skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are multiple music store providers and a musician should have presence in all of them.

It seems that DistroKid solves this problem by uploading the music to all the music stores (not really all atm but maybe they will get there). This way musicians doesn't need to study what kinds of hoops they need to hop through to get included in any of the stores.
People who are old enough will remember the same argument about e-mail spam; it only takes a second to delete, so what's the problem?

Me, I still don't like spam.
I just press the test button, that's worked on every smoke alarm I've used.
92% of Smartphone Owners Use a Google App
I don't see how that's a loaded question.

You called me out by saying I was suggesting that people should be allowed to have total privacy over whatever means of communication they wish.

Someone else asked why you believe that privacy should be restricted depending on the means of communication.

If that were a loaded question, then the questioner would be asking why you believe something that you haven't indicated that you actually believe. But by my reading, you do actually believe that. And I believe the questioner believed that you believe that as well. If not, I'm of the opinion that it's a simple misunderstanding, and would love it if you'd clarify your position. If you do believe in that particular restriction, however, I'd really appreciate and enjoy hearing your rationale for that position, because I don't understand it and would like to understand it better.
I wonder why the investors chose to forego combined annual interest of over 25M (~ 541*0.05), for a non profit.
Very insightful and totally right. Thanks for sharing your opinion.
2) It's a very rare [1] and expensive material, but has lots of awesome properties. There is only a little boron on earth and 63% of that is in Turkey, many have died fighting against outselling it there, but politicians sealed the international deals anyway, that's a widely ignore fact.

It is a low-abundance element in both the solar system and the Earth's crust.

Somebody should invest a lot of money and time into finding synthetic Boron, because I really believe into this technology. Without synthetic Boron, it's a waste of very rare resources that we have on our earth crust.

Side note: Interestingly there was even a "reference" to Boron known as Boronite in Star Trek that could be synthesized into one Omega Molecule that looked like a Fullerene [2]. The Omega molecule was known to be the most powerful substance known to exist.

--

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boron

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerene
Not saying that the music industry impacts the other industries, just that there are parallels in the move to a digital world and these may be things that will apply.

But yes, there are differences, but there will be similarities too.
Feynman on the Nobel Prize:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMaBmik4VYg
Speaking of pipes, what would be a good way to branch pipes for some work and then join them back again in order? Running:

ls | pee "./cruncher" "./muncher"

will produce output from both ./cruncher and ./muncher in a mixed order. But often it would be more useful to synchronize the output so that all of ./cruncher output comes first and then ./muncher output.

You could redirect ./cruncher and ./muncher output to individual named pipes and then pipe a 'cat cruncherpipe muncherpipe' to follow that:

mkfifo cout mout
ls | pee "./cruncher >cout" "./muncher >mout" | cat cout mout

But that requires the manual precreation of the named pipes which isn't very clean. Using <(./cruncher) on the command line would automatically create an output pipe but doesn't allow redirecting the pipeline to each of the subcommands.

Any brilliant ideas?
This sort of scheme can cause problems with vote splitting and 'spoilers'; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoiler_effect#Bush.2C_Gore.2C... , and also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_of_clones_criteri... .

For example, if 50% of voters are "for" gun control, and 50% are "against" gun control, but there are 2 very popular, well-written posts supporting gun control, and only one very popular, well-written post opposing it, then the gun control supporters will "split the vote" and their best comments will only be ranked about half as highly as the opposition.

Which may or may not matter depending on how people interpret comment scores.

