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I don't buy it. It's not for terrorism - we've been fighting terrorism for long, without total surveillance. It's for controlling the society.
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I understood the #yolo version of 'swag' as being a contraction of 'swagger'. The sort of ballsy, narcissistic, uncaring persona that a a rock star or Jack Sparrow might have, for example.
More broadly it seems that he's oblivious to the field of automated theorem proving altogether. Why would people devote their lives to ATP if it weren't useful? Of course humans need to derive insight from proofs, but it's also important for them not to have mistakes.
I'm not as disturbed by them tracking their customers (I mean they've always had cameras in stores and recorded all your purchases anyways), as I am to the amount of effort and efficiency that goes into maximizing the amount of stuff they sell people. Like putting the milk in the back of the store so you see 50 other things on the way that you also might want to get, or putting ".99" at the end of the price tag to abuse our inability to estimate numbers.

It's the same tricks basically, just far more efficient. Making the optimal store layouts so customers spend as much time inside as possible or get exposed to as many other items as possible. Use machine learning algorithms to set the prices so every price is as high as it can be before people stop buying it entirely.
There's also flatdoc http://ricostacruz.com/flatdoc/ which renders the markdown file on the client side ('marked' js parser), so no server-side stuff is needed.
If this happens too often, the person with the ideas is probably the problem, not the "bad" groups
So, let me see if I understand this: the US is going to bat for the big software companies who don't want to pay taxes in other countries, and yet I, an expat American, am expected to file an income tax return with the IRS every single year for my foreign earnings, which may be subject to dual-taxation if I make "too much."

What a crock of shit.
Imagine a world where every person is controllable by the government based on surveillance data. They can and they will find issue with anyone they want, and if they are not vulnerable, then their family and friends.

My problem is not with fighting terrorism, but with using this data for all sorts of police and state actions, in the benefit of whoever happens to be controlling access. It's another power amplifier.

We already have politics and money to empower a select few, add massive data to the list. How is this going to work? How is this data going to be used and by whom?
I honestly can't tell if you're trolling.

You're asking for evidence... but are apparently not happy with first hand accounts, and classified documents.

The authenticity has been confirmed -- take for example the senate hearings where the Snowden revealed programs are discussed... or the US government charging him with releasing classified documents (the ones he gave us).

You "have a huge problem with the government ignoring the rule of law, especially in regards to treating digital content like it isn't supported by the 4th Amendment" but don't seem to understand how you came to know about these violations of the 4th.

Are you trolling us? I'm asking because I honestly don't know.

What more evidence are you waiting for? Or you just don't want to get mad until you know everything? /me is so confused right now
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Radio may be far more interesting that you expect. Once upon a time you had Payola[1] where radio plays were designed to influence record sales in a nontransparent way. Now you have the issue of consolidation where you'd have no idea which plays were influenced by royalties etc.

Anyway, my point is that your comment could be interpreted to mean that radio is democratic and it is a democratic way for meritorious music to be elevated.

By democratic I don't mean anything more virtuous than screaming masses, but I don't think commercial radio even rises to that.

Anyway, I have to read more to get an overview of how Spotify and others compensate the talent that makes content, or even cheat them, but I also want to make sure that popular radio isn't treated like something we'd prefer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola
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The streaming-music business reminds me of Netflix in its early days, before movie studios became worried that it was cannibalizing rental/VOD revenue for new releases. There are a certain group of fans who are willing to pay $10-20 per album for access to music the moment it's released. With Spotify, those fans are treated like any other stream even though they're willing to pay more. It's inefficient pricing, except from Spotify's perspective as they're able to use immediate access to new release music as a lure for subscribers. So really, you can look at Spotify as capturing that demand and converting it into free advertising for themselves. I don't see that as sustainable in the long run. Some artists are already holding back new releases from streaming services. Like Netflix, I think that in the future you will see few new releases from popular artists until they've been available through premium services long enough to capture demand from hardcore fans.

