skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in publishing for a niche trade title and I hear this a lot. In fact, I loathe ads too.
In the days of print, trade titles had a limited circulation. It was easier for them to get advertisers because the title was guaranteed to hit the desk of the CEO or CIO, which was the target for that particular advertiser. Now it's all about traffic and the competition online is far more intense.
Sadly AdBlock will not revolutionise the entire publishing industry. Instead it will hurt it. It is only going to put more pressure on sales guys to hit their targets which means more ads at vastly reduced prices. It will also cause online publishers to close, and put people out of work. The rest will resort to sensationalist journalism tactics and those terrible list type stories: "10 best diets for a flat tummy". It's either that or a paywall system like Murdoch is putting in place.
What is a 'more sustainable source of income' for online publishing?
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Is there a service that "likes" everything that is suggested, uploads pictures of other people tagged with my name, and tags pictures of me with other names?

The way I see it, the only way to continue using facebook for its actual purpose (social interaction??) is to have my data tainted in an (non-machine-detectable) obvious fashion so it becomes useless for most automatic classification/categorization attempts.
I agree, grellas, and although I use the word "war" with some concern, in this case I believe this is truly an economic and personal property conflict which is already politically intense and threatens to continue escalating.

The theory is this: are computers, programs, and data pieces of external property that can be manipulated in a traditional manner by the courts? Or are they extensions of the individual's mind? I think the law views it as the former, but I think the citizenry is more and more viewing it as the latter. And no amount of precedence or legal force is going to change that. Sometimes the law IS an ass. You can have all the Facebook Dred Scott cases you want, and it's only going to make matters worse.

I have been standing by mostly idle as this developed, but I more and more feel compelled to act -- protest, write letters, petition, sue, etc. That's unusual for me, as I am not an activist by any means.
Same guy in another article from 2003...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3236118.stm
> Partly because of the inherent decency and solidarity of the working class, who will not shaft each other even if the system pays them to.

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. Why are you romanticising the working class? Personally speaking, the breadth of my family oddly encompasses the upper and lower classes, and after being close to all of them over the years I can tell you there is nothing inherently wrong or right about a specific class. Some of the most admirable people I have met you would label as "upper class twits," and likewise there are others from more humble backgrounds that you would point to as evidence of an exclusive core of decency within the lower classes.

In summary, good and bad people exist in the same proportions in every arbitrary class we would wish to create.
Quite clearly nonsense - so why was it posted to HN?
Incidentally, I joined Facebook in maybe February or March this year, and typed in my GMail -address when registering.

Right away I was presented with suggestions for people on Facebook that I might know, and they were obviously scraped from my GMail account.

So, as far as I could tell, Facebook got access to my GMail account without ever asking me anything about it.
Exactly. And flash was introduced 14 years ago. It really has no excuse for not having better performance at this point. I'm glad its dying.
Spaceships have evolved plenty in the last 30 years - just not manned spaceships. The sheer number of things in space these days is stunning:

http://science.nasa.gov/realtime/jtrack/3d/JTrack3D.html
But easy to test. 30 days in the hole.
I've moved from Slicehost to prgmr to Linode and I'm happiest with Linode out of the three.

the I/O on Linode is faster, but it's still very slow compared to a "real" machine, but that's the case with any VPS at this pricepoint as far as I know.
I regularly read (quality) content online and think "I'd tip for that". But there's no way of doing it. I could click the adverts, but I don't want to deal with lots of popups and I have no interesting in buying whatever they're advertising.
India's defence ministry must be pretty desperate if they are looking at stuff like this.

I hope they cheat enough that he'll survive.

The key here is evaporation (sweating) and how much he weighed to the gram when he came in versus when they 'conclude' the experiment (why only 15 days, a year would clinch it for sure).

Also they'll need 24/7 video recordings if this is to be believed by outsiders, just surveilance isn't going to be enough.

Makes you wonder whether he stocked up before entering the 'test setup'.
No it doesn't. It has an array of CCDs and chooses the appropriate pixel to capture at runtime based on inferred distance information so the headline should read :

"New Camera Simulates Real-time Focus of Near and Far Field"

Sounds like a fun piece of kit though personally I think in general, having all objects in the field of view in focus will be sensory overload and perhaps a little disturbing, similar to the dissonance created by the inverse - fake depth of field.
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So it bring values to the innovators, or maybe a specific group of innovators.

Does it bring values to the rest of us? What if the concept is wrong in the first place?

