skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They release a new major version that changes everything so they spend years fixing and stabilizing, and then they release another major version and repeat the process.

This is inevitable when you either set your sights too low (and after a while realize that your current architecture will never get you where you need to be) or develop too slowly (so by the time something is finished the market has moved on).
you don't need to pay a dollar a song.

You could also go to their concerts, buy their gear, go to their appearances, etc.

This is how music industry works in Korea, where most all music is given away for free
There is no really good reason that a "music recording industry" needs to exist any longer.

Before vinyl records people would pay money to see a live musical performance. Operas, musicals, concerts, a live event people can go to and enjoy. The concept of paying money to listen to a pre-recorded performance is a relatively new phenomenon. It only made sense during the short time window when the ability to copy pre-recorded music was expensive. Now that the cost of digital music reproduction is zero, there is no legitimate way for this industry to continue, and there is no real reason for it to continue other than if it is legislated to continue.
Around 80% earn at or below the minimum wage currently.

Most state figures, which indicate a higher rate above the minimum wage, are either made up and/or only include urban working residents, usually those in state owned/controlled enterprises or large "privately" owned enterprises.
Cold showers aren't self improvement. It's the most contrived and limited form of self-punishment I can think of. Much of the developing world showers this way all the time.

Promoting pectoral-shortening exercises among an audience of people who a) largely do not understand how to exercise their bodies in a balanced way and b) spend most of their days hunched or slouching in front of a computer, is not self-improvement. It's sophomoric bragging, and it's irresponsible.

How can I put this? Everything he uses to self-promote seems like he set a goal which sounds impressive (e.g. "100 pushups"), but actually requires a fairly short period of commitment to achieve. It's as if he's molding his entire life for SEO, blog hits, and self-promotion, rather than achievement and improvement. To me, that's douchey.
What good is a fancy new feature if it hurts performance?
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Yea, the sad thing is that, for example, back in the day Viola had built-in support for collapsible lists:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.html/msg/ddc97911c2f9a6f4

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.infosystems.www.authorin...

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.infosystems.www.authorin...
Parsing is syntax. Interpretation is semantics. Just parsing JS just gives you information about its syntax, and any decent editor (like vim or emacs) has a programmable interface such that you can write a JS parser.
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AP had 12 teams demoing, and TS had 10. How many teams at YC?
Neat.

"Use at your own risk. I can't afford a lawyer, so don't do anything stupid with this, please." is a nice touch.
> Unity was pushed out before it was ready.

I think that this is the real rub here.
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You're assuming all the record labels do it distribution.

But they also do management. Without a startup that tackles the management side of things (which is pretty complex relationship wise, this includes relationships with venues and between producers and bands, just so much) attacking distribution is only half of the issue
I have been playing around with this idea for the last couple of hours now(seeing I actually need to study) and after my exams I'm thinking of building a prototype like this using qr codes. Do you maybe have company names I can Google for to see how the market looks and if my idea is "unique" as I think it is?
The point will probably be a few years off, at least for retail prices. Cloudsmithing is still a new art, and there are very few people outside of Amazon who can produce a functional cloud.
Sorry to sound harsh, but this seems really silly to me (the concept, not the code which I'm not competent to comment on).

Be human, tell other people to fuck off when they are bothering you. End of story.

I find the lack of verbal communication skills among programmers/techies their biggest disability. Learn to talk to other people, you might notice the world will become a much easier place to function in.

Disclaimer: I was super-shy when I was younger, so I know what I'm talking about. I never went to these kinds of lengths to avoid talking to people though, this is crazy.
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Accommodation Miami gets all sorts of places, names, services, prices. Making a clear contrast to much surprise, the lack of advertising motels with great hotel accommodation proposed in the Capital of the Sun is certainly a city has good tourism capital. People are aggressively shopping malls and buy all kinds of items.
The author fails to realize that not all programming is either web programming or desktop software programming. This is just a subset of programming: software development. It's reasonable to assume that all software development will one day be web programming since a web app is much more accessible than its desktop equivalent. (I personally hope that this is not the case, because with web apps customers pay a regular fee for the server resources they use rather than a one time payment for the program itself; web apps are more expensive for users)

But software development is far from being the majority of programming, most programs are written by people from mathematical and science fields. Since these aren't distributed, it's easy to forget that they even exist. These academic programs are frequently replicated many times by other organizations because if one lab publishes the results of a new study, other labs will want to verify them, and they're not going to use the same code, that would hardly be a thorough verification.

