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I've tried lots of services and apps, and Spotify is my favorite. Of course, it's not perfect but it's way better than what the author suggests in this article.

About the "Playlist a whole album is too complicated"; I'm not sure what he mean by that as you click on a song in the album and it plays all the album.. this could hardly get more intuitive than this.

Of course, there's not all songs but at least they let you upload your own local music (Unlike grooveshark for instance).

Unlike the author, I really like the concept of playlist in Spotify. Basically, it's simply a list of pointers to the real song. So, basically, if you want to save the album, just create a playlist with the name of the album.. in fact, it does that for you automatically if you want.

On the negative side, as someone else pointed out, I wish they had a better "Suggesting new music". Yes, there's a radio but I feel it's not really good. They always show the same songs and most often than not they're not in my taste. I mean, I've got 1000+ songs in my playlists, I'm sure they could use those datas to guess a little better what I like.

A missing feature that I loved from grooveshark was: "Show me a playlist who contains that song". It was a nice way for me to discover new artists/songs. I'm not sure why it's not in Spotify as, unlike guessing a good songs, this is fairly straightforward to implement.

Another thing that is annoying is how the sync mode works in the desktop app. Basically, if you're in "online mode", it syncs it.. while offline don't use internet. The problem with that is sometime I want to "be online" to listen to the radio or something, but I don't want it to download all songs that need to be synced. (Say when tethering from my iPhone). Also, in the desktop app, if spotify starts when I'm not connected to internet, and then get connected, it will stay in offline mode forever.. there's no way to "turn on online mode". I have to restart the app and then it notices that I'm on internet. And yeah, same problem, since I'm on internet it will automatically start to sync everything.

And, finally, I wish it had a web interface. Yeah, we get it, with the desktop app you have more freedom to implement whatever you want. But still, a materialistic web version to listen the radio or your song might be useful..

So, in summary, it's not perfect, but it's the best solution I've found. And, it's legal :-) (Even though I had to hack the system to get it working in Canada as Spotify is illegal here.)
Ask HN:  Anyone frustrated by Google Adwords?  
Just wanted to gauge if anyone is frustrated by adwords or wants to see features or add ons that don't currently exist.

I'm working on software to help make ppc cheaper.

Are there other pain points I could help solve?
Damn, the carrot I was dangling over my head for a breakout success over the next 12 months has been a model S. Now I need a new carrot. The Leaf's not all that carroty.
I'm using Rdio and I've been pretty happy with it.

Before I plopped down my money, I did a comparison with Spotify on the artists/genres I cared about, and Rdio pretty much matched Spotify blow for blow.
Can you be more specific? And can I actually move them around, e.g. moving it to the left instead of the right?
Wait, 0.06%/day * 365 ~= 21.9% per year. And they think that's a good thing? How about a ~50/50 chance your account will be compromised every 2.5 years?

PS: Ok, 1-(1-.0006)^(2.5 *365) = 42% but that's still terrible odds IMO.
Awesome talk.

I'm guity of being caught doodling in class. As early as first grade. I still remember one particular day long ago where a teacher noticed me doodling during class. The lecture halted. My notes were confiscated. Then torn up and tossed into the trash. I was horrified.

And yet, to this day, I've never stopped doodling. It's quite soothing. Some of my best works of art started as "just a doodle."
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You don’t understand why companies care or you understand, but simply don’t agree?

A long time ago, I recall having a conversation with the CTO of a company that made BBS software. We wanted to integrate with his servers, so we wanted the proprietary protocol. We advised him to build an API so that his software would become an ecosystem and thrive.

He smiled and metaphorically patted us on the head like a parent explaining the world to children.

“If we publish the API for people to write new clients, people can also write new servers that talk to the clients we write, and we’d be out of business.”

Skype’s motivation is obvious: If the protocol is public, while some people will write software that enhances the Skype ecosystem, others will compete with Skype, and that isn’t what they want.
"This is Visa's OCE, or Operations Center East, the biggest, newest, and most advanced of its U.S. data centers. It is a data-security heaven--and Visa's acknowledgment that hackers are increasingly savvy, that data is an ever-desirable black-market commodity, and that the best way to keep Visa (and its 150 million daily transactions) safe is to ensconce its network inside a heavily fortified castle that instantly responds to threats.
The OCE's 130 workers have two jobs: Keep hackers out and keep the network up, no matter what. That's why rule No. 1 for visitors is: Never reveal its location. "On the eastern seaboard" is as specific as Visa will allow."

uhh, right. two articles from the 90s put it in mclean, va:
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19940101...

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19931218&...
If you equate worth with money, in that case you are correct.
Hopefully there is a lot more than money to your job or, no matter how many hours, you'll likely not enjoy that work week.
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Agreed that you should be making your product better...I think that's perhaps the unsung goal with our reporting system. If an article gets read a lot, look at how you can improve it in your product.

