skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The streaming services don't make money either. In fact, Spotify makes a loss. A substantial loss. An eye-watering loss [1]. And so does anybody else who tries to get into this business. The trail is becoming littered with the corpses of plucky companies who've tried to make a buck in this business. Why is that? Quite simply, the music business is a cartel. It used to be the Big Six; now there's just three. Three companies who own the rights to most of the last half a century's worth of popular music. Here's the problem with Spotify's business model: they don't own what they're selling. The labels do. And so if Spotify makes a profit then the major labels can just renegotiate their contracts within a year (they typically have break clauses), and gobble up all those extra earnings.

You see the music business is a /nightmarish/ labyrinth of copyright legislation, so to even start playing in this game you need a staff lawyer (or three). There's recording rights, which you have to pay to one arm of the label. Then there's publishing rights, which you have to pay to a completely different arm of the label (or, if you're unlucky, a different label - like with the erstwhile EMI's catalogue), and that's just to play some radio. If you want to do on-demand streaming, of the type that Spotify provides, then you have to pay mechanical reproduction royalties. Whaaa? I hear you say. Well, it takes a while for the law to catch up with these things so they've just repurposed the laws that were already there. Would you believe, you even have a different bunch of people to pay if you want to reproduce the lyrics. Now, take all that and multiply it by the number of countries you want to stream in, because you're gonna need to strike deal with a different branch of each label in each country. It's insanity.

The one beacon of light is the much maligned DMCA act, which (aside for enabling content owners to persecute twelve year old children) allows those wanting to stream music in a radio-like fashion to just pay a central collections agency a fixed rate. That simplifies the business significantly - no more negotiation and complex contracts, and no more need to have such detailed reporting (less staff, less code). The only thing is that it's applicable only in the US, as there's no EU equivalent (or anywhere else, for that matter). And it doesn't cover on-demand streaming. But it's a start.

Music startups really need to push for an overhaul of the copyright laws because the landscape has fundamentally changed and what exists currently is both arcane and archaic. We need a complete legislative metamorphosis, lest the major labels continue to move their contractual blessing between startups - ideally, of course, shortly after a tasty IPO - which all resembles the classic pump-and-dump scam.

I hope it happens.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/10/spotify-is-having-a-good-20...
What's the advantage of a sequential UUID over an auto-incrementing integer?

(Keeping in mind that both can be started at N on different shards, or prefixed.)
I'll go even further to say that this can probably be attributed to the Facebook + Parse announcement being the first time many developers ever heard of Parse.
I think that if the previously blind person analyses the shapes in the right way, they'd be able to tell which one is the sphere and which one is the cube:

The only things the person would be able to gain from just touching the objects is that the sphere is "the same all over" and the cube is "not the same all over", to dumb it down considerably. If the newly unblind man looks at the objects in a similar way and considers symmetry, I think he would be able to tell that one is infinitely more symmetrical than the other and would be able to deduce that the shape that looks the same all over would be the sphere.

Does that make sense?
http://memegenerator.net/instance/37333771
What revenue models? Advertising could skew/bias Wikipedia
OP. Thanks for making debuggex! It has certainly changed the way I write regexes...I now reach for debuggex _before_ I start writing a new (non-trivial) regex. Fantastic tool.

One think that I would really love is to be able to used named capture groups like in Python.
Cool, thanks for the reply! (and to all other replies as well :) )
I play thousands of songs each month, should I be paying 1 cent each?

Assuming a song is 3 minutes long on average, and assuming you play 1000 songs (including maybe 1000 others that you didn't like and only listened to for a couple of seconds), that's 50 hours of musical entertainment, which at a penny a song would be $10.

So yes, you should.
During my teen years, my dad made a pretty good software engineer salary, and we lived in a paid off house with a big yard and lots of computers. But with 8 children (and the associated tax exemptions) and substantial charitable donations, we often had net taxable income that was well below various "poverty" thresholds.
Couldn't you roll your own with a few lines of Ruby and send it off to heroku?
Why Facebook Won with the Parse Acquisiton
Pretty sure we told the American Indians "we come in peace," too.
Good point, I didn't consider collusion. If A cuts a smaller slice on purpose, B can cut the remainder so that A and B still get the same amount, but C gets more. But if A can trust C to give a part of his share later, then B can't do anything.
I wonder if he was given sight and at the same given two paintings of a scene, one his and another by someone else if he would be able to tell the difference.
Looks like you're right - I thought you could do it by injecting a quote or something, but apparently not.
If there were no assumptions it wouldn't be a debate. It's just my opinion®

http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2012/08/a-look-inside-zoe-kea...

