skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problems people note are solvd if you issue a patent free for a short time, like 3 years, and then auction a much smaller number of extensions to that term. This creates a pricing maximum for years 4 to whenever.
http://all-that-is-interesting.com/post/4956385434/the-first...

Seriously, though, the real estate industry went through this with the ADA - it's a pain for sure, but it's been manageable.
True. I'm not denying the fact the risks are different from past risks, the situation is a new one indeed.

I was pointing out that there have been risks (of a different type) and there are risks now. I still think investing in yourself by learning, pursuing business interests is justifiable even in light of these risks.

In terms of adapting to a changing world as an individual, I think being either self-reliant or being close to major population centres (access to jobs, public transportation etc) are both good strategies. It might be good to learn some martial arts, how to defend yourself, learn to live with less etc.
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Just to add a little more detail:

> Music publishers can take anywhere from 10% (for an admin deal) to 50% (for a co-publishing deal). Bigger percentages involve advances (recoupable payments against future royalties), but also much longer terms (5-10+ years).

Note this is for the publishing royalties only (not performance rights)

And on @alex1'- post:

> The label will own the song recordings, not the artist.

This would depend on the contract, though it's true that in most cases today the label would own the recording.

In some cases the artists choose to sub-license the recording to the record company, in which case he/she/they retain rights to the recording.

Finally, as is well known now artists often get an advance from the record company on signing a contract. This advance however is deductible from any earnings the artist would receive. Sometimes the advance is used to pay for the recording or equipment or even to finance a tour (the tours are usually not financed by the labels, aside from the 360 arrangements someone else mentioned.)

No-one has mentioned the artist manager fees - I'm not sure of what the figures for that are, but I think they range from 10% up to 50% (of the advance) in some very rare cases.

In short, in most cases making a living as a musician/recording artist is hard to impossible. Many semi-successful indie bands don't earn much more than a minimum wage job, with perhaps similar long-term prospects. If you make it big, you're rich but anything else is not a great existence. Oh, and the record companies often struggle too (both majors and indie these days.)
I havent gotten round to reading the book yet, but there is further evidence of this in the book "Startup Nation: The story of Israel's economic miracle" By Dan Senor.

He also did an introductory talk which was brilliant, on Fora.tv.
I'll post the link here, but it may be affected by the new Pay Wall.

http://fora.tv/2009/11/03/Start-Up_Nation_The_Story_of_Israe...
That's strange.

I had 11.04 on an old, battered machine (Athlon 2500+, 768 MB RAM, Radeon 9600) for about a week and it worked OK. Scratch that, I had no performance issues at all. The only reason I installed xubuntu on it was that after I'd disabled Zeitgeist (a passive logger that tracks everything you do, every site you visit, and your online communication) the dash went empty.

Unity looks great, but I don't like that there's no easy way to configure it. I would surely like to move the launcher to the bottom and make it auto-hide automatically even on a desktop with no running apps.

I know they are still experimenting, but I think they've confused innovation with copying tablet specific features. Take as an example the position of the launcher. It's perfect if you're working on a tablet with touch screen, but on desktop its position is a bit strange. Maybe that's just my preference, but the "natural" position for it on desktop would be the bottom of the screen.
Wi_LAN Sues Apple Over Wireless Technology Patents
If you like the drawing interaction itself and want to re-use it elsewhere, there's a self-contained version at http://dygraphs.com/tests/drawing.html which also features a zoom and eraser tool.
Have you seen http://sleepyti.me ?
If they're just becoming successful they probably won't want to rock the boat too much by firing their first employee. You could be right though if they're real douches.
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I think the use of Skype is a great idea. I work for a for profit education company and we pour a boat load of money and time into on-line classrooms. Using Skype and/or another framework would have saved us countless hours of labor.
I did a steady growth curve followed by a steep drop off: The result is amazing: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:lSkySxGeo...
I've only seen a few models of surveying tripods, but the ones that I did see didn't have locking legs. Their stability comes from points on the bottom of the tripod legs which you drive into the ground when setting up the tripod. I'd imagine driving three stakes into your floor at home wouldn't be optimal for you.

You could probably find a used astronomy tripod (used to hold a large telescope and then position it precisely) that's out of spec for astronomy use but that would hold your laptop just fine.
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I'm not sure how much giving content away for free is a viable model. It depends on the meaning of viable; it isn't viable financially, but it can be a worthwhile sacrifice if you think that more people reading your content is going to mean more people are going to pay for it. More often than not, that's not the case though; a lot of the content we access is free, and the author won't get remunerated for it.

