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Grey on black is difficult to read.
They'll probably fix the lock part. However it is no big deal.

The main thing is that as good as Spotify is, it is useless once you close the app. You cannot even access the playlist leave playing musing alone.
I didn't think I would ever see the sentence "Epic fail," on the BBC.
unfortunately, I do not see this as incompetence. Google has made a choice to not put "enough" of their profits in customer service.
I'm glad that the ads are running again. Reading through your blog post, it seems entirely possible that the @welcome variable not being defined could cause an issue with conversion tracking (although I don't have any first-hand knowledge). I wonder if the AdWords rep worked to make sure that the issue got escalated/resolved, but was working under the impression that you didn't need to be contacted back afterwards?
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These surveys on 'happiness' are done by asking people taking part in the survey to rate their 'happiness'. How is this information going to be more useful to me as an individual who reads the results of such a survey ? I could answer myself whether I derived more happiness by spending on goods or experiences in the past. And that analysis is going to be more appropriate than predictions from a survey.

The point is, I am doubtful if we can use the results of such a survey to direct our actions rather than relying on our own thoughts.
When I taught SAT at Kaplan I participated in a program called SAT Advantage where we offered SAT prep for free at high schools in low-income areas. I had several students score in the 95th percentile (Kaplan hires teachers who score 90th percentile or higher), and one got a perfect score in math.

It is possible with a little effort to beat the odds. The wealthy kids I usually taught had parents who could afford $1000 for an SAT class or $3000 for private tutoring. An idea I have for an educational technology startup would level this playing field using the web.
What I like most about this idea is approaching it as a web hosting provider -- in which the user retains ownership and control over their data -- vs. a web application, in which the ownership and control of data is ... nebulous.

I'd like to see more web hosts adopt this model of "services-added" for their customers. In part because I think this could be new market for software (specifically open source) on web hosts, which has traditionally just been the nerd-ware ("and you get PHPMyAdmin for free!")
This comment is obviously an utter and complete waste of space, but I couldn't resist pointing out the irony of someone called "lucifer" failing to see how something is evil.
Hardly. Neither the music nor the playlist will be available as soon you close the Spotify app. Also there is no concept of 'owning' the music (at least now).
It seems that after all that I will be going back to they YUI rich text editor. It's better than any of the alternatives that I have tried, and far more customizable.

If only I could get the disappearing image bug solved...
I believe "daemon" is pronounced "dee-mon", not "day-mon".

http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?demon001=dae...

Still funny though.
Settling on language-wide naming conventions reduces cognitive dissonance. Naming conventions don't supplant reading library docs, but they support it. In any case, you have to pick something, and some people will always be dissatisfied.

The answer to any "who says" question about Python is "Guido van Rossum says". (In the case of PEP 8, Barry Warsaw says as well.)
Why would you assume there was a change?

Pandora's been on the iPhone for some time.
http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2008/07/15/tips-for-getting-a...
The UI looks nice, and the specs are over acceptable.
I will definitively go for this if its snappy in real life use, so can't wait to try it.
Would be nice if my phone was built on the same OS that i use on every computer every day.
as someone who deals with the front end for a company whose business is a web app, no support for ie6 (with patch files, conditionals, whatever) really is a deal breaker. the sad fact is 15% of our customers still use ie6.

draw your own conclusions, but those customers generate significantly higher revenues per customer than those who use modern/semi-recent browsers.

960s is great.
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barrkel, I can speak to some of the thinking on the search result ranking side. I believe the feeling has been that asking people to pay for support creates worse incentives, because it turns something that people shouldn't have to do (contact Google for support) into a source of revenue.

It's a similar situation to pay-for-inclusion in the search index: a search engine should include as many pages/sites in its index as possible, and if someone can pay the search engine to include their site, then it creates a weird incentive for the search engine to not do a great job of crawling the web.

At least on the organic/ranking side, that's at least part of the reason why Google has never done pay-for-inclusion or pay-for support for webmasters.
You're probably right, but for some reason that 'a' in there has caused me to pronounce it 'day-mon' since I can remember.
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Then that support rep needs to go on a very basic, low level training course, to find out the basic truth that "if you've done the work, you should at least make a token effort to get the credit for the work".

I never understand people who go to all sorts of lengths to get something done and then don't get back to you to let you know that it's been done. It always seems suspicious to me (though I like to remind my self not to ascribe to malice what can be perfectly well explained by incompetence).
"Database Error: Unable to connect to your database. Your database appears to be turned off or the database connection settings in your config file are not correct. Please contact your hosting provider if the problem persists."

