skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I understood, nobody pays for music any more.

My sister bought a Britney Spears cd back when she was popular. It didn't play easily due to garbage on the cd preventing computer playback. CDParanoia solved it, but still the point was "Dont Buy CDs".

That is the last time I remember anybody I know that bought music CDs. Of course, I know that plural of anecdote is not data, but it is simply the trend I have watched since the start of Napster.

For music, the name of the game is to search for "artist discography" on Piratebay or alike. Its the same for movies and video, and starting to be the same for books as well.

I propose that once full color e-ink displays are cheap, books will be hotter than movies and music.

Hmm. Piracy conjecture:

Let "Price" be "nominal cost, in USD" + "time expended in finding and downloading"

As popularity => infinity, price of digital object => 0$
$170k for a photography degree is asinine. I am a photographer, and the field is more like 90% business and 10% photography. If nothing else, the years of running the business have taught me that people don't necessarily want the ultra-artsy approach tendered by those liberal arts schools -- they will, most of the time, pick the standard, face-forward, simplistic pose.

I went to college and it sure wasn't for photography. Photography just happened. I have a BS in Computer Science, and I also have no debt resulting from it. Rather than pursuing a software developer job, which I expected I would be doing, I opened a photography business and have been quite comfortable. Software is now just my hobby, but it's a very useful one.

Knowledge of business and accounting will get you far further in almost any industry than a specialty degree will.
Have you thought about creating your own router out of an Hawkboard or something similar ? That's something I would be very interested in, but I'm on something else..
Duke Nukem 3D used a 2.5D engine; it was like Doom, in that the map was strictly 2D with ceiling and floor heights: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build_engine

I can't agree with you that FPSes haven't changed since then; it's only true if you are very selective about what you consider important about a FPS. What you have said implies that you don't care about story line, realism of physics simulation, gameplay, etc., which I'm quite certain is simply not objectively true of the gaming marketplace. Even if you think it's the "3D" that matters, then things were vastly better in Quake than Duke Nukem, where you could look directly up and down without bad distortion etc.

And then, one needs to ask, what quality is it of the 3D that matters? Simple things like decent texture scaling (trilinear filtered mipmapping, anisotropic filtering etc.) and antialiasing make a big difference, but are often only viable at high resolution in 6-month old games with the latest hardware, such are the demands of the processing.
19 people upvoted this? Did you even check? It has 0 content.

The 'meat' of the "article" is

webby# curl -O http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.2.0.tar.gz
webby# tar xvzf node-v0.2.0.tar.gz
webby# cd node-v0.2.0
webby# ./configure
webby# make
webby# make install

Which I think most people who can read docs can work out.
About 2 months ago I retired an old gateway PC that has 32 meg of memory and is from about 1990. Until the, it was running OpenBSD/pf as one of my main firewalls. I am sure it still boots. It was taken out of service as that particular internet line is not longer in use.

And I have a windows box currently running win 2k that dates from the days of windows NT 3.5. It is in daily use.
It changes to a Stop button because when you press Play again it will start playing the currently visible playlist/screen rather than the previous playlist.

So let's say the Play button works the way you want it to:

- You start playing a playlist. The Play button turns into a pause button

- You navigate to a different playlist. The pause button does not change to a Stop button.

- Push this pause button. The music "pauses" and the button changes to a Play button.

- Now push the Play button. What happens? Does it resume the previous playlist? Or does it start playing the currently visible playlist?

Anyway, I use the Play/Pause button on my keyboard.
Photography isn't really a liberal arts degree. It's pretty specialized.
Oh, i almost forgot the two HP200LX (dos) hand-helds that i have. One of them even has a lisp and a Turbo C compiler on it.
…and the groundbreaking 'Build' rendering engine was written by an 18-year-old kid!
I mean, they should have called the category "interactive maps" and then it would be fitting. You're not in a category of your own; you are the leader of the category.

Anyways, I meant no offense - I use your site regularly during hurricane season and sincerely enjoy it.
That is a lot of lenses.

I read the article one or two hours ago and the NYT has switched both the main article picture (it used to be the small one that can be seen once scrolling down) as well as the caption below the image.