$85k in sales over 5 months, 1.5 million plays on Spotify.

Another thing that prompted my comment is an apparent disregard for scale in the article - 7000 plays is nothing. Kids playing acoustic guitar get 500k views on youtube every week (not a qualitative judgment, of course).
Oh absolutely, I was diagnosed in mid-teens… but if any of these symptoms seem familiar to anyone else go have a chat with a doctor
Let's create a Wikipedia page for Rich Hickey
You're not kidding; it is virtually instantaneous in Chrome, IE9 & Firefox.
How to write simple, useful and composable javascript applications
Hey Randle,

I read your blog post, and have kept named groups on my mind. Support for more languages is planned. However, I should note that it will be a premium feature.

I really appreciate the continued support.
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Joins the $1 Salary Club
Bash is strange, but it's not that strange

$ ping `echo "rm -rf /nosuchdir"`
ping: unknown host rm

The string being fed to ping is not interpolated or executed after it's returned by the command.
Rethinking J-school
What makes you believe that an MVP will be more salable in a small market? I see no model or evidence to support this thinking.

I also believe you are too focused on 'minimal' at the expense of 'viable' in MVP.

If you have relatively a relatively viable product, where would you rather sell? I'll take a big market every time.

If the point is what you say, then why does the original post repeatedly return to the theme of the simplicity of the solution?

I say the person has no understanding of markets because no point being made in the original post is actually about markets, or products for that matter. There is just a list of assertions and assumptions to justify choices that were already made.

If you want to build products for small markets, by all means, go to it.
ADD doesn't mean you can't focus. It just means you usually only focus on things that interest you. At least, until they no longer hold your interest.

There is a certain anxiety that comes when you know you have to do something you really don't want to do. For example, a class holds no interest, you know what needs to be done but you have no inclination to do it, so you don't. Besides you can always do it later and later sounds great. The deadline draws near and you must complete tasks (final projects, prepare for the exam, etc) or risk taking the class over again. You know you need to perform but you just can't bring yourself to do it. The anxiety of missing the deadline sets in and the thought of doing something over again that you detested doing in the first place begins to eat away at you. The tasks really aren't all that difficult or time-consuming. The real barrier to success is just you and your own stubborn will. Now there's anguish from the self-inflicted pain. Then you get depressed because you realize that you did this to yourself.
I would think there would be even fewer "eigenfaces" if someone had Photoshopped them to look alike.
This is about a month old, now.
Live performances are meetings between people, human interaction. This is irreplacable by recordings. What value does the recording truly offer? Its value is diluted by being "easy" to replace by recordings of other artists (that might go for cheaper).
Just the basic files. :-(

https://github.com/berntb/attorg/

The server Perl code doesn't do much except load an org file into the javascript side.

It needs Twitter Bootstrap + FontAwesome.

I'll update it to a working installation a coming weekend, must sleep now...
Indeed, these are essentially arguments for minarchy. But that's very very far from the current large state(-capitaism) we currently live in today.

Minus courts/police, that still leaves ~95% of state power going to other places. Which is why I don't bother defending "markets for security" as other ancaps might. Extreme ideologues are a waste of time. But I still believe in strong property and self-defence rights.
With respect to Molyneux and Locke, while I believe they get the general idea right, I believe they get the actual answer wrong. The answer to Molyneux's problem should be "yes" --- the newly sighted can correctly associate the shapes.

A sufficiently educated and intelligent person with congenital blindness would be able to correctly differentiate the shapes. Say, for instance, had Locke been born blind and still educated as rigorously. Of the many deductions that could be performed, 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. Many other deductions are possible. All you need are reasonable assumptions about the acclimatization process, e.g., the patient can have a suitable amount of time to adjust to being sighted but cannot touch anything during the process.

It is fascinating to think about the idea of disconnected senses, but as so commonly happens, fascination with an idea leads to sloppy thinking, especially among the educated.

The reason why the empirical studies of the patients from India are wrong, despite being interpreted as giving a concurring answer, is that the blind have traditionally been given feeble educations, lacking in the type of rigorous thinking necessary to solve the problem. Historically it was challenging to teach abstract reasoning to the blind, and for this reason many were not taught. See Herzog's documentary "Handicapped Future" for tragic examples in relatively wealthy 1960s West Germany. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handicapped_Future

The five patients in India who could not afford simple but life-altering surgery were sure to be poor in addition to being blind, and so surely must have received awful educations. Compounding this are their young ages.

A sufficiently motivated, newly-sighted Locke would've gotten the answer correct.
alias ip="dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com"
You can't use HTTPS everywhere if there isn't SSL...
Philosophical problems tend to turn into empirical problems with time. That’s completely normal. At some point in time you can’t actually investigate something empirically, so it’s a philosophical problem. As soon as you can, the philosophical problem turns into an empirical one.
Empiricism is a philosophical position.