But I don't think that even all software development will become web development. I wasn't round back then, but I'm guessing that people said the same thing about command line programs becoming GUI programs back when GUIs came out, and yet I use vim, tmux, git, countless REPLS and many other command line programs.
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been working from home for most of the last 22 years. This was a good post and much of it resonated. Wrote up a few "tips" and thoughts based on my experiences working at home: http://geekanddad.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/working-at-home-s...
This

> DELETE http://api.fakecall.net/v1/account/(your number)

does this

> This really deletes your account and leaves no trace. We use "rm -rf /path/to/1234567890" (really).

Really hope they don't allow a number like "../*"
Is there a reason why the list contains Hotmail accounts only? Does this mean Hotmail users are easier to hack into?
Thanks for sharing. It's always nice to hear the tale from the side that didn't get in.

By the way, I've seen one or two outdoor advertising startups pop up here and there over the last year or so ... which means your original idea may have legs. If I remember the names or stumble on them again, I'll be sure to come back and post the companies ... in case you're interested or just mildly curious.
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The buzz/concern about the merger is semi-premature. Universal will be fighting for years in order to pass regulatory in the EU. IMPALA, who tied up the Sony/BMG merger for 3 years, is dead set on blocking the UNI/EMI merger: http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storyco...

Who knows what the industry will look like in 3 years. UNI might even decide to bail on the deal by then.

EDIT: changed the link to a non-paywall one
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Back in '08 there were around 21 teams, now I believe there are around 60 teams.
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More appropriate 'D' ->

I want to type ___ into my cheap mobile device with its free operating system."

No one will care if it is Google that gets searched. Only that an answer is forthcoming...or maybe even an app.
The "startups are like bands" analogy actually implies a different, more interesting model: what about a startup incubator for bands?

Pick the most promising unsigned bands out of a set of applicants, and give them access to smart folks who have experience with being successful in the music industry along with other promising bands?

Bands don't IPO or get bought out, but a deal for percentage of revenue might still be viable, sort of like a manager/agent contract. I have no idea what the potential upside of a successful band is, so I don't have a clue whether the numbers add up to make the financial aspects of this work the way an incubator does, but it seems like it's worth exploring.

The band would still be in charge of their destiny, unlike with a major label or some more onerous types of management contracts. They would just have a access to a lot of insight and help toward achieving that destiny.
You still slipped it "keep their stock", it isn't their stock. It's just like any other compensation; if the company just had people hired at salary X and decided that a particular employee isn't worth that salary anymore, they can either just fire that person or they can lower their salary.

What you are saying is the same as "if the only reason you're firing someone is to not have to pay them anymore, you're a dick and it's wrong".
Underlying your arguments is the belief that some people are better at making these sorts of decisions than others. The belief that any group of people (no matter how large) should dictate the consumption patterns of another group of people (no matter how small) is inherently anti-democratic.

You claim that the drug situation should be carefully analysed. Well, it must be analysed by someone, right? Who will do the analysis? Who deserves this power? Who do we trust enough to make unbiased decisions in this domain?

Another underlying assumption that you seem to be making is that drugs are bad. You want to allow room for advances in hygeine, medical treatement, etc. but you don't want people to do more drugs.

I want people to do more drugs. I want there to be more and deeper research into drugs. I want people to trip more. I want cocaine and heroin addicts to have easy access to ibogaine. I want there to be less shame associated with having gone through a period of heavy addiction. I want people to smoke weed and do mushrooms and LSD and 2CE on their days off rather than getting drunk.

"Legalize drugs" is not an over-simplification, it is a purification. It is the only position which is consistent with freedom and mutual human respect. It is the only position which has any hope of allowing humanity to move towards a healthy and mature stance on drug use. Your attempt to cast it as a "simplification" is a subtle (and all-too-common) context-switch from the land of ideals into the land of hubristic utilitarianism/pragmatism.
> Be human, tell other people to fuck off when they are bothering you

> lack of verbal communication skills
It sounds like they were excited to hear about as you said "extending your tenacles into the offline world." You probably didn't hit the notes they were hoping for. I know the article was to serve as more of an informative on the interview process but I'm wondering why you didn't take the acceptance as a sign that you should continue you working on the idea. Sure it might need some restructuring but that's where the persistence comes in.

