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I feel a lot more pessimistic about analytics. I think almost all analytics, including non-real-time analytics, are bad for business. It has everything to do with the more toxic aspects of business management culture (quite possibly MBA culture, but not necessarily). It manifests itself in the form of a Cockpit Fetish: "Give me all of the data, and I will be the wise and benevolent mastermind that will tweak and turn knobs to tune the business."

The problem is that with sufficient data engineering and analysis, you are often only a few steps away from a completely automated and mathematically provable optimality...one that "genius" business leaders can only attempt to replicate. And instead of focusing on the optimization problem, the engineers and analysts instead focus on data presentation and visualization, in order to please the demanding eyes of the genius autocrats.

Of course, not all data analytics are like this. Some are legitimately useful as warnings or alarms, some are useful as ad hoc analyses, some are useful as reporting and accountability. But far too many run into the cockpit fetish problem, and end up as a massive and suboptimal waste of time at their very best.
Actually this is incorrect -- the windows you're referring to were part of the earlier MDI version of Opera. In 2000 Opera 4 came out with tabs very similar to what FireFox would have in its first release four years later (and its predecessor Phoenix had in 2002).
I ran a community radio show (3 hours, one night a week) in Brisbane for a few years. That's what I did: I'd rock up in studio with my music collection and play whatever I felt like at the time.

Now, it was a small station, but I had thousands of listeners in the country who tuned in online (was broadcast on DAB+, AM and online) and the main reason they gave was because of the bands I played that never got airtime anywhere else.

It also made me happy that other people got to hear my favourite local post-rock bands, and really helped with getting interviews ;) Was a lot of fun. I miss it to be honest, and am sad that it's going the way of the floppy disk...
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Well google doesnt hesitate to brag with worldwide Android Activations and marketshare so why should it be different for ChromeOS?
In every single apparent I have rented I have turned of the fire alarm. Usually after the second or third time it goes off thanks to me cooking.

The same is true for my friends. Once they found a hidden old alarm where they wanted to bury their alarm. Apparently the previous renter also hated fire alarms.

One time the alarm kept beeping even after I pulled it off the wall and pulled out the battery. Holding it under water is a great way to stop that beeping.

No, I don't care what the statistics say, I don't smoke and I am not worried about dying in a fire. And this is AFTER I got caught in a real fire when crackheads started one a few floors down from me in a very old building I used to rent in.

Strangely I am usually a risk minimizer in the rest of life. I never speed for example.

This is a long very long way of saying this fire alarm will in my opinion save lives. I for one would NOT rip this out of my wall and drown it, specifically because of how it works.
I don't think it's right that Twitter is being singled-out as the evil chauvinistic company out there, but it is undeniable that positions of power in Silicon Valley are indeed reserved for the privileged white-male, and that's the focus of the NYT article [1], although it does use Twitter as a high-profile example.

Would you deny that Silicon Valley's VC community is not a "old boys’ club" as the article describes? Would you deny that things are not tougher for women, persons of colour such as yourself, or latinos such as myself?

You are right: It is not practical to force companies to distribute opportunities equally among genders / sexual preferences / ethnicities / races and whatnot. However, we cannot also simply ignore the problem in our industry because a solution is not available at first sight.

Also, your own answer shows a bias against the author, dismissing her kind as "pseudo-intellectuals". That's exactly the kind of comment that makes technology such an unfriendly field for diversity in general.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/05/technology/as-tech-start-u...
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I do generally agree that they're making rather a big deal out of it, but I don't think your comparison to racial minorities is a fair one. Women are going to be roughly half of the population, whereas the amount of racial minorities in a given community might be much, much lower.

I guess another way to look at it is a coin toss...arbitrarily assign male to heads, female to tails...at what point does it start getting alarming for a given run that you're not getting any tail flips? When a person has roughly a 50% chance of being either gender, and your board gets big enough, there's definitely something going on. The same even goes with the racial minorities, if the board is huge.
Or people with dogs that wont stop barking when it goes off. Handy for house fires; annoying when cooking.
Good luck changing the procurement process. The UK Gov has been trying to get more SMBs involved in UK Gov procurement[1] in hardware and software is failing pretty miserably at the moment.

[1] http://www.informationweek.com/smb/services/uk-pushes-govt-i...

[2] Nuts, cannot find the link. Was an article on theregister.co.uk for what it is worth
4074 karma / 3.3 avg karma = 1234.5 comments. 1234.5 comments / 2046 days on HN = 0.6 comments per day.

No need for the snark.
A few other people have also suggested I raise the price.

