skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also it doesn't take revenue into account, if you get 1 track off itunes and then pirate 10 how can you know how many tracks you would have purchased had piracy not been an option?

Does it matter? As long as people pay enough to ensure the creation of new works, I couldn't care less if every single dollar of revenue is extracted or not.

There are of course other options like live shows etc, but this won't work in all cases. For example you may be listening to a small artist from the other side of the planet who will likely never play a show in your country.

Sure, that's why I support both going to live shows and buying. I just don't support legal coercion.

The other problem is that some forms of media don't lend themselves so well to live performances.

Can you give me some examples?

I think we can agree that providing better services to supply content to end users as well as alternative business models are the key to beating piracy over the long term. I just don't but the argument that because you paid $10 for an album or a movie gives you a right to redistribute it to potentially thousands of others worldwide under your own conditions rather than those set by the original rights holder.

I don't consider that creating a work gives me the right to prevent others from copying whatever they want.
I find trackballs where the hand rests on top and the ball is manipulated only with the thumb are much better than mice and trackpads for cursor movement. Our fine motor skills are more refined in the thumbs, not in the fingers or forearm, which is something video game controller vendors have known for years...

Logitech makes these - this is the newest version: http://www.logitech.com/en-roeu/mice-pointers/trackballs/dev...

They've been making variations on the same thing since the early 90's - I have an ancient Mac ADB version in beige somewhere around here, which predated the invention of the scroll wheel...
When you are used to apt-get (or equivalent packaging systems, or download.com or whatever on Windows), the concept of paying for apps when using the App Store is baffling.

I borrowed a friend's iPhone a while ago, and I could not even find a decent free IRC client, I'm sure there might be one somewhere, but most were at best badly crippled. It was very depressing.

And I thought we dealt with the whole "it costs too much to build this software" issue ages ago, how much did it cost to build most open source projects? And who cares? The point is that people has good enough reasons to build software without needing to charge directly for it.
So what happened to Bell Labs?

What were the reasons why it started to lose that magic?
Someone Can Tell Me What's That?
And of course before the app store there was no low quality junk.

Frankly the problem with the app store is app discovery (something apple clearly understands). The emphasis is on (a) stuff that makes money, (b) stuff that gets downloaded a lot, (c) stuff that lots of people like. Once you go into niches it's insanely hard to FIND things. And if something looks intriguing but is expensive, there's no free trial mechanism.

If the app store fixed the discovery problem (and supported free trials) I think most of these issues would go away.

There's nothing wrong with a flood of free stuff, much of which is crap, and a ton of good cheap stuff aimed at broad markets ... This is actually a sign of progress.
My company's was sued by a candidate because we offered him coffee and he glommed onto that as religious discrimination. There is no legal exposure from giving feedback. Some people will sue if they want, and some people will discriminate (and deserve to be sued).

Google reads your private email to "improve the product for you", why don't they want you reading their interview feedback so you can give them a better experience?
Measuring fragmentation in Android
I get that. But the wheel motion on any mouse is bad and I use it a lot. It seems to be on a lot of "ergonomic" mice as well and I'm looking for some other method of wheeling too.
Colloquy is one of the better irc apps for the iphone.
A very good book could be written on the topic, is one of the most sad tragedies of the 20th century.

All my information is second hand, and is a very complex topic, but basically when AT&T spun off Lucent, and they tried to more directly monetize the innovations they were making, the whole thing started to break down, management sucked, researchers started to bail out, and it became a vicious circle.
If Israel wants to shut you down, it will find a way to shut you down.
> I don't know what people or communities those were.

Sounds a bit like the Big Rock Candy Mountain.
Political Battle Over Oil Prices Heats Up
What does metaprogramming have to do with that complaint though? It is trivial to generate lawsuit without regard to feedback. Watch:

Does Google have family leave? --6 weeks, paid.

Did I get the job? --No

Because I plan to have kids??? See you in court!
Just freeze the rest.
Before the app store everybody was comfortable with the idea that software was not a generic commodity sold at a fixed price. Discovery is also a big problem in the app store, but it's orthogonal to price expectations.
Very often, the parkway or land near curbside is public property and not personal property. You put your garbage cans there, you've "discarded" their contents.

I believe the same applies to alleyways.

(IANAL and I don't know the specific legal arguments.)
> Since when did hacker news became a source for politics?

Since politicians started messing with technology? Btw, the article presents a case thereof, although maybe not to a degree justifying it being on HN. Anyway the implication "if it's politics, it doesn't belong on HN" is obviously false.
Designing HTTP interfaces and RESTful web services
I posted a similar story here on Hacker News last week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3592000

Long story short: Using keyboard shortcuts and taking frequent breaks helped reduce the tension and pain I was getting from long hours at the computer.

