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Here's the problem with "serving musicians"

1. They are the highest-touch clients you can get.

2. They don't want to pay money for anything. They want their managers to pay. Their managers will gladly pay, but then go to the label for them to pay. The labels gladly pay, but put it into recoupable expenses. By the time reconciliation occurs, the manager has already gotten their 15% and points, the artist got their royalty, and you as a service provider rarely get your check in Net-30.

3. Algorithms don't curate taste.

4. It's very hard to bridge the chasm from "free" to "paid" when it comes to a fan base. With the biggest bands in the world (talking multi-multi-platinum), the conversion from a radio audience to CD audience to "upsells" (i.e., fan clubs, mercy, tickets) was tiny.

Who's really driving the industry?

Live Nation, AEG, Q-Prime, the Collective, Frontline/Azoff, Red Light, Montone....

If you want to build businesses around music, you need to build a business around music. Serving artists is a sexy one for sure, but its a very, very deep hole to dig.
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Parrot's core opcodes mimic Perl's behavior of "Type coercion for everyone, the string "0" is false!"

That's true only for the intrinsic STRING type. Language-specific strings supply their own boolean semantics.
There was a belief that HN might have a higher grade of discussion about technical matters. But apparently it is just so much magazine program dross as well. Congrats.
It's when I see gems like these that I feel like spending time to learn emacs. I've tried a couple of times.. but it is so damn hard. I feel like vim keybindings are burnt in my memory/fingers.. and it makes it so unproductive to relearn something totally different. Any vim power user successfully switched to Emacs? If so, did you switch back missing Vim or you're still using emacs and couldn't be happier? (I'm still interested in the reverse side.. where Emacs power users switched back to vim).
It's worth noting that Dave Allen has major, indie and entrepreneurial experience. He's the founding bassist of Gang of Four.

I really like this essay for the fact that the problems of the industry are not solved by anything that exists at the intersection of VC money and label money.

Lets put it this way: if every one of the four majors stopped signing acts, fired their A&R staff and just focused on precision, AARRR pirate style marketing of catalog, they'd last a lot longer than they will at the rate they're going.

The problems of a diminishing business can't be solved by incrementally improving what is already being done on the backs of money that just sustains the hegemony. It will come with very real disruption.

I think that this will however offshoot out of the Pandora's, Spotify's, Grooveshark's, MOG's, RDIO's, iTunes' and Amazon's of the world. I just don't think we're there yet.

It's still too caught up on the song, file and data aspect of "play" rather than a real adaptation to the changing role of music and music as a holistic cultural experience rather than an artifact/entity.

Anyhooooo....
That account's previous comment isn't dead, according to http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=hans00. Was the account banned between that comment's (quite recent) posting and this one's?

(That probably sounds like some kind of passive-aggressive complaint about the fact that hans00 got banned, so let me add that after looking through his comments I think his net contribution was solidly negative on account of his gratuitously obnoxious tone.)
earlier discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2532271
Lots of fun back-and-forth about that essay in past submissions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1048849
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I'm only talking about economic inequality here, but I do think humans have an inclination toward equality of status too. Which seems to be complicated by a wish for leaders. Which tends to result in a love/hate relationship with said leaders.
The problem is that as cache size gets bigger, the associative memory lookup gets slower. There's a tradeoff.
I use https://github.com/cefstat/simplenote.el to synchronize with simplenote service and on mobile device and Notational Velocity.

Deft seems little more refined, and simplenote.el has not been updated for a while, but would be nice if it synced with simplenote.
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It's already under development. Here's the (perhaps optimistic) roadmap: http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient/pnacl/release-roadmap
You do realize Gang of Four was pretty daring too.
When making these analyses people tend to forget that Google is a company of thousands of engineers. If we can devote a bit of engineering time to building better environments, the benefits across the entire company are multiplicative. Would you expect anything less from an engineering-driven company?
100x45W = 4.5 kW, not megawatt. 4.5 kilowatt is the same order of magnitude of a dryer.
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Show HN: Art exhibition app/web app combo
I'm one of the founders of a small software/design company, and very proud to present the (free) iOS app [1] and web app [2] combo for Bergen Museum of Art's current exhibition [3] of Norwegian painter Nikolai Astrup [4].

It's in norwegian, but navigation should be pretty self explaining. Shame on us, otherwise. We do specialize in interface design after all.

