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I agree it's pretty good, but it's got its own share of bugs too. The most annoying ones are (on android, not sure if iDev versions behave the same):

- if you're close to no free storage space (close == ~20MB free), streaming won't work... this is bizarre in many ways, considering the app still has some other tracks cached locally and they're playable but not pinned

- it does not work well with other music apps. if you have google music playback stopped and switch to some other app (say, start playing some podcast) google music will force-stop the playback around every 10 seconds

- and the issue pretty much every app has... if you're stuck buffering, you cannot pause/stop the playback. the pause button is unresponsive until the streaming starts again :(

but otherwise... it's probably better than most other services. The linux version of the uploader could be improved a lot.
Perhaps you could link to such an instance? If you have seen it many times that is, I haven't seen it even once.
Or I could buy Playboy. The tech and music coverage in there is very good. Despite being a “men's” magazine in the most direct sense, the breadth of coverage (music, movies—both new releases and home video, video games, automotive tech, men's fashion, and technology in general, plus the politics, interviews, reporting, and fiction) is generally good. GQ also has fairly good broad-based coverage. A couple of other magazines that aren't strictly men’s magazines but have a male editorial slant do much the same (VF and Rolling Stone).

Men's magazines tend to cover far broader interests than women's magazines.

Tech magazines, on the other hand, almost exclusively cater to a young male audience.
> David's arguing that the third option is the least conducive to work-life balance.

Where does David say this, and why do we consistently upvote arguments to the extreme at HN?

DHH is simply saying that encouraging people to work during their free time is a bad thing, and remote access doesn't magically make it okay.

Since you offered an example, let me give you another. I have a good friend who came down with the flu early last week (not "flu" as in cold, but the full-fledged flu). All she wanted to do was rest, but because she can work from home her boss insisted she pull 10 hour days while in bed with a fever. They would never have wanted her in the office in that condition, but somehow remote work made it okay. She's still not healthy and hoping to sleep through the weekend to recover.
. o O (they would have caught Richard May, but he was too slow to hack anything.)
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The best thing to do is basically to simulate the entire game for each player on the server side and verify every action the player does but this involves a lot more code and is also server intensive for many games.

There also things like signing each request and such but ultimately, the client can't be trusted and will always be able to cheat in some way (like automating clicks and actions via GUI scripting).
Releasing information can be civil disobedience and imho should be shown leniency when it is. I don't suggest that I'm the one that should determine whether something should qualify as civil disobedience or not, but there's some wisdom to the idea that the court should not harshly punish someone who technically broke the law for the greater good. Your intent is often a factor in not only what you are convicted of but also the sentence handed to you.
Really? I’m trying it and I disagree. I don’t understand what’s the difference between Listen Now and My Library; I though it would search in the entire Play library but it only finds stuff I already have, even when creating Instant Mixes; recommendations are empty; scrolling is terrible, it loads thumbnails only after you completely stop scrolling (like YouTube), losing most of their usefulness; parts of the UI seem cobbled together (eg. it overrides the cancel button in the AirPlay action sheet displaying an ugly mix of an old and new button); playback stopped as I was typing this, I killed it and now it’s stuck at Loading My Library making no progress.

I’ll stay on Rdio.
Isn't "pin music to device" what the little orange down-pointing arrow does in the Play Music app?
Google Apps Login integration is one.
More of a "business hack" than a technology hack. He utilized tech to manipulate an existing market to his benefit (getting top designers to participate) and then used it to help promote his own product.
Obviously we don’t want this to happen, and I personally don’t think it will, but the Harp Platform has been built with this possibility in mind. The Harp Platform isn’t built upon Dropbox, we chose to make Dropbox one part of our interface.
For the record, the delay has absolutely nothing to do with Apple withholding the Google Music iOS app. Google didn't decide to start developing it until early October [1].

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/03/google-music-ios-app-laun...
That's the most impressive thing I've read on HN in a long time.

It shows how far the technologies have come. Truly a remarkable achievement.
You did a Show HN last week, there's not much of a need to submit it again so soon.
classic FUD. look it up, whippersnappers.
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I wonder how countries such as China will adapt to an aging population?

http://www.indexmundi.com/graphs/population-pyramids/china-p...

It looks like they will be in a difficult position 30-40 years out once the proportion of elderly grows.
> His punishment should be of the same order as someone who did those things.

Sure, it should be. I haven't done the research but 10 years is above and beyond what I'd expect, any comparable cases out there?
Note that you can upload your own music for amazon too (though there's a limit of 250 free tracks).

