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I think that barring any obscene sounds, all variations on a word will be allowed. So, Bruschetta might have several entries. However, I'm planning on adding user voting (1-5 stars or thumbs up/down), so if there are many variations on a word pronunciation, we get to see which are the most popular.

Because, after all, it's interesting to see how a word, say, "Nuclear" or "Tomato" is pronounced around the country or around the world. (I may add a geographical location field, so the speaker can identify where they live and/or where they were raised)

For trolls or people who just want to submit obscene or "gag sounds" e.g. the sound "dish" for the entry under the title "tomato", I will be adding a "flag this entry" so people seeing the bad entry can flag it so that I and/or some moderators can review it.
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I'm sure each is fully aware of the other, or at least of the same source research into dynamic language optimization (which, I believe, comes largely from research into the Self language).
It doesn't say UI, it says Functionality. And it doesn't say Final Product, it says Mock-ups.
Sure, but contacting Mozilla to tell them you'd like the images removed or a credit would be a reasonable reaction. Writing a sensationalist blog post accusing Mozilla of "stealing your design" in their "new design" is, in my opinion, a more serious violation of common decency.
I don't see any other mock-ups or screenshots there, that kind of leads me to believe this was the possible working 'goal' for the developers, not just a brainstorm.
Like landing on the moon?
I (Evan Phoenix, author of the the article and project lead) talk with the Unladen Swallow guys almost daily. We've met up in person a number of times and have traded a lot of ideas, so I'm 5 steps ahead of you!
There was a snafu (my fault) with the blog, should be up now. Sorry!
This situation smears the good name that Mozilla has built in spreading the values of open source software. It is shameful for Mozilla to have put itself as a pilferer of design. Take it down and hire them to do the work.
Etherpad is also integrated into http://talkerapp.com/
As of now, the website supports soundkey.com/key/165pgx

I need to figure out how to make soundkey.com/165pgx work, and I will be adding that feature when it's ready (I guess I can use .htaccess to redirect whatever comes after soundkey.com/, but I'm not sure how not to redirect actual pages of the website, e.g. soundkey.com/browse-sounds. Maybe by moving all website content to a subdirectory, e.g. soundkey.com/site/browse-sounds)
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I'm sure there were more than a few designers who tendered an offer.
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It's inappropriate to make public accusations based on assumptions. Fortunately, one doesn't need to operate based solely on assumption, since asking for clarification is easy.
If this is real, I dont think retweet, the website, has anything to do with the purchase price. It's all about retweet.com, the domain.
Yep, I will be adding that.

Can you guys recommend the preferred technology to use? I'm new to this field, and I've heard about different ways to go about this, e.g. JSON. Are any of the options superior to the others?
Shall we just wait and see what Mozilla has to say? It's all very well playing devils advocate, but until both sides are known it's still supposition one way or the other.

Unless you're involved somehow, that is.
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"What is it about Americans that they think 10 years is a long time?"

What is it about the British that make them assume short term thinking is coming from an American? One of the two authors are Danish, not American. Does working in America for four years make you an American these days?
LuaJIT performance is certainly impressive.
Is this Lua specific as the name implies or is it comparable to something like LLVM?
But if you listened to their 8 minute video they said it was not ray tracing.
That's the route I would have gone, just write some tiny local web app which authenticates against AD and then redirects to the external service.

I don't know why they wanted to go ip-based or even bother with cookies since AD queries are practically free.

In ASP.net with all the builtin integrations for AD that's a one day project.
There's a reason why everyone calls the Mozilla Foundation the "MoFo". This is the same entity that told Debian they couldn't patch security problems and still call the browser Firefox. Let's just say... a clue is not something the MoFo has.
Maybe they think these skills define membership in a useful cluster?
I assume people that want to make $700 last a few months tend to have a lot of roommates.
I wonder how this impacts objectivity. As an editor, your duty is to "maintain objectivity" yet this becomes a lot more complex when you have to interact with your audience in the way that most community sites require.
Wait, was this an actual site that was live, or just some screenshots/mockups?
The secret to hiding is to not be the biggest elephant in the stampede.
If you could borrow money at zero interest then capital intensive projects like solar would not be an issue.

However opportunity cost means loans cave cost. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost

If you took 1billion$ today and invested it in high ROI wind farms you would have more than 1billion$ inflation adjusted by the time they broke down assuming reasonable care. However, you would have more money if you did just about any other moderate risk investment.
Did the car have drive by wire? My pickup ('84 toyota) had a sticky throttle plate. Only just enough to make it idle way too high, not enough for runaway acceleration, (and some wd-40 fixed it), but could happen to other cars too I imagine.
Based on the speed with which they removed the images from https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Jetpack/FlightDeck after the link was posted here, I'm pretty sure they're aware of this thread.