If "too many customers" becomes a problem (increase in customer service expenses, etc) I'd consider it. But right now that's not an issue and I love that it's cheap.
I immediately thought of the story behind CD Baby when I read the post. I'm glad you're supporting it (at least in spirit / as a user).
What about?

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Every other e-commerce site that deals with many millions of visitors a day has had months, if not years, to figure out the touchy parts of their infrastructure and make adjustments while the traffic ramps up.

And how much those months or years of experience were leveraged in figuring out the touchy parts of the infrastructure? This shouldn't have been the first rodeo for anyone involved. There are numerous blog posts, books, videos, etc with ideas, what works, and what doesn't, for running websites of all sizes. Many of them are posted and debated on this very site.
No, granting for a second that you are indeed just a little mixed up on the terminology: what you need to realize is that you completely messed up your whole argument by phrasing it in a way that only you yourself could clearly understand. Otherwise known as a failure to communicate. Paddling back now makes it seem like you want to change the history of how this discussion went down instead of admitting that you might have started on a wrong premise.

Own your mistake instead of blaming everybody else and accept the very valid arguments that people are having with your position. It's called "learning".
The jaw-dropper here is how much this website cost: $634,320,919.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/obamacare-healthcare-go...

With all the state exchanges included, the websites for this program must be over a billion dollars spent. Amazing.
I'd like to see net profit minus salary per employee.
Of course, things are probably going to be tougher for people who are not white males, and we should pragmatically try and do something to fix that. My point is that articles such as this do little or nothing to help, and often end up breeding resentment amongst groups of every race and gender.

The journalism industry which writes these articles is often much less diverse and much less welcoming to outsiders than the tech industry that they are constantly criticizing and accusing of chauvinism and sexism. I do have a bias against these authors, because they tend to not have much to showcase in the way of their own forays into making any sort of technology stuff, and restrict themselves to writing about an industry whose fundamentals they probably don't understand.
Not for me. The site is up; the store is closed ("we're busy updating the Apple Store")

I think they have the money to pay for a second server park and seamlessly switch to it, and it isn't that hard, technically, so I assume they do things this way for other reasons (marketing, but maybe also because they do not want customers to have the experience of 'if I had logged in a second later, I would have seen the new product/the lower price on the old product")
I don't think what happened with SimCity supports your argument. People were outraged about it for weeks.
My money flows primarily to stores that sell FLAC, so Bandcamp still has an edge there.
No, they're just not offering new ones. You should be fine.
Impossible? That's just a constraint. If you have a dependency on some other service that is highly rate limited then you work around that, using any one of a kajillion different techniques. You don't just drop everything on the floor, throw up your hands and blame everyone else.
Overkill, but I run a VPN on my iPhone and block the ad servers at the DNS level.
I disagree. What programming is doing is "telling [something] what to do." The difference is that instead of telling people what to do, we are telling inanimate idiots what to do, and therefore it is not necessarily pleasant, and highly pedantic.

The output of a programmer is the output of their mind, not of their muscles. I've stacked boxes in a warehouse and that sort of work is altogether different from telling transistors when to output a high voltage instead of a low voltage, which is fundamentally what we are doing when we are programming.
It does track the arity of functions, but remember that this happens at compile time. Regular addition in Pharen is still just regular addition in PHP:

(def a (+ 1 2 3 4)) ; => $a = (1 + 2 + 3 + 4);

Of course, there are situations where partial application won't always happen because the compiler is unable to detect it:

(fn add (x y)
(+ x y))

(map #add [1 2 3])

Pharen won't be able to realize that `add` here is being partially applied inside `map`. It's not smart enough for that yet. If you try to run this you'll end up with 'Missing argument 2' and 'Undefined variable: y' all over the place.

However, I'm not putting a whole lot of emphasis on partials. They're there as a convenience, but they're not really a core part of the language.

But yes, back to the original point, all the tracking is done at compile time so that for addition with two or more arguments the resulting PHP will look like regular addition in PHP.
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Plus, it doesn't allow the #-sign in the address lines...
> how do you propose reconfiguring the procurement process?

For most of the problem areas, the answer isn't to mend it, but to end it. Stop contracting out core functions.
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"I guess another way to look at it is a coin toss...arbitrarily assign male to heads, female to tails"

You lost me there. Males and females typically tend to have broadly different interests, life choices, and career goals. So it is nothing like a coin toss.

There is a disproportionately low female participation in the tech industry, and we should personally recognize our biases when recruiting and try and avoid them, because we would like a more diverse workforce.