There are albums that I'd buy on itunes if there was an android version. But there isn't. Makes me quite annoyed at artists who go itunes-exclusive.
At least on iPhone, I much prefer the Spotify interface over the Rdio one. I figured I would give Rdio for a month and I'm already missing the Spotify app. In particular the Search in the Rdio app is abysmal.
lmm: (For some reason your post doesn't have a reply link) These are usually webapps for department-specific needs, and I generally find PHP to be easier. I have a few python things that I use on the backend, as well as a plethora of bash scripts. But, I admit to knowing PHP more than Python. (I'm in a smallish company, so I end up wearing a lot of hats)

generalpf: I will do so! Do you have any go-to references that you prefer? Or shall I just dig through the PHP docs?
when someone rejects the demand, it doesn't mean it's worth more, unless there is someone else willing to offer more. But you're dead on that it's worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. "worth" is a tricky word. We default to thinking that all things have an intrinsic value, when really nothing does. The value of something is only equal to what someone is willing to do to obtain that something.

People think gold has this intrinsic value, but does not either. It's "natural" value is also soley based upon the demand that is put upon it. The fact that people find it beautiful, and that is a great conductor of electricity, are things that are desired about it. And so the more people that discover the uses of gold, the more demand grows.

If there were no googles, or apples, or yahoos, or any of these huge companies with really deep pockets, then there would be no one to offer $3billion for a company like snapchat, and there would be no way it could ever obtain a "worth" of 3 billion. Because, again - anything is only worth what someone is willing to pay (or do) to obtain it. Even your job.
The design is open source, anyone can build it. As opposed to the et3 concept, which requires a 5% royalty if you build it.
App servers solve so many problems so you don't have to. Taking control away by solving problems to let you focus on the bigger ones is great.
I believe they rely on metrics that they get from android devices where probably tablets aren't that popular among users of such services.
As an ex smoker I fully agree. I miss the fun l had during the smoke breaks with other people. After I quit smoking however unfortunately l quit as well the habit to make these fun and efficient breaks.
Or, much more likely, they aren't interested in the male focus of said tech magazines. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6738657 for a quick look at the covers of the tech magazine T3. Are you saying the average woman would really want to read a tech magazine with that sort of focus?

We're not talking CACM here; we're talking tech magazines that, for the longest time, celebrated conference booth babes.
There is not much value in pedantically debating the differences between the two.

Better to focus our energies on the similarities which are overtly real: the extreme sentencing mismatching the level of harm done. It's an issue of the state seeking vengeful punishment for political purposes and not seeking to maximizing public safety or victim compensation. In addition to computer hacking/unauthorized access laws having unusually high maximum sentences vs other more more harmful offences.
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Wish I had a girlfriend.
To me, it's not surprising that stealing a bunch of credit cards and secret documents gets you ten years (maximum, of which he'll probably serve three to five if this is anything like other crimes that are eligible for parole). But I'd welcome evidence that I'm miscalibrated.
On the flip side, to many Indians, "vegetarian" means egg-free, though oddly, it may include fish dishes.

The special treatment of fish varies across parts of India, but the concept that eggs are non-vegetarian is fairly standard there (to a lesser extent abroad).
Putting someone in jail for 10 years when they haven't harmed another person is ludicrous, but that's the American justice system for you.
I agree with your last paragraph. However, I disagree that aaronsw "sullied" his actions with illegal activities. I think he did damn near everything right.

Also, having a sufficiently "legitimate political cause" is a just and legitimate reason for action. For example, revealing criminal activity on the part of the government is a legitimate reason to violate classification laws.
I don't think it's 3D, it's just a panoramic image you can scroll around.
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Well even a completely trustable cell radio is tracked with tower triangulation. The only way I see to fix this is to completely rearchitect the mobile network by getting rid of subscriber IDs, using anonymous payments for tower access, and then a mix network for transit privacy. That is to say, location data is a wash for the foreseeable future..

Surreptitious microphones and other sensors are indeed still a problem, but they seem easy to audit/remove in the short term, and if this model catches on and they become a real threat, the physical audits just have to go deeper.

What you do gain is a processor that can be trusted by the user (in the same way we all trust Intel CPUs), with the Mifi only seeing encrypted communications. Also we've moved the demarc point solidly between two separate physical devices - upgrade your pocket computer without involving your cell provider, and replace your communications ability without affecting your user environment.
This is something you can easily do. By creating a second account and sharing it with your primary account you can essentially create a sand-box.

By sharing with your primary account there is no need to have a second Dropbox client or switch clients.
I recently bought a Nexus 7, and I had signed up for Google Play Music "All Access" immediately after it came out. The most useful feature, I think, is being able to store music from All Access on the tablet (for completely offline use, nonetheless!). To me, this is a fantastic deal.

