skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might be sufficient for a first draft but it's also a great illustration of a lazy cliche that I'm seeing a lot—especially in this newly invigorated field, feed readers.

This is the sort of app that leads to minimalist-style marketing. '...One simple thing: read'. The current crop of online text editors has a similar impulse: 'The app for people who just want to write.' What these apps' creators mean is that their apps strip down the experience to the bare essentials of the activity, and don't throw a lot of extraneous bullshit in your face when you're trying to get your reading/writing/weather-checking done.

Which misses the mark a little bit. If your interface is simply a recapitulation of the received wisdom around feed reading, or text editing—if your app looks like what you'd get if you took all the feed readers that have been made and incorporated only those features that occur in all of them—then you haven't achieved minimalism. You've achieved superfluousness—the very thing you were trying to avoid!

Minimalism, as we should all know by now, isn't simply not including features. It's putting a lot of hard work into eliding the cognitive load around the accomplishment of a specific task. The text editing web app that sets my world on fire won't be another Markdown-enabled text box that lets me go to full screen, it's going to be a Markdown-enabled text box that understands my intention and fulfills it in ways that I, not being a brilliant application designer, have not yet imagined.

At the very least, if you can't or won't tout a new, whiz-bang feature, get me excited about what it is that you've cut away, what you've devised how to do without, to really deliver on the promise of simplicity (that is, simplicity of use—not design or construction) and essentialism. On the other hand, the promise of a wide range of features to come, many ideas to be implemented, seems to work directly against the header of this article. One's audience should not be, I believe, people who want one simple thing now and a bunch of neat gizmos later.
I know someone from jersey who was approached about investing in the island back then. I thought it sounded pretty cool. He said "except that's where all the escapees from Rikers wash up."

I couldn't tell if he was joking.
Yes it is. Among other things.
I'd say they have competence rather than talent. People have pretty low expectations of a mainstream op/dance song, so once you've got a decent hook writing the producing the rest of the track is a by-the-numbers exercise. Bear in mind that the talentless frontman is also backed by a huge marketing budget, whereas the average self-promoting producer has little or none - most labels don't have any significant budget for promotions.
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C&D notices are, in theory, courtesies and don't usually include evidence. If you aren't doing what the C&D says that the person issuing thinks you might be doing, then you have nothing to cease or desist.

The goal isn't to convince you of the facts of your action (it may be, in part, to convince you of the impact of the relevant law), so there is no purpose to include evidence.

If they decide to file a lawsuit, then evidence will become an issue.
I only know it is cheaper than most of the USA companies. Prices are not listed at the moment because we see no reasons to do it.

If you are a potential client and rate can seem high, but total price will be lower than you expect - we need to discuss it.

If you are a potential client and your budget is strictly limited we would be happy to discuss if there is anything we can do about it (dumping rates is not an option though).

If you are not a potential client - there is no reason to expose rates publicly for you.

IMO.
http://www.theworld.org/2012/11/the-history-of-hashima-the-i...
As someone who grew up in the southern half of the U.S.: a) you're wrong, b) you're really not helping.

Judging the entire region by the loudmouths just gives them an even louder voice than they had. There are plenty of great people in the south, maybe if you'd shut up with your generalizations and stereotypes they'd engage the rest of the world and drown out the bigots.
With channel id, it would need to share the state even as laptops move across networks.
It's not apples-to-apples. The Sirius XM and radio play counts are per broadcast. Pandoras are per listener.

Let's look at Sirius. Sirius has ~20M subscribers. He got paid $181.94 for 179 broadcasts, or $1.02 each. Well, he's only making more per listen if it reaches less than 0.3% of those subscribers (60K). Otherwise the Pandora model actually pays him more.

Pandora: $16.89 / 1M listens = 0.0017 cents

Sirius XM: $1.02 per broadcast / 60K listens = 0.0017 cents

If you get more listeners on Sirius, that per-listen payout goes down. With the Pandora model it scales proportionately.

He just has to keep in mind that Pandora is much smaller than radio right now and that's why the absolute payout is small. It's confusing for musicians when they see big numbers like One Million I guess. ;-)
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A better test is to use something like iperf to see what the underlying TCP limits are like: in the case of something like SMB or AFP, it can be particularly confusing if you haven't adequately accounted for buffering and async writes – I've seen copies which “completed” considerably before the network traffic stopped.

