skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When we compare individuals within homogenous populations, taller people actually live shorter lives and have higher rates of cancer and heart disease:
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...
It's worth nothing that if this approach becomes popular, it raises the bar for running code from Windows on top of Mono without any changes, although this often never worked anyway except for simpler apps with few deps

At least for me, this was a small original appeal of C#/Mono
I'm just curious, how much did the artist make off terrestrial radio plays? Is it more than $0.00?
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Unfortunately not, because when applications are rejected, the lawyers simply change some parts and send them back in. The only way to get rid of an application forever (as far as I know) is to accept it.
Or, the current payment system used in streaming music...

I saw a proposal once that I really liked, instead of having all money go into one large pot, and have that distributed among all artists based on the total number of plays, have each subscriber's money distributed out by the songs they listened to.

Basically, instead of having your money combined and split with everyone else for all artists, it goes only to the artists you've listened to, and with amounts based on your listening habits, and not the collective habits.
> If you do invent something new, you basically have only one year's time to get a patent application filed before running the risk of losing it to another filer (provided you have publicly demonstrated or sold your invention). Demonstrating that you invented the product first will do you no good.

Well the secondary filer would also have to implement it within the year, which for most things will not be so trivial. The more annoying thing about the AIA with regards to defensive patenting is the elimination of the SIR.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Statutory_Inventi...
But companies like Pandora and Spotify aren't profitable even at these numbers. If this artist made 10x as much, he'd still be upset at only making $40 for 14,227 music plays and these streaming companies wouldn't be able to function. This is also a barrier to entry for new startups that want to offer music streaming.

There doesn't seem to be a number that artists would be happy getting and that music streaming companies could actually offer them.
This is an awesome project. Deserving of one's donation far beyond 99.9% of the other crowdfunding projects out there.

But why isn't the NIH or FDA or NSF or even the WHO funding this? Has government funding for health care dried up to this degree?
What is it that makes you think that the reception of Australis was "very positive"?

I'd consider the reception of a software product update to merely be "positive" if there was generally praise, basically no negativity at all, and people expressing that they are now significantly better off.

"Very positive" would involve no negativity, and complete and total jubilation from users. This is extremely rare.

A lot of people are not happy about Australis, and justifiably so. While Firefox has been imitating Chrome the past few years, Australis sealed the deal and made them nearly identical in the most critical ways.

The only mitigating factor is that there really isn't a viable alternative to either Chrome or Firefox these days. Opera has basically become Chrome, and Safari obviously has very similar roots. IE is engaging in the same imitation of Chrome. Both IE and Safari suffer from a lack of portability, too.

Many Firefox users are extremely disappointed with Australis, but they have no recourse. Switching browsers isn't really an option. And we wouldn't be in this position had Mozilla listened to all of the past feedback they've been given, so giving more feedback is probably a pointless exercise. So they suck it up, as best they can.

Australis was a debacle, at best. I think you're deceiving yourself, and people not familiar with the situation, to suggest otherwise.
Delicatino in English is probably easier for most people:

http://www.delicatino.de/en/about-us?b98bf9d568d475199bf5861...
I recall a blogger I follow writing a book (10? 15? years ago) and asking people who were buying it to use his Amazon referral link. His affiliate payment on each sale was higher than his royalties.
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No offence to the guy but 15K listens isn't a whole lot. I would imagine many other content authors would struggle to make any money with that kind of popularity.

Also did he think that the problem isn't streaming services though but the demographics those services have ? They are clearly skewing younger. I would be curious to see his royalties from CD and iTunes sales.
> What happened?

Apple Maps became useful again (for us iOS users)
Keyhole created KML for use in their earth viewer. Later, Google bought them and branded the software as Google Earth.

Supporting KML in the web maps was just a neat thing Google also did.
In the vein of "Full Disclosure", can we see how much this artist has made from royalties off CDs and digital sales as well, so we've something to compare against?

Also, for under 15,000 plays across a dozen or so separate platforms for an entire year, this doesn't seem too terrible. People aren't listening to the music very much, so why should a lot of money be paid to this artist? Just because they're Grammy Nominated?
Ok, the deal is not even officially announced, how the ef is so much info leaking out?

If it's leaking out of Beats, then they're already demonstrating how poor of a cultural fit for Apple they are. From... literally not day 1, but day -N.
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600 a month BI is 7200 a year.

From the calculations above, that requires 5050*267 million more government revenue than we have, or 1.35 trillion dollars (after cutting the non-old age part of Social Security, and the welfare part).

How are you going to raise that 1.35 trillion dollars?

Also at 600 a month, we arguably cannot drop minimum wage.
14,227 performances of music (almost every track 100% owned by me) generated $4.20.

