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1. Just followed on github :) looking forward to using in the future.

2. Nice! Did not realize it could be that easy. Though I do wonder, does it hurt code efficiency at all? Not that it matters much to me at this point.
Another couple of recommendations (sorry I think about this stuff way too much):

1. GitHub SEO is your friend. For this reason, better to name your GitHub repo something like "yipit-python-client" because that's what people will search for. And maybe change your one-line description to "A Python client library for the Yipit API"

2. On licensing - you really just want as many people to use your library as possible (it doesn't really represent intellectual property that you could one day profit from). For this reason, steer clear of (A)GPL and go with a MIT/Apache2/BSD-style license. For the exact one to choose - I normally go with either a) the same license as that used in my component libraries (e.g. DictShield is BSD), or b) the same license as the API author (in your case Yipit) uses for their own client libraries (I checked and they don't seem to have released any)
You are right he only reaches insiders, but I don't think that is a problem: you also need the hardcore activists that preach to the other activists, to keep them straight on target. Outside of people like RMS and foundations like Debian, 'free' has become polluted in all kinds of ways. At some poiny, RMS no longer needed to evangelize 'free software', as plenty of others are doing that already. Instead, watches the watchers. And they watch him and grumble, rightfully and wrongfully.
Thank you for a good tip. Being good in anything usually requires spending some time on it. I'll possibly invest more time if I found that particular sequencer/tool that works as I would like it to and its workflow is convenient for me.

I'll check audiomulch later. What is PD?
Thanks for commenting. Ableton Live is undoubtedly a great software. AFAIK it's not suited for rapid prototyping.

Here is some nice stuff. Just in case somebody haven't seen it yet.

Making of "The Prodigy - Voodoo People" in Ableton by Jim Pavloff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZYLp5uX9Yw
Thanks for your comment. I know that some recent keyboards have memory for lot of songs, LCDs displaying recorded music and such, also USB port to store it on pendrive. It should be quite productive.
1. Good point. But is 'client' more searched/common than 'wrapper'?

2. Yup, they didn't have any libraries. Thus, the wrapper I created :). You're right, may go with MIT/Apache/BSD.
Thanks for reference, In fact it inspired me to create this submission, as subject is not the same. (You missed my comment there, right? :>)
Thanks for slipping in. I don't have any Apple product.

(But I'll possibly buy some MacBook if there will be TrackPoint in it - sadly I feel it is quite unlikely to happen. I know there are others like me, though.)
Thank you for comment. Developing such skill would be awesome. I have some grasp of intervals (far from perfect), but not scales, so I have to find the first tone to properly continue. When I find the scale, it's easier to follow the melody, but I can never go error-free on first play real-time.

Do you have any tips about learning this skill efficiently, useful resources, etc.? If I could at least improve in a short time, I would consider investing my time into it.

I understand (a bit) your feel about writing on staff paper. But I was never able to quickly do it and preserve acceptable look of my scores.
Wow, really cool. Great fun
I watched the whole 47 minutes of that talk on youtube, and it is actually really good. I have no qualifications in this field, but the talk is full of challenging ideas. You can skip reading the article.
Have you seen PG's list: http://www.paulgraham.com/seesv.html?
Proper surveillance has saved uncountable lives.

I hate to do this, but: citation needed. All the camera's in London have done nothing to reduce crime or increase the amount of crimes solved.
There's a Plug and Play on University: http://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/locations.
Nope, still missing it.

When you wire the RAM to the CPU you don't need a cache. Imagine you have a billion or even a trillion registers, or more. That's a non-Von Neumann architecture. You're not shuffling data around on buses, the data is directly connected to the CPU.

Look at the example I gave again. Consider a simple addition command. The first CPU instruction says "take the word at this memory address, and move it to a register", the second does the same with a different address, the third adds the two values in the registers, the fourth then puts the result back in some other memory location. But what if there's no difference between the memory and registers? Instead you just have one instruction that says: add the values at these two locations, put the result at this other location. Now you've replaced 4 clock ticks with one clock tick. More than that, you save however many clock ticks it would have taken on average for the data to get to / from main memory (sometimes cached, sometimes not). Such an architecture would mean that you only have to wait on things you really have to wait on, like network and device latency, etc.

The structure of programs need not be terribly different per say, it can still be a sequence of instructions in memory. There are other non-Von Neumann architectures which would work differently (such as neural networks), but those are even more complicated.
Yes. Developers cannot change the licence of your original work. You would be credited by developer even if u choose MIT licence.
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Nice! Little strange that there is no mention of the release of the code on Fabrice Bellard's site.
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Ok, but spotify is available in the following countries as well: Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, the US, France, Spain and the Netherlands.

