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> But what happens when Tupac suddenly records a new song?

Somebody has to actually create that work and the performance -- presumably whoever does the work or commissions the work would inform themselves of any licensing issues before embarking on it.

I'm curious what you think the ideal scenario here would be?
I did about 10 minutes of googling since it is my lunch break, and I'm now convinced that your risk rate will only be 20% if you are something like a logger or speedboat racer.
This is such a real look at it. The last line about following the followers... yes.
With the exception of Gorillaz, I probably wouldn't pay to see A holographic artist perform, but I would pay to see a bunch of them perform together. Elvis, Buddy Holly, Tupac, Ricky Valenz, Kurt Cobain, etc. Get DJ BC to create the mashup, and away we go.
Frankly, it's their service and they can do what they want. If they don't want to serve to Pakistan/etc, it's fine by me and should be fine by you too. Whatever happened to "I don't like your business model so I'm going with a competitor instead"?
The Backbone documentation actually mentions this too (last sentence of the introductory paragraph here: http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/#Events).
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Now the kids are 24 and 20 :)... But they slept more at night than the cats....
I don't want to follow this tangent further, but you're right about the headquartering of consultancies in the DMV area. Booz Allen is there too. Still:

Instead of spending that in the DC area why not just send a check for $10,000 to each and every household in the US.

Because that money is funding a decade-long war overseas and a series of tax cuts enacted several years ago that were recently extended.

Of course these numbers do not include the TARP cash that is deluging Wall St.

Almost all of the TARP money has been paid back. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program#...
The author is picking and choosing who he wants in this argument of his. He has Douglas Crockford and Brendan Eich on the pro-trailing-semicolon side. On the other side he has @fat. If he wanted to be fair he could have included someone like @izs or Thomas Fuchs. But if he referenced their viewpoints on it, it would make it harder to pretend that all code that doesn't include trailing semicolons after every statement is brittle.
For you to say with such certainty that Wufoo's reasoning for not enabling accounts from Pakistan is not due to fraud is just plain misleading. You either don't know why, or you've been told why and are hiding the true reason from us.

And what do you mean, "Tools must be global"? You aren't paying Wufoo's bills or salaries - what right do you have to demand that they make their service available where/when they do not wish to? Also, Wufoo is a service, not a tool IMO. A tool is something like grep.
I dunno... semi-colons have practical implications for everyone, but "my use case requires speed and persistence isn't an issue, therefore mongo is better" vs "i need persistence and didn't read the docs, who cares if it's a little slower - riak is better" gets pretty tiresome, particularly when my use case is "i need easy graph traversal, neo4j w/ gremlin is the wave of the future". :P

hahaha - I feel the best use of this thread is that we agree to spawn a series of blog posts debating the most boring debates to hit HN ever. Including sock-puppets to randomly drop surprise left turns like "no you are all wrong, here is why the ocaml vs haskell debate bores me" and "no, the real boredom is the long comment threads in the ongoing 'anarco-socialist' vs 'enlightened-libertarian' viewpoint wars"

:)
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“It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.”

- Salvador Dali
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This argument has about as much chance of persuading the public as the 'read the damn terms of service' argument.

People don't want clear warnings, disclaimers, or notices - they want the things they dislike to simply not exist.
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"who decided actors, producers and studio-execs should make millions on just one movie?"

The movie industry did. This is no different than athletes making astronomical sums. At some point, people are agreeing to pay them. If there were universal opposition to the practice, it wouldn't happen.

Why is it so expensive to attend a professional sports event? Because the ticket prices keep going up, and people keep buying them.
I am still a bit shocked that this is an issue. As clearly pointed out, if you don't want to see homosexual content it is not forced upon you.

The fact that homosexual content is in the game is great because it allows the user to direct the relationships as they see fit. This is a huge selling point for the Mass Effect series in general.

Corin_11 hit the nail on the head though, they are not surprised because they were not warned about the content. They are using that argument to mask the fact that they don't want any homosexual content in the game at all.
I'll have to check out the rendering on the iPad. Thanks for pointing out that bug.
When should we hear back from YC regarding Summer12?
I am sure they have a ton of applications but I thought the date was today. Has anyone heard back from them yet?
Imagine how those who were stumbling drunk felt! No wait, think about the poor people who were high when this popped up! Talk about a bad trip man!
This touches on some really important relationships between programming languages and cognition.

