skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an interesting thought. There is definite advantage in having a protocol be human-readable and human-writable. However, there's a vast gulf between a protocol that you can write if you have the spec at hand and take your time, and a protocol that you can comfortably write by hand routinely, like a programming language. The latter strikes me as a really bad idea, one responsible for much of this craziness.
A low margin business means that your competition will have extreme difficulty lowering their prices.

However, it's very rare for there to be fundamental, physical limits to the internal cost of doing business. Which means that if you can do that better (through manufacturing improvements, supply-chain improvements, what-have-you) then you can undercut your competition only slightly while reaping significant profits.

And, because your competition is running on such low margins they can't easily compete with you. So, from a pure price perspective, you either get to retain your higher profit margin while being price competitive or you simply eat the majority of the market before it has a chance to settle to a lower price-point, which is win-win.

It does, however, mean that you need to put in a lot of hard work.
Exactly. If you want innovation to be a real force in music, you have to kill Ticketmaster/Livenation. As I've said before, that will be close to impossible for a startup to do, and the next real opportunity will be 2015 (when a lot of contracts wear out). Regardless, an entrepreneur would have to hit a grand slam to even have a chance against TM/LN.
>they are complaining about US abuses from hundreds of years ago

The range is from zero to two.

>You can't prove that the Hendersons are a terrible family if their problems are on par with the problems of almost all similar families.

I'm going to ignore the tautology here and say that "on par" is a stronger statement than "similar." The US is also not the Hendersons.

>How do you propose to 'punish' the US?

I have no interest in punishing the US.

>If natural cause deaths dwarf murders, then efforts to extend lifespan will likely see a better return by focusing on natural causes than on murders. Similarly, if the average person is much more likely to see serious quality of life issues from natural causes. This doesn't mean nothing should be done to prevent murders

Why doesn't it mean that?

>Your argument fails spectacularly when applied to anyone who did not receive inheritance or did not descend from slavers.

Only if you require that I blame every American, like you just did. I thought I was simply blaming the people who did it, and the people who benefit from it.

>America can do both good and bad things. The fact that it does bad things (and other things which you just don't like) is not an excuse for censoring good things.

I don't hear anyone upset about people saying nice things about America (unless they are factually incorrect.)
>where as before nobody had heard it

Um, this is an established band. This song is from 1993. It was pretty big at the time. That's why they still get thousands of dollars in radio revenue. That's why they aren't very impressed by the "exposure" or the $15 in payout.
What kind of constant innovation does a city council need? Do their computers need to become faster or their business structure?

I think you really need to rethink your arguments because city councils need to make sure data is accessible for more time than the phase of a startup.

Ever tried to use a database of ACCESS 95? Ever had to convert it to '97, 2000, 2003 and then 2007 so you could finally convert it to your actual version and use it? Because that's how it works with innovative non-governmental standards by Microsoft and Apple ..
Rear - a Linux bare metal disaster recovery solution
Hong Kong is outside China's "Great Firewall."
Why America's privacy crisis is in Congress's hands
I'd agree with you except the project is helmed by Ian Rogers whose involvement is what makes it even remotely interesting to me.

http://www.crunchbase.com/person/ian-rogers
All the upboats for this comment. The false equivocation really has to stop.
OS X is holding back the 2013 MacBook Air’s 802.11ac Wi-Fi speeds
I meant it more as a personal question to people who say this. If an artist's music has value to someone, I'm curious what sort of mental gymnastics they perform to believe "All information wants to be free; therefore I will acquire this music for free."

It's always struck me as just a way to absolve yourself of guilt for pirating music.

I think the real phrase should be "Information is just information, people want it to be free."
I thought Dresden was the brainchild of Bomber Harris.
Show HN: a Hacker News app that runs on RaspberryPi+S3
> Oh, you're so awesome it hurts? Sorry to hear about your rich people problems.

Haha, that's exactly what I was thinking.

It's the humble brag.

He talks about ambition like everyone thinks it's great.

I don't know him personally, but if all of his projects get in the way of being a decent father, then it ain't worth it, in my opinion.
A few notes on building Full Hacker News here: http://svay.com/blog/building-full-hacker-news/
> "What we know is that we're following all the appropriate legal channels and working with various other countries to make sure the rule of law is observed"

This seems to be the exact correct thing to say, though. Would you have preferred

<<
we're following all the appropriate legal channels and working with various other countries to make sure the rule of AMERICAN law is observed"
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A bit offtopic, but is there a style associated with the image at the top? Particularly the way that eyeball looks, I've seen that style of artwork a lot when reading surveillance-related stories.
Most of their music stations are commercial-free. The news/talk/entertainment/etc stations have tons of commercials, so perhaps it just averages out to 13 minutes/channel.
The song in question is Low, by Cracker. A song that placed 64 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was also on the soundtracks of movies like The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

When you hear it, you probably recognize it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYdlqjiQPAc
FYI people, the author is David Lowery, lead singer/songwriter of Cracker. The song is "Low".

