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I love Turntable. You can upload your own music if it's missing from their library. And they have an iPhone app that is nearly feature-paired with the web version. Plus they were the first app to make possible live sharing DJ queues on the web (right?). Thanks Turntable folks!
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Articles like this make me glad I don't have a startup so I don't have to go to SXSW.

A lot of these 'ideas' seem cute or quirky at first but then I wonder what kind of people would need to see someone else's mouse cursor or want to get messages from strangers, or leave sad lonely notes at random places to people they'll never meet.

Also, a reflection: "I had convinced myself that start-ups are a young person's game, that I should get away from the Silicon Valley echo chamber"

Why should young people spend their time in an echo chamber? If the wisdom of our elders is that Silicon Valley is a bunch of yes-men, why the hell should we go there? .... Oh, that's right. Money.
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Just so I'm clear for the future, what is it about this info that some people find objectionable? As far as I know, it's not available on the web anywhere, and since the story is about fundraising, I thought folks would find it interesting/informative. Sorry.
Contrary to how Facebook/Google loves to do the acqui-hire, this is just the last part. Hiring without having to buy the useless company part.
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Exactly. Utter BS. The company that claims to be the smartest people in the world just haphazardly put this guy on this project.

Not a chance.
Yes.

Here's an askmefi thread that may interest with more detail, and note it dates back to November:

http://ask.metafilter.com/200912/Short-Groupon
I'm surprised that you think the smelling analogy is valid. There is nothing really at stake with letting the aroma from my kitchen waft onto the street aside from maybe what's in the meal I've prepared.

Personal information is a different matter. It's perfectly reasonable to take issue with Google for taking people's data without their knowledge about it.
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There would have been demands for tools that transform JSON to JSON, or JSON to XML, to preserve comments across the transformation.

Adding that capability would raise the complexity of the parser, because comments would have to be made part of the data structure that is built and transformed. For instance, it would be harder to embed the data structure for the JSON in JS objects.

But yes, for a parser that's ingesting data for immediate processing and has no need for comments, there's no discernable win regarding parsing simplicity.
It appears you guys are getting pretty close to your deadline and your goal. I wonder, if you get closer to May 6 and still have a funding gap, if you could could just put a $10k charge on your credit card, and then immediately pay it off after you receive the funds from Kickstarter.
And he hit the red button like one should.
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Spell 'seasoned' properly.
Yes, this was pretty common in Pascal.

Also, Emacs uses comments to set file-local options. There's a long tradition of overloading comments to achieve metalinguistic ends. JavaDoc and Doxygen are great examples.

Even when handed a decent macro language with whizzy namespaces and a great DOM, I imagine that some people will still stoop to gross and convenient hacks.
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>By your logic then if someone gets robbed on the streets, then it's their fault for "walking around freely"

Your analogy is broken, and I think you know it.

The bigger question is, "is it OK for someone to methodically collect data that people (inadvertently) broadcast about themselves?". The advertising industry has been doing it for years, and it's really a legal and ethical fuzzy area. The more productive conversation will revolve around privacy rights and expectations.
Not to be a Debbie Downer, but I seriously question how much actual alpha wave activation they're getting if they're just measuring it from the frontal electrodes (Fp1/2 and G). Chances are they're just measuring muscle activity from the person wrinkling their forehead.
The more reliable method would be to look at mu inhibition, since you'd actually be able to measure things other than muscle movements.
Sure, but compare your pipe speed today with your pipe speed ten years ago. I don't think that it's out of the realm of possibility that we will begin to see devices with no local storage within three years.