Alan Kay has been studying how children take to programming and many of the ideas from Smalltalk come from these studies.

When designing for children, every part of the user interface, including the syntax of the programming language, matters a lot. For example, he writes, "If we take functional relationships as an example, it has been shown that children readily understand them but have considerable difficulty with variables, and much more difficulty with parameters. The standard math syntax for functions with parameters requires some extra trained chunks to associated dummy names with actual parameters. Some computer languages allow conventions for prefixing the actual parameters with the dummy names. This is good. For younger children, it's likely that making these into complete assignment statements is an even better idea. An object oriented language can use instance variables for a long time before introducing the idea of passing parameters in a method, etc. Having really good trace and single-step visualizations is critical."
http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/140

Children have different cognitive needs than adult programmers (and different needs from each other depending on age). But cognitive needs matter in designing programming languages for adults too. I personally take the optimistic (or cynical?) view that we have a lot of room to improve our programming interfaces (not just languages, but the entire programming experience viewed holistically).
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As a reformed "alpha nerd boss", I suspect most people grow out of it.
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I posit that taste is a skill. There's no reason why someone might be able to work to become better at understanding, distilling, and working with known stylistic & cultural touchstones.

Of course, the meaning of "taste" in general is also ripe for a huge argument about semantics between folks with some free time on their hands.
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Orthogonal to everything brought up in the article: I'm still stunned by how many parents have no problem with depictions of graphic violence but go nuts over sexuality and nudity. Arab culture is the most sexually repressed I've ever encountered, but we here in The States are not that far behind.
God, yes. For that matter, it's not even a technical debate; it's all purely stylistic.

It boggles the mind that so many otherwise intelligent people have decided to take the time to form an opinion about semicolons.
wow, backbone is catching up to what Sencha ExtJS had five years ago.
That's interesting...I can't believe I never noticed that.
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Ask HN:Generate celebrity photos and videos from Twitter feed 
I noticed, most of the time, my niece searches Twitter for photo and video of her favorite celebrity. Trying to consume everything about him. So I built http://celob.com to monitors popular Twitter feed for celebrity news. Once it becomes popular, it auto post the tweet.

I know it rough right now. I need to do a better job of clustering the news and removing duplicates. So far, most of the work I did is in backend monitoring Twitter and YouTube. For now, I am just using Tumblr for frontend.

I knew this might have a chance, when it auto posted a concert video of Snoop and Tupac (in hologram) at Coachella: http://celob.com/post/21209053946/tupac-hologram-video-signing-with-snoop-at

Please let me know what you think and you suggestions
From '_sentient: Car accidents. If you get in a terrible accident on your way from one job to another, that's coverable, and exposes the worker's comp insurer to potentially unbounded liability. It makes more sense now.
The Cloud Block Storage service uses Nova Volume[5] where you can plug in a number of different storage engines.

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But here’s a key point: that data stored in its
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Clickable:
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I run the computer lab and teach technology classes at an elementary school in California. Are there any similar programs in the states?

In the last year especially, I have seen lots of technology education programs like this start up in the UK. Seeing them in the UK is still inspiring and pushes me to do more, but I wish there were programs like this in the states.
By the by, the wipes Lucas used in the original Star Wars trilogy were inspired by the way Kurosawa (one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, say Wikipedia) used wipes and "help evoke a kinship to old pulp science fiction novels and serials." They are supposed to be campy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipe_%28transition%29

At some point in their career I think everyone learns that a "good taste" and artistry requires a solid knowledge of history, regardless of whether you choose to build on it or depart from it. The naive approach only gets you so far. The old anecdote about how young Picasso trained on more traditional art techniques before becoming free to go off into the deep end.
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That is a big problem with the wavelet based approaches. They tend to be tuned for impressive PSNR numbers which doesn't always correspond well to perceptual image quality. I haven't seen that article in a while and he raised many valid points.

I think wavelets do have a future but it will just take more time and research. I'm not too sure what the state of it is at the moment as it has been a while since I've looked into it. It is my opinion that in time wavelet based compression will become more important though.