Why not use those as well to calculate the possible yearly revenue?
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wouldn't care if the whole police of Germany would share my
Jena Jameson collection.

But what else are you willing to sacrifice to allow that? If you placed everyone under permanent house arrest you'd eliminate almost all crime. So why not do that?
+1 creating a game that involves collaborating with strangers and creating music could be tedious. This overcomes that handicap pretty well. I love the concept, great work!
Thailand is nice.

I was at the island of Koh Samui for 9 days in April 2008 working and attending a conference and lived in a bungalow village. Food was cheap and excellent, stable but DSL-slow (0.5Mbit?) wifi, and the very good accomodation was not too expensive. People are friendly, and I never felt worried about my safety. I could definitely see myself returning to Thailand and working there for a while.

One of my sisters has travelled extensively in the region, visiting places in Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Kambodja over a time-span of 8 weeks. Her favorite is Vietnam since it is a bit less exploited by tourism, and is also a bit cheaper, while still having very friendly people.
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Actually, the French/UK and German powers were pretty much evenly balanced. Woodrow Wilson's meddling in the war and especially in the "peace conference" afterward was the major factors that led to World War Two.

And on the Japanese front, it was the economic embargo by the US, as a punitive measure for Japan's attacks on China, that triggered Pearl Harbor. That may actually have been more or less inevitable, the Japanese military had too much influence in their society at that time and were seriously out of touch with reality.
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Which is why the GP called it an apocryphal quote.
I find it rather ironical that you oppose an implicit philosophical position from some book by explaining another philosophical position, solely supported by another book.
I am not really sure. You can always complain that the mouse you have been issued has too short a cable.

Either they give you a new cable, in which case you can switch them, or you can use your own.

In neither case will anybody think you are actually stealing company stuff.
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Much obliged for your reply. I'm not American, so this complicates things at times.
I hate to do this, but I downvoted you because you demand evidence for one sweeping generalisation, and then proceed in the very next sentence to make a broad sweeping generalisation without providing any evidence.

I'm not saying I disagree with you, but if you are going to be confrontational then at least try not to be so blatantly hypocritical.
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Well, I thought that fact was well known. It has been extensively covered by the media. [1][2][3]

[1] http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/londons_camera...

[2] http://articles.cnn.com/2010-02-25/opinion/schneier.security...

[3] http://www.google.nl/search?q=london+cameras+reduce+crime
So the author says they are, up to a point, and assuming they get significant penetration. But it's based on an average listening rate of 2.5 hours a day, which is apparently what an average american teenager listens to. I'd have thought the average american teenager probably has the highest music listening rate of any demographic. I know my own usage would be closer to an hour on the days I queue up music, but that would be only every other day at best.

If that is closer to the average listening habits, then the royalty per stream calculations end up over 5x more profitable and above the magical 1 penny/play mark.
It does make war better. It doesn't make it better than no war in the case that the war was a net-negative though.
You can do the numbers... The article is about how to model this. Expandi g to the whole world does not change the argument much as you get a bigger pool of artists too. He was comparing off US revenues on eg CD sales. There are still huge national differences in music preferences.
The title is a bit misleading. It seems this is a not a governmental malware to install on each citizen's PC. It's more a software installed on request by a judge for specific criminal cases. Looking a bit in IDA, the software is quite versatile and don't use any obfuscation techniques regularly seen in other malware. I suppose this is more and more used by the police because of the use of encryption on consumer products like Skype and other communication tools.
I would also argue that a big part of listening happens on the move: listening to music on mp3 player or phone.

And that's a separate products that can probably be sold for separate money.
To me, "ordering it around" implies the threat of negative consequences if it refuses. If it really enjoys fetching sandwiches, there's no reason we shouldn't ask it to; but if it decides for whatever reason that it doesn't want to fetch sandwiches even though it really enjoys doing so, we can't say "fetch me that sandwich or I'll activate your disutility circuits".
Yes I would expect a long tail of listeners, imagine I am at less than an hour mostly. To some extent this will just affect penetration though, as the light listeners will not pay $10. In principle you could sell them cheaper capped play subscription though.
That's not just supported 'by another book' but it matches what I feel about how we should treat clones. After all, if a clone is identical you'd have to come up with some pretty contorted reasoning to argue that they are 'not people'.

