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grooveshark is great but it could be better. What I like about Spotify compared to Grooveshark is their "playlist" feature where it shows top songs in the "US" or "UK". I know grooveshark offers that but most of the songs sometimes are really old while Spotify refreshes the list every so often. Also - I would use Grooveshark more if it had a better "ratings" feature for radio. When I thumb up/thumb down a song - it doesnt take into account why i did that (such as what Pandora does) and it keeps giving me music I dislike. I want to discover new music - Grooveshark allows this but a lot my friends don't have a Grooveshark account but still use the service w/o signin (now the ones who do use it - I love, since I can see what exactly they listen to and discover new music).
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Yeah, it's important to keep sight of that, and frankly in that case it makes me wonder why I should continue to come back here?

Same here. That's why I'm so interested in what happened backstage with these stories. I've contacted the mail link on the Guidelines section for some light but haven't received a reply yet.
Minor nitpick: the Air app has been deprecated, the desktop app is a native app wrapped around the web site. It also allows downloading purchases and matching your iTunes collection.
One thing I'm somewhat confused about is why a bailout is better than default. In both cases the banks cannot pay back loans so their credit is worthless right? In a bailout the government becomes the bank (through a proxy) but its still the governments credit, not the banks'. So keeping the banks alive, instead of allowing them to default would keep jobs, but wouldn't it be keeping the jobs of people who, for lack of a better term, didn't actually do their job?
Various counts put Spotify at ~15m songs, and Rdio at ~9m songs.

http://blog.like.fm/top-5-music-streaming-services-reviewed

http://pansentient.com/2011/03/music-streaming-services-who-...
A useful criticism, but in this case I don't think it's optimizing for an edge case. There's a power law, or something close to it, when it comes to web developer skill. PHP is so dominant because it requires very little skill to get started, and very little skill to incrementally advance from there.

Other technologies can try to push on the "PHP problem" from above, and they can make a lot of progress, but they won't ever "win" because the inertia of PHP is coming from below. The only way to fully get rid of PHP is to beat it on its home turf, and that's firmly in the "Hello World" realm.
This is true even in large companies. All of the responsibility, none of the authority. For better or worse.

I've been able to make it work over the years but it's not everyone's cup of tea, especially if you dislike politics.

(Oh, and in my view, none of the glory either - that's to be used to help achieve objectives, not self-promotion.)
This is why I like Steven Blank's list: http://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/

It gives a small, straight note on the item.
While we're going with the stereotypes here, if you want to feel like a REAL MAN you need to LIFT, not pussy around with "yoga."

Sarcasm aside, lifting is far more effective than anything else for building strength.
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I'm not so sure. How many folks would be willing to pay extra for a la carte television? It is my understanding that in the current "bundled" packages the "channels you like" are subsidized by the "channels you don't like". A la carte would increase the overall bill.
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I only ask for a language that is readable so that code can be readily understood among a team developers, and PHP is universally understood. It may not be cool, but less time is wasted obsessing over being more clever.
Excellent tip, thanks!
The main argument for better and more affordable e-ink monitors is the glowing of today's screens. I am not sure if looking into an active light source is good for our eyes. It's like staring into a fire. If you know some studies that confirm my concerns, please let me know.
LCDs are a big step forward in comparison to vacuum tubes, but the problem is the glowing itself.
same goes with their twitter feed. I like seeing the article but I come to HN for the comments as well (come for the articles - stay for the comments ;) )
Good advice. I will add that, from the perspective of an app buyer, I almost will never pay for an app that has no freebie version. 99 cents isn't a lot of money but it's my money and I don't buy things unless I truly want it. This even goes for recommendations from friends - if the app doesn't have a trial/free version, I'm almost never buying it just to see if I like it. I haven't found screenshots alone do it for me.

Make a free + paid version!
Thanks to your comment, I just had a lightbulb moment.

The missing piece of the puzzle is real-time online location!

The reason we don't have chance meetings online is that we are not aware of who else is using or reading the same site or app as us in real-time. PG suggests that it maybe because of screen size, but I don't think that's the main problem. The real issue is that unless it's explicitly built into an app, like a chat site, we simply don't know who we are sharing that online space with at any specific point of time.

Imagine if you could say, "Oh I was reading this random blog on Tumblr and was surprised to see Fred Wilson reading it too. Didn't know he was into ASCII art, but had a good chat with him."

