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Yep, hate to say it, but you and me are in the minority here. For the average consumer, headphones are a social object. They want something that sounds decent (remember they are playing lofi files from their phones) but looks really cool (to them, and the people they are trying to appeal to, at least). Also, vast numbers of people buy Apple earbuds even though they don't own Apple devices!

That's all neither here nor there though, because Ian Rogers was never involved with the headphones - he was CEO of Topspin and is now running the development of the Beats music streaming platform.

I agree tying into the Beats by Dre brand is a negative for people like us, but for the demographic they are going after it will probably be better than building a brand from the ground up.
Well, it helps a lot that Lua is by design a very small language :)

Python is actually much bigger nowadays -- I would challenge someone to come up with something this simple that doesn't leave out a lot of stuff you will encounter in real code.

The extra features ("bloat") do matter. I like the idea of Lua a lot, but when I started programming in it, it unfortunately felt like a less capable Python to me.
I think you meant less than half?

War is horrible. There is plenty of horror to go around, from every war. But I do not think that an abundance of horror means that we should do away with the desire for accuracy.
This is awesome.

On that note, I don't understand all the javascript craze. Lua has been around for quite some time, and it's small, with well-defined semantics, a nice set of features, the interpreter is small and very fast, you can get even faster with LuaJIT, etc. Browsers should have adopted that ages ago.
Reminds me of the SouthPark "Internet Money" episode.
Well, to the artist for one. He's not being payed as the artist. Before his place in line you have the copyright owner, the lead performers, background performers, and the other 60% of songwriters. Yes, that's right: he's complaining just about the size of the 40% songwriter's cut.
You realize that it was technology itself, in the first place, that allowed musicians to work hard for some months, and then get paid for a lifetime from the results.

You also realize that not-yet-established musicians would pay exorbitant amounts of money to merely get heard.

So, excuse me if I have little sympathy for the "plight" of the recording-only musician.
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So you're saying it makes since to take money from people that were not involved in harming people & giving it to people that were not harmed makes up for something that happened centuries ago?
I'm quite happy with https://feedbin.me/
Yeah, there's all sorts of reminders of civil rights abuses in secondary school history classes. That said, American culture isn't as heavy on shame as German culture is. It's presented more like, here's some crappy stuff that happened in the past, isn't it great you live in the present?
Looking at Chrome's Task Manager: my Gmail tab weighs in at 255 MB. Facebook is #2, at 168 MB. All that client-side JS gets pretty heavy.

Interestingly, #3 is the home page of an old blogspot.com blog. It's mostly just text and a few inline images, and it still somehow manages to occupy 132 MB of RAM.
The conversion factor you're using is completely invented, though, extrapolated from the current rates. The fact is that internet radio provides census precision for playcounts, which (I and some others think) should make those listens more valuable. In another sense, listeners are effectively filling out a survey for each play, giving the stations more information about their listeners, but the stations are keeping all the value for themselves. Even though there's an orthogonal problem of royalty rates that the stations labor under, this setup is more of the same.
Actually ansible doesn't even need python installed initially, it has a "raw" mode which you can use to boot strap the installation of python.
I'm outraged that people get paid at all for this sort of thing. Why should an artist be paid repeatedly for doing one piece of work? That's madness. Artists should be paid to create art. Once it's done, why you should get paid over and over?
> 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?

I think the more accurate question would be "So how does that undermine the government's credibility?" The "with regards to the rule of law" part is more or less irrelevant when dealing with international politics.

For several years now the United States and the UK have been warning about Chinese hacking/spying/electronic espionage. Now the US has been exposed to having conducted the same operations they accused China of, on a possibly even greater scale.

Obviously this has damaged their credibility, and is why they are so angry.
I think you mean he could be complaining that they merely pay double.
It's odd that its like that - assembly line production doesn't have to equate to poor quality, and with the things I own its
usually quite the opposite. Done right you can have good materials made into complicated things cheaply. However I'm yet to see (in the flesh) a prefab building that I like. Grand Designs, the UK show, has shown a few great ones featured but its a shame there aren't more to be seen as making a house on a production line would solve many of the things home owners grapple with. In the last month alone I have replaced a shonky toilet, a leaking pipe from bad install, bad fuse box case, several bad roof tiles, weird sink plumbing and 3 cheap crappy doors. If production line assembly can make these jobs easier and more standardised (how many different diameter pipes can one toilet use!) without resorting to cheap junk that whilst creating houses that look nice, I'll be happy.
I'm wondering: what is the cost of such retention? If all intercepted data was encrypted, would that not eventually bankrupt the system?

