skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren't royalties paid per play (i.e. spin)? The rate for the radio is about $0.14 per play (53/347), in that case. Stations have no way of knowing how many listeners actually heard the song. They can estimate with ratings services, but not get exact numbers like say Spotify.
I currently live in rural upstate New York. When a longtime friend of mine found out that I would soon be leaving to live in a big city in the south he yelled at me, called me an idiot, and said I would get raped and murdered there.

This is a guy in his mid-30's who has only ever visited a place with more than 10,000 people once, so his entire perception of what it's like in urban America is based off of the salacious news stories he reads online.
I can't speak as to the other platforms, but spotify's revenue sharing model really sucks for small artists.

For example, if someone signs up for Spotify to listen to exclusively songs by one artist, that artist is not getting that user's monthly fee... they're probably getting a couple pennies tops, if that.
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Smoking makes you feel better in the short term because your body is jonesing for that nicotine, and dopamine gets released when you give your body the nicotine. Then you don't smoke, and you feel shitty until the next nicotine hit. You give a poor justification for an addiction, and the happiness is merely a result of the feedback loop of nicotine > dopamine > no nicotine > dopamine crash > nicotine > dopamine > etc. I'm bastardizing the chemical reactions, but you get the idea.

I'm pretty sure medical science would say she is smoking because she's addicted.

If she didn't smoke, she would be less likely to die of a fucking heart attack so she could actually work and be actually healthy. I'm not shitting on all poor people making poor decisions, just this lady who has at least one easily solvable problem (smoking while being a heart surgery survivor).

Healthy living is not a luxury. Not drinking soda/eating junk food every day and walking are quite free if I recall...
The paradox is that some people still believe that higher GPAs produce higher incomes...
Really? We should subsidize broken economies in perpetuity, by allowing people to stay in them forever? I think that's only going to cement what we're already seeing, unless people use their UBI to buy luggage and bus fare.
Has anyone tried simply creating a business that negotiates with companies to fund open source developers and takes a small cut? It seems like a simple proposition. The company identifies an open source project that needs help, identifies clients that depend on it, approaches those clients and the developers, and sets up a deal between them for ongoing maintenance.

It wouldn't fit every project, every client, or every developer, but when it does fit, it could be a great deal for the developer and for the client.
> There is a widespread sense that there is no right or wrong way to live your life, and anyone who goes against multiculturalist viewpoints is labeled as ignorant or a racist.

Incredibly reductionist. There is no such thing as "no right or wrong way" everyone either chooses a way or falls into a default way of living. Everyone ought to get more introspective and conscious about their philosophies and assumptions.

We have built a saturated information dystopia, taking time away from it to focus on the self is even more important and impactful.
The trouble with these code snippets is that they condense very complex and squishy social structures into what incorrectly appears to be simple binary decisions. Creative Commons spent years defining what "commercial" means.

It's obviously a commercial use if I'm using your items to make money... But, what if I'm a charity? What if it's hosted on a website that runs banner ads? What if I don't turn a profit? This was a years-long discussion that you can review https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/NonCommercial

Code emphasizes what consensus we need to come to, the consensus that those complex legal documents define. For example, that's part of why the GPL is so long, it's specific.
I would imagine that in most cases it offsets poverty and starvation rather than escape from it.
Thanks for those links!

If I'm interpreting these correctly, you pay once for a license, and get access to all future versions of the library?

Most models for building companies on OSS tend to rely at least somewhat on a service model, rather than selling a piece of software once as a product and then continuing to maintain it for free (relying, then, on continuing to sell new licenses of the same software in order to keep money coming in).

In this case in particular, I feel like this creates misaligned incentives: after someone has already paid me for a license, if they have feature requests or bug reports for me, it's actively against my financial interests to spend time addressing those rather than working on things that will help bring in new paying customers (of course, these two things will sometimes align, but not necessarily). That's presumably most easily fixed by that customer contracting me to make those changes, but at that point I've now got a revenue stream and business model that feels a bit orthogonal to the licensing idea (and would lose all the benefits of e.g. your nice integrated payment system).

Curious if you have suggestions or thoughts about bridging that gap!
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> "I view smoking as a kind of break from life. It has a calming effect. Many people smoked during my deployments to Iraq for the same reason - it calms you and allows a simple break otherwise not found. .."

I found this to be the same reason why many of my fellow shipmates smoked during my time in the Navy. It was a kind of pre-watch "bonding" session of sorts...We'd smoke our cigs, grab a quick bite from the galley, then relieve the watch...our pre-watch smoke was a kind of "shoot-the-shit" before we had to be serious and formal operators.
> With Facebook Messenger, everyone who has the app is always "online."

