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I love this, and I'll use it - and I've already told everyone I know about it. And I'm very excited to see how you build on the product. To that end, here's why this app doesn't - for me - solve the main problem of remembering music:

When I'm listening to the radio in the car, I'll use Shazam to identify a song. But the process of sending myself that song information for future reference is far too involved (and unsafe while driving).

So what I really want is a Simple Shazam: As soon as it identifies a song, it emails me the information. Otherwise I never remember to check Shazam for all the music I want to buy later.

I haven't looked into the feasibility of the above - except to discover that many other people wish there was an API of sorts for identifying music.

I don't know if the above is a pain point for you or others as well; but I figure if anyone would understand the need for Simple Shazam, it's you.
> As the BSD license is slightly more restrictive than the GPL

Other way around.
My buddy Seth Porges has a great place to stay in bklyn.

http://www.airbnb.com/rooms/24143

Stay there, you won't regret it.
For some programs, you would have to think the cost of governments time debating it is greater than the total amount they are debating? It probably has a decent sunk startup cost to I assume?
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Exactly. I'd like to know how to check my personal site and some of our sites at work to see if they are vulnerable or not.
In the show, after making the 55 mile range claim and pushing the car into the garage, he plugs it in for a recharge and says that recharges take 16 hours. He then says because of this it would take "more than three days" to get from where he is, Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey, to northern Scotland. The furthest point he could go to is the John O' Groats campground in Wick. Google Maps reveals that is 704 miles or 12 hrs and 45 minutes of travel.

So let's compare whether he is claiming the 55 mile range or the 211 mile range is the one he accepts for non-track driving.

211 miles on the various roads would take at least 4 hrs, then 16 hours to recharge.

Start: 0 hrs

Drive to 211 mile pt: +4 hrs

Recharge: +16 hrs = 20 hrs elapsed

Drive to 422 mile pt: +4 hrs = 24 hrs elapsed

Recharge: +16 hrs = 40 hrs elapsed

Drive to 633 mile pt: +4 hrs = 44 hrs elapsed

Recharge: +16 hrs = 60 hrs elapsed

Drive to 704 mile pt: +1.5 hrs = 61 hrs elapsed

So that is about 2.5 days, less than the more than 3 days he claims.

At 55 mile range though it would be substantially longer than 3 days though. That would be about 17 hours per 55 mile leg, 12 legs at 17 hrs, 204 hours or 8.5 days.

So Clarkson, through his claim of more than 3 days to travel to the north of Scotland, is suggesting the range is more than 55 but less than 211 miles.
Wikipedia is hilarious! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_page
Could add ropes and put pulleys on the ceiling with a couple of nautical cleats and make it something that can be done single-handed.
No. The first car was reduced by 80%.

"The company claimed it could run, even if driven briskly, for 200 miles, but after just a morning the battery power was down to 20% and we realised that it would not have enough juice for all the shots we needed."
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The 64-bit TerminalColours SIMBL plugin that's linked to in the README doesn't play nicely with binaryage's 64-bit Visor plugin, for some reason. However, Evan Phoenix's fork[1] works perfectly for me.

[1] https://github.com/evanphx/terminalcolours/downloads
To me this message of yours is a learning to make note of: "Plus, in Australia the listed price is the price, whereas AirBnB drags in the obnoxious American custom of tacking on extra fees right at the very end of the transaction."

When we take any service to a different country / continent, we need to take into account the local practices of the place (especially pricing) and build it into the system, wherever possible.
Man, that sucks. Hopefully it's a lesson to everyone that you don't leave the keys to the kingdom to one guy, especially if they've just been fired.
After lunch, my wife helps me raise the desk (I work from home). We each stand at one end and lift. I hold my end with one hand and slip an empty plastic bin between the two desks (We just moved so we have like 20 of them in our garage). Then I place a bin on my wife’s side.

that doesn't really seem like an adjustable desk. from the title i thought it was a cheap version of something like http://www.geekdesk.com/

i use an ikea jerker desk set to its maximum height for standing at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/symmetricalism/5488994391/

and when i need to sit, i have a drafting chair that is adjusted high up for the desk's height: http://amzn.to/fZLkPQ
The demo on an iPhone is very smooth except far the massively jarring page rerenders and the browser bar flashing on every page transitions. Is there really no way to fix these issues? It's depressing because the rest is very nice but these issues are devastating to the overall experience.
Cool. Working on a video that is going to go on the front. That will hopefully alleviate any confusion.
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No backups?
300GB doesn't sound like much.
I just processed and shuttled 2.3TB today (sneakernet backup).
You mean doing Ajax without changing the hash and all that the related crufts?