Also, as long as we're not able to actually do this we are bound to find our examples in fiction rather than in real life. How people think about such issues can be revealing, even if it is mostly theoretical. But you could make a case for dolphins or primates being 'people' without too much effort.
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Cool. What's it for?
Very nice breakdown and analysis of the business model.

I too agree that assuming 2.5 hours per day on average is a stretch. I generally listen to more than that, but i'm fortunate enough to have a job where I listen to music while working. Most people don't get to do that very much.
> are we supposed to to kill every young muslim that hates us?

Why stop at Muslims?

Is there something special about them that they deserve death for harboring feelings that others do too?
Or you know, Perhaps you could link to the original version (Which your post linked to):
http://www.mint.com/blog/investing/whats-inside-the-house-of...
The video encoding is VP8, a general-purpose video codec. It's not specifically made for remote desktops, so it uses a lot more bandwidth than RDP or VNC.
It seems sort of alive and gives me the creeps. But very cool.
I think part of this is because nowadays it requires far fewer people to keep track of the population than it did back then.

Just mining Facebook and twitter will tell you what lots of people had for lunch...
I was under the impression that the Onion was poking fun at the hyperbolic eulogies to Jobs.
Is this the trojan CCC discovered?
Very superstitious.
New rule: get your AV solution from a country other than your own. That should cover most of those cases.
This would have to be constrained to consumers experienced with flying RC planes. Imagine the number of planes crashing due to the incompetency of the operator if anyone could rent an RC plane over the internet.

However, I really like the idea. It would be like google street view, only you are the driver -- in the sky.
When the market is mature, there will be a lot of competitors. Incremental/evolutionary change therefore doesn't reap big rewards.

If you want the big rewards, you've got to identify a new and radically better way to let the customers achieve whatever it is they're trying to do (in service of which they're buying the products currently on the market). Then you get to invent a new product category that is so obviously useful to people that they'll pay big bucks for it.

(Random anecdote: last week I was on a trans-Atlantic flight. (Premium economy, not economy.) Looking left: guy in the seat to my left had an iPad. Looking at my own lap: an iPad. Looking to my right: another iPad. I reckon of the 7 seats in my row, 4 or more were occupied by travellers with iPads. The iPad might not be a Mac/Windows/Ubuntu PC replacement, but as a gizmo for keeping the long-haul traveller entertained in flight it rocks. But if you'd asked most of those travellers what they wanted for flying a couple of years ago, they'd probably have said "a laptop with a longer battery life".)
it recommends amadeus http://www.amadeus.net/ which i've never used before. now that i try it out, i cant see any prices! am i doing something stupid? does anyone else see prices? if not, what's the idea? how do i know these are lowest cost?
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Steganography is only useful when no-one knows to look for it, if they do it is trivial to detect.
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Very nice. It took me a moment to realize there were other users who were creating sound too!
I'm seeing prices in british pounds, which isn't terribly useful to me. I generally use kayak.com to look for flights, and this looks like an exact copy of the interface.
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Every time I've put a new upper limit on how weird a place the world really is someone will find a reference to something forcing me to revise the previous one.

At some level I still have a hope that this will stop some day but I fear that it will not and that on my dying day I'll have to revise it once again.
Pretty sure this the pentatonic scale actually - so all black notes. It almost certainly woule be more cacophonous even if it was just all white notes, never mind the full scale.
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ah! it seems that it doesn't show prices if you select multiple destinations (i was planning a round trip SCL - SEA - SFO - SCL). but when i try a simple return i see the same as you. thanks.
It targets Win32.
Even the CCC agrees that wiretapping is necessary for catching criminals. They actually warned the police about the upcoming disclosure so that running investigations would not be jeopardized.

The issue here is that this malware obviously exceeds the limits that the German Federal Constitutional Court explicitly set for such tools.

For example, anyone can upload and run arbitrary files on the victim's computer - prosecutors but also anyone who knows the computer's IP address. This allows tampering with evidence.

Additionally, not only actual communication is captured but everything you do in a browser window, e.g., writing your diary on Google Docs. Obtaining such information would legally require a search warrant. This means that police can escalate their privileges without judicial oversight.

And finally, all captured information is sent to a server in the USA, clearly outside of German jurisdiction. Weakly encrypted. Together with the previously mentioned problems, this would allow the USA to ask the German police to monitor a suspected terrorist, then siphon off the wiretapping results and even place incriminating data on the victim's computer. Of course, the CIA would never do such a thing.

The question here is not whether the police may use wiretaps, the question is whether the police [1] may systematically break the law and lie to the public and courts about what they actually can do.

