skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yah, it is so terrible that valve would release something for free to those who could not pay, but would not supply the ingredients for a commercial effort without some consideration. What scumbags.
Of course! The parent mentioned JS getting them however, which is, as I mentioned, impossible.
The decisions about monopoly were not just made in hindsight, they were made in the context of Judge Penfield Jackson's definition of the market that SPECIFICALLY EXCLUDED both Apple and Linux as they were uncompetitive.

But as you appreciate, usually when a criminal is trial, the argument is about whether or not they did X [illegal act]. With anti-trust, the argument is not whether the criminal did X but whether X is illegal or not. It's always opinion.

Either way, Microsoft should still be judged entirely on what it did in 1995. It's not like the world has changed since then ;-)
Why You Must Be The Salesperson… Not Sales Manager… Of Your Startup
> The USA manufacturers more than it ever has. However, it does so with fewer workers, just like the agricultural revolution moved us from 90% of people needing to be farmers to 2%.

I wonder who's next, then.
I'd have to be social, wouldn't I? sigh
As a performer/songwriter, I don't have a problem with that used cd bit conceptually. All those cds were originally sold full price, generating full revenue.

The original purchaser bought it for full price, and assuming I'm a major artist like Aerosmith, that's big money in the aggregate. A cd isn't rent, it means you get to enjoy that stuff for as long as you own it. If the original purchaser wanted to transfer that ability to someone else even for free, I don't have a problem with it. I don't see cds as somehow being linked to the original person's lifespan, or a time-value of how long he's likely to listen to it. It's the existence of the cd, period. The fact that he got three bucks for it, more power to him.

Now, if he instead ripped the cd to continue his enjoyment and then sold or gave it away, to me that's the same as keeping the cd and letting you rip it (either for free, or for three bucks). That's not okay. He clearly liked it enough to "keep" it, so he should have kept it. In which case (if everyone else acted the same way), you would have bought a new copy, which means more money for the artist.

At any rate, you, by purchasing a used cd, did nothing "wrong" from any perspective in my book, because it can't be on you to ensure that the seller will no longer listen to or enjoy the music. But people that sell their used cds, technically they're stealing if they keep their rips after they sell it. Or at least "stealing", in the sense that it's the same as letting someone else rip/burn their copy.
So now that The Terrorists are changing it up, might as well dismantle the surveillance state, huh? What good does capturing all this data do if they're not going to get anything useful?

The cognitive dissonance required to justify these programs is just staggering.
You’re comparing apples and CDs ;)

In the case of a CD, I pay approximately 65% for the physical disc and 35% for the license to play the music in a private setting. In the case of iTunes tracks, I pay approximately 35% for Apple’s infrastructure and 65% for the license to play the music in a private setting. In neither case do I own the music and there are limits to where I’m allowed to play it.
The only approach that makes sense is to abolish the RIAA and get artists to abandon the major labels. The closest to a 100% royalty payout for artists that can be accomplished, is the only future that should be fought for. As it is, the middle man is eating almost all of the profits that should be going to artists. Higher payouts won't change the fact that artists are getting screwed on the % cut and have been for a very long time.
It is the first time intelligence officials have described which groups are
reacting to the leaks. The officials spoke anonymously because they were not
authorized to speak about the intelligence matters publicly

Ooh. Gonna be holding my breath waiting for the Obama administration to diligently find these leakers. Unless -- and I'm sure this is coincidence -- prosecutions are correlated with in what light leaks frame the administration? Nah, couldn't be.
The attitude of the Atlantis CEO seems much different from the founder of SilkRoad, Dread Pirate Roberts.

Whereas the Atlantis CEO seems very into this business for the money and fame, DPR seems more interested in the ideological standpoint of it all (libertarian ideals and all that jazz).

Quotation from Dread Pirate Roberts:

All that being said, my primary motivation is not personal wealth, but making a difference. As corny as it sounds, I just want to look back on my life and know that I did something worthwhile that helped people. It’s fulfilling to me.

Source:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/29/collect...

EDIT: some formatting mistakes
Aren't radio station royalties only paid to songwriters and publishers? I could be wrong on that, but that's what I thought I remembered reading in the past. If that's true, then he's right in saying nothing goes to the performers.
It seems like this is a boom for law enforcement. One of the fundamental aspects of bitcoin is that every transaction is recorded and publicly view able. In order to anonomize your currency you bassicly need to go through a mixing service, which takes bitcoins from a pool of users, and redistributes them back to the same users, but at new accounts, so it would be 'impossible' for someone to follow the money using only the blockchain.

There are two ways around the impossibility. One is to do statistical analysys to try and infer which two accounts are the same person. If you reguarly use the same service, this would likely be quite doable.

The other way around this is to compromise the mixing service (either hacking, or with a warrent).