The apps has some neat features:

* A catalog of high resolution pan- and zoomable photos of pretty much every painting, print and drawing Astrup ever made.
* Artworks have soundclips with the story behind the it, and other relevant information.
* The exact location of many of the motifs are known, and are plotted on a map.
* QR codes next to each painting in the exhibition has the URL to the web app. An integrated QR reader in the iOS app use the same URL to display the same artwork natively.
* For the iOS app, all content is downloaded on demand, so the app itself is a very lightweight. This also has the added benefit that the client can update information whenever they like.

[1] http://itunes.apple.com/no/app/nikolai-astrup/id459047802?l=no&ls=1&mt=8

[2] http://m.nikolai-astrup.no

[3] http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=no&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kunstmuseene.no%2Fdefault.asp%3Fside%3Dnyheter%26art%3D1218%26enhet%3Dkunstmuseum%26sp%3D1

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Astrup_(painter)
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This looks awesome. Wish it was in Ruby though :(
Ohhh. I was thinking about it wrong. Probably obvious to others, but I forgot about the property that if you have primes p and q, any number n (evenly) divisible by p that is also divisible by q must be divisible by the product of p*q.

That shortcut is a result of hyper-optimization and I was thinking more along the lines of code-reusability (e.g. if the rules of FizzBuzz were changed from %3 and %5 to %x and %y) =P
Hmm. Deft, org-mode, Dropbox, and MobileOrg might just made the perfect desktop/mobile note system. Definitely setting this one up!
So the natural question is - what can one practically do to try to postpone DNA damage as much as possible?
Your tone is absolutely brilliant!!
The long and sometimes lonely path of a start up... apologies as this maybe slightly off topic.

I keep seeing stories of start ups that are a huge success, launching or died.

Where are all those companies in between? Perhaps it's a combination of not being exciting to report on and founders being busy (both of which could be related to working hard).

Anyone know of place for those between launch and dead?
AIUI the display resolution of the Surface is 1024x768. That's not going to be even slightly like using a large atlas, no matter how big it is.

(A display that large with substantially more pixels, plus all the wonderful interactive things you can't do with paper, would be a fine thing indeed. But the Surface isn't it, at least not yet. Maybe there'll be a Surface 2 with much higher resolution?)
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Hey all,

In differentiating between a free regular user and a paying premium user, it is necessary for my site to offer additional rewards than just user upgrades for the site. It is inline with the sites nature to offer travel or tourism related discounts (preferably usable online). I have explored a variety of online discount code sites/sources, but remain skeptical on their validity. Obviously it is difficult for a little guy to get in and establish a relationship with major players, so I thought I'd throw it out there and see what you all suggest or think?

Anyone have any experience with this? The basic premise is for users to be able to reap discounts online as a result of becoming a premium user. I know the best way is to cut the middle man and create our own channels, however that will take time and I would like to implement something for the short term.

Thanks for any advice, thoughts, etc...
Fair enough - I just saw this comment of yours:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2979935 which clarifies a lot.

It does seem as though political opinion is moving in the direction of reducing attempts to mitigate then problem at the low end.

Also unconsidered is the idea that one period of adaptation early in one's life is no longer enough, and that is a new consequence of technological change that wasn't true during the heyday of the large corporation.

If the 'poor' and 'middle classes' simply don't have the resources to devote to accomodating change and developing new skills, their position will be systematically enforced. Information may be more widely available than ever, but learning still takes a long time and requires practice, and tacit knowledge is ever more important.
While I see your point, the frustrating thing is that blocking itunes from gdb in no way helps them deliver a fantastic user experience.
If you take at least 25 days off, you get the bonus. Fewer than 25, no bonus.
Unlimited*

*Means 'you can’t have a year off!' I'd report you in Australia if you abused that word here.

Don't apply buzz words to your own employees as they do not want to feel like a sale; especially if they live in a country where people have got burnt for 'Unlimited' (ISPs, Shared Hosting, etc). Be more clear: "You can have up to most of the year without much restrictions (We might need your help!)" etc.
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Apple products are classical status symbols. Interesting to me is the idea that aesthetically, the original iMacs were worlds apart from the current models and it took Apple more than one try to find a classical design that worked.

The current Zeitgeist seems to favor classical designs. This is different to the 80's or the 70's where the intellectual and creative class were much more anti-capitalist. To me it feels like it's pre-68 again.

Current life models are schizophrenic. On the one hand people plaster their agency's rooms with aesthetically pleasing objects, Eames chairs, iMacs, Tizio Lamps to please themselves and their corporate clients. On the other they think they are enlightened rebels, aware of climate change, the 3rd world, and the dangers of nuclear energy.

