skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No relationship. Obviously the intent is the same.

Distinction: we handle small pieces of audio from anywhere in the song (20s), ours works "over the air" via microphone, we have a huge database via our content partners.
Twitter Voice Search in German (Deutsch)
If you think XML is writable, you are a bigger man than me.
Typo: should have been WSDL
I would say spend the money on teleportation using entanglement. That would probably produce results faster then trying to move a large mass from one side of the universe to the other.
FTC to Serve Google With Subpoenas in Broad Antitrust Probe
Deficiencies of GCC's Optimizer (AI-32/64)
Netflix is now screwed..Why you should put your membership on hold.
I was in the mood to watch a movie.

Fired up the AppleTV to see that a lot of movies were no longer in my Instant Queue (approx 20). Weird, executed a search for the movie "Grown Ups" to find out it is no longer available!

I called Netflix to be told it is a "licensing renewal" issue and that the movie studios were being difficult. Nothing could be done.

I asked, well you are collecting my $7.99/mo and I am now down hundreds of movies. the CSR told me it was available on DVD and no big deal, upgrade my account and I could get it.

That was the end.

Funny though..When I told the CSR I was using an Apple TV she said "Who makes that Roku?". I said yes.

So the larger question here is that is Netflix doomed to lose a large amount of customers over these types of issues? It is bound to happen over and over again. In his All Things D9 session Reed Hastings said he hoped that throwing a bunch of money at licensing would be the answer. Clearly it is not!
See my previous point. Patent cases pay for themselves too. But the federal govt. is so strapped for money that it takes money from these depts. And Congress is notorious for passing unfunded mandates. Unless you address specifics like this, I'm afraid what you are saying is just wishful thinking.
My enthusiasm for tt lasted about a week, then the rooms I was in got larger than my circle of friends and the quality of music dropped significantly and I haven't gone back. It's neat for but I couldn't maintain using it.
Advocare: Another MLM Scam
"The thirty-three ads each month are in rotation across all fifty-six sites and services."

I'd imagine it's not an entirely even split either...
Relevant, Project Icarus (A Joint Tau Zero Foundation & British Interplanetary Society Initiative): http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/
No, what happened was they hired a tech person to implement their idea and that person betrayed them. It's not that he just copied their idea for his own project. Personally I'm not a believer in non-compete clauses. What he actually did was to slow down their own works so his would release first. Now that is dirty and immoral. I can't believe all the startup hopefuls on this site would root for someone who behaves like that. Zuckerberg is the anti-role model for what we should all aspire to.
Project CCNx: named content instead of named hosts as the primary abstraction
Apple's 'directional audio' concept is like multitouch for the ears
I don't think you are overstaying your welcome. Actually, I learned alot from your posts. Thanks.
And it's worth noting that trying to license the image
would have been moot. When asked how much he would've
charged for a license, Maisel told his lawyer that he
would never have granted a license for the pixel art. "He
is a purist when it comes to his photography," his lawyer
wrote. "With this in mind, I am certain you can understand
that he felt violated to find his image of Miles Davis,
one of his most well-known and highly-regarded images, had
been pixellated , without his permission, and used in a
number of forms including on several websites accessible
around the world."

The pixelated version was incredibly appropriate for a chiptune tribute and anyone that claims to care about art should applaud such a use of an imitation, mockup or inspired work. I don't like artists who think their work is so special that any change ruins it. 99.999% of people don't care about his original 'masterpiece' in any way, but a few more may care now that there was a different rendition of it. Artists should recognize there is a bit of luck involved in them and their art becoming famous. For every well known great artist, there are ten who were better, but simply didn't become known.
Can someone torrent this? I couldn't finish downloading the entire thing.
I can't download any of the pdf's -- the download just fails. I'd really like a copy of this, could you possibly send me one?
I think the real issue is that you wanted to actually watch "Grown Ups".
Could whoever downvoted this please explain the rationale?
Bus them in from Atlanta and pay them legal wages and working conditions. Amazingly though, the price of food will go up.