Not exactly, FBM lets you differentiate between people who are "active", as in they are currently using FBM, vs. "last seen x hours ago." The difference from AIM is that being active vs. inactive does not necessarily correspond to whether or not you are up for an engaged conversation, and also that you don't directly control your status since it's automatic. There is also a way to set yourself to appear offline, though it's kinda convoluted. I 100% agree though that finer controls over your status like back in the good old days of AIM would be really nice.
Try this before judging:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/11/your-br...

It's not easy for them.
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Paradox? How is this even the least bit surprising to anyone?

Does anyone seriously advocate getting a high GPA in the US anymore so that you can out-earn your peers?

Does anyone seriously think that the leaders of companies are the studious academic experts in their field of choice?

This is a paradox if you still pretend we live in a hierarchical meritocracy. To a certain point and income level we do; bad grades and no social connections won't help you.

But if you can choose entering a class of rich and powerful people or getting a higher GPA, and your goal is financial reward? Come on now.
This is a hard truth: Trump had the populist vote (mostly lies IMHO) and Clinton ceded it to him.

What Democrats needed was to nominate a better populist. I doubt Sanders would have won WV, but I think he might have done better than Clinton in red-areas of states she should have won like Florida or Michigan.
A fair chunk would go to Bieber, almost nothing would go to the band you listened to exclusively.

It's because Spotify pools all the subscription money earmarked for artists into one great pool then divvies it up based on number of plays or play-time or some weird proxy measurement.
LOL. I had an Atari 130XE so examples for IBM Basic, Apple ][ and Commodore didn't work either!

Even worse if the examples were for the Spectrum, which had an even more peculiar dialect!
I can't say I've done a lot of research on this dispute, but so far I side with the streaming services since they aren't constantly conflating completely different numbers to try to trick readers. "Spin" is a radio term that isn't used in streaming, for good reason; it's just not the same thing at all.
Should they just lie instead?

What's the objective?

I think the retraining is a neoliberal dog whistle for 'these people deserve their current lives'. If the objective is to run a campaign that's consistent with (or an affirmation of) elite coastal values, then harping on retraining is exactly the right thing to do.

If you want to want the most votes, you have to appeal to the most amount of people. Making coastal elites the outgroup is smart because there aren't that many of them and they probably support one of their own anyway.
Still on target for New Orleans. Mandatory evacuations of low-lying areas have started. State of emergency in New Orleans.[1] ETA still Saturday night.

[1] http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2017/10/tropical_sto...
Already got a thriving discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15417019

I guess this article is from the WSJ instead of the Verge. But the concepts are the same.
How many buffer overflows were involved in the Equifax leak?

The ultimate solution to the problem is formal verification. Rust solves this for buffer overflows, but nothing else. It's a one trick pony. Someone posted this interesting nugget on HN the other day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt0OQb1DBko

Aside from some of the awkward ergonomics, its mechanism for formal specification looks brilliant. And you get to keep C's bag-of-bytes object manipulation and pointer arithmetic (when you want it) without having to resort to unsafe{}.

For projects where it's worth the effort to carefully declare precise typing semantics (because safety, performance, whatever), I want a wholistic solution. Otherwise my time and money is better spent throwing Javascript or Python at the problem, which solve the buffer overflow problem just as well.
did you mean "idiosyncratic"?
Not the same thing.

You're told to hire part time. You're not told it's because the company doesn't want to pay them benefits. It's implied, but you're not told.
> simple statistical problems that have known solutions

Can you please share the key terms allowing further research of the known solutions?
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the coal sector added only 1,000 jobs from October 2016 through June 2017.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/06/pruitt-...

(You can click through the links to see the raw data, but the article provides important context.)

The coal sector employs only around 50,000 people, so the added jobs represent a 2% increase. And it is unclear how much of that was a result of, or even encouraged by, Trump's policies. We do know one thing though: most of those jobs are being replaced by, or will soon be replaced by, natural gas mining jobs. Coal as a whole is a dying industry and cannot be "saved" by killing a few regulations.
Every type declaration implies a set of unit tests, and needing to actually write them is not better in any way.
> The reason being is that they are the best tool for the job.... They have a flat and clear response which is what you want when mixing.

Did you not read how these things are not flat and not clear in any range besides the mids in the article and totally depended on volume, environment and positioning?

