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Most critical to me was that most of the airlines displayed there were not relevant to me. I usually use about 5 airlines (and I think most people do so also), and I KNOW the airlines that I use. They are Air France, KLM, Lufthansa, Turkish Airlines and EasyJet. Your site would be VERY useful if it would send queries to those particular airlines and open tabs after running a correct search on all those airlines.

But your site is useless with the America-Centric airlines you have there.

My suggestion would be to also add a natual language processor where I can type in the airlines I fly with, and this this info is immediately saved in a cookie for the next time I use the site. Also, when I start the search, an account should immediately be created for me.
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I assume by a graph of the best trend you mean fitting a curve. NumPy/Matplotlib is probably the easiest, look at the polyfit function.
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While all these updates seems welcome, I'm a tad sceptical against changing API-behaviour in minor versions.

That way I can know an upgrade from 1.3.1 to 1.3.2 is safe across the board.
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What are some examples of such things?
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So, you oppose all negative reporting that could potentially "cause harm to a site [you] enjoy"? I presume your attitude would change if they proved to be true? Well how are we going to know unless the story comes out and is investigated?

If last.fm gave the RIAA that information, they are toast. I think a very great number of people are interested in the truth coming out. Stock denials are utterly routine and mean nothing.

"Give a digg to the counter story"

Does "digging" things increase their truthiness, or something? Does the side of the story that gets more "diggs" get declared the winner?

God, strange world some people live in.
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Talent is not bullshit. It's just not enough to either make you succeed or make you fail.

You can't argue with the fact that some people are naturally talented at certain things. Whether that comes through practice or genetics depends on which things you're talking about (I'd say that being a talented sportsman takes genetics as well as huge amounts of practice, and being tone-deaf precludes you from becoming a talented composer no matter how much you practice), but both are factors.

Talent without practice is nothing. Practice without talent is more than nothing. But that doesn't negate the existence of talent.
I think they need to fire Erick Schonfeld. When he wrote an article about last.fm layoffs on TC, he published a screenshot of the private status updates of last.fm employees, which - although he had the legal right to do so, was a pretty pathetic move which went against journalistic standards. He refused to upload a new screenshot which blurred out the pictures and names of the employees (which would have had the same effect without needlessly invading others' privacy).

Now he has published a full article, complete with a picture merging the RIAA and last.fm's logos, based on an unsubstantiated rumor which last.fm apparently denied before the story was published.

He seems to have something against last.fm. It makes me wonder if Schonfeld has a stake in one of their competitors, or if he is simply an incompetent journalist.

One thing that really angers me about TechCrunch in general is that they almost never retract articles, post new retractions, or change the text to reflect the truth. I could understand if TC was a print publication, but come on, they have an edit button. They can change the article text in 5 minutes.

The NYT, for example, not only edits the text of the article, but leaves a note a the bottom explaining what the incorrect text said and how they changed it. This means that the old readers can see the notes upon re-reading, and the new readers will not be mislead (and will still know it's been changed so that they can update people who read the old version)

What TC does instead is keep the misleading title intact, the misleading first 5 or 6 paragraphs intact, and then publish a small note at the very bottom of the article. Guess what? Most people only read the headlines, and most of the rest only read the first few paragraphs. It's so wrong. I hope last.fm gets a full retraction for this crap.
"Maybe TechCrunch should have asked first."

Oh yeah, because Last.fm is going to say "Oh, drat! You got us! Yep .. fair and square, game's up boys."

Ha! There is only one response Last.fm can give, and that is to deny. If they didn't do it, that's the truth. If they did, people knowing will cause massive damage to their business, so they deny. Later the CEO can blame it on a rogue employee if necessary, or whatever.

Of course they'd lie. I'm not saying they are lying, but if they're guilty, they'd be crazy not to. Lying is not illegal and, if it turns out the data sharing story is true, it will seem like nothing compared to that black mark.

