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This article doesn't get all the facts. What it fails to mention and what I remember watching on MSNBC(?) a few years ago is that Jim Miller paid $80,000 per year for a Chinese nanny for his daughter since she was born. She is fluent in Mandarin from this, not from "packing up and heading to Singapore." Must be nice to have all the cash to do stuff with.
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From Spotify's perspective, there is a low incentive to offer unpopular songs as 320kbps streams.

If there is only a small number of peers in the network that have the high Bitrate stream (paying users with HQ enabled on desktop clients and with interest in unpopular song X), they benefits of the peer to peer networking are less likely to pay off.

However, that does not explain why they don't offer HQ for some of their more prestigious releases, though I wouldn't be surprised if the labels hand them 'shitty' 192kbps mp3s every now and then.

Interesting read about some of their p2p architecture (PDF): http://www.csc.kth.se/~gkreitz/spotify-p2p10/spotify-p2p10.p...

EDIT:

After looking at the spreadsheet, I’d wager that there is a correlation between lower popularity of tracks and being 160 kbps only. The only track out of the last 40 is Michael Jackson's This is It, and a quick look up in the Spotify client gives most of them a very low 'popularity' measure.

I mean, really? http://open.spotify.com/track/7kBDTeWty0z1MXjcH9twph
Professors often are involved in the official process. Often they have to provide evidence at a hearing. They don't just throw the case over the administrator wall.
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Well I'm glad I nitpicked now, because that's some fascinating extra info, thanks! I actually agree with you, despite my comment, I'm just no fan of mises.org.

It might be selfish but I'm arguing against software patents I prefer not to get bogged down in the question of patents generally. And especially the moral and ethical frameworks that they may or may not make sense in (like positive and negative rights etc). They just don't make sense for software.
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I'd like to keep it quiet for now, since I am still working on getting it polished for a public preview.

My idea is somewhere along those lines, but not exactly. I like that idea though! On the iPhone app store, you can generate codes for people to redeem... not sure about Android though.
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LA coders may actually be taking on a greater risk when they join a startup. SV programmers (even "old" one with families) see so much opportunity in the startup scene that they aren't concerned about the availability of jobs should the startup tank. In many ways, they gain career stability through cutting edge work and the wide network they can build through startups. In LA, maybe the critical mass just isn't there (or at least not to the same degree)? LA coders may just be reponding to different risk/rewards.
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You will read this new much the next few days so let s just start things by saying the obvious Transformers Dark of the Moon a lot of money. With $ 13 5 million of pre midnight on Tuesday night projections and the actual projections at midnight Wednesday morning
So JavaScript (or is it "JaveScript" is an "abomination" but we should mourn Flash?). Oh wait, it's the browser implementation that's the problem.

Argh.
Apple to launch low-priced iPhone for $350, iPhone 4S/5 end of summer
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The newspapers went to court asking for broad relief (unlisting from google results), instead of putting in place proper META tags and /robots.txt to direct what may be, and what may not be indexed and cached. The court handed them just as much of the proverbial rope as they asked for.

Google's web crawlers asked the WWW servers to GET, were served with HTTP 200 OK, found no prohibition in /robots.txt and so followed the standard protocol.

Note Google Web Search and Google News use separate bots (Googlebot and Googlebot-News) to give website owner full control.
In the habitable zone 74% of its orbit? Although it sounds great, I'm left skeptical: to support life, wouldn't that need to be 100%?
My favourite way to combine pagination with infinite scrolling (for reading, at least) is to use columns - the line after the bottom of the first column is at the top of the second column, and scrolling down scrolls all columns along line by line. Scrolling left and right snaps to columns, and scrolling right by one column is equivalent to scrolling down by one page. Scrolling right by one page is equivalent to scrolling down by page_height (in lines) times page_width (in columns).
Why and how should actors outperform OpenMP or TPL? They serve completely different goals.

Scala ships by default with sequential, lazy and parallel collections and actors.

Akka (akka.io) provides a different implementation of actors (which will replace the one in the standard library in the future), as well as Agents, STM, Transactors, ... for all your concurrency needs. Akka actors can actually outperform Erlang actors in core areas.

Spark (spark-project.org) provides a (Hadoop-like) framework for distributed collections.

Work is being done to make Scala collections run on GPUs, too.

I would argue that Scala's toolbox is pretty diverse and complete when dealing with parallel and/or concurrent problems.

Without facts I wouldn't claim that Scala is slower than Java/C++/C#.