While such a wide use of encryption seems unlikely, would it be possible to achieve the same effect by feeding the system with encrypted garbage? Even if it is eventually decrypted, it adds a lot of noise to the analysis effort, further increasing the cost.
An interesting comparison is if Google makes 35 cents a click (http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2220372/How-Google-Rake...) then they would make $350K from the same million "impressions."
This is the island where Typhoid Mary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoid_Mary), the first person in the US detected to carry typhoid without showing symptoms, was quarantined. There's a great Radiolab episode where they take a trip to the island; http://www.radiolab.org/2011/nov/14/, http://www.radiolab.org/2011/nov/14/typhoid-mary/
I like the Scott Gu quote.

Basically, he appears to the reason that Azure is making giant improvements while the rest of Microsoft stagnates. (Obviously, his team deserves credit as well but he is making it possible for them to be great).
I for one would prefer to see more items like this on HN, and less political / national / world news.
That was lovely. I always had a hard time wrapping my head around the exact behavior of metatables when I messed with Lua a few years back. Thanks!
> I can say that much cruft was removed in so far as it doesn't resemble a modern GPU (e.g. fixed function pipeline)

Please read this again:

> they always seem to be confusing API surface with implementation details.

It does not have to work like a modern GPU. An API is an abstraction.

If you want to introduce a new API that is a better abstraction for current hardware that's fine, but that's not an argument to remove the earlier abstraction which is working fine for other users.
People do forget that the older markets were smaller, more controlled so more people were funneled through them such as radio. Services like Pandora, Spotify and even iTunes are really better in nailing down real listens and tracking much better (who knows how many true listeners there were really in the past other than Nielsen type predictions) but also there were less avenues to get content so it was more valuable to get on there.

It is the same problem in games with the previously distinct console markets where you can get more per game because there are less options. Now there are tons of options and it is about bigger user base at a lower per sku revenue take.

The internet based services are more open and there are more of them vying for your attention (which is good) but that you need to do more amazing things to stand out than before.

The controlled markets like radio, movie distribution, consoles (sort of -- Xbone from next gen) since they are controlled/limited and the costs are higher to get on them, they to get bigger takes. But they aren't necessarily better. Many artists, movies, games aren't seen on those or would even be possible if they were still tightly controlled and limited markets. It doesn't make it easier to succeed, it adds more competition and they end up being bigger markets but there is less exclusivity to it. In the end this is good I believe but artists that would never have been seen for instance can now actually be seen at least in access and not locked out. An artist can now get verifiable tracking counts as well as before a station might cheat them like a publisher might do in books/games since it is estimated or trusted to the publisher/stations to report correct plays.
I really like that link, it captures a lot of stuff that is broken. It also raises more questions.
That was more of an acquihire because Topspin was going nowhere and Beats by Dre has a lot of money.
Computer science is the study of algorithms, information systems and anything that is computable.

Mathematics is the study of formal systems, eg proofs that can be derived from axioms using algorithms, i.e. a specific type of computable system.

Therefore, mathematics is a subset of computer science.
Do please let me know if you build this or find something existing like this. As a non-web developer, I am interested in something that lets me supply only the things I need to supply for my specific application/website even if that involves writing some code for the business logic.
You want the government to butt out? Sure, let's get the government to butt out: http://questioncopyright.org
I did a bit more math here [1] based on Arbitron numbers for radio stations. It turns out that he IS likely being paid more per listener on Pandora.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5935672
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That isn't really what gp was talking about, but your point ignores the ways decisions propagate other than hierarchical appeals.

Since the Supreme Court has created large good faith effort holes in the exclusionary rule for law enforcement, any source of reliable warrants creates an unlimited opportunity for mischief. Other courts will have to admit evidence first suspected because of information obtained through any apparently valid FISA warrant.

And since FISC is a no-work sinecure for ultra-right judges to draw a salary and benefits for occasionally showing up to rubber stamp secret warrants, it blows a hole in any restrictions on search and seizure for anyone in any court with access to FISC.
I bet the game he is talking about is Duke Nukem 3D and he is wrong. Saving the bullet holes only long enough for them to be enjoyable but not long enough to run out of memory was completely awesome touch.
Hm, understandable, but then how did they learn it after the fact?
Cool one-liner!

