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You need to get permission from the copyright holder, which has gotten substantially more expensive over the years. Hip hop tracks back in the 80s and early 90s used to contain loads of different samples all mashed together, but it slowed down a bit after people started suing. Nowadays sampling isn't quite as popular, and sampled tracks don't usually use more than one or two samples.

The rapper Fabolous had a hit song "Breathe" several years ago that contained a sample from a Supertramp song. The track leaked and became HUGE before they cleared the sample, so when it came time to negotiate Supertramp had all the leverage. Supposedly they got $100,000 plus almost all royalties, so Fabolous didn't make any money off the single. (Though of course he made tons on album sales).

EDIT: Just because you're supposed to clear samples doesn't mean people always do. If a sample is obscure enough or sufficiently altered, artists may try to get away with it hoping that no one will notice -- apparently that's the case with Daft Punk. I think Timbaland has gotten into trouble sampling foreign artists without permission ("Big Pimpin'", maybe), and the source of the sample in Nas's "Nas is Like" went unknown for around a decade. See http://www.whosampled.com/sample/4061/Nas-Nas-Is-Like-John-V...
Well, I know you said this is "up for debate", but really, any form of digital currency issued by the Federal Reserve wouldn't be anything any consumer would want.

The "Federal Reserve" is a federation of privately-owned banks authorized by the US Government as the banking monopoly that is permitted to issue its currency. The Federal Reserve is the bank that US government borrows from, and the private banks that issue the funds to the US Government make profit off of the loan. Excess profits (outside of legally stated limits) get returned to the tax payers. The saying goes -- there "Federal Reserve" is as "Federal" as "Federal Express (FedEx)".

Understanding this, the banks that make up the Federal Reserve are the banks that issue credit cards and make money off of financial transfers. The Federal Reserve is not going to do anything to endanger the profits of its member banks. So while the Federal Reserve could create a crypto currency, assume it would be laden with an oppressive fee structure, issued and collected by its member banks. Every bank covered by the FDIC is a member bank / Federal Reserve.

The only things consumers could get out of this is convenience. Banks are hungry for profits, so there would be fees, there would be advanced currency tracking (think FBI / NSA), there would be no privacy, there would be electronic fraud that may or may not be able to be reversed.
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That's true, but it's a straw-man argument, because Microsoft did not just produce the compiler. They produced the compiler AND the operating system AND two of the three applications in question.
Something to keep in mind is that Canada doesn't have a two party system. In the election that the conservatives gained a Majority, they only got ~40% of the vote. The majority of voters voted for 'not the Conservatives', but often split the vote.
You're assuming that given free choice, more women would choose computer science. But there are lots of other higher status degrees to choose, so I wouldn't take that as a given.
> I’m going to go out on a limb and say that’s true for everywhere else now, too. Are there sexist and biased individuals out there? Of course. Are there systems still in place from a sexist past that need to be revamped? Sure, and the flood of educated, successful women will eventually take care of that.

I can't speak for the women groups, but I think the last sentence in the above statement has not, to their opinion, borne itself out. Thus, the need for groups that specifically advocate for them.

I'll say this as a member of an "empowered" minority group... I'm Asian, I've grown up in nearly-all-white communities in the Midwest, my family was technically low-income but otherwise, I never felt disenfranchised. And I did follow in the "model minority" path of working hard and doing well for myself, and Asians, overall, perform highly on tests of academic measure and personal wealth in America.

But let's ignore the thing of not all Asian immigrants being on equal footing (that is Chinese/Korean/Japanese is not the same as, say, Cambodian)...Asians, despite their empowerment, get roundly screwed in media portrayal and perception. In news coverage and in popular media. The only reason why I watch WAlking Dead from time to time is because it is so utterly astonishing to me to see a popular lead Asian character who is not at all exotic, not valued for his math skills, and doesn't appear to know martial arts. (there's also BD Wong in Law and Order SVU, but he's not as much in the spotlight as Steven Yeun's character).

A friend of my works in an Asian American advocacy group...we both ponder on how Asians are indeed a privileged group, yet at the same time, because collectively we do so little to be the greasy wheel, there are ways we get stepped on. But because the meritocracy seems to be working for us (as a group), there seems to be little desire to get involved in advocacy.
I'm waiting for their next SEO single. "Oops, I did it again!"
I still don't agree that it is programmer error per se... but we don't have to agree on that. :)

Your idea is somewhat similar to "our" idea... at Objective-Cloud we try to bring Objective-C to the cloud... :) You try to bring it to Android. What a coincidence. Nice to meet you. :)
similar thing in Hong Kong.
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Not how the song was made, 'One more time' was released in 2000 but Ableton 1 in 2001.