NS10 are the Vim vs EMACS arguement but it is more Vim vs ed.

> I've also heard great mixes on Genelecs but only from engineers who have used them in the same room for a few years.

Rooms don't matter on Genelec and yes you will notice that the majority of high end studios mostly use Genelec due to the fact that rooms matter much less with them and the skill can transfer anywhere. That was my whole point on why Genelec are the most popular near field monitors in high end studios.
Well it was known as a powerful mind-altering substance in the 50's when it was released as a medication, yet was kept on the market because it was seen as a breakthrough with alcoholism, PTSD, and other mental health issues. It wasn't actually made illegal until the 70's when its use became widespread in the growing counterculture. That makes me believe that the counterculture had a large part of it being banned.
>I suppose another way would be to issue restricted local currencies and non-transferable coupons or vouchers. That has the added benefit of creating a lot of paper-pushing bureaucracy jobs.

Isn't one of the main goals of BI to eliminate the "need" for bullshit jobs, though?
The top comment on that video, in light of the points being made in this thread, is quite ironic:

"And because of this 'improved safety' we have millions of drivers out there who drive even faster and take even more risks, because they think the new cars are so much safer. "

(of course this comment is silly, the number of motor vehicle deaths per capita is about a third of what it was 50 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...)
"The people that get Bs work for the people that get Cs, and the people that get As teach."
Right - the point though is that playing a song on the radio and playing a song as a user of a streaming device have wildly different audience sizes (other than maybe for my 2am college radio show) and should pay very different rates.
Thousands of quotes of famous authors, fantastic website.
It takes years and a huge amount of money to train a skilled worker, all of that on top of the drive needed from the worker in question. Once you're north of 30-40 with no real skills, you're up shit creek.
Comments are interesting. The transition will hurt a lot.

But I don't think that the market share will drop because some Chrome users will probably go back to Firefox while a minority will switch to Google Chrome.
sure, for $20/hour
I read through LoL, and then most of Clojure for the Brave and True. I think one of LoL's strong points is that it only ever explains things in the domain of Lisp. The Clojure book kept showing samples of what you were doing in other languages, and it kind of broke my initial ability to get in the mindset.
Right. But the point is that it's sort of weird to directly compare album sales, radio plays, and online streaming view count. Those are fundamentally different both in terms of audience size and income potential.
The Quantum performance is amazing.

But I cant get my nightly to remember my logins.
He hasn't done (and isn't likely to do) anything that will have a measurable impact on these peoples' lives. Pulling out of the Paris climate accord only hurt the US in the long run and didn't give a single dollar back to anybody in deeply impoverished rural areas in exchange.

For someone to have "done" something, I'd want to see some kind of difference in the before and after pictures.
Static typing combined with functional programming is superior to automated testing, although the three are actually complementary, because automatic, property-based testing works better if you have type info (such that the library knows what values to generate) and referential transparency, because side effects can be awkward to specify as laws.

So it is not a coincidence that Haskell developers have innovated testing tools and are now sold on QuickCheck, those two working well together ;-)

Being the Scala developer that I am, I love ScalaCheck, but I’ve also used jsverify for JavaScript ... not as good as ScalaCheck or QuickCheck, due to not having static typing and type classes btw, but did the job.
hestipod's comments all being dead seems to prove his/her point.

I thought all three were well-written and illuminating.
And GPA isn't necessarily a direct reflection of knowledge or skill level, especially outside of STEM classes.

Think of a history class, where a big part of your grade might be a research paper only tangentially tied to the core of the course. Putting a bit less effort into it--the average GPA gap seems like the difference between an A and a B+ at many schools--doesn't necessarily mean you're less informed about that area of history.

And knowing how much effort is worthwhile to put into a task given deadlines, other pressures, etc. is an extremely valuable skill in business and life in general.
WTF is a "closed-source book"?
Followed by

> Disable some optimizations in clang(1) due to incompatibility with security.
(Offtopic) If you click on the comment, there is a [vouch] link to bring certain comments back from the dead.

I find that this is a good balance to keep the well-written comments that add to the discussion and deserve a second chance.
I'm not sure "fan art" has an exact definition, but I think the term only applies to art inspired by fictional creations, not art based on history or mythology.
I completely agree.

At the moment, two of the three are no longer dead.
Because they’re not in fact simple problems?
That is ultimately pretty scathing review. Is the book really just another iteration of the noble savage idea?