Well, two contarian economists doesn't think the system was that great in the first place:

It is common to argue that intellectual property in the form of copyright and patent is necessary for the innovation and creation of ideas and inventions such as machines, drugs, computer software, books, music, literature and movies. In fact intellectual property is a government grant of a costly and dangerous private monopoly over ideas. We show through theory and example that intellectual monopoly is not necessary for innovation and as a practical matter is damaging to growth, prosperity and liberty. -- Michelle Boldrin and David K. Levine in Against Intellectual Monopoly http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfi...

I think it is a bit presumptious to assume that patents benefit does outweigh the loss at some point in their history. People needs to dig a little deeper than that.
Neat. This example is nowhere near as pretty as the Flash examples, but it's interesting that my CPU is barely doing anything even when walking around. In the Flash version my CPU is pegged just sitting there doing nothing.
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College to use RFID to check class attendance
I can vouch for this. I started at Matasano two months ago, and am very pleased to find seriously bright people and a really fun gig. As one of the Matasanoans said, it is curiosity that is important in this gig, not paranoia or certificates. I have always enjoyed drilling down to find out what makes something tick. Clients ask us to find vulnerabilities in their systems. The gigs involve burping web apps, pulling apart C# and Java programs, understanding C, machine language, or even firmware and hardware.

And the coding part is most often in ruby or jruby (and yes, I do try to sneak in a little clojure past Tom). You don't need to know Ruby coming in the door, but if you are a good programmer, you will pick up in no time.

Check us out.

(Ok, back to breaking things. But they tell me I should stop breaking tools in the black bag, though.)
I wonder if this is a ploy to create Steve Jobs' replacement.
Where I live, these things are set by law.
Partly because of the inherent decency and solidarity of the working class, who will not shaft each other even if the system pays them to.

Well, the average working class person doesn't have the means to gain from the system in that way. So when they decide to cheat, they do so in more basic ways, like becoming burglars, thieves, dodgy tradesmen, and other kinds of low-level career criminals.

I don't buy your romantic view of "the decency and solidarity of the working class". People in all walks of life are decent - with, always, a small percentage who are not so decent. That's as true of the "working class" as of other classes, if you want to make that split.

With the possible exception of lawyers and politicians of course.
Sorry, I haven't been paying attention to my threads page.

The only data that I have available is for the Swedish market. The Swedish Performing Rights Society, STIM, collect fees from everyone who plays music. This quote is from their annual report (source at the bottom):

"A 3-minute song played on one of Sweden's national radio channels produces around SEK 100 for authors and music publishers to share."

"A 3-minute song that is played on one of the commercial radio stations produces around SEK 3 for authors and music publishers to share."

Of course, listener numbers differ, there are radio programs on national radio that have 1 million listeners. A conservative estimate for an average listener number on national radio would be 50,000.

100 SEK is $13.46 according to Google, let's call it $15 to be conservative.

So 100 SEK for 50,000 plays equals $0.0003 per play on Swedish national radio. As you can see from the above the national radio pay a lot more per play than commercial stations.

1 million plays on national radio would in the best of cases give $300 for all the rights holders to share.

In the case of Lady Gaga's Poker Face, as explained in another article linked in this thread, the income would be split 50/50 between Lady Gaga and her Swedish songwriter (don't know the exact roles here but it's not important).

This means that the total payout for 1M plays of Poker Face from Spotify would be $167 * 2 = $334.

So even in this case the income for 1M plays on Spotify exceeds the equivalent income from 1M plays on Swedish national radio. Now, the Spotify payout numbers reported here are from the absolute first beginnings of Spotify and don't necessarily reflect the payout rates that are in place now when the service is more mature, as was explained in the other article further up in the thread.

STIM's latest annual report in English: http://bit.ly/9ZW85p
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I see nothing wrong with the questions the judges asked. Something wasn't clear to them, so they asked for an explanation. That seems perfectly fine to me. It certainly doesn't mean they're necessarily going to make a bad ruling.
http://www.kongregate.com/games/mike_id/doom-1

Wolfenstein, meet Doom.

I'd say the bunker example above is pushing Quake 2 levels.