Edit: I forgot to mention that one really cool thing about wavelet codecs (for video especially) is that they are easy to scale by decoding portions of the bit stream. This is really useful for streaming as you can vary the image quality without too much work.
But you're... you're doing it. Look at yourself. You have a strong opinion about using semicolons.
Very useful product with highly competitive prices. Dave and Charlie are extremely sharp and very nice guys to boot.
Good reply to the original comment:

> Do you have a big sign on your head that says "CONTAINS BIGOTRY. DO NOT APPROACH THIS PERSON IF BIGOTRY OFFENDS YOU."?
+1 for Prince XML.

Ryan Tomayko (a githubber) is extremely impressed. And when Ryan (or any other community respected hacker) is impressed, I can use that product without any further thinking.

http://tomayko.com/writings/princexml

If you are on .NET, I also recommend Essential Objects PDF library (http://www.essentialobjects.com/Products/EOPdf/Default.aspx). I have been using it for a production project and it is rock solid. At 549$/developer, it is much more affordable.
Yep. Sayre's law has kicked in with a vengeance here.

"In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law
Link to the guy's actual page: http://research.swtch.com/qart

Really cool stuff!
I think proper Information Architecture is extremely important especially in the startup land. Proper not necessarily meaning formal, structured, long winded process, but more along the lines of though of how this virtual place called the startup product should be structured, as much as one can in the crazy land of every changing, fast paced stuff.

I would agree that a lot of the stuff that is missing can be in a good tech-company designer's head! Totally with that.
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Okay, but none of that is specific to this technology or its use at a concert. You just seem to be taking the opportunity to talk about something vaguely related that you have strong feelings about.
The guide at github[0] is pretty easy to follow. I've done it on some of my fellow students' pc's a couple of times during a project, but most of them switched to Ubuntu after a couple of weeks.

[0]http://help.github.com/win-set-up-git/
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Actually, my understanding that there is nothing technical about this debate: the debate is about writing maintainable, supportable, and portable code versus "cool" code.
But I also agree this is "by far the most boring debate ever to hit HN" (without technical :).
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I think you're right that "taste is a skill." I think a lot of people would appreciate content on developing taste.
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I'd be less concerned except that they take pains to say that the bags should be coloured the same as the road, so that drivers don't take any action to avoid them. But motorcyclists depend on road surface that looks good, being good.
Link to LaSVM paper: jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume6/bordes05a/bordes05a.pdf
Also a good overview of SVM techniques in general.
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Plenty of albums have been released under Tupac's name since he died. Some of the work (the production, the lyrics, obviously the vocals) was material that Tupac had worked on but never released.

According to wikipedia, Suge Knight produced most of these posthumous albums[1]. I assume the royalty split was probably the usual percentages going to the label and distribution, and a much smaller fraction going to Tupac (or his estate in this case). So, all in all, probably no worse of a deal than most living artists can expect from major label contracts.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupac_Shakur_discography
I believe there are plenty of problems with the points of view expressed in your original post. Not the least of which is that the Rails community was built with carefully crafted factional mentality. People called it "opinionated" software and if you didn't like it, well, "F*ck you."

This is how Rails was marketed, by splitting people into camps: Us (cool, indie hackers) vs. Them (corporate stiffs). Fervent conflict was intentionally built into the Rails culture from the very start and complaining about it at this point seems slightly after the fact.

Which leads me to my next issue: the Pareto rule. This seems like a silly thing to be complaining about because it's also the reason that there are four revisions of the Rails book and countless other money-makers (books, confs, Peepcodes, etc).

I'm sure you can see why congratulating yourself may seem a little arrogant and perhaps give people the wrong impression of your "cancer-ridden" community.
it's like mailbait round two.
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The front of the box could be nothing more than a giant M ESRB logo and these parents would still buy the game for their kids.
It's interesting to read about where they have been used. I think the effects that bothered me the most were the blinds and dissolve transitions.

"You will find as you develop in your career that a well-developed taste requires a good knowledge of history, regardless of whether you choose to build on it or depart from it."

I agree completely.
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Pretty bad, apparently. I can't seem to beat the computer, even if I generate the random string beforehand.
> On the other hand, people who know a bit about ML but understand the domain better start by applying intuition to data cleansing and then follow up with simpler algorithms.

I find data cleansing(if you are including feature selection) hard, and I consider it a refinement. If I am working on a classification problem, I start with naive bayes with a trivial feature generator(if words are feature, split on whitespace and discard some symbols), train it, and cross validate. Depending on the results of the cross validation on differently sized data-sets(say 100 tweets, 200, 500, 1000, 2000, 5000) I decide if I refine bayes further or I need to pick another algorithm.

