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This seems ridiculous and offensive, but since it almost certainly violates Twitter's ToS, that seems like the easy way to resolve this problem. You're free to shout from your own soapbox, but someone else can set limits on the use of their own soapbox.
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What's wrong with http://lyrics.wikia.com/Main_Page?

(I really should have posted this as reply to when you mention there are no spam free lyric search engines)
did you use quotes? try it without it.
This coupled with the abandoning of Places makes me think Facebook is undergoing a serious narrowing of focus. While I'm clearly not a fan (as you can probably judge from my comments), I'd still like to see a company that gets lots of press do something innovative or, in absence of that, just new and different. The pessimist in me thinks it will be yet another web platform play.
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Tenured college professors often become cranks? I thought crankhood was reserved to those who had not achieved a legitimate doctorate.

What about string theory? It seems a specialty designed for cranks: you can't do experiments, it's "a piece of 21st-century physics that had fallen by accident into the 20th century." and that, as the joke states, requires 22nd-century mathematics to solve. Are string theorists cranks?
I like your site a lot, but am wondering when you get hit for being various kinds of scrapers.

I wish you well, I am so glad to find that others hate lyrics sites as much as I do. And yet, I am often searching for lyrics (when I don't have Soundhound near me.)

I am able to use Google's Personal Blocklist to block out the worst of the worst sites. That leaves me with a pretty good solution.
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http://lystener.com/ exists.

There must be a reason why these clean lyrics sites aren't more prominent.
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Sounds to me like a dweeb who secretly wants to go but no one will go with him because he is a dweeb. Dude, stop whining, if you want to go to BM just go, stop being a bitch.
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At an internship at MSR I recently used windows 7 for real, and after I got through the first week the general experience was maybe more pleasant than ubuntu with unity. Even things that annoyed me at first (grouping windows by program in the task bar, for example) grew slowly.
The site is breakable by simply entering '<a href="#"></a>' in the logo text box. Just a heads up. :)
I think there is a relatively well-defined, if somewhat broad, line that borders between free speech and harassment.

For example, suppose that I were to write a couple of articles saying what a bad, unreliable programmer you were. Any time someone asked me what I thought of your programming skills, I would tell them that they're lousy and no one should hire you. Further, I go on to Twitter, Google+, HN, and Facebook and make a few comments about what a bad experience I had working with you. Maybe some of the people I know also know you.

In my understanding, that scenario isn't harassment but it is free speech. I'm not making direct personal attacks against you and I'm not threatening you, although I'm not saying great things about you. There might be a case for civil libel there, but it would be a tough argument and would most likely need to be solved in court via lawsuit.

Now lets take that scenario further. I think you're a shitty, horrible human being. Not only do I write a couple of articles about what a bad programmer you are, I go on to talk about how anyone that knows you should kick you in the ass or push you in front of a car. I start finding out background info like where you live, who your family is, what your phone number is. I start giving out all of your personal information. I start calling your house at odd hours, breathing heavy, and hanging up. I do that 20x a night for weeks on end. You change your number. I find out what your new one is. On Twitter, I create hundreds of fake accounts and send you DM's and @'s with some really awful messages. I start dropping indirect hints that I think you deserve to die. I do the same thing anywhere I can find you online.

Now in that 2nd, really fucked up scenario, that's harassment. I get arrested and my lawyer claims that was my free speech. Total bullshit.

So when I say I believe there's a well-defined but broad line it encompasses those two extremes.

I believe the big defining difference is that if I say or do something to you, that's personal. If I say something about you, it leans towards public. There's of course all kinds of ways I can say stuff about you and have it be very personal though.

So I think that issues like this are going to often be on a case-by-case basis because it can cover a range of scenarios. I might say something about you that you feel is harassment while to any 3rd party observer its obviously free speech, and vice-versa.
This resonated with me too. "No one is forcing you to use it," - precisely, and therefore no one does! Just because there are a ton of nerds using the service right now, doesn't mean it's useful. My mom, who took a few years to get comfortable with email, she sure is not using it, but guess what, she's got Facebook! Google is disappointing :(
I just see a rabbit with headphones, and some low-contrast links to a legal page and a contact email. Is something broken?
It broke again. May want to consider removing the editable title function while it is on the front page of HN so you don't lose exposure.
In my experience, online ads don't work that well for small professional services businesses. As always, YMMV.

The best leads are always referrals. After finishing a job, make sure your client knows that you're looking for more work. If you did a good job for them they will send leads your way. This takes time to build momentum but it attracts the right kinds of customers, and your conversion rate will be way higher than for cold leads.