Spotify treats all songs as if they have equal value, but that's obviously not true from the listener's perspective. For any given person, there are going to be some songs that they're willing to pay a premium to hear, and some that they'll only listen to if it's free. Spotify is a good deal for the latter case, but not if it offers a discounted version of the former to people who could pay for it. Just because Spotify counts every stream as a single interchangeable unit of value doesn't mean that listeners value every stream equally.
Well, people look for exploits in popular software, so pretty much anything that is being exploited is being used by people. It's Google's job to secure Chrome, not the people out there that are looking for exploits.

Why would you work for free (or almost for free)? Do you not need to pay for food & shelter? Frankly, I don't see why finding an exploit and then selling it to someone is unethical. (By the way, you can replace Google by Microsoft or your other favorite corporation)
I'm confused. Did you not read any media past the prism slides exposure ? The mode of this leak is not a pure data dump on the internet a la wikileaks but through a responsible journalist. Glenn Greenwald has been publishing detailed and specific accounts of different NSA activities almost on a daily basis... As an example: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-co...

How much more specific do you need it to be ?
>(Actually, so can the Slovak Mafia, which is a reason to be leery of doing any crypto on AWS.)

Hi there! Any specific reason you have chosen Slovak Mafia (any reference)? They do not seem to me to be that kind of sophisticated at all. If any I would bet on Russian mafia..

Best regards from Slovakia.
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I would definitely pay $10/mo for a service that had even half the music I want to listen to, but there aren't any.
Well, the professor is the person in a position to judge which things are important for you to learn and whether you have learned them. This is a crucial difference from hiring someone to wash your car. If you are looking for a fee-for-service consumer relationship, I believe there are any number of diploma mills and for-profit schools with scandalous dropout rates who will be happy to oblige you.

But I'd appreciate it if you didn't attempt to interfere with people who are looking to be educated, which is to say, guided to develop into proper humans, rather than serviced.

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Exactly.. or, i would say i never had a prolonged period in my life where i bought music for more then 10$/month.
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God no!! Would you seriously want 50 different apps to listen to a different artist on your phone?

I also listen to a lot of Spotify every day at work but I never used to buy albums before. I do buy shirts and concert tickets from my favorite smaller bands (and back them on Kickstarter). So I guess the math comes down to, are there more people like me who used to pay 0$ for albums and now pays 120$ a year or people like you who used to buy lots of albums before.
Could someone throw up a pie chart showing exactly how much of your $10 actually goes to an artist? I'm guessing you're going to need to make it pretty large for it to be even visible.

Good on them.
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I do not disagree that tracking happens. What I disagree with is your implication that the scale at which it happens is irrelevant. It isn't. A security officer tracking me in a mall or a secret shopper recording my actions constitutes a single data point. Mechanically recording of all my movements within the store by tracking my cell-phone removes entirely all of my anonymity.

This kind of stuff is creepy, Orwellian and it can fuck right off.
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These things are not unique and certainly you are not the only one who has faces them. I can recall three to five times when I had completely lost the vibe about programming, it become just an obligation for my job. I found it hard to even look at code in my free time.

Fast forward few weeks, I started reading specs of MP3 format and created a reader of ID3 tag in PHP[1] and I am back to normal, the obsession about coding is back as it.

As @serji tells, find something new, try to create something about it and its just matter of some time when your passion will be back as usual. Good luck.

[1]: https://github.com/shubhamjain/PHP-ID3
Really? It's been a good decade since I listened to that kind of music, but considering that their target audience are probably a good share of DJs, who should care about lossless quality, this is quite disappointing.
Because "marketing" == "sleaze"...

I used to have those kinds of ideas about marketing, but I realized they are close-minded and not very productive. I've met some very good, and very smart marketers. Maybe the field attracts a wider range of bozos, because it's less 'concrete' than other things, but that doesn't mean it's all bunk.

Here's a great book about marketing and how to do it wrong:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001C6MQA8/?tag=dedasys-20
Cool videos, I also like this one
http://vimeo.com/50351080
It's amazing when people devote their time to produce quality

EDIT: Here is a piece about the guy
http://www.walkaboutchef.com.au/home/9-walkaboutchef/50.html
I notice that like so many projects on github, it completely lacks any licence, which is bad. Please choose a well-known licence and add it to the repo. Please.

[edit: thank you!]
Haha, this is brilliant!

