a-scam-cult-of-mac....

Using a different tack CoM mention Mackeeper in a single page found from their search box, an affiliate promotion page ... using Google unearths more promotions, https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Acultofmac.com mackeeper.

So, it looks like their quoted reviews are from people they're paying to sell the product, that's a warning sign.

Didn't investigate further.
Myntra, India's largest fashion and apparel e-commerce portal to go mobile only
IMO a flat structure would just be a confused mess. There would be hundreds of packages in that directory.
>Let's be careful with our use of "lucrative".

Any business model that generates $38M/3 months ($152M/yr) could truthfully and emphatically be described as "lucrative." I don't think that's a fair argument.
I recognize some of the voices in that video :)

Back when I used to play Eve, I ran with the BRAVE corp/alliance, they were good people to play with.

Rahadalon is still my spiritual home.
You can to a degree. I've done it a bunch for my math classes. :)

EDIT: Also wolfram alpha
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I'm guessing you've never taught math to undergraduates. Unless they are math majors, for the most part they really don't like being given harder-than-average questions, let alone open problems.
2^128 ~= 3.4 x 10^38 [0]

Age of the universe in seconds ~= 4.3 x 10^17 [1]

So assuming you're using an unsigned int to represent the number of seconds from the big bang, you'll still have ~ 10^21 seconds left on the clock (31.7 trillion years).

Unless you're working with a timeline that extends out to the heat death of the universe (10^100 -> 10^(10^56) years), 128 bits should be enough.

[0] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2%5E128

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=age+of+the+universe+in...
The Singing Sailor Underwater Defence System – “This way if you are gay”
My main focus is still on Storytella[0]. I'm currently speaking to a copywriter about getting some good quality user guides set up. I set up writing-ideas[1] this week, just for fun really, and a chance to write some code without much thought for architecture or performance or testing or any of that professional kind of stuff that I have to do for Storytella. There's also Sunstone[2] which is in need of some love. Outside of code there's also Hollow[3], where I get to flex my music skills.

[0] https://storytel.la/

[1] http://www.writing-ideas.com/

[2] http://sunstone.stoogoff.com/

[3] http://www.hollow-audio.co.uk/
Great news, I'll see you earlier, everyone!
They are not in opposition when it comes to idea and desired end goal. They are pretty much in opposition when it comes to political means of reaching that goal. You can't have social change without support of large part of population. MRM caters mostly to men, Feminism caters mostly to women.

> Women campaigning for greater access to the workplace, and against street harassment, are not in opposition to men wanting greater access to their children. This is what I mean by natural allies.

In theory. But in practice they are. Please read the link I provided.

I really hope that you are right and both movements can actually come and act together. Equal Rights Amendment was a beautiful thing, shame it died.

As for now we have rape-on-campus (not supported by statistical data) moral panic instead.
I think the extra service of getting a phone number in a different country is almost better than the free allowance. Although more and more people I know abroad are using data bound services more than they are calling/texting.
By the way, note that the article calls any vote for the winner in excess of the number needed to win a "wasted" vote. It's a technical term with an unfortunate double meaning.

Don't vote for the winner, it's a potentially wasted vote (according to the article).
Yes, there are people who play the game who decide to spend additional time/energy on positive things. But having a limited number of hours per day and a limited number of days per life I'd say it is either or. The time one invests in killing a CEO in Eve is time that can't be spent helping people in Nepal.

And that nobody has to become defensive here: All time spent on that kind of activity is time lost for humanity at all, in my books. It does not mean someone else need to have the same priorities. I can be sad about it without wanting to tell anyone that they need to change their ways. Keep your ways. But allow me to be sad about it.
all the more reasons while these devices are so cool this just entry level gear. drones are not going to win acceptance until they do what you want and stay out of your way and out of harm.
3rd party OpenPower Motherboards are still only sampling for POWER8, so it really hasn't been fully birthed yet.
21 will surely dole out some of their 75% cut to hardware integration partners as a distribution fee. The ripoff here is for anyone ignorant enough to run one of these devices.
Intel has been doing limited foundry work for some time -- they have partnerships with Altera (they recently almost acquired them) and Rockchip.

Working with this company is good for Intel -- they fill fab capacity for products that don't compete with x86.
Since they're using the upfront pre-order money to cover manufacturing costs, I would bet enough feedback from customers (or even speculative customers) asking for a 30 min minimum would have enough impact for them to source different batteries or reduce weight. Features like this can make or break a flashy new product like Lily.
I can imagine the students now. All of them like, "omigod we're being forced to learn something by investigating things and being creative omigodomigod it has no known answer gasp".

