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The article mentions in passing that similar tech is used to price airline tickets, but the important difference is that airline tickets are now almost universally purchased through sites like Kayak or Travelocity, which allows customers to quickly and easily compare similar trips and make a choice (generally on price). This has resulted in airline ticket prices plummeting in real terms over the past 10 years or so. In apartments, on the other hand, this tech seems to give more power to landlords, unless some smart startup builds a Kayak-for-apartments.
When searching, if Google doesn't detect my query as a potential Image search, it's always been convenient to just click 'Images' on the top and get your current query in image form.

This used to work for other services - News in particular being one I used frequently - until the past few weeks in which they broke this 'transfer your search' functionality.

This appears to be the endgame. I don't know if this dropdown will preserve search terms when switching to Images, but even if it does, the additional UI fiddling is going to be a big net loss for my Google workflow.
When we start thinking like that we start walking down the horrible path of changing things for the sake of changing them.

Who cares how old urllib is? There really isn't a ton of functionality that has changed in URLs within, say, the past 12 months that requires us to constantly reinvent the wheel.
And if these middle do actually provide value, they will continue to be included in the process. If these organizations (currently known as publishers) are capable of providing capable editors and providing other value to the finished work, I'm sure they'll be able to charge a fee and stay in business.

Job boards have not replaced the headhunter. If anything, people complain about the job boards being a miasma of trash resume. Likewise, those authors who seek such expert consulting might end up positively differentiating themselves.

In the long run though, the business has been disrupted and it is up to the publishers to positions themselves in a way that their expertise and value is appreciated and accessible to authors who might not want to go through them in the traditional means. So perhaps they would do well to charge for the services which still add value (like editorial work or cover art services).
>> C can be unforgiving on the novice, so battling C while trying to learn OpenGL concepts can quickly become a losing battle.

Maybe this will be controversial, but OpenGL probably isn't something a novice programmer should be tackling.
Can't argue with that one (choosing hobbies as a teenager), although I have to admit that I became much more satisfied with my hobbies once I stopped caring about them from the point of view of other people.

Personally, I think putting time into music and sports are about as useful/useless as putting time into video games. For the most part, adults aren't going to be able to sink much time into their hobbies (certainly not enough to become world class) - most of my friends who did sink time into learning to shred on a guitar (and the like) don't really use those skills now. I spend most of my personal time playing sports, but other than the side effect of being rather fit, I don't think they are intrinsically any more fulfilling than spending a similar amount of time becoming just as good at competitive gaming.

Re: SC -> SC2 - not really a great analogy, considering how well professional SC players have adapted to SC2. They might complain about it, but there's actually a pretty high correlation between being good at SC and transferring that skill to SC2. (Not to mention that the few SC players that have switched to SC2 so far haven't been top-tier. I can't imagine how well the top-tier SC players would do at SC2 in comparison.) I don't think it's much different from pro athletes dealing with rules changes; NFL players might vociferously complain about it, but in the end, they're the best at what they do for a reason.
It hadn't occurred to me to check that. It's nice when shows take the time to get it right, or mostly so.
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In my experience, that depends heavily on both the listener and the music. Rock and pop music, which cram everything into the midrange, compress well. But music which strays further into the treble and bass doesn't. Even when a difference shows up, whether it's noticeable is going to depend on who's listening.

The most noticeable example I can think of offhand is the David Bowie album Outside - there are a few spots where entire tracks drop out in 256kbps AAC. However, they consist of the kind of very high-pitched sounds that are the first to go when your hearing degrades, so a lot of listeners won't miss them because they never knew they were there in the first place.
Well I am quite honestly bored of paying £240 a month per cpu licensing costs.

I have no objections for paying for licenses but it's just getting too much. They put their costs up recently from £180 a month to £240, when we tried to pass that onto a client they pulled their face, it's getting hard to justify the cost of running a web server on a Microsoft platform
OK. So what is the faster Clojure implementation for him to try this out on? I don't know of one.
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I think more and more people are starting to do this, but there it takes some time for people to adjust their consumption habits. Right now people are still thinking about mp3 only, but this will shift as we have more buying options.
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Neat!