Someone’s making money, and in true fashion with the music industry, it’s not the artists.

Who's making tons of money from streaming 14 thousand songs over the internet? I can't imagine this brought in a serious amount of revenue for anyone.
KML was created by Keyhole (the precursor to Google Earth)
The music site Magnatune (http://magnatune.com) does that.
They split your money into two piles, one for downloading (you can download anything you want) and one for streaming.
Good guy Joe. Developer by day, security team by night.
I wonder if he has heard about Sleepify and how that band made $20K.

That would sting just a little.
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I think there is a disconnect between what an artist might expect to receive and what a listener would actually pay.

Even before streaming radio became the standard way of listening to music, people didn't pay every time they played a song. They paid for the rights to listen to it as much as they wanted, but they only paid that once.

Now that we have streaming, consumption is different, and artists actually get paid per listen. They can't expect to get the same amount per listen that they got per song on a CD years ago.

You really shouldn't get into music for the money, because there isn't money anymore. The fact that there was money ever was a blip on the radar due to new technology allowing an industry to explode. Technology continued on though, and made the scarcity of music artificial.
Given subscription rates and general numbers of subscribers compared with the payouts to artists I'd say there's a lot of money to be made in streaming music, just not if you're an artist.
Ask Patents seems to be active enough:

http://patents.stackexchange.com/

I guess they aren't interested in focusing on individuals though.

It's funny how branding works, I searched for "patent overflow" to find the site.
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No, of course not. What kind of a comment is that anyway? You appear to be doing exactly the same kind of conflating of the UI and the backend that I was complaining about. There's a bunch of people whose job is to improve the search quality. They're largely not going to be the same people who'll work on the UI, so it's not some kind of either-or choice.

But it's a very difficult problem where it's rare that a change is uniformly beneficial, that's insanely dependent on frequently changing input data, and that users are very unforgiving about. My theory on the last point is that a map search is much more concrete than a web search. People have an intuition both about what the right answer should be, as well as an expectation that there is a right answer in the first place. But of course that's not the case, and the results are never going to be optimal. (I.e. your "sub optimal searching" bit is a bit of a truism).

I used to work on the Google maps geocoding team a long time ago. At that time amazing amounts of CPU and engineer time would be spent on verifying the quality of all algorithm and data changes, both during development and during launch. Changes that were unevaluated or were a net negative on quality would only be launched under very exceptional circumstances. Now, the evaluation would of course not be a fully deterministic process, it'd always need to be based on some kind of sampling. But on average that should still mean quality ratcheting up slowly. Maybe things have changed since then and stuff is just randomly launched with no regard to quality, but I have no particular reason to believe so. To me it seems much more likely that the anecdotes from the article don't represent any kind of trend.
I'm not really sure how to respond to that since we are in the realm of personal opinion.

I've built custom CMS's for clients that where a much closer fit with their existing workflows that implemented most of the list above (not everyone requires everything above) and I've done it at least as quickly as doing it from scratch in Drupal would have (partially because I have existing code I can reuse for a lot of that).

My visceral dislike of Drupal comes from working with it directly for two years, I read the books, I went through the code, I wrote custom modules, I learnt CCK/Views inside and out and at the end of it I took a pay cut to not have to work with Drupal.

My opinion of Drupal can best be summed up with an analogy - given sufficient thrust even a brick will fly and Drupal required a vast amount of thrust.

Yes out the box you get a great deal of functionality which is what makes it so enticing but then your needs change and you require doing something that is outside the scope of Drupal or even existing modules and the whole thing comes crashing down.

Back when I worked with Drupal it created hundreds of tables for anything involving slightly complicated CCK/View based workflows, performance was horrible for logged in users (and trust me I haunted 2bits like a poltergeist for every tuning opportunity I could find).

But then this is just opinion at the end of the day.

One thing I will say is that the Drupal community are an absolutely lovely bunch and incredibly helpful which is always a strong plus.

Also just for humour value http://www.cmscritic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/permissi... this is not a good UI.
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Really cool work. Would be nice to have a scale bar or something to get a sense of scale.
What about the concept do you not get? It's cheaper and has more selection than your music library.
Well, guess we'll be spending the day invalidating this.
Instead of getting angry, just invalidate! It's easy! Find some prior art. This one should be a fucking dawdle.
Ditto, I've never had issue with it, driven all around the UK directed by Google maps in navigation mode and apart from the odd postcode fail it's been incredibly reliable in getting me from A to B.
As someone who worked with this team during the time in question, I find this to be a mean-spirited and ignorant comment.

It's mean-spirited because you refer to my colleagues as "idiots," when I can assure you that they are not.

