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AOL is a publicly traded company. They have "responsibilities" to their shareholders to grow. How a private company of 20 can handle a product like Winamp is drastically different than a company with 5000+ employees. Flexibility, reaction speed, etc.
If you are working at a place that does OSS that puts you miles ahead of anyone working on closed source systems.

Additionally the legality of OSS commits is technically still kind of grey for a lot of people with generic "your code belongs to the company" in their contract with their employer.
I would, just because it causes fragmentation. PEP-8[0] is a big win for Python. Javascript relies on adhoc standards and best practice docs from respected entities.

I'm open to change and debate, but it should be approached carefully.

[0]: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
That isn't the complaint about this particular article. The complaint about this article is the botched reporting on what happened, and what MITM attacks are. This criticism was defended by pointing out that misinformation from the media has the potential to have a negative effect. An example given of this was the careless use of the word "hacker" by the media "in general".
> I expected more from HN than senseless French-bashing and 'Murica flag-waving.

Criticizing France in this case has nothing to do with nationalism. It's about basic rights.

I'm disheartened by how many countries disrespect their citizens' innate freedoms--even first-world countries that are supposedly democratic and.

Prosecuting and fining someone publishing an opinion is wrong. Trying to fine a blogger 8000 Euros for merely quoting another blogger is ridiculous (and wrong). Why doesn't France have an equivalent of the First Amendment?

This story reminds me of another a few weeks ago, about UK police forcing people to give up their encryption passwords on penalty of jail time. That's an unreasonable search; and even if the subject is guilty, forced self-incrimination is wrong. Why doesn't the UK have equivalents of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments?

I'm not suggesting that the US is better at respecting people's rights. Better laws don't help if the government chooses to ignore the law.

The Bill of Rights was revolutionary in the 18th century. The fact that many of those basic rights are still routinely violated in 2013---even in places like the US, the UK, and France---makes me sad. We have democracies. Why can't we do better?
If this was the mainstream media, I'd agree but this article was put out by a supposedly technical journal. We DO expect more from them. And why would a detail-oriented group of hackers expect less?
Interesting, I just tried Android for the last week as well. None of his complaints bothered me though. I actually almost switched, but ended up going back to iPhone as well. I will miss some things (widgets) but in the end the iPhone is better at being a phone IMO.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6777363
Open source was not in my comment nor is it the intention of the Winamp fund.
If you really listen 5 hours a day, Spotify pays nearly 4x for your music as you pay to them. (calculated with 300hrs/mo, 3.5min/song, and $.0075/song)

Good thing they have so much VC money to keep the lights on for a while.
Does GM have a free tier? That's why I've been sticking to spotify.
The point is for the facilities team to save money and get an end of year bonus and the effect on the rest of the compnay can go hang.
"Celebrities be warned: when you butt heads with Zappos, your credibility goes down the drain."

It's Kayne West, he has zero credibility.
Is this the year of Windows 8 tablets?
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Serious question... Is it not a normal thing to hardcore analyze your offerings against your competitors?

And if so is it a bad faith to do these types of analysis inside your company on your products since it exposes you in court?

How has the auto industry get getting along so long without suing each other into the ground?
I just don't see what's wrong with it. Evaluating a competitor's product and improving on/comparing with your own is what any company should be doing... Especially since a lot of the comparisons are pretty much statements of the obvious, too.

I'd bet Samsung didn't really have a well developed UX design group behind their software/UI initially. Then they were brought to their senses by a competitor and did a thorough analysis and comparison to improve their products and compete. I just can't see what's wrong with that.
This is really cool, and the interface for navigating the 'moments' works like a charm. I was surprised that even on my work machine (which often crumbles to its knees at large content like this in a browser) it loaded smooth and fast, and didn't cause any freezing.
Ask HN: Any Great Music Discovery Services?
Hype Machine's content seems to stagnate for a while. Haven't been impressed with Spotify's Discover.
This is so much better than Go-to-Meeting and Google Hangouts screenshare! Looking forward to trying this out for client demos. Good work Jessica and Chris!
Javascript was created in camelCase, and most major open source projects I've used have been camelCase. I can't find any data on it, but it fits with my experience for what that's worth.
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Tizen pops up in an IVI system, and in a fridge
I didn't think he disparaged the investor at all in the post. He simply stated that he didn't need the money. I don't think his decision had anything to do with the investor.
Your company might have an official (or unofficial) policy about such things. The safest thing to do would be to ask.