I do wonder why this landed on the frontpage, is it because the attractiveness of the basic idea, or because the dialogue here presented some new insight (that I might have missed)?
Yeah, 'algorithms' are the new 'chemicals'.
The Nordic countries are good example; look at how many regional orchestras Finland has, for instance. The "stated objective" isn't expressly to give the unemployed something to do; rather, the general idea is that people in the provinces have the right to culture just as much as people in the big cities. But the consequence is that in backwaters where a substantial percentage of people are unemployed, they still have access to healthy activities, and to community gathering places that are non-profit and not centered around drinking.
I don't think there's a firm consensus on the reasoning, but it's generally acknowledged that the Sch. 1 classification of the psychedelics was motivated to 1) quell their threat of cultural and political destabilization and 2) to keep hippies and blacks in check. The 60s were similar to Occupy Wall Street: there's major (valid) fear on the part of the establishment when a radically different movement picks up steam. Psychedelics were (rightly) considered a partial fuel to the new movement.

I also agree that the U.S. is much less of a monoculture now and people generally agree that others should be able to live, think, and believe whatever and however they want.
This is quickly changing.
Notes on Structured Programming: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd02xx/EWD249.PDF

Page 3:

Summarizing: as a slow-witted human being I have a very
small head and I had better learn to live with it and to
respect my limitations and give them full credit, rather
than to try to ignore them, for the latter vain effort
will be punished by failure.

The Humble Programmer: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd03xx/EWD340.PDF

Page 11:

The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly
limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches
the programming task in full humility, and among other
things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.

He expressed similar thoughts on other occasions. And there are others who express the same idea.
Why pay a premium when every phone runs the same apps?
Ask HN: What does hackernews use to manage database schemas?
What do you guys use to track your database schema changes? Personally I’ve used custom scripts and alembic before. Recently I’ve been looking at some products like redgate https://www.red-gate.com and https://flywaydb.org. I’ve also found smaller services: https://hyperclone.com and many stack threads: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/175451/how-do-you-version-your-database-schema. It seems like most of the solutions have a large overhead and there seems to be a lack of consensus about how to track schema changes. What do you guys do/use to manage database schemas?
>This is a paradox if you still pretend we live in a hierarchical meritocracy.

Not really, no. It's a paradox if you think a single-minded concentration on grades is the right strategy to rise to the top of a meritocracy. People skills are learned, and that's one of the things organizations like fraternities will teach you.
In what ways would this differ from Patreon?
This article could use some serious grammarly love. Its painfull two reed!
Just a guess but it could have something to do with the perceived language. PHP is something that is perceived to be easy to pick up and easy to work with. If you can't do something with it that becomes a language issue because you are smart enough to use such a "simple language". Haskell, on the other hand, is seen as this language for "smart people". If one can't figure out how to do something in Haskell it is easier to say that they just aren't smart enough for the language.
Sure...but my question remains: why were the comments flagged in the first place?
True, but a lot of those earlier examples relied on hand-labelled segmented images ("sky", "background", "person" etc.) whereas this could be directly used as an artist's tool without relying on academic data sets.

I'm personally hoping for some open-source code that will allow me to take photographs and game-engine stills and transfer the colour grading to enhance realism.
I’m pretty sure there is not nearly enough consensus on this to just casually assert it.
first off, linux is free software (a subset of open source) despite being considered "toxic" GPL is actually favors the creator quite a lot. (it is my suspicion that this fact is why it is labeled as toxic in the first place, but i digress) the copyleft aspect contractually obligates you to contribute back to the original project. this means that any company that uses your tech is effectively paying their staff to contribute to your project. this is a good thing as it prevents them from extracting value from the project.

linux is a great example of how a free software project can utilize corporate support to further its goals without becoming a victim of exploitation (unlike openssl, gnupg, &c.)
After the order mentioned in the article, I wonder if it will be. Since they mention a mix of 10 an 12 TB hard drives, we can assume the order was for around 9000 drives. At a cost of $0.03/GB (not taking into account shipping or taxes), you're looking at a 3 million dollar order.
This kind of answers the question I was wondering of "Who is 'Jepsen' and where are they getting funded from" at least partially.
Hey, thanks, will check it out.

These guys are pretty great too:

https://twitter.com/EmacsHaiku

https://twitter.com/ed1conf
Saving the video link to watch later.

I would like to see a compilation of ML applications that can be used in traditional companies. (e.g. retail, manufacturing, distribution, etc)
I remember when iPhone was kicking off and MSN Messenger and other popular desktop chat apps had crappy iPhone versions.

If only they kept at it they’d still be in play.