One alternative that i like is reweighted score voting: http://rangevoting.org/RRV.html
UK e-border system so overwhelmed that 650,000 smuggling alerts were deleted
"I really like the idea of this, it would make the OS less prone to errors and would make security a lot easier - there will be only the NPM packages as suspects. And updates will be a breeze for anyone."

https://github.com/NodeOS/NodeOS/issues/1
Store all the assets/data however you like, then append a job description (referencing the assets/data) onto a queue. Separate servers have a worker process running that tries to fetch a job from the head of the queue and start processing, taking as long as it takes. When it's done, it fetches another. A separate overlord process monitors the queue health. If the queue grows too large, it fires up more servers. When the queue is small, it shuts down idle servers.
If iTunes et al solely deal with distributors/publishers, then they can pass all copyright concerns onto them - there's a vetted company/organization (which presumably must be a legally-formed entity).

As someone else pointed out, they don't want to become the "YouTube of Music" - but I suspect it's more because they want to avoid all of the copyright issues that come with such a mantle. No need to be sued or worry about DMCA so much etc.
thanks ! very interesting - I have never heard of any of the things that you mentioned .

could you talk about why you chose Railo, which looks to be a fairly esoteric stack. Is it something you chose specifically for its media capabilities ?
No SSL login/signup?
"What I've been up to for the past year" another one of those hn typical "I'm not telling you anything until you click me"-links.
Pinay traumatized by horror trip to US
I began to notice this when I was hiring writers and editors in Taiwan... At first, I was thinking that maybe since I was abroad I was getting a limited cross-section of those interested in working in Taiwan. But, as time went on and I began to hire others from other regions to work from where ever they were, I noticed the same trend.
SublimeGit: Full-featured Git integration for Sublime Text
The line between "cold emails" and spam is quite thin.

If you don't want me to mark your email as spam:
* Do your research about me and my company and what we need. If we're a scala shop, yeah, I'd be interested, but if we're a python shop, you're likely to annoy me with your pitch for a scala product.
* The fact that you're the co-founder certainly helps.
* Use your company's email. Using a random gmail account makes me think that you're using it as a throwaway account. Don't even think of using hotmail, yahoo, etc.
* Don't spray. If I find out that you've sent emails to 5 of my co-workers at the same time, you're much more likely to go to spam.

I've been on the other side, and these are all rules that I've used when I tried to get people interested in my products.
it was down from 4am till 8am GMT -1
I guess Python by itself isn't "webby" enough. :/
But would a duplicate of me feel like I live forever? Won't I just feel it's my duplicate that lives on when my biological self dies? Maybe a little more satisfying than having a pyramid "live on" but still.
Flipkart definitely took the Indian market by storm. They offered Free Shipping for orders even less than INR 200, and that too with Cash on Delivery. That was rad. But, it was very much expected to go soon because a company can't sustain that way.

Personally, I feel that the Indian customers expect a lot of free stuff which is sort of ridiculous. I mean you have a number of book stores, showrooms selling clothes, computers and loads of other things just next to your house, yet you wait for an order which might arrive after a week. It makes sense if you want to buy a coffee maker because that will come with free shipping and a reduced price, but please don't expect the same for small items.

What interests me more is the fact that Flipkart is already close to Amazon's marketplace at the moment and I am sure that it will continue to grow in that direction. What if Amazon acquires Flipkart at some point of time?
I just compared premiums for essentially the same plans (3-person family, no subsidies, California) on http://www.ehealthinsurance.com/ (old insurance, 2013 plans)
and on http://coveredca.com/ (new ACA plans). The former are roughly 2x cheaper that the latter for comparable plans (cheapest one ~350 vs ~750). I also read other reports [1] of costs increasing. Could I see which reports of premiums dropping significantly - e.g. in CA - you are referring to?

[1] http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_24248486/obamacar...
they should at least do "real work" every 3 years to learn and feel what it is like
thanks - one tangential question: why upstart and not runit or supervisord or all the other tools ?
UK to recruit 'reserves' to dedicated cyber attack team
> I for one would NOT rip this out of my wall and drown it, specifically because of how it works.

Specially after tearing out a Benjamin for this gold-plated gizmod and showing it off to friends
Is your goal stability or climbing the ladder?
News article:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24321717

Application page:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/joint-forces-com...
CD Baby takes a percentage of your royalties forever. DistroKid doesn't.