I like the song and you probably did too, if you ever heard it. It was used in The Perks of Being a Wallflower last year.

It does strike me that many people may be under 20 and this song might actually be older than they are. So I will assume the ignorance is genuine rather than flippant.

http://www.crackersoul.com/fr_home.cfm
No antagonism taken.

Why is a life with purpose (a synonym to "with aim") better than one without? The simple answer applies to your selfishness: because you'll be more confident in your dealings with others, you'll be calmer, and you'll sleep better. Knowing who you are and what you're really playing for gives you a perspective that puts you above the fray. It lets you pick your battles. It helps you make hard decisions (particularly with relationships). Indeed, it lets you see your day-to-day struggles inside the context of a much greater goal.

The drawback to larger purpose, of course, is that it's easy to lose patience with it. It's easy to lose your way - to forget your purpose, and to get drawn into the petty, pointless status contests that dominate most peoples' lives (note that you may need to take part on such contests, but when you understand them for what they are, games, then you can get better at and win.)

The reasons living your life with purpose are better than without are much like working on a software project with purpose vs without. The latter is difficult, almost impossible, and extremely painful. Purpose in the context of software should be defined by leadership, and it can be very arbitrary. But it must be there or you will flail and fail.
I don't quite understand your point, when he and his team took the second best possible position in the highest non-manufacturer class in one of the most famous, expensive, competitive, and prestigious races in the world.

This is before even considering his influence because of Ruby on Rails.

I think you missed the entire point of the article.
A web app perhaps?
I'm not sure the stopover in Russia was very wise for Mr. Snowden. They're unlikely to extradite him to the USA, but it isn't hard to imagine them detaining him for a long time. Whatever crypto he's been using, he might grow quite familiar with the famous "rubber-hose attack". Presumably they have some sort of deal in place with China, so once he surfaced in HK his options may have been limited. However, his previously-stated intentions to reveal only "safe" info, in a "responsible" manner directly to the public, are probably being challenged as I write this.

If this situation is a miscalculation on Snowden's part, then it's also a miscalculation of the USA national security apparatus. By locking down all allies and neutrals with arm-twisting treaties and extradition agreements, the USA has guaranteed that national security whistleblowers will only ever seek asylum with the committed enemies of the USA. These nations are far more likely to do something nasty with the information such a whistleblower represents than e.g. New Zealand or Finland would be.
OP is surprised because on conventional radio a single play can reach thousands of listeners earning you around a dollar. On Pandora, each play only reaches a single listener, so a million sounds like a lot.
Thanks! Lua is used all over the place in wireshark user scripts. This is super useful.
His point, of course, is that Pandora should be viewed as a marketing channel, not a way to make money in itself. In the old days of Payola, this artist would have paid Pandora in order to be played on their stations. This is an improvement for the artist; he's just not seeing the big picture.
I don't mean to be heartless, but this makes sense to me.

By design, people aren't supposed to ean real revenue from their music on Pandora. It's more about exposure, isn't it?

I mean, the supply and demand of it doesn't work out in the artists' favor, only in Pandora's. No one can find your song or you specifically, so why would you have an opportunity to earn a lot of money? There's no demand for you or your work, just work in a certain genre that you might fulfill for a few minutes.

Again, I don't mean to be harsh, but it seems like it makes sense in Pandora's case. I think it would be more reasonable to expect some benefits to exposure and fame than expect revenue. Users aren't exactly incentivized to click that (admittedly tiny) buy button under the song.
I think that design is as much about a feel as it is about a style and getting that feel into users lives is the experience in user experience.

Making something outstanding is about making something that people love, like really, really love.

Creating an experience with a "hook" is as important as style ever is.

The iPhone experience has a hook, Xbox Live has a hook, Facebook has a hook, twitter has a hook, HN has a hook and that experience hook has nothing to do with what the UI looks like right now or in the future.

People loved/hated seukomorphic design, but that misses the point. If it enables a particular experience that hooks/delights users, then it's a good thing. If not, it's a bad thing, but the merits of the style itself sort of lives outside of the actual product design discussion IMO.
Man I'm sick of hearing this particular complaint.

Let's look at the numbers. 1M plays for ~$42. Sounds like not much right? Wrong.

Yes AM/RM Radio paid ~$1500 but for 20,000 plays. Now ask yourself this question: how many people heard those 20,000 plays? If the rate of pay was the same ($42/1M) it would have to be 35.7M listens. Well, at 20,000 radio plays that averages 1800 people per listen. Is the likely audience higher or lower than this number? It's bound to be higher. So streaming services are in fact paying more (per listen per listener).

