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> Life is not about sacrificing for the good of the collective.

Good heavens, is that what you heard? Sacrifice means giving something up; I'm talking about gaining something, in this case a goal that is actionable, useful, and very difficult to achieve. You are clearly free to pick that purpose for yourself (I hope you do), or pick another purpose, or none at all.

And we are both free to advocate for our choices in the hopes of inspiring others who, at least in my case, may not have thought about it in quite these terms. You clearly don't like the sound of my purpose, so why don't you share yours?
I'm over 20, and I've never heard of the author, group, song, or movie.

For another data point, I know plenty of people who had never heard of The Princess Bride, Firefly or Monty Python before me telling them.

There is no level of popularity which ensures universal familiarity. You should always assume ignorance is genuine. See also: http://xkcd.com/1053/
My point is that your conclusion that they pay DOUBLE the rate is entirely based on this number that you give no justification for. If your comment started with "Lets assume each AM/FM broadcast went out to 5,000 people," then the rates would be roughly the same. So yeah, you can assume that number is true, but what's the point.
The problem here isn't the low payout, it's the inability for bands like Cracker to "opt out" of having their music on the service.
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"For you civilians webcasting rates are “compulsory” rates. They are set by the government (crazy, right?). Further since they are compulsory royalties, artists can not “opt out” of a service like Pandora even if they think Pandora doesn’t pay them enough. The majority of songwriters have their rates set by the government, too, in the form of the ASCAP and BMI rate courts–a single judge gets to decide the fate of songwriters (technically not a “compulsory” but may as well be)."

This bothers me. Why should the government regulate payments for music? Why shouldn't a musician have the option of licensing his music to radio stations but not to Pandora? We in the U.S. claim to have a system based on free enterprise, but this is very far away from that.
It is at least possible that EV certs have seen limited uptake because people understand too much about them. After all, they are the same CA "sure you can trust us" scam that we've always had, except with more rent-seeking. Some users and/or site operators might have been influenced e.g. by EV certs' unsavory association with Comodo.
a brand new car information?

I thought I detected you heading in that direction. Yes, people do try to make that argument.

Sheet music is like an instruction manual. Follow the instructions, you can make something. I consider instructions to be information. Recorded music, on the other hand, is a performance. A performance is art, while sheet music describes art?

I don't have technical definitions, this is just how I see it.
No, he couldn’t have, he offers the image for free: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5934943
Seems kind of like a problem for everybody, not just the people not living there. Granted, the people living there can retreat to their homes while other people have to walk/drive home I guess, but it seems like basically a shitty deal for everyone. The only "defacto-private" thing in this situation is a shitty rock wall.
I love this - if every language could have something like this written up it would be amazing. It just about fits into my attention span!
I wonder if they might try to claim that this applies to ROT26. It would not be much more of a stretch than their other interpretations of the law...
"Snowden, the computer contractor who exposed details of secret U.S. surveillance programs, told Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa that it is "unlikely that I will have a fair trial or humane treatment" if handed over to U.S. officials to stand trial, according to a letter from Snowden read by Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino."[1]

That seems pretty clear to me.

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/24/politics/nsa-leak/index.html
Right, but it's good to point out the exceptions to the general rule that all beaches are accessible to the public. Especially in the context of Malibu where there are often wrong or misleading signs.
Your comment sounds reasonable to me. Maybe a good middle ground in the beginning would be to work for a startup? Or somehow reduce financial risk.
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I keep wondering if the advances in "flat design" are a side effect, coming more from the chance to rework existing interfaces, than the actual flatness. Like rewriting legacy code after you have a better understanding of how the code is, or will be, used.
I don't like the hero-worship of Snowden, but I can definitely understand why, when asking a big favor of a country, he would not say anything bad about them.
For someone on a PC. Mobile users have much more difficulty utilizing the generic web-based maps than the native, platform-optimized and integrated mapping application. There are ways to attempt to make it work in both directions, but it's extra complexity. For an app that is heavily location-centric and meant to help you find obscure walking paths while you're walking around the area, it's reasonable to have non-native support as a secondary goal.
Why do you seem bitter? They were cheap! :)
It's mortifying that this mixture of insult and irrelevance has so many upvotes. I know everyone's been worried about the amount of politics on the frontpage lately, but I'm much more worried about this comment. Political storms pass eventually, but comments like this rising to the top of HN threads is a sign of real decay.