Great article though regardless. Oh yeah, and the design/logo sucked ;)
I'm writing this on Debian Sid (unstable), which as of few weeks ago has GNOME 3. It works pretty well - has some quirks and bugs, but overall I think it's a great improvement over GNOME2. (This is on my main work computer).
You might not have entered the house, but you did enter the land.
As I sit here, waiting for a few thousand CPUs on the astronomy department's cluster to free up so I can run my code, I say "hah!"
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It's a matter of perspective. To most others, this still appears are paranoia. But I wouldn't be doing it if my experience didn't say that such problems occur far too often.
Not to undermine the argument, but Wright does not prove the mutual inclusion of style and function. His buildings are notorious for structural problems.
Who gets to decide which drugs are addictive? The main claim by anti-legalization politicians is that cannabis is addictive.

Giving any small group of humans the right to decide which properties drugs have and how important/dangerous those properties are is EXTREMELY dangerous. This is not kids stuff. Millions live and die by these decisions. Who do we trust to make such decisions?
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ALESSANDRO ACQUISTI gave a cool talk at the 2011 BlackHat presenting his research findings which indicate that by taking a picture of your face, that picture can be correlated with your facebook profile, which can be used to take simply your birthday, and using that information, using a computer to guess your social security number with significant accuracy compared to random. here is video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZQ7Th9L5ss
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I'd like to hear more about why you think the culture of violence associated with drugs being illegal will not simply disappear after a generation?

Doesn't most violence associated with these drug cartels take the form of fights over supply/territory? What will they be fighting over if they are no longer the suppliers?
That is one of two ways to look at it. Most employers do not think of the initial stock as a grant that you have earned for signing on and then four years of dragging out payment. They look at the stock as four years of payment that, along with your salary, is designed to keep you motivated the entire time. So, the other is:

zynga: want to be an early employee in our risky little venture?

emp: um - the salary is kind of low and there's no job security

zynga: we'll toss in 25,000 options per year for the first four riskiest years. potentially worth $2.5M per year if our stock hits $100 in the ipo

emp: okay, that sounds better. i'm in

2 years later

zynga: hey, looks like you did pretty good the last two years, but the trajectory of the company has changed, there is no longer any risk in it for you, and it doesn't make fiscal sense for us to pay you $2.5M a year in stock anymore. We'd like you to stay on, though, and you'll still get a competitive salary and benefits plan. If you don't think that it is competitive, we understand.

emp: works for me. (OR) doesn't work for me.
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I think there are some generally "semantic" things that are just good practice, like using logical classnames, keeping markup and styles separate, using the right list type for the task, etc. but I completely agree with the article.

It's all about readability and, call it crazy, but I think markup and code are like poetry. Imagine trying to have universal semantics for poetry...it seems dumb, right? But general practices make sense and general types of structure are good for different things.

Code and markup should be looked at the same way. This article, to me, did a great job reminding us of that.
I'd love to see screenshots of them. I used to be HUGELY into making my desktops gorgeous, but lately I just need a fullscreen gnome-terminal with vim :) Still, love to see purty desktops.
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Do you mean LEGOs?
In the early 90's I used an old VCR tuner (over the air) to listen to telephone conversations people were making. I lived in an extremely rural area and had few neighbors.
I'm curious too. If they had a big list and broke it up into pieces to put on different computers, it wouldn't make sense to organize it by email provider. That makes it easier to get caught if all the hotmail access comes from one computer instead of spread around.

Maybe a seller split up a master list that way. "I'll sell you 50k hotmail accounts".
Blogger ate up a blog post
The blog deleted was the one mentioned in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3225055 , i.e. http://intosimple.blogspot.com/2011/11/decline-of-ubuntu.html
Course selection is an asymmetric information problem. You're only interested in a course if you desire to learn more about the subject matter, but you need a certain amount subject matter knowledge in order to make an informed decision about which course to take.

It's actually quite a difficult problem and one of the many solvable problems that are undermining the education system.

I think a lot about disruptive innovations in education and the "course selection process" is an area ripe for change.

My top of head thoughts on this:

The groups and individuals who are most likely to influence this decision are
1) the student himself
2) his classmates, friends, peers, etc. who have already taken the course
3) the educational institution: i.e. professors, authors of course catalogs, career development offices, etc

These three groups should have less say in course selection for the following reasons:
1) because they don't know what they're doing
2) same as (1) and the ones who have taken the course may be irrationally biased one way or another
3) they have a vested interest in perpetuating the status quo

One group that is missing in course selection is relevant outsiders: e.g.
1) for purely academic class this includes communities of interest as embodied in academic associations, online fora, relevant periodicals, etc.
2) for practical classes this includes: employers, practitioners, professional associations, etc.

