skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think about that for a minute.

How many people listen to a song, how often, and at what licensing rate?

Clearchannel radio claims their network reaches 237 Million listeners a month [1]. If they managed to hit one play for every listener they reach at $132/32,000 that is $977,592 per month.

Yes, its hard to get between 'starting' and 'living large.' And no, not everyone will go there, but the numbers here aren't "really bad" they are in fact pretty good.

One business which is an analog to the current music 'label' business will be similar to what search engine optimizers do, they will contract with a promising artist and say "I'll pay you $x up front, and in exchange for that you will sign over all the income from this song for the next 'n' years to me." Then the muscian gets paid up front, the music distributor/marketer has a chance to make some money, and everyone 'wins.' Once the contract expires all the rights revert back to the artist.

The artist is making a bet that they will get more money for the first 'n' years of the song this way, and the distributor is betting they can make more than that on the song.

[1] http://www.clearchannel.com/Corporate/
Most of the time, a combination of interfaces and slices (read: souped up arrays) is enough. In practice, when your arrays don't suck like they do in C, C++, or Java, you can get a lot of work done with them.

It's actually clearer as to what's going on since slices are a language primitive. They are simple and extremely transparent. This is absolutely not the case with Java's collections library or the C++ STL.

It wouldn't be a trade-off if there weren't situations where generics are really useful. But this rings more like an armchair criticism of Go than a criticism from someone who's written some Go programs. For my part, I wish languages like Java were less hostile to arrays.
> as long as you don't get naked and jump into a pool, you're probably pretty safe from sexual assault (as a woman at least). Women at DEFCON can generally take care of themselves, and some random groper is likely to get a beat-down from his victim.

I'd be more concerned about the woman giggling on the bed than about the naked women jumping in the pool - assault is more common in the form of "we're already flirting and alone; I'll just take it" than in the form of "I'm going to plot how to get this stranger into a dark corner without anyone noticing." You might find it interesting to look up statistics about acquaintance rape and check out this article: http://jezebel.com/5929544/rapists-explain-themselves-on-red... (if you haven't already).

I'm a DEFCON woman who can generally take care of myself, but there's something weird that can happen in response to a lewd comment, an unwanted touch, or worse: a paralyzing wave of confusion, fear, disbelief. Even if you instantly overcome this and tell him to fuck off or punch him, you still just got a shock that can ruin your day/week/etc. Nobody should have to be subjected to this, male or female.

> I feel like the underlying complaint here is more along the lines of: "Some people want to go to Las Vegas, get drunk, leer at strippers, and call themselves elite. I disapprove of this type of behavior, and I am going to assert that as a woman I feel excluded, and in being excluded I am somehow being blocked from some theoretical opportunity in life that is only available under these conditions that I don't want to find myself in, I'd also like to write an article misrepresenting the issue for my amusement, and the status I may also gain from said article..."

I don't think anyone is complaining that guys at DEFCON get drunk and leer at strippers - if they stuck to doing that, I doubt anyone would mind. The complaints are about a pattern of disrespect toward women attendees - not just a handful of serious assaults, but a lot of small papercuts as well. Some examples from my experience:

* Men introducing themselves to a man but not the female coworker standing next to him, since they assume she's just his girlfriend. This happens repeatedly.

* A guy insisting that women are biologically unsuited to be great hackers and not listening to a woman acquaintance who is dissecting his assertions.

* Two guys attempting to practice seduction skills in the chillout lounge on a woman attendee who simply asked if they'd seen her friend.

* Men making dumb comments at women, like in this elevator: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4327399

It shouldn't be unsafe or annoying to be a woman at DEFCON. And the nice thing is that as we learn as a community to treat women attendees better, this knowledge should also help us learn to treat men attendees better - it shouldn't be unsafe or annoying to be a man at DEFCON either. Not zero sum.
Really, really impressive (or, depending on how you look at it, embarrasing) but that savings rate is way above what most westerners save.
One of my favorite Talmud stories illustrates that the opinion of the community is more important than the voice of God - which, in my opinion, is one of the many things that make my religion great.

Going to badly paraphrase here, but a group of Jews were debating an obscure point of law, and a single person was in the minority. He said something like 'if I am correct, let this tree demonstrate it!' The tree was suddenly torn from its roots and flung far away. The rest of the people scoffed - 'a flung tree doesn't prove anything.' The solo dissenter cried out 'if I am correct, let this stream prove it!' And all of a sudden, the stream began running backwards. Everyone else said 'what does how water flows have to do with this issue?' Finally, the one guy said 'If I'm right, let the voice of God cry out!' And they all heard the voice of God, saying 'why do you keep disagreeing with this man, when all the forces of Heaven keep demonstrating his correctness?'