I wonder why/how often they do that.
Call Of Duty Black Ops: Details, Killstreaks and Iview
Expected to be released on November 9th for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC, Call Of Duty: Black Ops is making the news all over the place. The PC multiplayer support will use Steamworks and Valve Anti-Cheat for DRM, in a version with dedicated servers as well as having full modding capabilities. Check out the killstreaks, the weapons and much more in this piece of news.<p>An interview with Josh Olin, where the Treyarch community manager answers questions about Call Of Duty: Black Ops, is also available.
.emacs.d is fairly new. I created my ~/site-lisp/ dir 15 years ago and just haven't felt the need to rename it to something "standard".
Amazon did announce personal profile pages, etc., but then pushed them into the background a bit. Some of the social groups are surprisingly active.

Someone's profile:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A2KEKKJ9CAC2KC/

Communities home page:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/tagging/communities/directory

Music community home page:

http://www.amazon.com/communities/directory/music/ref=tag_td...

A people affinity page, in this case, cats:

http://www.amazon.com/tag/cats/people/ref=tag_cdp_bkt_icus

Agree with your point that for now "it's a social network for ITMS". Seems a better way of thinking about it, and dovetails with defaulting to off and using ITMS account (a can of worms).
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If you had been following the issue back then, you would recall that Lomborg spent a good part of his book disputing the significance and credibility of 'climate change,' essentially suggesting that many adherents of the the theory preferred doom-mongering to solving any present problems. He and his book were extremely popular among skeptics at the time; I got tired of being (metaphorically) beaten over the head with it. Look at the media articles archived at the bottom of the wiki article for a list of contemporary articles documenting his popularity among skeptics.

By 2007 he had moderated this position substantially, but still held to the view that climate change was such a large-scale issue it was beyond our economic scope to really mitigate, and we should instead follow strategies of adaption. This latest news is noteworthy in that he is now saying that it can be mitigated, it's important enough to be mitigated, and that it won't be all that expensive to do so.

But hey, don't believe me. take it from Lomborg himself:

The Skeptical Environmentalist

In The Skeptical Environmentalist Bjørn Lomborg challenges widely held beliefs that the global environment is progressively getting worse. Using statistical information from internationally recognized research institutes, Lomborg systematically examines a range of major environmental issues and documents that the global environment has actually improved. He supports his argument with over 2900 footnotes, allowing discerning readers to check his sources.

and

Cool it - The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide To Global Warming

A groundbreaking book that transforms the debate about global warming by offering a fresh perspective based on human needs as well as environmental concerns.

Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered to stop global warming will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, are often based on emotional rather than strictly scientific assumptions, and may very well have little impact on the world's temperature for hundreds of years. Rather than starting with the most radical procedures, Lomborg argues that we should first focus our resources on more immediate concerns [...]

http://www.lomborg.com/publications/

The top headline on his news page is from the Guardian: 'Bjørn Lomborg: the dissenting climate change voice who changed his tune.'
Here's a table of tuition fees for her school
http://www.universities.com/edu/Brooks_Institute_of_Photogra...

It's 25K-26K per year, so even if she paid nothing out of pocket and had no financial aid, she'd owe slightly over $100K when she was done. And the rest of it has compounded.

But yeah, most people don't do the math and don't have a realistic view of their career path when they enroll in their programs. I think depression would be a lot more common, if they did...
I second that.. I'm trying to start my business with an old Dell bi-xeon server, one P3 733MHz and 3 other older computers. As far as they work fine, I use them to run web crawling, solr and hadoop.

They are very very helpful, and I plan to use them to the death before going live and have to spend any €€€. They are all in my kitchen, with a perfect Qnap NAS for the backups.
I don't think debt by itself can destroy a relationship. Lack of proper communication can. I had under $50k debt from my undergrad (international student, double the cost of tuition) and my wife had none. My masters was being paid by my employer while she would be taking about $80k in loans to pay for her medical masters. We were upfront to each other about our obligations and plans of repayment.

I've paid off almost all of my debt and she will take care of hers once she graduates. Even if we both had 100k+ in debt, it wouldn't make a huge difference to our standard of living. We'd simply be paying off debt instead of adding to our savings.
So one of the projects paying the rent this summer was working for a client which markets college degrees. They asked me to crunch some government data and figure out what degrees are worth on a per-major basis. While I'm mostly done and paid (yay), the project isn't live yet, or I'd show it off.

I think they'll be OK with me saying this much: the data do not agree with your conclusion, for any sensible value of "liberal arts."

Now photography, that is another story. My research methodology totally missed it as a major choice, because the obvious occupation (photographer) doesn't require a degree. Looking at the BLS source data though, egads, $170k to become a photographer is a bad call economically. The median annual salary (note: for photographers at all stages of their career) is $19k. The overwhelming majority are part time only. If you give generous assumptions as to future income growth, the NPV of being a photographer is $410k.