But you can't fix things fast enough and there will always be someone confused (If you build it one day, user X will be confused. Build it another, user Y will be confused.) so having good documentation is key, in our opinion.
How, exactly, does twitter facilitate connecting in business? Unless you're wildly popular, the experience is much like talking to a wall.
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At previous jobsI've played the a Korg piano I've got, sometimes I juggle, sometimes I doodle, if I've not had any exercise yet sometimes I'll walk around the building.
http://www.kickofflabs.com/ is a good alternative as well. They basically sit between Unbounce and LaunchRock as far as features go.
I think it depends on the kid. Speaking for myself, I would have loved that as a kid, so much that you don't even realize you're learning important things. There are probably plenty of kids who this would have made miserable and not been worth the trouble.

I'm not saying this would work for every or even most kids, but if you can use the kids natural excitement to teach them important skills (not just cash flow, but money management, value of work, etc) then why wouldn't you? I think this is a great story, and I hope when I'm a parent I can engage my kids with something as creative.
The non-Apple equivalent of AirPlay (which planb mentioned) can, for now, be Wi-Di for PC-to-TV streaming. This can and should be integrated to Google TV - plus an AirPlay interface for beaming content from Apple's devices if Wi-Di for Apple devices is an issue.

With Apps being added to it, we might start seeing streaming content providers make apps that offer pay-per-view or subscriptions within the app and become the TV-equivalent of a cable channel.

Google TV might even make it easier to recommend (socialize) and manage subscriptions/pay per view on these apps by centralizing it in the way Game Center socializes / centralizes score-keeping on iOS devices for game apps.
I like the 'no save/sync' concept! And the combined signup/registration is extremely simple and friendly.

Some points that could be improved, most of which I'm sure you're aware of and have on your roadmap:

* It's Flash. Not so friendly to the Flashless or Flash-phobic.

* The font, at least on Chrome 15.0/Mac, is not very legible; aliased and thick. http://i.imgur.com/etIve.png

* Doesn't flow to fit the browser window. On a moderate-width window, it looks like this: http://imgur.com/qwITW

* Google Docs and Simpletext.ws have save buttons, but offer many additional features. Collabedit.com and PiratePad.net autosave, and also collaborate. What unique angle will you take?
Currently we don't have a private version of Helpdesk, but it is something we're considering.
It’s Easier to Answer to Your Code Than Your Customers
Some of these are my favorite for good UI/UX design:

-- Weave
-- path
-- Band of the Day (or any 955dreams.com apps)
-- Ness
-- livingSocial
-- Batch
-- Hipster

Of course, the list is a bit subjective.
Rdio was definitely lean at first (they didn't even have the Pixies!) but now they have a pretty solid US catalogue. Plus their mobile apps and music discovery features are superior to Spotify.
A fluffy savings cushion sounds luxurious. I want a ladder to climb out of debt and 45k a year doesn't do much towards that.
You just have to be sure you don't eliminate the customer support with documentation, and then not ever fix the problem. I think it's better to feel the pain in the short run, and have a better product in the long run.

This reminds me of another thing we do - when we make new apps, we don't provide a manual to the beta group. We make one after the fact, but we want to get feedback from users as if there are no instructions.

Your product is awesome btw. We use it in two apps, and plan to add it to a third soon.
If the private key is stored on the TPM chip, if the crypto takes place on the TPM chip, and if the remote service knows your public key (or, more likely, a master key which signed your key), then you won't be able to break the scheme by intercepting the request.

Of course, even though the general scheme might be sound, there might still be a lot of possible attacks. I'm not saying it's unbreakable.
This is so true, I've got a Fuju Scansnap 1500 and it really really made my life easier. Drop pages in poof they come out as scanned on both sides or just one (it figures out blank pages), as a pdf, with text ocr'd off if it can recognize it so its searchable. They automatically drop into a shared folder on a filer. Paper goes in box with a date, dates > 3 yrs go to shredder.
I really appreciate you taking the time to comment! Your point is exactly my concern too. How can I better show that the resume is an example of my technical and marketing skills? At the end of the day tecruiter should be ctrl+f or downloading the PDF 1-page standardized resume.

I wanted to create something that would leverage technology to interact with the visitor in a unique way, to set my resume apart from the boring, traditional, static, resume.
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It's still 0.06% of all logins per year. You have to multiply 365 by the 1 billion logins every day, too, not just the 600K fraudulent ones.
Do uboot and/or Linux run on this board?
Sure. Here's the complete code for the button in the demo with the icon on the left.

