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I absolutely agree with you but I think keeping it important here is a part of keeping it in the consciousness of people here who have the power to take action. This is an absolutely red alert level problem where even the insane powers provided by the USA PATRIOT ACT are being superceded. A million conspiracy theorists were 100% correct about domestic spying and people who didn't want to believe that the 4th amendment could be so sidestepped were wrong.

At the very least people can join and support the EFF, ACLU, and other orgs making real movement. The US government is hoping this will die down quickly. I'm just saying it shouldn't.
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For this to be a fair comparison shouldn't they compare the 1 million Pandora streams to (18797 radio plays * number of listeners each time)?
> you probably have good reason to want any number of governments,

> foreign competitors, and individuals from knowing what you are

> doing or (at the least) your financial status.

...and you should therefore ignore PFS in https, and use something that encrypts your data so that only the recipient can read it, and not someone in the middle like google, microsoft or facebook.
>But we have no idea, because they classify everything, including how they interpret the existing laws.

We do have an idea, let's label it 'Clapperspeak'. "Common accepted best practices of espionage trade craft" gives state sanctioned CLASSIFIED license to lie, cheat, steal, bear false witness, interpret 12 ways to Sunday, anything and everything.
You cannot opt-out of Pandora.
The Kickstarter was specifically for an Android app.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/escapeapps/opening-this-...
"I am so awesome that when I don't get what I want it hurts because I'm used to getting what I want."

I have tried in sports and in other areas of life to win and be awesome and it does sting when you come up just short. I've failed so much that it's easier for me to accept it now. What other choice do I have? Get debilitatingly bitter over things? That's not productive.

The way he writes about it doesn't sound right to me. Did he write one big long humblebrag?
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Pandora and Spotify can do a lot more for bands by helping them plan tours, sell tickets to shows, and connect with fans. They could also help venues book and promote acts with known local followings.

There are hundreds of thousands of people who heard that song, like that type of music, and would consider attending a show and spending real money to get in. They might buy a tshirt too. Pandora could notify listeners when the shows come up, and help bands plan their tours to towns with more fans.

It could be real revenue for the bands, and for Pandora.

EDIT: Doesn't even mean a UI change, could be done with ad retargeting, or any performance marketing mechanism.
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Is there a way to know how that increased sales of the song, assuming there was an easy and immediate way for listeners to do so?
I don't disagree, but Radar in fact, cites it as one good test for whether something is a non-patentable abstract idea.
Repeatedly.
Looking at the paper it seems the only required step for Google to fix this issue is to enable download protection by default. With download protection Chrome and IE10 are essentially the same.

For me I will continue to only enable javascript on trusted domains.
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I'd go further. Mass indiscriminate upvoting actually undermines the cause, because instead of encouraging HN members to participate in discussions on secure communications and the responsibilities of tech companies which people posting here are particularly well placed to act on, people are debating the intricacies of extradition treaties, speculating about whether there's a connection with Moodys' downgrade of Hong Kong's credit rating or upvoting false rumours about Twitter blocks.

The effect of such a deluge of trivia on many people is to intentionally avoid the whole topic. It's like ad blindness.
Obama: "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"

There seems to be a lot of double speak about THE LAW as being something universal. This seems to me to be mostly propaganda directed at Americans since foreign governments certainly understand the nuances of treaties, etc. I don't want to be too critical but it seems like the USA being one of the few countries to not accept the world court is ironic.
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/06/youtubes-smarter-vi...

Rather than using a single HTTP request to pull a video stream, your player makes (hopefully intelligent) HTTP requests as needed to pull pieces of potentially multiple streams of different bitrates.
From Schneier in "Applied Cryptography" (1996):

"Longer key lengths are better, but only up to a point. AES will have 128-bit, 192-bit, and 256-bit key lengths. This is far longer than needed for the foreseeable future. In fact, we cannot even imagine a world where 256-bit brute force searches are possible. It requires some fundamental breakthroughs in physics and our understanding of the universe.

One of the consequences of the second law of thermodynamics is that a certain amount of energy is necessary to represent information. To record a single bit by changing the state of a system requires an amount of energy no less than kT, where T is the absolute temperature of the system and k is the Boltzman constant. (Stick with me; the physics lesson is almost over.)

Given that k = 1.38 × 10^−16 erg/K, and that the ambient temperature of the universe is 3.2 Kelvin, an ideal computer running at 3.2 K would consume 4.4 × 10−16 ergs every time it set or cleared a bit. To run a computer any colder than the cosmic background radiation would require extra energy to run a heat pump.