It's a labor supply shock, not a shortage however. The people who would be hired would be inexperienced and more expensive.
Cool 'instant' sites that have come up
I don't see any reason to worry that the masses are being 'dumbed down' because even if there is such a plot it doesn't seem to be working. The masses have kept being the masses, and the intelligent intellectual types seem to have stayed as intelligent and productive as ever.

I would love to see data showing that there has been an increase or decrease in the ratio of intelligent to unintelligent people, but right now all we have are anecdotes.
I thought this was an interesting article on motivation, http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/06/how_to_become_a_great_finish...

I agree with HBR that it is about perspective
Two words: external references [1].

XML is a data representation that desperately wants to be Turing complete through syntax.

And then they call their schema definition language (because defining XML schema is practical by using a specialized language) RELAX...

You can't make this stuff up.

[1|http://books.xmlschemata.org/relaxng/relax-CHP-10-SECT-1.htm...]
"in my lifetime"

First invent (effective) immortality then travel to the stars.
Can you blame me? Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Reiner all in the same flick? The only thing that would have made that better is adding Jim Parsons...
Nokia prices are usually very competitive in in the UK at least.
Either of those guys? Do you mean the twins or do you mean "either of those parties"?
This should reside under the foundation of the long now. Funded by wealthy visionaries backed by corporations instead of governments.
App Store Optimization (ASO) for Android
Blackberry has few years of profitability at their disposal. Consider the Indian market. Blackberry is spreading here almost like a wildfire. The reason is that it is an incredible smartphone at very affordable price. iPhone is almost thrice costlier than BB and the data plans double the cost of BB data plans.

In my opinion QNX holds key to BB's future. I had opportunity to work with QNX and I know it as a very powerful operating system that can run metro rails and nuclear reactors. I feel BB should relax and take their time to build the next OS based on QNX.
JustHost Hosting Server Compromised, More than 1000's of websites at Risk
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sclient=psy&...
The only css cheatsheet you will ever need
The corporate mindset is the problem. They've got to get away from the hubris of thinking their software testing process is so special or better than the community's.

Although it's a pretty cushy assignment. I'm sure plenty of bigcorp PMs would rather do that than to manage something with more complicated deliverables.
Which is a plain mistake. http://lesswrong.com/lw/nj/similarity_clusters/ I repeat, if you are right (I think you are) the English language is wrong http://lesswrong.com/lw/od/37_ways_that_words_can_be_wrong/

We now know that making up a category that includes all fishes, insects, birds, reptiles… and all mammals (including apes), but Homo Sapiens and some of its now extinct cousins isn't reasonable.

Unless of course if you believe that humans have immaterial souls and animals do not. That would make us very special. But the probability I assign to this possibility is negligible.
The problem I see with this complaint is what "End of Life" means in corporate IT. What it boils down to in practical terms is that the vendor no longer is available for support calls.

We continue to run many EOL apps because of these kinds of issues -- we know the apps are stable for our usage of them, and it is a low risk that we would have needed vendor support anyway. We make an explicit decision to accept that risk

So this is technical impact, but really it is a risk management issue.
The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is a good example. One of the most fascinating things about this cathedral was that they had no idea how they were going to build the dome when they started building it (the construction techniques weren't advanced enough at the time). They had faith that someone in a later generation would figure it out. That person turned out to be Filippo Brunelleschi, one of the greatest engineers of that time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Cathedral
Hmm I dunno, if it's the same as what you are saying, but I think it's more related to having too many ideas, and being able to think around a problem, and a lot of these productivity tip things seem to make sense as they say things like break it down into small chunks, only have 3 priorities at a time, remove distractions, split up your plan into two week chunks, so it's not a massive problem & don't think about stuff beyond 2 weeks time.