I highly recommend AntiRSI if you're looking for a Mac OS X utility to remind you to take breaks: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/antirsi/id442007571?mt=12&...
Ah. Thank you.

If anyone has any more information about the decline of Bell Labs, it would be deeply appreciated.
I see. Yes, this one uses traditinal "wheeling", but I don't use that a lot, so it's been fine for me.
A standing desk eliminated my arm and wrist pain, for whatever reason. I think I move around more when standing and maybe tend to rest some body weight on my arms when sitting.
When you're used to the polish and quality of commercial applications, the appeal of the rough and amateur GUI-centric apps available via apt-get is baffling. Linux is a great server OS but there's a reason its irrelevant on the desktop.
I haven't seen Google worse than similar companies on that front. Interviewing is stressful for everyone. Remember that Google hires engineers and makes them interview. It doesn't hire people for interviewing talent. (But they probably should choose an train interviewers more carefully, and so should the rest is of the industry. )
The evidence gathered from the GPS and any evidence gathered as a result of that evidence would be thrown out of court. It becomes fruit of the poisoned tree[1]. I think most police agencies would be very careful to not risk having all evidence gathered while the accused car is nearby thrown out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree
Wall Street vs Silicon Valley
Is it bad that I thought this was going to be a joke about quitting emacs?
I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but you will be quizzed on the included vocab as well. For example, you'll get questions like "two (kanji)" where you answer 二, and questions like "February (n)" where the answer is 二月. Both kinds of questions are treaded the same.

However, all questions are from English to Japanese where you write the answer yourself. You won't be quizzed on the other direction (given the Japanese word, what does it mean). Does that answer your question? I'll see what I can do to make it clearer on the website.

Personally I've always found it important to use the characters in different words since that's how you will encounter them in real use, so I try to make that a big part of the quizzing.
I think you're conflating "tricking" with "doing a better job of communicating". For most businesses (including startups), there's a clear value proposition. Their product/service actually fills a need/want. Iterating design/marketing copy is an attempt to find the best (or at least a better) way to communicate that value proposition. In the vast majority of cases, the goal isn't to trick someone into converting, it's to properly communicate the benefits of converting.
About Adam Curtis: Watching, say, "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" was fun. But I don't see any reason to believe that his other documentaries about subjects I know less about are any more trustworthy than that piece on computers.
Google is an inclusive, supportive environment, and though. The vast majority of hires (but perhaps not no-hires, of which there are more voices) say Google is the best job they ever had.

Google employees and management aren't perfect, but they aren't dumb. They know that Google is competitive with startups, and wins in many cases.
It could be many things. Your solution may have worked but that is only a small portion of the task. When we were hiring ages ago we'd look at style, formatting, structure, etc.
This is especially true for a small company. The place I use to work at was small with only a handful developers that were really passionate and opinionated. We often had discussions about simple indentation or placement of a bracket in code that could go for hours. When we hired people it was important they fit in into this culture.
>Preferably I'd like to not host it myself, considering the amount of work and the problem of letting people know of updates etc.

No problem then. I fully understand.

>Do you have a device without market or is it just a personal preference?

A bit of both. My tablet has no market access and my Android phone is awaiting repairs at the moment.
A terminal masters degree by itself is a signal for the ability to write a pair of $20K checks. The requirements for a masters are far less rigorous than the requirements for a bachelors at the same institution.
You insinuated that my discussion of Hasbara means that I am some kind of "disgusting" Nazi referencing "traditional anti semitic hate propaganda", when I was linking to the Israeli Citizens Information Council's own website.

You may find it "depressing when people hate", well I find it depressing when people can't answer my points and so have to resort to declaring the subject to be off limits, then smearing me, and finally changing the subject to Sudan. You owe me an apology.

Oh, and by the way, the Israelis did shoot children, bomb and rocket cities in Gaza in 2009, so how on earth do you say "(No, it is not the Israeli side that do that.)"?
I've switched to using a laptop style, short-travel keyboard. As a matter of fact, I just stocked up on some spares, anticipating the product's inevitable demise.

I also have a comfortable but firm 3M gel palm rest (I don't actually rest my wrists on it). No longer sold -- of course.

I was finding the normal keyboard stroke length -- combined with the increasing binding during travel that inevitably occurs with today's budget keyboards -- to be increasingly tiring. To the point where I think I was subconsciously adjusting my workflow to avoid typing.

I'd just use the laptop keyboard, but they insist these days on manufacturing laptops with a "ginormous" shelf in front of the keyboard. As a result, the edge of that shelf ends up pressing into my wrists.