At the same time, I don't see the nursing industry (90% women) or the teaching sector (80% women) complaining about low male participation.
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I agree with the sentiment. The swing over to statically typed high-performance languages have come at the expense of being able to experiment and play with a system.
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Yeah, CA alone brings it almost to $1B (another $330M). It's pretty unbelievable how wasteful the procurement process apparently is.
Sorry about that. I think I messed up. Here's something real: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6519628
Why is music still sold like this?

Why isn't everything digital sold like apps?

What's the point of these middlemen?

iTunes provides the store and artist provides the product. In 2013 why does capitalism and technology allow this to occur
Good invention, but too pricey. His thermostat is great, but I need three for my house. No I don't have a huge house, but I designed the hydronic system well. Each part
of the house can have it's own temperature.
Yep. I think I forgot to paste in the real offender. Here's something though. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6519628
It's actually free for anyone to submit to Pandora:
http://submitmusic.pandora.com/

I may figure out a way to automatically submit there from DistroKid (so there's one less thing the artist needs to do), but in the meanwhile, Pandora makes it easy.

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I keep reading anecdotal stories on the Internet about premiums dropping significantly but I, some in my family and a friend have recently experienced the opposite.
FM was always local (to a point).

Born/raised in the bay area, lots of small venues including 924 Gilman and Slims provided early exposure. Then there was "The List", I believe Steve Koepke started, which was a great way to track local shows.

I usually augment local with attending festivals in other cities (one such in Vancouver on and off for the last 15ish years), but as tastes change and more is available to us globally, true discovery is hard. There is a lot I find I like in passing, but bands I truly want to see live or hear more from, it's hard.

Youtube and, to an extent, the audio "platforms" I've you access, but there are no real good filters.

My best avenue, for now, is follow the musicians I know and follow up on who the like/are inspired by.
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which isn't all that surprising. The feds act like spoiled children when they don't get their way.
Is there a stack-like mkfilo ?
This article on the Healthcare.gov authors (Development Seed) from back in June makes me so mad I could spit.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/health...

Especially these paragraphs:

"When we worked with the World Bank, they chose a plan from Rackspace for 16 servers," said Gundersen. "That added tens of thousands of dollars, with a huge hosting bill every month."

HHS had similar strategic plans for the new site, at least at first. "They were planning 32 servers, between staging, production and disaster recovery, with application servers for different environments," said Cole. "You're just talking about content. There just needs to be one server. We're going to have two, with one for backup. That's a deduction of 30 servers."
> On small setting for Linux, one dramatic performance improvement for LinkedIn!

should be...

you know what it should be ;)
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This might be one oy the best articles posted here.

Doesn't matter the negativity it may receive, we all know you hit the nail on the head.
The problem is people who equate rape jokes (which are ok, if tasteless) and rape culture (which is not okay, and must be stopped).

The dickwolves thing was well done specifically because it was a joke (not a rape joke, even) that happened to use the word rape that caused a massive freakout among those who don't understand the actual problem and instead wish to attack the symptoms.

Rape jokes are not a positive identifier for those who perpetuate rape culture.
Small quibble: Those press quotes pretty much each say the same thing - recounting the four point list that is directly above them.
Thought this at first but seems like the model is pretty different. Bandcamp sells direct and allows tons of free streaming. This service is geared towards placement in "stores" like iTunes and Amazon.

Also the community feature of bandcamp will be harder to beat.
When I was reading this, I was asking myself the same questions. Unbelievable that a musician can't just upload a song to iTunes. I thought that was one of the huge driving factors of digital music distribution, breaking down the old barriers? I don't use iTunes, but apparently I missed something - sounds like the music industry hasn't changed much after going digital.
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Heh. Sorry for misunderstanding scripture. Not my strong point.

> The universe's size is "larger than observable but not infinite". The Universe expands at the rate of the maximum traversable speed.

Really ?
1) Then how did it get larger than observable ?

Either by being infinite in the first place, or by expanding faster than the "maximum traversable speed". Assuming Einstein is right, it's the first one. Choosing the second option requires explaining a lot of coincidences : we know through observation the edge of the universe (the point beyond which we can't detect matter) lies within ~2 million light years of the "event horizon" from the perspective of earth. Are you seriously saying that's just a coincidence ? Note the corollary, answering yes, means that the earth is the center of the universe +- 2 million light years (and if you accept somewhat more iffy measurements, you'd conclude that the center of the universe lies within our solar system and it's moving). What are the chances of that ?

2) how do you know it is finite ? Can you point to even a single measurement that makes it even just somewhat unlikely ?

> Your Religion Studies sucks. As pointed out "God" sent an emissary and didn't show up in both Christian and Muslim religions

Jee ... I truly wonder why God's son didn't stroll through muslim regions in 0 AD ... despite muslims claiming otherwise, there weren't any muslims back then. So this is not an inconsistency.

