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I see the same thing happening in metal. When I was in highschool, there were a few genres -- mostly 'thrash/speed', 'death', 'black', 'progressive' and maybe a couple more. In college I kind of got away from metal, and in my late 20's got back into it. After getting back into it, I thought "what the hell happened?!!?" There are now so many genres, I don't even know where to start. The hardcore punk of the 80's and 90's was now a legitimate "metal" genre, and every band that had even a hint of hardcore in it got "-core" added to their label. So now you have 'thrashcore' 'deathcore', and my favorite, 'metalcore'. Hardcore was originally supposed to designate a band that was a punk band that incorporated metal aspects into their songs. So it was already a mix of metal and punk, so what the hell is 'metalcore' supposed to be?? A metal band with aspects of punk, I suppose, but I still think the label sucks.

Then you have 'progressive' added to anything that isn't consistently in 4-4 time. Or the even dumber label, 'math metal'. There are even subgenres of prog now, including the dumbest sounding name ever, 'Djent,' which is supposed to be the sound that an extended range guitar makes when palm muting a low string through some shitty digital distortion.

I don't even want to get into the "post-" prefix either. The first time you see a redditor talk about the "post-hardcore progressive deathcore" band they love, you feel like shooting yourself in the face.
Agree, although as I understand it non-YC companies are relegated to the Who's Hiring thread, which is only once a month and pretty crowded (and Jan 2014 appears locked now?)
Problem is that "touch enabled" laptops or PCs are abominations in the eyes of God :) The idea of touch screen is good in smartphones or tablets, but completely riddiculous for notebooks. And Metro is optimized for touch, but annoying to use with keyboard and mouse.
Time between the release of Vista and 7: 996 days

Time between the release of 7 and 8: 1100 days

Time between the release of 8 and 9 (assuming a July 1st, 2015 release): 978 days
The GMO Narrative and Abstinence Only Farming
Nostalgic Capital: Money, Memories, & Miller Lite
Germany has not had nearly the problems with homeschooling that you imagine. Its prosecution of homeschooling families has been appalling, though. Seizing children (at gunpoint) and forcing them to go to a public school against their parents' wishes, and not allowing the family to leave the country, is not healthy for the children, the parents, the classmates or the country.
Connecting the dots between an act of a single mentally ill individual in San Francisco (1) and the tech businesses and workers that have moved in within the past few years, is a bit of a stretch.

No, make that an enormous stretch.

I get that it's supposed to illustrate the disparity between the nouveau riche and the people left behind. But this is something for individual families and/or the state to solve. Google, Twitter, or Oracle do best when they are left to focus on their core business. If you need them to contribute more to "society" than they already do, raise corporate taxes and pray they don't move to Austin.

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(1) a city famous for decades for the extreme and outlandish behavior of its homeless people
Well Twitter did get a large tax subsidy as a trade-off for keeping their office in downtown San Francisco. Those are tax dollars that could've added more beds to shelters or case workers to help out our troubled punching guy.

Now one could argue it's Twitter's "job" to try and extract as many tax breaks as possible and the blame really lies on the Mayor and other city officials for making that deal. Or really blame REALLY lies on voters for electing those people in the first place or not prioritizing higher taxes or higher social service funding.

But I think the point the article is making is that technology companies, like Twitter/Google et al, don't present themselves as monolithic profit machines of the same breed as Exxon Mobile. They're changing the world, right?
Introducing nostalgic capital to build better products.
Fyi, DX carries a similar module with a few gpio pins, 2x uart, 2x ethernet, and wi-fi. It has 4mb flash and 16mb of ram, and runs openwrt. $15 incl. shipping

module: http://dx.com/p/hi-link-hlk-rm04-serial-port-ethernet-wi-fi-...

convenient breakout ($30): http://dx.com/p/vrm04-multifunction-uart-serial-port-to-ethe...
Regardless of what you may thing about their recent imbroglio with Google, these guys are doers. Nothing especially new here for hackers, but you have to love the Rap Genius guys' scrappiness.
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Funny you should say that since "property is theft!" is one of the earliest slogan in the anarchist literature and is often quoted by squatters advocates :-)

What you have to consider, though, is the fact that not all property is equal. There is a difference between owning a toothbrush, and owning slaves. Equalling all property would be identifying a policeman's action of emancipating a prostitute from her pimp as theft of property, which of course is nonsense.

To give an example. Imagine you go to a country where slavery is legal, disgusted by their treatment you join some activists that emancipates slaves. Now you are stealing the slaveholders property and therefor committing a crime. Are you going to hold that crime at par with stealing someones money, or someones bicycle?