There is currently research being done to make bitcoin properly annonomous [1]

[1] http://zerocoin.org/
How long until they fix their security so it isn't trivially easy to download an mp3 of every song that gets played?
I'll go ahead and suggest the obvious: Wordpress.

It has one of the largest ecosystems (if not the largest), and you can usually find multiple plugins to do whatever you want. You can self host, use their free hosting, or pay for their premium hosting. It has a variety of responsive themes (both free and paid), and a mobile switcher that will auto-detect if you are surfing from a mobile or desktop device. Due to its popularity there's tons of tutorials and help on bunches of forums. It may not be the best if you are looking for a particular feature set, but it is probably the best all-around solution.
It's sad that this is illegal. They're not doing anything wrong and it's their tax payer dollars that built those tunnels anyway. The depths of New York belong to the people.

"But it's not safe". What is? In the USA 40,000 die each year from car accidents, 700+ children from drowning, 1 million+ from cancer and heart disease. If going down there wasn't illegal they'd be able to have lighting, security, and other safety measures to make it even more safe.

(btw, this is totally the type of place that Stefon would suggest on SNL)
Especially if it's this man's rug:

http://www.leonardcarr.com/the-story-of-the-locksmith-a-trad...
I can back this up. Being in the closet is by no means passive.
Medi-Share - Is it Health Insurance or What?
I personally like Pandora (as a concept) much more than Spotify, because in Pandora if they want to hear my music again, they have to actually go find the cd and buy it. In Spotify, I'm basically screwed.

I think Pandora needs to work on their point of sale here. I buy a lot of music, but if I like a song Pandora I'm more inclined to prop it open on a tab on Youtube than I am to go through the hassle of opening iTunes to download/purchase it. Currently, the quickest route is via Amazon MP3, but even that isn't perfect (especially because most of the stuff I'm inclined to purchase isn't on Amazon/iTunes.)

I guess what I'm trying to say is that one-click purchasing on Pandora would be wonderful.
'Europa Report' packs realistic chills into trailer for science-fiction thriller
Actually, judging from his comment history, I'm just thinking English may not be his first language.
You're so absolutely and completely wrong that you're probably trolling, but:

Google implemented vector maps on Android long before Apple introduced their own maps (i.e. ~years). Likewise, 3D buildings have been available through Earth for years, and rendering them in Maps was an obvious next step. Ultimately, both Apple and Google launched 3D at right around the same time.

Last, as a sibling poster pointed out, if you think all of this was started in reaction to MapBox's work (earliest public mention I found was April 1st) and completed less than 3 months later, then that's just fucking admirable execution right there. But alas, that probably wasn't copied either.
I'm really sorry for the site errors. It was down for about 2 hours. Never had to deal with so much traffic before and my host shut it down. Should be back up for everyone now.
I just recently started using Vagrant. What downsides have you seen? Any show-stoppers?

It would be very interesting to see some sort of provisioning system built into Nitrous, much like using saltstack/chef/puppet with Vagrant.
Ready, aim, throw. Lobbing rocks key to meat-eating
YMMV, but the best solution I've found for this is either:

1) If your CMS just needs to be used in-house, then roll your own. It takes a week or less, you can deep-integrate it into your applications, and you'll be guaranteed to get more or less exactly what you want.

2) If you either need it to be exposed to external/non-technical people or you absolutely do not want to spend time developing CMS features, use WordPress for content pages and your app stack of choice for app pages. You can have them share the same domain if a requirement for e.g. SEO by using reverse proxy tricks -- trivial to Google if you know the words "reverse proxy." If not a requirement, don't do it that way.

One of the nice parts about using WordPress is if you have a high-generalizability problem like "It needs to work on an iPhone" then you are basically guaranteed that some 17 year old designer has hacked together a plugin which makes it mostly work on your iPhone. The downside of using WordPress is that... feel free to rephrase the last sentence.
Is it too late to be awesome?
Doesn't it just default to 'My Documents' now? This doesn't sound a lot different.
That whole "we aren't a vocational school" attitude is fine for wealthy people, but if you're going to go $150k into hock to get your degree you better have something that makes you attractive to employers.
People fall into oncoming traffic everyday. Does that mean we need to build fences around every road? When will the babysitting end? At what point? Each human being is responsible for the risk they're willing to take. From driving to plastic surgery to crossing the street. This is no more risky than the deadly side effects of most of today's pharmaceutical concoctions.
I can't talk for my colleague Alex, but we tend not to work with CS very much. I'm not gonna open the troll gates on that one, we've heard the arguments from both sides enough already. We tend to prefer writing stuff in regular JS and I think Alex thought it was worth mentioning we didn't support CS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole_punching

tada.
If the city could make a buck off of it they'd have no problem. Problem being that once it's officially ok'd by the city - the city becomes liable for everything. Hell if anything happened to one of the partiers the city might be sued anyway for not sealing the place up.
OSes have always catered for the majority use case. A few years ago, no-one had the internet connection to do file syncing like this- and storage was too expensive anyway.

