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> ...most people most of the time want music they don't have to think too much about or devote toouch attention to.

I agree with that statement - dedicating significant energy to finding new music is a fairly niche hobby.

However, I don't think easy-to-find necessarily equals label-owned music.

I often listen to music for hours at a time in the background while I'm working or relaxing at home. I'll aim for an artist or mood and then I'm happy to let 'related tracks' from artists I've never heard of play indefinitely. If there's a track I really like I'll look at who the artist is and make note. I listen to a ton of "indy" music this way. Mostly, I never know who the artist is. Sometimes I discover new artists. All of this is very low effort on my part.

In fact, it would be significantly more effort to listen to megastar pop music or classics. I'd have to find a way to play the tracks - YouTube most likely, which means a ton of poorly thought out ads, or else paying for the songs directly, which usually is just slow and annoying.

I'd wager the biggest hours of music listening are for background music - at work, in stores and restaurants, while studying, while lounging around the house. I'm sure some people always want to listen to the same ten albums on repeat every day, but I suspect most people are driven more by ambiance. Indy music will do that job just fine.

Of course people will always want to play nostalgic hits. But I suspect that's a smaller driver of music consumption by hour of attention (or at least partial attention) than many people assume. That means the labels have way less power than people assume.
For most sites, the Google organic search penalty for not having https is reason enough.
Death will become optional at some point. But it will be only for the rich. Death was always this great equalizer. With that not being the case there will be a revolt on the size and proportion humanity would not have seen. how do we deal with that?
SuperH a microprocessor developed by hitachi in 90's, has many of their patents expired in 2015 and we are talking of technology used in Sega 32x and Saturn.

There is a clean room implementation, made open source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperH#J_Core
Anti-aging research has little, if anything, to do with "trying to live forever". It has more to do with "staying forever young", i.e., staying healthy and strong and good-looking until death. Aging increases the organism's fragility and makes it prone to getting ill, and trying to slow down this process is, of course, a meaningful and venerable goal. Living forever, on the other hand, is impossible in principle, unfortunately - for at least two reasons: the limited capacity of our brain and the mean time from birth to a fatal accident being around two hundred years.
Is it illegal to accidentally leave an unattended child in a car? The entire point of the article is accidental, not intentional, incidents.
Many people deserve many things. The world, unfortunately, does not give everyone what they deserve.
They are not correct. Property tax in Germany is based on some fictious value (which is not necessarily close to market value) calculated using an old algorithm. Usuable floor area is an an important input, so a condo block and a family home are not taxed equally.

There have been serious proposals for reform in the past few years but a tax based on land area alone was not seriously considered so far by the competent body as far as I know (but there have been calls for them to do so e.g. by some mayors).

Nonetheless, property tax ends up in the hands of municipalities, making up about 15% of their budget on average. Roads and schools are only partially funded through the municipality's budget, a huge chunk comes from higher levels. For schools, municipalities pay about one third of the cost (again, on average). This ensures e.g. that schools are adequately funded even in poor districts. It also has practical reasons. For example teachers are usually not employed by the school itself but civil servants of the state delegated to teach at the school. Thus their salary doesn't end up in the school's budget.

Distribution of tax income and expenses between the different levels of government is highly political and constantly bargained. For example, just this year was decided that the federal government gets more administrative rights regarding highways and digitalization ("data highways") for giving the states 4B€ more of the sales tax.
if all the literate people were male and all the illiterate people were female, requiring literacy would not necessarily be sexism. you're conflating 2 different things. as did they. perhaps it did exclude more recently-emancipated black people. oh well. requiring literacy for something as important as an election is not obstructionist, IMHO

The fee you mentioned, however, is, IMHO.

if I had to hire a scientist for a job and the only applicants that were qualified enough were white males, hiring a white male would not make me a racist sexist.

i look forward to the day when people just stop trying to correlate everything both positive and negative to race, gender, age, and any other attribute other than "are you a good person" and "can you do this job well"
It always seems to be the older generation that has this crappy immature attitude. I'm glad I have to work with less and less people like you.
What kind of official support?
Why men in tech should get involved in gender equality
> ban smokes/alcohol

That didn't even work with a Constitutional amendment. If culture doesn't change, you'll have to live with it - there's no legal remedy.

> tax fat/sugar

Risky, given the track record of nutrition science, but better than outright bans. Why don't we start by not subsidizing sugar.
I've got three kids under five, I cannot imagine a world where I forget that they're there

Which is the whole problem. Our imagination and perception is flawed and limited. The idea that you can rely on it to accuse others of terrible crimes shows an unwarranted confidence in it.

People who actually studied memory are telling you (in the article): yes, it can happen to everyone, and you don't need any concussion.

Yet, you have an unshaken faith in memory, based on nothing but the fact that it never happened to you.

