skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to agree with Einstein. Since the moment people started thinking, they've attributed to randomness that which they don't understand. I'll certainly admit the possibility, but to say definitively that some things are simply unpredictable just seems too arrogant.

On the other hand, that has nothing to do with free will. Even if true randomness exists, and we suppose that even the ability to act randomly would not fall under most's definition of "free will".
I use DynDNS.org mail relay and Godaddy.com mail relay to send out messages rather then sending them out myself.

I store every message in the database, then I have a script that runs to check for new messages. I track if there is an error in sending and I use a different mail relay if the message failed to send.

Centralizing the mail system has been a huge pain relief. I was sending mail out from each script that needed to send mail, now I have more control and a central point of failure if there is a problem. Plus I can schedule mail such as reminders that need to be sent off in the future.

I do mail this way because I work for a company that sends out there own mail and it is a huge hassle. People click on the "Spam" button even on email technical support and billing receipt messages. They just do not care. I have spent hundreds of hours on mail over the last few years and would be pretty happy to never send one out myself though my own IP address.
TRWTF is this:

for (String s : args[0].split("\\s+"))
System.out.println(s);

which is exactly the same as:

System.out.println(args[0]);

(redacted)
I know for a fact one can play Starcraft and get with girls. One of my college roommates did both at the same time. I wish I were joking there.
Offer both (monthly billing and annual invoicing) and see which one works better for you. Neither are hard or expensive to setup.

Until you have a proven and reliable service that adds value to business owners, I expect most people will opt for monthly billing. It helps with their cash flow and allows them to cancel at an earlier stage.

Hence, it is in your interest to try and achieve yearly lockdown whenever possible, even if this means a hefty discount (on the bright side, this also means less admin for you and long-term payment upfront). Once people start using your product, and if it services thier needs, they will be less inclined to leave, especially if they have invested time and energy in setting things ups and creating their workflow around the product.
It's certainly not entirely luck. There's a literal 0% chance I'll ever win.
So you're saying that XSLT makes the simple things fun and the complex things terrible?
I quite like their attitude, personally.
I think it's a little misleading, because whilst mininova is arguably the most popular torrent site itself, thepiratebay's tracker is the most used.
Joost rocks
I'd wish people stop post all crappy blogposts about shallow language-comparisons.

Saying language X does Y in 4 lines instead of language Zs 5 lines just doesn't say much unless you put it in a bigger perspective.

(And I like Python very much and hate Java).
Going in the City (a mobile app helped me pee)
I can see that metadata about the movies becomes worthless, because there is already a wealth of data about each movie entity in the dataset. However, metadata about the users should be fruitful since each user has fairly few data points to use for prediction.

Take for example two users who have each rated only Wall-E, and they both rated it a 5. Now, given Jet Li's "The One", what prediction do you give for each user? It is unlikely that two real people with this one data point on Wall-E would have the same outcome on "The One", so any additional data that can help to statistically separate the people can only help your case. For example, is the person male/female? What are the person's favorite genre's (something netflix collects), even things like did the person sign up for 6-at-a-time or 2-at-a-time might correlate slightly.
Piratpartiet 2008!
[jdale@localhost ~]$ java -cp . Test "foo bar baz"
foo
bar
baz
URL is same (http://brizzled.clapper.org/id/75).

Also, I have experienced this myself. Submitted an article and found it had been submitted ~1-2hr before/after by another (so usually would delete article I submitted).
The HN points system is an efficient way of filtering articles and comments - valued items quickly reach the top of a page/thread (usually). Even if it is broken in some ways, it is better to have it than not.
No, the url is different, which is why it got past the dupe-detection.

The original post's url is actually (http://www.clapper.org/bmc/blog/id/75), which just redirects to the current post's url. Same content, different url.

But yeah, it's a dupe. There should be a way to report this (similar to "flag"), and then the admins can merge the two topics.
its already on his page
http://www.research.att.com/~yehuda/index_pubs.html

4th one down
8tracks.com - Legal (legally sharing music)
Oh, good point. Cheers.

I then submit my Groovy solution:

args[0].split().each { println it }
>"An objective of the compulsory license is to ensure that a listener's experience is similar to traditional radio and essentially non-interactive (i.e., you can't hear a specific song when you want it), so as not to substitute for music purchase."

If the legal environment that these laws (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) are trying to create is actually going to be, this sounds like it could be a great idea.

Otherwise, it seems like obeying the law is trying to win a swim race in shackles.
Teams that play together, stay together. It is all about the relationship people have with one another. We all have different strengths and weaknesses and essentially it is about knowing each other well enough to compensate for one and other, know what people can and cannot do, and create unity through this diversity and iteratively build on competencies. That is how great teams are built, and great things are made.