This is great for consumers, but it makes it a lot less interesting for producers. I'm not sure yet what the impact of that is going to be, but I suspect that it could mean a decrease in the quality of content overall, which would be detrimental to everyone.
Testing a yearly and incremental peak give me the "nc state basketball". I guess something like this could give me the Oscars or Superbowl changing the peak time: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:nspW2uQjx...
For loose enough definitions of 'understand'.

For example, when I hold my breath, the urge to breath increases steadily until I am forced to start breathing again. Is this because my body explicitly understands that not breathing eventually results in death, or is it more appropriate to say the response is automatic?
Upgrading like that may cause some issues (I had issues upgrading from 10.10 to 11.04) so maybe doing a fresh install would make it work better.
...and that relates to purebred beef cattle, how?

I imagine there are far more useful things to worry about in the American diet, than subtle differences between a single strain of pork muscle vs which strain of angus they're eating. Like how much they're eating; how much fat, salt, empty carbohydrates.

If you are worried for yourself, fine, FUD away and eat vegan. But as a social phenomenon, I can't see how lab-meat can be very harmful, and it is a certain good.
For those (possibly a small number on HN) not aware - I first encountered Bayes' Theorem via pg's articles on Spam - http://www.paulgraham.com/antispam.html
I wish you the best of luck in the venture. I hope it's very successful.
I found interesting that most predictions of the future always focus in the technological high-end.

For the very big majority of people in 1964 the really big change was moving from rural environments to the slums of Mexico City, Kinshasa, Mumbai or other 3rd world big town.
"[I]t's a bit of a stretch to say that they've rewritten the rules of refraction."

Indeed. It appears more akin to the situation we have with classical and quantum mechanics: classical (Newtonian) mechanics fairly accurately describe the behavior of macroscopic objects at relatively slow velocities. We acknowledge that the system is not valid outside of that range. But since that range encompasses the bulk of our everyday, practical experience, classical mechanics are exceedingly useful.

Classical optics are not suddenly outdated with these discoveries. Snell's law and the lens-maker's formula are just as relevant as they were yesterday. We just need to add a few more terms to the equation if we etch a gradient of nano-scale resonators to the surface of our optical element. (Boy, do I feel like Geordi in Star Trek reading that last sentence aloud.)

Negative index of refraction materials are not quite new: wikipedia indicates that they are already being used in commercially-available products (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_index_metamaterials). For me, the most exciting application is creating a lens that circumvents the diffraction limit that limits optical imaging resolution. Right now, the most sophisticated, expensive microscope objective lenses can just barely resolve sub-cellular structures only under very particular conditions (i.e., not alive). A diffraction-unlimited "superlens" made out of this stuff could enable us to see even smaller objects under physiological conditions. It would be fantastic if we could capture the release of individual neurotransmitter vesicles at a diseased synapse, for example.

Besides negative index materials, there are a whole class of non-linear optics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_optics) that allow engineers to do all sorts of funky things in their instruments, like doubling the light frequency or self-focusing.
I'm speaking from experience.

edit:

I was a TA for early CS classes. Sometimes we took attendance, sometimes we didn't. When we did, more people showed up, and more people passed. Teachers have a responsibility to teach both sides of the bell curve, and generally pressuring people to learn helps the lower side pass. I understand that it's kind of old fashioned and authoritarian from the perspective of a top student, but it really winds up better for the bottom students in general.
The U.S. economy created no new jobs in August
YES! Exactly that one, thank you for linking it!!
This is great! It brings wonderful memories of my Amiga 600. I recommend taking look at other projects at http://stagas.com/.
Israel is a somewhat controversial example in economic terms. Some like to point to it and say "look what they made from nothing" but Israel has, over the years, been the beneficiary of significant economic (and military) aid from primarily the United States.

But more importantly (IMHO), Israel was the beneficiary of the largesse and support of a people decimated by the horrors of WW2.

It's fair to say that the US probably had a large cultural impact on the development of Israel, both for direct economic reasons but also that the US has a large Jewish population.

The lesson I personally take from the success of Israel is how important it is for a country to be bound together by a common set of ideals and purpose. Not that I'm arguing for any kind of cultural homogeny but if people in one country become sufficiently different it tends to drive that country apart. I think you see that in the US today as the red and blue state divide.
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treo!