Last.fm are not a lovable plucky young upstart anymore. They're owned by CBS. They will do whatever CBS lawyers tell them to. The story is plausible but unproven, and the denial entirely predictable and meaningless. Hopefully the truth will come out soon. I think a lot of people are very interested in what that turns out to be.
That is exactly our opinion also. We understand that some think it is a bit scary letting people test any site they want, but the fact is that anyone with a DSL connection at home can choose any site they want out there and put a lot more load on it using their home PC, than we allow anonymous users to do with our service.

We want the service to be really user-friendly and easy to get started with, and think we have reached a fairly good level of compromise where security is "good enough" without sacrificing usability.

What we could, and should do, however, is be more informative about all the security measures we have taken to prevent abuse. Because we have put a lot of man-hours into that lately, and we will continue to build more, hopefully non-intrusive, security measures all the time to try and make the service unattractive to would-be abusers.
We need to be more open about what security measures we have built into the service, I think. I can tell you right now that the free tests most people are running have a built-in cutoff feature that aborts the test if it detects that the server on the other end is starting to respond significantly slower than it did at the start of the test.

Example: the test starts by simulating 10 clients. The average page load time measured is 500 ms. The test then moves on to test using 20 clients. If the average page load time goes above 1 second (twice what it was originally), the test will be aborted.

We have a general security philosophy that is based on different levels of trust. An anonymous user is trusted the least, a registered but non-paying user is trusted a little bit more, and a paying user is trusted even more. The level of trust determines how often you can run tests, how much data your tests are allowed to transfer, how often you can place load on individual destination servers (IPs), what settings you can make for your tests, etc.
Exactly right. There is an undeniable genetic predisposition towards some skills. I'm sure everyone has any number of personal anecdotes they can tell. Anecdotes by themselves don't make something true, sure, but in large enough quantities they sure suggest it.

Play my friend any song twice and he'll give you a passable piano rendition straight away. His sister couldn't even whistle the tune. But she knows 6 languages and learns new ones for fun. He says learning a language is like trying to force a lego brick into his brain through his forehead. Everyone knows some situation like this. Talent is often obvious from birth and extremely potent.

As you say, talent without practise - and there's too much of that - is nothing. Many talented people become lazy and compacent and never realise their full potential. Many untalented people attain mastery of an art through sheer determination and effort. But geeze, talent exists all right.
You can buy disposable tea bags in Japanese grocery stores which are less dense than most paper tea bags. I have often made instant coffee by putting grounds in these bags.

You are correct that you must "agitate" the water.. You have to stir it for a few minutes. I think it tastes better than instant coffee (which seems to have some sort of bizarre chemical taste, at least to me).
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Yeah we only allow paying users to even see the recorder, which is probably something we need to change I think. We want to give paying users extra features, but we also need to show people what extra features they can get, otherwise they won't know if it's worth to start paying. I guess more help/documentation would help, but it would be nice if there was a way for people to test a feature before they sign up to pay. Suggestions are appreciated.
I could say the same about TC. TC has grown to be a news source that many people reads, so they need to improve their standards. If they are going to play journalists, they should at least include a response in the article (even if it is just a denial)
Do you have any advice on how to learn to play by ear? I can play piano well, but figuring out a song from a recording is very difficult for me.
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Thank you. We have had a ton of visits and a good number of registrations, although only a handful of paid accounts as of yet. But that's OK, it's natural that people want to try before they buy. We hope they'll convert once they have tested the service a bit.

If you ask me, however, I'd say that the feedback we are getting here is what's really invaluable. It will help us improve the service a lot.
I guess the author knows exactly that talent exists but wants to point out that the word is used often in situations where diligence was more appropriate.
I've filed a ticket about excluding 127/8, private network IPv4 address space, and multicast address space. Anything I forgot?
Yeah, this is something we have thought about also. We already have this security feature that uses a special file (loadimpact.txt) on the target system(s) to verify that it's OK to run large-scale tests. We should probably improve on that and allow people to bypass the other checks if they have this file. It is the safest way we have to verify that a test is legal, so we should give it more priority before other checks.
You can take a look at the event fixing code here:
http://dev.jquery.com/browser/trunk/jquery/src/event.js#L285

There's really not much to it - and it's really not much different from the code that you show above. A lot has changed since 1.3 so if you're still having problems, perhaps its not here and with some other aspect of the event handling code. Any more input would definitely be appreciated.