Now this is an extreme example, but a few hundred years ago it wouldn't be so far out, and slave emancipators, now considered heroes, were then considered criminals? Same may hold a few hundred years from now in case of land. Land hording is criminal, it keeps other people of it. It could and should be used for the great of the community. Squatting a few hundred years from now may be looked at as land emancipation, even though now it is as criminal as stealing a bike.
It's great to know what a library like JQuery is doing under the hood, but if you are going about your daily development using a progressive enhancement to access the dom using document.querySelector you are removing support for IE7 for no real reason.

You can query the dom in IE7 using other methods and this is the goal of a library like JQuery.

Progressive enhancements are aimed at providing an alternative for browsers that don't support functionality, not that don't support functionality the way you want to coded it.
Alrighty, Tom. What, exactly, do you want the tech companies to do?

Reopen the mental institutions? Maybe under private management? California closed them when Reagan's budget slashing lined up with the counter-culture's "Who are we to judge them?" mindset.

Give this guy some money and see how it turns out?

Hire people to reason with him?

It's easy to see there's a problem. The answers to these problems are harder, and certainly less popular, than asking the tech community to "fix" them.
I think the author means the sales of Windows 8 have been worse than Vista's. I don't think it's a qualitative judgment of the product.
Fine Gael calls for open source browser crackdown
Losing Net Neutrality is the Symptom, Not the Problem
Absolutely. It is a sad Catch-22 that many of the people who need help the most do not receive it because they do not help themselves, but their inability to help themselves is part of what they need help with in the first place.

Waiting for the inevitable arrest is obviously unsatisfactory, but I don't know how you can improve this process without trampling on rights.
>Even the much-maligned George Bush generally acted in keeping with the fundamental beliefs that he told the country he held prior to his election.

Bush promised a humble foreign policy with no nation building. He had criticized the Clinton-Gore Administration for being too interventionist: "If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, then we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road. And I'm going to prevent that."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_presidential_cam...
So I used the Echonest API on my final masters project, which created a shared music taste profile based on people in a given location, and used Echonest's built in smart playlist to play music in the space.

As a part of the application, I also built a D3 visualization quite similar to the one in this article for the tastes of the individuals and the tastes of the location.

It's amazing how much you can learn about a person's taste, given the combination of their genre tastes. <hipsterbash> For instance, you can safely assume that if the person likes hipster-electro-pop, their love for old western twang country might be out of irony.
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I really love how we keep getting advice.

Anyone want to suggest we hold a bake sale?

It's funny to hear this sort of thing from someone trying to accrue $20k in donations. Yes, many people will give bad advice. No, you don't really get to complain about it when you are asking them for large sums of money.
Yeah, that's exactly what I thought. It doesn't explain (or I don't see it yet) why the first example he gave wouldn't compile, but the second would.
Was anyone interested in forth on the cray too?
> So in a sense, how useful are genres really?

Philosophically, an answer is probably is above my pay grade. That said, time has always been a factor to how we understand and label music. Rock today is very different from Elvis, but that doesn't mean we need to throw out genres as a classification system.

Practically speaking, as paying a Spotify user, I really dislike their "browse new releases" tool. Browsing by genre, even some basic ones, would be a HUGE improvement. And, I'd love to follow a micro-genre or two.
> What have you done in your neighborhoods that helps people like this poor man?

Fascinating attitude. I can certainly understand the desire to help the clearly insane but being subjected to random violence is absolutely unacceptable. Who would subject children to such an environment? I guess the people putting up with this are young people without families or dependants?
Thanks - that's really interesting. I'd be really interested to know how many user ratings were needed for such fine-grained controls?
People are jumping over the fact that he singled out tech companies but I think he did so because he was talking about San Francisco specifically.

While Twitter doing more in the community may not have prevented this incident from occurring, I think the overall idea is right. Corporations should give back to their communities. Corporate influence is huge, corporations are members of their communities and have the power to effect real change.

I also think it goes a long way for company culture when the company as a whole is genuinely focused on giving back. A lot of people rarely feel the joy of giving because they don't know where to start. They're intimidated. If the company you work for provides a platform for you to be able to roll up your sleeves and help people, that can be incredibly rewarding. Everyone benefits, including the company who gains credibility and good will within the community.
What's the cake?
Because instead of getting away before he was in punching range, you stood there and took a photo?
His Sarasota School works are amazing. Amazing enough that they are the only American "architectural school". The way in which he was able to translate that same understanding of human habitation into massive buildings is a remarkable feat.

It hit me when I visited the Massachusetts State Building in Boston - his corduroy concrete's ribs are sized to the human grasp and hit us in our subconscious in a way that makes the scale at which we experience the building change.
Thanks, just donated, I use openssh every day so it just makes sense.
Comcast to build second, taller Philadelphia skyscraper
The developers who volunteer their time to work on it:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/arch/m88k/incl...