I think there's no radicalism any more, no ideologies, no visions. In reality, I think this generation is full of conservative tagalongs, appeasers, yuppies in disguise.
The most likely explanation is that this is a typo. 3-4 years experience seems more credible.
Technological progress should cause increasing economic inequality, because the bottom end of the scale is firmly anchored at zero (someone taking a vacation), while technology gives the top end ever more powerful levers.

What "scale" are we talking about, and why ever would it be "firmly anchored at zero?" It's perfectly possible to have a negative net worth, a negative cash flow, a negative effect on the wealth and well-being of the society in which you live, etc.

What technology does "the top end" have access to that others don't today? Cell phones? Web servers? Technology has always been influential in proportion to its cheapness. And it's all really cheap now.

If a vacation works and recharges your batteries, it's not, in the grand scheme, a zero-productivity interval, is it?

I think the key to the answer is the large corporation. The period of flattening coincides with the heyday of the large corporation.

Large corporations are still around and arguably more powerful than ever. Yet the difference in pay between the top executives and average workers in those corporations is one way the growing gap between the rich and the not-rich is illustrated and measured.

I remember the transition quite clearly. When I was a little kid, in the early 70s, the most impressive thing you could do was to work for a large corporation. It was the era of conglomerates in shiny office towers. By 1980 we were starting to see a glimpse of the world we now live in, where the ambitious people are all free agents.

I think this says a lot more about how children's view of the world around them evolves as they grow up than about actual changes in the American business landscape. America has been the land of entrepreneur-worship for a long time. John D. Rockefeller was working for himself from the start.
3-4 years*

He'd probably have picked 35 years, not 34, if it was intentional.
Exact same situation here. :)
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This algorithm is used in Yammer Metrics to keep running statistics on whatever quantities you want to track. For instance, you could time a particular section of code, and it will tell you the average time, the standard deviation, the 99th percentile time, and so on. It's tremendously useful, and the algorithm from that paper makes it also very cheap.

https://github.com/codahale/metrics/
Ask HN: Best practices for supporting extensions to your web application?
Hey HN,

I'm currently modifying my b2b application to allow custom extensions. After some futile Google and SO searches, I can't find many best practices or patterns on how to support this.

As a quick example, say my application has support for Users (exotic, I know). A company purchases the software and decides they want to store (and display) social security numbers. Any suggestions on how to go about storing custom data in the database? Suggestions on how they modify the app to display data in X spots?

I was thinking database-wise, either a column in the Users table that stores all extended data, or else somehow update the schema itself.

For display, tons and tons of hooks might be the way to go...

Anyways, I'd be grateful for any tips, hard lessons learned, documents, ebooks, really anything about this.
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Thank you so much for this. This immediately replaced my usage of org-velocity. I used this function to convert my (10,000 line) velocity.org file into separate files for Deft:

(defun generate-files-from-velocity (buffername)
(save-excursion
(switch-to-buffer buffername)
(org-map-entries (lambda ()
(progn
(org-mark-subtree)
(if (and (= 1 (org-outline-level)) (org-export-get-title-from-subtree))
(let* ((title (downcase (org-export-get-title-from-subtree)))
(filename (replace-regexp-in-string " " "-" (concat title ".org"))))
(append-to-file (region-beginning) (region-end) (concat "~/Documents/Org/Notes/" filename)))))))))

(generate-files-from-velocity "velocity.org")
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What a rubbish article.
Who was the idiot who posted a link to it ?
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This explains what they're looking for, but not why it's location dependent. Sfba is a startup hub, but that dosnt mean that talent doesn't exist elsewhere! What's the successful metric? Part of a startup? Founder? Product principal?

Admittedly, I may be slightly biased here because I wonder why much of the east coast tends to get marginalized when talking about startup activity. (I'm in Philly)
> I mean this inclination doesn't imply anything about what economic policy should be

Isn't it disingenuous to infer that this inclination should not imply anything about economic policy? I would arrive at the opposite conclusion. Economics are sentiment driven by a huge factor. Robert Shiller's work in behavioral economics and his book Irrational exuberance has established and popularized this idea. Krugman's discussion of the unsuitability of BitCoin as a currency rests largely on the peculiar nature of human sentiment and behavior. Large income gaps are perceived by most people as unfair irrespective of the contributions by the wealthy. No one thinks that Bill Gates/ Edison made a greater contribution to social progress than Einstein/Gandhi. I don't think the association of the net worth of an individual to the contribution that they have made to society is very strong. Economies rewards people largely on the basis of demand/supply with I believe is a weak proxy for social contributions.