Scala beats the shit out of Java in situations where Java has to work with boxed types instead of primitives like in ArrayList<Integer>, enables people to write fully generic algorithms supporting any number type without speed penalty.

Scala is certainly nicer than C++ because it just works and has far less weird corners or surprises. It lets you write code faster and gives you more time to actually optimize those places where it matters.

C# is pretty much a kitchen-sink language with many features bolted on in a non-othogonal way, unlike Scala. The unreliable VM doesn't help, although value types and the thing Mono did with SIMD is certainly nice.
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Looks to me like everybody wins.

Xamarin gets IP -- meaning they don't have to do a clean-room, source-compatible reimplementation of MonoTouch and Mono for Android, and all the risks that go with that -- in exchange for taking on the support of Novell's existing customers. Customers they probably want anyway.

Novell/SUSE gets to get out of the Mono business altogether, which is probably good for them seeing as they laid off the entire engineering staff.

The Mono community gets some clarification about the stewardship of the project. Novell contributed a lot of resources (bug tracker, mailing list and wiki hosting, etc.) and now Xamarin is on the hook for that stuff. It helps clarify the future of the project.
Jim Rogers and his family moved to Singapore, not China.
Definitely. I'd been chatting with Drew about lessons learned from TotalFark for quite some time before Gold.
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Silicon Valley Information Technology Workers (excludes hardware, e.g. Apple, Intel, financial software which would total 387,000): 49,900

Los Angeles Information Technology Workers (excludes hardware, financial software which would total 758,000): 106,100

Despite having a smaller pool of talent, Silicon Valley tech workers’ companies are able to produce 1% of the GDP of the United States or $174 billion annually.

I don't understand this analysis.

1) why exclude a large portion of the Silicon Valley workforce - because their hardware/financial jobs aren't "startup-y" enough?

2) Where does this GDP/earnings estimate come from, and if it is for SV companies as a whole, isn't it likely to include a whole heck of a lot of employees at these companies that do not work in SV? Apple, Google, etc employ lots of people across the globe.

In most Silicon Valley Startups, coders know SQL, a major scripting language as well as HTML and CSS. However MySpace had positions solely for just HTML/CSS, a trend that harkened back to the 90s when web pages were manually created.

What is the point being made here? That MySpace was not as advanced because some of their job listings did not include SQL? Or because they have some job listings for front-end web work? It takes a huge jump in logic to assume that a job listing for "HTML/CSS" means web pages are "manually created". And since when is an entire city defined by a single company's job listings?

This entire post is full of shoddy analysis and conjecture. I don't understand people that think you can sum up all of the people within a given geographic area with a few words ("scared", "not taking advantage of innovations in automation").
I was nodding my head u til I got to the end - it seems like the google prediction API _is_ the magic fairy dust we've been waiting for?
Differences in naming a control for WP7 in Expression Blend and Visual Studio 
This might be a simple blog post that most of the developers would have seen it but would not have given a thought in to it when developing the Windows Phone App in Expression Blend and Visual Studio...
> About the issue of a "true capitalist," yes I am a libertarian at heart. And I do believe that
people respond to incentives.

Libertarian, maximum personal liberty. If you were a libertarian, you wouldn't care about the cheating. Let the little bastards screw themselves.

Libertarian doctrine (such as it is) says nothing about incentives.

Getting worked up about the cheating, you assume society (or at least your class room) should be merit-based. Pretty much the opposite of libertarianism.

A clever teacher would figure out a way for students to police each other. I've seen it work to great effect. No one grades harder than a peer.

Edit: I was being a dick, comment about whining removed.
How is this different from the tech scene in the Valley or the beliefs of a passionate entrepreneur anywhere in the world?
It doesn't need to be 100% if the atmosphere of the planet could keep enough heat for the remaining 26% of the time, which is entirely likely.

This find is awesome, but it's not what the headline describes. The planet is no "ExoEarth". It's a fantasticly cool exoplanet that could very probably support life that vaguely resembles life on Earth (not humans, though).
Why and how should actors outperform OpenMP or TPL? They serve completely different goals.

Show us numbers. That was the main request of my comment, and you come with a list of libraries? We hear all the time how great Scala is with respect to parallel computing. Show me some good examples, where it beats C++ or C# with TPL, say doing number crunching.

It's all to easy to repeat a mantra (parallel programming in Scala rocks), but it has been proven correct rarely. Given such statements, I would either expect it to be much easier to parallelize programs in Scala (as opposed to, say, adding OpenMP pragmas) or would expect parallelized programs to be much faster. Neither seem to be true.
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Rather than posting signs that say "No Trespassing", perhaps a "The park is this way ->" would've been more effective...
Posting an official record of visitor logs, like what the White House currently does (though imperfectly), would probably be more useful than a webcam.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/disclosures/visitor-...
I'm going to agree. I've run quite a few ads on Reddit recently and our CTR was absolutely abysmal. One ad campaign had .01% CTR with 0 conversions.