Articles like this in essence create a divide in thinking (them/us, execs/techs, etc.), which maybe reflective of some big work places where people work with strangers, but which do not have to exist (especially in smaller businesses).

Think of the early days of many of the great companies today. They often had people with diverse talents, and created great things because of harmony rather than divide.
Pandora: Giant of Internet Radio Nears Its 'Last Stand'
Google Privacy Practices Worse Than ISP Snooping, AT&T Charges
the question of free will is a foolish way of phrasing things that leads to circular logic. free will is what the process of optimizing a decision tree feels like when you are the one doing the optimizing.
JITed languages typically don’t perform as well as statically compiled languages

Did he mean to put the word statically there?
Why is it on the page three times?
it's not even that it is boring. it's that it is not really a game. MMO's tap into the same compulsion that cults often do, put a little number next to someone's name and they will kill themselves trying to make it higher (or lower as the case may be). In the case of WoW, this has been perfected to an art. You're always just a little bit of playtime away from making some number related to your character go higher. It's basically a drug.
seems like it should be higher. if even 10% of subscriptions are active accounts that's 180 million a year. doesn't seem like it should cost 6.6 million a month plus to run the servers and pay staff.
That makes me really really sad :( Pandora is one of the rare services which just scream quality. The service itself is great, the web interface is slick, the ads are slick, the iPhone app is amazing.
The premise of your argument is that it is "cheap and easy" to get a certificate signed by a CA trusted by Firefox and IE for a "bankofamerica.com" domain.

It is not "cheap and easy" to get that certificate. As evidence for that argument, I put forth the fact that no criminal has ever managed to do it.

Now you're starting to see why certificates are so important to security of SSL!
"true genius" is a little much. Maybe appropriate for the guy who started the whole concept with "asshat."
Among other things Pandora is good at is getting good PR when needed to help in it's Washington Lobbying.

This is at least the second time they've threatened to pull the plug to get positive legislation passed.

I agree they are a great service. It's nice to see even small tech companies take the fight to Washington (instead of ignoring them ala Intel, Microsoft and Google)
I would gladly pay either a subscription or a per song fee to Pandora. At .2 cents per song it would be worth it.
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Please no. The Pandora founder has been through so much and I love their service.
I can't for the life of me understand why SoundExchange thinks that charging exorbitant rates that force all web streaming music sites out of business will help its artists make more money. 8/100 of a cent x millions of songs played is infinitely better than 19/100 of a cent x ZERO songs played. Are they stupid or stubborn?
It's a little surprising how many of the Python-favoring features are already present in C# 3.0; closures, syntactically clean properties, and a nicer array syntax; between the yield keyword and LINQ, you get something close to generator syntax; reflection is pretty painless; and while there's no dynamic typing, there's a convenient type inference mechanism.

My personal pet peeve against Java is the lack of multiline string literals, also available in both Python and C#.

Java has some syntactic catching up to do.
Sounds like they want to force web radio to run more intrusive advertising or to charge fees.

And if web radio won't, then they see it as giving away songs too cheaply that they want to artificially keep high-priced.
Convection cells are the baseline mixing, but any activity in the sun, and sun spots are far from quiet areas, despite being dark, would cause additional mixing.

Why would you say sunspots would inhibit the flow?

"magnetic flux tubes" would not arise from nothing, they would arise from large amounts of ions moving (making an electrical current), and therefor mixing the suns layers.
I think it comes back to not really wanting the internet to happen. And not necessarily irrationally.

The recording industry world has been in a pretty sweat spot. The current (& past) world creates a substantial income built on 1. selling albums, 2. strict adherance to a 90/10 rule (revenue/artists), 3. Periphery industries that support 1 & 2 (eg: movie soundtracks, radio).

Almost any step is a step away from that cushy world. So any slowing of change is good.
I remain confused by why people believe that "the community" should be able to set price caps on artwork owned by corporations. If Warner Music wants to charge $5 a play for Mylie Cyrus, I'm certainly not going to pay it, but how is it "wrong"?

I'm surprised and happy that Pandora and Last.fm can exist at all, but I don't understand what entitles them to exist. We don't have a "right" to consume major label music.
I found the book very fascinating. It was one of the inspirations for the technological future portrayed in the Matrix. I wonder if it is getting old now though- some of the cutting edge phenomenon he wrote about is much more developed today.

Ray Kurzweil (not very openly) critiques these kinds of books as lacking scientific backing for their claims.
Mnesia performance basics
I share your peeve. A request for multiline string literals is over 7 years old...

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4472509

Reading the Sun bug database, it's clear who's held back Java's functionality and stability over the years: xxxxx@xxxxx, who on this issue back in 2001 wrote "This is yet another request for a syntactic sugar to save some user from typing. It's not worth it."