It's ignorant because you appear to have no idea how the assigned-patent process works in a large company. If you wish to have a discussion about the merits of this particular patent or the process in general, go right ahead. Just leave the personal attacks out of it.
Seems to be a disconnect where Chakmakian sees one Spotify/Pandora play as equal to a radio station playing a song when they are entirely different things. 14,227 listeners is less than some college radio stations playing a song once. But you won't see an article complaining about how little musicians get from college radio stations.
I wonder why did they downvote you. I'm a long time C# dev and recently used Go for some projects and when I saw this I was thinking exactly the same.
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One side note to the "move to where the BI will support you" is that jobs will move to those places too - not all jobs, but more jobs than are currently there, as there will be more people and they will have some financial resources. In general, along with everything else, BI moves money away from concentrations of wealth and toward concentrations of people, where there is a disparity between those densities.
> Secondly, the desktop (and basically the tablet experience too is the same) has gotten terrible. It takes a really long time before my mouse event matters. By this time, the screen, since it's still resolving and moving things around the canvas or whatever the hell it's doing, well by the time my mouse event registers, the object I wanted has moved away. I'm now doing something else!

Even though it does more, I've noticed maps is faster on desktop for me than it used to be, and I'm not using particularly high-powered machines. But the older one has a fairly decent (if by no means current) ATI graphics card and the one with integrated Intel graphics is a fairly new laptop, so if GPU rendering is involved (WebGL or otherwise) even relative old-new performance could be very system dependent.

> Directions. Just so retarded. The accordion shit on the left. Just show me the effing directions, like you used to.

It is one more click to do that, OTOH the reason is that it provides several alternate routes (with on-map preview), to start with, plus makes the route options + multiple destination routing UIs available. Personally, I find the new UI much more useful than the old one.

> Also, just simple double-clicking to zoom. Extremely less useful than it used to be: just this one simple thing.

Is your complaint that you don't have drag to zoom any more? That's true, but then, if you are a keyboard user (which your complaint about tabbing around the directions UI suggests), you can use +/- to zoom, in addition to double-clicking.
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Okay so this patent is for background color of RGB:1,1,1 Do they have patent for RGB:1,0.99,1 ?
I think the new UI is much much nicer than the old one.
This comes up every few months and this line usually gets people fired up and angry at streaming services:

> Notice one performance of “Ceremonies” or “Distant Lands” streaming radio show like Hearts of Space that brings in 26 cents for the full writer’s share compared to 2,088 performances of “Gypsy Rain” on Spotify that brought in a total of 60 cents.

Spotify "performances" are (probably) going to one or two people each. Radio or live performances go out to hundreds up to many thousands of people.

Now pull your music off Spotify and get a YouTube account so you can turn those impressions into a $2 - $10 CPM
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While I don't know exactly how magnatune works, what you've described is completely different from what I've said, unless your streaming pile is distributed only among artists you streamed, and not put together with everyone else's money and distributed among all artists.

Having just superficially perused Magnatune's info pages, I couldn't find anything specifying how they determine the amount given to artists, other than 50% of it goes to artists, and the other 50% goes to Magnatune...
If I like something, it is in my library. There is not that much good music out there, maybe 3 or 4 albums each year these days. I don't see how a subscription could be cheaper than just buying those albums.
I use chromium with a 5760*1080 resolution, and I frequently have > 150 tabs open across 3 browser windows, and I really have no complaints. I also occasionally peruse or develop WebGL/ASM.js/emscripten applications, so I suppose I fit into your description as someone who is "pushing the web browser hard".

All functionality I need to access quickly is accessible through shortcuts, so I don't typically need to access the "hamburger-menu" very often. The only thing I really use it for is to open the settings tab.
I get sick of people fretting over stupid patents. Take matters into your own hands and invalidate these fuckers. I think I found some prior art just Googling around:

https://www.google.com/patents/US7177537?dq=automated+photog...

Frankly, this patent is even broader than Amazon's, as it includes support for multiple background colors, and it allows for the lights to be anywhere, as opposed to some specific position Amazon delineated.
defensive patents were not eliminated. There is still, for example, RPX corporation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPX_Corporation) which does "active" defensive patent protection in a for-profit model.

What was, however, eliminated, was the Statutory Invetion Registration: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Statutory_Inventi...) For this reason: "Since the adoption of the eighteen-month publication procedure, the use of SIR has decreased substantially, and the America Invents Act eliminated this tool for inventors."
(http://www.aiarulemaking.com/rulemaking-topics/group-3/repea...)
Can an audiophile comment on the actual quality of Beats' technology? Or is it just successful due to celebrity endorsements?

I am not an audiophile, and I'm usually happy with sub-$10 earbuds from Amazon.
> Do you people suffer split personality or something?

