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Okay so clearly hiring people just like you is probably not a good idea, not just because the qualities that led you to be a founder are likely present in the prospective employee but also because you're likely to suffer from confirmation bias if you hire someone that thinks in a similar manner to yourself. However, that said, this article does a horrible job of prescribing an adequate solution to hiring practices: personality tests? Are you kidding? Easily foiled, especially when you understand its purpose, i.e. to assess whether you work well with others. Someone in need of a job is probably able to not only trick the testers but also themselves into believing they have the qualities necessary to get along in the work environment. A better solution might be temporary work that has the possibility of becoming full-time. While this isn't always possible, it should be possible to at least ask for and follow up on references for any perspective employee.
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Everything you've said is true, except for your first sentence. What we're talking about here is money as a proxy for an actual score board. At this resolution the score board is all that matters because we can't see the game being played.
Interesting post. Are you an ideas man or a developer? Incidentally I've been working on the "Spotify for $foo" concept for a while (not music btw) and are in the pre-launch stage.

My view is exactly like you said, the next stage of the internet is wealth redistribution, but you need the right business model to make that work.
... has “most stuff” — that’s a life-and-death difference to a hardcore music fan

as you say, spotify's lacking catalogue is not news.

I would be interested to know however if hardcore music fan's makes up the majority (or a significant minority) of spotify's user base. As such is this truely a life-and-death difference to spotify as a whole.
"At the same time an Alan Turing fetish means we might overlook the other great people who worked in early computing" --- They could have used many other words instead of fetish. I have to wonder if the word subconsciously chosen for the history of his personal life... I hope not.
I read the origin page and then immediately went to the purchase page in case the HN rush brings their site down.
This is why subscription models don't work when you're subscribing to the middleman. If a label suddenly wants to yank their music, they can.

Without a middleman, it's going to be a pain to subscribe to multiple labels. It would require vast improvements in protocols/infrastructure in an industry that's extremely slow moving.
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Using something like uglify's parse-js.js [1] that gives you back the AST might be the right way to go about it. Just count the calls to each $ method in your code.

[1] https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS/blob/master/lib/parse-js....
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Personally, I think the true intent of SOPA is to prevent a Jasmine Revolution happening in the US (or Europe), and to prevent sites like WikiLeaks from spreading.

The US saw that Twitter and Facebook were key driving forces behind the events in Egypt, Tunisia, Iran, Syria, Libya, etc. Today they have not much control over these sites (other than politely requesting Twitter to delay a system upgrade[1] because Iranians were using it to coordinate their activities). Thanks to SOPA, they'll have a sledgehammer in their arsenal to knock these sites around.

Similarly, they could just talk to Amazon to not host Wikileaks[2]; but if Amazon had refused to comply, they couldn't have done much (OK, other than maybe quickly imposing a federal sales tax). Now, thanks to SOPA, they can completely shutdown AWS should the next Wikileaks crop up.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/06/16/us-iran-election-t...

[2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-websit...
This is a gamble that can turn both ways; what these labels/artists now risk is that they basically no longer exist, or are no longer discoverable, for a large portion of listeners.
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I'm the same as you. I occasionally bought an album from the Amazon $5 deals, but even then I would often fill my cart, not feel it's worth it and then skip buying. With spotify $10/month feels like a good deal for a good product. If labels want to pull all their music then I'll go back to listening to my catalog of stuff I already own and not spending money at all.
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See my comment in reply to singular.

I used to be passionate about the arts, passionate about enjoying nature, good company, good food, travelling, enjoying life, and all the rest that matters.