On other sites we typically see 1-3% with a decent conversion. I threw a lot of money at Reddit and was REALLY disappointed with the outcome.
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By its nature, a big rocky planet could hold on to a thicker atmosphere; it would also have greater internal heat, a thinner crust, so more geologic activity, greater volcanism.
Spotify uses Vorbis for streaming and Vorbis' 320kbit is not the same as MP3's 320kbit.

In fact, MP3 has quality problems (sample/frequency resolution limit per block) that cannot be fixed at any bitrate. Moreover, re-encoding one lossless format to another (edit: not what article suggests) would further degrade quality. You'd get desired bandwidth, but not the quality.

It's a shame that bandwidth became synonymous with quality and MP3's upper limit is taken as "highest quality". 320kbit (and lossless!) WAVE sounds like a phone line! OTOH it's quite possible that Vorbis at lower bitrate has higher quality than MP3's maximum.
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I agree with most of Crockford's recommendations (and use jslint) but it's impossible to create a controlled experiment in which JavaScript was created without globals (or globals requiring declaration and locals being implicit) and inferred end-of-statement and find out if it would have been as popular. Globals make total sense to newbies, and avoiding them is not hard if you're not a newbie.

(HyperTalk, if I recall correctly, had local variables by default and global variables explicitly, and was -- I think -- even more newbie friendly than JavaScript, so it's possible that JavaScript might have thrived.)

It's not like coding in ActionScript is noticeably more pleasant than coding in JavaScript despite being controlled by a single vendor. And the dedicated ActionScript editor in Flash is far more annoying than a simple text editor.

Anyway, "abominable" is a ridiculous word for a language that has so many broadly consistent implementations, is so approachable, and yet supports so many modern programming concepts with a compact and approachable syntax.
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Thank you for the feedback. I do plan to include some information about the platform. In particular, it is important to explain why some JVM languages work and others do not. Some of the more detailed discussion will likely end up in an appendix.

I'll have to think about your idea to include networking synchronization. The tricky part with that is exactly how to implement it. Off-hand, there are two basic approaches: server/client and peer-to-peer. The problem with server/client is that either I have to choose someone else's platform as a server or provide a server (either as a service or as an included program you can run from a home computer). The alternative is to use something like Bluetooth or NFC to allow synchronization between two devices.

The second issue that I need to figure out is exactly how much material to present. There are some absolutely necessary basics such as activities, services, and resources. Beyond that, there is a question of which platform features are most important. Certainly, something like location is more important than NFC, but deciding on what to include won't be easy.
Yeah, I tried them. And I personally like Inkscape more then Illustrator for vector-related things.
But Gimp vs. PS? No thank you.
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What the hell is that floating moving group of penises? I can't read the article, my eyes keep moving to look at it. Waiting for the lasers to shoot something.
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That is one thing, some other here https://x.ruxum.com/security
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I would design for both of your made up demographics. And in both cases I would preserve the page metaphor by not using frames.
I submitted one and it was fixed in a few days. It wasn't that complicated though, a business had just moved to the other side of town. I don't think it usually takes months to update the map.
this is an interesting story. I like the idea on finding experts via social networks. This is what facebook doesn't do: Aim on the users with a professional perspective. But it has risks too: What about the spammers and scammers?
Tl;dr: "I need to learn a new language and it's different than Java, Python, and C++. WAAAHHHHHHH"
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I'll add the obligatory tip of the hat to www.openstreetmap.org - it's community basis and the ease of use of it's editing tools make this kind of issue very easy for users to fix.

And as a bonus, any edits you make to the data aren't owned and copyrighted by a large corporate, but are made available to everyone via a Creative Commons Licence (soon to be ODbL)
They have also a history here, when they had a lawsuit with a company (A blog that made fun of Facebook posts) they blocked their entries on Facebook.

Has somebody the links to this topic?
I thought discovery of 55 Cancri f was published in this paper on the 11th of July this year --> http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.1936
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People who don't want to see ads will probably have them blocked anyway.
> Mozilla adopted rapid release but kept publicizing each major version like it was a big deal and giving end users ways to opt out other than turning off updates completely. This is a BAD idea.

Yes, this is the correct way to think about it.
You're failing to think things through

Really?