Might want to switch the last part of the command, though, as all other pdf files in that folder get merged in as well (learned the hard way) :-)

Something like this would probably be safer:

curl -O http://i.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs/ch[01-14].pdf && /System/Library/Automator/Combine\ PDF\ Pages.action/Contents/Resources/join.py -o ./merged.pdf ./ch[0-1][0-9].pdf
I'm not particularly bitter - I didn't like them when they were new, disliked them once the birds nibbled the rendered polystyrene off the exterior, and avoided them like the plague once we came to buying houses. What I am bitter at is the way the manufacturers of the systems that have failed have seemly got off completely freely from the disaster they have created.
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Is it not possible that he would have ended at the bottom of the page not the top, and if so wouldn't it have been better for you to stay away to find out, since your comment likely adds many more downvotes to your parent comment?
I saw a relatively small apartment building go up in Cambridge MA a couple years ago, built from prefab modules. I very much doubt the rent is lower than the site-built buildings down the street.

One-story modular houses in trailer parks have a stigma, perhaps for a reason. Can you think of any other type of modular construction that has a PR problem?
Going through those photos, I was on the alert for Clickers...
Lets look at this a different way because comparing to broadcast radio is dicey.

I pay for Pandora One. It costs me $36 dollars a year. Assuming all songs are exactly 3 minutes long & I listen 24/7 for an entire year...

((42 U.S. dollars) / (1 million * 3 minutes)) * (1 year) ~= $7.36

That doesn't seem like a bad deal, 1/5 of my yearly fee going to the artist, the rest to operation and profit of Pandora.

... the thing is, I don't listen to Pandora 24/7. At best I listen a few hours a day, on average for a whole year maybe an hour a day. With that, the ratio drags down to 1/100 of my yearly fee. Once cent of every dollar I spend on a music service ends of going to the actual musicians? That sucks.

Maybe the license fees go more to groups above the artist that don't deserve it, maybe Pandora's operating expenses eat up most of the pie... I don't know who to blame for the situation, I just know it's rigged against the people actually creating the music.

And this is why pirates don't feel bad about copying music. When it is damn near impossible to consume music without 99% of the cost going to the distributors, why should anyone feel bad using distribution systems which don't charge?

Buy physical music from local shops and go to shows and buy tickets from local distributors. (I'm lucky to live in a place where I _can_ see top shelf music without paying the Ticketmaster ransom) Especially buy swag at these shows if you're really interested in your money getting to the people who deserve it. Otherwise, it seems pretty clear that any other way of 'legitimately' buying music pays nearly everything to the middle man.
You should start one of those online petitions.
>>(and where this person was going)

he apparently wasn't making the claim about the entire company
The quote seemed pretty clear to me, but I suppose that could be because I already know what it does. Vagrant wraps VM software (VirtualBox, VMWare, etc — the "existing virtualization providers" in the quote) to create disposable development environments. It also allows you to connect with configuration management tools like Chef or Puppet, which then configure that disposable environment to mirror your production environment. It doesn't really do configuration on its own (unless you count running shell commands), so it isn't a configuration management tool itself. It does one thing well.

I agree that we should be evangelizing DevOps and bringing more people into the loop. I was simply saying that Vagrant itself doesn't really need any marketing. It's hard to read much of anything about the field without seeing it mentioned.
Artists need to quit thinking of Spotify/Pandora as revenue generators and more as advertisement for 1) live peformances and 2) quality physical goods (nicely pressed vinyl, for example).

The days of radio-only hits are over (or close to being over).
I don't think that building slightly faster software and hardware to run other people's algorithms is really hacking financial trading.

To me, if you wanted to hack the system, you would look at creative approaches to make the market behave in ways that it is not supposed to.

An example that I'm working on is the idea of an alternate currency where the deposits are invested in socially responsible / clean energy companies etc. People would trade their currency via NFC wallets or square equivalents etc. for goods and services. Meanwhile the investment stays with the same company.

This to me hacks the trading system because it uses private contracts & a virtual currency to shift the choice about how money is invested to the consumer & opens up opportunities to make longer sighted investments (that benefit the economy as a whole & the people using this currency) rather than just trying to maximize the profits of an investment fund.

From a "computer hacking" perspective, this is just a mash up of different platforms that have recently developed & using it to create the previously only dreamed of "indexed currencies" etc.
Wait what? $1,500 for 20,000 plays? If the average song is 4 minutes long[1] that's 55 days of continuous music. So, a radio station that played non-stop music, 24/7 for a year is going to pay just under $10,000 total in royalties.. for a year.

That's pretty amazing, but I guess it's a matter of supply and demand: there's an awful lot of music (and a lot of it is awful).