I've flogged it all out of myself, as if I don't, it just depresses me that I don't get the time to do the things I love. Instead, I've convinced myself that the only thing to love is work, which my slowly but surely insane-turning mind rails against, continually, as I've ended up finding it impossible to care about anything, either way.
responses you might get (not that i agree):

"we're used to the false sense of security from NAT and we like it"

"we feel like NAT protects our privacy ('but we use gmail')"

"its easier to setup than ndp proxying ('because i never heard of ndp before')"

yada yada :-)
I don't use Spotify, I use Zune Pass (it was available in the US long before Spotify was), but when I got a Zune, I moved from pirating _everything_ to never pirating music. I've been a Zune Pass subscriber for three years now and have discovered tons of new music I hadn't heard before. On some artists I've found I'll go out and buy the album on vinyl so I have it at home but that's a very rare occurrence.

Just an anecdote from some random guy on the Internet, but when done right and with good integration, music subscriptions can be a great thing for the user _and_ the industry.
InsideOut (the biggest progressive rock/metal label) removed all their music from Spotify about a year ago. This would have been a dealbreaker for me when I started my Spotify subscription, but now I almost can't be bothered to switch...switching would mean exporting my 200 playlists to the next sertive.
If you follow another famous piece of pg advice and don't die, then eventually you will make it through the Trough of Sorrow (whatever its name) - http://www.shirlawscoaching.co.uk/shirlawsresources/2011/8/2...
Unless you are dealing with the artist directly, you are always dealing with a middle man. Make no mistake, the current distributors would love nothing more than the ability to cancel rights on any music you already think you own. There is some exec right now looking at video games that phone home before each play and thinking he wants to make that work with the music his company distributes.
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First of all don't try to create a website from scratch. It's too much work.

I would suggest using something like twitter bootstrap to get started on the css if design isn't your strong point.

Next you need to learn how to program. Php is super easy to get started with, but it has a reputation for teaching people bad habits. You can use a framework like code igniter to get started.

Essentially, what you need to do is find a framework that is MVC in a language you want to learn and focus on that. Just make the pages work. Then you can come along later with bootstrap or a theme you've created and make it look pretty.

If you ever get stuck ask a question http://stackoverflow.com
Or build a beanstalk on Mars. Much easier than on Earth!
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Today. The US is getting closer to the China model by the day.

EDIT: Downvoters, do you disagree? With the continuous attempts at controlling the internet and destroying people that get dirt on US corruption? SOPA is just the latest attempt. It wasn't the first, and if we beat it it won't be the last.
If you wnat to learn how far one could go for safe programming (computers) check out this presentation (from a german hacker Congress)

http://media.koeln.ccc.de/browse/congress/2010/27c3-4123-en-...
Salesforce Chatter does this already.
Yes. I believe they start to degrade VPN/SSH, amazonaws.com, google couple of months ago. Things may vary depends on which city you are and which ISP you are using, eg: pptpd barely can connect on my DSL.
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This seems like an excellent example for loosening regulations so that people other than millionaires can invest in startups.

You want innovation? You want jobs? You want people excited about the future again? Make this one change (combined with efforts to ensure due diligence).
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Step away, man.

It seems like you can't, but trust me. Step away.

If an organization rests solely on the shoulders of one man, it isn't running properly, and it needs to be fixed sooner rather than later.

Step away
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I never used Hunch much, and I'm not sure if an 80 million exit with 20 million in VC funding is so great for the founders, but I suppose it gives eBay a footing in NYC - that's the part of the article I found most interesting.
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One of my toddler's favorite books includes items such as a the wool of a lamb and the texture of an elephant's ears. These are things an ebook cannot reproduce.
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did anyone actually use Hunch seriously?
I don't have time at the moment (I'm about to leave a train) for a detailed explanation, but what I can say:

Look into Ruby on Rails. I've started it recently, and it's brilliant for building and deploying a web application. It cuts out so many annoying steps. I recommend the Pragmatic Programmers Guide to Agile Web Development with Rails, but there are plenty of free resources too.

If I have time, I'll post more later! Hope this helps!
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Were the BOFs recorded too? I'd love to see the miniKaren presentation by Dan Friedman & William Byrd.
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It's not just DRM. I'll be the first to admit that I'm terrible about maintaining my digital libraries. I'm slack on backups and I have files all over the place. Also, I don't put much stock in maintaining my digital library in "the cloud." I'm fairly confident that Google, Amazon, et. al. will be there in 15-20 years, but it's not a guarantee and no one knows what will actually happen with all that data once one of them does go belly up. Remember no one though Lehman Brothers would disappear in less than a week.
"Would like to know more about the differences."

