skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that simple, it's on the desktops in most offices already it's not that I want to use it but most offices have it installed so it makes it hard to get away from them. It's not Adobe I dislike it's the pdf itself, well yeah Adobe too.
"...with 12 million of those being paid downloads on iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches."

That's quite a big chunk of change right there from iOS. It's just nice to see mobile advertising on Android be successful.
Last time this was posted I was really interested in it. So interested in fact, I built a django-style template library to go with it because I really liked 'extends' and 'block'.

Github
https://github.com/meric/tier/

Example
https://github.com/meric/tier/blob/master/main.lua
http://pastehtml.com/view/1c26ovp.html

Zed would think this is contradicting the point of Tir, though; it being a micro-framework. =\
Assange talks a little about his earlier activities in the Forbes interview from 11 Nov 2010, which is very interesting.

http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/11/29/an-intervie...
SimpleDB gets batch delete
Oh, did I misread you? Are you talking about Gitmo? Because he can't be sent there.
Hype.la is the only real Tir app, with the Mongrel2 BBS demo being a "proto-Tir" app. There's hardly anyone on it yet since I didn't really "launch" it. Because of that, I just run it in screen and I'll worry about the deployment scenario later. Also, the Tir start command actually works kind of like a little monit/daemontools, so if a handler dies it gets restarted. It's pretty robust already.

And yeah I need some monit soon, but so far it's been running fine for the small scale.
[IANAL]

Two official forms = two possible interpretations -> inconsistency. Bidder one gets form A.1, Bidder two gets form A.2.

Doesn't matter which one wins the bid, the other will cry foul.

[In the US]For governement workers, much of the legal protection against charges of negligence comes from performing their actions in a consistent manner.
My favorite is the cup trick:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYBqIRM8GiY
Randomness and Why I am No Longer a Fan of Coworking Spaces
Apparently the latest version of Opera isn't modern enough. I'm really sick of projects blatantly not supporting Opera. There's nothing wrong with it.

Update: Come on there's no reason to downvote this. At least explain why you're downvoting this, for example, Opera killed your puppy.
LegalZoom's forms are almost always just the Secretary of State's forms with LZ's logos plastered on them. This means you can save yourself the cost of LZ and just go straight to your SoS's website and download the forms yourself.

The value of an attorney:

- Structuring your business entity to best handle your management preferences and to minimize investor concerns (i.e. VCs).

- Pitfalls to avoid, and how to avoid them

- What to do, and when, and why.

Basically, an attorney will draft customized documents that fit your situation rather than just the limited subset of situations that the LZ/SoS forms can handle.
Ha, yeah I had to put that in. I find working in the valley is kind of like working with a bunch of guys before Knuth and Dijkstra established structured programming. It's like they say, "Yo, I don't do if-statements man. I use gotos only. That logic and structure crap just slows me down and busts up my creative chi."

As for hype.la, stay tuned. I gotta fix up the ad blocks and improve the UI a bunch, but I'm really aiming for it to be for FLOSS and other artists to do ads without feeling like sleeze. Definitely something I want.
"Don't incorporate, though, if you can avoid it. It's easier to start with [YC's] paperwork than to transfer an existing LLC or S-Corp to a C-Corp."

YC uses Goodwin Procter for their startup formations [1]. Goodwin Procter not only makes their startup formation documents freely available, they give you an automated service for customizing their boilerplate: http://www.goodwinfoundersworkbench.com/document-driver/

It generates:

* Certificate of Incorporation

* Consent of Sole Incorporator

* Subscription Letters

* Founder Stock Restriction Agreement

* Contribution and Assignment Agreement

* Bylaws

* Consent of Board of Directors

* Common Stock Certificates

* 83(b) Election Form

[1] http://hackerne.ws/item?id=16470
This really should be using web worker threads.
Japan to criminalize DVD ripping and breaking DRM even for personal use
Interesting, I'll take a look at this some more. My only question is, isn't plain old Lua already like django's templates. What specifically are you adding that embedded lua doesn't just give you?
Such system would be necessarily self-conscious with all severe problems it implies and human reproduction already produces such systems.
I just looked at the code - I'm pretty sure grooveshark is calling a flash object through javascript to play the music.
At my uni (University of Montreal), A was worth 4.0 and A+ was worth 4.3. I don't think it comes from grade inflation, though. Just a different convention.

According to Wikipedia, the 4.0 scale is anything but standard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_(education)
Leaving as many things as possible with the individual or at the local level is a good remedy for corruption.

Especially when people can actually leave a city or state for a different one or start their own. They have this is Switzerland, as well as the requirement that many actions of the legislature be approved of by referendum.

So it takes several things to prevent corruption.

