skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The artists get 15 cents of every dollar? Fuck. That. I will continue not buying music until I'm able to pay the artists directly. Someone please tell me what the record labels have done to deserve 75% of the cut. The majority of the music I listen to I found on my own either by pirating music or finding it on my own on the web. We haven't "won" until these middle men are cut completely out of the loop.

And to be honest, even then I probably wouldn't pay for music. I wlll pay for t-shirts, stickers, or concert tickets, but not songs these artists couldn't give away when they were first starting out. One of the most enduring examples of hypocrisy in this whole music pirating debacle will be Metallica raging against the very practice that made them popular in the first place - people dubbing tapes of their music for their friends.

The only thing that makes music worth anything is popularity and the only way to make music popular is to give it away for free in the beginning. Given that there's an infinite supply, how does it make any sense that it can be worthless in one instant and $1 a pop in another? This insanity needs to stop, and I guarantee that it will some day. The easier it becomes to produce and promote music, games, movies, software, etc, the harder and harder it is going to be to justify charging anything for it.
You got me thinking... I'd like 4qe.net if I could.
my new favorite Yegge post. very funny. and so true. :)
If record labels do not provide value then why would artists sign with them in the first place?
Holy crap. He just tied the knot in prose form:

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Tying_the_Knot
Freelance Programmer and Freelance developer
there is no cabal
Looks like alpha beta with a good evaluation function, move ordering, and a changing depth parameter (not sure about this one, though).
Live forever?
I'll try to go point by point.

* pre-show assistance may be available in 2011 for selected presenters. We're thinking of doing a bunch of practice sessions on Monday and Tuesday before the main event.

* re:tables, it really depends on the startup. The main purpose is so that people can easily find you when they want to talk to you. Some startups just show up with themselves and a laptop for demos. That's totally cool. Others bring a big shebang. That's fine too. It totally ranges and usually depends on where they are at in terms of lifecycle. Honestly, this is more about susbtance than style.

* Additional company reps are $30 each although I'm considering of waiving that for the 1st attendee after the presenter (presenter is ALWAYS free to attend of course). We might do more than that but it'll depend on what we can line up in terms of sponsor dollars. Even if we can't, it's only $30 per person. Compared to other so called "inexpensive" events, we're one or more orders of magnitude cheaper. And company reps have an easy time getting approved to attend - we've never barred startup personnel UNLESS they are consultants (like PR firm reps or something) in which case we have a discussion about it.

Hope that long winded answer helps. This stuff should go online in the near future via a FAQ page. You can find the FAQs for 2010 at http://2010.startupriot.com

Thanks for the questions!
Gartner: By 2015, one in ten of your online “friends” won’t be human
Anonymous flirting: LikeALittle
An explanation or more details of each feature that PRO differs from Basic in the pricing page would be nice. Specially the "iAd Functionality".

And the plugin is just for safari? You are ignoring a huge slice of potential users. No idea if it's worth it developing the plugin for other browsers though.
At first I was very wary of this. These people believe this, what's wrong with that?

Then I had a closer look, and I guess it's easily codified for me. Something is offensive if a group of people want to remove rights from another group, when the first group have those rights and don't benefit from the second losing them, except in an abstract, "It devalues us as beings worth of those rights!" kinda way.

Which, if you look at it, is also saying "We want to be better by having X, if you let them have X, we won't be better!" OR, in even simpler terms, "They're not as good as us. Fuck'em."
What's a passing grade in 1895?
UC Davis study finds that the cause of autism may be faulty mitochondria
Isn't this exactly what contractors are for?
Assuming who I think it is, your mom isn't the only one. A lot of their subsidiaries are being sold off. I'm assuming less attractive ones are being shut down if they can't find buyers. I'm consulting for a firm that has bought one of their subsidiaries as a new business unit.

Much of it has to be done before the end of the year, per the US government. Haven't dug into why that is the case just yet, but I'm aware of much going on with said health insurer.
I think you're taking the article way too literally, especially considering who the author is (almost all of Yegge's rants are sarcastic or contain large amounts of sarcasm.) The dig isn't on Haskell, it's more on "industry" if anything.

I read it as more a satirical lamentation regarding the relatively low adoption of Haskell outside of academic-leaning circles. I, for one, upvoted the article and think that the upvotes are justified. I felt that the article held literary value and espoused an interesting and humorous (if a bit brash) take on this situation.

If you google around, it would seem that most professional Haskell programmers are PhD holders, and I think the point he is trying to convey is that this is a somewhat unfortunate situation given the power and potential of the language.
Cyber Monday breaks record, as online spending surpasses $1B
I agree that this seems to be exactly in the style of an Onion article; however, I think The Onion has put out some hilarious stuff. For example:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/fuck-everything-were-doing-...
The value that record labels provide is distribution and advertising the question should be is all that distribution and advertising worth so much of a percentage.

