skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does pay-per-play even mean? IRTFA, and then searched again to see if I missed something for the terms 'start', 'finish', or 'duration'. I did not. I get how crappy it is for musicians to get ahead in the world, but it would be for everyone if we could be open about what the basic unit of currency is in this economy.

Most of the time for my paid Rdio account, I listen to stuff I know I already like. Sometimes I don't, and I don't listen to more than 10-30 seconds of a song. Does that count as a play? Other times I'll go find tons of stuff within the app, but it's still all within Rdio-land.

Also the stuff I stream on Rdio, I already paid for much of it within iTunes, but I prefer to have everything under the same hood. First world problem, I know. Do I get a discount for everything that I bought on vinyl, cassettes, CDs, and mp3s on other formats?

I play thousands of songs each month, should I be paying 1 cent each?
When I build a program with make, the warnings are very easy to spot. While you do, without warnings, see a bunch of text fly through the screen, all of that text looks incredibly simmilar. Warnings (and errors) stick out in the wall of text.
>No one who has to l[i]ve on £1 a day will look here for practical advice and discussing the practicality of it is, therefore, pointless. //

If it was actual advice on that then yes I would have found that useful.

The BBC should be doing better than this sort of Broadsheet newspaper piece - they're probably employing poor people, perhaps they should have spoken to some of them about it.
>the illusion that sharing is somehow worse than this sanctioned exploitation is pure hypocrisy.

Consent makes all the difference in the world.
My experience is nearly opposite. The last time I bought a CD was over 10 years ago, I attend concerts and music festivals often (1-2x monthly) and consider these experiences much more worth the price than buying albums I could easily listen to on Spotify for a fraction of the cost. I have wide and varied music tastes though and the cost of purchasing all the albums that have songs that I regularly listen to would be prohibitively expensive, even compared to going to concerts that regularly cost $50.
Too few details. Is this a real story or only an inspiring tale? What's the name of the tribe? Is there an article in Wikipedia about this? An article in the International Journal of Anthropology?
George Lucas is a household name, you would have to be pretty cut off from pop culture to not know who he is. I don't think that's quite an equal comparison to a brand of personal accessories.
"And remember, this is just the first six months of life--the available studies show these sorts of effects diminishing as the child gets older."

Sure. Your area of concern seems to be the over-selling of breast-feeding in the developed world. Mine is the over-selling of infant formula in the developing world, including China, to the point of people never breastfeeding their infants. The above was a fairly cursory attempt to find a few examples of recent, post advertising ban, research on the subject.

By the way, you may not be aware of this, but the Daily Mail is a tabloid and the author of:

http://jhppl.dukejournals.org/content/32/4/595.full.pdf+html

is a professor of Women's Studies.
Agree and disagree.

I worked for a startup once where a mouth-breathing incompetent was promoted to the top of the technical food chain to punish the unofficial VP/Eng with the humiliation of a younger boss. The guy was promoted for literally no other reason and everyone knew it. This made everyone suffer, and his "rearchitecture" almost killed the company. It certainly didn't make me think, "It could happen to me."

When I see idiots getting smothered with praise and rewards while someone like me suffers, it reinforces social status and that I am, for whatever arbitrary and pointless reason, not as high as the smiling imbecile getting showered with gold while the rest of the world gets a golden shower.

That's where I disagree.

Now here's where I agree. I have a lot of performance anxiety and perfectionism. Actually seeing what the state of the art is on many problems is encouraging, insofar as (a) it's not hard to spot improvements, and (b) you feel less embarrassed when you realize that everyone makes mistakes and misses things. I avoided open source for years because I was afraid of showing code to the world, even though I'm objectively a good programmer. I didn't even like to use my real name on the Internet before 25 (although, based on what of my early history is public, that was a good policy.) I'm getting better at that as I get older.

I wouldn't use the word incompetence. There are a lot of trade-offs that result in mediocre software or process and that's only one of them. But it can be refreshing to realize that everyone else has warts, too.
I increased 8% revenue by using variable pricing in selling digital goods
Amazing. I'm actually humbled for you to have responded.
Just send them a message via twitter or email. I'm sure they will help you get started.
Yes, I know and use it, but SQLAlchemy is not SQL. It's completely another (although, SQL-inspired and compiled-to-SQL) language, which rises learning barriers. I find myself frequently thinking SQL then mentally transforming the queries to SQLAlchemy syntax, which is somehow pointless activity, considering the fact computers excel at transforming formal languages.

I believe, If someone'll take an SQL SELECT statements parser and create a library that'd generate SQLAlchemy query/statement object from them, such library will make development more productive.
I'm looking at one of your citations now, and it lumps all households below about $20k into the 'poor' bracket.