Keep in mind that OpenBSD is by the developers for the developers. That it's also useful for a lot of users is just a nice side effect, helpful for testing and funding.
They accept bitcoins, here is their donation page, and they're the people that maintain openSSH, the software that I'd bet ALL of us use every day:

http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html
Maybe. Doing anything with bitcoin today is a giant pain in the ass. Which is easier?

a) Typing in a credit card number + billing address.

b)

- Signing up for an account at a Bitcoin exchange.

- Transferring money to them (by doing a?)

- Waiting for them to exchange it.

- Transferring it to the recipients' wallet (this one step is kinda-easy, I'll grant)

- Hoping the price of bitcoin holds stable-ish so that my bitcoins are still worth something when the recipient converts them back.
I would love to see more FOSS projects on GitTip (https://www.gittip.com/). It would seem to me that regular small donations that can be budgeted would be more helpful than just scratching where and when it itches. Giving $1 a week versus $50 at once is so much more convenient. We as the FOSS community need to own up that writing and hosting software isn't free, and most of us as highly paid engineers are in a position to be charitable and help out. My resolution for this year is to give away 1% of my income to the FOSS community and related charities (EFF, Wikipedia, Ada Initiative, PSF, etc). I challenge everyone on HackerNews to do the same. Stop bitching and put your money where your mouth and let's go help make a better world.
Tags are awesome. But, they often end up completely unrelated to musical elements, and purely related to personal or cultural connections.

Take a look at some of the weird tags you can find on Last.fm. It's valuable, but different than "categorization." It's more like "relationship."
These are good points. I suppose I was referring to the style and motivation of the material rather than it's factual content.

Must propaganda be factually false or grossly misleading? I don't know...
In most tech companies, data scientists have adopted python over R or Matlab. The benefit is it's easier to scale python to larger datasets, and of course easier for the engineers in the company to take python code that computes algorithms and such and put them into production / products.
Thanks. We support regex matching now. Try dragging to select text, if there's a relevant regex pattern and kimono will find it (there's an example inthe blog post). You can preview (and soon, you'll be able to edit) the CSS and Regex also in advanced mode.
I don't think this is about, or should be about twitter/google/apple fixing social problems directly but about wondering if they're getting relatively free ride taxation wise. My sense is that they are.
> why the hell they aren't raising that money by, perhaps, taxing Google.

Perhaps because Google hides most of its income from the US and California governments through various international subsidaries.

And perhaps also because the moment they worked around all these loopholes and actually started to get money out of Google, Google would simply up and move away, making things worse.

Google, Twitter, and companies in general, should have some duty to their communities, if only out of gratitude for providing an environment in which they could thrive. That they don't speaks volumes on their corporate values.

Personally, I think it's a problem with the "profit for shareholders above all else" which dominates the discussions about corporate values.
Google around, often times people have downloaded the lecture videos / homework assignments
> Personally, I have no problems with Windows 8, I even prefer it to 7 (or Android) on touch enabled devices.

Even on non-touch devices, the big problems I have with Win 8/8.1 are solved by readily available third party software that gives you back a Win 7 style task bar / Start Menu (and, actually, I prefer and use this on my touchscreen laptop, as well.) AFAICT, Win 8 is an all-around improvement except for basically one highly-visible but trivially correctable UI decision for keyboard-centric devices.
There's one machine in my house that I could run Linux on full time. Unfortunately, that's the machine my printer is hooked up to, and Lexmark refuses to make a printer driver for Linux for that model.

I didn't go out and buy a new printer, I reinstalled Windows.
Gentoo's antecedent was freebsd ports. Hence the name portage.
Thanks! Very intereting :-)
Some bands cross genres quite comfortably. One of my own bands does some material that is basically "If Lilith Fair had a prog band" (so both progressive rock and "Lilith"), but other material that is straight up parody in the Weird Al style ("filk" or "dementia", neither of which I found on the list).

The problem isn't with genres, it's with trying to put bands in them.
He missed my most crucial requirement: Can a package manager support more than it's chosen language? Am I forever consigned to vendor lock-in?

Every one of these tools is 100% focused on supporting a single language. They go so far as to use that language as the build spec so even attempting to bend it to another platform feels alien. It's okay if I only ever want to use Ruby or Javascript will be my thing for the next decade. But what if I want to take my existing npm or gem workflow or knowledge and apply it to a new language? I have to start all over from scratch. I'll have no idea how to fetch dependencies or package up my stuff for sharing.

If I start to tinker with more than a handful of languages, my head is going to be full of details on package management rather than APIs or library capabilities. Who wants that?
He's less than diplomatic. Precisely the kind of guy you want running a no-compromises high-security operating system project, in my book.

