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People choose between the choices they have. If Daft Punk didn't exist people would listen to something else and have the posters up on their wall of someone else.

They wouldn't instead buy a car.

The easier it is to learn and make the music, the more people will make music, the more competition there will be, the harder it is to make money. Music IS the product.

That is by all intents and purposes of this discussion a commodity and the music industry which includes musicians copy each other all the time.

How do you think musicans learn to play music?

Do you think they learn it by purely taking theory and turning it into songs out of the blue or could it be that they learn a lot of songs other have played, transcribe and through that build their own sense of music.

Copying existing music is the way most people learn. By copying others. You don't need samplers for that.

The middlemen in the 90's decided who should get access to their distribution. It is a far cry from the ability for anyone today to put out their own records on their own terms.

The ability for musicians to record a song once and sell it infinitely has nothing to do with being a musician. The copy of your original is NOT the you it's a copy and that is a commoditized business.
Thanks, EFF, for outlawing code.
Serendipity and Samples can save Barnes and Nobles
2.1 disproves your point. The BSD code needs to remain BSD, your additional code can be licensed how you want.
Images are just the lowest hanging fruit and attract a lot of sloppy schemes. You can encode information in pretty much anything as long as you are free to choose the message.

You could even encode info in plain text by the lengths of non-whitespace characters, modulo 2. As an example, try using the so-defined scheme on the letters count of this very sentence; they're encoding, repeatingly, S.O.S.

Posts of similar length as this one are enough to send a public key using ECDH and negotiate a shared secret for use with a block or stream cypher. You could then send short messages using this shared secret inconspicuously. Shannon entropy of English is about 1.5 bits per character so you could store quite a bit if you cared to compress it well before encrypting, preferably using a shared static dictionary.
What proof do you have that the Russian government controls RT?

Are you suggesting that any organization which receives state funding of some sort is controlled by the state?
Good luck meeting your GDP numbers after that.

It's ok, that is what the Federal Reserve is for[0]… ;)

[0]: http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/BSTcombin...
Sampling isn't the only way to directly copying other peoples music.
Two things to nitpick on a macro perspective, both things I would have not expected the article to go into anyway.

First, corporate earnings are at all time highs. Looking at P/E ratios as a measure of if we are in a "normal" sentiment environment is kind of a bad idea, since the P/E ratio captures two cycles at once: the sentiment cycle (higher P for less E), and the earnings cycle (higher E overall). At P/E of 15 when the earnings cycle is at it's peak (as it is now) may still be reflecting extremely high (read: irrational) relative sentiment towards equities, even though the ratio itself sits only slightly above average. And, in fact, there are many indicators that point to the fact that the public is more bullish on stocks now than they have been since before the 2008 crisis, even though the P/E ratio is only 15-16.

Second, the consensus right now is forming that we may have finally turned the corner in the 30-year bond bull market, and interest rates are on the rise again. If this is true, it represents an important change for asset managers, and will trickle all the way down to private equity and startup funding. As rates rise, particularly if they rise not just due to inflation but due to tightening monetary policy, investors will need to deploy less capital to reach for yield to places such as private equity, so you can expect deal terms to get more "investor friendly." (I am not sure if we are actually at the beginning of a bond bear market, but many people believe so.)
Indeed - I learned something new today!
Isn't her call addressing the wrong problem? She should be mad at the US government about the illegal wiretapping of Internet communication, instead of accusing and punishing US Internet companies for something they don't have a say into or cannot even talk about.
Context is important, but your point that the phrase can be easily misinterpreted is well taken.

The phrase should certainly not be used if someone merely complains about a problem that men have. Rather, it is intended to be used when someone tries to derail a discussion about prejudice against women by talking about how hard it is for men.

Note that the comment I was replying to was in a thread about education, and it immediately started trying to shift the discussion to suicide rates and the judicial system.
You might think so, he might even think so, but this is the real conflict:

> Those fads are never very compatible with professional working life.

Otherwise, why would he even say that? He'd say, "my wife isn't convinced by the science" or, "my wife isn't interested in that" but he doesn't -- he says the 'fads' are incompatible with a professional working life (nb: breastfeeding & baby-wearing have been practiced since basically the beginning of humanity; calling them 'fads' is particularly uncharitable).

His (his wife's) conflict is that socially-defined 'good mothering' (of the 2013 variety) is at odds with professional life, and he (his wife) feels understandably insufficient when she's getting blasted with messages like 'breast is best!'. So their defense is to fight against societal gender expectations which is exactly what the system wants you to do because while everyone is arguing about whether men can breastfeed, nobody is arguing about missing the formative years of their child's life because you can only buy a house with two incomes.
I agree. But considering that underlings are used as chess pieces and must have their big picture plans approved by the president, it's folly to focus more than 5% of the attention on them.

