skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Labels used to do that perfectly well. I am sick of these 'internet is a bonanza' arguments that are made by people without any direct experience.

The economics of the nternet are very unforgiving for small bands, or even small genres. I listen to/used to DJ a flavor of music a called goa trance, which was obscure enough that the typical sales on an album were about 2-3000 units. If you sold 5000 albums you had a modest hit. The best-selling record in the genre sold 85,000 copies. Nobody got rich of it but you could put out an album and travel a bit on it, and it would at least keep a roof over one's head and maybe pay for another synthesizer - the typical album cost $20, which is not unusual in specialist genres. So an artist who sold 5k copies of an album could make $25-50,000 with a bit of luck; at worst getting your album out meant some additional part-time income that you could put back into your studio gear, plus some bookings.

Nowadays, you're lucky to sell a few hundred copies of an album. When Napster came along it crushed most of the labels, which were not parts of some big corporate conglomerate but were most co-ops run by the musicians themselves. It's much harder for new acts in this genre to get traction because there isn't as much capital floating around to organize parties and do basic marketing. As has been pointed out elsehwere, touring isn't free - and this is true even though the goa community had a lot of similarities to the hippy community in terms of couchsurfing, networking and so on, but things like plane tickets and so on still cost cash up front.

A lot of musicians wound up abandoning it to work in more commercial styles. Now, nobody was owed a living for working in this genre, but here was a nice little international scene that had seen several years of healthy organic growth over the space of a decade, and the 'music should be free' approach caused it to virtually collapse outside of Europe.
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You can divide the pizza fairly with N players as follows:

* The cutter proposes to cut a small slice (say 5 degrees) and asks who wants it

* If nobody does, he proposes to cut a slightly larger slice and asks who
wants it? The proposed slice gets larger and larger until somebody
calls out 'yes'

* Once somebody says they want the slice, it is
actually cut and given to them.

* The game continues until all the pizza is divided up

This balances peoples 'greediness' against their desire to get a slice. You can keep waiting and waiting for the proposed slice to get larger, but the risk is somebody else will call for it first. If you keep waiting for a large slice, the pizza will eventually be gone and you will have none. It forces everybody to choose the smallest size they would be satisfied with, until all the pizza is gone.
I believe it is also an option that had to be turned on in the OS, and that by default it still worked in one button mode.

The thing I like about the "one button" philosophy is that it meant that you never needed to use the second button to access something. There was always a menu or some other way, the right-click was just a shortcut (so I've heard). There were things in Windows and common applications that couldn't be accessed without a right click. It's also less confusing for new computer users.

Of course today, that's all basically gone. I'm sure some people use one button mice and are happy, but everyone I know ends up with a two button mouse or enabling the right-click function on the mighty mouse/trackpad. And it wouldn't surprise me if there were right-click only functions.
The Luna SA they are using doesn't come cheap. For an H/A setup with all the extras (backup tools, service contract) I was quoted ~$80k.
They're saying "Wow, cool!" to be nice. In their head, they're thinking "gawd what a dweeb"
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Ha! Yes, that too.

Of which I'm sure they were thinking how to make money off of first, not how the hell to increase quality afterwards. Kinda like what happened to Java after being inherited by Oracle when they bought Sun.
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Yeah it's just compliance. But Amazon having physical access doesn't matter because this level of CIA (confidentiality, integrity, availability) is enforced by Amazon also, by contract.
Is DRM any different from software licenses?

DRM is about piracy.I do believe it brings down piracy. Just because media piracy is still there means nothing. Would you leave your house unlocked just because robberies happen anyway?

Yes there is a problem that its inconvenient to get media across devices for legitemate owners. I hope this gets sorted out. It by no means make DRM useless.
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Cybernetics is a catch-all term for using multiple fields to study any
system involving feedback loops or state changes, usually with the goal
of optimization. Since the term "system" is loosely defined as just
about anything and many disciplines can be used to study them, in very
general terms cybernetics can be considered the study of cause and
effect.

Some promote the scientific approach of repeatable experiments with
data, but others promote the interpretive "arts" approach since
repeatable experiments are impossible in some situations. One of the
more distinctive qualities of cybernetics is the attempt of using
multiple disciplines to achieve both depth and breadth of analysis. Of
course, the trouble is there are always more fields and methods
available, so the depth and breadth can always be increased.