What if random generation played a role, how would that look and what times do you get, just curious?
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This is a very cool idea. Sadly I don't have a Galaxy Nexus in order to participate (just bought a Galaxy S2, wondering if I will regret that choice) but I can't wait to see how this kind of thing turns out in a year or two when a ton of people have these devices.
It might be an overly-aggressive response to "Flash of uninitialized JS UI" www.kendoui.com/blogs/teamblog/posts/11-10-06/foujui_flash_of_uninitialized_javascript_ui.aspx
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This is a wonderful idea, especially since the area covered by cell phones vastly surpasses that of weather stations. Unfortunately, there's a very real privacy concern of which you must remain cognizant: storing a time series of the paired barometer reading and GPS coordinates. This information is personally identifiable, even if the device ID is just a unique string of numbers.

I'm not sure how you're storing the data, but I would suggest to store only the GPS coordinates and barometer reading, normalizing both to have the same approximation error.
Agreed. That's a huge attraction for me as well, the people around it, working with them, and seeing the product(s) take shape.
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I too find that very distracting. After all, they use(d?) the yellow highlight for messages at the top of their screen (eg "Loading..." or something) so now I'm constantly thinking something important is happening above the text I'm reading.
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It's funny because watching a concert I thought how cool it was that when someone had a camera or phone in my line of sight I could simply switch to another unobstructed view. Then I realized the chances were good that my new view was coming from the very camera I switched views to avoid.
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> Unfortunately, there's a very real privacy concern of which you must remain cognizant: storing a time series of the paired barometer reading and GPS coordinates. This information is personally identifiable, even if the device ID is just a unique string of numbers.

Yes, this has been a complication from the start. Here's our current policy/methods: We delete all data after 1 month and we let users remove all of their submitted data completely. We never show anyone's actual location on the map (coordinates are fudged by a few hundred meters).

I do want to store some data longer than 1 month in the future as will be helpful to use for data mining, looking for patterns, etc. But first I will have to find a way to carefully anonymize it.
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Generally the same people who buy Windows Server, businesses and governments. ExtJS is reasonably popular, probably the best example I can think of here (but I'm not in the market).

http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/

Having quality support available is probably alone worth several times the price.
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It's also nice that the radio amateur who did this, G3YXZ, used period equipment as well. He was using a circa 1900 British Post Office Morse key.
So you don't really own songs you buy on iTunes the same way you own CDs.
You put your interfering bits (critical sections) in transactions. Starting with a read and ending with a write. If you were to retry right after a read (but before a write), you would get incorrect results. And read/write pairs can get complex.

Rich is right about correctness. With an STM, it's comparatively easy to get correct behaviour from your program, which is more important than performance.
I think Spotify gave the labels a large amount of stock when they made the deal. So it's not $.002/play, it's a bunch of stock + $.002/play.
So you pay almost nothing (on average) to listen to the music, but you pay hundreds for other things.
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Generally the same people who buy Windows Server, businesses and governments. ExtJS is reasonably popular, probably the best example I can think of here (but I'm not in the market).

http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/
> A lot of people seem to expect fully fledged support for free, and that's pretty crazy

It gets worse; A lot of those people expect fully fledged support for trivial "problems" which are clearly explained in the help file (that ships with the product) on the website, in the forums, and in a wiki. And they'll be dicks about it too.
My girlfriend and I are in love with this show. It surprised me to see a reference to it on HN this morning.
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"H1B visa holders are not slaves. They are free to quit and work elsewhere whenever they like."

I would not equate the H1B to slavery, but saying H1B holders are free to quit and work elsewhere whenever they like is akin to saying anyone is free to make a million dollars any time they want..Its true in theory, but not so straight forward in reality.
For starters many employers will NOT hire an H1B holder, so that narrows your options right off the bat. The companies that do hire H1Bs will often only do that for certain positions, so your career plans had better be exactly in line with those positions..
So then you don’t.