Some companies demand that all of your software development work, even if done at your home on your own time, be strictly for them. Other companies don't care what you do outside of your job, just so long as it doesn't compete with what they are doing. Note that as a freelancer, some clients might make similar non-compete demands, so even if your employer is okay with your freelancing, your freelance client might not be okay with your employer!
You could just use Spotify and buy the songs it doesn't have on iTunes. Spotify imports your iTunes library.
Have fun using npm with MAX_PATH.
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When music in my playlists loses licensing it just gets greyed out until I purchase it(expected functionality); yours actually disappeared from the playlist entirely?
Just a few ideas: Let artists sell mp3's (or other formats), and give them a large percentage / Let artists sell merchandising / Let fans pay to became VIP members of an artist to get special stuff / Let artists promote concerts to followers (and maybe sell tickets) / Allow donations directly to artists.
Makes me wish I had money - I hope others who do take you up on this.
You don't like our Yeti? Aww. I won't tell him.
windows is a first class os for web development. what is it lacking? i have coded in ruby, python, java and go for the web.

also used different web servers including apache and tomcat.
Are you saying that Apple isn't complying with international court orders ?

Care to provide some evidence of this.
>It also really does not work for people with ear problems

Have you ever worn over-the-ear headphones for 10 hours? It's uncomfortable.

And that's not even the worst part. Drowning out coworker nonsense with loud music is permanently damaging to your hearing. Focusing on writing some crappy Ruby isn't worth sacrificing a sense.
None of those answers are very helpful... In fact the one with 30 points thought you were trolling. Probably the mod who deleted your post thought so too.
The main benefits as I see them are:

* Its an easy way to build simple(ish) cross-platform apps using HTML/CSS/Javascript.
* A native app platform for Chromebooks
* Promotion of your app the Chrome store.
* For users their apps are available anywhere Chrome is.
don't know if this is much better but,
https://github.com/Newbrict/bitcoin-prices
Its startling how generalizable to other specialties that advice is - web design, marketing, analytics, online advertising - that advice above applies to _most_ of the businesses I've worked for/with in the last decade…
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Something not brought up often: smell.

I don't work in an open office, but I wonder what it smells like. When in closed meetings or an elevator I can keenly smell people, sometimes good (women's fragrance) but most of the time distracting (perfume, odor). I'd hate to be surrounded by distracting smells all the time.

This can be fixed with proper ventilation (and proper hygiene let's hope), but ventilation can be hard to come by in the non-summer months. (without freezing everyone out)
Best. Musician. Ever.

Which explains why I bought his albums instead of pirating them. He pulled the same stunt by calling out to fans to help pay for a fan's medical fees (IIRC). That was during (or right after?), the Year Zero ARG. Man, that guy has a thing for getting in touch with his fans...
While I 100% agree you need some kind of code based part of your interview practice, there is a large range of exercises that are being spoken about.

It goes roughly from whiteboard problems to sitting at a computer with them over your shoulder to a couple hours before the interview to a full week of work. Everyone knows the lightest form is necessary the big question is how much you can get from increasing the complexity before people get annoyed.
How would you even expect this to be cited?

Seriously, does someone need to crawl every Javascript project on Github and compile statistics on naming styles before they can make an obviously true statement like this? The fact that camelCase is the norm in the language and browser environment is obvious to anyone who has written even a modest amount of JS.

notQuantified != false
Doing this myself (within reason), it is quite a bit of work actually. I have designers/devs on long-term retainer to help me out from time-to-time. I spend weeks traversing the social graph (dribbble for designers and github for devs). I research their projects, twitter (if they have it), and any other tangible deliverables. Once I find a handful, I'll meet with them face-to-face via G+, Skype, etc. If there is chemistry, proceed to the next stage where I will do a couple milestone based gigs. Usually there are two at this point. Usually one will live up to expectations, or neither will.

Repeat. Repeat. Repeat...
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Also, poker has the "everyman" factor going for it. When the amateur Chris Moneymaker won the World Series in 2003, the popularity of the game exploded. This could never happen in chess.
Not only do you get more value out of it - even Spotify's cost is more than they're charging! From the article:

> Spotify's losses have also widened amid expensive licensing agreements and hefty costs related to expansion into a bevy of new markets.
IE11: IE Conditional comments do not work 
Conditional comments do not work when emulating document modes via F12 Developer Tools

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19446584/why-doesnt-ie11-honour-conditional-comments-even-when-emulating-ie8-document-mo
https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/806767/conditional-comments-do-not-work-when-emulating-document-modes-via-f12-developer-tools<p>I know we should be testing different versions of IE using a VM anywho, but It's sometimes nice to just pop open dev tools and change browser mode.<p>Anyone else have an issue with this?
They're trying to italicize the word via markdown (which accepts either _ or * ), but HN only supports * . So _really_ should be really
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Just sent a pull request for CoffeeScript.

Thanks for the tool!
[Disconnection the discussion from something that we are personally connected to...]