(Furthermore, before finding a way to test this empirically, it was solely a thought experiment, and therefore, even more directly in the realm of philosophy.)
The article seems to go out of its way to avoid mentioning that this is residual income from 3 albums made over twenty years ago that weren't huge successes in the first place. Why would anyone expect to be making any meaningful amount of money from them at this point?
"allowing more people to refinance and purchase homes" is a big part of what got us into this mess.
Sure. I have a MacBook Pro for personal use, and at work I'm a Java developer using an iMac with a Magic Trackpad.

I don't use all the gestures, just a few of them. But I've been doing it for so long they're second nature to me.

Two finger scroll one of the most important. I remember trying to use friend's PCs before it became common and being frustrated every time.

Two finger click works like a right-click, so I don't need to hold a key or dedicate part of my touchpad to right-clicking.

Three finger swipe left/right is amazing. It functions as a forward/backward gesture. In Safari it moves through history. In IntelliJ (my IDE of choice) it does the same thing, which is invaluable. I don't even know the keyboard shortcut in IntelliJ, it just works. And it works in Chrome. And Xcode. Having a universal gesture is fantastic.

Another favorite is four fingers up, which activates Expose. When you're moving between multiple applications and copying & pasting it makes makes things so much easier. I don't have to move my hand off command-C/V.

Four finger spread shows the desktop, which I use occasionally.

Double-tap with two fingers zooms in iOS style in Safari, which can e useful

Double-tap with three fingers opens the dictionary (& Wikipedia!) anywhere in the os on whatever you tap on. Reading an article and don't know what something is? Just double-tap three fingers and a little pop-up tells you. It's one of those functions that's always been there but it's so easy to get to I actually use it now.

That's what I use. There are a few more. Four fingers together opens Launcher. In Safari the zoom out gesture (pinch two fingers) brings up a tab-list, but I keep forgetting that's there since it's a relatively recent add. Four fingers down is Expose for one application, but I don't have much need for that. Two fingers from the right edge opens the notifications in Mountain Lion (which I don't really use).

If you're a multi-desktop person, four fingers left or right switches between desktops (including Dashboard) and every full screen application. This also works for app switching on iPad 2/3/4s.

Really it's like using command-c/v to copy and paste or command-tab to switch applications. It's quick and easy to do, and you quickly forget it's there and start doing it automatically.

Honestly I hate helping coworkers with a problem in IntellJ because they all use normal mice and I can't easily jump back to the last place I did an edit (even in another file). I'm working on helping them and then all of a sudden there is a brain stall while I realize that I can't just do a swipe and have to think to go click on the tab I want.

I feel handicapped without them; like something is missing. I remember how much I liked getting a button on the side of my MS IntelliMouse I could use to go back when surfing, this is like 100x that.

Edit: It just occurred to me that these aren't default gestures. A few of them changed in Mountain Lion and I set my Macs back to the way Lion had them, so you may have to experiment.
https://github.com/evanmiller/ChicagoBoss/blob/master/README... exciting
I believe he means that the light receptors on your eye are inverted like this:

http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/content_images_2/digital_...

But the idea that people "see upside-down" is a common misconception. How the inputs map onto your brain spatially don't really matter. Well they do, but it doesn't matter if it's inverted or not because your brain learns (or likely is hardwired biologically) to map signals that come from the bottom to being located at "top" and signals that come from the top as "bottom".
Reminds me of the famous line from Steve Martin, "Those French, they have their own word for everything!"

I expect Bruce will get a lot of page views, this sort of story pulls them out, but his story is not very compelling. Basically he liked the Windows experience better before and he has gone back to it. I didn't see a lot of effort to figure out "meme" for MacOS (which is fine I didn't either until circumstances made it my only laptop) and so returning to something more familiar removes friction in his life. Good for him. But it doesn't inform on the different choices between MacOS and Windows, only his comfort level with them.
why would advertising skew the factual information presented in wikipedia? Advertising is based off content, content isn't based off advertising.
What on earth are you talking about?!

Someone else[1] first mentioned that the original poster once worked for CME. Anyone who has been following the LIBOR rigging story can see the irony.

You've now accused several people of defaming the original poster. Did you somehow forget that the topic of discussion is fraud in the financial markets?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5616839
Oh, yes, please! Actually none of the images are loading...
how was this list compiled? by scanning for mentions of words like "primer", "surrogate", and "brazil"? or just by looking for links to movie pages on IMDB or amazon? because i imagine the first method would have a lot of false positives.
If the goal to stay small and unfunded, I still take the position that you should look for the largest market you can realistically provide solutions for.

