skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like he never really embraced the Mac to begin with. And some of the stuff he sounds is just plain strange:

> But in hindsight I realize there are a lot of things that never felt quite natural. [...] And more sophisticated things like any software installation that doesn’t come as a Mac installer.

Is he really saying that software that doesn't come packaged as an installer is unnatural? Because the ability to simply drag & drop one "file" to install (or delete) an application is generally considered a feature of OS X (and the old Mac OS), not a negative.
You should remember to use constant-time comparison when checking for equality in your stored procedure though; do databases typically provide functions/operators for that?

It's something just as easy to get wrong in application code, but good frameworks already do, and abstract it away where you might not realise.
>Job seekers allowance (the standard benefit for the unemployed) will net you around £50 per week. //

Our family live on far less than that each per week after housing and we're working ... clearly we're not doing it right but it seems that is more than sufficient. Indeed my experience is that those I know on benefits can afford to live quite badly, wastefully.
Ask any musician during the pre-internet era and this would be their assessment:

Recorded music will always be the profit center. Live performances are only good for promoting a band's records; it's easier to sell 1,000,000 records than it is to sell tickets for 1,000,000 seats.
That's getting nice right there -- slick CSS implementation and a sweet design.

Having authored a jQuery Radial Menu plugin[1], I'll add that I have seen significant interest in the interface/plugin from a ton of folks over the years, but few real world implementations that have engaged me beyond first glance.

Personally I find the interface best utilized in situations where I'd rather not divert my attention and am performing similar tasks frequently - like in some games. When it comes to getting _creative_ with the UI component as a developer, though, I've found it tough to do _really_ well. It gets gimmick-y quickly. Path's QuadCurveMenu has been the best implementation of any type of circular menu that I've seen. Summly had a radial menu as well, but I didn't find it particularly useful - just fun to play with.

For anyone interested, here are some examples using the radmenu plugin: http://tikku.com/jquery-radmenu-plugin#radmenu_tutorial_4. Also, my site opens up with a radial menu: http://www.tikku.com.

Would love to hear thoughts from any other folks that have actually experimented with the radial menu interface?

[1]http://plugins.jquery.com/radmenu/
> Pressing 1,000 singles in 1988 gave us the earning potential of more than 13 million streams in 2012. (And people say the internet is a bonanza for young bands...)

If you had 13 million streams, you would easily sell a few thousand albums. The internet is a bonanza for artists - it gives you exposure and allows worldwide sales at very low cost.
Government definitions of "poor" don't necessarily equate to what you and I would call "poor," due to politics (basically, getting more people identified "poor" helps you get votes if you're the party perceived as better able to help the poor, and in the US one party has dominated the poverty issue and used this strategy for a number of decades).

For example, someone I knew in high school (a number of years ago now) qualified for the school lunch program, so nominally his family was poor. But they lived in a house, with a yard; had cable TV, computers, and Internet. I would say they're working-class, or maybe even lower middle-class.

If the lowest-income 20% of the population is labeled as poor for the purposes of this statistic ("nominal poor"), but the number of people who are so poor their children are starving in the streets ("desperately poor") is 0.20% of the population, then it's not so surprising that statistics over the nominal poor much more closely resemble the general population than the picture of the desperately poor.
I'm aware that one can be obese and have scurvy or something along those lines.

From what I've read, the primary diet-related medical problems that the poor suffer are diabetes, heart disease, and similar things. Scurvy and B12 deficiency are very far down on their list of problems.

Feel free to do a google search and prove me wrong.
"fair" for a male musician but not noble.

The implication of female musicians engaging in sex with groupie derails any follow up discussion into handwringing and slut shaming so quickly that the author just chucked the qualifier in there to (try to) prevent people from accusing Palmer of ¡having sex men! in addition to everything else.
Anecdotal I know, but I've only attended one or two concerts in my lifetime and prefer to buy albums instead because they're significantly cheaper, among other reasons.

It's hard for me to believe, but I still have albums that I bought fifteen or more years ago that I still listen to on a regular basis. That's more valuable to me than a concert experience.
Plant a bunch of high-quality seeds :)
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This is unlikely for at least three reasons:

1. Apple will be loathe to give up high margins. I think there will be a lower cost iPhone, but not that much lower cost.

2. "Other" should do fairly well. Jolla is going to be a credible player. Mozilla has launch partners lined up. Samsung will make a Tizen phone, though I'm pretty skeptical Tizen will thrive with Samsung and Intel having joint custody, and even Ubuntu could make a dent, though I expect that to be more in tablets than phones.