[1] of course, the police in this context means only certain representatives and departments.
"Welcome to Bloggers and the Principle of FUD. Take this post with a pinch of salt."

Actually every time somebody uses the term "FUD" I have to take THEIR comment with a huge sack of salt.

Can't you just state your counter-claims without resorting to accusing the other guy of a conscious attempt at misguiding people?

Also, "FUD"? Really? Someone posting on some Ruby shortcomings (or anything) is spreading "fear", "uncertainty" and "doubt"? Because you just had to use a relic term of the 90's desktop wars against Microsoft, right?

I read the post, and haven't felt any particular fear.

Matter of fact, I was rather enlightened by some of the examples.

Also I take offense to the silly line of argument here:

> "You can pick up almost any programming language, not learn it properly, and then pick holes in its various inconsistencies or flaws".

Really? One picks holes "in its various inconsistencies or flaws" if he has not "learned [the language] properly"?

What sense does that make? A language either has "various inconsistencies or flaws" or it has not.

If it has --and you don't argue that Ruby hasn't--, one has EVERY F*N right to "pick holes" at them. And this has nothing to do with "not learning the language properly".

If the language has "inconsistencies or flaws" what does "learning it properly" mean? To learn to work around them?

That's a bizarre definition of "properly".
Maybe it's just because I've flown far too many times, but this seems to be such general and obvious information, stuff that would seem common sense to my mother who isn't exactly high-tech. Are there really people, other than those obsessed by loyaly miles, who don't look at different airlines, and there really people who, if they don't have a rock solid requirement of the date, check +/- a few days?

The biggest tip I would add on: just because an airport is named for a city, doesn't mean it is close. For example budget airlines in Europe often pick really shit airports, such as London Stansted, or there's an Oslo airport that is ~90 minutes away from Oslo. Even for decent airports, depending on your final destination, there could be a big upside/downside chosing between London Heathrow or London Gatwick... New York JFK or Newark..
To me it sounds as if the reason for the music not sounding like total crap is, that the author uses pentatonic scales, which are also used in improvisations. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatonic_scale)
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"Ditto. I think it's problematic for a programmer to rely on a language to resolve ambiguities for you."

If you are a C programmer maybe you can learn to live with those and manually "resolve them".

But if you dabble in functional languages, e.g Haskell, that's something you come to expect, if not demand of your language.

A programmer should NOT do what a computer can.
There is one more detail hinting that this could indeed be the "Bundestrojaner". faz[1] cites a leaked offer from a German company to the authorities that, according to faz, contains exactly the characteristics found by the CCC. Even renting an "intermediate" communications server in the USA is mentioned.

The especially striking thing about this trojan is the functionality to load additional modules and go far, far beyond simple wiring tapping of (otherwise encrypted) communications (at the source) - which was the only thing that was actually approved (and the reason for this software in the first place) and it was stated clearly that the software must NOT go beyond wire tapping and technical precautions have to be taken to prevent the software from doing anything else.

Furthermore CCC's analysis showed that the part of loading additional code was actually hidden, obfuscated and spread out amongst the machine code - whereas the rest of the code was very straight forward, no obfuscations. So clearly whoever developed that thing was very aware of how illegal and unlawful that functionality is.

[1] (in German) http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/ein-amtlicher-trojaner...
I'm with you. All points were painfully obvious. "Try to find the shortest trip", "Check for a nice departure and arrival time". I mean, really?
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On the other hand, he counts 2.5 hours per household. Although Spotify does not allow for simultaneous plays using one account, more than one person in a household may use one account.

Also, the article assumes the premium subscription rate, but probably very many users have the 'Unlimited' subscription. So, although the average is probably lower than 2.5 hours, the average subscription price is also.
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A keyboard device that sends keystrokes to download malware is mentioned here https://media.blackhat.com/bh-dc-11/Larimer/BlackHat_DC_2011...

Its a good overview of usb malicious devices from the software side.
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Fantastic! Great use of web sockets and though there was some obvious latency (unavoidable) it did not at all deter from having a great time. I love that all the sounds in the set work together well and you could take this in a million directions.
The total exposure of French banks to Greek debt is larger than the total exposure of German banks to Greek debt, true, but the problem for Germany as a whole is that a specific group of German banks, namely the Landesbanken that fund a large part of German industry, have comparatively large proportions of their holdings in Greek debt.

So the Germans don't have to worry about bailing out Commerzbank or Deutsche bank the way the French are worried about BNP or Credit Agricole, but they do have to worry about what happens if the Bayerische Landesbank can no longer fund Bavarian factories.
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