skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the goal of the campaign is to plant the seed in the general public that record labels bankrolling capital for artists to produce albums is no longer needed with today's current technology.

Kickstarter is just one platform. I could see this inspriring a hacker/musical artist to build a Kickstarter-like platform specifically for musical artists to raise capital for new albums and connect directly with fans. I could also see that same website providing a ticketing platform where people could back a show in a specific city to try to get an artist to come to their hometown instead of selling through TicketMaster and having scalpers buy up all the inventory.

Also, even with platforms like Kickstarter or payment processors like Stripe, the important thing is that the artists retain the rights to their songs, instead of the record labels purchasing them through investment. I've heard that most artists make most of their money off royalties from 2 or 3 hits songs.
...per month? On x downloads per month? Thanks, it's helpful to get some numbers.
> Are you saying that the protection of one's property rights is contingent upon the delivery of some arbitrary metric of "value" to "society"? That doesn't sound quite right.

Are you saying that property rights are not contingent on a metric of value to society? If it weren't better for society as a whole to provide protections for property rights, do you think they'd exist?
I saw a lot of confusion on the distiction between parody (generally okay, relatively easier defense) and satire (sometimes okay, relatively harder defense) in the Psy and Copyright discussion thread. I've found this document from an American Bar Association roundtable quite informative for exploring the distinction.

Of course, nothing is cut and dry here, and you'll always want to weigh how much you want to risk having to pay for legal representation vs. how much you want to produce this new work.
Students and moms are the exact focus group for this app. We decided to support Windows Phone for couple of reasons.
- Prevalence of Windows Phones. Dont laugh but I am in Seattle and with tons of Microsoft employees most of our beta user base had them.
- Android dev cost. Between screen resolutions, ramp up on environment etc I decided on punting this for now. We are planning on outsourcing this app to a vendor (the API's and UX would be very comparable to iPhone so that part is covered)

Since you are a student, would you mind if I contacted you for testing this among your friends? When you say a group exists, does that mean a groups outside of facebook?
The obligatory jwz link: http://www.jwz.org/bookcase/
I'm not taking a biased view at all. I'm accepting a premise on its face, then laying out an argument for why if you accept that premise, then NPE lawsuits are not by themselves a sign of any problem with the system. I'm not taking a position as to the underlying premise, other than to assert that it is the premise underlying the existing law.

Also, I should note that I'm not a patent lawyer. I'm not paid to come to any conclusions on this issue. I have a somewhat more pro-patent outlook than many on HN, but I think it's one that reflects the prevailing view among engineers who have more traditional backgrounds (mine is in defense/wireless communications).
Guys, I have a doubt: Is it commom to companies to pay MBA for their employees?
Here in brazil is a fairly common habit, but MBAs here are weekly or two times a month, on the weekends. Not something you have to commit so much.
Eric Schmidt's criticism of UK education
I would argue that two of the nations listed at the top (Singapore and South Korea) have many similar problems. Both are fairly religious societies and have pretty strong anti-intellectual politicians.

As someone who's attended high school in both the United States and South Korea, I'm also not seeing how the Korean society is any less anti-intellectual - we have moronic interest groups, we believed in fan death for generations, our public schools are absolutely horrid, and we enjoy censoring large swaths of the internet (although admittedly a lot of that is pornography).

The only "leg up" I can think South Korea has is their focus on Hakwons (basically after school tutors).
I could have told you that without testing.

It's hilarious to start a post this way and then complain about anti-scientific attitudes.
1. Financial reports (General Ledger, Cash Flow, Profit and Loss, etc...) that US businesses rely on, leave a lot to be desired and/or need a lot of custom modifications to work. These things need to work perfectly in an ERP system, and sometimes the response from OpenERP SA seemed lackadaisical as if partially correct reports for the US companies would be OK.[1]

2. Things like reconciling bank accounts and taxes are geared towards a European system that seems much different than ours, and as a result cause a lot of problems in a US implementations. Again, OpenERP doesn't have a localized US package that addresses these issues in a concrete way. Searching for help, you'll probably be referred to half finished module, with 0 documentation that still requires a lot of work to be ready for production.

3. On the stock and manufacturing side of things the system works much better in my opinion. And with the right amount of work done up front, the they both offer flexibility while following a strict business logic[2] set in place at the time of implementation, that they can do some amazing things for a sales / fulfillment side of the organization. The reporting and automation that OpenERP can provide on this side is really awesome.

