amitparikh

Because content creators are trying to maximize the revenue generated from that content.

We can't fault a company (or non-profit organization for that matter) for following their optimal strategy, can we? Sure it's an annoyance to the end-user because it fragments the market, but that's where there's an opportunity for a disruption!

If everything were on iTunes, would that make you happy? It's clear to me that the cut that Apple is taking (for the benefit of inclusion on their "content-agnostic platform") is something that is untenable for NPR and many other similar content producers out there.

Yes, agree. Another section header in the blog post could very well have been "Unshiny = Opportunity"

I love this attraction. They have a duplicate at Epcot in Orlando called "Soarin'". I think an Oculus-concept could also be implemented for "Mission Space", which already simulates g-forces by way of centripetal force.

The TVs aren't "Smart" for the consumers. They are "Smart" for the producers/advertisers/etc that want to data mine your television consumption (now including various streaming services).

I find it fascinating that the precedent for the decision -- to vacate charges due to improper venue -- is established by the court by going all the way back to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

The proper place of colonial trials was so important to the founding generation that it was listed as a grievance in the Declaration of Independence. See The Declaration of Independence para. 21 (U.S. 1776) (objecting to “transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences”). It was of such concern that the Constitution of the United States “twice safeguards the defendant’s venue right.” United States v. Cabrales, 524 U.S. 1, 6 (1998). Article III requires that “the Trial of all Crimes . . . shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed.” U.S. Const. art. III, § 2, cl. 3. The Sixth Amendment further provides that “[i]n all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed.”

The Great Circle route looks like it just skirts past the Canary Islands:

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=FOR-LIS

Note that the $120k funding is broken into $20k cash and the option for an additional $100k convertible debt note.

Unless it's noisy at or near the desired communication frequency, it is trivial to isolate the signal and completely mute out the noise.

In this example, at ~19 kHz, a properly configured high-pass filter could easily remove any human-talking sounds.

No it's not. All classified material is provided on a "Need to Know" basis. You can't just have a clearance and get access to every classified document out there, that's ridiculous.

Another similar option is Mailinator: http://mailinator.com/

Originally reported and published by Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/09/us-usa-security-ns...

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> SpaceX is doing great implementations of pretty conservative designs.

Like the other reply mentioned, they are certainly working on some technologies that are starkly less conservative. One example is the Grasshopper [1], a reusable first stage that is capable of returning to the launchpad under controlled burn.

[1] Here's the most recent 325m test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGimzB5QM1M

I disagree with your interpretation that the Executive Branch has "totally unchain [sic] itself from the Constitution."

Congress has voted a couple times in the most recent decade to approve extensions for the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (see footnotes). So under Congressional authority, the Executive Branch has been able to continue their activities under the FISC. I do agree, however, that there is a blindfold around the Judicial branch that prevents any introspection into the actual interpretations of law under the FISC, specifically w/r/t the 4th Amendment.

[1] http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr5949 [2] http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_c...

  "Everyone is a creator in one way or another - and it’s important to know someone cares about whatever it is that you’re creating."

Couldn't agree more. My grandmother, in her last few months, used to love to sing bhajans and other religious songs. She'd sing to herself sometimes; she'd sing with her visitors, too. My family certainly made an effort to involve ourselves and appreciate those precious moments. My only regret is that I wasn't able to capture them to save for the future.

I love that you have a little window on your grandfather's life, even if you're not communicating every day.

previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5946362

I'm not saying it's the smartest thing to do, but Excel can most certainly handle data on the order of tens of thousands of rows. It's not blazing fast, but Pivoting that much data is not a problem at all.

Closed captioning has always seemed to me to be a notoriously bad data set due to misspellings and misphrasing. Has anyone tried to do (a better) speech to text of a cable news channel, for instance?

Doing frequency and sentiment analysis on this dataset would be pretty interesting.

Exactly. And the example given (cron) was designed with the Unix-mentality of writing a program that does one thing really well and does it without breaking. Yeah, sure, some may argue that cron is fairly complicated, but it doesn't suffer from the maintainability needs of a very complex piece of software like some enterprise systems.

I don't think they mean to suggest that all users "enjoy" advertising, but it IS a reality of the current state of Internet monetization economics that advertising plays a large role in allowing, in IAB's words, the "long tail" of the web to operate in the near-term and grow in the long-term.

Almost a year ago, the author, Matthew Yglesias, wrote nearly the exact same article with respect to Washington, D.C. (http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/04/d_c_...).

Washington, D.C. is an interesting & relevant case-study in this regard because of the Heights of Buildings Act of 1910 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heights_of_Buildings_Act_of_191...) which restricts the maximum building height in the District. Depending on your viewpoint, the law has led to the desired "lightness and airiness" of D.C. as envisioned by planners of that generation; it has also led to expansion and sprawl into Northern Virginia and the Maryland suburbs of D.C.

No mention of Ask.fm? Seemed like the European clone had been picking up a lot of steam lately. (see http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/27/ask-fm-claims-its-overtaken...)

> "But in the interest of helping anyone who may ever face a patent troll on these topics..."

Precisely the point of his blog post.

Isn't this just a technical error (bug) that is a game dev's (or infrastructure engineer's) responsibility? I understand the frustration at the DRM concept, but you can't blame this on the larger entity as a whole when it was likely just a bug in some code or a small oversight.

Things were clearly working when it was in beta.

I agree. Those that know the right questions to ask are those that understand their problems, understand their deficiencies, and are just looking for a targeted piece of knowledge that they may be missing.

Yeah, I tend to disagree, mainly for the many reasons pointed out in this fantastic article: http://geoit.posterous.com/41latitude-google-maps-label-read... .

I do believe that vector graphics are far superior to GMaps' tiles.

Does it, though?

First red flag for me is that they are based in "East Texas": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_fo...

On their "How we do it" page, they mention some Natural Language Processing software that they're developing, but primarily highlight their "valuable" patent portfolio.

> "I'll never become a good programmer, but I strive to be the most capable brogrammer I can be."

Being a competent programmer is a prerequisite to being a "brogrammer" (whatever that means).

The script is not getting 'likes,' it's pulling the number of 'shares' for a particular URL.

If you want to get to a brand's like-count, you'll need to feed the Graph API with either the Facebook Username of the account (e.g. "nike", not "http://www.nike.com "), or with the Facebook ID# of the brand (e.g. "15087023444").

Twitter has released a statement on the issue: http://blog.twitter.com/2012/07/our-approach-to-trust-safety...