In Rumsfeld's case, he was tasked with creating a shitstorm by acting crass and making controversial remarks. It worked flawlessly and diverted tremendous criticism and attention from Bush and the larger policy direction. Eventually when he'd done that effectively for years, his resignation was engineered to help Bush turn over a new leaf.
I'm not sure it compares to the mother of all demos, but I've been using screen hero in combination with sqwiggle and it works fantastically well. I can drop into a quick video chat with another developer on my team, share my emacs editor, we can edit code together, check it in, and drop out. It's really smooth... I just wish the two could be combined into a single environment.
And they probably have most of the mail anyways because odds are he's mostly communicating with people using google, yahoo, microsoft, etc.
Yeah, this is what I was going at. As well, when a language like sanskrit is spoken as vernacular, then you end up with exactly what we have now: a bunch of related languages that have all developed their own changes and quirks over the last few thousand years.
That's just simply fantastic.
Hubble Finds New Neptune Moon
I think it's more useful than D though, because I can just add a header file to an old C project and make things better and still have things interoperate.
I'm sorry I don't really know what I'm looking at here. It looks like GPL + BSD = GPL in MODULE_LICENSE. Am I missing something?
In fact, if you are like most companies, your managers probably implied to your employees that your stock price would only rise as long as you were private. They might have said something ridiculous like: "Based on the current price of the preferred stock, your offer is already worth $5 million." As if the price could never go down. As if the common stock were actually the same as preferred stock. Silly them.

Is this something that actually happens or is he being hyperbolic? I thought there might be some legal issues around making claims like that.
That was deliberate irony. The following sentence started "But in all seriousness," which I hoped might tip off astute readers.
https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9232476/Who_is_tweet...
Just to be clear, I said cache cOnsiderations can beat complexity, not that it will always beat complexity at the kind of scale that busts the cache.

The interesting point is that you're not necessarily comparing like with like. For the right sized matrix, one is bound by compute speed and one by memory access.
Europe is full of US military bases, which although intelligence requests are approached through a veneer of "assisting allies," does come with a certain amount of implied threat when you enter the dark realm of realpolitik.

Heck, for half a century Operation Gladio and its NATO-wide equivalents reduced several European governments to puppet states through a campaign of terror, all in the pursuit of US interests.
Hmm, then I've never been on a "decent" bus (used buses in LA and a little in Boston). They never seemed like good environments for work. In LA particularly, even if it weren't for all the idiots playing music on their earphones that's clearly audible from over a yard away, there's these stupid TV programs running. And for most of the trips I needed them for (before I could drive), they took 3 times as long as driving. We make decisions based on the actual options, not what "decent" options would be. Driving is definitely a better deal.
Do Things That Don't Scale Applies to Software Too
@baudehlo riffs on @paulg with his node.js sax.
I wonder how they deal with the possibility that a github xcode project build file can run arbitrary code... What if someone submits a project to build that spawns a reverse shell and then trojanizes the build server for later builds? I wouldn't trust any ipa coming out of that machine.
I know next to nothing as well, but I think that perfectly laminar flow would be worst case. However if the inside of the tube had divots like a golf ball, the slower-moving turbulent vortices would push the faster-moving laminar stream away from the walls, so that the boundary layer doesn't impact the velocity of the central air column nearly as much.

Again: "I think..." I'd be happy if someone who knows more would chime in to tell me why I'm wrong. :-)
Because they know that google is very unlikely to simply shut up shop, the shareholders would probably never allow it for one.

A company can always have it's CEO replaced with someone more amenable.
> Your spouse, at least by law, shares your income (as you do hers), and has alimony in the event of a divorce.

Not anywhere on the east coast (all separate property states). In any case, that's besides the point. I'm as eligible for any property division in case of divorce as she is, but I don't get bombarded from all angles with pressure to be the one to downshift my career to stay at home.

> I like how you say that nobody has any expectations of you.

You're arguing semantics. I'm just saying they don't expect me to sacrifice my career to raise the kid.

> That kind of expectation a blessing for somebody, and a burden for others.

Perhaps, but one thing is much less fuzzy: the things that women are pressured to do are much less financially lucrative. And in a country where money is everything, that's a critically important distinction.
Did you read 2.2?
> asm.js is JavaScript. It executes according to the semantics specified in ECMA-262.

No, it's a strictly defined text-encoded bytecode that happens to be representable using a subset of valid JavaScript. If you deviate from the standard using valid JavaScript, you lose the gains.

Calling it "JavaScript" is just a semantic game. You can't output arbitrary but fully 100% standards-compliant JavaScript from a compiler and expect asm.js to do anything meaningful.