"I don't like how I have to have a reference to the bound function laying around somewhere so that I can unbind it."

Here are a couple ways to unbind an event handler without needing the original function.

$("div").bind("click", function(){});

// Unbind all bound events
$("div").unbind();

// Unbind all click events
$("div").unbind("click");

$("div").bind("click.tmp", function(){});

// Unbind all click events with the name 'tmp'
$("div").unbind("click.tmp");

The last one is probably what you want.
No, it is most likely because your site is loading some object - like urchin.js from google-analytics.com - that a lot of other tests have been loading also. That means that our security checks will think someone is trying to DOS google-analytics.com and so stop your test. We have a list of exclusions that the system should not bother checking (such as google-analytics.com) but the list is not complete so people run into this problem frequently right now.

I am going to fix so that we inform people what the offending URL/object is (rather than just saying "one of the systems involved in the test..."), so they can remove it from their load scripts (if you're a registered user you can edit your load scripts before starting a load test) and also contact us and ask us to put new systems into our exclusion list.
I second web service load testing.
In our tests it seems as if an input's .enabled property gets messed up if it's inside of a display:none element. This causes some tests to fail in our suite. This may be the only problem, but we'll have to wait for beta 2 to find out.
We have two load generator nodes right now. One in Stockholm, Sweden and one in Chicago, US. The default node is the Stockholm one, however, and only paying users are allowed to choose what load generator they use. If people want more locations we'll be happy to set up more nodes in the future.
This is true of any large, established group. In the early days, anything goes, perhaps guided by moderation. However, after a certain critical mass is reached, a consensus emerges, supported by safety in numbers, and anyone opposed to that consensus is pushed out, while those in agreement are attracted. You can see this happen everywhere in all contexts and it's a well-studied phenomenon.

Reddit has a pro-atheist bias, sure, and I for one am very comfortable with that. If you prefer a pro-religion atmosphere, there are plenty of sites catering to your tastes (Perhaps http://www.raptureready.com/).

You could actually make a pretty good case that the reason HN remains a fairly neutral environment is that it has never been allowed to reach that critical mass. Hopefully, PG & co. maintain their strict moderation policy (or threat of it, which seems to be enough) and the narrow intended subject matter keep out the hegemonising swarm.
"My friend" says that he has no idea. It just comes naturally and he's been able to do it since age 3.

Sorry ; )
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I thought the health risks are associated with not being face to face with other people, not with society at large.
That might sum it all up in a shorter way.
I'm sorry he thinks that way, because it's completely wrong. People aren't born equal...
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Without talent, you must practice. Take a song you don't know how to play, and start to figure it out from a recording. Once you've mastered that song, pick another one. There's no secret to any of this.

I've have no natural talent for music, but I put in the hours. When I was 16, I was cut from my high school musical for my inability to sing back a note played on the piano. I took voice lessons, got a few chorus roles, and kept working at it. Over the course of college, I got a few friends together and practiced a few hours a week. By the time I got to senior year of college, I got the lead in the play and was performing solos with my a capella group. These days, I sing with a barbershop quartet - understanding the harmonies there, let alone reproducing them, was unthinkable 5 years ago.

If you don't have the talent, you've got to work at it. It will pay off, I promise.
As much as the BSD developers should blame themselves, AT&T and Linus, I think most of BSD's lack of mindshare stems from the BSD license itself.