I agree that Adobe have dropped the ball with Flash, but "HTML 5" is no where near where it should be...
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He's a manager, he doesn't have to write code. He just has to show up at meetings and tell people to tell people to write code.
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Now that's what I call long term planning.
I remember something exactly like this except it was an Asian lady and it looked like a real photo. Also instead of looking away from the cursor her eyes were following the cursor.
A lesson: always think your quote through before speaking to journalists lest you accidentally pronounce yourself smarter than reptile with a walnut-sized brain.
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I am pretty sure if HTML5 implement the same scene as bunker.swf it would hog much much more CPU.

http://www.ponticstar.com/projects/burning-words/

Try set the font to 100, and see if it's still as smooth as you thought.
My own pet theory is that bugs are far more likely to be created late at night than at any other time.
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Brilliant 3D T-Rex image.
It doesn't matter, most firms of any signicant size require financing sooner or later, and generally that tends to come from wall street one way or the other.

Go down to your local franchised fast-food shop. Chances are the kitchen equipments been leased from the franchise and financed by a finance lease from an investment bank. The impact of risk-tolerant financing on the economy is huge, it's pretty much everywhere when you scratch under the surface.

The same applies for FX spreads. If you're importing or exporting any goods (pretty much everyone these days) then you're benefiting from the tighter spreads created by investment banks that are market making.
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Will they be earlier than previous year, the same way summer 2010 deadlines are?
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The "Intermezzo in A major. Andante teneramente" from opus 118, Six Piano Pieces, by Brahms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Pieces_for_Piano,_Op._118_%...

The track "All Blues" from the album Kind of Blue by Miles Davis (which I think is the best-selling jazz LP of all time).

http://www.amazon.com/Kind-Blue-Miles-Davis/dp/B000002ADT

The Piano Sonata in E major, Op. 6 by Felix Mendelssohn (as performed by Murray Perahia on the linked recording).

http://www.amazon.com/Mendelssohn-Prelude-Variations-S%C3%A9...

There is so much more, but you asked for three.
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Arbitrage is useful and socially beneficial. For example:

- it ensures that the cost of goods in separate markets remain aligned,

- it creates capital, which can then be invested in other ventures.

Markets would be less efficient without arbitrage.
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> There is so much more, but you asked for three.

I know, but it would get out of hand, given the size of the HN audience I figured three would be a nice start. Feel free to cheat :)

And thanks!

On the classical front (let the cheating begin) Dinu Lipatti, last recital, Besancon 1953.
I'm not sure I 'get' the aims of the college here. Why is it important for these students to be in class? I would expect the important bits from the colleges perspective would be:

Did the student pay tuition?

Did the student learn the material the class covered?

I can't see any other things the university need worry about and I can't see how either of those two questions could lead to the need for some strict attendance policies that are connected to student grades.

Perhaps, the school is concerned that if people don't come to class and still do well it will become common knowledge that students can learn the same material more effectively on their own. Bad news, I think that cats already out of the bag.
> Supposedly the key to this is the fact that intensity is proportional to 1/distance^2, but just how they use this (given that different objects will be different in brightness) the article doesn't say.

I'd imagine something not far away from :

pixel(x, y) = max(intensity(x, y, ccds))

The IR distance system has been around for a while. Sony released a camera which recorded the distance per pixel too, they introduced it as an alternative to green screening, using the distance map as a matte. I can't find what that's called atm. and though I looked forward to using one, I've never come across one in my film work.
Here is a very similar effect in canvas:

http://29a.ch/2010/3/24/normal-mapping-with-javascript-and-c...
I am surprised to see a Lyle McDonald article on here. His stuff is always well worth reading if you have any interest in nutrition and training.

The high-intensity training fad he refers to in this article is probably better known to most people as 'crossfit'.
This is pretty cool but I am a bit disappointed. The classical generator doesn't generate any recognizable genre of classical music that I've ever heard. I managed to get one that sounded like a phase-cycle piece without actually having any phasing.

I'll probably keep an eye on it though.
Why should we trust Tonido or any other such site?

Yes, given Facebook's history and its top dog's demonstrated ethical ... limitations, many companies will likely be better, but....

I guess one thing I'm wondering is that for those who take the step of removing themselves from Facebook, has the latter already poisoned the well?

To take that further, I and many others have removed ourselves from Facebook not because we've been harmed but out of principle and/or we can see that this is unlikely to come to a good end and we want no part of it.

What happens when "regular" users start leaving because of actual harm? How much will that poison the well?
Every time I read of control system like this one, I always think about 1984 from George Orwell. That book really changed the way I look at things.

When all these systems will be in place, what will prevent some entity to use them improperly? I really find these things scary when I look at them.
Thank you Andrew and Brad. I found this talk very personally relevant as I've been a partner an EFL cram school for elementary school children in Taiwan for the past four years. Considering that the birth rate is under 1.2 and that more families are turning away from non-test prep schools, it's a rapidly shrinking market. I've been working crazy hours, six days a week the whole time, and earning less than people right out of college in the US!