Perhaps you want to draw an analogy to say gay marriage where the popular vote might end up denying gay rights, but I don't think a similar argument holds in the case of wealth distribution.
3rd paragraph: "If you have a healthy diet low in sugar, high in antioxidants, in theory you can reduce DNA damage, keeping your DNA looking younger", etc...

Eat your leafy greens.
I'm a vim user who started to really get into Lisp (and now ML for school). Emacs (especially with SLIME) is really the Right Thing for Lisp, so I started using it. I've definitely gotten to the point where `C-a C-k` is as well burned into my fingers as `dd` is...it's just that

a) `dd` seems like a more natural keybinding--both because I'd rather double-tap a home row button than involve three fingers and two hands, and because, if you do stop to think about it, `dd` makes sense--`d` means delete, and a double-tap usually makes something apply to a whole line. (Of course, `dd` / `C-a C-k` is just an example--this applies in general.)

b) There's more of a zen to vim. It's been discussed before, but it's worth repeating--vim commands form a language with nouns and verbs. `w` means word and `(` means sentence. Now you know two commands. `d` means delete, `y` means yank, and `c` means change. Now you know 8 commands--`w`, `dw`, `yw`, `cw`, `(`, `d(`, etc. And adding a few more "nouns" brings you up to several dozen with minimal effort. Emacs has no direct equivalent * .

So I like emacs for the ecosystem, I like it for the freakish integration it can achieve between a REPL and a source file...as they say, it's a great operating system--it just needs a good editor.

* - This is not quite true--emacs does try to do sane things with the use of `C` and `M`. `C-f` means "forward one character", and `M-f` means "forward one word"--a "bigger" form of the same thing. In the same way, `C-d` deletes a character and `M-d` deletes a word. But now you want to delete a line? Time to learn something completely new.

Edited to make a lame effort to fix my formatting problems...thus the asterisks surrounded by a sea of whitespace.
Agree 100%. The fact that Javascript is the only language you can realistically use to script the browser is a terrible limitation and legacy of bad technical decisions at Netscape more than a decade ago. I'm always surprised at the lack of concern about this.

While I do actually like Javascript a lot, I think we need to have more choices. When people point out Node as a benefit because "you can use the same language on the client and the server" I agree - but it misses the bigger problem in that, if you want to use the same language on the client and the server, you only have one real choice.
There's a difference between (a) doing some language design work in private and (b) doing an entire language spec, as well as all the implementation, in secret, then one day shipping it to users and telling everyone else "here's how it is, now standardize this".

I'd also argue that languages on the Web should be held to a different standard than general-purpose languages, since there are five primary players and the Web as a whole will be worse off if some of the browsers refuse to implement what other browsers are pushing.
> which better helps you get a sense of place within the mapped region

Ability to Zoom in/out (and to lessor extent pan around) provides far greater sense of place.
I can only laugh at this comment "don't try and twist words to make things look better than they are". Not twisting words, it's pretty straight forward.
> Just not with their software.

Again, why? It's still not an argument to hide what the program does on your computer. To put it bluntly, it's bullshit and you know it.

> I'll trade the ability to run GDB on my media player the zero times I'll ever want to do it for a fantastic user experience

That's completely besides the point - this has nothing to do with the "user experience" (which is quite the opposite of "fantastic", but that's my opinion), and everything to do with the fact that Apple restricts your freedom.
I was just at the talk where this was released and the presenter was trying to downplay the PHP aspect, saying that the PHP was just meant for examples.
You're obviously not into GIS. What you said may be true for commercial, largely deployed mapping. But isn't at all true about "Digital Cartography" as it exists today (actual as it existed for last couple decades).
At least with computer map pages, I don't have to worry about the atlas company (Rand McNally) leaving out some states due to space limitations.
Windows also has backup solutions. If you use one of those setup time is similarly decreased. Please google first next time.
I might have misunderstood you then. :)
What? Why is this, isn't memory indexed for direct access?
Yes, you are. Shame on you.
But +0 isn't the lowest possible vote in the current system... unless you want to claim that -1 is the highest possible vote because it wraps to the top of the scale.
I haven't used either of these, but they seem to fill a useful niche. What do you find are the pros and cons of deft vs. org-velocity?
I can't remember / find the artcle (proly on HN) that explained how google maps does (some of) the information packing, and visual display/emphasis of what's important.
This is Mashable talking about real technology: of course they're writing bull.
So Java is a more modern form of JavaScript? Don't think that comparison is sound...
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Actually, this makes me think. The area now dissipating heat is much smaller (perimeter of the square * h, and used to be the area of the square). You have to dissipate the heat. The solution really can't be as simple as the article proposes.