Now both of those barriers have been removed and the OS is now taking advantage of these new capabilities. I really don't see what is wrong with that. Should all OSes remain frozen at a 2003 state of development?
There is a typo, for Java the last item says "Use special prefix fot staticvar"
Companies only do well what makes them money. We designed our business to be good at helping artists, so yes, that's why we made them our clients. We're not shy about it.
The problem isn't with companies having opinions, even political ones. There are opinions I disagree with, but am OK with companies having. And then there are opinions of a lower quality, like those that are hateful and based on superstition. To those, I object.
Yep, they're following the Apple model.
"Windows 5.1" was definitely not branding, though.
First, take a deep breath. You're going to be OK, even if it doesn't feel like it right now.

Next, take a look at today's Zen Habits -- http://zenhabits.net/failed/. It can help you set perspective regarding what you've gone through. Money quote: "Someone once said there isn’t failure, only feedback. That means the failure is just a point of information, a part of the learning process. I like to say, it’s not a failure of me as a person, just a failure of my method. Which means I need to change my method."

Take some time (minutes, hours, or days) to identify the intersection of what you like and what you've excelled at. I find I like what I'm good at, so beware that bias.

Are you good at translating tech -> normal people speak? Possibly look to work in consulting.

Were you good at making sales, but bad at the paperwork? Try to develop your own system to get better at the paperwork.

Try to look objectively (meaning without judgement) at your past. What have you learned from your experience? I can promise you, you're not the first person to barely pass a tough CS program, nor will you be the last to get fired for sloppy paperwork. You'll be OK -- in fact, now is the perfect time for you to take your first step in your new direction.

If you need a job right away, I would suggest trying to get a position in any industry that will pay you. Learn the ropes in that industry for a little time while you get stability. You will be a technical wizard in whatever you do, if it involves technology. Once you learn an industry, and gain a little confidence in your capabilities, take a shot at combining your technical abilities with the industry.

Manufacturing, as a for example, relies entirely on technology that is run by people who have very little idea about how to use technology.

And relax. You have a world of options in front of you; they're hard to see because of all the pressure, but they exist.

Be well,
monkeyspaw
The Errors of Edward Snowden and His Global Hypocrisy Tour
It all comes down to who has liability when some drunk kid gets injured or killed in there. When it's illegal and difficult to access, the government has no reasonable expectation to keep it safe, and has no liability.
Eclipse Kepler released
Reminds me of the parties thrown in the catacombs under Paris. Always wanted to do it.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/02/world/europe/wus-france-cataco...
Don't hold your breath. You can record whatever an internet browser is playing (or any other application, basically) using third party programs. There isn't a defense against this on Pandora's end.
It's amazing that the AP would so eagerly accept these anonymous government officials' stories after they were specifically targeted by the FBI, what was it, a month ago?

Why grant these people anonymity, when all they're doing is spouting out government-serving platitudes with zero evidence or justification for keeping their identities secret?
Go to System Preferences > iCloud > Uncheck the option "Documents & Data" to change it via the GUI.
The graph is funny. Pandora agrees it is roughly accurate.

So, a payout (revenue; before expenses) of $1372 for 1,159,000 plays.

Well, let's look at it in terms of an album where all songs are played equally. In reality, some songs will be played more than others. Assume an album of 10 songs.

Okay, that's $1372 for 115,900 complete album plays.

Well, you can sell an album for $10. More, actually, but let's say $10 since that's the digital rate. And you hope for repeat listens out of an album... ten listens? 100 would be pretty great, actually, maybe that's a true fan.

Well, 115,900 complete album plays for $1372... at ten bucks apiece, that's akin to each purchase being played 1,000 times.

In other words - ignoring other benefits of Pandora - you don't want to use Pandora to "sell" your music unless you have reason to believe that album purchasers would listen to your album 1,000 times or more. Only at that time would Pandora be worth it.

That of course doesn't take Pandora's discovery benefit. I don't know if that would be enough to knock the numbers down to 100 or 10 album listens, but I suspect people often overestimate Pandora's discovery benefit. Just because a listener might discover a lot of new music doesn't mean that an artist gets a lot of new fans from Pandora.
I want to know why he spent no time listening to Kanye's new album? It's amazing!!

Oh, and seven days? Really? Even with such a thorough explanation I have to wonder how much time people have on their hands to buckle down and do this. This can't be something that's done sporadically. Not in 7 days.
This isn't quite fair. The difficulty of writing completely secure software is out of comparison with the difficulty of finding vulnerabilities.