Avionics software development is primarily concerned with software that is designed and developed to operate in an embedded system [1]. There is also a focus on real-time performance [2] with regard to the software's operation and integration in such an environment.

The target language may be C, C++ or assembly language, although other languages are used.

Depending on the application, an on-board front-end may or may not be utilized. For example, an unmanned rocket would not contain a front-end; rather, operating parameters would be monitored remotely.

On the other hand, a modern, manned aircraft or spacecraft instrument panel would provide electronic displays and controls necessary for communicating system status to the pilot(s), as well as for accepting input from the pilot(s) for operation and flight.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_system

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing
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Burnout is this weird concept that developers have invented to describe "I can't be bothered to keep going"

You are not serious, or you haven't been through a burnout. A burnout is probably not due to a lot of work, but to bad conditions/results/consequences. You can get burnt out without working (or working too little), and burn out is more than "I can't keep going". It's a mind disturbing thing and can be quite serious and lead to a depression.
I agree that this has nothing to do with Turing himself and everything to do with journalistic low standards. However, I don't think it's an effort to fit Turing into the "forbidden fruit" story, and I really see no snake coming up in this. It's just sensationalism: making each bad story really bad, and each good story really good.

It's hard to explain Turing's achievements to non-technical readers anyway. The documentary calls him a codebreaker, which is not exactly why they've named the Turing Award in his honor. But it's much easier to put across to the general public the point about Enigma (he helped win the war!) than about computability (huh?).
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Uh, in this context I would wager he has a pretty good idea how many people he said no to.
Aye, there's the rub.

I'm desperate for us to hire someone else to at least share the devops/project management/administrative/account management burden with me, however my business partner runs the design side of things, and therefore doesn't see the problems (I never get to sleep, I don't feel like it's permissible for me to do anything but sit in the office waiting for the next crisis), just the symptoms (me being snarky and irritable), therefore assumes the problem is with me, rather than the fact that I'm doing way too much.

Aware of the problem, aware of a resolution, no path to it, however, so I'll probably just keep on cranking until I finally, completely and utterly, unmistakably, lose it.
Really like the idea of this but it is SO far away from '90% of jquery'.

I tried using it on my site (with all parts) and litterally NONE of the jquery worked. There is no hover support, no 'attr', no animation and val doesn't work with checkboxes.

You would have to build a site from scratch with this in mind, it is not a drop-in solution for most people.
I'm working like 70ish hours on busy weeks (unavoidable since I'm in a start-up & college at the same time) and I concur after a certain threshold your mental abilities get dramatically diminished plus your health severely damaged.

In fact if you're putting that many hours, you're probably also mistreating your body, doing little to no exercise and incurring in sleep debt. And I repeat, I know because I'm being this stupid. After two months of this ridiculous schedule I find myself fairly drowsy during the day, unable to resolve challenging problems. My body is acquiring fat very easily and I suffer from the stomach + a lot of headaches. And I just have been two months through this.

To be honest, the period in my life in which I succeeded the most was the one in which I had my needs completely met and I enjoyed every bit of my work, working as hard as I could.
If you're a coder mental clarity is one of your biggest assets, so either run out of that health destructive spiral (that's what I'm going to do as soon as this quarter ends) or just stick with physical and mental problems.
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Why not do the opposite and give each computer hundreds of addresses?
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Music that phones home is old news. Windows Media DRMed files had to contact a licensing server to obtain a key to play the files, and this was in 1999.
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it's apparently been deleted
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This makes me sad. People claiming that NAT provides some sort of privacy are misguided. There's also the option of the privacy extensions described in RFC 4941. This is even easier to enable in Linux, just add "net.ipv6.conf.<if>.use_tempaddr = 2" to /etc/sysctl.conf.
That's not really an apt comparison, as the windows are not disguising themselves as, say, bathroom doors, a place many people are likely to visit. It doesn't have to be massive to be a problem or even to be significant, it just has to be out of the ordinary. The reason this is a problem is because many people trust their phones, don't expect malware to infect them there, and they have no way of knowing what is a malware app and what is not.