> Regarding having a "real IR", throwing away backwards compatibility for surface syntax doesn't work on the Web. It was tried, with XHTML 2.0 for example. It failed.

The irony is that these things fail because of the people who wish to maintain the status quo, and then those same people point to the failure as justification for maintaining the status quo.

It's not like you folks at Mozilla couldn't get support for a "real IR" from Google/Chrome -- that's half the market right there. In fact, the actual problem is that Google could never get support from you.
Well they start by putting all the C level exec's in jail for refusing a lawful request.

I'm not sure how long Larry, Sergey, Steve and Marissa would want to stay in jail but I'm sure they'd have plenty of interesting discussions:)
> above port 1024 malware...

Im using this https://github.com/stealth/sshttp to run it on port 443.

The other port it actually runs on is firewalled off from outside.
Information sharing has most definitely improved. One example is the Prism program, in which the FBI is responsible for data collection and then pipes it to the NSA. Not saying that is good for the country overall, but the agencies are definitely sharing more data.
You just need one to say yes and she will erase all 20 no's.

That works as long as the potential investors aren't comparing notes: "I heard Moneybag Ventures only offered you $180 million valuation..."
We are talking about the Yahoo that is one of the NSA partner companies, aren't we?
What will stop one user from accessing another user's database?
I see a bigger problem: the fact that things like citation counts are being used as a metric. We should be judging researchers by whether or not they are solving problems (or if they are helping other researchers solve problems -- like developing new research tools and techniques, or publishing negative results that tell other researchers what to avoid). It makes no difference whether a paper is cited one time or a hundred times. It makes no difference if a research publishes one big paper or ten smaller papers. What matters is whether or not progress is being made.
Embassies are full of secret spying equipment, and indeed spies. Foreign warships that come to visit "interesting" ports have been known to carry extra electronics intelligence equipment.

My point was that you don't have to imagine a foreign power having unknown surveillance equipment on your nation's soil. Unless you're in the most backwater nation on earth foreign powers will already be doing this.
Great quote when asked for an alternative to Facebook.

"My alternative to a nasty system is I just don't use it"
Machine learning for mobile apps
Feedback me: A file system that can calculate? Thx
There are a number of options. For instance, each build could run on a freshly provisioned virtual machine (like Travis CI), or using a carefully crafted sandbox-exec setup.
I like to recommend C Interfaces & Implementations

http://www.amazon.com/Interfaces-Implementations-Techniques-...

It uses Donald Knuth's literate programming which takes getting used to, however, it's a great case study of how to make a good library.

There is a new book on "21st Century C" which I haven't read. It has mixed reviews, however.

http://www.amazon.com/21st-Century-Tips-New-School/dp/144932...
Wedding Workbooks & Websites
> (nb: breastfeeding & baby-wearing have been practiced since basically the beginning of humanity; calling them 'fads' is particularly uncharitable)

Educated, upper-income Americans acting like they're prehistoric villagers is, in fact, the root of several different fads.
Are you saying that my personality is the reason other people can't conduct an interview? I agree I don't interview well, but that has nothing to do with a third party I've never met being able to show up on time.
I think Google Music's Android app is preferable to Spotify's. Spotify was really bad with skipping/popping in the middle of tracks, even when they claimed to have fixed that. And I was experiencing problems with hard crashes and restarts of my phone while running it.
The conclusion is sound - "Today is different in funding than yesterday" Similar to other posters, I nitpick how he got there.

Nothing in efficient market theory suggests constant PE ratios over time. Nothing in efficient market theory suggests that your stock will be higher if you double your bookings. (If the initial price assumed 3x bookings, you'll tank even if the market is the same) PE ratios revert over long time horizons (many years) but even what is considered earnings changes over time.

That said, his conclusion is true. If you raise money in great times, you may need to take a hit in bad times. Better not to overpromise.
Not thread safe. For instance the exception stack is global.
Right, mere facilitation is no good, you need to give that new person directive authority and make that function their job.

That's actually one of the things I'm struggling with in my current job. I oversee a collection of units that can easily track a certain pool of wastefully-utilized resources, but have no actual power to fix it.

Those with actual directive authority over the individual elements of that pool have no incentive to correct things other than some guy 8 levels higher in the chain of command being irritated.

And a third party that actually does the work that would get elements of this pool out of the pool drag their feet on it completely as for them it's "just admin".

So I get to make reports on this waste everyday but with little effective power to fix it. Standing up an audit team that would have the power to fix requires resources, resources which no one seems to have now...
That encourages teaching for the standardised tests.
An hour or two is a serious underestimate. I spent literally years reading about licenses before I came to my eventual conclusion.
Yep, the BSD code is still BSD, your mods are GPL.
You seriously need to get a lawyer, just because you're using bitcoin doesn't mean you don't fall under any jurisdiction. You are governed by your state and national laws.