I hope for the good of the platform xxxxx has been let go since then.
SIGGRAPH 2008 Papers
So write something that gives that bigger perspective.
...and you've just made the comment that makes me highly doubt that this is anything but a PR coup for the company, in their efforts to lobby the bureaucrats.

With millions of active users, I don't think Pandora would just fold up their tent and go home. Like the story says, there are lots of potential ways to monetize the service.
I disagree. I don't find a few Google ads offensive at all. It's not like it's DevShed.com or About.com, and covered from top to bottom in flashy mis-matched ad banners and towers. It's one strip of plain text ads. The overall feel of the site is a bit strange...a bit cramped and claustrophobic, perhaps. But the ads aren't the problem. I suspect the ads would fade out of focus if the site had a more open feel.
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"A form of search that depends on design" -- BooYarr
Here is my response to:
"Startup Ideas we would like to fund"

Particularly number 16:
"A form of search that depends on design"

Try it out! It grows on you, trust me.

Any feedback would be appreciated!!
Agreed. If I ever find xxxxx@xxxxx in a dark alley, he/she better watch out.
Not just string literals - but a better literal syntax for maps and arrays would be really nice.
If our start up works, it will primarily be due to luck and timing.

I certainly agree with points 1, 2, and 3, but I think you're forgetting a very important point: many of us are doing startups because we love the environment and type of work.

We wake up every day excited to work on TicketStumbler. Sure you have bad days or even rough weeks, but overall I'm much happier than I've ever been at a more formalized job. I think the last formalized job Tom had was "grocery bagger" so I can't really speak for him.

This certainly doesn't apply to everyone at a startup, but it applies to a lot of us.
Quiet or I'll 4 pool ling rush you.

Did he picture her as Kerrigan or the Zerg Queen?
Sure, but couldn't the man in the middle just as easily provide a non-SSL server? Or are you assuming that the user is accessing a bookmarked https:// url (in which case the browser should already know the correct certificate)?
"...should be able to set price caps on artwork owned by corporations"

Because copyright protection is not a right, but a limited privilege granted by the United States Constitution and intended to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts", not to make a sure $ for some corporation.

Hence the idea of compulsory licensing, for example. If the cost of the license, though, is prohibitive, it has the same effect of refusing a license, which (one could argue) would interfere with the progress of science and useful arts.
from http://www.paulgraham.com/mit.html:

> You know from an early age that you'll have some sort of job, because everyone asks what you're going to "be" when you grow up. What they don't tell you is that as a kid you're sitting on the shoulders of someone else who's treading water, and that starting working means you get thrown into the water on your own, and have to start treading water yourself or sink. "Being" something is incidental; the immediate problem is not to drown.

> The relationship between work and money tends to dawn on you only gradually. At least it did for me. One's first thought tends to be simply "This sucks. I'm in debt. Plus I have to get up on monday and go to work." Gradually you realize that these two things are as tightly connected as only a market can make them.

> So the most important advantage 24 year old founders have over 20 year old founders is that they know what they're trying to avoid. To the average undergrad the idea of getting rich translates into buying Ferraris, or being admired. To someone who has learned from experience about the relationship between money and work, it translates to something way more important: it means you get to opt out of the brutal equation that governs the lives of 99.9% of people. Getting rich means you can stop treading water.

Paul Graham is popular because he points out that if you go to work for someone else, you're likely to have a decent lifestyle, but unlikely to ever be able to save enough money to be able to stop working and still live decently, because the principal beneficiary of your hard work and ingenuity will be your employer. Paul recommends that you start your own high-tech company and thereby drastically increase your chances to be free. This message is attractive to smart young men who value freedom.

Ron Paul is popular because he points out that if you go to work in the United States, you're likely to have a decent lifestyle, but unlikely to ever be able to save enough money to be able to stop working and still live decently, because the principal beneficiary of your hard work and ingenuity will be your government. Government will take an increasingly large percentage of your income as you earn more and it will devalue the money you do manage to save. Furthermore it will tempt you to borrow money in order to make you indebted. All of three of these methods (income tax, inflation, and artificial easy credit) are designed to encourage you to work steadily for the government for life.
Paul recommends that you fire your existing politician and elect someone who will end the income tax, inflation, and the federal reserve and thereby drastically increase your chances to be free. This message is attractive to smart young men who value freedom but also to a lot of other people who can't realistically found their own high-tech startup but still want to be free.
It would be nice to have a reference for that.
"Being an entrepreneur doesn't mean you're smart. A smart guy will figure out how to make a bunch of money while taking on much less risk. Corollary to this, there are a lot of dumb entrepreneurs out there."

I'd argue that doing a startup with someone else's money (thanks PG and Co), at a young age, and in a struggling economy is much less risky than my former spot.