<a id="select-choice-1-button" class="ui-btn ui-btn-corner-all ui-shadow ui-btn-up-a ui-btn-icon-left" href="#" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" aria-owns="select-choice-1-menu" data-theme="a" data-form="ui-btn-up-a">

The documentation has more info about this here: http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0rc2/docs/buttons/buttons-ic...

Edit: Ah, that page says that `data-iconpos="left"` is supposed to do this. It doesn't seem to work on the demo page. :P
True, but it's still interesting that it's essentially using the same "API" into the game as a player uses. While a computer can obvious do rote tasks much faster than a human, if you limited this AI's actions per minute to something semi-reasonable like 500, it could be a sort of proof of concept for the ridiculously high skill ceiling of Starcraft 2. This is especially true for battle micro.
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Is this one of those "honeypot" articles were were talking about?

Bad submitter! Bad upvoters! No biscuit!
Thank you everyone for the incredible feedback. I have just published the article here: http://www.wireclub.com/development/TqnkQwQ8CxUYTVT90/read

I hope you will find it useful!
IE9 catches up to Chrome, Firefox soon
To save someone else as musically ignorant as I some googling: G&L is a guitar brand. "Tele" is short for "Telecaster", a model made by Fender (who also makes the Stratocaster) which is presumably used loosely for similar models from other guitar brands as well.
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I think it's a she in the second link.
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Yeah, they made a really strange decision with the way the headlights pop up 4 inches or so above the hood.

I recall hearing somewhere that Nissan did for aerodynamic reasons to make sure the slipstream goes over the side-view mirrors, but boy does it look ugly. As an engineer, I usually never find myself arguing in favor of aesthetics over effectiveness, but in this case even I think they should have done something different.

That said, I'm not a car designer, so there might be other factors going on there.
This is great. By the time I was 9 or 10, I was frustrated that for all my playing with tools, reading, tinkering, etc., none of it was towards a practical goal. Finding a way to give kids real-life responsibilities in such an engaging way is awesome.

I wonder if script kiddies, for example, lean towards the nefarious because there are no industrious outlets nor mentors for them to work with.
Contrary to what certain parties like Mozilla may claim, by the MPEG licenses, there are none. We have had this topic up here a few hundred times, mostly related to the recent h.264/WebM debacle and all the fud and disinformation spread about usage of h.264. There is a reason why the x264 team, the XviD team, the L.A.M.E team, people offering h.264 video and AAC audio etc. for free have not been subjected to lawsuits from the MPEG, and this is why: MPEG has always, not just for h.264 but also for mp3, mpeg-4 asp etc., said that there are no costs of any kind involved for any party - distributors and end-users alike - dealing with MPEG data or MPEG technology in any way, as long as it is all done in a free-of-charge scenario.
I don't have the research on hand, but it's generally accepted that the reason the Prius was so successful as a hybrid was because it LOOKED very different than other hybrids, so people who bought one could conspicuously show off that they were hybrid drivers before it was cool.

Models like the Honda Hybrid Accord and Civic didn't do nearly as well because aside from the badge and carpool sticker, they didn't scream "I'M A HYBRID LOOK AT ME SAVING THE WORLD"

My hunch is that the Leaf was an attempt to capture some of that "conspicuous hybridization" momentum. Agreed, though, it's an ugly car.
I think geometry in elementary school is the idea being dissuaded, as compared to its prominence in high school today.
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He's referring to the National Ignition Facility, but that's not the only project. In Europe, there is ITER. And the NIF has recently gotten serious about trying to actually do fusion for power generation.

This isn't to say that fusion power generation will be a reality anytime soon, so on that most critical point I'm sure the nuclear physicist is correct.
HN punishes bad users with slow page load times
I should know. I've been a bad boy. I was promoting my site a little to zealously with stuff that I thought was interesting but obviously for which I had a conflict of interest. After being down voted five points on one comment and losing 45 points from my karma (assumingly from a flag), I noticed really slow page load times. The punishment in my case seems to be a randomized 10 second delay. The fix? Get a new account. Karma lost, page speed regained, lesson learned.
Running Collect periodically probably won't help much in this scenario - the huge data structure isn't actually being collected during the GC.Collect. But the GC doesn't know this until it spikes the CPU while it walks a bajillion references.

Since nothing is actually getting collected, if you ran GC.Collect periodically, you would just be incurring more lag with no benefit. I think your idea might help more in a different situation, one where you do have large amounts of memory getting reclaimed with each GC sweep.
That's exactly what I've wanted to build. I haven't peaked inside the API enough to see if anything close is even remotely possible, but the absolute best feature of Google TV is using my phone as the remote. The current remote app sucks, and it's still so much nicer of a way to control my TV. If something can be built to have really solid integration between a phone/tablet and the TV it would really make a phenomenal experience.
I could make up a very plausible reason. Handwaving is a key job skill for physicists and con men alike.

