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My understanding is that it pays a similar amount to airplay - and that if I want a band to make the same amount they would have made from me buying their album then I need to listen to it about 100 times.

Which, for albums I love, tends to happen. Rubbish albums full of fillers, on the other hand...
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I doubt you noticed it yourself, since it's nothing out of the ordinary in a tech discussion, but your original comment is condescending in tone. Given that his entire business is built around providing customer service that uniquely avoids the kind of strict, condescending, and unsympathetic approach towards computer security your comment implies, I thought his reply was informative and appropriate rather than overly sensitive and defensive.

If anything, it really highlights the additional burdens of his approach and suggests that computer security as a service to consumers is about more than just security.
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Huh? Security was a focus of Vista, not a reaction to Vista. (It was a reaction to Blaster and other widespread infections from the early XP era)
When I read this I was not expecting it to be STholdings! That's about half of my favorite new music right there. Glad I didn't buy a subscription now.
> Sadly, many see the current system as a tool to punish and withhold, not a tool to recognise and reward (Neelie Kroes)

As far as I know, copyright's primary goal originally wasn't to "recognize and reward", but to increase the output in creative works. And even if it is recognition and reward, it is done through punishment and withholding (state granted monopoly that if infringed, causes fines).

I'd rather judge legislation by its actual consequences rather than by its professed intentions. And my impression is that copyright causes much more punishment and withholding than it does recognition and reward.
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Some good figures here:
http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/09/how-much-does-a-band-...
This is not the case. They are admittedly all UK-based underground electronic music labels, so perhaps not the end of the world for spotify, but it isn't something they can ignore. STholdings has been a successful distributer for many years, it underpins the UK scene. Others are sure to be watching.
If anyone is interested in learning a bit more deeply some of the underpinnings of OWS and the fallout of the financial crisis (most/all of which has not been appreciably cleaned up yet), check out Yale Professor Robert Shiller's course on Financial Markets, particularly session 2 on Risk Management and session 7 on Behavioral Finance. (Yes, he wrote _Irrational Exuberance)
What you describe there is laziness. Burnout is this weird concept that developers have invented to describe "I can't be bothered to keep going". 5 years, no days off, one 5 day holiday per year, on call 24/7 for the duration, and I'm just fine. Depressed and exhausted, yes, but the work keeps flowing in and the code keeps flowing out, which is all that matters.

I guess what I'm getting at is that people have forgotten that work is supposed to be hard. You're supposed to work your nuts off until you lose all track of time. "Free time" is a misnomer, because every moment that you're not working, you're costing yourself time, and time is precious, and should therefore be spent working.

If you can't hack back-to-back 80+ hour weeks, you need to keep throwing yourself into them until you can.
Example: approx 15% of Swedish broadband users have replaced their fixed line internet with 3G/4G. (source: http://www.pts.se/sv/Nyheter/Pressmeddelanden/2011/Nara-var-... )
If anything, it's more worrying for Spotify that these labels are all closely related by genre. This leaves a gaping hole in that specific genre, which is harder to ignore than a few artists here or there.
Agreed. Regular exercise, good health and good sleep - would just like to re-emphasise that there's absolutely no substitute for it.
*Pascal campion:
Ctrl + F "Sentience/Intelligence" on the below link and you will get to the absolutely most relevant bits to your question. Crypto-intelligence isn't big enough to be a field but cognitive science is, and it covers all the interesting bits of neuroscience, psychology and philosophy.

http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm#Notes
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In a recent press conference (think it was this one: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18431005) one of the MSL engineering managers was asked this question. He said it's because of both the weight of MSL and the landing accuracy requirements. They considered a boatload of configurations before deciding on this one.
Oof. The sole reason I have a Spotify subscription is for its vast dubstep catalog. Checking out my "favorites" playlist today, I hope I don't see half of them gone!
"because it turns a service that has everything into a service that has “most stuff”"

Spotify already was a service that has "most stuff"--it was never a challenge to find holes in their catalog.

And judging from the ads that the free version of Spotify plays for me, either their entire userbase is really into country, or their advertising is more intended to badger me into buying a subscription so albums I actually like aren't interrupted by country music every 2-3 tracks.
Yes. Programmers (myself included) constantly want to rewrite form scratch: But this time, we're going to do it right!

Unfortunately, often, you'll draw exaggerated conclusions from past failures and over-engineer things ("All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection."). You might also end up creating new design problems, e.g. a bottleneck in an area that the old design just happened to avoid. And even if you do get everything right design-wise, you'll always end up creating new bugs along the way.