If it is window scaling, adding the following to /etc/sysctl.conf should make a considerable difference by bumping the limits up to values appropriate for >100Mb connections:

net.inet.tcp.sendspace=262144
net.inet.tcp.recvspace=262144
> You couldn't say the same thing about the information Manning dumped, by the way

How far along the "normal to crazy conspiracy theory" line would it be to question whether, if people like Manning and Snowden can so easily leak this information, couldn't China already have got it themselves? I mean, if spying had reached that level... would we know about it?
Here's an article, about the shutdown, interviewing co-founder Matt Gray.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/ca...
Because perfection is the enemy of the "good enough," and iPhone + Android covers an enormous share of the market. Should they support Lynx on SunOS 5, too? No? Why? Because a vanishingly small number of people use that platform.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Brother_Island,_East_Riv...

It's now a bird sanctuary, and it looks like it's illegal to be there.
Then this is nothing more than an advertisement. Flagged.
Certainly looks nice. I'm primarily curious as to whether there'll be mobile version (whether app or webapp). I couldn't see anything about it in the post or on the site.

$36/year might be a touch too much at this point, but if with a mobile app, I'd definitely be willing to pay it.
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Was about to write the same thing, in addition you probably need to increase:

net.inet.tcp.win_scale_factor

To something higher than the default of 3, 5-8 should work.
I've been diagnosed with cyclothymia as well and I had always assumed that this feeling was part of it. I want to be alone but, as the same time, I don't want to be lonely. It's a weird thing and something of a paradox.
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Does this service provide an emulated Google Reader API endpoint so I can point client programs at it (like iOS's Reeder)?
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The PS3 also has FreeBSD onboard (they call their version CellOS or something), so this is not hugely surprising.
The problem in Manning's case wasn't China.
OT: Give credit to Pandora to provide the fodder for Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason to finally agree on something :)
> Then this is nothing more than an advertisement

does "$150/hr" make any difference to you?
To expand on this a little, 256-bit RSA is easily crackable, since there are good algorithms for integer factorization. You need a significant increase in key length to get equivalent security to symmetric keys: Wikipedia claims 3072-bit RSA ~ 128-bit symmetric, 15360-bit RSA ~ 256-bit symmetric. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_size#Asymmetric_algorithm_...
It's not 'elderly', but it is 'second half of life'
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You are simply wrong.

Microsoft has been rather cagey about what exactly falls under the Metro and/or Modern Interface rubric. But whatever-you-call the Windows 8 interface, it is surely more than a theme in the sense that it is quite difficult to remove for the average user and also in the sense that it is a GUI concept and guideline-set rather a modular set of bit-maps and such that thing-actually-called-"themes" involve (on Wordpress or Windows 95 or whatever). I'm also not disappointed 'cause I had no hope for this interface.

The idea that Windows needs to "transition" to the tablet or whatever is something I and apparently most users would take issue with. But even the pure windows absent absent the mud of all the "transition" efforts has been a failure so the question isn't that relevant.
I apologize, I thought it was implicit this is just about wind patterns.
“I’m an ambitious 19 year old, what should I do?”

This is an interesting question, in my experience: The sets of "most ambitious people I know" and "people who describe themselves as ambitious" seem to be entirely disjoint. The most ambitious people I know just go out and do things, rather than sitting around thinking (and talking) about how ambitious they are.

This may be a cultural thing -- self-describing as "ambitious" is the sort of thing which I find tends to happen thanks to high school career preparation programs (along with "organized", "reliable", and "good with people"), and it's entirely possible that those school programs are subtly different in the US than in Canada. However, I can't shake the feeling that there's a kernel of truth here.
Done: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5935959
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I'll start believing in royalties when I start thinking it makes sense to pay an engineer for every car that crosses a bridge he designed for his life + 20 years or to pay the architect 10 cents every time I open my front door.

Pink Floyd can sob 'till the cows come home, but it's not going to make me believe that <del>he's</del> they're entitled to money for something <del>he's</del> they've already done.
>I thought that was his point. He's super successful but still not happy, and it seems to me like this was part of him working through that. I mean, the whole tone of the article seemed, to me, seemed to say "gee, it seems like I am pretty ungrateful, and this is a problem."

I think you might be right but he certainly could have been more clear.

Hard to differentiate "I'm so rich and successful I have problems you can't even understand. First World Problems."

vs

"What's wrong with my mentality that I can't enjoy coming in 2nd place in a race I've loved my whole life and only dreamed about competing in at a high level."
It's vaguely beautiful ..
Code needs major cleanup. As a start encapsulate the code into a Module Pattern and stop chaining variables to the global prototype. Finally as mentioned here, why would anyone be placing links to a untrusted 3rd party JS code on their site?
Is it possible to replace the FN and CTRL key on a Macbook?