I guess that's because most browsers used by people out there today do not have support for direct url path changing without causing a reload. It's only been possible since the introduction of the HTML5 History API, which solved that very problem. Unfortunately, it's only supported by the newer browsers.
This is surprising, it would be like sitting my web apps code/ database on one live server without a local copy, and possibly multiple backups elsewhere. How can a TV production company justify this? I mean it would cost just about nothing relative to production costs to put 300gig on S3.
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You don't consider Alfred Lin an entrepreneur?
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Do you have a source that it is a comedy show? Their web site seems to be rather misleading regarding this as it appears to be a car review show not a comedy show - http://www.topgear.com/uk/

Perhaps you are thinking of some other top gear show which is a comedy revue or variety hour with singing and dancing?
I actually don't mind HN taking a while to load. It't not that we have to fight for every new user by aggressively optimizing page load time. Btw. the recent changes to the HN backend already improved the average speed a lot.
This is great, I love browsing the articles through the terminal.
In other news, soon-to-be-fired producer learns the true meaning of 'backup'. Also, 'redundancy'.
Thanks! We actually totally understand what you are saying. We have looked at both Shazam and Sound Hound (both top music recognition apps) but see not trace of a public API any time soon. However, we built this app in hopes to just see if people will use it as a tool. If we gain a large enough user base we will start investing in building our own recognition engine, but hopefully by then something public will be available.

In regards to that specific pain point, I do believe we understand that. It is def something that occurs when you are listening to a song in the car or have no idea what the name of the song is but you really want to know and download it later. We will do our best to provide a solution!
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You seem a lot more comfortable telling other people what they ought to do than I am.
To add on to the this, the author also ignores the many benefits of keeping a variety of products under one organization. By keeping the products within a company, you enable much greater levels of collaboration than if they were separated. For example, Google can share private APIs between Gmail and Buzz, however, if they were separate companies, all shared APIs would be legally required to be publicly documented - even if the companies were buddy-buddy. It is also much safer from a disclosure perspective when you want to coordinate projects to minimize the time delay between the release of products that integrate with each other.

Sure, there is overhead introduced, but that is exactly why companies like Google hire PMs. Their job is to manage the coordination and minimize the overhead so that developers can actually write code.
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No, I'm not sure if I do. The pain cattle feels is no less pleasant than that elephants experience. The lives they lead in captivity so that we may eat them are almost certainly hellish compared to those that elephants live. In essence not only are they killed, but they're bred and forced to live torturous lives just for the purpose of being killed.

How exactly does a greater world-wide population of one's species lower the value of one's life? Is it based on some cutoff beyond which extinction is assured? Or is it linear?Does maximizing the number of species on the planet really trump all concerns of suffering?

If so, this logic would also somewhat weaken the value of the life of a dog (300 million) in comparison to that of a cat (200 million)? And what about the value of your life or mine? There are 6 billion of our species.

Personally, I find it very hard to justify both eating animal flesh and outrage at animal killing. On occasion, I have an uneasy feeling that centuries from now humanity will look upon our current practices in a similar way as we look upon slavery... or cannibalism.
After it came up in HN comments (by jquery), and despite my protestation of ankle issues, I decided to give a stand-up desk a try.

I spent about $50 on several 2x4's, two pine planks (48" wide x 16" deep for the monitor/laptop, 36" wide x 16" deep for the keyboard/mouse platform), miscellaneous bolts and some poly stain. I'm now using my computer while maintaining proper posture for the first time in as long as I can remember. I plan to buy a $39 'drafting' chair from Walmart for the occasions when my feet hurt.

One important element, by the way, is the fact that my laptop screen and external monitor are truly at eye level now. This has done wonders for my neck. I think this is a major flaw in the linked desk design.

Oh, and it's occurred to me that I could probably design a very functional stand-up desk requiring nothing but Ikea shelving parts, a saw, and some bolts, probably for under $40.
Why should we be reasonably? The other people who goes to Washington aren't, so if we are it will put us at a disadvantage.

As for those who can't feed their children without federal help should have learned to keep their legs closed or at least used a condom. I feel sorry for the kids, but there are soup kitchens or private charity.
If I wasn't so scared of being tarred and feathered by the anti-fools brigade, I'd submit this self-post for April Fools:

DAE think Hacker News is turning into Reddit?
Lucius: https://github.com/vim-scripts/Lucius
What is that number? There were 20 small businesses in america and that fell to 18? 20 per 1000 per 10000? A little bit of context would help.