[1]. I am not an accountant.
[2]. It is a ton of work defining a business's process in the terms of an ERP. Sometimes I felt like OpenERP got blamed for a company poorly defining their process (if they even had one) So be wary of that when looking at forums and things...
sweet thanks. now i'm down to 2 :-) (cnbc and glassboard fwiw)
I find the use of "still" rather humorous. Still? Like there was a grand expectation of the quality of education to all of a sudden get better. What have we done to improve this? Nothing.
And since it's a closed ecosystem, there's no way for a startup to come along and make the process easier. It all lies on Apple.
The fact that I had to decline 2 offers for this made me even more anxious when they were unwilling to negotiate on the start date, especially since the other companies wanted me to start working right away in the same month. Honestly, I chose the company over the others because of its unique development environment and culture; they did offer higher salary than the others, but I would've chosen them even if they paid less.
There's a difference between, "I am sick of..." [as implied by "anyone else"] and "Are there too many of..."

In the first case the question doesn't facilitate investigation and reasoned argument, but rather venting and defensive rebuttal. The question isn't about analyzing the content but a rallying cry.
Linux is just the kernel and all different distributions (Ubuntu et al) are based on it.

Think of it as if the Twitter Api was the kernel and all different clients like Twiterrific or Tweebot were the distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, etc...). Distributions are implementations of the kernel with lots of extra features and improvements.
2012 API Community Survey
The whole Windows ecosystem is a huge mess for developers right now.

Visual Studio 2012 often crashes, the API documentation is often incomplete and not helpful, there are quite a number of incompatibilities between W8 and WP8, XAML has mediocre performance on ARM and can't be accessed from C++ on WP8, the list goes on and on.

If anything, Microsoft managed to make most Windows developers I know want to work on linux/Android or OSX/iOS instead - the rest are blissfully unaware of what UNIX is in the first place.

Sure these things may improve over time, but right now developers are nothing more than beta testers. For us, the possible profits are not worth the efforts to deal with the mediocre development experience.
> On other hand, in 1st, 2th, and 3th year, there are still more women in abstract math classes than men.

This is almost definitely false. While the male/female gender ratio is reasonably close to even for math majors (I think it's 60/40 m/f?), it is nowhere close to even for many heavy math-based disciplines. Engineering and computer science degrees are very male-dominate and the students routinely spill over into math classes.

FWIW, I majored in math at a university that was 10th highest in the student female to male ratio. I counted some of the classes for fun, and I remember counting a slight male majority most of the time. One semester I believe I counted a 57% male population over my math classes.

> I do not think any "who is better at what" can be said, beyond the stereotype "women are bad at math" can be explicitly be stated as false.

This certainly seems to be true. High school females are starting to outperform males in math, while males continue to dominate math graduate school. Reasons are unknown, but in general we can say that "girls aren't bad at math".
Confused Consumers Willing to Pay a Premium for Apple Branded HDTV
I'm sorry, but you didn't really write anything. You only wrote that you don't think the internet can be regulated then backed it up by saying other people will take care of it.
Interesting they cite Finland and then immediately claim the answer is more schooling. That's not how Finland sees it. In Finland school starts at age 7 as it is considered that before 7 you should be playing, not bored with academics. For those who wish it, a year of "preschool" is available at age 6, the same year the US starts first grade after a year of what is often mandatory Kindergarten, which is now academic and has homework in much of the US, and which follows 1-3 years of preschool and daycare. There is pressure to make preschool academic as well in the US.

Also in Finland, mandatory school lasts 9 years, not 13 years, and you're done at age 16. If you wish, you can at your choice then continue either with college prep or vocational finishing school for three years at no cost with content comparable to a good american community college.

Many systems that do better than the US have kids in school for fewer hours, have less bureaucracy, and cost less to operate than american schools, yet more hours and more spending are always given as the only possible answers to america's supposed school problems, along with dismissing the things that do work in the US, namely homeschooling and private schools which get much better results at a lower cost.
You linked to the wrong thing.
I disagree.

This sort of catchall and keep going error handling could leave your browser in a completely unknown state. It could start making bad requests, making the wrong requests, start leaking info, or more likely crash elsewhere but with a much less clean crash log.

When you don't know how to handle an error such that it bubbles all the way up to the top, often the best thing to do is crash. At least then you might get the logs that allow you to fix it and turn around the fix quickly and with confidence.

Crashes suck, but crashing and not knowing why sucks more.
I think this is important: "JFS: TRIM support". This just added another choice of filesystem for SSD drives.
David Chalmers on the metaphysics of simulations
Saying no to mobile is insane, it's like saying no to change and the future... Who ever can't see that is blind, simple as that.