Now, the annual energy output of our sun is about 1.21 × 10^41 ergs. This is enough to power about 2.7 × 10^56 single bit changes on our ideal computer; enough state changes to put a 187-bit counter through all its values. If we built a Dyson sphere around the sun and captured all its energy for 32 years, without any loss, we could power a computer to count up to 2^192. Of course, it wouldn't have the energy left over to perform any useful calculations with this counter.

But that's just one star, and a measly one at that. A typical supernova releases something like 1^051 ergs. (About a hundred times as much energy would be released in the form of neutrinos, but let them go for now.) If all of this energy could be channeled into a single orgy of computation, a 219-bit counter could be cycled through all of its states.

These numbers have nothing to do with the technology of the devices; they are the maximums that thermodynamics will allow. And they strongly imply that brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space."
In the comments to the Sean Parker / Big Sur Wedding story that was posted recently, at least one person described the California Coastal Commission as a bunch of thugs. It's largely thanks to the CCC enforcing easement requirements on beach front homeowners, including some very powerful people, that there is any public access at all in places like Malibu.
I hate the implications, but you're right.

I reached this enlightenment a few years ago after visiting the coastline around Nice and Cannes. It was clear where Malibu was going, eventually. I'm not saying it will be the same, but close enough.
I believe it was the one required here: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~aho/cs3261/
Because the mathematics is basically distilled, formalized art of precise thinking. It's the art of manipulating and morphing mental models. It's as much about numbers as astronomy is about telescopes ;).
Two notes:

(1) While Google uses forward-security on their HTTPS connections, I've not yet seen evidence either way as to whether the SMTP-TLS connections (relaying email to other domains) use forward-security. (The report at checktls.com mentions only the cipher "RC4-SHA", not the key-exchange mechanism.)

(2) If one side of the connection chooses to retain its session keys, or chooses session keys in a poor/predictable manner, or leaks information about session keys via a side-channel (either by mistake or intent), then the forward-security could be destroyed, and in a very subtle/undetectable way.

(This could be a cheap and sly way to grant visibility to a third-party: adopt forward-security outwardly, but ensure your session keys only look random to people who don't know the bug/secret-seed-shared-with-the-third-party.)
> I've frequently seen homeless camping underneath those houses on stilts.

I'm with you on the trash -- come down to Hermosa on the morning of July 5! -- but this is a lame excuse to prevent beach access. I'm all for homeless people camping out beneath David Geffen's infinity pool. Maybe complaints coming from somebody of his stature would finally get the city to deal with this problem in a humane and effective way, instead of just sweeping it under the rug as they have for decades.
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.
It is "poison" insofar as success often leads to the particular kind ambition increasing in dosage until toxicity is achieved. What is your prescription? If one fails, also increase the dosage.

You are supporting the author's point.

Ambition is simply a tool for achieving goals, thus it cannot be inherently good or bad. It is the worthiness and nature of the goals which define whether a particular tool is good or bad. For example, I would argue the "constant pursuit of perfection" in child-rearing is bad approximately always.
If the public land is the land between hightide and the water, shouldn't the public land be underwater during hightide by definition?
Can they make this app also tell you when valet parking companies are falsely putting cones and signs in front of parking meters, etc? This happens in every area of Santa Monica, Venice, LA, etc. They make it look like several parking spots are legally blocked from 6pm to 2am for their valet service, when in fact they are not. It's a way bigger problem than this beach thing, but seems like it would rely on similar technology.
You should try newsbeuter.
"Are we going to organize ever and reverse this trend? Probably not. We are all too busy trying to run businesses. You know who isn't busy? You know who has every incentive to spend every waking hour in Washington DC to make sure nothing changes? The patent trolls and the patent lawyers.
"

This is in fact, why I went to law school after getting my CS degree, and why i'm a patent lawyer. Because I hope that some day, maybe there will be more of us than there are of them.

However, it would be a great start if, rather than rail against this stuff on the internet, people actually showed up to do something about it when push came to shove.
Instead, they complain that they shouldn't have to, and the problem should simply solve itself, and then go back to burying their head in the sand.

Existing advocacy efforts by organizations (EFF, etc) and companies (Google, etc) would be enhanced 100x if they could get even 100k people to give enough of a shit on a regular basis to write a congressman.
Well… if you live or grew up in in Europe Le Mans is definitely crème de la crème. They cover that shit live on TV. No one's making that up.
nope,that's the "we are better than everybody" complex.
+SiriusXM plays "commercials" on channels where clearchannel has an interest (KISS, etc.) Clear channel was an early investor in XM to insulate them from the threat of satellite radio vs FM networks (which they own a large share of)

+Streaming networks like Pandora and Spotify actually pay more per stream then SiriusXM does because satellite radio pays the Terrestrial (FM/AM) radio rates.