On the other hand, who cares? If you have a niche you can make a profit from, make hay. Focus on customers, rather than others.
darn it..waiting for OS X port
I anticipated that response, but was on my way out the door and had no time to clarify.

From the point of view of the FSF, the BSD license is more restrictive, as it grants fewer freedoms to users. From the BSD point of view, GPL grants fewer freedoms to developers, and is thus more restrictive.

In the context of the question asked, I was approaching it from the POV of the GPL's authors, given that the question was whether the BSD code would have to adopt the GPL license. I apologize for my inarticulateness.
That apartment looks nice, but maujer street truly sucks. After living there for 18 months, I have vowed never to set foot in bushburg again.
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Yeah I definitely see your point now. Thanks for replying.
This was a lesson I learned a long time ago; perhaps because of how I was raised, but everything was always negotiable and nobody was too high to talk to. Great post. I'm always a fan of being forward.
You might like my molokai-inspired color scheme for xterm: https://gist.github.com/845878
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If you're going to get nasty and hide behind one or more sockpuppet accounts, could you please promote your goods and/or services on a different forum?
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The problem is that I want my OS to be open to me, so that I can do with it as I choose. If you give that openness to the person above me who sells me my phone, they're just going to use it to take away my freedoms with the OS, like we've seen Verizon doing for years now. I want it, and if I have to take it from Verizon, then fine, I don't care about conforming to some FOSS ideal.
Play Him Off, Flugelhorn Feline: YouTube Time Travels To 1911
The thing that really sucks for the TV show is that it wasn't even their own employee. It was an employee for their data hosting company. You know... the guys who you're supposed to outsource to to make sure that this stuff doesn't happen.
Monetization idea: allow n songs per day/week/month for free, more with a premium account
Can you hire him to wipe Jersey Shore?
Here at Grooveshark, we've harnessed the power of HTML5™ to provide you with a full 3D experience...

http://listen.grooveshark.com/

If you have a paid account, it won't change your theme automatically though. You should get a notification in the corner to turn it on.
Google exploited the buzz of open source philosophy, so it's fascinating seeing the open source community's reaction to their stricter control over Android. Personally, I always saw the trumpeting of "openness" as an unrealistic marketing ploy.
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You're assuming that the production company can afford to have someone around who knows how to put data on S3. My guess is that they outsourced this to the company who had the fired employee. Still, they should still have some kind of original files on some other medium somewhere... but who knows, maybe their production workflow revolved around this data-host. In which case they are really borked.
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I wouldn't call it broken, especially compared to Microsoft (I've worked for both). Besides, why don't we at least give Larry a few weeks as CEO before proposing a restructuring :-P
Any YouTube video, with _CAPTIONS_ on (The CC button), to add text to your 1911 video :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmV-NddtqRU

To find other videos with captions, append ",cc" to your search, like "cats, cc".
"My newborn isn't crying all night. April Fools. Yes she is. Joke's on you."

http://twitter.com/#!/balanon/status/53677841384091649
You can attack Gruber's position as an Apple advocate if you want, but that doesn't really address his points about Google. The thing I've taken away from this is that Android advocates are now defining openness in terms of degrees. It's no longer about being open; it's about being "more open," a vague idea that only gets to be defined by Google, the gatekeepers of Android.

Requiring licensees to agree to "non-fragmentation clauses" that give Google final approval over source changes is against the spirit of open source.
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Shouldn't the company have off-site backups of the data its hosting, like, say, on tape or something?
That employee may be going to jail, but it's not his fault that this happened. If your fired employees have access to your servers, you fucked up the firing horribly. Similarly, if one data center going offline can take out your entire season of work, perhaps you need to learn what redundancy is.
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Thanks! I coulden't find a light version of the Xresources script though, that's why I was wondering about switching.
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I think the idea is that for newcomers it will be free, because amazon is nice.

Also, according to other comments it seemed that paths were the problem, not binaries.
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xkcd is 3D: http://xkcd.com/

Randall is accepting user-submitted 3D versions of each comic: http://xkcd.com/xk3d/

Unfortunately, it looks like there is no title text for 3D comics yet.
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Wonder if future reviewers of tesla products will insist on a legal waiver before touching their products.
Also somewhere somethings being lost in translation. Top Gear has been about Three guys getting together for a laugh and doing irresponsible things. If Tesla Co didn't know this when they handed Top Gear the car then they missed out on the due diligence. In car circles this lawsuit is akin to suing Santa Claus.
Discussed yesterday in this HN thread with 124 comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2383581
Beg HN: Can we please downvote submissions on April 1st?
It isn't even April 1st yet and I am already seeing bogus stories on the front page.