That's actually very likely the right thing to do. Thanks to various wealth transfer programs, anyone with earned income <$20k has consumption of approximately $20k.

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ce/standard/2009/income.txt

We don't need to see people literally starving to death to accept that people have a problem getting enough food.

Are people even becoming slightly less fat? That will happen long before anyone starves.
You'd profit a lot from a second screen.
The biggest acts make their money touring.

Pandora should help smaller bands line up shows in towns where they are popular, and help them promote those shows to interested fans. They have the data and the consumer relationships to do it.

Bands would appreciate this service far more than a meager check. And it would be much cheaper for Pandora (those song royalties eat up all their revenue). I listen to hundreds of bands on Pandora, and I'd definitely attend more shows if only I knew when they were playing locally.

EDIT: Even $100 is far better than a check for cents. And such a service would increase attendance at shows. They key is that bands would _appreciate_ it, whereas they feel angered by insulting little checks.
The talk that they censored WAS TO BE GIVEN BY A WOMAN.

That doesn't really hold up their argument of sexualized environments in tech being inherently hostile to women participating, does it?

Anyone who examines this can see that this is simply a personal censorship crusade by Ms. Aurora, presumably as a result of her own sex-related trauma(s) and/or upbringing. (Google her and her father for her own account of it— it's not ad hominem.)[1]

Just because her psyche has been damaged does not mean she has the right to attempt to censor others who are not participating in discriminatory behavior. The whole thing about "exploit" in the title being a synonym for rape (as in exploiting a system without the owner's consent) illustrates how ridiculous her flimsy argument against it was and is.

This sort of concern-trolling makes women in tech appear to be hard to work with or require special handling/censorship considerations, and is actively harmful to the struggle for gender equality. It has absolutely no place whatsoever at a tech conference.

[1] http://valerieaurora.org/keith.html
A year or 2 ago I had a consulting gig that used C# and that was my technique--code in Emacs then alt-tab to Visual Studio to compile/run/debug. It worked perfectly fine.

It's the same technique I use with XCode, except I can "M-x compile RET xcodebuild && open build/program.app RET" for most things and rarely even need to switch to XCode.
Read it, I'm not seeing it either.
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This isn't a particularly new problem, and it's not all that related to crowd funding or the internet. It's just the 'haters gonna hate' brand of jealousy. When you attract attention doing something outside of the mainstream context, people analyse your actions but don't understand - or plain dislike - their context.

We don't live in hamlets anymore, subcultures and like minded people can find each other. This is great. Try to ignore the noise!
I didn't mention it because outside of built up areas, public transportation is practically non-existent. A bus service that runs every few hours and not at all on Sundays simply doesn't count. Also, OP spoke of walking, not of public transport. If I use a bicycle, motorcycle, airplane, or rocket, I don’t need a car — that wasn't what was proposed.
I fail to see why one can't manipulate parsed SQL's AST. SQLAlchemy shows thas manipulating SQL-inspired objects is perfectly possible.

It's only bridge between sqlparse and SQLAlchemy that's missing. I guess, just because nobody had a wish, will and time to finish and share one.
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According to Alexa.com, Wikipedia has more traffic than Amazon.com. You said Wikipedia raised $25 million last year. Amazon had over $60 Billion in revenue last year. Obviously Wikipedia is a not-for-profit organization and that's good. Just saying that compared to their user base, they are not making a lot of revenue.
Some (popular) radio stations are paid to play songs. Someone must have realized that exposure is value gained, not lost..
From a fan POV: why do you think selling the digital album for $6.93 hinders hard-copy sales? Everyone I know that still buys albums understands the value of having the original artwork and a physical token from the artist. The digital version usually ends up looking expensive, not the opposite.

On not releasing full-length tracks: if there is demand, someone will do it for you. You get to choose if interested listeners get it from piratebay or your own website.
> but I'd be more interested in developing a metric of how much people disagree on a movie

That's actually a really interesting idea. Some of my favorite movies do not have universal appeal, in fact, they fall under that polarising category. An example of this is There Will be Blood. To me, it is quite possibly the most interesting piece of film I've ever seen. But it exists as one of those love or hate movies. Just about everyone I know found the movie insufferable, while I've happily watched it at least 10- 15 times. A way of of sorting that favored love it or hate it movies could probably yield some really interesting results.
Really? A moral difference?

The market has spoken; recorded music has almost no value. Learn to profit from other avenues, don't whine and scream that its not fair the market value has been driven down to zero.
>In general, solving problems for small markets is just as hard as solving problems for big ones.

