skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Wahh wahh we're too busy running a business to make our voice heard in Congress, wahh wahh."

The cost of a successful lobbying presence is measured in the tens of millions of dollars a year, which is chump change for an industry as big and influential as the tech industry. Heck, construction companies have a much more organized and effective lobby, and they basically make no money at all (see the article on the front page about their 1% margins). Really, it's not that much money. Raise it on Kickstarter or whatever.

There is a bizarre mental block/persecution complex/"I'm going to take my balls and go home" phenomenon at play in the tech industry that's makes no sense to me. Silicon Valley isn't a special snowflake and Congress isn't going to divine its needs and tend to them. You've got one side telling Congress that absolutely everything needs to be patentable to keep the Chinese from stealing all our technology, and nothing but deafening silence in response. What exactly do you expect to happen in that circumstance?
Pandora / Spotify are never going to be platforms that make musicians a living (I am happy this article is representing that fact to the rest of the public).

Performing Live / Selling Merchandise and doing other physical appearances is the only way you will ever make any money and even great artists who tour still can't make enough money to keep producing their art (their following just isn't big enough).
It is extremely difficult to know how to interact with someone with depression.

Often, you're right, it would be fantastic to just hear from someone who invites themselves over for lunch and a game on the weekend. Other times, you really want to be able to just have a deep conversation with someone, to be able to let your guard down for a while and talk about troubling things openly and honestly. Unfortunately, that's often unrealistic: the other person has to be in the mood for it, you have to feel safe enough about it to not shy away from it because it might be made a big deal of later on, when you're feeling better.
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Good points... I like point number 2, as I have often thought that there is nothing intrinsically "good" or "bad" about the existence of life in the universe, it is simply a beautifully complex arrangement of atoms, one that pleases us to contemplate and behold.

I do feel like some historical figures that damaged the world did so not out of a feeling of doing what was "good," but more like what they felt was right for them, based on their priorities and worldview (perhaps this is what you meant). Selfishness could fall under this category, if these people felt that certain levels of selfishness were acceptable to them. Indeed, all of us attempt to strike a balance between selfishness and selflessness... some people just have balances that tip toward destruction. This is not to forgive them for their crimes, but I've become increasingly skeptical that everyone thinks they are doing "good" in the sense of "good for humanity."

Anyway, my personal goal is to try to live an enjoyable life while doing my best to avoid harming others in pursuit of that life. I feel like this is a pretty common stance.
And moreover, the person who contributed to making the app was a significant force in getting the document you link to, to be written in the first place.

She's been working for a decade on clarifying public accessibility to the Malibu beaches.
I'd love something for Go. I'm not sure why but I'm having trouble figuring out what to use it for.
> Given that the project goal is to permit as many people as possible to find these beach entrances isn't it a bit odd to target a total of two platforms for the application?

What alternative would you suggest? What would meet your criteria of "accessible" for this initiative?
As a music fan, I would take anything associated with "Beats By Dre" as the exact opposite of credible and useful.
I also think that there's a really huge opportunity here for Big Data to make a Big Impact (excuse me for being cliche). See http://beluga.grooveshark.com for a good example. Imagine the possibilities of linking music consumption data with demographics/sales/tours/etc data to optimize A&R, tour routing, merchandise design, etc. AFAIK there aren't really any strong players in this space, and it presents a fantastic opportunity for someone to make a ton of money.
If you are going to argue:

1) Information wants to be free

2) Everything is information

... I don't think we can have a useful discussion.
Quick question, how much did your label take as a cut?
That doesn't really solve the problem, it just moves it.

If AMIs are your deployment method of choice, you still need to build a repeatable process for applying updates and changes to your previous base AMI, testing that it still works under all your realistic configurations, and then gracefully deploying it to your production infrastructure.