I can see Facebook doing this at some point. They are already doing it with music on their site. And they already know which of their users are on a particular site at any given time. It's just a matter of letting the users see that too and interact with each other. Turntable.fm is an outstanding example.

It's bound to freak people out, but it should actually make things more open and real-life like.

The problem of course is establishing true identity, and given that we can't literally see people to know it's really them, we will have to rely on a central identity system like Facebook. A decentralized method of identification would be great but is unlikely to happen.
I though the same initially, especially since I know a thing or two about Natural Language Processing. So I know that this is a very hard problem, to say the least. But then I remembered that we are talking about the company, that is known to make some of the most usable products in the world. I trust that Apple is smart enough to not shoot itself in the food, by releasing a half baked product like that.
better yet - I would be cool if they implemented a "reddit bar" for their twitter feed links so this way you can they have HN Bar which goes on top of the article
I've encountered different stories about the availability of content, but I think it really boils down to what sort of music you listen to. Personally, I find Spotify has more of the things that I listen to - but like I said I've talked with friends (that have different taste in music) that claim the same about another service.

That said, I think everyone I've talked to agrees Grooveshark has the best coverage, but everything there is so disorganized (and nobody is really sure of the legality).
Many thanks for your comments (we're pretty OT now and I'm sorry to piggyback on greaterskies story).

I'm clearly design-challenged but I don't really know what to do about it (except hiring someone who, unlike me, knows what they're doing; but I don't have the cash). But I did test the footer in many browsers and am surprised to see that it can fall below the fold; I guess I'll test again.

What do you mean by "developers can include Akayame in their projects": right now it's just a webapp, the code isn't available and there's no API, so why would you need a licence?

(The code would need some serious cleaning before being shown publicly; as for an API I don't think it's applicable, although I'm working on a sister project to transform HTML to clean HTML and/or Markdown, with a public API).
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Technologies might "need to die" on blogs, but in the real world they get replaced with better alternatives - once these emerge. Want to replace PHP with your favorite solution X? Write a better Wordpress, Drupal, vBulletin or even PhpMySQL alternative in X.

It's incredible to me how the fantastically talented X rockstar ninjas can't produce a better replacement for, say, Wordpress given how much technology and our general understanding of building web apps have improved since 2003. Less blogging, more coding.
What market are you in?

Last I looked, we were paying north of $100 for that.
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No thorough analysis done, just some hours with Google and observations of the way people I know deal with expense sharing (excel/paper).

The problem is real tough: calculating this stuff by hand is painful. And because people still do that, it could be solved better than it already is. Choice between free, easy to use tool and paper is a no brainer (if you know that the tool exists, that is)

--> No signup, because it makes it more likely that you know about the tool. (easier to start using, and a lot more likely to spread)

How many people can I spread this to then? I have no idea, but I think this is the fastest way to find out. If it spreads, awesome, and if it doesn't, I'll just swap to some other project. Not much lost here.

(And yes, education is also a big motivator. This is my first tool after all. I still see some value in just shipping tools some people will actually use, profitable or not. A simple, fast project is good for this.)
Killing PHP is like trying to kill English. Too many people know it and use it day to day for it to go away. It will just carry on with all its inconsistencies and weirdness.
Yes Physorg definitely has some of the worst articles on the internet.
> The missing piece of the puzzle is online location!

This is something that I think has, oddly enough, gone backwards as technology has improved. BBSs had a very strong sense of location, while the internet is much flatter and amorphous, because everyone can connect to everything.
I'm sure there is money to be saved here. But the question is, how much of my time am I going to spend trawling through pages like this one?

http://www.clevo.com.tw/en/products/item.asp?procatalogID=7

Also, it would be a hassle to verify that the hardware was supported by Ubuntu. I didn't state this in my question, but I'm looking for something that "just works" to the extent possible.

I appreciate the tip though, thanks.
Does anyone know if the MacBook Air works well with say Ubuntu?
"Until now, no digital musicservice has met, let alone exceeded the bar set by Napster."

Did he ever use Napster? It was slow, search was terrible, most files were bad copies, there were viruses everywhere...

Napster was great because it was the first widespread way to get digital music. It was terrible as a platform, and quickly surpassed by its successors in every meaningful way.