Is it preferable for a newspaper to report on a new medical study and publish Yet Another(tm) "Researchers at [University] find cure to cancer" story, or, is it better for the newspaper to refrain from talking about the medical paper entirely?

Personally, I have to go with the later. Given the choice between botched reporting and no reporting, I'll go with no reporting. It is better to be uninformed than misinformed. It is easier to correct 'uninformed' and the state of 'uninformed' is easier for self-aware people to recognize in themselves.

Consider the fallout caused by the media botching the reporting of the FTL neutrino anomaly. People lost their jobs because reporters could not be arsed to do theirs.
exactly right. The only people that intimately know the workings of reservoirs, and know the risks and pitfalls of the fracking and production process from field experience are almost always directly benefiting from increased oil production won by fracking. I'm sure there are some environmental professionals that have been around the oil patch long enough to know what's what, and I'd love to hear their take.

I am unabashedly on the fence on the matter. It is one of those things that the consequences are far more irreversible if one party is correct, and I always try to bear that in mind.
You can also run it as an unprivileged user (in osx, I think the user `nobody` might be a good choice).
It would be nice if the history UI wasn't purely linear, but that it remembered the last x pages on the current domain and the last x pages on the previous n domains.
I think this might be good time to mention HiBase and Shades projects and related research for data structures and functional programming environments.

http://www.cs.hut.fi/~siva/hibase/

HiBase was project funded by Nokia. The Goal was to develop a persistent functional programming environment with for telecom environments.

The reason why it was functional was the observation that in functional programming environment you can model data as graph where references point only backwards in time. In other words, if you just constantly write your data into the database and have smart GC, you can recover very fast from crashes. Just like telecom environment likes it.

The project was canceled, some say for reasons to do with internal company politics, but it showed huge promise. It was already 10X faster than competing commercial databases that were tweaked by their developers to perform well in testing.
Their free tier is uploading your own 20,000 songs and being able to access that from any device with your Google account. The only way to have access to their "All Access" catalog is to be a paid subscriber. Unfortunately there's no free tier with access to their full streaming catalog. Which I find a little strange, since Google's forte is targeted advertising.
I don't use iTunes. Honestly I did think that would be a great feature, but being able to import what I already do own has been fantastic.
Great job, thank you.
For a long time, the whole 'Github profile' stuck in my craw, but recently my thinking has changed to more of a 'show us your code portfolio', which isn't much different than a lot of creative job interviews.

When hiring a designer, part of the interview process is showing things that you have done. It doesn't matter if they're real or not, only that you were the one who created them. You also talk about 'your process' when designing those things.

Much the same, I believe that hiring an engineer should be about showing your portfolio and talking to your 'process', whatever that may be. It's a far more interesting way to get to know a person, how they reason and what they're capable of.
Thanks for the reply. The company I work for is great in the sense that I am allowed to develop and monetize my own personal products outside of work. I even emailed the CEO previously to verify (it's a small company, so it makes sense to ask directly), who said to go for it and that they even encourage it.

This is different though in the sense that these wouldn't be my ideas/projects, but rather somebody else's. I'll have to follow up with the CEO again I suppose.
For me the lack of many unix tools is a killer and cygwin doesn't cut it. Many build scripts assume a unixy environment and windows is flat-out not supported. Lack of a proper package manager also makes installing and configuring workstations a hassle.
An invitation for brutal feedback is always a good start!...
Graphics
-If you update to ios7 customize look, otherwise might be bland completely. I suggest just using the skeumorphic textures to make up for design instead (bad but most viable option).
-Needs Better Art / Common Colors (maybe same as language icon)
-Too many different apps. It's like dividing & conquering own efforts to make it up the charts.
-Good luck... immense competition
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I've worked in all kinds of set ups, and I've never worked anywhere where everyone liked it. One problem with designing an office is having a diverse bunch of people like the same space.
Thanks for the tips.

The sad thing is that even if you look at it economically it doesn't make sense. Say that in order for each employee to have their own office you need 10m2 extra space per employee. Where I live, that would amount to ~2.5% of the employees salary, i.e. if a private office makes your emplyees more than 2.5% more productive you're profiting from private offices. In my experience my productivity boost when working in a private office amounts to maybe as much as 25% or more.
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In the case of Gatsby, absolutely. It was ripped out of my playlists as if I had been insane.

Normally it does get greyed out. Otherwise there is no notification (unless you are staring at the screen) that your music is gone.
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The new job board from 37Signals would be a good start: https://weworkremotely.com/ They've been beating this drum for a long time now.
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Not at all unreasonable. You can mitigate this somewhat with algorithimic design (eg. randomn layouts), but a lot of what makes good game design "good" comes from its specificness - which is not easily abstractable. So you have a lot of special cases in your code.
Yes, if an employer can easily determine you know what you are doing, you are miles ahead of people who are unknown quantities.