I strongly feel the echoes of the "Never give up, never give up!" mentality that Andrew mentioned early in the interview, and that's a large part of what's kept me going for so long. Even now, I believe it is possible to grow it into a profitable and worthwhile business. I've put my savings and my time into it and I'm also emotionally attached to it. Stopping now feels like ripping out a piece of myself.

However, thinking of it in terms of the value of another couple of years of my life, it falls flat in comparison to starting a business or even freelancing in a growing market. This comment can't really express it fully, but this video really gave me a valuable perspective.
If students are able to learn material on their own then I really can't understand why they should be forced to attend.

If they don't attend and can't learn the material then just fail them.
As a parent who plans to pay for my son's college education, I think I'd like this system.

It's a lot harder for a student to whine "I'm failing this class! This biased professor hates me!" while being able to discover that sonny-boy was only in class 25% of the time.
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Actually I find it beautiful in a philosophical way. That the Supreme Court of Justice tries to find the difference between email and text messages by simple questions is in essence, the direct application of the Socratic method. It seems odd that a 55 year old person does not know what texting is and how it works despite a thousand "My BFF Jill" ads. However, if you think justice should be blind and uninfluenced by external factors, lack of intimate knowledge or rather attachment to particular fields or experiences is a good thing.
Tell your kids you'll only pay for classes they pass and don't accept any excuses.

I never found lectures to be particularly useful anyway.
Why wait until winter ? You can still apply 'late': http://news.ycombinator.com/apply
He can probably also levitate and move astronomical bodies.
I expect we're going to see a lot of students carrying each other's ID cards to class.
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The ipad is not a unit of storage.
Personal reasons + the logistics gets a bit harder if You are in Europe and have to travel for interviews, etc.
It is very useful to the people involved, in that they make a lot of money.

It may not be useful to the economy, or society.
I can move astronomical bodies. Every time I move every astronomical body moves a bit as well!
The clue is "sipping code red". :-)
This seems very similar to the opengl extension mechanism. Where people try wild, crazy innovative stuff in an extension (similar to css prefixes). If the experimental stuff takes off then it can be moved over to opengl core in a future release.
Beg HN: Can someone please make a facebook clone for all of us who are fleeing?
Anyone out there with the time and energy... seems like now is your chance. We're all fleeing, and we'd love somewhere to go....
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Of course the real difference is a lot higher as it's not just about the clock rate - an awful lot of improvements were made in areas such as the pipeline, caching, floating-point support etc. so I wouldn't be very surprised if the real performance ratio was higher than 1000.
However, what about stories that target what you, the not yet entrepreneur, hope to become?

If you look closely, most of the efforts against the "rich" are actually against those trying to become "rich", not the already very wealthy who have the politician power and otherwise many options (e.g. negotiate a tax treaty with a canton and move to Switzerland) to avoid such exactions. Throughout many decades of various economic conditions, tax policies, etc. how much was the wealth of the Kennedy family threatened?

E.g. look at taxes on earnings vs. principle. In the US we do have a big tax on the latter from the estate ("death") tax, although again the wealthy have options to mitigate that.
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I agree, but I never had a problem when some of my smaller classroom courses took attendance. In that setting there was a value added that even if you passed the class without going you missed a lot. However, lectures (which this article addresses) in general never added any addition value over the material, so this seems pointless.
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I guess that's in part because it's even more difficult to (manually) transcribe speech into articulatory-phonetic elements based on the acoustic signal (laryngeal gestures?? Clearly they are there in articulation, but their acoustic correlates are masked to some extent).

Automatic alignment methods are probably quite hard to implement, given the various coarticulation patterns in the signal depending on context/prosodic position etc.

Could you provide a link to papers or other materials dealing with articulatory features in speech recognition?

I guess I should take another look at Browman/Goldstein's Articulatory Phonology
Given that most of the time, attendance is checked anyway, manually by the teacher, I really don't see the big problem here. If there is an attendance duty anyway, this is an excellent solution. It adds 10 minutes to each class by not having to spend the time calling out names and awaiting a "present" or "yea".

More time for education while replacing an old-fashioned, outdated system with fancy "new" tech. Why the hate?
Lack of universal acceptance was one of the cons you either accepted, or naively overlooked, back when you decided dvorak was the way to go. It'd be nice to see it work in more places, sure, but it just ain't... you're conflating 'should' and 'could'.