Surely that can't be right.

The very nature of a small market, implies that the solutions are easier - because of less competition, so less innovation is needed, therefore lower return.

With larger markets, not only do you have to solve a problem - you have to solve a problem better/different than your competitors.

Not all solutions are created equally and not all solutions solve the problem in the way the customer wants.

It's harder to separate the signal from the noise when the customer doesn't know what the solution should look like - and when the competitors don't know either.

Quite often, in a large market, many competitors exist largely because no 'significantly better' alternative exists. Think about all the crappy desktop software (from the 90s or early 2000s) that many small businesses still use.

In a smaller market, you are more likely able to get away with simpler solutions - e.g. a CRUD web app, versus having to come up with a more sophisticated solution because competitors have already squeezed as much out of CRUD apps as they can.
> because another thing the web has done is erode the ability to put something into the world that is directed only at interested parties.

And see, I feel the opposite. I don't go to sites like CNN or Vulture or whatever, because I have little interest in the fire hose of information that is available there. That is, for many of us, the ability to directly choose the information we see is the exact opposite of what this describes.

Granted, this is brushing with my bitterness that my RSS reader of choice was recently tossed. And that too many places are wanting to "reach out to me" through the social giants. So, yeah, salt.
" you're describing girls who want to get into a field full of cool people."
No I am not. And you are grossly oversimplifying the process typically involved in vocational decision making. Seldom people go to a field based on pure passion, when most other things about it is at odds with their interest.
Just use a k-ordered uuid.
The lithium does not dissapear. If we ever do 'run out' of lithium (or similar resources), then we would still be able to mine it from our own waste. The only question is how expensive the resource has to get before it becomes economical to do so.
>The easiest way for everyone to save money is to cut fastfood out of the picture. //

That's not going to work for _everyone_.
How do you budget for that?

By the time I've used Energy/Gas + Internet + transport I've taken a huge bite out of that, not to mention food , phone etc.
> Meanwhile, to calm fears about Facebook spying on Parse developer data, the company issued the statement “We currently have no plans to make any changes to how Parse app data is used.”

Keyword: currently

So yeah, we all rag on Facebook pretty hard here. What I'm most interested in is, if the uptick in adoption for Parse is true, why do developers feel more comfortable now that Facebook owns the product/company? Given the general pessimism about Facebook's fostering of their own API, and their laughable advocacy of privacy this whole article smacks of PR.

In my mind the whole modus operandi of companies like Facebook and Google is to absorb and mine as much information as possible. So if they aren't going to peek and analyze did they really just buy Parse for the API expertise?
It's of course hard to suggest lesser known movies without knowing what someone likes. For tech movies there's cyberpunk review:

http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/cyberpunk-movies-by-decade/
http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/hacker-movies/ (also in the comments)
Yes, it was implied I meant computer geeks.
It's much safer to just hash twice: the first time using your old hash function and again using a secure hash. Then to migrate you only have to update all your customer's password hashes in place. Additionally, if you lose your database, you don't lose all the old, weak password hashes.
What you're advocating is bordering dangerously into the realm of "security through obscurity" - a very bad principle to base any kind of security on.

While the former member might not be a high profile target for the moment (and let's assume that he isn't for the sake of devils advocate), who's to say that next week a story hits the news about his wife or children or even a company he's affiliated with and then reporters decide to start poking about on forums and social media for cheap information to write sensationalist reports on? Or that hackers use that news as an excuse to target the poor guy?

Or even who's to say that next month he annoys someone on HN who decides to play some pranks?

While you are right that that security is a full time job, you should never advocate the numbers game because as remote as the odds might be, people do win the lottery.
Traction control has been permitted in F1 for about ten years now. ABS is still banned.

ABS for road cars is usually tuned to prevent wheel lockup and loss of steering control no matter how unreasonable the driver's inputs. I have the feeling that any ABS designed for racing will behave quite differently. Thing is, there aren't any knobs to turn on a road car, so people often just disable it. It would be more fun to have knobs.
this is more or less what HQL does (http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/3.3/reference/en-US/html...). However the huge advantage to composing SQL as an actual object construct is that you get reusable constructs which serve as components to composing a larger structure. String-based SQL OTOH means you're going to be concatenating strings together which is error-prone, verbose, and even hazardous from a security point of view as it discourages the usage of bound parameters.
Absolutely.

Talk about working the bleeding edge of technology, they basically built something from the future - theirs and ours - by inventing what they needed along the way.