Parker's got his reality distortion field going full blast if he thinks napster was a better music delivery system than Kazaa/Limewire/etc, or torrents. With Grooveshark and the like out there, saying Napster has yet to be surpassed is like saying a PII is superior in every way to an i7.
Exactly. 69.99$ is a win for them. $79.99 is not. They should kill that "premium smartphone" fee. Or at least kill it for people willing to switch from verizon or ATT. 5$ a month is not reason enough for me to go through with the hassle to switch. 15$ a month is.
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The key word in that email is "sequencing". Which features to build and in which order.
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I am a recent graduate that has been in development job for the last 4 months. During school i had some internships at a company that involved software QA which i enjoyed. I now may have an opportunity to return to that company full time.

How bad would it look to future employers if i left my first job real full time job after 4 months?
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But in the coming future it will. All major libraries and frameworks are going to port over to python 3.

But we are missing the point here. PHP could need a cleanup from the ground up even if they have to break a lot of stuff this could help the language to evolve.
the leap from ORM->code generation->magical thinking!! -> IS BAD , just hysterics. A clear example of the slippery slope logical fallacy. Good ORMs are a huge productivity boost and entirely worth it. Those particular PHP coders who barely know programming (keep in mind, this is just a subset of PHP programmers I'm referring to) should not use relational databases at all, they should stick to simple key/value stores - they don't need joins, they don't need subqueries, they've no concept of transactional isolation, foreign what ? Just use a K/V.
Actually, he asked about people who haven't written their own compiler. I believe there's a large middle ground between people who've written their own compiler, and the users you're describing.
So the downloadable Siri was half-baked?
You missed out on some fun ones: FVWM, StumpWM, dwm, and w9wm. I tend to switch window managers every few months... but I've used all of those for years.

Which one did you end up preferring?
Expensive? Not if you actually want to use the data features of your phone.

Sprint is $79.99/mo.

$69.99/mo for 500 minutes with unlimited text and mobile to mobile calls, $10/mo "premium smartphone" data plan with no throttling and no transfer caps.

--

AT&T is $74.99/mo to essentially never use data/apps off wifi, to $104.99/mo and still be capped at 4GB.

$39.99/mo for 450 minutes, $15-45/mo for 200MB-4GB of data, $20/mo for unlimited text and mobile to mobile calling.

--

Verizon is $89.99-$159.99/mo and still be capped at a few gigs a month.

$39.99/mo for 450 minutes, $30-100/mo for 2GB-12GB of data, $20/mo for unlimited text.

--

Sprint wins on pricing for iPhone plans easily, and is the only option where you don't have to think about how you use your phone. You can be on the web all day, watch a Netflix movie every night, download every e-mail attachment, install any app, and never hit a cap.
Ask HN: What Node.js fanboys?
I've seen a few posts and comments lately on Hacker News that make reference to "fanboys", including one that said that I was a "fanboy" of node.js.

What's the definition of a "fanboy"?

Here's the thing:

I talk with Node.js users all the time. I bump into them on the train. I work with Ryan Dahl, at the
company that pays for Node.js development and is actively working to make it more popular. I run a software project that is only noteworthy because of node's popularity. We all really like node.

If anyone was going to be all "Use Node for everything!", it would be me, or my coworkers, or my friends and acquaintances.

And yet, I look around, and don't actually see anyone saying that.

I mean, I can easily find Node.js detractors. And while there are a few very sane people in the bunch who point to node's lack of maturity, or the inadequacy of JavaScript for certain types of tasks, a lot of those detractors seem to be shouting at strawmen.

Is this just a case of a fish not seeing the water? Could someone point me to some links to what you mean when you say "node fanboy", or examples of what makes a person a "node fanboy"?

Thanks.
> The second component of the antidote is chance meetings with people who can help you.

This is the key. Stumbling into friendships with just a handful of amazing people will change your life by orders of magnitudes. There's a simple probability explanation:

Let's label the group of individuals who are in the top 10% of driven, creative people "Group X".

If Joe and Bob are both in Group X but never meet, their combined total output is 2.

If Joe and Bob meet and become friends, they multiply their output by 1.1 so their new combined output is 2.2:

Joe&Bob = 1.1(Joe + Bob)

2.2 = 1.1(1 + 1)

And exponentially it grows:

Joe&Bob&Sue = 1.1(1.1(Joe + Bob + Sue))

So you can literally calculate the expected value of Joe's output by simply calculating the probability that he will meet a Bob and a Sue and so on...

Joe's Expected Output = 1(1.1 * Prob(Meets Bob)) * (1.1 * Prob(Meets Sue)) ...