It's quite scary, actually.
>"That was the case for centuries. Why is that such a bad thing?"

For centuries? Given that commercial recordings weren't widely available until the end of the 18th century I am not sure where you are getting this from.

You are mixing different things - there is a songwriter copyright and the recording copy right.

A song being in the public domain(the expire of the songwriters copyright) doesn't mean you get to use the recording however you see fit. It means you can use the song as in record the song yourself and not pay royalties to Elvis's estate or whoever actually authored the song.

The terms of the recording copyright determine who owns the physical recording. Often after a number of years these can revert back to the original performer. This is known as a "reversion." Upon a reversion the original performer can then license the original recording as they please - as reissues, for inclusion on compilations etc. This is why you can't upload an Elvis song to youtube - because Elvis Presley Enterprises own the recording.
Do we even need our brains? – Some Scientists aren’t so sure
Powys (Wales) man gets broadband via satellite over Africa
IRL i am free to choose who i talk to and who i allow to talk to me
Inspired by https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses ?
> I think there's an infinitesimally small percentage of people who actually forget

It happens more often than you believe, unfortunately. That's literally the entire point of the article.

> There's a dismayingly cartoonish expression for what happened to Lyn Balfour on March 30, 2007. British psychologist James Reason coined the term the "Swiss Cheese Model" in 1990 to explain through analogy why catastrophic failures can occur in organizations despite multiple layers of defense. Reason likens the layers to slices of Swiss cheese, piled upon each other, five or six deep. The holes represent small, potentially insignificant weaknesses. Things will totally collapse only rarely, he says, but when they do, it is by coincidence -- when all the holes happen to align so that there is a breach through the entire system.

> On the day Balfour forgot Bryce in the car, she had been up much of the night, first babysitting for a friend who had to take her dog to an emergency vet clinic, then caring for Bryce, who was cranky with a cold. Because the baby was also tired, he uncharacteristically dozed in the car, so he made no noise. Because Balfour was planning to bring Bryce's usual car seat to the fire station to be professionally installed, Bryce was positioned in a different car seat that day, not behind the passenger but behind the driver, and was thus not visible in the rear-view mirror. Because the family's second car was on loan to a relative, Balfour drove her husband to work that day, meaning the diaper bag was in the back, not on the passenger seat, as usual, where she could see it. Because of a phone conversation with a young relative in trouble, and another with her boss about a crisis at work, Balfour spent most of the trip on her cell, stressed, solving other people's problems. Because the babysitter had a new phone, it didn't yet contain Balfour's office phone number, only her cell number, meaning that when the sitter phoned to wonder why Balfour hadn't dropped Bryce off that morning, it rang unheard in Balfour's pocketbook.

> The holes, all of them, aligned.

> There is no consistent character profile of the parent who does this to his or her child. The 13 who were interviewed for this story include the introverted and extroverted; the sweet, the sullen, the stoic and the terribly fragile. None of those descriptions exactly fits Lyn Balfour, a 37-year-old Army reservist who has served in combat zones and who seems to remain -- at least on the subject of the death of her son -- in battle.
This includes whitelabeled email addresses right?
Yes, cgroups can be used to impose limits on resources; and from the outside looking in, can look very similar to setrlimit(). But from the inside of the kernel looking out (generally, the perspective taken by the linux-insides book), they are very different subsystems; I expect that cgroups will come in quite a bit later. If the book were discussing how to limit resources, sure it should mention cgroups; but it is discussing how things work in the kernel, not how to get the kernel to do certain things.
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Yeah, he's also the 12(?) startups in a year guy. Hustle is definitely his strong suit.
What if I use a VPN to access my company's network?
I regret not making a good deal of software open source. But it's a tough decision depending on your market.

One of the niches I specialized in was essentially taken over by an influx of offshore resources. It's like going into bizzaro world when you go to a meeting on a project and someone else is using your own powerpoint presentation and is doing it wrong. It's offensive when you go through project documentation and see that someone else has gotten paid for documents that you wrote for another customer - especially when they are not current.

When I began experiencing this kind of thing, I felt confident in my decision _not_ to open source software.

But the reality is that my biggest source of pride was given to the world at large. And all these years later I would appreciate having a lot of code which I no longer own in my portfolio. And while there are those who would have poached and pillaged my work, my income would have been minimally affected (or maybe not at all). The fact is that when I operated in that niche, the money I earned was all due to the fact that I was good, not because of any particular piece of software. Having a public portfolio of related software might have even brought in more business.
Visit your HN profile then set "showdead" to "yes" to see some of such comments.
Just abut nothing, tbh. Sure they would put a carrier nearby on notice and maybe step up patrols out of San Diego, but the US is more then capable if winning and doesn't want to give any hothead an excuse to start something.
> the fact that someone has actually gone ahead and done this[...]