TuneCore charges a (much larger) annual fee.
Electric cars in Norway:

- Three percent of all cars sold in Norway are electric, the same number in US is 0.1 percent.

- The number of electric cars on the Norwegian roads today is 7 000, and the total amount of cars is 2.4 million. The neighboring country Sweden has 4.4 million cars, but only 600 of those are electric.

- About 40 percent of those who own an electric car also own a gasoline car.

- The goal of the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association is to have 100 000 electric cars in Norway within year 2020.

- The Norwegians have earlier tried to produce electric cars through the company Think Global. For the fourth time in twenty years, the company filed for bankruptcy in 2011.
Transforming a static LinkedIn-profile to an energetic video resume
Really? Comments like this seem to be intent on setting up a strawman (ie: not anything close to what Gladwell attempts to communicate) and then knocking down that strawman.
The OECD isn't interested in clicks. Not everything in the world is powered by banners.
Slightly off-topic: Fusion power keeps being "50 years away" because nobody funds it. See this interview on Slashdot from 2012

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/04/11/0435231/mit-fusi...

In particular note the funding graph in question 3.
and compared to Western Europe it doesn't have a very high number of immigrants.

I suppose if you mean "people who've immigrated within the past two generations". Because, um, historically the US is where Western Europeans immigrated to.
>Right now there's a cron that runs every few seconds, finds the next unprocessed file, and processes it via command line. If/when volume gets really high, I'll probably have to do this somewhat differently to make sure it scales.

Hah! Really cool. I wrote a very similar script/program to do that for huge video files using tons of different case/switch methods that carve up mplayer2.

Really awesome project, BTW.
>They may not be making billions out of App Engine but a lot of fortunate 500 are moving to this kind of platform

Not that many.

>and Google has probably invested tens of billions and thousands of engineers into GAE

If we're speculating, I'd say, far far less.

Except for the parts they use themselves too, anyway.
Good question. Maybe they know something we don't ?
Both. This is not some metaphysical bullshit:

- If you have more money (wealth, the key), you are freer, because you don't have to earn a wage for longer (with enough money, you are retired and don't ever have to earn a wage again.)

- If you have lower costs (lifestyle, the chains), you are freer, because any wage you earn can be lower, and you have more spare money to put towards your wealth.

You don't need to chose between being a wage-slave or a hippy. Investing a good fraction (say 10-80%) of your income is something most middle-class westerners can afford, attacks both ends of the problem, and leads reliably to freedom.
Quasar IV Encrypted Ninja Smartphone Goes Into Production
I would like to say that contrary to software engineering, physical engineers tend to use quirks more often than software engineers, but the reality is that in both worlds quirks are heavily used and accepted. Hence MVP and other quick and dirty delivery models are popularized...
Could you provide a link to your system? I'm curious.
What are the royalties each of those companies pay to the musician? Also, do they filter music our uploads? I can imagine users uploading popular music to earn on top of succeeding musicians.
We don't use autoload because it's slow and doesn't work with APC. Not rocket science.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4788452/does-autoload-rea...
As software people, we have a unique advantage over other humans when it comes to understanding the process of copying information. I invite you to look at it from that perspective.

> But would a duplicate of me feel like I live forever?

Your duplicate is you, it doesn't even matter how many of you there are at the end. Unless the initial brain upload is a destructive scan, this pertains to your biological "original" as well. How things feel like in that situation would be pretty much down to your state of mind, so no difference there to how things are now.

Also, this doesn't mean you'll live forever. Nothing is forever. It's just another form of existence, albeit there is reason to be hopeful it will be longer and individually better than a biological existence.

> Won't I just feel it's my duplicate that lives on when my biological self dies?

