skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't see any mention of songwriting royalties, which can be very significant if they also write their own music.

The songwriter/composer of a song (not a recording of a song, but the actual melody, lyrics) gets a performance royalty each time a song is played in "public" (internet and broadcast radio, in the elevator, at a bar, etc). This is the royalty BMI, ASCAP, and SESAC collect. If the song is recorded and sold by someone, the songwriter gets mechanical royalties for each unit sold. If memory serves me correctly, the compulsory rate right now is 8 cents per unit sold. If the song in any form (recorded, sung by a drunk dude, etc) is used in something like a movie or a TV show, the songwriter gets a synchronization royalty. I've seen sync royalties range from $5,000 to $250,000. Songwriters are usually signed to publishing companies. Publishing companies are mostly owned by record labels themselves (or their parent companies). Publishing companies take a cut of the songwriters' royalties, but not as big as the cut record labels take from recording artists. I've seen rates ranging from 10% to 30%.

On the other hand, the recording artist gets pretty much whatever the record label decides to give them as described in the recording contract. The label will own the song recordings, not the artist. Recording artists (and record labels) do not get any royalties for public performance. Yes, when a song is played on FM radio, the record label doesn't get a penny. The only exception to this is when the song is played on "interactive" services on the Internet. This is the royalty Sound Exchange collects. In those cases, both the songwriter and whoever owns the copyright to the sound recording (the record label) get royalties. The main sources of revenue for the label are from these royalties, and from selling the sound recording in stores and online. They take a large chunk (60-70%) of this and distribute the rest to the song's recording artist, producer, etc.
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Would it be legal to produce a product called 'Soylent Green' ?
Ask HN: What would be the perfect web analytics tool for your startup?
Imagine the best possible (well, perfect:) web analytics tool for your startup. What would it be? What key features? What approach to serving you insights? What key insights would you want from it? What key questions should it answer and how?
Same here. I tend to cycle between my homemade standing desk (a chest with two amazon fresh boxes on it), my 70s style recliner chair, and a couch.
I believe his point was that a web design should be resilient to the fact that users can do this with their browsers. Among other things web specific I assume. That seemed pretty obvious to me anyways.
http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/faster-google-vo...

I thought Google Voice has been doing this for nearly a year and a half. Maybe not using the same C2DM framework you and I can use, but it certainly seems like they are using a push protocol like Google Talk & Gmail on Android use and are not polling all the time.

edit: it also looks like Facebook has been using C2DM since an update in December of last year:

http://www.androidcentral.com/facebook-andrd-finally-gets-ch...
It can do two external displays, as there are two Thunderbolt ports on the back.

I have two 24" screens hooked up to my 27" iMac.
While not flimsy, they do not need much pressure to deform and flex. If you type heavily the table may bounce a bit. Not much, but enough to be distracting. Keeping your laptop closer to the side with support might help.
Ehm ... I am not seeing this at all. I have marked the certificate as not trusted ever, and I get warnings no matter what on their site, whether they are using EV-SSL or not.
Well, I guess it's two sides to the same coin. I meant, wow...it's been 3 years already, it has flown fast - because they have done so much.
No.

Chrome is shipped by Google in binary form, and without instructions for generating it in its entirety from source. That, by definition, is not open source.

It contains parts that are, otherwise, known to be open source. The same is true for Safari and Opera. It contains many more such parts than those browsers, to be sure, but it is still not fully open source.
doc here. Burnout != depression. I appreciate you're trying to understand the difference, and I'm glad you've thought about it a bit. Please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect, and I encourage you to keep reading on your own and try to ask more questions.
I wondered the same thing about the 6 month figure. This is some aggregator site run by the SciFi/SyFy channel? It's the kind of pop science reporting I think is bordering on irresponsible, really. Their source is New Scientist requiring a signup:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128283.500-meat-with...

That article isn't much more informative though. That New Yorker article was much higher quality, as expected.
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The only way to time-limit data would be to find some kind of cryptographic function which can't be parallelized, requires a certain amount of work, and then make assumptions about the speed with which this could be done based on resources available to an attacker. You could at least set a lower bound for time given likely resources. I find it highly unlikely that even national technical means include general purpose reconfigurable logic much faster than 50x the open state of the art; if your problems keep changing, reconfigurable logic is going to be needed.

The key is to have lots of problems nested together, which must be solved in series.

Computers scale a lot better than people, so something which required a human to try to solve a puzzle to get a key, then use that key to decrypt the next puzzle, and so on, probably has better characteristics.