I think a lot of techies get stuck on optimisation, as you gain experience, and keep seeing the same, repeated failures. How do you fix team work? How do you gather requirements in an appropiate manner with a different type of customers - what are the different types of customers. How do you solve the acceptance problem.

It's a young industry in that a lot of these problems are still being solved. Yet, since the barriers to entry are practically zilch these days more and more coders enter with no experience and a single simple problem, without either caring about customers, teams and the wot not. Then go on to encounter these problems further in their career or just don't care and switch off, further causing problems.

Just my 2p anyway. Hth.

My question: What do you do, that doesn't ever encounter motivation problems? (Only because I want a simpler life :)
And yet it should be the artist's choice on how THEIR work is used, regardless of how you, or 99.999% of the people feel.

Personally, I find the overly-developed sense of self-entitlement to be way more unlikable than an artist's overly inflated ego.
Design A Grungy Album Cover
I Spank My Kids
The PDF is listed at 230MB... his server is doomed.
At least in the UK, plenty of young folk do want Blackberries.

I believe this is some combination of emulating rap stars (who are in turn emulating drug dealers), cheaper than true smartphone data plans and BBM and then a self-re-enforcing fashion feedback loop.
I'm pretty sure he hasn't denied exiting Twitter via SecondMarket.
http://waxy.org.nyud.net/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/
I think they handled it as well as could be expected. There are a lot of places in this world where if an associate screwed you over as badly as Zuckerberg screwed them over that associate would have been killed. And over a lot less money than this was.
Like it a lot, though often the advantage of a cheatsheet is printing it out so you can stick it on the wall, or have it beside you whilst coding.

This is still a great site though.
Oh, it wasn't meant as a criticism. I think my original misperception just strengthens your point. XML written as simply as possible is still more complicated than JSON.

That said, I feel about XML much the same way I feel about Java. They are typcially more complicated and verbose than the alternatives, but I don't think you can pin the horrendous level of complexity on the languages themselves. There seems to be a stronger cultural distain for complexity in the communities around other frameworks and languages, and JSON reflects this.

Everyone is (in theory) opposed to "unnecessary" complexity. The real issue is where you draw the line. For some reason, the python/django and ruby/rails communities seem more inclined to say "no" to complexity, even if it means giving something up. To turn it around, you have to get a hell of a lot of benefit to convince rails/django people to accept the overhead of additional complexity. I'm not sure why - maybe this is because these frameworks were created by people who were agast at what they saw developing in the Java world?

This seems to be the case with JSON vs XML as well. XML isn't going to be as simple as JSON, but there's no reason you can't describe data in XML in a way that is concise, reasonably, simple, and easy to read (both for people and computers).
I'm going to play a bit of "devil's advocate" here. :-) The general problem of place-shifting and time-shifting energy (wind power / solar power) is a very real issue and you could make tons of money solving it.

This particular application won't of course.
Live Search with knockout.js
If you _really_ want to know how JavaScript closures work:

https://github.com/brownplt/LambdaJS
That is the ad network for the site.
The failing of Android as a tablet platform
you can print it from the browser :)
don't feed something to the leviathan if you can't stand to see it get chewed up.
So what exactly entitles someone to exclusive control/ownership over a particular arrangement of bits, just because they happened to be the one to produce the first copy of that arrangement?
'Uncontacted' Amazon tribe found in Brazil
Not sure why I'm being down voted, just trying to acknowledge that there is a flow of money surrounding this issue?
Not quite -- we simply drew down the population of Anopheles enough that malaria was unable to spread. DDT is a very effective insecticide, but resistance has been described and can spread if it is overused; in fact it is estimated that agricultural use of DDT causes more deaths from malaria by contributing to DDT resistance in Anopheles and thereby affecting vector control operations.

See: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v293/n5829/abs/293181a0... -- http://localhostr.com/file/itFWMaa/zzz.pdf

"it can be estimated that at current rates each kilo of insecticide added to the environment will generate 105 new cases of malaria"

In short, it just ain't that easy.
GrabBox automatically shortens my screenshot links. Click if you dare. IMHO they should have used bitly pro and their own shortener for marketing the thing.
Should it? Why?
So? Let's all get stuck with FF 3.6 like IE6?