That compares disfavorably with every degree I actually have in the data set. (Including, most relevantly to her situation, the associate's degree you need to become an X-ray technician, which you can get for less than $5,000. Spend another $10,000 on camera lenses, bam, you're an X-ray technician doing something she loves as a hobby.)
Realistically, novice is more like platinum and below. Blizzard went to a lot of trouble to name everyone's ranks in a way to make them feel good even if they're bad. Unlike iCCup which ranked tons of people with grades like "D-"
Agreed. I'm a Platinum 1v1 player, and completely terrible.
What do you think of her portfolio?

http://www.allisonbrookephotography.com/#/client/content_pag...
Perhaps; I thought it peaked in quality of releases after 3.51 SP1.

Better than SCO Unix of the period as a desktop.
I'm sorry to say I should have written: "Perl and C++ are good languages to those who don't know better ones" instead. I've been able to dump Perl, but I'm currently stuck with C++ too (as an employee). Why do you think you can't replace it? What are you using C++ for?
The new main picture is more relevant to the story since it has the boyfriend in. The other picture looks like any of a million stock photos. I suspect the cleavage got it relegated too (though if it were the Daily Mail or New York Post, that'd get it promoted ;-)).
Android gains on Apple in U.S. mobile Web use
I can't tell whether you're trying to subtly troll hipsters here or if you really feel validated by Ping, and are smug about liking the kind of music which Alexandra Patsavas decides will be enjoyable to middle America.
Android Gains on Apple in Mobile Web Use (quantcast source)
The Philosophy of Ruby: A Conversation With Yukihiro Matsumoto (2003)
To me, this is foreign. If you love somebody, and I mean _truly love_, it doesnt matter how much money you owe, or what judgments are against you.

Those who I have been with (counting 2 now) I would have moved the world for. I only left the first one because I didn't think she even cared I was there (and her actions didnt show it).

If their marriage was a convenient way to get tax benefits and other marriage related tax burden reductions, so be it. Enter as a business arrangement, which is what he seemed to have done without understanding liabilities.
> Youtube's legal because of the DMCA.

Yet they still have been sued.
> As I understand it, the story on interop between the two styles is "don't go there".

Interop between Moose and legacy Perl 5 OO works just fine.
I supposed the system was at equilibrium without making the numbers. If it's not (as it seems) then sure, my reasoning is invalid and he's right, no problem.
How to do AB Testing using Google Website Optimizer
> Perl 6 is pre-release...

Rakudo Perl 6 has had 34 releases.

> It will pick up hype when it's 100% finalized....

That must be Perl 5's marketing problem then, because it's not finalized either.
I like what I see.
Integrating Core Data into your Three20 app
> ... truly modern languages like Ruby and Python have supplanted it.

In what ways?

Certainly not in testing culture, nor available libraries, nor the power of features such as language extensions or object systems, nor in flexibility.

Screencasts, perhaps?
The first time I read it I was in disbelief. I actually checked if the mail was fake or true, turns out it's true.

The second time I read it I actually laughed.
In the last picture what is the "checkbox" column for?
people don't necessarily want the ultra-artsy approach tendered by those liberal arts schools -- they will, most of the time, pick the standard, face-forward, simplistic pose.

This is a problem with most practical, art-based practices (except at the high end). The customers don't have a good critical eye and will frequently choose a photographer or artist by price, prestige, recommendation, or by merely liking one of their earlier pieces - rather than on any technical merits.

I suspect someone with no photographical experience but strong business savvy could make a good go of being a professional photographer with the right equipment and just a little training in basic technique. I'd love to watch a TV show about such an experiment - it'd be like Faking It.

(And before I'm accused of cheapening a whole industry with the last paragraph, I believe the same about my two industries - publishing and programming. There are more than a few "copy and paste" developers making good money out there. It ain't noble, but it can work.)
Sounds like somebody's startup idea. Any idea what the software he needs is?
This is so cool. My partner and I play at least an hour a day of 2v2 at the end of our work sessions. It'd be a lot of fun, AND cool to meet other startups.

AND its hosted at Justin.tv! Damn you San Francisco, damn you.

*We're not in SF :(
Completely agree. It's there just to enrich the experience for iTunes store users.
> That is a layman.

So, are you a lawyer, or just a purveyor of FUD and ad hominems (literally -- you're saying I'm wrong because of some property about me rather than a weakness in my argument)?

> It hardly seems more clear than the old privacy policy.