+The Math on this is confusing because a Terrestrial (FM/AM) station might pay $50 royalty to play a song but 200,000 people listened to it when it was broadcast.
Even if Moore's Law holds up that long, Second Law of Thermodynamics says you can't brute-force 256-bit keys[1].

However, it's entirely possible (though unlikely) that actual, significant progress will be made either in DLP or in attacking AES/RC4 -- at which case, yeah, that data is as good as clear.

[1]https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/09/the_doghouse_...
But that requires the greater cost/intrusiveness of an MITM, and could potentially be noticed as an unexpected change in the certificate. See for example the SSL Observatory project:

https://www.eff.org/observatory
I believe music is more than "information", when I buy an album, I'm not buying the sheet music but the recorded of someone more talented than myself performing that music.

How do you apply "information wants to be free" to music like this?
Music doesn't have the value it once did. End of story. Why are we dwelling on this? There isn't going to be a magic way to increase the value of music.
"I think it's hard to be appreciative of "the journey" in the startup world, or in work in general, when the reward disparities are so vast."

This statement captures the essential conflict that I have sought (and largely) resolved within myself.

The term "reward disparities" is the cancer that eats away at appreciating the journey. In my case it was just code for "winning" or "not winning". You won if you got the highest reward, if you did not get the highest reward you did not win. Letting go of 'winning' or 'losing' removes the reward disparities as an influence on enjoying the journey. That was essentially what dhh wrote, and what I resonate with. I'm much happier having realized that I was letting those disparities destroy my appreciation of those around me and the opportunities I got to participate in.
Do you know why the stock market has returned 7% on average? Or do you just think that, since it returned 7% on average in the past, it must do so in the future?

The U.S. has held a very privileged position in the world economy over the past century, which has fueled tremendous growth. You're basically betting that the U.S. continue to be a "growth" stock over the next 25 or 50 years, and continue to see huge gains in productivity and global competitiveness.

It's not a completely crazy idea, but it's not the sure bet you make it out to be, either.
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He didn't. Legally Pandora can play the song and pay rates set by the government.
I actually came here to comment on the same quote. It's quite sad, really, that my country has, with the revelations of a single person (and of course their response), completely lost all credibility to make statements regarding "the rule of law"...
Does played mean someone listened to it in entirety? Otherwise it doesn't say much about the quality of your song. That is similar to claiming you have a million users without talking about engagement.
It was an Elecsol 100Ah leisure battery. The equivalent would be http://midsummerenergy.co.uk/buy/Sealed-Batteries/PM-110.htm...

Other bits were a Morningstar SunSaver solar regulator SS10 and a Nasa Clipper BM1 Battery Monitor (unnecessary extravagence - don't bother!). I also added a couple of 12V fluorescent lights powered from the SS10 so I didn't need the inverter running just for light.

It's a pretty simple set up, the hardest part is making up the high current battery cables - the clamps, fuse holder and connector to the inverter are pretty substantial to handle 100A.

I mounted the panel on the roof of the Apex shed with simple aluminium brackets. The wiring is pretty simple (more complicated by the battery monitor which has a 100A shunt resistor in the negative lead to monitor the load current).

I uploaded a pictorial wiring diagram at http://i.imgur.com/UX4Y29o.jpg?1 for you.
> "Here’s an idea! Play two minutes of commercials and double your revenue!"

If they could actually sell two minutes of commercials, I'm pretty sure they would.

Expecting them to match the rates paid by massive existing media companies is essentially wishing the startups who finally got traction in this niche, back out of the picture and the entire market back to the business models and rate of technological progress that those massive existing players deem sufficiently non-threatening to their broadcast businesses.

I have sympathy for the author. I really do. But the problem ought not be simplified down to "Pandora should pay what Sirius pays".

(Though it makes me wonder what rates the larger tech companies are paying, now that they're making similar offerings.)
The most shocking revelation to me in this article is that Sirius XM plays 13 minutes of commercials per hour! I could have sworn one of their big selling points was that they're commerical-free.
I also have no problem with people building businesses around a civil service. However, this is a kickstarter campaign which seems to be trying to raise money for work that has already been done.