The reason this is a problem is because it is happening, and it is picking up speed. If your engine is leaking oil, you take steps to get it fixed _before_ your pistons seize. That's what this article is trying to highlight.
Because NAT is easier.

And yes, NAT is bad, ugly and from hell.
My bad: if it wasn't obvious, I was talking Bible-as-literature mode rather than Catholic-dogmatist mode.

Anyhow, apologies for the tangent.
"It’s been a long journey for Hunch."

They were founded in 2008 and sold for $80m 3 years later. That is considered a "long journey" these days? Statements like this give me that "we're in a bubble" feeling.
Same here. I lost Frost* from my playlists, but frankly there' so much other music to listen to that I'm not missing them.
I never felt the need to use Hunch on its own. Now that it can be more of a tool to supplement other objectives, it sure might be the right tool after-all.
I'm not directly affected by SOPA as I don't live in the US, but it certainly is a concern of mine that if it were to pass, it can be used to motivate such actions in other countries despite the recent negative statements on SOPA from the EU Parliament. It's a "but look, even they are doing it"-thing.

In other words, here is yet another person hoping it doesn't pass, no matter what the true intention is.

EDIT: I do realize, however, that sites used by me which are hosted in the US can be brought down and affect me directly.
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15 million a piece. I don't know how long they were working on it but the very top billed actors tend to make, what, 20 million for movies that take ~3 years to make.
I think it's just in his blood at this point to blog about tech news. Good for him I say. If you love what you do then do it.
Wow, this is like a knight in a white horse for Hunch.. I seriously doubt they were making any profit... This sounds like a talent acquisition. I mean this is ridiculous... but it goes to show you.. you gotta show up for the game (the startup game, I mean) to win it... $80 m for a site that doesn't even get 1 million uniques (per Compete) a month is a STEAL. I mean.. seriously, everyone who has a CS background should just start something on the side if a deal like this is possible.
How much of the music in those playlists has to disappear before you have to switch?
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The sensational headline is probably not warranted: http://www.nirdvana.com/2011/11/17/android-472-malware-incre...
Billing would probably the hardest part - customers won't want to pay different values each month depending on the labels the music they listened to happened to belong, in my opinion. They (We) want flat, predicable bills, and that involves having a middleman acting as a "financial buffer", which charges the same to every client but pays different values to each label.
The only ones I can think of are:

1. Topology hiding: the outside world only sees one interface not potentially the rest of your network. Though I doubt this offers and security worth speaking of, some people might want to keep that part of their arrangement when they migrate from IPv4 to IPv6.

2. Selective address forwarding: your router could send packets for a particular IPv6 address to different machines LAN-side depending on various things like where the packets came from WAN-side.

Of course there might be better ways to implement these things in the IPv6 spec already, I'm very behind the times in that respect and really must find time to read up on the subject (I purposely chose an ISP that fully supports IPv6 when I switched a few months ago, so I could try it all out when I have some time to play)
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As it stands now I should be in a low(ish) risk category -- I'm 29, my driving record is clean, I've never been at fault in any accidents, and I drive a boring car. And yet, still, my insurance is considerably lower than if I was buying it in the US.

If anyone else has moved from BC to someplace else and is paying less on insurance compared to ICBC for the same services I'd would honestly like to hear it because I haven't yet seen it.

I've heard horror stories but I've never had any problems with them, rate-wise or service-wise.
I'd say this particular improvement is necessarily in pypy, because plain lists are always boxed in CPython, which doesn't perform any of that kind of type specific optimizations, being a plain old interpreter.