It's more clear on the basis that twelve other products' privacy policies have been rolled into this one, and this one is still substantially shorter than it was (which would be more clear if we could compare before and after side-by-side rather than with the strikethroughs inlined). You now have to look in fewer places to get an understanding of the totality of Google's stance regarding privacy and your information.

> However, unless they have bored employees with nothing to do . . .

Part of the legal team's job is to periodically revisit external legal documents and make sure they convey the messages they're meant to as well as possible. It's extraordinary that you can see the sinister in something so innocuous.
I would be fascinated to hear from them. I know lots of developers don't use Visual Studio for some reason or another (I'm one of them), but I've never heard anyone call Visual Studio a poor IDE.
Bieber More Popular Than God On Twitter. World Ends.
Why no 1v1?
We might do a simultaneous East coast satellite section of the tournament if you are in NYC to open up the event to New York startups. Talking to some friends about hosting in their office. Stay tuned.
I too will shamelessly plug my site (yet again). Try out http://like.fm. Still very, very new and I'm only plugging it because.. well.. lots of press about Ping right now. You can follow blogs as well as people, and you can embed your profile in Facebook. (It's also free, and works across iTunes, Winamp, Pandora, and YouTube).
I think the point is warranted. Blizzard has some pretty onerous terms, like the necessity of going through Battle.net and requiring permission from them to run a tournament. Justin.tv probably got sanction, but having to do it really ruins the neighborhood casualness of it.

Starcraft is great, but people should play StarCraft 1 broodwar with LAN instead. Most StarCrafters agree that it's the better game at the moment.

Of course this is just my minor feelings on this point. Startupcraft sounds like fun and good luck to everyone involved!
I used VS for the better part of my 10-year stint at a BFE, and it served rather well. However, i would be reluctant to go back to it having spent serious quality time with emacs.

The plus about it is that it has all the stuff that you need to build the final payload/program/assembly/whatever. My discomfort with it these days would be that it requires too much mouse work.

(And best-of-breed sounds very BFE, or something that Gartner would say, hardly the people I would look to to know what is going on).
Startups are about putting together the right teams, and we think Starcraft is more interesting in team games.
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1. You can't press play again, it's just faded out.

2. What other playlist? I'm in the iTunes store. I haven't given any indication that I want to or even could specify another playlist to play.

2. That's exactly how it should work anyway. If I want to change the playlist, that's a different kind of event altogether from just pausing. Having one UI element try and control both is confusing. In this case, a dedicated stop button would actually be useful, as that could distinguish between pausing the current playlist and stopping it altogether. But removing relevant pause functionality just because you're in a different program section? Pointless.
Don't tell Steve jobs...
Seems like this author just doesn't realize how painful migrating to OAuth is for a service provider. Of course xAuth isn't a real security improvement to HTTP Basic. But it forces everyone to support auth that isn't inherently broken. So once Twitter stops receiving many xAuth requests, they can just turn it off.

The migration to OAuth 2 will be interesting though. All the existing clients will have the right kind of structure to plug in drop in a replacement flow, but I bet there will still be a bunch of complaints. "OMG I don't want to use HTTPS! This is so hard! Who cares that I can use curl to debug now, I want programming to be drag and drop." Haters gonna hate.
Wow, too bad I am not around. :(
Any plans to make this a recurring event?
Also, post the replays!
Love is a very important part of a relationship, but it's not the whole story. Many times we end up relationships with people who make our hearts flutter, but who ultimately are bad for us. Marrying someone who is so deep in the red is a really big deal. Some people are comfortable assuming a great deal of debt - I'm not, and I could never be with someone who had that much hanging over their head.
This is a joke right...riiiiiight??? Who knows it could be real. Look at Chinese Democracy, that eventually got released.
I wonder if engineers are more susceptible to this situation, often because our occupation doesn't require us to frontload with student debt and it's easy for your salary to escalate within a couple years. In other words, it's very easy to be a programmer in your mid-20s with absolutely no debt. Dating someone whose debt situation is very different than yours seems likely.
I don't understand why it took over 3 hours to simulate 1000 iterations, I'm sure this could be done much more quickly, even with perl.

Wish the author would post source code.
I wrote a simple script to post an RSS feed that my university uses to twitter. (Actually, I hacked up Stammy's It currently has about 190 followers, but it used Basic Auth so it stopped working on Thursday.

Rather than switching to OAuth, I'm tempted to just write a mechanize script to make posts using the web interface. Has anybody tried this approach?