Nevertheless, ableton is an amazing piece of software and always fun to recreate songs

http://www.whosampled.com/Daft-Punk/One-More-Time/
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I usually don't care about those fields because they're not _my_ field, but I don't buy the argument no one is talking about it: https://www.google.com/search?q=lack+of+men+in+childcare
I'm not so sure about that.. I'd think that a dollar burger and a dollar chicken sandwich is more nutritionally balanced than a cheese sandwich, preservatives and fat be damned.

There's also the staples, rice and beans and whatnot, but that's boring as heck. Fast food also wins on tastiness.. and since we're not robots, that's vitally important.
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Cocaine can be injected. As well as any other substance. Drive him unconscious somehow (someone could push him drunk enough and sneak into his room. Then using some anesthetic totally unconscious), inject a lethal dose of drugs, cocaine and heroin. Now get out of the room somehow, either from the door or jumping out of the window.
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Ignoring the jumping out of the window part, seems quite plausible. Never trust girls that you meet at the pub, especially if they look interested in you and you are a computer guy.
Infinite scroll (or some type of weird JS) won't let me get to the bottom of the page... Ain't got ish to do with this but I just thought that I should mention.
That's probably not true. The money is pretty good, for one thing :) The ratio used to be higher in the USA, and it's still higher in some other countries. To be specific, it seems like boys are encouraged to go into tech while girls are not, which has a few effects. The first is that girls don't really consider tech at all: it's not that they consider and discard it, they just don't think of it. The other is that more boys are proficient at computer skills and programming by the time students are entering college, so even if girls do take intro courses, they are discouraged because it seems like the boys are so much better at it.

Edit: do I really have to put "on average" every time I use the words "boys" and "girls"?
Are you suggesting that its falling because of sexism? Do you have any evidence of this?
It's worth correcting a small point the author makes.

"This strategy is tolerable for a social network or messaging app (Facebook got away with atrociously buggy apps for years)."

But the truth is it wouldn't be tolerable for Facebook to lose photos or posts. The experience can be buggy, sure, but users should and would never tolerate data loss like this.

I suspect the only reason Evernote is surviving this is because relatively few people use audio notes and, so far, text notes work fine-ish. I wouldn't expect that to last.
http://www.samples.fr and http://culture.samples.fr/ are two sites dedicated to famous samples analysis, and they've been there for such a long time that the number of titles analyzed is huge. It's in french, but the videos speak for themselves
Because complaining publicly is one way to put pressure on the proprietary companies to improve their offering and the way they handle user data.
Nice post-mortem on your failed mapping experiment, that was at least as instructive as the successes.
Not really.

What counts is how many MPs you get voted in, including the leader who's going to become the PM (see footnote). Let's say there's 100 counties, then you need to win 51 to have a majority government and you can basically pass any law because MPs tend to follow party lines. A minority government is when you get less than 51 MPs, in which case you always have to ally yourself with another party if you want to pass a law, or just form a coalition.

Note: If the leading party's leader isn't voted in, he can swap with another MP. It almost happened in Québec with Jean Charest.
No one ever encouraged me to get into tech, in fact I would say it was discouraged.
Let's not forget that Canada is a large country, with an unevenly distributed population, and no party really serves the entire country well. I don't think it's just a matter of no other suitable candidate being available.
This was a major culture clash for me when I ended up working at a company that mainly sells Windows software. I do my best to stay objective about it and not jump to the conclusion that it's incredibly broken because of its hairiness.
It turns out "-ise" is a French-ism, which we seem to have integrated in Australian English (blame Macquarie :-)
Unfortunately, you're not paying enough for your complaints to matter. Evernote has made it fairly clear that they believe the software is adequate at this point and have been seeking growth through partnerships with other 'organizational' tools such as scanners (with a neutered version of the lovely ScanSnap) and post-it notes with magic colors.

I have this weird spread between org-mode and Evernote, mainly because Evernote is usable on my phone.
Yes, I feel like people didn't understand the point of my comment. I was pointing out that the OP's "ideal world" sounded pretty xenophobic when taken in context. Just because we don't care about someone doesn't mean it's irrelevant if they're killed.
No one will be happy until we have full blown socialism where everyone is assigned a career at birth that maintains a neat ratio for every industry by race/sex.
I was thinking about this very idea. The Federal Reserve introduces a crypto currency that is centrally controlled and replaces the dollar (over time). Next, income taxes and State sales tax are eliminated and the revenue is replaced with a transaction fee.
The beuatiful thing would be that this would give the Federal Reserve a real control over the economy. Things heating up? twist a knob and increase the transaction fee. Recession on the horizon? Twist it the other way and reduce the transaction fee.
So, I looked into what transaction percentage would be required to replace current government receipts. Well, the US takes in $10 Trillion a year. Since GDP is only $15 Trillion the whole idea blows up. A 66% transaction fee just won't work.
(I know that GDP is not the same as Total of All Transactions. Is it velocity x GDP?)
Are you genuinely suggesting that every degree should have a 1:1 (or thereabouts) distribution of male and female graduates?
That looks nice, and useful, but giving you access to my linkedin account is a no-go. I get enough spam from it as it is.
Canada is testing this http://business.financialpost.com/2013/09/19/canadian-mint-p...