3. An Android-based onslaught on the low-end is just beginning. There is no reason the cheapest phones won't run Android. Less-than-smartphones will become a specialized market. Touchscreens and chipsets will plummet in price at the low end. Android was initially designed for lo-spec devices, and, except for requiring (and that's not a "hard" requirement) a GPU now, it hasn't bloated too much. Android retains all the technical capabilities that enabled it to stuff a multiprocessing Java-based runtime into a 400Mhz single-core system. Those cheap phones will have much better specs than that.

4. It is possible some platforms will fail. Windows Phone could fail outright. So could Blackberry.
I'm not going to join the douche-pile of people attacking the OP because of his age. I admire his courage.

OP is literally sophomoric. He's beginning to realize that "tech" (meaning VC-istan) isn't a meritocracy, and this is a really hard realization. This is that stage where you hate something but don't know why you hate it, and every time you speak out against something, people tear you down because you haven't figured out exactly what is wrong with it (much less how to fix it). You might complain about "politics" without having new insight into what makes various environments political.

I hate VC-istan and I have good reasons for it. I don't hate VCs-- not individually, and not conceptually. I don't hate every VC-funded company, of course; there are good ones, I'd probably raise VC (as horrible as it is) if I were in that space. I just hate the ecosystem and its anti-technical, 17th-century reputation economy that is ripe for extortion. (The reason multiple liquidation preferences, participating preferred, and entrepreneur payment of VC legal fees exist is professional extortion via social proof; the VC knows he can pick up a phone and rape your shit for breakfast.) I hate that it encourages people to build horrible companies that destroy young peoples' careers. It's ridiculous how a bad implementation of something very old (patronage) can be dressed up as innovative and new.

OP isn't there yet on his knowledge of the why, so his knowledge seems superficial. He'll get there, and he probably understands more than he can articulate right now.
Has anyone tried using a beaglebone as a router? I was considering getting one and using a USB Ethernet to add a second interface.

An aside - are there any arm boards with dual Ethernet? Are there any with gigabit Ethernet? Could they theoretically even keep up with 2 gigabit ports?
This seems like a detailed rebuttal of that idea:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100712/23482610186.shtml

Which among other data, points to a detailed breakdown from Courtney Love (2000) about how the recording industry screws the musician:

http://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/
You may have just re-invented the Hardware Security Module(HSM)[1] :-)

See also [2] for a cute implementation using an Arduino to secure an AWS API key

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_security_module

[2] http://stefan.arentz.ca/signing-aws-requests-with-your-ardui...
these are identical
no, pre internet bands still got dicked on record sales and made their bank on live performances.
I don't think his argument is that VC's are evil. I think he's just realizing that VC's run the show in Silicon Valley, in the same way those who hold the capital run the show in every industry. VC's decide what the industry looks like, because VC-funded startups have a major competitive advantage over bootstraped ones. This is true in nearly every industry, by the way. F500 CEO's spend enormous amounts of time obsessing over Wall Street analyst reports. There is a reason it takes a CEO like Jobs and a company like Apple to ignore them.

This isn't good or bad, it is just the nature of the world.
> Actually, I purposely lied. It's Ctrl-shift-right arrow for end of line, and Command to go to the end of the file.

No, Shift-Command-Left/Right selects to the beginning/end of line respectively. It's been that way since at least System 6. So has using option-arrows for moving by words. I don't know what control does—I don't think it's standard. I think you might be thinking of Command-Up/Down which go to start/end of file respectively.

And I frankly don't find Command-shift-arrows hard to chord at all (pinky on shift, thumb on command). I've been doing it for 20+ years and don't have any carpal tunnel problems. Or course, I'm also a long-time Emacs user so I'm used to things like C-M-s.
Saying this to Damon Krukowski is a bit like attempting to teach one's grandmother to suck eggs, no? He presumably knows something about this topic.
Thanks and totally agree about Chrome extension, will look into that. Notforest has actually been knocking around for a couple of years now and is due a code update so maybe good time to add browser extensions too.
Lost Highway is an adventure. I highly recommend everyone take it at least once in their lives. It's like a modern hajj.
I didn't know what a ‘Mittelgebirge’ was, so I looked it up. Translated, it means ‘mid range mountainous area’, and there are plenty of those in Germany. In those areas, you definitely need a car to get to the nearest supermarket.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelgebirge
That is the assumption I am questioning. Why is it socially expected that a male musician would do or desire to do such a thing but a female musician wouldn't? Why is it necessary to enforce the gender distinction?

I guess I'm sort of asking the nature vs. nurture question: Do we expect males to behave this way because people write articles like this which continually reinforce our assumptions about it in a way that was irrelevant to the point the author was trying to make? Or do males actually and inherently behave differently for biological reasons having nothing to do with social norms?
The problem is that it is now being retweeted by wingnuts as proof positive that the benefits system is too generous.
It is pretty stupid that the best way to get written about is to raise funding, but then again getting written about is so inconsequential to success you can just ignore it.