A rabbi spoke up - 'it's nice that you say so, but it's not for Heaven to decide - the Torah is not in Heaven, it's down here with us. You gave us the Torah at Mount Sinai, and from now on, it's up to us to interpret it.'

God was delighted, and burst out laughing, saying 'My children have defeated me, my children have defeated me!'

So yes, you might think of them as loopholes, but we prefer to think of them as the legitimate interpretations of the community. A good thing, too - have you ever read the Torah (aka the Old Testament)? Without the wisdom of the community, the religion would be unworkable - many of the laws within aren't remotely relevant for modern life.
Audio support accross the board is actually better, than the graphics support.

What is changing now, is that because of the consolification of commercial OSes, there is strong commercial pressure to support linux now, just to keep an open OS. What is happening with opengl on linux now, is because of this change.

So, audio isnt a good counter example: who knows how much worse it would have been with closed source drivers.

And the problem isnt having multiple solutions/systems available: the problem is lack of a clear winner.

Companies like Valve and Canonical will be getting more dominant in picking the "winning" systems. This is true already to such an extend, companies like NVidia and AMD go out of there way to please companies like Valve. Contrast this with the kind of get-on-our-knees-and-beg relationships the linux community has had.

And Valve is arguing for opensource drivers. You should read Intels blog about their cooperation. They felt like they had to constantly remind Valve, they were preaching to the choir.

And NVidia and AMD might not give Linux much priority, but they will not let Linux ruin their relationship with the gaming industry.

The point about open drivers is continuity and integration. The HW vendors really should concern themselves with the quality. The opensource community should concern itself with adapting that support to their needs.

I want NVidia to write and maintain their driver, but i want them to publish the source. They are ones that should maintain quality: they are the ones profitting from it with hardware sales.

Audio is a really bad example, because the actual hardware is pretty much without a meaningfull profit margin, being integrated and all. And at the other side, there are few needs that reach beyond just "play this audiobuffer". I dont know who writes these systems, or what motivates them. But 99% of the needs were already fullfilled with OSS.

Thats very different from game developpers contributing to the graphics infrastructure, to fix actual problems they have.
- It is an SEO site
- It has not seen a single update in 4 months
- It gets 2-4k users per month
- Direct sales of a physical product through a merchant partner

The big advantage for a lot of my affiliate sites is I have exclusive terms and other deals. With the one I pointed out, I get paid 40% more than any affiliate would, have my own branding of the product, provide no support and invoice the merchant at the end of every month.

They've paid on time, every time for 3.5 years. I have other more successful (and much less successful) sites as well, but this is probably the lowest-maintenance one I have.

I'm happy to shed some light on this for people because I feel that here I might be able to help fellow entrepreneurs.
I've been a beta tester for many months and I can tell you the novelty hasn't worn off yet. In fact, the game sucks you in -- like a mermaid who tricks you into following her to the bottom of the sea only to let you drown. You'll never escape.
The sound sync looks to be off a bit.
Can you give this analogous type summary of how this works from a technical perspective? I assume it doesn't rely on everyone coming to some sort of an agreement?
No ads? Pinterest essentially presents nothing but ads.
>I think the latest round of currency increases is mostly a function of people wanting to purchase goods, and needing to "bid up the price" in order to make their purchase. As vendors receive bitcoins, they usually immediately sell them to get back local currency.

But because retailers will only hold onto them for probably seconds, using BTC as a transfer medium won't significantly affect the price: average selling and buying will be the same.

The only way BTC can go up is if more people hold on to more of them (reducing the available money supply), which when they are rising happens more, causing a bubble.
Well writing about high speed trains or lack there of, we have one of the best freight systems in the world, but it makes high speed rail difficult, Europe has gone the other way they have high speed rail focus

ref: http://www.economist.com/node/16636101

and this is only one point.
I want to add that I am super-happy that the game exists, and moreso that it was Kickstarted. We need more imaginative apps like this. I may sound a bit pessimistic in the parent, but it's no skin off my nose if it does really well, and it would be nice if it did do well.