There's plenty of evidence on mailing lists. Take a look after you drop few bucks on their donations link.
Don't associate the entire project and foundation with the actions of their figurehead.

Honestly, Theo can be an asshole, but often his temper is warranted when he's faced with idiocy, like when RMS was unapologetically trying to persuade the removal of all mentions of non-free packages in OpenBSD. (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/134850)

I know this is what RMS does, and actually I'm sympathetic with his views, but in that context it was bullshit. This is just one incident, who knows how much Theo has to deal with other people wasting his energy on non-issues, trivialities and misconceptions?

For what it's worth, he isn't any less of a dick than Linus. Yet Linus consistently earns hero praise and adulation, the criticism of his personality being secondary and written off as justified. So why isn't Theo's justified?
softlayer. which is generally much more robust (physical hw) vs. AWS.
How the media is distorting the true cost of coal mining
80s style insane asylums were abusive and were rightly closed.

The lack of suitable community treatment and smaller, better mental health hospitals is the problem, not the closing of horrible institutions.
You act like things were any different with Vista... Most of the anti-Vista sentiment was also what you refer to as 'utter populistic crap' (though I don't think that phrase is actually applicable to what I think you mean).
Have you seen the TV show 'Arrow'? They solved the problem of their inner city ghetto in quite an original way.
Seems to me that if he had enough time to take his phone out of his pocket and take a picture so that he could blog about it he had enough time to turn around and run in the opposite direction. That's worked perfectly well for me a couple of times.

Was he waiting for someone to send him a tweet: "leg it!" ?
The Power of Cross-Functional Teams
I never understood the decision to stop shipping an os every 2 years between xp and 7. hindsight is 20/20 and all, but i was critical back then as well. Service pack 1 should have been a (cheap) paid release with whatever features they could scrape together.

The net effect seems to be, a big fraction of customers are just completely entrenched in XP and have lost the ability to upgrade. If they can't pay to get up to date, what would they be willing to pay for? Are those customers MS wants? There's a market there, but it's a tight fisted one.

Not releasing often enough seems like healthy for business criticism. At least some of those upgrades can be paid. It keeps customers in the upgrade habit. It keeps infrastructure nimble.

Releasing to slow means fossilization. That might be good for some aspects of business, it's cheaper. But again, less money to be had there.
In other words, so long as the typical user doesn't need to do typical user things, it's perfectly fine.
Anecdotally, Vista to me was absolutely flawless: rock solid in the way 2000 used to be and XP never was, performant thanks to a real 64 bit version (XP 64 was a very ugly hack) and great looking (vs the XP playskool look I could never get used to).

The reason was I had a brand new, powerful rig and no legacy hardware.
"When you vote in government that don't support a strong social/welfare system companies and citizens have a social responsibility."

Isn't San Francisco pretty "socially aware" already?
Yeah, seems like they nerfed the submission filter today. A TCL story was 2nd, for example.
In other news: the sky is blue, grass is green . . .
I don't think that installing 3rd party software to fix core UI issues is trivial. I think that something like that would never occur to the vast majority of Windows users.
You really did not have to mention that they were women in your post, that was totally unnecessary. And it is sexist, despite you're saying it isn't.
the shortfall on the electric bill is inexplicably $20k

Quick back-of-the-envelope: At $0.12/kWh, the shortfall is about 20kW of continuous power.

Do they have significant HVAC requirements? I don't think I see 20kW of iron in the two racks that get pictured.
Care to list some examples of such software?

I don't think it's acceptable that I have to use third-party software (and most of it, last time I looked, was either additional cost or sketchy not-sure-if-free-or-spyware variety) just to make the thing usable.
Congratulations to them. Who would've thought a "Kickstarter for t-shirts" would raise $20M?
This is a valid argument. I think he was talking about XP to Win7 bypassing Vista which is incorrect. The situation is very similar now Win7 to Win9 skipping Win8.
Don't install this, it's a trap.
Spent 30min to reset the lightness/contrast/gamma of my 2 desktop screens using these painful OSD buttons.
This is perhaps the most apt criticism of this article.
I actually found that using backbone.js helped more with learning how to structure an app and about working with objects than writing vanilla javascript.

I was writing single-page applications just before jQuery was introduced, and I can tell you, my code was spaghetti because I didn't understand OO or functional design patterns. I didn't find jQuery to be a massive improvement in that, because I just linked data to DOM elements and everything was still all over the place.

Backbone forced me to write javascript in a cleaner way, even when I still didn't know what I was doing. I was breaking up my code into better methods and providing a better overall structure to my apps.

Now with Angular, I've taken that a step further to modularizing code, but I don't know how well I would have gotten on with Angular if I hadn't first learned so much from Backbone.
I think they should hold a bake sale.