Please no. Mozilla shouldn't slow down the release cycle just because big corporations can't keep up with it.

Alternatively, what would help those big customers to keep up would be the opposite of what they require. Instead of having infrequent "big" releases every few months, having continuous updates ala Chrome where each increment in almost compatible with the next one could help to mitigate the problem. There will be no big breakages and everyone that wants will be able to keep up when time comes.
OK so I'm dense I guess, but how does that relate to your two points? Is the OP more or less credible for using that ad network? I assume you feel less somehow?
Amazon Entering Indian Market: Will take organic route
Intercontinental Ballistic App Store
Could be expanded further to describe when generating multiple functions, each with a reference to an object is a useful design pattern in JavaScript, and when it's a common mistake.
I feel sorry for her kids. The opening story tells it all - obedience over love of learning.
<Product>
<RecordReference>T0142</RecordReference>
<NotificationType>03</NotificationType>

The horror.
Immigration to Canada in the 21st century is not the situation you had in the USA pre-1914. At Ellis Island, as long it was deemed that you weren't insane, diseased, or a criminal, and could support yourself, you could get US citizenship in an afternoon.

Although Canada has the most liberal immigration policy of all industrialized countries today, it will still take an applicant years to become a Canadian.
You mention luck plays a part. Having a recognizable image increases your odds. That's why people get sued for this kind of thing, because art has so much luck and every little reference or connection helps.

It's unfortunate the author didn't think the cover art would be a problem. It's a pretty iconic image, and the very fact that he really wanted to copy it because it would fit so well should have set off some alarms. It's like a brand name, it could be seen to increase the value of the product. (I don't even know if he sold Kind of Bloop or reaped any kind of financial reward, but sometimes even that's not important. If he didn't, then man does that penalty suck.)
Cost of Internet (and storage space) decreasing linearly since 1980
I'm also excited about the Nokia WP7 - I wish they had it out already - better be soon!

Regarding iPhones - really? Well I went from a 3GS to a 4, the screen is a world of difference in terms of contrast ratio, battery life is better, reception is better, multitasking works better and the camera too.
funny coincidence, I caught part of a documentary about that last night.
Dual boot WP7 and MeeGo!
This is strange, I thought I submitted http://wingolog.org/archives/2011/06/21/security-implication...
What should every JavaScript programmer know?
Your code is broken, and Ruby can help you fix it
The Day After You Get Funded
I... Don't get it? This has always been how they operated? Films coming in and going out of streaming ability?

It's kinda how the studios treat channels like HBO, Showtime, and the like. Netflix just did the online move before those guys wised up. (Though, HBO has now, and congrats to them.)
It's not true. I got an employment-based green card a little over a year after I set foot in the country.

What is true is that the system is rigged against Indians and Chinese. If you are Indian and don't have a PhD, then yes, you may have to wait 10 years, probably longer in fact. Unlike the hardships of illegal immigrants, this hardly ever gets any attention though.
I recall having an easy time de/serializing XML in C# ... you don't HAVE to get into the syntax business if you don't want to.

And I think the Java also has something analogous in the JAXB library
Maybe if it wasn't also being used for an album cover it would have flown under the radar more. Also using photos as your source material gets you more attention since photographers are constantly having to track down copycats.
... in Basic
The FF4 EOL announcement has a bit more impact than that. It has been announced that FF4 will not received security updates. This means that if you deploy FF4 in your enterprise, you'll not only be committing to software without support, you'll have internet-facing software that contains published vulnerabilities (as they appear). That's just unacceptable.

Browser vendors would do well to adopt a release strategy that is similar to Ubuntu's model. You have a churn of releases with a periodic LTS release that will receive security patches for a longer term.