Disagree. VC-istan is built on disposable companies, celebrity effects, and social climbing. Getting "Techcrunched" does a lot for your career as an individual (you've arrived, and no matter what happens you're a Real Person in VC-istan, and you're two-and-a-half handshakes away from joining Those Who Have Completed An Exit even if your idea sucks) even though you're right that it's completely irrelevant to the success of the company itself.

VC-istan fails to solve the actual problem, which is that almost none of the work the 21st-century needs can be forced into existence via subordination or traditional do-as-I-say management, leaving 90+ percent of corporations uninspiring and obsolete. VC-istan theoretically liberates a few people from subordinacy by generating new MegaCorps, but no one seems interested in solving the underlying problem for the many.
I use HTTPS Everywhere so I rarely check for SSL.
>> what if you want to make backups?

One can design a special hardware, with a port for just comparing passwords and a port for copying. A Hacker would need physical access to copy the database.

>> Load balancing

Could be part of the design.Say card in a box, with internal physical connection inside the box for copying.
> Pretty sure there isn't an Insert, though.

Ugh, talk about a worthless key. I used to physically remove that key on my full sized keyboards when I used OSes that respected it.
Here is a rebuttal to this article and other streaming attacks that I linked to a while back posted on music site hypebot. Worth giving it a look. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4834767
The observation that Spotify is in business solely to increase its own capitalization and not directly for music-related reasons ties in nicely to this post:

https://itself.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/like-a-business/

Spotify appears to be an organization related in some way to music, but in fact its purpose is merely to turn money into more money. This is not the way many businesses in the real world actually operate, and a good thing, too, because operating that way is pretty toxic.
From the article referenced above;

"
megastars like Lyle Lovett have pointed out that he sold 4.6 million records and never made a dime from album sales. It's why the band 30 Seconds to Mars went platinum and sold 2 million records and never made a dime from album sales."

Jaw-dropping...
'Over' is already an adverb. If you want to modify a word with 'over', combine the two words or use a hyphen, as in 'over-concise'. Although 'overly' is now common usage, it is still looked down upon by the literati.

There is nothing wrong with using dashes, but if you do, use the correct dash. The em dash is U+2014. If you cannot type an em dash, the custom is to use two en dashes.
If you care, try switching many of these sentences from passive to active voice. It helps to tighten up your writing. Sometimes it helps for dramatic effect, but excessive use of passive voice slows down your writing. Also, watch your redundancies and overuse of certain words.
Absolutely. Listen to old concert recordings, and even established acts like the Eagles and Led Zeppelin shamelessly plug their newest albums during concerts. The big story arc of "Spinal Tap" involved the problems with releasing "Smell the Glove", the promotion of which was the whole point of the tour.

The technical changes seem to be making musicians into traveling minstrels once again--not a good thing. Studio recordings are better 99.99 percent of the time.
It's either sharing or not being known at all.

Last week I was in a musicology conference where several professors from Oxford commented on how there's a glut of not only self-taught musicians, but universities and learning academies teaching music production courses that are saturating the market.

Even as a follower of very specific sub-subgenres of music it's almost all saturated, impossible to follow the latest developments in every area.

This is indicative that the value of most music nowadays is really, really low.

You could spend an eternity listening to freely-published, really good new music in Soundcloud and not spend a dime.
What model of payment would be better than the current one?
If you are looking to make a diy router check out these:
http://www.pcengines.ch/alix.htm

its not arm its x86 I think, but you can put bsd and m0n0wall or pfSense on them. Also I believe these boards are designed for what you want to do and would do abetter job then a beaglebone.
What is wrong with breaking the build when the underlying assumptions change? I consider this a good thing. My initial assertion that many warnings are latent errors (bugs) implies that the most inconvenient time is when the product is in the hands of users.

I have another guideline that I frequently apply: Don't update your tools if you're close to cutting a new release. This mitigates the risk of unexpected build issues a the worst possible time.
There's no need to be so aggressive.

I think you misunderstood my argument. That may have been entirely my fault; I'm still learning to write.

Small and simple problems are rare in large markets because everybody is chasing after them. The low-hanging fruit get picked very quickly, and you need to produce more to reach the bleeding edge.

By contrast, smaller markets have more low-hanging fruit simply because there are not as many people picking them.
There was a 3rd clause there: "or generally inside the public transportation system."
Perhaps she scrumped it?
I actually think Jobs's main accomplishment was to prevent Apple from developing an Effort Thermocline (the line at which jobs get easier, rather than harder, with increasing rank). What I've heard about him is that he was actually a very nice guy to low-level employees, but brutal with executives (the opposite of the normal company where shit rolls downhill).

VC-istan has managed to put the Effort Thermocline between companies, which is rather ingenious. Crossing the Thermocline also involves a total change of job description (from "entrepreneur", by which I mean glorified Product Manager who serves as middle-management within the VC-istan ecosystem, to investor/executive).
There's never anything wrong with challenging a supposed authority on a subject.