I think they've had time to give a public apology or at least a simple "we're looking into this issue". I'm disappointed that they haven't done either of those yet.
That was painfully well written and you bring up very valid points, so thank you.

Your facts would lead an economist to conclude that, theoretically, anyone selling through Flippa is sacrificing some value they have created in exchange for less friction in the disposition process.

I've always liked the real estate simile for websites. A domain name is like an undeveloped parcel of land and the software running the website is the structure built on it. Perhaps there is room for a more commercially focused class of service providers for transactions in this area? But it looks like you are already helping to fill this void.

As the complexity of the transaction increases, it would more closely resemble a traditional business acquisition like you describe above; however, with barriers to entry falling I think there is room for the Flippa's of the world.
> Sure, but contacting Mozilla to tell them you'd like the images removed or a credit would be a reasonable reaction.

But where's the marketing/seo angle in that?
I couldn't see his point through the smog of ad hominem.
Weird assumption - that Mozilla liked them and would have given them work in the future if he would not have complained. Though, I agree that it probably could have been resolved out of the public's view.
This is now on TechCrunch.

This should be a wake up call to MetaLab's prospective clients and partners: If you do something that MetaLab doesn't like, they won't call you to talk about it. They will first hit Twitter and their blog and try to shame you in the most public way they possibly can, ensuring that the message is broadcast to millions.
Thankfully not all modern stories are like that. The notable example on my mind the book series 'Song of Ice and Fire'. So many bad things happen to good people :(

I should probably read Oliver Twist.
Really? Because it looks to me like an employee of Mozilla claimed copyright on images plagiarized from another's work. The Mozilla wiki has a very clear copyright policy:

"All contributions to MozillaWiki are under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC-BY-SA) version 3.0 or any later version."

https://wiki.mozilla.org/MozillaWiki:About

Which I would expect Mozilla employees to know about and abide by.

As full disclosure, I've hired Metalab in the past.
"it doesn't say Final Product, it says Mock-ups"

It's still irresponsible to use those images and that layout, after rejecting a bid by that design company to create images and layout for the product, even in a mockup.
I suspect it went like this:

"Wow, the Metalab stuff looks great. Let's ask for a quote!"

[asks for, gets quote]

"Crap. That's way out of our budget. But we do love that style of design."

"Hey, design intern, can you 'shop some of our content into their layout to serve as a functional mockup until we figure out what we're going to do for the real design?"

[intern shops in content, mockup gets posted to wiki, internet drama ensues]

The infraction really seems to be that this is public. Knocking off other sites for purposes of internal mockups and basic functional blocking seems totally sane.
Unrelated question: is there a reason the docs in the git repo aren't rendered at http://rubini.us/documentation? They seem well written and it'd be nice to be able to browse it from the website.
Why is it a weird assumption? Their blog post shows an e-mail from Daniel (the person they are lambasting) that says "Your company has first-class UI/graphics design chops and I will certainly keep MetaLab in mind when bidding out future projects that require such services."
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Not to mention the ridiculous images interspersed every 2 paragraphs. How did those not bug anybody enough to post about it here? Am I 2? Do I need to be reading a picture book? Could he at least have chosen relevant images?

No thanks.
But where is the innovation that would justify a patent lock-in [npi]? Is it still (really?) "non-obvious" that GUI elements may mimic physical devices? What is so innovative about a virtual toggle switch?
His point is that you can't heel-toe if brakes kills or misfires the engine (as it often does in karts)
I listened to their explanation and it sounds a bit shady. First they used that old salesman trick of using a British accent to appear smart, so that was already a red flag.

And then their explanation of the secret to their technology sounded rather ridiculous. They said that their technology was like the google search engine or like searching for the word "money" in an MS word document (the latter was the lamest attempt at subliminal messaging you are likely to find outside of a political ad). Needless to say that is a very silly explanation.

Of course a lot of graphics systems have methods where they determine what elements are supposed to be visible and render only those elements. But that is not something that will give you "unlimited detail".

So yeah .... shady.
"something MetaLab doesn't like"? That's a really soft euphemism to use in place of "use their images and design on mockups of a product after rejecting their bid to do images and design for that product".

Granted, MetaLab could have chosen a better approach. But don't act like they don't have darn good reason to be upset.
Yeah, there are exceptions. I'd say this sentiment is practically the entire point of the cult favorite Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead.