There is a reason so many bands continue touring year after year other than the want to play live, that is how they get paid.

There is starting to be a rise in indie and self published bands through many online services (one of the first big ones was cdbaby, which a hner (sivers I believe) made and sold) and other things which may be the life of new bands, pop music and such will probably be burdened forever with large record labels.
How can you call Grooveshark part of a stable new music ecosystem when UMG threatens them with "legal jihad"? See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1660645

And how many thousands of dollars does it still cost to fill up, say, a 64GB iPod with iTunes music? It's still unreasonable to expect digital music customers to go entirely legit.
Foursquare: Despite 5 Million Users, It’s Still Dumb
Social Media and The Sharing Economy [infograph]
Amen on that. I figured I'd need 6 months starting about 3 years ago. Things are really starting to come together now though.
I'd be more interested in something like this if it acted as training wheels for my Objective C learning experience, rather than a complete replacement.

The mechanics seem solid, and there's plenty of room to play, but I'm not sure there's room to be unique.

Are there any success stories of app store rankings or new businesses being built as a result of this engine?
I have to admit that at first I thought this was completely satirical. This is, I'm sure, at least partially due to the fact that I clicked this link directly after the "Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Programmer Who Gives a Shit" link. The other part due to how unbelievable I find this actual tial to be.
I honestly don't think I could live in this country if this sort of thing became the norm for bus and rail travel. I take the train every day to work, each way and back, and given the crowding and delays, it would be so infeasible to have this sort of security theatre when no such threat to these transit systems exist.
I know at least a few people who had bots written in/were prepared to write bots in Clojure. They didn't end up adding support for it, however. I still can't wait for the next contest—wouldn't Pentarow be cool? Or Pente?

Anyway, cheers to Waterloo for putting this on again!
> Do you think the nuclear launch codes should be published? (of course not right? who would do that?)

I believe he spoke about wrongly classified materials. I should hope that neither he, nor anyone else, would think that nuclear launch codes were an example of something wrongly classified.
In Praise of the Tumblelog
> I get the feeling these can do things Random Access Lists can't

It seems like you came to this topic without knowing a lot about purely functional data structures already. It's good to learn and explore new things, but from this comment ("support both data and code"?) as well as other comments of yours on this thread and in your code ("I can't really explain it yet, but it works", "I didn't want to weird people out", the assumption that building a data structure out of cons cells makes it different from most data types, supporting your asymptotic analysis by claiming that "it works, at least on my computer", or noting that the reason it works is "mathematical" (yes, mathematics is a language for reasoning about structure, including algorithm correctness), claiming that balanced binary search trees don't have "predictable structure", etc.) makes me suspect of your intuition about this data structure about which you are clearly very excited -- unless you can provide a reason why you have this feeling that doesn't just say what's good about your data structure, but explains what's lacking in Okasaki's

It's clear you don't have a lot of experience with the design of functional data structures. I think if you read some of Okasaki's work, you will be better able to communicate statement like "trellises can support both data and code" using prose that other programmers can understand.

In this particular case, I suspect my confusion about your feeling is the same as that of somnium in reply to your comment. Okasaki's random access lists are a polymorphic data structure. They can hold anything -- data, code, linguine, fettuccine, bikini. They support pushing an element onto (or removing an element from) the front of the list in O(1) worst-case time, even when used functionally (this has a special meaning here other than "in a functional language" or "in a way that is not broken". Compare "confluently presistent", which is weaker.) They also support lookup (that is, nth) and update of the ith element in O(min(i,lg n)) time.

I do not think your data structure supports all of these operations with the same time bounds, and it's unclear what is unique about its ability to "support both data and code".
Ask.com laid off search engineers within the last month.

Limewire had a big judgment against it recently. They have another product in the works, but they may be doing some downsizing.

Sorry for the lack of sources. I'll try to come back with them later.
Help Save The World This Weekend, Literally
Although I cannot speak for Gamesalad in particular, don't underestimate the ability of tools to be able to create some great games, even in the absence of raw programming power.

At Blizzard, rumor has it that the programming team calls it a day long before any game is released (sometimes a year in advance) because their map editors are so powerful that the game designers don't really need anything else.

There are 3rd party "maps" out there for games like Warcraft or Starcraft that implement an entirely different genre of games. I fondly remember playing a racing game inside Warcraft 3.

Rules are expressed in a manner similar to what I've seen of Gamesalad -- they can indeed be quite powerful.
Not always true...
Well, didn't they relent and allow the Flash-to-ObjectiveC compiler through?
CCIE Pre-Qualification Test for Security
# Exam Number/Code : 350-018
# Exam Name : CCIE Pre-Qualification Test for Security
# Questions and Answers : 312 Q&As
# Update Time: 2010-11-03
Yes, they did: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/packagerforiphone/

I would think the market should be responsible for judging quality, not a sole company. On the app store you can request a refund, or give a review as well.
Dear Amazon: Cancel My Account, You Bums
Greetings,

I am a multi-year Amazon prime member and kindle user. I've spent several thousand dollars with Amazon over this time. You have a fantastic shopping tool and before today, I believed, a fantastic brand.