I avoid SVM because I have a hard time figuring out the kernel and relation between data. I mostly don't use linear classifiers because the relation is very rarely linear.

Generally if the features are pseudo-independent(naive bayes assumes independent events but it might work fine even if the events aren't independent), naive bayes does the job. If not, it's time to refine the feature generator and selector.
Aside from algebra to do log or exp division addition and multiplications, you have to be versed in statistics. Most ml problems are solved on statistical bases. Although many of the algorithms have been solved, you still need to grasp the statistics behind it which is a bit more involved than calculating the odds of a die
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I wonder if Jobs will introduce a new Apple product in 20 years.
I think you're spot on with your comment on syntactic weight.

Coffeescript vs Javascript forms a good case study because they largely have the same semantics but with different syntax for key features.

To my mind, the big difference with Coffeescript is the syntax for functions, e.g.

(x) -> x * x

vs.

function (x) {
return x * x;
}

Coffeescript's syntax eliminates "function" and "return", which significantly lightens the syntactic weight for functions.

I would assume on average that Coffeescripters write significantly more functions than Javascripters (say, for normalization, per bytes of minified JS). This assumption is based on reinforcing selective pressures: Coffeescript encourages programmers to write more functions, and programmers who want to write more functions choose Coffeescript.
So over at http://www.44con.com/ we have a problem in that 44Con is in London during 2012. We have no sport as far as I'm aware (unless shooting speakers with high volume nerf weaponry counts) but with the changes in the law we have to be really careful about how we promote 44Con, and we were here first!
The video explains what Nicira means when they use "virtual networks". The video does not explain how they implement any of this.
You can always continue with

!isActive && ($parent.toggleClass('open') || do_something_else())

but this is write-only code.

This actually reminds me of some cool hacks with structure pointers and functions in the Linux kernel.
I imagine you would get used to viewing that statement as a conditional. Hell, I think most people involved with this debate would recognize it now.
Benford's law is not odd if you are believer in the Bayesian interpretation of probability theory.

The shape of Benford's distribution actually follows the shape of a maximum entropy, most uninformative distributions (the “flatest distribution” in an information theoretic way) for a _magnitude_ value (a value that can only be positive).

For example: sizes, lengths and volumes. These units can't go in the negative. Alternatively, positions can go in the negative, the ignorance distribution for position is flat horizontal line and numbers representing a position generally do not follow benford's law.

It is not that unintuitive. Take street lengths. Assuming that they follow Benford's law (a log prior) simply means that, for any length of street L, if you pick another random street, you are as likely to pick a street within the length range (L/2 to L) than (L to 2*L).

From the original street length, to get a street twice as short, you need to subtract much less than you would have to add to get a street twice as long. That is why this distribution is not flat. Or rather it is flat on the multiplication or division operation, not on addition or subtraction.

If instead you'd assume that a street X meter longer is as likely as a street X meter shorter you would end up with impossible probabilities. For example, when picking a random street relative to a street of 1 km, a (1 to 3) kilometer street would be as likely as a (-1 to 1) km street??? If you assumed probabilities were equal for all lengths between 0 and infinity that would mean you think there are likely as many streets measuring a tredecillion billion km long as there are street 5 km long. This is simply not how things are sized in the universe. Smaller things are in greater numbers. Log priors are one of these areas where the math predicts the universe logically and the universe is mirrored by the math beautifully iff you do your calculations properly (Using Bayesianity).
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Why is it a PIA to ask your friends? And why would you trust a web site more than your friends' recommendations?
Yes, and not just a little.

Our ability to distinguish between what's real and what's not is diminishing at an astonishing rate.

Simultaneously, our technology is grossly outpacing our ability as a society to develop social mores and appropriate legal frameworks around the new things we can do.

Some years ago, I read an article about how when the telephone was first publicly sold, it came with an etiquette guide on how to use it appropriately and with consideration for others. That seems like a fantastic idea - would that we had done the same with cell phones fifteen years ago, let alone how we use incredibly powerful technologies today.
> With the way things are going, it's almost guaranteed that religious power will be a thing of the past as soon as we can prove other life/civilizations exist besides the one here on Earth.

OK, I'll bite. Why?
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