Good luck!
I fail to see how having children requires a landline. Does 911 work different for cell phones? DO children require 911 more than adults?
While some of my best friends are libertarians ... they tend to oversimplify very complex dynamics that aren't really understood by anybody -- not Bernanke, Marx, Milton, or Keynes, much less Ayn Rand.

Flip comments aside: "ownership" of anything -- a ball, a company, a piece of property -- should be seen as a bundle of rights and responsibilities, and as a (overall) benign socially sanctioned fiction like streetlights. Then you can see that it is only in the trivial cases, like a ball that nobody cares about, that ownership is straightforward and implies "It's mine I can do anything with it I like".

So, duh, you pay taxes and have to conform to zoning codes. Get over it.

EDIT: Also, "government entities" aren't some weird uncontrollable force like the weather or an invading army -- you live in a democracy, so get involved.
ya, this fix has been around a long time (came out for cell phone batteries back when cell phones used NiCad). FYI, the fix does not last, after a few charge cycles back to being dead. :(
I wonder how long till you can buy something similar that connects with your cell phone from Best Buy.
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Looks like ya fixed it. Cheers!
2 things:

1) Please show the first few lines of the song under each result

2) Please stack the results like traditional <li>s - the "cloud" effect makes them very hard to scan.
Thanks for the info - I was always under the impression SQLite was hella slow. You learn something new every day!
Same here bro, same here :(
In my humble opinion: if YC has found a way to scale up to 63 (or more) companies per session and the media is having a hard time documenting everything on demo day, perhaps the two should be separated into a demo day and respective media day. It may even warrant a longer durration of time per activity.
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So far, sounds like a rational choice. However, how long is your commute and is it done by automobile?
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Thanks japhyr for the feedback. This is one area that we are still trying to determine the best approach for.
"I assure you that the vast majority of people who go to Yoga classes do so for the health benefits alone."

I guess I have a lot of trouble wrapping my head around Yoga as a secular activity. Even most if people are just doing it as a workout, it seems like part of what draws people to it is that it gives them some vague feeling of connection with something in the collective unconscious, even if they never explicitly explore its history or its role as a spiritual tool. And even just that in and of itself seems to provide some spiritual benefit.

I have no doubt that people basically just want the benefits of some thousand year old tradition, but packaged in a way that reinforces their preexisting worldview. Which strikes me as absurd, but at least I can kind of understand it. But even still, I think the fact that it's something that people have been doing for thousands of years has to inherently change people's posture, no pun intended.
According to the legal, you are not storing the lyrics. If that is the case, where are you sourcing them from? Can you give a little background on how the site works, what it runs on and other interesting details?
> comes with that little asterisk: *with high-speed internet access

By the end of the decade, I expect that >90% of humanity will have this (or be able to easily afford it).
How would the govt. make infrastructure improvements like high speed trains if it couldn't use eminent domain, though? It's an intractable problem to negotiate with everyone along a path simultaneously, and if they hit a block of people unwilling to sell, and the train couldn't be made to turn fast enough to avoid it at speed, you'd either have a very slow train, or they'd have to waste another x months negotiating a different path. We trade absolute liberty for pragmatism.
There are other implementations too, like IBM J9 and GNU Kaffe. I remember using J9 in place of Sun Java when I was a desktop Linux user.
fix the typo on http://www.songrabbit.com/legal.php

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I'm in Sheffield (right now I'm in Cupertino, but I'll be back at the start of October). If you want to meet up at some point, drop me an email (this username without the dash @googlemail.com).
Is posting a public message on Twitter akin to speaking from an old-fashioned soapbox, or can it also be regarded as a means of direct personal communication, like a letter or phone call?

That is an interesting legal question. How much more direct is a call sent to someone's cell phone, or a letter to their mailbox, than a tweet sent to their Twitter home page?

A letter shows up tangibly in your mailbox no matter what you do, and the same with a phone call. You can choose to ignore those, but they will show up and can still disturb you. A Tweet is a little more intangible, it's quiet until one to chooses to look at it. I wouldn't say it's as direct as the other two. But I guess it's the thought that counts.
I tried it both ways; without quotes it produces some results, but not the desired result: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/The_Song_That...
Thanks so much for the sugestions! Sorry if I'm not getting to your comment individually - my internet has been hurricane'd
Not a Groupon sockpuppet at all. I just didn't have a blogger account tied to my Google Apps account.
I am not a frequent Blogger commenter.
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You might consider using real query URLs such as /?q=query or /q/query , and using the HTML5 history API to load those query URLs via javascript without changing the page. That gives you unique URLs without just using anchors, making it feasible to index.
Home buyers are systematically better at planning for the long term than bankers, because most bankers don't plan to be working at the same bank 30 years from now - or, if they do, they don't expect to be held accountable for the loans they approve today in 20 or 30 years. Otherwise, what banker in the nation would offer 30-year fixed-rate mortgages at 4.25%?
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Well, here's the situation regarding executive jobs in general. In small companies, they're hard as hell and don't pay very well, especially when one considers the career risk. If you're CEO of a startup and it fails, you're going to have a hard time getting someone to fund you again. In large companies, they're easy and pay very well. So there's a bizarre discrepancy (an inverse relationship, in fact) between difficulty of the job and compensation.

