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> Down voting should be a way of saying, this is either wrong information, misleading, or not helpful.

Many people claim that down-voting should only be used in very specific cases, but The Stack Overflow guideline seen while mousing over the down arrow is "This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful." I think that (especially the insufficient research part) is pretty broad.
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Defending 'Curation'
It's not hard to make an email sound sincere, especially when vetted by a PR agency.
> Indentation is a matter of personal preference (it’s why they call it style, after all), but if you’re starting an open source project and want it to be consistent with community standards, indent with two spaces.

Also every project (regardless of whether you stick with the community standards) should use a .editorconfig file to define their code style. We made EditorConfig because it's 2012 and indentation wars shouldn't still be happening: http://EditorConfig.org
This is one of those cases where the old saying comes to mind:

Sunlight is the best disenfectant

Good news is that sunlight is cheap and easy.

Science needs to do science. Information needs to flow. right now, the system looks more a bunch of "experts" on the take or incompetent. More worried about securing funding, managing their careers, promoting their pet projects, etc. The [trust me] argument is a political failure, because of these demonstrated problems.
None of the punches here really land. The "oh so hard to explain" charge is particularly ridiculous: however much you would be spending on Dev Ops, that's how much it's worth to support Heroku's effort to automate the process.
PayPal's reputation is so deep in the dirt that nothing any one at the company says will bring it back above ground. If someone says "we are changing X" and the changes actually happen, then eventually, over the course of time, Paypal's goodwill may return.
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The old stuff (PCBs and PBBs) definitely had health (and environmental) risks. PCBs are famous, and PBBs are in the EU RoHS, so I'd consider them comparable to lead solder in badness at a first glance (not horrible, but not great). Cancer is pretty hard to prove, but other health effects have had studies (at least for PentaPBDE, nothing for TDCPP (Chlorinated Tris)).

TDCPP might actually be on balance worth using; similarly, I think DDT probably is on balance worthwhile for some applications, and asbestos is still used for some purposes. It's all about tradeoffs, but it is easier to justify a tradeoff when the people paying the costs and receiving the benefits are the same. I get close to zero benefit from fire retardant foam in my couch, probably less than the financial cost of the chemicals.

(I am generally anti whacko unsubstantiated environmentalist/save-the-children activists, but I have some personal experience with PCB contaminated transformers; bleh.)
Not to mention that any changes they make have to be proven not to expose them to the banking laws that they've been assiduously avoiding, and that would provide the kinds of protections that the general population expects.
Yet I've been trained to think that the people with big degrees know best, so I'm still counting on them making my twitter experience, and thus my life, much much better. fingers crossed
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Thanks for the tip, beets looks great. I use quodlibet on my laptop but this looks perfect for my squeezebox server where a GUI is inconvenient.
I can't really recommend the UI design, but it does work well. In particular, its implementation of filtering (and here we hit the reason Twitter would hardly mourn the end of third party clients) is simple and complete, permitting me to be rid of autotweets from the likes of FourSquare and RunKeeper.

As a consequence, I haven't used Twitter's website in months.

Ah well. If Twitter should wither, it's been an interesting ride; however, I suspect it's reached Fcbk inherent security of position.

That said, if anyone knows of a genuine (ie not a poll on a random website) survey on people's usage of Twitter, I'd be most interested to see how the public at large uses Twitter, and who's heard of Twitter's edging away from third party clients.
Pretty much. I'd not say the SC is even bad - I've seen much worse projects with much bigger budgets. "Enterprise" process would be outlandishly expensive considering the amounts of code and requirements (millions LOCs, running in tight time and memory constraints for hours without crashing or even glitching, even on PC you would not want the user to lose several hours of progress to a crash, on conoles you just cannot release).
I don't really need this (right now), but I'd like to commend you on using a sensible Captcha and not some ridiculous fuzzy image.
I think it's clear we have to out-lobby the lobbyists so we can bribe our government to listen. I have ten bucks, what do you got?
campaign donations go to keeping them in office, whereas a bribe goes into their pocket directly

--Have you seen the % spending of donations? Cross reference MPAA members?

There is direct, and then there is direct.

The TV ad campaign, with total spending expected to swell to $1.1 billion [In 2012], starts up again now that the party conventions are over and the two-month sprint to the general election is under way.
the most annoying thing, for me, is seeing obvious newbie questions closed as (inexact) duplicates of some other question, when it is patently clear that the questioner does not have the ability to apply the other question and its answers to his problem.
They should donate a lot more, and actually get them to make a version that is highly optimized for building Android apps. It should be like "Eclipse for Android", rather than just "Eclipse for Java", with an Android development add-on, as it is now.
Did you not see the Samsung internal slide deck that came out in the proceedings, showing page after page of comparisons between iPhone and Touchwiz apps and which parts Samsung should copy?