Which is all doable, but not trivial. And the processes you build will be very Amazon-centric.
Yes but that would be the mean high tide of perhaps the last week. If a stormed rolled in, by your logic, the whole beach could be public property. Some states define the mean high tide as the mean over a 18.6-year period or Tidal Epoch. To my knowledge, California makes no such distinction.
Edward Snowden says he took Booz Allen job to collect, leak NSA info
except a good portion of bands and venues are under the boot of ticketmaster/livenation who will never participate in any sort of profit sharing like this.
I'm saying that a recording of a band performing a song IS more than information, there's the added value of someone performing that deserves compensation.
That's what a Maths degree is all about! I guess Maths emphasises the model and CS emphasises the mechanisation.
Sure you can. Don't publish through traditional channels, retain your own copyrights and masters. Sell vinyl out of the back of your van at gigs. Plenty of underground acts have paid rent that way.
And yet I'm the idiot amongst my peers because I actually buy albums. God forbid I do something as stupid as support my artists.
The real question is, would anyone care to listen to your songs at all, if it wasn't for Pandora?
How rude of you! They are 100% commercial free- 78.3% of the time!
Exactly. To really be fair you need to compare the audience for each play, and for Pandora/Spotify it's just one person per play versus X (hundred/thousand) for regular radio.
It's per quarter, not per month.
Wow, that is so sad. One million plays is pretty crappy. Consider that there are 70M active subscribers [1] that means 1 in 7 of them may have listened to your song exactly once. And for the low price of $16.49 a million people have heard your song, where as before nobody had heard it.

Now go look at your iTunes sales, how many copies of that song have you sold? 10? 100? 1000? How many of those sales occurred because people heard your song on Pandora, who won't play specific songs on command, and so they wanted to hear it again on their time?

Back in the bad old payola days you would have paid much more than that just to have your song even on the freakin' radio. Because that was the cost of letting other people hear your music and come to the conclusion they wanted to buy it.

[1] http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2013/05/pandora-reports-70m-a...
would that evidence and fruits of it be admissible in court?
Their title is a bit confusing. Is it "I support the NSA" petition, or I support the "NSA petition"?

The content suggests the latter, but the title itself makes me think it's the former.
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Most states have a program similar to TAMS (tams.unt.edu). Do that. Maybe 1/3 of the value of this program is that you will graduate earlier. The other 2/3 of the value is that you will meet a bunch of people who also did the program, and you will know them for the rest of your life.
Senators float new surveillance bill
Is he wrong though? He fled to a country that has a "Great Firewall" and Internet censors and then to a country where journalists are routinely killed for opposing Putin. Isn't Pussy Riot still in prison?

Most people are not hypocritical about principles they care deeply about, so it's fair to ask whether Internet freedom is itself the principle Snowden is concerned about (in which case, why allow for hypocrisy), or whether it's something else entirely. After all one thing people pretty much can't say about RMS is that the man doesn't stand behind his principles. (edited to fix verb tense)

Now I'm even starting to be confused about what precisely Snowden's motives are. On some topics he talks about how people in general have rights, then he starts talking about how he's worried about America and Americans specifically as if he's a patriot that doesn't care as much about the rest of the world. He talks about violating 4th Amendment rights and needing warrants and then says that you can't get a fair trial in America.
This is definitely an issue, but I wouldn't say that Apple refuses to touch it.

My power button crapped out on me several days ago, and I got it replaced under the stock warranty (NOT Apple Care) with no questions asked by making an appointment at the Genius Bar. Another friend did the same thing at a different location, and they again fixed her phone with no hassle.

I offer this personal anecdote to others in case they find themselves in a similar situation: try going into your nearest store and see what happens.
NSA hacking Chinese: it's self defense
This is not PFS but a simplified example of how you may not be able to decrypt a conversation with one side's private key:

Server X and User Y are communicating. Some guy Z has X's private key. Z is also passively listening the communication.

- Y sends its public key to X. X sends its public key.

- Y generates a random number (A), encrypts with X's public key sends to X.