Does the iPhone version allow for storage of All Access music offline?
It is possible they do this.

They may not have done it at launch but as more and more people play and they collect the stats for each seed, I'm sure they can track how easy / difficult each seed is and send the seeds that they wish to do whatever objective they have.

Most of these F2P play games collect and analyze an insane amount of player activity and have sophisticated analytics that they then analyze to make the game more addictive or to increase player spending.
He signed the requests. I think they'd need some sort of way to ensure that the level's initial settings were also used.
If its an MVP, why care to spend on a logo? Just create a text one with a nice font and bg color. Segoe UI or Open Sans look good. There are also some websites which can generate logos for you.

If you want someone to do it, put it up on freelancer.com and get it done for 10-15 bucks or fiverr as someone already mentioned.
I have to really agree with this, well put. I'm FT at a startup now, love everyone I work with (we're a very small team of 5) and we all feel an urgency to 'make things happen'. I'm the oldest person in the group, have a 2yr old and another one on the way. I've been lucky (sad to say) to be able to work at home a few days of the week and I'm usually out of the ofc, heading home at 5/5:30. I have to because of family.

When I didn't have a family, I worked 10-12 hours a day, no problem. Mostly because I wanted to and not because it was required. I feel like no job (unless it's your own making) is worth the crap that dhh talks about in his post. Sadly with tech, it is definitely headed in that direction.

Ultimately, being FT is not a good thing in tech. You rarely work only 40 hours, there's always pressure to work on vacation (such bs that one is), weekends, etc - basically the MS posters. The only way to avoid this is to be the boss (altho that has certain requirements as well) or be a contractor with very fixed boundaries (I simply say "I have 9-5 M-F available only. I"m not available for emergencies or weekend work."). And for the stock; unless you're a higher level employee in the company that can negotiate a great stock and benefits package, you get nothing compared to those at the top.

So the ultimate question is: are you willing to be a wage slave that makes someone else's dreams come true?

That said, tech is _the_ platform to make any dream happen as long as you're creative and persistent.
The fundamental question is, do we want those big projects done? If we really wanted them, everyone would simply donate money voluntarily when asked, so you would have no problem financing NASA or other big things. If, however, people don't want those things or would rather prefer their money spent differently, NASA becomes an organization financed by theft. People don't want to give it money, yet you take it away from them because you think it's a good idea to go to space. It's not an economical problem, it's a moral one.
"That's how it works."

Next stop, surveillance state. Just because something is illegal often means absolutely nothing to some, depending on whose interests or version of morality were being represented at its' signing in.
>that child gets showered with attention.

and all the other resources are poured into one child instead of being spread around several children. Thus only child has higher IQ and development level than when there are several of them.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/mckibben-one.html

"A twenty-year tracking study of 3,000 high school students demonstrated that only children have higher IQs than their peers with one sibling -- in fact, "there are marked negative effects on IQ of increasing sib size."

--- end of citation --

There are also similar results of first child having higher IQ than second - as all the attention goes to him/her during the critical first years of brain development while second child doesn't have such undivided attention.
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Fortunately, the internet should help change this. Magazines will die, and be replaced by something much more dynamic and adaptable. With content aggregators like Reddit and Prismatic, viewers can choose what actually interests them. Those sites aren't immune from demographics-based marketing, but I suspect that in the long run, the most efficient kind of marketing will be the kind that tries to learn what you actually like, instead of just prescribing you something based on your age and gender.
The argument that the legality and ethically of actions are orthogonal is very strong and generally accepted.

Or stated differently, the illegality of act has no bearing on it's ethical or moral status.
Annoying thing is that searching for "Google Play Music" (the name of the app) brings up a bunch of other junk apps first.
So what if it's illegal? Is your moral compass really dictated by the state?
Timer + any existing service = new niche of services!
Everything is going to be OK.
I always wonder just how well body language really correlates with intention, in general. For example, whenever I'm standing in a pair or group, and somebody walks over, I always consciously reorient myself to help include the new person. But I never seem to notice other people doing the same. I think I use my body language quite consciously, but I usually get the impression that it is mostly unconscious for others. Yet, I can't really know this for sure.
It is. But, I need to be able to do it from the web app, I don't want to have to go through hundreds of albums on my device and do it. I want to do put $(".pin_button").click() in my Chrome console and be done with it.
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Why I don't check Facebook until 6 p.m.
I said I thought it was fun! I probably should've made up and added /!s after all :)
> For some reason your post doesn't have a reply link

I think that for a comment at some level of nesting N, the ability to replay is delayed by Y seconds. IIRC this is to prevent stupid back-and-forth arguments.
> What if we view sentencing not as punishment or revenge, but rather as something that we do for the safety of society?