One bonus of having gov digital currency is quick and easy transfers avoiding bank fees/delays and fraud of ach and wires. Another bonus is you can use Fedcoins in a decentralized p2p exchange to trade them for other coins.
That's probably the problem. When those guys say "systems", people expect they mean OS/kernel-level stuff.
>. Bitcoin is a collectible.

Bitcoin was a money transfer tool to move money out of China

That's a huge reason it spiked, and why it stopped spiking (when they shut that down)http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/06/business/international/chi...
If so a lot of women are going to be upset when they choose architecture which is 80% female in my country.
There's an over proliferation of all conferences, and this includes niche conferences.

The answer to her headline question appears to deviate from Betteridge's law, in that she concludes that some of the initiatives help women.
MacOS had non-preemptive multitasking, what meant that a progam would only have a chance to transfer data once all other programs released the CPU. The default develoment suite also had several loops were it wouldn't release the CPU, there are some stories around about MacOS servers that stopped serving content because somebody left forcus on the wrong element, or left the mouse on a menu on some application.

But both OS X and iOS are preemptive. Networking just keeps working, but your interface thread may stop for a while depending on how you write your programs.
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> Never trust girls that you meet at the pub, especially if they look interested in you and you are a computer guy.

A recipe for an amazing life.
If I understood it correctly, the problem isn't that Oracle is using the Microsoft libraries and compilers incorrectly, it's the other way around. The two applications that are broken when using Oracle's ODBC drivers are actually Microsoft's, so it superficially looks like the company with the user-facing problems either doesn't want to fix their bugs or doesn't want to work around the bugs in the ODBC driver.

This isn't too uncommon, actually, but what usually happens is that the company with the upper hand prevails and the other one has to fix the bugs, lest they piss off their customers who have to leave. However, when both companies keep their users in tight vendor lockdowns, they just wave their cocks around for a few months blaming each other and settle for the users working around, since it's the cheapest alternative.
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> How do you know this is the case?

I don't. I also don't know if this is not the case. Do you? This uncertainty IS the reason for the current loss of faith.

> Matt Cutts said they've relisted them quickly because AH slipped Google some cash?

I never said cash exchanged hands. I doubt it did. Can you with a 100% surety say that a special favor of any kind did not occur?

> Maybe RapGenius followed their cleanup policy correctly

What clean up policy. If there is such a policy why isn't it public, why doesn't anyone know of it? [0]

> (RapGenius was) relisted naturally

A manual modification of the algorithm is not what has been established as natural over the last decade+.

> Thousands of sites I'm sure re de/relisted every day that you don't hear about (because they aren't being talked about on HN and no one outside here cares)

Ah, but know tens of these sites that were penalized, as in know 'em in and out, know the whole team, know of every SEO practice they implemented, these only include those that were penalized for having site structures similar to content farms (themes, permalinks and similar post type cross linking between posts) that were not even replied too let alone getting a chance. I also know a lot of SEO professionals who don't know any site that was afforded this (I emailed 'em, if I hear of one I'll update the post).

These sites were all with 300K+ uniques a month && 1MM+ pageviews/month.

HN is not my only source of information and news.

> are you sure none of those get relisted as quickly as RapGenius

Yes.

edit: [0] the only tool that I know Google allows webmasters to use to reduce potential penalty is the disavow links tool[1]. In the past I have seen this only useful for people who were targeted by link bombing etc. at times it was because a SEO practioner did in fact use some shady link sources.

Kudos to RapGenius for talking about it in their blog post, nonetheless, the results were still too quick (not judging rapgenius or their connections... only targeting Google).

[1] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2648487?hl=en
I didn't get your reference. Can you elaborate?
For your first point, Aaron was not an MIT student or MIT faculty so whatever traditions MIT might have regarding their lax security, they didn't apply to him.

Either way MIT made it actively clear to Aaron that his presence was unwelcome on their subnet. Keep in mind that your logic would excuse essentially any amount of computer crimes and actual vandalism if applied in general to anyone who cared to go to MIT. Note further that MIT 'hacks' are also famous for having the hackers treat the campus with great care to include not interfering with the rest of the students' study and cleaning up after themselves when they were done. And student 'hacks' certainly didn't last over a period of weeks and months.