Thanks for the laugh!
I think Spotify is in a great position right now, they are building up a huge userbase right now (first step for Facebook etc. too). But the service will monetize very well. For example I would pay extra per album to get to stream a couple albums on the day of their CD release just because it's convenient to have all my music in one application.
Or charge me 15$ a month for a gold account and add a feature on the artist page to leave a 1$ tip. This extra 5$ goes into my "wallet" that I can then disperse straight to my favorite artists each month. Like a microtransaction.
The Kenya Police was also duped by the same guy http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22306632. And the most embarassing thing is the Kenyan Police actually believed that the science-defying gadgets actually work.
Because there is not such a thing like $0/month for radio, as you are forced to hear ads, and the advertisers pay for it, and you are forced the songs you hear, witch some people paying for controlling it.

Yes, in the old days some companies controlled which music was heard and which not, and those gatekeepers were not as cheap as you thing.

Definitively not 0$/month.
Apparently Google was trying to use http://search/. http://www.icann.org/en/news/correspondence/falvey-to-willet...
Let's assume that you're right and that you can conduct scientific experiments to determine whether a specific moral is good or bad. For example, let's assume that it's possible to set up an experiment to determine whether the moral value that says "we should use honor killing" leads to more harm than good.

The question is, how do we know that we should do the experiment? How can science provide us with the moral value that says "we should do science"? How do we know scientifically, absolutely, that more knowledge is good for the well-being of humanity? Where is the falsifiability?
Prejudice is apart of every human society, so it should not be surprising that it shows up in our online communities. Egregious racist comments are no good to anyone, but I generally feel like anything that creates a dialogue is better than the alternative. If someone, with the veil of anonymity, can articulate their prejudices, then the dialogue that results from that will ultimately be better for reasonable people (with the assumption that all humans have some prejudice, but still hold the capacity to reasonably correct their thinking).
A friend of mine with a record deal is getting more from a single album sale than he gets from 50K listens on spotify.
I think that since the goal has been reached, there is no point in giving "your copy" of the bundle to anyone. If the artists follow what they have been doing in the past[1], they will make it a public download.

[1] The GameDev Garage Sale - http://garage.commonly.cc/
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Exactly. It's also pretty dangerous since their users probably feel like doing the right thing by going with Spotify and ditching pirating. Practically it doesn't really matter though if those two are the only options many users will consider.
The problem with this is upping the ante too much. The Government would prefer the secrets spilled to someone goading over them with it. The Government certainly would prefer this in the news for a year rather then for 40 years... Putin will use further disclosures as an excuse to hand him over expect not more then 30 days more.
In that case I'm not sure. But since we're on HN: Start a side project and make a business out of it. That way you'll get both engineering and business management skills ;)
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I might be a minority, but I'm paying more for music with Spotify than I've ever done buying CDs. (I do pay $16.50 a month, being in Norway). Doesn't seem all that unreasonable given my habits.
All music ever created? I cringe when I read stuff like that.

I'm sorry, but this is not simply nitpicking. We will change our perception of music history and music itself if we fool ourselves that what these outlets carry is the entire history of music. I'd say around 40% of the music that I have on my HDDs are not available on Spotify. That's just guesstimating, it could be even higher.
In the light of the Reuters misquoting and subsequent reply by Greenwald yesterday (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6040182), I would be extremely extremely skeptical about any secondary interpretations of Glen Greenwald's own words. It seriously sounds more like the writer of this article has nothing better to do than grossly extrapolate a few words into a whole fucking fantasy conjecture. I mean, come on, the ENTIRE article consists of editorialising about someone else's own words, and padding it out with old facts.
The article didn't do anything for me. What's the takeaway?

Good freelance journalism work will probably always be in demand? Certain industries are more stable than others? Amidst all the encouragement to think outside the box, sometimes thinking inside the box is thinking outside the box in it's own way? Someone has to make the tires of the world and someone has to make the cars? Making the tires is less exciting but more of a sure thing? Hacker news will up-vote bad articles that insinuate some kind of profundity? lol.