It could be argued that someone with both demonstrated bad intent and demonstrated capacity is still more dangerous than someone with equally bad intent that fails to demonstrate the capacity to successfully carry that intent into fruition.
I'm an entrepreneur and my circle of colleagues includes other entrepreneurs, designers, developers, marketers, etc. We generate 3 ideas per second about my business. I'll pay you $5 to not give me three ideas about my business.
Using profanity for needless shock value is not an effective way to get people to click your link.
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> Government pays for really big long-term high-risk core technology development

No, taxpayers do. Without consent. Government takes money from taxpayers and pays for those long-term things regardless of whether they agree with those things or not. Democracy and elections isn't consent - may I remind you that congress approval rating is now below 10%.
There is no parole in the federal system.
Haha I'm literally working on this, been using it to diet. I made a simple glorified calorie counter but I'm working on integrating instagram for it. Instagram your food and in the description you put #p#f#c, so if my meal is 200 grams of protein, 200 carbs, and 200 fat, I'd write 200p200f200c. End of the day my app parses all that and lays out the photos in a timeline and then calculates daily macros.
The admin console is easily the slowest part of Glassfish, but it lets you configure everything that, if you were using Tomcat, would need you to play around with XML.
Neat story. I guess cheating by trial and error doesn't work so well when the impact of an error is physical...

I got into programming through cheating. When I was a little kid I wanted to win at some ZX Spectrum game - Treasure Island Dizzy or something like that. Fortunately, Your Sinclair magazine published a guide on how to PEEK and POKE your way to unlimited lives. That blew my mind, and I credit my interest in the inner workings of computers back to that experience :)
It's no different than any significant technology that has few antecedents. Once you know the background and cast away assumptions and fallacies, it's much easier of course.
Can you be more specific on your issues with WebSphere? I remember the buzz when it first came out, but haven't bumped into it in quite a while.
SourceForge is much like any other OSS project; we want to continue to serve the OSS community which we have been doing for over a decade.

We are working on Apache Allura Incubating, which runs the SourceForge site, and funding will help us continue to contribute there.

This program is a pilot program. Community feedback like this has helped us continue to make adjustments in this program and our site, as well as to provide a process that helps OSS projects fund development.

Best regards,

Daniel Hinojosa - SourceForge Community Manager
It can but don't try to brush it away with "therefore what I did wasn't illegal" which is what Mr. Hammond sounds like he is trying to do. The only thing that he and Aaron have in common is what they did was illegal.
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I just used a google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Mv3YNrj...
Agreed.

I wish more people would take the time to look at the classic CMOS inverter: Looking at the VIn vs. VOut graph, it is overwhelmingly obvious that the word "digital" refers only to a higher level of abstraction for circuits that, in reality, are analog. (And more to the point, these SAME circuits are used as amplifiers in a typical analog design.)

Good luck explaining this to a CS major.
Not really, they still have to have node, npm, and the harp cli installed to use it locally. And if you're going through the work of doing all that, why not just do the build step on the client.
Pedophiles do nasty things on the Internet. Uncovering pedophiles on the Internet is impossible without mass surveillance of the Internet. How do you suggest that one should go about proving that someone is a pedophile?

In both the case of pedophiles and state actors who are breaking the law, the answer is the same. Wait for them to slip up. It's hard to keep something secret forever.
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>But the years of using screen have ingrained in my muscle memory to use ctrl-a

I still don't understand how this happened to so many people. Ctrl+a is already taken, how did anyone ever use screen without immediately changing it to something that doesn't conflict with a frequently used shell shortcut?
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DHH's argument has nothing to do with ranting on Microsoft then, he should be yelling at the companies that Microsoft is creating Office 365 for.
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Is that a new thing? Last I checked, the executable was heavily encrypted in the code section..
Ah I see. Hey that's a pretty good feature request.
Should be, absolutely.

Are, nope.

PHP's long-lived popularity means there's a huge amount of ancient PHP articles and tutorials still out there on the web that use the old library. Because these articles are both old and widely linked-to, they tend to come up when newbies search for PHP help. So they learn how to do things the wrong/deprecated way.

Resources like PHP the Right Way (http://www.phptherightway.com/) help counter this, but it'll continue to be a problem as long as using the old library doesn't cause any obvious problems like immediate crashes, screaming in-your-face error messages, etc.
I'm sure some EU state would give him a backrub.
This.

Making yourself overly available trains those who would call upon you at unreasonable intervals to use your availability as a crutch.

"Plan ahead? Why? I can always call Bob!"