See http://davidtouve.com/2011/12/13/uk-radio-versus-spotify-a-c...
I'm asking what makes sheet music any more information than recorded music. Are you trying to say that I'm somehow calling an airport restroom, a freshly cut flower, and a brand new car information? Or are you just disqualifying me from the conversation as a rhetorical trick to avoid answering a simple, straightforward question?
Pink Floyd: Pandora's Internet radio royalty ripoff
I do use Inkscape although I find it a bit clumsy particularly in output. May look at scripting it one day. I will have a look for plugins.

I was also disappointed that the latest version isn't built for OS X and while there are instructions to build it without using X they didn't work first time and I didn't have all day to hack on it.
All the evidence I've seen suggests that the programs were explicitly designed to stay within the bounds of the law (as it exists now, not as technologists wish it were). So how does that undermine the government's credibility with regards to the rule of law?

We could very well have a case come down in the future that pulls a Roe v. Wade on electronic privacy and reads a broad protection of communications privacy into the Constitution. It would be an act of legislating by judicial fiat, but sometimes that is justified to address gaps in the Constitution. Maybe that would be a good thing. But in the meantime, it's hard for me to take seriously the idea that the government's dedication to the rule of law is undermined by a set of programs that seem to be explicitly designed to stay within the bounds of the law as it exists today.
Given that the only scrutiny they're ever subject to is public opinion in an occasional news-cycle-long burst, one would have to be pretty gullible to assume these guidelines imply any operational restrictions whatsoever. If no better excuse could be found, I'm sure this one would be trotted out to justify indefinitely storing even plain-text email - "in case of stenography".
I would like to say that the easiest way for me to learn lua really fast was to build games with Corona using lua.

Having a great tool that gives great feedback right away makes learning a language more fun IMO.
Let's continue with simple thoughts, shall we. Presumably before donating to the campaign you would have determined that it met your requirements. If your requirements included a minimum level of device coverage then you would have withheld your support.

If you did not donate to the campaign then why should the developer be criticized for not meeting your requirements? They don't owe you anything. Including meeting your expectations.

Added: If they left a need on the table then take it and run with it.
Not every musician wants to tour (often a very expensive venture), and even those who do can't cover 100% of the globe. Further there are so many streaming options now that actual purchases are becoming somewhat of a relic.

It is incredibly cheap to dictate the business models of others. Are you a software developer? How about you do that for free then and maybe you can do like training classes or something and you can make all of your money on that. I hear that's where the programming economy is going.
256-bit RSA, eh?
Can Agile Work with Geographically Dispersed Teams? Yes it can.
I can rationalize a hundred reasons to steal when everyone else does it.
Definitely give this a try! I just watched the first few minutes of your sitcom and it is already better than many sitcoms (and all shows for that matter) that I've seen. Wonderful job!
A scripting language rosetta stone.

Here's one

http://www.lurklurk.org/rosetta.html
I know, that's why I said "country". Was hoping to avoid the technically correct annotation and it would simply lengthen my comment, but then I should have remembered this is HN. :)

I'll put it this way; can we all admit that the fact that Hong Kong must defer to the Communist government in Beijing was not accidental on Snowden's part?
Sweet good work :)
Thanks, it may even be that a salt master is lightweight worth configuring. But I should note there's a difference between "can run" and "intended to run."

It's as much a semantic thing as a technical thing. Instead of thinking about an unconfigured node as a "minion" awaiting orders and provisions from central command, I prefer to think of a node like a stem cell, fully capable of differentiating itself based on signals that it receives. You need a way to update the DNA and a way to send the signals, that's it.

This may seem like a meaningless difference, since there is still value in centralized services (package repositories, security, reporting, monitoring). But it's still a subtly different focus and over time yields different results.

For my part I think the distributed, organic "stem cell" way of thinking will win out over "master/minion" in the long run.
The title is misleading: the city wants to distribute around 2000 linux CDs at events -- that's hardly making it a norm.
As an avid reader of Mesa3D and a user of GL 3.3 core, I can say that much cruft was removed in so far as it doesn't resemble a modern GPU (e.g. fixed function pipeline), OpenGL still has plenty of warts to bitch about.

The GL 3.3 samplers, e.g., are great. It does not require you to bind a sampler object in order to change the properties of it. However, the rest of the GL objects follow bind-change-unbind and a lot of implicit state which makes writing OpenGL libraries that can be reused highly weird because you never know what state some moron left the GL machine in.

Now GL 3.3+ is in an interesting position. They've got old functions that operate in a specific bind-change-unbind and new function that operate directly. So not only has the API not yet been fully "modernized", it's in the halfway state and it looks like it won't be pushed in one direction or the other -- just stuck in limbo for something like 3-4 revisions.