It would drive me nuts having it in the wrong order.
>There's a long path-not-taken on housing. Most things in our society have gotten a lot cheaper per unit service in the past hundred years or so, including many entirely new categories of services. Housing has stubbornly resisted change, with the result that an ever-larger portion of our culture's capital is tied up in providing housing. And housing hasn't gotten any more useful, either.

Yeah... but a lot of that is we don't /want/ housing to get cheaper. Most voters will vote to keep housing more expensive.
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Why do you assume that a Job Guarantee would mean the creation of "dig a hole, fill it back in" jobs?

Out in the real world, there is a wealth of useful things that could be done, especially at the local level but also in non-profits, but that are currently not being done because of a "lack of money".

Just put one and one together.
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Well, a lot of discussions in the last few months have top comment which a) was made early and b) disputes some minor technical point in the original article, while not being relevant to discussion.

Maybe making younger low scored/recently upvoted comments sink even slower could fix that?

In the meantime I use Chrome extension to fold those.
My bad, I took your comment at word value rather than big picture. I didn't follow a huge amount of what Manning leaked, who were you referring to with "You couldn't say the same thing about the information Manning dumped, by the way"?
LOL, I was just thinking the same thing. Considering what broke them up, it wouldn't be surprising if Waters composed the whole thing.
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Cornell is as much a NYC school as Stanford is a Pacific Grove school.

Instead of investing in making existing infrastructure better, Bloomberg decided to start from scratch. From the outside this seemed as much a poke-in-the-eye to the existing schools as it was a gift to the devil-you-don't-know Cornell.

Stanford probably had a good chance to win it but wisely decided not to dilute their brand with a campus they couldn't guarantee would be as good as their first.
> Every TV show, magazine or newspaper you liked, watched or read is the result of advertising.

Unless you like/watch/read (for example) TV shows on premium cable, Consumer Reports, etc.
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We're planning to add a webapp for mobile very soon, right after we fix the issues that invariably will pop up from the launch. We'll be avoiding native apps for now. Offline reading is also on our plans, if that's important for you.
It's a pretty touch choice for artists, I bet: Make nothing or make next to nothing.

The old days aren't coming back. Your unloyal customers will steal your product if you don't sell it cheaply enough for their liking.

Subsequently, you either have the choice of trying to make money on your loyal customers only or changing your product. You could try stopping your unloyal customers from stealing from you from some means, but that has not been an avenue that has a high return since it tends to also involve treating your loyal customers like unloyal customers.
I'm not a lawyer, but Google is doing the same and many other companies too. They never get sued, Google even caches your entire site without asking explicitly. The archive.org Project even copies to whole internet and luckily get's away with it.

Other than that, I'm avid when it comes to Ontologic, Semantic, Neurologic or Stochastic systems and would like to tell you that simply using Semantics wil not lead to a working solution.
I don't know why this necessitates the removal of supernodes though, because it has always been the case that desktop clients could disable supernode functionality with a checkbox option. Why would it ever be enabled (or even an option) on a mobile client? Or is the issue simply that the majority of clients have become non-supernode-capable and it became an issue? I wish he would have went into more detail on this because at first glance the explanation is not sufficient to justify the change.
Not yet, but we wouldn't be opposed to implement it if there's enough demand. It may take a while though, as we have other priorities atm.
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The #1 feature of Beats is letting the other kids know you aren't poor.
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Except artists make more now than they ever have...
It's kind of interesting that if the supplier of the good pandora was pushing was anything but an artist or musician, we'd be totally on their side for trying to get a fair price the goods they're providing. However, since the supplier is an artist or musician, they're the bad guys for wanting a fair price for what they produce.
I think it's worth pointing out that Anand did a good piece on this, with some more details into his methodology:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7085/the-2013-macbook-air-revi...

Anandtech has some great reviews --- I recommend them to anyone that has ever fallen into the trap of reading a CNET review, product a product, and then realizing it falls short of expectations. That, and I also recommend them to anyone interested in diving into some of the more technical details of processor architecture and benchmarking, screen diagnostics, and more detailed write-ups on device performance.
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Ask HN: How often do you work from home?
Also, what percentage of people from your team take the option of working from home? How often in a week do you utilize this option? Do you plan to work from home in advance or do you take this option only if there is a need (personal work, attending kids etc.)?
Probably because afp or cifs are going to be the situation that ordinary people experience a WLAN bottleneck?