Oh, I'm Irish too. My mom is from Clare. Got my passport too.
Hi, I'm one of the developers. You are correct. We have a PHP backend, actually the same one that we were using with the flash frontend, and are using jQuery with JMVC, and slickgrid for the huge lists of things. The invisible flash widget provides both music playback and serves as a proxy for getting around some of javascript's crossdomain restrictions (like the fact that you can't make https ajax requests on a page served on http) and talking to third-party services like facebook and last.fm which have perfectly nice crossdomain.xml files.

Feel free to ask me any questions, though I don't know details on a lot of the deep workings of the backend - I'm an Actionscript/Javascript dev.

Oh and thank you so much for not submitting this as 'Grooveshark switches to HTML5'!! Because it's not. We're not doing anything you couldn't do years ago, except maybe that JS performance wouldn't have been fast enough for such a heavy app.
I haven't been able to find any English language reporting of the proposed update to their copyright law yet but Google translate has done a terrific job at it!

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&u=...
"Recreational use of the NAS is covered by FAA Advisory Circular (AC) 91-57 which generally limits operations to below 400 feet above ground level and away from airports and air traffic."

This is recreational use, and I consistently see people deferring to this "Advisory" circular which specifically states it merely "encourages voluntary compliance"
Are you using Chrome w/ Flash bundled? Because this doesn't work without Flash.
You can't blame projects for not immediately supporting your specific browser. Most teams develop for the standards. If your browser doesn't conform to the standards that work for major browsers, then it's just harder on the developers.
Chanos vs. China
I agree with you but your rhetorical question isn't right. If you're Gates with several dozen billions, it is trivial to "earn several billion more dollars"; But if it means I have a 50% chance of losing 10 billion and 50% chance earning 7 billion I wouldn't do it.

The same goes for groupon; From the outside it looks like the founders are risking their entire 5.3 billion for a mere 100% increase in a couple of years time. Of course, like other comments say, we know very little; but I do concur with the original comment saying it looks crazy.
Man, is that awesome.

Fix your blag so that I can read it.
Works for me.

ssh as a SOCKS proxy, Firefox uses it, Flash uses it.

about:config set network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to true.
I once tried to convince a medium-sized employer, someone who got significant traffic, to support Opera. They looked up the numbers and had 7 visitors who'd used Opera in the preceding month. They just couldn't justify the expense for such an insignificant percentage of traffic. I think that's going to be your problem everywhere.

The only reason to support Opera is personal good feelings toward Opera. The userbase is insignificant, Opera doesn't further any given political goal as they aren't open-source and they are several more-popular open-source browsers in the market that are tested against. So what's the point of supporting Opera other than just liking Opera and wanting it to be usable with your site? Not that there's anything wrong with that, but rarely is it a cost-efficient procedure.
China Stalling Cancun Climate Talks
Are you the developer?

At the very least, if this crashes and burns, there’s some more cocoa code out there for interacting with git in a GUI.

I’ve worked in academia, and there’s a name for getting funding based on promises of future results: grants.
For some genres, procedurally-defined levels are fine, but when handcrafted levels are done properly there's a pretty substantial difference. I'm reminded of an interview[1] with Shigeru Miyamoto and Satoru Iwata discussing the first level of Super Mario Brothers:

"But if you avoid the first Goomba and then jump and hit a block above
you, a mushroom will spring out and you'll get a shock. But then you'll
see that it's going to the right so you'll think: 'I'm safe! Something
strange appeared but I'm okay!' But of course when it goes against a pipe
up ahead, the mushroom will come back.

At that point, even if you panic and try to jump out of the way, you'll
hit the block above you. Then just at the instant where you accept that
you're done for, Mario will suddenly shake and grow bigger! You might not
really know what's just happened, but at the very least, you'll realize
that you haven't lost the turn."

[1] http://us.wii.com/iwata_asks/nsmb/vol1_page4.jsp
The main feature that is required is the ability to callcc and/or coroutine yield from any point in the stack. If you look at Wee, the user of the framework has to callcc all over the place to make it work. In Tir I have web:prompt(), which itself does the yielding without anyone having to care.

The significance of this is that Tir can provide one API for all three styles without special effort from the user.
My bad. It does require Flash.
No Problem.
I think seen the widget before on make your own player page (which I've used because the old flash frontend was so very unstable on linux).
And - the switches to HTML5 part - I would only post that if you somehow worked out how to use the html5 <audio> tag, but that has many drawbacks.
Thanks so much for the work on the frontend - It's one of the few online music streaming services now that is decently fast and doesn't eat resources on linux.
A Silicon Bubble Shows Signs Of Reinflating
Right, taken in the context of just this interview, it is not that bad, it's just a guy saying I want extraordinary people and "claims" that he is willing to compensate them for being extraordinary. Standing by itself there is nothing wrong with it. But when you contrast that, with the buzz that went around a few months ago because someone job hopped him because they did not like the environment it tells a totally different story. There is a significant sense of entitlement in that exchange whereas this on seems to contradict his position, in this he pretty much states if you don't like it you are free to leave. But it would seem that he feels it is actually, if I don't like you, you I am free to protect my interests.
Chris Wanstrath's Macintosh Interview
I can see that... but kicking the can down the road is would be an obviously bad form of debt, like a payday loan or something... Technical debt is a term that to me is more interesting when you might have a payoff as described in Eric Ries article:
http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/07/embrace-technic...
Opera does conform to standards, it has for some time, sometimes better than the other browsers. For example, there's no need to prefix CSS3 attributes with -moz.