- Both X and Z decrypt the number. Now X, Y and Z all know the number A.

- X generates a random number (B), encrypts with Y's public key, sends to Y.

- Since Z does not have Y's private key, it can't decrypt it . At this point, X and Y know A and B, Z only knows A.

- X and Y use a predetermined algorithm using A and B as inputs to generate a new key. Further communications are encrypted/decrypted with this key.

- Z can't decrypt the communication.
TFA, or any least the quote you have selected, does not explain what it is. It states (in quite ambiguous terms) what the combination of Vagrant and "existing virtualization providers" can achieve but not what Vagrant's role is.

From http://www.vagrantup.com: "Create a single file for your project to describe the type of machine you want, the software that needs to be installed, and the way you want to access the machine. Store this file with your project code"

That, and http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/why-vagrant/, sounds quite similar to a configuration management tool to me (I believe you that it's not, I'm just saying I wouldn't have understood that). Seems geared to launching instances/VMs too perhaps. Maybe it's my lack of domain knowledge and maybe I have unfair expectations but I think that the sales pitch should be accessible to a developer who's not solely in the "DevOps space".

Accessibility is good because I'm sure it is incredibly awesome and may well be useful to a broader set of people who aren't yet in the loop.
Isn't pretty much everything moving in the direction of always-on encryption, so this in effects means they can store everything..
I think you mean 1 in 70
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Most of those entrances seem to be open. This one even appears to have a welcome sign. https://maps.google.com/maps?q=public+beach+access+point&hl=...
How do you apply "information wants to be free" to music like this?

How do you differentiate? An .MP3 is just another data file, trivially copied, with the added downside that government has decreed that under certain common circumstances anyone can play it while paying him less than a pittance for it. I'm not advocating this view, just noting the painful reality thereof.
> Starting a company that you’re in love with is the right kind of risk.

Questionable. I know someone who started a company around half a decade ago, is now out of business with nothing really to fall back on and can't collect contribution related unemployment benefits because they weren't paying N1 national insurance contributions.

Yay companies! May be a big thing, but some people really should not be starting companies.

> If you fail at an idea that you really loved and could have been great, you’re unlikely to regret it, and people will not hold it against you.

Depends on local culture a lot. Notably in Europe, IME, it's much more likely to be held against you.

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I do agree with the general tone of the piece though: That if you want to do something great you'll have to take on some measure of risk. IMO the time to take these risks is when you have a strong fall back position. What you don't want to do is get to 30, have got things wrong repeatedly, and not have a steady income or a home or anything really to your name. You've got to know what you're going to do if things go south.
How is that the real question? The post says the same song had 18,000 radio plays in the same time period.

I mean, it's a pretty recognizable song, just a bit old: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYdlqjiQPAc
would be interesting to compare pre-pandora days (prior to, say, amassing 100k plays for 'Low' in a quarter) to the current revenue generated for Cracker as a whole. I'm pretty sure pre streaming music days will win by a long shot. "How will musicians support all these tech startups?!" That's the question.
Likely like the iOS6 AV Foundation bug[0] back in November. It caused me quite a bit of headache, but the 6.0.1 bugfix was released quite quickly.

[0] http://labs.prx.org/2012/11/14/ios-6-0-devours-data-plans-ca...
The author didn’t state that nobody buys his songs on iTunes. And just because Apple pays artists well, is that a justification for Spotify to pay peanuts? “I see you can pay your rent this month. Good, then you won’t be needing my money!”
You are indeed a patriot. If I could've reasonably joined say the Peace Corps I might have.