I put the exclamation point there because it is my outsider perspective that the data has already been researched and compiled by the California Coastal Commission. An iPhone application has even already been submitted to Apple and approved (that's my understanding, their kickstarter page has changed over the last few weeks). They are raising the money so that they can "release the iPhone app for free", instead of charging for it. That is the reason for my exclamation point -- to believe that the app would compile 30k worth of purchases may be disingenuous.
It's... um... information about the emotions of the artist?
However once you have software development and database administration separated, the DBAs generally need access to the database in a way that does not go through your tool / software development cycle / etc.

Why would this happen? Database changes should be treated just like any other code update.

Furthermore third party tools like this generally want your site to be offline during database migrations.

They do? Why?

Furthermore you have the headache of identifying the difference between data tables and metadata tables. That is, some tables contain data that gets modified on the fly during normal use. (eg user information) Other tables contain data that is really application configuration. (eg allowed statuses for something)

I don't see why this is a problem at all (or worth mentioning).

The difficulty lies in keeping them synchronized with what is in your repository.

This is why you use migrations/tools/etc for managing database updates.

And also in providing ways to copy user information to the private instances so that devs can reproduce production problems. (Doubly so when your production problem is a performance issue that requires a copy of production data to recreate.)

I'm not sure how this is related.

But the general story that databases provide on these issues does not match the simplicity and flexibility of having databases focus on providing a common data structure, and the application being stored elsewhere in your favorite source control system (eg git).

I have no idea why you wouldn't want the database change scripts/functions/schema to be stored in git, alongside the application code.
A good deal of encrypted material these days depends on the security of the private key, though -- e.g., HTTPS loses a good deal of security if the server's private key is known.

Given the reach of PRISM and related projects, and given that a lot of the internet was using 1024-bit RSA keys for HTTPS, it's a good question wondering how much of those private keys are still ... private.
Of course, there is no way for us to know whether or not yc archives a copy of the session keys... (Not that I think yc does that, but we're still talking a shared secret -- you need to trust both parties, if you want to trust forward secrecy...).
Are you suggesting a project like this isn't worthwhile unless it cater to "all" mobile devices as well as "people who don't own mobile devices?" This is the perfect as the enemy of the good in spades.

Honestly tho, by your standard, 100% of websites and apps are problematically inaccessible, because they don't cater to people with no net access & no phone. Demanding 100% coverage before a tool can be praised is silly.

Incidentally, is there any reason you're not filling in the gap here with... what, a mobile site & printed handbills, distributed throughout the city on a regular basis (if even that would meet your desire for accessibility)? :)
How do you explain that to people though?

It's simple enough to say "if you don't see the green padlock, don't enter your credit card number" but then what if the person sees the weaker symbol?

You could say "go ahead" in which case they will go ahead all of the time or you could say "only go ahead under these additional circumstances" , what would they be?
Being written down is not what makes something information, so I'm not sure why sheet music would be any more information than recorded music.
Maybe lots of people already know about it, but I'll just copy-paste this in here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7X7sZzSXYs

It's not an anti-dote (to loneliness and everything), it just genuinely helped me from time to time and I hope it will also help others.
It's a real problem. There is no viable funnel through which to convert Pandora streams into transactions except the "Buy" dropdown (which I'd guess very few people click on - Pandora is often playing in the background in another tab).

Daisy (Beats by Dre's "Spotify") is trying to do this by partnering with Topspin and we shall see what happens - I'm excited to check it out.

The fact is, all-you-can-eat streaming platforms will never scale to the amount where payouts for plays are significant if they continue with the freemium model. Artists need the ability to sell other products and experiences to those listeners. I'm, admittedly, biased towards the idea that artists need to seek new direct-to-fan revenue streams.

Here's a piece I wrote on Hypebot about this:
http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2013/01/music-subscription-se...
Dude, you say this like OpenGL isn't run by Khronos, in turn "at the mercy of a company".

CAD vendors were what fucked over OpenGL for a long time, and it was only the fourth-quarter ill-fated kick by 3dlabs that gave it a programmable shader pipeline, and in turn set back the API development by another half-decade at least.

Look, "open" is not some magical fucking pixie dust you sprinkle over an abortion of an API to make it breathe life and grow up and change the world. If it was, audio in Linux wouldn't be such a shitshow, and neither would X, and neither would any number of other open APIs that everyone hates.

I do agree with you, though: rest in peace, Silicon Graphics.

EDIT: Derp on 3dfx vs 3dlabs.
Is computer science the study of political figures of the past? No... but it is the study of validating X.
that flat fad is out in a year like every other fad before it. Metro already feels old. and wphones are clearly a commercial failure.