Whatever you think of DHH, there is an important point in this article, and thanks to the people who upvoted this comment, the people talking about it are relegated to the bottom of the thread.
I know the headphones that Dr. Dre puts out are among the worst available on the market. I've also heard that the mobile audio they provide affords a barely noticeable difference.
Too bad ... it would have been hilarious to see them attempt to announce this now, in the current political climate and the brouhaha over NSA spying going on.
..."what the fuck right do I have to be lonely, unhappy or forlorn? I don’t have the right. But there again I don’t have the right not to have those feelings. Feelings are not something to which one does or does not have rights."

This is a great quote. Having been exposed to significant poverty and hardship growing up, I am often unnecessarily and overly harsh on celebrities and privileged people - this quote stopped me in my tracks.

Then I begin to think about the life/health that I have and start to feel like the jammy one.

Sorry Sir Stephen, wish I could help in some way.
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If you do the math, this just doesn't sounds that crazy. A streamed song on a radio just isn't worth that much, and there are many, many fingers in the pie here. Especially since he gets just 40% of the rights involved, and that's not the rights for the song ownership: this is just the cut for the songwriter - not the for the performers or the song owners.

I'm assuming he's getting the normal SoundExchange deal, but it's not 100% clear.

Sure, it's not very much, but what exactly was he expecting?
To be fair, your average new-grad / entry level job at MS is probably not going to be one of those positions building complex stuff, it's going to be "cog in the system" type of work. It's dubious whether you'll even get to interact with engineers that you might learn something from. There was a story recently about this, and is also corroborated by pretty much all of my friends who ended up there.

Basically, if you're at the point where you think you can do some architectural work and real decision making, you're likelier to be allowed to do that at a startup than at a large company.
I mustache you, how do you open your beer bottles?
You may be sick of hearing the complaint, but the real problem is that the complainers are misinformed.

Sounds like Pandora needs to put real pressure on getting those reports revised to be clearer. It's unwise to be hated by the industry that you depend upon.
"The location of the US fugitive is now a mystery"

Do we have solid confirmation that he was in Russia? He could've seeded different locations to different newspapers, and could've even bought different plane tickets, and under different names, to misdirect the US government. He's probably smart enough to do all that.

Either way, I fear that the outcome of the massive spying apparatus of US will be for every country to isolate "its own Internet" as much as possible from the "global Internet". They could all claim "national security", because US has proven that it's very easy to spy on and hack any country. That would be especially damaging to US' own economy, so maybe they will see reason before that happens.

A preferable outcome would be the rise of a much more secure fully decentralized and encrypted Internet where wiretapping is almost impossible, which means every country is a lot more "secure" from every enemy or even "ally".
I don't get it. Many of you are saying "Pandora pays a ton more than a radio station".

The song was played 1 millon times and he got $16.89.

How many times the song should be played to make a significant amount then? A billion times?
I think part of what drives the complaint is that a song being on Spotify is much more valuable to the listener than it being on the radio. There's a spectrum of value ranging from the radio at the bottom (you are subject to the whims of the DJ on when and where you hear the song), to Pandora (you still aren't in complete control, but you have a lot of influence), to Spotify (you are in complete control as long as the song remains on Spotify), to owning the song on an album or as a DRM-free download (you are in complete control forever).

I think since Spotify is so much closer to owning an album than it is to radio, many artists expect it to be closer in value to album sales than radio plays.

Not saying ignorance of the proper comparison isn't happening, just that it might not be the only reason.
Well, I do agree that independent events can be treated independently.

I think the one big thing I can't get around is the cognitive dissonance of wanting more of the 'rule of law' around things like FISA but then globe-hopping because the 'rule of law' has become inconvenient. Certainly where the law is not being followed that should be fixed, and good on Snowden for noting that. But how can it be true that the same judiciary that issues warrants under the 4th Amendment cannot be trusted to run a fair trial? If the judiciary is untrustworthy then adding warrants to more spots in the NSA cannot fix the issue. So is that what Snowden wants, or does he want to prevent the government from even having the ability to monitor communications, even with a warrant?

Similarly, if Snowden is such a patriot I can't believe that he has putting himself, his brain, and all the TS that he's carrying or has access to within 100 miles of Russia. He's potentially one $5 wrench away from spilling a lot of TS, voluntarily or otherwise, to people who are not as kind as Assange and Greenwald.

I just don't know what to think about him anymore, and I think that's what is bugging me more than anything.
(My point of view is that we would be better off without software patents. It would be hard to find a US patent lawyer or court who would agree.)

Justice Stevens wrangled four votes on the Supreme Court for that proposition as recently as 2010. If we could replace some of the pro-software patent majority (Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Alito) in the Bilsky decision, maybe Breyer could wrangle five votes someday.