I thought you understood what the internet can mean for our society and our lives. Selling books and shoes is only the tip of the iceberg. The internet has the power to force transparency in the halls of power. Is it not self evident, no matter your political affiliation, that waning transparency relates to higher corruption and hurts all citizens as a result? Exactly who are you counting on to keep our elected officials honest these days - Fox or CNN? Some one has must step up to do the job that our institutions won't.

Your behavior today was unacceptable. How can you be so close to a rare source of positive change in our world and roll over so quickly? Your business is built on high availability, distributed data. He is leveraging this very thing to bring freedom through accountability. Isn't this worth supporting or at minimum keeping a channel open by accepting payment for services rendered? Don't you understand the long term implications of your actions? You must. This saddens me. God help us all if this is what an organization that "gets it" decides is in their best interest.

You are, for the time being, still free to do what you choose. But so am I and I won't support you. Cancel my account you bums.

Johnny
It’s certainly better than most of the stuff out on BitTorrent.

This is a lie. I have never not gotten 320kbps or FLAC from BitTorrent. In fact, I've never even seen the option to get lower quality. With people happily sharing uncompressed Blue-Ray rips, the 300M for a FLAC album is nothing.

I guess it depends where you hang out. I have never searched for music on TPB.

(BTW, fun fact... there are standards for pirated content: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene. If your torrent isn't good enough quality, you'll be made fun of or something.)
Of course the complexity will increase as a function of the number of features.

However, I'd make the following claims:

(1) Some of the functions are simply not that used. You can get by perfectly well without knowing what double and triple clicks on the home button, for example, If you don't know they exist, you will never even notice.

(2) iOS has less features than Android and arguably this makes it somehow less powerful but also less confusing for my mom (e.g. no task manager, no intents).

(3) Switching to a Mac was actually quite challenging coming from PC land ("where's maximize?", "where's a working Alt-Tab?", etc). I'd say the usability still kicks in as far as how easy it is to do your job for most after the learning curve has passed. Your mileage may vary, but I find myself enjoying using my Mac more than I ever did using Windows on my PC for usual tasks, and that's part of what makes it usable for me. I'd expect a similar phenomenon with iOS.
Google wins email, apps contract with U.S. GSA
"lets me create automated triggers like 'send this email when user is added to list"

This look a lot like an Autoresponder feature, of which it is already provided for in MailChimp and CampaignMonitor. Also, it helps to provide your contact details in the profile, so help can find the way to you. :)
"It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy."

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2032304,0...
Amazon Pulls Plug on Wikileaks
The subtext of your comment was ambiguous until I stumbled upon this little gem on your website: http://rickbranson.com/ptw/

Your unfunny, offensive, 'parody' page, full of 'n-bombs' and a picture that is nothing if not racist, tidily explains your summarily trollish and unintelligent comment.
See also the author's earlier articulate, intelligent, and naturally controversial defense of Wikileaks, which depends on the crucial distinction between the (more or less) permanent state apparatus (whose agents are unelected and whose actions are often secret) and the temporary government power, vested in the US in elected representatives, which imperfectly harnesses it. It ends with this:

"Of course, those jealously protective of the privileges of unaccountable state power will tell us that people will die if we can read their email, but so what? Different people, maybe more people, will die if we can't."

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/11/ov...
clickable:	http://www.ironode.com
Comcast has been laying off people (learned about it through a friend who was laid off from Comcast). Not much media on it, but I believe the layoffs are part of this: http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=200690&s...
You keep saying 'I can code'. So code. Don't wait for someone else to give you permission to do it at a desk they provide.

Build something. Get your name out there, and then you don't have to hide behind an anonymous throwaway account. The world isn't waiting to discover your greatness. It's waiting for you to show it.

Your at a defining moment of your life, were you'll find out if you have what it takes to be a real developer that creates, or just someone else's tool.
Kinect Library for Processing
Chicken noodle soup recipe
Did it become Google Refine? Its a downloadable app that creates a local webserver to run in a browser.

http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/
I stop being able to tell the difference at 200ish kbps for mp3, 130ish for Ogg. Anything above that, I'm just deaf to.
I wrote you a short letter
Ning - http://ning.com/ - Palo Alto, CA

Looking for various types of hackers:

- PHP/Javascript hacker, ideally pretty good with HTML/CSS also. This is the team I'm on -- remote working is a possibility.