Again, that depends on the tech level at the time. Most likely, the first forays into this territory will be made by dead people who have their brains scanned. There will be no biological self left in that case. Once technology moves further, it may become possible to do a non-destructive scan of the brain. In that case, people will most likely opt for this technology as a backup plan (though some - including myself - may not and choose to literally fork themselves).

> Maybe a little more satisfying than having a pyramid "live on" but still.

The difference, as I said, is that it is you who lives on.

Even if you could somehow confer upon a pyramid a portion of yourself, it's still just a static monument. Transferring your mind onto a virtual machine is not just a matter of preserving it for posterity, the point is to continue living and thereby changing. The concept of you is not a static thing.
"Once the brain is understood well enough to be modeled digitally, it stands to reason that the complete set of data representing an individual person (at a particular state of time) could be copied or transferred just like saving a file."

What exactly are you going to save to that file? Positions of molecules? States of atoms?

Oh, so we're assuming we can abstract away from the physical system? Either we abstract or we save everything. Well, what's everything? Or can the abstraction be "good enough"?
Yes, and if they weren't retarded they would call themselves Walton Research, or perhaps be publicly traded with Walmart owning 80% of the stock and being the sole client?
Our love-hate relationship with OAuth
The strength of an economy rarely depends on the education or knowledge of the masses.

Often it's just access to natural resources or the ability to get access by force. (otherwise I would have to assume that neolithic societies like those we find in Saudi Arabia or Qatar would have one of the best educated populations out there)

As long as the US is able to sustain its military apparatus and educate the top 1% well enough so they can innovate on technology they'll do fine.

It's not as if no one knew that US education for the masses is average at best, but it didn't matter in the last decades, and it probably wont matter in the future.
I don't recall printing anything else than boarding passes in years. Documents nowadays are written on a computer, and also shared and consumed on a computer.

And even those only when flying outside of Europe, as here we can use QR Codes on smartphone screen at the gate.
Agreed. I believe requiring a service provider to turn over their private SSL key, exposing their entire user base to privacy breaches, to be an unreasonable search.

And that's not even really my point. I object on a higher level. If the government goes to a service and says, "I have a warrant to wiretap this user", and the service says, "sorry, we don't have the ability to give you access to a particular user's activity", then I believe the Feds should have two options:

1. Ask if there is a way for the service to be modified to make it possible, and if so, pay for the modifications. And the service provider must be allowed to advertise that they are now subject to law enforcement wiretaps (let's say one of their previous marketing points might have been that they are immune to such things). I'm debating also suggesting that the service provider should be allowed to refuse that request, regardless of payment, but I'm not quite sure how I feel about that.

2. Walk away and find another means of gathering evidence.

To take #1 a step further, if the service actually enables perfect secrecy, and there actually is no way that it could be modified to meet the Feds' request, I think that's fine too, and a service like that should be completely lawful.
Great job dude, this is awesome. I'm sharing this with everyone I know who makes music, and not just because I want the referral. I'll probably upgrade as soon as I release another track, regardless.
Why waste so many batteries? Ultralife last a lot longer ($4.50 bulk price / 8 years) per cost than alkaline ($1.50 bulk price / 1 year) and are less work.
Yeah, i was specifically thinking of the prefixes jn the tor and agg layer. I read it as having all the vips in the rack as next hop /32s. Add a bunch of intra rack ecmp groups and its not insignificant. Im not sure i buy the feasability of /27 per rack or a simple /17 supernet at the agg layer long term. Rack address counts will not be uniform, id expect everything from /29s to /23s depending on host types. Assuming uniform allocation at the pod/dc level also seems like a stretch. Renumbering and super/subnetting is going to fragment the ip locality over time. Ecmping through the core eats yet more prefixes, and (Id guess) forces hot ones to be deagg'd.

All that said, you do get a couple thousand prefixes on your $10,000 trident box. And im obviously not an NE. So maybe it would work inside a small cluster.
Do Android Or Windows Phone Have Any Hope Of Defeating iPhone?
Interestingly enough, the best solutions come from both parts working together. In this example, the conservative view is indeed correct, it is very, very dangerous if you could disable a true alert. However, the progressive view still has a darn realistic point.