Oof.
A recursively self-improving intelligence seems far more likely to be an existential threat than virtually any other human creation. Even gray goo can be fought fairly easily with heat (yes, "fight it with fire" will be the slogan of the First Goo War... ;)), but if a hard takeoff is possible, the first AI will have nothing to oppose whatever its goals happen to be. The touted solution to this is Friendliness, as you note, but Friendliness appears to be a problem in the same class of difficulty (or more so) than AI itself, even if workable at all, which is uncertain. In my opinion, people who choose to work on Friendliness as a prerequisite to AI are simply guaranteeing that AI will be developed by someone else first.
A bunch of young, inexperienced single men making less than 50k?

Who would have thought.
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Yes, starting at 105,000 and on up to 300,000 (the max on the chart) the last zero seems to have been cut off,
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> Add comments in the doc string or anywhere, that say, this is "magic", or "bad" and needs to be rewritten.

These are XXX comments and they're pretty common even with the best developers. They're so common that pretty much every editor has a syntax highlighting regex to detect them.
Kurzweil articulated many of his early ideas on Singularity at an AI symposium held in 2001. RealPlayer video of all the sessions used to be available through Dr. Dobb's Journal's TechNetCast feature. I watched them all and they were very, very interesting -- both for and against. Great stuff.

I tried to locate a link to them for this post but TechNetCast seems no more and DDJ's site doesn't bear fruit either. If anyone here knows where they might be found please share -- they are definitely worth the time.

Since then, Kurzweil has certainly pursued his beliefs (books, speeches, press, etc.) with these graduates being the latest expression of those ideas.
I probably have the best Adsense performance I have seen anywhere:

Page impressions Clicks Page CTR Page eCPM Earnings
1,235 62 5.02% €14.78 / $21.24 €18.24 / $26.21

Those are July, all time stats for a couple of years are very similar:

Page impressions Clicks Page CTR Page eCPM Earnings
67,877 3,471 5.11% €12.57 / $18.06 €853.27 / $1,226.35

Obviously low traffic (~30 uniques/day) but very good return per visitor.

The site is a directory type service for a business niche. People who come to the site are specifically looking for that business type so they respond very well to ads for those businesses.

It is page ranked second for the business category as search term - I believe it would double the numbers if it was ranked first. Of course it would still be low traffic, so small change, but it pays for the server. Repeat for a few more niches => profit!
I think the point here is that the father holds some interesting views, and these had a specific influence.

I mean, how many multi-millionaires would write a book that is a defense of the estate tax?
"I doubt that anyone who is using Google for search purposes will need to contact customer support."

You'd be surprised. There's still some people who think that when they type in a query, people at Google manually decide which results to show. For every result on the page. For every query. Hundreds of millions of times a day.

A lot of those searchers do a search for "John Smith" and then want to talk about why their school friend John Smith wasn't #1 instead of that other John Smith.

That's doesn't negate your point; I'm just saying that orders of magnitude more people want to contact Google than there are Google employees, and many of those people want to have prolonged discussions with Google. So the challenge is to find scalable ways to communicate with those people.
Spotify approved for iPhone Apps store
Because there obviously is some conflict between this application and the iTunes store.

Read here for more info:

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1913680,00....

Pandora is closer to a radio station than a music store.
Google doesn't have too many users to "economically" support. They are simply reaping higher profits by not scaling support along with revenue.
"There is a support channel for appeals,"

When I asked them to reinstate my account when I was blocked (a good couple years ago) for, what they told me, click-fraud, they took a couple days and said something in the line of "we looked into it and we were right, but we can't tell you what or how we identified it". In other words, people are punished and they can't even look at the evidence that bases the accusation.

That's really bad feedback.

And the balance was of about US$ 50.
Money doesn't make me happy, but I'll tell you what makes me unhappy: working on salary for some fucking asshole.

Therefore, money makes me not unhappy. Which is good enough for me.
Why was this even posted? It had like one mini point to make. C'mon folks, let's be a little more selective here.
Google's ad-insert can see the referrer field; they can confirm that the site is really linked from the originating site. With their toolbar and analytics data and giant AdSense network, they know better than anyone how much traffic an outlink from these sites sends.