What is unfortunately happening is rather than testing to see if the site will work in Opera, developers just exclude it. They've made lots of progress over the past few years to get their browser up to snuff. I just recently switched to Opera after Chrome started lagging during the 1.6 update.
Well, since it’s DRM, I assume it would have to be a closed-source plugin. How well would the linux community support this, especially if it’s only targeted to a single webkit browser?
Yep, 'cause pointing your nasty dogs at someone is just low class. (ha)
Dumb answer, I guess, but perhaps because they want it more than an iPad? For me personally the form factor is better in various ways and I greatly value the increased flexibility of Android over iOS, plus getting the "real" full web instead of Apple's definition of that.

Having said that - I won't argue for a minute that it isn't too expensive. I'm as curious as anyone about who is buying these.
We will support Opera, we just didn't have time to test it in Opera before release and didn't want to claim it worked without that.

I've tried it in Opera, and it's perfectly usable apart from some weird scrolling issues where you can scroll the whole site off the page, and sometimes Opera doesn't seem to want to redraw some items in the songlists without scrolling a bit.

Just click the "Let's take a chance" button when the browser compatibility lightbox opens and the site will let you in.
US Government wrote Spain's proposed copyright law
Its probably something similar to SoundManager2, which you can learn more about here:
http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/

I've used it in a project of mine which allows you to upload and control your music library like iTunes using an html/js interface.
This makes me so angry. Thanks for posting it here.
i think this was a great move. much faster than the previous flash-based site. grooveshark just keeps getting better and better, every month.
cool, now when i'm typing into a text box and accidentally press caps lock, a slow and labored process will begin loading with multiple pop-ups and new tabs/windows rather than the slight annoyance of inadvertent capital letters.
I’d totally use it at work for bagel friday, except for getting moved to a basement a full 3/8th mile away from the bagels…
As mentioned in the other comment, there's no reason to not support Opera. They've spent a significant amount of effort over the past few years to get the browser up to snuff and in most cases will work out of the box if you let it. The problem is that many developers simply exclude it, rather than seeing if it will work.

It's frustrating since I just recently switched to Opera and personally find that it performs great, it feels better to me than Chrome, and overall I really like it. The biggest issue I've experienced and the biggest hurdle Opera has is the wholesale exclusion many sites partake in, usually via a if(opera){ //don't support}, rather than feature testing.
I was wondering why the hell they need 3,000 employees. This WSJ article was informative:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870467920457564...

"Currently about half of Groupon's 3,000 employees are in sales"

That explains a lot. They have a ton of telemarketers pushing onto every business with a phone number. This reminds me a lot of the "local directory" space (which the WSJ article claims they're occupying, but from the POV of the small business owner and the consumer it looks like a very different product). There was a lot of excitement and initial signups when things first got off the ground (just a bit before the bubble burst), but the churn can be horrendous.

The difference with Groupon is that the "ads" are actually accountable and produce sales compared to local directory ones. But there's been a few horror stories about dumb business owners getting fucked over with "we're losing $1 on every sale, but we'll make up for it on volume!" deals. Their own fault, but I bet the Groupon telemarketers are pushing it on them like Walmart pushes on suppliers.

What I'd like to see is the current churn rate. If Groupon and competitors keep going at the current pace and businesses keep getting burned, eventually they'll burn the market.
I've spent a couple of minutes searching for 'My Music' and 'Favorites' lists. Just click on your username and they are in menu bar left to the search field. Beside that, great interface and fast loading.
It's not the exact same widget, but it does use the same classes. All our flash playback, in the old flash app, the new invisible player, the even tinier invisible player on the widgets.grooveshark.com page, and the actual widgets on said page are compiled with the same core playback classes.
Template inheritance. See http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/templates/#id1

`Template inheritance¶
The most powerful -- and thus the most complex -- part of
Django's template engine is template inheritance. Template
inheritance allows you to build a base "skeleton" template
that contains all the common elements of your site and
defines blocks that child templates can override.`

Having made it in lua myself, I can tell you it is indeed quite complex. ;)

The lua template only has "include" (i.e. copying another template into this template), but not "extends", (i.e. use another template as a skeleton and this template only provides details on how to fill it).
It's an in-house player. I'm the author. We have a fairly complicated streaming setup, so it's written specifically to work with our internal API.
I had actually just assumed this was all HTML (and thus HTML5) because of the previous html.grooveshark.com subdomain. Doh! Great job and thank you for the great work!
What you present is a false dichotomy.

