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Not Pink Floyd; the obstacle there isn't the label but the band-members, who want their works to be sold as whole albums and not individual tracks.
Yes, except it's a new liquid phase rather than a new solid one.
:) Nice catch. I think John already edited that one out. ;)
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In theory, yes. In practice, this is infeasible.
If the only reason you're firing someone is to keep their stock, you're a dick and it's wrong. This, unlike options agreemetns, is not complicated. It may be legal. And it may be financially rational. But it's wrong.
I worked on this app, so I'd love to hear any kind of constructive feedback from the HN community!
It's definitely interesting to me that some developers call people who purchase their app through the App Store "customers" when, in reality, they have NO way of knowing who these people are, contacting them outside the app, or really doing anything with them at all. That, to me, does not a customer make.
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We had a front desk that would take calls and pass info along to the appropriate staff (on a different, largely segregated network). We don't want people emailing CC numbers or any customer data, really, internally, so it would be passed along via a note. But these cases rarely ever came up. We work with transaction numbers and 99% of staff has zero reason to know any credit card information.

It was something the auditors just brought up on their own, so yeah, I'm assuming they'd run into it before.
Oddly enough, this resonates, however how can a claim like this be supported? It can't. Seemingly small UI changes, which might appear to fall in that "last 10%" category can require immense research and iteration to achieve.

This quote should be restated: "10% of variation in features can account for acquiring 90% of market share."

In other words, seemingly small variations in features tend to lead to product differentiation. This does not however mean that simply refining your product a little bit more will get you the runaway success you are seeking.
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Completely agree. It's a shame some people are so desperate for work they would even work for Zynga which is the startup equivalent to telemarketers.
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This may be easy to determine. There are people who consume resveratrol daily, over an entire lifetime. Imagine a controlled study comparing the health profiles of long-term alcoholics who consume similar amounts per day:

Control group: Those whose drink of choice does not have resveratrol.

Experimental group: Those who drink almost exclusively red wine.

Both groups will have ill health due to the alcoholism, but the experimental factor, the consumption of red wine vs. other alcohols, should show a correlative difference, if one exists.
Micro-labels are cool and online services like Rdio and Spotify are great but is there anyone out there doing anything in this space besides these players?

It seems like this industry is prime for disruption and I'm not talking about the kind of disruption the current startups are doing. I see a ton of startups focusing on getting music to the consumer but what about startups that focus on grooming new talent for the big time?

We've got YouTube, SoundCloud and the like that make getting heard easy but the onus is on the music maker to spread the word. No one will listen to your song on these sites unless they're being promoted. It would be cool to have a new kind of "major" label that gets you exposure in a way the majors do but without totally screwing over the artists. Most musical acts make burger-flipper salaries and do tons of exhausting work because the deals they sign are heavily favored toward the label.

Or maybe like a universal label like BankSimple (now Simple) but for music labels.

On second read, I think this sounds vague and kind of naive. Oh well. Is anyone doing anything like this that I don't know of or has it been thought of and found to be a bad idea?
I have met companies using qr codes to validate wine and perfume for authenticity.
I like how title makes it look like it is a relief to have one less label to deal with.
I don't know about whistling, but tone mis-detections were fairly common in the early days with some folks' voices, and they still arise in a few of the systems.

We tried to reduce this mis-detection within the hardware and software of a voice response system back in the early 1990s. This commonly involved intentionally requiring longer tone input detection before the tone action was triggered, but it was left programmable for the end-users.

I know someone that still triggering a tone detection in a conferencing system within the last few years; she'd end up muting herself in the call, which lead to appreciable frustration.
You're thinking in the frequency domain, which is natural. Try to think, instead, of what a dual-sideband suppressed-carrier signal looks like in the time domain. It looks for all the world like a single frequency with rapid variations in amplitude (which can be accomplished by bubbling the air through a carefully-controlled reservoir of saliva). If you can mimic the time-domain signal, you can mimic the frequency-domain signal, since they're just two ways of looking at the same thing.
What's wrong with sticking to an older version of Ubuntu - 11.04 or earlier where you're not forced to use Unity? That's what I do. And I get a lot more work done without having to worry with the latest shiny new toys in town.
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> Also consider opportunity cost. The chef could have opened a restaurant instead and perhaps also earn a lot of money that way.

Would he have profited millions, on top of his salary? I read routinely about hugely popular top-rated restaurants going under (eg. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/dining/27zakarian.html?re...) or nearly going bankrupt (http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/16/gordon-ramsay-...). When we're considering risk, let's remember the upside to an option on a restaurant is small, and the risk is practically startup levels.
What's wrong with installing xfce? It's only an apt-get away.
A friend would call with his computer out of the blue. I'd hear the tone, and whistle the matching tone back to keep it happy until I could get my own computer up and running to link up.
Linux Mint looks good for Linux developers who want a high-productivity environment based on Gnome & debian. Canonical is re-purposing Ubuntu for the casual, ease-of-use, mobile and tablet markets.