A recent discussion on HN involved an article that might be classified
as cybernetics:

"Cognitive Overhead, Or Why Your Product Isn't As Simple As You Think
(techcrunch.com) "
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5583759

The article did a good job of explaining the feedback loop caused by
"Cognitive Load" and providing solid examples. On the other hand, it
lacked breadth. They missed the important difference between "start
load" and "run load" as well as the effects of continued load over time.
They made a good point about how reducing _initial_ cognitive load is
good for growth due to reducing friction. They missed how _continuing_
load results in people gaining experience and familiarity (e.g. learning
more uses, learning additional features, etc.). They also missed how
these slowly trained users result in an effective form of vendor lock-in
by becoming an impediment to competition (resistance to change). It
might seem odd and obvious, but both time and experience are important
state changes worth understanding and measuring.

DISCLAIMER: I hate to let anyone down, but I'm actually not very well
versed in cybernetics. The only reason why I know about this stuff is
due to my dad (in his mid 70's) having his masters degree in cybernetics
(communications in business environments).
I actually just finished a project for super-simple URL based meme generation: http://memeifier.com/

Your Professor Farnsworth example:
http://memeifier.com/good_news/I_fixed_the_build/http:/i.img...
I'm confused...Locke and Molyneux weren't saying the newly sighted person wouldn't be able to distinguish between the shapes, but that they wouldn't be able to synchronize that distinction with their touch sensations. In other words, they wouldn't be able to identify which was the one they identified, by touch, as spherical and which as square.
Yes. Always.
> The brain is such a beautiful, but delicate hack of evolution.

I love that, and I'm totally ripping that off :D
My apologies if you were offended, I didn't think that I was particularly aggressive.

Certainly not compared to what is possible...

I think I understood your argument, I just disagree with what you are asserting and your conclusion.

There is plenty of low-hanging fruit in big markets, because it is a proportionally bigger tree.

If you add the constraint that you want to do everything on your own, then the markets and problems you can reasonably approach are smaller, but I still argue that from a return on investment perspective, you should be looking for the largest market opportunity that you understand enough to build.

If you care to discuss in person, I'm on twitter with the same name. @ me and we figure out the best way to facilitate a discussion.
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I've literally only met "one" person who still uses ICQ and I have no idea who he talks to on it. He's much older than I am, someone I look up to, but he's also a bit weird.
Shouldn't be too hard, all it really needs is "SMARTEST DUDE EVER" and maybe a few links.
Education here is not an overriding factor. The way a congenitally blind person "imagines" abstract representations of shapes is substantially different, primarily because the physical wiring of the visual cortex and indeed a lot of the brain would be very different when compared to a person who could see. The dimensionality of their world, despite being the same as that of the sighted ones, may not involve the same descriptive system - ie maybe "polar" (just an example) coordinates would be more "natural" to them than a Cartesian system.

It's simply a problem of what gets mapped to what in the absence of mapping channels we take for granted.

Education is probably not a significant variable here.
> Indeed, these are essentially arguments for minarchy.

Minarchy is basically, "Well, you won this one argument, but I still believe!" It's like "Yes, I concede that the Earth does indeed revolve around the sun, but the Bible is still inerrant and literal!"

> But I still believe in strong property and self-defence rights.

I do not. At best, I consider property and self-defense rights to be derived from some more fundamental right. (I've actually stopped using rights at all in my political philosophizing; they're surprisingly limited as an idea.) For instance, self-defense might be derived from a right to life; one might claim that threatening another's right to life necessarily sacrifices your own such right: ergo self-defense. Which gets into the whole "inalienable" bit because that's pretty alienating.

Mostly, I just say that property should be protected if and only if it would support some more fundamental right.
I don't understand how it's a philosophical question. It's a question about the state of reality. Even before anyone tried to actually test it, it was still a question about the way things are. It's like asking what's inside a room, and calling it a philosophical question. Then you open the door and actually look and suddenly it's not?
After seeing posts like this for a while I finally got around to reading the book this winter. Blew me away. If you're at all technically inclined and involved in engineering or science, read this book when you're feeling sorry for yourself and things aren't going your way. It will get your mind right.

I say that because many extraordinary things came from these incredibly smart but otherwise ordinary engineers. It reminds me of the quote from Steve Jobs about how once you realize all the stuff around you has been invented by people who are not that much smarter than you, it's very liberating.

I liked all the worrying and self-doubt that comes through in the book (especially since you know they pull most of it off eventually). There were daunting problems that they had to surmount one after another. They had to invent completely new ways of doing things: manufacturing, testing, materials, lubricants, etc... they were so far out in uncharted territory any one of those things could have been the end. But they pulled it all off not just once, but multiple times.
you're right, but...

Since we own our own recordings, by my calculation it would take songwriting royalties for roughly 312,000 plays on Pandora to earn us the profit of one-- one-- LP sale.