Well it's not exactly a novel idea. China, North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Oman, Turkey and others have implemented bans or heavy restrictions for quite some time now.
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startup, n: an otherwise normal business that isn't making money.

But more seriously, the term is somewhat vague and is often misapplied.
I'm eager to see the long-term results of the gene editing procedures.

>The earlier Chinese publications, although limited in scope, found CRISPR caused editing errors and that the desired DNA changes were taken up not by all the cells of an embryo, only some.

Instability is an inherent property of genes.
If you replace the victim with a dog instead of his own child, I'd say, "Yes he'd probably do it again.".

That leads to an odd situation where the action that leads to a child's death would warrant a lesser sentence than the same act leading to a dog's death.
Did you try Ghost (https://ghost.org)? Their editor is quite good. Also, they've released version 1.0 a few days ago.
As others have said this is a problem that in 2017 should already be solved by technology.

But in the event you don't have access to a technological solution try this:
If you have an infant in your car get in the habit of taking your shoes off and putting them next to the baby when you drive.
When you reach your destination you might forget the infant...but you won't forget your shoes.

Edit: My dad (who was an absent-minded engineer way before I was) taught me this trick.

Edit 2: Just called my dad to remind him about this and he said "it was only one shoe...the one you don't use on the pedal". I've been doing it wrong all this time :). So the correct way is...put your non-pedal shoe next to your child. You'll remember it when you start walking :)
I just use ordinary cheap earplugs from the drug store or whatever, but actually I don't use them that much, and there's probably some more comfy variant.
Venezuela's computerized voting system fails to find president's registration
Oh, that is good to know. I had no idea that wasn't allowed.
Introspection and the drain on our lesser prophets: Who’s running the show?
The n00best path to data science and machine learning state of the art is now complete, no excuses! 2015: Andrew Ng's Coursera MOOC; 2016: Kaggle competitions with xgboost and ensembles; 2017: deep learning code-oriented courses with fast.ai and GPU hardware for the masses. Thanks, very lucky to witness and try this.
Highly recommended! The first course was the first thing I came across that helped me contextualize the DL field into something that might be relevant for my work. It's a great way to get your hands dirty.

One point of comparison is Cam Davidson Pilon's Bayesian Methods for Hackers, they have a similar vibe: practical applied advice from a field that tilts towards the academic...
Technology is going to force us to deal with some age old questions. There is a line I remember from Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" that goes something like "There is neither art nor skill at arms which will protect one man from one hundred of his fellows." In context, it's referring to the fact that even Roman emperors could be murdered by a relatively small coalition of men. No matter how rich and powerful a person is, a few people working together and willing to sacrifice can kill that rich and powerful person.

Technology seems to imperil this age old truth. What about an immortal billionaire with drones, AI, and a robot army?

The coming elite will have power that no human individual, or even organization, has ever had. We should figure out how to deal with that - but I don't really expect the common folk will. Instead, we may just have to hope that our future billionaire deities are benevolent.
And we can tell the difference how?
I suppose my take on the most rational explanation of the VC/startup environment is the entrepreneurs playing pump-n-dump games.
Perhaps I should use BTC-e to convert to USD...Oh, wait...

So, what other reputable exchange is there that works for BTC->USD and vice-versa and doesn't have ridiculous fees (I agree that Coinbase fees are outrageously high).
I see this happening a few different possible ways.

1) You give it to everyone.

2) You make it expensive, but not prohibitively. Maybe out of reach of the lower class, but obtainable to the middle.

The latter is more likely. Though if we're looking at the emerging markets with automation, we see that #1 isn't out of the question. If you're making money from people, the amount of people helps you make money.

In reality I think it'll take quite some time to get to either of those points. Because in the beginning this technology is likely to be extremely costly. And I worry that this fact (I'm predicting the common s-curve) will prevent it from becoming cheap.
Thankfully society gave the world a legal system. Now when a business distributes music belonging to another business, compensation through the courts can be pursued in cases of piracy.
Good news, the internet has become a cancer I'm glad russia is seeing the light

I'm hopeful the united states will get there too
I had to lookup the name because I just remember his "Go Fucking Do It", which is one of the more ridiculous, low-effort, ingenious ways of making money from foolish first worlders enticed by a pretty landing page. "Set a goal, stake your money to it, and if you fail, you give your money to me; me, not a charity, and all of it to me, so you will have higher 'incentive' to succeed". The way it was spun as a "smart, incentivized way to accomplish your goals" was absurd, but I suppose enviable by other standards.
Yes kids survive these situations but sometimes the result is they become shitty humans. Just keeping a kid alive is not parenting.
If an ad hominem is the best criticism you can come up with, it seems correct to me.
The fundamental truth that must be considered of any article like this is "YMMV". (Your mileage may vary)

Especially in a big organization, things are different depending on the division you're in and where you work. I work at a large .gov institution and am only here a decade later because my leadership team in the early days were great bosses and amazing mentors. They taught me a lot both in a professional and personal level. I aspire and in many ways fail to be the same.