But that I am surprised by seeing the hero fail in these stories is proof enough to me of the rule.
It is irresponsible, for sure. But is an appropriate reaction to set up a big witch hunt and publicly shame Mozilla? Is that how businesses and organizations should be treating each other? People make mistakes. Give them a chance to make things right before you try to do damage to someone's reputation.
Can't believe this wasn't on HN already.
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> an agreement where Metalab is reimbursed for the entire
amount of their initial quote.

Why on earth would/should that happen over a few mockups? It's not that Mozilla asked Metalab to do a bunch of work, claimed it sucked so they wouldn't pay, and then used it anyway. No: Moz decided not to hire Metalab, and someone ripped off some existing work of Metalab's for some mockups.

Now, I think that was an inexcusable thing to do on the part of whoever did it, but even if it was actual Mozilla staff, I just don't see why Mozilla ought to pay Metalab for not working nor hire them unless they happened to be the second choice. (Because the first choice--assuming they were responsible--has got to go.)
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Perhaps they're looking to do this professionally and privately without making immediate public statements that will seem like excuses while everyone is out of their minds with rage over some mock-ups on a wiki?
Slides from talk (PDF): http://www.pgexperts.com/document.html?id=40
Hm, looks like HN maybe sent too much load their way -- the service is not working for me now that this submission has made it to the front page. Too bad, I would be interested to hear people's take on this.

The idea is to return a set of clusters of search results -- so for example the phrase "Mickey" would return grouped results for "Mickey Mouse", "Mickey Mantle", "Mickey Rourke", etc. It was doing a pretty good job when I played with it earlier.

Here is the about page, with a link to details of the clustering method: http://arc2.cc.gatech.edu/about.html
part of me agrees with you, but part of me also sees that our definition of "success" is a moving target. often succeeding from trying is possible, since effort leads to progress and effort creates opportunities....except that "success" has come to be more and more narrowly defined---for example, outrageously high income and celebrity status, rather than stable, sustainable job.

edit: attitude is also important to success, so it's not clear to me what the effect of "protagonist fails" would have on audiences. just as catharsis has a different effect than random-failure, inspiring success has a different effect than training-montage.
a racing engine is probably not as dangerous as racing down the road at 120mph. Engines with rev limiters (all modern passenger car engines) will not exceed redline, and any well maintained and designed engine should be able to redline for a minute or two without locking up, long enough for most emergencies to come to a close (regardless the outcome)

This is not to say killing ignition is a bad idea, but it does not seem to be required. In any case, the worst things that can happen to the driver that I can think of is fire or accidental re-engagement of the tranny. Only real way I'm aware of for an engine to blow and hurt somebody is when a motorcycle shoots a piston straight through the head of the engine and up into the rider. I don't think transverse V6's can launch pistons through the head AND firewall.

Also while the steering wheel may not lock, power steering will vanish. I want to say the driver will just have to deal, but an 80 year old probably can't turn the non-power assisted wheel of their 4000lb luxury car, and that's not their fault persay. Which brings up other questions. This is a dilemma, and partly why I have never truly liked power steering.
Of course... right when I was getting ready to launch a site meant to evolve into an app marketplace. Leave it to Google's serendipitous timing.

Fortunately this is a complex space with plenty of room for competition and complementary services.
Most likely, whoever designed that took the "let's do something like metalab" too seriously.
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My argument isn't that they shouldn't be upset. It's that they have handled a situation so poorly that their actions and consequences are worse than what they are originally critiquing!

Mozilla made a mistake by posting images that they shouldn't have posted. If they wanted that design, they should have coughed up the cash and gotten MetaLab to do the work. But publicly shaming a company to try and damage their reputation, including posting private e-mails for the world to see without so much as a courtesy call to the person you have a problem before you distribute a message which may reach hundreds of thousands, or millions of eyes is, at best, horribly short sighted and extraordinarily unprofessional.
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only a chosen few OS projects have good documentation so I would say that this is nothing new.
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I'm not sure that it's fair to say that Mozilla ripped off his design. The images were uploaded by a single user to a semi-public wiki. It's not as though the whole of Mozilla decided on it.
I like the OpenID and OAuth choices. Hopefully this can drive serious adoption and we can work on building a more connected web.
Remember, though, the harder you work, the luckier you get.
"searching" a "point cloud" sounds like a winner, reminds me of Seadragon's claims about bandwidth/screen resolution, but in 3D (and complicated with a search problem with probably lots and lots of parameters)
Because the person responsible (not knowing who that is just yet) directly stole their images, violated their copyright and their intellectual property. Instead of tying things up with lawyers, mediation and strongly worded letters, why not simply pay what was quoted for, and forget it ever happened?
I agree that it sounds a fair amount like ray-tracing.