Take Google Music, for instance. You can have 200 GB of music "on your phone", even though none of it is actually stored on your phone.
Given that he developed a "wardriving" application, black hat connotations are not entirely unreasonable. The use of his talents to hoover up data without permission certainly doesn't offer much in the way of defense, either.
Not trying to be mean, but why does it matter if you think it's worth it? It's my choice. If I choose a small percent chance of dying for some relief it's my choice.
You were making 65 grand whilst still in high school. I was playing final fantasy VII. Not sure which was better .....

actually yes I am. Why the hell didn't i start tinkering with stuff earlier on. Kudos to you, and thanks for writing about it!! Best of luck
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I liked turntable but it I felt like it required you to be a bit active to get the full benifit, whereas I think I'm usually a bit more passive in my music listening.
Not the best source, but it gives you the gist of things:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/196397/googles_wifi_spying_wh...
Yup, if you read some of the dev notes, it was specifically designed for Chrome OS.
With the resources devoted to Streetview, it is unlikely that the software running it was a 20% time project by the time it was deployed.
I don't agree with shutting down TPB, but I kinda sympathise with the porn industry. They have solid streaming credentials and go out of their way to make content accessible as opposed to companies like HBO. Is their a legitimate excuse to pirating porn?
Sigh. They're not related per se, but the same cars were used to collect street view photos and SSID->location mappings (used for Android positioning).
From json.org:

"JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate."

Humans are mentioned before machines. Comments improve human readability. Furthermore, comments are very simple to implement, and don't lower the ease of parsing.
How about this?

{
"// compiled_property" : "do something special mr. proprietary compiler"
"compiled_property": "magic"
}
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The public doesn't have the right to know, since no law was broken. The engineer was identified by a "former state investigator [who] spoke on the condition that he not be identified because he was not authorized to speak."
Thank you for summing this up so eloquently.
> We're moving toward a computing world where hard drives don't even exist.

How do you think that "the cloud" stores data? Maybe you meant "hard drives in consumer devices."
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> Mobile apps, especially iOS apps, are hobbled by their curators. iPhone's don't even have an open file system and the platform was purposely designed so that apps are isolated, and funneled through a strict paradigm.

Which is different from browser apps... how, again?
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No. Even if we assume a magical device that stores nothing, cloud storage is still backed by guess what? hard disks. And this time, heavily redundant to ensure low latency and high availability.

So no, moving everything to the cloud, tomorrow, would vastly increase hard drive sales permanently. Oompff! http://allthingsd.com/20111005/it%E2%80%99s-all-about-conten...

Here's an example. I upload a video to youtube. youtube converts it into about 8 formats (depending on the initial quality; (mobile + flash 8/10 + html5 ogg/webm) * multiple resolutions), stores the original, generates dozens of multiple sized thumbnails for the seekbar, farms these out to multiple data centers, and then stores a bunch of metadata along with that (every like/dislike, comment, playlist, landing source, geoip of user). You are looking at something like 15 times more space needed for the cloud architecture.
All numbers are cooked, especially unemployment. The whole argument of this article is based on leaky correlations. GDP is gamed in many ways. I'm a bit of a skeptic.

Head squid Goldman just slashed their April NFP employment estimates to 125,000, just barely higher than the disastrous March 120,000 NFP print which launched a thousand new QE rumors.

What is the point of this article? Is it to get everyone to nod their heads while they prepare to launch another round of QE? The NFP numbers prove that unemployment is not really doing that great.

I think this article is short-sighted. The prices of things like gas matter because the cost of energy impacts everything. The central planners' only tool is injection of more liquidity, which has a direct impact on the cost of commodities, oil, etc.

We've already been pumping the market with liquidity. Where did it all go? To euro banks, it seems. The employment numbers are not reflecting it, that much we know. Is this article suggesting we keep course?
> You don't see what the deal is with a major corporation doing wardriving and packet capturing?

I don't, actually. There was no "hacking" or exploitation of any kind - any idiot with a wifi card can do the same thing.

>By your logic then if someone gets robbed on the streets, then it's their fault for "walking around freely"?

If I stand on the corner shouting out my social security and bank account numbers, I expect somebody will rip me off. Changing the type of wave from a sound wave to a radio wave doesn't really change anything.
If your bank is emailing password recovery -- you need a new bank.