But, once you combine both, you reach a really interesting third way: Don't do binary detection, do trinary detection if possible. "No smoke", "Some smoke" and "Ok this is completely fubar"-levels of smoke. "Some smoke" can be waved, Fubar-Levels of smoke cannot be waved and the user is informed of this.
> In "the obvious", note that the switch to ARM64 also allows a more efficient Obj-C runtime […]

Why wouldn’t inline reference counts (as an extra 32 bit word in the object struct) be just as effective on a 32 bit architecture?

Apple’s tagged pointer tricks are just making the best of a bad situation.
Internet wishlist  : Customers provide ideas for apps and software
Yes. You can specify which stores you want to be on.
>>Personally, I feel that the Indian customers expect a lot of free stuff which is sort of ridiculous.

The fact is that we are upto cultural problems here.

>>but please don't expect the same for small items.

Again, which part of India do you live? Have you seen how vegetable push cart vendors, street salesmen or hawkers are treated. These people not just deliver a very low price stuff for free, but go further and have to face bargains for as little as 1 - 2 rupees.
A computer with input and output, yes. Some representation of relevant neurotransmitters and sensory inputs and such seems necessary. Think whole brain emulation, rather than extracting the "mind information" while ignoring all the physical information.
How did you decide on using MediaInfo and SOX, rather than say eyeD3 and ffmpeg?
That would be extremely boring to live endlessly.
Farewell services must be introduced, exciting ways to go "events". :)

then you wake up as a yourself from copy

Would you be more afraid to loose it?
Right now you will die anyway, we accept that(some more, some less). Some build fear based communities around death.

Would everyone regress in preserving "life" instead of being bold and exploring where no man would go. What gives if I get deadly radiation poisoning, I might discover something. What gives if I drown in my new innovative diving gear, this shit is revolutionary.

I rather do nothing on that sort if I can live forever, I will be as safe as possible, taking no risks?

But, there is saying about crossing bridge when one gets there.
I tried to check prices on CA site on Oct 1. I never tried to sign up, so the system actually didn't have to go to IRS, DOD or DHS - I just wanted to see the plans offered. In fact, it had to do no more than look up a few tables and do a couple of basic calculations. Still, the site was as broken as one could be - about 75% of requests just timed out. The rest were presented in broken design and half-loaded pages. Navigation was completely broken. I spent couple of hours and many tries and retries until I could actually see how much an insurance plan would cost me. And LA times reports[1] the site has had 645K hits for the whole day. DOD, SS and VA is not the problem here - the site just had a crappy implementation.

[1] http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-california-he...
No. Overpopulation is a myth:

http://overpopulationisamyth.com/
the thing is, being close to your college or work is that you have all that time you're spending to yourself. if it takes 2 hours in total then you will have 2 more hours for yourself in which you can learn something new or build something good. this is why i relocate to a closer location when i have a new job.
He shut down the site, so unless they've been capturing all the encrypted data and the sessions didn't have forward secrecy, the key was already useless.
No, we all should not give up our right to privacy. There should be lawful means to investigate crimes with proper judicial oversight.

Sure. And I'm arguing that a judge that would sign a court order instructing Lavabit to turn over its private SSL key is displaying ridiculously improper, poor judicial oversight.

My comment was actually a bit more meta and high-level than that, though. My fear is that an "untappable service" might at some point become illegal. For example, if I were to put up a communications service that allows someone to send encrypted, plausibly-deniable messages, and I don't and cannot have the ability to decrypt them, the government would try to make that sort of thing illegal.
exec.Command doesn't run a shell; it just executes the command. So yes, it's perfectly safe to have spaces and other shell metacharacters in there. Whether or not it's efficient here is another question, of course.
GSoC 2014 - 10th year