In a small company, the CEO job is so hard that only 1 person in 20 (if that) has the ability to do it. Getting the CEO right is crucial. In a large company whose founders have already left, you're talking about smooth-running machines and who gets the top jobs generally comes down to social climbing more than anything else.
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I'm not a lawyer and I don't know what the law is in the US, but in Canada one of the relevant bars for the charge of criminal harassment is "would these actions cause a reasonable person to fear for his/her safety?"

It sounds like the conduct described absolutely meets that test; so I'd say that it's well outside of legitimate "free speech".
When Oracle bought Sun, Java lost its mojo. Sure, Java still has many more installs, but who would trust Oracle with it medium- to long-term. Microsoft was clearly evil when Java was born, and in the late 1990's. But Microsoft turned, created C#, and has slowly nurtured it so it's now better than Java in many ways, e.g without Java's rotten type erasure, snappier in Visual Studio than JVM-anything in Eclipse, with the dynamic keyword, ... Now everyone knows Oracle is more evil than Microsoft, and the JVM is just one of many platforms, alongside .NET, javascript ..., we can develop to.
Oops. I don't know how, but Blogger's commenting system results in a lot of people who are OK with identifying themselves completely on other sites having a profile with only their name. I wasn't sure it was her and I hadn't seen your comment so I asked if it was her on twitter. Then I saw your comment and I checked back and she'd already replied to me on twitter that it is her. Case closed.

OT: I think Google will probably make a major change to Blogger in the next year or two which may fix their identity linking issue. It will be interesting to see where they go.
I'm with you. The system, as it stands, is suboptimal, but it's pretty good. If I want to call my brother in Hawaii, it's easy to subtract 5 or 6 hours (HI does not observe DST) and know immediately whether it's a good time to call.

As far as the suboptimal aspects go, DST isn't very nice, and AM/PM is a bit superfluous in the age of digital clocks (compared to 24-hour time).
The idea is great.

The search responses fail to find a lot of pretty standard songs (girls want to be with the girls fails to return the talking heads song, helicopter fails to return the xtc song, books about ufos fails to return the husker du song, ...). And september gurls returns the bangles cover ...
The CEO's job is to do things that can only be done at the head, and delegate everything else. Sometimes, this job description includes technological decisions (this would be the case in small software companies) and sometimes it doesn't.

On this list would be raising money, hiring and firing at top levels, setting the culture, and tackling leadership challenges that no one else can.
And, for this particular instance, standing in a room of 20 people, saying things like,

"You are a terrible person. You make puppies cry. Someone should hurt you."

over and over without actually talking directly "to" that person but with everyone knowing who "You" is is harassment. Being in public does not preclude harassment. Not mentioning a person by name does not preclude harassment.

Note: IANAL. Not sure if this is the "legal" definition but it certainly seems like the right one.
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Thanks, Andrew!

I would never work for Groupon or anyone else - so I would make a very bad puppet. ;)
I didn't even mean to sound like I was endorsing Groupon. Groupon = marketing laziness (IMHO)
I agree watching 63 presentations is burdensome for journalists. But Demo Day is designed for investors, not journalists, and for investors watching 63 brief presentations is way less burdensome than having even half that many individual initial meetings.
well.. http://www.songrabbit.com/ is ad free :)
Sometimes the juice is worth the squeeze.
The P-III has 8 general purpose registers, just like all pre-64bit x86 CPUs, all the way back to the 8086. x86-64 (aka amd64) CPUs have 16.

But it gets a bit more complicated. I'm talking about (and your references to compilers suggests that you are as well) architectural registers; the things assembly programmers and compiler writers see.

The actual register file in the CPU has many more registers on out-of-order CPUs like the Pentium Pro and later; these are physical registers, and are mapped to the architectural registers dynamically by the register renamer. This is done to prevent false dependencies from preventing parallel execution of instructions in the same instruction stream.