It was an intentional dig at this guy who did ROTC but couldn't be bothered to commission.
In my reading of the RFCs, HTTP doesn't allow headers in the URI. But it does demand that you accept nest comments in header values. Only. These comments appear nowhere else.
I love this. I'd like/pay to have a consistent library of exactly this for other languages.
I thought it was a radio station named "Terrestrial" and it made number sound incredibly large to me, nevermind.
No, you can't. Copyrights only guarantee you certain royalties if your work is used. They don't let you opt-out of having your work used at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_licensing#United_St...
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Thanks for asking this -- apparently there is no really easy tool for this (I was thinking openssl s_client could do this automagically -- apparently not) -- however, see:

http://superuser.com/questions/109213/is-there-a-tool-that-c...

And now I realized I hadn't tuned the SSL ciphers on one of my servers to not accept (among other thing NULL ciphers... at least if that bash-script works -- I'll have to double check).
You can use Songkick[1] for that or Last.fm's Events section.
On the other hand, I've see Rdio promoting shows and pre-releases on their Twitter account.

[1] http://www.songkick.com/
Is that the amount paid by Pandora, or the amount paid to the artist? I thought there was a lot of middle men taking percentage cuts in between Pandora and the artist.

http://www.indieandunsigned.com/the-music-royalty-breakdown/
>> "why DO we continue?

> sheer curiosity

Curiosity is my #1 driving force. That is why I ponder questions like "why do we continue?" There is nothing quite like the sensation of "clicking", figuring something out, attaining the ability to speak about a complex subject with ease. It's wonderful.

And I discovered that curiosity itself is absolutely a drug. By itself, it is merely another path to acquire certain sensations - the sensation of learning, the sensation of innovating, the sensation of connecting the dots. Indeed, this is the drug that most people here share. Curiosity is another form of pleasure-seeking, complete with it's own set of dark sides (the obsession, the depression, etc).

Curiosity, though, is the highest of the pleasures. It is the only pleasure that can reach beyond itself to the truly new. In my case, I was perplexed by the pointlessness of the world. All of the work in technology and science. All of the factories pumping out electronics and gadgets. And the question arose: what is all of that for? And even more simply, where does it all go? The second answer came first: entropy, war, consumerism. And it struck me: what a waste. Entropy cannot be avoided, but clearly mankind has excess productive capacity, and more clearly it's being channeled into destructive purposes. We aren't building monuments, we are building disposable goods to be burned up in the great bonfires of consumerist vanity and mostly pointless nationalism.

And the thought arose in me: we need, I need, something positive to work toward. We all need it. We need something positive, something lasting, something beyond ourselves, to channel our excess productive capacity into. We need to know that what we make won't get burned up in a war or thrown into a trash heap. And what better option than an attempt to colonize other worlds? Here was a worthy goal, extremely difficult and demanding of us intellectually and economically. And if successful, would ensure that Life would live on no matter what calamity struck us here at home.

That's how curiosity led to belief.
Yeah - they can pretty much play anything they want and only have to pay the artist if they go through the motions to register with them. It seems like quite the racket to me.
And it costed $3000?
Not sure why people are voting you down. I'm pretty sure that it's common knowledge that artists, even in the old radio days, made their money on touring and often times ended up in the hole on album sales and radio play.
I have seen posts like this from time to time. My question is this; Is this what the record company pays you or the service?

My guess is that this is the cut after the record company gets theirs.
Whilst I'm not blaming the creator, these sort of services annoy the fuck out of me.. I hate following them and getting an instant DM saying 'thanks for following, checkout my blog' I almost always unfollow, it's really impersonal, same with with people that thank automatically every follow by putting Thanks for the follow @username, meaning everyone who follows that accounts see's every message (unlike @username thanks for the follow! which is still automated and a bit shitty but doesn't annoy everyone)
> people here who have the power to take action.

You have the power to take action. 'Upvote it so someone else will do the work' is lame.
Why does it puzzle you? What aim did leaking the NSA's hacking of China serve the civil liberties of Americans back home?

edit: or to reveal that the NSA listened to Medvedev's phone calls at the G8?
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I also had a problem with being "overly ambitious" early on in my life. Any satisfaction gained from being first in anything quickly died off, while placing 2nd gave me nightmares constantly and made me hate myself for it. I recently wrote a blog post about it [1].