Example: It's about the surface area of the catalyst. You can't just use one big cylinder of catalyst because that doesn't have enough surface. You need 40 or 50 little cylinders. And then you can't put all of those in one tank because then the flow of reactant past the surfaces of the cylinders isn't properly laminar, so you put each one in its individual cell. Then you build each cell with a separate housing and so forth, to contain the damage from the occasional explosions.

As for why the magic number "43": We built 52, but 9 of them have, um, failed, so now we have 43. Soon there will only be 42. By the way, I hope you are wearing your safety goggles? ;)

[REITERATION OF DISCLAIMER: I am not describing a real experiment. I am describing a figment of my imagination. Please do not send money.]
This is slick, especially the kuler integration.
citing the mcdonald's lady is a bad idea - it just shows that you don't know what that case was all about. see http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm

fair point about apple benefiting from their restricted ecosystem, though note again that it's directly at the expense of their users' freedoms.
Malware attacks stemming from social media on the rise
As social media's popularity grows in corporate Canada, so too do malicious links that threaten company information, according to a new study. Data-stealing codes, for instance, are often shared via a link on popular social networks. By clicking on these links, employees could be exposing their company to criminals.
If only its radio feature were better, and it could find duplicates better.

By the way: GrooveShark user, primarily.
My thoughts exactly. I can buy a cd, rip to flac / mp3, listen to the mp3's everywhere mobile, and flac in my home theater or on my nice headphones. All of the cd's I buy still costs me less than some subscription service.
Hello, thank you for your feedback!

>> Google Docs and Simpletext.ws have save buttons, but offer many additional features. Collabedit.com and PiratePad.net autosave, and also collaborate. What unique angle will you take?

Mmmh good question :p
according to this profile, it may have move to herndon.

http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=59159289&authTyp...
I can't agree with this strongly enough. Why doesn't Spotify have any kind of recommendations? I'd also love to see iTunes Genius implemented in Spotify, but instead of just using my library for similar songs (like iTunes does) they could pull from the whole catalog.
Building the car and selling it at a low price point without making a loss is pretty hard.
Why is it implausible that money doesn't just vanish over time?

I have no idea how much money they have but I don't see why it would have declined. They have always been shrewd investors.
>having the customer send you an email [...] is a great opportunity to try to sell them something else or even answer a survey question etc.

Wow. That wouldn't go down well with me.
I'm with the parent on this one: if you think the govt should tax more, send in your 'extra' money. Don't tell me what I should do with mine, don't say that everyone should pay more taxes. I'm the one that decides what to 'reasonably' do with my money. Perhaps if people acted more as a community, local community charities to distribute money to people. Having the government take your money by force and distribute it to people without your consent does nothing to foster community or cooperation.
Since you plan to buy music, and seem to have an extensive catalog, give Audiogalaxy (http://www.audiogalaxy.com) to have free access to your music from everywhere. It's my startup, so don't let me bias you - check out reviews on iTunes/Android and the web. I'm pretty sure you'll like it. :)
I never use the keyboard. The phone (Android/iOS) app is solid.
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the words 'put up or shutup' come to mind. There aren't that many people at Buffet & Gates level - they would affect the average if they donated what their conscience tells them to.
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No, our taxes are going to be a lot higher in the future because the government is too busy getting re-elected by redistributing taxes & allowing the printing of new money to be responsible with it's financial commitments. In the end, the powerless will be held responsible, and pay the price.
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Sounds like the perfect opportunity for someone to become a C expert. Something like this just throws up a lot of red flags. If Microsoft changes some of the methodology in its GC or further demotes structs, your solution may fall apart. It just sounds like something that requires tight manual memory management to get right and remain stable.
You ever been a parent? I'm guessing not because if you were, at some point you would have arrived at the horrifying realization that kids don't grow up on their own--that by some incalculable measure what we do today will affect their self-image, motivation, and desires for the future. Of course we are an amalgam of memory and experiences, and you can't look back and identify one single event that shaped your future, as Rob addressed in the article. But it is like sowing seeds--you don't know which ones specifically will take, but with some hard work and care-taking you can be know that the result will be good.
"the wealthy have more money than they really need" - who are you to decide what the wealthy need? They decide, by how hard (or smart) they are willing to work.
I've visited LaunchRock to check it out. I didn't get any account after set up. Somehow I have a nagging feeling of being trolled, landing on the landing page of a site promised to create a landing page.

The FAQ says I will get an account after getting 3 people to sign up. Bahh. I just want to check out the features and I have to spend effort in marketing your site? Thanks but no thanks.
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G&L was founded by Leo Fender...of Fender fame.
the mantraps and hand scanners sound insane to I guess all normal people, but in my experience that is a pretty standard level of security. I have a few 1U servers co-located and I have to pass through multiple mantraps with palm readers to access them.
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