See also filters like college degrees and past experience, both of which also provide evidence you know what you are doing and put you miles ahead of people without them. Should we also not look at past experience and education?
What if every person that heard a song over the radio had to pay $0.0001 per listen?

If a wired music mass distribution system existed before wireless broadcasting (AM/FM), wouldn't the whole business model of the music industry be different?
God damn it, shit fuck. I had been working this exact idea out in my head for several weeks, now the person who's opinion in tech has endorse that idea which is being created by a much bigger team. Should I just moved on, ?
I think the above quote says more about the intended audience of the piece than it says about the author. That is actually the exact line where I stopped reading. However, I didn't stop myself thinking, "Man what an idiot this author is," but rather, "Ooops I accidentally started reading an article about something I do professionally, but intended for a layman audience."

Obviously this is an entertainment piece, not a technical write up. If you think the content isn't right for you then read something else.
Is clicking on Learn suppose to drop the page like this http://imgur.com/yH9OKB3? Happens on both Chrome and Firefox.
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I'm glad that the laws reward those who invest time and money to be first to market with new ideas. These laws also force the competition to not merely copy, but to actually compete with new ideas.
Ok, I think they key takeaway isn't that Kanye's "credibility goes down the drain" but that you shouldn't get in giant arguments with celebrities if you're the head of a company, even if they are known to be hot heads. I dunno, coming up with a slightly humorous retort like that won't really mitigate damage from having Kanye West rip on your company..
This is the epitome of the challenge of open source.

RMS whines : "25 years ago I hoped we would extend Emacs to do WYSIWG word processing. That is why we added text properties and variable width fonts. However, more features are still needed to achieve this.

Could people please start working on the features that are needed?"

And he's 100% accurate, it has been 25 years, and there is an open source WYSIWYG word processor, called Libre Office these days, but that isn't what RMS wants. He wants someone to do the work to make his tool of choice into something which can do what he wants to do in it.

A lot of people go this way, and we see several tools that all do variations on the same thing in their own peculiar way (Vive du choix!) but that means it is really really hard to figure out how to get somethings done when each set of tools rely on their own set of other tools.

The nice thing about Cathedrals is that you know what is expected of you :-)
The ARMv6 CPU in the Pi has an FPU. Depending on your OS, you can use it in two different ways:

* softfp where the float function arguments are passed in using integer registers or the stack

* hardfp where they are passed in using the FPU registers

In the above cases, the float operations are done in hardware in the FPU.
There is a 3rd ABI called softfloat where everything is done in software, and thus is very slow.
Looking to contribute to open source as a python beginner
I am a beginner, though I know all the syntax and rules (For the most part), and I have been working on some financial algorithms of a fairly simple nature. I'm looking to help an OS project that's not too hard to get into--open to any suggestions.
I have and I regret to inform you that your opinion is wrong.

Things that Rdio does better than Spotify:

- Ability to assemble a collection of albums instead of just playlists.

- Ability to use the client on one device to control another, without having to configure anything.
What happens to that bidding war if Microsoft CEO Elop spins Bing off into it's own company?
And the contrapositive is that any sufficiently complex complete system is inconsistent.
Is Wolfram suddenly making public statements about its earnings?
This is insane.

I have literally never seen a large-scale open source project or JS style guide that uses snake_case.

The DOM is camelCase. jQuery is camelCase. Node APIs are camelCase. Why on earth do Zurb think their library is any different?
> for most people watching this from outside of the US, it looks like protectionism racket disguised as a legal verdict.

If that is so, how would you explain that Apple has gotten several injunctions (Australia, Germany, Netherlands) and won lawsuits against Samsung outside of the US? Even in South Korea a court ruled that Samsung had infringed on Apple’s patents. Also, let’s not forget, Apple is far from the only company suing Samsung over mobile patents.
The other BIG change is now having a medium size out of the box.
Thanks for the clarification, I appreciate that.
Except Apple has been this successful in court against Samsung ONLY in US. Not in Japan. Not in Europe.
Is LG still lying about spying on its Smart TV users?
Wow, lay down the hate.

You're talking about this as if the idea was to get everyone drunk at work. Spoilers: it's not.

Sure, "I do not want to drink at the workplace, I don't mix work and fun". It's sad you feel that way but you can't deny the team-building aspects.

The good thing about "drinking at work" is that it doesn't exclude anyone. You don't have to think "we're going to bar X, how will I get there? then come back home?". You're already there so staying up 20 minutes to an hour more just to relax and do something different with your colleagues is not too much of a hassle[1] :)

[1]: Unless you don't like your coworkers in which case you should look for a new job.