As a software developer, I'm really tired of people who keep acting like the iPhone wasn't innovative because smartphones existed... yeah they did. They ran on shitty embedded kernels, were starved for resources, and were useless for anything but clunky caricatures of desktop software. My Nokia N73 'smartphone' needed 10 seconds to go from opening the lens cover to being able to take a picture. And you know what? It still sold, because they all sucked.

iOS had the entire mature OS X stack in it, with Quartz/PDF, OpenGL, CoreAudio/Image/Video, ... The innovation is in how that was used to provide the total package, not in the features you tick off on a list. And the fact that people like Steve Ballmer dissed and derided it on features, only to adopt the exact same strategy years later for Windows Phone—down to the limited feature set of the first Metro release—shows that the industry really did not get it at all. It has nothing to do with shiny rounded rectangles, and everything to do with what that rectangle does and how.

The best sign of a revolutionary product is that it immediately becomes so self-evident that nobody can imagine not having thought of it themselves.
Nice, I'm sure a lot of people would be interested in trying this.

But talking to myself, I'm disgusted with all of this, so I'm just maintaining my mess in its current state for now.

Still, I like to see such solution, and I'd be really interested in a counter article to what I wrote dealing with each issue. Even if at the end, I will likely not use the given solution.

About the regex search, I'm not sure that's really the solution to the "textual problem". As mentioned in the article, the music content retrieval system is in my opinion the future. Echonest and similar services are trying to achieve something like this. Looking for one artist isn't really what you actually want most of the time. It's likely you are looking for good music, and just want to listen to things who sound "like this".
Show HN: MailMist.com receive-only email accounts
thank you :) it is a very easy one but sufficient for now and yeah we hate with a passion the fuzzy image chaptcha!
MailMist.com is a receive-only email service, which in fact is an email alias provider.
To start using the service, just toss an email to manage@mailmist.com with the subject line

Subject: alias alias_name_you_want

and that's all. Well, of course some verification process will be run, but no big deal.

MailMist is a similar approach to privacy problem as the throw away email services, or registering a valid email service provider for a throw away account with a few advantages:

- Your mailbox(alias name) is yours, you don't share it with anybody

- You can use it anytime with any service, for it's not a throw away mail, it will not be rejected by the services you use

- You can create your mailbox name in seconds, without struggling with forms and captchas. You don't have to setpasswords, or secret questions either.

- We don't allow any mail directly pass through. Spammers are filtered out using simple solutions such as SPF. You'll be receiving only(mostly) the mails you're supposed to receive.

- You can get rid of your aliases any time you want. Any email hitting those aliases will be dropped, without bothering you.

MailMist is way beta for now and any suggestions will be very welcomed.

Thanks
I argue about this with Shog9 [a newer mod] on meta. His response was that it should be dead on, completely right [despite hidden assumptions]. Even if it was correct [and maybe not related: lets say that someone is asking about how to opt c++ code, most advice will say to improve the design, but an answer on gcc opt flags is relivant just not exactly what was asked] it should be downvoted.

I called him out on that insanity, he was a big member on CodeProject, as was I. His excuse for that "codeproject turned in a shithole, lets not make this place like that" [not exactly what he said but it sums up many of his responses].
> Microsoft has been delaying the release of its SDK for third-party developers to build apps for the phone...

Oh thank you so much for giving me an evil flashback to a dim and distant time, nearly 30 years ago, when I was trying to create a book on programming for OS2 (look it up, children) using Microsoft's developer "documentation" which was never updated as the alpha code changed. Ended up reverse-engineering every system call to correct their mistakes and omissions. Never, never, <i>never</i>, I swore then, make your career dependent on Microsoft for <i>anything</i>; they'll always let you down.

<i>Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose</i>, it would seem.
This seems correct anecdotally. At some point they figured out that smoking is somewhat less bad for you if you smoke outside, so maybe this had some effect.
$20K? just 20K. :(
I like that most of those are closed quickly. But, I'm not sure how you'd solve this issue. The current feature they have tries to find a related question based on their title, but not the content.
I've never seen jQuery described as a "solution accelerator framework" before.
You're taking this whole thing the wrong way. This was not meant as a display of a practical use for css3. What it is, is a display of the potential power of it. It's implied that although you could create graphics in CSS now, you shouldn't.

I disagree with your take on UIs moving toward CSS too. Your parent has an excellent point about not needing to recline PSDs. Now, I'm definitely not saying we should all heavily rely on CSS for every UI element we can but I certainly think its great that we begin to use CSS for more UI elements than before like navigation bars and dropdown menus, buttons, and lots more. There's still is and believe there always will be a need for traditional graphics in UI designs for a long time to come. I think only a fool would suggest that CSS, SVG, and other technologies will replace traditional graphics but at the same time less reliance on traditional graphics is a good thing for everyone from designers to developers and even end users.