As for your second point, MIT was the ISP (at least to the point of their network peers and upstreams) and since MIT is not the government the Fourth Amendment never applied between MIT <-> Aaron. Aaron's Fourth Amendment rights (which range Aaron <-> government) could never be violated by MIT unless MIT were working directly at the behest of the government, which is not something that happened here.

Rather MIT voluntarily cooperated with the prosecution after completing their own investigation (which is always the right of the victim of a crime). But ISPs don't get a separate legal immunity; if you are an ISP and act like an ISP (including following the law as an ISP) then you would have the same legal rights as any other "ISP".
"it seems like boys are encouraged to go into tech"

Please stop encouraging this lie. I've never been encouraged to go into tech, and I'd venture a guess that most people here weren't either. As a matter of fact, for me it was quite the opposite, because every time I was fiddling with a computer, I was told to "stop playing games" and do something "worthwhile".
Actually that's a shitty law, because it forces everyone to pay for an excessively long warranty whether they want it or not. It amounts to stealing money from people who would prefer a more reasonable warranty like 6 to 12 months.
This is definitely true. My initial intent was to oversimplify the problem and explain to friends, not the HackerNews audience.
A few years ago I used some wiki-style tool for Windows to keep track of all my notes. When I switched to a Mac, I couldn't run it anymore. I started using another tool called Journler, and copied all my data over to it. Took me quite a while.

Then Journler was discontinued, and I realized there was no way to export the notes without losing all kinds of metadata.

I briefly considered Evernote, but this time I didn't want the same thing to happen. So instead, I settled for Notational Velocity (NVAlt, specifically), which uses plain text files. The files reside in a dropbox folder, and I use SimpleNote on my iPad and some other app on my Nexus. I can also use a whole bunch of other text-editing tools if they have dropbox support.

While my solution only works for plain text, it's served me well and I'll never be locked into some (buggy) tool again.
My pet theory about Microsoft is that worse-is-better provides an overwhelming first-mover advantage, and an even more overwhelming second-mover advantage in the longer term (provided the first mover followed the WiB strategy.) I call this 'technical living-beyond-your-means' (rhymes with 'technical debt'). The flame that burns twice as high burns half as long, yada yada.

Eventually, you will be kicking yourself for not having made it right the first time.

The corollary is that eventually we will all be running Plan 9, so there are probably other factors at play as well, which I will quietly brush under the carpet, like air friction in a high school physics question. ;)
sigh really?

mixing heroin and cocaine is called a speedball. One is an upper and the other a downer, much like a cigarette and coffee can be combined.

It is certainly not that uncommon for people to combine drugs. Unfortunately death is not uncommon either. River phoenix and John Belushi famously died of speedballs.

But I'm guessing you'll believe whatever you want.
Last year i wrote this: https://medium.com/surveillance-state/32ba2b38c219 - and got a proper dollop of hate from certain segments in the webmaster community. They claimed it was 'sour grapes' - I have 140k visitors a day, am doing great, better than great. The monopoly is bad for all of us, even though I'm benefiting as it is.

This Google thing is WAY out of control.
Sometimes you'll get hosed because of the attachment upload limit, which does not degrade gracefully. Originally, it just logged that you couldn't sync. When they did add a notification, it was something along the line of "sux2bu [ok]".

I know the Mac App Store and download versions are different (never install the MAS version, just add the download version to your puppet setup.). As the Windows and iOS versions are obviously different as well, I have this feeling there's a bunch of #ifdef hell in their builds that doesn't get tested well before releases.
I ran into this a while back. Worth knowing about I think. I'd like to see a compare-and-contrast with "Writing Bug-free C Code." (http://www.duckware.com/bugfreec/index.html)
It did work, it killed the recession.

Had there not been CDO's threatening to take down the world economy, the credit drying up in 2008 would have been far less severe.

That said, I believe he's describing, not advising
Not necessarily, although it does worry me that the ratio is declining. Specifically, computer-related fields make more than average amount of money, so getting women into tech would help reduce income inequality and associated issues in our society. But here my specific point is: tech fields would be better off with more women!
I think back at many products that failed to gain traction and in many cases they failed not because they didn't provide a "wow, that's cool factor" but more because they weren't built with the everyday consumer in mind.

Building something that's is cutting edge isn't the hardest part. It's building something that is cutting edge and easy to understand that's hard. The iPhone was a good example of a product that did both. We saw it and we got it and most of all, we WANTED it. Same with the iPad. Google Glass? Not so much.
Tomboy¹ with Tomdroid² and Rainy³ for sync. I know, mono, but it's free, open-source, self-hosted, and a Gnome classic.

EDIT: added http://www.slant.co/topics/697/viewpoints/12/~what-is-the-be...

¹ https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Tomboy

² https://launchpad.net/tomdroid (.apk, not the Play version)

³ http://www.notesync.org/