(Obviously, none of this is a new insight, the pros and cons of rewrite from scratch have been discussed back and forth forever.)
Networking with your peers & professors is quite beneficial, unless you plan on being a lone genius.
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I'd be interested to hear some of these legitimate use cases for IPv6 NAT.
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/burnout/
If Turing had been still alive he'd have solved P?=NP by now! ;-)
Obviously the Moon is a very different environment, but it's also much closer to home (which makes it a lot easier to find out what went wrong). It's a little cheaper in terms of fuel, and the trip is much shorter. We can't say we have any recent experience with easy rocket moon landings either.

There are so many new ideas being employed for the first time I don't feel sure it will work. I assume they did several crane drop tests indoors, but I don't know if they did outdoor tests with a chopper attached to the crane module to see how stable the crane platform needs to be and with the crane module using its own rockets (tethered to a tower, maybe) to control its position while a reduced mass rover simulator touches down. Like I said, tons of new ideas, hardware and software that have never been used (and that won't be used together until they get to Mars) that will all have to work perfectly the first time.

Again, I'm all in to sending this rover to Mars, but shouldn't we be sending rovers to the Moon for some time now? These people are much smarter than either you or me, but it doesn't change the fact engineering progresses incrementally and it seems we are jumping up the stairs and skipping steps. I only hope we don't break a leg here.

I am an engineer. We don't like complicated things.
It is a mistake to think that poor people don't value cultural assets. And I used Jane Austeen as an example, obviously.
Yep. Lots of stuff gone. Joker, Mount Kimbie, Luke Vibert, Distance. Huge names, gone.

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.

It has nothing to do with Spotify remaining solvent.
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I'm always irritated by the fact that these documentaries tend to paint hime as the codebreaker when that part of his work was very much a team effort with other mathmatical minds and the electrical/physical engineers that created and maintained the quipment they used.

I feel this is wrong on two counts: it means very few people know of the other people working at Bletchly Park despite their significant contributions, and it ignores his "solo" work in the areas of computation/information that was incredibly significant in building up to the technological revolution that has taken place over the last fifty years or more.
That code you're writing in the 79th hour must be of astonishing quality! Seriously, I don't see how anyone can be productive after, say, 50 hours or so..
I wanted to love NoScript, but it broke too many web pages.

Trying Ghostery now, seems much more user-friendly.
How I say it? Well, in plain English I say it. Do you mean How do I prove it? or How do I know it?
Umm, we just use the commands a lot. Doing something 12 hours a day for 10 years tends to leave some imprints on your memory.
Ooh, I love "what if" stories!

Hey, if Turing had died even earlier, maybe the Valley would be in Germany!

And I'd be eating pretzels and bratwurst.
Keep in mind that comparisons like this don't take into account that streaming services like Spotify attract a lot of users who would not have spent a dime on music distributed in any other way, so they are effectively useless to compare revenue streams. They are a bit like equating every pirated song to a lost sale.

Myself, I'm just like the guy above me, I literally spent $0 on music for over a decade, until I got a Spotify Premium account about a year ago. I think there are many others like me.
It all depends on how big a label they're with and so what terms they get from spotify but it looks more like 2000 (track) plays = ~200 full plays of an album in the best case scenario and perhaps as bad as 100,000 track plays in the worst case.Part of the problem is that its essentially impossible to tell from the outside which is which.

http://musically.com/2011/11/18/a-genuine-freakshow-manager-...
"...I'm just fine. Depressed and exhausted, yes..."

I can't decide if your post is a joke or if your lifestyle is the joke.
I didn't know that Dunning-Kruger effect, but it seems quite interesting! Thanks for the sharing.
The book "How the hippies saved physics" has some really interesting historical observations about the shift in academic physics from before WWII into the Cold War era (and largely from Europe to America).

The crux is that a physics of philosophy, heavy on theory, was largely replaced by a physics of "engineers in reserve" to be pumped out by universities as a necessary weapon in order to win the Cold War. Of course the weapon was fairly successful, as we saw physics pave the way for new applied engineering, computer development, and chemistry. But it's also true that the basic tenet of early-20th century theoretical physics---that of questioning the established narrative---largely disappeared in this era.

Now things are changing again, there are enough educated individuals to study every conceivable angle; there are mainstream stories in the press about special relatively potentially facing caveats like never before, etc. All in all it's an exciting time and healthy that debate is more full again.