The trick is to be smart about their application. Some parts of css3 are supported widely enough to be viable for use as a replacement for some graphics. Traditional graphics can look quite ugly depending on your system while css3 replacements look better. The opposite is also true of CSS looking terrible and not being able to compete with traditional graphics. A good front end developer knows when to use each. Bending CSS in ways it wasn't meant to be bent or using features that have terrible support or are overly hackish/complicated is obviously something we shouldn't do ever but we are getting to a point where these new tech oldies are viable replacements. I applaud the people who create such unrealistic (in the sense that they shouldn't be used in production) demos because by pushing the limits of what something CSS can do means that some of their work will become more widely adopted and supported in browsers. It's e demos that push limits like this that get us to the point where we can reasonably start using CSS3 in place of some UI elements. The language will also evolve to make certain techniques better and easier. It was because of many of the ways we used JavaScript for interaction and design that CSS now includes features like transitions and it can only get better.

Finally, your comment seems to me like it's coming from a place of black or white thinking. It feels to me like you're just shy of saying "We should not use CSS for UI elements and only graphics". I agree with some of your sentiment but I think it's better to embrace most of the new features of CSS while still being smart about their application. A lot of designers and developers will go nuts with them and use them when they shouldn't like when the blink tag and other goodies were first introduced into HTML in the 90's. That's just what happens. But there are still many of us who know that with great power comes great responsibility and won't go around replacing every UI element that used to be a graphic just because we can.
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Oh god, I tried renaming files on my own (and I'm kind of a beginner programmer). Then I found out about unicode problems and then came 2 problems.

problem #1 was apparently I set the encoding wrong while renaming the ID3 for the music files so the foreign languages turned into question marks. I thought scratch that, time to use someone else's tool. foobar2000 solved everything I had a problem with except problem #2.

for problem #2, I have no idea if it'll ever be solved. The question marks or blank boxes ending up on my computer deal with the encoding for the OS itself (or something). And even with multi-language support, windows doesn't let me fix that. There's obviously something wrong when my blank box issue disappears when I restart my computer from time to time...
I think notatoad is being realistic. People with large audiences get things fixed, they get the resources, and the rest of use get ignored. No one will write an article about
notatoad or protomyth getting hosed.

I hope Paypal can get it together, but I live in fear of getting hosed by them without any recourse.
hello dlsym, well we have no secret plan for World domination through code if is what you meant :) on a serious note for very sensitive code (e.g. private) I would recommend a dedicated server or an instance. It goes without saying that we do not touch hosted code (beside a general, automated file check that ensure that there isn't anything malicious going on).
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Sorry-- I was unclear. The regex is not for organization. It's just an easy and flexible way to browse subsets of your library, like smart playlists in iTunes, but more powerful.
Somewhat related but as I've been building a rails project I've been meaning to open source the song parser I've been building alongside it. It scans an mp3 and pulls out the artists along with the type of role they played on the song. Here's a quick gist I pulled from my model:

https://gist.github.com/3680949

Some examples:

Drake - The Motto (Jon Bellion Cover)

=> [["Jon Bellion", :cover], ["Drake", :original]]

David Byrne and Brian Eno - Strange Overtones

=> [["David Byrne", :original], ["Brian Eno", :original]]

Cheri Coke, MELO-X - Free

=> [["Cheri Coke", :original], ["MELO-X", :original]]

Avicii - Street Dancer (Whelan & Discala Remix)

=> [["Whelan", :remixer], ["Discala", :remixer], ["Avicii", :original]]

RAC - Hollywood featuring Penguin Prison (The Magician Remix)

=> [["Penguin Prison", :featured], ["The Magician", :remixer], ["RAC", :original]]

And a ridiculous example:

Eight, Nine & Ten (Eleven cover - Song name feat. One, Two & Three (Prod. by Four) (Five & Six remix) (Seven cover)

=> [["One", :featured], ["Three", :featured], ["Two", :featured], ["Four", :producer], ["Five", :remixer], ["Six", :remixer], ["Seven", :cover], ["Eight", :original], ["Nine", :original], ["Ten", :original], ["Eleven", :cover]]

If there's any interest, I'd love to turn it into a proper github repo and accept some pull requests.. it's far from perfect (both code-wise and generally) but works well for most cases.
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I understand how this type of color photography works, as does anyone who read the article, since the article explained it. It's basically the same as Technicolor, which was invented only a few years after these photos were taken. Though Technicolor was only shot using two colors rather than three until the early '30s. But all color photography has typically worked by effectively taking three monochromatic images and then combining them into one "full color" image.