I think it's amazing how mobile OS like iOs and Android are taking over, especially the Internet consumption. Saying no to mobile is like saying no to fax or email back in the day...

http://venturebeat.com/2012/12/03/mary-meeker-releases-stunn...
Java Pro's:

* Extremely Fast (load times matter)

* Gives you the ability to deploy self-contained cloud ready packages

* It's really not that complex (_IAOI_ you use the damned Tooling and reject J2EE)

* Massive library of existing open source projects

* Ability to refactor quickly is unmatched even by c++

* "Productive"-enough in the hands of competent developers

* Boatload of options to profile/tune/debug

* Bytecode engineering allows for really awesome things to be done with reflection, AOP, instrumentation

* Used by most everyone

Cons:

* Hard to find lean Java developers

* Most Java developers want to build SOA/ESB monsters

* Loathed by the startup culture

* J2EE is insane (alternatives like CDI/Spring should be used)

* Portion of the SDK really sucks (ex: IOException is checked)

* Oracle not concerned with startup culture, head stuck up ass

Honestly, I think the startup culture needs to just let the war on Java go. I'd rather see this said instead: It's a valid language that has a lot of advantages, but only if you have people that know how to run lean.
I'm saying it's absurd to compare a business accounting package with a Twitter client and then attribute the differences in UI to the host operating system.
Show HN: Fridge Words, a first javascript project
"The e-mails were unsealed yesterday in a class-action, or group, lawsuit claiming FedEx Corp. and FedEx Corporate Services Inc. overcharged commercial and government customers as much as $3 each for millions of packages delivered."

Come on Bloomberg, don't talk to me like I'm five.
Wow! Congrats Blake. You made a nice working in the transcripts of Thiel's class, and now he is one of your investors. Congratulations!
For $20/month Linode gives 20GB disk, 200GB bandwidth

For $20/month, http://prgmr.com/xen/ gives 24GB space, 160GB bandtwidth, though more memory which I don't really need. You do, however, have a 6-month subscription lower price which is cool.
apple fanboys aren't the brightest
If you've never been in the Linux world, can certainly see how this is confusing.

This announcement is for the Linux kernel. The different Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Redhat, etc.) all bundle different versions of the Linux kernel and umpteen number of packages around that to create a cohesive Desktop or Server experience.

The kernel is the one core, similar piece between ALL of the distros. It is the desktops, package managers, etc. that differs between the distros.
People constantly complain about schools supposedly teaching creationism, and yet it's impossible to find public schools teaching that, and the private schools that teach it get much higher achievement, disproving the hypothesis that teaching it is leading to worse results.
The U.S. has no past of consistently placing among the 'best' in the world as measured by standardized tests. We are not 'losing competitiveness' due to these countries because they are smarter. The United States' emphasis on allowing mistakes in the business world more than make up for the fact that our students don't win at math test scores. The United States has never placed among the top 5 in math scores, but that didn't slow down progressive movements in the last 60 years. Being consistently good on math tests is frequently a tautology, as you win the award of "best on math tests", but there is little strong evidence of increased innovation and economic growth based on math test scores alone.
Good enough is a struggle... but the one thing that should never be pushed down the pipe is ensuring the code is understandable.

Once you get beyond the basic crud-webapp-twitter-clone the ability for a new person to simply pick up and start working becomes increasingly more difficult. This is a cost that you will pay. You'll pay for it when one of the three people that understand the system decide to quit or when you have to put new hires through eight months of training before they can write a single line of code.

I've worked with systems that were written by people that have decades of industry knowledge. Every class, method and comment is using their lexicon and entire chunks of the system rely on assumed knowledge. Suddenly ranked_pct(std_dev_norm(userid,norm,v,arr,false,get_data(userid))) is returning 0.24 when it used to return 0.51 and the BA/PM would like to know what changed. That's when you'll realize that your growth has been severely limited.
What journaling options did you use?
There's a simple reason for that: my helmet is reflective too.

I didn't want it to distract from the bike.
Went to mail.yahoo.com to check my mail there (for the first time in months.)

The landing page had nothing to do with mail and everything to do with piles of crap that Yahoo wants me to look at.

Congratulations Marissa, that's the last time I'll even bother looking when you say "Look! We've changed."

Next.
Could you expound on that a little? Are you referring to parents of college students transferring wealth by paying for tuition? Maybe I'm just being dense but I can't quite figure out what you meant.
> Another interesting tidbid is that hundreds of those surveyed don't know what they're talking about. Big surprise, right? More specifically, 18 percent were found to own a "smart" TV, while 13 percent said they didn't know what a smart TV is

That sounds like a failing of these "smart TVs" to me.
Hmm... I've learned from GMail. I choose a mail interface with a clear delete (instead of the nebulous "archive") and the ease of mutually exclusive folders instead of the lack of specificity of overlapping tags, and I got just as much spam in Gmail as I did in Y!.

So, I guess lots of folks have learned from GMail... that GMail is not really right for everyone. If you love tags, cool, but there's something to be said for email that works like one expects email to work.

Wouldn't mind better searching in Y! mail, however; Google did do a good job with that, not surprisingly.
Linux is an operating system kernel, the most basic layer of software managing the system and talking to your hardware. Linux exposes a standardized interface to the so called 'user space', where programs like Chrome or Apache etc run.