I used to work in finance and many of my friends are out of jobs with nothing to fall back on. I could have easily been one of them. At least if this fails, I'll come out with a ton of experience in numerous areas and good friends.
Traditional radio pays nothing in performance royalties

??? Like hell they don't.

http://www.bmi.com/career/entry/C1519

By the way, BMI employs a regular gestapo who go around hitting venues of all sizes for licenses. I'm being facetious, but it does suck when a little coffeeshop has to stop having open mic night because of it...
Pandora on the verge of closing shop
yeah I have OpenPandora running all the time(its the program to run Pandora w/o going to the site), it made me stop listening to my mp3s since with the pandora after you fine tune your preferences almost all the songs you hear are the ones you like.
The author of that article is from CampaingnMonitor, which has a great user interface, and their pricing makes them one of the best options for startups or smaller companies that want to do something like send a monthly newsletter. They do have an API for synching your userbase.

I am working at StreamSend, a small company that has some of the best rates for sending thousands of emails a month, and an API which exposes basically the entire app.

Here is a link with some overviews of the different email service providers out there.
http://www.emailmarketingoptions.com/providers.php
"Our artists and copyright owners deserve to be fairly compensated for the blood and sweat that forms the core product of these businesses," said Mike Huppe, general counsel for SoundExchange."

Keeping in mind that traditional radio does not pay any fees for playing music, Mike Huppe is in for a treat if Pandora is shut down. Tons of infuriated, tech savvy users will have his name and an axe to grind. I don't think SoundExchange aka the _RIAA_ (nice try Suit factory) fully understands what they're getting in to.

Also related: This is not about the artists; the majority of those fees go to the labels - not the talent. Besides what does Mike Huppe know about blood and sweat? He shuffles papers around all day.

http://pview.findlaw.com/view/1570397_1?noconfirm=1

Edit: I've been reading traditional radio still pays fees. Regardless, they are a fraction of what Pandora may have to pay.
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there should be some sort of hacker news starcraft night
Seems silly to not just cut out the free service and start actually charging people.
I disagree. The problem is much harder then it seems and the given analysis is not complete.
How I became a script-kiddie in the Georgia-Russia flamewar -

That's more like it. The whole thing would have been funny if it weren't for the actual tanks and stuff.
This article seems to be the result of Facebook execs war.
This was on engadget yesterday:

http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/videoenhancement/vid...

It's from Eurographics 2007, not siggraph. But the video demo is pretty amazing.
I wonder how many times a person's identity can be stolen.

I want to help find out.
Knows? Yes. Controls? Not so much. Able to control? Yes. But free will was specifically placed (by God) outside God's control because otherwise reward and punishment would be a joke.

Just because God may know what you will do ahead of time, does not mean God caused you to do it.
Perhaps Pandora Must Be Our Sacrificial Lamb
It was cheap and easy to "steal" microsoft's certificate in 2001. http://cc.uoregon.edu/cnews/spring2001/mstheft.html
That's not even remotely fair -- he makes several reasonable points, and other than a mention of the fact that his startup life is hard, the post isn't really a complaint, so much as a criticism of the blind optimism that seems to run rampant in the startup world.

Nearly everyone here is focusing on the attack on pg, and ignoring the substance of the argument. Perhaps that's just because Ted is a controversial character, but it still doesn't make the discussion here much more than a collective ad hominem attack.
To the title of the Poll I say 'No' because a new user ought to be able to submit something interesting even if they haven't said anything in the forum. That said, I second the idea of rate limiting based on low karma.

It would be an interesting dynamic if it cost X karma to submit an article, if you're karma was zero, you could submit once a day or something...
I know for a fact that Microsoft does quite a bit of lobbying. I would be surprised if Intel and Google weren't also in that game.
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The title of this article is stupid- and leads to the mixups you are talking about. But if you read the article, your quoted statement is not an equivocation, it is the specific paradox the scientists propose.

Free will does not mean unpredictability, but if unpredictability is a consequence of free will, and there is no unpredictability, then we can say that free will does not exist.
Peers might not just be clients. P2P between servers or even datacenters might work well.
Agreed, map is a good example only if the person reading it gets first-class functions.

I can only think of a couple other suggestions for simple recursive functions. Euclid's algorithm for GCD would be a good one. Fibonacci numbers are easily expressed with recursion, but the most obvious solution is unfortunately not tail recursive and inefficient. My favorite example of mutual recursion is "even" and "odd":

even 0 = True
even x = odd (x - 1)

odd 0 = False
odd x = even (x - 1)

Inefficient, of course, but easy to prove correctness even to someone who's brain hasn't yet clicked into understanding recursion. Length of a list is as boring as factorials, but I guess that would be one too. Same with generating a list of counting numbers.
It seems the number of comments your post gets and number of visitors your post gets decides what rank and what point your post gets... besides age of the post is also an important factor