Financial laws don't just apply to money, they apply to a wide range of assets classes. Plus it's not just money lending laws you need to be concerned about, look at the action letter served by the SEC in 2008 against peer-to-peer lenders for serving as an alternative investment asset class without proper licensing. The same likely applies to you.

Proper legal works will also protect you when one of your users sues you (which incidentally your insurance is unlikely to protect you against unless you negotiated a specialist deal) or the feds bust you when your service is used for money laundering (as has happened to other bitcoin financial services).

You should be able to legally setup and operating a bitcoin lending platform, but you need to make sure the paperwork is in order. You probably need either a specialist lawyer in the founding team or at least someone with deep experience of the lending space who can guide you through the hurdles.
The question isn't whether Daft Punk will or won't exist. It's whether people will pay for authorized copies of Daft Punk, or unlawfully download unauthorized copies.

You keep using this term "commodity" as if it meant "any market where offerings have a low cost". But that's neither a good description of the music market nor a valid characterization of commodities markets, which include pork bellies which are used to make bacon like you might find in a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich as well as gold, silver, and crude oil, which aren't cheap.

A commodity market is one in which good are standardized to the point where one provider's offering is as good as any other's, and so the only determinant of price is cost; commodities markets often feature low prices as a result of competition. But Daft Punk isn't competing with Blaft Smunk and Zaft Tunk for who can offer the cheapest dance album. Music consumers demand Daft Punk and will not accept substitutes.

You comments pretend that what's happening is that music consumers are driving prices down by avoiding artists who don't pay for licensing on consumer-friendly terms. But of course that's not what's happening. Instead, consumers acquire content that isn't licensed at or near "free" by unlawful mechanisms ranging from ad-supported P2P networks to Google's ad-supported Youtube site. P2P networks and Youtube don't reliably remit any payments to artists, and their significant impact on pricing is a market inefficiency; they're free-riders.

What makes music appear to be a commodity market is the coercive impact of technology coupled with the market power of a cartel of specific buyers which makes it untenable for almost any artist to sell music directly to consumers. Music is made cheap by piracy, and cheaper still by the fact that a monopsony effectively controls authorized sales.

I might feel like these were pedantic points, except that you're the one who keeps invoking economics in defense of the status quo, as if there were real economic principles supporting it.
The BSD code is still BSD, your mods are GPL.
Probably true. I'd bet it's also unlikely that someone so new to free software will attract many collaborators. So they'll be likely to own the copyright anyway (for at least the vast majority of the project) and can relicense it later.

But, yes, if they're hell bent on not learning about the differences between the licenses, they probably don't want the GPL.
This certainly seems to make more sense in a case like this - where deployment takes some time and the user is relying on continued service.
There are no Linux drivers for the graphics engine in Clover Trail.

(And of course licensing Windows would have increased the price by a large factor.)
Simple: One year with our customers
Ironically the only major tech company not to deny NSA involvement, is seemingly doing the most for its users privacy.
Fighting against the overreaching arm of the US Govt in secret courts for the last 6 years, without any potential for publicizing their plight exemplifies Yahoo's true stance on user privacy. Actions speak louder than words, what you do when no-one's watching, without any potential of direct benefits or exposure shows Yahoo's true colors.

Which is in stark contrast against other major tech companies strategy of instead deny direct involvement, launch marketing campaigns promoting users privacy as their top priority and go as far as launching anti-privacy campaigns criticizing the privacy policies of their competitors, whilst simultaneously providing an indiscriminate fire-hose of private user data directly to the NSA.
What injustice? The Germans approve the bases. The US finds them useful. It's a mutually beneficial situation that both sides want to continue.
Its easier to go the VPN route than port knocking, but the vpn then ssh is too tinfoil hat for even my taste.

As someone else mentioned, just run it on another port than 22, like 53 or 109, and youll get 99% less brute forcing attempts, and dont use passwords as those in the list, and disable user root to authenticate at all.

If you're still paranoid about the minor brute forcing attempts left then add the iptables rule to limit connection attempts to 1/min. You're still paranoid? For what really? Port knocking wont help out at this level of paranoia. Hrm, security awareness. Its just not worth the hassle.

If you already have OpenVPN setup, then its easy to put the ssh to listen only on the tun interface the vpn server has opened.
Musicians who play covers are required to arrange licensing fees.
This is a joke. $1600 is ridiculous for this and that guys marketing speak makes me want to punch him in the face: "less stuff, more experience!"

That place is totally over priced.
Also see https://github.com/orangeduck/libCello/issues/35
This reminds me of page 213 (175 in the book's numbering) of the Unix Haters Handbook, found at http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
Residential streets are not at all the same as highways and limited-access interstates.