The Linux kernel is important, but only a small part of a whole operating system - it's the lowest layer, but there are lots of layers on top of it, including all the programs that the average user uses.

Ubuntu, Red Hat, and other Linux _distributions_ bundle a Linux kernel, common software packages, and utilities to manage these together. So there are many Linux distributions, but only one Linux kernel.
Really? By "nobody" you mean us, right? Most people still use yahoo and hotmail. [1]

[1] "Yahoo! Mail was the second largest web-based email service with 310 million users as of October 2011, and the most popular webmail service in the United States" - http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20114975-52/microsoft-aimi...
Are people really paying $50-$200/month for landing page testing and optimization? I get that there appears to be a lot of features, but seems like overkill to me.
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Mulesoft Launches API Discovery Hub
Kickstarter definitely seems like the way for independent artists to raise money to produce an album. However when I saw Google's new YouTube studios in Los Angeles I couldn't help but think that maybe that's the future. Content companies funding producers and taking a cut of the revenue from the content when it is distributed on that platform (but allowing the artist to keeps the rights to the content). I read somewhere that before record companies it was the very rich who commissioned artists to produce work. Maybe we will see that model start to reappear but instead of individuals commissioning work it will be content companies.
Fair point. The title could definitely be phrased better.
23andMe Raises $50 Million, Drops Price to $99
Ah, another city with a permanent housing crisis!
23andMe raises $50M, cuts price to $99, sets goal of 1M genotyped customers
It would be interesting to see what percentage of gift card dollars never get redeemed and how long they take to get redeemed.
Doesn't that make you "too" responsible for the spacing? Is it as easy to get the distance between two labels to be exactly one space? Or can you include trailing/leading spaces in the strings, and have them automatically laid out?

Note: I (obviously) don't program for iOS, but the above recommendation would be non-trivial in the toolkit I know best (GTK+) which is why I'm curious.
You are describing EMBA (executive MBA).
Modeling the World with Prototypes
All-new Buffer streamlines sharing across multiple social networks
Biogo - A bioinformatics library for the Go language
i know. i clicked on each one, expecting the image to enlarge.. gee whiz ralphie...
If the app were to be displayed in other language it would mess up the word spacing.
I think MBA from a top school is more of an elitist club so if it's terribly expensive that's just fine. It limits number of holders just like for any other expensive stuff. I don't believe in the value of business education, anyways - i have one (while not MBA) and know it's worthless shit, and i seen MBAs who don't know how to calculate NPV. And i know an MBA whos job is mostly replacing printer cartridges.
> speed and stability

Speed yes, but stability? I've never had the Android emulator crash, and haven't heard of (m)any cases of it either.

Also, is the WP8 a simulator or an emulator?
"This would be an MVP of your idea. Without this, it's nice, but it's generally useless."

But you've pointed out at least 5 new features. Let's say they add all of them and it fails.. Could they have learned that with only 4? 3? 1, new features?

To me, the MVP of this idea is that someone can review a site and have their site reviewed. Everything else is just a feature. Not to say they wouldn't greatly enhance the product, but MVP literally means minimum viable product; not minimum awesome product.
It's too bad that I got a -3 for my post- I was just being honest. Thanks for asking.

I upload content, and used to listen to it, but now I don't. Some others have downloaded the content, but it wasn't critical. I don't use the site enough on my own to justify donation. I think it is a great service- really! But, I would bet many feel the same way. Unless it is really helping others that you care about, why donate? It has never significantly helped me personally, or any that I know. I would rather donate to a charity that helps those in need. But I'm glad others donate. It is preserving history. It is just a matter of priority.
The NPE is a middle man--it allows the inventor to cash out now, and recoups it's investment by doing all of the things the inventor himself could have done anyway. There is a value to allowing the inventor to cash out immediately with an NPE instead of taking the time to find a suitable buyer who will actually use the patent.
Has anyone used this or a prerelease with the btrfs fsync improvements? I'm interested to see if dpkg performance is usable now.
Yes, but you still run wide into oncoming traffic or into that tree. It's not the laying down/sliding that kills you, it's the sudden stop.

I think it's rather telling the video doesn't show it negotiating a corner at a lean angle. Presumably that's quite a problem.

Having said all that, whereas I doubt I'd buy one as a motorcyclist, I might be tempted as a commuter if the price was reasonable (which, to be honest, it isn't).
Looks much better, but did you find a way to disable notifications ? I didn't see any settings menu.
At a median salary of 125K in a high-cost location like California or New York, quite a while.
The key word is "trivial." For significant business needs, engineers can almost invariably come up with cheaper and better solutions if they don't have a product manager acting as an information filter.
This only works if you have an idea of what you want out of college. The same group of people that are told they need college to be successful are often the people that can only take what is given to them, since they probably don't have a strong internal drive to be there. 4+ years of uninterrupted study requires a deep interest in some area, and a personal drive to carry out that study.