A single programmer writing CRUD apps isn't going to become a competitive telco. I'm not saying wade into fights you can't win,just that if you have to decide between two projects, a considerably larger market should be key to the decision.

Thanks for the book recommendation.
I agree with you completely. I was hoping people would take my comment more as important lessons than excuses.

1) Always review the code for sensitive data before allowing it to go live (especially by someone well-versed in security).

2) Have a plan of attack in place for security upgrades so that they're not quite so painful.

3) Despite day-to-day responsibilities, there need to be regular reviews of security practices by management.
Because one of the fundamental questions in philosophy has always been whether knowledge comes from empirical sense experience or whether it comes from somewhere else.

Having a definitive answer to this question could be thought to potentially shed light on that.

Plato would probably argue that shape concepts are innately available to consciousness, and that when the blind person touches a sphere (for example), he connects that with his innate conception of a sphere. So Plato probably would have expected the suddenly non-blind person to be able to immediately connect his tactile experience of a sphere with his visual experience of a sphere.

British empiricist philosophers would probably have argued along the lines that there is no such thing as an internal conception of a sphere. So they would disagree with Plato.

Of course, the true answer is that neither Plato's team nor the empiricists were completely right. There are concepts, but they are formed based on sense data, not based on some kind of innate knowledge.
Cool article. In a similar vein, the time lapse video[1] of moving the shuttle Endeavour through LA to the California Science Center is wonderful!

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdqZyACCYZc
Cool little app. However, I'd like to see you raise the artificially low maximums you've put in place for the "Initial Investment" and "Monthly Investment" inputs. If you did, I'd be able to make use of it. (I'm 38 and definitely not "starting out".) It appears that you're making the assumption that the "Returns per Year" percentage input should also be used when figuring monthly income. I disagree with that. I'm comfortable guessing at a relatively high (7 or 8%) annual return on investment while building my savings, which would be derived from a combination of dividend income and capital gains. But, when it comes to living on a fixed income, I'm tempted to guess at a lower annual return (4% - dividend income only) because the negative consequences of being wrong are fairly high. My two cents.
Voxels have long been a goal in 3d gaming/graphic but no major need since it changes things quite heavily in how assets are designed (pipeline changes). But for 3d printing, it makes total sense and might be something that pushes voxel use over tessellation and other tricks.
The entire point of HSM is that physical access does not compromise your keys. The keys are not stored on a disk, and if someone tries to pry it open, it will erase its memory. Check out their FAQ:

http://aws.amazon.com/cloudhsm/faqs/
I was in Australia last year, and in walking around downtown Brisbane I noticed a two person band playing on a street corner. There was quite a crowd around them, and their music was good. They had a suitcase open in front of them, with what looked like a couple hundred bucks in it, a stack of CDs, and a sign that said the CDs were $15 each.

It's likely they 'salted' the suitcase with cash, but even so, it looked like they made some decent cash for a couple hours work.

I bought one, and really enjoy it. The band is PLUDO, btw.
Thinly veiled spam.
Their primary feature is tamper-resistant key management. It means you can store your keys in a data centre - where people you don't fully trust may have physical hardware access - yet still have an expectation of security. Something like this is useful whether you use Amazon or a traditional data center.
Yep, definitely equivalent to the joystick buttons. I remember that clearly from my days of gaming on a IIGS.
Tried this on a well-marked-up, html5 valid page. It ended up pulling one random piece of content from near the bottom. I realized that it was probably pulling the longest content on the page. Looking at the source code, that's exactly what it does. It removes forms, objects, scripts, images, blank links, divs, etc. Then it goes through paragraphs and tables and finds the longest content. This algorithm seems pretty good for long-form article content, but not for the marketing homepage I tried it on. Overall, pretty cool.
Well, yes. But just because you can uncover such a mechanism doesn't mean you have an explanation for the behaviour. For example, in times of plague, people would put heavy stones on the graves of people to prevent them from raising again as vampires. Incidentally, since there were more dead than usual during plague, they were buried in shallow graves, which take less time to make, and dogs might dig them up, which increased the risk of contagion. By putting heavy stones on top, roaming dogs couldn't dig them up and there was less contagion and less death. So even though the behaviour had a perfectly reasonable mechanism by which it lowered the number of deaths, the mental explanation was way off.

Also, just because someone might feel that way about men or women, doesn't mean we should be shaming women who want to have sex, now that there's practically no risk of unwanted pregnancies. Insisting that people act reasonably isn't some utopian ideal, but is more like the cornerstone of modern society.