A trusted third party or tamper-resistant hardware is far more practical.
Relevant NPR interview:

http://www.npr.org/2011/08/30/139786731/tube-burgers-the-wor...
Yes, but they're cheaper. So for $300, you pay for what you get. I'm not even sure if this news warrants a headline on HN.
Bug report: Drawing lines erases big bits of the drawing near to the line (on iPad). Eg, draw a NE SW diagonal, then draw another diagonal NW SE, the first one gets erased.
Zero knowledge about the music industry here, how about a subscription based startup? I even have a name for it - asongamonth.com. Any signed up solo artist/band promises at least a song per month and you as a listener pay half a dollar or a dollar a month as subscription per solo artist/band. You can chose to pay for only the bands you like, switch them whenever you want to.
I'm skeptical that this is only 6 months away (6 years sounds more reasonable), but I'm still curious about the ramifications of synthetic meat.

Would it be more energy efficient to grow meat in a factory than in the fields? What are the energy requirements for a pound of lab meat vs a pound of pig meat?

More importantly, what would happen if it turned out cheaper and tasted the same? How many industries depend on eating meat? What would happen to all the pigs if nobody wanted to eat them?
Plenty of artists do that, but some prefer to keep their content behind a pay wall, to use the same analogy. Both are viable models and should be respected.
I wish you were on the Federal Circuit. A majority of judges on that court don't agree with your reading of the cases.
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Companies that are already IPO-ed would be in the ~$150k range for a Sr Software Developer. The equity part wont be that great though.
Curious, why do you think static typing is brutal for poor developers? I rather think it saves them from hanging themselves a lot of the time.
Even more interesting, at least to me- what will the vegetarians do?

As for all the animals, their populations would obviously get scaled back. The transition would not happen overnight, there would be plenty of time. Though you may have a point- domestic pigs would likely become pets and little else. However, chickens still lay eggs, cows still make milk, and sheep and goats still produce milk and wool.
The source, as best as anyone can tell, is Chromium. It's just a branding difference until you demonstrate that Chrome != Chromium + blobs. The blog post and everything Google says indicates that Chrome is just Chromium rebadged and shipped with some stuff.

You're free to go and (try to) disprove this by compiling Chromium so you can compare it with Chrome.
Seems like the price has dropped to $1250.
Ironic that this news is coming from CNN, where is the Techcrunch post?
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This is awesome. Presumably, at some point we'll have the process optimised to the point that it could be done in your own home, or at a local (supermarket?) level. Imagine having a kitchen appliance that produces meat from liquid feedstock.

Even more speculatively, I wonder if the nutrient medium could be produced from other kitchen scraps? That's basically what animals were kept for in the past.

Aside, it sounds like efforts are focused on replicating pork/beef. It seems like some kind of fish might be easier, since texture is less of an issue, but I guess that's not what the US palate demands.
Yes, you are of course correct. I was using the term to mean "built in and part of the language"

Thanks for the correction!
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Ask HN: is the startup visa finally coming?
Is the startup visa finally coming? The business Insider has recently written about changes that were apparently made: http://www.businessinsider.com/progress-on-the-startup-visa-movement-2011-8

However, I can't find any of this on the "official" startup visa website (startupvisa.com).

Is it finally coming? Or is the congress stalling it until the next presidential elections?

I'd love to see the startup visa becoming reality. It gives entrepeneurs a chance to be part of the most thriving startup community in the world, and contributing to the American economy as well. I'm from the Netherlands, and there really isn't anything that even remotely resembles SV in Europe.

On a side note, I find it amusing that, when I mention the startup visa (not on HN) a lot of people get ticked off. They keep throwing the 'They took our jobs!' argument at me. As if I'm somehow stealing the jobs from Americans who would have magically come up with exactly the same idea... My response is always the same: if you did have the same idea, why didntcha...

Anyway, I'd love to see if there's been any real progress. I can't make much of the press releases from Customs and Immigration. I'm reasonable proficient in English, but this is just gibberish...
Yes, I don't either. I'm currently using a ZTE Blade. 600 MHz ARM 11 processor (Cortex-A would have been nice), Adreno 200 GPU, 512 MB RAM, a nice 480 x 800 screen and all the usual stuff like WiFi, GPS, etc. I'm running Android 2.2.

Sure, I've seen faster Android phones, but it feels quite responsive and it's usable. Angry Birds works ok. It cost me 90 quid, that's $140.
somewhat schizophrenic Valley ecosystem

That's too many words to spell "mafia".
First, I apologize if I am irritating in any way. I don't intend to be, but I am told that sometimes I tend to focus too much on factual stuff and too little on how other people react to what I am saying. So, sorry about that if it is the case here.

As to this specific thing - I did not intend to challenge character or motive.