Skunk Works is an incredibly engaging book. I devoured it in a few days and genuinely look forward to re-reading eventually.
I've found auto-layout to be less than useful much of the time, often you are left with puzzlement as to what's wrong, leading to turning it off and doing something else.
Some of the comments here a bit disconcerting. This is just a critique of the mentality that many aspiring entrepreneurs unknowingly engage in. It's not really an indictment of venture cap.

Also, discussing what nobody wants to hear and pointing out our deeply rooted assumptions is definitely a good thing. Sad that some people seem to get so defensive about such things.
isn't that exactly what every single company aims to do?

the music is a means to an end, the end being making money for the shareholders...
I think the point of the article is that even if you try to ignore those sites, mass media leaks through everywhere. The web really hasn't displaced mass media at all, but merely become an extension of it.
Wow, that's really cool.

Now I have an additional question. Assume at one point you were able to see and touch things, then lost your sight, then regained it. I'd think that while blind, you'd still try to form images of things you touched, and then be able to recognize them after your sight was recovered.

If that's true, then the connection between the senses would not be fundamentally impossible, but rather a learned behavior.
>In 2003, Pawan Sinha, a professor at MIT in Boston, set up a program in India as a part of which he treated 5 patients that almost instantly took them from total congenital blindness to fully seeing.[8][9] This provided a unique opportunity or answer the Molyneux's problem experimentally. Based on this study, on April 10, 2011, he concluded that the answer, in short, to Molyneux's problem was "no". Although after restoration of sight, the subjects could distinguish between objects visually as effectively as they would do by touch alone, they were unable to form the connection between object perceived using the two different senses.

That is a really counterintuitive result for me. I always assumed that one could construct a spatial model of something by touching it, without that directly being related to vision.
I've had this sort of problem quite a bit, but it probably does depend on programming style. If you use a lot of temporary variables rather than anonymous subexpressions (this is somewhat common among people who use a debugger a lot, and some compilers seem to prefer SIMD code to look like this) then it's very easy for one commented-out line to turn into a whole pile of unused variable warnings that slowly fan out as you "fix" each one in turn (because many expressions simply combine two variables that themselves only exist to be inputs for that expression, and so on in turn). This is terribly galling if you're only commenting something out as a quick (or not, as it turns out...) sanity check while you're trying to debug something.

All in all, warnings-as-errors seemed to me like a bum deal. People who don't fix their warnings without warnings-as-errors can't generally be relied on to fix them properly; people who do fix their warnings would have fixed them anyway; everybody is annoyed at some point.

In fact, I am actually becoming annoyed just thinking about it again ;)
This is quite easy to test: just take 20 beauty queens from North Korea and see what diversity you get. I believe the genetic diversity in the two countries is about the same, but they have been isolated for around 50+ years, so there is some great science to be had once North Korea opens up (think Iceland).
I can't believe a recent laptop (on any OS) not supporting two finger scrolling. Some laptops have it disabled by default, but it is there. I haven't seen a laptop without 2 finger scrolling on last 15 (friends') laptops I have used.
Yepp, mentioned it here: http://labria.github.io/2013/04/28/rails-4-postgres-uuid-pk-...
The problem is fascinating in itself, but I don't see why it is classified as an unsolved problem in philosophy.

From the article:

"The resolution of this problem is in some sense provided by the study of human subjects who gain vision after extended congenital blindness."

The solution is purely empirical, not philosophical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsolved_problems_in_philosoph...
Here's the story of Area 51 Nat Geo did a few years ago. I thought it was a pretty good documentary:

part 1 of 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcJzDqxqmEc

It talks extensively about the A-12 project. I thought the most interesting part was how they shipped square parts in round boxes and round parts in square boxes to conceal what was inside.

Different time back then for sure.
Test cases with less duplicated manual labour by leveraging git diff
Warnings are output to stderr. Personally I just do this:
make > /dev/null

All that you see after that are warnings and errors.
Actors on the JVM
This reminded me of a feature of Esref Armagan, a blind Turkish painter, who was never sighted.

Skip to 7 minutes to see him paint a building he's never been to before, with 100% correct perspective.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9ig6p_esref-armagan-blind-...
It was being moved to Nevada for test flights. They had a pretty good idea, but no evidence at that point, that it would even fly. Later "production" models were flown to the test site.
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Same thing we were told with Instagram, basically.
Basically, they tossed it in to avoid triggering precisely this discussion?
I feel like I've fallen behind. I loved my beagleboard, opted out of the pandaboard, and was never interested in the raspberry pi.

Beaglebone's a little cheaper, but I'm not sure what it's allure is supposed to be (The $88 version)?

The new beaglebone looks like an inexpensive and tempting nettop replacement.