More specifically, the method of searching for color on a point-on-screen basis as opposed to a plethora of triangles overlaying each other sounds like ray-tracing in my mind. Though, even as I write this, I'm still second-guessing my position now that I've had more time to think about it.

Either way, what makes it impossible for them to use the current algorithm they're using to evaluate lighting on the point they discovered to be the one that's rendered, as well? ... <_< oh wait, that ~is~ raytracing, isn't it!

I wonder how they properly anti-alias it (and there would very likely be aliasing on those questionable/edge-of-object 'points')? Render a larger scene then scale and sharpen it, or something?

[edit: As a side note, why on earth would this affect the graphic card industries? The substantial math involved could likely be converted int matrix multiplications, and we already know graphics cards are stellar at that ]
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An idea:

Motorcycles and racing cars have had kill switches to fight the problem of stuck pedals etc for ages now. Why not do the same in cars?

It's true, you have the ignition switch, but what about a simple ON/OFF switch right under the driver's thumb? This solves the potential complexity of the key in strange places, the many positions for the key, and the start button. Educate drivers, same as you do bikers and racing drivers.

What about power steering and power brakes? Well, since modern cars are drive by wire, build in an override that forces the engine into idle mode, perhaps with a second override that actually kills the engine (or disengages the transmission) if the engine is still revving high (this could only happen due to a stuck throttle plate, which software can't fix)
Yes, that one was flagged to death.
Indeed. Through many mentions of the word "unlimited", never once was the word "storage" mentioned, or "cache" or "memory". How about the design toolchain? The only solution I can think of is to store all the assets as ... polygons. Unless there is toolchain support for a CSG/procedural approach.
entirely agreed. a suite of apps that took current foreign language periodicals and turned them into language lessons?

Take my money. please.
FYI, its a link to a zip file, and the contents use a packer that will trigger anti-virus/overzealous corporate proxy filters.
It's been on several times under different URLS.

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The fact that Jonathan had the courage to say that is just amazing...
I see. I think a more audience-relevant title would do better, such as "what kind of UI design can we expect from the new form-factor that is iPad".
If you have that many passwords, why not make some sort of base password and then riff off of the base password for everything that needs access (and have a mental sequence for when an item needs a reset)? If your base password is at the highest complexity requirement, the only thing you need to remember is the individual sequences.

I do this for my passwords and it's been working for me for years ...
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I am pretty sure since apple are one of a few companies really pushing html5 and javascript right now, the html5 support for mobile webkit is pretty top notch.

I dont undestand why people think the appstore is apples business, they havent made any money from the appstore, they do however make an awful lot of money selling hardware, but this is for another thread.
I think that your design would be much more successful if it were more visually content-centric. Focus on 1-3 of the best images (I guess based on your voting system) to show off on the front page. "Finally a Home
for your Creative Work!" is too generic. It forces me to read each paragraph below to know what's going on. Try explaining the site in a few bullet points reinforced with descriptive and visually appealing icons. If you try that stuff out I think it would also positively influence the flow of the rest of the site.
I would introduce a sidebar to the art profile page so people can get an idea of what surrounds that piece (derivatives, ownership, etc) without having to scroll down.

When you've developed it a bit more, make sure that in between the click from art profile to evolve an image, there is something other than a sign-up form. You need to show the potential to new users before they will sign-up. As it is now, the majority would see the sign-up and walk away.

Make sure your example derivative is really convincing. Not sure if your market is professionals (who might do this in Lightroom or Aperture), groups (wanting to share professional derivatives privately) or people creating lolcats and so on, but your example for each case should be quite different.
Here's the comment Mozilla gave to me:

"Mozilla is now aware of a post by MetaLabs that shows a Mozilla developer copying prior design work. The mockups they cite were an early proof of concept created by cut-and-paste, never final designs. Mozilla respects the hard work of all designers and at no time meant to plagiarize original content. The in-progress designs for the Jetpack SDK’s IDE are available here (http://flightdeck.zalewa.info/) and following initial sign-off on the proof of concept, the IDE was developed entirely independent of MetaLabs’ work."
It was just a mockup.
azaaza just posted to twitter

"Just got off the phone with MetaLab, glad to have quickly reached an understanding. Expect to hear from them soon."

http://twitter.com/azaaza/status/10253138540

seems a shame for metalab to jump so quickly on mozilla in that way, mozilla havent been the golden boy in the geek crowd for a while but their labs are putting out some awesome stuff.
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The linked article has been updated: the MetaLab and Mozilla guys have now spoken on the phone. The material was used in both the launch announcement and video for the product, but the design has since been changed. Mozilla have apologised. A follow-up post from MetaLab is promised for tomorrow.