A two-story house is not worth 300k times more than the monthly rent on a small apartment. 300 times yes, 3000 times make. Not 300,000 times.
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My intent was to take issue with the OP's assertion that the majority of what is printed is an outright fabrication. Even when journalists get some details wrong, or quote a source who may be misinformed or lying, the broad strokes are often the most important aspect of a story.

Additionally, the tidbit about OP having worked for two high-profile companies is completely useless information. Just because you get a paycheck doesn't mean you are privy to inside details related to why or how things happen.

So yes, the article in question isn't necessarily perfect, but making wild, unsupported claims about fabricated stories is no better.
Article used to exist and was merged after this discussion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion...
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Minor point but the Raspberry Pi model B has come with 512MB RAM for a while now. The original model B was 256 but they upgraded some time before I got mine (which was in January).
http://www.websolr.com/ seems nice.
Seems like after you have the solution for 2 and 3 people, the N-solution is just to split up in teams. Say you have 8 people, split in to two teams of 4. Team 1 (With 4 people) now represents "Person A" in the 2 person scenario, so Team 1 gets to cut, Team 2 gets to choose. Now Team 1 and Team 2 repeat the process internally for their halves of the pizza, and so forth.
1. You don't know if shanev is male or female. It's ridiculous to think that someone can't make statements about breastfeeding unless they are a female.

2. shanev's post was expressing an opinion of whether or not breastfeeding is superior to formula-feeding. Is someone not allowed to have an opinion on the subject matter?

3. shanev did not 'command' anyone to do anything. He/she is stating the babies should be breastfed, which, in the context of the post, is just an opinion.
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what if it's harder to cut a perfect half than it is to tell which half is bigger? what if the pizza usually 'splits' into a bigger and smaller half?

i'm not sure the protocol is a good answer, the assumption bothers me.
I haven't checked this one either way, but I'm curious what SQL would be if they used the 'right' ORM incantation.

filter(object__isnull=True)

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/querysets/#...
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Yes, but the point is - they don't get much revenue. About 2c per user. Which might be fine for their purposes.
> bcrypt has been around since 1999 has is still going strong, but is limited to input sizes of 55-characters

You can SHA512 the password before feeding it to bcrypt if that's an issue.

55 character passwords cannot be brute forced anyway.
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That's true only if a site strictly uses a contextual advertising system. Most high-traffic sites sell specific ad space and time (AKA an ad campaign) to the highest bidder in order to supplement their normal advertising network.

Even if Wikipedia used the most unobtrusive, low-key advertising system possible, people would still react negatively because Wikipedia is known for having no advertising whatsoever.
Hickey has done things besides Clojure that are fairly notable, for instance the "Hickey functor".

Edit:
http://www.tutok.sk/fastgl/callback.html
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I spent the first half of my career in the startups in medical software, an industry where the minimal viable product includes a FDA submission. So, no, I am not focused on the 'minimal' at the expense of 'viable'.

In another response you say you don't think you were particularly aggressive. I think you need to evaluate how you present your arguments because you have, twice now, used unnecessary ad hominems.

You've reversed his entire story. He's saying "I built this simple thing and because it's in a small market with no entrenched gorilla's, I'm getting traction, you can too." It's an anecdote, not data, I agree, it does go towards establishing the point he is trying to make.
How can you overcome politics like this?

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"There are no independent reliable secondary sources. His keynotes or videos may be very popular but they do not add to notability unless they get reported in the media. Artem Karimov (talk) 01:22, 11 July 2011 (UTC)"

"...Oh my god! The article has a photo in the lead! You know what, I also have a giant photo in Facebook. Still, common sense suggests that the man is not covered in RS and therefore there is nothing to post in Wikipedia, anonymous. Artem Karimov (talk) 01:25, 12 July 2011 (UTC)"

"Linux Journal is a reputable source. The guy really is notable. Let's at the very least agree to keep the article for the time being. What do you say? 46.116.139.61 (talk) 01:54, 12 July 2011 (UTC)"

"Merry-go-round. Again, there was no coverage of Hickey himself. Hickey cannot inherit Clojure's notability. As for "this guy really is notable" I suggest that you read which arguments to avoid at AfD. Artem Karimov (talk) 05:36, 12 July 2011 (UTC)"

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If folks like Artem want to argue that Rich Hickey can not inherit Clojure's notability, then how can you get a page created about Hickey?
College revealed that several tools were missing from my collection. I did not know how to study, manage/budget time, or work hard on something I did not like. I had always been able to understand something just by looking at it. I could see, hear, or read something and be able to recall it, verbatim, without really trying. I never had to think very hard or study. Everything was just easy. I never understood why my peers couldn't grasp a concept, recall details, or understand things.