The BSD license encourages (or, at the very least, does not prohibit) companies from taking away stuff from the codebase, enhance it and run, never to look back until they need another software infusion. This does not make it easy for companies like Intel, IBM, Red Hat ot SGI to commit resources to the project, knowing that any other company can take what they developed and close it up. "Show me yours and I will show you mine".

GPL-like licenses prohibit such behaviour and are, perhaps, the reason why there is so much more GPL-ed software around than BSD-ed. That's why the same companies I mentioned before can feel comfortable that while others may use their Linux contributions, they will also be able to use everybody else's code forever. For me, using GPL for community-developed software is a no-brainer. It's not debatable it created a vibrant ecosystem around Linux.

The viability of BSD-ish licenses to create such ecosystems is, however, quite debatable. The Apache Foundation has several projects under such licenses that receive regular investment from big industry players.

Although I doubt there will ever be a clear-cut conclusion, it's fun to watch and participate on the debate.
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Seconded. I have a rough polyfit script, I threw it online as an example:

http://github.com/timf/polyfit-example/tree/master
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There is an explicit reason for why I called my blog 'Apologetic Writing' (it's also explicitly not within the context itself...).
Of course, I can see there is such a thing as talent, but I rather define it as a group of human perks, that you are either born with, or have early developed due to some events, that are boosted mostly by realizing their existence and overall meaning, and then sharpening every each and one of them with a lot of practice.
I have a few "talents", or as I love to call them, groups of perks uniformly supporting an adjacent field of mastery.
Mathematics, algorithmic thinking, art and linguistics.
None of those develop seriously over time by themselves if I don't put any time onto the subject.
I have proof of course. In the past year, after living my life with the knowledge that I can sketch OK, and even better than most people I know. I have lifted the skill by practicing more often than usually (on a daily basis I'd draw between 3-6 quick pencil sketches).
Now, withdrawing a sketch from a couple of years ago and comparing it to one I would quickly sketch in less than 10 minutes, I can tell that I got better by much.
"Many untalented people attain mastery of an art through sheer determination and effort. But geeze, talent exists all right."
- I'd rather see more of those, than of the opposite (talented, but extremely lazy).
One more thing, I thank you all for taking your precious time and reading my blog.

p.s - my gallery, if anyone wondered whether I can really draw or not, or is interested in monitoring my progress ;)
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Thanks for the reply, but I still think there's a huge disconnect.

First of all, you're admitting that it's okay for anonymous people to inflict a significant, measurable delay in page load time for my entire website. That is completely unacceptable.

Also, while I'm sure your system is well designed, it probably isn't perfect (because nothing is). If your monitoring service malfunctions then the tests might never cut off.

There should only be two levels of trust: people who own the server (and can test it), and people who don't own the server (and can do nothing to it).
Well said. I really have to wonder whether other people had such different childhoods than mine - if they were actually engaging in spontaneous random playground fights with no aggressor - or if they just have very convenient amnesia.

"How old is he and he still cares about such things" - this question is the essence of why not caring is a pretension of wisdom, and I'm glad that the illustration was so nicely provided.
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My point was that intuit will have recieved money for the product. So they can honestly say that it was sold. They don't claim that buyers actually use it. (though in order to keep up sales in the long run, they probably strive for that)
It's may be a way to say "we want more programming/computer science links".
"Sorry, but it doesn't matter who started a fight on the playground."

It's an example, not the whole of the argument. And the example is more about the principal than the children. The principal should care about who is starting fights, if they actually want to affect whether there are fights in the future. They don't, for many reasons including ones discussed in the article, so they don't care, either.

School examples have the virtue of appealing to most people's common experience.
I would add a few more points: I forget the exact term, but be sure to engage in purposeful practice, always challenging yourself with a song just out of your reach. Start as easy as necessary and work up.

It would be helpful to do some songs that you can get the full score for, so you can do concrete validation of your correctness. However, be sure that they are the full, true score; grab a Guitar book of Beatles songs, for instance, and they're likely to be simplified in a way that won't help on this task.