Does it matter, though? I don’t think so. It’s pretty clear what you can and cannot do as compared to CDs. It’s a non-issue.
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Fortune 500 and mid-market companies are the target market. I've consulted at several in the Chicago area that strongly prefer to work with a vendor who can provide long-term support and training.

No MVPs to offer, but Sencha and Highcharts are making a living licensing their Javascript libraries. If you're interested in this market, I'd recommend libraries for building complex infographics. Something beyond the standard business charts you see everywhere.
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Thanks for viewing. There are still a lot of kinks in our V1. Emotions.com's goal is to be the safe place on the internet to get support and connect with people anonymously. You can see HN partly inspired us. We'd love your feedback on how to make this product better. :)
I don't know how far this is true. I just checked Vim, which for me seem to be written mostly by one person (but I may be wrong here). Anyway, I'm quite sure there are some useful open source project which don't have a big community of developers. FSlint is one I use sometime.
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Using something other than the officially supported system creates friction for the students, who generally are not as computer savvy as one might expect. We use Blackboard at my school, and it links into the the time schedule and grading. So the default course page students see is the one on Blackboard (mine redirects to my regular department page), and you can't officially post grades other than on Blackboard. I also have to go into Blackboard to see who's still registered (although this information is out of sync with whatever the official system is).
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Yeah, like we should be listening to Amazon.

They won't allow non-pro merchants to collect sales tax and they charge 3% to collect taxes on pro-merchants.
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The way modules are looked up - localized to the piece of code that needs it, inside the /node_modules directory - is one of the greatest strengths of the node ecosystem.

It's just dead simple and solves dependency conflicts like nothing I've ever seen before.
1) Prohibition had nothing to do with replacing enforcement of laws with stricter laws. It was about passing a new law where none existed before, to take away a freedom. Your comparison makes no sense.

And I'm not saying we shouldn't enforce the law. I'm saying that the range of the allowed wiretaps should be narrow so that enforcement is feasible. And indeed, the range of legal wiretaps is actually not that broad. If we enforced the existing law, there would be fewer.

2) You have repeatedly said that we shouldn't be concerned about government privacy violations, that wiretaps are not a problem, that we have more privacy than we need, that we should trade privacy for other freedoms, that the government is efficient with less privacy. You may not have explicitly said "I want more wiretaps", but you've been arguing in favor of it quite clearly. This is not a straw man. If you don't like where your arguments lead, then maybe you should ask why you're making those arguments.

Your attempt to separate privacy from other freedoms and present them as a tradeoff is still unsound. I could likewise ask you whether you'd rather have freedom of speech or freedom from false arrest, and pretend that this is a legitimate tradeoff and that we need "not to pay much attention to it and focus our very limited resources on what's really important".
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Even if a novice reader is not familiar with C at a very deep level, it's not that different from other programming languages. You should be able to read C and grasp the basic concepts of storing objects in memory, because a lot of OpenGL is about storing stuff in memory and you have to think about pointer alignments and stuff like that.

And besides, if you're writing example applications for a book or a tutorial, you should probably stick to very simple C code anyways. The kind that anyone can read to some degree.

Please note that I did not advocate that the reader must write their own projects using C, even if the book examples are in C. They can pick any other language they feel comfortable in. Just be prepared to deal with binding libraries and windowing toolkits and all the little things that you need.

Programming the GPU is one of the most hostile programming environments out there. You might not have a debugger available and you can't even debug with prints, you have to deal with memory explictly, drivers are buggy and a small mistake in your program might crash your computer partially or fully or cause very unintended consequences. I would not recommend for a novice who can't deal with C code to go there. This is true whether you use C or not. Even with WebGL.

Most of the people who want to learn OpenGL, actually want to learn 3d graphics programming. Then it's actually better to take a 3d engine that deals with 3d models, lights and cameras and stay away from OpenGL, which is basically a very complicated way of drawing triangles very fast.