The key here is understanding that there is some middle ground. The "release often, period" method of software development is attractive to a lot of us individually, but it's nearly impossible to plan for when you manage hundreds of PCs per tech support staff member. Providing a consistent LTS release schedule would at least give corporations the ability to plan.
... and that is exactly how funding would have to work -- tied to an ongoing organization's operations. Academia has their endowments and perma-fundraising. Religions have donations and tithing. This effort would need an analogous long term funding source.

My first thought is that if 1% of all renewable energy revenue was sent to this effort, it would provide potentially massive funding as renewable energy grows. I don't know how to convince the greedy energy folk to give up 1%, but it sure sounds nice.
Taphire - Job board for mobile application development
Hello V,

1. I'll see what I can do for the <hr> tag
2. Once you're registered, you get a companyname.sprint.im - That is where you're expected to login.
3.ok
4. Ok will plan on changing about and a few other pages.
5. ok
6. yeah its a little confusing.

yeah I've been pondering over if its the right call to showcase that it was built by a single person. Will have to do some testing to see what works. But I was hoping that it would me a more personal touch with customers.

Thank you for all the feedback and suggestions :) yes. Basecamp and Jira are huge so is project bubble. Hoping to get a good slice of the market share soon :)
Hm. I never heard of XJsonX, but it would be a trivial logical extension of JsonX (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wsdatap/v3r8m1/inde...)
Whoa, I had no idea we had done that. Have we sequenced genomes from any human species?

edit: wikipedia and google searches haven't revealed any positives. Thanks for that link though, very interesting.
It's weird that english has a special word for hitting kids that people use as if it doesn't mean "to hit".
The "extra credit" question at the end is a fascinating one, I think. I would /love/ to hear the opposing side's answer, since we know the first image is not acceptable to them and presumably the final image would have to be.
> I don't even know if he sold Kind of Bloop or reaped any kind of financial reward, but sometimes even that's not important. If he didn't, then man does that penalty suck.

Did you not read the post? He explains this in the very first paragraph:

"Remember Kind of Bloop, the chiptune tribute to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue that I produced? I went out of my way to make sure the entire project was above board, licensing all the cover songs from Miles Davis's publisher and giving the total profits from the Kickstarter fundraiser to the five musicians that participated."
I agree. The assumption here is that the corporate IT mindset is the constant factor, and Mozilla, Chrome, or whatever, have to adapt to it.

I don't agree with that assumption. Corporate IT has to get better and faster, or they will get marginalized by cloud hosted solutions that can move faster and deliver superior experiences at better cost.

If your internal software is so crappy you can't upgrade your browser, maybe you should try and fix your internal software.
The article did a pretty good job of explaining what a multiferroic material is. However, the first sentence states that this is a potential source of energy. So I expect the article to explain how this is a potential source of energy. In which case the relevant information is not how does it work, but how much electricity does it produce. You could write an article entitled "Material Transmits Engergy for Free!" and talk about cuprate-perovskite ceramic and superconductivity and how it works with electron pairs, etc. And it sounds great, especially if you don't mention that it only works if it is cooled by liquid nitrogen.

Frankly, this material sounds a bit like a thermocouple. Those produce electricity from heat, too, about several microvolts, which isn't even going to power my wristwatch. It isn't even going to power my nano-machine! The magnitude of the effect in question is kind of a key thing to know if you state "free, green energy", since I'm wanting 110V at 10A out of my green energy. Thermocouples are about 9 orders of magnitude away from what "free, green energy" requires, and 9 orders of magnitude is a huge thing to leave out of an article. It's like leaving off the fact that superconductivity requires temperatures slightly warmer than Pluto (and that omission is only 2 orders of magnitude).
About your data dumps: you're about to get hammered, so please share them in torrent! This would be much better for the thousands of people wanting to bootstrap.

Also, I understand json is very easy to use, etc. But those big dumps cry for a binary format. Or at least add zlib/lzma compression so people don't waste bandwidth on uuencoded binary data in json.