So while they know the surge is different, they should also know exactly how it's different, and that it's not "bot activity". Holding back ads from all such ephemeral traffic would make sense -- and serving appropriate lower-value ads the most sense -- but banning the account does not.
Adsense really makes sense only if you don't have any other option to monetize a web site. You are just selling your traffic for a very cheap price.
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YUI includes a similar-looking baseline framework.

Anyone care to compare the two?
Disclaimer: I work for Grooveshark.

Grooveshark will hopefully have an IPhone app out soon.
I'd go further - it's a good thing to do. It allows you to cruise through and get your main algorithm going, and then focus on details when you can afford for your brain to be doing that. I used to get distracted by this stuff and then forget about the big picture thing I was doing. Sometimes you can eve stub out lists of things with these as comments and then fill in the gaps as you're able to. Sometimes I review and realise the initial idea was too complicated and that I've saved energy.
Most teams started with overall scores in the 4s from the expert judges, and now are all in the 2s and 3s. Seems like a bit of a PR game right now. The more unbiased votes we can get the better. Go vote!
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I thought advertisers were paying for clicks, not impressions? Why should the advertisers be upset if they are getting lots of free impressions?

If your answer has something to do with "it messes up their math" in terms of knowing how well an ad performs, all I can say is "that's a math problem".
This is the future of all websites. People now use facebook or myspace for themselves, why? Because storing that data on their own website is tough when trying to incorporate it with everyone else as well. The companies retain ownership of your data as plan b when the advertising dollars dry up. Once that happens, they start selling your data, some do it anyway.

It's gross.

But vistaprint doesn't own the data on your business card or the brochures you create for your company. In the future, we are all going to migrate into "companies of one" and everyone will have their own personal web page that isn't owned by myspace or facebook or artistdata.
Here is an http link which won't give you warnings about an untrusted certificate: http://railspikes.com/2009/8/28/buiding-a-video-distribution...
There is no shortage of apps in the App Store that show free memory.
Irony? Denying that something is evil seems pretty typical for the referent of that symbol.
Lazeroids is an awesome idea, but it doesn't work in Chrome (asteroids have trails) and I find the frame-rate is consistently pretty low.

Love the sound and music though.
I agree, but I don't agree that deviating from PEP 8 in terms of naming makes one a bad python programmer. I've seen so many deviations of these rules in libraries that if I were to expect a certain style I would be more frustrated than I am.
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It'd be much more interesting if they tried to tackle which specific factors made the most difference. (Based on my own anecdotal experience, rich people are not especially smarter than the poor or middle-class)

Perhaps a better question is which school did you attend? Or, did you take a prep course?
Author fails to mention that they are using an undocumented API to retrieve this information. Staying away from undocumented API's has been the rule since day one.
Sorry, Matt. Yahoo has excellent customer service. Why can't Google do the same? They can, they just won't until they are forced to.
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a few of these are the same as those mentioned in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=746873

i too think the distinction between camel case and lowercase underscore as one being somehow more readable or better than the other is a little silly.
Qt is coming into the platform as well.
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My impression was that it's pretty rare to move more than half a standard deviation by using test prep. And that median is skewed by the fact that scores fluctuate from one session to another, but the lower scores are discarded.
Firstly, awesome for Mark. That man is an inspiration.

Secondly, I'm confused about something. If you check the Atomplan's Company page, two people are listed under Management: Mark and Christian Owens. If you check Christian Owens' personal page, the first post you see starts with: 'Branchr, My advertising startup ...'

Does that mean this acquisition was just a change in legal definitions or was it an actual acquisition?

edit: unless this was edited post-acquisition?
I'll repeat what I commented on Mashable... the "most useful feature" (which is "freeing memory" not "showing free memory, that still works) generate a lot of crash reports.

Whenever you hit the "free memory button" iStat fill the memory of the device until it receive a "low memory warning". In the mean time all background apps are zapped which includes Mail, iPod, ...

I can see why Apple is annoyed to receive crash reports because an app willingly force theirs to crash (gracefully).

Still, iStat is a great app, beautifull and functionnal. I personnaly won't miss this feature.
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One has to understand that Adsense publishers are not clients for Google. There are millions of websites trying to get Adsense working for them, so Google here is the client.

Real clients of Google are Adwords advertisers, so these are the ones that they try to please. Anything that makes your site suspect will take you out of the network, and Google makes it very clear that they will do it first and ask questions later. I don't see this changing, because it is a really good assurance for advertisers.
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> It is possible with a little effort to beat the odds. The wealthy kids I usually taught had parents who could afford $1000 for an SAT class or $3000 for private tutoring. An idea I have for an educational technology startup would level this playing field using the web.