Its easy to understand why ... those markets are growing quickly. And Microsoft is going in the same direction with their Metro look-and-feel.
Linux Mint has put Google custom search into the distribution in order to raise revenue. It's in firefox both from the address bar, the search box, and in the quick search from the 'start' menu. It's very annoying, and it isn't just a matter of opting out. Mint doesn't support an easy way to remove it from all three locations without getting technical.

I used mint for a couple of months, the custom search engine came back every time I updated a browser, and it was very annoying to reset settings. It was a deal breaker for me.
Anyone else think it's kinda funny the author's name is Divya?
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For those who don't want to shift to a new distro, Xubuntu is a great option. It's lightweight without losing any of the features you've come to expect from a fully-featured DE.

And best of all, it's not going to pull the UI rug out from under you at a moment's notice.
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I spent hours as a young phone phreak trying to sieze an international (phone) trunk by whistling 2600hz like cap'n crunch did to sieze 800 trunks in the US and get free phone calls. It never worked because to sieze an international CCITT5 trunk you'd use a combo of 2400/2600hz. But I did it anyway when I was bored and tried to modulate a bit of 2400hz in there - figured one day I'd get lucky.
Haven't you neen paying attention? Pincus decides. Then he decides again later, differently.
Apologies in advance for glibness, but, who cares? Record labels are irrelevant.

The capital costs of producing and (more importantly) distributing popular music have fallen through the floor. The heavily-promoted music products people think of when they think of EMI or Warner are in large part contrivances that exist primarily to perpetuate EMI and Warner.

The future barely even belongs to independent labels like Matador. Eventually, the Internet and commerce are going to figure out how to let any artist effectively be their own "label", outsourcing every function served by a label today to some Internet startup.

This is one reason why "buying the whole music industry" would be a stupid decision by Apple. We're always staring so intently at the next 12 months, but if you move your gaze upwards just a few fractions of an inch you can see that none of this stuff is going to matter. Labels are a bad investment.
Why switch to XFCE? Can't you just install Gnome?
Indeed, does it do more than C?

C++? Objective-C? Inline Assembler?

Does it work with XCode instead of GCC or LLVM?

Can I compile an OS X app from the command-line and avoid XCode all together. use GDB to debug.

I dont know the answer to any of these and When I visit Intel, they answer all of these which makes me interested in spending money for them when maybe Open64 is a better project that I can contribute to and donate to versus big corporate Intel...
It reminds me of the die-hard KDE users and Kubuntu. I think Canonical did well with the creation of Ubuntu, which made it possible to throw a Linux desktop at a newbie user for the first time. From the sounds of it, Unity hasn't lost that angle. Since it's actively looking at tablets, I think they are here to stay. With tablet hardware getting more powerful, it could be surviving contender to iOS and Android.
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But I've grown use to Gnome apps and applets. I especially like the multi-tabbed terminal.
I think the Beatles situation has to do with Michael Jackson having owned the Beatles catalogue for a time then Paul Mcartney bought it back (I think?). I'd start your search with that in mind.

Also, the Beatles are on Apple Records which was/is their own label (but still under the umbrella of another label, possibly Columbia, I think).

My broad strokes are correct but the details are questionable. I'm a big Beatles fan so I had to take a stab at answering your question. Keep those facts in mind on your search for answers.
Indeed he must have.

A lifetime ago I worked as a reporter, but also did page layout. One of the stories I wrote was about a local food pantry at a church that was running low. I don't remember exactly what my headline was, but I left the "r" out of "pantry."

Oops.
A strong dose of LUXr style UX work and Vlaskovits & Cooper style Customer Development will do a lot to fix these problems.

We all tend toward "doing what we know." (Coding the next feature, for example) If you recognize it in yourself, that's a big start.
Not only is it not a problem, it's a good thing. We sell dreams. In order to do that, some of them have to come true.
It's a much bigger problem than that. Thousands of rich Chinese people travel to the US/Europe just to buy luxury items, since it's borderline impossible for them to be sure that the items they buy are legit if they buy it in stores in China. Fakes doesn't have to be poor quality, there are also a lot of top-notch fakes out there rivalling (or even sometimes beating) the quality of the originals.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/15/world/europe/eager-chinese...
The traditional idea of a “label” is going away. The existence of that particular line of business is an accident of history. Not a bad thing, but dependent of a set of circumstances (including medium and distribution) that existed for, say, 50 years.