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:YJ9-DbmR7...
I think it's easy enough to develop an accessible site, then progressively enhance it. The benefits of having it well written in that way has more benefits than just pure accessibility (SEO goodness comes to mind).

In certain sectors, accessible sites is mandatory already.
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From seeing Woz on Piers Morgan recently, I get the impression that that Woz wouldn't want the job and wouldn't think he was up to it.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1108/25/pmt.01.html (starts just after half way down)

He mentions he's still on the payroll just so he can say he's been Apple's longest serving employee. Which is sort of in the same ballpark as being the soul of the company.
Is the FDA killing innovation?
This is a great book but it has been downloadable since 2007, if not earlier.
Not to take away anything from the presenters, but ...

Isn't "Hook - Appealing imagery - Polished, theatrical presentations" how the bubbles get inflated?
Does anyone know what effect this will have on the clutter project?
Interesting, I'm currently working myself on a mobile friendly clone of http://sleepyti.me/

Because using either of the two sites is not easy on a small screen. And who has his laptop with him when lying in bed and checking the wake up time.
I forgot to mention all unvested equity automatically vests upon a sale, I did read the entire contract
MeeGo uses Qt rather than Clutter, so probably not much.
This sounds like spin. I remember seeing the Starz logo on almost everything I watched, when I had Watch Instantly on Netflix. I canceled when they raised the price to $16 for DVD+streaming.
Cities may have become denser but cities in the developed world became far nicer places now than they were in 1945. Plenty of rich people live in city's not becase they need to but becase they like it there. What changed was not the removal of people from cities but industry from cities. There are plenty of great things about being near other people, and plenty of horrible things about being near industry. Indoor plumbing and the catalitic converters changed what people think of a city's that only contain people from toxic dumps to livable space.
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Chinese researchers look at possibility of capturing asteroids in Earth orbit
> But that is expensive to market.

Exactly - the estimate above just counts the time to make the album towards the cost, but there are many additional costs to add to that: from a financial perspective, the cost of pressing CDs, making sleeves, any marketing costs (making posters, paying for designers, buying ad space, perhaps hiring a marketing person), hiring a plugger (someone who plugs your record to radio stations, magazines, etc. for plays or reviews). For someone self-releasing, the time to do all that themselves (plus some minimal fixed costs, e.g. printing, pressing CDs for sales at gigs, etc.) would need to be accounted for.

Finally, there would still need to be some minimal admin around the publishing to make sure the author rights are protected. I'm not sure there's a DIY route for this other than setting up your own publishing company and getting someone to administer it (but there may be.) This would also take time and/or reduce earnings.
But then I'd have to manage custom bindings for both Emacs and Unity. It was easier to avoid collisions in Emacs and let Unity use Super for whatever it wants (which is useful, BTW)
Transparency, privacy becoming necessary in collaboration tools
Eh.

What was wrong with Preboot[1]?

[1]: http://markdotto.com/bootstrap/
http://d.pr/VHnF

Makes me wonder if web developers finally switched to full SSL, or if browsers stopped showing the error…
Introducing the Cap Table and Hiring the CTO
Bowl Championship Series

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:bg8K8Ts1o...
Seriously, this forced march from Slicehost to Rackspace Cloud has been an absolute trainwreck and I've been meaning to move all my services away to Linode as soon as I can find the time. Maybe during this long weekend.
The decreasing calculated value of Pi predicts the end of the World by 4646 A.D
That seems a fairly circular argument - after all, can you be afraid of something happening to you without knowing that it can happen to you? Anything with a fear of asteroids or boogey monsters 'knows' that those exist.

So I disagree that "even the most basic creatures understand this", even for very broad definitions where understand can be interpreted as 'act, instinctively or not, as they would should they have consciousness'.

I suspect many understand pain and have a fear of pain (again, where very loosely pain is 'bad things' they have previously experienced). Death is often a corollary of that pain, so they will act similarly, but I don't believe creatures at a most basic level understand death.

Having said that, this was a fascinating article on a topic that has interested me for years, so I'd love to see more research supporting either your thoughts or mine.
I've heard really good stuff about their in-person training too. I'm actually a big fan of the intensive in-person training. It's expensive, but I've found it to actually be worth it (for professional work at least).
I really like Unity, but neither it nor Compiz play well with Xinerama (at least on 11.04). So while I was using Twinview with two monitors, Unity was great. However, as soon as I switched to three monitors across two vid cards, I had to drop Unity/Compiz and switch back to vanilla gnome. I'm hoping this release will resolve that issue.
absolutely. you could make much more compact "telephoto" lenses too. or connect "bifocals" to the nerve that controls eye focussing and have glasses that automatically focus to the correct distance (yes, i am getting old). or stationary solar collectors that adjust to the moving sun (or that still move but self-correct for distortions and support flexure). or a new kind of electronic ink. or...

this is huge, yet the report covers just silly mirrors... weird.
Cutting edge means "latest or advanced stage of development". Rails was miles ahead of existing frameworks when it first came into scene. Rails was cutting edge, and it needed a stable application server - mongrel filled that niche.