A lot of stuff you said about C being difficult in practice, libs that are broken, difficulty on setting up on Windows, etc are true. However, they don't really apply to using it as a language in programming examples in a book or a tutorial.
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Seems interesting. But gemfresh[1] is a good enough gem for me at the moment.

[1] https://github.com/jonathannen/gemfresh
It's nuts, isn't it?

It seems pretty clear the software doesn't actually transmit the data that it accesses, for a start receiving the volumes of data supposedly involved would require a data center the size of the moon.

CarrierIQ does lots of stuff I don't like, but it's not sending my banking passwords to a server in the USA.
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Coda's opinions, even if leaked, were highly appreciated. This guy has invested a lot of time on Scala so it's in better position to say what he thinks about the language. In the end, it should help to fix imperfections and help the community.
The results from the videos are excellent! I am truly impressed. Will try this out during the weekend.
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I've started reading this after I found it on an old HN post. I went through everything except chapter 12, 13, and the latest one that just came out. I would highly recommend learning OpenGL from this tutorial if you have no prior experience with opengl or computer graphics. This tutorial dives right into shaders in the very first chapter, where as the other sources (the red book, opengl superbible) still tries to teach your fixed pipeline rendering for several chapters before introducing glsl.
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Single-player games may be built around that, but multiplayer games generally aren't. Have you ever seen a newbie get thrown into a multiplayer FPS game? Unless everyone else is at a similar skill level, the newbie often just gets destroyed. Heck, the difference between my friends and I at Halo isn't even that great, and I usually only wind up with a handful of kills at best! (It's arguable that I might just really suck at Halo, but it's not like my friends are that great either.)

That being said, I still fail to see how this is any different from playing sports, or any other hobby. You try something new, discover you like it, do it some more, get decent at it, and then decide to take it to the next level. I've never been that addicted to video games, but one could easily argue that my current hobbies have (obviously) been more addictive for me, since I've stuck with them to such an extent.

It is true that video games do age quickly, but it's not the case that your skills suddenly become obsolete. When the electric guitar came out, did that suddenly render classic guitar skills useless? It's the same with video games - many of the skills transfer over within the same game archetype. It's why you see the same people winning at different 2D fighting games over the years. Despite playing a completely new game, the bulk of your skills are still intact. Sure, the specialization is gone, but that's part of the appeal.

Yes, but how many of those CS players actually invested time into _meaningful practice_ at CS? No offense, but just being in a clan is kind of like being a club sports player. Pretty damn good compared to the average player, but not the same at all as putting in the work to become world class.
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Yes, that was my point. Latin compares to music noone wants to hear or code noone wants to use.

Spotify and its likes is a place for people to discover and share music. If your music gives you fans, they will come to your concerts and buy your records.

People are used to test running stuff before they buy it these days. The chance of buying a new magazine is bigger if you can flip through it and see what it's about, than if it is wrapped in plastic. I look at Spotify as a legal place where you get some money from the test runners also, which is those who wouldn't have come to your concerts anyway.
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True. Have changed to 'does not hardcode any price information...'
So HAML is bad because it is "purely an abstraction of syntax", but CoffeeScript is good because it adds things that are "extremely cumbersome to code by hand". I'd say the closing tags, quotes, attribute names, doctype declarations, etc that HAML removes are just as "cumbersome".
As soon as you're doing anything beyond CRUD on a database, you will probably have to worry about them.

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That's not all that popular for an online game.

There are probably 20-100 times as many people playing Warcraft over time same time frame. It's about at the level of EVE online which is a vary nitch MMO. Distributed Systems Architect Jacky Mallett explained that “we hit a new peak of online usage, 63,170 users online concurrently” on January 23 http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/03/02/eve-online-has-over-360000...

PS: Considering the player base and ongoing subscription costs I would not be surprised if wow peak's at 2,000,000 - 3,000,000 players at the same time.