As to the purpose of your post, no I still don't get it. You're either "describing" what anyone who knows anything about photography already knows, or it's a criticism of these photographs as being much less an accurate representation of color reality than modern photography is. If your "description" is supposed to entail that, then that putative entailment seems false to me. All color photography is just a gross approximation of reality, but with the aim of the approximations not being overly noticeable to the human eye. Kind of like how MP3's are only a gross approximation of the actual sound, but for which the aim is to be psycho-acoustically accurate.

As to anyone asserting that the original photographer was using some space-aged technology, where did anyone ever state such a thing? All I've seen is amazement over seeing photographs from the time that preserved information such that it could be later rendered in a way that we're not used to experiencing in photographs from that time period. Don't take the joy out of life.

Or maybe you wish to assert that the process used here to make the contemporary rendering of these photos is little different than it would be to take the original negatives for old technicolor films from the '30s and use them to produce more modern and psycho-visually accurate color images. Or to do the same for photography from any time period and use the data contained in it to make more accurate renderings. Well, those might also be interesting projects!
Well, it's the same person behind. Even if the artist tried to give a different "personality" to his music over the time, following all his creations is actually a good listening experience. The "hey I just want to listen to the musical evolution of this guy" isn't a rare feeling IMO. Grabbing all his nicknames is kind of a problem.

Of course, you have a point, I'm making the problem harder than it needs, and you can just don't care about most of these issues. Hey, that's actually to the conclusion I reached. But still, I believe the current solutions are not optimal if you want to match N songs, store all the related "context" information, or just keep a consistent way of storing them.
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Who is? OSHA on the industrial side, and CPSC on the consumer side?
Part of the value of the web is that it need not be confined to browsers. As an open protocol, content can be parsed by a variety of clients, and/or wrapped up in candy-coated shells (Fluid, etc), and/or served up via API for the benefit of native apps and mashups. Twitter wants to have their cake and eat it too: to benefit from the open web while contributing back as little as possible.

Also, the Twitter website is currently a terrible poster child for web apps: it's slow and bloated, to the point that I'll sometimes forget what I was going to tweet by the time it fully loads. If we were talking about the old site, which was clean and minimal HTML with a handful of progressive enhancements, it might be a different story.
I don't think there is a perfect way to organize a music collection in a hierarchical manner, so I don't even bother. Good tag metadata and foobar's search does all the work for me.

To me, the purpose of a filesystem is not to implement fine-grained categorization, but to provide basic grouping of related files so that I can easily operate on them all at once. To this end, my music collection mostly consists of one folder per album in a root music directory. Folders are usually named "Artist/Group Name - Album Title". That naming scheme doesn't always fit (albums featuring various artists, soundtracks in which I'm more likely to care about the title of the work rather than the artist that composed it, etc), but I don't try to separate soundtracks from regular albums or anything like that, I just throw them in the same root directory. With this scheme, it's easy to delete/share/transcode an album when it's contained within a single directory, convenient for people I share with, and I don't waste any time obsessing over something that I rarely need to see.

Some people have advocated a more database or metadata-oriented approach where you strip all metadata from the filename and folder hierarchy and stuff all your files in one directory. It's an interesting idea, for sure, more closely resembling the way web services like Youtube store their content. It makes one begin to imagine a desktop operating system that featured a metadata database as the primary filesystem organization scheme in place of the traditional hierarchical filesystem.

With our currently available tools, however, having some kind of useful metadata in the filename and/or filesystem hierarchy, even if it is redundant, is incredibly useful when performing manual file manipulation, especially the aforementioned sharing of files. You'd need ubiquitous categorization metadata in files (that is, not just ID3 and company for music files) and ubiquitous support for parsing this metadata in everyday applications (that is to say, when beginning a download of a song or a document, your web browser would show you the relevant metadata and hide the filename, if it exists. when opening a file, one would have to be greeted with a search box instead of a traditional hierarchy dialog) before we could ever entirely transition from having meaningful filenames to having meaningless hashes, timestamps, or garbage as the primary identifiers of files.
Yes, they correlate, although the causal linkages are subject to debate. It is is also one of tenets of American politics sort of "If you're so good how come the economy has tanked while you were driving?" this encompasses both the evaluation criteria and the assumption of causality.
I was actually talking about browsing. The musical content analysis has the goal to provide new ways of representing your music, and browse it.
Don't forget the stack traces of an exception in either Spring or Hibernate.
Check out MetroTwit ( http://www.metrotwit.com/ ). I stumbled across it about two months ago and I've been using it ever since. It is a bit pricey for premium, but I bought it anyways (before it looked like Twitter was killing API access).
Linux and Vim are an IDE. The best I've ever come across.