I think the actual "lesson" is to seek stability and safe bets in times of change and upheaval. That's advice for the unambitious though. I would say, in times of change, make your move. When the car industry was being born, i'd like to be on the forefront figuring out how to make cars. Old media is dying, new media is rising? How about figuring out how to capture the power of new media to democratize and inform(and monetize) the public.
Pirating music from a Jay-Z app seems much much harder than from a desktop.

There are already dozens of torrents with thousands of peers on The Pirate Bay. It doesn't really matter how hard it is, as long as a single individual can do it.

I think we're on the verge of a total shift back to the world of pre-CD burners where you simply had to pay 10-20 to listen to an album.

Before CD burners we had tapes. The logo of the music industry campaign against home taping is actually part of The Pirate Bay's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Taping_Is_Killing_Music
I was an undergrad TA for the intro CSE classes at UW, and I was impressed by the way the courses were run and proud to be a part of it, so it hurts me to read comments like this.

You're right, there is a large pool of undergrads who want to teach, and the department takes full advantage of that. Unlike every other department at UW (that I know of), CSE pays undergrads to teach section (20 student classes that supplement the main lectures). Around 50 to 80 undergrads teach every quarter.

Furthermore, the instructors are insanely dedicated to diversity of minds. They constantly try to incorporate different ways of thinking into their courses to encourage students who might not be the math-y or computer-y types to understand their own potential. As evidence of this: the principal lecturer of the intro classes, Stuart Reges, gives keynote speeches at educational conferences on the success of the UW CSE program in attracting and retaining women in CSE. There is a huge amount of diversity among CSE majors -- double majors in art, business, math, linguistics, etc.

The problem is funding. Even though there is a huge demand for CSE degrees, the department doesn't have enough money to provide them. There's talk now of implementing differential tuition at UW, meaning that majoring in a high-demand field will cost you more than majoring in a low-demand one. This might allow the CSE department to fulfill the demand, but who knows if it's really a good idea.

Sorry for the long winded reply! Didn't mean for this to stretch out. I guess I took your comment a little too personally. :)
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I'm not sure what you're getting at here.. the things I suggested also include a negative filter component...

To reiterate my second sentence: He was looking for a company that was too good to spend interview time on a question containing low signal.
Very interesting, I'd like one too.
But its not $10 for all music ever created any more than its $15 for all the food on the buffet at Golden Corral. Its all you can eat, not all the food. There's only so much music that can stream through one set of speakers in a month.

Blind Pilot was half the OP's playlist. They'd get $5. How many artists would kill to get $5/month from their fans?

The real problem is that Blind Pilot might have gotten a whole penny from the OP's month of patronage. That's the part of the system that's broken. The part where fans can choose from all the artists that have ever created is a feature (and a damn good one), not a bug.

I'm starting to think that beyond "not pirating", we have some moral responsibility to make sure that the money we do "pay" for our music actually makes it through to the creator of that music, otherwise we're just buying moral absolution from immoral middle-men along with some (lazy) convenience.

Edit: 'Egbert' is way ahead of me!

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Oh, my bad. Sorry. Thanks for correcting me.
Well I agree with you that the foreign earnings things completely crazy. Using one bad policy to argue against a good one is just as bad. This is a good move on the part of the US, what we also need is the ability to move corporate profit from foreign subsidiaries back into the US without facing tax.
Could you expand a bit of what I am supposed to be reading between the lines here? (If there's anything to read between the lines. I'm not trying to be a smart-ass going for karma here, I'm genuinely curious.)
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Especially if you consider performances that didn't get recorded for one reason or another. All music on the four or five majors that has seen a CD release in the US? Yes, this is fairly reasonable.
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With the day / night cycle of the sun, the phases of the moon and, for a lot of parts in the world, the seasons I think it is pretty much a given that humans started counting time. I'm pretty curious about any timeless societies as well!
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I really disagree. A proof is a proof, doesn't matter if it helps you understand anything or not.
Not that it’s his case, but $12k/year is quite a reasonable amount of money in a lot of parts of the world. As an example, here in the Czech Republic you can live a decent life for that amount with all the usual comforts.
It doesn't necessarily need to be corruption. If the device just makes random beeps or something then it's easy enough to be convinced that it's correlated with how close it is to explosives.

People do not automatically think of doing a blind test and measuring the results and seeing how well it correlates with actual bombs.
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