(On older models, years back, the shelf would end somewhere under my palms and so was not a problem. I may try a small form factor laptop (e.g. Lenovo X220) the next time I change machines, if I have a choice.)
It's hard to spot innovation while it's happening. While the transistor revolutionized our world, I'm sure few people understood it's implications in 1947. Similarly, investments that Google, Apple, Facebook, and IBM make now might seem either incremental (making an open OS for a phone) or gimmicky (driverless cars, HUD), but that's how research coming out of Bell Labs might have been viewed 60 years ago without the benefit of hindsight.
Kitchen sink too?
The toolkit documentation reports limitations.

What they really needed is ChronicDB http://chronicdb.com
From what I recall of the presentations at the Coke HQ/Museum in Atlanta, there's more to the memories than marketing. It also has to do with the association of the beverage to the pleasurable experiences where you've drank it. This explains why e.g. Pepsi fought hard to be the official beverage of the NFL, so that people can associate being at a football game with drinking Pepsi.
The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz is an entertaining read on this issue. Page 235, Chap 11 section 11 'learn to love constraints' might have wider relevance on this forum: sensible defaults can help users avoid wasting time - but you all knew that anyway.

I've found I spend a lot less time customising software &c since reading Schwartz, I try to spend the time on producing work instead. But sometimes I end up here.

The article will provide a fun maths estimation exercise.
Lateral SQL Injection in Oracle Database
I went from living at home->college->living with a significant other. One of the major reasons we broke up was that I felt like I needed more space that I couldn't get while living together.

Now that I live alone, I often find myself missing having other people around. I'm on Couchsurfing and host almost everyone who applies, but the timing tends to be haphazard.

The article last week about the woman who funded her startup via Airbnb really intrigued me. I'm considering putting my apt up on Airbnb now, just to have more people around.
Box has been around since 2005.
What worked for me:

- 1.5 hour of weekly yoga (or more)

- changing hand for mouse at the end of each pomodoro

- learning more keyboard shortcuts instead of using mouse when possible

I applied this after nerves pinched me in the back, which stopped me from working during almost two weeks and was really, really painful.
> And I think that ShareMouse is overpriced. $25 per computer?

Don't hesitate and make a suggestion. We have everything from "it should be free" to "It works so well, I'd paid $100" so far.
> Coca-cola is absolutely obsessed with consistency with its products. HFCS Coke tastes the same everywhere. Sugar Coke tastes the same everywhere.

That's simply not true. Coke tastes different around the world, as well as mcd burgers do (contrary to popular belief). Different tastes of Coke around the world are due to different origin and kind of sugar used (and probably also said different water).

Duh, after a quick googlin' - it tastes different even in different countries in Europe http://www.publicserviceeurope.com/article/1469/why-does-coc...
There is a video here of someone just pointing at the screen to control the mouse. This site hasn't been updated since 2009. There must be something even better out there by now, right?

http://www.mgestyk.com/
You know, a lot of tech news is about how some company is evil, or how the government is trying to control the internet, and it can really start to depress you. Something about space though, it just makes me optimistic. Thanks for posting.
Thank you! Now i REALLY wish i had Android!
How is that their fault?
How Buffer (150kUSD/y runrate for 60k users) makes money:
Buffer is freemium based on number of tweets you load into the buffer. Up to 10 tweets is free, 50 tweets is $5 a month (with three Twitter accounts and two team members per account) and unlimited is $30 a month (nine accounts, four members per account). http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/take_the_hassel_out_of_...
Please excuse a somewhat OT question from a non US-resident: don't US have bottled spring water that is not imported?

I'm asking cause I've seen many bottles of french brands, and the NG article refers to italian and polish brands.

But I'd bet there are springs on the other side of the pond?
Near the beginning of my career, I started getting really bad pain in my wrist, arms and back, and numbness down my right arm. I went through all the requisite things like the OP, even going to a rheumatologist, and nothing worked, and I was worried that my career was going to be cut short from this problem.

But the question that really bothered me was why I could spend most of my life writing for hours at a time with a pen, and not have similar problems.

I figured out, at least for me, was that the problem was my mouse. The way the current mouse is designed is to have your hand flat with the tabletop. When you use a regular pen, your hands are almost perpendicular to the tabletop . Your hands normal position relative to your body is essentially at a 90 degree angle to your body.

When you use your mouse with your hands flat to the table, it cause you to twist your hand out in a completely unnatural way and your elbows tend to flare out from your body, for hours at a time, and it pinches and eventually hurts some of the nerves in your arm and write.

My solution was to hold my mouse in different manner, with my thumb almost near the top of the mouse, and about half of my hand on the right side of the mouse, so that my hands were at an angle to the table. It also allows me to keep my elbows flush against my body instead of flared out. It's a similar hand position to how the trackball mice are, but I get away with using my $10 wired mouse.

I also switched to the original Microsoft Natural Keyboard (and I still use the same one today despite several drink spills).