Then I got to college and stuff got real. I looked around and did not know why everything was so easy to my peers. I just couldn't keep up with a full load. Even a half load was impossible. My innate abilities didn't scale and I had to learn new ways to do things. It was a bitter time with repeated failures.

Get a mentor and some decent coping tools - something that will track what you need to do and remind you so you don't have to keep it all in your head. Learn how to break tasks into smaller pieces so that it's easy to visualize their completion. Know your own limitations and avoid situations that will make you fail (video games all night means no HW done, no sleep, and a really crappy tomorrow). The hardest part is self mastery: doing what you need to do when it needs to be done instead of doing what you want to do whenever you feel like it.

TL;DR? College is a boss level. Learn how to defeat it so you aren't stuck playing the same level forever. The abilities you (l)earn are required in the levels that follow.
Oh, fun! This is sometimes called an envy free division. A nice book on this topic is

Fair Division: From Cake-Cutting to Dispute Resolution
www.amazon.com/Fair-Division-Cake-Cutting-Dispute-Resolution/dp/0521556449

Stable matchings are a related problem (sometimes called the stable marriage problem), where you want to match men and women to "marry", such that no two couples would want to swap partners. It is applied in real life to matching medical interns to hospital placements. One of my all time favorite technical books* is on this subject:

Two-Sided Matching: A Study in Game-Theoretic Modeling and Analysis
http://www.amazon.com/Two-Sided-Matching-Game-Theoretic-Econ...

(* yes, that may make me weird)
For better or worse, generalists are much more dependent on word of mouth reputation.
great product, thanks!
They dropped Twitter card support so you can no longer preview Instagram photos on twitter or inside the twitter apps.
I don't see how the OP's statement that no amount of lawmaking will make people want to listen to more of a specific song has anything to do with piracy.
I do think that's what the poster is referring to:

> the motion of the head with eyes fixed looking around the border of an object in space approximates the motion of the hand tracing the same object

His argument is that this kind of abstract reasoning would be mostly developed by education, so people with very little education would not be able to associate the shapes they see with those they touched.
How does that work if multiple people call out "Yes" at the same time?
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Surely this is not a hypothetical anymore or one with merely one test case - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_prosthesis for example.

It seems obvious to me that it takes some time for people to get used to using a new sense - particularly for higher-order abilities. Differentiating 'round' from 'hard edged' is probably a fairly simplistic function which your brain should be able to quickly figure out, but I don't see how it can just be instant.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/molyneux-problem/
Feature-wise some of the services on G+ might be better (their app is phenomenal, their website is pretty good, their individual products are pretty good also), but EXPERIENCE-wise, I always have a better experience on Facebook because people I care about actually use Facebook.

Photos I want to see are not on G+. The photos feature on FB is actually really good for most people. I've heard a ton of photographers like G+ though (it seems to me certain niche communities have found a good use for G+; such as photographers or bloggers)

I agree, Hangouts is absolutely amazing (this is actually the only reason my G+ account sees use), but I find FB messenger much more useful than G+ messenger. It's more featured, and more of my friends use it. Chat Heads is simply awesome in every way.

Groups on FB have created tons of experiences for me. I met a ton of people I otherwise would not have met and this is BY FAR one of the most useful things on FB to me. I can't delete my FB even if I wanted to, simply for the reason that I'm in groups for each of my classes (I'm a student), as well as groups for my summer internship, groups for the company I work for, groups for my close friends, etc. All of these are tremendously useful, and I think redesigning groups is one of the biggest potentials for Facebook right now, and a very underrated part of the experience. Sure it may lack in the features of G+ groups, but makes up for it with tons of substance.

These friends of mine and people I'd like to meet are not on G+ and so, even though Google's groups product may have more features, those feature mean nothing.

Of course everything can be improved, and as we're seeing, FB are improving each piece of their total experience one by one (launching a new newsfeed, new timeline, new search, new local, new pages etc).
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Yeah, Rayiner's response seems to fairly well reflect my thoughts on your citations.
" The answer to Molyneux's problem should be "yes" --- the newly sighted can correctly associate the shapes."

In actual fact, the newly sighted can't correctly associate the shapes right away. They need time to learn how to negotiate sight.
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Granted it’s not “technically” GeoCities and it should probably be a 301 redirect, but I still thought it was pretty cool!
I think this is exactly right. Tactile visual substitution systems provide a sensory modality that we may as well call sight, just not via the eyeballs, and it takes time for the blind to become capable with them. Why wouldn't it take time for them to become capable with a sensory modality that is causally associated with the eyeballs? And in fact, it does take time.
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If you're comfortable with that, then who am I to blow against the wind?