Gmail was not the OP's cause for concern.
Personal information becomes public when it's not properly secured and then broadcasted out into the world... even if the user doesn't understand it's happening.

I agree that it's not a perfect analogy, but it is quite a bit closer than being robbed, as the the OP suggested.
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I've long thought that trying to adopt "hacker" as a professional term was a bad idea. I told friends that I was going to a government hackathon once, and they thought I was going to be arrested.

Why do we have to be hackers? What was wrong with being developers?
As several people have pointed out, this doesn't make a lot of sense. People could just as well put parsing directives in special properties. On the other hand, having proper comments would make using JSON for configuration significantly nicer. It would also allow you to have JSON snippets that themselves are documented, as when documenting a JSON web API.

Using properties as comments is awkward at best: it doesn't match what people are used to, either the key or value ends up being a dummy, and consumers that iterate over properties have to be smart enough to ignore special doc properties (which can make automatic validation against a schema more difficult). The solution of running it through JSMin is pretty unsatisfying too. It's never wrong, so how about we always do that?
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"The F.C.C. report also had Engineer Doe spelling out his intentions quite clearly in his initial proposal. Managers of the Street View project said they never read it."

I think the authors intended this to be read as 'wink wink yeah sure', but this sounds entirely plausible on both sides. The more detailed the spec is, the less likely anyone will read it. They probably just forwarded it around and assumed someone competent to render an opinion would raise a red flag if anything were not well thought out.
Theft from the government?
Ha, your parent post could almost have been written about your post too.

Looking past the scare quotes, according to the FCC report it was just Kismet, and the problem basically just came down to deciding to write the non encrypted payloads to disk. He might know too much about wifi, but probably half the regular HN posters could have implemented the same system, if they chose to.
Well, he _would_ know.
> Sure, but compare your pipe speed today with your pipe speed ten years ago.

Actually, things haven't improved much in this department for the vast majority of Americans.
It helps quite a bit. It's really easy to write a glue layer between Lua and whatever C library you want. The downside is that you still have to actually write that glue.

It should probably be noted that Lua gets along less well with C++, so that glue is a bit harder to write for C++ libs. There are tools that will automatically generate that glue for C++, but I'm not familiar with them.
"I’ll bet that the time-to-signup isn’t an important anxiety factor."

It is for me. When I'm looking to try out a product, I hate having to jump through hoops just to get to the download link. Fill in 5 pages of information (generally with fake data), making sure I'm not opted in to a mailing list, waiting for that confirmation email etc etc. What a pain in the butt when I'm not even sure I'll use the product for more than a few minutes.

I have skipped trying out a product on several occasions because I simply couldn't be bothered going through their signup process.
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Lua itself can stand pretty well, especially with LuaJIT2.
That said, I'm starting to learn Lisp right now (Clozure/OpenMCL), and coming from primarily Lua development in the last two years, it seems much less like the leap many play it out to be..

Instead, it has seemed more like simply stepping from a clean, compact room into a large, similarly clean and smooth room but with depth you hadn't imagined before.

Well, that and learning Emacs compared to ST2 is a bit of a step at the same time.
I found the article to be a little more balanced than that. But, basically once I saw that spine.js is written in coffeescript I wasn't really interested.
Java does NOT implement UTF-16, nor do most systems that claim to.

It's UCS-2, which is its own even worse pile of bullshit.
I believe that Scott Jenson put it best in 'Why Mobile Apps Must Die'- http://vimeo.com/33692624

Watch it.

The problem with native apps is the installation barrier- if I had apps installed to do everything that I'd love my phone to do, I'd be overwhelmed with hundreds of apps installed. Web-based apps have the potential to slip in and out of use as necessary, with more applicable discovery mechanisms (geo, proximity, etc).
In the wrong hands, deep knowledge of Wi-Fi can be far more destructive than the conventional methods of a non-technical journalist. It's a new level of power in snooping.