- Java hacker, good with web services, databases, algorithms. On-site in Palo Alto, CA, or Seattle, WA. (Not certain if we're hiring in Seattle).

- Analytics hacker, good with Hadoop, data mining, web analytics. On-site in Palo Alto, CA.

Other teams are hiring also: http://about.ning.com/careers/openings.php

Email pp@(the obvious domain).
There's a nice summary of the paper here: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2010/11/availability-in-glo...
"At Grooveshark, you can sample any song you want before you buy." Inaccurate, grooveshark is a subscription based streaming service not a store.
Coveting possessions is unhealthy.
It's not the music customers who need to change, it's the law. Honestly, I see your argument about filling a 64 GB iPod, but it's a bit of a straw man. The average person doesn't even know that many songs, I have 300 GB of music at home and yet all the songs I want to hear fit in 10 GB.
My own understanding of what "firing" meant was termination because, essentially, the employer didn't like the employee anymore, usually because they did something "wrong". Whereas if a batch of employees had to be let go, ostensibly purely for financial reasons, nothing very personal or direct, then they are "laid off", not fired. Every once in a while I hear somebody say fire when I think it was layoff, and it irks me a little. Firing generally means "you suck" whereas laying off means "we suck" or "the economy sucks". I hope that's how we collectively use those terms anyway. Because if we instead use them to mean the same thing, it's a waste of words. A distinction without a difference.

(Not criticizing what you said directly, just reacting to that term.)
Another incorrect article by Wired.
So it's not clear to me: what is this app? Is it a text document? Did this group really go through development efforts to build an app as, basically, an ad?

If so, I think people are misunderstanding the point of "there's an app for that".
This is why I buy from Bandcamp (http://bandcamp.com/) whenever possible. They take 15% (or 10% if the artist has made over $5000) off of the top, and the rest goes to the artists.

They also have a really nice HTML5 music player, and let you download things in FLAC (or almost any other format you might imagine). I spent probably about $100 on music last year total, and I've easily spent 3-4x that this year on Bandcamp alone because they make it so easy.
I heard the same thing said about the atrocious security theatre at airports, especially the really busy ones like O'Hare. It was going to be temporary, I heard, because there was no practical way it could be permanent. It's been 9 years. Feels pretty permanent to me, as much as I wish that it didn't. I'm afraid at this point the question is whether we're too late with our outrage (or perhaps if the present outrage is sufficient, which it probably won't be.)
The 30 Steps to Mastery
Of Classes and Procedures
Ask HN: How to determine market size?
What are some methods for determining the size of a specific market? For instance, I am attempting to determine the number of individuals who visit gaming resource sites (think: gamespot, ign, etc.) each month.

While I am familiar with sites such as alexa and quantcast that show traffic on an individual basis, I cannot find a method of conducting more broad analysis.

Any ideas?
I know it worked for me personally, since amazon mp3 is around, I have no needed to look elsewhere. I do however find it annoying to have to keep a VPN going in the US to download music from Amazon in Canada. The restriction is ridiculous because it provides no real safety because there is no alternative for users. They will pirate instead. It's just dumb politics.

The Canadian version of the RIAA is even dumber than was originally though possible.
Does it cover the vulnerabilities listed in OWASP Top 10 for 2010?

http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Top_Ten_Projec...

It would be useful if you can illustrate how IronNode can cover these vulnerabilities.

Why is it a must for new user sign up to be restricted to just that domain? Who are you targeting? Ok, if I have just one domain. But if I manage multiple domains for my clients, and it's not possible for me to setup email for those domains. I guess I can't use your service. I think Google Webmaster Tools took the right approach to allow users to add domain instead.
Here's an alternate view. Practice methods matter a great deal because our biology allows us to be extremely adaptive. However, not everybody's biology is identical and those differences will dominate in competitions between groups of highly motivated and well coached individuals. Phelps is a particularly clear example:

Phelps, the six-times Olympic swimming champion, has size 14 feet, which act like flippers to propel him through water. He is 6ft 4in tall but has arms that span 6ft 7in from fingertip to fingertip. “If you’re putting a human being together from science this is what you want,” said Rowdy Gaines, the winner of three Olympic swimming gold medals in 1984.

Phelps is also faster at processing lactic acid, the fluid which makes muscles ache, than any other known human.

After a race, most swimmers measure a lacticity of between 10 and 15 millimoles per litre of blood. Phelps’s count after breaking a world record last year was 5.6. Genadijus Sokolovas, the Team USA physiologist, has measured 5,000 international swimmers and failed to find another with a post-race lacticity count of less than 10.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-makes-...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article555183.ece
Well I'm not so sure. I have lots of respect for digital watermarking methods.
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I've already been opting out of flying. If these checkpoints were everywhere, i'd opt out of citizenship.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how
true it is that most people overestimate what they can
accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can
achieve in a decade.

-Tony Robbins