The speed of RTSP over 802.11ac would be relevant if you are giving a keynote address in your living room that needs to be streamed to the hundreds of interested participants in the kitchen.
Pink Floyd is the big guy trying to stand out for the little ones who get trampled on every day, and have no voice whatsoever. I doubt David could care less about those royalties. He has his own band and already has made a lot of money from PF.
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In music the producer traditionally supervises the engineers and to some extent the artist. The producer explains what he/she wants, the engineers just implement it.

For example, artist comes in with guitar, a chord progression, and a song. Producers says 'let's plug your guitar in a Marshall Amp and mike the cab, then we'll double-track that with the direct signal.' Engineers goes and sets everything up, and at most makes suggestions on what sort of microphone to use or that this configuration sounds especially good with a bit of room sound, and takes care of setting up the mixing desk to avoid distortion on the recording and phasing between the direct and amplified signals.

Most producers start out as engineers rather than musicians. Their specialty is tone and mixing, which also feeds into song structure and arrangement.
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This reminds me of Stephen Fry's recent post about depression[1]. Many of the reactions to DHH's post seem to focus on his social and financial status (e.g. "first world rich boy problems"), as if to say his success means he has no right to feel any negative emotions. This is something that troubled Stephen deeply, and was likely a significant barrier to his seeking help.

It may be difficult for us to relate to his particular situation, but if we look for the lesson he's trying to teach and apply it to our own lives, even superficially, we may learn something of value.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5933557
HackerNews knows best about Ambition and 19 yr olds
Took me a while to realize that this was for Pandora...
http://akvo.org/ once contacted me about a job via hn - you might want to contact them.

(sorry for late reply; just noticed this)
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Upvoted you, but disagree with the concept of artist as curator. That's just marketing, and IMHO highly destructive to art.
So we should stop saying X country should stop violating it's citizen’s civil rights with torture, imprisonment for protesting etc? The US (and the rest of us) may need to start keeping a lot quieter then...
Didn't the US invade Iraq in the 90s because they were internally committing genocide? But now what ever happens in your border is all ok?

Sceptical
I'm not sure what you're arguing against here. Is it a problem that he spent thousands on music? In the last 7 years I've spend circa $6,000 on one service alone (emusic). I used to spend $500+ per month on vinyl. Hell, I even steal it sometimes too.

I know that the money doesn't all go to the artists - what would you have me (or the GP) do instead, not pay for any of it?
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> America is the A+ student, who volunteers at the homeless shelter and teaches at-risk kids how to read.

Do you really see the US this way, honestly? A country that's basically been terrorizing other countries almost non-stop since the 50's/60's. The last "A+" assignment the US had was World War II. There have been quite a lot of squirrels getting shot ever since.

I find the discussion about slavery to be pretty pointless too, mostly because all it accomplishes is to take people's attention away from the pretty obvious truth that the US has been 'raping and pillaging' almost constantly for half of the last century. To borrow your high school (I guess?) analogy: America is the former A+ student that helped (greatly) to bring down the high school bully, then slowly started transforming into that bully, only with less anti-semitism and quite a bit more islamophobia.
You almost had me thinking Pink Floyd was a public company..
Streaming services like Pandora and Spotify are simultaneously destroying the existing industry, not paying artists, losing money hand over fist, and tricking consumers into thinking they are actually supporting content creators. It's lose/lose/lose and the worst scenario across the board.

I thing Spotify is far, far worse than piracy because with piracy at least people know the artists aren't making in money. People somehow believe that listening to a couple of brief ads per hour, or paying a whopping $10 a month, is enough to receive unlimited access to all music ever created. What a disaster.
How would is life play-out if he went back to the US, and how will it play out if he gets asylum somewhere like Ecuador? In the former would he die in prison, or would he some day be released, be it in a few years or many years? What precedents are there that span the long-term (i.e. more than Manning)? And if he gets asylum... in a year can he just live a quiet life, in a foreign country? Or will he constantly be looking over his shoulder, unable to ever return home, regretting his decision not to face the US legal system?
Defeatism gets us nowhere, though.
Yeah... when I read it, the tone I got was the second one. It sounds like you read it as the first one.
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Pretty sure 4'th amendment takes precedent over whatever other "law" he broke.
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But all of these entities would seem to have the common interest of maximizing their revenues from royalties. So why shouldn't they have the right to authorize one party (perhaps the label) to negotiate on their behalf?

Also, it's becoming increasingly easy for musicians to digitally produce their own MP3s, so if there's no label or studio involved and the musicians wrote their own lyrics, it would seem to be even easier for them to negotiate on their own behalf.