I look at other parts of the organization and see great places as well divisions where employees are treated like crap and are demoralized to the point of depression.

Working in a "good part" of a big company or institution can be amazing.
For that purpose, an instruction level emulator would be far better than a transistor level emulator like this one.
Kasparov talks calculated odds, AI, and cybersecurity (Q&A)
I'm sure it's coming to the US to ensure that subscribers aren't avoiding ISP rate limits.
mens rea vs actus reus
Tick tock, tick tock Mellon. Money won't save you.
does anyone know what the interpreter actually needs to interpret?

what does the code look like?
Yes, someone who can think like this is probably going g to be a better parent than say these two [0] who probably never intended to get pregnant and likely have never considered the well being of their child and are hoping that welfare payments will keep them in weed and cigarettes.

[0]https://i.redd.it/3r7vn6uyemcz.jpg
The title says "We're doing it all wrong", but after reading the article it hardly says much about what we are doing wrong. The only wrong it talks about is treadmill and that's it.
This isn't really a new idea anymore. I'd be curious to read what the book covers beyond what Born to Run did.
I don't think it's possible to reliably enforce this ban.
> VPN services can't exactly hide behind being an impartial carrier since they sell themselves as tools precisely for circumventing censorship, tracking, region locking, and providing anonymity.

I really wish some VPN providers would try advertising themselves as desirable technical solutions to the technical shortcomings of many ISPs -- e.g. my ISP here doesn't give me native IPv6, and has a crappy last mile. OpenVPN-over-UDP helps with both.

VPNs can also simply protect against attacks on public networks in e.g. cafes, libraries, airports.

> this is a political problem that can't be solved through more tunnels

Yes, but they help in that they increase people's headroom for informing and acting.
I'd urge anyone not to dedicate any significant fraction of their diet to these snacks.

I mean come on, cauliflower with BBQ sauce? That's kind of the problem with all these recipes, you take just about any ingredient and either bake or fry it: it's crispy and chunky. Then you throw on flavoring with some kind of sugar+fat+salt based sauce, and you've got a yummy, crispy, chunky piece of food. I bet you could make an ingredient out of 50% paper and 50% something ridiculous taste good that way, but it's not healthy.

Like take the BBQ Sauce cauliflower's ingredients. There's 115% your daily salt intake from the sauce alone. You get 375 calories from your BBQ sauce which is mostly sugar btw. You get 120 calories from your olive oil, and 140 calories from the cauliflower, assuming you eat it entirely. Then ontop of the 130% daily salt intake, the recipe says to add more salt to taste and put more BBQ sauce ontop after baking, which alone takes 30 minutes.

It's ridiculous, you probably spend about 40 minutes making a recipe that's about 20% cauliflower and 80% (way too sugary - easily 2x daily amount - and salty) sauce. And that's assuming the entire cauliflower is used, in reality it's quite a bit worse.

Now sure it's not the most unhealthy dish in the world, but there's nothing healthy about it either.
I see, but htmlentities is just an example. It's a coincidence that they both start with 'html'...
Fascinating read!

The final approach of interpreting the shaders initially, while compiling them in the background for greater performance, sounds very similar to what just-in-time compilers do.

If you think about it, the problems they face are also kind of similar: both systems are confronted with unpredictable, dynamic "source code", and both want to achieve both high performance while avoiding the lag introduced by ahead-of-time compilation, so it makes sense that a similar solution approach might work.
No it doesn't mean a business impact at all, unless it is proven by accounting.

Programmer hourly rate * amount spent on doing such tasks = project money spent

Now how has the project money spent impacted the overall project costs, compared with the solution that everyone else is using, including the training costs for the rest of team, setting up a new build infrastructure, possible extra tooling support, salary rates for new hires?

Somehow I feel many coders would profit to learn a bit more about business and project management.
Well, he's sorta a zealot for the cult of barefoot running, and that running for everything other than meditation is horrible.
Had the same thought.

https://www.amazon.com/Born-Run-Hidden-Superathletes-Greates...
You say it's not possible to imprison someone for an absolute liability offence. You also say it would be hard for a case like this to come to trial. Surely it would still come to trial but the punishment would be something other than prison?
If you didn't age you would reduce the risk of fatal accidents.
Both of which definitely fall under "billions of dollars to throw around".
$x == $y should guarantee that $a[$x] == $a[$y]. In PHP, it doesn't. That's not different, that's just broken, and the language design makes dozens of elementary mistakes like that where getting it right wouldn't have sacrificed the only strength (streamlined deployable server integration) in any way.