Luckily, I was thrown into a foreign country where I was able to feel failure every single day at school until I was no longer overly resistant to it.

[1]: http://www.jayhuang.org/blog/the-cost-of-underselling/
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The NSA stole the prism image for the logo from a professional photographer without permission. In theory, that photographer could have had the products pulled due to the photo copyright.
What this is missing is the amount of listeners each play counts for. On Pandora/Spotify/Youtube, a 'play' is typically one listener. For these, it's mainly worth noting that Spotify is about an order of magnitude more profitable per play ($1e-4 vs $1e-5).

Sirius is at ~$1/play, commercial radio is $0.07/play.

For Sirius XM, the breakeven number of listeners/play for the pricing structure to be comparable to Pandora is 70K. For Commercial Radio, the breakeven number of listeners/play is 5,000.

*edit: added the price/play numbers
More than being about fair vs. not fair, this points out that Pandora is a meaningless bit of noise in the recording industry.
I don't drink soft beverages whenever I can buy/order beer. And whenever I can order several types of beer, I think "what would I like to drink today?", so I don't see the problem. It's actually a pretty fun decision.

"Brand advertising" means making companies far more rich they than needed to be. I'd prefer an economy where companies actually rely on their product being good and people telling each other (see craft beers), and no, I don't think it's healthy for them to grow into mega-corps (which they wouldn't be able to do without ads.)

As for awareness and changing service providers, again, word of mouth and spontaneous sharing of links and stories on the internet.
That's not the case for Java apps on App Engine anymore. According to http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/google-app... and http://www.jboss.org/capedwarf

I run a number of apps on Python/App Engine specifically because I don't want to deal with servers/infrastructure/scaling. Sometimes the limitations aren't ideal, but it's still a trade-off I've been happy with overall.
Small nitpick - Manhattan "penthouse" is a very vague term. You can buy penthouses with 10-30k square feet for $10 million or less in Manhattan. This is dependent on location and marketability, but they are still very high class locales.

Unless you mean a penthouse literally less than a year old. Just wanted to share this info as a New Yorker.
>What I'd like to know is if any other work is directly derivative in the game.

You mean besides Ellen Page's face? (http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/06/24/video-game-stole-my-f...)
It's not working for me - I'm just getting a dark background with a cloud logo in the centre. Running Chrome v28 on Ubuntu.
Platform limitations hurt .NET
Part of a series!

http://michaelrbernste.in/2013/06/17/declarative-computation...

http://michaelrbernste.in/2013/02/23/notes-on-teaching-with-...

http://michaelrbernste.in/2013/02/19/CTM-chapter-01.html
Out of the frying pan?

On the other hand Assange seems to think Snowden is in good hands.
I don't mean to sound contentious.. but, uh, why is OP surprised? Music access quickly becoming a commodity. Pandora/Spotify do for music what Netflix did for movies. I mean, even Southpark did a show on this (viz. Blockbuster).

I'd say that the fact that the FM station paid OP 100x more than Pandora shows how hugely the FM/AM business models have failed and how for granted so many artists took being massively rich. Guess what, there are tons of talented people out there. Software is free, and everyone can compete. I'd say that's healthy. We're no longer stuck in the dark ages of information discovery (back when if something wasn't on the radio or on TV, no one had heard of it).

Also, ngoel36 said: "If your song stream convinced nobody to buy your song on iTunes or buy a ticket to your concerts, then you have bigger problems than Pandora."

This times a million. So your music is apparently awesome but you can't sell t-shirts or concert tickets (concerts are, after all, where the the real money is made).

"Why doesn’t Pandora get off the couch and get an actual business model instead of asking for a handout from congress and artists?"

I mean, this is just laughable, given how heavily the media industry is subsidized. Case in point: http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2013/05/07/the-government-is-no...