My point was that by saying "Rather than complain, we give Google credit for the 99% of Chrome's code that is open source", it is clear that Google is being given a pass on mistakes because of the other good things it does. There is a false choice implied in that quote - as if we must either like Google and praise it, or dislike Google and berate it. Instead, we should either praise or berate Google depending on what it actually does. And right here, it did do something wrong.

I hope that clarifies what I was trying to say before.
That's odd, since “overtime is bad, more time is not more productivity” seems to be all the mantra.

The thing is, that for a young, smart person, mechanically giving up 50, 60, heck, 100 hours per week is not that hard, but it gives the nice “hero” feeling, social kudos.

Empirically, in full-time scenario (30+ hours per week), there is no difference in velocity of development work with more time spent; yet, there are toxic social effects.

Basically: what do the people who bash “undertimers” think?
IMO calling a program open source is not "doing bad" if an open source version (e.g. Chromium) is available that has 99% of the features of the proprietary version. At worst, I would call it an oversimplification.

As for my motives, I don't think you know me.
Can you explain wtf is going on here?
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Simple static typing is not, actually, static code is easier to write than dynamic in many cases.

Powerful typing system, like the one Scala or Haskell have, is brutal as much as it is magical.
I think the TSA full body scanner/pat-down fiasco helped a lot.
The story is actually from Fortune magazine (which lives on the cnn.com domain). I presume that Arrington didn't post about it on TechCrunch because he may not have been ready to make the announcement yet, if the news is in fact true.

From the linked article: Neither Arrington nor AOL responded to requests for comment. Gallagher said "no comment" when reached via phone.
this is real - Facebook can track you as you visit each site with a like button whether you click the like or not, and whether you are logged in or not (if they choose to set a cookie for anonymous users).

But its not new. Its just noticed since FB started migrating some certs this last week

They've been snagging your history as you move around 'likeable' pages since the start.

Private browsing sessions and deleting cookies will obviously zap this.
This article/study claims lab meat would be more energy efficient: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es200130u

Linked from the New Scientist article.
I probably made a mistake when estimating this. I exported 21 tiles to MBTiles at 429KB, and extrapolated based on the 5.7 billion tiles it would take to do D.C. at 13-16.

I'm still waiting for a larger job to complete, so I don't have a sense of the file size there.

Edit: Got it. The default export is the entire world. Whoops.
Coming at this as a designer who learned to code in both senses of the word, I have to disagree with the sentiment that HTML/CSS is easy.

Sure, the principle is rather straightforward, but writing CSS is tedious and error-prone and the HTML/CSS is combination is modeled on single column text based layouts… it’s shocking to find out there’s no built in support for columns and no way to vertically align an element, for example.

I spent a month doing CSS until I had learned to implement the kind of grid I could knock together in 5 minutes in InDesign… very unsatisfying… Whereas later I spent a month learning Python and felt like I made much more progress, deepening my understanding of the digital medium, improving my “procedural literacy” and shaping my views about possible interactions.

So programming logic is actually more easy and fun for me—though that doesn’t take away from the fact that you need CSS knowledge to make a design work…
If Google claims Chrome is open source, the burden of proof is on Google.

I have not even seen Google say that Chrome is identical to Chromium except for some DLLs, which is what you appear to believe. Or have I missed that? If so, please link me to it.
I tend to agree. One of the things that won me over to the idea of using an IDE for Java is that I can (effortlessly) click into a class from a library (or the JVM itself) and read the source code. Being able to read the source so easily has rendered Javadoc superfluous for me. I'd hate to think that Scala source code would become so "hard" that it's no longer useful as documentation.
Not only do markets appreciate beef, but they will pay top dollar for fancy high-quality beef. Once someone gets growing beef down, it probably won't be much of a stretch to develop top-quality sirloin, and more repeatably.

Additionally, beef is a good target ecologically speaking. Fish and birds are much more efficient at energy conversion, so there's a much larger margin of energy and material savings to be had with beef. As yet even another bonus, I suspect the ratio of edible meat to body mass in beef is much lower than in fish.
This seems to be a difference of opinion, not a mistake.
I worked for a startup that got acquired a couple years ago. The acquiring company means well but it's nowhere I would have ever applied to, if you know what I mean.

Thing is, it just wouldn't make financial sense to leave. I have to stay until I'm vested. Nowhere else would come close to making that up.

I took a road trip with my family this summer, hoping it would relieve the burnout. We had a brilliant great time driving across the American Southwest.