Of course, the CAFC might just overrule the Supreme Court if that ever happens.

(You say the CAFC can't overrule the Supreme Court? Wrong-o! [0] Don't read the link unless you're in a profanity-safe environment; not because it contains profanity, but because you're likely to shout some.)

[0] http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2012/03/20/supreme-court-mayo-v-pr...
The laws of physics, as we currently understand them, describe a universe where it is mind-bogglingly difficult to spread life between the stars. There are literally no science fiction movies (although a few stories) that capture the level of this difficulty. We move through life thinking that some physics break-through is going to give us hyperdrives.

I don't think we'll ever get hyperdrives. If any sentient species invents them, then it will be possible to destroy stars with them. Indeed, I suspect that life is fairly common in the universe, and that countless intelligent species have arisen and died off without leaving their home-planets. The difficulty of the endeavor is like a gigantic challenge, a gauntlet thrown down by the universe that asks, can you do it?

Some people want to climb Everest to see if they can do it. I want to see if humanity can build self-sustaining colonies on other worlds. It just so happens that my Everest ensures that all of the hard work we do on health, justice, technology, etc doesn't die out with us.
Ah yes, eschew Microsoft, the company that has literally thousands of employees devoted purely to research (a number of whom have won Turing awards) to work for a startup which is more likely than not to be in the business of producing a Rails CRUD app. After all, you need to be surrounded by (people who call themselves) hackers.

My advice for ambitious 19 year olds: ask your parents for advice, because they likely know you better than anyone on the internet. (I say this as someone two years your senior)
The article mentions 23% reduction in speed for ECDHE-RSA vs RSA. Another example states between 15% and 27% reduction.
China's credit crunch has been brewing long before Snowden hit the scene. Just coincidence it's coming to a head now, nothing to do with Snowden.
I doubt it's even that - I used to use Last.fm for this, back when they offered that service, and I used it like... a radio! I.e., you leave it running as background music, and not necessarily bother turning it on/off everytime you leave the room or go shopping.
If you only hire in the Valley, you don’t have the best talent
Even state supreme courts seem to sometimes have trouble determining what "navigable" means.

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-218.pdf
Some helpful feedback:
Right now the service looks pretty vanilla, but I want to check out the music. There's already a barrier: a sign up wall.

Why am I going to to sign up? I don't see much motive to sign up when there's so many services that I can browse without having to login (bandcamp, soundcloud, iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Last.fm, Pandora, Slacker Radio, Songza... you get the idea).

Listeners should be put front and center as they are the main course, your service should appeal to the consumer so they'll actually make the platform viable for the musicians.

Right now I don't know what it is I'm signing for: be it a musician or listener. It could be the greatest service ever but from the page, I cannot tell. Give demos, show me something.
And I just discovered that I'm still a university computer science department system administrator: Every fiber of my being screamed, "Dear god, no! Use the Copy Center!"
This is a great point, actually. The Saudis are not very kind of their own people either, and if anything their Internet controls are just as strict (from what I've heard).
company on a breakout trajectory

I think he's talking about companies like Square now, Groupon a few years ago, Facebook a few years before that, Google a few years before that. $1B+ valuations, positive glowing aura, disproportionate talent attraction. The kind of company where you can tell almost anyone you work there and they say "Wow, what's that like?"
Every so often I get a mail server from Google that uses DHE outgoing, but most of the time it is RC4-SHA at 128 bits/128 bits.

There are plenty of other mail servers sending me mail though that are sending it over DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA.

I may go tighten up the ciphers I accept. Maybe if only given the option for PFS ciphers Google's mail servers will use them.
Huh? Which facts were wrong?

Yes, they're different laws. The WPA doesn't apply to DoD at all AFAIK, so the fact the point made above that contractors are exempt is irrelevant.

The law that covers the NSA is the ICWPA and it applies equally to contractors and employees.

As I said above, I agree it's not a real great law and I could understand not wanting to take advantage of it. But reporting things to the IG or Congress is how you blow the whistle on classified intelligence programs. That's the process. I can't imagine it being a good idea to allow any low-level contractor to blow the cover of a classified program because they have decided it's wrong or unconstitutional.
If you re-word it slightly to "How many of the people who listened to it through Pandora would (care to listen to your songs at all, if it wasn't for Pandora)" then it's more relevant, though not "the real question" to me. Though still kinda rudely worded.
http://remysharp.com/2010/10/08/what-is-a-polyfill/

"Shim, to me, meant a piece of code that you could add that would fix some functionality, but it would most often have it’s own API. I wanted something you could drop in and it would silently work (remember the old shim.gif? that required you actually inserted the image to fix empty td cells – I wanted something that did that for me automatically).