Employers only base their hiring decisions on grades for recent graduates, but nearly all employers base their hiring decision on the student's degree and the institution it comes from.

False, I am a walking talking counter-example, but it's the same for all of the companies at which I have sat on recruitment interview boards, and also true for every company that has ever hired me. Nobody has ever requested to see my University transcripts (in fact I've only had one employer even verify that I have a degree). Grades just aren't a consideration. Your ability to respond to questions that we ask, your history of code for open source projects, sample code that you present, your overall demeanour/character - these things are looked at very closely.

I'm curious as to how you explain the very best tech employers recruiting before students have even graduated? Whilst I agree that there are employers out there that do care about grades, the people that are actually the most able to honestly obtain good grades are probably not terribly interested in working for them. I know I wasn't.
Or if its open, you can buy products that customize it in ways that the builder didn't intend. Most people don't program, but they do benefit from being able to install third party software on their computers.
It seems to me that this is a continuation of the old American gold-rush mentality: there's always someplace where a new life can be built and a new fortune can be won. The media whip up a frenzy around these topics while the vast majority continue what they've been doing.

This is why I'm not worried about the future of the US, we are always on the lookout for something new and different and despite all the flag waving we're always fretting about being left behind. Compare that with Europe, which takes the opposite approach and is currently on a return path to the nation-state.
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I think 'machine learning' is so complex that people just don't feel like trying to explain it. That, or their business secrets are tied up in it, and they don't want to give away the golden goose.
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Does they correctly use word "Semantic". It may be OK for algorithm title(Latent Semantic Analysis), but results not so "Semantic", it is usual topic detection based on vector-space model.
Usually "Semantic analysis" corresponds to next to syntactic level of analysis, some kind of understanding. We have no such analysis here.
Also imho(not only my), word "Semantic" is marker for oil snake trader.
Is there some quality measures? This algorithm gives 20% of other topic for random article in average.
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Yes, please see my reply above.
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People who think Quora is temporary or just for hipsters don't understand Clay Shirky's Cognitive Surplus. 1) Contributing is more rewarding than playing video games or watching TV. 2) People have more free time now than at any other point in history.

They're going to contribute some kind of intellectual content whether its Wikipedia entries, lolcats, Quora, or Minecraft designs.
It could be just a time issue though--if they had to write out a reason as to why the account was disabled it could be a very hefty operation depending on their standards. You're right though, It would be nice if they'd do it.
Google supplies the tools for the newspaper to have marked explicitly, using technology, the pages they want included/excluded from search, with no ambiguity. Instead, they chose to use vague, court language, with threat of a fine per link, to force google's hand. Personally, I don't know why google -wouldn't- drop them, permanently.

There is no monopoly on web search. Search works for everyone, specifically because there are established protocols and conventions that allow all these systems to work together. If your company chooses to ignore these conventions, I don't think it is unreasonable that you get ignored.

You don't have a -right- to be included in a web search. The reason google includes you (or any search engine) is because you are making a trade, they get better results which they can monetize via ads, you get more traffic, which you monetize through ads. If you opt out, why shouldn't they? What's in it for them? They aren't running a charity, they are running a business.
Yes, these programs have existed for a number of years, slowly improving and getting better. But every time I try to use them.. they feel clunky. There is just too much friction when I try to do the simple things. Maybe it's because I'm used to PS and AI, but I think Gimp and Inkscape would both be much better received if they invested more into being easy to use/ good-looking. Much like Sketchup did for 3D, where building basic models is easy and complex models possible.
The scale of space is shocking. The fastest man made object, Helios 2 (http://goo.gl/xCow), at 250000kph, would take 17000 years to get to the next nearest star, Alpha Centauri.

This post by Charles Stross is worth a read: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_high...

To quote: "interstellar travel for human beings is near-as-dammit a non-starter"
The most successful advertisements, i.e. the ones that work best are not simply broadcasting useful information to consumers. Instead, they typically rely on known cognitive exploits.

If advertising is just about educating consumers, why don't advertisers run ads that are critical of their own products? A half-truth can be worse than an outright lie, because it is more confusing.
Is it a tech boom or a bubble?
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FYI Spotify is p2p.
No.

I assure you, what you describe is considered cheating, but the cheating that usually takes place is far more comprehensive.
If "most Java developers want to stay on the JVM, because X, Y, Z," then doesn't that support the OP reasoning that Scala on .NET is a solution looking for a problem?
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To make it less weird, run something (e.g. RES) to filter out all posts linking to imgur. You'll be amazed at the difference.