See you tomorrow.
Have you ever watched Top Gear?
Cool site. :)

You've got a bug on Ask HN posts, though, where you get a relative URL from HN (/comments/blah) which ends up relative to your site rather than news.yc.
What you said about redundancy is true, but it's still his fault this happened.
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I would not be surprised if their "data hosting service" claimed redundancy as a feature.
Every good startup knows when to pivot.
I made a Solarized dark theme for XCode 4. I used the Vim definition as a guide, though varied it a little while staying within the color palette.

https://github.com/varikin/solarized/tree/master/xcode4-colo...
If "open" is now a marketing term to be defined individually by each entity that's exploiting it, than Google and their supporters should stop using it, because it's ultimately meaningless.

The spirit of open source is supposed to be that you have access to the Android source at all times and can do what you want with it. However, it's not an open platform if Google retains final approval over source changes by licensees and is holding up phones that just so happen to use a rival search engine like Bing. It's not an open platform if they're withholding source except to their privileged partners who get early access while others don't.

I just don't understand why so much faith is placed in this multi-billion dollar advertising company. Google is not really an open source company--their core business is a closed source, proprietary content-indexing platform that just happens to be backed by open source software.
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It's here - https://github.com/altercation/solarized/blob/master/xresour...
Sorry, this is my little April Fools joke.
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How is this not his fault?
Ask HN: Advice with running market research surveys?
What's your best advice or experience as far as running market research surveys?

- What are survey design tactics for enticing the most people to respond honestly to my survey?

- Do you typically run more surveys often, or fewer longer surveys? What works best?

- How well do giveaways work to incentivize responses? iPads are the token giveaway - does one big prize tend to work better than several smaller giveaways?

- Is it a good idea to gently remind people to respond to a survey, or is that just annoying?

- What creative ideas have you tried to get more responses, and what were the results?

Thanks for any pointers here. (:
You mean The Cloud has disgruntled employees?
That theme's iPad handler is awful.
Could you share the emacs theme?
I highly doubt that the "average" viewer of Top Gear could afford a $100k car of any make or model. Honestly, it's fun to watch the hosts blaze around the track in hideously expensive super cars, but the law of averages says that not more than a small proportion of the audience could actually afford those cars. So it's hard to quantify Tesla's claimed reputation damage as the people who buy Tesla cars likely don't care one whit what Top Gear has to say about the Tesla roadster, especially given the show's strong anti-environmental pro-speed hi-octane pro petroleum bent.
No, we just don't use our own names.
I would really love to have emacs, gnome-terminal and gedit themes made out of this color scheme.
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We have tons of decades-old video alive and well today. They may not have expertise with S3 but if they don't have the expertise to ensure robust backups, they're doing it wrong.
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Open-Closed
Almost nothing. It makes a great deal of sense to make something fun and throw it away. Pick some frameworks to make it easier (parser, and perhaps a compiler or interpreter toolkit) and make a throwaway.

There's no such thing as 'language clutter'. No-one is harmed by you making a pet language for your own edification, and you will almost certainly not build anything that's more useful than an existing language on your first try. Or even first N tries.

It's very educational, it does no-one any harm, and it's really fun when something works. Just don't take yourself too seriously.
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Sadly, not all ISPs allow this. I run into this frustration whenever I visit my parents. They use a wireless ISP which does not provide each customer with a public facing IP. They all share the same public IP address and therefore can not receive incoming connections.

It's quite frustrating.
Nice! As far as I know Shazam sort of does the same thing and it is kind of annoying. The freemium model is very appealing but I would love to find a different way too.
Currently #4, hoping to be #2 soon and then #3.
I thought this sort of thing died off with Teddy Roosevelt, so it was interesting to learn what kind of people still do it.
I assume this is them: http://www.cyberlynk.net/ with the late 90s "new" graphic against off-site data backup. I hope the show producers sue someone, either Cyberlynk if they claimed they did redundant backup or their IT guy/company for setting them up with such a bum deal.
Tried it..works for me !
I have always used Vimeo on the past for this sort of thing.

I definitely prefer it over youtube based on quality of video, bandwidth (a lot of youtube videos that I try suffer from playback issues), and branding.

Hosting on S3 or some other CDN is also an option if you don't mind paying a bit.
Yeah they may not but you have the weight up the costs of getting a contractor in to setup an almost fail safe system against losing probably millions of dollars of production.

I would assume it's more about people assuming something like this would never happen as to not justify the outlay of protecting against it.
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