So I guess what I'm saying is, until the inconsistencies are ironed out, OpenGL still has some cruft that directly affects even the most modern GL 4.x programs.
A can apply to anything, like car wash or cinema. B is limited to websites.

Not that this patent makes sense even then, but B is much more limited.
"Immutable Server" seems like an oxymoron.

Frequent refreshes are great, but your system is only doing something useful once it has "mutated" (i.e. accepted external data to operate on).

The tradeoff system designers have to make is frequency of refreshes vs the cost of transferring interesting data to that server.

Seems like your organization has just coined a new synonym for "gold master"
You can use an encoded target=frame to pass it down as many levels as you want (encode the ampersand and the equals sign, and of course the percent sign for things that arent at the immediate child level). The '90s sucked for web dev, but there was almost always a (scary and hackish) way.
I just watched someone turn down one of these breakout companies because Microsoft offered him $30k per year more in salary—that was a terrible decision. He will not build interesting things and may not work with smart people.

Interesting things....like making people click on ads? Microsoft products are used by billions of people worldwide and by virtually every Fortune () company. And then we have Microsoft Research, love or hate Microsoft as company all you want but Microsoft Research is top notch. Quite a few smart people there http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Research. Maybe not as smart as Sam Altman (the OP) but smart nonetheless.
Kendo ui goes angular
Open Letter to the NY Post: Snowden is a Hero, Not a Traitor
Yes, he's wrong. The logic doesn't work. Supposed human rights abuses in the US don't actually have much to do with abuses in Russia; there's little the US could have done to affect the outcome for Pussy Riot. If the conditions aren't somehow causally related, then they're independent, and the onus isn't on Snowden to account for every independent human rights abuse in the world.

I've actually been more aggravated by this argument coming from the "other side". When it was announced that Snowden was heading for Ecuador, Human Rights Watch (among others) began posting to Twitter about Ecuador's terrible record with press freedom (shortened: there is freedom of the press in Ecuador as long as the press isn't criticizing the Correa administration). People immediate set about slamming HRW for drawing attention to Ecuador's problems without accounting for every problem in the US.

Same problem: if Ecuador is jailing journalists, seizing their property, or even torturing and killing them --- all things alleged by human rights groups about Ecuador --- that's a problem regardless of what the US is doing.

Similarly, if the NSA is unlawfully stretching the FISA process to surveil Americans, that's something worth publicizing no matter how many journalists Russia and China kill.

I have a lot of the same problems with the Snowden story that you do, but I was disheartened to read that Carney had made that argument today.
I've been wondering what was Medium's secret sauce for hitting the HN homepage so often (a part from a lot of good content). I guess multiple stabs per story helps ...
Product Management Fortune Cookie: Once the arguing begins, all is lost.
What I like is that writing like dhh has done is a good example of how to brag without appearing to brag.

You wrap the bragging around a larger point which acts like the red herring to distract from the bragging. So you get to mention your "fastest and most reliable car, the best-prepared team, and two of the fastest team mates in the business" appearing almost sheepish and incidental.

Or here is another of the same, saying something like this while making a point about anything:

"This experience has been a painful realization of everything that Alfie Kohn wrote about in Punished by Rewards and a reminder of the wisdom of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow."

I have no clue who that is. But it sounds impressive which most things you have never heard of tend to do.
>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

Failed how? They have a business model that pays the artists a reasonable amount of money, while at the same time making a profit for the radio station.
Abandoned island in the middle of NYC
These numbers are weird, I had a completely different experience. I have 440,000 plays on Spotify of songs from my album, and I've made $2420 off of that.
Lets assume each AM/FM broadcast went out to 10,000 people. If we do the math, we find that it is equal to the rate of $7 per million plays:

$1373.78 / (18797 * 10000) * 1000000 = $7.31

Now lets do the math for Pandora:

$ 16.89 / 1159000 * 1 000 000 = $14.57

So this writer is ACTUALLY COMPLAINING that Pandora merely pays DOUBLE the royalty rate of terrestrial radio.
I wish this had a primary call to action - linking to something like https://stopwatching.us/

and a secondary call to action - how you too can add this button.

As is, I wouldn't add it to my website.
> Your reasons for continuing are optimistic and perhaps privileged.

Without a doubt - and I would remove the "perhaps". I am incredibly lucky to have been born in the time and place that I was, with the mind and body that I have. Ensuring the long-term survival of humanity, I believe, is the most important but most difficult and demanding goal a person can have, and only the wealthiest in the world would even attempt it. And indeed: if there's any worthy cause for the wealthy, it's this.

Consider a world where poverty, cancer, child-abuse, government abuses are totally eliminated. Now a comet strikes Earth and wipes out all life larger than an insect from the surface of the planet. Would that not be a bitter irony?
What does deserving compensation have to do with whether it's information or not? People who provide information often ask for compensation.

You're arguing for the existence of a soul.