Yeah, that'd be embarrassing.
If it was only that easy! Those instructions never worked for me and some other users from at least 2014.[1] Its entirely possible they send different versions for bundled installs or it was modified. The app it was bundled with got promptly deleted and never opened.

[1]https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6502268
Greenlight: The Times They Are A-Changin'
The correct quote to lead off the story is: The more you learn, the more you earn.

(The current article says "learn" in both places.)
Are you really proposing they represent me?

http://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fil...
I wrote most of the Wikipedia article on the USA PATRIOT Act. In fact, I wrote all the section summaries [1]. Frankly, it boggles the mind that the NSA thought that they could bypass the following:

"not be conducted of a United States person solely
upon the basis of activities protected by the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States."

That the NSA did this is, to my mind, not a failure of the Patriot Act but an enditement on the judiciary. And by which I mean the FISC.

1. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_summary_of_the_Patrio...
Very likely it's already to late for some systems. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the systems already in production will last until sometime after 2038.

Expecting short upgrade cycles is normal in software/computing, but for manufacturing 30 to 50 years doesn't seem unrealistic. 23 years is a very short time, even if we stay in the field of computing, mainframes are getting close to 23 year life cycles.
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Sure, I will add the LICENSE file as soon as I get home. It will be an MIT license, so feel free to use it!
This is a genuinely scary scenario.

Have there been precedents of profiteering by hiding _something_ invisible to the end-user but with an ulterior purpose into normal consumer electronics?
Vienna shows tolerance: traffic lights are now gay-themed
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I think the Database error is HN math homework..

got any clues?
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relevant:

> When asked, "How could you possibly have done the first interactive graphics program, the first non-procedural programming language, the first object oriented software system, all in one year?" Ivan [0] replied: "Well, I didn't know it was hard."

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Sutherland
Wow - you've either got a lot of expenses, or are paid VERY well :)
I wasn't impressed with Battle Fantasia's animation at all. I thought it was kind of poor, actually, compared to other 360/PS3 efforts like the Soul Calibur games of the day. That's not to say you're wrong; we just had very different impressions of it. What animation techniques are you referring to when you talk about Battle Fantasia's innovations? (I'm not an animator; I'm surely missing some things there)
Or, worse, actual binary protocols that use 32bit integers to represent time values.
You simply vote for the lesser of the two evils. And you do it every time.
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They did not win, they just managed to be listened to. Women still have more difficulties than men. And telling that is not saying that men do not have problems.
Apologies if it came over as defensive, that was not the intention at all.
Ask HN: How can I charge my enterprise clients by value?
An ongoing theme on HN is to price consulting projects based on the value achieved. Often, people in this context equate value with revenue increase, and almost always they are former web contractors that now mix marketing consulting in their offerings [1]. I find this advice intriguing but fail to connect this to my situation.

Currently, I am running a solo shop as a systems architect and programmer specialised in telecommunications. My clients are big telcos, the projects are part of multi-year initiatives, and their goals range from compliance with regulatory requirements, to new product roll-outs, to cost-cutting. I build them small, special-purpose network services for which the big IT service providers are either too expensive, too slow or just don't have the right skills at hand. I charge either by day or fixed-price, where the latter is still based on an effort estimate, plus contingency.

How should I ever get to the position to price by value? Often, my direct project sponsors themselves can't put a price tag on the value achieved. Working deep on the systems layer, there are many hops and even more so contributors between me and my clients top or bottom line. I see zero chance to get a procurement department agree to a profit-share with a single guy like me.

Do I have the wrong clients for this kind of pricing strategy? Or has someone here achieved it while staying small/solo in the enterprise world? I could also find gigs as a business analyst/program manager at my telco clients, but I don't think it would make a difference in the pricing strategy.

[1] A notable exception from this seems to be tptacek's Matasano. Still, with no experience in the security industry, I wonder how value-based pricing works there, given that security services IMHO seem more geared to preserve value than increase.
I was surprised with that entry too, however not because of the specifics (UK exit from EU, which I happen to agree with), but rather that it is the only prize with some sort of political outcome. All of the other prizes have some basis in math, science and technology with well defined criteria for winning. A political outcome is almost by definition subjective.
That's what I thought, thanks. I'm a newish Mac user, so I was a bit confused by the whole situation, since other Mac I know told me not to install anything of that kind.
The x86 cores are still internally a lot more CISC-y than POWER cores, especially with things like uop fusion, so no surprise that they have a higher IPC.