Coming back, burnout is worse. I find I care even less. I find myself avoiding major projects and looking busy. I'm nudging features and scope in ways to most minimize my effort. I worry that I'm gonna get warped and dull. What's gonna happen by the time I am fully vested?
Some obvious answers and such:

* I believe it is 6 months away from the start of testing legal approval
* it will not taste the exact same due to the different ways its grown, at least at first. It will be more easily customized to fit peoples requirements, however.
* the meat industry will not collapse in a day. Animal requirements won't change overnight. The industry will adjust slowly unless they get lobbyists to ban this technology (which they will attempt to do, of course)
* due to the innefficient way animals grow, lab-grown meat has the potential to be more efficient, but won't be at first
Neither use C2DM though, they use their own solutions and they frankly don't work well. My email is pushed to me within 120 seconds of it appearing in my inbox. I never get Facebook push notifications (I just simply never have, and it is configured properly), the Messages are terribly inconsistent (they appear in the app, the Messenger app, and sometimes my desktop will grab a message and I'm completely unable to access it from either Facebook app). Additionally, Google Voice will received messages, 10, 20 minutes "late", with no explanation or reason.
If not, why take a position against the notion of intelligence- and personality-based content?

See also: "The King's New Clothes".
Not all of the pig/cow energy is spent on producing muscle mass/fat, essentially, it is eliminated with industrial production.

Initially, it probably will be quite expensive, but it is most certainly _potentially_ cheaper than real meat due to tech advances and economies of scale.

As for farm animals, they will be just bred less. Nobody will mass slaughter them just because there is a cheaper source of meat.
The Raspberry Pi doesn't exist because products take time to develop. However, the progress we have seen indicates that it is on track to be launched in November, exactly when they said it would be.
I am actually trying to find it but there is a country in Africa that is having a worldwide day where all radio stations are encouraged not to play music, and to instead play talk radio and other educational broadcasting about the importance of copyright protections and the need to support the arts, specifically music. They believe by taking music away for a day and educating people about the impact their consumer choices are having on the artist community, they can start to create significant public awareness about this issue. I think it's a great idea.

Imagine Pandora's site down for a day: "Take this moment of silence to think about how important music is to you." That seems like a win for Pandora anyway, since they have a net loss of about $20,000 a day right now thanks to overpriced royalties.
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It appears to be open source by their standards. What is there to prove? Disprove it by your standard and present the evidence. Then realize there's no point in trying to argue "facts" when each faction has its own.
I'm seriously considering buying tickets all over the world just to spend more time hanging out with you. If I was a startup person living in any of these areas or nearby I'd sign up for sure.
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All of this is true.

However, the implication that an outsider might draw from your comment is that, say, the band that wrote the original post might hope to make those kinds of royalties since they (presumably?) wrote the melody and lyrics to the original song.

If they sign to a major label and have a hit that continues to rake in those royalties, that is wonderful. If one of their songs is used in a big Hollywood film, and for covers, etc, great.

But that's a lot of ifs. Even non musicians know the truth now, they've all read "Courtney Love Does the Math" on Salon.

The reality of most musicians, even those signed to major labels, is far from a rosy economic picture. It seems to me that to imply otherwise is disingenuous.

Didn't mean for that last part to sound like an attack, it's just that reading your (very well written) comment does not solve the problem of the musicians who wrote the original post.
Why is it ironic? It's the finance and money column of a news outlet, and this is financial news.
Soylent Green is people.

Seriously though, an idea of a fake meat modified to taste like human meat is both troubling and intriguing.
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Did you know that jerking off too much is akin to a recursive function without a terminal condition?
sorry but i disagree - that huge marketing push is what sells the records - that is what labels do, whether they are majors or one-person indie labels.

"marketing themselves" is a pipe dream that has only worked for a tiny percentage of indie artists - a huge industry has built up around this effort, and just like the major labels made lots of money off of their artists, this industry is making lots of money off these indie artists, just exploiting economies of scale of artists instead of consumers.
Sorry if it seemed I was implying I knew your motivations. That was not my intention.

You can call it an oversimplification, I am ok with that. We agree on the facts and that there is an inaccuracy here, the rest is semantics.
This vegetarian would rather eat "real" meat from a farm like Polyface (featured in Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma and some documentaries) than eat lab meat, at least the first many iterations of lab meat.

I don't want anyone to think I'm spreading FUD, I'm genuinely interested and concerned. Who knows what the nutritional consequences would be? We've only just started to realize that there might be some detrimental effects due to consuming the products of a corn-soy (duo-)monoculture farms, all in the name of efficiency, what of lab-meat? Plus, I'm just creeped out by it.

I do think it's valuable work, and largely inevitable, and wouldn't suggest for a moment that we (humans) not fund this kind of research.
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There are definitely albums I have listened to so many times that the streaming payments would outperform the purchases, but I've also bought some albums more than once, too!

Most people, and most albums, though, are not going to outperform those economics. Simply put, $5-10 a month for access to 15M tracks is a joke and a big loss for the industry. I look forward to the labels realizing it and walking away.
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