(Another aside: There's a common thing on places like HN and similar forums about how Kickstarter is risky and 'don't a lot of project fail?' etc. I have been thinking lately that a proper survey of the success rates of projects, plus some analytics and questions to successful/unsuccessful creators, would be very valuable. I doubt KS will do it themselves, but maybe someone should Kickstart a Kickstarter survey. I'd be in for $20.)
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> A minimum viable product could still take you months to build, and require design help, if the features demanded were hard to build.

Oh so very, very true.

A hard lesson to learn, that. We're about to release a new product and man it has taken longer than we ever thought. Still worth it :)
You don't have to drink coffee in every meeting if you're doing back-to-backs. Water, decaf, tea or just nursing the cup of coffee is fine. =)
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Not when you have an executive that can outpace the rest of government on anything with the word security attached to it, so that it can do stuff like drag you into a war before anyone else can even get their boots on.
> I think Germany is the only country that has developed regional Wikipedias

At least Portugal (Portuguese, Mirandes) and Spain (Spanish, Galician, Catalan, Basque) also have articles added in the supported country languages.
How could they shut it down? By making maths illegal? There'd be no point in a bill that outlawed bitcoin specifically, users would just move on to something equivalent.

That doesn't mean it isn't 99% illegal activity, just like e.g. Freenet.
Funny. Its a german dialect :). Good catch, thank you!
…and even with simple point-wise filters, Instagram had to manually code all its filters for OpenGL ES to run on the GPU to get reasonable performance. Last I heard (months before the acquisition), only one or two people at the company could write new filters, since they were the only ones with enough esoteric knowledge to build reasonable imaging pipelines in GL ES, even as simple as those pipelines were.

The point here isn't that it becomes possible to do things no one could do before, but that it becomes radically easier so:

1. More people can build fast imaging pipelines than previously had the skills to do so.
2. Even those who had the specialized skills can build and explore fast imaging pipelines radically more easily.

Still, this is a research language and compiler, so there are plenty of limitations and rough edges. The main point is to demonstrate and explore a potentially better way of doing things in this domain, so future languages and tools can learn from this experience. But we have found the actual tool to be quite powerful in practice, and so are making it available to the public.
I mentioned on a previous thread that satellite/cable TV companies need to be adding 1.1% to their subscriber numbers ever year just to keep pace with the growth of the number of households in the US[1]. If you looked at the percentage of households that subscribe rather than raw subscriber numbers, we'd see an even steeper decline over the past 10 years or so.

[1] http://www.census.gov/prod/1/pop/p25-1129.pdf
If you're a a bad parent, particularly in a poor inner city family, that's the western solution. If you're a good parent the solution is to teach your kids moral lessons without using violence.
The worst colorblind experience I've had was playing basketball against a team with uniforms I couldn't tell a color difference. I had to focus on the style and typeface difference, as well as if I recognized the person or not. Extremely frustrating.

Second worst was teachers in elementary asking why the grass was brown and water was purple in my drawings. Huh?
It does seem all very noble except when you remember that SpaceX sees itself as a military weapons company. In almost every interview, amongst the background hype, he makes a mention of defence.
CL has determined that displaying their listings on sites other than their own hurts rather than helps their brand which is why they don't offer an API.
Interesting. Cheaper meat, I think, is a pretty great thing. I mean, you can be quite healthy as a vegitarian, but it's a lot of work; I was a vegitarian growing up, and switched to meat shortly after I moved out of my parents house, mostly because I wasn't willing to put the culinary effort into eating a balanced vegitarian diet. You feel better eating nothing but fast food hamburgers than eating a vegitarian diet that doesn't have enough complete protien.

I mean, the ethics of eating animals aside (obviously, I don't feel very strongly about that, I mean, if i was willing to eat meat to save another hour a night of effort) plant-based protien has the potential to be vastly more efficent... read: cheaper, read: could feed vastly more humans, or the same number of humans with fewer resources input.

Seems to me like a great thing with a whole lot of potential to change the world in a very real and positive way just from a food efficency standpoint. A real meat substitute could have the effect of another 'green revolution'
So, there is a transaction fee...
I garuntee more than 32,000 listeners heard her on NPR in any given city. So Spotify seems much better than radio, regardless of the consumer.
Her Bandcamp sales figures are in the spreadsheet.
They could easily kill bit-coin, and having made bit-coins worthless people would have far less interest using the next currency.
Lots of online services, from hosting to DNS to VPNs accept bitcoins. Several online stores accept them, and they're a good way to donate to, eg, Wikileaks or the Manning Defense Fund.