There will still be a role for managing and promoting talent, but it will look more like marketing and less like distribution. It will have less dependence on intellectual property in the form of recordings (which are easy to reproduce) and more in the form of brands (which are hard to reproduce).

In startup parlance, the “moat” will be the artist’s brand, not the recording.
> “I think there’s quite a good argument now that the global race to the bottom has been concluded,” said Geoffrey Crothall of the China Labour Bulletin, a Hong Kong-based labor-rights group. “There’s nowhere else to go.”

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Thanks for sharing Mark Cerny's influence here...Jak and Daxter really rekindled my love of "fun" games vs. FPS.
> Feeding a few hundred people in a professional setting is not just taking the process of preparing a home-cooked meal and multiplying. If a software engineer screws up, the site goes down. But if a chef screws up, people get sick. In extreme cases, they die.

Wow, hyperbole much? A chef only gets people sick or kills if he epically screws up.

A thought experiment: figure how many restaurants and fast-food chains there are in the US; multiply by how many people they serve a day; multiply by 365.25; divide by number of annual deaths. Ponder this upper bound on risk. Ponder whether the base-rate risk is greater or lesser than the risk of walking across the street or driving to work. Finally, ponder on whether this base-rate ought to be adjusted upwards or downwards for a trained corporate chef working in a controlled environment with good facilities (as opposed to a newbie teen or immigrant working for minimum wage in a kitchen somewhere).
Thanks, that was an excellent explanation.
What about if Google Chrome is one's preferred browser and Google search is one's preferred search engine. Would Mint's custom search still be as annoying?
Not my area of expertise, but I believe most research today is on microfluidics, introducing microchannels into 3D interconnect layers alongside the TSVs to cool the device. For example, http://deepaksekar.weebly.com/uploads/1/9/8/6/1986457/3d_mic...
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We are using two different interpretations of what they meant by 'contributions to the company'. In terms of well-being and quality of life to the staff, the chef made tremendous contributions, sure.

But in economic terms (what I believe Pincus/Zynga meant), no, the chef did not contribute substantially to revenue/profits the way engineers and sales people did.

I don't think Pincus is saying chefs are not important in the qualitative sense (that their contributions don't matter as much as engineers) - I believe he's saying they do not contribute enough economic value to generate a 20 million dollar pay day. And he's right - the labor markets don't pay chefs anywhere near that much.

But he's wrong for lumping economic contributions as an employee (charlie the chef) and asset appreciation (charlie the investor) together.
If the best thing you can say about it is that "it mimics the effects of caloric restriction and exercise" and the worst thing you can say about it is "it screws around with your genes in ways we haven't figured out yet", then I'm thinking that caloric restriction and exercise is still looking pretty good.
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That was one of the most popular line ending formats. According to Wikipedia, the following non-MS-related all used CR\LF: DEC TOPS-10, RT-11, CP/M, MP/M, Atari TOS, Symbian OS, Palm OS. Meanwhile Mac OS used just CR, as did the Apple II, Commodore, Acorn BBC, and TRS-80. The only players that used LF were Unix (and derivatives), BeOS, Amiga, and RISC OS.

It just happens that we ended up in a world where basically everything is Unix or Windows, so Windows seems like the odd man out. But history tells a rather different story. The use of CRLF was enshrined in RFC561 (the original email RFC) in 1973, before Unix was popular.
I said "I really wish people would keep politics out of a non-political discussion especially in a way that characterizes people unfairly" which is not the same as "saying not to bring political arguments up on HN". It irked me someone would take a cheap shot in a discussion about rightful compensation. Particularly when we are talking about a company not honoring the spirit of a contract with a worker then basically mischaracterizing a group's motives to put them in the same category when they are among the antithesis of that position.
That was my first reaction to this test as well. It's not an A/B test and the conclusions are pretty much worthless.

From experience though, an 'uglier' site getting more clicks is actually fairly common. I've seen the results on 100,000's of visitors across a multitude of landers. The rationalization that seems most common is that people click to 'get away' or get to whatever they want.
>> On the otherhand, there are now a million indie labels, and lots of success stories from people using the internet.

Exactly. As long as there is free competition among labels (i.e. music producers) there will be continually lower prices (i.e. better contracts) for musicians.

And the "million indie labels" have brought much more competition.