1. http://a-candle-in-the-dark.blogspot.co.nz/2010/02/song-leng...
I installed ubuntu alongside windows on my alienware, and I'm quite happy with it, I only switch to windows to play dota 2 and amalur, for browsing, other games and miscellaneous tasks I use linux.
I think the real story is how easy it is to scam people out of 30k for doing what could be done in a weekend with Google maps and some info from the authorities.
Apples to oranges, and you know it.
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NYC loves to do all sorts of interesting things with its islands. Another island that most New Yorkers know nothing about is Roosevelt Island:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Island

It has had a very long history including having a prison/small pox hospital/mental hospital.
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Or take a weekend and a copy of the data from the authority responsible and put it on a website using Google maps so everyone can access it from any device.
> Of course it's subjective, and anyone who would declare a particular race "the greatest in the world" is obviously full of it.

Do people not have personal favourites that they might, even with self-realising bias, call "the greatest in the world"? And if you were then talking, or writing, about this awesome experience, wouldn't you easily use those words to describe your feelings, rather than to statistically analyse race rankings?
I don't understand the focus on margins. While bigger margins would be nice, it seems like modular construction would have a more direct effect on turnover rather than margins. Maybe the term "profitability" would be more accurate.
Another interesting island nearby is Hart Island. See http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/island-of-the-dead/, http://goo.gl/maps/VplQF
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Yeah, I see Lua in many ways as "JavaScript done right".

I also found it considerably easier to integrate than something like V8, and it appears to be easier to use for non-programmers.

It definitely deserves to be more popular.
This is awesome. Touches on all the most popular services out there (Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Facebook, AOL, LinkedIn, Pinterest, etc.). Thanks for including!
Further cementing my opinion that you should never find out about people you really like (authors, musicians, etc.) as you're bound to be disappointed.

Pink Floyd may have a point. But by conflating profit and revenue they lose credibility in their arguments. Why resort to lame rhetoric? Pandora can be growing as a business and still losing money. The fact they had an IPO and got more users doesn't change the fact that they are (as of last quarter) still losing plenty of money.
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There are two bases, both of which are pretty uncontroversial:

1) The 4th amendment doesn't extend to non-U.S. persons. The prevailing view of the Constitution is that its scope is territorial. You have to have some connection to the U.S. to have rights and obligations under the Constitution. That means either living here, even if you're not a citizen, or being a citizen, even if you're living abroad. A lot of the NSA's procedures are concerned with making sure that it's data collection is limited to that likely to be with "non-U.S. persons."

2) The third party doctrine: by handing information over to Google, etc, you're purposefully exposing the information and can no longer claim that it's private in the same way the contents of your desk drawer are private. It is already established that bank records and telephone numbers you've dialed are not protected by the 4th amendment for this reason (https://ssd.eff.org/your-computer/govt/privacy).

I'm not sure the degree to which it has been established that the NSA is doing anything that requires treating pure data storage as not a search, but in any case why should the standard for what constitutes a search have any relation to copying under the copyright laws? The intent and purposes of the two regimes are totally different. Also, you have to be careful about whose data is being stored, because Constitutionally there is nothing wrong with them storing the data of non-U.S. persons).
I'm under the impression that quantum computers buy you a square root. So instead of doubling the number of bits in your key to improve the strength of a key by a ludicrous amount, you should quadruple them.

In addition to this, I don't know how well quantum computers help against (good) symmetric encryption. They help against certain types of PKI because they give you the aforementioned speedup in factoring large integers. However, I think Schneier's argument holds, because brute forcing 2^256 possible keys is.. well, see the argument above about forcing a counter through all those states.

(apologies for not citing sources. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable can weigh in)
When I was a kid (Napster era) I paid for nothing. The artists weren't stream-able, so there were no royalties either. Today I buy every damn song I listen to, thousands of dollars worth. When an artist I like comes out with a new CD, I buy it immediately.

I don't use Spotify or Google Music. I don't know what they pay to the artist. What I do know is my friends that use them have zero reason to buy a CD. I also know even the more obscure stuff shows up on there. Once they are older and have a family, they certainly don't have time to go to more than a couple of concerts a year, and they most likely are not wearing band t-shirts past 30.

The way radio worked, you heard a song once and a while, liked it, most of the artist's other songs you rarely or never heard. There was a big incentive to buy the CD.

Musicians need to have a freemium model, where you get free, unrestricted access to some songs, and then if you absolutely love the band you pay for the rest (or you can pirate it, but there are a few hoops to jump through for that one.) It has to be convenient, on demand, and a single standard. May be its lossless audio, or may be its just mastered differently. Someone who knows more about music would have to figure it out.

Despite all of this, my favorite musicians regularly release new albums. There are a few duds, but the music is good. Countless genres blended together and mutated, with virtually unlimited choices. As far as I'm concerned, this is a music renaissance.
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