This was roughly 15 years ago, and I haven't had any problems since. I work at my desk for hours at a time, without any breaks, and I'm generally okay, except for the weight gain from my sedentary lifestyle.
An app is more like a capital expenditure. You pay once, and never again.

You definitely should think twice, but the $400 monthly figure seems like the wrong comparison. You likely spend most of that on monthly expenses that recur.

I have the same issue of a limited budget. But for some purchases (software, books, furniture, etc.) I consider them on the basis of "does this provide X$ of value to me?"

If the item does provide enough value, then I use money I've set aside for that purpose, and I buy it.

Setting money aside for this sort of one-off value purchase is part of my monthly budget.

(Of course, I also have to weigh a $50 app purchase against other uses for my saved money.)

edited to add: I'm not saying you should be buying $50 apps of course, that is a lot of money on your budget. I'm just saying the reference point should be long term rather than monthly.
Huh? The whole point of having a version in the URL is so you can roll out a new set of URLs and their corresponding endpoints without touching the old ones. When v2 of the API comes out, you still support v1. That's no different than using headers. If you sunset or change an API call, the header isn't going to save you any trouble. In fact, since the client now won't get a 404, but rather something else, the cost of debugging goes up pretty substantially.
> $25/machine is enough to make people think and you're suddenly out of impulse.

And this is ABSOLUTELY intentional.

We do NOT want impulse purchases. We don't believe that it is ethical to lure/seduce users to rush to their credit cards.

We don't believe that it is for any good if people buy something and then perhaps realize that they don't need it, are not able to use it properly and waste everybody's time in support and finally perhaps request a refund and are left with an unhappy experience.

No thanks.

We rather want users to be convinced. The software itself shall stand out and trigger the purchase decision. Not the price tag and not any sales tactics.

I believe, that there are cultural differences between the US and Europe regarding sales approaches but we are just fine with that.

Try the software. Become confident with it. Check prices. Review your options. Try other programs. Be back and we welcome you.
"The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress"
And people laugh at me when I say I browse with Javascript disable as default (added an enable checkmark in the bottom status bar, yay Opera).
Seriously. I had to click an X in the top right corner and use Firebug to set "display: none;" for three boxes just to get the distractions out of the way. It's a site called "KISSmetrics" which cannot "keep it simple stupid" and is telling me about how images can distract people from your articles?

One cute statement about their final image example: whenever I have to pay a new web service, there are just an absolutely tremendous number of options for me to be dealing with. In order to narrow down the field to companies who actually care about my time, I have some peculiar general rules:

(1) Name must not be concatenated CamelCase words. This still eliminates about 50% of my options, while GitHub is among the only known exceptions where it might be worth paying them for something.

(2) No autoplaying flash. This no longer eliminates so many services as it once did, but it should still be standard.

(3) SSL is a must. You would seriously be surprised.

(4) May not contain clip art of a white woman wearing a headset. It can be an Asian woman, or a white man, or she can be holding a phone, or it could not be clip art (here is our cofounder Olivia...), whatever. This actually seems to further limit the field by over 50%. Web service hosts apparently have really odd stereotypes, or else they expect me to.

I give that list here, again, because their last example of ineffective image use is, naturally, clip art of a white woman wearing a headset.
Okay i was mixing up religion with zionist, that is true. I also agree with all your points. I basically knew most of the stuff already. And jews have had a hard time yeah.

However: you're not commenting on the main point i'm making:

In the current times, zionists in isreal are behaving exactly like the nazi's where in WWII.

1) They are building walls

2) They deprive palestines from food and electricity

3) They are occupying land that belongs to Palestine under insternational law (they are building big flats over the well known internal red border)
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Bilin,+israel&hl=en&ll...

4) Zionist believe (because they follow judaism) they are the chosen ones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews_as_a_chosen_people

Could you please tell me what of this is incorrect. It is totally right. And when watching the movie you could see the isreal army burning olives tree in order to scare the people, they shoot tear gas at childer and they are building very big walls.

You are just telling me what happened to the jews. I know that! I also know that the dutch where not the best and helped the germans a lot. But that is HISTORY. I wasnt alive then. I couldnt help people. Currently the same thing is happening.

But ironically enough it is the zionists in isreal that are doign the same. And goverment is helping them.
Switching from a mouse to using a Wacom tablet full time made a massive difference for me. Learning curve is a bit steep, but I think I'm actually faster now with most tasks. And using photoshop is definitely more fun.
Having worked at Bell Labs, I gotta say the culture of innovation was paramount best described by this statement of an old supervisor: "You should do what you feel is the right thing, it's my job to align that to the needs of the business." So you might spend weeks researching highly available protocols and data distribution techniques to get the one feature correct. It should be no surprise then that the old refriderator-looking phone systems pioneered in the late 70s and 80s had a well known 5 9's of reliability.