The long established narrative in (especially American) academic physics that there is no questioning of quantum mechanics, and no use hoping for a deeper theory, is a great example of group think. Sure maybe we'll never have a deeper theory, but we should always try to find one!
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Better way to value something: count how many people would want their kids to have this thing.
Lots of caffeine, and flogging myself as hard as I can to keep going.
Depressed and exhausted, yes, but the work keeps flowing in and the code keeps flowing out

You call that just fine? This is not fine. This is not healthy and this is the attitude you should be fighting against. If you honestly think that you are a better person and you produce your best work when you're exhausted and depressed, you should probably get some other opinions on that, because I have a strong feeling that the people around you will disagree - whether that's co-workers or family members.
Some people seem to have forgotten that the reason MSE is so good is because Microsoft have an entire department that explores those DrWatson errors people send them. Some of the time the reports include virus authors' early attempts which are accidentally sent and then used to create virus definitions.

If MSE was installed by default, the data MS would have to improve it would increase by a substantial amount. Also, MSE is generally rated the best AV in pretty much every independant review I've seen.

"Malware authors. You don't think they're going to ignore this development, do you? If most budget-conscious home users stick with Microsoft's built-in offering, then surely the first thing the bad guys will do is make sure their latest creation can slip past Microsoft's scanner."

While misguided, this point raises a problem. By having a single 'default' AV installed, it might mean the attack surface is made simpler as malware writers need only target a single scanner. With MS' demonstrated speed in addressing issues however, I doubt this is a great threat.
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Topology hiding.

No, please don't tell me about socks or other proxy solutions.
This really helped me to understand the thrust of the paper. Much better than Motl's rant.
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Pff, if that annoying and totally ineffective UAC dialog is the best they could do in more than 5 years of development, I shudder to think what happens when increased security is not the goal of a release.

And btw, I don't know what you mean by the early XP era, but you're probably referring to a timespan of at least 20 years.
There was a lot of code breaking that had nothing to do with Turing. The enigma was broken because some polish mathematicians showed up with pictures of the device and a method of deciphering it. And for comparison just about all of Japan's high level codes where broken by the US. So, while Turing was important, I suspect vary little would have changed if he had not been part of the decoding efforts. (Largely because you can't use information gained from decoding messages all that often or they notice and change the codes.)
I bought some the moment it appeared in boingboing, I still get asked about it now
Well I think there are some obvious assumptions you can make. Child pornography being one of them.

I do understand what you mean, I just think there can be clear cut boundaries you can draw.

It's also not a matter of preference but a matter of what is right and wrong?
What are you reasons for using Jamming and Barrista instead? Or are you just used to them and don't see a value in checking the Asset Pipeline out?
Last week I had also written the same thing in Perl to login and handle saved stories, and then add them to a folder in Instapaper.
It's fine once you adjust your value system to recognise that work is life, and that everything else is basically irrelevant. No family to speak of (apart from the ones who expect a monthly cheque from me (brother, aunt, mother)), co-workers are employees, so not appropriate for me to talk about it with them!
Add to that the feeling that their music loses its specialness by its exploitation as a low value/free commodity.

Interesting quote. Is music production being exploited as a low value commodity, or is it in reality a low-value commodity? With the insane amount of music that is available I personally feel like it's the latter, and the reverse exploitation of publishers/distributors has gone on for too long.
Are the folks without credit cards on the internet?
Over here (UK, but the E.U as a whole) the average working week is 40 hours by law, and the worker must opt in to be eligble to work upto a maximum of 70 hours per week

I believe the EU Working Time Directive mandates 48hr maximum working week. The UK was given an excemption to allow employees to 'opt out' of the law. Other EU countries do not have a legal opt out. Some countries (e.g. France) have a lower 'maximum hours per week'.
In zsh:

cat **/*.java | wc -l
Even better: just type \ (line continuation) at point that you realize that you need to do something else first. Then hit Ctrl-c to cancel once you get to the new line.
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Actually no, I've got some other logos designed for other projects from Dribbble designers, but not Typecast or Hackerbuddy (those sites actually don't really have proper logos..at least, not the first versions of them)
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The tech industry in Ireland is still going quite well. Talk to a tech recruiter in Dublin (or a tech company) and they'll tell you how hard it is to hire people.

It's the construction sector that's not so good now.
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I am sort of doing the browser in the cloud idea. Except the value of mine is security, not tab management.

If you really wanted tab management, that seems like an easy job for a simple browser add-on.
I(ANAL) can't think of any laws being violated, can you?
It's good to know that HN is going down the same drain that reddit went down. Since when did hard work and dedication to one's tasks become a bad thing?
Depressed and exhausted, yes, but the work keeps flowing in and the code keeps flowing out, which is all that matters.