I would say overall it is a great time to be a recording artist.
It seems that nothing made more for the spread of minor linux distros than the introduction of Gnome 3...
I keep hearing asana... I like the keyboard shortcuts, so I'll probably go that way. Thanks!
This was my main dealbreaker as well and it was so annoying, especially considering how bad the google results look with the custom search.
According to BusinessWeek, new restaurants are not quite as risky as people perceive. Only 60% of new restaurants fail or are sold in three years[1], which is a bit higher but similar rate to any new business.[2]

I can't find any good numbers on tech startups with some Googling other than the oft-quoted 90%. This is hard to compare, because you might earn some sort of salary while the startup is in operation, but it closes down because it fails to meet growth targets.

But on balance it seems to me the startup is still riskier.

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/apr2007/sb20070...

[2] http://www.newventurelab.com/resources/blog.php?id=261
Competition is good and the web is also great but I think too many indie labels pollutes the market with crap and eventually indie labels will be known for selling crap records, gimmicky records, or weird artists not because they're good but just for the sake of weirdness and novelty.

I also think the Internet is overhyped in terms of letting indie artists get heard. It makes a great news story but it's still incredibly rare, possibly even rarer than getting major label contract.

I'd say more competition at high levels is good, there's too much at the smaller level, and the web makes it easy for any schmuck to release music no one cares about. There has to be a better way!

When I was younger I used to be one of the schmucks releasing music no one cared about online so I'm allowed to say that haha.
XFCE's terminal can do it too. And you can use Gnome applets.
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blowing a raspberry achieves the same effect.
For example, look at crypto algorithms like DES that, ten years ago, people thought would take thousands of years to crack given Moore's law growing computational resources. Wide freakin' open now, thanks to improved cracking algorithms. Any message sent via classical channels can be copied without your knowledge, so any message you sent via DES ten years ago could be decrypted and in anyone's hands without your knowledge.

I think your history is incorrect. See this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_size#Symmetric_algorithm_ke...

People were unhappy with 56 bits right off the bat in 1977. There were export-control restrictions. Some people believed NSA had on purpose degraded the key-size. People were thinking of getting around DES in the early 90s itself. First triple DES (for backwards compatibility) and now AES.
Semantic language has it's limits and rightfully so. The point of communication (sometimes) is to add something new. New things by definition have no pre-defined category. Therefore some content can only be described by inventing something. It's a moving target. I guess some attempt is a good thing like having a <title> tag, but it will never be perfect and if some day it is perfect then we are a dead species. I sincerely hope that most data continues to defy description.
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Extremely doubtful that we'll see Ubuntu as a contender to iOS and Android.

If you're going to run linux on a tablet-sized device, why not just use Android? It has an existing application store(s), and more importantly an existing userbase.

Look at WebOS, if there's any competition out there to compete with Android or iOS WebOS would be the best option. From everything I've seen and heard it is quite fantastic. If not slightly buggy and a little slow. It wasn't executed well by HP or Palm but there's obvious potential.

I figure, if Palm and HP can't compete with Android and iOS, there's no way Ubuntu is going to do it.

I'll happily be proven wrong if they do, but I just can't see it.
My self-imposed rule is if the page's doctype is <!DOCTYPE html> then I say it's HTML5 (regardless of what other technologies I actually use - it could just be a static page for all I care).
As a fairly recent main machine ubuntu convert (6 months or so), I'm actually a fan of unity. Like everyone I hated it at first, but now that I have got used to it I prefer it to regular gnome stuff.

I agree however that 11.10 has been a nightmare as many useful (but not hardcore) features have been removed from the UI of many packages for reasons such as "casual users are unlikely to need this". This is the problem that is likely to get me looking else where for distr.
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> "Over 400 genes with altered expression" sounds like a lot of side effects to me.

One man's side-effect is another man's effect. At this point in the resveratrol research, it's heartening to see that resveratrol is in fact doing something in humans - since we didn't have much evidence even for that. Hopefully this pilot study will justify bigger or at least longer-term research which can characterize what exactly the resveratrol is doing.
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Very few people will probably agree with you, probably even try and bury your comment, even though you're absolutely right.

No one wants to admit that their fav. ecosystem is basically mob-mentality dressed in a sleek, comfortable, suit - but it is.

I love Xcode, the Apple ecosystem - but I'm finding it hard not to look down the road and see the inevitable. Are people willfully blind?

It's a mixture of shortsightedness and comfort. We have this Apple/Google fanboy thing going on, where one is trying to be better than the other. While that happens, the open web, something both sides seem to agree is important, becomes an "old media" way of doing things.
I hope that instead of running to Mint as refuges, linux users and developers would actually build a new desktop, and maybe a new OS around it.
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Kamaal never said "this is what you should do," he said "this is how it is."

You guys are behaving disgracefully.
The description is a little confusing; they're talking about clusters, not really machines.
I hope that instead of running to Mint as refuges, linux users and developers would actually build a new desktop if they just don't like Unity
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