I knew what I was after wasn’t progressive enhancement because the baseline that I was working to required JavaScript and the latest technology. So that existing term didn’t work for me."
David Lowery made this point in a much more compelling and complete way:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3850935

Of course, ultimately, people are (rationally) compelled by the own immediate interests. That's what allows people to deride musicians for trying to "cling to obsolete business models", as if a verdict on the viability of someone's business model entitled people to ignore their rights. So I don't expect Roger Waters and David Gilmour to have much more luck pressing this argument than any other musician has had.
My classes were taken to plantations for field trips. Are germans also taught about the Herero & Namaqua genocide? If not, should we start holding that against them as well?
You might like his other post "Work for us 'Til You Drop": http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3389-your-lifersquos-work
Yes, for the Catholics who believe storage kills your soul.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_Carbon
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I don't think Pink Floyd has much to worry about:

NYSE:P Q2 (Apr '13)	2013
Net profit margin	-22.78%	-8.93%
Operating margin	-22.67%	-8.83%
EBITD margin	-	-7.16%
Return on average assets	-53.46%	-19.23%
Return on average equity	-127.11%	-37.49%
Employees	740

Their royalty checks will stop shortly after Pandora ceases operations :-)
Why is this? I've heard that TM basically has a monopoly on venue ticketing, but what are the barriers to entry for a startup?

Is it exclusivity contracts with all the big venues, or something similar for labels?

I would think a startup in this space would target smaller venues that aren't under contract, and independent artists to build traction, and if the product is truly superior they would have a good chance against the incumbents.
Come work at Fog Creek video
Raspberry Pi bot tracks hacker posts to vacuum up passwords and more
Also Alabama.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Obscenity_Enforcement_Act
In principle you have a point, but a quick google shows that his number is entirely reasonable. I mean, I wouldn't read to much into the exact numbers here, but the scale is definitely comparable.
Thanks! I knew I should have read the article more carefully.

(The same section of the article also references http://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2011-ssl-perfect-forward-se... which answers some of my follow on questions.)
When I saw the first X-Men movie where Magneto tried to kill all the humans, I told my wife "I hope the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants likes subsistence farming"
For content data that's held temporarily it counts as caching, and there are probably exemptions in law for Government secret spy agencies.

For meta-content that's held forever - I guess they say it's not private and thus they can keep it forever.

The UK is going through some kerfuffle around meta-data to allow it to be gathered and kept.

See, for example, the exemption in the UK version of the DMCA for people who are "studying cryptography" (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/296ZA)

I should just link to UK RIPA (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/23/contents), especially this bit: (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/23/section/42) but actually all of it.

RIPA is interesting. I genuinely don't care about GCHQ caching content for three days and keeping meta data for 30 days. That has no impact on my life. I do care about the abuses that other government departments (usually local government) has carried out using powers under RIPA.

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You are evading the question: "Everything in the house" is obviously not specific enough. And here is where the evasion comes in: The problem is not the size of the container. Does a search warrant even ask you to describe the container? No. It asks you to describe the thing to be seized.

If H&R Block had Whitey Bulger's tax returns, would the warrant be required to describe those documents, or, would all of the small, baggable disk drives at their data center be subject to seizure?
Anyone interested in the point about Mondrian would enjoy (the sadly recently deceased) Robert Hughes' documentary series “The Shock of the New” — it's available on YT starting here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_8y0sQ0HME
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The situation described by GP is so ridiculous that it's unlikely to be true, which is why I wouldn't recommend anyone to waste their time trying to solve the mentioned "problems".

I mean, really, why would anyone switch from Windows to Ubuntu on a gaming machine? Just think about it for a sec.

(Videos not loading or USB not working are issues the OEM are supposed to handle. The fact that someone like GP can't tell even the series of their GPU hints strongly toward them using a prebuilt computer - yet expecting to be able to work as their own Linux OEM, which one could argue is more difficult than being a Windows OEM.)
Ultimately, Snowden probably doesn't know anything that China doesn't already know. (You couldn't say the same thing about the information Manning dumped, by the way).

Regardless: I don't think his motives should have much to do with how the law treats him, which makes the concern over which countries he's choosing to visit even more of a sideshow.

I think most rational observers understand why Snowden is picking the countries he's picking; he's choosing the large, easily reached countries with the weakest ties to US law enforcement. It's disingenuous to pretend that his arrival in Moscow is a commentary on Russian civil rights.
And species, universe-wide, are selected for their ability to outlive their home worlds.

Think about that.