The two genesis, have you actually read how they arrive at that. They pull a single text apart (sentence 1 -> text 1, sentence 2 -> text 2), see a weird pattern (the stories make sense if you split out the sentences like that), declare them 2 separate stories and find them contradictory. First of all, this process is pretty farfetched, and if you don't split up the sentences, they still make sense (granted, there are some hard questions that have no good answers, but certainly not enough to declare them inconsistent).

Second, assuming they did originate as separate stories, this was obviously an attempt to reconcile them logically, which was the whole point I was making : Christianity attempts to be consistent, I did not claim it succeeds 100%, just that it's pretty good compared to the competition. I gave the example that islam does not claim to be consistent at all. If you talk to muslims about that, inconsistencies are, first of all, not a problem, second if you need an explanation, they're just allah's mood swings. The God of Judaism and Christianity is good, and consistently good (he does not randomly attack people unless they deserve it somehow). Allah, on the other hand, is what might be termed "generally merciful to the good", nothing more. No matter how good a muslim you are, you cannot count on allah's help for anything, they're pretty clear on that. When it comes to world religions, the islamic case is "normal" : most religions have gods that mass-murder for fun, or simply because they're angry or even just because they're bored.
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When I first bought my car, it had Sirius/XM free for a few months. Most of it was schlock.

One show I did find interesting was "Metal Roots" -- it was on Saturday sometime in the afternoon -- usually when I wasn't driving. The shows I did catch were quite amazing -- places like indonesia and south america. Learning something new.

I've seen the same w/ Radio Helsinki (lived there for about 1/2 a year in a previous life), CBC Radio 3 Sessions, etc. But most of the US doesn't seek out anything more than the local cumulus station.
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Interesting. So every amateur can make an account and upload their stuff to Amazon? No filtering? Also, wont this attract people who upload Motorhead songs as their own?
Serious problem. I usually have my page magnification jacked up to reduce eye strain, and it's amazing how many things go wrong on the pages I browse. Don't use a clever hack without testing how it looks after a few cmd-+ (ctrl-+) resizings.
So at first I was skeptical of "...a service where musicians can just upload songs whenever they want..."* -- where I was thinking "How is this different than SoundCloud" -- but with reading about how to submit to the various providers -- that is awesome!

Pud should provide an API for these other music hosts to channel user content to these providers.

What I am interested in though, more than the ability to submit, is to FIND -- If this service were able to allow me to find micro-artists in certain genres on the major players - that would be fantastic... or to create channels/playlists of them.

I LOVE electroswing -- and it is dominated by the wonderful Parov Stelar -- but I have every track by him... so I'd like to branch out. If I could track a genre of "ElectroSwing" and have it look for artists across all the major vendors, and keep a purchasable playlist of these guys... that would be farking amazing.

Also, been a fan of Pud's for years... don't wind up on some fucked list ;-)
I love that it's cheap, too. It recognizes the reality of the situation: There is no reason for middlemen, like this, to exist...except that the market is currently broken because of over one hundred years of copyright law being built up around expensive duplication and distribution.

I believe you're doing it Right, both from an ethical perspective and a business perspective. At this price, you can position yourself to be the distribution partner people choose even after the market evolves to fit reality. It will still be easier to use your service, and you can add additional features for marketing, discovery, licensing for other purposes (like film use of songs, or for commercial use in businesses, which is owned by Sirius/XM and their ilk currently) and more.
Still using Railo I see :-)
As someone with the same email address for fifteen years, the same phone number for almost ten, and who deleted his facebook account five years ago, I can now say that facebook does it better.

I made a new account this month and reconnected with people I haven't been in touch with for years. Not everyone is going to set up a mailing list you can subscribe to.
That was a terrible comment from Anand Chandrasekher and shows fundamental lack of understanding. How did he become the CMO?
I think Apple was/is scared of "unprofessional" music. Apple doesn't want to be the YouTube of music. Not allowing shitty (or pirated!) music is a hard problem to solve. A bunch of suits and contracts does a decent job because not many people are going to take the time if they just want to troll.
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Hi, thanks for the comment. I'm not trying to say people shouldn't critique other people's ideas. Constructive criticism is great, and HN is an absolutely incredible source for it.

I suppose I wanted to distinguish between an overwhelmingly negative, weakness-focussed attitude, and a more generous, restrained approach. Taking the time to restrain yourself and evaluate your initial reaction isn't always easy, especially in the fast-paced snap-response mindset that I think internet reading tends to put you in.