The lack of input from outsiders in the education process and its subprocesses like course selection is one reason so many students are poorly prepared for the real world.
Interesting -- this goes straight to some concerns I had about Zach's whole 'brand' and 'persona' response to the (overblown) controversy on swearing. I agree with most of what Jason says here.

But I still have an issue with the notion of my character and reputation being tied to the language of 'brand'. I think it cedes too much ground to the encroachment of marketing into some of the essential parts of human interaction, reducing what we present and edit of ourselves to mere marketing.

Contrast with _why. Here's a guy who clearly edited himself in a radical way, created a persona, built a following, but it would be hard for me to see _why as a 'brand', because the content of his persona was focused on creativity and his contributions to the community, not his marketability.

I totally get that we're all always editing ourselves to present a certain point of view of who we are, from the profile pics we use on Twitter/FB/LinkedIn, to the style we use in our tweets, speeches, presentations, etc. -- it's impossible to eliminate that from our interactions publicly and online.

But do we have to concede that much ground to the business side of things that we call it "branding"? I hope we have different ways of tying our public selves to a kind of integrity that goes beyond the ethics of commerce, to something deeper.

Commerce is such a powerful force in our everyday lives anyway, can we find a broader language to describe this process than something that tends to reduce us to products?
Acunote works great for us (and is free for 5 users).
Thanks for your thoughts.

I wrote about my personal experience with cold showers and how I feel they have improved my life. This is an experiment with an N of 1. Most notably:

"It also helps me temper my emotional responses to things. I no longer have the panicky feeling that a ton cold water on your skin gives you for more than a few seconds when I take my cold showers – I’ve trained myself to calm down and overcome this natural response. And I’ve noticed this ability to temper my response overlap into other areas of my life"

If you haven't tried taking cold showers regularly you might be surprised by the results.

I never posted the 100 pushups article on HN so I'm not sure what you mean about being irresponsibly promoting pushups.

I agree that the 100 pushups requires a relatively short period of commitment. Yet it seems impressive. Which is why in my post I wrote:

"It turns out, with about 4-6 weeks of pushup training 3x a week (~10 mins per session), you can do build your capacity to do something rather difficult: 100 pushups in a row."

The point of that post was not to show off how awesome I am, but to encourage people to go after goals that seem difficult because with consistent effort, large goals can be conquered.

I find it unfortunate that my life comes across to you as molded for SEO and blog hits as that is not my intention. As I state in this post and in my about section, I write to provide resources to help others.
Great article! I have been using Lisp languages for much of my work since the early 1980s, and this article is inspiring because instead of just building a "language" up towards the application domain by adding functions and a few macros, Racket supports more general creation of new languages.

I just read the article quickly because today is a busy day, but I'm going to play with this material more this weekend.
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Yes, thank you. Hiding behind silly web apps doesn't help anyone.

BUT, "telling people to fuck off" isn't much better. A polite "hey, I'm trying to get some stuff done, I'll be with you soon" is sufficient.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3225931
The author was unfortunate to have his post deleted by mistake.
I disagree and don't think that's the point of the article. The analogy you gave is a little hinky, too.

The main point here is that too much time is wasted on simple issues. While energy is heaved into whether or not <time> is a better tag than <data>, a lot of actual work and design could have been done.
Keep in mind the context-this isn't the first, second, or even tenth study that Cal has posted arguing that intensely focused periods of work are more beneficial than working the same number of hours but spread throughout the day.

For Cal's readers, this article isn't presenting a new argument. It's one more example in a long line supporting his overall thesis.
wuz confused for way too long, also.
Better yet, Kelvin. I cringe when science-y things don't use that.
I wonder how many existing patents this infringes on?
As someone who considered that, I wonder what your reasoning is? Math not CS.
"Made easier" would be more accurate
Any criticism about the design is welcome too :)
It is not a true binary - but I like they way they used it to get to the #woof!
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According to the op he found the site via a phishing email. So likely it was just a mass mailing to hotmail accounts, or designed to look like it came from the hotmail team - naturally only Hotmail users would be worried about an email them.