Consider adding "deluded" to the initial list.
I would say that burnout is about not caring. About not finding enjoyment and satisfaction in the work that you previously did. If you find yourself reacting with far less enthusiasm to the same sorts of tasks that in the past you found exciting and interesting that could be a big sign of burnout.

Burnout is about stress and not necessarily about "overwork". You can get burnt out on a 40 hour a week job or even on a 10 hour a week job. Spending a half of your waking hours every weekday immersed in an ocean of stress is quite sufficient to screw your brain up and burn you out. Software development can quite easily be (and is typically) a very highly stressful job. On top of the normal stresses of coding you have the typical saga of trying to determine and meet the right specs, you have the drama of trying to chase bugs around at the same time you're trying to get work done, and you have immense schedule uncertainty and schedule pressure on top of everything. And that's the average case.

My advice, for whatever it's worth, is to try to find a way to reduce your stress as much as possible. Maybe find a position with less responsibilities that pays well enough. Then spend your free time slowly re-acquiring a passion for tech by taking on small, highly rewarding projects.
Another question to ask yourself is "is this question the right one to ask?" It could represent a false dichotomy.

As animals we're built for a fast effort/reward loop. Look at most people and how they operate -- they desire immediate gratification.

Something that makes us special is the ability to push out that loop and make long term plans. Not everybody is able to do that.

I can count, to the specific decisions, among my friends, what things they decided to do in their lives where they had a choice of a long term plan that would have yielded great fruits, or a short term plan yielding immediate gratification (but with long term problems stemming from that) that ultimately ended up with them being impoverished, without health care, unable to get better jobs, save up for retirement, etc. As an external actor I know exactly where they made those decisions and what they chose instead.

But I can't really blame them or think less of them for how they ended up in their circumstances. They are simply acting the way we as animals are built -- they are acting normal.

In every case, I believe that the difference between a long-term planner and an immediate gratification fixer is willpower.

Doing something like what many people do here, starting up a company, takes extraordinary long term planning - it's not normal. A simple observation of large groups of humans shows that it's abnormal behavior. It takes mountains of willpower in most cases since we don't see the immediate benefits of what's likely hundreds or thousands (or tens of thousands) of hours of work. The payoff, if there even is one, is an abstraction that even the smartest and most dedicated can have trouble using to reconcile their labors.

What you can try to do instead is find clever hacks to reduce the friction it takes to get a task done. For example, reduce your problem into very small steps. That way you feel a faster reward for your labors -- even if it's just the feeling of accomplishment at getting another step out of the way. Use lots of small arrows pointing to your goal instead of one big one.

Or try giving yourself an explicit reward for making small milestones, something proportionate to the magnitude of the step. Eat at a favorite burger joint, or hike a favorite trail, or watch a movie you really want. Whatever floats your boat.

You might even try a program of personal denial, don't allow youself to have certain pleasurable things unless you make a milestone. Pull at both ends, the "work hard play hard" system.

In other words, make the effort/reward loop as small as possible to help keep you motivated. This is especially important during tedious/grinding parts of your work that are often mistaken as burnout when in fact they're just boring and you're really desiring a reward at the end of it.
Oh you kids. I have some core in a drawer somewhere. Yes the cores are very fragile. At this point, just picking it up leaves 'bits of bits' behind.
Abstract: Assuming current theories are right, experiment that disproves current theories is wrong.
What an amazing story!

It is interesting how much they mention "community". I have a feeling that forming such a community of early adopters and treating them well is the future of marketing. The days of "build a better mousetrap" may be numbered; now you not only need a better mousetrap, you also need a community of people who will use it and support you.
Taste and consequences (Steve Jobs management style)
The factor that is often missed in this equation is that good music will always have a high value to the people who make it, because they pour their heart and soul into it. This will strongly affect their decisions about selling/marketing it, in ways that will likely appear irrational in the light of cold economic analysis.

Those who manage to understand this "passion" factor and work it correctly into their business models are the ones that will make the post-piracy music industry work for them.

A simple example of this is the sale of super-deluxe limited edition box set versions of albums for $200 which we've been seeing over the last couple of years.
Rejewski[1], Zygalski and Różycki have actually been reading the Enigma messages for over six and a half years before the war began. They built mechanical devices called "bomby kryptologiczne", known outside Poland as "bombas", which then inspired the British "bombes".

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Rejewski
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Google has a Chrome For Business page where you can get a .msi file that is installed outside of the user's home directory. You can get it here:

http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/business/
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I think that you're right. Given the back catalog of millions of songs, the only music that isn't a low-value commodity is new/emerging stuff that happens to be a sub-genre of it's own.

Even quality independent bands with followings aren't really making money on music -- they are selling performances and swag.