It's a good thing journalists generally do no have Milner's level of knowledge, as surely they too would abuse it. Maybe even worse than Google. Milner's comment reflects the power of the knowledge he has. He has to take some responsibility for it.

Both Google engineers and NYT journalists do snooping on others for a living.

They are just at odds with each other, for various reasons; engineers for companies like Google generally do not like journalists and generally the same is true vice versa.

Google has a genuine PR problem. And journalists are watching their careers disintegrate with the advance of communications technology. It's an amusing little spat to watch.
As Dyson said, it's fairly easy.

LuaJIT2's ffi also makes it a lot quicker.
It's really goddamn depressing to hear this, whether or not it's a joke. Both because it's asinine (most of my computing is done offline except for small bursts of internet activity, because the alternative would be completely unusable) and the idea is totally nonsensical.

Next you're gonna tell me they're gonna introduce a language which when compiled into a single compressed file in some kind of 'virtual mechanism' will run on any platform and everyone will use it because the technology is so much better than anything else.
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There is a behavioral disconnect on the site:

A fix is to have 2 listening modes.
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2. Active with chat(capacity 150)
Ethical behavior is not a zero-sum game. Yes, people should have secured their sensitive data, but they didn't. It doesn't make it ethical to record it, any more than it would be ethical to go into someone's unlocked house and sit on their couch and watch TV while they're out.
So by your logic simply owning a Wi-Fi access-point at home and not adding strong cryptography is reason enough for a corporation to drive their car to your house and capture your data?

So to keep Google away from logging my network data I need a strong virtual fence now, otherwise they'll come spying on my traffic?

That is 100% wrong. Google shouldn't be snooping on my data at all, not even if my AP was within their corporate headquarters reach. That is simply not acceptable behavior from a major corporation.
"if they chose to"

Precisely.

I know Kismet exists. I know I can install and run it. I know I can even break wi-fi encryption in some cases. But that doesn't mean I'm going to do this, for commercial purposes, for a company like Google.
The abstract also says that " Furthermore the mortality statistics do not include deaths ascribed to the use of over-the-counter NSAIDS."

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Overall that is a very misleading headline.
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You're right, unless you C-s or C-v it into a split (which I do pretty often).

When I was first migrating from TextMate, the default behavior seemed like a bug. Why would you routinely want to open a buffer in two different windows? Why wouldn't you want the editor to find your already-opened file in the labyrinth of splits and tabs you've opened?

Now, partially due to this behavior, I tend to see large lattices of open windows and tabs and splits as a sign that I'm getting unfocused, and try to be better about closing splits as soon as I don't need them, and avoid tabs altogether.

That splits should be transient seems more vim-like.
> I don't, actually. There was no "hacking" or exploitation of any kind - any idiot with a wifi card can do the same thing.

What the hell? So if Pizza Hut were to start capturing radio waves you'd find that normal?

Why is it normal for Google to go around capturing customer data? That is my question. Even if my data is open to the public, absolutely not encrypted, why is it normal for a major corporation to go around capturing it. THAT is the question, not whether I had encryption or not!

IMO no corporation should be going around recording my data even if it was broadcast in plain sight.
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I'd be surprised if the WaPo (or someone else) doesn't step up to take it over.
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I think it's almost like a secret handshake. If someone understands what I mean when I say "hacker" I respect them a little more.
In all cases, innovation stops and quality declines because nobody really has a choice.

This is really an easily falsifiable statement. Australia has a government run Medicare. Innovation has not stopped because of it. There is still medical research being done within Australia. For example, there has been spray-on skin invented for burns victims, the Cochlear implant was invented here, and numerous other innovations in medical care.

Interestingly, Australia also has private medical insurance, with a large uptake. It's just that we don't force those who can't afford it to use it just to get basic healthcare.
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