This caught my attention: http://images.anandtech.com/doci/9193/MemoryConfigBiosE7v3.p...

I wonder whose BIOS that is, or if it's just a simulated screenshot. All the ones I've seen look a bit nicer: http://www.overclock3d.net/gfx/articles/2009/08/10133320867l...
The amount of things I miss by running ad blockers.
That said, Smalley opposing view was and is correct. Molecular manufacturing, where the manufacturing systems are also on the molecular scale, just don't work in the way that Drexler envisioned, and pushing grey goo scenarios when even the basics don't seem possible, is a sure way to get people turned off on nanotech - which uses huge fabbers.

In the 1990s I worked on molecular dynamics of biological systems. The nanotech hype was large, and I looked into the idea of switching fields, figuring that someone with my background could make some good money at it. Only to find that all the plans and simulations I saw seemed to be in vacuum, and assumed the diamond parts were effectively like steel machine parts, with no van der Waal forces or charges or cruft in the way. I still think those who propose nanotech fabbers have little understanding of small-scale physics/chemistry.

A summary of the debate between Drexler and Smalley is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexler%E2%80%93Smalley_debate_... .
We're excited and looking forward to it!
This is solid advice. I had one of my mentors put it a really elegent way : "Your board should consist of people who fix your weaknesses". Don't have a lot of business contacts? Get a board member who has a huge network. Lack marketing knowledge? Get a board member for that. In a lot of ways its like getting venture capital; wherein you should gather venture capital from experts in the domain you are trying to enter/execute in. Although Im not currently building a board my current venture, this is always one thing that I struggled to find information on: building a board. Maybe I should get a board member who knows how to make a great board...
Cool. I'll stick to the "no cleaners" personal policy then.
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Farming remains a large share of the workforce, to 90% and more, for less-developed nations. In the time of Smith and Ricardo, farms and the land were the source of all wealth. Ricardo lamented over the inequitable distribution of good farmland...

And developed nations are dependent upon petroleum and other fossil fuels. Effectively farming ancient plant growth by way of buried reserves.

My read though of the Trophic Theory is that it's less one of money than of wealth creation (that is, economic productivity), assuming a sustainable economic system.

Though I may have to give it a longer look.

Eric Zencey, one of the contributors to the Daly News piece cited is also the author of the Soddy critique I just referenced in another comment.
Yeah, I'm a big proponent of the thoughtfulness you describe. I don't like it when people shroud rudeness & cognitive miserliness as "just calling things like they see them." I prefer "See it, think about it, then call it."

I really value honesty, but not every emotion-laden thought that passes through our heads deserves airtime.
As a non-stock-holder in said companies, I couldn't give a rats ass in who makes the most money.

Having a dozen companies each making a little money represents a much healthier market than one giga-corp taking the lions-share. What we're seeing in China is the market moving to a healthier, more natural and sustainable state.

I find that much more important. As a consumer/customer that benefits me.

Whose interest do you have in mind?
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"Having worked at a startup that kept adding more features, I can tell you this approach doesn’t work. It’s like adding more flavors to a sundae based on the belief that variety is the spice of life. The truth is that consumers will bite (pun, intended) on a plain vanilla sundae with chocolate sauce if they know that it exists and there is
The truth is that consumers will bite (pun, intended) on a plain vanilla sundae with chocolate sauce if they know that it exists and there is good buzz around how good it tastes."
As a customer and consumer I prefer a diverse market full of smaller actors, than a market dominated by one Giant actor doing whatever the fuck it likes, just because it can.

This should be the natural state of any market. Why do you prefer monopolies charging you more than they need to? What do you find better or more "interesting" about that?
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The catch is full data storage and surveillance by the UK gov.
Venom – A security vulnerability in virtual floppy drive code
Czechoslovakia in the list of countries? It dissolved into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993. Please fix it.
There are four roles. Account is useful, but I see exchange as primary. No use accounting if you cannot facilitate exchange (that is: trade).
From a Facebook business point and feature point of view this is a great move.

One of Facebook's original strengths against MySpace was how orderly everything was organized. No crazy gifs and insane colorschemes, no large backgrounds that had to load from photobucket. Of course there was also unlimited photo upload.

I know a lot of politicians in Denmark use their Facebook profile for official comments on news matter and politics and I am sure a lot of them will be pleased to be able to publish more in depth material. Users will also be pleased with the certainty of the shape of the material. No pop-up, long loading time or noisy ads.

Judging from buzz feeds response I am however surprised by the gutsy move to ask publishers to host content on Facebook without even offering a monetization plan!
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