I don't care who the person in question is. Albert Einstein should still be challenged on his calculations.

Krukowski knows what he's talking about? Good, then he has nothing to fear from a little debate.
I think it makes sense. Those keys are for complicated tasks and they're entirely optional. Normal computer users don't ever need to touch those keys—You don't need Command-Left to go to the end of the line when you can just move the mouse and click there. The modifiers are there for you once you've mastered the simple way and want to improve your speed.
Yes, the VLC Windows updater, which runs when VLC starts.
I think most people building products (as opposed to OSS) are striving for profitability.
If most people who use it leave it on the default setting of uploading pictures, etc. to Google+, and the right people start using it then more people will start using G+ just to see their pictures. If those people start using G+ more then this could just be the killer app that kick-starts G+ to the mainstream.
You get used to it. Wear a watch, glassess, armband, etc daily for a month and see if it still bothers you.
Dying to read a whole bunch of reviews from non-techie people. For the time being I can't help but feel like this thing demos well to many geeks.
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There are a lot of people out there that didn't and don't fit into the classroom learning model. Stanley Kubrick was a truant. Ansel Adams was pulled out of school at an early age because he was "hyperactive." Steve Jobs dropped out of college because of cost. Jimi Hendrix "played" a broom for more than a year before his father bought him a cheap used guitar. Jane Austen, the author of "Sense and Sensibilities," dropped out of school at age 11 because of cost.

The classroom model is not for everyone.

Dropouts can and are just as successful, more so, I think, the earlier they realize they are not like everyone else.

Like you, I am not like OP.

Everything I learned that is valuable to me on a daily basis was not learned in the classroom. Classrooms are really boring and who wants to listen to a talking head?

I have achieved much so far in my life, but I wish I would have known earlier that direct experience was a much better way for me.

School's out. Forever.
There's no truth in internet voting. I suppose that means you believe all the polls on MSNBC or something like that.

I also find it funny that you want to voice such a negative opinion of a group of people and not expect it to be picked apart from the obvious flaws in logic.
You've added a couple of links on obesity. Nothing on "gluttony" or the generosity or lack therof of the US welfare program.

Five minutes' Googling will make it abundantly clear that "they're fat because they have a moral failing" is a seriously unhelpful point of view.

(For anyone interested - the phrase "obesity-poverty paradox" is a good place to start.)
Traditional radio pays a much lower % of sales to the licensing companies.

Pandora and Spotify are being fleeced by comparison.

With the shift to Internet / satellite, the licensing companies made a huge land grab on the fees. The radio business has a few large organizations that go to bat for the whole industry. They're old lobbying groups with quite a bit of leverage, having been entrenched in DC for decades, and it's one of the reasons licensing fees have remained reasonable for radio. Internet radio / streaming has no such lobbying groups (yet).
The Apple IIe, technically. The original Apple II and Apple II+ [1] did not have them. Interestingly, I believe those keys were tied to the joystick buttons.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Apple_II...
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Great idea, works well on 4 sites out of the 5 I tried it on. Too bad it makes notforest.com completely blank and thus not readable at all.

I'll keep it anyway !
How much money would radio station pay per listener that heard the song? I assume its far less than pandora pays and pandora is just radio on the net.
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People are probably confusing it with the abortive A-12 tactical naval bomber: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_A-12_Avenge...
> I've always found it kind of odd how there are some people who despise SQL merely for its syntax, yet they'll turn around and advocate the use of libraries which mimic a SQL-like syntax in some other programming language (but do an absolutely terrible job at it).

No, I use ORM because I love SQL. ORM doesn't replace SQL. ORM helps to generate the exact SQL I want with much less code.

I have seen application with thousands of stored procedures, most of them boilerplates, and only supports one particular flavor of RDBMS. I have seen too much hand-crafted SQL in the form of "@param_xxx IS NULL OR field_xxx = @param_xxx".

I used to think that Tom Kyte was right, that everything should be in stored procedures. Now, I am thankful for ORM (more specifically, SQLAlchemy).
> But I have simply stopped looking to these business models to do anything for me financially as a musician.

That's too bad, because there are opportunities. You could completely discount the revenue most artists get directly get from streaming and look at the services as the free option of the freemium model. They're getting their product to a far larger audience than they would have if there was a cost right out of the gate, and some of those free users will turn into paying ones. I know I have purchased albums (from iTunes) of artists I've discovered on Spotify. I'm positive that for Galaxie 500, some of their Spotify streams generated additional revenue in other channels.
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The background of the post aside, I find the main idea interesting and fun. Whatever the validity of the original argument is, I don't think the goal was to actually prove it, but more to play with maths and code to do something cool.