Have you considered treating people as people?

See someone (whatever the gender) at a tech conference? Talk to them about tech. Simple.
I think most of the Sense stuff are system level packages, so you'd either have to find a ROM that included them or monkey around with ADB to get put Sense back on top. But if you want an stock Android experience that would seem to preclude Sense in large part.

What the custom ROMs provide really depends on what phone you're on and the goal of the ROM. A lot of them are really nothing more than a new skin, but some make bigger tweaks. I've got the Vibrant, and there are custom ROMs for Froyo even though T-Mobile hasn't released an official ROM for that yet. There are also a number of 2.1 ROMs that have other customizations (overclocking, underclocking, changing battery behavior)
I guess I should have RTFF. :)

"Where is it appropriate to post a subscriber link?
Almost anywhere. Private mail, messages to project mailing lists, and weblog entries are all appropriate. As long as people do not use subscriber links as a way to defeat our attempts to gain subscribers, we are happy to see them shared."

Thanks for pointing that out.
It's usually a lot of extra work to make deployment on new systems completely automated, so developers don't bother.

Deprec + Capistrano makes this very close to a reality for Rails. It has some niggles -- like installing virtually everything from tarballs when I would strongly prefer it apt-get everything so that I could get updates and so paths and configuration files jelled well with what Ubuntu expects -- but it has been, and continues, to be a lifesaver for me in getting new projects up to speed.

You can also do one step deploys and automate a lot of cruftiness. (I can do upwards of forty deploys to my staging server in a day when in development mode on Twilio integration -- which is hard to test without actually having an accessible HTTP server and making phones actually ring -- so I have a script which commits my changes, tags a new staging release, and pushes it to the staging server in one command.)
Fair enough, but the phrasing suggests your browser isn't modern enough, rather than Grooveshark hasn't been tested to support it, which can be somewhat frustrating to a user of the browser, which may in fact be modern and up to date.
Kafka : A high-throughput distributed messaging system
No doubt, Groupon prints cash. However, as far as I can tell (and I have actually done significant research and thinking about this type of business) they are far more lucky than anything else.

Not to say they didn't execute well, clearly they did, but there have literally been hundreds of companies both before (restaurant.com, 1999, val-pak, Entertainment Book) and after (Facebook, Google, Yelp, FourSquare, AOL, LivingSocial, DailyCandy, Zip2Save, + thousands you've never heard of) doing nearly or exactly the same thing.

IMO Groupon was indeed crazy to pass on this deal. I agree with others saying that there is a high risk that they will be worth far less in a few years.

Why?

Their model is not strategically defensible, and there are very few barriers to entry. Look around, anyone with a mailing list or customer base is entering the deals space.

Besides that, in the end, Groupon makes money by giving away other people's money. It's great work if you can get it, but this type of business gets very hard to scale past a certain point. While it's great for certain kinds of businesses, it also incites a race to the bottom. I think that over the next few years businesses will get wise to the model and revert to more sustainable discount levels for the majority of situations.

In the meantime Groupon will continue to print cash but in the long run there will not be one winner in this category, it will end up very fragmented and very competitive (read: high costs and low profit margins).
Nah, they don't at all. I'd wager that the tech field is mostly a trade more than anything; I'd like to say that my math and philosophy degrees have actually helped me, but if they ever did, it'd be way more subtle than what would actually land me a job.

I make a decent bit of money by the way, though I'd wager that I would've made the same amount sans college degree. Not yet willing to disclose my exact salary.
Okay well I didn't mean to insinuate that they don't conform to standards in general. But you can see that if the developers prioritize their time based on browser usage, Opera might be brushed aside at first.

Idealy, developers could target one set of standards and their product would be functional across all browsers that implement them. In general, the bigger browsers all act relatively the same (not IE) when standards-compliant code is used, so if what works for them doesn't in Opera, then that's a problem.
Just spent an hour playing with the sound bites - made me wonder how much it costs southerners in lost productivity from speaking so slowly
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Cool concept. I like the simplicity of the design but I would try a few more iterations on the logo.
I think we're seeing the effect of them removing the "adult" ads.
I am a big big fan of grooveshark. I work in a user interface team for a large blue chip company. The amount of work, time, dedication, motivation that goes into developing an intuitive user interface is huge. This guys just make it look as if it was a breeze.... If you could do a blog post as you have done on the architecture part, it will be great :).
That makes perfect sense. I really like that it changes the css for the entire class. This would have good applications for a mockup website, you could add elements, alter classes, and add more elements in a consistent manner.
Mighty Mouse Cartoon
No, that doesn't really make any sense, but having people register long-range aircraft makes sense to me.