The work done by the compiler to map live variables into architectural registers is mostly orthogonal to the work the CPU's instruction scheduler does to map architectural registers to physical ones. In some sense, more architectural registers are better, but there are diminishing returns, and eventually other considerations make more worse. x86-64's 16 architectural registers is a pretty good compromise for current generation CPUs.

Your comparison between ARM CPUs and x86 is somewhat spurious, since the instruction set defines the architectural registers: 16 for x86-64, 32 for ARM. A given out-of-order implementation can choose whatever number of physical registers gives optimal performance, and given the stakes and available engineering resources, both ARM and Intel/AMD will choose optimal (or exceptionally close to optimal) numbers for this.

Long story short, the number of architectural registers is an extremely small part of why ARM is or isn't "pWning" Intel on low power platforms.
Ahhhh, so that's how I get a job at google.
May be fake: http://gawker.com/5835016/shocking-steve-jobs-illness-pics-m...
FYI, one of the co-founders, Alvin, is based in Taiwan and has a team of engineers there.
Why isn't there any good "Application Wish List" site?
I always wished there was a site where I can post/find good ideas for web/mobile/other applications. I know there are many sites on this topic. e.g., internetwishlist.com, many other idea banks and idea sharing sites but I don't find them user friendly.

What I need is a Web application + Mobile app that lets me:

1. Access the site from anywhere/anytime.

2. Post and manage my ideas easily and quickly - allow options for even anonymous posting - No registration required to submit/view ideas but if you have an account you can manage your own ideas and favorites etc.

3. Up/down rating of ideas (just like HN)

4. Tagging of ideas/ Tag wise idea list

5. Effective search system.

Do you know any such site? If not, I will make one as my next weekend project.

Edit : Also suggest me a good domain for such site.
looks nice and clean, but i'm pretty sure you need to licence lyrics or you may run into trouble...
I agree with you on your second point. A person good for situation A may not be good for the position B. But that doesn't give a license to rubbish all of the person's achievements. As people at large seem to be doing the past few days.

You caught me in one of my several weaknesses (your first point). But you must at-least acknowledge that I said it myself.

Don't agree with your last para. Now you are presuming, I have not made an effort. I did not read the bill. But I made efforts - right from looking up wikipedia a few months back on 'Ombudsman' and many other things (articles/views etc.) ...

And second point in your last para: Please distinguish between ambivalence or (admission of confusion) regarding somebody else's action and accusing me of being confused. I spent 45 minutes, trying to articulate my views (it did tax my articulation capabilities) and re-read it before posting. I am not confused at all about what I am saying. I am only not sure, if what's happening is making sense in the right way. My hunch is that it does not.

EDIT: Corrected a few typos
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If "another provider" is not marginally more beneficial, why would you switch? Or put another way, how would "another provider" compete for market share if it is not marginally more beneficial? Granted, the competitive process is, sadly, subject to all manner of governmental interference.

I mention this for a reason. Thoreau said, "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." Before we start hacking, we need to be clear on which are the branches and which are the roots.
Ordinarily, you use (fuming) nitric acid. This dissolves the epoxy packaging, but leaves silicon and metal intact.

You need the HF to etch the top layers of metal/silicon from the die. These layers are above the actual circuitry, and help increase security so that an attacker can't steal IP by using nitric acid and microprobes or UV light to modify the operation of the IC. Flylogic has a special technique by which they selectively etch areas of the metal layers, but not the circuitry below.
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The main reason the AMA and similar orgs exist is to make more money for the members. The functional result of those bodies is actually a lot like a white collar union.

Computer people would be smart to start something like that -- it would benefit them tremendously. But computer nerds have a slave mentality.
This is great and quite amusing. I just wish I could compare the # of references to Cristal vs. Dom P over time :)
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This was true of pretty much every CPU generation before the P4. Deeper pipelines result in lower FO4 (and thus higher attainable clock frequency), but a higher penalty for branch misprediction, among other things.

Historically (pre-P4) this was a great tradeoff. The Alpha 21064 was a barn-stormer; it ran at nearly twice the Mhz of its brainiac competitors at the time. This more than made up for a deeper pipeline and simpler execution units.

What killed the P4 was that they hit the power wall. Moore's law scaling of gate size no longer resulted in a corresponding scaling of power usage.

It is hard to blame the P4 designers too much for this, since people have been prophesying the end of Moore's law since the mid-80s at least. They happened to be designing when it actually happened on power. Current designers should look to that lesson when relying on increasing density...

Of course, these lessons are pretty useless, because much like a stock market bubble, Moore's law continues on a given metric until it doesn't. And it is always obvious in retrospect.