The probability of meeting driven, creative people in the Valley only has to be a tiny bit higher to see drastically different outcomes. It's a lot higher, and so we have orders of magnitude discrepancies.
You could use a second browser strictly for music playback.
I think you misunderstood me. I mean real-time online location, as in I'm on news.ycombinator.com right now. My friend is on facebook.com right now. I'm not talking about geophysical location.
Not to mention it doesn't need to impede on your current activity. Currently, if you're doing some work in an app, you can either close the app, create the reminder, go back to your app and try to get your brain back into the mindset of using that app. OR, you tell yourself that you'll create the reminder when you've finished completing the process you're doing in the current app (in which case you might forget to create the reminder altogether). I think Siri will help a lot in performing actions in the mobile/tablet space where multitasking is just not as simple as the desktop.
You would be surprised. Probably because of the density of University Ave and the consistently great weather (with today as an exception) it's actually just incredibly common to run into people you know. On top of that people in Palo Alto are on average doing really amazing things.
Yeah, as http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/01/12/what-php-deployment-ge... spells out in depth.
Nobody gives a shit, it's completely normal in IT. I spent more than 5 years at my first job, and I now regret it. Every job after that lasted a year to two years, and your salary grows so much quicker when you switch.

If somebody asks you why you left the job, just tell them the truth.
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The funny thing is that the second most visited and profitable website in the world (Facebook) is written in PHP... not bad for a "beginners language" i think.
He came off as insecure in that email, to me. Constantly dropping how "great" Napster was and how nothing but Spotify could match its brilliance.
Interview and see what they offer. There is no shame in moving up to a higher paying job when opportunity strikes.
Grooveshark is legal (AFAIK), but their business model is somewhat sketchy. Content is peer-to-peer sourced, and if you don't want your music on Grooveshark, you'll have to file a DMCA infringement claim.
Ask HN: Shouldn't we be pissed that sites like Grooveshark exist?
Grooveshark blatantly promotes illegal streaming of copyrighted works, and makes a ton of money off of it. In fact, it's the only reason they are relevant.Do record labels turn a blind eye to this because they know someday they will be able to strongarm these sites into the Spotyify-esque pay-to-stream model?But what I'm wondering is, why should we be ok with sites like Grooveshark "cheating"? They are making massive amounts of money through blatant illegal activity, yet no one says anything about it.
and never hit a cap

Unless they throttle high-bandwidth users.
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Simple: a fanboy is someone you disagree with and would rather attack ad hominem than engage with in rational discourse.
Not sure ’bout that. During the event they only explicitly pointed out that voice recognition is happening on Apple’s servers when they talked about dictation. They introduced that as if it were something new and unique for the dictation part of Siri, not the commands.

I’m really quite confused about the details but the iPhone 4S will start selling soon so we will be able to find out how Siri works in more detail.
I would add syncpad to the list of collaboration tools (http://mysyncpad.com)
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If you look at the code it only has webkit bindings. It fails gracefully however in trident/presto/gecko, so no real issues in my opinion.
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iPhone isn't a fashion product. It's a rounded rectangle with a touchscreen on one side, and it has been for 4 years. Fashion changes more quickly than that and has more personality; Apple's design is more timeless, resembling 40 year old Dieter Rams designs more than anything recent.
I couldn't agree more. Maybe not as a main store, but definitely as a general swiss army knife utility for a web app's backend.
I don't think 'realization' is really the right word unless you have proof.
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Anyone have a more readable version of this?
Most videos uploaded in the past couple of years would be compressed as MPEG4 (h.264, specifically), but regardless of the video format the audio/video would be muxed into one file. If the video track consists of one still image, the impact (serverside compression, storage, delivery) of the video track would be minimal.
the news on the italian television had no mentioned this fact, as I had imagined...
True, I had a friend debating whether to get one. I asked him, if they had labeled it a 5 would you feel the same way, what missing features are you after exactly? Turns out it pretty much was just the branding.
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Dude, how do you double blind a chiropractic treatment? It's very very difficult. What is the placebo for this trial? Again, this is a tricky ariiea and most current options are rrelatively poor. I research placebo and the only areas where we have good enough processes to disentangle placebo and real treatment is with pills freaks and injections. Anything else is pretty hit or miss. I'm not saying that chiropracty works, just that we have no good way of seperating the expectation effects from the 'real' effects.
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