I once took an SAT prep class; it wasn't one of the 3k private tutoring classes, but I remember thinking, as I finished the last class, 'I learned and did nothing here that wasn't already in this mammoth SAT prep book'.

Libraries around here have tons of these SAT prep books, even for the newer SATs. I suspect that libraries (school and otherwise) even in your low-income areas have at least 1 or 2 decent SAT prep books.

What could your startup do for the kids in these low-income areas that they can't already do for themselves with the prep books available to them? If it is a lack of motivation or awareness, how would your startup motivate them to actually do the studying or get them more aware of the startup's resources than of the books?
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I'm thinking its more of a faux acquisition, honestly. But shrug.
It looks great. Needs some more work to correct some of the shortcomings mentioned below and will fly.
(Based on my own anecdotal experience, rich people are not especially smarter than the poor or middle-class)

IQ correlates better that parental socio-economic standing. But there are lots of factors that make this appear false -- the people you spend time with might be mostly of a certain class, or in a particular IQ stratum.
Hey, it's alright. We have a couple of ideas, but not really sure which one to execute so we'd rather not put any of them down and then turn out douches by not doing what we said we would. :D
I travel quite a bit as well. I've gotten pretty savvy at avoiding airports that are busy. I can see the real value for this application to business users, however like you, I'm not convinced this will be a huge market. But that's maybe because I haven't calculated the hard numbers (how many people are actually afflicted by this problem and are willing to pay money to solve it).

That said, I'm convinced there is an enormous demand for prediction services. If someone could have predicted Boeing's extreme manufacturing delays with the 787 looking at supply-chain optimization, that alone would have saved billions.
Yes, it's lame. The fallacy is clear:

I surely wasn’t going to drive a car to the alternative transit sessions
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I specifically requested contact after they had determined the cause of the issue, and $REP_NAME assured me that I would be contacted with results of the investigation. That contact was on August 5th, roughly a week after my initial bug report, five days after my blog post, and a day after the problem had begun to rectify itself (and I posted the blog update).

Despite $REP_NAME's assurance that the matter was being looked into and that I would be contacted again when the investigation was complete, I have not heard anything about this matter since August 5th.

I value my business relationship with Google. So much so, in fact, that I am increasing my ad spend -- you have the best solution for advertising for small businesses, bar none, warts and all. However, Google's recent performance has not caused me to think that Google values its business relationship with me.
Perhaps they should be responsible for lost revenue in cases where their incorrect assessment hurts the business. That would at least make it somewhat important to them to implement a working solution, scalable or not.

While I'm willing to pay $x for a call, if I'm in the right I want to be reimbursed for it (MS is actually quite good about this).
He lives in Austria. Which legal system? And even if it was in the US, you'd be very hard-pressed - as a professional - to justify going through the time and effort required, even in small claims court, for $2k.

For Google, it is a win/win/win situation... until people holler about it.
They allowed push notifications, which are a serviceable substitute for some reasons you might want to run in the background. You can not actually have code running when your app isn't in the foreground.
The new iPhone does not allow background applications.

The iPhone does enable Notifications, which allow you to receive an aim message, for instance, while you are not running the AIM application, but this is more akin to having AIM send a special version of a text message to your phone, asking you to open AIM to see the full message.

There are ways to use background applications on Jailbroken iPhones, but the UI isn't designed for it, and they run slowly on anything less than a 3gs.
Based on my experience that's half true: rich kids aren't noticeably smarter than middle-class kids, but middle-class kids are noticeably smarter than the truly poor kids.

This is about what we'd expect, assuming a society which is reasonably meritocratic and intelligence which is at least partly inheiritable.
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And not as a quote! That is amazing.
One thing that I have tried understanding in the past is why is there secrecy around financials as far as acquisitions are concerned. I mean, what could be possible negatives associated with revealing that information?
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I love your characterization.

Except it's not just breaking up with you, it's breaking up with you -- and stealing your TV, your sofa, and your cat!
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Spotify still sounds an awful lot like an IP-radio station.
(Albeit, more like a caching radio jukebox). But it still sounds more like Pandora than iTunes.

I simply don't think ad-supported media is ever a replacement threat to a superior ad-free for-purchase alternative.

E.g. HULU is a substantial threat to subscription tv. But no real threat to TV-on-DVD sales. They just aren't the same thing.