There are downsides to doing design and development in the open, sometimes looking that way is one of them. But the benefits are worth it.
In this case, I think that I would define "hipster" as "thinks they are the second coming of Steve Jobs." They're basically cargo culting, they saw Steve Jobs stir shit up, so they think that if they stir shit up as well, the world will hail them as geniuses and shower them with riches. The problem is that they give little thought to exactly what they are stirring up, or how they are doing it. Inevitably they just make a hash of everything.
Comparing Hearts Of Space to Spotify is a little silly. HOS charges a couple bucks a month to listen to streamed shows totaling a few dozen songs. They charge more for less music (They're really charging for curation).

And each "play" on the show goes to thousands of people, not just 1, as each Spotify "play" does.

Silly comparison.
> And that continuous pandering to them is what will bring the downfall of the information age. We are dumbing down our technology, where we should be forcing people to get smarter instead.

Changing humanity on the kind of broad scale that requires is a much broader and longer term project than any commercial entity could survive in the short term if its commercial success relied on it.

Its certainly the kind of thing I can see Google being interested in, but not the kind of thing they would be around long enough to do if they didn't have a business strategy that did better at reaching the masses of people that actually exist now as they are than that could ever do.
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The prices put down during the pirate bay trial, it was claimed that artists lost between 20-30$ per watched performance.

So 14 thousands performance is almost a half million dollar lost of revenue, stolen by those streaming services. Worse, they claim its all moral and legal.
For the individual user, there probably isn't.

For companies, marketers, etc, bitly, and other url shortners provide data and analytics ontop of the links, allowing more insight into link shares & clicks.

When you're interested in tracking the data from a link, or series of links, having a persistent account is necessary.
Well... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guMFKBXp544
http://pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=71064
http://pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=71065

Keep in mind that Mapquest, Yahoo maps, Bing maps, and Nokia HERE have no record of it at all. So this is really between Google Maps and OpenStreetMap.
> "That's not who we are at Mozilla". That's Mozilla talking about a Mozilla decision. Do you people suffer split personality or something?

Wow, this here is a textbook case of out-of-context quoting...even in a post that takes 30 seconds to read. Here's the context that the parent comment has completely failed to read:

> A lot of our community found the language hard to decipher, and worried that we were going to turn Firefox into a mess of logos sold to the highest bidder; without user control, without user benefit.

>
> That’s not going to happen. That’s not who we are at Mozilla.

"That's not going to happen. That’s not who we are at Mozilla"

- refers to the perceived fear that:

"we were going to turn Firefox into a mess of logos sold to the highest bidder; without user control, without user benefit".

- NOT to an actual decision/policy that the Mozilla team is ostensibly standing behind. I don't necessarily disagree with the rest of your rant, but the fact that you so terribly misquoted the OP doesn't lend your argument much credence.
Their plan seemed fine to me. In fact, it was for the benefit of their users - everyone wins if Mozilla is funded and decoupled from Google.

The ads were unintrusive, and made sense in context. It was just populating something that was replaced over time with info from your own browsing habits.
I suppose this might be too late, but it might be worth having a look a tracker[1], and tracker-search[2]. Alternatives include recoll and Beagle (now defunct?).

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Tracker

[2] http://www.mankier.com/1/tracker-search
Can an audiophile even comment? They routinely embarrass themselves in double blind tests.
14000 * $0.30 = $4200 not half million dollars.
>Just because they're Grammy Nominated?

Yup. It's linkbait. The question it answers is how much money do you make with 14,000 plays? Answer, not much.
They're way overpriced & not good headphones. If you're seriously into good headphones with close to balanced EQ, brands like Sennheiser or Beyerdynamic are ones to look out for, not Beats. Beats is essentially a fashion brand when it comes to headphones.
Couldn't you just have an IFTTT pull anything you bitly into a bucket of links to watch stats on? Why does bitly need to know who you are, or what links you submitted, if you can just remember (maybe through automation) which links are yours, and bitly or buffer can monitor each link individually for stats?

My guess is that logins probably help bitly track usage patterns, improve the product, and keep an eye out for ways to increase their value by measuring engagement with their userbase. Maybe it was just "everyone's adding a social layer" peer pressure. Not sure.

There are security costs to "use passwords everywhere, for everything," but they are more diffuse. We've ended up with a system where security best practices would recommend using hundreds of distinct passwords that are each too complex to memorize (so you can dump them in a locker or support one login services, each creating a single point of failure, or you can use a similar password or mental password algorithm for each site, it's all tradeoffs).

I don't think there's an obviously better solution, I think it's just a tragedy of the commons we were probably inevitably going to trip over sooner or later.