And a small niche in the computing world can very well be cutting edge.
Recession leaves many small businesses in permanent cutback mode
If you're in the US, Rhapsody pay artists better rates.

An interesting graph illustrating how much an artist has to sell through various platforms (CD, spotify, itunes etc.): http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music...
It can be. Nothing prevents these techniques from being used to pitch products without lasting value.

On the flip side, not using these techniques is a way to keep products with lasting value from ever taking off.
Well, that and the sorta crazy window behavior. I think Unity is more intuitive than OS X regarding window management except for one "feature"...when you have multiple windows of the same application and then click the Launcher to restore one, it restores and brings to the front all of the windows. This is really bad design...I often have many terminals open and want to view a browser beside one of those terminals, but Unity makes it a real pain to do so, because every time I bring one term to the front, they all come along.
Some time ago I toyed with the idea of getting a grad degree for "resume dressing" purposes optimized for price/prestige/convenience.
I was pleasantly surprised that there quite a few options after you get over the signal vs. noise problem: finding legit, accredited schools in the sea of diploma mills who spends a ton on marketing on spam (just google "online degree").

The best place I've found to do research on accredited programs (both undergrad & grad) school that cater to adult students is http://www.degreeinfo.com/forum.php. It is the home of a community of people who are good at hacking the diploma game and share their info readily. Folks there tend to favor schools that are in the spirit of this school in the OP article (price/prestige/convenience) but there is quite a good range of schools discussed (for example Duke U.'s MBA program tends to be reviewed favorably as is Delaware for undergrad).
There even intrepid individuals there who had foregone the traditional 4 year, "physical seat" undergrad for 2 years of working part-time and distance learning (can be with CLEP exams and the right program).
What does Starz DO? They own content, but beyond that they don't create hardly any, don't do the to-eyeball distribution, etc.

As I posted earlier, they're falling for what killed Kodak: they're confusing distributors with customers, and when the customers switch en masse to a different distribution model they'll have missed the boat and paying end-consumers will be content with a very different product line.
I never use it anyway except for rare occasions like some games in which case I have to switch to windows anyway. But I don't see the option to switch the thing off.
Getting to know ActiveSupport::Callbacks in Rails
Is Twitter still "a rails site" at this point?
I think the typography and design are easier to read than http://sleeptyi.me, but it is uncomfortably similar wording and navigation if they're not made by the same person.
Wow, no locale detection.. telling me what time to go to sleep in US times when I live in Europe is pretty crappy for a web app.
Dose this works？
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Love to see lists like this as there is way too much talk about VC backed companies that never have any real success and never even create any value with customers.
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This is fun. But apparently not "great fun" because according to this, great fun only happened in between 2005 and 2010.

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:XfvUJGqnv...
Yeah! I have ;earned to really like South Korean SciFi because of Netflix. (Unfortunately, my wife always leaves the room when I watch this stuff).

The world is full of interesting material to watch.
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Thanks! I can't wait to get it to the point where you'll be able to create/edit/save modules and such. Will soon put it on github if anyone would like to help make this possible.
The website's kinda slow for some reason so I hosted the PDF in my google docs, in case it goes down or something strange happens.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chro...
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In the US, "Price $2,295.00 – $2,495.00"
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The bizarre fish that evolved for oceans, but lives on land
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Reuters says "U.S. developer Hines is in talks to buy the site for under 25 million pounds and Apple is interested in taking space there." (http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/09/02/uk-apple-target-idU...) According to http://www.ifoapplestore.com/the_stores.html, Apple's retail stores range from around 3,600 square feet to 20,000 square feet, with most being in the 3,000 to 6,000 square foot range.

The article states proposed building the Apple store is situated in is a "10-storey development 87,000 square feet of offices and 13,000 square feet of retail." It's quite likely that the 13,000 square foot retail section will have several stores, including the Apple store.

This isn't about Apple creating enormous stores. This is about the possible development of an office center with a shopping floor that might house an Apple store.