First, it's a numbers game. There are order magnitude more people trying to break the product than there are people trying to make it secure (dev team vs. rest of the world?). As a developer you are ALWAYS at a disadvantage.

Second, different objectives. As a vulnerability seeker you only have to find one weakness, while as a developer you attempt to write securely everywhere. This just isn't realistic. The best developers can do is try as best they can. There is no indestructible software.

Third, the response and fix time is actually good? If anything - 5 days is incredibly good turn around. We don't know what else is going on, what other crazy vulnerability may have been reported at this time or being worked on previously, etc. While security is important it is unrealistic to imagine that the team in charge of these kind of fixes is all that large or has infinite resources.

It is hard (impossible) to secure something like Facebook fully. I agree with the other sentiments that if anything their crowdsourcing efforts have been quite successful. If you are unhappy with a 5 day turn around - start looking for another solution. I think you'll be hard pressed to find anything 1) more secure, and 2) with quicker responses to security issues.
I highly recommend "Functional JavaScript" by Michael Fogus (creator of Lemonad), http://www.amazon.com/Functional-JavaScript-Introducing-Prog...
Deep-Sea Mining—Bonanza or Boondoggle?
> you can't just assume that average person plays track they bought only 10 times over the lifetime.

I don’t, I just shared my experience. But let’s say my use is atypical and most consumers listen to a purchased track 1000 times. Then the track’s creators still receive more money per spin from iTunes than from Pandora.

> you cannot forget of all external effects of 'discovery service' that Pandora is. Pandora not only is not replacing iTunes and other ways of purchasing the music, but is helping to increase the sales by exposing you to new artists you would never hear or normal radio.

I believe most of that is true. Let’s hope it gets people to buy more music, not less.

I’m not against Pandora as a service, I think it combines some of the greatest strengths of computers and the Internet. The blogpost was about how they compensate artists, which is what all my comments have been about.
Leaving the nest
> using Xcode is a far superior experience to RubyMotion and any editor.

XCode is not ideal for people accustomed to, say, vim. I love the static code analysis and the autocomplete and storyboards are pretty cool too. But having to edit text like a normal human instead of using vim sucks and the split pane handling is garbage. I would rather do all my dev in vim.
Why would you doubt that? Imagine some hot shot lawyer's 19 year old daughter falls and breaks her neck. They would go after the city for not cementing the place shut and probably win - or at least get a deal.

The sickening part is that the city does the math and sometimes its just cheaper to pay the person to go away.
I wasn't though, I really think it's too early to worry about fragmentation or anything like that. Throw many approaches and microformats for exchange of data for all at the wall, see what sticks.. even if just to avoid local optima.

Having "the one and only way to have a decentralized social network" kinda would defeat the purpose, no?
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For what its worth, my (linux) desktop is intentionally very plain.

Apart from the grey background, there is a small bar at the top that shows for a clock and basic windowing stuff (tags, open windows, layout mode). There is also a start button like thing in the corner. Because I never use it, I tried to remove it from my desktop. Everything worked fine, but the desktop just looked wrong without that button in the corner.

I did however, remove the menu that comes up when you click on it.
I'm trying to understand where you are getting deceit from. He references the excellent breakdown on royalties we talked about yesterday, and in that breakdown there were three that Pandora pays, songwriter, publisher, and performer, and only two that radios pay songwriter and publisher. Since the royalty that Pandora pays to the performer is per listener (it is per spin, and each spin represents exactly 1 listener [1]) and a typical radio station in a large market can have hundreds of thousands, if not millions of listeners. If the Radio played the performer royalty it would be very expensive for them. That seemed pretty clear from his discussion.

[1] Yes I've been in restaurants where the background music came from Pandora (probably not part of the ToS)
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I love this. Artists complain about Pandora, and that's fine, but they don't understand how much worse radio stations WITHOUT A DOUBT are for artists in terms of payments. I've had songs on the radio to 10's of thousands of people at least 100 times, neither I nor anyone involved has seen a dime. On Pandora, we've seen about a dime BUT that's at least what we were due.
That's an SNL skit waiting to happen. "Hey, why did our wedding photographer send us a bunch of pictures of himself?!"
What are the most interesting consumer startups right now?
I'm working on some research and I've looked at most of the traditional sources (Angel List, industry chatter, etc.), I just wanted the opinions of people smarter than me, ;-).

Specifically, products that a non-tech friend that would go "wow" or "weird" if you were to tell them about it.
This is actually a pretty well-covered aspect of liability law. Each party has to take reasonable care to mitigate risk. It's not the kind of problem that you are making it out to be, and there's a huge body of case law establishing what is reasonable and what isn't.
Correct.
Reading business and self help books is a great way to waste your time.
Aha! So I am on the right track! :)