As far as the cost of using them, while it is non-zero, some of us just want to do our part in establishing a currency and surrounding ecosystem that is free from gov't, corporate, and other meddling. Thus we accept the small hit in price.
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The "market cap" is a hair under $100 million now. I don't see that it's current economy justifies that, it all looks like speculation to me.

I've got some bitcoin, a token amount I bought to have some, but I'm skeptical that it's anywhere near being an actual economy yet.
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I recently grabbed a metal water bottle from a startup event. For the past week or so I've been drinking a full water bottle every hour or so. Totally anecdotal, but I've felt more productive and less exhausted, even as I've largely cut down my caffeine intake.
You can just use otool to dump the Objective-C information out of the MachO executable:

otool -o /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode
.....
Contents of (__DATA,__objc_imageinfo) section
version 0
flags 0x6 OBJC_IMAGE_SUPPORTS_GC

That's for Xcode 4.4. So yes, it's still being built for Garbage Collection.
Downloaded the app just now. My friends were already teasing me about using Foursquare...I can already tell this is going to be even worse.

(My one little bit of criticism is that I find the 8-bit-style text really hard to read on the iPhone's screen.)
Gatekeeper just blocks the double-click for unsigned apps that were marked by the browser as downloads. Certificates are free. And even if they were not, users can open an app by right-clicking. And even if they could not, browsers could stop setting the attribute on downloads that triggers gatekeeper.
When Flashback arrived, Apple kept updating the blocklist again and again. It's much better to just revoke a certificate. This is all about protecting non-technical users, and nothing else.
Forging currency is illegal even though all of the components and component activities are legal. (Paper, ink, printing, lithography.) The Feds (or any government) can shut down anything they like given the right legislation. Anything that allows end runs around currency restrictions and taxes is fair game for governments, and passing laws against it (or simpy extending existing laws) wouldn't even be unconstitutional in the US.

Did you declare all your bitcoin transactions to the IRS? You may already be in trouble...
I'd love to hear more about how you built this. How does it pull news videos?
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>"but one of the primary functions of a leader is choosing empoloyees."

With you 110%. This is, really, the role best filled by the leader.

>"And it takes one to know one."

Nope, disagree here. I am fully confident that I can hire a great rocket scientist, especially with the resources of a major corporation. And I'm most certainly not a rocket scientist.

We're disagreeing on the fundamentals here. I believe that a good CEO knows that he doesn't need to understand the engineering of a social network in order to run a social network. At all. He has to put together the right strategy and the right team. It's not easy to accomplish, but it's certainly not complicated.
I can't give up my habit until I can watch basketball and boxing online. Ain't happening anytime soon.
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Maybe people who listen to her are more into CDs and buying from iTunes / Amazon?
But the most important factor that is considered during the IPO dog and pony show is projected growth. Nascent companies need at least double digit growth, preferably triple digit. And every quarter, when public companies announce their earnings, year-over-year, the stock price is impacted as much by revenue growth as it is by earnings/share. Ignoring high-frequency trades, the two main philosophies of trading on public exchanges are value investing (Warren Buffet) and growth investing. Facebook caused Facebook's problems in hopes of maximizing its IPO.
This is exactly the last thing BitCoin needs to be successful as a currency. After the speculative bubble last year it started to make some headway as the price remained relatively stable. Now in the past 2 weeks we've seen its value appreciate by 50%, something that just doesn't happen with traditional currencies. It's dangerously reminiscent of what happened last year and shows that the BitCoin economy is still very susceptible to manipulation.

If it was just organic growth in the currency I wouldn't say there was an issue but if you look at the transaction volume it's clear that the surge in trading that occurred both a week ago and just recently is what is responsible for the latest increases in value. I don't have enough evidence to say that the price has been deliberately manipulated upwards, and indeed the increase could just be a reflection of the higher demand, but it does call into question how stable BitCoin can be.

I'm not an advocate against BitCoin, far from it, but I honestly believe that a highly valued BitCoin is the worst thing it can have as a fluctuating value doesn't benefit users of the currency. The only people who benefit from a high price are the speculators and investors, those who are at odds with BitCoin being a proper currency.
All up, it looks like she made about $85,000 from October of 2011 to March of 2012. That's antihistamine money, especially for someone not making pop music. This appears to be unambiguously good news for independent artists.
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